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November 18, 1988
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CHASE LEAVES KOMETS FOR RADIO WOWO
Viewed from afar. Bob Chase’s Nov. 2 resignation from the Fort Wayne Komets seemed another blow to a team already off to a poor 1988-89 start. Chase resigned as the Komet director of marketing to become director of sales, marketing and promotion for WOWO radio in Fort Wayne. While the Komets, who finished with the second-best record in the league last season (48-30-4), were off to a 3-6-0 start, an excited Chase was looking forward to his new job. “It’s something I’ve done before and they (station) are looking to resurrect it,” he said. “I think I can do more to maintain the image of hockey here this way. I like the challenge. “They came to me because of my contacts,” said Chase, who resigned from the Komets Oct. 25, but didn’t make it…
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…
ODDSMAKER
What are the odds of Calgary’s Joe Nieuwendyk scoring 50 goals this season? Last season the Flame center became only the second NHL rookie to score 50—Mike Bossy was the other. But a look at second-year totals for past high-scoring rookies indicates Nieuwendyk will find it tougher this season. Of the 10 top rookie goal-scorers in NHL history, only two—Bossy and L. A. King Luc Robitaille—succeeded in getting 50 in the sophomore season. So the odds of Nieuwendyk getting 50 this season are 5-to-1.…
SLEEPY RONNING WAKES UP BLUES
Little Cliff Ronning was the odd man out in training camp with the St. Louis Blues. Veterans Bernie Federko and Rick Meagher, newcomer Mike Bullard and second-year man Tony Hrkac had locked up the center spots, leaving the 5-foot-8, 175-pound Ronning nowhere to go. Except Peoria of the International League. Ronning went grudgingly, hut rather than sulk he focused his energy on returning. He put up Mario Lemieux-like numbers in 11 games, scoring 11 goals and handing out 20 assists for 31 points. “At first, I was really upset,” he said. “But then I thought the only way for them to know I have character and heart was to fight back and play the best I can…I wanted to get out there and work hard.” The work paid off as the Blues recalled him Nov.…
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