Search for your favorite player or team
© The Hockey News. All rights reserved. Any and all material on this website cannot be used, reproduced, or distributed without prior written permission from Roustan Media Ltd. For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
July 1, 1988
The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.
Classy Cup Presentation A Credit To Oiler Staff
HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS TO the Edmonton Oilers for their outstanding performance in this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs. But even larger kudos need go to the people responsible for this year’s Cup presentation. Last year’s final was certainly the most exciting in recent years. However, the Cup presentation ruined what was a great show. When a team accomplishes something as difficult as winning the Stanley Cup, that joy should be shared by the people who earned it—the players, coaches, management and support staff. Instead, last year we were treated to unruly photographers and fans. I'm sure the last thing any player wants is to be surrounded and congratulated by 500 strangers on the ice. Don’t get me wrong. The fans have their rights too and photographers have their jobs to do. This doesn’t…
Ziegler Underrated And Overcriticized
JOHN ZIEGLER, ALWAYS perceived to be mounted on a very high horse, walked into a Boston press conference late the afternoon of May 10. In anticipation of his arrival, one of his yellow ties had already been looped over the ceiling rafters. Ziegler read sentence on Jim Schoenfeld. Then somebody whipped the horse beneath the NHL president and the real trial began. An hour later, the consensus was that hanging was too good for him. “I’ll answer to my board, not to anyone else,” snapped Ziegler. Not that he owed anyone an explanation for where he was on the Sunday the Devils got a restraining order and the officials walked out. That was Ziegler’s business. The only concern of the league, and the public, was how an NHL president had come to leave…
There Are Too Many Centers of Attention
TORONTO—It’s never too early to plan an all-star berth. Take note parents. If you want your son to grow up to be a National Hockey League all-star, make sure he gets started at the right position. It may be carrying planned parenthood too far, but there’s no doubt the little guy has a better chance of becoming an all-star if he’s not a center. Hart Memorial Trophy winner Mario Lemieux was named first-team center at the NHL awards banquet June 8 in Toronto. He earned 309 of a maximum 315 points and 61 of 63 first-place votes in balloting by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association. Wayne Gretzky of Edmonton was runner-up with 185 voting points to make the second all-star team. Chicago’s Denis Savard (42) and Steve Yzerman (27) of Detroit followed. Savard and Yzerman…
Madden And Perron Team Up For Nordiques
QUEBEC CITY—The search for a new general manager took the Quebec Nordiques farand wide, but they finally settled on a man in their own backyard. Martin Madden, 45, the team’s director of recruitment since 1980 and a Quebec City native, was named GM on June 27. He succeeds Maurice Filion, the Nords’ only GM since entering the NHL in 1979. He was given the position of vice-president of hockey operations on April 19 after Quebec failed to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs. • Madden was one of at least 12 candidates from almost every walk of hockey life interviewed by a Nordique committee headed up by team president Marcel Aubut. One of those interviewed for the GM’s job, ex-Montreal Canadien coach Jean Perron, was offered and accepted the position of assistant GM. “Martin…
Made possible with the support of
