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March 29, 1991
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MORIN COULD BE CENTER OF ATTENTION NEXT SEASON
While most NHL teams are fine tuning their rosters for the playoffs, the Quebec Nordiques were once again planning for the future—evaluating their lineup for next season. Quebec will finish last in the NHL again—but they made several significant roster changes this season that should prove beneficial in the future. In an attempt to increase the team’s depth, the Nordiques traded experience for youth. Paul Gillis, 27, Lucien DeBlois, 33, Claude Loiselle, 27, and Aaron Broten, 30 were all dealt for youngsters who the club hopes will develop into strong players. Perhaps the deepest part of Quebec’s youthful lineup next season will be at center. This season’s center corps—Joe Sakic, 21, Mike McNeill, 24, Stephane Morin, 21, and Tony Hrkac, 24—will all be back, with Kip Miller, 21, Claude Lapointe, 22, Jamie Baker,…
MAINE EVENT
John Byce and Ralph Barahona won college championships in Wisconsin last season, but the Maine Mariner forwards, who were called up by Boston this season, hope to combine on a championship team with the Bruins. “The roads to get here were totally different,” says Barahona, who attended Boston’s training camp on a tryout and earned a contract after a week. Byce was an 11th-round draft pick in 1985 and made a sudden impact with the Bruins in last season’s playoffs. Barahona grew up in Long Beach, Calif., and left home at age 16 to pursue a hockey career. He went to Minnesota for his final year of high school and eventually wound up at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. “The thing I wanted was to win a national championship,” says Barahona,…
WINNING ATTITUDE MEANS EVERYTHING
See if you can detect a pattern here. For the third time in three seasons, the Quebec Nordiques were eliminated from playoff contention in November. Or maybe it just seemed that way. Mathematically, it took the Toronto Maple Leafs until mid-March to go down, but veteran Leaf watchers knew they were in trouble the day general manager Floyd Smith started assembling his over-the-hill gang. Did the Vancouver Canucks ever have a winning season? Meanwhile, the Boston Bruins, despite having few high draft choices and only a trio of premier players on their team, will win the Adams Division again. The Montreal Canadiens, despite a dozen key injuries and a raw, rebuilt defense corps, stayed competitive in the Adams and may do some playoff damage. In a transition year, the Calgary Flames may yet win…
LINDROS HAS AT LEAST ONE WEAKNESS
Just to sum up as the playoff countdown begins at 16…eight…four., two…and one: Is there anything Eric Lindros can’t do? “Well,” he said, “I think ballet’s out of the question.” Will someone tell me, if refereeing is such a difficult job, then why does Bill McCreary make it look so easy? Tie Domi is to hockey what Dave Schultz was to hockey. Silly you, thinking that the game got better. The NHL recently wrote me to object I wrote here that the league does not have a policy on drugs. Sorry, I missed it, but so did Bob Probert and Grant Fuhr, for two. It seems to me that any team with a stud at each position—goaltending, defense and forward—should be able to compete for the Cup. Chicago comes to…
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