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March 9, 1990
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CLEARY LEAVES COACHING TO BECOME HARVARD A.D.
Harvard coach Bill Cleary, who led the Crimson to their first national championship last season, will leave coaching at the end of this season to become the school’s athletic director. Cleary will take over his new position on April 1. “I had made up my mind a while ago that I wouldn’t be (coaching) much longer,“ said Cleary, who has led the Crimson for 19 years. “I wasn’t going to stay behind the bench forever. This is the right move at the right time for me. 1 love college athletics and I love Harvard. 1 wouldn’t coach anywhere else, and I wouldn’t work anywhere else, so it was a natural.“ Cleary announced his decision to his players Feb. 14 in what became a very emotional scene. “I thought I was tough,“ Cleary said. “I…
BEAR CUBS SHOW PROMISE
With 32 goals in 37 games, Maine right winger Jean-Yves Roy led the nation’s freshmen in goal scoring and was the front-runner to be Hockey East rookie of the year. But Roy’s not the only Black Bear freshman on a roll this season. First-year players have combined to score 90 of Maine’s 185 goals (48.6 per cent). They have also accounted for 16 of Maine’s 27 game-winning goals and 107 of Maine’s 298 assists. Roy (32-16-48) and fellow freshman right winger Jim Montgomery (19-29-48) entered their regular-season finale against Boston University Feb. 24 as Maine’s top pointgetters. Both had played in all of Maine’s 37 games. The Black Bears were 13-7-2 (27-8-2 overall) and in second place. The other major freshman contributors have been center Randy Olson (13-21-34 in 31 games), left winger Brian Downey…
DAMPHOUSSE EMERGES AS TOP PLAYMAKER
When the Toronto Maple Leafs left Calgary Feb. 22, their tails firmly tucked between their legs after a 12-2 thrashing at the hands of the Flames, few players felt worse than Vincent Dam- phousse. Not only did he hold the dubious honor of leading the Leafs with a minus-4 that night, but he’d also had a blown an opportunity to perhaps change Toronto’s fate. With the Flames ahead 3-0 early in the second period. Dam-phousse broke in alone on netminder Rick Wamsley and blasted a wrist shot wide of the net. Three minutes later, the Flames scored and the rout was on. It’s highly unlikely a goal from Dam-phousse at that stage of the game would have produced a different outcome, but it most certainly magnified the scoring drought in which Dam-phousse was…
NEXT ISSUE
In next week’s issue of The Hockey News, we will take a look at a great Canadian soap opera, being played out with the blue and white of the Toronto Maple Leafs as a backdrop. Author Bill Houston, who has written two bestselling-books on Harold Ballard and the Leafs, provides insight into a tragic-comedy of epic proportions. Love, hate, greed and turmoil. Friends, family and foes. Those are the watchwords in explaining the Ballard saga, a Canadian look at the rich and infamous. In addition to that, we’ll take an analytical look at the trading practices in the Quebec League. Year-end trades, like the one that sent Claude Boivin from Drummondville to Laval. are often the subject of controversy. Don’t miss all that and much more in next week’s issue of The Hockey…
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