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March 16, 1990
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ALL-STARS SHINE AFTER THE BREAK
The NHL. ail-stars nave snown ineir woun since uic All-Star Game. In the period after the all-star match (Jan. 21-Feb. 25), eight of the top 10 scorers—including the first six—played in the 12-7 shootout in Pittsburgh. TOP SCORERS TOP TEAMS Teams generally use their performance before and after the all-star game as a benchmark on their season. Listed below are the 21 teams’ record and winning percentage before and after the All-Star Game. HOT SHOTS The Calgary Flames had 40 shots or more in a game on 15 occasions. Listed below are 40- or more shot games for all teams and their one-game high this season.…
SINDEN ’PROPPS UP LEFT SIDE ON NO. 1 LINI
In Harry Sinden’s mind, one piece of the Stanley Cup-winning puzzle was missing from his team. The Boston Bruins’ general manager felt the team needed a left winger—a goal-scoring left winger. Specifically, he needed a goal-scoring left winger who would fit in alongside center Craig Janney and right winger Cam Neely. As many as seven players had auditioned for the assignment on the team’s top line this season. But it was newcomer Brian Propp who finally landed the role. The Bruins acquired the 3l-year-old from the Philadelphia Flyers March 2 in exchange for a second- round pick in the 1990 entry draft. “You only have so many chances to win the Stanley Cup,” said captain Ray Bourque. “We want to go for it. This shows that we’re all (players and management) pulling in the…
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN A COLORFUL RIVALRY
Who needs John Brophy? With red-haired Doug Carpenter behind the Toronto bench instead of the white- maned Brophy, the Red Wings-Maple Leafs rivalry is as colorful as ever. Not to mention intense, nasty and mean-spirited. Old Broph would have been proud of the March 2 game that ended three hours, 10 minutes after the opening face-off; included 66 penalties for 272 minutes—12 fighting majors and 13 major misconduct penalties; and featured a near fight between the benches when Wings’ coach Jacques Demers tried to get at Carpenter in a wild first period. Best of all, the teams met in a re- match the next night at Maple Leaf Gardens. The series opener ended when Steve Yzerman, listed as a doubtful participant before the game, scored his second goal of the night and 53rd goat or…
AVOIDING SUDES OF MARCH A BIG TASK
The New York Rangers tiptoed past the dreaded Game 66 mark successfully but didn’t get much farther before feeling the chill, once again, of those March winds of ill fortune. It was Game 66 last season which started the Rangers’ stunning fall from grace—and first place in the Patrick Division—with a 6-3 loss to the New Jersey Devils. Before the collapse was over, the Rangers were 3-12-0 for the final 15 games, Michel Bergeron had gone from a Coach of the Year candidate to the ranks of the unemployed and the New Yorkers finished the whole mess off by being swept out of the playoffs in the first round by No. 66 (Mario Lemieux) and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Current Ranger coach Roger Neilson was understandably uninterested in the media’s recollection of those perilous…
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