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June 1, 1984
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Ultimate Thrill Will Be Meeting Hawerchuk
If Suzanne Hollaczek of Prince Albert, Sask., suddenly packs up and moves to Winnipeg in the fall, her family and friends can blame one of several contributing factors. Thanks to the CTV Network’s Thrill of a Lifetime program and the cooperation of the Molson NHL Slo-Pitch Tournament, Hollaczek will live out a dream she has harbored for the past several years. As she wrote in her letter to the CTV: “My thrill of a lifetime would be to play with or watch the Winnipeg Jets’ squad play ball at the Molson Slo-Pitch Classic.” Well, she’ll be doing that and a whole lot more. The 15-year-old student, who claims to be “a good fastball player,”’ will virtually be a part of the Jets’ entry in the Slo-Pitch Toumey and she’ll spend some very special…
Sinden Lists Six Untouchables
BOSTON—Bruin general manager Harry Sinden ticked off the names. Pete Peeters. Ray Bourque. Gordie Kluzak. Barry Pederson. Rick Middleton. Terry O’Reilly. Those are the untouchables as the Bruins go on the off-season trade market in an effort to add some scoring punch to a lineup that bowed out much too quietly in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. “I think we have to try and acquire a proven goal-scorer,” said Sinden. “Maybe not so much a goal-scorer as a proven producer of goals, whether it be setting them up or scoring them. “We’ve got to back up Pederson and Middleton with an alternative line that has one or two players on it who is going to score 80 or 90 points in the season. “I think our next top forward last season behind…
Question Is: Will Bowman Do It Again?
Louisville Hockey BUFFALO—What kind of trade will Scotty Bowman make just before the National Hockey League draft this year? Maybe the general manager-coach of the Sabres will pull a surprise and not trade away any of his players to upgrade Buffalo’s first-round pick (18th overall). Could be…but not likely. Bowman has players galore and, it will be remembered, the canny Sabre hockey impress-ario worked deals the last two years that brought the Sabres three first-round picks each year. These picks turned out to be Phil Housley, Paul Cyr and Dave Andreychuk in 1982, all of whom did well for the Sabres last season, and goaltender Tom Barrasso, Adam Creighton and Norman Lacombe in 1983. Barrasso, as an 18-year-old rookie, was one of the best goaltenders in the league last season. Lacombe played for Rochester in…
SOME OTHER VIEWS
Hockey journalists have a right to feel both privileged and cursed. The privilege is that they are allowed certain freedoms such as seeing games in person and then having access to dressing rooms. The curse is that sometimes they miss portions of the games—particularly the latter stages—because they are committed to deadlines. This is where TV plays an important role. Say, for example, it is late in the game and a journalist is writing a story for the first edition. If a team scores a goal, chances are the journalist will miss the play because he’s writing a running story of the game. This is when he’s forced to rely on the TV for a replay. This is not to say that the journalist is cheating his reading audience by using TV to report…
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