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January 11, 1985

January 11, 1985

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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If You Report, Baxter, Give Me The Facts

I knew there was a good reason for me not to join the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association but it didn’t come to me right away. Now it has. Paul Baxter. Yesiree, Bob, Paul Baxter is the best reason in the world for me to withhold my PHWA dues for the 15th consecutive year. Any hockey writers’ organization that would welcome Paul Baxter as a member is a hockey writers’ organization that will not get my money. And, lo and behold, Paul Baxter, who moonlights as a defenseman for the Calgary Flames and who has boxed more ears than Punch and Judy, is now a card-carrying member of the PHWA. He earned this dubious distinction by getting a job writing a column for the Calgary Sun. “I’ve got to work two or three hours a week…

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Team Canada Junior Roster

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It’s Not Crazy To Retire Players’ Numbers

The first thing I did after reading Stanley Fischler’s preposterous column in the Nov. 16 issue of THN was to rush warmest get-well wishes to my longtime pal, assuming he had to have been under the weather to have affixed his name to such a wretched piece of reasoning. In it, you’ll recall, he took Bobby Orr and me to task for being so presumptuous as to challenge highfalutin’ Harry Sinden over the latter’s outrageous refusal to properly acknowledge Phil Espopsito’s special place in Boston Bruins’ history with the retiring of his number (7). For someone who has authored 600 books immortalizing ham-and-eggers, it’s a curious position for Fischler to pooh-pooh the commemoration of a spectacular star. Good grief, Stanley! How high did that fever go? Surely you couldn’t have been serious.…

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Red Wings Will Wait It Out With Loiselle

DETROIT—Claude Loiselle’s National Hockey League career consists of 50 games with the Detroit Red Wings over the past three seasons. It’ll be a major surprise—and disappointment—if the 21-year-old native of Ottawa doesn’t graduate full-time to the team soon. Loiselle was one of the handful of good players in the Red Wing training camp last September, but was with Adirondack in the American Hockey League when the season opened. That’s the Red Wings’ top farm club, and the move was predetermined. Loiselle could probably be helping Detroit right now, but general manager Jimmy Devellano’s game plan for the young center is to give him a full season at the AHL level for him to further develop his talents and bolster his confidence. Deveilano would have liked to have kept Loiselle in the AHL for…