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March 25, 1988
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Richter Touches Down With Rangers
Getting to Kalamazoo for his first International League game posed a bigger problem for Mike Richter than the game itself. Richter, the U.S. Olympic team goaltender, spent most of March I trying to hook up with his new team, the Colorado Rangers. Problem was, he looked in the wrong place after taking a few days off following the Calgary Games to rest at home in Madison, Wis. “I left Calgary Friday (Feb. 26) for Madison, dropped my stuff off at the school (University of Wisconsin) and visited some friends,” Richter said.” On Tuesday, March I, he left for Denver to join his new team. Or so he bought. “I was in the air from 7 a.m. to6:30 p.m.,” Richter related. “I flew from Madison to Minneapolis and changed planes for Denver. When I got…
BaUer'S COLLeGe PerFOrMerS OF THe WeeK
CCHA The sophomore goaltender made 57 saves in two games and was named MVP of the CCHA tournament. He led BG to a 5-2 title-game win over Lake Superior State. WCHA The senior goaltender was named MVP of the WCHA tournament. He made 40 saves in Wisconsin’s 3-2 title-game win over the University of Minnesota. Hockey East The freshman center set a Maine record by scoring 13 seconds into his team’s 11-2 win over Providence in the second of a two-game total goal series. ECAC Lappin had three goals and four assists in four games and was named MVP of the ECAC tournament. He scored once as St. Lawrence beat Clarkson 3-0 in the final. Performers of the week for the period March 7-13. Bauer FIT FOR PERFORMANCE…
Blues Shift Lineup Into Playoff Shape
ST. LOUIS—St. Louis Blues took aim at the Chicago Blackhawks when they sent out five players and welcomed five others in their place. Acquiring right winger Brett Hull and left winger Steve Bozek on March 7 from Calgary for defenseman Rob Ramage and goaltender Rick Wamsley was only a prelude. That same day, left winger Scott Harlow was sent to Peoria Rivermen of the International League. Recalled from the same club were defenseman Rob Whistle and goaltender Darrell May. On March 8, struggling defenseman Charlie Bourgeois was sent to Hartford with a third-round 1989 draft pick for a second-round 1989 pick. Defenseman Gordie Roberts came over from Philadelphia for a fifth-round pick in this summer’s draft. If the Blues advance past the first round of the playoffs, it becomes a fourth-round pick. St. Louis…
The Pucks, Not Bucks, Stop At Whaler Goal
HARTFORD—Hartford Whaler general manager-president Emile Francis was fond of saying the Hartford Whalers owned the best one-two goaltending tandem in the NHL. The point was open to debate. After swapping Steve Weeks, 29, to Vancouver for Richard Brodeur, 35, at the trade deadline, there can be no arguing the Whalers own the highest-paid goaltending tandem in Mike Liut and Brodeur. Liut earns in the $450,000 per-year range, while Brodeur arrived with I roughly a $275,000 tag. For almost three-quarters of a million dollars per year, somebody in the Hartford net had better stop the puck. For those who think money isn’t everything, consider that Brodeur, who had been in Fredericton of the American League since Feb. 22, cleared waivers only days before. That means the Whalers could have claimed him without losing Weeks. “We wanted to…
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