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November 30, 1990
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CANADIAN TEAMS FEELING THE PINCH
Ask any NHL general manager about the talent pool for the upcoming expansion and he’ll give you a standard answer: The players are there. Because of the Americans. There are more U.S.-bom players—and good ones—than at any time in league history. The top 25 scoring list is dotted with Americans (Kevin Stevens, Pat LaFontaine, Brian Leetch, Brian and Joey Mullen, Chris Chelios, Gary Suter, Jeremy Roenick) and that doesn’t even take into account the stay-at-home defense types such as Mike Ramsey and Rod Langway or goalies John Vanbiesbrouck, Mike Richter and Tom Barrasso. Which is why the seven Canadian-based teams are feeling a little uneasy these days. Last season, they watched as Jimmy Carson of Southfield, Mich., asked to get out of Edmonton. Just didn’t like it much. Wanted to go someplace…
YOUNGSTERS PROVIDE ALL THE RIGHT ANSWERS
At the start of the season perhaps the biggest question mark on the St. Louis Blues was the goaltending. Vincent Riendeau and Curtis Joseph played well enough last season to justify the trade of veteran Greg Millen, but their youth and relative inexperience raised some doubts. “The experts, and I will put it with a small ‘e’, questioned whether the goaltending is good enough,” Blues’ general manager Ron Caron said. “Do they have enough experience to do it now? Will Joseph become No. 1 ahead of Riendeau or vice-versa? It was in all the magazines sold throughout North America.” Understandably so. “When you have two young goalies that haven’t played in the league a long time, people are going to wonder,” Joseph said. But when goalies perform the way Riendeau and Joseph have, the questions…
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THE FIX IS NOT IN, CLAIMS NORDS’ GM
Pierre Page has been known to go into a blind rage over a single loss. Given the Quebec Nordiques’ current state of affairs—a club-record 13-game losing streak—the general manager may be forgiven for being color blind, too. You mention white flag to him, he sees a red one. “Bulls—.” That is his immediate response to a suggestion that the Nords have thrown in the towel (you choose the color) on the 1990-91 season; that they are more interested in finishing last overall and selecting phenom center Eric Lindros No. 1 in the 1991 entry draft than they are in making modest improvement. “We are trying to get better,” he says, defiantly. “Really, we are. People may say otherwise and, hey, they’re entitled to their opinion. But that doesn’t mean they’re right.” When Page dealt…
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