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September 21, 1984
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When The Stars Practise It’s Not Fun And Games
BLOOMINGTON—As is their custom, members of the Minnesota North Stars gathered with some other pros living in the Twin Cities for casual, open-hockey games at Bloomington Ice Gardens, across this suburb from their home Met Center. As usual, the gatherings started small, but grew as the opening of training camp got closer. But even as the games started, there were some interesting developments. For one, Craig Hartsburg’s knee appeared sound. For another. Curt Giles was there, pleasantly surprised by the assurance of a new contract. Then there was Paul Holmgren. Expected to miss the first few weeks of the season while making sure his surgically repaired shoulder healed fully, Holmgren was eager to start early. He didn’t have full okay from the club, but he hit the ice anyway. After all, general manager Lou…
Ontario League Sweet On Sherry But Bassin Very Sour On Sather
Louisville Hockey LONDON—Canada’s national junior team is hoping Sherry Bassin can once again wave his magic wand after managing the Nats to a gold in 1982 and a bronze in ‘83. The Ontario Hockey League board of governors approved the appointment of Bassin, the general manager of the OHL Oshawa Generals, as the junior national team’s GM for the next two seasons. No sooner had the OHL approved him than he was coming to the defense of junior hockey operators after an attack by Edmonton Oilers’ GM-coach Glen Sather, who’s performing the same function with Team Canada in the Canada Cup. In an article appearing in the Toronto Globe and Mail on Sept. 4, Sather was quoted as saying: “You can talk all you want about junior operators trying to help their kids, but…
It’s Lemaire’s Way Or The Highway
MONTREAL—At some point in time during the Montreal Canadiens’ training camp, Jacques Lemaire will make a number of things perfectly clear to his players: It will be Lemaire’s way or the highway. He won’t put up with the nonsense that his predecessors, Claude Ruel and Bob Berry, did while they were in charge. Lemaire, a popular man with the Montreal media, has a two-year contract in pocket and will attempt to rebuild the Canadiens into the championship team they once were. There were signs at the end of the Stanley Cup semi-finals series against the New York Islanders last spring that Lemaire was on the right track to at least partially restore a winning attitude on the once powerful Montreal club. Lemaire took over the Canadiens from Berry last Feb. 23 and the…
GOAL EQUIPMENT GOES HIGH TECH
IN RECENT YEARS there has been substantial improvement in goal equipment. The curved goal stick, special goal pants, and mouled goal skates are examples. The present day catching glove, which is said to be the goaltenders most valuable piece of equipment, has not seen significant improvement in the past fifteen years. True, the modern catching glove offers superior protection for the wrist and the back of the hand, but the basic design has changed little over the years. WITH MODERN TECHNOLOGY applied, today’s gloves would probably weigh 30% less, break in almost instantly, and offer superior palm protection. These are exactly the goals we at Hart Specialty Sports addressed when we set out to create the new Hart catching glove… during the early stages of design it became apparent that traditional…
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