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January 11, 1985
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IT’S A VINTAGE CROP
No National Hockey League defenseman has ever won the Calder Trophy and Norris Trophy in the same season. Chris Chelios of the Montreal Canadiens is a viable candidate to be the first. It is that kind of year for rookie defensemen. “He (Chelios) has been just great,” said Montreal defenseman Larry Robinson. “He is already one of the six best (defensemen) in the National Hockey League, so why shouldn’t he be the best rookie?” said Montreal general manager Serge Savard. Chelios, bom in Chicago and raised in San Diego, won the 1983 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division One championship with the University of Wisconsin and was the defensive leader of Team USA’s 1984 Olympic team. He moved straight from the Winter Games to the NHL and excelled in the playoffs as fourthplace Montreal reached the Wales…
Flyers Look Good At Center And In Goal
PHILADELPHIA—The Philadelphia Flyers’ list of prospects would be a lot longer if not for one thing: many of the prospects are already with the club. When the season started, three rookies—Peter Zezel, Rick Tocchet and Derrick Smith—stuck with the Flyers as the team went into an accelerated youth movement to replace veterans such as Darryl Sittier (traded), Bill Barber (injured) and Bob Clarke, who retired to take over as general manager. Still, even with the youth already present, the Flyers believe that they have an adequate pool of talent on the way up from their American Hockey League franchise in Hershey, at the junior level, and in Europe. And the club appears to be most solid at center and in goal. The top prospect in the organization is probably center Per-Erik Eklund, 21,…
Rangers In ‘Transition’ Because Of Injuries
NEW YORK—Any discussion of the New York Rangers’ future prospects must take into consideration the disruptive effect on the fabric of the organization over the past three months. One byproduct of the plague of injuries to key and irreplaceable players—Mark Osborne, Mark Pavelich. Ron Greschner and Don Maloney—is that some of the players now in the lineup are men who are, as coach Herb Brooks puts it, “making the transition to the NHL.” In other words, there are players who are getting experience with the parent team that normally would be in the minors. Of the six or more first-or second-year men appearing on any given night—or, for that matter, on the injured list—a handful of them would be getting much-needed seasoning on the farm under more ideal circumstances. This list—with variations, of…
MICRON JUNIOR PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
ONTARIO LEAGUE Joe Reekie may be just what the Hartford Whalers will be looking for next season—a high-scoring defenseman. The 19-year-old rearguard with the Cornwall Royals was selected as the OHL Player of the Week after a productive seven-point performance—including two goals and three assists—in a game against Toronto. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Reekie, who is a 1983 draft pick of Hartford, is the top-scoring defenseman in the Ontario Hockey League with 14 goals and 42 points. WESTERN LEAGUE The Moose Jaw Warriors haven’t had much to cheer about this season with a 9-21-1 record, but one of the bright spots has been Mark MacKay. The Warriors 20-year-old center turned in a spectacular one-game performance by scoring seven goals, only the third time in league history it has happened, to win the nod as the WHL Player…
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