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Yearbook 1984
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Canada Gets Its Olympic Act Together
The year was 1979. Two weeks after the dust had settled from the annual Calgary Stampede, 63 players checked into the try out camp for the Canadian Olympic Team. For the first time in 12 years, Canada had decided to enter the ice hockey Olympics. Inevitably, there would be growing pains. Inevitably, there would be mistakes. Oh, there were mistakes. Lines of communication? They were never established. Father David Bauer hovered in the background as the team’s czar and the team’s so-called ‘‘co-coaches”—Lorne Davis, Clare Drake and Tom Watt—were left to sort out the on-ice and behind-the-bench responsibilities themselves. Eventually, Drake became the unofficial head coach, Davis the unofficial assistant and Watt the official color commentator for television. No explanation, then or now, has ever been offered to explain that hierarchy. Living arrangements? Except for the…
1983-84 Preview
The Central Hockey League swings into its third decade this season with its record of not fielding the same lineup two years in a row still intact. President Bud Poile will have five teams to work with in the 1983-84 season, down one from a year ago and only one more than the league low of franchises—four—in 1972-73 when Fred Creighton coached Omaha to the league championship. The league started its first year in 1963-64 with five teams and finished with five in 1977-78 after Phoenix dropped out after 27 games. Three times the CHL has opened with nine teams but only in 1981-82 did it finish with nine. Cincinnati pulled out in '79-80 and Houston a year later, both after 33 games. Among the teams returning this year will be the Indianapolis…
Quebec Nordiques
When a coach is asked to assess his chances for a coming season, he ' 11 often start by saying. “If we can stay healthy…” If the Nords can stay healthy this season, they’ll have a chance of improving upon their fourth-place finish in the Adams Division last year. Last season, the Nords had every reason to feel snakebitten with all the injuries they suffered. The one area where it crippled them the most was defense, which is. at the best of times, rather ordinary. There are about 11 candidates competing on defense, but not one of them can be considered a defensive kingpin. Leading the list are veterans Mario Marois, who is coming off a broken leg suffered last season and Jean Hamel. Second-year pro Randy Moller will be expected to carry…
1983-84 AHL Regular Season Preview
For years, the American Hockey League has had the reputation of being the most stable league in minor pro hockey. That stability is even more pronounced as the AHL enters the 1983-84 season, its 48th. Like every other minor league in every other sport in North America, the AHL has enjoyed good years and suffered through bad ones, too. Economic conditions certainly have been a factor over the years but, principally, the unstable nature of the sport of professional hockey in the past 15 years has had a trickle down effect on the AHL. The rapid growth of the National Hockey League, beginning in the late 1960s, and the emergence of the World Hockey Association in the 1970s created an unsettled climate and diluted the amount of talent available. Through those uncertain…
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