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May 19, 1989
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FLYERS’ OFFENSE GROUNDED BY HABS’ SUPERB DEFENSE
The NHL’s best power play was no match for the NHL’s best defense. Four games into the Wales Conference final, the Philadelphia Flyers had yet to score against the Montreal Canadiens with the man advantage. They were 0-for-15. Montreal, by comparison, had four power-play goals on 23 chances. After shocking Montreal 3-1 in the opener, the Flyers scored just once in losing 3-0, 5-1 and 3-0. Montreal goalie Patrick Roy stopped 66 of 67 shots in recording the three victories. Roy’s first-game loss was his first at the Forum since April 26, 1988, when Boston beat him in the Adams Division finals. He ran up a record of 30-0-4 between setbacks. But Philadelphia’s offense was shut down following game one. Not even the insertion of goal-scoring goalie Ron Hexall could spark the Flyers. After missing the…
PLAYOFF CURTAIN CALL IN NEW HAVEN
The New Haven Nighthawks have raised‘The Curtain’ on a successful playoff season. The curtain at New Haven Coliseum, that is. Put up in 1981, it sections off about 3,000 seats in the upper portions of the arena. That puts the seating capacity at 5,933 in the 8,802-seat facility. The curtain is lifted to accommodate large crowds. That happened for the first time this year, and as the surprising Nighthawks continued their romp through the American League playoffs, it happened regularly. The Nighthawks, who finished fourth in the East Division, surprised the first-place Sherbrooke Canadiens in the first round and defeated the Moncton Hawks to earn a berth in the league final against the Adirondack Red Wings. The curtain was first raised March 10 against Hershey, when a crowd of 6,611 showed up to see…
RAUCOUS STADIUM CROWD PRODUCES AN EARFUL
BLACKHAWKS The Chicago unit of SportsChan-nel, the cable broadcast network carrying the playoffs in the U.S., measured the Chicago Stadium noise level during the U.S. national anthem at 128 decibels. The pain threshold is generally placed at 130 decibels. By comparison, the human voice registers 15 decibels and an air raid siren hits 140 decibels…Defenseman Keith Brown was the second Hawk to receive a game misconduct for a stick-related incident in the playoffs. Center Troy Murray also received one in the Detroit series. A second stick-related game misconduct brings an automatic one-game suspension. Brown received a game misconduct for cross-checking Calgary’s Hakan Loob in game three…Referee Don Koharski. who hit his head on the ice and had to leave game three, was knocked unconscious and suffered an apparent concussion. He was…
RUOTSALAINEN RETURNS TO NHL WITH DEVILS
By his own admission, Reijo Ruotsalainen isn’t entirely certain he still has what it takes to play in the NHL. But the New Jersey Devils are. And they were willing to offer him a one-year contract worth more than $200,000 to prove it. Ruotsalainen, who hasn’t played in the NHL in two seasons, signed with the Devils during the World Championships. The signing was announced at a news conference May 4. In a conference call from his home in Oulu, Finland, the 29-year-oId defenseman wondered if he still had the desire and stamina to go along his excellent skating and puck-handling skills. “Sure, I’ve been thinking about that. I’ve been talking to Lou (Devils’ general manager Lamoriello) a lot about whether I can still play,” said Ruotsalainen. “That’s a question mark. I want to…