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July 1, 1989
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OLYMPICS, TEACHING CAREER IN WINNERS’ PLANS
Lane MacDonald isn’t certain where his hockey future will take him, but knows exactly where he wants to be in 1992. And it isn’t with the Hartford Whalers, who own his NHL rights. The Harvard grad hopes to suit up for his second stint with the U.S. Olympic team for the 1992 Games in Albertville, France. “Our coach (Bill Cleary) thinks every person who comes into Harvard should try to play for the Olympic team and he’s right,” says MacDonald. “Playing for the 1988 Olympic team was the most unbelievable experience I’ve ever had.” That speaks volumes for the experience, considering what the Milwaukee native accomplished in his senior year with the Crimson. MacDonald, a left winger, led Harvard to its first championship in any NCAA-sanctioned sport since 1904, won the Hobey Baker Award…
THREE’S A CROWD IN FLYER NETS
Pete Peeters is a Philadelphia Flyer again. The club’s No. 1 goalie from 1979-80 to ’81-82 was signed as a free agent without compensation, leaving the Flyers with three experienced NHL goaltenders on their roster. Ron Hextall and Ken Wregget are the others. Only two of the three can stay. League by-laws stipulate a club can protect just two goalies with more than two seasons of NHL experience from the pre-season waiver draft (but a club can only lose one goalie). So it appears the Flyers will make a deal involving their highly regarded backup, Wregget, well before the pressure of the waiver draft. Ever since Wregget was acquired from Toronto at the trade deadline, there had been questions about his compatibility with Hextall, the Flyers’ No. 1 goalie. Peeters, 31, appears to be a…
HAWKS THINK BIG AT THE DRAFT TABLE
The Chicago Blackhawks conducted their draft by the numbers June 17 at the Met Center in Minneapolis. The numbers were 6-foot-4, 206 pounds; 6-foot-2, 202; and 6-foot-4, 200. Those are the heights and weights of the Hawks’ first three draft picks. “I love those big players,” said coach Mike Keenan, whose influence can’t be underestimated in the Hawks’ approach to the draft, after the loss to the oversized Calgary Flames in the Campbell Conference final. The first three big players were all defensemen, the first time the Hawks have taken defensemen with their first three picks. The first-round pick, sixth overall, was Adam Bennett from Sudbury of the Ontario League; their second-rounder was Mike Speer from Guelph of the OHL, and their third-rounder was Bob Kellogg of Springfield, Mass., who will enter Northeastern…
MINOR PRO WINNERS READY TO TRY NHL
Sherbrooke Canadien center Stephan Lebeau hopes he never has the chance to match his American League-record season of 70 goals and 134 points. “There is nothing more I can do in the American Hockey League,” says Lebeau, 21, this year’s The Hockey News Minor Pro Player of the Year. “I look forward to the NHL. With the season I had this year I’m sure I can help someone.” Barring a trade, that will be the Montreal Canadiens, who signed the Sherbrooke, Que., native as a free agent Sept. 27, 1986. Lebeau sees his year in the AHL as a neccesary apprenticeship. “I expected to play the whole year in Sherbrooke,” he says. “It was normal for Montreal to take their time with me and keep me in Sherbrooke.” But they did call up Lebeau for…