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November 17, 1995
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Doom Domination
They’re so strong, so sleek, so imposingly huge they have been able to hide one of the most surprising and unnoticed trends of the early NHL season: the Philadelphia Flyers’ have no scoring depth. Look past center Eric Lindros, right winger Mikael Renberg and left winger John LeClair and you’ll find less offense here than on an elite-level soccer team. After 12 games the Legion of Doomers averaged 6-foot-3 and 220 pounds, 2.3 goals a game and had 54 points. The rest of the team averaged 1.3 goals a game and had 65 points. The opposition is Doomed if the Flyers have the big three in the lineup; Philadelphia is doomed if it doesn’t Flyers’ management prefers to focus on how the team had lowered its goals-against average from 2.73 last season to…
Relieved Wilson receives contract extension to ’97
The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim proved they’re serious about sticking to a philosophy of patience by extending coach Ron Wilson’s contract. GM Jack Ferreira-who also is getting a contract extension-told Wilson after last season he would give him a new deal. But early November rolled around with Wilson still in the final year of a three-year deal. And he had a 2-8-0 start to think about. “I’m a human being,” Wilson said. “No one’s saying anything and you start to worry. Then you don’t get off to a good start and you know there are a lot of easy outs in this game.” Instead of allowing speculation to ferment, Ferreira made it clear Wilson and assistants Al Sims and Tim Army have the organization’s backing, offering extensions through 1996-97. “Ron and Al and Tim…
Another setback for Peake
Pat Peake, the Washington Capitals’ young center, is facing the toughest assignment of his NHL career. He has to go for a month skating lightly, but avoiding all contact, then hope he is ready to return to the sport. Peake, 22, has been placed on the sidelines until late November and will miss at least 15 games after sustaining a fractured thyroid cartilage around his larynx when he was slashed across the throat by St. Louis Blues’ defenseman Chris Pronger. The injury could be very serious should it worsen, because it could hamper Peake’s ability to breathe. That is precisely the condition the center found himself in as he was being assisted from the Kiel Center ice Oct. 29. Pronger was suspended four games and fined the maximum $1,000 by NHL vice-president Brian Burke. “Despite…
INSIDE HOCKEY
NHL attendance is either up in 15 cities or down in 14 cities very early in 1995-96. You decide. Either way, average league-wide attendance is largely unchanged over the past three years. Small crowds in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Miami, Buffalo, Hartford, Washington and Los Angeles suggest the NHL is experiencing attendance problems. But unofficial average attendance through 149 games was 15,272, down slightly from last season’s 15.486 and up marginally from the 1993-94 mark of 15,217. (See pg. 5 for team-by-team report.) Fifteen teams have higher average marks than two years ago, which the NHL says is the appropriate comparison point; the largest increase after Boston, where the Bruins are playing in a new and bigger building than the old Garden, is in Hartford, where the Whalers drew 15.2 per-cent more…
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