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November 11, 1988
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PROBERT BARRED AT BORDER IN LATEST EPISODE
RED WINGS Bob Probert was on his way to visit an alcohol abuse counsellor in suburban Detroit when he was stopped at the Canadian border and informed he was no longer welcome in the United States. “We were told he was no longer a member of the Detroit Red Wings,” said Patrick Ducharme, Probert’s attorney, who was driving his client to the meeting. Probert is barred, for now, because his name was not on a list of employees the team submitted to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. But Probert is ready for a return when the Wings are, the agent said. “He’s working out twice a day. He looks great and he’s ready to go,” Ducharme said. “He’s down to 223 pounds. The weight isn’t coming off all that easy. He eats…
GEARING FOR GROWTH
Two years ago, Ed Chynoweth had an experience that changed his personal and professional life. At the age of 44, the president of both the Western League and Canadian Hockey League suffered a heart attack. It made him not only look at his lifestyle but at the way he tirelessly approaches his vocation. “Actually, it was a blessing in disguise,” says Chynoweth, entering his 16th season as WHL president this month. “If anything, it made me appreciate the fact that I can’t combine everything and the league isn’t the be-all and end-all.” But the game still holds an important place in this life. A short-list candidate for the Quebec Nordiques’ general manager job last year, Chynoweth believes in his league and feels there are even more things the CHL can do to improve…
MINOR PRO REPORT HOCKEY IN MILWAUKEE
Just suppose you could spend $71 million for your own, personal showplace coliseum. With that kind of money to throw around, what glamorous headline act might you secure for the gala opening of your palace? Barbra Streisand? Frank Sinatra? The London Philharmonic Orchestra? The Bolshoi Ballet? If you’re Lloyd and Jane Pettit, the answer is a National Hockey League exhibition game. So when their handsome gift to Milwaukee—the new Bradley Center—was christened Oct. 1, nearly 18,000 guests watched the Chicago Blackhawks defeat Edmonton Oilers 6-4. The Pettits, whose net worth is reportedly near $1 billion, ‘donated’ the Bradley Center—17,900 seats for hockey, 20,000 for concerts—to a friendly, well-groomed northern U.S. city that previously lacked a major-league class arena and still lacks an NHL franchise. Although the National Basketball Association Bucks survived at the old…
IMPERATIVE FOR PENS TO MAKE MARIO HAPPY
It is tradition that lends texture to the tapestry of this game. Most people associate tradition with the Stanley Cup banners obscuring the rafters at the Montreal Forum, the pipe organ in Chicago Stadium thundering a chorus of “Here Come the Hawks,” the flying octopi in Detroit. But a team need not be one of the original six to have tradition. Every franchise, no matter how recent its entry into the NHL, has a legacy of some sort. And so it is in Pittsburgh where, during their 21-plus years in the NHL, the Penguins have established a few nifty traditions of their own. Missing the playoffs and raising ticket prices are two personal favorites, although those are just obvious manifestations of a more grievous trait: the knack for the self-inflicted wound. Beginning with things like…
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