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May 17, 1996
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Young Ducks fly in minors despite tumultuous season
The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim spent much of the season calling up players from the minor leagues. At season’s end, four former Baltimore Bandits of the American League were starting for the Ducks-forwards Alex Hicks and J.F. Jomphe and defensemen Darren Van Impe and Jason Marshall. Hicks scored 10 goals and 21 points in 64 games with Anaheim. Jomphe had two goals and 14 points in 31 games and was selected to play for Canada at the World Championship. Van Impe had a goal and three points in 16 games, while Marshall had one assist and 42 penalty minutes in 24 games. That’s four players from a Baltimore team that started its American League season with a 1-9-1 record. But weeks after the Ducks’ season was over, Baltimore was still playing, facing the Syracuse Crunch…
Tournament from Hull: Olympiques secure 1997 Cup
The Hull Olympiques won’t be taking part in this year’s Memorial Cup tournament, but they’ve already earned a spot in next year’s event. The Quebec League’s board of governors selected Hull as the host city for the 1997 Memorial Cup after listening to presentations from the Olympiques, Chicoutimi Sagueneens and Halifax Mooseheads on April 25. As the host team, the Olympiques get an automatic berth in the event. Olympiques’ GM Charlie Henry said winning the bid took some of the sting off being eliminated by the Beauport Harfangs in the semifinals this year, but added there will be more pressure on the team next season. “Look at this year in Peterborough (the 1996 hosts) and they’re in the (Ontario League) final,” Henry said. “You can’t ask for better than that. You want to…
Ranger Richter on the rise
Suddenly, they were gone. Within a matter of months near the end of the 1994-95 season, the American League’s Binghamton Rangers lost three of their best defensemen. The parent New York Rangers traded Michael Stewart to the Hartford Whalers and then failed to re-sign free agent Joby Messier. Mattias Norstrom, it was assumed, would be with the big club in ’95-96. The man left behind was 25-year-old Barry Richter. It was expected the veteran 6-foot-2, 195-pounder would take over as the top blueliner on the team. He did that and more. He became the top defensemen in the entire league, recently winning the Eddie Shore Plaque. “I think you need ice time to gain confidence and I got a lot more ice time this year,” Richter said. “I think that was good for me.” What…
ANYBODY’S BALLGAME
This year’s Memorial Cup tournament will have drama. It will have intrigue. It will have no clearcut favorite. That’s because it won’t have the Kamloops Blazers. Winner of the last two major junior titles and three of the last four, the Blazers were eliminated by the Spokane Chiefs in the Western League playoffs. That leaves the field wide open for this year’s tournament. May 11-19 at the Memorial Centre in Peterborough, Ont. But that doesn’t mean the Cup won’t be making a return to the WHL, it just might not be going as far west. Seven of the last 10 champions have come from the WHL. The Quebec League, meanwhile, will be trying to avoid the embarrassment of going a quarter century without a Quebec-based team winning the trophy. Guy Lafleur’s 1971 Quebec Remparts…
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