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Bird accepts this, his richest statistical season, as the introduction to his prime, "because 28 just sounds about right." That suits Gretzky, who at 24 would fervently like four more years of incline, but he wonders. "When Guy Lafleur retired this season, and I saw he had played only 14 years, I thought, 'Hey, I've played seven already.' Maybe I am halfway through." The first time he and Lafleur ever faced off, it seemed the puck would never drop, and under the tension of the wait, below the clamor of the crowd, he heard Lafleur murmur...
...leave-taking seems to have diminished since Ted Williams homered in his final at-bat, when the Boston fans failed to draw him back out of the dugout for the purest reason, put perfectly by John Updike, that "gods do not answer letters." In mortal and modern contrast, Guy Lafleur, a Montreal Canadien once of the highest rank, lingered several aimless shifts before exiting last month as sheepishly as former Pittsburgh Running Back Franco Harris, who was bluffing along a few extra downs in Seattle. Babe Ruth limped away in midstream too, so departures of this sort are hardly...
...Jensen, 18, and Ed Olczyk, 17. LaFontaine, sweet-natured and teen-idol cute, left his home in Pontiac, Mich., in 1982 to sharpen his skills in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, where he scored 104 goals to break records set by Islander Mike Bossy and Montreal Canadien Guy Lafleur. The U.S. Olympic chief assistant coach, Tim Taylor of Yale, praises LaFontaine's See-ing-Eye hands: "He has a quick stick and a fast release with no waste motion...
...spent most of Rosh Hashanah hanging out in the Sports Cube, ate junk food on Yom Kippur, but you can be sure I was appropriately reverent when Guy Lafleur came over the boards and left a spray of snow as he dashed toward the Detroit Red Wings...
Forward--Robert Lafleur, Maine...