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 1987-88 NHL season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1987-88 NHL season was the 71st regular season of the National Hockey League.
This was Wayne Gretzky's final season with the Edmonton Oilers, and as injuries held him out of 20% of the season, this would be the only season of the decade in which he was not the winner of the Hart Memorial Trophy and did not hold or share the league lead in points.
The NHL introduced a new trophy, the King Clancy Memorial Trophy, which was to be awarded to the player who best exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and who has made a significant humanitarian contribution in his community.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1987-88_NHL_season   (1369 words)

  
 Articles - New Jersey Devils
The Devils changed this trend during the 1987-88 NHL season, where the team finished with a winning record and a Cinderella run to the Wales Conference Final, where they lost to the Boston Bruins.
Season was shortened due to the 1994-95 NHL lockout.
Season was cancelled due to the 2004-05 NHL lockout.
www.dforever.com /articles/New_Jersey_Devils   (1415 words)

  
 1987 Definition / 1987 Research
On January 3, 1987 she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendarThe Gregorian calendar is the calendar currently used in the Western world.
1987 is a research and development company focused on energy generating devices.
www.elresearch.com /1987   (1626 words)

  
 rangers_history.html
NHL players were locked out due to their resistance of a salary cap, and the issue remained unresolved long enough to prompt the cancellation of the entire 2004-2005 season.
As a result, on the eve of the club's first season, the task was handed to one of professional hockey's pioneers, Lester Patrick.
Amid another disappointing season, the Rangers made multiple transactions, including the acquisitions of a number of prospects, which demonstrated the Rangers’ commitment to a future built around homegrown talent.
www.nyc.gov /html/sports/html/rangers_history.html   (3097 words)

  
 1987 Nfl Playoffs
NFL PLAYOFFS 1987 nfl playoffs...year NFL veteran said the decision has been made and it will be announced after the playoffs.
AOL's Coverage of NFL Playoffs 1987 nfl playoffs...to beat the Browns for Denver in the 1987 AFC...
NFL Standings and Playoffs 1987 1987 nfl playoffs NFL Standings and Playoffs 1987....
www.the-football-gift-zone.com /football-source/1987-nfl-playoffs.html   (246 words)

  
 NFL playoffs, 1986-87 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The NFL playoffs following the 1986 NFL season led up to Super Bowl XXI.
Note: The New York Giants (the NFC 1 seed) did not play the Washington Redskins (the 4 seed) in the Divisional playoff round because both teams were in the same division.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NFL_playoffs,_1986-87   (738 words)

  
 NFL playoffs, 1987-88 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The NFL playoffs following the 1987 NFL season led up to Super Bowl XXII.
In the Saints' first playoff game in history, the Vikings dominated by recording 2 sacks, forcing 4 turnovers, and allowing only 149 yards.
Wide receiver Anthony Carter led the Vikings with his playoff record 227 receiving yards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NFL_playoffs,_1987-88   (823 words)

  
 NFL Team History Index
The 1987 season was reduced from a 16-game season to 15 as the result of a 24-day players' strike.
NFL paid attendance of 19,049,886 for all games played during the 1997 season was the second highest in league history.
NFL owners approved the transfer of the Cardinals' franchise from St. Louis to Phoenix; approved two sup-plemental drafts each year-one prior to training camp and one prior to the regular season; and voted to initiate an annual series of games in Japan/Asia as early as the 1989 preseason, March 14-18.
www.hworth.net /nfl_history/indexNFLteams.html   (18924 words)

  
 Why Is Baseball So Much Better Than Football? by Thomas Boswell
Vital NFL games are decided by helmeted gentlemen who come on for 10 seconds, kick sideways, spend the rest of the game keeping their precious foot warm on the sidelines and aren't aware of the subtleties of the game.
NFL refs are weekend warriors, pulled from other jobs to moonlight; as a group, they're barely competent.
Three-quarters of the NFL's starting quarterbacks are in their first four years in the league.
www.baseball-almanac.com /legendary/libvf100.shtml   (2901 words)

  
 CNN/SI - 1999 NHL All-Star Game - North American Team Starters - Tuesday January 19, 1999 08:58 PM
Notes: One of the NHL's best-known power forwards, Shanahan began his career as a tough guy, but has elevated all facets of his game since his rookie year of 1987-88.
Entering this season, Brodeur's career goals-against average of 2.16 was the lowest in modern-era NHL history.
Earlier this season, Bourque had three assists during a Dec. 19 win over Detroit that moved him past Red Wings' Hall of Famer Gordie Howe, and into third place on the all-time NHL assists list with 1,052.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /hockey/nhl/1999/allstar/news/1999/01/19/northam_starters   (522 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for peter stastny nhl
In an interview during the 1987-88 season, Peter Stastny was dumbfounded when the broadcaster suggested he would certainly be voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
NHL Alumni Members Are Ot To Trot Courtesy Of Woodbine Entertainment Group Writer: Chris Lomon Editor: Wendy McCreary It Was Only Fitting That Six Toronto Alumni Members Were Front-And On A Night Where A High-Profile Harness Race Known As The Maple Leaf Trot Was On Tap....
After Wayne Gretzky, Peter Stastny Was The Most Prolific Scorer In The NHL In The 1980s, And The Terrific Backup He Had In Quebec Included His Brothers Anton And Marian....
www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/1771.html   (1330 words)

  
 Mario Lemieux career chronology - PittsburghLIVE.com
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman cancels the NHL season, the first time a labor impasse has wiped out an entire season in a major American pro sports league.
Has a goal and an assist in his final NHL game as Pittsburgh lost 6-3 to Philadelphia and is eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in five games.
Ends comeback regular season with 76 points in only 43 games and is the runnerup to Joe Sakic for the NHL MVP award (Pearson Award).
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/pmupdate/s_416770.html   (1009 words)

  
 Statistics and Standings
Each season has its own page, where you will find the league standings for the season, playoff results, individual player stats, uniform numbers, draft picks, and a listing of award winners and all-stars.
Some seasons are incomplete, especially in the areas of uniform numbers and playoff statistics.
This is due to one of two reasons - either I don't have the stats for them, or the player was traded during the season and the "official" stats do not differentiate between the two teams.
www.seattlehockey.net /stats/stats.htm   (377 words)

  
 N.Y. Rangers
1962/63, 63/64, 64/65, 65/66 NHL Seasons - The Rangers miss the playoffs and Emile Francis is hired as the new head coach during the 1964/65 season.
Coming off last seasons march to the finals the Ranger felt they were a few moves away from ending the drought and the curse of so many years ago.
A 36-31-13 regular season record is good enough for the Rangers to win their division for the first time in 48 years.
home.westman.wave.ca /~football/Rangers/Rangers_main.htm   (7733 words)

  
 Mario's Big Return
On the heels of a sublime performance in the 1987 Canada Cup against the former Soviet Union, Lemieux reached new heights in the 1987-88 NHL season.
A 50-goal, 100-point season seemed within reach, even though Lemieux did not play in the team's first 36 games-let alone in a NHL game in more than three years.
The possibility of Lemieux and the Penguins garnering more NHL hardware this season may seem implausible, but Lemieux has made a career of making the astounding seem routine.
www.psacard.com /articles/article2937.chtml   (1163 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - NHL Hockey - Richer signs tryout contract with Penguins - Thursday August 09, 2001 04:58 PM
His last NHL season was 1999-00 when he had eight goals and 17 assists in 36 games for the St.
He has not scored more than 23 goals in a season since 1993-94 when he had 36 for New Jersey.
Richer has 407 goals and 384 assists in 17 seasons.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /hockey/nhl/news/2001/08/09/richer_penguins_ap   (243 words)

  
 News-Miner - Sports
The NHL returned in July when the owners and players united on a new collective bargaining agreement, which includes a salary cap of $39 million that evened the ice.
The cable-network coverage of the NHL has moved from ESPN to the the Outdoor Life Network, which is more famous for broadcasting the Tour de France bicycle race.
Barry Melrose doesn't like to think about the void that was supposed to be the NHL's 2004-05 season, which was canceled in January after owners locked out players last September, when the league's old collective bargaining agreement expired.
www.news-miner.com /Stories/0,1413,113~7248~3036380,00.html   (724 words)

  
 ESPN.com - NHL - Devils replace Ftorek with Robinson
He also had previous NHL head coaching experience, in a little less than two seasons with the Kings in 1987-88 and 1988-89, posting a 65-56-11 record.
Earlier this season, Ftorek was suspended for one game and fined $10,000 by the NHL for throwing part of the team's bench onto the ice during a 3-1 loss to Detroit.
Ftorek's relationship with some members of the team was strained this season because he benched players at times when they had friends and family in town or didn't discuss why they were not playing.
espn.go.com /nhl/news/2000/0323/441862.html   (1187 words)

  
 SLAM! Hockey
He played for the team during the balance of the 1987-88 NHL season and shared time with Sean Burke for Team Canada in the 1988 Olympics.
He played six games for his new team at the end of the 1987-88 season.
Moog was dealt to Boston on March 8th, 1988 for Geoff Courtnall, Bill Ranford and a second-round draft choice and starred for the Bruins for six seasons, including 1992-93, when he posted a career-best 37 wins.
www.canoe.ca /StatsHKN/BC-HKN-LGNS-MOOGRETIRE-R.html   (393 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - NHL fisticuffs bring out fury
Their mother wasn't pleased, but the NHL didn't blink because hockey fights have been a staple since the league was founded in 1917.
If the NHL wanted to reduce the number of fights, the easiest method would be to eject players as is done in college and international play.
Fighting is so ingrained in the NHL culture that brothers Keith and Wayne Primeau fought each other in 1996-97.
www.usatoday.com /sports/2004-09-02-number-five-change_x.htm   (880 words)

  
 Boston Bruins Official Web Site : Bruins News
He spent the 1987-88 season with the U.S. National and Olympic teams, with 13-61=74 totals in 50 pre-Olympic contests that year and 1-5=6 totals in the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary.
He has won the NHL's Calder Trophy as the league's top rookie (1988-89), twice won the Norris Trophy as the top defenseman (1991-92, 1996-97) and won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff most valuable player in 1993-94 as the Rangers won the Stanley Cup.
He is the second-highest active scoring defenseman in the NHL with 996 career points entering this season (Al MacInnis, 1,274 points entering this season).
www.bostonbruins.com /pressbox/pressreleases.asp?id=1480   (459 words)

  
 Boston Bruins Official Web Site : Bruins News
He spent the 2000-01 season as the head coach and Director of Hockey Operations for the Pensacola Ice Pilots of the East Coast Hockey League before returning to the NHL with the Bruins.
His NHL career record was 173-176-47 with a 3.15 goals against average and 18 shutouts in 446 games with Winnipeg, Detroit, Edmonton, Phoenix, Vancouver and Buffalo.
He was drafted by Winnipeg as their fifth pick, 71st overall, in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft and played five-plus seasons in the Jets organization, including a career-best 33-win season in 1992-93.
www.bostonbruins.com /pressbox/pressreleases.asp?ID=1485   (707 words)

  
 Sidney Crosby
As expected, the Pittsburgh Penguins used the first overall pick in the 2005 NHL entry draft to take the 17-year-old phenom from Cole Harbour, N.S. For the NHL, the arrival of a young superstar is just what the doctor ordered after wiping out last season due to the labour lockout.
NHL Rumors brings you the eye-popping NHL trade news, gossip, predictions, injury report, scores and standings.
Crosby had 66 goals and 102 assists in 62 games, after a rookie season that featured 54 goals and 81 assists in 59 games.
www.nhl-rumors.com /sidney-crosby/news   (557 words)

  
 Legends of Hockey -- NHL Player Search -- Player -- Alexander Mogilny
During the 2003-04 season, Mogilny reached the 1000-point plateau despite missing the better part of the season recovering from a hip injury.
Mogilny led the Devils in goals with 43 during the 2000-01 season but the team was defeated in the Stanley Cup final by the Colorado Avalanche.
During the 1999-2000 seasons, Mogilny was sent to the New Jersey Devils.
www.legendsofhockey.net:8080 /LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=11135   (775 words)

  
 Carolina Hurricanes - Players - Rod Brind'Amour
Ranks second in the NHL in faceoff percentage over the last three seasons, at 59.2 percent (Yannick Perrault, 62.8%) Signed to a six-year contract by the Hurricanes on Sept. 6, 2001...
Netted his second goal of the season, beating the buzzer with less than a second on the clock in the second period vs. ATL (11/13)...
Missed first 34 games of the season due to a hairline fracture of the third metatarsal of the left foot suffered in preseason game at NJ (9/25)...
www.carolinahurricanes.com /custom/rad1B522.asp   (1875 words)

  
 Welcome To My World - (Shawn Antoski)
Early the next season, though, he was dealt to Philadelphia, and within two years he had added Pittsburgh and Anaheim to his list of NHL cities.
Appeared in his fourth full NHL season, playing 13 games with Pittsburgh before being dealt to Anaheim on Nov. 19… played in only two games with the Mighty Ducks due to injury...
Antoski missed much of 1996-97 recovering from hernia surgery, but his career came to an end just nine games into the following season when he was involved in a serious car accident on November 24, 1997 and had to retire because of his injuries.
www.angelfire.com /me2/Jamber/ShawnAntoski.html   (869 words)

  
 FOXSports.com - NFL- Off-season list of NFL's retiring players
The South Africa native leaves as the NFL's all-time leading scorer in both the regular season and playoffs, and gained notice by going an entire season without missing a field goal or extra-point attempt in 1998 — only to miss a potential game-clinching field goal in the NFC title game against Atlanta.
Evans was drafted into the NFL's team in limbo, the Houston Oilers, back in 1995 when the franchise was getting ready for an ugly divorce in Houston.
The countdown to NFL training camps has picked up serious steam, with most teams kicking off drills later this month.
msn.foxsports.com /nfl/story/3739632   (1761 words)

  
 ESPN.com NFL Playoffs: 990125hoge
An eight-year NFL veteran, Hoge spent 1987-93 with the Pittsburgh Steelers and was the team's starting fullback for five of those seasons.
A 1987 Idaho State graduate with a degree in education, Hoge set 11 school records, including career rushing attempts, career rushing yards, career all-purpose yards, season rushing attempts, season rushing yards and season all-purpose yards.
Former NFL fullback Merril Hoge is host for Edge NFL Matchup, which airs on ESPN and ESPN2, and for The NFL on ESPN Radio, which airs 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
espn.go.com /nfl/playoffs98/live/990125hoge.html   (1198 words)

  
 ESPN.com - NFL - Garber: Separate set of issues
The NFL is our comfort food when the days get colder and shorter -- and we take it largely for granted.
On Monday, aficionados of fantasy football already were turning their attention to this Sunday's lineups and fans were joyously contemplating a tasty menu of pivotal divisional games.
NFL Hall of Fame Daily Lines News Wire Photo Wire Message Board NFL in español
proxy.espn.go.com /nfl/columns/story?columnist=garber_greg&id=2159013   (284 words)

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