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December 11, 1992
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Will NHL be home of Anaheim Kings? You never know
Anaheim is being touted as a potential site for an NHL team, but the NHL could lose one California city to gain another. Los Angeles Kings’ owner Bruce McNall told Bluelines he has considered moving his team 35 miles southeast. “There’s a possibility I might move to Anaheim if it was possible to work a deal out,” McNall said. “But I’d like to see us stay in L.A.” Anaheim will have a 19,000-seat rink ready by June, 1993, but McNall said he is in no rush and would prefer to keep the Kings in L.A. Even if his team stays put, McNall said Anaheim is a strong possibility in the future. Any interests there would have to pay the Kings a $30-million territorial indemnity. “Assuming we stay where we are,…
Don’t scrap neutral-site NHL games, revamp them
The NHL’s board of governors will meet later this month to discuss some of the bigger issues facing the NHL and it will listen to the suggestions of committees for this, and committees for that. You’ve heard the joke that a camel is a horse built by a committee and the general consensus is that there are too many concessions by a committee. What the NHL needs is answers from somebody who has no egos to massage. Somebody who can give you an answer, and then when somebody asks “how are we going to do that?” he can just wipe his hands and shrug his shoulders. In other words, answers from a columnist. With an endorsement of none other than myself, here are the answers to some of the NHL’s biggest problems.…
Starting a career year Falling off their pace
Philadelphia’s Brent Fedyk was averaging 28 points a season before this year. Now he’s on pace for 104 points. Here are other surging players with their career seasonal average compared to projected 1992-93 totals. Before going down with a knee injury Nov. 23, Hartford’s Tim Kerr was off to a dreadful start with just six assists in 18 games. Here are other players who have struggled this year with their career seasonal average compared to projected 1992-93 totals.…
Diminutive freshmen suddenly walking tall
NHL teams that aren’t afraid to draft small offensive forwards may find just what they’re looking for in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. The CCHA has several dynamite freshman forwards and although none is big by pro standards, all measured up offensively in the early going. Notre Dame center Jamie Ling is the best of the crop. The 19-year-old Charlottetown, P.E.I., native led the CCHA in scoring with five goals and 15 points in 10 games. At 5-foot-11 and 180 pounds, Ling didn’t strike fear into many opposing players. He had only four penalty minutes in the first 10 games. Lake Superior State right winger Sean Tal-laire was also impressive. The 5-foot-10, 185-pounder had seven goals and 12 points in eight games. “I expected he would be good,” said Laker coach Jeff Jackson, “but I…
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