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April 12, 1985
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Lafleur Likes Living In Slow Lane
A near-fatal car crash four years ago convinced Guy Lafleur to curb his penchant for the high-rolling life of downtown bars. Lafleur. the recently-retired superstar of the Montreal Canadiens, said that he frequently partied with his hockey teammates during a period of six years, including the National Hockey League club’s glory years of 1975-79 when they won four Stanley Cups. “I went out almost every night with the guys on the team,” Lafleur said, “they were friends. I didn’t want a barrier. It brought us closer. People at Thursday’s (bar) and other bars were happy to see us.” After a night of downtown dining and drinking with then-teammate Robert Picard, Lafleur fell asleep behind the wheel of his Cadillac Seville on his way home in the early morning of March 25, 1981. The car…
Bulldogs’ Watson Wins The Hobey Baker Award
DETROIT—Now that Bill Watson has won the Hobey Baker Award as the outstanding college player in the U.S., he is free to join the Chicago Black Hawks who own his National Hockey League rights. But, Watson, who declared his intention to pass up his final year of college eligibility awhile back, would rather just take it easy. “I’m going to take some time off, relax, concentrate on my school work and go fishing with the coach,” said the Minnesota-Duluth sophomore, who tied a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division One record for most points in a season (109, 49 goals, 60 assists) by scoring two goals and adding three assists in the NCAA Final Four tournament March 29-30 in Detroit. “I won’t try to make the Black Hawks until next year. Nothing…
…While It’s Gardner In Southern
SPRINGFIELD—Veteran Paul Gardner, the two-point-a-game master playmaker of the Binghamton Whalers, has been named as the American Hockey League’s Southern Division most valuable player in the annual HOCKEY NEWS’ coaching poll. Gardner, who scored 47 goals and 69 assists in his first 58 games, was also named to the first all-star team. His 116 points tied him with Doug Gibson of Rochester for eighth place among the all-time leading scorers in the AHL. Gibson scored 44 goals and 72 assists in 75 games during the 1974-75 season. Gardner needed only 12 points to match the all-time mark of 125. Joining Gardner on the first team forward line were left winger Steve Thomas of the St. Catharines Saints and right winger Alan Kerr of the Springfield Indians. Binghamton’s Richie Dunn and Baltimore’s Phil Bourque…
RPI Engineers A Title Victory Over Friars
DETROIT—The verdict is in. And as far as the National Collegiate Athletic Association is concerned, nobody does it better than Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The Engineers, who entered the Final Four tournament March 29-30 in Detroit with a 31-game unbeaten streak, put the finishing touches on a story-book season, by defeating Providence 2-1 in the final at Joe Louis Arena to claim the school’s second national championship and first since 1954. The victory increased RPI’s record to a mind-boggling 35-2-1. RPI hasn’t lost a game since Nov. 23, and the time it didn’t win was March 23, when Lake Superior tied RPI 3-3, while losing a total-goal, quarter-final series. Even now, the Engineers’ amazing season is a bit hard to comprehend for sixth-year coach Mike Addesa. “I guess I’ll sit back sometime and say, ‘Wow,…
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