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June 11, 1993
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Coaching field cut to six
The San Jose Sharks have begun to contact candidates for the team’s coaching position and plan to start interviewing applicants June 1. Dean Lombardi, the team’s director of operations, said management plans to schedule meetings with six candidates for the job created when George Kingston was fired April 19. Sharks’ associate coach Bob Murdoch and minor-league coach Kevin Constantine of the International League’s Kansas City Blades (San Jose’s top minor-league affiliate) are among the candidates. The Sharks also sought permission to contact St. Louis Blues’ assistant Wayne Thomas, New Jersey Devils’ scout John Cunniff and junior coaches Ted Nolan of the Ontario League’s Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and Bryan Maxwell of the Western League’s Spokane Chiefs. □ Constantine has coached Kansas City the past two seasons and led the Blades to the IHL title…
Teamwork proves no man an Islander
Claude Loiselle was leaning against a wall at LaGuardia Airport in New York, trying to decide which miracle was more miraculous. Was it the New Jersey Devils’ 1988 dash to the Wales Conference finals or the 1993 New York Islanders’ playoff triumphs over the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins? “It’s a toss-up,” said Loiselle, who has had the pleasure of playing for both the Islanders and Devils. “The difference is that in ’88 we beat the Islanders and Capitals in the first two rounds. This year we beat the Caps and the champs. Beating Pittsburgh was unreal.” Nothing has been more unreal than the resurrection of the Islanders, a team which appeared to be on the ropes more often than a punch-drunk heavyweight this season yet, somehow, found the resiliency to rebound. Defenseman…
This is no way to run a league
If Peter Pocklington is to be believed-and, hey, why not, let’s show at least a little faith-then the Edmonton Oilers were ready to pack up for Hamilton or Phoenix or any-where this side of Tranquility Lake unless he got a better deal to stay in Edmonton. With the stroke of an accountant’s pen. the good folk of Edmonton would have been left with an empty Northlands Coliseum, fronted by a life-sized statue of Wayne Gretzky. For all their years and support, not without some initial suffering, they would have been left with a vacated building and the bronzed likeness of their Babe Ruth. Now there’s a reward for rooting for the home team. I know. It’s a cruel world. Faith doesn’t always beget loyalty. The Great One was sold to the highest…
King plans to make changes following poor post-season
Coach Dave King and the rest of the Calgary Flames’ front office spent the week after the season ended locked in a local hotel room, grading every player in the NHL. First they assessed their own players. Then they rated everybody else’s. The idea was to assign a numerical grade to every player in the league, so that if a potential trade came up in the off-season, there would be hard statistical data to support the organization’s gut feelings on that player. In reviewing the past season, his first in the NHL, King made one thing clear: he wants to see changes made between now and training camp in September. “We saw progress, but we need to see more progress,” he said. “To get to the next step, there’s going to have to…
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