Nashville Tabs Coach

Thu., Aug. 7, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

The National Hockey League expansion franchise in Nashville, Tenn., named Barry Trotz its first head coach.

Trotz, 35, coached the American Hockey League’s Portland, Maine, franchise - the Washington Capitals’ top affiliate - for the past five seasons.

The New York Rangers agreed to terms with free-agent left wing Mike Peluso, adding another rugged forward to the team’s roster.

Real estate developer and minor-league hockey team owner David Berkman is leading a group of investors offering to buy the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League.

Two Louisiana men have been arrested in connection with a failed murder-for-hire scheme against two part-owners of Lafayette’s minor-league hockey team.

Businessmen and lawyers Ernest Parker of Lafayette and Logan Nichols of Jennings - both part owners of the IceGators hockey team - were the apparent targets of Richard Barnett, 51, and Virgil Drake, 60, both of Lafayette, U.S. Attorney Michael Skinner said. Barnett is a former business partner of Parker

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