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the game.” J.Stoughton, like Clarke, was an all-star at Flin Flon, compiling 118 goals and 207 penalty minutes in his last two years.“People forget that I was a goon when I was a kid,” he said. “But in the WHL you had to be. Else they would have run you out of the rink.” j •His 12-year career has included eight seasons in the NHL (Pittsburgh, Toronto, Hartford and the Rangers) and three seasons in the old World Hockey Association.Stoughton had a 52-goal season in his debut with Cincinnati of the WHA, and registered 52- and 56-goal seasons at Hartford. In his first four years with the Whalers, he scored 196 goals, a total surpassed by only three players — Wayne Gretzky, Mike .Bossy and Marcel Dionne.He still holds the Whalers’ all-time mark of 228 career goals.But the only statistic that carries any weight these days is his age — 31.“It’s pretty obvious they (the Rangers) aren’t going to call me up no matter what I do,” he said. “This is it.
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Upper Darby Sunday Times
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Jan 27, 1985
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