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September 6, 1985
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OHL Teams Doing The Front Office Shuffle
KINGSTON—Two things the Ontario Hockey League never seems to run short of are controversies and surprises. There was a taste of both in August. First came the bombshell in Sudbury, where Bob Strumm resigned before coaching a game and was quickly replaced by Wayne Maxner as coach and general manager. Just as quickly. Toronto Marlies announced that Marlies midget coach Paul Dennis would replace Tom Martin as their coach. Meanwhile, in Kingston, GM Ken Slater tendered his resignation to join the Vancouver Canucks as a scout. And in another move, the London Knights named Paul Cook, coach of Wallaceburg junior Cs the past three seasons to replace Skip Cummins as assistant coach to Don Boyd. The popular Cummins stepped down to devote more time to a new sales position but will coach the St. Thomas Pests…
Flint’s Return Makes ‘I’ A 10-Team League
INDIANAPOLIS—The city of Flint may be down as far as the International Hockey League is concerned, but it’s not out. When the Generals and the city fathers were slow in reaching an agreement for the coming hockey season, the Generals packed up and moved the franchise to Saginaw. Jarred by the transfer, Flint did a turnaround and has obtained permission from the IHL Board of Governors to keep a team in the league. As a result, Flint, represented by Dr. Carl Lamb and former Detroit Red Wings’ star and ex-GM Ted Lindsay, becomes the 10th team in the league. The yet unchristened team will balance the IHL’s two divisions by joining the East segment with alongside Muskegon, Kalamazoo, Toledo and the reestablished Saginaw franchise. The West, which played with five teams in the nine-team…
Creighton Takes Over The Indians
GLENS FALLS—So much for those lazy days of summer when American Hockey League teams conduct little if any business. In what has developed into one of the busiest summers in recent memory, several coaching positions have been filled and a number of top-flight AHL players have moved from one team to another. The Springfield Indians, who lost their fine young coach, Lome Henning, to the Minnesota North Stars earlier in the summer, came up with an experienced replacement in veteran Fred Creighton. Crieghton, 52, takes over the Indians, a team that has working agreements with both the New York Islanders and the North Stars, after a long stint with Indianapolis in the Central and International Leagues. Creighton said his return to coaching on a full-time basis wasn’t exactly planned. “It’s the way things worked…
Wings’ Hectic Off-Season Gives Club Added Depth
DETROIT RED WINGS DETROIT—For years, the sports term “depth chart” has had little application for the Detroit Red Wings. Each season, for better than a decade now (almost two, in fact), putting together a hockey team has been a little like learning to type—hunt and peck. A stopgap here, a band-aid there until there were enough marginal players at each position to back up the few legitimate NHL types. And—voilal—a hockey team would emerge to compete (and get beaten.) But it’s somewhat different this time around. Certainly, there are large question marks after many of the names but now at least there is some depth to the chart new coach Harry Neale has been compiling. There are plenty of prospects at all positions—and they’re not just teenage drafts with little or no real chance of…
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