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November 22, 1985
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Struggling Leafs Settle For A Pair Of Ties
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS TORONTO—You’ve got to learn to crawl before you can walk. It was with that in mind that the Toronto Maple Leafs, reduced to their hands and knees by nine straight losses, took their first tentative strides towards renewed hope. Not only for themselves but coach Dan Maloney. Sure, a pair of ties against the Detroit Red Wings and St. Louis Blues—both sub.500 teams—extended the club’s winless streak to a team-record 11 games but it also ended a losing streak one game before reaching a club-record 10. “It’s better than losing. That’s for sure,” said goalie Tim Bernhardt, who was sharp in both saw-offs. “It’s a step in between I suppose.” And a very important one for Maloney, who had admitted earlier in the week that losses against both the Red Wings and Blues…
Hockey Family Affair For LaFontaine
If there ever were living proof that good things come in small packages, Pat LaFontaine is just that. At 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, LaFontaine is not one of the biggest players in the National Hockey League. But for the baby-faced New York Islander center, it’s just another case of playing with the bigger boys. And that’s something he’s been doing almost all his life. “I started playing organized hockey when I was seven years old,” says LaFontaine. “Until midget I always played against players who were a year older than I was. “Playing against faster and stronger guys helped me excel because of the more difficult competition.” LaFontaine, 20, started playing hockey in his hometown of St. Louis, but later moved to suburban Detroit when his father was transferred there. “I used to play against my…
A BLACK DAY FOR THE GAME
PHILADELPHIA—Suddenly, the Stanley Cup seemed like a trinket, the Vezina Trophy nothing more than worthless metal, and sports in general so trivial. All that really mattered was that Pelle Lindbergh, 26, was all but gone; connected to a life-support system in a New Jersey Hospital, and it was just a matter of time before the heart which beat so much life into the Little Swede, so much life in the Flyers, would beat for him no more. While the Flyers and his fiancee, Kirsten Pietszch, and his mother kept a constant vigil, the respirator breathed some technical form of life into his lungs, but he was “brain-dead”. For all intents and purpose—at least the intent and purpose of his kind of life—he had expired hours earlier when he crashed his sports car into…
Trespassers Best Beware When Near Kings’ Goalie
LOS ANGELES KINGS LOS ANGELE—Bob Janecyk is mad as you know what and he isn’t going to take it any more. After being run into twice while trying to clear loose pucks within a span of five and a half minutes in two successive game—Hartford’s Torrie Robertson drilled the Los Angeles Kings’ goaltender from behind with 4:13 left in the third period one night and Philadelphia’s Peter Zezel planted an elbow in his face 53 seconds into a game less than 24 hours Jater—Janecyk had a warning for future transgressers. “People think they’re going to be able to do that stuff and get away with it. Well, they won’t without getting a stick in their face, I can tell you that,” Janecyk said. “You’ve got to defend what’s yours. Billy Smith has done it…
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