Word: nhl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NHL STANLEY CUP FINALS...
UNIONDALE, L.I., N.Y.--Surly. Not amused. Impatience bordering on anger. December, 1979, the Nassau Veterans Memorial Colliseum. The New York Islanders, owners of the best record in the NHL the previous season, are floundering. They have lost to teams they should trash without sweating and, for the first time in five years, must struggle mightily for every point...
...five saw a 5-1 Islander romp and Clark Gillies pounding Dave Schultz into the Spectrum ice and forcing him to endure the humiliation of needing a teammate, Andre Dupont, to come to his rescue: back on Long Island, before a national television audience (those were days when the NHL had a contract with NBC), New York gave their fans a 2-1 Mother's Day gift and deadlocked the series at three games apiece...
...NHL...
...MINNESOTA vs. PHILADELPHIA: Fresh from one of the biggest upsets in recent NHL history, the North Stars figure to suffer some sort of a letdown. Gilles Meloche has performed superbly in the fabled crucial position of goaltender, while Minnesota's defense has played beyond its earthly ability...