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i B2 Sport The Leader-Post Regina, Saskatchewan Thursday, March 15, 1984 Bullard. Vaive hit 50 Hftas oDe I can't see them coming here. The next step, according to Perry, is to wait for official notification from the Blues. Said Perry: If they dont contact us in the next two weeks, well certainly contact them. Meanwhile, when contacted in St.

Louis last night, hockey writer George Csolak told The Leader-Post that, although nothing has been finalized, the Blues are indeed seriously considering a mpve. According to Csolak, who covers the team for The Globe-Democrat, the plan is to split training camp between Peoria and Victoria. B.C. Csolak said the Blues would train in Peoria for a week, and then, after playing exhibition games against the Chicago Black Hawks in Peoria, Chicago and St. Louis, they would move to Victoria.

St. Louis would then complete its exhibition schedule with games against the Vancouver Canucks and Los Angeles Kings. According to Csolak, Blues' owner Harry Ornest feels his team owes both the Canucks and Kings a favor. These two teams, apparently, agreed to play exhibition games at the Agridome last fall after the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames had reneged on their agreement to play the Blues in-Regina. As well, the Blues are hoping the NHL will allow them to open the 1984-85 regular season on the west coast, which would save the financially troubled franchise a considerable amount of money.

Ornest, who purchased the Blues from Ralston Purina last summer after the NHL had turned thumbs down on Bill Hunters proposal to buy the team and move it to Saskatoon, could not be reached for comment last night. By Nick Miliokas L-P Sports Writer Agridome general manager Bill Perry said Wednesday night he expects to hear from the St. Louis Blues shortly concerning yesterday's reports that the National Hockey League team will not hold training camp in Regina next fall. This was in reference to comments made by Ron Caron, the Blues' vice-president and director of player personnel, to the effect that St. Louis will shift its training camp site to Peoria, Illinois.

We havent received any word from the Blues," Perry said, but judging from the news reports, 1 would think we can expect to hear from them in a couple of weeks. We ll sit back and wait for them to contact us." Perry said the Agridomes operations committee plans to meet to discuss the situation. 1 can't really add anything to that at the moment, Perry said. The Regina Exhibition Association has one year remaining on its three-year agreement with the Blues, who trained in Regina for the first time in the fall of 1982. Emile Francis, a native of North Battleford, was president and general manager of the Blues when the agreement was struck.

Francis is now employed by the Hartford Whalers in a similar capacity, and there has been speculation that, should the Blues move out, the Whalers would move in. Perry said he has received no word on this from Hartford, and that he doubts it will come to pass. "I don't think it's logical, Perry said. Theyre such a long way away that it would be quite expensive for them to move. By The Canadian Press A three-goal explosion in a span of 56 seconds the kind of spurt they haven't had recently gave New York Rangers a 6-3 National Hockey League victory over Philadelphia Flyers in a crucial Patrick Division game Wednesday night.

Reijo Ruotsalainen, Ron Greschner and Mike Allison scored in that short third-period span to cap a comeback from a 3-1 deficit. I guess it was a little bit the law of averages," said New York coach Herb Brooks. We had been so bad for so long and the only way to bend the law of averages is to keep swinging. Weve had so many people in a slump over prolonged periods. We havent gotten many goals at equal strength.

We let out a sigh of relief to break the drought. The Rangers had gone five games without a victory but now have won three in a row. The win, New Yorks fourth in five meetings with Philadelphia this season, 'gave the Rangers a three-point lead over the Flyers in the race for third place in the Patrick Division. We all got fed up with the way we were playing, said New York defenceman Barry Beck. We have to learn to discipline ourselves over 60 minutes and we cant seem to do that.

Philly got us out of our tempo a few times but they couldnt keep it up. In other NHL games Wednesday night, it was Boston Bruins 4, Detroit Red Wings Buffalo Sabres 4, Calgary Flames New Jersey Devils 3, Washington Capitals Minnesota North Stars 3, Toronto Maple Leafs Winnipeg Jets 6, Chicago Black Hawks and Los Angeles Kings 7, Pittsburgh Penguins 6. The Flyers had grabbed a 3-1 lead midway through the game as rookie Dave Poulin scored twice and Darryl Sittler also beat Rangers goalie Glen Hanlon. But Mark Pavelich triggered the Rangers rally by scoring on a breakaway at 15:11 of the second period. Four minutes later, rookie Peter Sundstrom collected his second goal of the night with a one-handed shot off a feed by Nick Fotiu.

Then the Rangers broke it open with their third-period flurry. Ruotsalainen sent a blast from the right point past Flyers goalie Bob Froese, who was screened, at 12:53. Greschner put in a back-hander from short range on another feed by Fotiu at 13:27 and Allison connected with a short wrist shot at 13:49. New Jerseys Mel Bridgman scored his 21st goal at 8:52 of the third period and the Devils hung on for a tie, breaking Washingtons six-game winning streak and left the Capitals three points behind the Pa-trick-Division leading New York Islanders. Dave Lewis and Tim Higgins also beat Jensen while Mike Gartner scored twice and Darren Veitch once for the Capitals.

Bernie Nicholls became the fourth Los Angeles player in history to score 40 goals in a season and added two assists as Pittsburgh lost its sixth consecutive game. Fred Barrett, Steve Christoff, Jim Fox, Dave Taylor, Charlie Simmer CP laserphoto Leafs goalie Allan Bester watches as Brian Bellows swipes at the puck NHL playoffs Lemieux gets record $1,000 and fourth place $600. The Stanley Cup championship will pay $20,000 per man, with the losers receiving $15,000 each. First-round playoff losers get $2,000 each, second-round losers earn $5,000 apiece and the losers in each conference final receive $10,000 per man. Home-ice advantage, which determines which team plays an extra game in its own rink, will be based on regular-season point standings in division playoffs.

In the conference playoffs, the extra home game is awarded to the division with the better regular-season record. In the Wales Conference, the Adams Division has clinched that advantage over the Patrick Division. In the Campbell Conference, the Smythe Division has clinched the home ice over the Norris Division. The Wales Conference champion will have the home-ice edge in the Stanley Cup final. NEW YORK (AP) The National Hockey League said Wednesday its 1984 playoffs will begin Wednesday, April 4, with 16 of the leagues 21 teams pursuing the Stanley Cup.

The top four teams in each division play best-of-five series, with the winners advancing to best-of-seven divisional finals. The four second-round survivors play best-of-seven conference championship series to be followed by the Stanley Cup final, matching the Clarence Campbell and Prince of Wales conference champions, also a best-of-seven series. Total award money for regular season and playoffs will be $2,549,400, an increase of more than $630,000 over the playoff pool of $1.9 million offered last season. A total of $638,000 is allocated for regular-season finishes. Based on 21 units per team, first place is worth $4,000 per man, second place $2,000, third place He scored a point in 62 consecutive games to set a Canadian junior record and he finished the season with 282 points, smashing the old QMJHL record set by Pierre Larouche, now a New York Ranger, who scored 251 points in 61 games in 1973-4.

In terms of career records, Lem-ieuxs 315 assists is six more than Denis Savard recorded with the Montreal Juniors. Lemieuxs 247 goals in three seasons places him sixth overall and his 562 points places him second behind Normand Dupont (568). His 11 points on Wednesday was his most productive night of the season. Lemieux fired three goals and seven assists on Feb. 20.

He also had three eight-point games and five seven-point nights. Winter Hawks to romp LAVAL, Que. (CP) Junior sensation Mario Lemieux went on a six-goal rampage in Laval Voisins final regular season game Wednesday night to establish a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League record for most goals in a season. Lemieux, who also collected five assists as first-place Laval crushed Longueuil Chevaliers 16-4, ended the season with 133 goals, three better than the record established by Guy Lafleur, then with Quebec Rem-parts, in 1970-71. Lafleur, now with Montreal Canadiens, accomplished the feat in 62 games while Lemieux played 70 games.

Lemieux. an 18-vear-oId centre expected to go as the first selection in the National Hockey Leagues entry draft in June, has already set a number of junior records. Glowa gets two Pair lead By The Canadian Press Jeff Rohlicek and Ray Podloski scored three goals each as Portland Winter Hawks gave themselves a bit of breathing space in the Western Hockey League Western Division with a 14-4 home-ice drubbing of Kelowna Wings. The pack remained tightly bunched in the Eastern Division, with five points between the second-and fifth-place teams. Second-place Medicine Hat Tigers moved three points ahead of Lethbridge Broncos, winning 7-2 over Calgary Wranglers while Lethbridge lost 5-2 to Brandon Wheat Kings.

The Brandon win put the Wheat Kings into a third-place tie with Lethbridge, and Prince Albert Raiders kept pace, two points farther back, bv downing Saskatoon Blades 117. The Portland victory gave the third-place Winter Hawks a three- and Mark Hardy rounded out the Kings scoring. Centre Mike Bullard scored his 49th and 50th goals of the season and Bob Errey, Doug Shedden, Kevin McCarthy and Pat Boutette added singles for the Penguins. Toronto earned an important point in its battle for a playoff spot while Minnesota clinched the Norris Division. Rick Vaive scored two goals to reach the 50-goal plateau a third consecutive year and Bill Derlago added one for the Leafs, last in the Norris Division but three points behind Chicago Black Hawks and the final playoff berth.

Both teams have eight games remaining. Dennis Maruk, Brian Bellows and Al MacAdam scored for the North Stars, who came into the game on a five-game winning streak. Toronto goalie Allan Bester faced 48 shots. Buffalo scored three second-period goals, including two in the final minute, and downed Calgary. Mike Foligno, John Tucker, Jerry Korab and Gilles Hamel scored for the Sabres.

Kent Nilsson and Hakan Loob replied for the Flames. The win kept the Sabres, first in the Adams Division, four points ahead of Boston. The Flames remain second in the Smythe Division with 73 points, seven ahead of Vancouver Canucks. In Medicine Hat, Rocky Trottier, Daryl Henry and Al Conroy scored two goals each as the Tigers moved to within four points of the divisionleading Regina Pats. In Brandon, centre Kelly Glowa scored two goals and assisted on one for the Wheat Kings.

Derek Laxdal also had two goals. Brandons Cam Plante assisted on two, raising his assist total for the year to 109, two behind the WHL record for defencemen set by Portlands Jim Benning in 1980-81. The Raiders trailed 3-0 two minutes into the game, but came back for their 15th home-ice victory in a row. At the end of a wild first period. Prince Albert had a 6-5i edge, and the Raiders moved ahead 10-6 in the second.

Centre Dan Hodgson led the Prince Albert attack with two goals and four assists. Darrin Tymchyshyn, Darwin Ur-lacher, and Barnes. Scoring for the Canucks were Kim Mclvor, Perry Thomas, Brad Hager, and MacDiarmid. In Melville, Sheldon Gorski tallied twice for the Millionaires and singles were provided by Brian Pugh, Murray Rice, and Rick Forst. The Bruins got goals from Terry Ronyk, Tim LcQuyer, and Allan May.

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point edge over Seattle Breakers, who occupy the fourth and final playoff spot in the West, one point up on Victoria Cougars. We got a little bit of offence going," Winter Hawk coach Ken Hodge observed after his team had completed its humiliation of the last-place Wings. We played very aggressively and had great puck movement throughout the game," Hodge said. My heart goes out to Bruno i Campese, the Kelowna goalten-der He didn't get very much help out there." Rohlicek scored his three goals wearing a plastic shield and wire cage on his helmet to protect a broken nose and swollen eye, the result of being hit by a puck in practice a week ago. The mask does give me more confidence to take-a hit," he said.

I know I'm not going to have another freak accident. Scott Brower might have been the difference in the series. "We threw everything we had at him, but we couldn't get the breaks to beat him," said Moose Jaws Carl Van Camp, the SAJHL scoring champion. Lloydminster forward Kris Barnes said, We have a lot of confidence in Scott. We know, if we get down, he wont fold." Brower made 41 saves last night.

Ironically, three of the four shots that eluded him came in the first period, and two could be described as soft goals. Lancers, Millionaires advance to semi-finals Kelly Glowa I didnt play well in the first period at all, Brower said. I don't know what happened. I guess I just wasn't mentally prepared. But in the second period, I got into the groove.

That proved to be the difference tonight." Barnes scored with just over a minute remaining in the game to lift the Lancers to their victory. His goal came only 36 seconds after Moose Jaw's Duncan MacDiarmid had tied the game 4-4. Lloydminster got two goals from Mark Thompson and singles from Regina Exhibition Association 100th Birthday The Lloydminster Lancers and Melville Millionaires both gained entry into the Saskatchewan Amateur Junior Hockey League semi-finals by wrapping up their respective best-of-seven quarter-finals in five games with victories Wednesday. The Lancers posted a 5-4 victory over the hometown Moose Jaw Canucks and the Millionaires downed the visiting Estevan Bruins 5-3. In Moose Jaw, players on both sides agreed that Lancer netminder Win a trip for two in the program draw anywhere TPacfflc Western" fies.

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