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Yearbook 1982
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Boston Bruins
The Bruins were caught in transition last year and whether they will emerge and ascend towards the top of the NHL or plummet like they did in the preliminary playoff round at the hands of Minnesota, will be the main test facing sophomore coach Gerry Cheevers. Cheevers admittedly had a lot to learn in his rookie season and he and his team, which was beginning to undergo some changes after being the NHL’s oldest club for the past few years, got off to one of the shakiest starts in the club’s history — after 12 games, the Bruins were 21st, last, in the league. Eventually they seemed to turn things around, rolling through the second half in 22-12-6 fashion, second only to Montreal, to finish a decent 37-30-13 for eighth overall. Then…
Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins may be on the verge of some long-awaited success following a summer full of positive happenings, but the one dark cloud on their horizon may prove to be a costly one. Questionable goaltending. Greg Millen was the backbone of the Penguins between the pipes, playing in 63 games with a 4.16 goals-against average. He contributed 25 of the Penguins’ 30 victories last season and was sparkling in the playoffs, outperforming St. Louis’ Mike Liut, although the Penguins eventually fell in five games to the Blues in their preliminary round series. But Millen, a free agent, shopped his talents around the league and wound up with the Hartford Whalers where he is expected to handle the bulk of the load. Normally that would have left the Penguins in rather desperate…
IT WAS A ZANY YEAR FOR GOALTENDERS
Last season was indeed a strange year for goaltenders, those noble guardians of the nets who earn their living as the closest thing to human sacrifice that modern civilization will permit. The 21 National Hockey Le’ague teams utilized a total of 71 netminders, seven of whom played for more than one team. A record 6,457 goals were scored, for a per game average of 7.69, the highest since 1943-44 when the NHL player ranks were decimated by World War II. In addition to the record number of people, and pucks, in goal we witnessed some previous heroes’ transformation to forgotten men; an unknown teenager started in the All Star Game; a host of disgruntled veterans changed uniforms and a few teams had a revolving door in front of their goal. For the…
Toronto Maple Leafs
For the third season in a row, the Toronto Maple Leafs are starting another campaign with a coach who is operating the team’s training camp for the first time. Three years ago it was Floyd Smith; last year, Joe Crozier; and now, Mike Nykoluk has the opportunity to see what he can do with getting the boys to operate a game plan that can re-establish them as something more than one of the foremost losing teams in a city of losing professional sports teams. The Leafs qualified, or were delegated to be the first victims of. the New York Islanders in the playoffs when they became the 16th and final playoff hopeful on the last evening of the season when they managed a victory over the Quebec Nordiques. Their playoff existence was…
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