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January 20, 1989
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MEDIA MAN PREVENTED UGLY NEW JERSEY INCIDENT
As serious as the latest hallway incident at Byrne Arena may have appeared, it was small potatoes compared with what might have happened had a Boston media type not acted cooly. While Bruin coach Terry O’Reilly confronted New Jersey’s Jim Korn, his team had exited away from the fracas. Had the Beantown TV man sounded an S.O.S., the Bruins would have stormed down the hallway, setting off an off-ice riot. But the Boston producer calmed the Bruins, cautioning them to stay away from the fracas while O’Reilly and his assistant, John Cunniff, were being separated from Korn, his teammate David Maley and coach Jim Schoenfeld. Onlookers who also had witnessed the Don Koharski-Schoenfeld confrontation during last year’s playoffs insist the latest hallway incident was much worse in that fists were…
DIFFICULT START TO 1989 FOR MALONEY
Just when the jolt of being traded Dec. 26 was beginning to wear off, Don Maloney absorbed another jolt Dec. 31. This one fractured his collarbone. “It wasn’t the greatest day for me,” said Maloney just hours after New York Ranger general manager Phil Esposito traded him, center Brian Lawton and defenseman Norm Maciver to the Hartford Whalers for center Carey Wilson and a fifth-round pick in 1990. “I better watch myself crossing the street or I’ll get hit by a bus,” Maloney said 90 minutes after Joey Kocur slammed him into the boards in Detroit, with what the Whalers maintain was a cheap shot. Hartford won the game 3-2. Kocur got a minor penalty for charging. Whalers’ president and general manager Emile Francis charged it was a dirty hit. Maloney was down on…
KASPER PEP TALK FAILS TO END LOSING WAYS
General manager Harry Sinden and coach Terry O’Reilly tried it and it didn’t work. So veteran center Steve Kasper felt it was his turn to try talking the Boston Bruins out of their slump. His teammates knew something was up before the game Jan. 7 when Kasper shooed the coaching staff out of the dressing room at the Montreal Forum, closed the door, and started explaining the facts of hockey life to them. “I’d prefer that what was said remain among the players,” said Kasper. “Sometimes you hear things from management’s point of view and it doesn’t sink in. I just felt it was time for a player to stand up and say something.” The story should go that the inspired Bruins tore down the dressing room door to get at the Canadiens and…
PHOENIX RISES AGAIN IN BID FOR FRANCHISE
When the International League scheduled its semi-annual meetings Jan. 31-Feb. 1 for Phoenix, Ariz., it counted on sunshine. It got that, and maybe something else—another franchise for the West Division. Businessman Lyle Abraham of Edmonton, whose Slurry Cementers Ltd. make concrete casings for oil wells, will apply for a Phoenix franchise at the meetings. It will not be the 53-year-old Abraham’s first application. He withdrew an earlier one last June at the annual meetings in Montreal. A major deterrent was the lack of a No. 1 affiliation with a NHL team. “The timing was a bit off,” Abraham said. “I don’t have an NHL affiliation now either. I’m working on it, but if I don’t get one I’ll go independent.” Abraham reapplied to the IHL at the league’s Nov. 21 expansion committee meeting. IHL…
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