Search for your favorite player or team
© The Hockey News. All rights reserved. Any and all material on this website cannot be used, reproduced, or distributed without prior written permission from Roustan Media Ltd. For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
September 12, 1986
The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.
Boxcar Among New Faces At Flyers’ Train(ing) Camp
PHILADELPHIA—One by one, the players are starting to arrive back in the Philadelphia area for the start of the Flyers’ training camp. It hasn’t been the most eventful of summers, but a couple of changes have taken place which will give the Flyers a slightly different look as they head into their 20th NHL training camp—and their third under head coach Mike Keenan. The newest face might actually belong to Keenan himself. The Flyers’ drill sergeant shaved off his moustache early in the summer, and it might still be off come training camp. Other than that, the most interesting new face among the 61 expected at training camp might be that of defenseman J.J. Daigneault, who was acquired from the Vancouver Canucks in an early-summer deal which sent forward Rich Sutter and defenseman…
Kelly Laments Probable End To His Career
LOS ANGELES—J.P. Kelly is “very, very scared.” A veteran of seven seasons with the Kings, the left winger’s contract has been bought out by the club, in essence putting him on the unemployment line. “I’m in a very depressed state,” Kelly said from his home in Alberta. “I’m 26 years old and I don’t have a job. I’m probably done and it’s a very frightening feeling.” The 6-foot, 215-pounder known as “Jeep” due to his muscular build and ferocious bodychecks was entering the option year of a four-year contract he had signed following a 16-goal season in 1982-83. Kings’ general manager Rogie Vachon, who is counting on rookie left wingers Luc Robitaille and Craig Dun-canson to make the team in camp, offered Kelly a termination contract. He accepted it, then was bought out. LOS ANGELESKINGS “I’ve…
Team Canada’s Dave King Looks For It, But It’s Difficult To Find
The operative word on Canada’s Olympic hockey team this season is commitment. Dave King wanted one. Not every candidate for the team was prepared to give him one. So when the 23 members of Canada’s national team left for their European tour in mid August, only eight players from last year’s team made the trip. Of the three players selected in the first round of the 1986 entry draft, only one—defenseman Zarley Zalapski, chosen fourth overall by Pittsburgh Penguins—has apparently agreed to King’s demands for a two-year commitment to the program. (Editor’s’Note: Zalapski’s agent. Don Meehan of Toronto, says his understanding of the commitment is that it is for one year, but added that his client may already have or eventually will extend it to two.} Accordingly, when Canada’s national hockey team launched…
Pezzin Lands On His Feet—Again
BRANDON—Marc Pezzin has various scratches and scrapes to show for:umbles off the Western League merry-go-round. Pezzin was twice fired as general manager of the Spokane Chiefs last season and twice relieved as coach of the franchise which moved from British Columbia after the 1984-85 season. rhe club had spent three seasons in Kelowna under the guidance of Pezzin who was GM and coach. But Pezzin has dusted himself off and climbed right back on the wild WHL ride. The Brandon Wheat Kings announced Aug. 26 that the 36-year-old Pezzin is their new coach, filling the void left by Gord Lane, who during the off-season accepted a position as player-assistant coach of the American League’s Springfield Indians. The appointment of Pezzin is the final piece in the restructured Brandon puzzle. The Wheat Kings, seventh in…
Made possible with the support of
