From: horvath@skinner.cs.wisc.edu (Jeff Horvath)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: SABRES UPDATE: depth chart, new faces
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:25:30 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

Courtesy of Val Hammerl...  much thanks Val.



Sabres Depth Chart

Left Wing		Center		Right Wing
Dave Andreychuk		Pat LaFontaine	Alexander Mogilny
Yuri Khymlev		Dale Hawerchuk	Wayne Presley
Viktor Gordijuk		Bob Corkum	Randy Wood
Brad May		Dave Hannan	Rob Ray
Jozef Cierney				Colin Patterson
					Gord Donnelly
					Donald Audette*

Defense				Defense
Doug Bodger			Keith Carney
Petr Svoboda			Richard Smehlik
Randy Moller			Philippe Boucher
David Cooper			Grant Ledyard
Mike Ramsey*			Ken Sutton*

* Injured


Goaltender
Daren Puppa
Dominik Hasek
Tom Draper
Clint Malarchuk

------------------------------------------------------------

Power Play
Left Wing		Center		Right Wing
Dave Andreychuk		Pat LaFontaine	Alexander Mogilny
Viktor Gordijuk		Dale Hawerchuk	Randy Wood

	Left Point		Right Point
	Petr Svoboda		Dale Hawerchuk
	Doug Bodger		Philippe Boucher

Short Handed
Forward			Forward
Dave Hannan		Randy Wood

Defense			Defense
Doug Bodger		Keith Carney
Petr Svoboda		Richard Smehlik

New faces:
name			pos  ht   wt   s   age   91-2 team	g  a  pts
Viktor Gordijuk 	lw  5-10  176  R   22   KryljaSovetov  15   5  20
Yuri Khmylev		lw  5-11  190  L   28   KryljaSovetov  15  15  30
Jozef Cierney		lw  6-02  176  L   18   Zvolen	       10   3  13
Philippe Boucher	 d  6-02  188  R   19   Laval	       25  45  70
David Cooper		 d  6-02  204  L   18   Medicine Hat   17  47  64
Richard Smehlik		 d  6-03  208  L   22   Vitkovica	8   7  15

Dominik Hasek		 g  5-11  168  R   27   Chicago	 20GP, 1014 min, 2.60 

Cierney is an 18 year-old Slovak who was the Sabres' 2nd round pick in 
the 1992 draft, and may spend time with London of the OHL.

Richard Smehlik, 22, was a member of the Czechoslovakian Olympic team and
has four goals in seven preseason games with Buffalo. 

Gordijuk, 22, scored five preseason goals for Buffalo.  He'll be on the 
Sabres' third line, centered by Bob Corkum.  Muckler describes him as
a "Very good skater, who looks like a pretty good goal scorer."

Khmylev, 28, was seventh and eighth in scoring in the Soviet National 
League the last two years.  "Really gret hands.  He works very hard and
he's aggressive for a European player.  He's going to be a grinding type who
can score, too" according to coach John Muckler.

Alexander Mogilny is serving as on-ice interpreter for the two former-soviet 
players.  Domenik Hasek also speaks Russian well, having studied the language
for ten years, but his English remains uncertain over two years after 
arriving in the United States.  "It's not too much fun when you come to
United States because it's very difficult.  Big trouble for me.  Without
speaking English you can't talk to guys and it's difficult to find friends.
For sure, I feel better with more guys (from Czechoslovakia), but it's better
when you talk English," noted Dominik Hasek.  "It would be better when we talk
English.  For them (the Czechoslovakian and Russian players) it's better."
The two Soviets have a Buffalo businessman helping them adjust to life in the
US.  




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Jeff Horvath					UW-Madison
horvath@cs.wisc.edu				Dept. of Computer Science

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