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October 20, 1995
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Interest minimal at waiver draft
The NHL’s annual waiver draft came and went with little fanfare-and it’s easy to see why. Only eight players changed teams in the draft held Oct. 2, compared to 17 the year before. Buffalo Sabres’ GM John Muckier was an active waiver dealer, taking two players-tough left winger Brent Hughes from the Boston Bruins and minor league right winger Rob Conn from the New Jersey Devils. Center Bob Sweeney was dropped from Buffalo’s protected list after the Sabres claimed Conn and was promptly selected by the New York Islanders. “It just goes to show you the depth of the NHL is not that great,” Muckier said. Teams were allowed to protect 18 skaters and two goalies. No team could lose more than three players and some players were exempt from being selected. The Ottawa Senators…
Langkow earns chance to show scoring touch
Daymond Langkow and the Tampa Bay Lightning’s defense corps be-nefitted greatly from Phil Esposito’s tardiness. After missing an early-morning Oct. 5 flight to Chicago, where he was to attend to a legal matter between the Lightning and the International League’s Chicago Wolves, Esposito returned to his office. He then spent the day negotiating a contract for Langkow and adding a healthy body to Tampa Bay’s suddenly injury-riddled blueline. The defenseman is Steven Finn, a stay-at-home type with a mean streak who Tampa Bay acquired from the Colorado Avalanche for a fourthround draft pick in 1997. With David Shaw (strained rotator cuff) and Bill Houlder (groin pull) hurting, the 29-year-old Finn was expected to see plenty of action. “I looked at our defense and after Houlder, Shaw and Hamrlik, everybody was a first-or second-year player,”…
Pre-season record leaves Campbell scratching head
The New York Rangers made a number of off-season moves in an attempt to set back into the Stanley Cup race. Excitement quickly changed to pessimism following a sloppy, undisciplined, inconsistent pre-season in which they went 1-6-2, giving up four goals three times and six twice. They exited the pre-season on an awful note, blowing a two-goal lead in the final minute against the Pittsburgh Penguins’ ‘B’ squad at Madison Square Garden Oct. 3. Between the tying goal and the start of overtime, Rangers’ coach Colin Campbell, obviously fed-up with his team’s play, tore off his jacket and left the bench. “I went to check the Yankees’ score,” Campbell quipped later. Captain Mark Messier found it curious the Rangers were worrying about the pre-season. “It’s like Kevin Lowe was saying, ‘Exhibition games don’t mean anything when…
Gordie’s know-Howe
Mark Howe’s son Nolan had a terrible asthma attack last year during the hockey season. He begged his father, who had a game that night, not to leave him. Howe picked up the phone, called the Detroit Red Wings’ offices at Joe Louis Arena and said he wouldn’t be playing that night. His child was being taken to the hospital in an ambulance and that came before hockey. It’s a story his parents, Gordie and Colleen, recall with pride and more than a touch of jealousy. Gordie Howe played 26 NHL seasons over five decades, from 1946 until 1980, but this wasn’t the game he knew. “Years ago, if that ever happened, they wouldn’t give you a time out,” says Howe, 67. More likely, players would have been afraid to miss a game…
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