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March 5, 1993
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Once-foiled Dupont continues quest for team
Former Toronto Marlboro and Maple Leaf defenseman Jerome Dupont, beaten by Wayne Gretzky in a bid to put a team in Maple Leaf Gardens, isn’t giving up. Dupont has talked to owners of the Newmarket Royals and Windsor Spitfires in an attempt to buy an existing Ontario League franchise. “I’m investigating but I don’t know if I’m going to have success,” Dupont said. “We’re looking at a few locations (including Saginaw, Mich.), but I don’t want to say much because all that does is create a lot of hype.” Dupont likes Saginaw because it’s an hour drive from Detroit and Windsor and four hours from Sault Ste. Marie. That it’s an American city, a fertile expansion ground for junior hockey, is also appealing. “But right now I think we’re out for ’93-94. Gretzky beat…
Deal gears teams for playoffs
Flint Bulldogs’ coach Skip Probst called it the “biggest trade in league history.” His counterpart with the Detroit Falcons, Terry Christensen, wasn’t willing to go quite that far. But there’s no denying the Colonial League teams made a blockbuster deal when Flint sent popular enforcer Jason Simon to Detroit for defenseman Gary St. Pierre and forward Frank Melone Feb. 9. The two principal parties were Simon and St. Pierre. Simon, considered the CHL’s top fighter, was enjoying the best season of his four-year pro career with 17 goals, 49 points and 202 penalty minutes in 44 games. St. Pierre, one of the CHL’s top defensemen, had 11 goals, 49 points and 124 PIM in 41 games. “We had an immediate need for a defenseman and got one of the better ones in the…
Pocklington says no to offer, will pursue different venues
Edmonton Oilers’ owner Peter Pocklington has flatly rejected a $65-million offer from Edmonton Northlands to purchase the hockey club. The offer was made Feb. 19 in the form of a letter presented to him by Northlands’ president Gerry Yuen. “They passed me the letter and I passed it back and said, ‘Not for sale,’” said Pocklington, who wants to renegotiate his lease with the Northlands Coliseum. But that doesn’t appear likely. “Frankly, for us to have considered that (renegotiation), we would have had to have a guarantee that he wouldn’t take the team out of here,” Yuen said. “And we saw no way of writing that into the contract.” Pocklington also proposed Northlands buy one-third of the team for $35 million and join in a partnership to build a new arena in downtown Edmonton. “One idea…
Korolev slowly improving
With a burst of three points in two games on the St. Louis Blues’ recent eastern road trip, Russian winger Igor Korolev matched his production in the previous 31 games. And that was cause for celebration. “Good feel, good game,” said Korolev, who is trying to learn English, just as he’s trying to learn how to play in the NHL. Korolev, 22, was the Blues’ first pick, 38th overall, in the 1992 entry draft. He and countrymen Vitali Prokhorov and Vitali Karamnov were supposed to improve the Blues’ lagging skill level this season, but only Korolev is still playing on the team. A wrenched right shoulder that will require surgery derailed Prokhorov’s season, while Karamnov rarely played with St. Louis before being sent to the Peoria Rivermen of the International League earlier in the year. Korolev…
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