Word: howatt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jersey Devils traded Merlin Malinowski and the rights to Harvard sophomore center Scott Fusco to the Hartford Whalers for Rich Meagher and Garry Howatt...
...regular-season play, then faded in the playoffs. This year they finally made it to the finals, rolled up a 3-1 margin over the Philadelphia Flyers in the best-of-seven series-and almost choked. The Flyers narrowed the gap at three games to two. Said Islander Garry Howatt: "If one more person reminds me of our reputation, I'll choke...
Terry O'Reilly, who after five majors in two games shunned fisticuffs for the entire evening, (although he did square off with Garry Howatt at one point), rammed a Peter McNab set-up past Islander goalie Billy Smith from the bottom of the right face-off circle at 17:13 of overtime to return the series to Boston and change the night's theme song from "We Are the Champions" to "Stayin' Alive...
...scoreboard eventually showed the Islanders on top, but Bruins fans will remember the first-period fights. First O'Reilly took on Clark Gillies; then Garry Howatt and Wayne Cashman went at it (they would meet again); John Wensink, to his regret, met Bob Nystrom; and Gillies and O'Reilly tangled once more seven seconds before the first period siren...
Referee Dave Newell ejected Islanders Bob Lorimer, Gord Lane, Howatt and Sutter and Bruins Al Secord, Stan Jonathan, Cashman and Milbury...