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by Dean Spiros Herald sports writer No one associated with the Black Hawks would have complained Jan. 12 if they were told that in his first nine games in a Black Hawks uni form, Jeff Larmer would score more goals than his brother Steve. But none of them dreamed that Jeff Larmer, who was acquired in a trade with New Jersey, would only need one goal to do it. ‘Steve Larmer, who picked up at the beginning of this season where he left off after last year’s 43-goal rook ie‘season, is in a slump. Larmer hasn’t lit the red light since Jan. 7, a goal-less streak that reached nine games Wednesday night. “I know he’s a little concerned about it,” said Hawks coach Orval Tessier. “He’s the type of conscien tious person who is bothered by it so we don’t want to put undue pressure on him. “This is probably the longest streak like this that he has had, but it’s when a goal scorer doesn’t get any good chances that you have to worry. Stéve is still getting his chances.” “I’m getting just as many chances as I did last year,” said Larmer who scored his 23 goals in the first 42 games of the season. “I’m just not playing smart. I need to bear down take that extra second before shoot ‘Hawks goalie Murray Bannerman said after Wednesday night’s 5-2 loss to Minnesota that the Hawks were pushing their chances. Larmer agreed. _ “The effort is there,” Larmer said, ‘but everyone might be trying to do too much.” _ Tessier experimented with his lines again at practice Thursday, partly because of an injury to Bill Gardner. Gardner suffered a bruised knee when he was hit by a shot from team ate Behn Wilson. Trainer Skip wager said the Hawks should know there about the injury today, but that Hawks notebook Gardner is questionable for Saturday night in Minnesota. The same holds true for Ken Yaremchuk, who has missed the last two games with a groin pull. Yarem chuk had to leave practice early be cause of the injury. “We may have to call someone up from Springfield if neither of them can play because we'll be a man short,” Tessier said. Denis Cyr skated in Gardner’s place on left wing with Denis Savard and Steve Larmer. Tom Lysiak, Rich Preston and Jeff Larmer worked to gether and Steve Ludzik centered a line for Peter Marsh and Rick Pater son. A fourth line consisted of Troy Murray, Tom McMurchy and Yarem chuk. “Our big line (Savard, Larmer and Gardner) didn’t play well Wednesday night,” Tessier said, “and we would have benefitted if one of the other lines could have picked them up. But they didn’t.” The Hawks are gearing up for one of their toughest weekends of the sea son. After Saturday night’s game in Minnesota they return to Chicago Stadium to host the Philadelphia Fly ers Sunday night. But Tessier isn’t conceding it as a lost weekend. “I told the players I'd like to get three points this weekend,” Tessier said. “I purposely set a high goal but it can be reached. I said the same thing last week and after losing to Washington, we tied Quebec and beat Toronto. “Quebec is just as tough at home as Minnesota. When we took the 2-0 lead Wednesday night it wasn’t because we were doing anything fancy. We dumped the puck in and just went in and knocked people around. I told the guys right then that Minnesota wasn’t going to die. “For some reason we started to get fancy — trying to put the puck through people’s legs in the neutral zone — and it cost us. All of a sudden it was 2-2 and we were struggling.”
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Arlington Heights Daily Herald Suburban Chicago
Arlington Heights, Illinois, US
Fri, Jan 27, 1984
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