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September 12, 1986
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Thanks For The Memories
Sperstars they weren’t but Leo Boivin, Dave Keon and Serge Savard represented something every bit as important to the National Hockey League during their playing careers. They were entrenched strongly in the second plateau of players, the exceptional workers who are important members of their teams. Sometimes theirs and the excellence of others like them goes unnoticed but never for long. The cream, after all, does always rise to the top. Boivin, Keon and Savard will officially join the creme de la creme in the Hockey Hall of Fame at induction ceremonies on Sept. 10 in Vancouver. Each of them reflects a triumph of style and substance. • Boivin is often remembered when the dearth of clean, open-ice bodychecking in the modem game is lamented. During his 18-season National Hockey League career, 12 of those…
Blues Aim To Keep Demers From Wings
ST. LOUIS—On June 21, on the floor of the Montreal Forum during the National Hockey League entry draft, Blues owner Harry Omest made a public show of embracing ex-coach Jacques Demers. Describing his feelings as Omest approached, Demers said then, “I didn’t know how to handle it. But Harry came and wished me luck. He said he’d be my friend for the rest of my life. He showed a lot of class.” But less than two months later, on Aug. 14, Omest slapped Demers with a lawsuit in St. Louis County Court. The suit seeks to keep Demers from coaching in the NHL for the next three seasons. It does not seek damages. The Blues argue that when Demers left in June for a five-year, $1.1 million deal with the Detroit Red Wings,…
Goaltender Takes Last Shot Will He Stop It Or Miss It?
REMEMBERING ANOTHER TIME, another circumstance, Dave King made a mid-winter telephone call, then thought nothing further of it. “If you ever get back that ‘edge” he said on the phone, “call me.” A few weeks ago, Mike Moffat belatedly returned his call. They were once a golden duo. Dave King and Mike Moffat were hockey’s best young coach and best young goal tender. Together they were so much the reason Team Canada won its first world junior hockey championship. King went on to coach in the Olympic Games and turn down several lucrative offers to coach in the National Hockey League. Moffat went from the junior national team to the Boston Bruins, where he was quickly hailed as a Stanley Cup hero. King is still the Olympic coach. And Moffat was one of four goaltenders…
Knights Take It To The Max For New Coach
LONDON—Hockey fans in London will have to learn to love the’man they used to hate with a passion. Wayne Maxner, for years the bench boss of arch-rival Windsor Spitfires, was named new coach of the Ontario League’s Knights just before training camp. He replaces Don Boyd as coach and general manager. The 43-year-old Maxner had been out of hockey since being let go by the Sudbury Wolves at the end of last season. He was working with an auto parts firm in Windsor. Boyd bolted the Knights unexpectedly on July 22 to take the vacant coaching position with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. “I never thought this day would happen,” said Knights’ vice-president Bill Long, who was Maxner’s junior coach in Niagara Falls 25 years ago. as he watched London trainer Don Brank-ley shake…
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