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October 2, 1987
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Highly-Anticipated Year Arrives For Blades
SASKATOON, Sask.—The 1987-88 season has been a long time coming for fans of the Western League’s Saskatoon Blades. This is the season that the Blades vacate the Saskatoon Arena, a building that’s seems older than dirt, and move into a new ice palace. It’s called Saskatchewan Place and it’s located just outside the city on Yellowhead Highway (Hwy. 16). When the Blades move in sometime early in 1988, they’ll be playing before crowds large as 8,000. The building is set to open Feb. 2, with the inaugural game scheduled between the Blades and their long-time rivals, the Regina Pats. The promise of a new facility and ready-to-emerge home team has lit a fire under Saskatoon hockey fans. The Blades set a team record of 1,296 season tickets sold long before the season opened, and…
SCOREBOARD
EXHIBITION SCOREBOARD (STANDINGS ON MON. SEP 21) (GAMES AGAINST NHL TEAMS ONLY INCLUDED) GAMES COMPLETED FRI. SEP. 18 BUFFALO 3, WASHINGTON 1 DETROIT 5, ST. LOUIS 1 EDMONTON 3, CDN. OLYMPIC TEAM 3 VANCOUVER 6, LOS ANGELES 5 PITTSBURGH 3, MONTREAL 2 QUEBEC 3, TORONTO 2 SAT. SEP. 19 BOSTON 4, WASHINGTON 4 DETROIT 5, ST. LOUIS 2 QUEBEC 3, MONTREAL 2 CDN. OLYMPIC TEAM 5, CALGARY 4 HARTFORD 5, NEW JERSEY 4 MINNESOTA 6, WINNIPEG 6 NY ISLANDERS 4, PHILADELPHIA 1 VANCOUVER 2, LOS ANGELES 1 NY RANGERS 6, U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM 5 SUN. SEP. 20 ST. LOUIS 4, CHICAGO 4 EDMONTON 5, MINNESOTA 3 SHERBROOKE (AHL) 7, MONTREAL 1 PHILADELPHIA 3, U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM 2 CALGARY 3, WINNIPEG 0 BUFFALO 3, WASHINGTON 2 EXHIBITION SCORERS FRI. SEP. 18 BUFFALO (3)—PIERRE TURGEON, BENOIT HOGUE, PAUL CYR. WASHINGTON (1)-BOB GOULD. DETROIT (5)—BOB PROBERT, ADAM GRAVES, MEL BRIDGMAN, GERARD GALLANT, STEVE YZERMAN. ST. LOUIS (1)—GINO CAVALLINI. EDMONTON (3)—J AMIE NICOLLS, STEVE SMITH, NORMAND…
‘Million-Dollar Mistake’ Vows To Improve
PITTSBURGH—The questions first surfaced around this time last fall, and quickly developed into a crescendo of criticism. The press and populace wondered aloud: Couldn’t Penguin general manager Eddie Johnston have found some more productive way to drain the team’s budget? Like buying some of those $500 toilet seats so popular with the U.S. military, or using $20 bills as fuel in the Civic Arena furnace? The prevailing wisdom was that anything would have been better than wasting the money on right winger Dwight Mathiasen, who rapidly came to be regarded as a million-dollar mistake. Mathiasen, now 24, had been impressive during the final four games of the 1985-86 season after signing with the Penguins as a free agent out of the University of Denver. He entered the 1986 training camp projected as Mario Lemieux’s right…
Gretzky Retains A Passion For Baseball
You’d think at this time of the year Wayne Gretzky’s mind would be riveted on hockey and the ice alone, but that’s not so. Gretzky, who describes himself as a “a pretty average baseball player,” is watching the pennant races as closely as Keith Hernandez and George Bell. “Baseball,” says Gretzky, “is my favorite game. I love it.” Growing up in Brantford, Ont., Wayne alternated on the diamond between the mound and shortstop. He makes an interesting comparison between baseball and hockey. “What I like about baeball is the atmosphere; the fact that it’s a thinking man’s game. In hockey you play on instinct because of the speed. There’s so much more thinking in baseball; you’ve got to know when to run, where to throw the ball; and when you’re batting, what pitch he’s…
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