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March 9, 1990
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YEAR OF THE CUP?
Three Stanley Cup banners hang from the rafters at the west end of Chicago Stadium. Only three. The Chicago Blackhawks are unquestionably among the most tradition-rich franchises in the National Hockey League, but never let that be confused with the winningest. Three Cups in 62 years. Two of them came in the 1930s; the third in 1961. The last time the Blackhawks won the Cup, John F. Kennedy was president of the United States. You could say the Blackhawks look like a dynasty compared to the New York Rangers, who last won it all in 1940 and have an equal number (3) of Cups to their credit. But that’s no consolation. Expansion teams have won the Cup seven times since the Blackhawks of general manager Tommy Ivan and coach Rudy Pilous did it…
POULIN TRADE PAYING HANDSOME DIVIDENDS
Trading Ken Linseman for Dave Poulin, the Boston Bruins believed. would make them a more balanced team. The Bruins gave the Philadelphia Flyers a proven offensive player in Linseman, and in return, got a guy whose production had slipped, but who remained a very useful checking line center (for more on the Poulin trade see page 8). In 16 games with his new team, the 31-year-old Poulin had given the Bruins exactly the sort of tenacious defensive work they expected—and much more. “We knew he’d give us pretty good production,“ said coach Mike Mil- bury. “We didn’t know how good.“ As the Bruins neared the end of a remarkable road trip Feb. 26 in New York against the Rangers—a trip on which they lost their first game 3-2 in Winnipeg Feb. 14, then won…
ANOTHER BAD BLOW FOR JINXED PENGUINS
He was a marvelously gifted center from Quebec, and it was no coincidence that hope arrived in Pittsburgh at the same time he did. He breathed life into a franchise that was wheezing to survive. His skills put bodies in the seats and shoved hockey into the city’s sporting consciousness. Then, in an instant, he was gone. All that potential, all that excitement, had been snuffed. There was a lot of talk about how it was a tragic ending to a story with such promise, and no one disagreed. His is still a magical name around the Civic Arena, where people talk about what he was and what he could have been, and how he was so cruelly taken away. And mostly about how Michel Briere was the kind of player you could build…
COURTNALL GETS HOT AS HABS AIM FOR FIRST OVERALL
Unless something extremely drastic occurs, Russ Courtnail will not score 40 goals in 1989-90, as managing director Serge Savard predicted before the season began. But if he continues at the scoring pace he established in late February, he’ll still make Savard look a hockey genius. After all, it was Savard who traded fists for finesse when he acquired Courtnail for tough-guy John Kordic in November, 1988. During a four-game stretch in late- February, in which the Canadiens went 3-0-1, Courtnall scored six goals and added three assists and helped the Canadiens serve notice that they were ready to make a run for first place overall in the NHL. With 77 points in 65 games, the Canadiens were third overall and third in the Adams Division behind the Boston Bruins and the Buffalo…
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