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December 10, 1993
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American Dream in Dunham’s hands
Hey Jim Craig, Mike Dunham would love to talk to you. Craig, you will recall, backstopped the U.S. Olympic Team’s Miracle On Ice in 1980. Dunham hopes to duplicate Craig’s gold-medal effort and become the first American goalie to lead his team to victory on foreign ice at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. “I’d love to talk to Jim,” said the 21-year-old Dunham, the New Jersey Devils’ fourth pick in the 1990 NHL entry draft. “It would be interesting to hear about his experiences. He has achieved what I hope to achieve.” The 6-foot-2, 175-pound Johnson City, N.Y., native signed with the Devils in August and attended their training camp. He was chosen 53rd overall by the Devils in 1990. With Chris Terreri, Martin Brodeur and Peter Sidorkiewicz there, the Devils felt…
Series of freakish events cages raging beast
The expansion Florida Panthers got off to a great start but injuries and bad luck brought them back to earth. The Panthers lost three of four games in late November after rookie center Rob Niedermayer went down with a separated right shoulder. Niedermayer, who led the team with five goals and 14 points, will be sidelined until late December. He sustained a third-degree shoulder separation Nov. 18 in a 3-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks. The team also lost its two best defenseman, Joe Cirella (fractured right cheekbone) and Keith Brown (arthroscopic knee surgery), and one of its top forwards, Dave Lowry (cracked left cheekbone). Cirella and Lowry were hit by flying pucks-as was defenseman Brent Severyn-in warmups. Severyn also sustained neck bums before a 4-0 loss to the Hartford Whalers Nov. 27. A…
Labine says timing, coaching kept him from winners’ circle
Between periods of a close game, coach Milt Schmidt entered his team’s dressing room and delivered one of the most rousing pep talks Leo Labine had ever heard. It was inspirational, moving and well thought-out. Unfortunately, it was also an oldtimers’ game. “I used to tell him if he coached that way in the NHL, we would have won the Stanley Cup five times in Boston,” Labine said. As it turned out, the Bruins never did win a championship during Labine’s 10 years with the team. They came close a number of times, making it to the finals on three occasions, but came up short each time against the Montreal Canadiens. Labine attributes the Bruins’ misfortune to bad timing and, yes, bad coaching. He said the years when the Bruins didn’t have to meet…
Nightmare at Nassau keeps going strong with loss
Something has to give when two streaks collide. The New York Rangers’ 14-game unbeaten streak, fourth longest in team history, had to end sometime. Predictably, it ended at Nassau Coliseum. The Rangers went to Long Island on a 12-0-2 tear Nov. 27 and left with a 15-game streak. But it wasn’t the 15-game streak they wanted. It was a four-year, 0-12-3 streak against the Islanders at Nassau. The Islanders beat the Rangers 6-4 and it wasn’t close. It marked the first time the Rangers had allowed more than four goals this season, and the second time they surrendered as many as two power-play goals in a game. “I have no explanation for it,” said Islanders’ captain Pat Flatley. “It’s one of those mysteries of sports. I just hope it doesn’t end.” The Rangers also have…
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