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March 26, 1993
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DIGEST
Henry Brabham is a man of vision. He showed it when he founded the East Coast League and displayed it again March 13. Brabham is the owner of the Lancer-Lot arena in Roanoke, Va., the home of the ECHL’s Roanoke Valley Rampage. The Storm of the Century that hit the American eastern seaboard March 13, limited the crowd to 68 diehards for an evening contest against the Richmond Renegades. Eighteen inches of snow, whipped up by 40 mile-per-hour winds, formed snow drifts on the roof of the six-year-old facility. Brabham, a former owner of the Rampage, heard what he believed to be the sound of shifting girders. With six minutes to go in the second period, he ordered the arena be evacuated. At about 1:30 a.m., March 14, the Lancer-Lot’s roof and several arena…
IHL
The Kansas City Blades have proven looks can be deceiving in the International League. Seemingly headed nowhere in December with a league-worst 7-18-0 record, the defending Turner Cup champions have given the rest of the IHL a rude awakening since Jan. 1. “We’ve been doing it with mirrors,” said general manager Doug Soetaert. “I guess our mirrors are better right now than anyone else’s.” Which team has the best record in the IHL since Jan. 1? It’s not the powerhouse San Diego Gulls. It’s Kansas City, which stood at 22-4-4 on March 8, better than the Gulls’ record of 21-5-3. “If we could go on to win a championship now, it would be better than last year’s,” said captain Gary Emmons, whose goal-scoring and leadership is a big reason for his team’s remarkable resurgence.…
Quality of life won’t be same
When the Minnesota North Stars leave for Dallas, the University of Minnesota will be the best hockey in a hockey town. That fact doesn’t exactly have anyone celebrating. “I don’t know if we need to be the jOnly hockey game in town,” said Golden Gophers’ coach Doug Woog. “The money may look better for a while, but we’re a college game and we can’t be compared at the same level as the Twins and Vikings and Timberwolves.” Even though Woog could see Owner Norm Green’s decision coming, there was nothing he could do about it. “Quality of life means different things to different people,” he said. “For me and most of our players, it means being able to see a team at the top level in our sport. “Our players can go to Met Center…
BLUELINES
Ever since Hall-of-Fame goalie Terry Sawchuk died in 1970, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death have confounded hockey people. But a man who is probing the case and intends to write a book about it has a theory that foul play involving non-hockey people may have led to Sawchuk’s death. Pittsburgh financial consultant Jim Garcia and author Bob Grove have been quietly probing the Sawchuk case for several years. Sawchuk was originally hospitalized following a scuffle with New York Rangers’ teammate Ron Stewart on the lawn of his Long Island home. Although his injury seemed treatable, Sawchuk took a turn for the worse at the Long Beach Hospital, a small Long Island infirmary, and was finally moved to the New York Hospital in Manhattan, where he unexpectedly died May 31,…
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