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From: ryan@cloud9.DEC (DTN 264-8280 MK01-2/E25)
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Subject: Re: out in the cold of Adams division
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 12:55:32 EST
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>Posted by: decwrl!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!steinmetz!hammond
>Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY
> 
>>        they're healthy. They've had a lot of injuries to key players
>>        this year, most noticably to Charlie Simmer, who still isn't back
>>        up to snuff after almost losing an eye in a high-sticking
>>        incident. They should have everyone healthy by playoff time (oh
>> Mike Ryan
> 
>I don't think that the injury to ONE player is why the
>bruins are struggling.  It seems to me that last year
>they were much worse off.  They just cannot get a string
>  Steve Hammond 
>   arpa: hammond@ge-crd    uucp: ...rochester!steinmetz!hammond

	The Bruins have had injuries to a lot more than one player -
	Simmer's injuries were just the most obvious. Right now the
	situation is so bad that for tomorrow's game against the Blues
	the only defensemen they have available are Ray Bourque, Mike
	Milbury (assistant coach - he played for the first time this
	year the other night against the Blackhawks), and minor leaguers
	John Blum and Wade Campbell. Good thing the Whalers have started
	their annual collapse:-). I do think the Bruins with everyone
	healthy are the equal of any other team in the conference; I
	just hope there'll be a chance to find out if I'm right in the
	playoffs.
	
	The Boston Globe's Leigh Montville said in a column today: "Ray
	Bourque ... plays more minutes in the game than the starting
	goaltender these days...". It was true in the Buffalo game last
	week, when Keans was pulled after two periods in an 8-6 loss - I
	could have sworn Bourque was on the ice at least 40 minutes.
	That really worries me - fatigue makes a player more
	injury-prone, and if they lose Bourque it's all over.
	
Mike Ryan
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