The National Hockey League proposed Friday a merger with the World Hockey Association with no less than six teams from the World Association forming a separate division under a National Hockey League umbrella. The proposal will be put forth to the surviving World Hockey teams and is expected to be accepted. The cities most likely …
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The wait is over. Eric Lindros’ day of reckoning is at hand. Quebec Nordiques general manager Pierre Page, the man who holds the key that will free the 19-year-old sensation from a year in hockey bondage, said Thursday that Eric The Great will be traded by the end of today, one day before the NHL …
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The NHL is heading into four more American cities by the year 2000 and civic leaders and citizens in Nashville, Tenn., St. Paul, Minn., Columbus, Ohio, and Atlanta couldn’t be happier. “It’s good to see hockey coming back,” said Dan Bouchard, a goalie for the Atlanta Flames when they played there from 1972-80. “I always …
Doug MacLean chose a doughnut shop in Edmunston, N.B., in the middle of the night to pour over lists of players to be made available in the NHL expansion draft next week to his new Columbus, Ohio, team. “I was driving my family back to the cottage in Prince Edward Island and we’d stopped but …
MONTREAL — Seattle and Denver were awarded National Hockey League franchises yesterday, conditional on the two cities’ ability to provide money and a home for the clubs. NHL President Clarence Campbell made the announcement just minutes before he began the expansion draft to stock new teams in Kansas City and Washington, scheduled to join the …
BURLINGAME, Calif. – The quicker the San Jose Sharks forget their label as the NHL’s newest team, the better. “We have to keep the words ‘expansion team’ out of our vocabulary,” Brian Mullen said Tuesday at the first media gathering of San Jose players. “And we won’t be able to use it as an excuse …
MONTREAL — For two days, they’ve had a ‘’count* down” going here at the annual NHL meetings the hockey executives who had been whispering in corners talking trades and possibilities in the draft, set the beginning of the intra-league draft as the “lift-off’ to the meetings. But they never got off the launching pad. NHL …
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SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -The National Hockey League Board of Governors is all that stands between the Oakland Seals and a supply of white hockey skates. The board must consider the proposed sale of the Seals to Charles O. Finley, the flamboyant owner of baseball’s Oakland A’s, whose request to purchase the hockey club was approved …
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MONTREAL (AP) — The National Hockey League gathers here this week for its annual summer meetings with the main order of business being the stocking of the new Kansas City and Washington franchises. Both teams are scheduled to begin play this fall and each will select 22 players and two goaltenders in the NHL expansion …
Bep Guidotin made the observation yesterday after watching the two new NHL teams, Atlanta Flames and New York Islanders, choose as their first skaters two immortals from the Canadiens’ farm system, Kerry Ketter and Bart Crashley. Passing over the likes of Teddy Green and Bryan Campbell and Dale Hoganson and Chuck Lefley and Bob Murdoch, …
