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April 19, 1985
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Coffey’s Hot At The End, But Oilers On Low Boil
EDMONTON OILERS EDMONTON—So, you figured Paul Coffey’s 126-point promenade from 1983-84 was a one-shot undertaking, a career National Hockey League campaign that should be preserved in formaldehyde? As the current campaign came to a conclusion, Coffey failed to duplicate last year’s incredible scoring finish that saw him accumulate 48 points (13 goals, 35 assists) over the Edmonton Oilers’ final 22 games. But, he certainly didn’t miss by much… In his bid to become the NHL’s highest-scoring defenseman since the heydays of Bobby Orr with the Boston Bruins, the fluid-skating Coffey has gone about this particular task in a highly-efficient manner. The night of Jan. 18 in Vancouver he accumulated four assists to surpass the career 400-point plateau just past the midway point of his fifth NHL season. Over the Oilers’ final 35 games, only…
A Last-Minute Look IntoThe Playoff Crystal Ball
THIS IS THE last chance to be wrong before the playoffs, so here goes: The Oilers are still the obvious favorites, despite the way they played the last month of the season. But they don’t have the straight path to the finals they had the last two years so they can’t use the first few rounds to build themselves up to the right mood. This time, it’s going to be a lot tougher. I don’t think Los Angeles will beat the Oilers, but the Kings will take more out of the champions than Winnipeg did in the first round the last two years. And either Winnipeg or Calgary is Strong enough to take advantage of that against Edmonton in the second round. If duty didn’t call elsewhere, the first-round series I’d most like…
Penguins Waddle In The ‘Right Direction’”
“Here come the Penguins, so noble and strong Is this a contender—what has gone wrong? Loss after loss, we are mired next to last Ever digressing back into the past. “ —from Ode to the Penguins, distributed at the Civic Arena, circa 1973. It has been 18 years now that the Pittsburgh Penguins have skated in circles and made themselves dizzy, and nothing has changed much, except the color of the uniforms. The uniforms are black now. They used to be blue. There is something very peculiar about the history of the Penguins and its connection with black and blue. This is a team that falls down a lot, and sometimes it gets up, and sometimes it doesn’t. At the end of this season, it was 24-51-5 for 53 points, and it is not going to…
North Stars Won’t Sing The Playoff Blues
MINNESOTA NORTH STARS BLOOMINGTON—You could call it arrogance, false bravado, outright foolishness, the refusal to accept 80 games as reality or, if you believe in miracles, you could call it accurate. What we’re talking about is the Minnesota North Stars’ confidence that they can whip the St. Louis Blues and go on to astonishing heights in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Everybody in the Stars’ orgnization looks upon St. Louis as faltering, with Doug Wickenheiser sidelined with a knee injury and Mike Liut traded to Hartford. They also look upon Chicago as sizzling, since it closed to within three points of the Blues at the finish, and sported a 16-7-4 record with Bob Pulford behind the bench. Therefore, everybody would rather play St. Louis than Chicago. Now, nobody is saying that the Stars threw any…
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