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October 2, 1987
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NEXT WEEK
In next week’s Oct. 9 issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, we take a close look at this year’s most intriguing team—the Washington Capitals. Each year, they seem so close to becoming a true championship contender. Yet, invariably their enormous potential is not realized. Will this year be any different? General manager David Poile appears to have assembled all the right parts—including old-new centers Bengt Gustafsson and Dale Hunter. What remains to be seen is whether the Capitals have the right stuff. In addition, we’ll preview the upcoming American League season—examining the 14 teams which make up the NHL’s No. 1 developmental league. Plus, we’ll keep you up to date on all the important NHL training-camp happenings and much, much more. Don’t miss it.…
Tough New Rules Battle Brawling In NHL
Bench-clearing brawls will become a thing of the past in the NHL—if tough new legislation proves effective. In a bid to cut back on free-for-alls, the league has introduced measures that impose a 10-game suspension on the first player to leave his bench and join a fight. In addition, the offending player’s coach will get a five-game suspension fed the team a $10,000 fine. The legislation, recommended by a league committee and ratified Sept. 17 by the board of governors, was inspired by last spring’s pre-game playoff brawl between the Montreal Canadiens and the Philadelphia Flyers. It was one of “at least seven” brawls during the 1986-87 season, said NHL president John Ziegler said. The second player to leave the bench will be given a five-game suspension. If he’s on a different team than the…
One Year Later, Murphy Makes Red Wings
DETROIT—Firefighters are hockey fans, too, Detroit Red Wing broadcaster Bruce Martyn found out when his house burned down last spring. As Martyn stood outside and watched firefighters battle the flames, one walked up to him and said, “Do you mind if I ask you a question?” Martyn figured it had something to do with the wiring or some other possible cause of the fire. “Go ahead,” the broacaster responded. Came the question: “Do you think Joe Murphy’s going to make it with the Red Wings this season?” Murphy’s future has been perhaps the most prominent question at the Wings’ training camp this season. Will he be as good as he was touted when the Wings made him the No. 1 player selected in the 1986 entry draft? Better, coach Jacques Demers insisted. “He’s everything, and then some,”…
Bruins Hope Winger Wasn’t A Pasin Fancy
BOSTON—Dave Pasin is capable of providing the Boston Bruins with one of their missing ingredients-—an explosive scorer who can put the puck in the net 40 or 50 times a season. The 21-year-old right winger, who scored 172 goals in three junior seasons with Prince Albert of the Western League, was expected to continue his trigger-happy ways when the Bruins selected him as their first choice in the 1984 entry draft. Three years later, they’re still waiting. Pasin’s problem, which became painfully obvious in his first Boston training camp in the fall of ’84, is that his skating is not up to NHL standards. He can score, all right, but he has difficulty getting into position to score. Since that first Bruin camp, Pasin has tried just about everything to improve his movement on…
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