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January 25, 1985
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Kings Need Teammwork To Extinguish The ‘Fire’
LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Kings were mired in a seven-game slide (0-4-3) that was beginning to wear on everybody before it finally was snapped in Detroit with a 5-3 victory. “The bloom’s off the rose, the new coach is just the regular coach now,” Pat Quinn said before his team showed signs of coming to life with a 1-1-1 trip that ended on Jan. 9 with a 4-4 tie in Calgary. The Kings had won seven in a row earlier this season because they had worked as a cohesive unit, concentrating on preventing goals rather than scoring them, were willing to take a hit in the comer to gain control of the puck, and were willing to give a hit in the slot to move somebody out. Not that things were perfect even…
Demers Breaks Up Blues Big Line
ST. LOUIS—If you’re talking about the best lines in hockey and you don’t include the St. Louis Blues’ trio of Brian Sutter, Bernie Federko and Joe Mullen, you’re not doing your homework. An impartial observer, New Jersey goalie Chico Resch, offered this testimonial after a 4-4 tie last month. “That line just might be as good as the (Wayne) Gretzky line,” he said. But as good as the line is—a combined 114 goals and 161 assists last season—it js not immune to the ebb and flow of the club’s fortunes. Sutter, Federko and Mullen were broken up recently for what coach Jacques Demers believes is for the greater good of the team. For the last few weeks, Sutter has been skating on left wing with center Doug Gilmour and right winger Greg Paslawski. Sutter’s…
THIS WEEK…20 Years Ago
Here’s what was happening 20 years ago this week in hockey: • Chicago Black Hawk coach Billy Reay said left winger Bobby Hull was the best player he’s ever seen. “In my time, I played against (Rocket) Richard and (Gordie) Howe, and I say Bobby is better than either of them.” • Terry Reardon, general manager of the Baltimore Clippers of the American League, announced he was going to film his team in action to give them an idea of what they were doing wrong. Here’s what was happening 15 years ago this week in hockey: • Canada shocked the hockey world by withdrawing from the 1970 world championship, to be played in Montreal and Winnipeg in March. “We will not take part in any tournament until we are given the right to play…
BLUELINES
Devil boss John McMullen’s $1 million-a-year bath and miserable deal—the worst in hockey—with the New Jersey Sports Authority will not force him to move his NHL club to another site, despite broad hints to the contrary. The Devils’ principal owner has gone public in his moaning to force the NJSA, which he claims deceived him in the first place, to rewrite the lease and other aspects of their deal so that he has a fair chance to make a buck. BLUELINES has learned that it now costs the Devils’ a whopping $30,000-a-game in staff and rental costs just to open the building. (By contrast, the St. Louis Blues pay $ 12,500 per game). McMullen is backed by several of his NHL colleagues, including Blues’ owner Harry Ornest. “John has a…
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