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January 19, 1990
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FLOWER POWERS PAST ROCKET
NORDIQUES Right winger Guy Lafleur scored his 545th career goal in the Nordiques’ 5-4 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs Jan. 3. That put him past the immortal Maurice (Rocket) Richard for eighth place on the career goal scoring list. “I’m glad it’s over,” said Lafleur. “Now we can get on with more important things.” He nevertheless picked up the puck. Lafleur needed 12 more goals to pass John Bucyk’s mark of 556…Left winger Michel Goulet scored his 450th career goal in a 5-2 loss to the New York Islanders Jan. 6…The Nordiques were pleased with several of their prospects at the World Junior Championships in Finland. Goalie Stephane Fiset (third round, 24th overall in 1988) was the key to Canada’s gold-medal victory and was named top goalie and first all-star…
ADMIRALS HOPE FOR SMOOTHER SAILING
Ron Lapointe hopes to chart a smoother course for his Milwaukee Admirals as they head into the second half of their International League schedule. “We’ve had kind of a roller-coaster season here in the first half,” said the Admirals’ coach. “We’ve won some we should have lost and lost some we should have won. And because of the schedule, we’ve played some bummers at home.” The Admirals, picked in the pre-season by The Hockey News as the top team in the International League, might be in better shape than a quick glance at the schedule would indicate. The Admirals have played five fewer games at home than they have on the road, where they were10-10-1. At home, the Admirals were 8-7-1. With nine of 12 games on the road starting Jan. 3,…
LEY TELLS DINEEN TO TAKE A REST
Kevin Dineen never got off the bench during the final 13 mi-nutes and 44 seconds of a 6-4 loss in Calgary Jan. 5. The Whalers’ right winger had lost his man on defensive coverage on three Flames’ goals. And the last of those, Gary Roberts’ game winner 6:14 into the third period, was one too many for coach Rick Ley. As the Whalers tried desperately to tie the game against the defending Stanley Cup champions, the man most likely to pull off late-game heroics was relegated to the bench. “To be honest, I think Kevin’s play has been less than average this year,” Ley said. “I think there have been only a handful of games, which he played really well. “When’s he has got the puck nobody in hockey works any harder. But Kevin’s…
REVOLT!
Wherever Bill LaForge has gone in junior hockey, controversy has followed. - But never this close. After just 10 days on the job as the director of hockey operations for the Western League’s Tri-City Americans, LaForge had a mutiny on his hands. The players gave ownership an ultimatum: Get rid of LaForge or we won’t suit up. The players were wary of LaForge before he even set foot in the Tri-Cities area. But the controversy reached a head during the second half of a Dec. 29 practice, when he decided to give the Americans a taste of his style of coaching. As LaForge conducted practice while wearing a pair of boots, coach Rick Kozuback was reduced to shagging pucks. After the session, LaForge said he and Kozuback would function as co-coaches. At the time, general…
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