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January 4, 1991
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THE NCAA PROPOSALS
Listed below are the NCAA proposals which figure to most impact college hockey: No. 36: To establish coaching categories and to impose coaching limitations in all Division I sports other than football and to reduce the number of countable coaches in Division I basketball. No. 37: To place limitations on the number of Division I athletics staff members in all sports who can contact and/or evaluate prospective student-athletes off campus. No. 38: To reduce time demands on students by further restricting playing seasons in all sports in Divisions I and II. No. 40: To reduce the number of permissable grant-in-aids in all Division I sports by 10 per cent. No. 42: To specify that a recruited student-athlete in Division I hockey who receives institutional financial aid granted without regard in any degree to athletic ability…
OATES SHOWS BLUES HE HASN’T MISSED A BEAT
St. Louis Blues’ center Adam Oates returned to the lineup Dec. 16 after missing 18 games, looking as though he had never missed one. Oates, who had a point-scoring streak of six games when he suffered a tom abdominal muscle Nov. 5, picked up where he left off with a three-point night in the Blues’ 5-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres. “Oatsie came back and played a hell of a game, no doubt about it,” Blues’ coach Brian Sutter said. “For him being off so long, it’s incredible. He came back and never skipped a beat.” Oates assisted on the Blues’ first two goals—by Geoff Courtnall and Brett Hull—then scored himself late in the second period. The goal was his third of the season, and the two assists put him back into a…
THE THRILLS OF 1990? YOU HAD TO BE THERE
You had to be there. And I was. With the end of the calendar year upon us, here is one man’s highly-personal list (in no particular order) of most memorable hockey-related moments of 1990: The last day of the World Junior Championships in Finland. It was a cold, snowy day as the bus made the two-hour trek from Helsinki to Turkku for what was expected to be a routine Canada-Czechoslovakia game to determine the silver and bronze medals. But with about two minutes left in the game—Canada was leading 2-1—it was announced that Sweden had upset the Soviet Union back in Helsinki. The silver-medal game suddenly became the gold-medal game. Canada won it. It was as dramatic a finish as you could ever imagine. The players’ excitement was totally unexpected, a true joy to…
STORM FRONT
The way Rick Comley sees it, a lot of U.S. college hockey coaches are going to wake up one day in January and get a massive jolt of reality. Some, the Northern Michigan coach and athletic director says, simply don’t know it’s coming. Others have an inkling, but refuse to believe the force will be very swift or powerful. In any event, Comley believes they all will find themselves scrambling to pick up the pieces and fighting for their survival. When the annual National Collegiate Athletic Association convention convenes in Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 7-11, its objective is to usher in a bold, comprehensive reform package that will touch virtually every aspect of intercollegiate sports. The presidents responsible for putting the package together are said to be determined to push it through without amendments. The…
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