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May 16, 1986
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Carpenter Trying To Build Winner
EAST RUTHERFORD—In two seasons he has won more games than any coach in the history of the Kansas City-Colorado-New Jersey franchise, but Doug Carpenter does not yet consider himself a true success. “We didn’t make the playoffs. That’s the bottom line,” he says. He is, of course, correct. The bottom line is making the playoffs and the Devils have not accomplished that in four seasons in New Jersey. Yet as Carpenter heads toward his third season behind the Devils’ bench with a two-year record of 50-97-13, his stock continues to rise and it becomes clearer that John McMullen and his staff made a solid move in hiring the native of Cornwall, Ont., who had been overlooked in the Toronto Maple Leaf organization. “Doug had a good, solid year and there’s every reason to believe…
WORLD HOCKEY SCOREBOARD PLAYOFF SUMMARIES
PRELIMINARY ROUND (FINAL STANDINGS) GAMES COMPLETED SAT. APR. 12 CANADA 8, WEST GERMANY 3 FINLAND 5, UNITED STATES 4 POLAND 2, CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1 SOVIET UNION 4, SWEDEN 2 SUN. APR. 13 SWEDEN 4, CANADA 1 UNITED STATES 7, POLAND 2 SOVIET UNION 4, FINLAND 1 W. GERMANY 4, CZECHOSLOVAKIA 3 TUE. APR. 15 SWEDEN 3, CZECHOSLOVAKIA 2 UNITED STATES 9, W. GERMANY 2 SOVIET UNION 7, POLAND 2 FINLAND 3, CANADA 2 WED. APR. 16 FINLAND 1, CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1 CANADA 8, POLAND 3 SOVIET UNION 4, W. GERMANY 1 SWEDEN 5, UNITED STATES 2 FRI. APR. 18 SWEDEN 4, WEST GERMANY 2 FINLAND 4, POLAND 2 SOVIET UNION 4, CANADA 0 CZECHOSLOVAKIA 5, UNITED STATES 2 SAT. APR. 19 SWEDEN 12, POLAND 3 FINLAND 10, WEST GERMANY 1 SUN. APR. 20 CANADA 4, UNITED STATES 2 SOVIET UNION 4, CZECHOSLOVAKIA 2 MON. APR. 21 WEST GERMANY 4, POLAND 1 SWEDEN 4, FINLAND 4 TUE. APR. 22 CZECHOSLOVAKIA 3, CANADA 1 SOVIET UNION 5, UNITED STATES 1 (END OF PRELIMINARY ROUND) CHAMPIONSHIP…
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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. The Fuzzy Picture THE STANLEY CUP playoffs allow us to tune out all that does not take place between the boards, but it will soon be time to tune into what may develop into a major problem for the game. We’re talking about NHL TV wars. Almost lost among the excitement generated by the playoff upsets was CTV’s announcement that it would not renew its option to telecast an NHL game-of-the-week package next season. CTV cited poorer-than-anticipated ratings and being forced to deal with regional blackouts as major reasons for pulling the plug. That means Carling O’Keefe, which owns the rights to telecast the games for the next two seasons, could be left holding the bag,…
New York’s Playoff Magic Missing
NEW YORK—They had come so far and overcome so much that it was all the more difficult for the New York Rangers to accept how little they were able to accomplish in the first two games of the semi-final round at Montreal. “If we play the way we have in the first two games.” Ranger defenseman James Patrick said after the Canadiens had rolled to a 6-2 victory in Game Two, “we’ll be out in four. “They outworked us, outhit us and outplayed us in every way. It was like we were 20 individuals instead of a team.” The Rangers, who had won series openers on the road at both Philadelphia and Washington, never seemed to get rolling in their first playoff meeting with the disciplined, defense-minded Canadiens. “I don’t think we had the…
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