Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recap briefly: After the Bruins' five-goal victory in game three, Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld verbally and maybe physically attacked the referee. The league suspended Schoenfeld for at least one game, but did so without a hearing, enabling the coach to go to a New Jersey judge and get an injunction to allow him to coach the next game (on the basis that the suspension without a hearing violated his due process rights). Then the on-ice officials, who have complained of a lack of league support in the past, refused to work the game, and eventually amateur refs--including...
...begin with, it sure seems to me a bad precedent to take NHL disputes into the court system. It's not like there are a few, say, felonious assaults, in any given game. Ajudicating roughing penalties between Boston's Jay Miller and New Jersey's Jim Korn is just what our court system needs...
Finally, and most importantly, why the hell did the Bruins play the game? New Jersey had already screwed them by going outside the league for the injunction and causing the start of the game to be delayed for over an hour, and the league screwed them by insisting that amateur refs, and New Jersey employees to boot, work the game...
Aides expressed confidence he would command a nominating majority by the time the primary season ends on June 7 with elections in California, New Jersey and two other states, and Dukakis has begun campaigning with one eye on Jackson and the other on the fall campaign against Bush...
Addressing Quincy House seniors last night, Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich said her candidate will be campaigning hard in California and New Jersey and will be courting the remaining "superdelegates," in order to lock up a first ballot victory at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta...