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November 30, 1984

November 30, 1984

The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.

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In next week’s issue, we’ll profile one of the NHL’s most exciting rookies, Ed Olczyk of the Chicago Black Hawks. The native Chicagoan has taken the Windy City by storm and you’ll find out why Chicago is Eddie O’s kind of town. On top of that, we’ll have THE HOCKEY NEWS Magazine, the eight-page color insert that appears once a month. The December Magazine includes an indepth interview with Vancouver Canuck coach Bill LaForge, one of the most intersting personalities in the NHL this season; a centerspread feature on the new wave of Europeans and why Don Cherry, for one, would like to put them all in a boat and send them back where they came from. All that, plus a full-color photo essay, the Lighter Side of Hockey, Short Stuff, the…

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE SCORING

GOALTENDING STATISTICS GOALTENDING LEADERS GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE MOST WINS SAVE PERCENTAGE…

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Nords’ Big Guns Shooting Blanks

QUEBEC CITY—Quebec Nordique coach Michel Bergeron made some changes to shake up his team recently in an effort to motivate a couple of players who were not producing as expected. These changes included using Peter Statsny as a right winger in one game, as well as calling up Jean Marc Gaulin and Roger Haegglund from the Fredericton Express of the American Hockey League. Peter Stastny and Michel Goulet are expected to lead the Nordiques up front each game. When they don’t, Quebec rarely wins. This was exactly the case in two home games where Quebec lost 1-0 to Hartford, Nov. 10, and 5-4 in overtime to Los Angeles, Nov. 13. “We are just not getting goals from our normal leaders and it is discouraging to see a rookie like Jean Marc Gaulin…

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ON THE CONTRARY

“You always should give credit where credit is due. “ —Sarah Fischler (my grandmother), 1939. It is now 45 years later and, I’m thinking, maybe Grandma was right. Maybe Paul Coffey is right. Could be he got a bum rap right in this column. So, in deference to Grandma Sarah and Paul Coffey, let us give credit where credit is do. For starters, let it be known that Coffey has not come asking for a break. Matter of fact, he hesitated when we started talking, and I couldn’t blame him. He has taken my best shots. Some high, some medium, some in the heart. “I was not happy with what you wrote,” he says. I was—at least at the time I was. ‘ I had conducted the Who’s Better, Coffey or Rod Langway? poll and I was not overcome…