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November 13, 1992
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Connecticut governor vows to keep Whale a float
Connecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., has sent a message to Hartford Whalers’ owner Richard Gordon, the NHL and groups in cities around the country looking to move the team out of the state. “I’m telling you right now: the Whalers are not going anywhere,” Weicker said. “Everybody is out of the picture. I don’t care if it’s Miami, Dallas, Denver or wherever. “I want the players, Richard and everybody else to get it through their heads. This team is staying. I told Richard. ‘Go manage your damned team and do a good job without the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head.’ “You don’t have to worry that you’re going down the drain. And I don’t have to worry about running around the countryside blocking attempts to raid the Whalers.” Weicker is doing…
All is not fine with NHL fines
A new television contract, more aggressive merchandising and expansion fees have generated a healthy amount of revenue for the NHL. Now if the league could just get its star players to goon it up a little. In NHL president Gil Stein’s new approach to supplementary discipline, all players are created equal. Some are just more equal than others because of the size of their paychecks. With a system based on suspensions without pay for nongame, non-travel days, high-income earners in the NHL stand to lose the most. For example, if Mario Lemieux were suspended seven days, he would lose $91,636 based on his base salary, which is believed to be $3.6 million this season. If Sergei Fedorov were suspended for the same duration, his salary of $270,000 would translate to a $6,872 fine. In…
Quinn puts blame on forwards
Ten games into the season and everyone in Vancouver is dredging up the old familiar question: What’s wrong with the Canucks? A year ago, they were an astonishing 8-1-1 at the 10-game mark and they never looked back, winning the Smythe Division in a romp. This season, they began impressively enough at 4-0-0 before things began to unravel. They went 1-4-1 in the next six and were clearly outworked in at least four of them. Coach Pat Quinn laid most of the blame at the feet of his forwards. He felt they were making poor decisions offensively and not being industrious enough without the puck. Pavel Bure was among those singled out in an interview with the Vancouver Sun, although Quinn later said it wasn’t his intention to focus his unhappiness on the Russian…
Stein rejects lobby reports
NHL president Gil Stein wants to set the record straight on media reports that he is positioning himself to become the league’s first commissioner. Stein has been characterized as running a campaign to fill the new role, but he denied that has been his strategy. “I have not lobbied one governor,” he said in an Oct. 28 telephone interview. “It’s true I haven’t taken myself out as a candidate and it’s true whenever someone has asked me if I wanted to stay on, I’d say yes, but I’m not campaigning and I never have.” The job is expected be filled by season’s end. A New York headhunters’ firm is in the process of compiling a slate of candidates and determining a job description.…
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