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June 20, 1994
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The final: Game by game
May 31: Game 1 Vancouver 3 Rangers 2 OT Crucial moment: Martin Gelinas forces overtime with a deflection goal at 19:00 of the third period. It’s the third time during the playoffs New York has given up a last-minute tying goal. Storyline: Kirk McLean makes 52 saves, most in a final game since Montreal Canadien Ken Dryden blocked 56 in 1971. Rangers’ defenseman Brian Leetch is the game’s dominant skater. Late in the first overtime period, he hits the crossbar. Leetch is knocked down and out of the play as the puck ricochets up ice. Cliff Running gains possession and passes to Greg Adams, who one-times the puck past Ranger goalie Mike Richter at 19:28. June 2: Game 2 Rangers 3 Vancouver 1 Crucial moment: Trevor Linden turns over the puck to Mark Messier…
Dozens arrested in Vancouver riot
VANCOUVER-A 19-year-old man was in critical condition and not expected to survive after a riot broke out in downtown Vancouver following the Vancouver Canucks’ Game 7 defeat to the New York Rangers June 14. Const. Anne Drennan, a spokeswoman for Vancouver Police, said officers were aiming a stun gun at the man’s chest, but he moved and was hit in the side of the skull. What began as a celebration of a roller-coaster playoff run for the Canucks ended in clouds of tear gas when riot police stormed through an unruly mob in the downtown core. The disturbance appeared to be triggered when police tried to get an ambulance to a youth who fell trying to walk across an intersection on overhead electric trolley wires. City jails were filled to overflowing after hooligans battled…
Frontenac draft choice Hultberg took on cancer
A mother and a father’s prayer was answered at the Ontario League draft June 4 in Belleville when Kingston Frontenacs’ coach-general manager Gary Agnew called their son’s name. John Hultberg was the first goalie selected, going in the third round, but three months earlier the OHL draft was the last thing on the minds of any of the Hultbergs. John was diagnosed with colon cancer and was given a 50 per cent chance of surviving. “Have you ever gone through hell?” Gary Hultberg said. “You expect you or your parents to go through something like this, but not your 16-year-old son. Not to have to sit down and tell him he has a 50-50 chance to live.” John, now 17, is from Streamwood, 111., a Chicago suburb, and played Jr. A with the Oshawa…
Moncton out for 1994-95 after Jets turn off supply
Just two weeks after playing in the Calder Cup final, the Moncton Hawks suspended operations for the 1994-95 American League season. The parent Winnipeg Jets told Hawks’ management they would supply only 10 to 12 players for next season and asked if Moncton could fill the remainder of the roster. Moncton’s owners said they couldn’t add such a large financial burden. “The cost would have been so enormous it was way beyond our control,” said Hawks’ business manager John MacAulay. “Having such a great run and all of a sudden we don’t have a team, it’s disappointing.” Winnipeg quickly found a place for its players. The Jets enter a dual affiliation with the Hartford Whalers and share the Springfield Falcons. Joel Quennevilie remains the Springfield coach. But Quenneville is a candidate for the vacant…
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