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August 31, 1984
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National Program Rides Crest Of Wave
West Germany, to most North American hockey fans, heads into the 1984 Canada Cup as Brand X, the unknown quantity with a lot of unfamiliar faces, replacing Finland in the six-nation tournament. The Finns never mounted any sort of a serious Canada Cup challenge in the past two tournaments, but they did at least have some recognizable faces—Jari Kurri, Risto Siltanen and Reijo Ruotsalainen, to name just three—that hockey fans in Canada and the United States knew from National Hockey League play. Still, West German hockey is surging ahead and is in a period of relative prosperity. West Germany could be described as the United States of the European hockey scene—a large country where ice hockey is not a nationally-acclaimed sport, despite the fact that the game dates back to when hockey…
Hawks Face Critical Test With November Schedule
CHICAGO—Seeing the 1984-85 schedule is believing that November will make or break the Black Hawks. Between Oct. 30 and Dec. 2, the Hawks will play 14 games on the road and only two in the friendly confines of Chicago Stadium. And remember, this is the team that last year had the worst road record in the league (5-29-6). General Manager Bob Pulford prefers to think positively. “There’s nothing wrong with our schedule,” he said. “I’ve often thought it’s better to play a lot of road games early. If you do well and play the way we did in November and December two years ago, you’re really in good shape. “In my mind, we’re the team to beat (in the Norris Division). I think we should be the most improved team in the entire league over…
CANADA CUP ’84
During the 1981 Canada Cup international hockey tournament, the event’s head honcho, Alan Eagleson, looking tired and a little frayed on the edges, stood in the Montreal Forum and stated flatly that he didn’t want to organize another such effort. Making that tournament work was, as they say in the country, like pulling hens’ teeth. “At that time, I wasn’t just sounding off when I said that I had had about enough of the Canada Cup to do me for a lifetime,” Eagleson said recently. “The ’81 Canada Cup was a struggle to pull off and I figured that if conditions for getting it together didn’t change, I couldn’t go through it again. ‘The ’81 Canada Cup was a struggle to pull off and I figured that if the conditions for getting it…
Seeing Will Be Believing For Devils’ Coach!
EAST RUTHERFORD—On the day Doug Carpenter got his first job in the National Hockey League, most newspapers within a 50-mile radius of the Meadowlands Arena were loading the cannons for a major assault on the Devils’ new coach. Before Carpenter even stepped to the microphone at his introductory press conference he was hearing, “Doug who?” It was suggested that he was a coach the Devils had settled on because John McMullen wouldn’t dish out a longterm contract to a bigger name, and before his term had started Carpenter was already rumored to be losing the job to his own assistant, Lou Vairo. Carpenter has handled the bittersweet greeting with great dexterity, lending evidence that maybe the 41-year-old bachelor from Cornwall, Ont., is the right man to point the Devils in the right…
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