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January 3, 1992
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Picture perfect comeback story
Hockey is full of groin pulls, tom ligaments, hip pointers and enough aching backs to make Doan’s Pills the NHL’s daily vitamin of choice. Fans don’t want to hear about injuries. Coaches ignore them for as long as they can. Management bemoans the endless stream of trainers, therapists and orthopedists onto their rinks. Players sit on packs of ice, wire their biceps to various volts of electric stimuli, and talk about taking Magnetic Resonance Imaging exams. No one just opens wide and says, “Ahhh,” anymore. That was old-time hockey. The hockey player in all of us, though, likes to think we could take 11 stitches to the chin and report to the office five minutes late, shirt bloodied, and not miss one shift to the Xerox machine. The realist in all of us…
No back seat for woman back stop
Will we ever see the day when a woman gets a job alongside a man as a pro hockey player? And maybe even makes it all the way to the NHL? Don’t laugh. Kelly Dyer doesn’t think it’s funny, nor does she think it’s out of the realm of possibility. Dyer’s a goalie who was good enough to understudy Tom Barrasso at Acton-Boxboro (Mass.) High School when the Penguin was the best young netminder in America. Since then, Dyer has tended goal for Northeastern University and the U.S. women’s national team. “It’s possible for a woman to make it to the NHL,” says Dyer, who is working for a Boston-based marketing and communications firm. “I know some women who, with proper exposure and equal training and opportunities could compete with “men, maybe even…
It’s forgive and forget time for Crisp with Golden Brett
Although Brett Hull spends an entire chapter (“Burned To A Crisp”) in his new book criticizing his ex-coach Terry Crisp, Canada’s Olympic team assistant coach refuses to be drawn into the one-way feud. Confronted with such Hullisms as, “Crisp wanted to break my spirit,” Crisp tells Bluelines, “Brett was a super young man and still is a super young man. Things are said, but that’s life. When I had him, I had no problem and we’re still the best of friends. Matter of fact, I talked to him the last three times he was in town (Calgary.) Those things (that Hull wrote about) happened a long time ago and I have nothing further to say about them.” When his Olympic team tour of duty ends in February, Crisp will begin…
Page’s arrival revives bewildered Sundin
The Quebec Nordiques are expecting big things from right winger Mats Sundin. One of the more talented youngsters in the NHL, Sundin had an intriguing season last year, his first in North American pro hockey. Sundin proved he has above-average talent when, at the age of 19, he scored 23 goals and finished with 59 points. He followed that up by leading Sweden to a gold medal at the World Championships. And although Sundin was off to a respectable start in his sophomore year-nine goals and 26 points in 31 games-many people expected more. In Sundin’s defense, he started slowly, as did many players involved in the Canada Cup. To make things worse, the Nordiques couldn’t find an offensive center to play with him. Kip Miller was too inexperienced and Eric Lindros-originally pegged…
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