Lemaire Helps With Junior Habs

VERDUN—The Verdun Junior Canadiens are getting some heavyweight instruction at training camp as they prepare for the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League season. New coach Carol Vadnais, an NHL defenseman for 17 years, is shaping the club along with recently-retired Habs’ coach Jacques Lemaire. “Jacques oversees the three coaches in the Montreal organization now (Canadiens’ Jean Perron, Sherbrooke Jets’ Pierre Creamer and Vadnais) and I’ve always believed two, three or four heads are better than one. The guy knows what he’s talking about.” Vadnais, 40, a Montreal native who played his junior hockey for the Junior Canadiens, spent the past two season as an assistant coach, guiding the New York Rangers’ defensive, power-play and penalty-killing units. “After Herb Brooks was fired, it was kind of obvious I wasn’t part of their plans,” said Vadnais,…

AHAUS Boss Heads Trio Of U.S. Inductees

The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame will be a home, home on the range for three more American hockey heroes. The hall is situated on Highway 53 in Eveleth. MN., a small town of 5,000 in a mining-oriented area named the Iron Range. Eveleth likes to bill itself “the hockey capital of the U.S.A.”. It will be a second home for Hal Trumble. Bob Blake and Richard Rondeau. They will be added to the U.S. Hall Oct. 5. Trumble, 59, is the executive director of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States (AHAUS). Blake. 69, was a standout minor pro and Rondeau. 63, one of America’s great college players. Trumble has had the most recent and most dramatic impact on American hockey. He became the fulltime director of AHAUS in 1972 after working…

HOCKEY SKATE ANALYSIS

The List Of Likes From Orr To Orr

IF I COULD do anything I wanted to during the 1985-86 season, I’d put these twelve things high on my list: 1. I’d like to have lunch or dinner with Guy Lafleur on a trip into Montreal and thank him for all the exciting moments he provided hockey fans. His place is fixed forever in the history of hockey and I’d like to tell him that, personally. 2. I’d like to drop into Hershey, PA and finally see a game involving the Hershey Bears. Really what I want to do is smell the air of Hershey and see if it does smell like chocolate. 3. I’d like to take Frank Orr and Trent Frayne to dinner on a trip into Toronto and just listen to them talk about the game of hockey. Then,…