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August 8, 1986
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Maple Leafs Have A Ball On The Diamond
If the Toronto Maple Leafs could do on the hockey rink what they can do on a soft-ball diamond, the Edmonton Oilers would run and hide. After losing last year’s Molson-NHL Slo-Pitch Classic in Niagara Falls to the Los Angeles Kings, the Maple Leafs stormed back in style to recapture this year’s Mol-son Cup. Despite missing usual stalwarts Greg Terrion (at sister-in-law’s wedding). Bill Derlago (traded) and Stewart Gavin (traded and at his own wedding), the Leafs reached into their bag of tricks and came up with Walt Poddubny and retired Leaf Brad Seiwood. This dynamic duo were largely responsible for the Leafs winning their third tournament in four years. But the Leafs didn’t just beat the opposition, they demolished them. Easily passing through the pre-liminary rounds, the Leafs showed the same style that…
ZZ Tops On Pittsburgh’s List Of Draftees
PITTSBURGH—It is something most teams usually trade for. But during the June 21 entry draft, the Pittsburgh Penguins selected future considerations. That’s because neither of their first two choices—defenseman Zarley Zalapski and center Dave Capuano—give playing for the Penguins a high ranking in their immediate plans. Zalapski said he plans to remain with the Canadian Olympic program while Capuano will enrol) at the University of Maine this fall. “I don’t know if I’m ready to make the jump to the NHL,” Zalapski said. “My plans right now are probably to go back to the Olympic team.” The Penguins still hope to convince Zalapski to join them this season—“We’d like to get him right away,” general manager Eddie Johnston said—but recognize it might be a year or more before he plays a game at the…
Draft Picks Hockey Worlds Apart
PHILADELPHIA—The Philadelphia Flyers took the kid next door, and then quickly went overseas when they selected the first European player in the 1986 entry draft. The kid next door was defenseman Kerry Huffman, 18, of the Guelph Platers in the Ontario League. Huffman is now 6-foot-2, 180 pounds, but was con-sideribly smaller when he lived just up the street from Flyers’ assistant general manager Gary Darling in Peterborough. It was only a coincidence that the Huffmans shared the same street as the Darlings in Peterborough, but it seems more than a coincidence that the Flyers are continually tapping the OHL for talent. Huffman, whom Flyer general manager Bob Clarke calls a “Doug Crossmantype defenseman” was one of three OHL products the Flyers selected with their first four picks. The Flyers have now used…
The ‘Boss’ Fights The Good Fight
Mike Bossy represents a peaceful oasis in the sometimes-violent world of the National Hockey League. Three times he has won the Lady Byng Trophy as the league’s most gentlemanly player. But don’t misunderstand. He is no less determined than his more fractious friends and foes—just focussed differently. “I’ve always been put down throughout my life as a hockey player for not being more aggressive than I am,” Bossy said June 10 at the NHL awards banquet. “Numerous times I’ve been yelled at for not fighting back. But I really don’t look at hockey as a game that needs fighting or needs any of the violence that occurs in many of the games.” Bossy is at the forefront of a hockey minority group which believes fighting should be eliminated from the game. “It’s just not part…
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