Hockey Scouting Report 1989-90

I know, kind of a random thing to post, especially given that it was the most stressful week of hockey watching I've had this year (wait, that's why I need to post something unrelated), and the screenshots and links and opinions are piling up...but it looks like I won't have time to post much more until Sunday evening, so...here's something I found in the disappointingly limited selection of hockey books in the vast, vast (4 stories) used bookstore, Renaissance Books, in downtown Milwaukee, this week. I'd gone on Megabus with a friend for my first Milwaukee trip of 2010 and first hockey game there. it's an amazing store and I had a few nice finds, including the following:

this is a terrific resource, and I imagine I have readers who had, or have, copies of these around (anyone know what years it was published?). it goes well with my recent acquisition of hundreds of 1990-91 hockey cards, giving an analysis of the players I already knew about and helping me out with the less-familiar names. there's a chapter for each of the 21 NHL teams at the time (wow, only 21...and of those, four have relocated). a couple sample pages, featuring names in hockey news this week:

 

so, one of these players has "smarts and dependability," but "there may not be much of an NHL career left" for the other...