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From: absary@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Where is everybody?
Message-ID: <17158@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 01:10:23 EST
Article-I.D.: watmath.17158
Posted: Fri Nov  8 01:10:23 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 21:52:37 EST
References: <1260@decwrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: absary@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <1260@decwrl.UUCP> ryan@bcseng.DEC (Mike Ryan DTN 264-8280 MKO1-2/E25) writes:
>
> ...
>                                                               Goalie Darren
>Puppa  played  his  first  NHL  game  for  Buffalo  last Friday and shut out
>Edmonton  (their  first  shutout  in a year and a half, and first at home in
>close  to  three  years).  He  stopped  Gretzky  three  times on breakaways!
>Barrasso  was  back  in  goal the next day, and gave up six (to Vancouver? I
>don't quite remember...)
>
> ...

Indeed, it was Vancouver.

By the way, stopping Gretzky on breakaways is not as big a deal as it
sounds (although 3 breakaways is not bad).  A few days later, Richard 
Brodour also stopped Gretzky on a couple (I only heard this, I didn't
actually see the game).  Gretzky isn't that great on breakaways, which
is surprising; he is also well known for missing penalty shots.  Surprisingly
or not, on my team, I would prefer a lot of players in the NHL on breakaways
other than Gretzky (maybe not a lot, but certainly there are several
players in the NHL who make it look very easy on breakaways).