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April 21, 1995
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Flyers’ Clarke doing right thing
There is a growing sense around the NHL goaltending will be the Philadelphia Flyers’ Achilles’ heel come playoff time; that no matter how steady Ron Hextali was during the regular season, the memory of last year’s playoff struggles with the New York Islanders will hearten whomever the Flyers meet in the first round. In fact, the baying will increase now that the Flyers didn’t make a move on Florida Panthers’ goalie John Vanbiesbrouck because the asking price-reportediy Rod Brind’Amour-was high. My gut feeling is Flyers’ GM Bob Clarke did the right thing once again. There’s a tendency for GMs who are on a roll-as Clarke is this season-to make one move too many. A GM’s primary responsibility is to consider the big picture. In the larger scheme of things, the Flyers’ season is…
Not just a big shot: Blues’ Al Maclnnis
It used to be that all Al Maclnnis thought about was shooting the biscuit. From midget to junior to a brief stint in the minors, coaches told him The Shot, with its high, arcing windup that froze goalies stiff, was his ticket to stardom. They were right. Maclnnis spent 11 fruitful years with the Calgary Flames, blasting away to score 213 goals and perhaps more of them from the blue-line than any player in NHL history. But that same shot-or the lack of it-is what has St. Louis Blues’ coach-GM Mike Keenan in a minor miff about his star defenseman. It was suggested to Keenan that Maclnnis’ goal-scoring is down (six in 26 games) because the Blues don’t have any playmakers to feed him. “That, and he’s not shooting as much as he should,” Keenan…
Bisons’ 14-year drought ends with series win
After 14 seasons in the Quebec League, the Granby Bisons finally won their first playoff series-and they did it the hard way. The Bisons were trailing their best-of-seven first-round series with the St-Jean Lynx 3-1 before rallying with three victor-ies-two on the road-while outscoring the Lynx 11-2. “(Goalie) Frederic Deschenes was the key for us,” said Bisons’ coach Alain Rajotte. Deschenes, a fifth-round draft pick of the Detroit Red Wings in 1994, stopped 26 shots for a 2-0 shutout in front of 3,131 fans at St-Jean’s Colisee Isabelle Brasseur in Game 7 April 2. In the final three games, Deschenes stopped 108 of 110 shots for a.982 save percentage. “This was a big win for us and the city of Granby,” said Rajotte, in his first season behind the Bisons’ bench, “ft has been 14…
Look out for top rookies
Just as he has done with the rest of the hockey world, Jim Carey has snuck up on the hockey card companies. And because of it, companies are scurrying to get the Washington Capitals’ rookie star into their update sets. Many companies were caught flat-footed by the emergence of Carey, who was called up from the Portland Pirates of the American League to the parent Capitals on March 2. And with Carey as a favorite for rookie of the year this season, the companies know how important it is to get him into their sets. Unlike many other rookies, Carey has yet to appear in a licensed set. How surprising to the hobby is Carey’s emergence? Well, when the NHL Players’ Association released a list of rookie players that could be included in…
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