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March 15, 1985
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Meloche Has His Say And Then His Day
MINNESOTA NORTH STARS BLOOMINGTON—Goaltender Gilles Meloche doesn’t pop off, but this season’s frustration with the Minnesota North Stars has blown his cork. He kept his mouth shut when he was not used through the first five weeks of the season, and when he played only twice in the month of February. The boiling point came after he played and the team won and then he didn’t play and the team lost. At that point, the Stars called up Mike Sands from the minors instead of playing Meloche, and the team was shelled. “This is just another joke in this year’s comedy,” said Meloche. “This year is the worst I’ve been through. I want to play another two years, and want to stay in Minnesota, but I don’t want to go through this again.” For…
Black Hawks Give Blues Food For Playoff Thought
CHICAGO BLACK HAWKS CHICAGO—The Chicago Black Hawks gave the St. Louis Blues something by which to remember them. Though the Hawks have only a slim chance of catching St. Louis in the Norris Division race, you wouldn’t have known it by the way they played and the Chicago Stadium crowd of 17,364 screamed when the teams met for the final time in the regular season on March 3. The bottom line was a 5-2 Chicago conquest. “If nothing else, it shows we still have it,” said Hawk captain Darryl Sutter. “We had something to prove to ourselves, and we proved it. We played six periods of hockey against them and five of them were dam good.” The night before in St. Louis, the Hawks lost the three-goal lead they held late in the second period…
Tonelli Was Average Until Bantam
When John Tonelli was growing up, he looked at Bobby Hull and Bobby Clarke as players he wanted to emulate—that is, until he played against them in the National Hockey League. “That’s when I stopped liking them,” said the New York Islanders’ hard working left winger who played for the gold-medal winning Team Canada in the Canada Cup in September and won the tournament’s Most Valuable Player award. “But I respected them, because they were so effective against us.” Tonelli was bom in Milton, Ont., and played all his minor hockey there. “I was about seven or eight before I played organized hockey,” he said. Tonelli’s first team was the Beech Brothers in Milton. “The team was a good start, and it was coached by Frank Kaszycki (father of former NHLer Mike Kaszycki).” Tonelli ran the…
Oates, Fusco Competition Could Go Down To Wire
TROY—The head-to-head confrontations of outstanding scorers always draw a lot of attention. In basketball, it’s Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson. In football, it’s Joe Montana vs. Dan Marino. This season in the Eastern Colleges Athletic Conference, it’s Adam Oates vs. Scott Fusco. Oates, a junior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Fusco, the multi-talented junior at Harvard, are carrying their battle for the ECAC scoring championship right down to the wire. As a result, both are prime candidates to bring the Hobey Baker Award back to the ECAC this year. In a year of outstanding goaltenders, Oates and Fusco have emerged as the two dominant offensive threats, using different styles. Oates is a magician with his stick and may be the best passer in the nation. Going into the final weekend of regular-season…
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