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January 30, 1987
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Elder Statesman Chico After One Last Cup
PHILADELPHIA—38-year-old man on a joyride, Glenn (Chico) Resch cruises down the New Jersey Turnpike every day like his exit will never come up. “I’ve been up and down that road hundreds of times,” Resch said. “And it gets shorter and shorter all the time. If we weren’t winning, I’d probably be taking the wrong exits and getting into accidents.” As the crow flies, it’s about 90 miles each way from Resch’s home in Ridgewood, N.J., to the Flyers’ training facility in Voorhees, N.J. And just a little farther to the Spectrum. The Flyers are flying a lot faster than the crows that flock behind them in the National Hockey League overall standings, and Resch, at his advanced age, is keeping up with the pace. You and I might smell only oil refineries on Resch’s…
MICRON JUNIOR PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
ONTARIO LEAGUE After a shaky start, the Kitchener Rangers are on the road back behind the leadership of left winger Dave Lana. Latta, a Quebec Nordique 1985 draft pick who began the year with the NHL team, was chosen OHL Player of the Week after sparking Kitchener with 11 points, five of them goals. WESTERN LEAGUE Rob Brown won the scoring title last season with 173 points and it appears he’s going to repeat in even more prolific fashion. The Kamloops center was named WHL Player of the Week after he collected 14 points in 3 games. That outburst raised his totals to 117 points with half the schedule still to go. QUEBEC LEAGUE Shane MacEachern needed 70 games to score 20 goals last season but things are different this year. The 19-year-old Hull center got the nod…
EXETER
Now in its 16th season, the Exeter Hockey School has trained more than 10,000 young hockey players, ranging In age from 10 to 17. The program is sponsored by Phillips Exeter Academy, located in Exeter, N.H., 50 miles north of Boston, eight miles southwest of Portsmouth, NH. Phillips Exter Academy is an independent, co-educational, residential secondary school. The two one-week sessions and three two-week sessions are divided into three divisions, 180 players in addition to 36 goalies. Each division has four teams and plays a nine-game league schedule. The students train on two rinks in a rYiulti-million dollar gymnasium complex. Each student has four hours of ice time a day. Games are played in the evenings. Mornings are devoted to fundamentalsand individual drills, while afternoons are filled with systems and group…
Wolves Hope To Be Led From Wilderness
SUDBURY, Ont.—Like an injured hockey player, Sudbury Wolves’ wounded franchise has been making day-to-day progress. Battered and bruised from taking a financial beating the past six years, the Ontario League franchise was rescued in late November by Sudbury businessman Ken Burgess, who bought the team for a purchase price in the range of $600,000. The first thing Burgess did was hold a meeting with the players to announce that associate Marcel Bedard would fill a new full-time position—director of operations. Burgess also assured the players that Guy Blanchard was remaining as coach and general manager. Part of the bad scene in Sudbury has been the constant firing of coaches. Blanchard became the ninth to step behind the bench in the past six years, when he took over from Wayne Maxner at the start of…
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