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September 6, 1985
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Selke’s Secret: Outstanding Judgment
There’s only one reason why I’d like to see The NHL expand to 24 teams and open another sub-grouping of teams and that’s so that it could be called “The Selke Division” in honor of the late Frank Selke, Sr. Selke, who died earlier this summer, was the architect of the NHL’s first two dynasties. He directed the Toronto Maple Leafs while his boss Conn Smythe was off to war in the early 1940s and helped put together a Toronto team that won four Stanley Cups (1945, 1947. 1948, 1949) in five years. And then Selke moved to Montreal, retooled Les Canadiens around Rocket Richard and made one of the most daring moves in the history of our sport. He decided that coach Dick Irvin, who had propelled the Canadiens to three…
Ronning Joins Olympic Program
CALGARY—Cliff Ronning has received outstanding Western Hockey League grades but the St. Louis Blues figure their prize prospect could still use some tutoring. And who better to do the teaching than Canadian Olympic coach Dave King. Ronning, the WHL’s Most Valuable Player last season, has opted for Olympic program schooling in hopes of quickly graduating to the Blues. The National Hockey League club selected the Burnaby, B.C., native in the seventh round of the 1984 entry draft. The Olympic program presents yet another challenge for the 19-year-old konning, whose departure from the WHL will be greeted with a sigh of relief from opposition netminders. The 5-foot-8, 170-pound center has excelled at every level of his amateur career, despite pessimism from skeptics who insist he’s too small too survive in a big man’s game. Yet,…
Rangers Tout Their Unheralded Free Agent
NEW YORK RANGERS NEW YORK—You have by now heard of Adam Oates and Ray Staszak. The New York Rangers had also heard of them, but Oates and Staszak didn’t want to hear from them. So now the Rangers are hoping the NHL will be bearing from the free agent nobody heard about. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing center Steve Moria. Signed on August 7 to a contract of two years plus an option, Moria led all NCAA players in scoring last year as a junior at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. “The college free agent market has received considerable attention this offseason,” said Rangers’ GM Craig Patrick upon announcing the signing. “Yet maybe the best of these products, Moria, has not. We think that he was perhaps the most promising of the free agent players out…
Wild Free-Agent Spending Sure To Result In Revision
MANY HOCKEY FANS look upon the off-season as a dead period when nothing much is happening. But in fact, some interesting trends start to develop in the summer. These trends may not appear very important in August and as a result, most fans—and most radio and TV announcers for that matter—don’t realize the importance of these developments until November or December. But there’s really no reason to wait that long for consideration of some key off-season moves: Expansion: When the Stanley Cup playoffs ended, expansion looked like a certainty. The expansion committee is still looking at the possibility and will report back to the full board of governors in December, but at the moment, feelings are running strongly against any expansion and, yes, that even includes Hamilton. Insiders say the committee is discovering…
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