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September 15, 1989
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YZERMAN CONTRACT TALKS LOW-KEY
RED WINGS Talks aimed at renegotiating Steve Yzerman’s contract have been very low-key, producing little media attention—even though a deal expected to pay him in the neighborhood of $2 million per year would make him one of the highest-paid athletes in Detroit history. Neither Yzerman, his agent Gus Badali, nor Wings’ general manager Jimmy Devellano are saying much when reporters inquire about the negotiations. But a new deal may be announced early in training camp, which begins for the Wings Sept. 9 in Flint, Mich…With season tickets at the 16,000 level for the second straight season, the Wings opted to widen their route on their annual media tour to points in Northern Michigan suchasSault Ste. Marie and Traverse City, where the club is cultivating an ever-expanding number of fans who watch…
POCKLINGTON WILL SELL, AND OTHER PREDICTIONS
Impertinent thoughts on pertinent subjects… There will be no replacing Phil Esposito’s ebullience, but Neil Smith did well in setting up the New York Rangers’ new high command. On a scale of 1 to 10, the Smith-Roger Neilson-Larry Pleau-Gord Stellick general staff rates a seven. (I never give a 10.) If Esa Tikkanen was a Canadian, his name would be Ken Linseman. The Dump-On-Ron Hextall Brigade overlooks one fact—Each member of the anti-Hexy faction would dearly love to have the boisterous one on his team, Chris Chelios included. Milestones should be recognized. We’re approaching the Rangers’ Golden Jubilee Year—50 seasons since they won a Stanley Cup (1940). Shoulder patches are in order. If the Ed Garvey gang ever takes over the NHL Players’ Association, you can figure on the NHL’s…
HABS ARE SEARCHING FOR NEW FORUM SITE
In a move that will undoubtedly send traditionalists into apoplexy, the Montreal Canadiens announced in August they will have a new home by 1995. Oh, they’ll still play in the Montreal Forum. It just won’t be the 65-year-old hockey shrine at the corner of Ste. Catherine and Atwater in the city center. Which is a little like saying the Mona Lisa will be still be the Mona Lisa after an impressionist artist from the 1990s paints a new one. A new Forum is a certainty; it’s only a matter of determining the new site. Surprisingly, that, more than the fact the Habs will vacate their traditional home, is sparking the most controversy. “We have asked the Lavalin engineering firm to study the feasibility of many sites,” said Canadiens’ president Ronald Corey, who will…
BARROOM BRAWL KNOCKS MELLANBY OUT OF LINEUP
Philadelphia Flyers’ right winger Scott Mellanby probably won’t be playing hockey until December. But when he considers what might have happened, he has to consider himself a lucky man. A short vacation at a resort 150 miles north of Toronto turned into a brush with disaster Aug. 20. Mellanby’s friend, Jeff Frazier, became involved in a fracas with a patron at the Muskoka Sands Motel in Gravenhurst, Ont. When Mellanby came to help Frazier, he was badly cut in the left arm with a broken beer bottle. Frazier was reportedly cut in the throat with the bottle. Both Mellanby and Frazier were first treated at a local hospital and later sent by ambulance to the Toronto General Hospital, where Frazier was released and Mellanby remained for treatment. According to the surgeon who operated…
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