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March 3, 1995
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Clark makes big impact
Wendel Clark’s leadership qualities have never been so evident: He picked up at least a point in each of his first 10 games. As a bonus, Joe Sakic is playing the best hockey of his career as Clark’s center. Firmly entrenched as a Nordique, Clark can’t seem to shake his days as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Clark has heard grumblings from Toronto that Maple Leafs’ coach Pat Bums feels his team was playing with less passion than last season. Are they missing Clark more than they admit? “It’s not up to me to comment on the situation in Toronto,” Clark said. “The Leafs are playing .500 hockey, but I know they’ll bounce back.” If Clark doesn’t want to talk about the impact he’s having on the Nordiques, assistant coach Joel Quenneville sure…
Moose on the loose: Minnesota logo No. 1
He is trusty and musty, good to the kids, but not to be trifled with when rutting season comes around. Mick E. Moose is clearly the logo of the 1990s. Mick is the erstwhile emblem of the International League’s expansion Minnesota Moose. If Wayne Gretzky played in the IHL, he’d probably refer to Minnesota as a Mick E. Moose franchise. They’d take that as a compliment, considering Mick is also the gold medalist in The Hockey News’ second annual hunt for the best minor pro logo. Mick was the clear winner over last year’s favorite, Rowdy the River Rat, official emblem of the Albany River Rats of the American League. While the Rats fell just short of repeating, the Cincinnati Cyclones’ logo was once again judged to be the worst of the 44…
Bruising Marchment Oil City Hitman
Mike Gartner got off lucky. Just ask Scott Campbell. When Edmonton Oilers’ defense-man Bryan Marchment caught the Gartner with a spectacular open-ice hit Feb. 3, all Gartner suffered was a partially collapsed lung and headache. It was painful and inconvenient to be sure-Gartner was forced to take the train from Edmonton to Toronto because his injury prevented him from flying. But it wasn’t as devastating as the time Marchment clocked Camp-bell. Marchment, playing for the Ontario League’s Belleville Bulls in 1988-89, hit Campbell of the Peterborough Petes so hard, he knocked a semester’s worth of studies from his opponent’s head. Campbell suffered a serious concussion and amnesia-with enough memory loss he was excused from writing his high school exams. “It took me a month before 1 started to feel half-normal again,” said Campbell who plays…
King of pain experiencing some temporary difficulty
When the tally reached 10, Calgary Flames’ coach Dave King stopped talking about injuries. “I’m trying not to think about it,” King said. “If you do, you can turn a short season into an awfully long one.” The Flames’ early-season injury woes forced King into doing what he does best-improvise a lineup from night to night. For one game-a Feb. 13 date with the St. Louis Blues-the damage report read like this: Defensively, they were missing Phil Housley, Frank Musil and Trent Yawney. Up front they were without Gary Roberts, Michael Nylander, Ron Stem, Sheldon Kennedy, Sandy McCarthy, Kelly Kisio and Todd Hlushko, a minor-league call-up. Against the Blues, the Flames had five minor-leaguers in the lineup plus three players who started the season in the press box. Three days later, McCarthy was back in…
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