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April 4, 1986
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Russell Brings More Experience To Buffalo
BUFFALO—The Buffalo Sabres were looking for a little veteran defensive help when they picked up Phil Russell from the New Jersey Devils. They didn’t get a little, they got a lot. Russell, 33, and in his 14th National Hockey League season, was pressed into immediate service during a recently-concluded four-game western road swing. He acquitted himself well. “It’s good to know someone still has an interest in a veteran player,” Russell said when he joined the team in St. Louis. “Nowadays, everyone is going with the kids.” The Sabres are certainly no exception in that regard, but Sabres’ coach and general manager Scott Bowman always likes to have a few veterans around for the stretch drive. Russell was available for only the slightest down payment (a conditional 12th-round draft choice). It has already proven to be…
St. Louis Takes Four Easy Steps To A Slump
ST. LOUIS—Just when the St. Louis Blues seemed to be peaking, they fell off a cliff. The defending Norris Division champs had won four of their last five games when they dropped four straight. The Blues, twice just a victory from catching first-place Chicago, ended up falling into third behind Minnesota. It was the Blues’ worst plunge of the season. “This is not the time of the year to go backwards,” said coach Jacques Demers. “Maybe we’ll get it out of our system for the playoffs. We’re definitely going through a bad stretch right now.” And each loss was more bitter than the last. Three of the losses were by one goal. The Blues’ trademark had been to tight-check their way to tight victories. Three of the losses came at The Arena. The Blues had the best…
Lemieux’s Scoring Streak Comes To An End
PITTSBURGH—It was a tale of two streaks—one grueling, the other glorious—both of which sometimes seemed they would stretch to the end of the season. Neither did, however, and so Penguins’ center Mario Lemieux was denied an even more prominent place in the National Hockey League’s record book. The end of the other, however, placed his teammates back into contention for the final Patrick Division playoff berth. It was Lemieux’s 28-game scoring streak—which tied those compiled by Edmonton Oilers’ defenseman Paul Coffey and former Montreal Canadiens’ right wing Guy Lafleur for the fourth-longest in NHL history—which ended first, as Washington held him without a point in a 5-3 Capitals’ victory. Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky has the three longest streaks in league history—51, 39 and 30 games. During Lemieux’s streak, which began with a goal January…
NHL SUMMARIES
Mon. Mar. 17 FIRST: Mtl 1 — Green 3 (Smith) 0:36; 2 — Gainey 18 (Carbonneau, McPhee) 5:57; 3 — Richer 18 (DeBlois, Tremblay) 9:37; Que 4 — Patrick 6 (Goulet, Siltanen) 10:52; 5 — Sauve 16 (Goulet, Siltanen) 13:52 (pp); 6 — Goulet 49 (Hunter) 15:01; Mtl 7 — Nilan (Gingras, Carbonneau) 15:43. Pen—Picard (Q) major, Nilan (M) minor, major 0:36; Gillis (Q) double minor, Ludwig (M) 2:58; Svoboda (M) 13:30. SECOND: Que8 — Goulet 50 (Sauve, P. Stastny) 10:59 (pp). Pen—Robinson (M) 9:27; Moller (Q) 11:43. THIRD: Que 9 — Goulet 51 (Hunter) 0:12; 10 — Goulet 52 (Hunter) 5:43; 11 — Cote 11 (Gillis) 7:54; 12 — Cote 12 (Eagles, Gillis) 10:05; Mtl 13 — Richer 19 (McPhee, Walter) 13:28; 14 — Richer 20 (McPhee, Kurvers) 19:48. Pen—Nilan (M), Ashton (Q) majors 11:56;…
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