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July 1, 1994
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Companies try to strike balance with collation
Do hockey card collectors want to be handed a bar of gold or do they want to dig for the buried treasure of unknown value? That’s a question manufacturers wrestle with these days in trying to determine what’s the best collation to use for their foil packs. “There is no such thing as perfect collation,” said Topps spokesman Timm Boyle. “If that’s what you wanted, you would buy (dealer-made) sets.” On one hand, collectors cry foul when they open a newly-purchased box of cards and receive only 75 percent of the cards in the set. On the other hand, many collectors love the roulette-like charge that comes from opening a box in which collation is slightly askew. Though card companies are often lambasted in print for poor collation, a chunk of collectors would rather…
Experience and reputation earn Murray coaching post
Coaches without extensive NHL experience and winning records never used to bother the Philadelphia Flyers when they went to hire. Pat Quinn, Bob McCammon, Mike Keenan all came to the Flyers as rookie NHL coaches and left with winning percentages over .600. Recent coaches haven’t been as successful. Paul Holmgren, Bill Dineen and Terry Simpson couldn’t even break the .500 barrier. When it came time for general manager Bob Clarke to pick a succes-sor to Simpson, he went to Terry Murray, a proven coach with 302 NHL games under his belt and a .545 winning percentage in four seasons with the Washington Capitals. Given the Flyers’ five straight years out of the playoffs, Clarke felt he had to find a coach who had been through adversity and handled it “I think when you’ve coached 12…
Hyper Wheels top notch
Hyper hockey scores with its full line of new roller hockey wheels. From grass roots tournaments and leagues to amateur players and the top professionals, Hyper Wheels continues to provide the highest quality, most innovative, longest wearing roller hockey wheels in the world. Hyper Wheels is a founding sponsor of the National In-line Hockey Association and continues its support of the triple Crown Street Hockey Tournaments and Huron Roller Hockey Schools that take place nationwide. Hyper Wheels is also the official wheel of 12 Roller Hockey International teams including: the Atlanta Fire Ants, Buffalo Stam-pede, Calgary Rad’z, Las Vegas Flash, Los Angeles Blades, New England Stingers, New Jersey Rockin Rollers, Oakland Skates, Philadelphia Bulldogs, San Jose Rhinos, Tampa Bay Tritons and Vancouver Voodoo. When you visit your local store, look for Hyper Wheels, Power…
HOCKEY’S BEST HANDS
If you don’t have a favorite Wayne Gretzky goal, it’s not for a lack of choices. There have been more than 2,000 since his rookie season as a six-vear-old in Brantford. Ont. Most familiar are the record 803 in XHL regular-season games. But none stands out in mv mind more than one scored Christmas Day, 1978. during the World Junior Championships. Canada was facing Czechoslovakia and the left-shooting Gretzky scored a jaw-dropping goal that remains among his favorites to this day. Gretzky was in alone on a breakaway, twisted to his backhand, hinting at a reverse move to the forehand. Instead, he lifted a backhand to the right. The puck floated toward net. Meanwhile, the Czechoslovak goalie was reduced to an anatomically incorrect position^). Body parts flew in different directions. But not even air defense could stop…
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