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April 30, 1993
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Team bounces back
Calgary Hames’ general manager Doug Risebrough had one key question to answer heading into the 1992-93 season. Who were the real Calgary Hames? The ones that stumbled to a 74-point season last year, missing the playoffs for the first time since 1975? Or the ones that had put together the best record in hockey over the previous five seasons? In the end, Risebrough determined 1992 was an off-year. The nucleus of the team-Mike Vernon, Gary Suter, Al Maclnnis, Gary Roberts, Joe Nieuwendyk and Theo Heury-were reasonably young and talented. The Hames were given a second chance to prove they were better than a year ago and they did. They moved up three places in the division and 23 points in the standings. MVP: Suter, a second-team all-star in 1988, had his best season in…
BROPHY’S STOPS ’N’ STARTS
Wild about Harry, but not Peter Puck Who were this season’s heroes and zeroes? There were plenty of candidates for both titles. Now that the regular season has concluded, we’ve selected the NHL’s champs and chumps in each division. Patrick Division Champ: Pierre Turgeon, New York Islanders. Not Mario Lemieux? That’s right. Lemieux’s return from Hodgkin’s disease has been well chronicled, but, in retrospect, he came back from something that was no more serious than any other injury. Turgeon, on the other hand, carried the Islanders into the playoffs singlehandedly. Linemates Derek King and Steve Thomas are fine players, but they would be nothing without Turgeon. Chump: Esa Tikkanen, New Rangers. Tikkanen never asked to be traded to the New York Rangers, but he still proved he is the most overpaid player in the NHL. There was…
CANADIENS
It was a season of highs and lows, ebbs and flows for the Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens occupied first place in the Adams Division for nearly five months, moving into the penthouse Oct. 28. But a late-season swoon-coupled with an incredible turnaround by the Boston Bruins-soured the festivities. Montreal lost 11 of 19 games through March and April. Two of their wins came in overtime against the lowly Hartford Whalers and Ottawa Senators. On the other hand, only the Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston won more games than Montreal’s 48. And while the Canadiens finished third in the Adams, they produced their first 100-point season since 1988-89. Their winning percentage jumped from.581 last season to.607. MVP: He wasn’t the team’s scoring leader, but center Kirk Muller is the heart and soul of the team. He scored 37 goals…
Victories and feuds abound
There was as much drama this season in the feud between coach Herb Brooks and right winger Claude Lemieux as there was in the New Jersey Devils’ fight for a Patrick Division playoff spot. Yet, despite his much-publicized bouts with Lemieux and minor differences with several other players. Brooks led the Devils to a franchiserecord 40 victories in his first season behind the team’s bench. MVP: Although goalie Craig Billington and defenseman Scott Stevens went to the All-Star Game, sophomore center Alexander Semak was clearly the team’s top player. Anchoring the club’s most productive line with left winger Valeri Zelepukin and right winger Claude Lemieux, Semak stepped forward to fill a serious void in the middle. The 27-year-old Russian became only the second center in Devils’ history to score more than 35 goals…
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