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April 18, 1986
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Winnipeg Jets In Tough Against Calgary Flames
WINNIPEG—Through no fault of their own, the Winnipeg Jets captured third place in the Smythe Division. Winners of the Turtle Derby, a ponderously slow race between the Vancouver Canucks, Los Angeles Kings and themselves, the Jets fell heir to third place with a 26-47-7 record—their sick-since the forgettable, nine-win 198081 season. Waiting until the final minutes of the 1985-86 regular schedule to learn of their fate, the Jets accepted third place and the dubious honor of a crack at Calgary Flames in the first round of playoffs when the Canucks lost to the Edmonton Oilers 3-2. “Let’s forget about what happened in the schedule,” said Randy Carlyle, the Jets’ best player. “It doesn’t matter now. It’s a brand new season.” ‘Let’s forget about what happened in the schedule. It doesn’t matter now. It’s a…
Castoffs Search For Miracles In Moscow
Of all the pitfalls—and be assured there are many—that hastily-assembled Team Canada must face on the way to the 1986 World Championships in Moscow, overconfidence isn’t likely to be one of them. Ditto for their country cousins on Team USA. The day after the National Hockey League regular season ended, Alan Eagleson, in Toronto, and Team USA general manager Art Berglund, in Totowa, N.J., tried to put the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle together while the engines of their respective airplanes were warming up on the runway for flights overseas. And when the two clubs arrived in Finland for the briefest of training camps before moving on to Moscow for the April 12-28 tournament, you can be sure the Soviets and Czechoslovakians were not shaking in the boots of their skates. With all due…
THN STATISTICS NHL SUMMARIES
NHL HOME AND ROAD RECORDS —TEAMS’ HOME-AND-ROAD RECORD— —TEAMS’ DIVISIONAL RECORD — —INDIVIDUAL LEADERS— Mon. Mar. 31 FIRST: NYR 1 — Miller 12 (Maloney, Allison) 1:02; 2 — Sandstrom 25 (Huber, Helminen) 2:57; 3 — MacLellan 15 (Sandstrom, Greschner) 16:59 (pp). Pen—Wiemer (NY) 8:01; Muller (NJ), Daneyko (NJ) 11:17; Greschner (NY) 12:41; Daneyko (NJ) 15:34; Greschner (NY) 19:54. SECOND: NYR 4 — Patrick 12 (Sandstrom, Crawford) 12:01; 5 — MacLellan 16 (Greschner, Paiement) 14:30 (pp); 6 — Miller 13, 14:50. Pen—Higgins (NJ) 12:34; Lewis (NJ) 19:22. THIRD: NYR 7 — Ruotsalainen 16 (Maloney, Allison) 3:08; 8 — Paiement 8 (MacLellan, Crawford) 4:42; 9 — Patrick 13 (Ruotsalainen, Paiement) 13:33. Pen—Daneyko (NJ), Ridley (NY) majors, 0:4/; MacLellan (NJ) 5:40; MacLellan (NY), Cirella (NJ) majors, 6:47; Velischek (NJ) 8:25; Sandstrom (NY) 9:39; Anderson (NJ) minor, major, Malonev (NY) maior. 11:41. PP Conversions, NJ…
Goalies Share Only One Trait-Excellence
LONG ISLAND—There were two major reasons why the Islanders gained the Stanley Cup playoffs for the 12th consecutive year. Their names are Bill Smith and Kelly Hrudey. Both goalies played extremely well down the stretch. Smith entered the final week of the regular season with a 4-1-1 record for six starts. During the same period, Hrudey was 4-2-1 for seven outings and was second only to Philadelphia’s Bob Froese in save percentage. The Islanders relied almost exclusively on Smith in past playoffs, and he usually came through for them, especially while they were winning four Stanley Cups from 1980 through 1983. He holds goaltender playoff records for most games played (130), most minutes played (7,577) and most victories (88). Hrudey, on the other hand, lacks playoff experience. He got his playoff baptism last spring,…