FIVE YEARS AGO: April 29, 1994

New Jersey eliminates Buffalo with a 2-1 Game 7 home win, and Boston gets past Montreal 5-3 in their seventh game. The Devils and the Broons will meet in Round 2; the Rangers and the Caps open May 1.

Meanwhile, some of The Rumors (capital R) are codified in Stan Fischler's Bluelines column in The Hockey News: Mike Keenan back to Philadelphia, if and only if the Rangers win the Cup. "The thinking goes like this: Keenan would have accomplished all he could on Broadway and would get permission to break his contract, which has four years to go," Stan writes.

Mike (Okay, _Brind'Amour_ for Tikkanen and Lidster, then?) Fornabaio -- mef17@oocities.com

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