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November 22, 1985

The Hockey News November 22, 1985

<div class="byline">BY VARTAN KUPELIAN</div><h2>DETROIT RED WINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01867/5555534-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="578" height="168"></div>DETROIT&mdash;Gerard Gallant&rsquo;s timing is impeccable. His hockey&rsquo;s been pretty good, too.Gallant, 22, was the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; best and most productive forward through a dozen game&mdash;he had a clubleading eight goal&mdash;and if that comes as a major surprise, it should.When training camp started, he was just a fringe player in the Wings&rsquo; scheme of things, a former sixth-round draft choice (1981 entry draft) trying hard to make an honest living by playing an honest brand of hockey.The results have been gratifying, for Gallant and the Red Wings.&ldquo;I just try to work hard,&rdquo; Gallant said, trying to explain this season&rsquo;s production. &ldquo;I knew that if I didn&rsquo;t I&rsquo;d be down at Adirondack (of the American League)&mdash;they&rsquo;ve got a lot of good left wingers here&mdash;and I don&rsquo;t want to be down there.&ldquo;When the puck is going in, it makes you look better.&rdquo;Gallant&rsquo;s ninth goal, in only Detroit&rsquo;s second victory in 13 games, a 4-2 triumph over St. Louis, Was a perfect example of that.&ldquo;I was going down the opposite (right) wing and I didn&rsquo;t get all of it,&rdquo; he said.But Blues&rsquo; rookie netminder Darrell May let it get through him.Gallant has been more than just another goal scorer for the Wings. He&rsquo;s worked overtime. Whenever coach Harry Neale needs a dependable forward on the ice. he summons Gallant.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s going to be 3-foot-6 by the end of the season as much as I have to use him,&rdquo; Neale said.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a guy who I didn&rsquo;t appreciate or know much about. But he&rsquo;s been our best forward. He&rsquo;s a hard working guy with more talent that I thought he had.&rdquo;General manager Jimmy Devellano shares his coach&rsquo;s enthusiasm for Gallant, who is in his first full NHL season.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s having a super year, and it&rsquo;s a good time for him to do it&mdash;he&rsquo;s on his option year.&rdquo; Devellano said.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a gamer. He gives it second effort and determination. I&rsquo;d like to have another three or four like Gerard Gallant.&rdquo;Gallant, a native of Summerside, P.E.I., was drafted out of the Quebec League by Jimmy Skinner, Devellano&rsquo;s predecessor. He scored 41 goals for Sherbrooke the year Detroit drafted him and added 54 goals in 1982-83, a season he split between two teams, St. Jean and Verdun.At Verdun, he played left wing on a line with Pat Lafontaine, the junior whiz from Waterford, ML, who was drafted third overall in the 1983 entry draft.Gallant scored 26 goals and had 49 assists for 75 points in 29 games with Verdun, and 33 points in 13 playoff games, to demonstrate that the skills were in place. In the process, he gained a reputation as Lafontaine&rsquo;s bodyguard. Gallant plays bigger than 5-foot-10, 170 pounds.&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t really his bodyguard,&rdquo; Gallant said. &ldquo;I could score and they didn&rsquo;t want me to fight, it was just to make sure (that nobody messed with Lafontaine.)&rdquo;The scouts who came to see Lafontaine also got an eyeful of Gallant. Among them was Devellano.&ldquo;Detroit had drafted me but they hadn&rsquo;t signed me,&rdquo; Gallant said. &ldquo;Jimmy came down to watch.&rdquo;Devellano saw enough of Gallant to offer him a contract. After a season-and-a-half with Adirondack of the American League, Gallant graduated to Detroit last January. He scored in his NHL debut against the New York Islanders and in 32 games had six goals, a total he&rsquo;s already surpassed.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a hungry hockey player,&rdquo; Devellano said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m very happy for him. He&rsquo;s a good kid who has added a lot to this team. You know what&rsquo;s a real plus?&ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t matter what wing he play&mdash;left or right&mdash;he plays just as well. That&rsquo;s a big plus for us. He belongs somewhere on the top three lines, but Harry can shift him from one line to another and use him on either side.&rdquo;After rallying for three third-period goals to tie the Blues, 5-5, in St. Louis, the Wings scored three goals in the first period of the rematch. Goaltender Greg Stefan made them stand up.Petr Klima was beginning to emerge as an offensive force. He had five goals and three assists in a six-game span.&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll be even better.&rdquo; Neale said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s just starting. He&rsquo;ll be quite an offensive threat in this league. He already is.&rdquo; &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Wings Learn To Respect ‘Gamer’ Gallant

<div class="byline">Jay Greenberg</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-011410/5555107-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="352" height="467"></div>WHAT IS THE meaning of hockey life in Southern California? it is a question one has often wrestled with while sitting in the jacuzzi at the Los Angeles Marriott.Waiter, another martini please, we have some serious pondering to do here. I&rsquo;ll turn over, not just after 30 minutes to get some rays on my back, but probably in my grave, before the Los Angeles Kings turn it around.Was that them that we saw, riding in like a big wave off Malibu last season? The Kings, going from 59 points to 82 and going down hard twice in overtime to Edmonton in the playoffs? Nah, it was just another California fad.The Kings had 105 points in 1974-75,99 in 1980-81, and had knocked the Oilers out of the playoffs in 1981-82. But each time they got over their success quickly, and after 15 games of this season, it appears they may be doing so again.In 18 seasons, Los Angeles has won exactly four playoff series. So as far as we can see, this franchise exists for three reasons.The foremost one is my mid-winter tan. Another is so that King players can marry Playmates of the Year and starlets. Last, and certainly least, the team gives Dr. Jerry Buss 40 dates to sell nachos and wine at his Forum.Beautiful building, beautiful people, ugly hockey team. And what for? The NHL has long since given up on becoming a national sport. Oakland, Cleveland, Kansas City and Denver are all gone. Dallas and Miami show little interest. Yet, the Los Angeles Kings, a strip of ice in the desert, continue to exist. Or, for the most part, subsist.We all know why they can&rsquo;t win. The sun is too bright. The road trips are too long. The smog is too thick. And as former owner Jack Kent Cooke found out, 500,000 ex-Canadians who now live in the area, left because they hate hockey.Never mind that in those few years the Kings showed a little spark, they&rsquo;ve drawn. Not just movie stars, but Real People. Never mind that Buss, who has obviously run an excellent basketball franchise, apparently never knew the right people to show him how to do the same thing in hockey.That changed last year. Typically. Buss went to a good friend, his old goalie Rogie Vachon, when he finally tied the can to George Maguire. But Rogic&rsquo;s performance thus far would indicate the Kings&rsquo; owner may have gotten lucky. Vachon backed the Kings out of the comer when Charlie Simmer demanded out. recouping nicely with a first-round draft choice.The new GM hired a good coach, Pat Quinn. He swung a deal with Chicago which got him a competent goalie. Bob Janecyk and the draft&mdash;defenseman Craig Redmond&mdash;that Rogie said he wanted anyway.Sifting through Maguire&rsquo;s ruins. Quinn found at least three things old George had done right&mdash;drafting Bernie Nicholls and Garry Galley in late rounds and signing Brian MacLellan as a free agent. To Pat&rsquo;s surprise, he had a little base to build around. He took it from there.He patiently taught a system, he kicked out all those tired crutches we listed above, and the Kings, with someone at long last to believe in, really responded. Of course they had done the same things twice before, once under Bob Pulford, and once under Bob Berry and then slipped back.And now. it looks like it&rsquo;s happening again. The team&rsquo;s best defenseman. Mark Hardy, is out with a broken wrist. Redmond has hit the sophomore wall. Depth is short, and so are the remaining years that Marcel Dionne and Dave Taylor have as top-notch players.The honeymoon is over and Quinn&rsquo;s challenge is really beginning. Vachon is trying to do things the right way. but with the 18-year-old draft it&rsquo;s going to take longer. In the meantime, Quinn has to sustain the momentum gained last season. At his disposal are about five good players, his patience, and mirrors.&ldquo;We reached a level of achievement beyond this franchise&rsquo;s norm last year.&rdquo; Quinn said. &ldquo;Some of our people were selfsatisfied with last season&rsquo;s success and they came to camp not fully prepared to play.&ldquo;We also let five people go. thinking we had replacements, and it turns out they weren&rsquo;t ready. There&rsquo;s only been two games when I thought we were really terrible. But with the other teams in the division off to a good start, we see them opening up some room on us already and then a little panic sets in.&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t play that way. It&rsquo;s my job to control that.&rdquo;It is some task, one that Quinn, who is completing his law studies, doesn&rsquo;t need. But he loves it nonetheless. Pat vowed never again, at least not until he was certain of complete control, when the Flyers fired him in 1982. But the longer he stayed out, the harder it was going to be to get back in. Despite his family&rsquo;s reluctance to move again, coaching was an itch he had to scratch.Never mind all those hockey-hating ex-Canadians in Southern California, the Kings will draw if they win. They&rsquo;ve shown that in the few fleeting years they put something together, but theirs was always a house of cards with no foundation. And it&rsquo;s going to take time to put one in. &#9632;

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L.A. Provides Mid-Winter Tan, If Nothing Else

<div class="byline">Stan Fischler&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-011438/5555021-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="338" height="462"></div>MESHUGGE&mdash;Pronounced m&rsquo;-SHU-geh. to rhyme with &ldquo;Paducah&rdquo;. Defined: Crazy, nuts, wildly extravagant, absurd.There is not a single word in the English language that sums up Howie Young&rsquo;s life. But fortunately, there is in Yiddish.Meshugge is Howie Young&rsquo;s middle name.Is this man crazy, nuts and wildly extravagant or isn&rsquo;t he?Answer: affirmative.Only Howie Young could have completed a 17-year professional hockey and drinking career in 1977 and suddenly surface this fall at age 48 to resume his professional hockey career.I kid you not. After reading a HOCKEY NEWS story indicating that the International League&rsquo;s Flint Spirits needed players. Young hocked his horses in Oklahoma and rounded up enough cash to high-tail it to Flint.&ldquo;I give him credit,&rdquo; says Spirits&rsquo; coach Doug McKay. &ldquo;He worked hard and gave me a good effort.&rdquo;Howie played four games, came up with an assist and then got the hook. Undaunted, he phoned Dave Schultz and won an invitation to the New York Slapshots&rsquo; training camp.Nobody says Young is going to make the Atlantic Coast League team, but, then again, how can you knock a guy who comes out of retirement after eight years in drydock; and who&rsquo;s close to 50!&ldquo;I figured what the hell,&rdquo; explains Howie. &ldquo;I was away from the excitement and pizzazz long enough to miss it. I started feeling like a baby. I thought, &lsquo;You&rsquo;re too damn young to sit back in a wheat field and watch the sun go down.&rsquo;&rdquo;Ironically, Young left his job driving a van at an old-age home to be an old man on a young team. &ldquo;Age,&rdquo; he argues, &ldquo;should have nothing to do with how they judge me. It&rsquo;s how you feel; how you perform. What bothers me is that there seems to be a guy on a mountain somewhere who picks out a date and decides who&rsquo;s over the hill and everybody goes along with it. Well. I don&rsquo;t.&rdquo;The marriage of Howie Young and New York is almost as good as Frank Sinatra and Atlantic City; a fact that has not eluded our meshugge. &ldquo;God just wanted me to warm up in Flint,&rdquo; he chuckles, &ldquo;so I could come to The Big Apple. I&rsquo;m very optimistic. I feel good.&rdquo;He also insists that he&rsquo;s living a &ldquo;good, clean life,&rdquo; which is not the Howie Young we knew and loved in the 1960s. That was some piece of work.Now, let me tell you why Howie Young is the all-time king of the meshuggeners. Upon breaking in with the Detroit Red Wings in 1960, Howie Young did several things that no other hockey player can claim. Try a few of these on for size. He&hellip;&bull; Made a movie&mdash;None But The Brave&mdash;with Frank Sinatra.&bull; Spit in the face of a Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; supporter.&bull; Spent a May, 1965 night in the Hermosa Beach, California jail for breaking down his own apartment door when he couldn&rsquo;t find the key.&bull; Spent, by his estimation, a dozen years on a bender. (&ldquo;It all seemed like the same game in the same town.&rdquo;)&bull; Holds the world&rsquo;s record for declaring &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a changed man.&rdquo;&bull; Was sued by a Chicago gal for golfing the puck into the stands during a fit of anger.&bull; Started a game with a Beatles&rsquo; hairpiece, then removed it in mid-game to reveal an Indian hairstyle&mdash;bald on the sides with a thick brush down the middle.Since Howie Young has made more comebacks than John DeLorean, it was hardly surprising that the erstwhile NHL raggamuffin was trying on the skates once more in Flint. Like Eddie Shore and Bobby Orr, Young was a legend in his own time, but for less artistic reasons. A Hall of Fame nomination was never in Howie&rsquo;s future.But when he joined the Detroit Red wings, there was a suspicion that the Toronto native had all-star potential. As it happened, he did, but it was at the bar&mdash;not on the ice. In fact, Young may have endured the longest drunk in sports history, finally ending it in 1965.Howie explained, &ldquo;I ran out of fight. I was figting people, fighting myself, fighting the world. There was just no fight left in me. I didn&rsquo;t have a dime. I had no home. As a boozer I had really jelled.&rdquo; It was then that Howie, son of a Toronto iron worker, joined Alcoholics Anonymous.&ldquo;Have you tried playing hockey with a hangover?&rdquo; Young asked. &ldquo;In your frustration, you would wind up using your fists, too.&rdquo;When Howie went to Hollywood in 1965, neither Paul Newman nor Cary Grant feared for their jobs. But Howie did manage to get through the Sinatra-directed production of None But The Brave, without any suspensions or misconducts.&ldquo;It was a big break to have Sinatra as coach. At least he didn&rsquo;t have me killed off as early as the other guys in the movie. I worked for four weeks and didn&rsquo;t get a single bump, bruise or fine. But as an actor I was no Hamlet, which is no surprise since I was always a bad actor on the ice.&rdquo;Fern Flaman, who coaches hockey at Northeastern University, will confirm that. A former star with the NHL Bruins, Flaman met Young shortly after the film stint with Sinatra. Howie had been demoted to Los Angeles of the old Western league, where Flaman was coaching.&ldquo;On the first day of camp,&rdquo; Flaman recalls, &ldquo;we were all skating. All of a sudden, Young got tired and sat down on the boards while the rest of us kept doing the sprints. I told him to get his butt the hell off the boards. He got the message.&rdquo;Flaman knew about Howie&rsquo;s problems and tried to figure some way to extract good hockey out of him.Flaman: &ldquo;My plan was a contract in which he was paid by the game instead of the season. The deal was that if Young missed games he wouldn&rsquo;t get paid. In addition. I had a bonus written in for him if he played in every one of our games.&ldquo;When I showed Young the contract he said I was out of my mind. &lsquo;Fine,&rsquo; I said, &lsquo;then don&rsquo;t play forme.&rsquo; He went home and came back the next day and signed the contract. Then, he went on to play terrific hockey. Howie,&rsquo; I said, &lsquo;you keep at it and you&rsquo;ll get another chance in the NHL.&rsquo;&ldquo;Within a half-season the scouts were coming down to check him out and we finally made a deal for Young and he went to Detroit in &rsquo;66-67. My deal with Howie didn&rsquo;t give him any outs and it brought out the best in him.&rdquo;.Unfortunately, the &ldquo;best&rdquo; never lasted very long and, somehow or other, Howie found a way to find trouble.At the height of his meshugenner period, Howie went to a psychiatrist but the Young-shrink relationship didn&rsquo;t last long. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t like his shoes. They were scuffed. I said to myself: &lsquo;How could a guy with scuffed shoes help me?&rsquo; Let&rsquo;s face it. I didn&rsquo;t want anyone to help me: I wanted to keep on drinking.&rdquo;Before joining AA, Young admitted that his record for staying on the wagon was 30 day&mdash;that coming after the Red Wings traded him to the Black Hawks in 1963.&ldquo;I found a reason to start in again. I always did. This time my excuse was that the Hawks weren&rsquo;t playing me enough.&rdquo;During that era, Howie also set a record for driving coaches, managers and even trainers nuts. Q&ldquo;He was the worst packer in the league,&rdquo; says former Red Wings&rsquo; trainer Lefty Wilson. &ldquo;One night we&rsquo;re in Chicago after a game and Howie is sitting in front of his unpacked bag. He says to me: &lsquo;Do I have to pack this thing?&rsquo; &lsquo;What do you think it&rsquo;s there for?&rsquo; I tell him. Finally, he just throws the stuff in. Meanwhile GM Jack Adams is yelling, &lsquo;Howie, you can&rsquo;t wear your skates on the plane!&rdquo;&lsquo;Howie was also one of the most hyper defensemen to lace up a pair of skates. Once, while skating for the Red Wings in a playoff game against the Maple Leafs, super-pumped Howie was sitting on the bench when coach Sid Abel ordered him on the ice.&ldquo;Sid,&rdquo; shouted Young. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t go in.&rdquo;Abel wheeled in amazement and demanded, &ldquo;How come?&rdquo;&ldquo;Sid, I&rsquo;m too keyed up!&rdquo;To which Abel barked: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m pretty keyed up myself, you get the bleep out there!&rdquo;Howie Young did and he played one hell of a game.Jack Adams never forgot a training camp visit by Young.Somewhere between the midnight curfew and dawn, Adams was awakened by the pounding of Young&rsquo;s fists on his hotel room door.&ldquo;Can you believe,&rdquo; said a member of the Red Wings&rsquo; organization, &ldquo;that Howie had been out, blown all his meal money and now in the middle of the night wanted Jack to give him more.&rdquo;If all the Howie Young stories were strung together they would make a land bridge from Vancouver to Vladivostok. Dave Creighton, whose son Adam is a Buffalo Sabres&rsquo; prospect, used to tell a dandy about the time Howie played with him in Rochester. Young stumbled aboard the team bus several hours after a game, slightly foxed with the grape. Howie couldn&rsquo;t find a seat so he plopped down in the aisle and fell asleep.Crieghton, who had been a veteran of the hockey wars, gazed at the snoozing Young and cracked: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been travelling in professional hockey for 13 year&mdash;but this is the first time I&rsquo;ve seen a rookie assigned to a lower berth!&rdquo;Then there was the time when Howie, as a Red Wing, lost a few teeth in a collision with teammate Alex Faulkner. Howie&rsquo;s dental plates were broken, which prompted a reporter to suggest to coach Sid Abel, &ldquo;I guess Howie will go on a liquid diet.&rdquo;Abel, aware that Young was not a lemonade-fancier, chuckled, &ldquo;So, what else is new?&rdquo;Too bad Howie couldn&rsquo;t hang in there with Flint because he sure as heck would have made good copy, as he had been during his turbulent meshuggener NHL years.Matter of fact, nobody ever said it better about Howie Young than Howie himself, when he uttered the deathless line after being lectured by a Los Angeles cop.&ldquo;I had been disturbing the peace&mdash;my own!&rdquo; &#9632;

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ON THE CONTRARY

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-01206/5557233-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="287" height="287"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-02124/5557226-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="417" height="358"></div><h2>MONTREAL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0368/5557219-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="492" height="236"></div><h2>TORONTO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0437/5557212-1-eng-US/c0004-042.jpg" title="C0004-04" width="487" height="238"></div><h2>WINNIPEG</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0523/5557205-1-eng-US/c0004-052.jpg" title="C0004-05" width="490" height="236"></div><h2>CALGARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0621/5557198-1-eng-US/c0004-062.jpg" title="C0004-06" width="484" height="240"></div><h2>EDMONTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0716/5557191-1-eng-US/c0004-072.jpg" title="C0004-07" width="490" height="238"></div><h2>VANCOUVER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0813/5557184-1-eng-US/c0004-082.jpg" title="C0004-08" width="496" height="244"></div> &#9632;

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THE MOLSON CUP THREE-STAR STANDINGS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01837/5557288-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Photos by Bruce Bennett)</figcaption></div>INSIDE:&bull; Win Great Prizes In Equipment Contest/5&bull; Howie Young: He&rsquo;s Quite A Wild Guy/10ALL THE HOCKEY WORLD GRIEVES FOR FLYER ALL-STAR NETMINDER PELLE LINDBERGH, LEFT &lsquo;BRAIN-DEAD&rsquo; AFTER CAR CRASH &#9632;

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TRAGEDY In PHILLY

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-011259/5554663-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="548" height="912"><figcaption class="caption-body">UNSUNG WING Page 20</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-021027/5554656-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="546" height="912"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE ENFORCER Page 17</figcaption></div><h2>THE COVER STORY&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;Page 3</h2>Up until the morning of Nov. 10, life could not have been better for the Philadelphia Flyers. They were rolling merrily along on a 10-game winning streak, only to have their world collapse around them as all-star goalie Pelle Lindbergh was declared &ldquo;brain dead&rdquo; after a tragic auto accident.To subscribe to THE HOCKEY NEWS or make a change of address to an existing subscription, see Page 39.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03757/5554649-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="548" height="906"><figcaption class="caption-body">HEART AND SOUL Page 26</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04529/5554642-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="546" height="912"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANONYMOUS STAR Page 16</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Hockey News

In next week&rsquo;s Nov. 29th issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, we&rsquo;ll take an in-depth look at one of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s most popular player&mdash;algary Flame sharpshooter Lanny McDonald.If that preview sounds familiar, it should. The Lanny McDonald profile was supposed to have appeared in this issue, but in light of the Pelle Lindbergh tragedy, it was postponed until next week.Lanny is one of the NHL&rsquo;s elder statesmen, but it&rsquo;s not as if he&rsquo;s Old McDonald. This story takes a look at an old-fashioned guy playing an old-fashioned style in what has increasingly become a young man&rsquo;s game.Plus, we&rsquo;ll report on the summit meeting between hockey player agents in Toronto, who are apparently forming their own lobby group to influence the terms of the next NHL-NHLPA Collective Bargaining Agreement.Don&rsquo;t miss all that, plus much, much more. &#9632;

NEXT WEEK IN THN

&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;d be fantastic to have an NHL team in Hamilton&mdash;Ontario needs one.&rdquo;&mdash;WHL president Ed Chynoweth, in the Steel City for a world junior championship press conference. Story on Page 41. &#9632;

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

<div class="byline">BY AL MORGANTI</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;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 &ldquo;brain-dead&rdquo;.For all intents and purpose&mdash;at least the intent and purpose of his kind of life&mdash;he had expired hours earlier when he crashed his sports car into a wall.It was approximately 5:45 a.m. on a Sunday morning when Lindbergh, at the wheel of his ultra-customized Porsche 930 Turbo with two passengers aboard, failed to negotiate a sharp curve.The car crossed the street, hit a small curb, and then lunged toward the front steps of an elementary school, slamming into a three-and-a-half foot high white retaining wall.Police estimate the car was travelling at approximately 60 miles per hour (110 kph). The legal speed limit is 35 miles per hour (55 kph) coming into the curve.There were no eyewitnesses, but a resident of the area said the sound of the car&rsquo;s approaching engine was enough to awaken him.&ldquo;I just heard him come down from the (White Horse) pike,&rdquo; said Harry Stout, who lives about 100 yards from the crash scene. &ldquo;I heard this &lsquo;whoosh&rsquo; and I knew he wasn&rsquo;t going to make it around the bend. Then I heard, not a crash, but a thud. That&rsquo;s when he hit the wall.&ldquo;The car was so caved in, that unless you looked real close, you&rsquo;d never see it.&rdquo;One of the passengers in the car, Ed Parvin, Jr. also suffered brain damage and was listed in critical condition. A female companion of Parvin&rsquo;s, Kathy McNeil, suffered internal injuries to her spleen and liver.One day later, Lindbergh was still connected to a life-support system, as his fiancee and mother awaited the arrival of Pelle&rsquo;s father from Sweden. Once he arrived, a decision was to be made on how long Lindbergh would remain on the system, and whether or not some of his organs would be donated for transplanting.According to Dr. Edward Viner, the club&rsquo;s team physician, Lindbergh&rsquo;s blood-alcohol content was .24 per cent, well above the legal limit for driving (.10) in the U.S.&ldquo;But I want to make a point that Pelle Lindbergh was not a bad drinker,&rdquo; said Viner.Friends will tell you that, on the contrary. Lindbergh hardly ever drank.&ldquo;But on this occasion,&rdquo; continued Viner, &ldquo;with the team just having won its 10th straight game, with four days before the next game, and a day off from practice, he and some of the guys just celebrated.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-011381/5554749-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="989" height="919"></div>On the night before the injury, the Flyers had defeated the Boston Bruins 5-3. Lindbergh did not play goal, and went home with his fiancee after the game. However, at about 1 a.m., Lindbergh decided that he would join some of his teammates in celebration at The Coliseum, which is a sports-restaurant complex.The Flyers not only practise there, but many of the players often visit the after-hours club within the complex, especially after winning games.&ldquo;Pelle certainly wasn&rsquo;t sloppy drunk,&rdquo; said Brad Marsh, who had been at the club. &ldquo;We never would have let him drive if we thought he couldn&rsquo;t handle it.&rdquo;Although alcohol was involved, the real culprit still appears to be Lindbergh&rsquo;s love for fast cars. The red Porsche was not only a unique 930 Turbo, but he had sent it to Germany over the summer where it was completely customized.According to Lindbergh, the customizing alone cost him more than $30,000, and the car was worth well over $ 100,000. He often said it was &ldquo;almost a Formula One.&rdquo; And he drove it that way.&ldquo;We&rsquo;d sat him down and talked to him about driving fast,&rdquo; said Flyers&rsquo; general manager Bob Clarke, &ldquo;but when you&rsquo;re that young, and that strong, you just feel invincible.&ldquo;I think all pro athletes have felt like that from time to time. I know every guy I played with over 15 years has gone out and done something like that.&ldquo;I guess we were the lucky ones, Pelle wasn&rsquo;t lucky. Sure, the fast driving was part of what made Pelle Pelle, but God, what a waste. What an awful waste.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-021119/5554742-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="990" height="1388"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bernie Parent, top right, and Pelle Lindbergh, top left, were like father and son when the little goalie received the Vezina Trophy last June. As for Lindbergh&rsquo;s team-mates, far left, they&rsquo;ll have to get along without him now.</figcaption></div>&ldquo;This feeling is just so bad, just so bad. I don&rsquo;t know what words to say. Words aren&rsquo;t enough.&rdquo;The entire Flyers&rsquo; organization was shattered, but none more than Bernie Parent, the former Flyers&rsquo; goaltending great, who had been Lindbergh&rsquo;s boyhood hero.And it was literally a dream come true when the Flyers drafted him, and Parent became his coach.Perhaps the highlight of his brief, but brilliant career occurred last June in Toronto where it was Parent who awarded Lindbergh the Vezina Trophy.&ldquo;I feel empty now,&rdquo; said Parent, &ldquo;I feel like I&rsquo;ve lost a son.&rdquo;And the Flyers have lost a star. &#9632;

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A BLACK DAY FOR THE GAME

<div class="byline">Frank Orr</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-011467/5554804-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="378" height="424"></div>AN EARLY-SEASON look at a few successes, some failures and assorted ironies in a National Hockey League season that has yet to generate much heat.&bull; The way the sunset appears depends on one&rsquo;s vantage point, doesn&rsquo;t it? An NHL governor, who once offered a scathing indictment of the Detroit Red Wings for being mediocre for so long and supplying such a lousy attraction offered an equally scathing indictment of Wing owner Mike Hitch for his high-priced efforts to improve the team by signing free-agent players. That move, of course, was aimed at improving the Wings as attraction at home and away.&bull; Toronto Maple Leafs have been lousy for so long, and the NHL has survived, that the garbage about the importance of the city because of the national media being based there is a large pile of fertilizer. Much of that has been originated by that national media itself. Ditto for the New York Rangers.&ldquo;Of course, it would be a very large help to the league if there were contending teams in Toronto and New York,&rdquo; said one owner who knows about such things. &ldquo;But not as big a boost as the media people in those cities think it would be.&rdquo;&bull; Has anything in the history of sport&mdash;well, maybe St. Louis Browns and Toronto Argonauts through the &lsquo;60s and &lsquo;70&mdash;approached the Maple Leafs for sheer, raw ability to screw up?&bull; Good line on the Leafs, delivered off the air, of course, from a TV personality: &ldquo;Waiting for the Leafs to win a game is the same as leaving on the porch light for Jimmy Hoffa.&rdquo;&bull; Sign of the times in T.O. A group of nine kids are playing road hockey on a fairly affluent street in Toronto. One wears a No. 99 Edmonton Oiler sweater. The other eight are in Toronto Blue Jay garb.&bull; Philadelphia Flyers verify that the approach to a winning hockey team once voiced by the late Jack Adams was accurate. Adams was general manager and coach of the Red Wings in their glory years.&ldquo;Get a few good players, have a little size and good goaltending but, mostly, find a batch of guys who want to (play),&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t give &rsquo;em too much to do on the ice. just a basic, simple approach.&rdquo;&bull; Come to think of it, talking about the Leaf and Red Wing glory years is pretty much a waste of time. There&rsquo;s a new generation of hockey fans who can&rsquo;t remember that time in ancient history.&bull; A team with as many big players, especially on the wings, as the Calgary Flames should be able to wear down most opponents by leaning on them. But there&rsquo;s a large amount of Gentle Ben in the Flames.&ldquo;Sometimes, we&rsquo;re just too nice,&rdquo; said winger Jim Peplinski. &ldquo;We really shouldn&rsquo;t lose many battles in the pits but we do. We should be bossing the boards.&rdquo;&bull; Another team allowed to head down the drain when all the resources are there for success is the Vancouver Canucks. Through the 1970s there appeared no way that attendance would ever dip below the 10,000 mark. But it has and even through the team is making a promising turnaround under coach Tom Watt, getting the fans back to Pacific Coliseum will be a long, uphill fight.&bull; NHL teams in the U.S., which have a tough time selling teams from Canadian cities (such as Calgary and Winnipeg) to their fans, aren&rsquo;t wild about a team in Hamilton. But with that new arena opening this year in hockey country, how long can the market be overlooked?&bull; Good notion! Marcel Aubut, the president of Quebec Nordiques, has a nifty idea or two cooking around in that wise noggin of his. Aubut thinks it would be a smart move if the NHL took a week off at the all-star break. No doubt about it!At that stage of the season, just about every player in the league is nursing assorted little hurts, the players are sick and tired of each other, their coaches and the game and a few days off would be a bonanza&mdash;except for those who are in the all-star game.In 1979, the league took a week off for the Challenge Cup series against the USSR and it revitalized the whole circuit. &#9632;

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Leafs Have Talent For Screwing Up

<div class="byline">BY JEFF Z. KLEIN AND KARL-ERIC REIF</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-021043/5554835-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg"></div><h2>FOR ARGUMENT&rsquo;S SAKE</h2>The NHL has been compiling goaltenders&rsquo; shot and save records for only three years.It&rsquo;s something the league should have been doing for decades. But, anyway, better late than never.With three full seasons&rsquo; worth of these records stored up, we&rsquo;re beginning to get a look at how goalies have performed over the long haul.The accompanying table ranks NHL goalies by their perseverance rating over the last three seasons. To make the list, a goaler must have played 4,800 minutes since the &rsquo;82-83 season began&mdash;29 have done so.In case you&rsquo;re unfamiliar with the perseverance index&mdash;a combination statistic measuring efficiency and workload&mdash;here&rsquo;s how it&rsquo;s calculated. First, multiply the goalie&rsquo;s save percentage by 600, and add the number of shots per game he faced. Then, divide that figure by.6, and you have the goalie&rsquo;s perseverance rating.According to this formula, the best goalkeeper over the last three years has been Roland Melanson, whose save percentage of.895 and perseverance rating of 947.90 lead all backstops. Melanson topped the league in both &rsquo;82-83 and &rsquo;8384, when he performed superbly while turning aside a barrage of rubber for the Islanders.He faltered at the beginning of last season, and after eight games he was dealt to Minnesota, where he was handed the impossible task of guarding the nets for the disintegrating, injury-riddled North Stars. He did not play especially well, and this year will provide an acid test for Melanson, as he tries to regain his old form for what should be an improved Minnesota side.The No. 2 goalie over the last three seasons is none other than Billy Smith. The fact that Melanson and Smith finished one-two on this chart helps to explain why the Isles have hung on at the top for so long.Clearly, these two player&mdash;along with Melanson&rsquo;s successor, Kelly Hrudey&mdash;have plugged the huge gaps behind a battered defense corps that has been allowing more and more shots with each passing season.For years, Calgary fans have been saying that their unsung hero. Rejean Lemelin, is every bit as good as the celebrated Oiler duo of Andy Moog and Grant Fuhr. And they&rsquo;ve been right, at least as far as the regular season is concerned.Lemelin has faced exactly the same number of shots per game as Moog, while stopping a slightly higher percentage of shots. Lemelin finished third on the list, but playing in the same province as Cup-winners Moog and Fuhr has made him the Flame that Fame Forgot. He deserves more recognition.Murray Bannerman and Glen Hanlon finished fifth and sixth on the list, despite playing behind porous defenses. They, too, are vastly underrated, and merit far more praise than they have received&mdash;although New York Rangers&rsquo; coach Ted Sator may not agree. Sator demoted Hanlon to the American League last month.Bob Froese has seen relatively little action compared to his Flyer creasemate Pelle Lindbergh. Both are fine goalers (they finished seven-eight) and Froese&rsquo;s high ranking here shows that Mike Keenan ought to give him much more work in the nets, even if it&rsquo;s for no other reason than to spell the overworked Lindbergh.Tom Barrasso has won both the Vezina and the Jennings in his first two years in the league, and he&rsquo;s unquestionably one of the finest youngsters to step between the pipes in many a moon. But let&rsquo;s not forget that he plays for the very conservative, defense-minded Sabres, the team that has allowed the fewest shots over the last three years.Barrasso&rsquo;s workload behind the Back-checking Buffalos has been extremely light. He finished 12th on the list, which reminds us that although Barrasso has played very well so far in his career, he&rsquo;s hardly the second coming of Frankie Brimsek. At least not yet.The Washington goalies, Pat Riggin and Al Jensen, didn&rsquo;t do as well as one might&rsquo;ve expected, finishing 14th an&rdquo; 20th, respectively. The Caps&rsquo; excellent defense allows very few shots, so the netminding tandem&rsquo;s save percentage really should be higher than something in the 880&rsquo;s.The same holds true for Pete Peeters of Boston, who finished 19th, and especially for Bob Sauve, the former Sabre net-minder now with Chicago, whose save percentage of just.867 doomed him to 29th and last place on the chart.Finally, there&rsquo;s Greg Millen, who has played more minutes than any other goalie over the past three seasons. Overworked in the the Whaler nets, Millen was traded to St. Louis late last year for Mike Liut, who had been overworked in the Blues&rsquo; nets.As the table shows, Liut (11th) has done far better than Millen (23rd). If Hartford should make the playoffs this season, you need only look to this trade as the turning point in the Whalers&rsquo; fortunes.Emile Francis for manager of the year?<h2>THREE-YEAR PERSEVERANCE RATINGS</h2>(&rsquo;82-83 thru &rsquo;84-85 seasons) minimum 4800 minutes played&dagger; League best in that category&dagger;&dagger; League worst in that category &#9632;

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‘Rollie The Goalie’ Leader Of Pack

<div class="byline">BY TONY GALLAGHER</div><h2>VANCOUVER CANUCKS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-011311/5554866-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="573" height="152"></div>VANCOUVER&mdash;Where Jiri Bubla is concerned, Vancouver Canucks&rsquo; coach Tom Watt uses his Serge Savard theory.When Watt had the great veteran Savard playing for him in Winnipeg, he used to play the former Montreal Canadien as much as possible, feeling Savard would respond to the challenge.With the 35-year-old Czech veteran, the strategy is working just as well.Bubla, the oldest skater in the National Hockey League and second oldest player behind New Jersey Devil netminder Glenn (Chico) Resch, has been the Canucks&rsquo; best defenseman this early seasonAnd to think there was some debate over whether he&rsquo;d be returning this year.Bubla recently logged 29 minutes in a game against Toronto and as a reward was given the next day off. Nobody knows whether he&rsquo;ll be able to keep up the pace, but so far his play has been exceptional.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know myself yet if I can keep playing so much.&rdquo; says Bubla, clearly the most successful non-defecting Czech to play in the National Hockey League. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s only 13 games so far&hellip;(there&rsquo;s a) long way still to go. Soon I will be 36 (Jan. 27) and I don&rsquo;t know how I&rsquo;ll be feeling in February and March.&ldquo;I played 30 minutes and longer in games for my club in Prague and felt good. But that was when I was 27, 28, 29 years. No one knows, not me, how I will be doing later still like this (playing so much) at 36 years.&rdquo;Bubla has played almost every other shift so far and he&rsquo;s responded tremendously to the challenge.He&rsquo;s even contributing offensively, his second goal of the season winning a game against Los Angeles 5-4 with just two seconds remaining in regulation time.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not afraid he&rsquo;ll burn out,&rdquo; says Watt. &ldquo;Jiri&rsquo;s old, but he has a young body. I don&rsquo;t know if he needs more rest between shifts. But he hasn&rsquo;t been complaining. You&rsquo;ll have to ask him if he&rsquo;s feeling tired.&rdquo;&ldquo;I was very tired after the game (against Toronto) and I liked not having to practise. When get lots of ice, must have lots rest the next day. Young guys sleep seven hours. I must have 14.&rdquo;Bubla lives in North Vancouver with his wife, Ivana, and sons John. 8, and Stephan, 5. He likes it here and is free to remain in Canada after his playing days should he so desire.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know right now if we&rsquo;ll go home (to Prague) when retire,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Vancouver is very beautiful city and nice place to live. My wife and sons like it very much. I like hockey and have license (a certificate at second level to coach in Czechoslovakia) and I have offer to play and coach in Austria.&rdquo;Bubla has had that standing offer the past three years and has often thought of taking it. Entering this season he said that this would be his last year as a player. But now with the team playing better, he is reconsidering and may stay if the club wants him back again. He&rsquo;s working on a termination contract.He owns a home outside Prague and says he will be fairly well off financially in his homeland with the money he has saved playing here, &ldquo;but the banks there give you only four per cent (interest).&ldquo;When I was playing for my club in Czechoslovakia, I was paid for working in a factory. But I never been to factory one time. It&rsquo;s same now with Ivan (Hlinka, Bubla&rsquo;s boyhood friend who accompanied him to the Canucks in 1981). he is coaching our old club and is paid for working in factory he&rsquo;s never been in.&rdquo;Bubla is a great team man as well.&ldquo;It makes me feel very good when team is playing well even if I finish tired,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Sometimes I feel 35 or 36. I was very tired after my first game here and then long trip back east.&rdquo;&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be giving him as many days off as possible,&rdquo; says Watt, who has been rotating just four defensemen in tight situations, the other three being Rick Lanz, Garth Butcher and Doug Lidster.The Canucks were in second place after 13 games with 14 points in the Smythe Division race, but they&rsquo;ll have to play well in their 23 remaining games against Winnipeg, Calgary and Edmonton to have any hopes of remaining in that lofty position. &#9632;

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Czechoslovak Bubla Star On The Canuck Blue Line

<div class="byline">BY RICK SADOWSKI</div><h2>LOS ANGELES KINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02915/5554897-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="584" height="158"></div>LOS ANGELE&mdash;Bob Janecyk is mad as you know what and he isn&rsquo;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&mdash;Hartford&rsquo;s Torrie Robertson drilled the Los Angeles Kings&rsquo; goaltender from behind with 4:13 left in the third period one night and Philadelphia&rsquo;s Peter Zezel planted an elbow in his face 53 seconds into a game less than 24 hours Jater&mdash;Janecyk had a warning for future transgressers.&ldquo;People think they&rsquo;re going to be able to do that stuff and get away with it. Well, they won&rsquo;t without getting a stick in their face, I can tell you that,&rdquo; Janecyk said.&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to defend what&rsquo;s yours. Billy Smith has done it all his life, and I&rsquo;m no different.&rdquo;The fact that Janecyk wasn&rsquo;t standing in the relative safety of the crease at the time of the incidents was no excuse, he said.&ldquo;Most of the time I&rsquo;ve got my back to the guy,&rdquo; he was saying. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m in a vulnerable position. He knows I&rsquo;m just dumping the puck behind the net or throwing it into the comer. It&rsquo;s not like I&rsquo;m trying to make a big play out of it. &ldquo;In the Hartford game, won by the Kings 8-1, Janecyk had moved to the left of his net when Robertson picked up steam and delivered a hard check to the blind side.Robertson was assessed a major penalty for charging by referee Ron Hoggarth, but Janecyk had to leave the game because of back spasms.Kings&rsquo; defenseman Al Tuer, called up earlier in the day from New Haven, went after the Whalers&rsquo; winger and they both picked up fighting majors.Tuer was also given a roughing minor, but Janecyk appreciated the help.&ldquo;Bobby thanked me later,&rdquo; Tuer said. &ldquo;The goalie&rsquo;s not fair game. You don&rsquo;t run the goalie and not expect something to happen.&rdquo;Janecyk was well enough to start the next night in the Spectrum, where his altercation with Zezel set the stage for a slugfest that made the game last three hours and 20 minutes.The final tally: 44 penalties for 191 minutes, 13 majors, seven game misconducts, one 10-minute misconduct, and five ejections.This time, Janecyk was clearing the puck from the right side of his net when Zezel, going after the puck, bumped him and, Janecyk said, &ldquo;backed into me with his elbow right in my face.&rdquo;Janecyk retaliated with a vicious slash to Zezel&rsquo;s arm and the two began to duel with sticks dangerously high. It was a scene right out of an Errol Flynn movie.Referee Kerry Fraser gave Janecyk a minor for high sticking and a major for slashing. Zezel got minors for high sticking and roughing.Defenseman Dean Kennedy came to Janecyk&rsquo;s aid and was ejected. Later, defenseman Jay Wells went after Dave Brown when the Flyers&rsquo; winger bumped Janecyk outside the crease. Wells and Brown, who fought three times, were eventually booted by Fraser in the second period.The Kings lost the game 7-4, but coach Pat Quinn was pleased to see his club sticking together.&ldquo;This team has been pushed around a bit in the past, and at least we made a stand,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Certainly one of the key things is to respond to cheap shots like that as quickly as possible.&ldquo;Robertson should have gotten a match penalty. There&rsquo;s an unwritten law that says you don&rsquo;t run a goaltender. That was a cheap play, an Eastern League play. And the Eastern League doesn&rsquo;t even exist anymore.&rdquo;On the Janecyk-Zezel incident, Quinn said, &ldquo;There are six or seven teams in this league that run goalies, and that&rsquo;s one of them.&rdquo;Janecyk, who called Flyers&rsquo; coach Mike Keenan &ldquo;a weasel&rdquo; later said, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s a physical game and there are times when it gets rough. Sometimes you get bumped and it&rsquo;s not intentional. I can live with that. But I&rsquo;m not going to take this all-out elbows stuff.&rdquo;Said defenseman Brian Engblom: &ldquo;Those kinds of things, the needless contact with a goalie, that&rsquo;s a no-no. You can&rsquo;t afford to let your goalie get run at. make it harder for him to concentrate because he thinks he&rsquo;s going to get hit all the time.&ldquo;Our guys stuck our noses in there, didn&rsquo;t back down at all. And we&rsquo;re not going to.&rdquo;KINGS&rsquo; NOTE&mdash;The Kings split their last four games of a six-game trip, their longest of the season, after dropping the first two. At 3-10-1, they were four points behind last year&rsquo;s pace after 14 games&hellip;The penalty-killing units showed a big improvement, wiping out 15 power plays in a row during one stretch. &#9632;

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Trespassers Best Beware When Near Kings’ Goalie

The International Hockey WeeklyFounded in 1947Published by W.C.C Publishing Ltd85 Scarsdale Road, #100, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3B 2R2.<h2>Pelle Lindbergh</h2>WHEN THE HOCKEY community loses one of its members, it&rsquo;s never easy to accept. Such has been the case in recent times when hockey greats Clarence Campbell, Foster Hewitt and Jake Milford, to name just a few, were taken from our midst.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-011397/5554935-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="460" height="528"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pelle Lindbergh</figcaption></div>But in each of those cases, and many more like them, the hockey legends passed away after having made enormous contributions to the game.Yes, their deaths were sad moments. But their passing came after long and fulfilled lives. We were, of course, sorry to see them go. but we were still able to warmly reflect on their long lives, proud to have known them and what they meant to our game.Call it a rationalization of sorts, looking for the proverbial silver lining in the dark cloud.But with news of Philadelphia Flyer goaltender Pelle Lindbergh&rsquo;s auto accident, which left the 26-year-old Swede &ldquo;braindead&rdquo; and alive only because of a life-support system, there can be no warm reflections, no silver lining.There is only grief, heartache and utter despair.There is a tendency to try and make some sense out of it all, but it&rsquo;s futile.Because when a 26-year-old, blessed with the incredible talent, charm and personality of Pelle Lindbergh, is cut down before he&rsquo;s even reached his prime, it can only be described as utterly senseless.And along with the despair comes anger. Perhaps Flyer general manager Bob Clarke put it best when he said, &ldquo;As sad as I am, I&rsquo;m angry, too.&rdquo;So now, with all real signs of life snuffed out of young Lindbergh&rsquo;s body, it&rsquo;s pointless to recount his accomplishments or tell the stories which exemplify what a fine, decent, fun-loving human being he was and would still be if not for this terrible tragedy.The sad fact of the matter is that hockey has lost one of its brightest young stars and no matter how hard we try, it&rsquo;s impossible to make any sense of it.Now, only time and the closeness of the hockey community will help wash away the grief that overwhelms us all.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-021138/5554928-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1815" height="2413"></div> &#9632;

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I WOULD LIKE to applaud the NHL&rsquo;s efforts in turning the 1986 All-Star game into a game for the fans. Allowing the fans to select the starting lineups for both the Prince of Wales and Clarence Campbell teams should add to the excitement and anticipation of this year&rsquo;s game.However, I was extremely surprised to see the nominees for each conference as chosen by the Professional Hockey Writers&rsquo; Association.The omission of Sabres&rsquo; center and team captain Gil Perreault is inexcusable. This comment is not meant to slight any of the eight centers listed on the ballot.But Gil Perreault is bound for the NHL Hall of Fame and it seems ridiculous to leave a future Hall of Famer off an All-Star game ballot. I don&rsquo;t think a future Hall of Famer would have been left off the ballot for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.On career achievements alone, Perreault deserves to be on the ballot. He is among the top 10 in NHL history in both assists and points.Based on his 1984-85 performance, Perreault deserves a spot on the ballot. He had 30 goals, 53 assists and 83 points in 78 games to lead the Sabres in scoring. Perreault had more points last year than four of the centers listed on the all-star ballot.Buffalo&rsquo;s Dave Andreychuk had 61 points in 64 games, Boston&rsquo;s Barry Pederson had 12 in 22 games, Hartford&rsquo;s Ron Francis had 81 points in 80 games and New York&rsquo;s Bryan Trottier had 59 points in 68 games.Again, it is the fan&rsquo;s game. And Perreault is still one of the few players in the NHL capable of lifting fans out of their seats with one of his brilliant end-to-end rushes.All in all, the Professional Hockey Writers&rsquo; Association does an outstanding job in covering the NHL. But leaving a player who has given 15 years of excellent service off the AllStar ballot is somewhat hard to believe.Gerry Helper Sabres&rsquo; Public Relations Director,Buffalo. NY (The All-Star ballot is the lesser for Gil Perreault&rsquo;s absence.)<h2>HOORAY FOR MIDDLETONS</h2>This is a follow-up to the letter submitted by Rick Middleton&rsquo;s parents (Nov. 8).I say hats off to the Middletons, not only for sticking up for their son (naturally) but for making some very important points about an all-too-lenient sentencing of Chris Nilan (eight games) or any other NHL players who conduct themselves inappropriately.I think Brian O&rsquo;Neill (NHL vice president) should look at the tapes again. Maybe he can tell me why Chris Nilan had his stick so high in the air in the first place.As for the report of Nilan not knowing it was Middleton standing next to him, Nilan knew damn well that it had to be a Bruin.The point is not that Rick Middleton was the unfortunate player but that what Nilan did was wrong.Paula Elaine Lee,&nbsp; Syracuse. NY(We suspect that Chris Nilan, with an average of more than four penalty minutes per game during his NHL career, was more fortunate than the unfortunate Rick Middleton.)<h2>A BRICK FOR LOUIE</h2>As an avid follower of the Minnesota North Stars, trader Lou Nanne and the NHL in general, 1 figure that by 1991 every active player in the league will be the former property of the North Stars.I target 1991 because that will be year Wayne Gretzky retires after accumulating 2,000 points, seven Stanley Cup rings and innumerable records and honors.Since he would be the only player untouchable to Nanne and assuming Lou shuffles bodies at his current pace, April, 1991 is my predicted target date.One benefit to following Louie&rsquo;s treadmill is watching each player excel once he leaves the Star&mdash;i.e. Br&eacute;nt Ashton, Gilles Meloche and Dennis Maruk.Poor Dennis. Just as he was tearing up the league for the Washington Capitals, he was traded back to Minnesota. I guess the light at the end of the tunnel is that Dennis will someday be traded again.Patrick Melich,&nbsp; Minneapolis. MN(Dare we say, frequent player movements have become Sweet Lou&rsquo;s trademark.) &#9632;

FAN FORUM

JOFA, in its continuing effort to salute and recognize the hundreds of thousands of youngsters playing hockey across North America and throughout Europe, is pleased to announce its second season of Minor Hockey involvement in THE HOCKEY NEWS.Each week in THE HOCKEY NEWS until April, a JOFA Minor Player of the Week will be selected from entries received and then presented in the Minor Hockey Showcase.This feature, which met with enormous success last season, allows JOFA and THN an opportunity to recognize and encourage young players everywhere to continue playing the fine game of hockey.All entries to the Showcase feature, whether they appear in THN or not, will be eligible for THN-JOFA Minor Hockey Player-of-the-Year Award, which will be presented at the annual THN Awards Luncheon in Toronto this June.Last year&rsquo;s winner was Brian Clifford from Amherst, NY.The lucky winner of this year&rsquo;s award will be flown, along with his parents, to Toronto for an all-expense paid trip. In addition to that, he or she will receive a complete set of JOFA hockey equipment as well as a beautifully-engraved plaque tend a $500 cheque to the charity of his or her choice.The Showcase selection committee will not only look at the number of goals and assists, but also consider other categories such as good sportsmanship, level of improvement, effort and overall achievement.If you would like to nominate a player, please send a photo, along with a note outlining pertinent information&mdash;name, age, birthplace, current hometown, position, height, weight, team and league, coach&rsquo;s name, favorite hockey team and player, statistics plus school grade and school name&mdash;to JOFA SHOWCASE, THE HOCKEY NEWS, 85 Scarsdale Rd., Suite 100, Don Mills, Ont. M3B 2R2.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-011355/5554990-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="602" height="918"><figcaption class="caption-body">Last year&rsquo;s THN-JOFA Minor Player of the Year was Brian Clifford of Amherst, NY.</figcaption></div>But the JOFA Minor Hockey program doesn&rsquo;t end with the Showcase. In addition to it, JOFA is pleased to present the Minor Hockey Flashback, a weekly feature where current National Hockey League stars reflect back to their days playing youth hockey.At least one player from each of the 21 NHL clubs will be profiled in this entertaining series.And last but not least, once a month, JOFA presents the Minor Hockey Report, a newsfeature story that takes a look at a relevant issue or story in the world of minor hockey. &#9632;

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JOFA’s Back With Minor Hockey Program

<h2>HOCKEY NOTEBOOK</h2>Punch Imlach, former coach and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Buffalo Sabres, was resting comfortably in Desert Springs Hospital after passing out in a Las Vegas casino.Imlach, 67, was stricken during a short holiday with his wife, Dodo. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and a chest massage were administered at the hotel before he was transported to the hospital.A hospital spokesman said it was not believed to be a heart attack. Imlach, who guided the Leafs to four Stanley Cups, had previously suffered three heart attacks.Howie Young is back&hellip;again.The 48-year-old former NHL badman, who failed in a comeback bid with the Flint Spirits of the International League, has signed with the New York Slapshots of the Atlantic Coast League.Young was one of 15 players signed by Slapshots&rsquo; coach-general manager Dave Schultz, himself a past NHLer of some pugilistic note.Both left their mark in the NHL.Young, who played for the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks and Vancouver Canucks in the NHL, established a single-season record in 1962-63 when he collected 273 penalty minutes as a Red Wing.Schultz, nicknamed &ldquo;The Hammer&rdquo; for his habit of nailing opposition players as a Philadelphia Flyer, holds the current record of 472.Young played four games with the Spirits this season, earning one assist and two penalty minutes, before being released.Cornwall Royals have been sold to a local group of 19 people, pending approval by the Ontario League.Team owner Paul Emard has accepted an offer to purchase of between $125,000 and $150,000 from a group headed by Jim Larin, general manager of the 1971-72 Memorial Cup-winning Royals.The purchasing group has also agreed to assume the team&rsquo;s debts as part of the deal, says the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder.Larin, president of Valley Bottling in Cornwall, will become the team&rsquo;s new governor and director of operations. Interim head coach Tony Zappia will remain in that position and city native Ron Martelle has been named head scout.Speculation is that Winnipeg Jets&rsquo; superstar Dale Hawerchuk, a former Cornwall Royal, will be named president. His No. 10 Royals&rsquo; jersey is scheduled to be retired this season.In an unrelated move, the Royal&reg; acquired forwards Bill Bennett and Jim Hutchins from the Hamilton Steelhawks in exchange for a seventhround draft choice.St. Louis Blues have settled their tax dispute with the city, subject to approval by the St. Louis board of aidermen.The city&rsquo;s amusement tax, saidmayor Vincent Schoemehl, will be lowered from five per cent to 25 cents per ticket and, in two years, eliminated completely.Problems arose between the NHL team and the city over the Blues&rsquo; refusal to pay about $300,000 in back taxes.Wayne Gretzky is a long way from meeting a personal objective of scoring 100 goals in one NHL season but he&rsquo;s right on target for establishing a new assists mark.Gretzky, who had just 11 goals in his first 14 games, earned 25 assists over the same period to put him on course for a season total of 144&mdash;nine more than his own record of 135.Were Ken Linseman of the Boston Bruins to continue his early-season assist pace (20 in 15 games) he would collect 104 on the season. Only Gretzky has ever earned more. &#9632;

Imlach Hospitalized During Vegas Holiday

<div class="byline">BY ERIC DUHATSCHEK</div><h2>CALGARY FLAMES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-011309/5555076-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="574" height="158"></div>CALGARY&mdash;The misconceptions about Allan MacInnis started almost on the day he arrived.Because of his big shot, considered by some the hardest in the National Hockey League, people misread the facts about MacInnis&rsquo; playing skills.MacInnis does fit into the category of &ldquo;offensive&rdquo; defenseman. But he does not fit into the category of &ldquo;rushing&rdquo; defenseman.The distinction is important as it relates to the Calgary Flames and the 1985 edition of their power play.MacInnis does not establish the offensive zone the way Kent Nilsson did. In the new scheme of things, it is up to the Flames&rsquo; forwards to do that. Once there, however, MacInnis takes over.Opponents regularly adjust their penalty-killing styles to stop Maclnnis, who is becoming a much better quarterback than even his supporters thought possible.&ldquo;It used to happen just in our division,&rdquo; said Maclnnis. &ldquo;The other teams would crowd us on the point because they played us all the time and knew what we did. Now teams in the other divisions are doing it, too.&ldquo;Maybe that&rsquo;s their style, I don&rsquo;t know, but I can&rsquo;t believe how they force us. The other day, I did a radio show in Calgary and a couple of people asked: &lsquo;When are we going to see Al Maclnnis shoot again?&rsquo; The only answer I could give was: &lsquo;When I get the room, that&rsquo;s when.&rsquo; When they only give you a split second, it&rsquo;s hard to get the shot off.&rdquo;Because teams routinely put a man almost right on top of Maclnnis, coach Bob Johnson has introduced some options on the power play designed to get the puck deeper into the attacking zone. If Maclnnis is covered, somebody has to be open.It is no coincidence that the forwards who play the same side as Maclnnis on the power play&mdash;Dan Quinn and Steve Bozek&mdash;lead the team with three goals apiece when the Flames have the man advantage.The idea is for the point men, Maclnnis and Gary Suter, to work the puck inside even if it means using a wrist shot.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good idea,&rdquo; said Maclnnis. &ldquo;it&rsquo;s a good play. Rhino (Paul Reinhart) used to do it all the time. Now that the teams are trying to block my slapshot, you have to do it. But if I have a choice I&rsquo;m definitely taking my slapshot. I&rsquo;m just not getting many chances to get it off.&rdquo;Despite the fact Maclnnis leads the team in scoring, his reputation has been in decline since last year&rsquo;s all-star game.Most of the criticism directed towards him centers on his defensive play&mdash;or lack thereof. Since training camp began. Maclnnis&rsquo; name has surfaced in every trade rumor. Living with uncertainty has become a part of his life now.&ldquo;What I&rsquo;ve been told by our management is, the teams that call start by saying &lsquo;He&rsquo;s not that good&rsquo; and then ask again &lsquo;Is he available?&rsquo;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not saying every team in the NHL is looking for me. but I&rsquo;ve heard that that&rsquo;s what they say. I guess the only way to stop it is to have a good year and play better defensively. I can&rsquo;t believe there arc still people who think Paul Coffey can&rsquo;t play defense. What more does he have to do to convince people he can play?&rdquo;The same could be said for Maclnnis. As a player, it is easier to define his game by the things he isn&rsquo;t. He isn&rsquo;t a rushing defenseman. He almost never carries the puck up the ice. He isn&rsquo;t a hitter. He almost never plays the body.But Maclnnis is an exceptional shooter, he is a capable puck handler and if the past two weeks can be considered a trend, he is getting to be a better defenseman.Certainly, Johnson likes him better, perhaps because some of the things he has been teaching over the years are starting to sink in. With Reinhart out, only Jamie Macoun really likes to skate with the puck. The team&rsquo;s other defensemen get it and move it right away.&ldquo;The idea of moving the puck rather than carrying it is to catch the other team in between,&rdquo; said Maclnnis. &ldquo;The longer you hold onto the puck, the more time the other team has to react. The coach is stressing this more than anything else.&rdquo;Commenting on his play in the early going, Maclnnis admitted: &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t playing that well at the first of the year. I had some bad games. I wasn&rsquo;t moving as much as I should have been. When I watched myself on film. I found myself standing still waiting for things to happen. not moving with the puck and making them happen.&ldquo;They had me in one day just before the Detroit game and told me they wanted me to be more physical, play more aggressively. My style isn&rsquo;t to play physically. but you do have to take the man. Ever since then, things have been coming along.&rdquo;IN BRIEF&mdash;The Flames sent rookie center Perry Berezan to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN., to evaluate a problem he&rsquo;s been having with shortness of breath. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s been an ongoing thing with him,&rdquo; said Johnson. &ldquo;His ears plug up and at times he has trouble breathing. It may be just an allergy, but we want to find out for sure.&rdquo;&hellip;Defenseman Paul Reinhart, who hasn&rsquo;t played a game yet this season thinks he can be back in the lineup. For the moment. Reinhart has ruled out the prospect of further surgery to repair his damaged back disc. &#9632;

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Getting The Facts Right About Al Maclnnis

<div class="byline">BY TOM HENSHAW</div><h2>BOSTON BRUINS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-021177/5555138-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="573" height="157"></div>BOSTON&mdash;One thing about Butch Goring. the rookie coach of the Boston Bruins, he&rsquo;s not afraid to experiment or take a strategic chance&mdash;even in the most critical situations.With first place in the Adams Division on the line. Goring had no reservations about moving Mike O&rsquo;Connell, arguably his second best defenseman. into a forward position against the Quebec Nordiques.It was the first time in his nine-year NHL career that O&rsquo;Connell had played on a wing and, while it didn&rsquo;t pay off in a victory, the Bruins coach liked enough of what he saw to say that the experiment will be repeated.&ldquo;I thought he was one of our better players.&rdquo; said Goring, who has such a wealth of defensemen that he frequently dresses seven for a game.&ldquo;We had four right defensemen and I wanted to get Frank Simonetti back in the lineup. With Louis Sleigher still out, I thought it was a good idea to play Mike at right wing. He&rsquo;s smart and has the quickness to do it.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if I&rsquo;ll play him at right wing again, although he played very well there, but I&rsquo;ll certainly use him as a penalty killer.&rdquo;Until the Quebec game. Simonetti had been used sparingly in the first 11 games of the season in deference to after-effects of a summer bout with mononucleosis. Sleigher suffered a groin pull at Vancouver in the fourth game of the year.O&rsquo;Connell, who played wing on a line centered by Steve Kasper, said he found playing forward &ldquo;easier and far less pressure than playing defense. But I don&rsquo;t care where I play. I&rsquo;ll play anywhere. as long as I help the team.&rdquo;A defenseman playing up front, he added, tends to make a line more defensive-minded because &ldquo;as a defenseman, I expect the forwards to come back and when I&rsquo;m a forward, if I don&rsquo;t come back it&rsquo;s a cardinal sin.&rdquo;Moving his second best defenseman to forward in a crucial game is only one of several small chancy moves by Goring, who once said at a news conference: &ldquo;If the Bruins have a losing season, it won&rsquo;t be because we were afraid to try anything new.&rdquo;With less than five minutes remaining and the score tied in an Oct. 29 game in New Jersey. Goring lifted Ken Linseman. probably his best center, for a faceoff in the offensive zone and sent in Barry Pederson.Pederson promptly drew the puck back to Ray Bourque who passed to Kraig Nienhuis. who scored the game-winning goal. It was. said Goring later, a most gratifying occurrence.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not so much that it worked.&rdquo; He said. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s gratifying to me is that I was in a position to make that decision. That&rsquo;s the essence of coaching.&rdquo;WHAT&rsquo;S BRUIN&mdash;The Bruins arrived home from Quebec in a shaken condition, not from the last period goals by the Nordiques&rsquo; Michel Goulet. John Anderson and Anton Stastny but as the result of St. Elmo&rsquo;s Fire. The team&rsquo;s charier flight on Bar Harbor Airlines was over southern New Hampshire at 12.000 feet when the ConvairCV-600 was rocked by an apparent explosion and those seated by the windows could see the wings burst into flames. The incident lasted only a matter of seconds and the pilot. Capt. Hale Bartley, explained that the plane had gone through a heavy snow shower and the static electricity built up to a point far beyond the craft&rsquo;s ability to discharge it. The resulting glow around the airplane is known as St. Elmo&rsquo;s Fire, named for the patron saint of sailors who first saw the phenomenon around their ships in storms. &ldquo;It sort of puts winning and losing hockey games in perspective.&rdquo; said Butch Goring. The hero of the brief episode was Morris Lukowich. &ldquo;Here I am looking for a parachute and worrying about my life.&rdquo; said Ken Linseman. &ldquo;and there&rsquo;s Moe worrying about his backgammon game.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Experiments Part Of Butch Goring’s Style

<div class="byline">BY TOM WHEATLEY</div><h2>ST. LOUIS BLUES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-011326/5555169-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="554" height="164"></div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Three is never more of a crowd than when three goalies share one net.Coach Jacques Demers of the St. Louis Blues has said before that a threegoalie system will not work.And yet that&rsquo;s what the Blues had after rookie Darrell May won a big 4-3 overtime victory at Winnipeg.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to keep Darrell May around for awhile.&rdquo; said Demers. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not saying for the whole year. But we&rsquo;ll keep him around a little longer than expected.&rdquo;May was a free agent at Peoria in the International League when he was signed three weeks ago to replace Rick Wamsley. who had a bruised stick hand.The Blues&rsquo; top goalie had not played since winning 2-1 at Calgary on Oct. 16.&ldquo;Our goalie situation is one of the healthiest in the league.&rdquo; said Demers, anticipating Wamsley&rsquo;s return. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not the best, but I&rsquo;d say it&rsquo;s one of the five best.&rdquo;May. 23, was a surprise choice to start at Winnipeg instead of Greg Millen.May ended the Blues&rsquo; five-game winless streak (0-3-2). which included a 6-3 loss at Washington in his NHL debut.When Wamsley returns. Millen may find himself the odd man out in this threeman logjam.The likable May. who later lost to the Detroit Red Wings 4-2. has put Demers in a tough spot.Millen is one of the classiest acts in sports. He is tremendously popular with his teammates and coaches, and is well respected in the dressing room.In his first six starts, he has played well and often spectacularly.But Millen is up against a harsh critic, which happens to be the ultimate judge and jury&mdash;the scoreboard.When Millen plays, no matter how well, the Blues don&rsquo;t win.&bull; This season, he is 1-3-2.&bull; In 10 games last season after being obtained from Hartford, he was 1-7-2.&bull; And he lost his only playoff game last season.That&rsquo;s a 2-11-4 record in his only 17 games with the Blues. Nobody can explain it but Demers cannot overlook it.&ldquo;I have a lot of faith in Millen.&rdquo; said Demers, &ldquo;but he&rsquo;s going to have to start getting some victories for us.&rdquo;Demers&rsquo; choice of May at Winnipeg was no vote of confidence in the 28-year-old Millen.&ldquo;It took a gutsy decision to put May in at Winnipeg.&rdquo; said Demers.He made up his mind on the midnight flight to Manitoba after the Blues were tied 5-5 at home by Detroit.The Blues led 5-2 with 12 minutes to play. Detroit tied it on three goals in three minutes. Only some first-rate work by Millen prevented an embarrassing overtime loss.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not afraid to make a decision.&rdquo; said Demers of his move to May. &ldquo;If it&rsquo;s a bad decision, you take the rap. If it&rsquo;s right, the players get the credit.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the only way you&rsquo;re successful in this business.&rdquo;That is also the way Millen operates. When he loses, he says he should have played better and when he plays well, he credits his teammates.True to character. Millen did not swerve off the high road after getting a closed-door pep talk from Demers.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m here to help the team any way I can and to help the organization.&rdquo; said Millen.He could not explain why he has not won more often.&ldquo;I think the question you&rsquo;re trying to ask is, &lsquo;Why weren&rsquo;t we playing well there for for a while?&rdquo;&rsquo; said Millen. &ldquo;We had nine new faces in the lineup. It takes awhile to get used to the coaching and the atmosphere.&ldquo;We still had five guys (living) in the hotel until a week ago. They were there without their wives, and some have children.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s nice to see Darrell get a win. It&rsquo;s nice for him and nice for the team. But the bottom line is, I picked up the paper this morning and we&rsquo;re still in first place.&rdquo;There is another bottom line. And Millen knows it: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re in business to win hockey games. That&rsquo;s what puts people in the building.&rdquo;Right now, Millen is all the Blues have to show for last season&rsquo;s trade of popular goalie Mike Liut and winger Jorgen Pettersson to Hartford.The Blues also acquired Mark Johnson, who later was dealt for young defenseman Shawn Evans and a fifth-round draft choice. But Evans is at Peoria, trying to learn the Blues&rsquo; work ethic.&ldquo;We gave up a heck of a lot,&rdquo; said Demers. &ldquo;We wanted Greg Millen. He&rsquo;s got to realize this. But with the faith we put in him. he&rsquo;s got to come through for us.&rdquo;May is also desirable for economic reasons to the frugal Blues, who wanted to be rid of Liut&rsquo;s $400,000 salary. Millen makes about half of that, but still has one of the Blues&rsquo; top salaries. May makes about $60,000.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s premature to say how good Darrell May is going to be,&rdquo; said Demers.We might have a kid who turns out to be a heckuva goalie.&rdquo;Nobody blames Millen alone for his won-lost record.&ldquo;But a lot of coaches would lose faith in a guy like that.&rdquo; said Demers. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got my full backing. I like what he brings to the hockey team, he&rsquo;s got a coach that&rsquo;s behind him, but he&rsquo;s got to help the coach.&rdquo;&ldquo;I think keeping your professionalism and composure is the key,&rdquo; said Millen, who has never lost either. &ldquo;If an older player loses his poise, what does a younger player see? Hopefully, I can help some of the younger players in the room.&rdquo;Left unspoken&mdash;by all concerned&mdash;was the hope that Greg Millen can still lend a glove hand on the ice. &#9632;

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Blues’ Newcomer Sends Out May Day Signal

<div class="byline">BY STAN FISCHLER</div>Barry Beck&rsquo;s retirement talk (after 1986-87 season) is not to be taken lightly. The Rangers&rsquo; captain is rooted to Manhattan and virtually non-tradeable because of that. Only a New York-area team would interest him. He tells BLUELINES that the Islanders are one club he would play for. A reason for Beck&rsquo;s possible departure at age 28 is a series of successful business ventures, including the Arcadia, a posh east side restaurant. &ldquo;In two more years 1&rsquo;11 have had 10 years in the league,&rdquo; Beck tells BLUELINES. &ldquo;Hockey has taken (up) a large part of my life. It would not be advantageous for me to leave New York and management knows my position&rdquo;&hellip;Quietly, with no fuss or fanfare. Wayne Gretzky went out of his way, gratis, to film a Deafness Research Foundation videotape, which is now being aired.When Sabres&rsquo; rookie Daren Puppa stopped Gretzky on three breakaways at Edmonton, it hardly surprised the Goaltenders Union, among them Bob Janecyk and Darren Eliot of the Kings. They point out that if the Great One has a weakness, it&rsquo;s his inability to cash in on breakaways&hellip;Referee Denis Morel caused a stir after failing to so much as call a penalty against Peter Stastny for clubbing Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; rookie Stephane Richer. Morel told Bertrand Raymond of Le Journal de Montreal that he saw the play and didn&rsquo;t call the penalty because Stastny didn&rsquo;t hit Richer&hellip;.New pressure is being felt by Rangers&rsquo; GM Craig Patrick to produce a winner. A new boss-of-all bosses has moved into Madison Square Garden. The honcho, Allen Fields, is taking a hard look at both the hockey and basketball opertaions. All signs indicate that Rangers&rsquo; prexy Jack Krumpe will be defeathered by Fields. Since Krumpe was Patrick&rsquo;s protector through the ugly 1984-85 season it could be bye-bye Craig if his Blueshirts don&rsquo;t finish with a rush. There&rsquo;s even some question about Krumpe being able to survive the season.A few writers have painted an unfairly grotesque picture of Flyers&rsquo; coach Mike Keenan&rsquo;s personality and this has disturbed the Philly mentor. Mike is particularly piqued over comments made by Tim Burke of the Montreal Gazette. Among other barbs, Burke says that Keenan &ldquo;struts around, looks like Caesar and speaks in the third person.&rdquo; Keenan replies that Burke&rsquo;s words are a perfect example of irresponsible journalism. Mike explains that that&rsquo;s why he&rsquo;s now careful when talking to the press. Beefs about ESPN&rsquo;s hockey coverage are being heard from critics within and without the NHL. Two points are particularly bothersome. (A) Hockey is low man on the totem pole behind baseball, football, basketball and boxing and (B) the network broadcasters constantly mispronounce names (i.e. Mats Naslund comes out &ldquo;Naysland&rdquo; and Lou Franceschetti comes out &ldquo;Franchesca.&rdquo;&hellip;Mats Naslund has supplanted Borje Salming as the most fascinating NHLer in the eyes of Swedish hockey fans. Gunnar Nordstrom, a New York-based sports writer for the Stockholm Express-on, Sweden&rsquo;s biggest paper, explains: &ldquo;The first thing hockey fans in Sweden do is pick up the paper and look, &lsquo;Did the Canadiens win last night?&rsquo; The next thing they do is look, &lsquo;Did Naslund score?&rdquo;&rsquo;Rangers&rsquo; press aide Jon Kramer, who measures 5-foot-2, was asked about a conversation he had with gymnast Mary-Lou Refton (4-foot-11). &ldquo;It was nothing but small talk,&rdquo; says Kramer&hellip;This is the year that the Bruins supposedly would lift a banner honoring Phil Esposito&rsquo;s number seven in Boston Garden but some of Espo&rsquo;s friends whisper that it will never happen as promised&hellip;Already the knives are out for Canadiens&rsquo; rookie coach Jean Perron. Ex-Ranger Carol Vadnai&mdash;Serge Savard&rsquo;s old buddy&mdash;is being mentioned as a possible successor&hellip;Devils&rsquo; prexy Bob Butera is looking good. First, he went on record predicting his club would win The Stanley Cup before the rival Rangers. Then, the Devs rallied from a late three-goal deficit in the third period to tie the Blueshirts and whip them in sudden death.The Canucks&rsquo; Brent Peterson credits his penalty-killing expertise to former Sabres&rsquo; teammate Craig Ramsay. &ldquo;He taught me to force the play,&rdquo; says Peterson&hellip;NHL GM&rsquo;s are coming out of the woodwork with explanations of the Ray Staszak fiasco. For example, the Canucks&rsquo; Jack Gordon: &ldquo;I told the publicity man at Illinois-Chicago Dan Currier that he had done one the best selling jobs in the history of hockey. Every day we opened the mail there was something on Staszak.&rdquo;&hellip;The N.Y. Post&rsquo;s&nbsp;Hugh Delano and Long Islander Paul Levine are pushing the Rangers to throw an Ed Giacomin Night at Madison Square Garden&hellip;The Atlanta Flames Fan Club is alive and well and planning a trip to the NHL All-Star Game in Hartford&hellip;Blues expect Doug Wickenheiser to be skating before the end of the month. He&rsquo;s at least a month ahead of rehab schedule&hellip;Here&rsquo;s a switch: Rev. John F. Casey, the 72-year-old unofficial spiritual governor of the Flyers, endorses fighting and says he&rsquo;d like hockey better if fewer players wore helmets. Father Casey has been watching hockey since the 1940&rsquo;s.Scouting report on the Habs&rsquo; Steve Penney: &ldquo;He gives up a lot of goals when the play starts behind his net. He gets nervous when he can&rsquo;t easily follow the puck. A lot of goals he gives up are after the opponent passes from behind the net or tries to jam it in the comer from behind. Rookie jitters is no longer an excuse for Penney.&rdquo; &#9632;

BLUELINES

<div class="byline">BY DICK CHUBEY</div><h2>EDMONTON OILERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-011390/5555224-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="568" height="156"></div>EDMONTON&mdash;The Edmonton Oilers battled the Philadelphia Flyers for five games in the 1984-85 Stanley Cup final&mdash;a series that hardly left the finalists on the best of terms.On Thursday, Nov. 14 the Flyers and Oilers were to meet for the first time since last May.It would not be the same.An early-morning single-vehicle automobile accident on Nov. 10 left Flyers&rsquo; star goaltender Pelle Lindbergh &ldquo;braindead.&rdquo;It goes without saying that Oiler assistant coach Bob McCammon knew Lindbergh better than did anyone else in the Oiler organization.McCammon was, after all, the 26-year-old Swedish goaltender&rsquo;s first North American coach.&ldquo;It&rsquo;ll be a tough way to go back to Philadelphia,&rdquo; sighed McCammon, who joined the Oilers in September. &ldquo;It&rsquo;ll be interesting to see how their team respond&mdash;not from a personal standpoint, but from the professional side of things. It&rsquo;s got to be tough for them&hellip;devastating.&ldquo;For a European, he was very outgoing&mdash;kind of a free spirit who enjoyed life every day,&rdquo; said McCammon, who understood the Flyers were close to trading backup Bob Froese (to L.A.). &ldquo;He was happy-go-lucky, never down. Even when we lost, he would take it hard, but not for long. You don&rsquo;t replace that type of person or a player of that calibre. He was tough mentally and a great kid.&rdquo;Lindbergh, an only child, had a clause in his contract that his parents would be flown to Philadelphia each year at Christmas. &ldquo;They were older people&mdash;late 60s, maybe early 70s,&rdquo; said McCammon. &ldquo;He was good to them.&rdquo;Lindbergh did have a penchant for speed, however. Found in the twisted wreckage of his Porsche were nine pages worth of options, running the total tab for the sports car to $117,300.Speed kills. How many times have we been told that?The Flyers beat the Boston Bruins 5-3 on Sat., Nov. 9 and were idle until Thursday&rsquo;s Edmonton visit.&ldquo;They went out to relax, and that&rsquo;s what happens,&rdquo; sighed McCammon of the fact the accident was alcohol-related.&ldquo;Hockey is an emotional game. In how many sports do you play 80 games of contact? From a free-flow standpoint, it may look easy. But, it&rsquo;s the toughest game, the most demanding on an individual.&rdquo;Oilers&rsquo; co-coach John Muckier agreed there was a lesson to be learned.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s so unnecessary,&rdquo; said Muckier. &ldquo;You go back to another generation to Tim Horton (former defenseman who was killed in the crash of a sports car). When it happens at high speed, it&rsquo;s a waste.&ldquo;I hope other people benefit by this. Let&rsquo;s hope they have some respect for automobiles.&rdquo;<blockquote class="pullQuote">&lsquo;You can&rsquo;t replace a man&rsquo;s life. Too many people think of the hockey side. But who really cares. His family and friends&hellip;really matter now.&rsquo; &mdash;Greztky</blockquote>Muckler didn&rsquo;t mention Mark Messier&rsquo;s name. He didn&rsquo;t have to. But it was the flamboyant Oilers&rsquo; center who was driving a Porsche that crashed into three parked cars last September. He was fortunate to ecsape unhurt.&ldquo;Mark was lucky,&rdquo; said McCammon. &ldquo;This sort of thing is a fear every organization lives with. You go back to the Porsche, it seems to haunt hockey players.&rdquo;Muckier thinks back to May when the Oilers met Lindbergh and Philadelphia in the final.&ldquo;You look at the kid in the nets for them. He was sitting on top of the world. He was supposedly the best&hellip;he was voted the best. You look at his youth and it&rsquo;s all wiped out, it&rsquo;s hard to understand. The only thing you hope for is that other people learn by his misfortune.&rdquo;Oilers&rsquo; coach-general manager Glen Sather refused to speak of Lindbergh in the past tense.&ldquo;I played in Pittsburgh with Michel Briere,&rdquo; said Sather of the promising Penguin who was killed in an auto accident following his rookie season.&ldquo;He was on a support system for six or seven months. It&rsquo;s a little premature to be talking in the past tense. Everybody on our team is pulling for Lindbergh. They&rsquo;re all shook up. All we can do is hope and pray.&rdquo;Wayne Gretzky was greatly disturbed by the news.&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t replace a man&rsquo;s life. Too many people think of the hockey side,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But who really cares. His family and friends are those who really matter now.&rdquo;It was Gretzky who contributed to one of Lindbergh&rsquo;s bleaker games when he scored four third-period goals on the Wales Conference goaltender in the 1983 All-Star game. Gretzky was presented with a car as the game&rsquo;s most valuable player.Some time later, Lindbergh approached Gretzky during a game and joked, &ldquo;You owe me half the car because I helped you get it.&rdquo;Nobody on the Oilers was looking forward to the rematch of last year&rsquo;s finalists.&ldquo;It (will be) a weird feeling going into that building,&rdquo; said defenseman Paul Coffey, who was sitting in the stands in Toronto during Horton&rsquo;s last game back in 1973-74. &ldquo;Lindberg was a great goaltender and Philadelphia&rsquo;s got a great club. He was such a big part of it. We don&rsquo;t know how good he could have been. It&rsquo;s a bloody shame.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Oilers Shook Up By News Of The Lindbergh Tragedy

<div class="byline">BY TOM WHEATLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-011293/5555255-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The twisted, mangled wreckage of Pelle Lindbergh&rsquo;s customized Porsche is testament to the often fatal relationship between professional hockey playersand automobiles. Lindbergh is but the latest victim in a long line of players who have been critically injured in welldocumented accidents. (Canapress Photo Service)</figcaption></div>The grim reality is that hockey&rsquo;s most serious road losses are suffered not in opposition arenas but on the highway.Over the years, hockey has lost many in its extended family to automobile accidents.Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; all-star goalie Pelle Lindbergh, pronounced &ldquo;brain-dead&rdquo; after a singlecar crash Sunday, Nov. 10, is but the latest victim.There have been others, too many others for those in the hockey world.It was just a year ago, on Nov. 1 of 1984, that Winnipeg Jets&rsquo; assistant general manager Mike Doran left the road and hit a tree on the way to scouting a junior hockey game in Peterborough, Ont.At first comatose, Doran is now at home and sufficiently recovered to attempt communicating with others.He is one of the luckier ones.The list of deceased is lengthy&hellip;and indiscriminate. Well-known players are joined by lesserknowns and those who never had a chance to be known.Tim Horton, like Lindbergh, was a star, but unlike Lindbergh, well past his prime when he died in an accident during the 1973-74 National Hockey League season.The accident occurred while Horton was driving his sports car from Toronto to Buffalo rather than take the team bus.Michel Briere appeared on the verge of a superb NHL career in 1970 when he was killed in an off-season accident. In his only season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, the 20-year-old scored. 12 goals and 32 assists.In June of 1977, promising Peterborough Pete Ron Mason died as the result of a car accident. He had scored 53 goals and 58 assists during his final year with the Ontario League team.That same summer, St. Louis Blues&rsquo; defenseman Bob Gassoff was killed in an off-season motorcycle accident.Scott Garland of the Los Angeles Kings died six years ago in Montreal.Don Ashby, Toronto&rsquo;s top pick and sixth overall in the 1975 entry draft, died in a crash four years ago.Soviet superstar Valery Kharlomov, who will always be remembered for his part in the 1972 Canada-USSR showdown, died in an August, 1981 accident.Three seasons ago, Penguins&rsquo; general manager Baz Bastien was killed in a car accident in Pittsburgh.And last summer, Ghyslain Luneau, the talented Montreal hockey writer, was killed in a car wreck en route to a charity golf tournament he organized.The loss of Lindbergh, last year&rsquo;s VezinaTrophy winner, has had the greatest impact on the NHL. He was at the top of his game on one of the league&rsquo;s top teams.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s shocking news,&rdquo; said Ron Caron, the St. Louis Blues&rsquo; director of hockey operations. &ldquo;You hope that out of misery, you could learn through that. You&rsquo;re not immune to any activity because you&rsquo;re famous.&ldquo;I hope it&rsquo;s a lesson, not only to our guys, but to all athletes.&rdquo;Lindbergh&rsquo;s accident is considered alcoholrelated. Following the incident his blood-alcohol level was measured at.24 per cent, well above the legal limit in both the United States (. 10) and Canada (.08).Caron, himself, was involved in a car accident on his way to a scouting assignment in 1972.&ldquo;I was scouting around Kingston in a snowstorm,&rdquo; said Caron. &ldquo;My car jumped a median and I hit (another car) head-to-head on the other side. I wasn&rsquo;t going fast, maybe 40 miles an hour. I came out of it with two broken ribs.&ldquo;But it could have been my turn. I realized then that there&rsquo;s something else other than fulfilling an assignment. No player is worth being seen at the risk of wasting your life.&ldquo;You know, we&rsquo;re not much. You can be in the limelight in sports, but it doesn&rsquo;t take you much to bring you back to reality. You have no lifetime insurance.&ldquo;The rest of the world&mdash;the sports world and the real world&mdash;ould learn from that. Some get another chance, and some don&rsquo;t.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Driving Down Hockey’s Hellish Highway

<div class="byline">BY AL MORGANTI</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;The Monday morning after the tragedy brought an eerie feeling to the Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; practice site.The players arrived in the dressing room, and saw the empty locker directly across from the door. It was the locker which Pelle Lindbergh had once used.Now, instead of seeing Lindbergh showing off his latest trinket, or pulling on that white mask which he loved so much, there was only a bleak reminder: an empty locker with the name &ldquo;Pelle Lindbergh&rdquo; still across the top, and a tiny Swedish flag sticking out of the nameplate.The locker will stay that way, as a lasting memorial.On the ice, it was worse. Goalie Bob Froese was at one end.The other end was empty.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s when it really hit me,&rdquo; said Froese. &ldquo;I looked down the ice, and there was nobody there&hellip;&rdquo;There weren&rsquo;t many Flyers who could finish a sentence without their voices trailing off, but they realized they had to pull together.&ldquo;One thing the little guy liked to do was win,&rdquo; said Froese. &ldquo;And I guess that&rsquo;s what we can try to do for him&mdash;win.&rdquo;Froese is in the toughest position of all. He&rsquo;ll be appointed to the No. 1 job, and the backup is expected to be either Darren Jensen from their Hershey farm club, or the Flyers will make a deal.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s difficult to even think about things like this,&rdquo; said Clarke. &ldquo;But we&rsquo;ll have to. We&rsquo;ll have to pull together in this.&rdquo;The Flyers, who were on a 10-game winning streak, were not due to play again until Thursday (Nov. 14) against the Edmonton Oilers. Edmonton general manager Glen Sather called Clarke and advised him that the Oilers would be willing to reschedule the game.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll talk about it,&rdquo; said Clarke, &ldquo;but I think it would just be delaying the inevitable. The guys are going to have to face it sooner or later. It&rsquo;s a reality, and we have to pull through this thing.&rdquo;Coach Mike Keenan was of the same opinion. In fact, Keenan had decided to make the Monday practice mandatory, upgrading it from the original optional status.&ldquo;I thought it was important for us all to be here,&rdquo; said Keenan. &ldquo;I thought this was a place where maybe the guys could take out some of their anger.&ldquo;And there is anger. Any time a man is taken in the prime of his life, there is a certain amount of anger involved. But I think we have enough quality people on our hockey club that we can pull through this.&ldquo;Pelle loved the game of hockey, we&rsquo;ll be doing something that Pelle loved. I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;d make any sense to procrastinate.&rdquo; &#9632;

Lindbergh’s Empty Locker Grim Reminder To Mates

<div class="byline">Joe Falls</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02941/5555341-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="377" height="451"></div>QUESTION: WHAT&rsquo;S MISSING from this column?I&rsquo;ve been following the NHL since 1940-41 and that means I&rsquo;m into my 45th season and I still haven&rsquo;t seen a fight that I liked. Or a fight that meant anything.I guess they&rsquo;re fun. The fans seem to enjoy them. They&rsquo;re always on their feet whenever a fight breaks out and it whips up their emotions and puts a charge of electricity into the air.I find myself slowly turning around in my seat in the press box and looking up at the TV monitor to see a fight better. That makes me feel a little stupid because here I am at a game and I&rsquo;m looking at a television set. The whole thing doesn&rsquo;t give me much of a kick because I know it&rsquo;s not going to change the outcome of the game.I can&rsquo;t recall a single hockey game that has been decided by a fight. I suppose they&rsquo;ve had them. I just can&rsquo;t remember them. They talk about the night Gordie Howe beat up Lou Fontinato in Madison Square Garden. That was supposed to be one of the biggest beatings of ail time.It&rsquo;s the fight they always bring up whenever they start talking about fights.I couldn&rsquo;t tell you who won the game that night if you gave me Wayne Gretzky&rsquo;s salary for the year.I find fights a nuisance.All they do is hold up the game and bring out the animal instincts in the stands. I don&rsquo;t like that feeling at all. We have it in our streets and it bothers me when we have it at our games.The only thing I like about fights is that it clears off the ice and it gives some of the talented players a chance to maneuver. I love talent more than anything.I could watch Gilbert Perreault move the puck all night long. The same with Gretzky and Denis Savard and Rick Middleton. I&rsquo;m a great Rick Middleton fan. Note that none of these players are considered fighters. They play with their minds and that always impresses me more than playing with their bodies.My feeling is that NHL president John Ziegler doesn&rsquo;t like fights either but he knows they are good for the game because this is what some people want to see and he&rsquo;s in the business of giving them what they want.I would put in a simple rule. You are allowed three fights a season. You can&rsquo;t outlaw them because that&rsquo;ll never happen. These guys will always fight with each other. It is the nature of the game. I would give them three free fights but then I would start suspending them.I would suspend them one game for the next fight and keep doubling up the suspension. This would make them pay more attention to playing the game rather than gooning it up.I look at most of the fighters in the NHL and what I notice is that very few of them are among the league leaders in scoring. That tells you a lot right there.I&rsquo;m not saying the game should go soft. I&rsquo;m just saying that it doesn&rsquo;t do much for me when I see four or five fights a night.I&rsquo;m never sure who wins these fights and most of them seem like non-fights anyway. What kind of business is it when they strart hammering away at the other guy&rsquo;s helmet?The helmets are probably responsible for causing more fighting than ever before. They&rsquo;ve certainly caused more rough play. I can&rsquo;t understand how nobody wore helmets in the old days and nobody carried their sticks high. You see a game now and it seems as if they&rsquo;ve all got their sticks up around the face. It is my opinion that the quality of hockey is down. Maybe it&rsquo;s because I live in Detroit but I don&rsquo;t see many good games anywhere anymore.I might see a good period once in awhile or might see them turn it on for five or 10 minutes at a time. Nobody seems able to sustain a solid style of hockey for very long.I think the fights come as a diversion to the fans and that&rsquo;s why the clubs tolerate them. It sends the fans home with something to talk about other than the poor play they&rsquo;ve just seen.ANSWER: The thing that&rsquo;s missing in this column are commas and they should be able to play without fights if I can write without commas. All it takes is a little effort. &#9632;

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Fights A Big Bore But Are Diversion

<div class="byline">BY JOHN GILBERT</div><h2>MINNESOTA NORTH STARS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-011180/5555310-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="570" height="180"></div>BLOOMINGTON&mdash;Remember Neal Broten?If Broten was a swashbuckling, arrogant, prima donna, his star would be high in the sky above the horizon of mere National Hockey League roster-fillers.Instead, he has never lost his smalltown boyishness and he prefers a quiet family life to the celebrity&rsquo;s spotlight. He is also the best player in the Minnesota North Stars&rsquo; lineup, according to coach Lome Henning.But while Henning, his teammates and North Star fans hold Broten in the highest regard, he seems like the forgotten man in many ways. Consider:&bull; In a club press release dated Nov. 4, Kent Nilsson was referred to as the first North Star since Bobby Smith to possess such lofty scoring capabilities. Fans were advised to write in the names of Nilsson and Dirk Graham on the all-star ballot, because both were excluded from the list which includes Tony McKegney. Brian Bellows, Curt Giles, Gordie Roberts and Craig Hartsburg.There is no mention of Broten being overlooked, nor the recollection that Broten tied Smith for the team scoring lead the year before Smith was traded to Montreal, and led the team outright his next season.&bull; THE HOCKEY NEWS of Nov. 8 recites the names of about 50 sets of brothers who ranged from the prominent to obscure in hockey, and never mentioned Neal and New Jersey&rsquo;s Aaron Broten, or pointed out that another brother, Paul, is a New York Ranger draftee and a sophomore for the highlyregarded University of Minnesota.&bull; Last summer, one of those Reader&rsquo;s Digest-sized hockey books lifted a HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; quote from Gilles Meloche, who said a couple of prominent North Stars didn&rsquo;t get along. Meloche didn&rsquo;t disclose the names, and the writer inserted his own assumption that Neal Broten was one of the sources of controversy.The North Stars probably wish Broten was more controversial. In truth, Neal is so laid-back off the ice that he tends to be overlooked&mdash;except for the magnificence of his playmaking on the ice.He is one of those rare players who makes his linemates glow by passing with an artistry that creates scoring opportunities where none previously existed.Recently, Broten was at his best in a 4-3 overtime victory over the Ranger&mdash;a game in which the Stars were woefully outplayed and outshot 42-22. While Don Beaupre, who started six straight games, was brilliant in goal, Broten inspired the offense.He scored one goal and assisted on two others to stake the Stars to their three regulation-time goals, and he made a superb play&mdash;taking out two defenders while poking the puck free at center ice to spring a McKegney breakaway that was foiled.&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s face it,&rdquo; said Ranger coach Ted Sator, &ldquo;Neal Broten is a world-class player. You have to give him full credit. Not only does he create a lot of scoring plays, but he also makes the kind of plays the fans might remember after the game and ask, &lsquo;Who made that play?&rsquo;&rdquo;Sator is right. While many of his plays are indelibly etched in memory, the majority of them are more subtle, and are appreciated only at the highest level of hockey-watching.Against Montreal, Broten made a twoon-three rush work when he put on a burst of speed to beat one defender and isolate the second. He started to cut to his right and in that same instant backhanded a pass to Tom McCarthy that sent him in alone. The goaltender made the save but it was still a dazzling play.Broten assisted on the third goal of that 3-3 tie with Montreal, and after his three points against the Rangers, Broten scored the lone goal in a 2-1 loss at Boston.That meant in a span of six consecutive Minnesota goals over three games, Broten had two goals and three assists.&ldquo;Broten has been our best player, by far, all year,&rdquo; said coach Lome Henning. &ldquo;Game in and game out, he is making things happen every shift.&rdquo;Through 14 games, Broten had seven goals and 11 assists for 18 points. His five-point splurge vaulted him to the team scoring lead.A star at Roseau High School in Minnesota and a Hobey Baker Award winner at the University of Minnesota, as well as a prominent member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic gold medal-winning team, Broten endured his worst season last year.He scored only 19 goals and 37 assists for 56 points and he admits he was afflicted with the same lethargy that dominated the entire club last season.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never had a season like that in my life,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I finally got down on myself and just went through the motions.&rdquo;The 56 points didn&rsquo;t look so bad considering that only Bellows (62) and Keith Acton (58) topped him. But compared to his previous three seasons, it was awful. Broten was 38-60-98 as a rookie in 198182. 32-45-77 in his second term, and 28-61-89 in his third year, before last year&rsquo;s nosedive.Broten&rsquo;s personal point plan is that he should have twice as many assists as goals, and much of his dropoff last year was due to injuries that knocked out linemates Tom McCarthy and Dino Ciccarelli for much of the time.STAR DUST&mdash;Kent Nilsson went out on his first shift against the Rangers with a strained back and didn&rsquo;t play in Boston&hellip;Willi Plett, who returned two weeks ahead of schedule from a separated shoulder, wore a restrictive harness but tipped in a Broten shot and assisted on another goal against the Rangers&hellip;Scott Bjugstad scored the winner from the blue line at 2:04 of overtime against the Rangers, rifling a slap shot on a rush after first planning on just dumping the puck in and getting a line change&hellip;Dino Ciccarelli&rsquo;s infant daughter, Jenna, has been allowed to go home from the hospital, and is recovering from burns she suffered from an accident last month that required skin grafts. &#9632;

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Broten: The Forgotten Minnesota North Star

<div class="byline">BY GLENN COLE</div><h2>MONTREAL CANADIENS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-011034/5555372-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="570" height="154"></div>MONTREAL&mdash;hris Nilan has made it perfectly clear.The rugged Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; right winger, back from serving an eight-game suspension assessed by the National Hockey League, will not be changing his style.&ldquo;I was a little irritated practising every day and not being able to get out there ^^d help the guys,&rdquo; Nilan said. &ldquo;You watch the games all the time and things have not been going as well as we would like them to go.&ldquo;I had to work hard in practice every day, which I do anyway. But while I was sitting out, I didn&rsquo;t seem to be getting anywhere. I wasn&rsquo;t out on the ice in the game and it was difficult for the club when I was just practising all the time.&rdquo;Nilan returned to the Canadiens&rsquo; lineup as they embarked on their longest road trip of the season.In Hartford, he served notice to the Whalers he would not allow them the same leeway they had when he missed two earlier games. It was the Nilan opponents around the NHL have learned to respect. He bumped everything in sight and even got involved in a first-period fight with Hartford&rsquo;s Torrie Robertson.The Canadiens won the game 8-3 and Nilan&rsquo;s aggressiveness was given as a contributing factor in the victory. The next night in Minnesota, Nilan recorded an assist in Montreal&rsquo;s 3-3 tie with the North Stars and three nights later in Los Angeles, the Canadiens improved their beaten string to four with a 6-0 triumph over Los Angeles with Doug Soetaert in goal.It was Soetaert&rsquo;s first shutout since March 5, 1982 when he blanked Detroit while playing for the Winnipeg Jets.The victory gave Montreal five points out of six since Nilan&rsquo;s return and brought a more positiove outlook to a team which had battled itself as well as the opposition in the early part of the year.The Nilan suspension, which was tended down after he received a match penalty for butt-ending Rick Middleton of the Bruins in the mouth, has been the subject of major controversy since NHL executive vice-president Brian O&rsquo;Neill handed down his ruling.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think I wound get that many games, but I did,&rdquo; Nilan said. &ldquo;You have to take the good with the bad. The thing bugged me to a point where I know if I had been in the lineup, that I could have definitely helped the club.&rdquo;Nilan is a team leader. He is the type of individual who keeps his teammates alert on the bench, on the ice and in the dresWing room. There were nights while he was away that the Canadiens&rsquo; bench looked lifeles&mdash;a perfect match for the team&rsquo;s on-ice performance.&ldquo;I try to talk it up in the room and get guys ready,&rdquo; Nilan said. &ldquo;I like to get the guys involved. I have some spirit in the dressing room as well as on the bench. I just feel that may have been something that was missing.&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t forget Mario Tremblay was out too and he&rsquo;s a great guy in the room. We do have Bob Gainey in there and Brian Skrudland is a great guy in the room.&ldquo;We have been missing key guys. (Rick) Green was out. I was out. (Lucien) DeBlois has been out and Tremblay has been out. It&rsquo;s tough. I&rsquo;m sure when everybody is back, the team will be going a lot better.&rdquo;Canadiens&rsquo; coach Jean Perron had hoped that the trip would ultimately decide which two of his three goaltenders would carry the load for the remainder of the season.Patrick Roy was weak on two goals in Hartford, but Perron said he was satisfied with the work of the rookie goaltender. Steve Penney, who came into camp as the No. 1 netminder, earned a secondstar selection for his work in Minnesota and then, there was the Soetaert shutout effort.In the minds of some media members, Soetaert is still No. 3 here even though he has played well in his three starts. In Los Angeles, his goaltending backstopped the best overall effort furnished by Perron&rsquo;s players this season.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy with the way Penney and Soetaert played in their games,&rdquo; said managing director Serge Savard. &ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t really given thought of sending anyone to Sherbrooke.&rdquo;However, Savard has made it clear he does not want anyone sitting around getting rusty as the result of inactivity, so a move may come soon.COLES&rsquo; NOTE&mdash;Defenseman Tom Kurvers returned from a two-game designated sitter&rsquo;s role to score the gametying goal in Minnesota. The next game in L.A., Kurvers had a pair of assists&hellip;Serge Boisvert has been returned to the Sherbrooke after scoring two goals and two assists in nine games. Claude Lemieux has been recalled to replace him&hellip;Kjeil Dahlin was named NHL rookie-of-the-month for October. &#9632;

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Nilan Contibutes To Canadiens’ Turnaround

<div class="byline">BY RANDY SCHULTZ</div><h2>BUFFALO SABRES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-011071/5555403-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="579" height="165"></div>BUFFALO&mdash;&ldquo;Even in your wildest dreams, you don&rsquo;t imagine something like that happening.&rdquo;Those were the words of Buffalo Sabres&rsquo; rookie goaltender Daren Puppa after he shut out the Stanley Cupchampion Edmonton Oilers 2-0 in his National Hockey League debut.The 6-foot-3, 195-pound Puppa became the 18th goaltender in NHL history to post a shutout in his NHL debut by turning aside all 37 Oilers&rsquo; shot&mdash;10 of them off the stick of Wayne Gretzky.Three times he stopped the game&rsquo;s best player on breakaways.The shutout was the first recorded against the Oilers in Edmonton during the regular season since 1981. And on top of everything else, Puppa was named NHL player of the week solely on the basis of his first-game performance.The zero streak lasted halfway through his next start against the Winnipeg Jets. It wasn&rsquo;t until the 12:34 mark of the second period that rookie Ryan Stewart became the first NHLer to beat Puppa.&ldquo;I tried to make it (the shutout streak) last as long as it could,&rdquo; said Puppa. who gave up two other goals in a 7-3 win over the Jets. &ldquo;But I knew that somebody would score sooner or later.&rdquo;The goal was greeted not by derision but applause from Buffalo supporters, who gave the 20-year-old a lasting ovation for his sparkling work.&ldquo;It felt really good to know that the fans were out there really behind me,&rdquo; said Puppa.He also has a team behind (and in front) of him. Following the Edmonton game at Northlands Coliseum, teammates chanted &ldquo;Puppa, Puppa, Puppa&rdquo; in the dressing room.&ldquo;That really meant a lot to me that the guys thought that much of me to do something like that,&rdquo; said Puppa.&ldquo;It was a team effort out there against Edmonton. I didn&rsquo;t do it alone. There were a lot of guys out in front of me doing a lot of work.&rdquo;The decision to start Puppa over firststringer Tom Barrasso against the Oilers was coach Jim Schoenfeld&rsquo;s.&ldquo;Tommy hadn&rsquo;t been doing well against the Oilers in Edmonton,&rdquo; said Schoenfeld. &ldquo;I thought that by giving Daren the start, it would give the team a lift, which it needed at the time.&ldquo;A lot of times a team will rally around a rookie goaltender in a situation like Daren was in.&ldquo;And they responded very well.&rdquo;Similar philosophy was the reason behind starting Puppa against the Jets in the Sabres&rsquo; next game.&ldquo;I thought it would be nice to have the local fans see Daren in action after what he did in Edmonton,&rdquo; said Schoenfeld. &ldquo;I just figured that the fans would get behind him and the team, which they did, and give the team a lift which it needed at home.&ldquo;It was good for Daren to come back and have a strong game. He needed it and the team needed it.&rdquo;One player who seemed to be affected by all of this lifting was Phil Housley., Not only did he get emotionally lifted.&rdquo; but physically as well, being boosted from defense to center. Again, Schoenfeld explained.&ldquo;He (Housley) wanted to try defense this season, so we gave it a try for 10 games,&rdquo; said Schoenfeld. &ldquo;But we found that there were other guys playing better defense than Phil.&ldquo;So I figured that if he wants to score, let&rsquo;s put him up front where he can score. He&rsquo;s quicker up front. He makes those good, quick passes. He can do more, as far as moving the puck, up front.&ldquo;Plus, he will play more and I think he will be able to put the puck into the net more.&rdquo;SABRE POINT&mdash;Former Sabres&rsquo; defensman Jerry Korab has returned to the club as a member of the team&rsquo;s communications department. &#9632;

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Puppa Standout In Opening Performances

<div class="byline">Steve Simmons</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03573/5555434-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="431" height="463"></div>JOHN FERGUSON SMILED that June morning, like only John Ferguson can.He had pulled a rabbit out of a hockey helmet. He had snuck in the back door and left with the jewelry.It was conceded. Fergie was a thief.When all the men in the know sat around and analyzed the 1983 National Hockey League draft, there appeared to be just one consensus: The Winning Jets stole Andrew McBain with the eighth pick overall that year.It was a given. There are few sure things in hockey, but McBain was one of them. Everyone said so. Everyone.The Islanders talked of taking him third overall, but were shocked to find Pat LaFontaine still available. Edmonton tried to trade up in order to pick him. McBain was the great intangible of that lot; the man who would make a difference.Mention McBain&rsquo;s name to Ferguson today and you will not see that famous smile. What you might see is the even more famous Fergie scowl.Andrew McBain, the guy everybody wanted, has been a washout through three NHL seasons.He managed 30 points as a rookie, 22 in his second year and now, as the Jets of Winnipeg continue to improve, McBain does not. He is a spare part on a team that is comprised of anything but.His plight is not unique. There were many before him and will be several after him.He did not ask to be drafted in the first round, nor did he ask the hockey world to place such high expectations on his young shoulders.That&rsquo;s just the way the game is played. And it&rsquo;s just the way tickets are sold, hearts are broken and careers ended earlier than anticipated.McBain is just one member of the NHL&rsquo;s alldisappointing team. There are so many others that not a team in the league exists without its DD&mdash;its designated disappointment.(Note: To qualify for DD status, the player would have had to be a consensus can&rsquo;t miss, or eventually a player who was in large demand around the league.)In Minnesota, the most prominent disappointment of Team Disappointment has to be Brian Lawton, the first draft pick the year McBain was chosen by Winnipeg. Lawton was drafted amidst those lofty Bryan Trottier comparisons, but thus far the only Trottier that&rsquo;s been seen in him is something closer to Monty and Rocky than Bryan.In New York, the DD would be James Patrick, who entered the NHL on such a high and has never maintained that level. Perhaps the tag placed on Patrick was the most unfair of all. No matter where you went in Patrick&rsquo;s final year of college or his one season with the Canadian Olympic team, someone&rsquo; called him the best defenseman not playing in the NHL.He has flashed occasional signs of brilliance with the Rangers, but not often enough. Those who know him best say he&rsquo;d be better off out of New York, but even that is not likely to happen. It might have been easier for Patrick if Pierre Larouche had still been around. He was an annual DD candidate and would have taken the heat off Patrick.In Boston, Pete Peeters is the semi-annual, designated disappointment. Peeters has had a good-year, bad-year, career, and he follows DD seasons with with BS year&mdash;that&rsquo;s biggest surprise, not what you originally thought.In Buffalo, John Tucker and Paul Cyr would tie for DD honors. Tucker scored 12 goals in 21 games as a 19-year-old with the Sabres, and these days you need more than a magnifying glass to find his name in Sabres&rsquo; summaries. At least he could take a penalty once in a while so you&rsquo;d know he&rsquo;s still playing.Cyr was the sure-fire, hard-nosed, wild-living, 40-goal scorer that every team wanted. We&rsquo;re not sure about his living, and we&rsquo;re not sure about the fire, but he isn&rsquo;t that hard-nosed anymore and not every team wants him, either. And he was a left winger, too, which added to the love affair, and to such disappointment.In Montreal, the award has been passed around, really. Ryan Walter is sometimes a DD. So is Bobby Smith and Lucien DeBlois certainly filled the requirements in his first season with the Canadiens. Somehow, those who have come from other teams to provide some scoring have provided little in Montreal.The Maple Leafs, that smooth bunch that doesn&rsquo;t seem to know what to do with their coaches, let alone players, has a team full of DDs. Jim Benning. Russ Courtnall. Don Edwards. Tom Fergus. Need I go on. Why not? Gerry McNamara. Dan Maloney. Harold Ballard.The successful teams, the really successful teams, have a minimal number of DD candidates. The Flyers, for example, have a DD&mdash;but it&rsquo;s Todd Bergen, and instead of scoring goals for Philly he&rsquo;s off chipping and putting somewhere.The only DD&mdash;other than Mark Napier&mdash;with the Stanley Cup champion Oilers aren&rsquo;t with the Oilers anymore. Draft busts such as Jim (what have you done for us lately, Barry Fraser?) Playfair are trying to learn the game in Nova Scotia.As for the all-disappointing team? Thought you&rsquo;d never ask&hellip;There&rsquo;s a tie at center between Todd Bergen and Pierre Larouche, even though neither is playing in the NHL. Brian Lawton would be my left winger and Andrew McBain would take a regular shift on the right side.Somewhere, although I&rsquo;m not sure where, Ken Yaremchuk of Chicago would fit in.On defense, the picks would come between Jersey Joe Cirella, James Patrick, Jim Benning or any one of Vancouver troika of first rounders, excluding J.J. Daigneault.The goalie: Don Edwards. &#9632;

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Designated Disappointments Fail To Reach Expectations

<div class="byline">BY BOB DONNELLY</div><h2>QUEBEC NORDIQUES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02815/5555465-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="577" height="151"></div>QUEBEC CITY&mdash;Le Petit Tigre has been caged temporarily.Michel Bergeron, the Quebec Nordiques&rsquo; intense head coach, is off-duty for a few weeks while recovering from a post-viral encephalitis attack that put him in the hospital and affected his vision.Assistant coach Simon Nolet was named interim head coach and will serve in that capacity until Bergeron&rsquo;s expected return in late November.General manager Maurice Filion made the announcement official after Nolet had handled the team for a few games and it became evident they could not really count on a quick return by Bergeron.After six games behind the bench, Nolet had guided the Nordiques to a respectable 2-3-1 record. This didn&rsquo;t match Bergeron&rsquo;s seven straight wins to start the 1985-86 season, but. Nolet did succeed in helping Quebec stay atop the Adams Division.&ldquo;I was in daily communication with Michel, even while he was in the hospital, and all I wanted was to help the team anyway I could while he was away,&rdquo; said Nolet after his fifth game behind the bench. &ldquo;I kept talking to all our coaches (Charles Thiffault, Ron Harris) as well as with Maurice Filion to get all the advice they were willing to give me.&rdquo;Nolet. who won a Stanley Cup with Philadelphia, played with four NHL teams, during his 13 years as an active player. He also led the AHL in scoring in 1967. Now in his fourth season with the Nordiques, he has been a loyal supporter and friend to Bergeron.One thing that makes Nolet an ideal assistant coach is that he enjoys his responsibilities and doesn&rsquo;t covet Bergeron&rsquo;s job.&ldquo;Michel is the real boss, and everyone is just trying to help out in doing what they can until he can get back on his feet.&rdquo;While Bergeron has always played the heavy with his players, Nolet has been more of a companion and friend to the players. Now that has temporarily changed.&ldquo;They have to know I&rsquo;m the one in charge and that&rsquo;s all there is to it.&rdquo; said the interim coach.Anton Stastny was perhaps the first to get the message. After being benched for one period in a loss to the Flyers. Stastny responded with two goals and one assist as the Nordiques cruised past Boston 7-5 soon after.Nolet was also involved in the decision to once again put Alain Cote with the Stastny brothers, a move that has often helped get the brothers on track in recent years when they were experiencing difficulties.&ldquo;I talked with Michel, and we both know that as a line they always played well against Boston. Anton had not scored in eight games and it turned out to be good timing.&rdquo; said Nolet.One problem as a coach he has not been able to solve is the lack of success of the Quebec power play at home. The Nordiques continue to have impressive power-play stats on the road but have been dismal at home.They were O-for-12 in games against Philadelphia and Boston.NORDIC NOTE&mdash;Alain Lemieux was placed on waivers and was to be assigned to Fredericton if not claimed. Lemiuex recently signed a three-year two-way contract with the Nordiques. &ldquo;His attitude has just not been good.&rdquo; said Filion. &ldquo;He has not been working hard enough in practices even though we have asked him to get more involved. His future is still in his hands, however.&rdquo; Lemieux was offered to the Penguins, where he could join his brother. Mario, but Pittsburgh GM Eddie Johnston replied that he was not interested&hellip;After not playing in the Nordiques&rsquo; first 13 games, defenseman Jeff Brown was returned to Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario League. &#9632;

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Nolet Filling In For Ailing Coach

<div class="byline">BY MICHAEL A. BERGER</div><h2>NEW YORK RANGERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02735/5555503-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="588" height="160"></div>NEW YORK&mdash;And so it goes with the New York Rangers, a little up and a little down as the season approaches its onequarter mark.Up and down in several senses, too. Win a game, lose a game; demote a player, bring up a player; lose a man to injury, rotate one more into the lineup.The lesson learned in their shocking 6-5 overtime loss to the New Jersey Devils was not lost on the Rangers as they battled Philadelphia at home and Pittsburgh, Winnipeg and Minnesota on the road.The lesson?Sixty-minute efforts win hockey games. That showed throughout a 4-2 win over the Penguins in a game rescheduled from January because of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s commitment to play a travelling Soviet team.But sometimes scorers win games too and the Flyers proved that by dropping the Rangers 5-2.&ldquo;We generated quite a few chances to score but couldn&rsquo;t push them over the goal line,&rdquo; said coach Ted Sator. &ldquo;Our concern would be if we weren&rsquo;t getting those chances to score. At this point of the season, our real potential goal scorers haven&rsquo;t emerged from the pack.&ldquo;The Flyers just had a little extra kick.&rdquo;One reason for that circumstance is that a large part of the Flyers&rsquo; &ldquo;kick&rdquo; from past years is &ldquo;kicking&rdquo; around in the American League this season.Pierre Larouche had 16 points in 11 games with the American League&rsquo;s Hershey Bears and Mike Rogers had 12 points in 14 games with the New Haven Nighthawks. Surely, there was the Rangers&rsquo; scoring punch.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01993/5555496-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="600" height="1213"><figcaption class="caption-body">New York Ranger left winger Mike Ridley&rsquo;s strong play makes his coach look good.</figcaption></div>Yet, as if to make fools of the analysts, the Rangers did some scoring of their own by beating the dangerous Winnipeg Jets 7-3.Down 3-1 with just half of the first period gone, the Rangers &ldquo;kicked&rdquo; in with six unanswered goals for the win, the Rangers&rsquo; second consecutive road victory.And the next night, down 3-1 to the North Stars in Bloomington, the Rangers fought back to lose 4-3 in overtime in goalie Ron Scott&rsquo;s NHL season debut. Scott last played for the Rangers on March 4, 1984.The loss to the Stars pushed the Rangers back to the.500 mark (7-7) which is the team&rsquo;s stated objective.There was more housecleaning during the week, too.Demoted, as expected, was goaltender Terry Kleisinger. who was sent to New Haven after the Ranger loss to the Devils. Scott was called up in his place.Scott&rsquo;s promotion triggered another round of speculation regarding former Ranger Glen Hanlon, the subject of trade rumors involving Detroit and Washington.Evidently, with Scott&rsquo;s elevation, the Rangers feel Hanlon still isn&rsquo;t yet ready to rejoin the big club and play, once again, at a major-league level.When Hanlon was sent down. Ranger general manager Craig Patrick said Hanlon was in Detroit&rsquo;s system in Adirondack (as opposed to the Rangers&rsquo; in New Haven) in order for him to get playing time.Yet Hanlon isn&rsquo;t playing in Adirondack either. Though he is 3-3-1 with a 3.25 goals-against average, Adirondack&rsquo;s Mark LaForest had reportedly played in six consecutive victories.Whither Glen Hanlon? Only Patrick knows for sure, but the NHL is getting further and further away for the most surprising victim of Sator&rsquo;s trainingcamp purge.Also finding himself in the minors was center Dave Gagner, demoted the morning after scoring one of the Rangers&rsquo; two goals versus the Flyers. Though Sator wouldn&rsquo;t say so, Gagner was surely the second personnel mistake made by the coach, the first being Kleisinger.The Gagner move paved the way for Raimo Helminen (held out of seven games because he wasn&rsquo;t deemed strong enough) to return to the lineup and he scored a goal against the Jets in his first game back.Lost for the Rangers was George McPhee with partially torn right thumb ligaments, and, most ominously, Barry Beck with a reported strain of the trapezius and deltoid muscles of his left shoulder and back.And the answer is yes, it is the same shoulder Beck has had surgically repaired after two separations.Beck&rsquo;s absence from the defensive corps forced Sator to move Ron Greschner (two goals versus Minnesota) back to defense from center, where he had been skating between Jan Erixon and Peter Sundstrom.NOTE&mdash;Mike Ridley&rsquo;s consistent efforts continue to make assistant coach Reg Higgs look like a genius for bringing the left winger to camp. Ridley scored a goal against the Flyers and another against the Jets, bringing his total to five for the season. &#9632;

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The Up-And-Down World Of The Rangers

<div class="byline">BY BOB McKENZIE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0021-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01649/5555565-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg"></div>If Dr. Cal Botterill has a couch in his office, he isn&rsquo;t saying. Sigmund Freud, apparently, he is not.&ldquo;Oh, no,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m no shrink.&rdquo;In fact, the 38-year-old, who once tried out for the Boston Bruins but ended up with the Dayton Gems of the International League, got the doctor handle not from studying Pavlov&rsquo;s dogs, but working like one to get a PhD as a physical education major at the University of Alberta.So why would anyone get the notion that he&rsquo;s anything more than a teacher in the University of Winnipeg&rsquo;s recreation and athletic department?Well, it might have something to do with his being psychologist for Canada&rsquo;s National Hockey Team, which is gearing up for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the Canadian Olympic basketball team.&ldquo;I guess they think I can be a resource,&rdquo; says Botterill of his affiliation with coach Dave King and the National Team.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t try to be a shrink because I&rsquo;m not one. I&rsquo;m a teacher. All I do is try to do is teach a few mental skills, teachable things that can make an individual a little better in whatever he may. choose to do, not just hockey or basketball.&rdquo;Botterill worked with Canada&rsquo;s 1984 Olympic team, also coached by King, but it was only for the six months prior to the actual competition in Sarajevo. This time around, he has two-and-a-half years to do his thing.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m really quite delighted with that aspect of it,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Mental preparation is important at all times, but it&rsquo;s critical in international hockey. A team has to peak at the right time.&rdquo;But what specifically can he do to improve the on-ice performance of Team Canada?&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;the first thing I&rsquo;ve got to say is that I can&rsquo;t be of any help if the people I&rsquo;m dealing with don&rsquo;t believe in the exercise. In that regard, I&rsquo;m very lucky. Dave King and Jack Donahue (Canada&rsquo;s Olympic basketball coach) and all their players have reacted very positively. That&rsquo;s the first step.&ldquo;After that, there are three main areas to work on. The first is emotional control. The second is concentration and the third is selfand timemanagement.&rdquo;Emotional control, Botterill says, is an exercise in &ldquo;energizing or relaxing.&rdquo; It all depends upon the nature of the individual.&ldquo;Some guys are not intense enough so you want them to energize. Other guys are too hyper, too tense, you want them to relax so they can loosen their muscles and perform better.&rdquo;Some basic psychological testing of the players determines which category they fall into and to what degree they require &ldquo;energizing or relaxing.&rdquo; Then Botterill works on a one-to-one basis to help the player.As for concentration, Botterill has a series of exercises that help players to either narrow or expand their foci.&ldquo;Wayne Gretzky has outstanding concentration skills,&rdquo; Botterill says. &ldquo;He sees the big picture, but rarely is he distracted by it. Most players, though, can&rsquo;t deal with all that Gretzky does. They have to narrow the focus. We call it, &lsquo;Park it and play.&rsquo;&ldquo;But in something like the Canada Cup, Gretzky&rsquo;s strength may become a liability. Because he sees the whole picture so clearly, he starts to feel personally responsible if things aren&rsquo;t going well.&ldquo;He knows he&rsquo;s supposed to lead the team and there&rsquo;s the pressure of winning it for Canada. He starts losing his concentration skills, whereas a guy like Paul Coffey can narrow the focus by saying, &lsquo;The hell with everyone else. Let&rsquo;s just play the game.&rdquo;&rsquo;It&rsquo;s that type of mental conditioning, Botterill says, that can be taught over a period of time.In terms of time management, Botterill tests each player to determine how much &ldquo;personal space&rdquo; he requires.&ldquo;For example,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;some guys must have a pre-game nap or they&rsquo;re just no good. Others have to eat at a certain time. Some guys must adhere to a rigid schedule, others it doesn&rsquo;t matter. Therefore, we work on time management and teach the guys how to take charge of their own schedules to suit their needs.&rdquo;Add up all those psychological ingredients and you don&rsquo;t necessarily have an Olympic gold medal wrapped up, but there is some mental food for thought there.&ldquo;I just think it&rsquo;s important for athletes to think about how they think,&rdquo; Botterill says. &#9632;

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Team Canada’s Good Doctor Is No Shrink

In the game of hockey, a sport played at an extremely fast pace in a confined area, there is often a fine line between exhilirating physical contact and outright violence and intimidation.At every level of the sport, from the youngest minor hockey leagues to the National Hockey League, administrators and officials constantly strive to walk that fine line, maintaining a balance of speed and contact that is within the guidelines set out in the rule book.Now, the Adams Distillers Group, Ltd., has joined in the effort to promote the finer points of the game of hockey.In support of that goal, Adams Distillers Group, Ltd., in conjunction with the Ontario Hockey Association, has launched a brand new trophy to encourage good sportsmanship and fair play in the national pastime.It&rsquo;s called the Adams Private Stock Award.Here&rsquo;s how it works.The teams with the fewest penalty minutes during the 198586 season in the OHA&rsquo;s participating senior and intermediate leagues will be awarded the Adams Private Stock Award.The award and concept are an offspring of the Fair Play Cup, a prestigious award presented in European hockey leagues and top-flight international competitions.In fact, in recent world championship&mdash;last April in Czechos-lovakia, and last January at the world junior tourney in Finland&mdash;Team Canada not only emerged with silver and gold medals, re-spectively, but also came away with a new image for exemplary behavior and conduct.Gone, apparently, are the days of touring Canadians being labeled as thugs and goons.And here, at home, it has become increasingly clear that the majority of hockey officials, players, fans and the media find blatant physical intimidation and violence to be among the least desirable traits of a very fine game.&ldquo;This award to recognize fair play and sportsmanship in hockey is long overdue,&rdquo; says OHA president Brent Ladds of the new program that already involves more than 1,000 senior and intermediate teams, as well as adult recreation and industrial leagues across the province.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re pleased that the OHA board of directors fully endorsed the Adams Private Stock Award,&rdquo; says a spokesman for the company, &ldquo;but what will really count is the support and cooperation of the arena managers, coaches and players in encouraging their teams to play fair.&rdquo; &#9632;

Adams And OHA Join Forces For Fair Play

<div class="byline">BY RICH CHERE</div><h2>NEW JERSEY DEVILS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01677/5555620-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="582" height="174"></div>EAST RUTHERFORD&mdash;It was your typical low-budget Halloween thriller&mdash;the dead coming back to life.Several veterans, who were already being called the &ldquo;living dead&rdquo; when the Devils&rsquo; losing streak reached five out of six, came back to life by sparking successive comebacks against the Red Wings and Rangers.Both rallies occurred after pulling goalie Alain Chevrier in the final seconds of the third period.True, it was Doug Sulliman whose goal at 19:32 of the third period gave the Devils a 2-2 tie with Detroit on Halloween night, but for those who had already begun losing faith in the Devils, the most noteworthy news was that there is still life left in oldtimers Mel Bridgman and Peter McNab&mdash;both of whom had previously appeared lifeless.Bridgman, who was on the verge of losing his left wing spot, assisted on Sulliman&rsquo;s big goal and two nights later scored the game winner against the rival New York Rangers at 0:50 of suddendeath overtime.In doing so, he may have accomplished one of two thing&mdash;hange a few front-office minds about giving him away or raised his trade value.<blockquote class="pullQuote">There is still life left in Mel Bridgman and Peter McNab&mdash;both of whom appeared lifeless.</blockquote>McNab, who had scored only two goals with one assist in his first nine games and was beginning to draw media criticism, started New Jersey&rsquo;s comeback with a pair of third-period scores in the 6-5 triumph Nov. 2.&ldquo;I think we showed people we are legitimate playoff contenders, a team able to come back and win games that aren&rsquo;t going our way,&rdquo; said McNab.More to the point, they showed coach Doug Carpenter that the veterans are still important to this young team. Virtually everyone, including Carpenter, thought it was over when the Rangers held leads of 4-0 and 5-2 in the third period at the Meadowlands.But the experienced line of McNab. 33. Bridgman, 30, and Rich Preston, 33, combined for four goals and six assists (10 points) on 13 shots against the Rangers.&ldquo;Call us the Old Fossils line.&rdquo; said Preston, whose OT goal defeated the Rangers back on Oct. 13 at Madison Square Garden. &ldquo;My sister, Donna, phones me up and asks, &lsquo;How are the fossils doing?&ldquo;&rsquo;The early-season turnaround for New Jersey began against the Red Wings with time running out and the Devils trailing 2-1. Sulliman poked the puck loose to Bridgman along the boards and the captain centered it for Mark Johnson. The rebound of Johnson&rsquo;s shot off Greg Stefan was jabbed in by Sulliman for the tie.There seemed little hope for such a comeback two nights later when the Rangers skated to a 4-0 lead.However, McNab scored twice within a span of two minutes to revive the Devils. The son of general manager Max McNab, whose slow start had triggered nasty whispers, scored two goals and had two assists in the final 16 minutes of play.Tim Higgins eventually tied the game 5-5, with 32 seconds left in the third period before Bridgman won it in overtime with his fourth goal of the season.If three points in the standings seemed overblown, consider that the Devils are still fighting their own doubts about edging out the Rangers for a playoff position in the Patrick Division and two over-time victories over the Rangers were a tremendous psychological lift.Remember what J.P. Parise&rsquo;s overtime goal during the 1975 playoffs did for the New York Islanders in their long battle to crawl out from beneath the Rangers&rsquo; shadow.HOT STUFF&mdash;raig Wolanin suffered a bruised shoulder while crashing into the boards against Detroit&hellip;Defensemen Ken Daneyko and Randy Velischek may soon be sent to Maine&hellip;Phil Russell remains a forgotten extra&hellip;Attendance has been down at the Meadowlands Arena, with a crowd of about 8,000 showing up for the Detroit contest. Greg Adams, sidelined with a bruised leg, hadn&rsquo;t scored a goal in nine games&hellip;Dave and Sylvia Pichette became the parents of twin sons (Karl and Kevin) on Oct. 31 while Mark and Leslie Johnson celebrated the arrival of a son on Nov. 2&hellip;Alain Chevrier and Craig Billington have a combined 4-2-1 record while Chico Resch is 1-3. Chevrier met his idol, Rogie Vachon, back on Oct. 26. &ldquo;I went up and introduced my-self to him. I should have asked him for his autograph but I didn&rsquo;t quite get around to it. He was a great goalie. I patterned myself after him. I just hope I have half the career he had.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Finally, It’s Fast Times For The ‘Old Fossils’

<div class="byline">BY TIM MORIARTY</div><h2>NEW YORK ISLANDERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01733/5555651-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="578" height="168"></div>LONG ISLAN&mdash;atrick Flatley calls it &ldquo;The Silencer.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s a quick wrist shot, and the New York Islanders&rsquo; smiling Irishman has been using it with increased success lately.In a recent game against the Maple Leafs at Toronto, Flatley scored four times and set up the winning goal by Pat LaFontaine in the Islanders&rsquo; 5-4 victory.It was Flatley&rsquo;s most productive game since the former Olympian turned pro with the Islanders on Feb. 29. 1984. and he owed his big night to &ldquo;The Silencer.&rdquo; All four goals were scored on wrist shots.&ldquo;When I&rsquo;m fooling around in practice and let a wrist shot go. the guys say. &lsquo;Oooh. nice silencer.&rdquo;&rsquo; Flatley said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s because when you shoot a good one. you don&rsquo;t hear anything. It just goes pffft&hellip;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not the type who barrels down my wing and takes a slap shot. But I practise my wrist shot a lot. Sometimes it&rsquo;s not how hard you shoot, but how accurate you are.&rdquo;Flatley was extremely accurate against the Maple Leafs. He scored once in the first period and added three more in a span of seven minutes in the second period. The four goals came on five shots.The 22-year-old right winger did his best work after being flattened by rookie Wendel Clark of the Maple Leafs early in the second period. Clark drew a charging penalty while Flatley picked himself up and wondered what hit him. He didn&rsquo;t miss a shift.&ldquo;I thought about going back at Clark because of the intimidation thing,&rdquo; Flatley said. &ldquo;Bm then I figured there&rsquo;s no better way to get back at somebody than to score.&rdquo; &lsquo;Two motivational talks&mdash;by his coach and his mother&mdash;also contributed to Flatley&rsquo;s splurge.&ldquo;Patrick got off to a fair start this year, but then he had trouble hitting the net,&rdquo; coach Al Arbour said. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think he was working hard enough and I told him so.&rdquo;Said Flatley: &ldquo;Yes. it took Al to tell me I wasn&rsquo;t working&hellip;efficiently. I was skating up and down my wing and not accomplishing anything&rdquo;Flatley, a native of Toronto, also disclosed a conversation he had with his mother. Margaret, before the game. It concerned some bad luck that had haunted the Islanders whenever Flatley&rsquo;s parents attended his games.&ldquo;They came to watch me in the playoffs at Montreal two years ago and we lost both games,&rdquo; Flatley said. &ldquo;And it seemed that every time they came to a game on the island we lost. So my Mom told me if we lost to the Leafs this time she&rsquo;d never speak to me again.&rdquo;Margaret Flatley was only kidding, of course. And even if she wasn&rsquo;t, she had plenty to talk about after her son&rsquo;s big night against the Maple Leafs.ON THE ISLE&mdash;atrick Flatley became the fifth Islander to score four or more goals in a game. The others were Bryan Trottier. Mike Bossy, John Tonelli and Butch Goring. The team record of five goals in a game is shared by Trottier (twice) and Tonelli&hellip;Ari Haanpaa. the rookie winger from Finland, suffered a bruised shoulder when he was checked against the sideboards by Al Maclnnis of the Kings. Haanpaa. who will be sidelined from three to five weeks, was replaced in the lineup by Glenn Johannesen. up from Springfield. Ken Leiter was recalled from the same American League farm club to fill in for defenseman Randy Boyd, out for three weeks with a broken rib&hellip;Neal Coulter, another Springfield recall, scored a goal on his first shot in his first NHL game, then scored again in his second game&hellip;Clark Gillies rejoined the Isles for their 3-2 victory over the Devils. He had missed four games with bruised ribs. &#9632;

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Flatley Gives Toronto Silent Treatment

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0024-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02514/5555682-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg"></div>Philadelphia Flyer center Tim Kerr scored eight goals in four games for the week ending Nov. 9 to be named THE HOCKEY NEWS-NHL Player of the Week.Kerr scored hat tricks against the Los Angeles Kings and Boston Bruins, and had two goals against the Chicago Black Hawks.He edged Edmonton&rsquo;s Wayne Gretzky, who had six goals and six assists in four games. &#9632;

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Player Of The Week

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01649/5555713-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="576" height="1156"><figcaption class="caption-body">STEVE DYKSTRA</figcaption></div>The Buffalo Sabres have hopes that rookie rearguard Steve Dykstra will develop into a two-way National Hockey League threat&mdash;effective both on offense and defense.While the Sabres have long been blessed with fine defensive defensemen, apart from Phil Housley they have lacked blueliners capable of generating significant offense.Housley, of course, is the here-today, gone-tomorrow defenseman who has rotated between the blue line and center ice throughout his four-year career. Currently, he&rsquo;s being employed as a forward.Dykstra, a 6-foot-2, 190pounder, was signed as a free agent by the Sabres in December, 1982. But it wasn&rsquo;t until this year that the 23-year-old native of Edmonton played his way onto the big team.His apprenticeship was served with Rochester in the American League, where he played good and tough&mdash;averaging more than 100 penalty minutes over three seasons.Dykstra is a physical player who thinks nothing of slamming into corners or clearing the front of the net. Nor is he intimidated easily.Armed with a booming shot, the left-shooting Dykstra is expected to develop into something of an offensive threat. In his first 13 games this season, Dykstra collected one goal, five assists and 33 penalty minutes. &#9632;

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QUAKER STATE ROOKIE PROFILES

<div class="byline">BY STEVE DRYDEN</div><h2>TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01685/5555744-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="578" height="198"></div>TORONTO&mdash;You&rsquo;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&mdash;both sub.500 teams&mdash;extended the club&rsquo;s winless streak to a team-record 11 games but it also ended a losing streak one game before reaching a club-record 10.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s better than losing. That&rsquo;s for sure,&rdquo; said goalie Tim Bernhardt, who was sharp in both saw-offs. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a step in between I suppose.&rdquo;And a very important one for Maloney, who had admitted earlier in the week that losses against both the Red Wings and Blues could well cost him his job.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not barnstorming. But we&rsquo;re making progress,&rdquo; said the coach after Toronto and St. Louis played to a 2-2 draw at the Maple Leaf Gardens.The single point was Toronto&rsquo;s first of the season at home where the Leafs had lost six previous games, including a 5-4 decision to the New York Islanders just three days earlier.It was after the Islander game, observed by a horde of media men in vulture-like anticipation, that a shake-up seemed imminent.The loss was No. 9 in a row and the organization (disorganization?) had managed to botch up what should have been a simple coaching switch.In a move that drew snorts of derision from a team following tired of losing, the Leafs announced that Leaf assistant coach John Brophy and St. Catharines Saints&rsquo; head coach Claire Alexander would trade places.Just what that would accomplish nobody knew. Especially after word leaked out that Alexander would rather quit than leave St. Catharines.Apparently, however, he reconsidered, because the former Orillia (Ont.) milkman joined the Leafs and after two games, was the only undefeated assistant coach in the National Hockey League.He was also winless&hellip;but nobody was complaining about the the 3-3 tie in Detroit or draw with St. Louis the following night.&ldquo;Four points would have been a helluva lot better. But I&rsquo;ll take two,&rdquo; said Maloney, whose club was 1-11-2after 14 games.Break-even hockey, even if only for two games, was a welcome relief for a team fraught with frustration.&ldquo;I think any time you take that long to get a tie or a win it&rsquo;s a good feeling,&rdquo; said Tom Fergus, who scored twice in the third period against Detroit and was in on both goals&mdash;scoring one of them&mdash;against the Blues.Like a last-minute phone call from the governor, his work played a large role in Maloney&rsquo;s stay of execution.&ldquo;I think the team helped Dan Maloney&rsquo;s situation,&rdquo; said Fergus. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t lose that many games.&rdquo;No, you can&rsquo;t. It tends to affect job security.&ldquo;Everybody on the team was trying to save their jobs,&rdquo; said Bernhardt, who, like Fergus, played a prominent part in the Leafs&rsquo; mini revival.He stopped 33 shots against the Red Wings and 23 more&mdash;many of them excellent scoring opportunities&mdash;against the Blues.&ldquo;The goals-against is pretty good but we&rsquo;ve got to start putting the puck in the net,&rdquo; said Maloney.The Leafs, after 14 games, had just 42 goals&mdash;an average of three per game. The Edmonton Oilers, hardly a fair basis of comparison but a measuring stick nonetheless, had 78 in their first 14&mdash;nearly twice as many.NOTES&mdash;Gary McAdam, called up from St. Catharines before the Islander game, played superbly in his first three games&mdash;especially in a penalty-killing role. He was, however, at fault on St. Louis captain Brian Sutter&rsquo;s game-tying goal. McAdam had Sutter checked only to leave him moments before a centering pass from Joe Mullen. &#9632;

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Struggling Leafs Settle For A Pair Of Ties

<div class="byline">Barry Meisel</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03384/5555775-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="418" height="471"></div>THE SUBJECT WAS the Sept. 15, 1986 expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the owners and the NHL Players&rsquo; Association. Somebody asked, so Bryan Trottier, forthright as usual, answered.&ldquo;The only way we&rsquo;re going to achieve any form of free agency is to strike,&rdquo; said the veteran New York Islander center, the NHLPA&rsquo;s president. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s unfortunate, but we feel we have no other alternative. We don&rsquo;t want to strike. The idea of a strike doesn&rsquo;t appeal to the players as a whole. We certainly know it doesn&rsquo;t appeal to the managers. And most of all it&rsquo;s certainly going to hurt the fans. To avoid a strike, we&rsquo;d much rather get things done over a bargaining table.&rdquo;Hockey on strike? During major-league baseball&rsquo;s brief work stoppage last summer, NHLPA czar Alan Eagleson jumped on organized labor&rsquo;s soapbox and intimated that his boys might follow suit if the owners didn&rsquo;t come up with a good enough contract.Last month, Eagleson&rsquo;s right-hand man, NHLPA director of operations Sam Simpson, outlined the association&rsquo;s platform.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re standing on total free agency at this point in time,&rdquo; Simpson said. &ldquo;Based on that, I think it is likely there&rsquo;ll be a strike. But really, we&rsquo;ll know better in June.&rdquo;June is when the sides will begin butting heads over three major issues:FREE AGENCY&mdash;The current compensation system is ridiculous. Everybody knows that. Not one free agent with compensation has moved since 1982. Not Paul Coffey, not Bob Carpenter, not Joe Mullen.PENSION&mdash;The association wants better benefits. Who doesn&rsquo;t?CAREER COUNSELING/SEVERANCE PAYAS Simpson describes it, the association wants the owners to improve support services and establish a fund that will compensate its members (above and beyond a pension) when certain games played levels are reached.&ldquo;We hope to get all the small stuff out of the way by February (at the All-Star Game in Hartford) and then get down to the three main topics over the summer,&rdquo; Simpson said. &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t see any change in the situation until July or August.&rdquo;That&rsquo;s 10 months for the sides to harangue, so even though I have a hunch it&rsquo;ll never happen, I&rsquo;m not going to waste my time guessing if the players will ultimately walkA few other things bother me, though. Apparently they bother Lanny McDonald, too.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if total free agency would be good for the game,&rdquo; said Calgary&rsquo;s veteran right wing, an NHLPA vice-president and like Trottier, a voice of reason. &ldquo;How many teams would survive? As an association, we have a certain responsibility to keep as many jobs as possible. It&rsquo;s not that I don&rsquo;t like the idea of total free agency. It&rsquo;d be great for the players. But it would be not so great for the game.&rdquo;Agreed. Could you see Harry Ornest&rsquo;s Blues bidding against Gulf and Western&rsquo;s Rangers?The game is not baseball, which has flourished despite its free-agent orgy. Hockey&rsquo;s salaries should and will rise. The free-agent structure should and will be modified to better suit a qualified form of player movement. The sport is sounder financially than it was three years ago, so the pension plan should expand.But can the owners and players hammer out a new deal in three months? Are the sides giving themselves enough time to negotiate an equitable deal?&ldquo;What distinguishes us from other sports is that both sides approach our Collective Bargaining Agreement as continual,&rdquo; NHL president John Ziegler insisted. &ldquo;If we didn&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;d be enough time, we&rsquo;d do something different.&rdquo;Simpson&rsquo;s people have polled the players, who say they are willing to strike for approximately one month during training camp and the exhibition season.Players don&rsquo;t get paid until the start of the regular season. Their paychecks are based on the 180 days that comprise the regular season. During training camp, they receive only expense money.Does that tell you anything? &#9632;

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Are Players Ready To Lose More Than Meal Money?

<div class="byline">BY RANDY SMITH</div><h2>HARTFORD WHALERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02472/5555806-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="582" height="156"></div>HARTFOR&mdash;Dave Tippett is the pawn who aspires to be king.All he needs is the chance.Some athletes cower when confronted with added responsibility; others respond to it. Tippett wants to respond. In fact, he aches to respond.&ldquo;You see this,&rdquo; said goaltender Mike Liut, smashing an open hand into a wall. &ldquo;This is Tippett. He&rsquo;s strong and honest. You win with honesty and honest players.&rdquo;From Liut to Ronnie Francis, and back again, Tippett has earned the respect of his teammates. In most cases, that&rsquo;s the hard part.What Tippett has failed to do should be the easy part. No matter how well he plays, though, no matter how strong and honest he may be, he can&rsquo;t for the life of him seem to open the eyes of the coaching staff or management, or both.In his third season with the Hartford Whalers, Tippett, for the most part, remains a pawn.Through nearly 120 NHL games, Tippett has done everything asked of him. He has served as a penalty killer and a fourth-line checker. He has played left wing, right wing and once in awhile, center, and has never missed a game.When injuries have permitted him a shot at center ice, he has delivered. He has filled the role of the common solider without a hint of complaint. In short, he has turned in all assignments neatly and promptly. He now wishes to take the final exam.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s been impressive, there&rsquo;s no question about that,&rdquo; coach Jack Evans says.What Evans won&rsquo;t say is when Tippett may become a regular at center ice, something the Saskatchewan native has&rdquo; wanted to be since the day he arrived.Never drafted, Tippett was signed by the Whalers as a free agent following the Olympics in March, 1984. It&rsquo;s curious that no team would draft the captain of the Canadian Olympic Team, but Tippett&rsquo;s size&mdash;now a fairly substantial 5-foot-10, 180 pounds&mdash;had always worked against him.Whaler scout Dave McNab, however, recognized all the enthusiasm, intelligence and drive that Tippett packed into his frame, and recommended that the Whalers sign him.&ldquo;It was my dream to play in the NHL,&rdquo; says Tippett, who still lists his first NHL game at Boston Garden as one of his greatest thrills. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been involved in hockey all my life. I think I&rsquo;d like to stay in it when my playing days are over.&rdquo;Tippett is too good a soldier to second guess his parttime role, but at 24, he can be excused for not thinking about when his career might end, but when it might begin.Pressed into service as a centerman when Greg Malone missed five games with a broken nose. Tippett responded with three goals to hike his total to six in 10 games, which tied him for tops on the team. Operating between Torrie Robert-son and Bobby Crawford, Tippett never once looked out of place.&ldquo;With guys like Greg and Kevin Dineen down, someone had to step in and pick up the slack,&rdquo; Tippett said. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t mind being that guy.&rdquo;Coming as close as he ever will to criticizing management, Tippett smiled. &ldquo;At all.&rdquo; he said.Tippett has accomplished much in his hockey career. For starters, he&rsquo;s a member of the Saskatchewan Hall of Fame, taking a revered place alongside the likes of Gordie Howe and Emile Francis.He played on the 1982 NCAA championship team with the University of North Dakota, and was named the Athlete of the Year by the city of Prince Albert in 1984, the Olympic year.Last year only two Whalers played in all 80 games. One was Ronnie Francis. The other was Tippett, who was voted team&rsquo;s Unsung Hero.Players are supposed to be rewarded fordoing their jobs, the hockey bible tells us. The question is, when might Tippett? Forget the unsung malarkey. What the kid wants most is a chance to sing.&ldquo;We just don&rsquo;t have a spot for him at center ice,&rdquo; Evans said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re working him in the best we can.&rdquo;With Francis, Malone, Ray Ferraro and Mike Zuke down the middle, Tippett is the odd man out. Zuke is considered an essential player by a management that appreciates defensive skills more readily an offensive skills.Francis and Malone are proven performers, while Ferraro was virtually handed the second-line center position when Mark Johnson left. If Ferraro fails. Tippett may get his chance. Otherwise, who knows.Tippett scored two goals in a 6-4 win over Quebec in Hartford, including one on the first shift of the game. Two games later, after Malone returned, Tippett appeared on the right side of the team&rsquo;s third line.&ldquo;I know at center ice I&rsquo;m a little more involved in the action, and that helps my game,&rdquo; Tippett said. &ldquo;I often think to myself that maybe I should get crunched on the first shift or else hit somebody over the head. I always seem to play better after that.&rdquo;Important games bring out the best in athletes who aspire to be important. Mark this down in red pencil and circle it:Tippett is one of them.WHALER SCUTTLEBUTT&mdash;The Whalers&rsquo; 6-4-0 start was their second best in seven NHL seasons, topped only by last year&rsquo;s 6-3-1. Stewart Gavin, who broke his nose in a game at Montreal, played three more before having the nose reset. That caused a three-game absence&hellip;Defenseman Scot Kleinendorst suffered a broken bone in his foot and will be out from four to six weeks. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know why I play this game,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If someone&rsquo;s going to get hurt, it&rsquo;s always me.&rdquo;&hellip;Mark Paterson was recalled from Binghamton to fill Kleinendorst&rsquo;s spot. &#9632;

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A Tip Of The Hat To Unsung Player

<div class="byline">BY MIKE PERRICONE</div><h2>CHICAGO BLACK HAWKS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01635/5555837-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="576" height="165"></div>CHICAGO&mdash;The Road to Nowhere is not a 1940s comedy starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.It is a 1985 mystery starring the Black Hawks, and it is no laughing matter.The Hawks hit the road for a six-game trip, and the road hit back hard. They lost three of the first four games, giving up 24 goals and nine power-play goals.They lost a goaltender, too, when Bob Sauve pulled the hamstring in his right leg during the third period of the second game, a 5-4 loss at Boston.&ldquo;I did the splits, and I couldn&rsquo;t get up.&rdquo; said Sauve, who was expected to be out for several weeks but began skating lightly just a week later.Sauve&rsquo;s injury brought about the ironic return of Warren Skorodenski. who had cleared waivers Oct. 31 and was sent to Nova Scotia in the American League to make room for Sauve.But when Sauve went down three days later, out went the call to Skorodenski.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re calling up Skoro. I don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s any doubt about our having to do it.&rdquo; said Bob Pulford, the Hawks&rsquo; coachGM who was at his wits&rsquo; end over the poor play of the Hawks.The trip began on an encouraging note as Denis Savard picked up three points in a 6-5 victory over Minnesota.The next stop was Boston, where the Hawks might have won except for giving up three power-play goals.&ldquo;It was an unfair game,&rdquo; Pulford said. &ldquo;We certainly played well enough to win. We should&rsquo;ve gotten a tie. But we didn&rsquo;t.&rdquo;At Capital Centre, the Hawks actually had a 2-1 lead early in the second period before being blown out 8-4.And at Philadelphia, the Hawks did something no other team had done this season&mdash;score the first goal of the game against the Flyers, which Keith Brown did at 1:09 of the first period.But the Flyers won 6-2. their ninth straight win, and held the Hawks to just 20 shots on goal.Throughout the trip, in addition to the staggering number of goals they were giving up, the Hawks were doubly hurt by ineffective special teams. They were 3-for-19 on the power play the first four games, while their opponents went 9-for18.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not exactly sure why we&rsquo;re getting scored on all the time,&rdquo; Pulford said. &ldquo;But we&rsquo;ve got to do something about it, and we will. Killing penalties has hurt us. no doubt about it. As well as our power play. Those special teams are not doing very well, either one of them. There&rsquo;s no question about that.&rdquo;The Hawks&rsquo; most productive forward line began to cool off on the trip, with center Troy Murray having his six-game point streak stopped in Boston and left winger Curt Fraser having his sevengame streak stopped against Washington.But the biggest breakdown for the Hawks kept coming in their own end. with forwards left alone for wide-open shots and defensemen allowed to walk in and score off faceoffs.Analyzing goals they had scored against the Hawks during the trip, opponents kept saying things like &ldquo;Bad mistake on their part,&rdquo; or &ldquo;Lack of communication on their part.&rdquo;Pulford began taking it so hard that he refused to make any comment after the loss at Philadelphia.The usual statements about &ldquo;continuing to work hard&rdquo; were starting to run out of steam, too.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to win some games,&rdquo; said Hawks&rsquo; captain Darryl Sutter.It sounds simple, but it has been the hardest thing for the Hawks to do. When last seen, the Hawks were walking down a very bleak road. &#9632;

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No Sign Hawks On The Road To Recovery

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK MOODY</div><h2>PITTSBURGH PENGUINS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-02467/5555875-1-eng-US/f0028-022.jpg" title="f0028-02" width="570" height="176"></div>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Center John Chabot, who was sent back to Pittsburgh during the middle of a road trip for violating curfew, may be on the trading block.&ldquo;If I can make a deal to help the hockey club, I&rsquo;d certainly be willing to trade him,&rdquo; said Penguin general manager Eddie Johnston.Chabot was returned to Pittsburgh for violating a midnight curfew in Detroit following a 6-3 loss to the Red Wings.He did not play in a 4-4 tie in Montreal two nights later, and he did not practise with the Penguins or play in a 4-2 loss to the New York Rangers after the club returned home.Johnston said Chabot was fined an unspecified amount, but he would not be suspended or demoted to Baltimore of the American League.&ldquo;No suspension,&rdquo; said Johnston. &ldquo;We just sent him home. This is not the first time (breaking curfew) with John, evidently, and (coach) Bob Berry was upset about it.&ldquo;He violated the rules of the team. We had to jump on the situation. We will not tolerate this.&rdquo;Chabot, who was obtained last season from the Montreal Canadiens for center Ron Flockhart, had three goals and one assist in 10 games. He scored eight goals and 45 assists for the Penguins in 67 games last year.The Penguins did pull off one trade. Johnston sent right winger Wayne Babych to the Quebec Nordiques for future considerations, believed to be cash.&ldquo;He wasn&rsquo;t being used here and we were getting ready to get rid of some numbers,&rdquo; Johnston said. &ldquo;Rather than send him to Baltimore, we had an opportunity to move him.&rdquo;Babych, who did not score in the two games he played, came to the Penguins in the waiver draft last season from the St. Louis Blues. He scored 20 goals and 34 assists last year, mostly while playing on a line with center Mario Lemieux, the National Hockey League&rsquo;s Rookie of the Year.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy with the deal,&rdquo; said Babych. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s a classy organization.&rdquo;Babych was a first-round draft choice of the Blues in 1978 and the third player chosen overall. He scored 54 goals and 42 assists in 1980-81 with St. Louis.&ldquo;I asked E.J. what was going on, and he told me he was making some phone calls for me,&rdquo; Babych said. &ldquo;I was going to ask for a trade, but I guess it was sort of on both our minds.&ldquo;What can I say? At least I get to play.&rdquo;Johnston said he may not be through dealing.&ldquo;We&rsquo;d like to get a defenseman who can handle a puck pretty well and really help our power play,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This is something we&rsquo;re really looking for right now.&rdquo;&ldquo;On the blue line, you&rsquo;ve got to have that guy that can settle everything down, that can handle the puck and make the big plays. When we lost Ville Siren, that definitely hurt us.&rdquo;Siren suffered a broken ankle on Oct. 16 in Chicago while blocking a Troy Murray slapshot, and he is expected to miss six weeks.Goaltender Denis Herron, who was bothered by a hand injury, did not dress for any of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s first 11 games and was being shopped around the NHL. Berry had alternated Gilles Meloche and Roberto Romano in the nets until Meloche broke a bone in his hand against Montreal, and Herron dressed as backup against the Rangers.Johnston said he had unsuccessfully tried to trade the 33-year-old Herron before Meloche was injured. Herron may eventually end up being sent to Muskegon of the International League after Meloche returns to the lineup in about three weeks.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01660/5555868-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="1216" height="1378"></div> &#9632;

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Chabot Sent Home Over Curfew Infraction

If you would like to nominate a player for THN-JOFA Minor Showcase Player of the Week, please send a photo, along with a note outlining pertinent information&mdash;name, age, birthplace, current hometown, position, height, weight, team and league name, coach&rsquo;s name, favorite hockey team and player, statistics plus school grade and school name&mdash;to JOFA SHOWCASE, THE HOCKEY NEWS, 85 Scarsdale Rd., Suite 100, Don Mills, Ont. M3B 2R2.At the end of the season, all entries will be eligible for THN-JOFA Minor Player of the Year, which includes a trip to Toronto for THN awards banquet, a plaque plus a complete line of JOFA hockey equipment. &#9632;

JOFA Entries

Guy Manchuk is a sevenyear-old who lives in Los Altos, CA., and plays for the Santa Clara Valley Junior Hockey Club Mite &lsquo;A&rsquo; team in the Northern California Junior Hockey Association.The 4-foot-1, 57-pounder is a center on coach Randy Pendleton&rsquo;s team.Guy first began skating in August of 1984 and attended a summer hockey school in 1985, where he was awarded a trophy as the most improved player over a two-week period.After the first four games of this season, Guy had two goals and two assists.As for his favorite team, he tends to be a little fickle, saying it&rsquo;s &ldquo;the Edmonton Oilers, or whichever team last won the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;Besides playing soccer, Guy spends his time cheering for his favorite hockey player. No, it&rsquo;s not Wayne Gretzky or even Marcel Dionne.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-03335/5555930-1-eng-US/f0028-032.jpg" title="f0028-03" width="552" height="899"><figcaption class="caption-body">GUY MANCHUK</figcaption></div>This little Californian&rsquo;s hockey hero is Brian Cecy, a 39-year-old center originally from Toronto who plays for the Palo Alto Blazers of the National Novice Hockey Association. &#9632;

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PLAYER OF WEEK JOFA

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-04239/5555961-1-eng-US/f0028-042.jpg" title="f0028-04" width="714" height="1050"><figcaption class="caption-body">New York Islander Pat LaFontaine opted to play major junior hockey instead of attending a U.S. college.</figcaption></div>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&rsquo;s just another case of playing with the bigger boys. And that&rsquo;s something he&rsquo;s been doing almost all his life.&ldquo;I started playing organized hockey when I was seven years old,&rdquo; says LaFontaine. &ldquo;Until midget I always played against players who were a year older than I was.&ldquo;Playing against faster and stronger guys helped me excel because of the more difficult competition.&rdquo;LaFontaine, 20, started playing hockey in his hometown of St. Louis, but later moved to suburban Detroit when his father was transferred there.&ldquo;I used to play against my older brother (John) and his friends,&rdquo; LaFontaine says. &ldquo;It was friendly competition.&rdquo;That competition between the brothers LaFontaine must have been a great help to Pat, since John was no slouch on the ice, either. He played for Nanaimo of the Western League and later, for the Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario League.Pat&rsquo;s older brother wasn&rsquo;t the only other member of the family who aided him in his development. Pat says his father, John, Sr., was a great influence, too.&ldquo;The whole family was involved in one way or another. It&rsquo;s a very close-knit family. Hockey was everything. It was my life.&ldquo;All my coaches, Asa Smith, Steve Elliot, and Real Turcotte (father of Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; farmhand Alfie), were very good to me and big helps.&rdquo;Thus far in his pro career&mdash;he&rsquo;s starting his second full season, having joined the Isles late in the 1983-84 season after playing for Team USA in the 1984 Olympics&mdash;LaFontaine hasn&rsquo;t met with the same degree of success he did in youth hockey. But then that&rsquo;s not likely to ever happen.Playing for the powerful Detroit Compuware midgets, LaFontaine was an outstanding offensive talent. In 79 games, he netted 175 goals and assisted on 149 others for a total of 324 points.From there LaFontaine opted for the Verdun Juniors of the Quebec League over offers from both the Ontario and Western Leagues.&ldquo;I love Montreal, it&rsquo;s a great hockey town, and I was a big fan of Guy Lafleur when I was growing up. It was so exciting. I got to meet him there, and later (in the NHL) I got to play against him.&rdquo;LaFontaine played for the Verdun Junior Canadiens for one season, scoring 104 goals and 234 points, beating his idol&rsquo;s single-season record by 25 points and attracting national media attention in the process.LaFontaine was drafted by the New York Islanders in the first round of the 1983 entry draft, third overall, behind Brian Lawton and Sylvain Turgeon. Then he put in one more season of amateur hockey, playing for the U.S. Olympic team. &#9632;

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Hockey Family Affair For LaFontaine

<div class="byline">BY REYN DAVIS</div><h2>WINNIPEG JETS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01567/5555992-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="584" height="158"></div>WINNIPEG&mdash;The men who count are in complete agreement. One great player separates the Winnipeg Jets from the Stanley Cup.The player would have to be a forward. preferably a winger, of the stature of defenseman Randy Carlyle.&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t come easy,&rdquo; said general manager John Ferguson, the NHL executive of the year (1984-85) and the main negotiater of any Jets&rsquo; trade.&ldquo;We would have to give up an awful lot to get one.&rdquo;Such a player would have to be someone of the ilk of Rick Vaive or John Ogrodnick or Mike Gartner or Mike Bossy.&ldquo;Another productive winger in the star category, a proven 40or 50-goal scorer.&rdquo; said coach Barry Long. &ldquo;He would have to be a game breaker.&rdquo;Long claims he has two players who are game-breakers&mdash;Dale Hawerchuk and Doug Smail.&ldquo;To me a game breaker is a player who can go end to end and score,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If we have a third, Paul MacLean would be the guy. But I don&rsquo;t expect him to take over by himself. You know he&rsquo;ll get his 40 goals.&rdquo;While rumors abound of an imminent trade, the Jets have found themselves in the same situation as a number of other teams, most notably the Washington Capitals and Buffalo Sabres.In the U.S. capital, the Caps believe they are merely one player away from a legitimate crack at the Stanley Cup. But that missing player has to be capable of scoring 50 goals.The Sabres are thinking the same, living in fear of the day that Gilbert Perreault retires.Ferguson became irate as the Jets were giving up four goals in the second period in a 7-3 loss to the Sabres in Buffalo.He stormed into the dressing after the period had ended, and tore into his players. warning them of dire consequences if their sloppy play continued.While there were records around the NHL infinitely worse than the Jets&rsquo; 6-6-1 at the time, the outburst by Ferguson is an indication of the standards he expects.But the question is: Are the Jets as good as they think they are?The team is basically the same as it was a year ago. Dave Silk and Anssi Melametsa were cosmetic changes. If anything, Silk is a better player than originally hoped and Melametsa is worse.If one significant change has been made, it would be the acquisition of goaltender Daniel Bouchard. He is more than capable of backing up Brian Hayward.Lately, the Jets have lacked discipline. Their goals-against average has risen to 4.61.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a case of five guys on the ice not doing their assignments,&rdquo; said MacLean. &ldquo;We are just doing what we want to do and that isn&rsquo;t the way we should be doing it. There is a system to follow and we don&rsquo;t seem to be playing according to it.&rdquo;Long refuses to panic. But he&rsquo;s concerned.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not overly alarmed&hellip;yet,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The team can play much better. All of us know it can. We are not so strong we can win with only a mediocre effort. We have to play hard to accomplish everything we do.&rdquo;BENCH BITS&mdash;During the dry spell, three forwards&mdash;Doug Smail (pulled abductor muscle), Jim Nill (dislocated shoulder) and Dave Silk (broken finger)&mdash;were out of the lineup, and the Jets felt it&hellip;Laurie Boschman put an eight game point streak together, compiling eight goals and nine assists. During a three-game stint with the Jets, right winger Ryan Stewart scored his first NHL goal, marking the first goal allowed by Buffalo&rsquo;s Daren Puppa. Stewart, the Jets&rsquo; first-round draft choice in June, was returned to Kamloops. Left winger Tom Martin, up from Sherbrooke on an emergency recall basis, was also returned&hellip;General manager John Ferguson is still seething mad over Bob Myers&rsquo; officiating of a game against St. Louis Blues. &ldquo;He makes up the rules as he goes along,&rdquo; said Ferguson. &#9632;

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Jets In Need Of One More Game Breaker

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0032-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01631/5556023-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg"></div>VIDEOHOCKEY&rsquo;S BLOODIEST FIGHTS and knockouts. VHS & Beta. For information write: M. Brudy, 413 Hawkins Ave., Pittsburgh, PA, 15214.HOCKEY FIGHTS: 100 hours available (VHS), Tony Blanda, 123 Webb Ave., Patchogue, NY, 11772. (516) 867-7247COLLECTIONSLARGE MAIL-IN auction on Dec. 15, 1985. Rare authentic pucks and programs. Send $3.00 US for list. Gary Tyson, 3796 So. Hazel Ct., Englewood, CO, 80110. (303) 761-2130.<h2>SPORTS CARD, RECORD AND MOVIE COLLECTIBLES SHOW</h2>Sunday, December 1, Lakeshore Inn, 2000 Lakeshore Blvd. W. Over 100 dealers from Europe, USA & Canada, with rare discs, pics, jerseys, autographs, buttons, pucks, mags, videos, posters & more! For information: Annette Lawrence, 1962 Queen St. E., Toronto, ON, (416) 698-8757.OPPORTUNITIES<h2>WANTED SENIOR/MINOR HOCKEY COACH</h2>Player or non-player. Minimum qualification is level 2. Apply: Box 105, Big River, SK, S0J 0E0 or call (306) 469-2173. Closing date is November 2585.FOR MOREADVERTISING INFORMATION CALLESTHER SUMKA (416) 445-5702TOURNAMENTS<h2>SENIOR OLDTIMERS TEAMS</h2>10-day hockey tour to Russia and Finland, February or March 1986. Games in Moscow, Leningrad, Helsinki. $995 U.S. funds per person Montreal or N.Y. Contact: Bill Cameron, Sports International Tours, 29683 Greenland, Livonia, Ml, 48154 or call (313) 522-2643.TOURNAMENTSPUBLICATONS<h2>ATTENTION TORONTO MAPLE LEAF FANS!</h2>A Trivia Book on the team is now available.A complete history 1927-1985 (over 400 questions and answers) A GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT!(For Prompt Delivery)Please send Certified Cheque or Money Order to:MS Sports Trivia Books, P.O. Box 1365, Station B Weston, ON, M9L 2W9 Cost: $8.00 (+ $2.00 Postage and Handling)<h2>SPORTS DIRECTORY</h2>This comprehensive directory is the source for more than 3,500 international sports addresses and phone numbers. Teams, leagues, federations, fan clubs and more. For directory send $19.99 to:Sports 5, 3808 Rosecrans St., Suite 256, San Diego, CA, 92110<h2>NEW YORK ISLANDER SALE</h2>Yearbooks 78-79, 79-80, 80-81, 81-82, 82-83, 84-85, 85-86 @ $5.00 each or all $32.00Media Guides 80-81, 81-82, 8283, 83-84, 84-85 @ $4.75 each.U.S. FUNDS.ALL-STAR SPORTS,10 PLANCHET UNIT 4, CONCORD, ONTARIO, L4K 2C8 CANADA,(416) 669-4378NHL AMATEUR DRAFT 1969-1985 every round, every player. $7.50 plus $2.00 postage. c/o Hockey Pool Handbook, 6740 Gibbons Drive, Richmond, BC, V7C 2E1.NOVELTIES<h2>OAKLAND AND CALIFORNIA SEALS</h2>Oakland button $2.00, pennant 12&rdquo; &times; 30&mdash;&mdash;$10.00, puck $10.00, converse puck $50.00, lapel pin&mdash;$6.50, keychain $4.50, California puck&mdash;$8.50, 12&rdquo; &times; 30&rdquo; Sparky Seal pennant (RARE) $10.00&mdash;12&rdquo; &times; 30&rdquo;, send all orders toAll Sports,333 E. 17th St.,Suite 3, Costa Mesa, CA, 92627 *Special LA Sharks WHA Puck&mdash;$15.00NOVELTIES<h2>12&rdquo; &times; 30&rdquo; DEFUNCT PENNANTS</h2>Cleveland Barons, K.C. 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Sharks, Raiders, $2.25 each or all 20 for $40.00.YORKVILLE SPORTS 10212 Plymouth, Cleveland, OH, 44125<h2>WHA ALL STAR GAME PUCKS</h2>Front of puck says&mdash;WHA 2nd&mdash;All star game&mdash;January 3/76&mdash;St. Paul Civic Center. Back has WHA logo and WHA around it. $10.00 each. Send to:Sports EnterprisesPO Box 15743Philadelphia, PA, 19103-0743NOVELTIES<h2>THE HANDSOME &ldquo;PUCKOLECTOR&rdquo;</h2>The ideal way to display your prized pucks. $7.95 each (3 or more $7.00 each) plus P&H charge.Send cheque to:O-C Trading Inc.111 Mercer StreetDundas, ON, L9H 2P1.MERCHANDISE<h2>PERSONALIZED NHL (CCM)</h2>Jerseys and Hershey Bears pro jerseys. Full line of equipment. Price lists. The Sharp Edge, Main St., Mount Joy, PA, 17552. Phone: (717) 653-5051.CUSTOM EMBROIDERED EMBLEMS Enameled pins, your design, free booklet. A.T. Patch Company, Department 124, Littleton, NH, 03561.MERCHANDISENOVELTIES<h2>PAUL HENDERSON&rsquo;S HISTORIC GOAL</h2>1972 Canada-Russia goal, a unique &ldquo;shadow art&rdquo; print. 22&rdquo; &times; 28&rdquo; $12.00 cheque or money order. Mailed immediately 1 st class. Glen Lewis, 32 Brookwell Drive, #215, Downsview, ON, M3M 2Y1.MERCHANDISE<h2>FOR SALE</h2>WHA game used jerseys. Denver $325, Cleveland $275, Birmingham $275, Cincinnati $225. AHL Maine Mariners $150, Fredericton Express $125. NFL Cleveland Browns $100. All with name plates (U.S. funds or Canadian equivalent). Reply for more information to: Mike Reeves, 1222 Homuth Ave., Cambridge, ON, N3H 2C9 or call (519) 6530037.PRODUCTS<h2>SPORTACATURES!</h2>Attention Sports Associations, Clubs and Sports Lovers everywhere!A great gift idea for Christmas, Birthdays, Banquets: 8&frac12;x 11 Black & White Caricatures!Send good snapshot of subject, name, age, favorite sport, team, jersey number.Include name/address for remailing.Price: $20 per caricature. Allow 3-6 weeks for delivery.Send cheque or money order to:Roy McDuff,373 Place D&rsquo;Youville, Suite 204,Montreal, PQ H2Y 2B7 &#9632;

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THE HOCKEY NEWS CLASSIFIED

<div class="byline">BY BOB FACHET</div>Louisville HockeyLouisville Hockey<h2>WASHINGTON CAPITALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-01564/5556054-1-eng-US/f0033-012.jpg" title="f0033-01" width="585" height="165"></div>LANDOVER&mdash;After the Washington Capitals had played seven games, six of the 12 regular forwards were still sear-ching for their first goal.Almost in desperation, with a 2-4-1 record and only 19 goals scored, coach Bryan Murray shuffled his lines. One of his moves was to insert Alan Haworth, a longtime National Hockey League winger, at center between Greg Adams and Craig Laughlin.The result, for both team and player, was almost beyond belief. Over the next seven games, the Capitals scored 37 goals and posted a 5-1-1 record.Haworth scored nine goals, at least one in each of the seven games, for the longest such streak in the NHL this season. He also had six assists as the line rolled up 32 scoring points.As far as Haworth was concerned, it was a dream come true. He was a center in his junior days at Chicoutimi and Sherbrooke and breeding indicated he belonged there, since his father, Gordie, was a premier center in the Western League.&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t played center for a long time, but I&rsquo;m a centerman,&rdquo; Haworth said. &ldquo;I played center in junior, then when I went up to Buffalo had so many centers&mdash;(Gil) Perreault, (Don) Luce and (Craig) Ramsay were there&mdash;that he played me on right wing.&ldquo;I could skate fast and I had a good shot, so he figured I was a born right wing. But my play was limited. I knew I could show them I was a center if I ever had the chance.&ldquo;Now I&rsquo;m glad that after five or six years I could come back to center and create more things, be more involved in the overall play and help the team.&rdquo;Although Haworth was a consistent scorer on the wing, ranging from 21 to 24 goals over the last four seasons, obser-vers who noted his speed and vicious shot wondered why he wasn&rsquo;t doing more.Murray was among those who questioned Haworth&rsquo;s production. Murray was the coach at Hershey when Haworth was playing for Buffalo&rsquo;s Rochester farm club and he remembered how Haworth and center J.F. Sauve had destroyed his Bears one night.&ldquo;He was a dominant player in the American League,&rdquo; Murray said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;d use his great speed to bust off the wing and shoot. But he didn&rsquo;t do that here.&ldquo;We insulted him and patted him on the back, tried everything we could to get him to shoot more. We figured he ought to be able to use his speed and let someone get the puck to him in shooting position. But he&rsquo;d get the puck and he wouldn&rsquo;t shoot. He&rsquo;d swing around the net or pass it away or turn the puck over along the boards. If a guy was on him, he&rsquo;d have a tough time beating him individually.&rdquo;Because of the Capitals&rsquo; weakness on the left side, the righthand-shooting Haworth often found himself on the off wing. Murray wondered if that was the problem and decided that this season he would give him a solid opportunity on the right side. It lasted seven games.&ldquo;We had always looked at Alan as a potential 35-goal scorer and it wasn&rsquo;t happening,&rdquo; Murray said. &ldquo;When I moved him to center, I was just trying to put a couple of people together.&ldquo;When you look at a center, you&rsquo;re looking for fairly creative people who help their linemates. We hadn&rsquo;t thought of Alan in that area. But playing with Greg and Locker (Laughlin), when the puck goes to a winger at our blueline, they&rsquo;re not as quick as Alan, so they&rsquo;re giving him the puck.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s able to attack from the neutral zone and if he can just beat one guy, he usually has a pretty good chance to shoot the puck. He&rsquo;s been a big surprise, both in scoring and in overall intensity.&rdquo;Haworth&rsquo;s success has increased his attention from opponents, but they have found him a tough target. The Islanders&rsquo; Randy Boyd tried to nail Haworth with a hip check and wound up with a fractured rib when Haworth&rsquo;s shoulder blasted him instead.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m more confident and I&rsquo;m jumping into spots,&rdquo; Haworth said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m more involved in the game and the big thing is that both my linemates are playing well.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Haworth Becomes A Center Of Attention

<div class="byline">BY MIKE KANE</div>Louisville HockeyLouisville HockeyHALIFAX&mdash;Golfers do it on the practice green. Basketball players retreat to the gym. Hockey players, of course, do it on the ice somewhere other than the National Hockey League.For Billy Carroll, that somewhere is in the American League, and like some of his brethren in other pro sports. Carroll is looking for the lost touch. The scoring touch, that is.After five seasons in the NHL as a checker extraordinaire for the New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers. Carroll is now a member of the Nova Scotia Oilers.He was one of the last players cut by Edmonton during the pre-season, but he admits that the demotion was not a shock. When he hit camp, he knew what was ahead.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re always bringing in new players and it just happened that it was a situation where I was the one to move when they brought the new players in.&rdquo; Carroll said. &ldquo;I went into camp hoping to get a job like everybody else, but when you look at things realistically, by bringing in Craig MacTavish and playing him at center and Mike Krushelnyski being able to play center that gives us five centers and they&rsquo;re not going to keep me around just to sit in the stands.&rdquo;So Carroll headed east to Halifax in search of the lost offensive skills that carried him to the NHL in the first place. He was a scorer in junior and during a season and a half with Indianapolis in the Central Leage.But once he moved up to the Islanders in 1980-81, he was used as a defensive specialist and penalty killer. The Islanders had plenty of players who could score. So did the Oilers, who grabbed Carroll in the the 1984 waiver draft and gave him the opportunity to play in the Stanley Cup finals again.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m down here to try and get back into the NHL, the same as everybody else is,&rdquo; Carroll said. &ldquo;I feel that in order for me to get there I have to contribute more offensively than what I have in the last five years. When you go five years without double figures in goals, the demotion is bound to come sooner or later.&rdquo;Carroll, the Islanders&rsquo; third-round pick in the 1979 entry draft, spent the 1979-80 season in the CHL. He made the jump to the Isles late in the next season after scoring 27 goals and 64 points in 59 games with the Checkers. Carroll played in 18 regular season games and 18 more in the playoffs. In 1981-82 he stuck with the Islanders and played in 72 games, but scored just nine goals and 29 points.His reputation as a checker was made and it was his meal ticket through last season and five consecutive visits to the high-rent district of the Stanley Cup finals.&ldquo;By having that role it was five really great years, a lot of fun, and, obviously, going to the finals. I don&rsquo;t regret it one bit.&rdquo; Carroll said. &ldquo;The only way I could make either team was in that role. If I hadn&rsquo;t been doing that I wouldn&rsquo;t have been part of either team.&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t trade it in, it&rsquo;s just now that if I want to extend my career I have to prove that I can play offensively. Teams that hopefully I&rsquo;ll get a chance to play for don&rsquo;t have guys sitting aound just to kill penalties. You&rsquo;re expected to contribute offensively and that&rsquo;s what I have to work on.&rdquo;Through the first 10 games with Nova Scotia, Carroll averaged a point a game. All three of his goals came on the power play.Carroll was told early in training camp that the Oilers didn&rsquo;t plan to protect him in the waiver draft and that he would be assigned to Nova Scotia if no other team claimed him. He said he arrived in Halifax in the right frame of mind.&ldquo;Whatever the case is, it&rsquo;s not where you want to play,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You have to do whatever they tell you or whatever you think you can do to get back. I just have to play well and there are no guarantees that you&rsquo;re going to play well. It&rsquo;s a day-to-day thing and hopefully things will work out.&rdquo;AROUND THE DIVISION&mdash;Veteran goaltender Ron Low was recalled to Edmonton from Nova Scotia to replace the injured Grant Fuhr&hellip;Nova Scotia rookie goalie Daryl Reaugh handled 46 of 48 Moncton shots to improve his record to 4-1-0&hellip;Forward Gary Lupul was assigned to Fredericton by Vancouver&hellip;Ed Lee quit the Express team. He said he planned to retire&hellip;Maine goalie Karl Friesen held Adirondack to a 1-1 tie to gain his first road win. Friesen is 32&hellip;The tie ended the Wings&rsquo; winning streak at four games&hellip;Adirondack defenseman Ted Huesing underwent arthroscopic knee surgery. The Wings also lost Pierre Aubry, their leading goal-scorer, with a shoulder injury&hellip;Rookie left winger Bob Probert was recalled by Detroit from Adirondack. &#9632;

Carroll Seeks New Scoring Identity In AHL

<div class="byline">BY DICK BAKER</div>ST. CATHARINES&mdash;As &ldquo;old&rdquo; age creeps up on Craig Muni, the St. Catharines Saints are creeping up the Southern Division standings.The maturing Muni, who just turned 23 in July, is in his fourth pro season, a time when defensemen find new skills and fine tune old ones.&ldquo;This has been my best year so far,&rdquo; said Muni following a one-sided victory at Springfield. &ldquo;They say a defenseman doesn&rsquo;t really mature until he&rsquo;s 25, so I guess I&rsquo;m a little ahead of the pace.&rdquo;Maybe a lot ahead of the pace.Early-season head coach Claire Alexander. who exchanged positions with Toronto Maple Leaf assistant coach John Brophy two days after the Springfield win. was quick to spotlight Muni when asked to name his best defenseman.&ldquo;Muni&mdash;no doubt about it,&rdquo; said Alexander. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been our strongest defenseman all year.&rdquo;The Saints played most of last year with only three and four defensemen, but this year was supposed to be different. The parent Leafs substantially increased the number of players under contract, only to have early-season injuries both on the big team and farm team drop the Saints&rsquo; defense down to four.Borje Salming, Brad Maxwell, Garry Lariviere, Cam Plante and Bill Root were all on the shelf, forcing the Toronto organization to keep nine blueliners on the National Hockey League roster just to handle the emergency.The lack of defensive depth took its toll on the Saints in an 8-6 loss to Adirondack when the Red Wings struck for four late goals to overcome what had been a 6-4 St. Catharines&rsquo; lead with only four minutes to go.Brophy joined the Leafs last season after serving as the head coach at Nova Scotia. He also coached the Birmingham Bulls of the World Hockey Association.&ldquo;This is the first game we&rsquo;ve executed so well,&rdquo; said Alexander of the Saints&rsquo; 6-2 win at Springfield. But it wasn&rsquo;t the last. The Saints then reeled off three straight one-goal triumphs to improve their record to 6-8, gaining a pair of 5-4 victories over Binghamton sandwiched around a 7-6 win over Fredericton.During the winning streak, center Wes Jarvis upped his league-leading point total to 33 while working flawlessly with left winger Steve Thomas.It was Thomas&rsquo; power-play marker that proved to be the game winner in the second victory over Binghamton, a squad buried at the bottom with a 1-9-2 record. Thomas also had three goals against Fredericton.&ldquo;Wes is very valuable to us,&rdquo; said Alexander of Jarvis. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s going to get 100 or 120 points and then there&rsquo;s his faceoff ability and his penalty killing.&rdquo;Jarvis wasn&rsquo;t the only Saint sticking his name all over the scoresheet. Winger Brad Smith was second in the league in points. On defense. Todd Gill (18-40-58 in the Ontario League last year) was showing promise as Muni&rsquo;s defensive partner.The Saints&rsquo; surge lifted them into third place in the Southern Division, behind only Rochester and Hershey.DOWN SOUTH&mdash;The Bears improved their unbeaten string to seven with a 3-0 blanking of Baltimore Nov. 6. Darren Jensen made 25 saves in that encounter, which featured 194 minutes in penalties. The week before. Jensen won player-of-the-week honors with victories over New Haven (5-2) and Fredericton (3-1)&hellip;Binghamton was suffering with seven players out of the lineup through injuries&hellip;Springfield Indians. short of offensive firepower but deep in defensemen. were using blueliners Vern Smith and Glenn Johannesen up front. The Tribe, however, appeared confused using that strategy in the loss to St. Catharines. &#9632;

Muni Improving With The Saints

<div class="byline">BY BILL PICKETT</div>MUSKEGON&mdash;Coach Rick Ley has his Muskegon Lumberjacks back in a familposition&mdash;first in the International League&rsquo;s East Division.The Lumberjacks won more games (50) than any other team in the league a year ago, although they trailed Turner Cup-champ Peoria Rivermen in points (103-105) in the overall standings and lost to the Rivermen in the championship finals.Sparked in the early going by veteran Scott Gruhl and rookie Don Edwardson, the Lumberjacks grabbed the top spot in the East from the start.And in spite of the fact that Gruhl and Edwardson have slowed their scoring pace, the Lumberjacks continue to lead their division.Much of that success can be attributed to the emergence of Dennis Polonich as a scorer and the arrival of high-scoring Dave Michayluk.Gruhl had five goals and Edwardson. six, in Muskegon&rsquo;s first seven games as the Lumberjacks got off to a 5-2 start. Gruhl was the second leading scorer in the IHL last season.Edwardson has been a pleasant surprise.&ldquo;He played Junior B at Niagara Falls last season and was not drafted,&rdquo; said club spokesman Bob Heethuis. &ldquo;He had a great start for us with five goals (including a hat-trick) in our first two games.&rdquo;The 20-year-old center has added one goal since then. Perhaps it could have been more, but Polonich and Michayluk moved in and assumed much of the responsibility for the Lumberjacks&rsquo; offense.&ldquo;Polonich has usually been a grinder and a hard worker who has piled up some penalty minutes in the past,&rdquo; Heethuis said. &ldquo;But last week (ending Nov. 4) he had three goals and four assists.&rdquo;His 12-point total tied Polonich for the team scoring lead with Gruhl (six goals, six assists) and Jock Callander (two goals. 10 assists). That in spite of the fact he missed two games with a bruise on a thigh.Michayluk, whose 66 goals were high in the IHL last season, was assigned from Edmonton and in his first five games back with the &lsquo;Jacks he picked up nine points (four goals, five assists).The balanced scoring output is one reason Muskegon was leading the league in goals scored. The Lumberjacks were also the highest scoring team in the league a year ago.Muskegon was unbeaten in its first five starts at home.The Checkers defeated the Lumberjacks in Indianapolis earlier this season 3-1, one of but three Muskegon losses in the first three weeks of the schedule.The Fort Wayne Komets blazed to a 7-2 start in the West Division and claimed a two-point advantage over the Checkers after three weeks. One of the Komets&rsquo; losses came in overtime, and their two-point lead over Indy came when goalie Rick St. Croix blanked the Checkers 4-0 at Fort Wayne.Both teams were allowing fewer than three goals a game, but the Komets. led by Randy Gilhen&rsquo;s eight goals, have much more offense. The Checkers, one of the better defensive teams in the league, are sputtering on offense. Their output has been less than three goals a game in spite of their 6-3 record. Six of their 25 goals were scored in one game.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re just not putting the puck in the net.&rdquo; said coach Ron Ullyot. &ldquo;If we weren&rsquo;t getting the chances I&rsquo;d be concerned. We&rsquo;ve outshot the opposition in all but one game, including the exhibition season.&ldquo;We need a goal scorer to put us over the top.&rdquo;The league&rsquo;s newest franchise, Flint, has been getting some offense lately. John Vecchiarelli and Jim Egerton scored nine goals and six assists between them as the Spirits won two of three games for the week ending Nov. 4.Vecchiarelli had five goals, including a hat-trick in Flint&rsquo;s 3-2 win over Fort Wayne. Vecchiarelli&rsquo;s performance boosted him to the top of the IHL scoring list with 15 points (seven goals). Egerton had 13 (six goals) and was tied for second place with Brent Sapergia (8-5) and Bobby Franics (5-8) of Salt Lake City. &#9632;

High-Scoring Lumberjacks Lead Division

<div class="byline">BY TOM BOGGIE</div>HAMILTON&mdash;Great goal scorers are bom, not made. No amount of hard work and determination can match the magic touch that comes naturally to many of the game&rsquo;s best forwards.Gerard Waslen of Colgate fits into the mold of a player who was bom to score goals.The senior from Humboldt, Sask., eats up ground on the wing with smooth strides and possesses a blazing shot that leaves many goaltenders shaking their heads.Waslen has been one of the top goal scorers in the Eastern College Athletic Conference for three years and from the looks of things, he&rsquo;s going to go out in a blaze of glory.Waslen, currently 10th on Colgate&rsquo;s all-time scoring list, banged in three goals to carry the Red Raiders to an easy 7-1 win over Buffalo in their 1985-86 season opener.He&rsquo;s been reunited with a solid center, something he missed last season, and from all indications, the National Hockey League will be knocking on the free agent&rsquo;s door at the end of the year.Open to the records section of the Colgate hockey guide and you&rsquo;ll see Waslen&rsquo;s name at least a half dozen times. But the records that attest to his true ability are goals by a freshman (24), goals by a sophomore (28) and most assists by a right wing (33). This is one solid hockey player.In three years at Colgate, Waslen has scored 72 goals and 65 assists and needs 75 points this year to tie the all-time scoring record held by Steve Smith.Smith&rsquo;s record would be a little closer, but Waslen endured what was a slump, for him, during his junior season. Although he hit the 20-goal plateau for the third straight year, finishing right at 20, his assist total fell to just 10.&ldquo;What happened was that we lost five centers last year,&rdquo; said Colgate coach Terry Slater. &ldquo;Two of them, including Steve Smith, had graduated, and then Doug Davis got hurt, John McCarthy got hurt and Gary Mitchell got hurt and I had to play left wingers and right wingers with him. He needs a center who can get him the puck, because when he comes down the wing with the puck, he has a tremendous shot.&rdquo;Slater now has Waslen paired with junior center Scott Reston and junior left winger Lowell MacDonald to form what looks like one of the top lines in the ECAC.&ldquo;Right now, I&rsquo;m hoping everyone stays healthy,&rdquo; said Slater. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t get a lot of blue chippers here. I get a lot of muckers. But Waslen is a definite blue chipper. The way he shoots, it&rsquo;s like a pro gunslinger and the other guy doesn&rsquo;t even have a chance to get his gun out of the holster.&rdquo;Waslen is part of Slater&rsquo;s Humboldt Connection, which has meant so much to Colgate hockey in the last five years. The man behind that connection is Doug Turgeon.&ldquo;What happened was that Doug Turgeon was coaching (Tier II) junior in Ottawa and helping me out,&rdquo; explained Slater. &ldquo;Someone called me from Humboldt and offered me a job in junior. I said I didn&rsquo;t want it, but had someone for them and I sent Doug out there.&ldquo;After he got there, he called me and said he had five guys who could play Division I who wouldn&rsquo;t have any trouble getting into Colgate academically. There were a lot of schools after Gerard, but he trusted Doug&rsquo;s word and he knew I had a strong affiliation with pro hockey.&ldquo;His goals were to get an education, but to play in the pros, too. He knew I could teach him what was necessary to get into the pros. I think that was the big thing, that he wanted to play for someone who could help him get to the pros.&rdquo;Waslen didn&rsquo;t come to Colgate alone. Turgeon also sent down defenseman Paul MacKinnon, who used his final year of eligibility last season; Lou Teztlaff, who is studying in England this year; right winger Lou Wagar, who fits into the Colgate mold of a hard working player who never quits, and center Gerry Brockman. But Waslen was the best of the bunch.&ldquo;He was always a tough player,&rdquo; said Slater. &ldquo;In Humboldt, he scored 72 goals in 60 games and I think he had about 160 points that year. But he&rsquo;s always been a scorer. He could even put the puck in the net when he was a bantam. He has a tremendous slapshot.&ldquo;He was a center in junior, but when I saw his acceleration, his strength off the boards and his shot, I knew that if he had a good center who could draw people away from him for that split second, and then give him the puck, no one could stop him.&rdquo;The switch to right wing has allowed Waslen to become one of the best forwards in Colgate history, and he&rsquo;s sure to battle the likes of Scott Fusco of Harvard and Duanne Moeser of Cornell for the league scoring championship this season.The magic has always been there. It just took a veteran like Slater to bring it out. &#9632;

Raiders’ Waslen Born To Be Goal Scorer

<div class="byline">BY TOM BURKE</div>BOSTON&mdash;Maybe Jay Heinbuck didn&rsquo;t like what the hockey press had been saying about him and his Northeastern University classmates.But he knew it was true, and he did something about it.Heinbuck, a senior, scored three goals and three assists as the Huskies bounded toa3-l record in early Hockey East play.And in the process, he earned the conference&rsquo;s player-of-the-week honors.All in all, it was a considerable step forward for the native of Mitchell&mdash;the same small Ontario town which produced hockey legend Howie Morenz&mdash;who accounted for just six goals and 16 assists during his junior year.The other six Huskie skaters who are now seniors amassed a grand total of 38 goals&mdash;22 of which came from the stick of Rod Isbister.Understandably, the junior class took some heat for NU&rsquo;s 13-24-1 record.&ldquo;We should have gotten a lot more points last year,&rdquo; said Heinbuck after his team dropped a 5-2 decision at Boston College. &ldquo;But remember most of the juniors last year did the penalty killing. We had a lot more penalties than anybody in the league.&rdquo;After the loss to BC, in which NU gave up three power-play goals and a pair of shorthanded scores, the Huskies re-bounded to defeat Maine 6-5 in overtime and Lowell 6-4.Heinbuck&rsquo;s disputed goal at 2:48 of the extra period won the Maine game. NU&rsquo;s home opener.The goal was originally waved off. the official thinking Heinbuck had batted the puck past goalie Ray Roy with his hand. But after a lusty NU protest and a conference among the officials, the decision was reversed.Isbister scored twice for NU in the game, as he did in a season-opening 6-3 win at Boston University&mdash;a game that also featured a three-point performance by Heinbuck.&ldquo;BC didn&rsquo;t let us get in on top of them, they moved the puck too well. And their special teams killed us. Against BU, we killed off five of six penalties.&rdquo; recounted Heinbuck. a physical education major who is thinking of becoming a chiropractor.Northeastern&rsquo;s last big season was the 25-9-2 campaign of 1982. the year when both NU and RPI were bidding for Heinbuck&rsquo;s services.Caught up in the whirl of the big city, particularly the Beanpot Tournament, on his visit to the city. Heinbuck cast his lot with NU.Northeastern won the eastern playoffs and was good enough to advance to the NCAA Final Four during Heinbuck&rsquo;s recruitment year because they had a good group of senior leaders.Heinbuck. whose bushy moustache gives him the appearance of Omar Sharif in Dr. Zhivago, and his classmates will have to perform in similar fashion if the Hounds are to improve over last year.Thus far. at least, they&rsquo;re doing what they should. &#9632;

Heinbuck New And Improved Sr.

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01584/5556219-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="568" height="638"><figcaption class="caption-body">SCOTT HARLOW Boston College</figcaption></div><h2>HOCKEY EAST</h2>The Boston College Eagles recorded two wins in three Hockey East starts as senior left winger Scott Harlow showed the way with seven points, giving him a league-leading 16 points in his first six games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-02433/5556212-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="528" height="642"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAN DORION Western Michigan</figcaption></div><h2>CCHA</h2>Western Michigan swept Ohio State to improve their CCHA record to 4-4 and senior right winger Dan Dorion provided the offensive punch with seven points, including the overtime goal in an 8-7 win over the Buckeyes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-03352/5556205-1-eng-US/f0036-032.jpg" title="f0036-03" width="570" height="642"><figcaption class="caption-body">DALLAS GAUME Denver</figcaption></div><h2>WCHA</h2>The Denver Pioneers managed a split of their series with Northern Michigan as senior center Dallas Gaume scored seven points to extend Denver&rsquo;s record to 6-2 and a share of first place with Wisconsin.Bauer FIT FOR PERFORMANCE &#9632;

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Bauer’s COLLEGE Performer OF THE WEEK

<div class="byline">BY VIRG FOSS</div>GRAND FORKS&mdash;If you had to pick one line in college hockey that can deliver the knockout punch, then the University of North Dakota&rsquo;s combination of Brian Williams. Bob Joyce and Chris Vensen would be title contenders.They&rsquo;ve been on the ice for 17 of the 26 goals the Sioux has scored through six games. Joyce has delivered 10 goals. Williams, three, and Jensen, two. They&rsquo;ve combined to set up defenseman Scott Sandelin for two more goals.What makes one line click and others not? And what is the ideal line combination?&ldquo;Ideally, you have a smart player in the middle, a good wall man at one wing and a goal scorer on the other,&rdquo; said North Dakota coach Gino Gasparini.Williams, a senior from Fargo. N D., centers North Dakota&rsquo;s version of the Production Line, a term made famous by Detroit&rsquo;s high-powered trio of Sid Abel. Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay.Jensen, a senior from Salmon Arm. B.C. and Joyce, a sophomore from Winnipeg, arc Williams&rsquo; wingers. They&rsquo;re off to such a hot start that Joyce and Jensen shared the Western Collegiate Hockey Association scoring lead with Colorado College&rsquo;s Rob Doyle, all with 13 points through three weekends of play. Williams was not far back with nine points.&ldquo;Down through the years, we&rsquo;ve always seemed to have the one big scoring line,&rdquo; Gasparini said. &ldquo;That was especially true when we had Mark Taylor and Doug Smail together (in 1980) with either Phil Sykes or Cary Eades.&rdquo;Having one loaded line is not unusual for WCHA teams.&ldquo;I think if you look around the league, we&rsquo;re no different than any other team in that respect, with the exception of Minnesota,&rdquo; Gasparini said.&ldquo;Duluth (league champion the last two years) certainly had it last year in Bill Watson. Tom Herzig and Matt Christensen and they&rsquo;re no different this year. And your big line attracts the big lines of the other teams, so consequently you hope that your other lines can balance out.&rdquo;Gasparini feels the right chemistry exists in his Production Line.&ldquo;Joyce is very good down the boards and Williams and Jensen are both finesse people. I know some people wonder why we lump all our apples in one basket, but I don&rsquo;t necessarily believe that we have, though the scoring so far certainly reflects that.&ldquo;But against Team Canada, for example. the line of Mai Parks. Mickey Krampotich and Todd Norman did the most damage for us.&rdquo;Gasparini has no plans to break up his top line, though he must make adjustments for about two weeks now that Jen-sen is sidelined with a strained knee.&ldquo;Everyone has to find his own role on the team,&rdquo; said Gasparini.And there are players whose roles can shift dramatically. &ldquo;Steve Johnson (a sophomore center) is one of those,&rdquo; Gas-parini said. &ldquo;He could develop into a big scorer, so his role could change immensely. That same thing could happen to players like Krampotich. Parks and Norman.&rdquo;But so far. most of the Sioux fans&rsquo; re-Joycing has been the result of one line&rsquo;s work.WCHA NOTES&mdash;When Denver swept Minncosta in Minneapolis recently, it was the First time the Pioneers had accomplished that since the 1971-72 season. Dallas Gaume paced Denver with four assists in the scries and his general overall excellence while goalie Tom Allen was sharp with 42 saves in the 4-2 Denver win in the scries opener&hellip;When Wisconsin swept Minnesota-Duluth in Madison that same weekend, it snapped Duluth&rsquo;s string of 12 straight wins over the Badgers dating back to 1983. Dave Maley and Tony Granato each scored twice as Wisconsin won 5-3 in the series opener. And then Tom Ryan scored on a power play in the third period the next night to give Wisconsin a 4-3 win and move the Badgers into a tie for the WCHA lead with Denver&hellip;Chris Jensen scored with 59 seconds left in the game into a net which had been knocked off its moorings just as he was shooting to give North Dakota a 5-4 win over Northern Michigan. The following night, Northern Michigan&rsquo;s Bob Curtis scored with just 16 seconds left in the game to give the Wildcats a 7-6 win over North Dakota. &#9632;

Sioux Re-Joyce(s) Over Big Line’s Scoring

<div class="byline">BY BILL CRAWFORD</div>SAULT STE. MARIE. Mich&mdash;If these guys ever start putting the puck in the net. they&rsquo;ll be better than the NCAA quarterfinalists they were in 1984-85.The Lakers of little Lake Superior State, you see. are a defensive gem. Oh. they have a few rough edges yet. but they are undisputedly one of college hockey&rsquo;s lop teams at stopping the opponent. The stats back it up and so do opposing players and coaches.Before this Central Collegiate Hockey Association season even started. Michigan State coach Ron Mason said that, if LSSC found a replacement for dependable Allan Butler (the Lakers&rsquo; graduated scoring star), they could take the CCHA title in 1985-86.Well, the Lakers are still seeking Butler&rsquo;s replacement, but they aren&rsquo;t exactly sinking in a sea of despair as the search proceeds. The Lakers are making up for a lack of early-season scoring punch with rock-solid defense.And it&rsquo;s not as if their offense isn&rsquo;t creating scoring chances. They&rsquo;ve out shot the opponent in all but one game this season (through the first eight) and have held opponents to 30 shots on goal or less in every game but three since Jan. 1. 1985. They&rsquo;ve kept the opponent under 20 shots on goal five times during that period.The Lakers were 5-3 and third in the CCHA through eight games this season. They were ranked a couple of different times in various Top 10 coaches&rsquo; polls nationwide.Their success stems directly from head coach Frank Anzalone, now in his fourth year at the school, located on the eastern tip of Michigan&rsquo;s Upper Peninsula, with an enrollment of just 2.500.If hard work breeds success and if it&rsquo;s contagious, then Lake Superior State will have a banner season, perhaps bettering its best-ever finish last year.The Lakers are the prototype &ldquo;lunchpail&rdquo; hockey team. Even in defeat this season, they&rsquo;ve outshot opponents and. for want of a goal, fell short.At Bowling Green, they lost 8-4. despite outshooting the powerful Falcons The Lakers lost two at home to Ohio State, despite dominating play and outshooting the Buckeyes by wide margins, including 50-17 the second game (losing 3-2).For want of a goal&hellip;The Lakers took two straight at Western Michigan and had half a dozen breakaways and another six or seven point-blank chances go awry. Center Jim Roque. a junior and Buller&rsquo;s heir apparent, has missed on half a dozen outright breakaways. It&rsquo;s almost appropriate that a defenseman. Mark Vichorek. led the team in scoring through eight games, with nine points.Roque had one goal in the first eight games, despite a multitude of chances.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just a matter of time with Jim,&rdquo; said Anzalone, a Brooklyn native who prescribes solidly to the theory that there is no substitute for hard work, attention to detail and planning. Anzalone is also the Captain Video of the CCHA, re-ligiously scanning all game films for ways to (1) improve his team and (2) take advantage of opponents.&ldquo;Defense isn&rsquo;t necessarily intentional with us.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s inbred. We work on it constantly. We pride ourselves on being solid defensively. There is nothing that pleases me more than holding opponents to less than 25 shots in a game. Do you know how many games you&rsquo;ll win if you can accomplish that regularly? Lots.&rdquo;The Lakers work from the shadows in the CCHA. They represent the smallest school in the league, one of the smallest in Division I. They are located further north than any other CCHA team and have to bus and fly further to play. They pride themselves in being that much tougher because of it.CCHA NOTES&mdash;The league has a hotline now on which fans may call for updates and scores. It&rsquo;s 1-313-7640131. &#9632;

Laker Strength Rests On Defense

<h2>CCHA</h2>(STANDINGS ON FRI. NOV. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-01589/5556417-1-eng-US/f0038-012.jpg" title="f0038-01" width="539" height="293"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>SAT. NOV. 2BOWLING GREEN 7 AT OHIO STATE 4LAKE SUPERIOR 3 AT W. MICHIGAN 2MIAMI 3 AT ILL&mdash;CHICAGO 5MICH. STATE 5 AT FERRIS STATE 3TEAM CANADA 6 AT MICHIGAN 5FRI. NOV. 8FERRIS STATE 6 AT ILL-CHICAGO 5LAKE SUPERIOR 3 AT MIAMI 2MICH. STATE 4 AT MICHIGAN 5W. MICHIGAN 8 AT OHIO STATE 3CLARKSON 4 AT BOWLING GREEN 3SAT. NOV. 9LAKE SUPERIOR 6 AT ILL-CHICAGO 7LAKE SUPERIOR 3 AT MIAMI 3MICHIGAN 2 AT MICH. STATE 6W. MICHIGAN 8 AT OHIO STATE 7CLARKSON 3 AT BOWLING GREEN 5<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-02461/5556410-1-eng-US/f0038-022.jpg" title="f0038-02" width="544" height="325"></div><h3>NOVEMBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-03372/5556403-1-eng-US/f0038-032.jpg" title="f0038-03" width="542" height="878"></div><h2>WCHA</h2>(STANDINGS ON FRI. NOV. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-04287/5556396-1-eng-US/f0038-042.jpg" title="f0038-04" width="540" height="260"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>SAT. NOV. 2N. MICHIGAN 7 AT NORTH DAKOTA 6MICH. TECH 3 AT COLO. COLL 7MIN-DULUTH 3 AT WISCONSIN 4DENVER 5 AT MINNESOTA 4FRI. NOV. 8ALA&mdash;ANCHORAGE 6 AT MIN-DULUTH 8COLORADO COLLEGE 8 AT AIR FORCE 3N. MICHIGAN 4 AT DENVER 9NO. DAKOTA 4 AT NEW HAMPSHIRE 2WISCONSIN 5 AT BOSTON COLLEGE 4MINNESOTA 3 AT LOWELL 1BOSTON UNIVERSITY 6 AT MICH. TECH 7SAT. NOV. 9ALA&mdash;ANCHORAGE 1 AT MIN-DULUTH 6AIR FORCE 6 AT COLORADO COLLEGE 4N. MICHIGAN 4 AT DENVER 3MINNESOTA 2 AT LOWELL 1NO. DAKOTA 7 AT NEW HAMPSHIRE 4WISCONSIN 5 AT BOSTON COLLEGE 6BOSTON UNIVERSITY 5 AT MICH. TECH 3<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-05207/5556389-1-eng-US/f0038-052.jpg" title="f0038-05" width="548" height="380"></div><h3>NOVEMBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-06168/5556382-1-eng-US/f0038-062.jpg" title="f0038-06" width="536" height="794"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-07154/5556375-1-eng-US/f0038-072.jpg" title="f0038-07" width="530" height="324"></div><h2>HOCKEY EAST</h2>(STANDINGS ON MON. NOV.11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-08132/5556368-1-eng-US/f0038-082.jpg" title="f0038-08" width="540" height="215"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>FRI. NOV. 1MAINE 1 AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY 4SAT. NOV. 2LOWELL 6 AT PROVIDENCE 2MAINE 5 AT NORTHEASTERN 6NEW HAMPSHIRE 3 AT BOSTON COLLEGE 7TUE. NOV. 5PROVIDENCE 1 AT BOSTON COLLEGE 5NEW HAMPSHIRE 3 AT MAINE 7NORTHEASTERN 6 AT LOWELL 4FRI. NOV. 8MINNESOTA 3 AT LOWELL 1NO. DAKOTA 4 AT NEW HAMPSHIRE 2WISCONSIN 5 AT BOSTON COLLEGE 4BOSTON UNIVERSITY 6 AT MICH. TECH 7PROVIDENCE 5 AT MAINE 2SAT. NOV. 9MINNESOTA 2 AT LOWELL 1NO. DAKOTA 7 AT NEW HAMPSHIRE 4WISCONSIN 5 AT BOSTON COLLEGE 6BOSTON UNIVERSITY 5 AT MICH. TECH 3PROVIDENCE 6 AT MAINE 5<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-09120/5556361-1-eng-US/f0038-092.jpg" title="f0038-09" width="548" height="340"></div><h3>NOVEMBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-10111/5556354-1-eng-US/f0038-102.jpg" title="f0038-10" width="539" height="593"></div><h2>OUAA</h2>(STANDINGS ON WED. NOV. 13)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-11104/5556347-1-eng-US/f0038-112.jpg" title="f0038-11" width="548" height="412"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>WED. OCT. 30LAURIER 3 AT WESTERN 1QUEEN&rsquo;S 3 AT RMC 5THU. OCT. 31WATERLOO 3 AT GUELPH 3FRI. NOV. 1MCMASTER 0 AT WINDSOR 5TORONTO 6 AT BROCK 3YORK 5 AT LAURIER 5SAT. NOV. 2WATERLOO 8 AT RYERSON 4BROCK 6 AT GUELPH 13QUEEN&rsquo;S 4 AT WINDSOR 4SUN. NOV. 3QUEEN&rsquo;S 4 AT RYERSON 7RMC 3 AT YORK 7WED. NOV. 6MCMASTER 5 AT WESTERN 8THU. NOV. 7GUELPH 2 AT YORK 3FRI. NOV. 8RYERSON 5 AT BROCK 13QUEEN&rsquo;S 0 AT TORONTO 9MCMASTER 2 AT WATERLOO 4SAT. NOV. 9RMC 3 AT LAURENTIAN 5GUELPH 7 AT RYERSON 5QUEEN&rsquo;S 6 AT McMASTER 2SUN. NOV. 10BROCK 3 AT WATERLOO 5RMC 3 AT LAURENTIAN 6<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1296/5556340-1-eng-US/f0038-122.jpg" title="f0038-12" width="548" height="380"></div><h2>CWUAA</h2>(STANDINGS ON FRI. NOV. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1387/5556333-1-eng-US/f0038-132.jpg" title="f0038-13" width="552" height="262"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>FRI. NOV. 8ALBERTA 5 AT UBC 1SASKATCHEWAN 5 AT MANITOBA 3CALGARY 8 AT BRANDON 7SAT. NOV. 9ALBERTA 6 AT UBC 4REGINA 4 AT LETHBRIDGE 7SASKATCHEWAN 6 AT MANITOBA 3CALGARY 8 AT BRANDON 5SUN. NOV. 10REGINA 4 AT LETHBRIDGE 7<h2>AUAA</h2>(STANDINGS ON WED. NOV. 13)<h3>MACADAM DMCinM</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1480/5556326-1-eng-US/f0038-142.jpg" title="f0038-14" width="535" height="155"></div><h3>KELLY DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1575/5556319-1-eng-US/f0038-152.jpg" title="f0038-15" width="534" height="133"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>WED. NOV. 6ST. MARY&rsquo;S 3 AT DALHOUSIE 17FRI. NOV. 8ACADIA 5 AT DALHOUSIE 9SAT. NOV. 9MONCTON 7 AT UNB 4MT. ALLISON 2 AT ST. F. XAVIER 7UPE110 AT ST. MARY&rsquo;S 0SUN. NOV. 10UPEI 6 AT ST. F. XAVIER 3MONCTON 9 AT ST. THOMAS 3MT. ALLISON 6 AT ST. MARY&rsquo;S 2<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1671/5556312-1-eng-US/f0038-162.jpg" title="f0038-16" width="540" height="263"></div><h2>QUAA</h2>(STANDINGS ON TUE. NOV. 12)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1766/5556305-1-eng-US/f0038-172.jpg" title="f0038-17" width="537" height="161"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>THU. NOV. 7T-RIVIERES 8 AT CONCORDIA 2FRI. NOV. 8CHICOUTIMI 6 AT McGILL 7OTTAWA 5 AT T-RIVIERES 8SAT. NOV. 9CHICOUTIMI 6 AT CONCORDIA 8<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1861/5556298-1-eng-US/f0038-182.jpg" title="f0038-18" width="537" height="287"></div>Bauer FIT FOR PERFORMANCE &#9632;

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HOW THEY STAND-GAMES TO COME

<div class="byline">BY HELEN DOLIK</div>CALGARY&mdash;This is no nickle-and-dime production.And, it could be just what the doctor ordered for Canadian university hockey.British Columbia Thun le birds are going first class all the way in playing host to a six-team tournament in Van-couver Jan. 2-5.Enough was enough.Tired of begging other teams to play exhibition games, tired of watching other colleges woo away prospective players with scholarships, UBC decided to stage its own tournament, with some of the proceeds going to the Father Bauer hockey scholarship fund.Organized by the Thunderbird hockey alumni association, the red carpet is being rolled out for Ivy League schools Yale and Cornell, Seibu from Japan, Toronto Blues and Manitoba Bisons.There are 20,000 tickets waiting to be sold. Will they sit or will they sell?&ldquo;Canadian college hockey is the best amateur hockey in the country,&rdquo; insisted Thunderbird coach Fred Masuch.The problem, according to Masuch, is letting people in on the apparent secret.While Canadian university hockey can compete favorably with its American counterpart in terms of academics, Masuch pointed out that the Canadian product lacks on two fronts&mdash;financing and stature.&ldquo;We shouldn&rsquo;t feel so dirty to give him (a hockey player) some money to go to school and play hockey,&rdquo; Masuch said.With the idea of attracting fans instead of flies, UBC aimed at bringing some novelty to the event by inviting teams not normally seen on the West Coast. Besides, it&rsquo;s always interesting to see how Canadians fare against the Americans.&ldquo;I think you&rsquo;ll find the Canadians will win those encounters, but they won&rsquo;t be by outlandish scores&mdash;that&rsquo;s my guess,&rdquo; Masuch said. &ldquo;5-3, 6-4, that kind of thing.&rdquo;Yale won a tournament in Anchorage, Alaska last year, edging Alberta Golden Bears 5-4 in the final. Alberta finished second at the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union championships. Both Yale and Cornell are National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I schools.&ldquo;They (Yale and Cornell) may have an academic ego problem, but not an athletic ego problem,&rdquo; Masuch said. &ldquo;They aren&rsquo;t afraid to play Canadian universities and a lot of American schools are.&rdquo;As an added bonus for the tournament, former Montreal Canadien great Ken Dryden will attend the event and speak at the banquet. Dryden played in net for Cornell at the same time that UBC men&rsquo;s athletic director, Rick Noonan, was the trainer for the team.As for Seibu, UBC has a close relationship with the team that stretches back a decade.Former Thunderbird Bill Holowaty, now working in Toronto, played for Seibu for two years. Seibu is a huge company, that is big in retailing with department stores and hotels to name just a few interests.The owner of the Seibu hockey team, also has another team&mdash;Kokudo, as well as a baseball team and stadium. Edmonton Oilers&rsquo; Randy Gregg used to play for Kokudo. The captain of the Japanese national team, Yoshio Hoshino, who plays for Kokudo, also spent time in a UBC uniform.The Japanese teams are no longer allowed to import foreigners to bolster their rosters.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re (Seibu) about the calibre of a Canadian college team, maybe less,&rdquo; Masuch said. &ldquo;We went over there two years ago and played in a tournament, which we won, with Seibu and Kokudo. and we beat them by two or three goals&mdash;at that time.&rdquo;The tournament is part of the city&rsquo;s centennial celebrations. The games will be played at Thunderbird Arena (seating capacity 1,500) and the Pacific National Exhibition Agridome (3,500).NOTES&mdash;One of Cornell&rsquo;s premier players is Joe Nieuwendyk, Calgary Flames&rsquo; second-round pick in the 1985 NHL draft&hellip;The final four games of the tourney will be broadcast live on TSN&hellip;Who would have believed it, but after two weeks of play, the Calgary Dinosaurs sat atop the Canada West standings with an unblemished 4-0 record. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re four wins away from last year&rsquo;s record (8-16),*&rsquo; said Dino coach George Kingston, chuckling. The euphoria was shortlived. During the third weekend, Calgary dropped two games to Manitoba&hellip;Speaking of Manitoba, it didn&rsquo;t take long for Dale Derkatch to get out of his Bison uniform and back into an Italian one. Derkatch, who starred for the championship Bolzano squad in Italy&rsquo;s First Division last year, signed with Asiago Nov. 2. Asiago, another First Division team, bought the rights to Derkatch from Bolzano, and enticed the high-scoring center back to Italy. &#9632;

Thunderbirds Aim For First-Rate Tourneu

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-01556/5556486-1-eng-US/f0039-012.jpg" title="f0039-01" width="388" height="542"><figcaption class="caption-body">STEVE LINSEMAN Waterloo</figcaption></div><h2>OUAA</h2>Steve Linseman scored 19 points in seven games as the Waterloo Warriors continued to_ roll in the OUAA, beating McMaster 4-2 and Brock 5-3 to pull into a tie for first place with York. Linseman is the brother of Boston&rsquo;s Ken Linseman.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-02388/5556479-1-eng-US/f0039-022.jpg" title="f0039-02" width="392" height="541"><figcaption class="caption-body">S. THIVIERGE Trois-Rivieres</figcaption></div><h2>QUAA</h2>The Trois-Rivieres Patriotes scored 16 goals in two games as they swept Concordia 8-2 and Ottawa 8-5 with Stefan Thivierge collecting nine points, including three goals. Thivierge has 10 points for the season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-03290/5556472-1-eng-US/f0039-032.jpg" title="f0039-03" width="390" height="538"><figcaption class="caption-body">SEAN McGRAW Lethbridge</figcaption></div><h2>CWAA</h2>After six straight defeats, the University of Lethbridge snapped its losing ways as the Pronghorns whipped Regina twice by 7-4 scores with freshman right winger Sean McGraw counting three goals and two assists.Bauer FIT FOR PERFORMANCE &#9632;

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Bauer’s UNIVERSITY performer OF THE WEEK

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-01276/5556555-1-eng-US/f0040-012.jpg" title="f0040-01" width="560" height="570"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY McCOLGAN Oshawa</figcaption></div><h2>ONTARIO LEAGUE</h2>The Oshawa Generals are one of the better scoring teams in the Leyden Division and it&rsquo;s mostly because of increased production from the likes of Gary McColgan.The 19-year-old left winger, who figured in nine of Oshawa&rsquo;s 13 goals in a pair of recent wins, earned the nod as the OHL Player of the Week.McColgan, who bagged the game winner in a 6-5 decision over London, had three goals in the two games. He has collected 21 points in his first seven games this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-02182/5556548-1-eng-US/f0040-022.jpg" title="f0040-02" width="564" height="572"><figcaption class="caption-body">GLEN WESLEY Portland</figcaption></div><h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>The Portland Winter Hawks are the hot team in the Western League with a 10-1 record and one of their offensive stars is young Glen Wesley.The 17-year-old Wesley, who is a defenseman like his older brother Blake of the Toronto Maple Leafs, picked up seven points in three games to win WHL Player of the Week honors. The six-foot, 185-pound Wesley is off to a flying start in his sophomore year with 20 points in his first 11 games for the sizzling Hawks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-03132/5556541-1-eng-US/f0040-032.jpg" title="f0040-03" width="560" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body">DENIS PAUL Shawinigan</figcaption></div><h2>QUEBEC LEAGUE</h2>Left winger Denis Paul was more or less lost in the shuffle of high-profile scoring stars last season with the Sha-winigan Cataracts, but this year he&rsquo;s making his presence felt.The 19-year-old Paul picked up eight scoring points in two recent games, including one winning goal, and was chosen the QMJHL Player of the Week.Paul, who managed only 21 goals in 68 games last season, already has 17 this year. In his first 22 games, he earned 39 points to climb into the league&rsquo;s top 10.At the end of the current season, THE HOCKEY NEWS will select a Micron Junior Player of the Year &#9632;

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MICRON JUNIOR PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

<div class="byline">BY JOHN HERBERT</div>Louisville HockeyLouisville HockeyKINGSTON&mdash;New coach and general manager Fred O&rsquo;Donnell had &lsquo;&lsquo;one sobering thought&rdquo; as he discussed the turnabout in the fortunes of his Kingston Canadians after the Ontario League club ran an unbeaten streak to 10 games.The Canadians, who along with the Sudbury Wolves tied for last overall in the 1984-85 standings, moved into second place in the Leyden Division with a 9-6 win over the Belleville Bulls on Nov. 6 before 2,300 Kingston fans to improve their record to 8-5-1.The same night, the once-hapless Sudbury club whipped defending-champion Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds 11-5 to boost their record to 11-3-1 and strengthen their hold on second place behind the Guelph Platers in the Emms grouping.&ldquo;Coaching is an up and down business,&rdquo; said O&rsquo;Donnell, who for eight previous seasons coached Queen&rsquo;s Golden Gaels of the Ontario Universities Athletic Association. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t be too happy or too sad. It changes. But we&rsquo;re very happy the way we&rsquo;ve turned things &raquo; around after a slow start. We lost our first four games.&rdquo;Kingston&rsquo;s Brian Verbeek became the OHL&rsquo;s first 20-goaI scorer in the win over Belleville.O&rsquo;Donnell was appointed coach of the Kingston club last spring to fill the vacant position by then-general manager Ken Slater.But late in the summer, Slater received an offer to return to scouting with the Vancouver Canucks and decided his security with the NHL club was greater than it was in Kingston. Slater had worked for the Canadians for two seasons.One of the things that is surprising in the Kingston rise as a Leyden contender is that they are doing it without one of the players they were counting on so much in the rebuilding job.With only one season of junior experience, Herb Raglan was not returned by the St. Louis Blues, who made him their first pick (37th overall) in the 1985 NHL entry draft.&ldquo;The bottom line is they&rsquo;ve told me he&rsquo;s not coming back.&rdquo; O&rsquo;Donnell said. &bull; Obviously, with 20 goals, Verbeek has played a major role for the Canadians on a line with Darryl Holmes and Mike Maurice. But it is Kingston&rsquo;s overall balance with three high-powered line combinations, good defense and goaltending from Chris Clifford that appears to make them tick.Next to Sudbury, the Canadians rated second in the OHL in goals scored with 80 after 16 games for a 5.00 average. Scott Metcalfe, Barry Burkholder and Ted Linseman form another solid unit while a third line consists of Pete Viskovich, Wayne Erskine and Scott Pearson.Verbeek has more to prove than any player on the club&mdash;maybe in the league.The younger brother of New Jersey Devil Pat Verbeek was deeply disturbed at the NHL draft when he was not chosen. When the NHL ratings came out at the beginning of the season, he had been rated in the second round but by the season&rsquo;s end, despite producing 32 goals and 41 assists to lead Kingston in scoring, he had dropped completely off the NHL ratings list.Verbeek went to the draft meeting in Toronto just in case.&ldquo;I was optimistic I would still be picked but I knew there was a chance I wouldn&rsquo;t be.&rdquo; said the 19-year-old from Wyoming, Ont.&ldquo;I was happy for all the players who got picked but I was kind of angry the way the draft was going with all those high school players getting picked. Half of them probably couldn&rsquo;t play in our league. Yes, I was a little disturbed by the happenings.&rdquo;Over the summer, Verbeek said he dedicated himself to hard work to prepare for this season which he views to be his make-or-break year for a professional career.&ldquo;I said to myself this is my last year to prove myself and I&rsquo;ve got to go out and give it my best shot. Some guys might have given up after the draft.&ldquo;If you do that, it&rsquo;s all over. You can&rsquo;t really quit. I looked at all the invitees and free agents around the NHL this year and that was good news. Who knows? It could happen to me. The free agency route is getting better. At least it shows there is still some hope for me, and others.&rdquo;Verbeek began slowly with no points in the Canadians first three games but the next six games he scored at least one goal. Then he got four to run the streak to seven games as he chased Ken Linseman&rsquo;s club record of scoring in 10 straight games. Verbeek&rsquo;s streak was snapped in the eighth game, an 8-2 win over Cornwall, but he drew two assists. The next night out, against Toronto, he scored three more goals, and he hasn&rsquo;t stopped.&ldquo;In a way, I was happy when it was over,&rdquo; Verbeek said. &ldquo;It was just added pressure.&rdquo;The only explanation O&rsquo;Donnell had for Verbeek&rsquo;s development into the OHL&rsquo;s top goal scorer is that he is playing more aggressively.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s playing hard, that&rsquo;s the bottom line,&rdquo; his coach said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been getting his shot away quickly and he&rsquo;s been a very effective player for us. He came back (to Kingston) in a good frame of mind and hoping to have a good year and get drafted or perhaps invited to camp. There are a lot of indivduals like him who should have been drafted and weren&rsquo;t.&rdquo;There is one other important reason for Verbeek&rsquo;s showing&mdash;he&rsquo;s playing on a winning team for a change.&ldquo;That always helps,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s difficult when you&rsquo;re on a last place team.&rdquo;Plans for the world junior championship Dec. 26-Jan. 4 to be staged in 15 Ontario cities and headquartered at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, were un. veiled at a press conference and luncheon attended by about 300 persons including federal sports minister Otto Jelinek.Jelinek predicted Canada would win the junior world title again and said it wouldn&rsquo;t be long before an NHL team comes to Hamilton.That drew a rise from CMJHL president Ed Chynoweth, who cracked: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re optimistic we&rsquo;ll defend the title and have the gold medal back in Canada. It&rsquo;s going to be a fantastic event and I&rsquo;m excited. Like the honorable minister said. I think it&rsquo;d be fantastic to have an NHL team in Hamilton&mdash;Ontario needs one.&rdquo;On the move: Kitchener Rangers and North Bay Centennials completed a seven-player transaction. The Rangers sent Doug Stromback. John Keller and Dave McIlwain north and received Ron Sanko, Peter Lisy, Richard Hawkins and Brett McDonald from the Cents&hellip;Belleville Bulls sent Mike Morrison to Kitchener for a draft choice and the rights to center Bill Bennett to Hamilton for Marc West and Brian MacDonald. Bennett did not report immediately to Hamilton and was listed as &ldquo;missing in action&rdquo; by Steelhawks&rsquo; coach Bill LaForge. Hamilton also sent defenseman John English to Ottawa for a sixthrounder, leaving LaForge&rsquo;s club very young on defense with two 16-year-olds and three 17-year-olds&hellip;In another deal, North Bay Centennials claimed Darin Smith from London to complete a deal made earlier between the clubs&hellip;Former Cornwall Royal coach Floyd Crawford has joined Belleville as an assistant. &#9632;

Verbeek Wants To Prove The NHL Wrong

<div class="byline">BY BEN KUZMA</div>Louisville HockeyLouisville HockeyBRANDON&mdash;How bad was the 1984-85 Western Hockey League season for the Brandon Wheat Kings? Consider the following:&bull; The club had as many as nine regulars out of action at the same time with serious injuries, including five with shoulder separations.&bull; There weren&rsquo;t enough bodies in the system to adequately fill gaping holes in the roster.&bull; The club finished last in the Eastern Division with a 17-54-1 record.&bull; There was talk of the club moving this season.Maybe that&rsquo;s why Brandon coach Jack Sangster can breathe a sigh of relief this time around. His Wheat Kings may not be world beaters, they were 6-4-1 after 11 games, but they&rsquo;re healthy and wealthy.It would have been easy for Sangster to try and save face last season. The phone rang often and those in demand were high-scoring veterans Byron Lomow, Derek Laxdal, Dave Curry, Dave Thomlinson and John Dzikowski. But Sangster bit the bullet and has 15 players back to take a serious stab as division contenders.&ldquo;It was the longest season of my career,&rdquo; admitted Sangster, who coached a year in Regina, two in Seattle and is in his third with the Wheat Kings. &ldquo;Les (former general manager Jackson) and I could do nothing about it. We didn&rsquo;t want to trade our players, everybody wants to trade but they want your best players.&ldquo;Realistically, until we get last year out of our system and build some confidence you&rsquo;ve got to say that there are some teams better than us at this point. We just want to stay with the pack the first half of the season.&rsquo;&rsquo;That&rsquo;s not bad strategy. The Wheat Kings were out of contention by Christmas last season and Sangster had to really scramble for players. How bad was it?&ldquo;The guys still remember last year,&rdquo; said Sangster. &ldquo;One time I made 71 long-distance phone calls trying to get enough guys to go to games we had in Saskatoon and Prince Albert. I had nine guys out of the lineup at the time and I had to use three who couldn&rsquo;t really play in the league.&rdquo;Patience has been the greatest virtue for Sangster. He can now ice one of the league&rsquo;s better lines in Lomow, Curry and Laxdal and back it up with Mike Morin, Rod Williams and Thomlinson. He also has an excellent rookie trio in Terry Yake, Kevin Mayo and Jason Phillips and a good goaltending prospect in rookie Kelly Hitchings.Lomow led the team in scoring last season with 112 points while Laxdal had 102. Dzikowski managed 73 points in 59 games while Thomlinson had 27 points in 26 outings.&ldquo;Depth-wise we should be okay,&rdquo; said Sangster. &ldquo;Lomow played so much last year that he was burnt out by Christ-mas time. We were playing two-and-ahalf lines most of the time last year and we knew we were going to get kicked, we just didn&rsquo;t know how hard. It was like going into an alley. Sometimes we had to turn the other cheek.&rdquo;Defensively, the Wheat Kings will rely on overage rearguard Shane Eirickson and returnees Lee Trim, Murray Rice, Brent Mireau and Jeff Waver.&ldquo;We have to do some homework and be better in our own zone,&rdquo; said Sangster. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d be foolish to say we&rsquo;re in the top three but when we gain some confidence and respect we should be okay.&rdquo;As far as the team pulling up stakes and moving elsewhere, Sangster can boast 1,430 season tickets. The Wheat Kings went on a season-ticket selling blitz in the off-season to prove there&rsquo;s a place for the WHL in the Manitoba city. They were right.&ldquo;The Wheat Kings generate a lot of revenue in Brandon and they have a hell of a complex here,&rdquo; said Sangster. &ldquo;If we lost Tier I, I just couldn&rsquo;t see people settling for Tier II. We&rsquo;re the last franchise in Manitoba and we want to keep it here.&rdquo;WHL WEEK&mdash;Seattle hired Don Berry as its new coach, replacing Marc Boileau who was fired Oct. 27. Berry&rsquo;s credentials include two BC Junior Hockey League titles with Abbotsford Flyers&hellip;Boileau, former coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League, was in his third season behind the bench&hellip;Kamloops dealt 17-year-old center Rob DiMaio, 19-year-old left wing Dave Mackey and 15-year-old list left winger Calvin Knibbs to Medicine Hat in return for left winger Doug Pickel and center Sean Pass, both 17-year-olds. &#9632;

Persistence Pays Off For The Wheat Kings

<div class="byline">BY RICK MAYOH</div>TROIS-RIVIERES&mdash;There&rsquo;s nothing flashy about the Trois Rivieres Draveurs&rsquo; steady improvement in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, but then that should not come as any surprise when you take a look at the man behind their bench.&ldquo;We play the man consistently,&rdquo; said coach Andre (Moose) Dupont, an old-fashioned kind of guy who did just that for 15 years in the National Hockey League with the Philadelphia Flyers, Quebec Nordiques, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues.Trois-Rivieres finished 11th, last overall, in the league two years ago in Dupont&rsquo;s first season (23-45-2). Last year, they climbed to sixth, just one point behind the Hull Olympiques (32-35-1). And then they lost to league-champion Drummondville Voltigeurs in seven games in the quarterfinals.And, really, it shouldn&rsquo;t come as too big a surprise that the Dupont-coached Draveurs were the league&rsquo;s most penalized team last season, with Regis Chouinard (397 minutes), Alex Daviault (312), Jean-Claude Latour (291), Alain Tousignant (252) and Frederic Vermett (228) leading the way. Another five players had more than 100 minutes each.Always intimidating on the small ice surface at the TroisRivieres Colisee, the Draveurs forecheck well and play tougher once they get the lead.The club accounted for three of the league&rsquo;s 15 players selected in the 1985 entry draft&mdash;center Martin Desjardins (fourth round, Montreal), defenseman Donald Dufresne (sixth round, Montreal) and right winger Jean Bois (12th round, Quebec), who was second in team scoring. (33-5184).All are back this year and they helped the team jump to a 5-1-1 start. But a rash of injuries and inconsistent goaltending hampered the Draveurs, who are second in the Dilio Division, six points behind Drummondville and fourth overall with a 10-11-2 record.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re getting better every year,&rdquo; Dupont said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re aiming to finish among the top four. We try to keep the goals-against down but our goaltending has been hot and cold and we&rsquo;ve had five or six guys injured in the last 10 games.&rdquo;Trois-Rivi&egrave;res recently lost a 9-8 shootout in overtime to the Laval Titans, typical for a team that has allowed 125 goals, the worst defensive record in the league.The Draveurs&rsquo; problems in goal began when Alain Raymond, fourth in the circuit last year with a 4.01 goalsagainst average, decided to play for Canada&rsquo;s National Team instead of returning as a 20-year-old.Promising rookie Stepahne Robinson, 17, has carried most of the load. The team recently acquired Andre Lepensee, 19, who played the last two seasons with the Chicoutimi Sagueneens, in a three-way trade with Shawinigan Cataractes.&ldquo;Raymond was a big man to replace,&rdquo; Dupont said. &ldquo;Young Robinson has probably been our best, he&rsquo;s just lacking a little stamina.&rdquo;The Draveurs&rsquo; defense is big, including Dufresne, (6-foot1, 207 pounds) Chouinard, (6-feet, 208 pounds), Andre Marois (6-foot-1, 192 pounds), Don McGrath (6-foot-2, 188 pounds) and 16-year-old first-rounder Steve Veilleux (6feet, 195 pounds).But injured Serge Poudrier, 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds, has been the biggest loss on the blue line.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s our top defenseman, runs the power play and gets points, too,&rdquo; Dupont said. Poudrier scored 20 goals and added 52 assists for 72 points last season.Center Claude Gagnon, 10th in league scoring last year (48-78-126) and the club&rsquo;s best shooter for the past two seasons, has also been out.Desjardins (12-16-28), the QMJHL&rsquo;s first pick overall in 1984, and Roger Dube (16-12-28) lead the team in scoring.Now, Dupont will try to get his aggressive club to play more disciplined and spend less time in the penalty box. &#9632;

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-02128/5556889-1-eng-US/f0044-022.jpg" title="f0044-02" width="506" height="58"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-01189/5556896-1-eng-US/f0044-012.jpg" title="f0044-01" width="194" height="184"></div><h2>NHL-TEAM STANDING-</h2>(PCT) PERCENTAGE OF ACTUAL POINTS VERSUS POSSIBLE POINTSCLARENCE CAMPBELL CONFERENCE<h3>NORRIS DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-0389/5556882-1-eng-US/f0044-032.jpg" title="f0044-03" width="512" height="148"></div><h3>SMYTHE DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-0469/5556875-1-eng-US/f0044-042.jpg" title="f0044-04" width="513" height="141"></div><h2>PRINCE OF WALES CONFERENCE</h2><h3>ADAMS DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-0558/5556868-1-eng-US/f0044-052.jpg" title="f0044-05" width="515" height="143"></div><h3>PATRICK DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-0650/5556861-1-eng-US/f0044-062.jpg" title="f0044-06" width="515" height="168"></div><h3>RESULTS ENDING NOV. 9, 1985</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-0747/5556854-1-eng-US/f0044-072.jpg" title="f0044-07" width="552" height="849"></div><h2>AHL AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(STANDINGS ON TUE. NOV. 12)<h3>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-0836/5556847-1-eng-US/f0044-082.jpg" title="f0044-08" width="535" height="232"></div><h3>NORTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-0934/5556840-1-eng-US/f0044-092.jpg" title="f0044-09" width="533" height="203"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>TUE. OCT. 29MONCTON 6 AT ST. CATHARINES 3WED. OCT. 30SHERBROOKE 3 AT ADIRONDACK 4FREDERICTON 4 AT BALTIMORE 1ROCHESTER 2 AT BINGHAMTON 2NEW HAVEN 2 AT HERSHEY 5ST. CATHARINES 8 AT MAINE 9FRI. NOV. 1FREDERICTON 6 AT BINGHAMTON 3MONCTON 5 AT ROCHESTER 4MAINE 3 AT SHERBROOKE 7ADIRONDACK 5 AT SPRINGFIELD 4SAT. NOV. 2MONCTON 2 AT ADIRONDACK 5NEW HAVEN 4 AT BINGHAMTON 1FREDERICTON 1 AT HERSHEY 3SHERBROOKE 1 AT MAINE 5ST. CATHARINES 6 AT SPRINGFIELD 2SUN. NOV. 3NEW HAVEN 0 AT BALTIMORE 2MONCTON 2 AT NOVA SCOTIA 5FREDERICTON 2 AT ROCHESTER 4BINGHAMTON 4 AT ST. CATHARINES 5MON. NOV. 4SPRINGFIELD 5 AT SHERBROOKE 7TUE. NOV. 5FREDERICTON 6 AT ST. CATHARINES 7WED. NOV. 6MAINE 1 AT ADIRONDACK 1ST. CATHARINES 5 AT BINGHAMTON 4BALTIMORE 0 AT HERSHEY 3FREDERICTON 2 AT MONCTON 6ROCHESTER 6 AT NOVA SCOTIA 4THU. NOV. 7ROCHESTER 3 AT FREDERICTON 5FRI. NOV. 8BALTIMORE 5 AT NEW HAVEN 7ADIRONDACK 5 AT SHERBROOKE 6MAINE 5 AT SPRINGFIELD 5SAT. NOV. 9ST. CATHARINES 3 AT ADIRONDACK 6BINGHAMTON 4 AT FREDERICTON 2NEW HAVEN 3 AT HERSHEY 7BALTIMORE 6 AT MAINE 4ROCHESTER 5 AT MONCTON 5SHERBROOKE 5 AT SPRINGFIELD 4SUN. NOV. 10BINGHAMTON 5 AT MONCTON 1FREDERICTON 5 AT NOVA SCOTIA 5HERSHEY 4 AT ROCHESTER 3MAINE 4 AT ST. CATHARINES 10BALTIMORE 7 AT SHERBROOKE 5<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-1032/5556833-1-eng-US/f0044-102.jpg" title="f0044-10" width="537" height="498"></div><h3>TOP GOALTENDERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-1126/5556826-1-eng-US/f0044-112.jpg" title="f0044-11" width="555" height="182"></div><h2>IHL</h2>(STANDINGS ON TUE. NOV. 12)<h3>EAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-1224/5556819-1-eng-US/f0044-122.jpg" title="f0044-12" width="536" height="175"></div><h3>WESTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-1322/5556812-1-eng-US/f0044-132.jpg" title="f0044-13" width="536" height="206"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>SAT. OCT. 26KALAMAZOO 3 AT FORT WAYNE 5FLINT 4 AT MUSKEGON 14TOLEDO 2 AT SAGINAW 3SALT LAKE 3 AT PEORIA 0SUN. OCT. 27KALAMAZOO 7 AT TOLEDO 6SALT LAKE 2 AT MILWAUKEE 0FORT WAYNE 4 AT PEORIA 2INDIANAPOLIS 3 AT FLINT 2WED. OCT. 30FLINT 3 AT FORT WAYNE 5SAGINAW 1 AT KALAMAZOO 2MUSKEGON 1 AT TOLEDO 4SALT LAKE 3 AT INDIANAPOLIS 6THU. OCT. 31KALAMAZOO 0 AT MILWAUKEE 4FRI. NOV. 1INDIANAPOLIS 0 AT FORT WAYNE 4SALT LAKE 5 AT SAGINAW 8PEORIA 6 AT TOLEDO 0MUSKEGON 6 AT FLINT 5SAT. NOV. 2MILWAUKEE 2 AT FORT WAYNE 3SALT LAKE 2 AT MUSKEGON 4INDIANAPOLIS 2 AT SAGINAW 5KALAMAZOO 3 AT TOLEDO 2PEORIA 1 AT FLINT 5SUN. NOV. 3TOLEDO 3 AT MILWAUKEE 9TUE. NOV. 5INDIANAPOLIS 2 AT MUSKEGON $WED. NOV. 6MUSKEGON 1 AT SAGINAW 3TOLEDO 1 AT INDIANAPOLIS 4MILWAUKEE 5 AT SALT LAKE 4THU. NOV. 7SAGINAW 4 AT INDIANAPOLIS 3FRI. NOV. 8TOLEDO 2 AT KALAMAZOO 6MUSKEGON 4 AT PEORIA 6MILWAUKEE 5 AT SALT LAKE 1SAT. NOV. 9SAGINAW 5 AT FORT WAYNE 4MUSKEGON 6 AT KALMAMAZOO 3FLINT 8 AT PEORIA 2SUN. NOV. 10INDIANAPOLIS 4 AT FORT WAYNE 6<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-1421/5556805-1-eng-US/f0044-142.jpg" title="f0044-14" width="530" height="443"></div><h3>TOP GOALTENDERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-1521/5556798-1-eng-US/f0044-152.jpg" title="f0044-15" width="557" height="178"></div><h2>ACHL</h2>(STANDINGS ON WED. NOV. 13)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-1620/5556791-1-eng-US/f0044-162.jpg" title="f0044-16" width="536" height="176"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>FRI. NOV. 8CAROLINIA AT VIRGIANIA (PPD)NEW YORK 4 AT ERIE 8SAT. NOV. 9MO. VALLEY 2 AT ERIE 6NEW YORK 2 AT VIRGINIA 3SUN. NOV. 10CAROLINA 5 AT VIRGINIA 2<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-1720/5556784-1-eng-US/f0044-172.jpg" title="f0044-17" width="542" height="229"></div><h3>TOP GOALTENDERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-1819/5556777-1-eng-US/f0044-182.jpg" title="f0044-18" width="557" height="118"></div><h2>WHL</h2>(STANDINGS ON WED. NOV. 13)<h3>EAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-1917/5556770-1-eng-US/f0044-192.jpg" title="f0044-19" width="530" height="263"></div><h3>WEST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-2015/5556763-1-eng-US/f0044-202.jpg" title="f0044-20" width="532" height="203"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>TUE. NOV. 5LETHBRIDGE 7 AT BRANDON 10MEDICINE HAT 10 AT SASKATOON 5SEATTLE 3 AT VICTORIA 5WED. NOV. 6PORTLAND 4 AT KAMLOOPS 5BRANDON 5 AT MOOSE JAW 6MEDICINE HAT 3 AT PRINCE ALBERT 2LETHBRIDGE 4 AT REGINA 6THU. NOV. 7PORTLAND 5 AT SPOKANE 12FRI. NOV. 8SASKATOON 3 AT KAMLOOPS 6MOOSE JAW 3 AT REGINA 5SPOKANE 6 AT SEATTLE 5SAT. NOV. 9CALGARY 3 AT BRANDON 5LETHBRIDGE 2 AT MEDICINE HAT 6SPOKANE 5 AT PORTLAND 6MOOSE JAW 3 AT PRINCE ALBERT 7SASKATOON 6 AT VICTORIA 5SUN. NOV. 10SEATTLE 5 AT NEW WESTMINSTER 4CALGARY 4 AT REGINA 6<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-2113/5556756-1-eng-US/f0044-212.jpg" title="f0044-21" width="533" height="564"></div><h3>TOP GOALTENDERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-2213/5556749-1-eng-US/f0044-222.jpg" title="f0044-22" width="558" height="183"></div><h2>QMJHL</h2>(STANDINGS ON MON. NOV. 11)<h3>ROBERT LEBEL DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-2311/5556742-1-eng-US/f0044-232.jpg" title="f0044-23" width="536" height="176"></div><h3>FRANK DIUO DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-2410/5556735-1-eng-US/f0044-242.jpg" title="f0044-24" width="530" height="203"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>MON. NOV. 4HULL 5 AT LAVAL 4TUE. NOV. 5LONGUEUIL 2 AT HULL 1ST. JEAN 3 AT T-RIVIERES 6WED. NOV. 6T-RIVIERES 8 AT LAVAL 9DRUMMONDVILLE 3 AT SHAWINIGAN 4FRI. NOV. 8LAVAL 2 AT DRUMMONDVILLE 6CHICOUTIMI 5 AT GRANBY 4VERDUN 3 AT LONGUEUIL 2SHAWINIGAN 7 AT ST. JEAN 6SUN. NOV. 10GRANBY 5 AT CHICOUTIMI 10T-RIVIERES 3 AT HULL 7LONGUEUIL 3 AT SHAWINIGAN 8DRUMMONDVILLE 3 AT VERDUN 7<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-2510/5556728-1-eng-US/f0044-252.jpg" title="f0044-25" width="542" height="461"></div><h3>TOP GOALTENDERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-269/5556721-1-eng-US/f0044-262.jpg" title="f0044-26" width="560" height="179"></div><h2>OHL</h2>(STANDINGS ON MON. NOV. 11)<h3>EMMS DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-279/5556714-1-eng-US/f0044-272.jpg" title="f0044-27" width="532" height="261"></div><h3>LEYDEN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-289/5556707-1-eng-US/f0044-282.jpg" title="f0044-28" width="531" height="236"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>TUE. NOV. 5BELLEVILLE 6 AT KINGSTON 9S.S. MARIE 5 AT SUDBURY 11THU. NOV. 7BELLEVILLE 2 AT CORNWALL 4KITCHENER 3 AT GUELPH 2NORTH BAY 6 AT HAMILTON 5TORONTO 5 AT PETERBOROUGH 7OSHAWA 6 AT S.S. MARIE 2LONDON 5 AT WINDSOR 5FRI. NOV. 8HAMILTON 3 AT GUELPH 2PETERBOROUGH 2 AT KINGSTON 0NORTH BAY 5 AT KITCHENER 5WINDSOR 8 AT LONDON 6CORNWALL 5 AT OTTAWA 7OSHAWA 3 AT SUDBURY 6SAT. NOV. 9OTTAWA 7 AT BELLEVILLE 4GUELPH 3 AT TORONTO 3SUN. NOV. 10KINGSTON 6 AT CORNWALL 5WINDSOR 3 AT HAMILTON 0BELLEVILLE 3 AT KITCHENER 6GUELPH 5 AT LONDON 2S.S. MARIE 4 AT NORTH BAY 3OTTAWA 3 AT OSHAWA 6PETERBOROUGH 4 AT TORONTO 0<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-299/5556700-1-eng-US/f0044-292.jpg" title="f0044-29" width="542" height="498"></div><h3>TOP GOALTENDERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-309/5556693-1-eng-US/f0044-302.jpg" title="f0044-30" width="560" height="180"></div><h2>USHL</h2>(STANDINGS ON MON. NOV. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-318/5556686-1-eng-US/f0044-312.jpg" title="f0044-31" width="542" height="294"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>TUE. NOV. 5ROCHESTER 3 AT ST. PAUL 4FRI. NOV. 8ST. PAUL 5 AT SIOUX CITY 6THUNDER BAY 4 AT NORTH IOWA 6ROCHESTER 9 AT DES MOINES 2SAT. NOV. 9THUNDER BAY 2 AT WATERLOO 18ST. PAUL 3 AT ROCHESTER 2NORTH IOWA 4 AT MADISON 3DES MOINES 0 AT DUBUQUE 8SUN. NOV. 10WATERLOO 2 AT DUBUQUE 9THUNDER BAY 1 AT ROCHESTER 6ST. PAUL 2 AT NORTH IOWA 5<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-328/5556679-1-eng-US/f0044-322.jpg" title="f0044-32" width="536" height="324"></div><h2>OSHL</h2>(STANDINGS ON MON. NOV. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-337/5556672-1-eng-US/f0044-332.jpg" title="f0044-33" width="544" height="212"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>FLAMBORO 10, CHATHAM 3FLAMBORO 5, GEORGETOWN 3PETROLIA 6, CAMBRIDGE 5DUNDAS 10, COLLINGWOOD 8CAMBRIDGE 9, DUNDAS 6 &#9632;

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<h2>Mon. Nov. 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0045-01160/5557046-1-eng-US/f0045-012.jpg" title="f0045-01" width="544" height="702"></div><h2>Tue. Nov. 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0045-02107/5557039-1-eng-US/f0045-022.jpg" title="f0045-02" width="546" height="2555"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0045-0379/5557032-1-eng-US/f0045-032.jpg" title="f0045-03" width="539" height="178"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0045-0458/5557025-1-eng-US/f0045-042.jpg" title="f0045-04" width="534" height="176"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0045-0547/5557018-1-eng-US/f0045-052.jpg" title="f0045-05" width="543" height="181"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0045-0641/5557011-1-eng-US/f0045-062.jpg" title="f0045-06" width="536" height="126"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0046-01162/5557004-1-eng-US/f0046-012.jpg" title="f0046-01" width="548" height="726"></div><h2>Wed. Nov. 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0046-02118/5556997-1-eng-US/f0046-022.jpg" title="f0046-02" width="552" height="2793"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0046-0382/5556990-1-eng-US/f0046-032.jpg" title="f0046-03" width="562" height="2837"></div><h2>Thu. Nov. 7</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0046-0469/5556983-1-eng-US/f0046-042.jpg" title="f0046-04" width="552" height="724"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0046-0551/5556976-1-eng-US/f0046-052.jpg" title="f0046-05" width="558" height="582"></div><h2>Fri. Nov. 8</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0046-0643/5556969-1-eng-US/f0046-062.jpg" title="f0046-06" width="550" height="2997"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0046-0736/5556962-1-eng-US/f0046-072.jpg" title="f0046-07" width="544" height="470"></div><h2>Sat. Nov. 9</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0046-0825/5556955-1-eng-US/f0046-082.jpg" title="f0046-08" width="554" height="412"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0046-0923/5556948-1-eng-US/f0046-092.jpg" title="f0046-09" width="552" height="890"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0047-0393/5556941-1-eng-US/f0047-032.jpg" title="f0047-03" width="567" height="3570"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0047-0468/5556934-1-eng-US/f0047-042.jpg" title="f0047-04" width="542" height="1080"></div><h2>Sun. Nov. 10</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0047-0551/5556927-1-eng-US/f0047-052.jpg" title="f0047-05" width="544" height="1421"></div> &#9632;

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NHL Summaries

<h2>NOVEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0047-01180/5557084-1-eng-US/f0047-012.jpg" title="f0047-01" width="566" height="2705"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0047-02125/5557077-1-eng-US/f0047-022.jpg" title="f0047-02" width="546" height="673"></div> &#9632;

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NHL GAMES TO COME

<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>BOSTON&mdash;John Blum, D, recalled from Moncton of AHL. Al Pedersen, D, recalled from Milwaukee of IHL and reassigned to Moncton. INJURE&mdash;Louis Sleigher, RW, Mats Thelin, D. Thelin out on day-to-day basis, Sleigher one more week.CALGARY&mdash;Yves Courteau, LW, returned to Moncton of AHL. Paul Reinhart, D, sidelined indefinitely with back problem.CHICAGO&mdash;Bruce Cassidy, D, and Warren Skorodenski, G, recalled from Nova Scotia of AHL. Keith Brown, D, back from injury list. INJURE&mdash;Bob Sauve, G, Steve Ludzik, LW. Sauve out 5 weeks with pulled hamstring muscle. Ludzik also sidelined 5 weeks with broken foot.DETROIT&mdash;Harold Snepsts, D, back from injury list. Tim Friday, D, out 2-3 weeks after reinjuring knee ligaments.EDMONTON&mdash;Ron Low, G, recalled from Nova Scotia of AHL. INJURE&mdash;Grant Fuhr, G, Randy Gregg, D, Don Jackson, D. Jackson out on day-to-day basis, Fuhr sidelined with shoulder sprain and Gregg with rib injury. Both are out indefinitely.HARTFOR&mdash;Mark Paterson, D, recalled frm Binghamton of AHL. Tim Bothwell, D, back from disabled list, and Greg Malone, C, back from injury. INJURE&mdash;Kevin Dineen, RW, Scott Kleinendorst, D. Dineen out on day-to-day basis, Kleinendorst sidelined for 6 weeks.LOS ANGELES&mdash;Bryan Erickson, RW, assigned to New Haven of AHL. INJURE&mdash;Glen Currie, C, Mark Hardy, D. Both sidelined for 3-4 weeks more.MINNESOTA&mdash;Dan Mandich, D, Bo Berglund, C, Jim Archibald, RW, and Mats Hallin, RW, recalled from Springfield of AHL. Willi Plett, RW, back from injury list. Ward Komonosky, G, recalled from Indianapolis of IHL and reassigned to New York of ACHL. INJURE&mdash;Tim Coulis, LW, Steve Payne, LW, Tom Hirsch, D. Coulis, Payne and Hirsch indefinitely.MONTREAL&mdash;Claude Lemieux, RW, and Serge Boisvert, RW, assigned to Sherbrooke of AHL but later recalled to NHL. INJURE&mdash;Mario Tremblay, RW, Lucien DeBlois, RW. Both players out indefinitely.NEW JERSEY&mdash;Randy Velischek, D, and Ken Daneyko, D, assigned to Maine of AHL. Perry Anderson, LW, back from injury list. INJURE&mdash;Craig Wolanin, D, John McLean, RW. Both players out on day-to-day basis.NY ISLANDERS&mdash;Ken Leiter, D, and Glen Johannesen, LW, recalled from Springfield of AHL. Bob Bourne, LW, back from injury list. INJURE&mdash;Roger Kortko, C, Randy Boyd, D, Ari Haanpaa, LW, Clark Gillies, LW, Brent Sutter, C, Greg &ouml;ilbert, LW, Bob Nystrom, RW, Mikko Makela, LW. Kortko out on day-to-day basis with virus. Boyd sidelined 3 weeks with cracked ribs, Haanpaa out 3-5 weeks with shoulder injury, Gillies, Sutter, Nystrom and Makela out indefinitely. Gilbert due back after one more week.NY RANGERS&mdash;Ron Scott, G, recalled from New Haven of AHL. Terry Kleisinger, G, sent to New Haven as replacement. Dave Gagner, RW, also assigned to New Haven. James Patrick, D, and Tomas Sandstrom, RW, back from injury list. INJURE&mdash;George McPhee, Simo Saarinen, D. McPhee out 10 days with thumb injury, Saarinen sidelind indefinitely.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Darren Jensen, G, recalled from Hershey of AHL as replacement for Pelle Lindbergh, G, who has been critically injured in an automobile accident. Daryl Stanley, D, sent to Hershey. Rick Tocchet, RW, out on day-today basis with lacerated finger.PITTSBURGH&mdash;Mike Rowe, D, recalled from Baltimore of AHL. Jim McGeough, C, and Mike Blaisdell, RW, back from injury list. INJURE&mdash;Norm Schmidt, D, Gilles Meloche, G, Ville Siren, D. Schmidt on day-to-day basis, Meloche out two weeks with broken finger and Siren sidelined 4 more weeks. QUEBEC&mdash;Jeff Brown, D, returned to Sudbury of OHL. Mark Kumpel, RW, and Normand Rochefort, D, back from injury list. Trevor Stienburg, RW, out indefinitely with torn knee ligaments. Ed Lee, C, informed Nordiques he was quitting hockey after leaving the Fredericton team of the AHL.ST. LOUIS&mdash;Rob Brownlie, D, signed as free agent from Ferris State and assigned to Peoria of IHL. Rick Wamsley, G, back from injury list. Doug Wickenheiser, C, still out indefinitely.TORONTO&mdash;Gary McAdam, RW, recalled from St. Catharines of AHL. INJURE&mdash;Jim Korn, RW, Bill Root, D. Korn out indefinitely, Root on day-to-day basis.VANCOUVER&mdash;Gary Lupul, LW, assigned to Fredericton of AHL. INJURE&mdash;Craig Coxe, C, Ron Delorme, RW. Coxe out on day-to-day basis, Delorme indefinitely.WASHINGTON&mdash;Larry Murphy, D, back from injury list. INJURE&mdash;Scott Stevens, D, Rod Langway, D, Dave Jensen, C. Stevens out on day-to-day basis with bruised knee, Langway two more weeks with bruised foot, Jensen indefinitely.WINNIPEG&mdash;Bobby Dollas, D, returned to Sherbrooke of AHL. Ryan Stewart, RW, sent back to Kamloops of WHL. Dave Silk, RW, and Doug Smail, LW, back from injury list. Jim Nill, RW, out one more week with shoulder separation.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>BALTIMORE&mdash;John Del Col, LW, assigned to Muskegon of IHL. Glen Sharpley, RW, released outright.HERSHEY&mdash;Bill Schafhauser, D, assigned to Kalamazoo of IHL.MAINE&mdash;Archie Henderson, RW, suspended indefinitely by AHL.NEW HAVEN&mdash;Dave Hainsworth, G, signed as free agent to pro tryout.NOVA SCOTIA&mdash;Jim Camazzola, LW, sent to Saginaw of IHL.SPRINGFIEL&mdash;Mike Neill, D, returned to Indianapolis of IHL. &#9632;

TRANSACTIONS

<h2>GOAL SCORING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0047-0640/5557153-1-eng-US/f0047-062.jpg" title="f0047-06" width="514" height="243"></div><h2>ASSISTS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0047-0736/5557146-1-eng-US/f0047-072.jpg" title="f0047-07" width="485" height="242"></div><h2>INDIVIDUAL ROOKIE LEADERS</h2><h3>GOAL SCORING</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0047-0825/5557139-1-eng-US/f0047-082.jpg" title="f0047-08" width="512" height="272"></div> &#9632;

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NHL INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

Dale Hawerchuk of the Winnipeg Jets moved further ahead in the individual Molson Cup three-star voting and the Jets&rsquo; captain&rsquo;s point splurge was typical of the voting in all six Canadian cities.The look at the top of the first segment Molson voting was virtually unchanged in the course of one week. Five of the six leaders were still on top, including Hawerchuk.Mats Naslund of Montreal, Toronto&rsquo;s Rick Vaive, Dan Quinn of Calgary and goalie Richard Brodeur of Vancouver were the other early leaders still holding their first-place margins, although Vaive was tied with Greg Terrion.The only major voting change occurred in Edmonton, where Wayne Gretzky began to get untracked.MONTREAL&mdash;Swedish delight Mats Naslund, off to his best career start with 10 goals in eight games, collected 35 points and held a healthy edge over fellow Swede Kjell Dahlin and rookie Stephane Richer, each with 10.TORONTO&mdash;Vaive and Terrion shared the Molson Cup lead with 10 points each but it was obvious from the low selection point total that the Leafs&rsquo; pathetic on-ice performance, 11 losses in their first 13 games, was reflected in the three-star balloting.WINNIPEG&mdash;Hawerchuk, the Jets&rsquo; perennial leader and past Molson Cup winner, was again the choice of the selectors. He led with 20 points.CALGARY&mdash;Center Dan Quinn continued to make his mark in the three-star voting as he raised his season point output to 20 to hold first place.EDMONTON&mdash;After goalie Andy Moog and center Mark Messier jumped into the early Molson Cup lead, Gretzky came on strong with his spectacular offensive touch to lead the Oilers to 11 wins in 13 starts and grab 25 three-star points.VANCOUVER&mdash;Netminder Richard Brodeur, displaying some outstanding goaltending to put the Canucks back in the thick of the Smythe Division race, had 25 Molson Cup points to hold his lead. Tony Tanti was second with 20. &#9632;

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