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November 30, 1984
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Did You Know…
that the NHL players with the most 40-goal seasons are:…


TV Whiz Bids Adieu To The World Of Hockey
It isn’t something that Ralph Mellanby even cares to discuss or, for that matter, considers significant enough to remember, but the incident does provide some insight into a television whiz that the average hockey fan wouldn’t know from Adam. It was last spring in Edmonton during the Stanley Cup playoffs and the evening was drawing to a close at the NHL’s hospitality suite. A few newspapermen—and Mellanby—were on hand as the subject drifted around to the pros and cons of Hockey Night in Canada’s weekly on-air performance. When the critique became too severe, in the eyes of HNIC’s executive producer for the last 18 years, the man who has hired every on-air personality you see on Saturday night, he erupted. Had it not been for a rather large pacifist getting between Mellanby and a…


Player Of The Week
It doesn’t seem to matter who Mike Bossy plays with, he just keeps on scoring. The New York Islander winger was taken off the Canada Cup line of Brent Sutter and John Tonelli and reunited with Bryan Trottier. That resulted in Bossy’s 32nd career hat trick, equalling Phil Esposito’s all-time record. So Bossy closed out the week ending Nov. 18 with four goals and four assists, giving him 22 goals—tops in the NHL—and 22 assists and THE HOCKEY NEWS Player of the Week honors.…


GAMES TO COME
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