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November 6, 1987
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Exile In Moncton Good Tonic For Burridge
BOSTON—You never have it made in the NHL. Not even after a fine 17-goal, 42-point rookie season. But it took being shipped to Moncton of the American League for Randy Burridge to realize that. “I came to camp just waiting for the season to start,” Burridge said, reflecting on the 1986-87 season, his second with the Bruins. “I was floating, waiting for the other guys to do the job. I didn’t realize that you play as you practice.” Burridge obviously didn’t practice very well. He had one goal in 23 games when the Bruins shipped him to Moncton, exiling him there for the remainder of the year. Burridge is a better player for the experience. After eight games back with the Bruins this season, the 21-year-old left winger’s totals were six goals and four…
Union Didn’t Have A Friend In Imlach
Hard as it may be to believe, we have now experienced 20 full NHL seasons since expansion, with the 21st now under way. Life in the six-team pre-expansion NHL is becoming as out of focus as comic Leon Errol in the ‘Mexican Spitfire’ movies. Yet for a precious few, like Peter Stemkows-ki, the memory lingers on in 20-20 vision and some of his recollections are worth noting, particularly since Peter played for the last Stanley Cup-winning club in the pre-expansion era—the 1967 Toronto Maple Leafs. “Punch Imlach was the boss,” Stemmer recalls, “and he ran a very tight ship—especially when it came to the players’ union. The association was just getting started in those days and Punch was very much against it. “He said that if anyone on our team joined the union he…
MICRON JUNIOR PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
ONTARIO LEAGUE Left winger Craig Booker paced the Kitchener Rangers to victories over North Bay and London. Booker fired three goals and three assists to improve his totals to nine goals and nine assists in 18 games this season, earning the nod as OHL Player of the Week. Booker, 19, is in his third year with the Rangers. WESTERN LEAGUE Center Theoren Fleury was hot for the Moose Jaw Warriors, scoring four goals and six assists for 10 points in three games, earning WHL Player of the Week honors. The 19-year-old, 5-foot-5, 155-pound dynamo scored two shorthanded goals in a 7-1 win over Seattle, and improved his season totals to 11 goals and 21 assists. QUEBEC LEAGUE Right winger Patrice Tremblay was the big gun as the Chicoutimi Sagueneens rolled to four straight victories. The 19-year-old Tremblay scored…
Canada Cup Was Unfair In Use Of NHL Referees
IN ALL THE excitement, I may be the only one who noticed that something was wrong with the officiating in Canada Cup ’87. It was the worst I’ve seen in 25 years as a fan. International hockey means international referees—like it or not. It doesn’t mean having NHL refs imposed on foreign teams. The bias of the officials towards Canada was considerable. By my count, in four games against the Soviet Union, Canada had 22 power-play chances to 14 for the Soviets. In nine tournament games, Canada had 42 power-play chances to 32 for the opposition. Canadian players were taking dives left and right—and drawing penalties! Surely an NHL ref can spot a dive. So many obvious fouls against Soviet players went uncalled, it bordered on sadism. So, while the games were exciting…
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