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February 8, 1985
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Scott Bachinski is an 11-year-old left winger for the West Fargo (North Dakota) Warriors Peewee A team. This is his fifth year of organized hockey, including three years on travel teams. Two seasons ago, he was selected captain of his squirt team. Last season, he played up at the peewee B level and this year was voted captain of the peewee A team. In his first 24 games this season, he has 51 goalsand 17 assists. During the summer, Scott attends a number of hockey schools and has received numerous awards. He also plays football and participates in track and field. He is a grade five student at Lewis and Clark School in Fargo, ND. Scott dreams of playing high school hockey and then playing college hockey at the university’ of North Dakota. His…
NHL Should Give Weak Teams A Care Package
By Perry Lefko PRO: It would be all too easy to say the rich are rich in hockey because they can call a spade a spade while those at the lower end of the scale are cursed because they’re not playing with a full deck. In fact, luck has a lot to do with it. Consider the Pittsburgh Penguins, for example. Because they finished last in 1984, they won the rights to Mario Lemieux, who may have saved the franchise from total destruction. The Penguins were lucky to finish last at a time when there was a bonafide superstar ready for the picking, but what would have happened if the Penguins were picking first this season, which is one of the thinnest drafts in years? My bet is they wouldn’t last another year. So…
The Interview: John Ziegler
With another round of high-level National Hockey League meetings taking place in Calgary during the All-Star break, 50-year-old president John Ziegler emerges from his relati ve obscurity (as sports commissioners go) to take on the media as well as the hockey lords. The highest-paid NHL president ever at $300,000-plus, Ziegler has weathered several NHL storms, yet remains the butt of criticism both from within and without the league. Dapper, humorous, and rarely riled, Ziegler sat down for an interview with HOCKEY NEWS contributing editor Stan Fischler at the president’s Manhattan office overlooking Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The 5-foot-8, trim executive betrayed some uncharacteristic anger during the interview, particularilv when the issue of criticism from the French-Canadian media was mentioned. In the following edited transcripts, Ziegler addresses issues that include the economic status…
Saskatoon Remembers May Day
May 18, 1983. That date is etched in the minds of virtually every Saskatonian, for that was the day of reckoning, when the National Hockey League board of governors voted 18-3 against the sale of the St. Louis Blues to a group of Saskatoon investors, headed by Bill Hunter. It’s been almost two years since that fateful day, but the people of Saskatoon remember it like it was only yesterday. “The only thing I can compare it with would be the day John. F. Kennedy was assassinated, or when Paul Henderson scored to beat the Soviets in 1972,” says Dane MacKinnon, a local broadcaster and host of a radio-sports talk show. “Everybody in Saskatoon remembers exactly what they were doing when the announcement came that the NHL had rejected us. “I think people expected the…
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