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May 2, 1986
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Question Marks Surround Bowman And His Defense
BUFFALO—In hockey, there is no such thing as a quick fix. You can’t buy a winner—check with Detroit’s Mike lllitch—and it’s extremely difficult to trade for one. You can really only build one and hope it doesn’t come up short. The Buffalo Sabres failed to make the playoffs this season. So they have obviously come up short. The question is what happens next? “We will make changes,” said Seymour H. Knox 111, the team’s chairman of the board and chief executive officer after his team failed to make the playoffs for the first time in over a decade. “We’ll look at what went wrong and make changes, but we feel this is just an aberration and we’ll be back.” But will Scott Bowman survive? As coach, general manager and director of hockey operations, Bowman has blamed the Sabres’…
Philadelphia Just Didn’t Rise To The Occasion
THE FLYERS SAT before ther questioners calmly, with vacant eyes that suggested shock at having just seen a ghost. Which is really what the New York Rangers, for all their own frustrations at not having won a Stanley Cup in 46 years, have become to the Philadelphia Flyers. They change coaches, change players, but rarely their fourth-place standing. And still, they are there, year after year, to rise above their regular-season level and counterpunch better Flyer teams into an early summer. Supposedly purged a year ago in a three-game Flyer sweep by a slim four-goal margin, the spooks showed up again, this time bearing faint resemblance to the team that had lost six out of seven games this year to Philadelphia and 18 out of 19 over three seasons. They showed up with…
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The International Hockey Weekly Founded in 1947 Published by W.C.C. Publishing Ltd 85 Scarsdale Road, #100, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3B 2R2. Rare Restraint THE BIGGEST SHOCKS registered so far in the Stanley Cup playoffs have not been the failure of the Philadelphia Flyers, Quebec Nordiques and Chicago Blackhawks to advance past the first round. And as for the Calgary Flames’ and New York Rangers’ Game One upsets over the Edmonton Oilers and Washington Capitals, respectively, they are but speed bumps on the road to the Stanley Cup. No, the biggest surprises of this spring’s race to the finals have been provided by the unlikeliest of characters. True characters…such as Toronto Maple Leaf Brad Smith and Montreal Canadien Claude Lemieux. Both players, who are noted as being shift disturbers of the first order, demonstrated a truly rare quality seldom…
Lemieux Challenging Gretzky For Top Honor
If Wayne Gretzky is the people’s choice as THE HOCKEY NEWS-NHL Player of the Year for the 1985-86 season, and he has to be considered the strong favorite, it will be the seventh consecutive year he’s been accorded that honor. Since entering the NHL in the 1979-80 season, the Edmonton Oiler superstar has won just about every honor imaginable. The only blemish, if you can call it that, on his uninterrupted string of THN awards came in 1980-81, he was named co-winner with St. Louis Blue netminder Mike Liut. A year ago, when THN first introduced fan balloting to select both the NHL Player of the Year and THN-Quaker State NHL Rookie of the Year, Gretzky was a runaway winner. No one even came close. That won’t be the case this year. While Gretzky,…
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