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June 1, 1991
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PEN-ULTIMATE PITTSBURGH FINALLY REACHES NHL’S PEAK
In a light-hearted moment the day before Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals, someone asked Mario Lemieux if hoisting the Cup would put undue strain on his chronically tender back. Lemieux laughed. “No problem,” the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins said. And now we have the proof. On a night of snapshot memories frozen into NHL lore, Lemieux and his indomitable Penguin teammates scaled the league’s biggest, steepest mountain—at long last. Twenty-four years of failure and frustration came down to one game May 25 at the Met Center, and the Penguins put on a rink-wide clinic, destroying the Minnesota North Stars 8-0 to win the final series 4-2. Then, with Lemieux leading the way, they carried the hallowed Cup around the rink. Memories. Forever. “To see that, to feel that, and to pick up the Cup—to pick…
LEY PAYS PRICE FOR MEDIOCRE SEASON
As it was described in the Hartford media, coach Rick Ley took the fall. General manager Ed Johnston took the heat. And governor Richard Gordon, the man who forced Johnston to pull the trigger, took a powder. There was only one sadder, uglier scene in Hartford history than the one that took place May 29 at the Civic Center. It was the morning that the the roof collapsed in 1978. No one, not even Johnston, tried to make this firing of Ley as Whalers’ coach sound like anything but a most unfortunate event. On April 30, Johnston announced Ley, 42, would return as coach of the Whalers. “It’s a dead issue,” Johnston said. “The decision is 100 percent Eddie’s,” Gordon said. A month later—although the Whalers had a 0-0-0 record in May—Ley got canned. Jimmy Roberts,…
HAIL TO THE CHIEFS
This was supposed to be Eric Lindros’ Memorial Cup, but when his Oshawa Generals failed to capture the Ontario League title, the hero’s mantle had to be assumed by someone else. That man turned out to be Spokane’s Pat Falloon. The 18-year-old right winger put on a one-man show at the major junior hockey championship, scoring eight goals and 12 points in four games and being selected the MVP as the Chiefs breezed to their first Cup ever. Spokane went undefeated in four games, including a 5-1 victory over the Quebec League’s Drummondville Voltigeurs in the title game at Quebec City’s Le Colisee. Falloon scored once in that game. “A lot of people didn’t know who I was when I came in here,” said Falloon, rated the fifthbest draft eligible prospect by the NHL’s…
HYPE-DRIVEN PRODUCTS MAKE THEIR MARK
The big news in this edition of The Hockey News Collectors World Power Play/Penalty Box listing is the new arrivals. Both Upper Deck French edition and the Canadian Home Shopping Club (CHSC) are basically hype-driven products. In the case of Upper Deck French edition, the hype does not originate with the company. It has. if anything, played down the miniscule print run of both the regular series and the virtually non-existent High Number French runs. There has been reported sales of over $8,000 (U.S.) for a 24-box foil case of High Number French. Curiously, Upper Deck limited the print run on this product because it perceived a unilingual French edition would create little or no demand in the U.S. market. The big question is. Who are the end users? Are there collectors…
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