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September 13, 1985
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Bronco’s Bid For The Title Fell Only One Point Short
It seems a cruel twist of fate that Joseph (Bronco) Horvath has ever been nosed out of anything in his life—but that’s just what happened to the Boston Bruin in 1958 when he lost the National Hockey League scoring championship by just one point. Bobby Hull won it by a nose that year but the former Chicago Black Hawk’s proboscis never measured up to Horvath’s. “One time I was sitting with a group of guys I played hockey with,” remembers Horvath. “One of them said that there was a fly on the end of my nose. “Without even hesitating, I told the guy to knock it off himself because he was closer to it than I was.” But Horvath, who played for seven teams over nine years in the NHL, wasn’t the type to…
Star Makes Impact On The Richter Scale
MINNESOTA NORTH STARS BLOOMINGTON—Paul Holmgren is gone, landing in Philadelphia as assistant coach after having failed the Minnesota North Stars’ physical. But Dave Richter is back, with a new contract and renewed enthusiasm about the new season and the North Stars. Holmgren was a larger-than-life right winger throughout his career, someone who meant a lot to his team on the ice, but even more to it with his forceful team concept on the bench and in the dressing room. Richter is a giant of a defenseman who might be able to offer some of the same necessary forcefulness this year. But he refutes any comparison with Holmgren. “Nobody can do what Homer did.” said Richter. “But I’ll do what I can in my own way. I think I can contribute more than I did last…
Wings Wage Czechbook Hockey
With apologies to T.S. Eliot, Phase One of the Mike Hitch-Jimmy Devellano Era in Detroit went out not with a bang but a whimper. It is Phase Two that has come in with a bang. Fast on the heels of an embarrassingly quick playoff departure last April, the Detroit Red Wings have become a team in transition. And they have done so with a flurry of free-agent signings so abundant barely a fortnight has gone by since June without the announcement of still another acquisition by the Wings. Perhaps, never before has a hockey team so completely dominated the summerscape. Chronicling the 1985 off-season has been little more than an account (bank account, that is) of how Hitch, the Wings’ owner, and Devellano, his general manager, have spent their summer vacations. Between the two…
Anderson Adds Scoring Power To Nordiques
QUEBEC NORDIQUES QUEBEC CITY—Talk about busy. In the space of just a few weeks, the Quebec Nordiques hired a new assistant coach for Michel Bergeron, traded for a right winger to play with Dale Hunter and Michel Goulet, offered team captain Mario Marois as trade bait, and finally, told Real Cloutier not to get his hopes too high concerning a possible comeback in the National Hockey League with his former team. In the midst of all this, veteran Andre Savard said he will try out his knee one more time in training camp, hoping to play out the final year of his current contract at full salary. And the Stastny brothers—Peter and Anton—were off to Switzerland in early September to participate in an exhibition tournament, complete with teams from Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and the…
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