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April 1, 1988
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Off-Ice Fighter Gets Six-Game Suspension
Adirondack Red Wing forward Steve Martinson was suspended six games for his involvement in an office fight March 12 with Rochester American defenseman Mark Femer. Martinson, sitting out the game at Glen Falls Civic Center with a neck injury, confronted Femer as he left the ice with 57 seconds to play in the third period. Femer had been assessed a double minor for roughing by referee Paul Devorski. Martinson was standing next to the exit where visiting players leave the ice. The two men exchanged words, then punches. “The last thing in my mind was to get into a fight, but I shouldn’t have been there,” Martinson said. “1 saw what had happened (Femer and Adirondack center Geordie Robertson fighting on the ice) and I said to him, ‘The next game, you can…
THIS WEEK…
20 YEARS AGO: • Chicago Blackhawk center Stan Mikita finished the 74-game regular season with 40 goals and 47 assists for 87 points to win his fourth scoring title in five seasons. Mikita earned $1,000 along with the Art Ross Trophy. • Toronto Maple Leaf coach and general manager Punch Imlach denied rumors he was part of a group seeking to purchase the Oakland Seals and move them to Vancouver. “I have two years left on my contract,” Imlach said. “The way I won’t fulfil them is if the Leaf owners buy me out. I’m staying.” Such was fired by Toronto a season later. • The Rochester Americans came up big when it counted. The Amcrks, who needed two victories to clinch their third American League Western Division title in four years, topped…
Losing Streak Ends At 19, But Admirals Start Another
Monkey on my back? It was more like a gorilla,” said Kevin Willison, coach of the beleaguered Milwaukee Admirals. Milwaukee brought a halt to the International League’s longest losing streak ever on March 13 with a homeice 6-5 victory over the West Divisionleading Salt Lake Golden Eagles. It was the first win in 51 days for the Admirals, who lost 19 straight games to exceed the oldest record in the IHL. The long-extinct Windsor Ryancretes lost 15 games in 1948-49. Milwaukee last won Jan. 22, a 3-1 victory over Saginaw. “There were some nights I would roll over and look at the clock and it would be five in the morning and I would just lie in bed and stare at the ceiling,” said Willison, whose lastplace club was 20-43-6. The Admirals also set a…
Merrimack Puts Bite On Huskies
Merrimack made the most of its declaration of independence. The Warriors were the only independent school given a bid in the expanded 12-team National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament and they used that invitation to become the first non-conference team to advance to the national quarter-finals in the tournament’s 40-year history. Merrimack lulled the favored Northeastern Huskies into a five-goal lead in their March 18-19 two-game, total-goal first-round series, then roared back to win by a combined 10-8 count. Coach Ron Anderson’s 33-5-0 Warriors could advance to the Final Four in Lake Placid, N.Y., (March 31-April 2) if they beat Central Collegiate Association regular-season champ Lake Superior in a two-game, total-goal series March 25-26 at Lake Superior. Merrimack was the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division II champion and holds Division I independent status. The Huskies, Hockey…
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