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December 28, 1984
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ESPO REVISITED
For a guy whom nobody wanted to draft a few years ago, everybody is certainly trying to grab a piece of Tim Kerr now. Let’s see, every time the Philadelphia Flyers’ burly right winger and leading scorer moves toward the slot, he’s got guys grabbing his arms, clutching him around the shoulders, holding him by the legs, and doing just about everything short of roping him like a steer. He sure gets a lot of attention following his 54-goal campaign last season, a healthy new contract, and an opening-season spurt which had him on a goal-a-game pace through 24 games this season and a league-leading 11 power-play goals. And, with more than a quarter of the season gone, it doesn’t look as if anybody is going to figure out a way to…
Feamster Finds Problem Is In His Back, Not Head
CHICAGO—Black Hawk defenseman Dave Feamster believes he has been playing hockey with a stress fracture in his fifth lumbar vertebra. “I can’t do anything for two months,” Laid Feamster after returning from an examination at the the world-famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. “No jogging, no riding the stationary bike, no nothing. “The four doctors at the Mayo Clinic all concurred that it was a stress fracture. Then they did a bone scan to see if it was healing. “They shot radioactive dye into my arm. If there’s healing, there’s heat, and the dye will go to heat-sensitive areas. But there was no sign of healing, so they told me I had to take a complete rest.” That wasn’t what Hawk general manager Bob Pulford originally had in mind. Pulford farmed out Feamster to…
MICRON JUNIOR PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
ONTARIO LEAGUE Dave MacLean is a 20-year-old who hopes the trail will lead to the NHL next season with the Hartford Whalers. MacLean, who was drafted by the Whalers as their fifth pick in 1983, was named the OHL Player of the Week after he turned in a nine-point performance for the Belleville Bulls. The Belleville winger had six goals and three assists in three games and he is one of the reasons the Bulls are a contender in the Leyden Division. WESTERN LEAGUE Cliff Ronning is on a torrid pace this season with the New Westminster Bruins. The 19-year-old center set a Western Hockey League goalscoring record as he counted in his 16th straight game to shatter the mark held by both Dale Der-katch and Brian Propp. The feat earned Ronning the nod as WHL…
Winning Makes Streak Sweet For Nicholls
LOS ANGELES—It began on Oct. 16 in Landover, MD with his first goal of the season. It continued on Nov. 12 in Quebec, with an incredible four-goal performance, then was extended on Dec. 5 in Chicago with three more goals. And the Kings’ Bernie Nicholls still hasn’t stopped. A third-period goal on Dec. 10 in New York gave the 23-year-old center at least one point in 25 consecutive games, a club record and the fourth longest in National Hockey League history. “You think about it a little, it’s nice to score in all those games but it’s even nicer because we’ve been winning most of them,” Nicholls said. After drawing blanks in the Kings’ first three games of the season, he accumulated 21 goals and 19 assists in the last 25, tying the streak…
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