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Yearbook 1982
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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…


Hartford Whalers
Larry Pleau, who went from assistant coach to coach and general manager of the Hartford Whalers in a space of a few short weeks last spring, made it clear from the start that I8th-place teams don’t stand still. They can’t afford to. Pleau’s Whalers missed the playoffs, which isn’t easy to do when nearly 75 per cent of the team in the league get in, but at least the Whalers realized that changes had to be made in the team’s player personnel. One of the first things that Pleau did was to obtain an up and coming goaltender in Greg Millen, the free agent who was the NHL’s lowest paid goaltender with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Millen played in 63 regular season games for the Penguins and was 25-27-10 for a team which…


Buffalo Sabres
Scotty’s back and he’s putting his National Hockey League all-time best winning percentage of .692 on the line. Or maybe he has his sights set on becoming the second coach ever to win 600 games in the NHL, following in the footsteps of Dick Irvin who heads the list with 690. Yes Scotty Bowman is back behind the Buffalo bench with right-hand man Jim Roberts, who for a time appeared to be the successor to deposed coach Roger Neilson who apparently didn’t provoke his athletes with the spark that Bowman had kindled in his first year with the club. Neilson’s Sabres finished fifth overall as compared to second when Scotty was the bench jockey and they were eliminated in the quarterfinals by ninth-place Minnesota, while Bowman’s club at least made the…