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September 28, 1984
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Daoust
Hockey players have always been looking for skates that will give them good ankle support. Team owners have been looking for skates that will last at least one complete season. The hockey player wants his skates to be rigid but does not like pressure points. The hockey player wants a skate that will mold his foot, he wants a light skate but a skate that will stand up…he does not like to break in a few pairs per season. What really describes the ideal skate? Ridigity, long lasting, but no pressure point. After testing prototypes with the pros for the last two years and borrowing from the figure skate technology developed by the DAOUST craftsmen, the SUPER 301 was born for the 1983 model year and improved tremendously for 1984. What makes…
Team USA Looks Ahead To ’88 Tourney
Now Team USA knows how Chicken Little felt. When Gordie Roberts made a third-period check, smashing into the boards at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, he cringed as glass rained down on him. Somehow, Roberts resisted screaming: “The sky is falling. The sky is falling.” For Team USA, on the short end of a-2 semi-final game with Sweden, the sky had fallen. When the Swedes pumped four goals past Tom Barrasso in less than 12 minutes, the USA’s dream of playing in the Canada Cup final was just that—a dream. But it was fun while it lasted. “I am very proud of our effort,” said U.S. coach Bob Johnson. “Finishing second (in the preliminaries) was an excellent accomplishment.” It was certainly another step up the Canada Cup ladder. In 1976, Team Useless finished the round-robin part…
New Job Hasn’t Worried Harris
ST. JEAN—Accepting a full-time coaching position in major junior hockey means embarking on an unpredictable adventure, even for the most unflappable candidate. But Ron Harris wasn’t worried when he got the call to become coach and general manager of the St. Jean Beavers, who limped into the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoffs by one point last season. “I was not even nervous getting this job, I’ve learned so much,” said Harris without a trace of conceit. “The past two years with Central Scouting helped me tremendously. “I got to see the three (major junior) leagues, to see college and high school hockey and a slew of other leagues.” The QMJHL was Harris’s main assignment for the National Hockey League’s Central Scouting Bureau and be was familiar with the league’s players ing before joining…
HOCKEY VIEWPOINT
Hockey At Its Best ALL TEAM SPORTS, of course, can produce games of high drama and great entertainment with skill at a top level. Anyone interested in sport can remember great matches in baseball, basketball, football and soccer, but, really, is there anything as good, especially to a Canadian, as hockey played at its very best? There’s the speed, skill and artistry on a sustained basis in hockey that others can’t match. For openers, hockey is the only game where a new form of locomotion—skating—must be mastered before it can be played, making it the most difficult of team sports to play well. Of course hockey has a large advantage on other North American sports. It’s the only game that regularly offers any international competition. The other big sports—baseball, basketball and football—are uniquely…
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