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March 14, 1986
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Moncton Goalie Is Making Good
MONCTON—Everything that went wrong for goaltender Cleon Daskalakis last season is going right this time around. Well, almost everything. “I broke my hand after I played four games. That was quite a shock,” the 23-year-old Moncton Golden Flames’ goaltender said. “I said to myself, ‘There’s two ways to look at it: This can be one of those years, or. okay, there’s not that much worse that can happen to me now so as soon as this is over with, everything is going to be better and things are going to start rolling my way. Have they ever. Since returning to the Moncton lineup at the beginning of December, Daskalaskis has played the lead role in the Golden Flames’ charge out of the Northern Division basement. With a month left in the season, the Flames…
Saginaw Stumbles But Still In The Race
SAGINAW—Dennis Desrosiers is glad February is behind him. Even though the damage was minimal. In spite of winning just four of 13 games between Feb. 3 and Feb. 24, the Saginaw Generals lost no ground to the International League’s East Division leading Muskegon Lumberjacks. The Generals started the month just two points behind Muskegon and headed into March still just two away from the division lead. “It’s been a real bad month for us,” said Desrosiers, the Saginaw coach. “We had only about five games at home. When we get this month out of the way, through, we have a real strong March and April at home. That should help Saginaw’s drive to oust Muskegon from the top spot in the East. On the road through Feb. 24. the Generals were 11-20-0; at home they…
Perron On Hot Seat Over Flare-Up, Oilers
MONTREAL—Squabbles happen in the best of families, even in the Montreal Canadiens. And it seems that every time the Canadiens make a foray into the western part of North America, something happens to draw the attention of the folks back home. This time around, it was a simple case of a slight disagreement between rookie center Stephane Richer and veteran right winger Chris Nilan. Nilan, who does not accept shirking in practice, levelled Richer with a body check during a workout in Vancouver following a 3-2 loss in Edmonton the night before. Richer got up and brandished his stick at Nilan who promptly delivered a two-handed whack across the back of Richer’s leg, forcing him off the ice for the remainder of the practice. Oddly enough, there were no witnesses from the Montreal media at…
‘Halo-Less’ Saints Rising AHL Contender
ST. CATHARINES—It’s been nearly 10 years since defenseman Garry Lariviere played for a playoff champion. But in what may be his last season, the 31-year-old player/assistant coach of the St. Catharines Saints may get another chance. In 1976-77, Lariviere was a member of the Avco Cup-champion Quebec Nordiques of the World Hockey Association. If you checked with him 10 games into this season, he certainly couldn’t have been thinking about a possible Calder Cup crown. The Saints were a sorry 2-8 and headed for what appeared to be a season-long stay in the cellar. But with a late February four-game winning streak, the Saints soared into second place in the South, vaulting over the .500 mark. Along the way, they swept a home-and-home series against division-rival Springfield to slip past the Indians in…
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