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June 1, 1990
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FLAMES NAME CHARRON ASSISTANT COACH
FLAMES Canadian national team assistant coach Guy Charron was named an assistant coach with the Flames June 4. Charron, 41, replaces Tom Watt, who was relieved of his duties but was offered an unspecified position in the organization. Charron, who was also director of scouting for Hockey Canada. coached the Canadian junior national team to the gold medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Finland and was recently named head coach of this year’s team. The appointment to the Flames means he will have to resign the position…It is beginning to look more and more as if center Joe Nieuwendyk will have to undergo major reconstructive surgery on his left knee, injured in April at the World Championships. Nieuwendyk said he would wait until mid-June to give the knee a…
NORDS MAKE THIS DRAFT A GAME OF GUESSING
From the time it became apparent the Quebec Nordiques would have first choice overall in the 1990 National Hockey League entry draft, there has been a steady diet of rumor du jour. If it’s Monday, it must be Owen Nolan. Tuesday? Why, Mike Ricci, of course. Wednesday is Keith Primeau; Thursday is Petr Nedved and Friday, well, it has to be Jaromir Jagr. Trouble is the draft, June l6 (IO a.m. PDT, televised live for two hours in Canada on The Sports Network) in Vancouver, is on a Saturday. This year’s event possesses qualities like few before it—a strong sense of uncertainty and drama. Who will be No. I? Nordique director of player personnel Pierre Gauthier is the man most responsible for the final decision. He’s digested all the data, heard all the speculation and…
DISMISSAL OF BERGERON NO BIG SURPRISE
Perhaps Michel Bergeron should have taken heed of that age-old advice: You can never go home again. A little more than a year after his much-heralded return to Quebec, where he had coached from 1980 to 1987, Bergeron was re-assigned May 31 by the Nords’ new general manager, Pierre Page. Many predicted Bergeron’s demise when Page was hired as GM on May 4. Page said from the outset he wanted to work with people he trusted, people he knew could work as a team. That’s when the name Dave Chambers, assistant coach to Page in Minnesota this season, first emerged. Jean Perron, the former Montreal Canadien and Nordique coach who is now a Quebec City radio sportscaster, reported May 30 that Page was meeting Chambers in Toronto and would offer him a contract to…
BLUE-CHIP PROSPECT SHUNS NHL TESTING
What are they going to do, not draft him? Highly-touted Cornwall Royal right winger Owen Nolan, a potential No. 1 overall pick in this year’s draft, refused to undergo any physical or psychological testing for NHL clubs. It’s a highly unusual stance, bordering on revolutionary. “It’s not something Owen wanted to do and I feel the same way,” says lawyer/agent Gene McBurney of Toronto. “What’s the need, really, for physical testing? He’s not fat. You can see he’s in shape. He’s never had any injuries to speak of. Vancouver wanted to do psychological testing. We wouldn’t even countenance that.” Instead, Nolan met with the teams picking at or near the top in an interview-type setting only. Nolan is as feisty and unyielding off the ice as he is on it……
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