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From: gen5061@husky1.stmarys.ca
Subject: Re: Best line this year?
Organization: St. Mary's University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:10:18 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.145415.2754@mtroyal.ab.ca>, caldwell8102@mtroyal.ab.ca writes:
> In article <1apnfkINNa3q@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ab870@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric Rickin) writes: 
>> Which line in hockey do you think would be the best this year?
>> 
>> Stevens-Lemieux-Tocchett
>> 
>> or
>> 
>> Brind'amour-Lindros-Recchi
>> 
>> or even...
>> 
>> Whoever plays on the left-Yzerman-Ciccerelli
> 
> 
> I thought the lines were:
> 
> Stevens-Lemieux-Jagr
> Fedyk-Lindros-Recchi (Fedyk replaces the injured Eklund)

According to the Hockey News Eklund is fine and ready for the upcomming year.
I am not quite sure who will be on the left side but I believe Lindros and
Recchi will be playing together.  They clicked well in exibition hockey.

> Gallant-Yzerman-Ciccarelli (Gallant gets another chance with Stevie)     
> 
> I could be wrong on some of these, but if they're correct I'd take a line
> with Mario Lemieux, Kevin Stevens, and Jaromir Jagr any day.      
> 
  The line was definately Stevens-Lemieux-Tocchet the end of last season
and alot of the playoffs.
  I would take this line over any other in the NHL as it stands.
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From: cspamy@uta.fi (Pasi Myllym{ki)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Jarmo Myllys
Date: 5 Oct 92 09:57:44 GMT
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland

Why super-goalie Jarmo Myllys is nowadays here in Finland (team:KooKoo).
In my opinion he didn't get change to show how super he is.

Am I absolutely wrong ?
From: SGLENN@cmsa.gmr.com
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Red Wings News
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:49:54 GMT
Organization: GM Research Labs

In article <1992Sep28.123603.8956@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
carrd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:

>
>You failed to mention Troy Crowder?  Is he still having back problems?
>Why don't the Wings quit screwing around and either get him on a rehab
>program or put him on the slab under the big blade?
>
>Dave
>

Crowder is pretty much history...

He hasn't skated in camp and is still bothered by the back.
Even if he is healthy, I doubt he could make the team.  With the new
rule on fighting, Probert will be less bothered by "goons" from other
teams.  Also, Vial has emerged as a candidate for the 7th defenseman
and Potvin has shown some scoring ability in camp.  Both are more willing
to fight than Crowder, who had complained before that he wanted to cut down
on fighting.

Although it looks like a bad deal getting him, both McKay and Barr (who Detroit
lost) probably wouldn't make the team either.

-Scott
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From: romano@monolith.bellcore.com (Paul C. Romano)
Subject: RANGERS NEWS: Kovalev signs
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 13:35:15 GMT


	The NY RANGERS have announced the signing of Alexi Kovalev,
their number 1 draft pick from 1991 to a multi-year contract. Terms
of the contract were not disclosed. Kovalev was the first Russian
ever drafted by an NHL team in the first round. 

Paul
RSH Contact - NY RANGERS


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From: twromero@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Michael Lin)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Rookie Determination
Date: 1 Oct 92 23:20:48 GMT
Organization: McGill Research Centre for  Intelligent Machines
Originator: twromero@damrod.mcrcim.mcgill.edu


In article <01OCT92.20522399.0255@VM1.MCGILL.CA>, B7O2 <B7O2@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA> writes:
|> Hmm. Seems I've not been very clear. When Sergei Makarov won ROY,
|> he WAS in his thirties. People were upset that he was awarded at
|> that late an age, and given his international and Russian hockey
|> experience. So, the specs for ROY now include an age limit. I think
|> it was a fair decision ... but now that SOviet (CIS) hockey has gone
|> haywire ...
|> 
|> Julian
|> b7o2@music.mcgill.ca
|> 


   Well, I remembered that as well. How could Makarov
possibly be 26 or younger and the back then Soviets would
let him come to NHL. I still remember vividly the fuss when
he was the winner of ROY!
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From: migod@turing.toronto.edu (Mike Godfrey)
Subject: John MacLean, Esa Tikkanen?
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:36:36 GMT


Anyone know if John MacLean and Esa Tikkanen are back from injury?  
I *think* Tikkanen is ok, but I'm not sure.

-- 
Mike Godfrey	          "I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
Dept of Comp Sci, UofT     I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty."
migod@turing.toronto.edu			   	-- The Simpsons

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From: johnston@ug.cs.dal.ca (geoff)
Subject: Re: PREDICTIONS ANYONE?
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 02:53:23 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.002019.1028@scott.skidmore.edu> mmilitzo@scott.skidmore.edu (matthew militzok) writes:
>	I will make a prediction for the adams division.
>
>			1.  Montreal
>			2.  Buffalo
>			3.  Hartford
>			4.  Boston
>			5.  Quebec
>			6.  Ottawa
>
>Might as well go out on a limb.  Despite the Bruins preseason record,
>I feel that lack of depth on defense and other personnel, will prove
>to catch up with them.
> 		

1. Boston
	Assuming healthy Bourque and Moog.  A return of 
	Neely would guarantee, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
	Juneau will rack up lots of points this year.
	They stole themselves a great coach (and Ottawa
	picked up a good one too)
2. Montreal
	Coaching change will take adjustment.  Damphousse
	adds more offensive punch, Dionne & Savard looked good
	last year in the playoffs.  Should be interesting.
3. Buffalo
	Seems to me they have as much or more talent
	as any team in the Adams.  Could go higher,
	I don't know.
4. Quebec
	Maybe they can get some focus now that the Lindros
	thing is out of the way.  
5. Hartford
	Maybe if they could win more home games if
	there were more Whalers fans showing up than
	Bruins fans :)
6. Ottawa
	A la Sharks last year.


This positioning seems less and less important as teams
with relatively poor records end up doing very well in
the playoffs in the last couple years (North Stars,
Penguins, etc).  And top-ranked teams leaving quickly,
like the Canucks, or Blackhawks a couple of years ago.
It would make for better regular season hockey if
a mediocre record meant no post-season.

-geoff
From: kmjoffe@acs.ucalgary.ca (Kenneth M. Joffe)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Dahlquist
Date: 6 Oct 92 05:58:05 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In the never ending quest to sign good defencemen, Calgary picked
up Dahlquist from the Stars.  I don't know and haven't heard much
about him.  I assume he is a stay-at-home defenceman.  Can anyone
tell me more about the guy.  Is this just another pathetic bid by
the Flames to boost the D??
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From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
Subject: Re: Jarmo Myllys
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:40:38 GMT

In article <6865@kielouta.fi> cspamy@uta.fi (Pasi Myllym{ki) writes:
>Why super-goalie Jarmo Myllys is nowadays here in Finland (team:KooKoo).
>In my opinion he didn't get change to show how super he is.
>
>Am I absolutely wrong ?
>

He had chances with Minnesota, Edmonton, and San Jose and really never
demonstrated consistency...

Gerald
From: bab@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Brian Alan Baker)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: predictions anyone?
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:34:43 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu


    Smythe          Norris             Adams           Patrick
  ----------       --------          ---------       -----------

1. LA              1. Chicago        1. Boston        1. Pittsburgh
2. Winnipeg        2. Detroit        2. Montreal      2. Philadelphia
3. Edmonton        3. St. Louis      3. Buffalo       3. NY Rangers
4. Vancouver       4. Minnesota      4. Quebec        4. New Jersey
5. Calgary         5. Toronto        5. Hartford      5. NY Islanders
6. San Jose        6. Tampa Bay      6. Ottawa        6. Washington


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From: etxonss@ufsa.ericsson.se (Staffan Axelsson)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: AHL Preview -- Capital District Islanders
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:23:11 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden

In article <farenebt.718232854@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> farenebt@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Bri Farenell ("Droopy")) writes:
>CAPITAL DISTRICT ISLANDERS
>===========================================
>
>LEADING SCORER:	Greg Parks, 93 points
>LEADING GOAL SCORER:	Parks, 36
>LEADING ASSISTS:	Parks, 34
>
>CDI had the lowest offensive total in the league and that will be
>exacerbated if leading Scorer Greg Parks doesn't return. They will

Greg Parks is playing with Leksand in the Swedish elite league this
year and will therefor not return to CDI. Greg has had success here
so far and he is currently in 4th place in Elitserien's overall point
scoring. He has also received good ratings by the newspapers' hockey
"experts".

Thanks Bri for posting these AHL previews. It's interesting for me
(here in Europe) to get to know more about a league that I otherwise
would not know anything about.

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From: pmfusari@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Fusari)
Subject: Sergei Federov
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:28:50 GMT

I heard a rumor that Federov was having back problems.  I have no idea if
this is true or not.  Can anyone confirm or deny this?  How's he doing in
the preseason games?

Thanks for now


Paul



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From: paul@maunakea.Data-IO.COM (Paul Brownlow)
Subject: Re: Kings preseason stats
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:43:42 GMT

In article <23543@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>, willis@oracle.SCG.HAC.COM (Stan Willis) writes:
|> 1992-93 Los Angeles Kings Training Camp Roster
|>     18	Justin Hocking					Returned to juniors.

Are you sure that he wasn't sent to a AAA baseball team?  :-)  Last year
he played for the Spokane Chiefs.  In a game at Seattle while killing a
penalty, he dropped his stick and threw the puck from his own corner
all the way down the ice.  Ken Griffey must have been worried for his
job.  This was the same game in which Spokane coach Bryan Maxwell challenged
Seattle coach Peter Anholt to a fight at center ice (Anholt declined) and
Anholt threw a water bottle at the referee (and missed).
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From: shayne@cs.mcgill.ca (Lydia Mancini)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Must be fun being a Bruins fan!!!
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:00:53 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <RICH.92Oct2105358@quik.clearpoint.com> rich@quik.clearpoint.com  
writes:
> 
> It is fun being a Bruins fan. Watching the Habs get SWEPT last playoff season
> was very fun.
> 
> Can you say SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!
> 
> Rich

Hey, you're supposed to do that at playoff time. Now you've ruined all my fun.

Oh, and by the way: Grow up and get a life.

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:38:41 EDT
From: <RAP115@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: gretzky/hart/ross
Distribution: rec

Also in response to Curtis who said that RAP115 says :
>Besides, didn't Lemiux do exactly that (referring to winning the Conn and
Hart   trophies)

  Well, if you look back at all the articles, you'll see that I never said that
 - Neslon said that in reply to me.  This is how lies about people start, and
 this is why I have to clear my name.  My response to that statement that
 Nelson wrote was No, Lemieux missed 56 games two years ago and didn't come
close to winning the conn and hart trophies.  He scored 49 points in 24 games-
which is a good average, but doesn't even come close to winning the awards.
That was my entire point in the first place.  If Gretzky's going to miss all
those games, how's he going to win those awards...if he scores 10 points a
game?  Gee, if anybody averages 10.0 points a game, please tell me.  I've
never seen that before.-Rob
From: apland@mala.bc.ca
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Kay Whitmore to Vancouver ...
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:55:11 -0700
Distribution: world
Organization: Malaspina College

> Kay Whitmore (sp?) was traded from Hartford to Vancouver for a minor league
> goalie (can't remember the name) and a 1993 third or fourth round draft
> pick--if my memory is correct.
> 
> It looks as if Troy Gamble's days may be numbered.
> --

I'll say - 8 goals against tonight, many rather easy.  He may need a change
of cl to improveub.  Bure is now 5 for 5

Ron
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From: rolfer@leonardo.src.honeywell.com (Tom Rolfer)
Subject: Re: Sharks tie Canucks 2-2
Reply-To: rolfer@leonardo.src.honeywell.com
Organization: Honeywell Systems and Research Center
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:33:16 GMT

Has anyone heard how former Minnesota Gopher Doug Zmolek is doing for the Sharks?
Did he make the team or is he in the minors?

just wondering

Tom Rolfer
 
Honeywell Systems 
and Research Center
From: caldwell8102@mtroyal.ab.ca
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Jarmo Myllys
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:44:28 GMT
Organization: Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta

>>Why super-goalie Jarmo Myllys is nowadays here in Finland (team:KooKoo).
>>In my opinion he didn't get change to show how super he is.
>>
>>Am I absolutely wrong ?
>>
>>
> You are right!!!!! NHL coaches and managers prefer their own goalkeepers
> (Canadian or USA). That's why for example Petr Briza, Jaromir Sindel
> and Oldrich Svoboda are in SM-LIIGA, Finland - Not in money circus in NHL.
> 
> Am I absolutely right?

None of those guys above sound familiar to me. However, Dominik Hasek, for
years the star of the Czech national team, is here in the NHL with Buffalo.
Tommy Soederstrom is here with Philadelphia. 

Myllys played for Minnesota, and never performed well enough to deserve to be a
regular. San Jose took him, and he got into some games for them last year. They
traded him to Toronto, but I guess Myllys had had enough of being a #3 or #4
player. It's too bad, but he just wasn't good enough.

								Alan
 
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From: mattb@ctron.com (Matt Brown)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: First Female in Hockey
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:20:39 GMT
Reply-To: mattb@olympus.ctron.com (Matt Brown)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cabletron Systems INc.

(Nelson Lu) writes:
><RAP115@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>Nelson Lu writes GO KINGS...Wayne Gretzky for Ross and Hart....
>>      Let me say it's almost impossible to cappture both those awards when you
>>don't play the first month or two of the season, let alone the possibility of
>>the entire year.  I.E. Think before you write!!!!!!!

>Let me say that it is very improper to attack people's .sigs.  i. e., think
>before you write!!!!!!!

>Besides, didn't Mario Lemieux do exactly that?

Mario attacks .sigs! Geez, what a whiner! Next thing he'll say that Gretzky
is faking his back injury so that he'll have an excuse to lose the Ross and
Hart.

Just kidding, Nelson. You have every right to hope and dream.
The west coast needs all the fans we can get. Although it sounds like Wayne
will be out a good while, probably longer than Mario was. Why, he might even
be out longer than Neely (this year, not last) for all we know.
 
But .sigs (and everything else, for that matter) are open season on the net.

Matt
Neely for Comeback Player of the Year
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From: farenebt@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Droopy)
Subject: Re: Taking the glow off Canada's victory 20 years later
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:32:37 GMT

kdc@ccu.umanitoba.ca () writes:

> There has been quite a bit of talk (in Canada) about this being the
>20th anniversary of the Canadian victory in the first Canada / Russia
>hockey series.
> I watched SUMMIT ON ICE last night on CBC (excellent show). 
> I was VERY DISAPPOINTED and shocked to the "moment of infamy".
> 
> John Ferguson admitting that Kharmalov was causing Team Canada a lot
> of grief so he "called Bobby over and told him to go and tap him
>                  on the ankle and break it"
>The Bobby Clarke explaing how he did it (with a replay showing the viscious
>two hander he administered to Kharmalov's ankle, 
>  "I don't know if I broke it but Kharmalov wasn't a factor for the next
>   3 games."
> 
>    So the glorious victory (most Canadians who are old enough can remember
>   where they were when Henderson scored the winning goal in the final game)
>  is tainted with a disgusting act of goonism.   Ferguson seemed proud
> of having taken care of the pesky little Russian.  (SIGH).
> 
>  It will never be the same for me.

I read a book on the Super Series called, "The Great Hockey Thaw"
by Jack Ludwig. Basically, Ludwig painted a very dim picture of
Canadian hockey players and their lazy attitudes. He noticed that the
Russians came to the series trying to learn something from the Canadians
while the Canadians were there just for its own sake. Almost like
they acted as though they were going through the motions. 

I was unaware but not surprised by the goon tactics. Certainly North
Americans (not just Canadians) are really overly macho about their
hockey. The way to deal with a good player is to hurt him or goad him
into a fight instead of working harder to shut him down. I think that
the general North American attitude is much more lazy.		

I would certainly recommend the book to anyone interested in the
series. He was covering the Super Series for a newspaper.
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From: pp21+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Andrew Platosh)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Hockey:The sport
Date: 26 Sep 92 20:24:59 GMT
	<1992Sep24.170456@beanpot.ma30.bull.com>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sophomore, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>Maybe you missed the Olympics, too?  First of all, there was not a single
>fighting penalty called against Team USA in the entire tournament, and
>although they were more physical than their European counterparts, you are
>pushing it to say they were "eager to drop gloves in many games".

That's because fighting by Olympic rules results in suspension.  I never
claimed there was any fighting.  You can't *really* be so naieve to
think that after the Freach game, the players didn't want to fight?  How
about the quote "Nice visor, you French pussy?"  Or did youu  miss that
too?

The police were there to throw out brawling fans, like I said.  All this
is beside the point.  What I was trying to get at is that the Olympics
weren't as clean as everyone likes to think.
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:39:26 -0400 
From: Anna Matyas <am2x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Manon


Christopher Raczka writes:

>   Well Carrie, I think it is total explotation and that is not cool
> 
>   Esposito is looking for any way/means possible to try and recoup
>   expenses incurred for bringing an NHL team to Tampa
> 
>   This is not the first time this has happened in sports, there
>   was a woman who tried out for an NBA team, and a woman who played
>   in the old ABA (for about 2 seconds in one game)
> 
>   I hope I'am wrong, and I hope Ms Rheaume gets an apportunity
>   to play in the NHL, but it doesn't look that way yet

*IF* this is exploitation but it leads to breaking new ground in the NHL,
is it wrong?  "Firsts" are often exploited -- it's the sad, ugly truth
of the way the world goes.

Why do you hope Rheume gets to play in the NHL?  Solely because she's a
woman?  I don't think that's right.  She should have to earn her spot just
like anyone else.  

Mom.
From: jrmst8+@pitt.edu (Joseph R Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Wayne's back
Date: 28 Sep 92 01:59:39 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Sep24.163219.1729@col.hp.com> smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
><RAP115@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>   I agree, but don't be a dick about it!!!!!  If Mario's back goes out again,
>> people are going to laugh at us Penguins fans and not show any support so
>> give Mr. Gretzky some credit, even though we don't like him very much.  After
>> all, he does have a lot of numbers, and he is one of the best, whether we like
>> him or not.
>>                       -Robbie Po
>  
>Question is, *why* don't you like him?  Are you just being a provincial
>dick, or what?  
>
>Walter

I respect Wayne's hockey achievement immensely.  But there are many reasons
to dislike Wayne Getzky personally, especially in Pittsburgh.  Remember 1990
when Wayne was the ONLY player to skip the NHL All-Star game practice in whcih
15000 fans paid to see?  Is it a coincidence that this happened in Pittsburgh?

More recently (this week), he claims that his back injury is the result of the
year after year pounding he has taken for all those years.  Was he laughing
when he said this?  I was when I heard it.  *I* have taken more hard hits
at a hockey game than Wayne has.  He's untouchable on the ice, and when Joel
Otto had the nerve to hit him in the Canad Cup last year, it marked the first
time in his career that he was hit with any real force.

There are not many reasons to dislike Wayne, but there ARE some.  Provinc-
ialism is a stupid one, but there are others.

Dean


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