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November 10, 1995
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The season is about one month old and we’ve already seen a coach and GM fired; a coach and star player at odds; the best player on a team announce what amounts to a holdout for the season; and more interviews about a rule change than a national election. In other words, after the shortened 1994-95 season, we’re back to life as we’ve always known it in the NHL and it has been one wonderful start. Here’s a look at some of the juicier issues: The Montreal Affair Two years after winning the Stanley Cup, coach Jacques Demers and GM Serge Savard are cast aside after just four games. If it was so obvious they had to go, why did the Canadiens enter the season with the pair? Savard will always have his…
Langkow down to juniors instead of up to press box
The Tampa Bay Light——ning learned a tough lesson last season and center Daymond Langkow paid for it this fall. After weeks of haggling, the Lightning returned Langkow, the team’s first-round pick in the 1995 entry draft, to the Tri-City Americans of the Western League Oct. 22, largely because of its experience with Jason Wiemer. Wiemer was the Lightning’s first-round pick in the 1994 draft and spent most of last year’s shortened season watching games from the press box. “I want (Langkow) playing every day,” said GM Phil Esposito. “We almost ruined Jason Wiemer doing that last year and I’m not going to make the same mistake with this kid.” Langkow reluctantly agreed, but said he doesn’t understand why he couldn’t crack the lineup. “I feel like I’m ready to play in this league and I…
New coach likes Bure
Valeri Bure has been the major beneficiary of the change in coaches on the Montreal Canadiens. Bure, an offensively gifted right winger, struggled under former Canadiens’ coach Jacques Demers and didn’t dress for many games. He played only one of four games under Demers this season and was held without a point. The arrival of Mario Tremblay has ended, at least for now, Bure’s days as a spectator. Bure played three consecutive games for the new coach, registering an assist in each as the team won its first three games of the year. “I think Bure is a good hockey player,” Tremblay said. “He scored 68 goals one year in junior and he went down to Fredericton (of the American League) last year and scored 23 goals. The only way to find out…
Practise makes pathetic, Campbell rips into troops
The inconsistency has i I boiled Colin Campbell’s blood for an entire 48-game season, two playoff rounds and the first month of his second season as coach of the New York Rangers. He can’t take much more. Campbell walked out of practice early Oct. 26, disgusted with the work habits of several of his players. The next night, he watched another sloppy performance as his team trailed 3-0 and 4-2 before coming back to tie the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-4. That left the Rangers with a 5-3-1 record, a respectable mark, but not good enough for a team so talented and one that has 10 players who make at least $1 million a year. “Some guys went home and packed their bags and some picked it up,” Campbell said of the Tampa Bay game.…
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