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January 10, 1986
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NEXT WEEK IN THN
In next week’s Jan. 17, 1986 issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, we’ll gaze into the crystal ball and come up with an exact forecast of what’s going to happen in 1986. We’ll leave absolutely nothing to chance as we lay out the entire scenario. Really. In addition to that feature, we’ll have a complete wrap-up of the 1986 World Junior Championships in Hamilton, Ont., including game summaries, reports and background pieces on why the winners were winners and the losers were losers. Plus, we’ll be reporting on the Soviets club team—Red Army and Dynamo—tour of National Hockey League cities, as well as a full report on the Spengler Cup. In addition to all that, we’ll have all the news and views from each of the 21 NHL cities as well as the minor…
WCHA Players Might Inspire Bidding Wars
GRAND FORKS—There are few young players in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association of any quality who haven’t already been snapped up in the National Hockey League draft. So, when the ‘86 draft rolls around, don’t look for the WCHA to provide many players. But what the WCHA does have is a wealth of players—quality players—who somehow never got picked in previous drafts. That means some of the WCHA’s top players could become wealthy men if such NHL clubs as Detroit continue to shell out $1 million for college free agents as they did for RPI’s Adam Oates and Illinois-Chicago’s Ray Staszak last summer. With that in mind, here’s one man’s list of 10 WCHA players available to the highest bidder. Only four of them are seniors. The rest are juniors, but that doesn’t mean they…
At Last. There Is Hone For Pittsburgh Penguins
THE PITTSBURGH PENGUINS, who recently left the Spectrum for the 32nd consecutive time without winning, had repealed the law of averages. Certainly the penal code for 18 seasons of poor drafting and bad trading says nothing about any statute of limitations on losing. In fact, one could argue that this is nature—the process of natural selection—at work. The Penguins were bom weak and have fully deserved to be devoured by the Flyers time after time after time. Truth be told, however, while the Flyers were selecting Bernie Parent in the 1967 expansion draft, the Penguins took a guy named Murphy. They have tried many times to put Murphy on waivers, but nobody claims him. Unseen and unwanted, he hovers over this team like a ghost. His Law is inviolate. So it was that…
Anderson Can’t ‘Bear’ To Stay Put
ORONO—Maine Black Bears have lost one of the top-rated players eligible for the 1986 National Hockey League entry draft. Shawn Anderson, a 17-year-old defenseman, left the Black Bears over the Christmas holidays to join the Canadian National Team in Switzerland, where it was participating in the Spengler Cup. The Lasalle, Que., native, who had five goals and eight assists in 16 games during his freshman year, is expected to be among the top selections in next summer’s draft. His departure left Maine coach Shawn Walsh disappointed and perplexed. “I have to question how he wasn’t good enough to play on the national junior team (at the World Junior Championships) but he’s good enough to play on the Olympic team,” said Walsh. “I’m not bitter because I can understand it from (Canadian coach) Dave King’s perspective.…
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