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November 9, 1984
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Injuries Continue To Cripple The Canucks
VANCOUVER—Even division rivals Winnipeg and Los Angeles might pause five seconds to offer a note of sympathy to the Vancouver Canucks. Some teams are hit by injuries, but the Vancouver Canucks have been buried. Their slow start hasn’t exactly been frought with good play, but there have been mitagating circumstances. Going into the fourth game of a five-game road trip, the Canucks were beginning to get back on their feet. True, Peter McNab and Jiri Bubla (knees), Darcy Rota (neck) and Petri Skriko(fractured thumb) were still injured, but the list was coming down. In fact. Patrik Sundstrom returned after an injury suffered in the final game of the Canada Cup. Then the tissue starting ripping again, and when the 6-5 loss to the New York Islanders was over Oct. 23. two of the team’s…
Canada Cup Line Shines But Isles Sagging
LONG ISLAND—The New York Islanders’ publicity department has dubbed them the ‘‘Canada Cup Line.’’ And why not? Mike Bossy, Brent Sutter and John Tonelli played together in this year’s Canada Cup tournament and were instrumental in Team Canada winning the whole shebang. And what Team Canada coach Glen Sather joined together, Islander coach Al Arbour wasn’t about to pull asunder. The trio has formed a terrific partnership. First, consider some of the line’s statistics. • Bossy, off to the best start of his eight-year National Hockey League career, had 12 goals, 11 assists and 23 points in the Islanders’ first eight games. The all-star right winger picked up at least one goal and one assist in his first seven games, then settled for a single goal in game No. 8. • Sutter, off to the…
ASK THE REFEREE
Q: During the Canada Cup series, it was pointed out that the sticks used by the European players had more curve in them than those used in the NHL. What is the difference? A: Interestingly enough, the measurement standards in both the National Hockey League and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) are almost the same. The curvature cannot be more than a half-inch in the NHL and 1.5 centimeters in the IIHF—just a slight difference actually. But the real difference is in the measuring of the stick. In the NHL the stick is measured from a point at the heel to the end of the blade along the bottom, and also from the heel to the top of the end of the blade. If there is more curve than a…
Lundholm Adds Spark to Mates
WINNIPEG—Built like a pencil, and just as sharp. Bengt Lundholm is helping to erase the notion that only hitters can play in the National Hockey League Purists cringe to see him swerve to avoid crashing into a puck carrier, never stopping to acknowledge the fact that his brush with him has caused him to surrender the prize Lundholm wants most…the puck. “Bengt has learned how to survive in the NHL,” said Barry Long, the man who coaches the Winnipeg Jets. “He has the knack of knowing how to play in a physical game. He rolls with the checks.” The shy. retiring native of Palun, Sweden, is an expert in the art of swarming his opponents, flitting from one hole to another, pouncing on his opportunities to move the puck. Entire shifts have been spent…
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