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March 20, 1987
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Gartner First Played Soviets at 15
Mike Gartner was 15 when he realized the dream of many North American hockeyplaying boys. As a member of the Barrie (Ont.) CoOp midget team, Gartner was in Moscow, representing his country in an exhibition tour against Soviet teams. The team won one and tied two of five games. For Gartner, the journey was filled with memorable moments, but not when it came to dinnertime. “The thing that saved us,” he chuckles, “is that we brought a lot of our own food.” The Co-Ops won the right to tour in the USSR after winning the Wrigley midget national championship tournament. That, too, was a highlight. “Representing a town of, at that time, 30,000, and winning the national championship was quite a thrill,” he says. The Barrie Co-ops were the last in a long line of good…
RPI Wins ‘Mini-Game,’ Brushes Off Colgate
HAMILTON, N.Y.—Just two months after they were life-and-death to stay in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Association playoff race, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Engineers earned a spot in the semi-finals at Boston Garden. The Engineers, seeded seventh for the opening round of the tournament, shocked second-seeded Colgate in the quarter-finals and joined top-seeded Harvard, St. Lawrence and Yale in the Garden. Freshman Brian Ferreira and senior Neil Hemberg scored goals in a tiebreaking 10-minute “mini-game,” to give the Engineers the decisive win over the Red Raiders. RPI had won the opening game 9-1, behind a superb performance by sophomore goaltender Steve Duncan, but Colgate came back with a wild 7-2 win in the second game of the series. That forced the 10-minute minigame, which the ECAC uses to settle quarter-final ties. Meanwhile, Harvard—which will play…
An Alternative To NHL’s Whining And Fining
THE NATIONAL HOCKEY League has a problem. I have a solution. But since I won’t be doing that lunch thing with John Ziegler in the near future, I’m left with no other choice than to reveal it here. This is your lucky day. The problem, as I see it, is that refereebashing is getting out of control. Everywhere you turn, including the pages of this publication, someone is taking a shot at the on-ice officials. Vancouver coach Tom Watt calls ‘em fat. New York Islander Bryan Trottier calls ‘em bad. Boston Bruin general manager Harry Sinden calls ‘em liars or cheats, take your pick. Those guys aren’t the exception to the rule either. NHL GMs regularly go into convulsions over officiating. Coaches scream and yell; players rant and rave; and the media chronicles it for…
Tough Guy Afraid Of Mice
Most people save their worst for last; Forbes Kennedy saved his worst. Kennedy played 603 regular-season games over 10 years in the NHL and never set a record. He went on to play in 11 more Stanley Cup playoff games with the same results. But in the 12th, and final, playoff game of his career, he set records for most penalties (eight) and penalty minutes (38) in one contest. It wasn’t exactly the way Kennedy envisioned ending his career, but it was memorable, nonetheless. What started out as a simple slashing call ended up as a melee, after which Kennedy received four minors, two majors, one 10-minute misconduct and one game misconduct. The 1969 quarter-final game was out of reach for Kennedy’s Toronto Maple Leafs, who were trailing the Boston Bruins 10-0. “It was near…
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