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May 10, 1991
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ODDITIES
Bryan Murray coached the Washington Capitals in the playoffs for seven seasons. And despite finishing lower than second only once during, the regular season, his team failed to make it out of the Patrick Division during the playoffs, losing four times in the first round. Since brother Terry Murray took over in Washington last season, the Capitals have not finished higher than third, but won last season in the Patrick Division final.…
AN INQUIRING MIND WANTS TO GET SOME ANSWERS
Some questions that need answers: Why are players who strike masked opponents in the face not penalized as heavily as those who strike unmasked opponents in the face? What would possess Glen Wesley to high stick Guy Carbonneau in the midst of a Bruin five-minute power play in Game 4 of the Montreal-Boston series? Was it because referees always call even-up penalties during majors-(as Dave Poulin insists) and Wesley figured he may as well get some satisfaction since Boston was bound to get a penalty anyway? Or was it because he is a hockey player and hockey players think discipline is something to exorcise, not exercise? Is Mike Liut, with 20 penalty minutes (as far as I can tell) in 642 career regular-season games, the cleanest goalie of all-time? If nets were moved out an extra…
‘TIK’ TALK: HEROIC FINN PROVIDES TIMELY PLAY
Esa Tikkanen, it seems, would make a heck of a trucker. With the Edmonton Oilers’ Stanley Cup playoff theme this spring 18 wheels of Let It Roll, Tikkanen’s adjusted best to blue line or red line or whatever line fever. With Tikkanen’s main Los Angeles Kings’ assignment, Wayne Gretzky, nursing a bad ear, the 26-year-old not only held No. 99 in check, but kept coming up with offensive gems of his own. Eventually the Oilers ran the Kings and their Bentleys and Porches into the ditch and kept rolling along the highway towards the Stanley Cup. Afterwards, John Muckier couldn’t say enough about Tikkanen. Entering the Smythe Division final, the Oilers’ coach informed Tikkanen it’s seldom possible to keep No. 99 off the scoreboard, but go out and do his best. Well, the final tab is…
SHEEHY A LAW MAN ON AND OFF ICE
Tucked away in a metal filing cabinet in a small room in his Maryland single-family home, there is a gleaming, white, letter-sized envelope which Neil Sheehy prefers to keep sealed. Inside are the results of the law school aptitude tests the Washington Capitals’ defenseman so arduously prepared for this past winter when he wondered whether he would ever play hockey again. A law career seemed like a natural alternative. It has been a season of trials. There was trouble off the ice: Sheehy and a pair of teammates were accused of sexual assault. A grand jury decided not to bring an indictment against Sheehy, Geoff Courtnall and Dino Ciccarelli. There was trouble on it: He cracked a leg bone during a pre-season fight with Buffalo’s Mike Hartman. Two months later he suffered a herniated…
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