With the 2019-20 NHL season on pause due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus, NHL.com will reimagine one NHL Draft each week. Today, we look back at the 1983 NHL Draft, which was held at the ...
At least a dozen-and-a-half teammates seconded Bob Bourne's motion. Approaching Round Two of the 1983 playoffs, the Islanders believed that this time their intense rivals from Seventh Avenue in ...
Pat LaFontaine grew up in a nine-room home on the shores of Williams Lake in Waterford Township, about 30 miles north of Detroit. His dad, John LaFontaine Sr., would set up a makeshift rink on the ...
It sounds incredulous now, but there was a time the Detroit Red Wings considered Steve Yzerman a consolation prize. Yzerman, who turns 55 on May 9, has spent more than half of his life with the Wings.
10. Brian Lawton: First Overall by Minnesota North Stars—1983 NHL Entry Draft With a rich crop of young talent including Steve Yzerman, Pat Lafontaine, Sylvain Turgeon, and Tom Barrasso, the Minnesota ...
The Detroit Red Wings received some disheartening news at the NHL draft lottery on Friday night. Instead of picking No. 1 overall, as the team with the best odds of winning the top pick, they’ll be ...
It has been more than 40 years since an NHL team hoisted the Stanley Cup three years in a row. The last club to achieve this feat was the New York Islanders, from 1980 to 1983, capturing four ...
It sounds incredulous now, but there was a time the Detroit Red Wings considered Steve Yzerman a consolation prize. Yzerman, who turns 55 on May 9, has spent more than half of his life with the Wings.