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November 2, 1984
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Puppa Has Barrasso Similarities
TROY—There probably isn’t a college hockey coach alive who doesn’t have at least one story about a you-can’t-get-there-from-here recruiting trip that turned up an outstanding player. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institue’s Mike Addesa is such a coach, and Engineer goalie Darren Puppa is the player. As recruiting trips go, the trek to Kirkland Lake, Ont. from Troy, NY, is a nightmare. Addesa knows the trip is the pits, because he’s made the trek from Albany to Buffalo to Toronto, and has then taken the subsequent ride in a fourseater to Sudbury, on to North Bay and finally Kirkland Lake. But landing Puppa made the trips worth it, as the 6-foot-3, 175-pound sophomore carried the Engineers to their first-ever ECAC championship last spring. He finished the year as the number two goalie in the east,…
Carroll, Martin Share Same Goals
EDMONTON—To say the newest Edmonton Oilers hail from different backgrounds would be uttering somewhat of an understatement. Different? Might a connoisseur detect a discrepency when sampling Dom Perignon and Bright’s Pink? Joining the Oilers in an llth-hour transaction on Oct. 9 was center Billy Carroll from the New York Islanders. Yup, the same Isles who strung together four straight Stanley Cup conquests—three in which Carroll happened to lend a helping hand. Also hooking up with the Oilers was winger Terry Martin, late of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Yup, the same fallen Leafs who, on behalf of blowhard owner Harold Ballard, have won only one playoff game during the past five years. Everything considered, why then was Carroll the player who couldn’t wait to get here? “Today, I think I’m the luckiest man alive,” crowed the…
Bowman Has Cool Heart And Sharp Hockey Mind
IF YOU SUDDENLY inherited a National Hockey League franchise from a rich father or uncle and you wanted someone to shape the team into a Stanley Cup champion, who would you dial? Bill Torrey? Harry Sinden? Lou Nanne? Glen Sather? David Poile? You couldn’t go wrong with any of the above. But the man who would be on everyone’s list is William Scott Bowman, as he is called in the Buffalo Sabres’ press guide. With Bowman, you get two—general manager and coach—for the price of…well, for a reasonable price. This is the man who coached the Montreal Canadiens to four consecutive Stanley Cups in the late ’70s. Since moving down the snow belt to Buffalo, NY, Bowman’s teams have won 151 games, lost 81 and tied 43. In his five seasons on…
Pioneers Given Emergency Help
PLATTSBURGH—Reports of the demise of the Plattsburgh Pioneers are premature. The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s American expansion team, which has lost its first 13 games by combined scores of 142-49, is in no danger of being kicked out of the league, according to QMJHL president Dr. Guy Morissette. “I don’t like the show they’re putting on the ice (five games were lost by a 73-9 margin), but they’ve met all of their obligations to the league and we can’t throw them out,” Morissette said. The Pioneers appeared capable of earning their first win in Game 13 when Scott Rettew scored at 11:37 of the third period on home ice to cut Trois-Rivieres Draveurs’ lead to 3-2. But the Draveurs scored four goals in the last eight penalty-filled minutes to win 7-2. Denis Methot, Plattsburgh’s…
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