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November 18, 1988
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BULLARD MISSES CALGARY HOMECOMING
BLUES Center Mike Bullard served a one-game suspension, missing what would have been his homecoming game at Calgary on Nov. 3. He was given the automatic suspension for his second game-misconduct for a high-sticking major. His stick hit Edmonton defenseman Steve Smith in the face while Bullard checked in the Oilers’ 5-4 win Nov. 2. Minnesota’s Dino Ciccarelli took a stick from Bullard in the season opener Oct. 6…Veteran Bernie Federko, moved to left wing from center with the recall of Cliff Ronning from Peoria of the International League, scored his first goal of the season in the 5-2 win over Quebec Nov. 5…Rookie goaltender Vincent Riendeau record his first NHL victory in the same game. MAPLE LEAFS X-rays revealed right winger Gary Leeman suffered a fractured bone behind his left ear when…
BANDIT TAKES OFF FROM JET FARM TEAM
JETS The on-again, off-again saga of disgruntled goaltender Daniel (Bandit) Berthiaume was on again. Berthiaume, who balked at a demotion to Moncton of the American League Oct. 4, a move which resulted in his suspension, left the minor league club. Berthiaume failed to show up for a practice Nov. 4. Winnipeg’s acting general manager Mike Smith was in contact with Berthiaume’s agent, Larry Rauch of New York, but the team had yet to take action against the goaltender three days later. Center Alfie Turcotte took an accidental stick in the eye Nov. 5 in Montreal from Habs’ defenseman Larry Robinson. Turcotte, who was cut below the right eye and on the eye lid, was expected to remain in hospital several days with a scratched cornea…Left winger Gilles Hamel was sent to…
COURTNALL TURNS CANADIEN IN DEAL FOR KORDIC
Sererge Savard has gone into the salvage business. On Nov. 7, the Montreal Canadiens’ general manager obtained two former first-round draft choices who have fallen on hard times. One of them, center Russ Courtnall, has played regularly until recently. The other, defenseman Jean Jacques Daigneault, has struggled to make the NHL in recent years. Courtnall came to Montreal in an exchange of fists for finesse. Montreal sent strongman right winger John Kordic and a sixth-round draft choice in 1989 to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Courtnall. Savard traded minor-league defenseman Scott Sandelin to the Philadelphia Flyers for Daigneault. Kordic and Courtnall occupy opposite ends of the hockey spectrum. Both are 23, graduates of the Western League and were being used infrequently, but that is where the similarities end. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound Kordic is a heavyweight in style…
CRACKDOWN MUST BE EVEN MORE CONSISTENT
It has to be the Halloween season. The moon turns Jekylls who have skated their wings without incident for years into stick-swinging Hydes. Media hounds bay in the moonlight. ‘Mayhem on Ice’ read the headlines. ‘Outrage’ say the columnists. ‘All blown out of proportion’ say the apologists. In the course of eight days came thuggery and muggery at an unprecedented rate. This leaves it to opinion-makers like me to: a) condemn; b) put in perspective; c) inflame by quoting people like Mick Vukota and Steve Dysktra threatening vengeance; or d) throw up. As always I seek to b). But I reserve the right to first d). After 14 years of going up and down my wing, I have earned the right to be sick and tired of this. I am sick of seeing…
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