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July 1, 1993
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Kariya represents future, Grimson present
The discomfort some people feel about Disney on Ice joining the NHL might have intensified when company chairman Michael Eisner showed up at the expansion draft wearing a Mighty Ducks’ baseball cap and a Mickey Mouse tie. But the team general manager Jack Ferreira and assistant GM Pierre Gauthier began putting together in Quebec City likely calmed some of those fears. The Ducks went heavy on youth and surprisingly heavy on heavies at the expansion draft. Stu Grimson of the Chicago Blackhawks, Troy Loney of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Jim Thomson of the Los Angeles Kings were among the enforcers taken, indicating the team’s commitment to the Disney image won’t mean no fighting allowed. The entry draft was where the Ducks snagged the player around whom they hope to build the franchise in…


CHEERS & JEERS
Manny Legate. Canada’s gritty goalie at the World Junior Championships hung in there again-this time through a long draft day and-was rewarded with an eighth-round selection by the Hartford Whalers. Entry Draft. As a spectacle, this year’s gathering in Quebec City did little to excite the fans. There were no major players traded and few surprise picks. Where were all those blockbuster deals we were promised?…


The Flying Freshman
For the first summer in three, Eric Lindros wasn’t the talk of the NHL draft. When negotiations between Lindros and the Quebec Nordiques were at a stalemate, Lindros spoke of sitting out two years and re-entering the 1993 draft. But instead of becoming an Ottawa Senator, Lindros, spent June 26 playing softball in a charity tournament in Hamilton, Ont. With summer came time to review the most ardently-awaited rookie season since the NHL debut of Mario Lemieux. “I’m not going to say I was satisfied with my season and I’m not going to say I’m disappointed,” Lindros said. “I look at the stats and see if I had stayed healthy, I was on pace for well over 100 points.” There is no boast here, just a white-hot certainty about his place in the game. For…


Torrey, Clarke show up shrewd and lucky
Two things became obvious as the Florida Panthers took their formative steps during the expansion and entry drafts: Don’t toss coins with Bill Torrey or play poker with Bob Clarke. Between Torrey’s luck and Clarke’s ability to bluff, the Panthers passed the first test of laying the foundation for the expansion franchise. By the time the Panthers left Quebec City, they finally had a group of players to call their own. The Panthers got the expansion draft off to an auspicious start when Torrey’s ‘heads’ call earned Florida the first goalie pick, enabling the Panthers to get the Vancouver Canucks’ John Vanbiesbrouck, a former New York Ranger. “The coin flip may have been the most important part of the draft,” said Clarke, the Panthers’ general manager. Vanbiesbrouck, 29, will be the franchise’s centerpiece. He…