Let’s Open the Mail Bag and Take the Rubber Band Off Stack of ’87 : Ice Melts Around Here

EDITOR’S NOTE: These letters represent many of the best received by The Times in 1987, and reflect the leading issues and events discussed in Viewpoint during that period.

We let Marcel Dionne down. Twelve years later, after he worked his hockey pants off, usually with little or no supporting cast, he was traded away. What must it have been like to be a hockey superstar in a town like Los Angeles?

MEL POWELL

Los Angeles