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September 18, 1987
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BOSTON—Louis Sleigher, C, retired from hockey after failing to recover from groin injury. BUFFALO—Phil Housley, D, signed multi-year contract. CALGARY—Brian Bradley, C, assigned to Canadian Olympic Team on loan. CHICAGO—Ed Olczyk, RW-C, and Al Secord, LW, traded to Toronto for Rick Vaive, RW, Steve Thomas, LW, and Bob McGill, D. EDMONTON—Jari Kurri, RW, Kevin Lowe, D, and Esa Tikkanen, LW, signed new multi-year contracts HARTFORD—Steve Weeks, G, Sylvain Cote, D, Doug Jarvis, C, and Shane Churla, RW, all signed to multi-year contracts. Kevin Dineen, RW, sidelined indefinitely with ankle injury sustained while playing for Team Canada. LOS ANGELES—Bob Kudelski, C, from Yale University, signed to pro contract. Petr Prajsler, D, of Czechoslovakia signed to NHL contract. MINNESOTA—Brian Lawton, C, sidelined indefinitely after undergoing knee surgery. MONTREAL—Ryan Walter, LW, and Claude Lemieux, RW, signed to multi-year contracts. NY ISLANDERS—Duane Sutter,…
NEXT WEEK
In next week’s Sept. 25 issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, we will provide you with the answer to the most complex hockey question there is: Who is the best player in the world today? It’s a timely query, what with the best players on the best teams in the world gathered for the 1987 Canada Cup. And in addition to that, we’ll have a complete Canada Cup report orwrap-up, depending upon whether the final goes two games or three games. Regardless, we’ll offer a unique perspective on the six-nation tournament. But we’ll also continue to update all that is happening in the National Hockey League. Plus, we’ll present our annual preview of the Canadian Hockey League, with separate stories on the Western, Ontario and Quebec Leagues. Don’t miss all that plus much more in next…
Poor Starts Led To A Terrible Finnish
Hopeful expectations dissolved into unfulfilled potential for Finland at the Canada Cup. Boasting a lineup of 13 players with NHL experience—including Jari Kurri, Esa Tikkanen, Petri Skriko, Mikko Makela and Christian Ruuttu—more was expected of the Finns than an 0-5 record. Probably the most talented group of Finnish players ever assembled, the team produced Finland’s worst round-robin record in three Canada Cup appearances. Finland’s victory total over three tournaments remains one—an 8-6 shootout over Scandinavian rival Sweden in 1976. Finland was 0-4-1 in I981,and didn’t participate in 1984. “I would put it this way,” said assistant coach Juhani Tamminen, “we lacked the peak play which we had to have to do well.” Instead, the Canada Cup was Death Valley for Finland. And much of its poor showing could be traced to the ineffectiveness of…
Czechoslovaks’ Goal Is Consistency
They blow hot. They blow cold. And no one knows just what to expect from Czechoslovakia’s national team. In two words, the Czechoslovak national team is “consistently inconsistent.” And they’ve been that way for some time now. But team officials, riding the high of back-to-back victories over Finland and the United States in Sydney, N.S., which put the Czechoslovaks up against Canada in one Canada Cup semi-final, believe they may well have turned the corner in becoming a consistent threat. At least that’s how an optimistic coach Jan Starsi saw it after his team played a strong defensive game to beat the Americans 3-1, quashing U.S. hopes of advancing to tournament semi-final action. The U.S. had needed only a tie to advance at the expense of Czechoslovakia. “I don’t know what it is,” Starsi…
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