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October 17, 1986
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San Fran Nice But First L. A. Needs Team
FACTS AND OPINIONS… FACT: Gil Perreault returns to the Buffalo Sabres. OPINION: To tell you the truth. I held back my tears when Gil announced his “retirement” way back when. Then I got all excited when he said he’d make a “comeback.” What I was hoping was that he’d wind up in Edmonton and play alongside Wayne Gretzky. That would have been something to see. But Gil back in Buffalo, playing out the string, moves me about as much as a re-run of Bela Lugosi in “Zombies on Broadway.” Me. Igo along with Oilers’ chief scout Barry Fraser and his cynicism about the Sabres. Fraser: “The Sabres will never win the Stanley Cup, not ever. Not in my lifetime anyway.” FACT: Stanley Cup hero Claude Lemieux says he knows some opponents are going…
Terriers Terrors Of Hockey East?
It’s Year No. 3 for Hockey East. And it will be the year of the Terrier, as well as the year of the single-game playoff round, the year that the regular-season standings mean a little something, and the year of homecoming. Boston University is expected to dominate Hockey East from start to finish. Nobody can touch BU for returning talent and experience. Period. The Terriers will finish first and earn one of two playoff quarter-final round byds. Because the rest of the league will be a mad scramble for second place and the second bye, it ought to be interesting right down to the final week. Further, the last-place team will be eliminated from post-season play, and the two quarter-final round games in March will be single elimination affairs. Finally, and perhaps most interestingly,…
Swiss Star Wilson Now Fulltime North Star
BLOOMINGTON—Ron Wilson is 31. but says he feels like a rookie. It has been seven years since Wilson attended a National Hockey League training camp and now it is time to learn all over again. He is used to life in Switzerland, where he played the past six seasons before deciding to join the Minnesota North Stars fulltime this fall. He is used to training camps that last nine weeks, camps that devote six weeks to the basics before any exhibition games are even played. He is used to being able to walk to work and to school to pick up his children and he is used to shops that close promptly at 6 p.m. and don’t open at all on Sundays. Wilson may have spent much of his life in Rhode Island,…
The Defense Never Rests In Today’s Hockey
THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 130 defensemen in the National Hockey League, scattered through the teams at a rate of six or seven each. In the 1985-86 season, only IO of those backliners performed in all 80 games played by their clubs. Sure, a few were rested for the occasional game, especially those with heavy mileage on their chassis, and a large number played between 74 and 79 games. But many more missed major segments of the season with injuries. In short, playing defense in the NHL these days is a very tough job. The toll it takes on the human frame is a high one. That’s why most NHL teams are raising their complement of blueliners. Many teams will have eight defensemen on their rosters, although some won’t log large amounts of ice…
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