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September 26, 1986
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COVER STORY
Encore Is Toughest Performance Even now, the image caught by local television cameras remains embedded in the minds of hockey fans in Quebec, this complex province/nation where the Montreal Canadiens’ CH logo is, as general manager Serge Savard says, the symbol of the French-Canadian race. The image is of a 20-year-old man in a white suit from an upper-middle-class suburb of Quebec City. He is a rookie goaltender and he and his team have just returned home in a chartered jet from Calgary, after winning the Stanley Cup. It is 6:30 a.m. and he is running in heavy fog outside the airport’s main doors, beside an escort of Mounties, through a crowd of 10,000, to a limousine 500 yards away. You knew, from that moment on, that Patrick Roy’s life would never be…
Pair Of Netminders Share No. 1 Billing
CALGARY—Unlike last season, there is no single overriding issue—no ‘Is there Life after Nilsson?’—for the Calgary Flames to deal with in the new year. The Flames answered the Nilsson query with a definitive yes in last season’s playoff, knocking off the heavily-favored Edmonton Oilers in the Smythe Division final and advancing as far as the Stanley Cup championship before they lost in five games to the Montreal Canadiens. Accordingly, when the Flames opened training camp this season, they were flushed with last year’s success—but also aware that it will be a hard act to follow. “When you break it down, the overall question is: Can we repeat?”, said Flames’ coach Bob Johnson. “Can we pick it up where we left off? I’d say yes. I think the chemistry is still there. “If you analyze…
Adams Out To Improve On Best Season Ever
WASHINGTON—The prospect of increased free-agent bargaining power, following the completion of the new owner-player agreement, was tested unsuccessfully by left winger Greg Adams of the Washington Capitals. After Adams’ agent, Brian Burke, explored possibilities with as many as seven other National Hockey League teams, Adams wound up signing a new contract with the Capitals four days before the opening of training camp. “I was hoping the new agreement would give us grinders a little more ability to bargain, and it has, but not much,” Adams said. “Compensation is still a major problem. When you talk compensation you knock a few teams off in a hurry.” In Adams’ case any club signing him would have been required to give Washington a third-round draft pick, according to a formula based on the Capitals’ salary offer. “General…
Inform And Entertain: That Is Our Mandate
CONSIDER THIS the state-of-the-union address of THE HOCKEY NEWS. This issue marks the beginning of THN’s 40th year of publishing. Evolving from humble origins in 1947, we at THN strive to maintain our modesty and let you, our readers, judge the product we present to you 40 times a year. But since it is the first issue of a new volume, there is no better time than now to outline some of the changes/improvements we’ve made for the coming season. The first thing you may notice is the look. There are alterations, but they’re not radical. We like to think it’s a cleaner, more streamlined paper, designed to be easier and more enjoyable to read. We’ve modernized our graphics, livened up the front page and, hopefully, added a little panache to what, admittedly in the…
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