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March 6, 1987
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Winnipeg Superstar Key To Club Fortunes
Is Dale Hawerchuk leading Winnipeg Jets to the Promised Land? “You bet he is,” says Rick Bowness, an assistant coach of the Winnipeg Jets. “He’s a game-breaker and every team needs one to go that far.” The 23-year-old center is the Jets’ ticket to the top. But he knows what a Herculean task lies ahead. “It’s a tough division, the Smythe is,” he said. “But if we ever got past Edmonton and Calgary, our confidence level would be so high we would be awfully hard to stop.” This is Hawerchuk’s sixth National Hockey League and he should crack the 100-point barrier for the fifth time. A careful balance of goals and assists and a steady flow of points all but assures him of a return to the select circle. But, more importantly, he feels excited…
Jets’ Rookie Goaltenders Save The Day
After finishing his meal, Pokey Reddick dropped five quarters on the table and walked out of the coffee shop at the Hilton Hotel in Quebec City. “Excusez, monsieur,” said the curious waitress, to one of Reddick’s companions. “Is he a hockey player, too?” People are aware that more black players are performing in the National Hockey League these days—but how long, they ask, have midgets been playing? Reddick, 5-foot-8, is sensitive about his size, but he can take sweet solace in the fact he’s bigger, if not taller, than his 5-foot-9, 147-pound teammate—fellow goaltender Daniel Berthiaume. They are Pokey and the Bandit. Together, the two rookies have jealously guarded the nets in the Winnipeg Jets’ rise from obscurity to prominence. “People keep waiting for us to fall on our faces,” said Reddick. “They say we’ll break…
Suter Working To Regain First-Year Form
CALGARY—First, some pertinent background information. Gary Suter is not: (A) From Viking, Alta.; (B) The seventh NHL son of Louis, patriarch of the famous Sutter clan; and (C) A product of the Lethbridge Broncos. The 22-year-old Suter is: (A) Last year’s Calder Trophy winner; (B) Part of the Calgary Flames’ defensive nucleus; and (C) Struggling. Suter’s second season in the National Hockey League isn’t going as smoothly and efficiently as the first. Not by a long shot. Everything fell into place for the rookie defenseman from Madison, Wisc. He was steady early and spectacular later, going on a scoring spree to overtake the two early Calder Trophy leaders—Kjell Dahlin and Wendel Clark—and become one of a handful of defensemen to capture the prestigious award. ‘Not another sophomore jinx story.’—Suter Two-thirds of the way through the…
NMU Wildcats Could Have Been Contenders
MARQUETTE, Mich.—Just how good Northern Michigan could have been this season, nobody will ever know. The Wildcats, beset by injury problems all year, still went into the final weekend of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association with a valid shot at finishing in the first division. That’s not bad for a team that has had players miss a total of 130 mangames because of injuries. ‘We haven’t had a horrible year.’—Comley “We never really got it going this year, so I don’t know how good we could have been,” coach Rick Comley said. “We haven’t had a horrible year, but we haven’t had a great year, either.” What has hurt most of all is that the big line of Gary Emmons, Joe West and Ralph Vos has hardly been together at all because of injuries. Emmons, Northern…
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