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October 7, 1967

The Hockey News October 7, 1967

<div class="byline">By GLENN REDMANN </div><div class="byline">&#x2013;REDMANN&#x2013;</div>TWIN CITIES, Minn.&mdash;When the fledgling Minnesota North Stars open the National Hockey League season in St. Louis on Oct. 11, general manager-coach Wren Blair hopes to have a man in goal who can perform steady enough to hold the job for the entire campaign.Blair is well aware of the fact that the two-goalie system worked splendidly for Chicago&rsquo;s regular season champions last year. It is recalled that the Hawks divided chores between Denis Dejordy and the now departed Glenn Hall.&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t get me wrong,&rdquo; says Blair. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not dead set against alternating in goal &mdash; but only if there happens to be two men of nearly equal ability.&ldquo;I think that was the case in Chicago last year &hellip; and in Toronto, too, where Punch Imlach was fortunate to have Johnny Bower and Terry Sawchuck complimenting each other.&ldquo;Frankly, I&rsquo;ve always been in favor of picking out the guy who I believe is the best and go as far as I can with him just as long as he does a reasonably good job.&rdquo;When the North Stars went to training camp early in September, there were a lot of people who were just about willing to concede the net-minding job to Cesare Maniago, Blair&rsquo;s first choice in the special goalie draft.Blair, however, wasn&rsquo;t one of them-and as things have turned out in camp &mdash; it seems to bear out what Wren said before leaving for Haliburton, Ont.:&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve learned long ago that goal is a position that can&rsquo;t be taken for granted. We&rsquo;ve got Gary Bauman and Carl Wetzel, and I&rsquo;m sure they aren&rsquo;t conceding anything to Maniago.&rdquo;After the first half dozen exhibition games, four of which ended on the victory side of the ledger for Minnesota, it was Bauman &mdash; the one-time All-American at Michigan Tech-who had forged ahead in the three-man battle.At one stage, the former Montreal back-up goalie had a streak of nearly five periods in which he had held the opposition scoreless while turning aside 55 shots on goal.This is not to say that Bauman, who at 26 is two years younger than Maniago and Wetzel, will be No. 1 when the North Stars invade the Flyers&rsquo; lair on the 11th. But the stocky, 5-11, 165-pounder certainly hasn&rsquo;t done anything to hurt his chances.Wetzel, the one-time professional who quit the play-for-pay ranks last season and went on to star for the U.S. Nationals in the World Tournament at Vienna, very likely will end up at Memphis, the Stars&rsquo; Central League affiliate.&ldquo;When we signed Carl,&rdquo; said Blair, &ldquo;it was with the understanding that he&rsquo;d agree to be sent out. The same holds true for Bill Masterton (a teammate of Wetzel&rsquo;s on the Nationals last year), a forward who like Carl signed a two-year contract with us.&rdquo;Regardless of who becomes No. 1 in the Minnesota goal, Blair doesn&rsquo;t plan to let his back-up man get rusty.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see anything wrong with Wetzel starting out in Memphis,&rdquo; offered Blair, &ldquo;and then after a month or so, coming up to the parent club as back-up while our No. 2 man goes to Memphis to get some work. This, of course, could best be done if our No. 1 man does well enough to keep the job.&ldquo;Should the man who starts the season run into trouble, and let&rsquo;s face it, goal in the first few years of expansion won&rsquo;t be easy, it&rsquo;s possible we could be shuffling all three men between the big club and Memphis sometime during the season.&rdquo;If one of the three goaltenders should win &mdash; and hold &mdash; the job which in itself would be quite a long shot, the North Stars&rsquo;chances of capturing the Western Division crown would be enhanced considerably, says Blair.While Wren more than likely would be satisfied with a 60-40 per cent won-lost ratio in the 50 games his squad will play against the other five expansion sextets, he doesn&rsquo;t envision much success for any of the newcomers against the six established teams.&ldquo;The greatest goalie in the world isn&rsquo;t going to get us or any of the other new clubs more than a handful of victories against the Montreals, Torontos and Chicagos,&rdquo; said Blair.Because he took the 6-4, 196-pound Maniago first in the goalie draft after such better known performers as Hall and Terry Sawchuk were chosen earlier by St. Louis and Los Angeles, Blair was asked if he might not be pulling a wee bit harder for lanky Cesare to make the grade as No. 1.&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t be unhappy if he was to win the job,&rdquo; answered the man who sometimes answers to the nickname of &ldquo;The Bird".&ldquo;I say that because I&rsquo;ve seen more of him than I have of the other two and I know he can do a splendid job when he&rsquo;s up on his game. I think he&rsquo;d have shown a lot more with the Rangers last year had Ed Giacomin not had such a big year.&ldquo;But as far as pulling harder for Cesare than Bauman or Wetzel, that&rsquo;s silly. All I&rsquo;m really interested in is finding the best man for the job.&rdquo;<h2>Talbot Seen As Likely Ice Captain</h2>TWIN CITIES, Minn.-After nearly three weeks of training camp, Minnesota North Stars general manager-coach Wren Blair had not as yet named a captain for his new National Hockey League team.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01814/3098371-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="629" height="659"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN-GUY TALBOT &hellip; May Lead Stars</figcaption></div>But there is every indication that when the move is made, it will be Jean-Guy Talbot, the 34-year-old defenseman who was drafted from Montreal after spending close to 13 seasons in the NHL.&ldquo;Jean-Guy, because of his many seasons in the NHL, has been prised person will be veteran Boston Bruins&rsquo; scout Harold Cotton.&ldquo;I bumped into Cotton, in Boston shortly after the expansion draft,&rdquo; said Blair, &ldquo;and he congratulated me on our goalie selections. I told him I&rsquo;d seen enough of Cesare Maniago to feel certain that he could do the job for us.&ldquo;But before I barely got that out of my mouth, Harold wanted to make a bet with me that Bauman would be our regular in goal. Apparently, he&rsquo;s very high on Gary.&rdquo; &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Blair May Shuttle NHL Netminders

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01190/3099114-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="279" height="487"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Ferenz</figcaption></div>CHERRY HILL. N.J. &ndash;A completely new management team and a new coach have given great optimism to folks hereabouts for I a successful 1 season for the Jersey Devils, this year in Eddie Ferenz Eastern Hockey League play.Club president Harold A ranow, the man who save EHL hockey for this area, is unable to devote his fulltime to the team due to his private business. So he landed Eddie Ferenz, who has worked in the front office of the Philadelphia Ramblers, the Johnstown Jets and the Devils in the past, as his general manager.One of Eddie&rsquo;s first acts was to appoint Gordie Stratton as the team&rsquo;s coach. Ferenz negotiated the purchase of Stratton from the Long Island Ducks and later the Devils will give Long Island a player to be selected. If no player can be mutually agreed upon by both clubs, a cash settlement will be made.Ferenz is a man of action and the day after he picked Stratton, the two headed for Canada and the training camp of the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL. There they look over some possible talent for the Devils for this season.Last year Ferenz served as interim general manager at Johnstown and reports indicated he could have had the job fulltime this year if he had so chosen. Instead he spent the summer as the public address announcer for the Phillies&rsquo; baseball team and in his post as assistant to the president of the Liberty Football Bowl.A ranow said, &ldquo;Eddie has a varied background which our directors feel will be a big asset in running the Devils this year. He will have complete charge of the operation.&rdquo;Ferenz, 31, is a native of Lethbridge, Alberta but has lived near here for seven years ever since quitting hockey. He is familiar with all phases of front office work and is working on gettingarea families to attend the club&rsquo;s games. He realizes that the Devils will be bucking the Flyers for the hockey dollar, but he hopes the lower prices of Devils&rsquo; games will induce many to support the club which won the Northern Division playoff title last year.The Devils have announced a 36-game home schedule with 30 of the contests either on Friday or Saturday. Ferenz said the fact his team will meet only Northern Division rivals will create close rivalries and at the same time will save considerable travel costs.The selection of Stratton as the successor to Vic Stasiuk was quite a surprise as veteran Reggie Meserve and former player Ross Turnbull were the top nominees. Stratton, a 12-year veteran, intends to be a playing pilot from a right wing berth. For the past seven seasons he has played with New Haven and Long Island and scored more than 300 goals. Last year with the Ducks he scored 53 points on 35 goals and 18 assists. He&rsquo;s the brother of Art Stratton of-the Pittsburgh Penguins. For the last two campaigns, Gordie has been the assistant coach at Long Island. His past career includes tours at Winnipeg, Spokane, Cleveland and Troy.The Devils lost defenseman Bob Taylor to Salem in the EHL draft. The Devils felt that Taylor was the logical man to let go since he wouldn&rsquo;t be available until after the Canadian football season. The injured Ron McPherson recuperating from a July 4 auto accident, wasn&rsquo;t picked up and is expected to be ready to play for the Devils in November.The Flyers will aid the Devils but will not be involved in the club&rsquo;s operation &ldquo;financially or management-wise", according to Bud Poile, Philly GM. Poile did promise to supply a number of players, however.CHARLOTTE: Checkers will train at Ft. Erie, Ont. where coach Fred Creighton expects about 20 players to report. Moe Savard, Art Hart, Ernie Dyda and Chuck Stuart are back. Creighton also figures that 4 of the seven young Checkers at NHL camps will be back. Checkers will meet EHL kings Nashville In home opener.CLINTON: Comets are worried about newspaper strike in nearby Utica which began in early July. Lack of publicity could hurt club&rsquo;s attendance both in games at Utica and Clinton as the Utica papers are the only daily publicationscarrying the club&rsquo;s news. Tim Hook reports that he is hanging up his skates, but the Comets aren&rsquo;t sure he will stick to his decision. The Comets have stood pat except for losing Jim Jago to Salem. Pat Kelly back as coach.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-02136/3099107-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="621" height="610"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORD STRATTON &hellip; To Lead Devils</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0395/3099100-1-eng-US/f0021-032.jpg" title="f0021-03" width="619" height="607"><figcaption class="caption-body">HARRY PIDHIRNY &hellip; Syracuse Coach</figcaption></div>SALEM: The new team will be known as the Rebels and their draftees include Bob Taylor, Clare Wa shinski, Tom Schiller, Jim Cassidy, Wally Chase, Bob Howard, and Jim Jago. Dave Lucas, former Johnstown skipper, will pilot the team.SYRACUSE: The Stars only selected Wayne Caufleld, Lome O&rsquo;Donnell and Dick Cusson In the draft. The team has a nucleus of independent performers from last year and some may decide to play with the Stars. Harry Pidhirny the former Springfield mentor is coach.JOHNSTOWN: Dick Roberge has supplanted Jack McIntyre as coach of the team, while John Mitchell is back as GM. The veteran Roberge breaks the EHL record everytime he scores a point.NEW HAVEN : Veteran defenseman Don Perry will coach the Blades this year. He is the second Long Island player to leave club for coaching spot as Gordie Stratton went to Devils. Perry succeeds Jackie Leclalr.LONG ISLAND ;John Brophy was seriously hurt in an automobile accident this summer and his status is doubtful for this year. Gene Achtymichuk ready to pilot a resurgent Ducks team eager to atone for last year&rsquo;s failures.KNOXVILLE:Pat Egan, former coach at Jacksonville, will lead Knights this year as successor to Doug Bentley.<h2>Movements of Players</h2>Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h3>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h3>NEW YORK &mdash; Andre Lalonde, goalkeeper, Barclay Plager, Bob Ash, Bob Blackburn and Ron Ingram, defensemen, and! Billy Knibbs, Dennis Hextail, Wayne Hall and Barry Burnett, forwards, assigned to Buffalo of AHL. Ron Fairbairn, for ward, sent to Omaha of CPHL.MONTREAL &mdash; Gerry Des-jardins, and Chuck Goddard, goalkeepers, Bob Jamieson, Don Johns, Bob Barber, and Lou Kazowski, defensemen, Germain Gagnon, James Paterson, Doug Piper, Wilf Martin, Gary Johnson, Billy Staub, Norm Dennis, Gerry Kell and Norm Ferguson, forwards, assigned to Cleveland of AHL. Rocky Farr and Lyle Carter, goalkeepers, Paul Curtis, Murray Flegel, Steve Hunt, Stan, Fuller, Drake Jopling, John' iSchella and Danny Sharpe,' defensemen, Christian Borde-1 leau, Jude Drouin, Brian Lavender, Elgin McCann, Moe, St. Jacques, Dale Blomquist/Robin Burns, Ernie Hicke, John Vanderburg, Jacques Beau-i doin, Bernie Blanchette, Lucien Grenier, Richard Sentes, Gary Butler, Tony Esposito, JeanjGuy Lagace, Lynn Margrit, Gerry Lemire, Clement Boudreau and Doug Sheppard, forwards, sent to Houston of CPHL. Ken Faranski, forward, returned to Regina of Western Canada Junior League. Doug Abel, forward, returned to Weyburn of WCJL. Ralph Stewart, forward, sent to Montreal Canadiens of Ontario Junior League. Peter Speyer, defense-man, returned to University of Toronto. Peter Grant, Claude Guenette, forwards, released.PHILADELPHIA &mdash; Cleland &lsquo;Keke&rsquo; Mortson, forward, optioned to Seattle of WHL. Dick Sarrazin, forward, purchased from Detroit of NHL.DETROIT &mdash; Bob Champoux, goalkeeper, Jim Eagle/defenseman, and Jack Faulkiner, Warren Hynes, Gordie Wilkie, Fred Hilts, Alex Faulkner and John McMillan, forwards, assigned to Sam Diego of WHL. Gerry Gray, goalkeeper, Danny Lawson, Eddie Hatouin, Renald Leclerc and Fred Speck, forwards, returned to Hamilton of Junior, OHA.PITTSBURGH &mdash; Hank Bassen, goalkeeper, purchased from, Detroit of NHL in exchange fori Roy Edwards, goalkeeper. Les Hunt, defenseman, sent to Baltimore of AHL.BOSTON &mdash; Dennis Gibson, goalkeeper, Bob Heaney, Garnet Bailey and JeanPronovost, defensemen, Wayne Cashman, Brian Bradley, Dave Woodley/Rosaire Paiement, Jim Lorentz land Bob Tuthill, forwards, sent to Oklahoma City of CPHL. Nick Beverly and Barry Wilkins, defensemen, recalled from, Oklahoma City for pro tryout.CHICAGO &mdash; Bill Orban, forward, secured from Los Angeles I of WHL as part payment for, previous deal.LOS ANGELES &mdash; Muni Hoffman, defenseman, released.<h3>WESTERN LEAGUE</h3>PORTLAND &mdash; Don Head, goalkeeper, sold to Seattle of WHL in exchange for Jimmy, McLeod, goalkeeper. Andy Hebenton, forward, secured from Phoenix of WHL in exchanged for Ricky Charron, goalkeeper, Brian Smith and Tommy MciVie, forwards. Norm Johnson, forward, purchased from Los Angeles of WHL.<h3>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h3>MUSKEGON &mdash; Roy Pugh, forward, secured from Montreal of NHL on option. &#9632;

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Stratton Named Jersey Coach As Devils Take On ‘New Look’

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02707/3098634-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01813/3098627-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="1351" height="2724"><figcaption class="caption-body">PLAYER Of THE YEAR STAN MIKITA V Chicago Black Hawks</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02740/3098620-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="2019" height="2764"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03618/3098613-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="2005" height="1463"><figcaption class="caption-body">STARTING TIMES OF N.H.L. GAMES</figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><h2>EASTERN DIVISION</h2>Montreal Canadiens Toronto Maple Leafs Boston Bruins New York Rangers Detroit Red Wings Chicago Black Haw ks</div><div class="sidebar"><h2>WESTERN DIVISION</h2>Philadelphia Flyers Pittsburgh Penguins Minnesota North Stars St. Louis Blues Los Angeles Kings California Seals &#9632;</div>

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National Hockey League’s 1967-68 Schedule

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01808/3098551-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="642" height="971"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNIE PARENT &hellip; Drafted From Bruins</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02725/3098544-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="629" height="967"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRU SELBY&hellip; Plucked From Leafs</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03589/3098537-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="611" height="981"><figcaption class="caption-body">LOU ANGOTTI &hellip; Former Black Hawk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04489/3098530-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="608" height="978"><figcaption class="caption-body">LEON ROCHEFORT&hellip; Pick Up From Canadiens</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05380/3098523-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="618" height="964"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM MORRISON&hellip; Old NHL Star Returns</figcaption></div>PHILADELPHIA, Pa. &ndash;Time solves many problems and, to Don Blackburn time alone will solve the problems peculiar to his Philadelphia Flyers and the other five NHL expansion teams.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06324/3098516-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="319" height="502"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Blackburn</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re all Don Blackburn in the same boat,&rdquo; said Don. &ldquo;All of the new clubs have been pieced together from various sources and it&rsquo;s going to take a while before we start playing like a team. It just doesn&rsquo;t happen overnight.&rdquo;Blackburn&rsquo;s reference was primarily aimed at the &lsquo;Flyers&rsquo; 6-1 loss to their No. 1 farm club, the Quebec Aces, in their opening exhibition game at Le Colisee. Don was neither dismayed nor disappointed.&ldquo;They beat us because they&rsquo;ve been playing together for quite some time while we&rsquo;ve been together only a little while,&rdquo; he explained.&ldquo;To win in hockey, a team must have some kind of a system of operation. Right now, however, it is much too early for us to have one. Why, we don&rsquo;t even know who we&rsquo;ll be playing with.&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to remember, several of the lines the Aces use have played together as complete units for one or two seasons,&rdquo; said Don. &ldquo;This means they&rsquo;re accustomed to the move of the other guy.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s my opinion that better than 50 percent of the plays that work in a hockey game are not planned. Somebody hollers and you get the puck to him. It&rsquo;s just a question of playing together.&ldquo;In other words,&rdquo; continued Blackburn, &ldquo;we&rsquo;ve brought six different systems to training camp because we&rsquo;ve come together from six different clubs. So it&rsquo;s extremely tough until we become familiar with each other&rsquo;s moves, and more importantly with the system coach Keith Allen wants us to use.&ldquo;The big thing is that, once you&rsquo;re familiar with your own system, you have a better idea of what the other guy is going to do in a given situation,&rdquo; said Don, a 29-year-old left-wing acquired from the Toronto Maple Leafs as the Flyers&rsquo; No. 6 choice in the expansion draft.Blackburn a nine-year pro who scored 57 points for Rochester (American Hockey League) last season and led the Quebec Aces with 78 points two years ago, feels that familiarity means a two-goal advantage.&ldquo;The top lines in hockey always have a good idea where the other guy is,&rdquo; said Don a former Boston Bruin. &ldquo;I personally feel that this adds up to at least one or two goals a game. It&rsquo;s all in having a system which every player is thoroughly familiar with.&ldquo;Montreal, for example, is a puck control team,&rdquo; noted Blackburn. &ldquo;The Canadiens like to hold on to the puck and carry it in close to the net. Toronto, on the other hand, tries to punch it into the corner. Then they fight like hell for it.&ldquo;But it all depends what individuals you have,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;You have to base your own system on the talent you have available. You&rsquo;ve got to match the personnel with the people. That will be the problem shared by all of the expansion clubs for a while.&rdquo;Still, Blackburn isn&rsquo;t conceeding a thing to the other new clubs and. in fact, maintains that the veteran teams had better not become too overconfident when playing any of the expansion clubs.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say that, despite everything any of the new clubs will beat any of the old clubs on a given night,&rdquo; said Don. &ldquo;The big difference, however will show up in the 74-game season. It&rsquo;s tough getting up for every game.&ldquo;But I still say we-in Philadelphia-have the best club on paper. From what I&rsquo;ve seen, we have excellent material at every position and I&rsquo;m really high on our great balance.&ldquo;Everybody seems to be so high on the California Seals as being the team to beat in the new division,&rdquo; continued Blackburn. &ldquo;But I played with and against a lot of their players and I think I could pick gaping holes in their entire lineup. To me, they and a couple other clubs are overloaded in certain positions and very weak in others. I think you&rsquo;ll see a lot of trading in the next couple weeks.&ldquo;But as far as our own club is concerned, we have some excellent talent spread throughout the entire lineup. And we&rsquo;ll get some help from the Aces who have a number of top players. Give us a little time and we&rsquo;ll be okay, I guarantee.&rdquo;To Blackburn, the most important thing is that the Flyers don&rsquo;t beat themselves. &#9632;

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New Flyer Says Expansion Teams Need Time

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01550/3099307-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Pittsburgh Penguins will be assured of plenty of ice experience in their first NHL season. Here&rsquo;s coach RED SULLIVAN left, with veterans LEO BOIVIN and ANDY BATHGATE, right. Between them they have nearly 40 years service in the big time.</figcaption></div><h2>Set NHL Pace In Exhibition Play</h2>MONTREAL, Que.-The two busiest teams In the National Hockey League&rsquo;s training camp sessions-Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars-were also the NHL&rsquo;s most successful.The Leafs, who are gearing for defense of their Stanley Cup, turned In the best exhibition record among the 12 teams In the NHL In games through Sunday, Oct. 1. Leafs had 15 points on seven wins and a tie In 10 starts. Minnesota was a step behind with 13 points as the result of six wins and a draw In 11 pre-season games.The North Stars actually led in competition with NHL teams garnering 11 points to Toronto&rsquo;s nine. At any rate, both teams were experiencing the most success among the old and new big league teams and their motto of putting actuel game action ahead of wind sprints and line drills was paying off.Punch Imlach&rsquo;s Leafs had toppled the Bruins twice and Chicago and New York once each while tieing Detroit. Wren Blair&rsquo;s North Stars, who played 11 games in 15 days, had beaten California and Los Angeles twice each and Pittsburgh once. &#9632;

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Leafs. North Stars Thrive On Ice Action

<div class="byline">BY BOB HARRIS</div>TORONTO, Ont.-The National Hockey League assured their new blood brothers of a place in the sun for the first year of expansion by decreeing that the 1967-68 Stanley Cup final will become an East-West extravaganza.The decision of the NHL&rsquo;s board of governors to permit a &lsquo;showdown&rsquo; for the world professional hockey championship between the old and new set sections of the league was in direct contrast to a suggestion proposed by president Clarence Campbell, who was attempting to avoid a final in which an expansion team would clash with an established club.Campbell feared an &lsquo;overmatch and he may prove right.Staff Smythe of the Leafs first endorsed Campbell&rsquo;s plan but relented and went along with the NHL governors.&ldquo;This way the new division gets a chance to declare its own playoff champion and get a crack at the cup in the first year,&rdquo; said Smythe.The governors decided the first two games of the Cup final will be played in the home rink of the Western Division champion, the next three at the home of the eastern winner and the remainder back in the West.In divisional playoffs, first and third and second and fourth teams will meet in the best-of-seven series.<h2>East-West Cup Final. Set</h2>Winners in the quarter-finals and semi-finals will get $2,250 a man and the losers $1,500. Each member of the Stanley Cup champions will earn an additional $3,000 while the losers will pocket $1,500. Overall a player could earn $10,000.In other leg league business, Campbell disclosed that one scoring champion will be declared from the combined scoring statistics of the two sections. There will also be one winner of all other individual awards, like the Norris, Hart, Byng and Calder trophies.One all-star team will be selected as in the past from players of both divisions. For example Ed Giacomin of Rangers could be the first all-star team goalie and Glenn Hall of St. Louis the second team net minder or vice-versa.Expansion has also presented the problem of increased air travel for NHL teams, a factor that forced the league to draw up a catastrophe plan to be used if a team loses a minimum of five players for at least 15 consecutive games through death or serious injury.Any club losing players through a tragedy is assured of receiving up to the full quota of 20 players from the other clubs at $100,000 a man.The plan provides an insurance policy of $100,000 a player plus a draft of personnel from other teams. &#9632;

Expansion Teams Get Big Chance

<div class="byline">By LOU PRATO</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01750/3098271-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="313" height="496"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hank Bassen</figcaption></div>PITTSBURGH. Pa.&mdash;Despite contract problems with the team&rsquo;s top two draft choices, the Pittsburgh Penguins went through their pre-season training at Brantford, Ont. in what can best Hank Bassene described as enthusiastic optimism.The optimism is a carry over from last summer&rsquo;s draft session in Montreal when Coach Red Sullivan and General Manager Jack Riley selected what they considered the most experienced personnel of all the new expansion teams.The enthusiasm has been generated by the performance of the entire team in it&rsquo;s early preseason exhibition games and particularly by the play of such veterans as Andy Bathgate and the Penguins&rsquo; four goaltenders.Pittsburgh completely outclassed the Philadelphia Flyers in the first exhibition game, winning 7-3 as Bathgate fired a pair of goals. The Penguins were in command all the way, outshooting the Flyers, 13-4 in the first 20 minutes and forcing the Flyers goaltender to make 36 stops compared to 21 saves by Penguin goalies Joe Daley and Les Binkley.Bathgate missed the second exhibition game because of the flu but the Penguins managed to tie the California Seals, 3-3, this time with veteran Hank Bassen and 32 year old amateur Marv Edwards In the nets. Surprisingly, it was Bassen, a recent addition to the Pittsburgh roster, who gave up all three California scores as Edwards made several spectacular saves during his time at the Penguin nets.It is at the goaltending spot where most observers figured the Penguins would have its major deficiency. In order to bolster the position, Pittsburgh swapped its number two goalie in the expansion draft, Roy Edwards-Marv&rsquo;s younger brother who never had played in the NHL, to Detroit for Bassen.Despite his deterioration in the NHL last season, Bassen could be just the goalie the Penguins need to balance an otherwise experienced lineup. He&rsquo;s popular in Pitts-burgh, having played with the American League Hornets for a few years and last season helped load the now Hornets to the Calder Cup-championship. Penguin officials feel the hard core Pittsburgh hockey fans could help rejuvenate the 34-year-old, Bassen.And if Bassen is in goal when the Penguins open the NHL season October 11, against Montreal he Will have earned that. For at the moment, it is a surprising four-way fight.It&rsquo;s going to be a tough job to select two goalies,&rdquo; Coach Sullivan says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to be taking a good look at all of them during the exhibition games. All four of them have looked sharp in scrimmages. But I know a few other coaches who would like to be saddled with the same problem of picking two out of these four to stay with the team.&rdquo;Sullivan also has been extremely pleased, though not surprised, by the play of his one time teammate, and golfing partner, Andy Bathgate.Says General Manager Riley, &ldquo;Andy Is proving why he is the best 17th draft choice in sports history.&rdquo;What makes the showing of the Penguins even more impressive is that they were without the services of the top draft choices, Earl Ingarfield and Al McNeil, for the first tow weeks. Both veterans, who played with the New York Rangers in the past few years, were considered shoo-ins for starting spots and Sullivan envisioned Ingarfleld and Bathgate as a solid one-two scoring punch.Both Ingarfleld and McNeil stayed home when the Penguins opened training and demanded more money before reporting. By the end of the second week, McNeil had signed a three year contract calling for a substantial raise over last season. Ingarfleld had been holding out in the face of an offer by Riley of a 20 per cent pay increase over what he made with the Rangers last year but he did decide to report to camp where he negotiated the final contract terms and signed with the club.So, the enthusiasm and optimism continues in the Penguin camp. And barring injury it will undoubtedly continue right up to that opening game with Montreal.The optimism may change once the Penguins start playing the old NHL teams. But with Sullivan and Bathgate, Pittsburgh will never lose its enthusiasm.<h2>Big Jean Eyes 400th Goal Starting 15th NHL Year</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02698/3098264-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1319" height="1632"><figcaption class="caption-body">The 1967-68 NHL season will bring new quest for goal-scoring honors. One man in the hunt will be big JEAN BELIVEAU, shown shaking hands with coach TOE BLAKE after signing his 15th big league contract. Beliveau is aiming for his 400th goal. He started season with 399.</figcaption></div><h2>California Gets Ehman For Two Draft Choices</h2>SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. &ndash;California Seals announced the acquisition of veteran left winger Gerry Ehman from the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League in exchange for their ninth and 17th draft choices.The Seals gave up Jean-Paul Parise, their No. 9 pick, and Bryan Hextail, their 17th choice, to get the 34-year-old Ehman. &#9632;

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Bathgate Helps Keep Penguin Enthusiasm Up

NEW YORK, N.Y.-Little Camille Henry come back to Madison Square Garden and it seemed like only yesterday that he was the darling of Gotham fandom.The veteran left winger, battling to regain a berth with the Rangers after a year&rsquo;s enforced idleness, holds a special spot in the hearts of New Yorkers. They loved him whe he stood dwarfed by the bemoaths of the NHL and still managed to put the puck in the net.Goal scoring became Henry&rsquo;s trait in the Garden. He rose to become the second highest scorer in Ranger history with 248 goals in 11 seasons here. Now 34 years old and a little bitter about the deal he received from hockey last year, Henry is still the power play specialist he was a few seasons back.Then the Rangers traded him off to Chicago in 1965 and he never hit it off with the Black Hawk organization from the outset. He rebelled at playing in the minors and quit the game for a year.Now he&rsquo;s back and New Yorkers are pulling for him to stick this time. &#9632;

Little Camille Comes Back To Scene of Garden Glory

<div class="byline">By DAN MOULTON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01755/3098340-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="350" height="479"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02631/3098333-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="296" height="482"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, 111.-A midst all the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the Black Hawks&rsquo; first post-expansion training camp, Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Billy Reay have come up with an almost sure-fire cure for those pre-season fantods.Whenever the Hawks&rsquo; two bosses feel the need for something to provide a measure of security they merely devote their attention to the practice efforts of Bobby and Dennis Hull, Stan Mikita, Pierre Pilote, Eric Nesterenko &hellip; and Jerry Goyer.That&rsquo;s right, Jerry Goyer, the 31-year-old center who has been carrying a &ldquo;too slow&rdquo; tag around the Western Hockey league since he broke in with Portland in 1959.The big blond from Belleville, Ont. might have been destined to labor for the rest of his career in the minors if the National Hockey League hadn&rsquo;t decided to double its size almost overnight. But now, with the six teams in the established division striving to replace regulars given up in the expansion pool, players of Jerry&rsquo;s calibre and experience are finding themselves as integral parts of big league teams.Goyer&rsquo;s present assignment is as the replacement for the drafted Red Hay between Eric Nesterenko and Dennis Hull, which, at this writing, was the only line Reay could ice that looked as though it might be intact at the start of the season.With goalie Denis DeJordy, center Pit Martin and right wing Ken Wharram electing to duck practice until contract negotiations were completed and left wing Doug Mohns hospitalized with a severe hamstring pull, Reay has been improvising wildly with his two other lines.In a recent exhibition against the Maple Leafs, Billy used converted defenseman Paul Terbenche, up from St. Louis, as middleman for Bobby Hull and Chico Maki, while Mikita worked at center for ex-St.Louis hands Doug Shelton and Roger Bellerive.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s true that Goyer doesn&rsquo;t appear to be moving too fast,&rdquo; Reay concedes. &ldquo;But he&rsquo;s an awfully smart player, just as Hay was, and he really can move the puck around.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m kind of hoping that he geared his skating down to the Western League tempo and can pick up a stride or two with us. He&rsquo;s going to have to move to keep up with Dennis and Nester and it might help to have him push himself.&rdquo;Bobby Hull&rsquo;s arrival some 10 days late (he was finishing up business at his farm) perked up the camp considerably. The Golden Jet arrived in time for an hour and a half workout on a Thursday, skated for an hour and a half the next morning, then went out and scored two goals in a week-end exhibition series against the Maple Leafs.As much as Bobby professes to love his work on the farm one got the impression that he was happy to be back on the ice.&ldquo;I like farm labor and always have,&rdquo; Bobby said. &ldquo;But after putting in about 45000 bales of hay for winter cattle feed, I&rsquo;m just about fed up for a while.&ldquo;There were only a couple of us doing the work because it&rsquo;s hard to get any decent help and we got a bellyfull.&rdquo;The Hulls, Nesterenko, Mikita, and Goyer aren&rsquo;t the only sources of contentment for Ivan and Reay. The Hawks&rsquo; four-man defensive nucleus of Pilote, Doug Jarrett, Pat Stapleton. and Gilles Marotte looks solid for the year, too.The only problem would seem to be a bad habit that Marotte never was able to overcome during the two seasons he spent with the Bruins before coming to the Hawks in the Phil Esposito deal.&ldquo;Gilles has been getting caught up the ice a bit too often,&rdquo; said Billy. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a pretty common fault among kid defensemen. They see a chance to nail a forward in center ice along the boards and move up to meet him. They figure they&rsquo;re safe because they have hold of somebody.&ldquo;It works in junior hockey and in some minor league&rsquo;s but up here all a smart forward has to do is play the puck off the boards past the defenseman and they have him out of the play.&ldquo;With some guys, the only way they can hit a player is at center ice but I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s Gilles&rsquo; problem. He&rsquo;s a pretty tough guy anywhere on the ice.&rdquo;The Terbenche experiment seems to be working out well. The youngster appears willing to do the extra skating required of a forechecker and he&rsquo;s certainly not afraid to use his rather frail body.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s sure willing to give it a good try,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;I told him right at the start of camp that his only chance to make the team would be as a forward and he&rsquo;s obviously anxious to stay up.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s skating well and I know he has no fear of using his body when he has to.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03423/3098326-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1990" height="1894"><figcaption class="caption-body">Former minor league star JERRY GOYER (8), right, faces big test in his first attempt at the NHL with the Black Hawks. Backing him up after spill in exhibition play is defenseman DOUG JARRETT. Goyer is 31 and plays center.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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GOYER OLD AS NHL ROOKIES GO, BUT HE FILLS EXPANSION HOLE

<div class="byline">BY LES PYETTE</div>SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT.&mdash;It was inside Black Hawk Stadium at 1800 West Madison Street, Chicago, the night of March 28, 1967.Billy Reay&rsquo;s pennant-bound Black Hawks were hosting Sid Abel&rsquo;s gang from Detroit in the third to last game of the regular season National Hockey League schedule. The Stanley Cup playoffs, and all that dough which goes along with it, were not far off.Matt Ravlich, a Chicago defenseman for three years, was looking forward to the playoffs. The 29-year-old Sault native had experienced a rather tough season, injuries and what not. The five-foot, 10-inch 180-pounder was just beginning to round into the form Reay and the thousands of Hawk supporters were familiar with &hellip; a robust, rushing Ravlich.The puck was flipped into the Black Hawk end of the rink and Ravlich gave chase. Suddenly his skates went out from under him. A sickening crash against the boards transported Ravlich to a nearby hospital where doctors put the wounded Hawk&rsquo;s left leg in a cast from the ankle all the way up to his hip.That was March 28. On September 11, the last of a series of casts was finally removed.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01844/3098402-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="648" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body">MATT RAVLICH &hellip; Keeps Hopes High</figcaption></div>It was a long, hot summer for Ravlich. His schedule was rest, rest and more rest. For some guys it could have gotten down right disheartening. Matt kept his spirits up despite six months in a cast.&ldquo;The doctors in Chicago are satisfied with the progress of my injury and so am I,&rsquo;&rsquo; Matt said prior to his date with the Windy City bone specialists. &ldquo;I hope to be back playing by Christmas. I&rsquo;ve talked to Reay and Tommy Ivan on my trips to Chicago over the summer and they both seem satisfied with my progress also.&rdquo;To this day Ravlich-claims he doesn&rsquo;t know exactly how the injury happened. &ldquo;I was skating along and all of a sudden I was sprawled out near the boards. It&rsquo;s still a mystery to me what happened,&rdquo; he said recently.Some say Ravlich, who toiled in the minors seven years before hitting the big time, was tripped from behind. Others say he stepped on a piece of debris thrown onto the ice surface by a fan.It&rsquo;s been a long, rocky road to recovery and recovery isn&rsquo;t complete yet. When Ravlich is wearing a Black Hawk uniform again then and only then will it be different. &#9632;

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Ravlich Eyes Early Return After Leg In Cast 6 Months

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02687/3098454-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="469" height="463"></div>&bull; HISTORY TAKES place on October &ldquo;when Pittsburgh, California and &lt; St. Louis, half of the six NHL expansion clubs, play their first home games of the 1967-68 National Hockey League ; season&hellip; This upcoming season promises to be one of the most interesting. ones in years&hellip; Canadiens&rsquo; Jean Beliveau may be allergic to injuries around his eyes. Last season he missed 17 games as a&rsquo; result of a cut very close to his right eye, so close in fact that his sight was affected for a short time &hellip; and during pre-season practices he was nicked on the cheek; bone close to his left; eye&hellip; Bobby Rousseau; of Canadiens has gone; brokerage business in Montreal&hellip; If names mean. anything a 23-year-old defenseman for the United States National Team should be A-OK. His name: Bobby Hull&hellip;There will be no Junior A hockey played in Canada&rsquo;s Maritime Provinces this winter&hellip; The high cost of travelling was cited as the main stumbling block &hellip; The Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and Detroit, Red Wings had the most trouble among the old NHL clubs in signing their players this season. Could it be just a j coincidence that all three have coaches &rsquo; who are also general managers Glenn Hall of the St. Louis Blues and former ex-Chicago goaling great, hopes he has a few more good years left. I&rsquo;m playing a smarter game now than I did when I was younger. I&rsquo;ve been playing my seasons one at a time for the last four years,&rdquo; he added&hellip; Manager-Coach Wren Blair of the Minnesota North Stars claims to have at least eight of Canada&rsquo;s National Team in his pocket for after the Olympics in February, 1968.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03501/3098447-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="318" height="500"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wren Blair</figcaption></div>&bull; BOSTON BRUINS had all their players signed a week before the NHL season opened&hellip; Montreal Canadiens were the first team to sign all their players to contracts&hellip; Camille Henry has looked good in exhibition games for the New York Rangers. Camille is determined to win a place on his former: club&hellip; Minnesota North Stars have ; sold more than 6,000 season tickets&hellip; Philadelphia Flyers have had the toughest job of the six new NHL clubs in selling season tickets&hellip; Majority of the Philadelphia sports fans want to have a look-see first&hellip; Our club will be competitors right from the start. We won&rsquo;t be out of contention at any time this season, stated Wren Don A wrey Blair of the North Stars&hellip; Gilles Marotte, Chicago&rsquo;s recent defense acquisition from the Boston Bruins, is having difficulty in making the switch from left defense to right&hellip; Two Montreal farmhands, Goalie Chuck Goddard and Defenseman Don Johns, have been sold outright to Minnesota North Stars&hellip; There is a possibility that Dave Dryden may start in goal for Chicago this season&hellip;Mickey Redmond looked the most impressive of Montreal&rsquo;s rookie players&hellip; Most of the so-called experts are calling for Canadiens to win everything in sight this term&hellip; With Chicago supplying their toughest opposition&hellip; Los Angeles Kings of the NHL and Toledo Blades of the International Hockey League recently signed a working agreement effective immediately. Both clubs are very pleased with the deal. More important than winning the HL championship last season was the manner in which Terry Slater and Bill Little worked to make it a success,&rdquo; stated Larry Regan, GM of the Kings. &ldquo;We are happy to be associated with the Blades and look forward to many years of mutual success. &ldquo;&hellip; Fred Huber, long-time former Detroit publicist and ex-Commissioner of the International Hockey League, a visitor to Expo last Month.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04348/3098440-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="328" height="559"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Awrey</figcaption></div>&bull; COLUMBUS CHECKERS and Muskegon Mohawks of the International Hockey League will play the first hockey game scheduled in the new Palm Beach Arena on October 17&hellip;Jim Gregory, talented junior coach in the Toronto Leafs&rsquo; organization for the past few years, will coach Vancouver Canucks of the Western League&hellip; Don Awrey and Gary Doak, two youthful defensemen with Boston Bruins this season, are expected to bolster the Bruin blueline which lost Joe Watson and Bob Woytowich in the draft &hellip; The United States National Team coached by Murray Williamson, who also acts as general manager, will play a nine-game exhibition schedule in Europe this month. The 18-player squad consists of 12 rookie candidates&hellip;Aggie Kukulowicz, former member of the New York Rangers organization who played for a number of minor pro teams, in now living in Moscow as station supervisor for Air Canada. Aggie advises that the hockey season in Russia lasts 91/2 months. Final game of last season was played May 9 and first game at the training camp was August 14&hellip;The game featured Soviet Selects and Spartak, teams consisting of players which form the National Team&hellip;Bill Masterton, one of the few U.S. born-players in the NHL, scoring well for Minnesota in exhibition games&hellip;Gerry Ehman, veteran AHL player, is now with California Seals. He joined the Seals from Rochester in exchange for Jean-Paul Parise and Bryan Hextail&hellip;Garry Young, 34-year-old chief scout of the Boston Bruins, was formerly curator of the Kingston Hockey Hall of Fame &hellip; The 21st annual NHL All-Star Game will be played at Toronto on Tuesday, January 16. The Stanley Cup champion Maple Leafs will oppose a team comprising players from the other 11 NHL teams including those selected to the 1966-67 All-Star Teams.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05286/3098433-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="322" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Ehman</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01788/3098485-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHNNY BOWER &hellip; Wearing Mask May Mean Longer NHL Career For Veteran</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont. &ndash;The biggest player in the National Hockey League this season will be Wayne (Swoop) Carleton, rookie left-winger with Toronto Maple Leafs. He may be one of the best, too.At one time, Leaf management described Carleton as a finer prospect than Frank Mahovlich had been as a junior. That was before Carleton underwent a series of knee injuries which still make him a very question able factor. However, he did get through the 1966-67 season, his first in professional hockey, successfully and in good health and, at 21, is now ready to move into the majors.Coach Punch Imlach has moved him in on the left side with center Pete Stem-kowski and right-winger Jim Pappin on what might be Leafs&rsquo; best line. Certainly, it&rsquo;s the largest &mdash; in the league, too. Carleton is the biggest member at 6-foot-3 and 212 pounds. Stemkowski and Pappin are both six-footers who weigh close to 200. This threesome presents a fearsome sight as it rolls in on an opposition defense.Carleton was replacing Bob Pulford as a partner for Stemkowski and Pappin. Imlach put him in because Pulford was late reporting to training camp, because of contract problems, and kept him there because he did an impressive job.Leafs got control of Carleton several years ago when they had withdrawn temporarily from the Ontario Hockey Association&rsquo;s junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series and were participating in the Metro junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league. They had undertaken not to move promising under-age youngsters from town to town anymore and it was Portland Buckaroos of the Western League who shifted Carleton from his home village near Barrie, Ont., to Unionville, a Toronto suburb that had an entry in the Metro league. The Portland team seemed anxious to do Leafs a few favours.Subsequently, Unionville made a trade with Marlboros, Leafs&rsquo; own Metro junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; team, and Carleton was included.&ldquo;Swoop&rdquo; was so named because of his big, sweeping move in off the wing. A defenseman who tries to get in the way is liable to be flattered or brushed to one side. The kid is powerful.Carleton played left wing with Stemkowski and Ron Ellis when they led Marlboros to the Memorial Cup in 1964. Ellis was promoted to Leafs the following season and Stemkowski made it a year later after a winter of minor-league apprenticeship. To his great displeasure, Carleton was left with the juniors for another two terms, most of which he spent either in hospital or convalescing. To occupy his time, he worked out with weights and developed a 46-inch chest and huge arms. As a physical specimen, he is comparable to the Chicago strong-boy, Bobby Hull.Carleton was with Leafs for five games last season, scoring one goal. He got 17 in 52 Central League matches with Tulsa and five more in the American League, where he played 13 games for Rochester.The betting in Toronto is that, if his gimpy knees stand up, Carleton will be this season&rsquo;s Calder Trophy winner, as the NHL&rsquo;s top rookie.<h2>Bower Stops Fighting Mask, r Now He&rsquo;ll Wear One In Games</h2>TORONTO, Ont.-One of the last, and most stubborn, of the holdouts has finally given in. Johnny Bower, Leafs&rsquo; ancient goaltender, has begun to wear a protective mask in games.Previously, Bower hid his face behind a mask in practices, but only because coach Punch Imlach ordered it. He never liked it but agreed with the logic behind Imlach&rsquo;s command. But he wouldn&rsquo;t consider using it in actual games &mdash; until now.The mask is too late to save Bower&rsquo;s teeth from being knocked out or his face from being criss-crossed with That&rsquo;s what it did for Terry Sawchuk. scars. But it may prolong his career. After he got the mask in 1962, his goals against average dipped almost a full goal per game. He said the mask gave him extra confidence and allowed him to become more reckless in games, without the worry of possible injuries.Bower, of course, needs something because he is Leafs&rsquo; greatest worry. With Terry Sawchuk gone, claimed by Los Angeles Kings in the NHL&rsquo;s expansion draft, Leafs have only Bower in goal with either Bruce Gamble or Al Smith backing him up. And Bower, at 43, may not be able to play as many games as usual.However, with the mask, he may be able to play more &mdash; and better. &#9632;

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Big Carleton Finally Swoons Into Leafs’ Picture

<div class="byline">By SPENCE CONLEY</div>-PORT HURON, Mich.-<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01823/3098582-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="309" height="496"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB BAUN</figcaption></div>Bobby Baun, literally the heart and pride of the California Seal defense, is a traditionalist, a believer that pride in accomplishment is important, but that pride of organization may well hold the key to success in the National Hockey League&rsquo;s Western Division.&ldquo;Tin pleased the way things are going here,&rdquo; says Baun, the classy ex-Maple Leaf, &ldquo;We have no abnormal problems.&ldquo;But when you&rsquo;ve got 20 players thrown together, having never played together as a team before, it&rsquo;s tough to mold them right off the bat. &mdash;&mdash;&ldquo;And it&rsquo;s unfair to expect miracles in such a short time,&rdquo; he adds.The big problem, as Bobby sees it, is that the Eastern Division clubs hold the obvious advantage of having been in business a long, long time, and each year those clubs come out of training camp with few changes In personnel, perhaps three at the most.Simultaneously, there is the effect of history and tradition on the players themselves. Hie Eastern loop has 50 years of it, the West, a few weeks.But Baun, 31, and in the best condition ever, is trying to Instill the esprit de corps of major league hockey through thought, word, and deed.The Seals&rsquo; top draft choice has been No. 1 in training camp. He works harder than anybody, leading calesthentics, driving his legs in skating drills, shouting instructions to young defensemen during scrimmages.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s got a great contract, somewhere around $40,000 for three years,&rdquo; says one of Baun&rsquo;s teammates, &ldquo;but instead of taking that money and running, he&rsquo;s out to show everybody that he was worth the investment. I admire him for that.&rdquo;After a dozen years in pro hockey and 10 in Toronto, Baun sees Instantly the shortcomings of the new division: &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a difference in every way, speed and knowhow. Before, when I got the puck, I had no real time. Now I can handle the puck easily, but that wasn&rsquo;t my forte in the NHL.&rdquo;But for all that, which is hardly a secret, Baun is personally trying to lift his club to the level of the old division, sooner.He already has pride in organization and it&rsquo;s starting to rub off.&ldquo;I was prepared for the draft before it happened,&rdquo; revealed Baun, &ldquo;I had Jim Blaney, my attorney, draft an announcement of my retirement if I had been taken by any other club than Bert Olmstead and the California Seals.&rdquo;A lot of that feeling stems from the long period the two played together at Toronto and their mutual respect for the other&rsquo;s ability.It wasn&rsquo;t too long ago, that the NHL coaches rated Bobby as the hardest bodychecking defenseman in the game.Chicago&rsquo;s Billy Reay, Boston&rsquo;s Milt Schmidt, and then New York coach Red Sullivan described Baun which such comments as: &ldquo;Baun gets a piece of a guy more than anyone else in the game.&rdquo;&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t seen any other defenseman who can stop Bobby Hull against the boards the way Baun can,&rdquo; offered Reay.&ldquo;The way to hit is low,&rdquo; says Schmidt, &ldquo;and Bobby does is more often and harder than anyone.&rdquo;Sullivan, now the coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Western Division, noted: &ldquo;His timing is good and he always kept us honest.&rdquo;But Baun himself believes that he&rsquo;s better now than when those comments were made two years ago.&ldquo;I really feel I&rsquo;m better now than I was then,&rdquo; he says and adds &ldquo;now, I&rsquo;m trying to prove something.&rdquo;What he&rsquo;s trying to prove, obviously, is that somebody made a mistake in letting him get into the draft.Meanwhile, the California club is coming around, but at a little slower rate, probably, than Olmstead would like, but that&rsquo;s because two of his aces, winger Bill Hicke and center Billy Harris, developed groin injuries and missed several days of work.The top line in camp has featured lanky Joe Szura the ex-Cleveland star in the middle, with little Ron Boehm and powerhouse Ron Harris on the wings.Ron Harris, built like a rock, is enjoying his finest camp as a pro and clearly shows that he may be ready for a successful season.Baun and Kent Douglas are the best defensemen and Kent is showing some of the flashes of greatness that made him one of the top blueliners in the NHL.One of the big surprises in camp has been Charlie Burns, the playing coach of the minor league Seals, who gambled away a good coaching job with Phoenix in the Western Hockey League for a shot at the NHL.Burns, with five years of experience with Detroit and Boston, wasn&rsquo;t given much of a chance early in the camp. He was relegated to fifth line left wing.Burns had a couple of bad days incamp, but Olmstead&rsquo;s psychology seemed to pay off, for when he finally got his shot, Burns made the most of it. &#9632;

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Top Draft Pick, Baun Striving To Lift Seals

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HOCKEY NEWS ‘67 PREVIEW OF NHL TEAMS

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01778/3098710-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="287" height="503"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Cooke</figcaption></div>The most interesting skater in the Los Angeles Kings&rsquo; preseason camp at Guelph, Ontario, had no chance to make the playing roster. He was Jack Kent Cooke, the owner, who skated daily for a week or so with enthusiasm that would make the most eager rookie look to his laurels. Last season, some of the Los Angeles Lakers, Jack&rsquo;s pro basketball team, complained that Jack&rsquo;s Jack Cooke ; interferences put too much pressure on them.If they were concerned, the Kings should be positively terrified. A few years ago, Jack didn&rsquo;t know a basketball from a bean-bag. I don&rsquo;t believe he even had seen a pro game when he bought the pro club. Of course, he learns ; fast. But, he&rsquo;s known hockey all his life. If Red Kelly, a rookie as a coach, needs any advice, Cooke is qualified to offer it. And the first King that flops on the ice is liable to find j Jack, conservatively, but elegantly attired, leaping out of the stands, lacing on some skates and speeding out to take up the problem position.Actually, we cannot understand why any man would spend his hard-earned money to buy a sports franchise if he was not going to take an active interest in its operation. If we were an owner, and a coach closed a dressing room door on us, we&rsquo;d close out his contract. And Cooke&rsquo;s enthusiasm is so contagious, he may turn out to be Kelly&rsquo;s ace-In-the-hole. He could make the Arab army want to fight. If Cooke had given him a pep-talk, Custer still would be defending Little Big Horn from the Indians, Through his rose-colored glasses, Cooke sees his Kings as the greatest force in hockey since the invention of the stick. Outsiders have relegated the young, inexperienced club to the lower depths for the Western Division&rsquo;s inaugural seasoq but after the Kings fared well in a few preseason exhibition games, Cooke chuckled confidently and confided, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s going to be some mighty red faces around the hockey circuit after we&rsquo;ve been around awhile.&rdquo;As a youngster, Cooke was a fine hockey player, though an old friend has appraised his ability thusly: &ldquo;Jack could do it all, but he wouldn&rsquo;t pass the bloody puck.&rdquo; Of such versatility and determination to shoulder his own burdens was his empire built, of course. Jack turned down a college scholarship offer to study the sport so he could go into business and make many millions. From our poverty-stricken standpoint, he made a superb choice. However, he, himself, has some regrets. &ldquo;I love the game and I&rsquo;d have loved to have played it more&rdquo; he once admitted.<h2>LA. Owner Keen &lsquo;Fan&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02665/3098703-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="286" height="492"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Simmons</figcaption></div>In the L. A. Herald-Examiner, Bud Furillo, who rivals Melvin Durslag as perhaps the most entertaining of our town&rsquo;s writers, passed on some of his conversations with Cooke as Jack cavorted in camp. &ldquo;Can you think of anything that gives you a bigger thrill than skating? Jack asked Bud, who probably could have given him _. one helluva answer if he&rsquo;d wan-for my own skates the other day.&rdquo; Cooke continued. &ldquo;I skate around the rink in the morning with our boys and the coach. We don&rsquo;t carry on conversations, we just commune.&rdquo;Watching the Kings in action, Cooke commented, &ldquo;Hockey is a game of beauty and brutality. So far we are only beautiful.&rdquo; Sitting next to Cooke as he calls for brutality Is quite an experience. He shifts, jabs and shouts. His lovely wife Jean must have sore eardrums and busted ribs. Asked if he was going to continue his animation at his teams&rsquo; games, he said, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t expect to be a passive slob. That&rsquo;s what I have these clubs for. I enjoy them.&rdquo;Counting his soccer team and his partial interest in the Washington pro football team, he has four clubs. Frequently, he flies to out-of-town games, often with his wife. Hotels are her second home. At home, Jack rarely misses one of his club&rsquo;s games. With two of them playing more than 60 games at home this winter, he and Jean would be wise to pitch a tent at his new, suburban Forum, which opens at year&rsquo;s end. Clearly, hockey is his favorite. Jack uses only two seats at mid-court for basketball. He plans to hold six &mdash; two at mid-ice and two at each end &mdash; for hockey. Collecting antiques and Interior decorating are hobbies of the Cookes. It will be a challenge to their Ingenuity to see what they can do with arena seats, which is where they will winter.<h2>Simmons Holding Out</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03520/3098696-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="295" height="488"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Head</figcaption></div>My wife and I expect a baby on the day the Forum is due to open&hellip; How does Forum Libby sound to you? &hellip;Quote Real Gaston (One-Punch) Lemieux, the Kings&rsquo; rugged young winger: &ldquo;I started skating when I was five years old. For the next 10 years, my father, gave me a hockey stick every Christmas. That&rsquo;s all I ever wanted.&rdquo; All Real&rsquo;s rivals want is for him to keep his blasted sticks out of their ribs &hellip;L.A. and St. Louis had to pay their new great goalies, Terry Sawchuk and Glenn Hall, more than $40,000 each to get their signatures on contracts. &ldquo;I expect to get 40 games out of Sawchuk,&rdquo; Red Kelly says. Lynn Patrick probably expects to get 60 games out of Hall, who is a few years younger &hellip;While he Is trying to make the Kings, the wife of veteran minor league goalie Jacques Caron has been seriously ill with an ulcer disease in a Toronto hospital &hellip;Spotting California Seal assistant Gordon Fashoway speaking earnestly with Dale Rolfe, unsigned, seemingly unhappy, and the disappointment of the L.A. Kings&rsquo; camp, on the practice sidelines one day, Kings&rsquo; manager Larry Regan promptly posted a notice declaring the sessions closed to representatives of other clubs.We were very surprised when Don Simmons became a holdout, because it could cost him an NHL job. Don figured even with Gilles Villemure in the race for the reserve goal-tending post behind Ed Giacomin on the Rangers, but Don was one of those veterans who was deeply disappointed when he was not grabbed in the expansion draft &hellip;The draft left the defending pennant-winners, the Chicago Black Hawks, very thin at the crucial center-ice position. Stan Mikita is solid, of course, but after him, there&rsquo;s only Pit Martin, obtained from Boston, and a number 1 of nobodies &hellip;The father of Mike McMahon, the promising Minnesota defenseman, Mike Sr., played several seasons in Montreal in the 1940&rsquo;s.&ldquo;Dad was proud to play for Montreal and I tried &rsquo; to follow in his footsteps, but if I finish up in the &rsquo; NHL in Minnesota I&rsquo;ll have no real regrets,&rdquo; &rsquo; the youngster comments.That was quite a surprising trade pulled off In the Western League. Portland and Seattle swap, ped goal-tenders, Don Head for Jimmy McLeod. Portland boss Hal Laycoe has gotten a lot of mileage out of former Boston net-minder Head, while the underrated McLeod, formless but efficient, has sparked a series of three different Coast clubs to surprising success. Laycoe gains I a younger, healthier man, while Seattle boss Bill MacFarland gains a solid veteran who is similar physically to young Jim Armstrong and &rsquo; could help Armstrong develop to his full potential. If any of the NHL clubs runs into goalie i troubles, either Head or McLeod would be a, good emergency acquisition. But Head now is threatening retirement &hellip;Laycoe also traded Rick Charron, his kid goalie, to Phoenix to reclaim the old iron-man Andy Hebenton, who I goes on and on &hellip;As a young man, Bill Bozak was a jockey. &ldquo;I got too heavy, so I started (training harness horses,&rdquo; he says. The horses. must have gotten too heavy, because Bill then turned to training hockey players. The latter I labors, training the Canadian National and Olympic teams, have taken him to Czechoslovakia, Aus? tria, England, Ireland, France, Sweden, Denmark, s Germany and Yugoslavia. Now he goes to sunny &rsquo; San Diego, replacing Bill Gray, who hasmovedup to the NHL as California Seals&rsquo; flesh-pounder.<h2>NEW COACHES FOR 1967-68</h2><h3>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h3>Pittsburgh-&rsquo;RED SULLIVAN, new team.Philadelphia-KEITH ALLEN, new team.St. Louis &mdash; LYNN PATRICK, new team.Minnesota-WREN BLAIR, new team.California-BERT OLMSTEAD, new team.Los Angeles &mdash; RED KELLY, new team.<h3>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h3>Buffalo-FRED SHERO, replaced Fred Hunt.Springfield-JOHNNY WILSON, replaced Ted Shore.Quebec-VIC STASIUK, replaced Phil Watson.<h3>WESTERN LEAGUE</h3>Phoenix &mdash; ALF PIKE, new team.Vancouver &mdash; JIM GREGORY, replaced Bert Olmstead.<h3>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h3>Kansas City-DOUG HARVEY, new team.Memphis-JOHN MUCKLER, replaced Jim Peters.Tulsa-JOHN McLELLAN, replaced Rudy Migay.Fort Worth-FERN FLAMAN, new team.Omaha-JAKE MILFORD, replaced Fred Shero.Dallas-BOBBY KROMM, new team.<h3>EASTERN LEAGUE</h3>Knoxville-PAT EGAN, replaced Doug Bentley.Nashville &mdash; LLOYD HINCHBERGER, replaced John McLellan.Salem-DAVE LUCAS, new team.Syracuse &mdash; HARRY PID-HIRNY, new team.New Jersey &mdash; GORDIE STRATTON, replaced Vic Stasiuk.New Haven-DON PERRY, replaced Jackie Leclair.Johnstown-DICK ROBERGE replaced Jack McIntyre.<h3>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h3>Port Huron-JERRY TOPPAZ-ZINI, replaced Lloyd Maxfield.<h3>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</h3>Montreal &mdash; ROGER BEDARD, replaced Claude Ruel.Ottawa &mdash; BILL LONG, new team.Oshawa &mdash; IKE HILDEBRAND, replaced Ted O&rsquo;Connor.Niagara &mdash; PAUL EMMS, replaced Bill Long.<h3>OTHER CHANGES</h3>Canada&rsquo;s National &lsquo;B&rsquo; Team &mdash; JACK BOWNASS, new team.Halifax Jr. Canadiens &mdash; LEO BOSSY, replaced Phil Dalgleish.Edmonton Nuggets &mdash; DOUG-BENTLEY.Galt Terriers &mdash; BILL WYLIE, replaced Earl Balfour. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01752/3098741-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="301" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Howie Hughes</figcaption></div>LOS ANGELES, Calif.-Following the formation of the six new Western Division franchises in the NHL, the Los Angeles Kings, because they had gathered together by far the youngest and least experienced group, were downgraded by one and all &mdash; from rival executives to passing hippies who wouldn&rsquo;t know a hockey stick from a hypodermic needle.The Kings&rsquo; brass, owner Jack Kent Cooke, manager Larry Regan and coach Red Kelly, stood up handsomely under this assault on their senses. To a man they insisted they would surprise everyone. Halfway Hughes through their pre-season training camp at Guelph, Ontario, they continued to exude optimism.&ldquo;There are going to be some mighty red faces around hockey after we&rsquo;ve been around the circuit awhile,&rsquo;&rsquo; predicts Cooke, who would have been optimistic if he&rsquo;d been Caesar on the day Brutus came to call. &ldquo;We look like we have a very fine team.&rsquo;&rsquo;By the time this reaches print, the league season will be underway. Between now and then, there could be some changes, but the early camp showing and exhibition results were exceptionally encouraging. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m very pleased,&rdquo; first-year coach Kelly commented. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m impressed with the fellows. Things have gone very well.&rdquo;The Kings, with first pick in the goalie draft, went for Terry Sawchuk and the aging, often-ailing veteran turned up in fine shape, signed a two-year contract for a reported $40,000 plus per season and went to work with attractive enthusiasm. As the only NHL veteran on the squad, he&rsquo;s the backbone of the bunch. Meanwhile, Wayne Rutledge, Jacques Caron, George Wood and a surprising amateur, Bob Perani, V were waging a close fight for the job of relief netminder.<h2>Defease prospects pleatifal</h2>The Kings appear deep in defensemen. Bob Wall and Poul Popeil, the top draftees, and Dale Rolfe and Bill White, purchased with Springfield, figured to be the top four, but Roger Cote and young Larrv Johnston from Springfield, and a couple of most impressive amateurs, Rick Pagnutti and Jim Murray (Cooke&rsquo;s favorite) are putting up a surprising drive for jobs. The three amateur stars, including Perani, may go to Springfield.Rolfe, rated highly, was deemed a disappointment in the early going. Tall at 6-4, but slender at 205, Dale, an A HL all-star last season, is a superb stick-checker, but does not use his body enough to suit the brass.Two of the Kings&rsquo; first three draftees were centers, Gordon La-bossiere and Eddie Joyal. The latter, a spectacular skater and sharp shooter, was the outstanding player in the pre-season action.The Kings expected a lot of left-wingers Real-Lemieux and Doug Robinson and right-winger Terry Gray, but figured to be thin on the wings. Howie Hughes, small, but steady, an honest player, was figured by us to surprise, and he has, impressing Kelly so far, easing the shortage on the left side. Now Red says, &ldquo;If we have a weakness its a lack of solid depth on the right side.&rdquo;&ldquo;All of the clubs face the same problem &mdash; putting together brand-new teams, but we have good competition at most positions and I&rsquo;m enjoying the job,&rdquo; Kelly commented. &ldquo;The guys have played different styles and they&rsquo;re making mistakes, but that&rsquo;s to be expected until they all get in one groove. Generally, things look good.&rdquo;AD LIBS-The Kings open with their first of six games at the Long Beach Arena on Oct. 14 and also have 11 at the L.A. Sports Arena before they introduce Cooke&rsquo;s new Forum in Inglewood in the first of this season&rsquo;s national TV showings, Saturday afternoon, Dec. 30 &hellip; Ken McDonald, 28, who has been doing junior hockey in Ontario, will broadcast all the Kings&rsquo; games home and away on KNX radio and simulcast 20 road contests on TV (Channel Five) from every NHL city except Philadelphia. He broke in radiocasting several of the exhibitions.Tim Reilly Jr., former University of Southern California publicist, took over as Director of Public Relations and Advertising of Cooke&rsquo;s California Sports Inc., and The Forum &hellip;Al Michaels has been handling hockey publicity so far &hellip; Bill Sweeney, the great AHL veteran, long a problem for his bosses, walked out of camp and was suspended &hellip; Sports-writers not used to hockey termed the Kings&rsquo; practice sessions exceptionally rugged, but the players themselves said Kelly ran a comfortable camp. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re getting enough work, but we&rsquo;re not being knocked out,&rdquo; one commented. &#9632;

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Cooke Vows Kings Will Surprise People

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01590/3098772-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="292" height="479"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Jarrett</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Gordie Howe slowing down? Red Wing general manager Sid Abel doesn&rsquo;t think so.Abel offered and Howe accepted a two-year contract running through the 1968-69 season which would make the 23rd in the National Hockey League for the time everything champion &hellip; goals, games, assists, points, seasons, etc., etc.Why a two-year pact?&ldquo;Well, if Gordie were injured this season or didn&rsquo;t have a particularly good year, I wouldn&rsquo;t want anyone writing him off for next season,&rdquo; Abel explained. &ldquo;just wanted to let him know the organization wants him.&rdquo;Wants him? They&rsquo;ll be lost without him.And Howe proceeded to whirl through the conditioning phase of the Red Wing training camp at Olympia in typical Howe fashion.Abel moved hockey&rsquo;s greatest right wing to center because club captain Alex Delvecchio was slow getting into shape.Abel said it isn&rsquo;t fair to a young player, trying to win a job, to be held back so he had Delvecchio centering a fourth line and put young Gary Jarrett and Floyd Smith with Howe.Both are fighting for jobs. The 25-year-old Jarrett, a product of the Toronto system and obtained by the Wings in the Andy Bathgate-Marcel Pronovost trade, has had five good scoring years in the minors and is pushing hard to make the big club.Smith, a veteran, had a poor season last year and had two injuries, first a knee and then a shoulder separation that required off-season surgery.With Howe pivoting&mdash;he looked like he&rsquo;d played center all his life&mdash;the line was a sharp unit.Howe&rsquo;s two-year contract is pretty sharp, too, estimated at being in the $80,000 &mdash; $90,000 neighborhood with bonus clauses that could make it six figures.&ldquo;Gordie has bonus clauses in there he&rsquo;s never had before,&rdquo; Abel said.&ldquo;Hie only thing they promised me,&rdquo; Howe cracked, &ldquo;Is that if the game ceases to be fun, they&rsquo;ll start paying me.&ldquo;Seriously, if I can stay as healthy as I am now, I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;d have trouble playing five more years,&rdquo; the 39-year-oldwonderman said.Howe used 10 pens in the signing ceremony, one for each letter of his name, and gave them to members of a suburban Pee Wee team that won the state championship.&ldquo;They gave me a pencil to sign my first contract with so they could erase it if they changed their mind,&rdquo; Howe quipped.Later the same day, Abel signed center Norm Ullman, also to a two-year contract, and cracked: &ldquo;Now Gordie has all the sections on one side of the building, Normie has the sections on the other side and the rest of the players and myself have to divvy up the end zones.&rdquo;Ullman&rsquo;s agreement came three days after the Wings began practice and ended a week of hot negotiations. Ullman is the Red Wing representative to the new National Hockey League Players Association and the members said they wouldn&rsquo;t skate unless they had a signed contract.Ullman was the only Wing who refused to skate.However, once he signed, no one worked harder and Ullman even stayed on the ice after one practice, doing additional gruelling stops and starts just after the club had been put through a whole series of the exercises.ICE CHIPS: The Wings played a doubleheader 10 days after camp started. Club owner Bruce Norris hadn&rsquo;t had a chance to see the boys work so Abel scheduled a 9 a.m. Intrasquad game.Since the Wings were opening their exhibition schedule that night against Stanley Cup champion Toronto, he excused six players from the morning game which was supposed to feature men who wouldn&rsquo;t see much duty in the Leaf game.Instead, Gary Jarrett stole the show, scoring three goals in the morning and then, on Gordie Howe&rsquo;s line at night, added another goal, had five shots on goal and three just off target.Among the other good-lookers in camp is 21-year-old sophomore pro defenseman Bart Crashley who moves the puck extremely well. The only trouble is that six-foot Bart weighs only 170 pounds.The Wings started out with 70-plus players, lost two to the American Olympic team, then sent a bunch on loan to San Diego including left wing hopeful Nick Libett and center Alex Faulkner, loaned Doug Barrie and Larry Billows to St. Louis and sent the Blues three more on conditional purchase and sent a number of others to Johnstown.The remaining 40 will form the Red Wings and their only solely-stocked pro-farm team, the Fort Worth Red Wings of the Central League.The top battle is for defense where seven men are fighting for five jobs. The seven are veterans Gary Bergman, Bert Marshall and Howie Young plus Crashley, Bob Falkenberg, Jim Watson and Bob McCord, all of whom spent most of last season in the minors. &#9632;

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Wings Pay $80,000 Plus For Howe’s Two-Year Pact; Gary Jarrett Impresses Abel

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02512/3098803-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="300" height="487"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ross Lonsberry</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.There is an-air of cautious o p t i m i s m around Boston Garden these final days before the start of the 1967-68 National Hockey League season here with Detroit on oct 11.The Bruins front office has good reason for the caution.The Beantown entry in the NHL has not made a playoff berth since 1959 and has been out of sixth place only once in the last six seasons.The brief emergence from the cellar two years ago had such a profound influence on the thinking that at this time last year there were free and open predictions of at least a fourth place finish last April.But when the final count was in the B&rsquo;s once again had slipped to the bottom of the league despite the efforts of budding super-star Bobby Orr.But there also is reason for optimism for the coming season after three weeks of training at London, Ont. And this time the optimism is not centered entirely around Orr.In the first place the Bruins have four new but veteran players ready to go with Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge and Fred Stanfield acquired from Chicago and Eddie Shack from Toronto.Moreover, Teddy Green apparently has been rejuvenated after surgery on the ailing knees that hampered him the last two seasons.While the Bruins exhibition record in Canada was hardly outstanding, Coach Harry Sinden liked many of the things he saw in camp.&ldquo;Esposito proved a very pleasant surprise,&rdquo; said Sinden. &ldquo;He not only proved our estimate of him as a hockey player but he has proved to be a real leader on the ice.&ldquo;He has a terrific attitude. ward the game and he is great with the younger players.&ldquo;Eddie Shack too had a fine camp. He is full of fire and enthusiasm. He is very happy being with Boston and knows he is going to be playing.&ldquo;We switched him from left to right wing and he didn&rsquo;t mind a bit. In fact he acts as if he likes the switch.&rdquo;And what about Green?&ldquo;Teddy didn&rsquo;t have a single complaint about his knees,&rdquo; assured Sinden.&ldquo;We let him take things easy. In fact we insisted he take things easy and work into shape gradually. But we really had to hold him back the last week of camp.&rdquo;Sinden also had to do the same thing with Orr who suffered a knee injury playing a charity game before the opening of training camp and reported a week late.&ldquo;We had to chase Bobby off the ice until the doctor gave him clearance to start scrimmaging and then he wanted to play in the exhibition games,&rdquo; reported Sinden, &rsquo;&rsquo;but we kept him down. He&rsquo;ll be ready for the season though.&rdquo;Several younger players also came in for attention from Sinden.Derek Sanderson, aggressive 21-year-old center up from Niagara Falls Juniors where he led the OHA in scoring for three straight years has put up a strong battle to win a job with the parent club.&ldquo;And he has a good chance yet,&rdquo; said Sinden.Glen Satler a left wing from Oklahoma City and John Arbour a defenseman from the same club, also have been impressive.Probably the greatest improvement among the young players was shown by Ross Lonsberry, the 20-year-old left wing who started last year with the Bruins and wound up at Oklahoma City.&ldquo;Lonsberry had a real good. camp,&rdquo; said Harry. He skated well and scored well.&rdquo;So it looks like a good season?&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s say I like the feel of this team,&rdquo; said Sinden. &ldquo;Wehave more size than last year. We have guys who can get the puck out of the corners and we have some bodies we can move around.&rdquo;The key seems to be left defense. If Dallas Smith, Don Awrey, or Arbour can fill that spot, the Bruins may enjoy themselves more. &#9632;

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New Faces, Green’s Return Give Bruins’ Hones Boost

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><h2>EXHIBITION SCOREBOARD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01502/3098848-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="641" height="4707"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02447/3098841-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="283" height="496"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Maxner</figcaption></div>HERSHEY, Pa.After the first several days of workouts, coach Frank Mathers was pleased with the psysical condition of his Hershey Bears&rsquo; club which opens defense of its Eastern Division championship against the Providence Reds here Oct. 14.&ldquo;Everyone checked into camp in good shape,&rdquo; said Mathers.The Boston Bruins shipped in two more skaters, forward Bill Heindl and defenseman Bob Heaney to swell the club&rsquo;s ranks to 18 players.Heindl, 21, a 5-8, 170 pound center, who also can handle a right wing slot, played for Clinton, N.Y. in the Eastern League last year.Heaney, 21, a 5-11, 180 pound blueliner, was with the Central League Oklahoma City champions last season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03369/3098834-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="606" height="652"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB HEANEY &hellip; Sent By Bruins</figcaption></div>Mathers was impressed with the early efforts of veteran forward Wayne Maxner,&rsquo; former San Francisco hand, who also has National League experience with Boston.The only one not going full tilt in early drills was captain and centerman Mike Nykoluk, the AHL&rsquo;s most valuable player last season. Mike hurt his back playing golf, but is expected to be ready for Hershey&rsquo;s three exhibition games, two of which will be against the Baltimore Clippers. The Clippers also are training in Hershey.The Bruins and Bears met Oct. 7 at Hershey In abenefit exhibition game for goalie Claude Dufour, whose ice career was ended last year by an eye Injury. He underwent two operations but physicians suggested he give up the game because of poor vision in the eye.Dufour, an AHL first team all-star choice two years ago for the Bears, was one of the finest goaltenders in club history.&ldquo;It was a real tough break for Claude,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;He was a great competitor and did a tremendous job for us while he was here.&rdquo;Forward Roger Dejordy, who set a club record of 52 goals last campaing, underwent an operation for an ulcer this summer. Mathers reported DeJordy looked sharp in early practice and came to camp a little heavier than last year.&ldquo;He weighs about 170, which is eight pounds more than last year, but I think the extra weight will do him good,&rdquo; said Mathers.Veteran defenseman Barry Ashbee also appeared to be in A-l shape and figures to give the defensive corps a big lift with his return. He sat out last season following a back operation. &#9632;

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Heaney, Heindl Bolster AHL Club

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01506/3098879-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"></div><h2>Western League&rsquo;s 1967-68 Schedule &#9632;</h2>

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Phoenix Runners Land Three For Hebenton

<div class="byline">BY JOHN WHITE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02410/3098917-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="335" height="495"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ricky Charron</figcaption></div>PHOENIX, Ariz.-The Phoenix Roadrunners may be new to the Western Hockey League, but there&rsquo;s a wise head in command in the person of Coach Alf Pike.And Pike, in a one-for-three trade with Portland, may have scored his first victory even before the opening drop of a puck.Sent to Portland was veteran winger Andy Hebenton, a 38-year-old gentleman well known in National Hockey League circles where he once set an all-time record by playing 630 consecutive games.In return, Phoenix obtained young goalie Rick Charron and a couple of forwards, Brian Smith and Tommy McVie.Portland was delighted to obtain Hebenton.It&rsquo;s been no secret that the Buckaroos have wanted Andy back ever since he provided such tremendous spark and inspiration in Portland&rsquo;s drive to the 1965 Lester Patrick Cup.Said Buck Coach Hal Laycoe, with considerable justification, &rsquo;&rsquo;We know Andy is 38 years old, but he&rsquo;s the youngest 38-year-old in all of pro sports today.&rdquo;&ldquo;He was a first All Star In the 1964-65 season and a great leader on our club,&rdquo; Laycoe continued. &ldquo;He also was one of the most popular players the Buckaroos ever had.&rdquo;The deal unquestionably was a good one for Portland, both on the ice and at the box office, because it&rsquo;s doubtful if Charron, Smith or McVie really figured in Back With Bucks Buckaroo plans.But take a close look at the the potential Is there. And If there players obtained by Phoenix. is a question of fighting his wayCharron, just 25 years old, back, then McVie should do the turned professional with Portland job. under the toughest circumstances A tough product of Trail, he possible, right smack in the middle virtually had to fight his way Into of the 1966 playoffs. professional hockey.He responded with a playoff He was tossed out of professional camps for three straight lowest in the league that spring, years before Seattle took a chanceHis goals-against mark for 28 in 1958. games last season was a respect table 3.11.Now move on to Smith. ged.He has played only one full There was a touch of Irony to season in the Western Hockey all of this, too. One of the coaches League, with Los Angeles In who rejected McVie early was 1964-65. He scored 35 goals that year to tie for fourth in the circuit. And perhaps it&rsquo;s significant that his coach at the time was named Alf Pike.Then you come to McVie. And here&rsquo;s a character who could be the real key in the deal.McVie, beginning his 10th professional season at the age of 32, has known only two &ldquo;bad&rdquo; campaigns. And note that the word &ldquo;bad&rdquo; is in sarcastic quotation marks.Shunted off to Los Angeles last year, the British Columbia product never really hit top stride and still wound up with 24 goals.A year earlier, his last with Portland, McVie missed 37 games because of Injuries and still scored 13 goals &mdash; a production of 26 over the full route.But then go back to his first seven seasons, three with Seattle and the next four with Portland.In that stretch he scored 241 goals for an average of almost 35 a campaign.In that stretch only three players in all professional hockey produced at a better clip &mdash; the National League&rsquo;s Bobby Hull, the American League&rsquo;s Dick Gamble and the Western League&rsquo;s Lou JankowskiThe question, of course, is whether McVie can return to top form.,<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03307/3098910-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="612" height="615"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDY HEBENTON&hellip; Back With Buck</figcaption></div>But there is no question that the potential is there. And if there is a question of fighting his way back, then McVie should do the job.A tough product of Trail, he virtually had to fight his way Into professional hockey.He was tossed out of professional camps for three straight years before Seattle took a chance in 1958.&ldquo;They just figure us BC boys don&rsquo;t have it,&rdquo; McVie once shrugged.There was a touch of irony to all of this, too. One of the coaches who rejected McVie early was Laycoe, then skipper at New Westminster.Later, in the summer of 1961.Laycoe obtained McVie for Portland from Seattle in a trade for Don Ward, a one-time $20,000 draft choice of the Boston Bruins.This always tickled Tommy.&ldquo;Hal could have had me for nothing,&rdquo; he used to laugh, &ldquo;and he wound up paying $20,000 for me.&rdquo;When McVie finally did put on a professional uniform, it made you wonder just what too! The coaches so long.He scored 26 goals as a rookie, including a league-leading nine game-winners, and never looked back.McVie hit his peak with 45 goals for Portland in &rsquo;62 before &ldquo;leveling off&rdquo; to 37, 36 and 37 in the following three campaigns.There is no question about the value of Hebenton. As long as his legs respond to his heart, Andy&rsquo;s age is of no consequence. He plays the game as hard as a hungry rookie.But Phoenix coach Pike still may have pulled one off.In &rsquo;64-&rsquo;65, Smith and McVie collected 72 goals between them &mdash; for different clubs.And that wasn&rsquo;t after all, so very long ago. &#9632;

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Portland Secures Ex-Iron Man As Charron, Smith, McVie Go

SAN DIEGO, Calif.&ndash;The San Diego Gulls had announced two acquisitions for the 1967-68 Western Hockey League season One was Reed Nessel, 25.The Other was Willie O&rsquo;Ree, 32.Now there seems no question about the value of Nessel. He&rsquo;s a real personable guy, has acquired a fine background in hockey and should have a great career ahead of himBut, unless he&rsquo;s been hiding his talents, Nessel can&rsquo;t play goal worth a darn, is not a sound defenseman and can&rsquo;t put the puck in the net. _<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02416/3098986-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="294" height="493"><figcaption class="caption-body">Willie O&rsquo;Ree</figcaption></div>This, however, is not really expected of a new Willie O Ree publicity man.O&rsquo;Ree is something else again.Acquired from the Los Angeles Blades, O&rsquo;Ree should provide plenty of firepower at right wing.A professional since the fall of 1956, O&rsquo;Ree never was known as a great goal scorer-until the last three seasons.But take a look at his record with Los Angeles in the past three campaigns:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03340/3098979-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="346" height="157"></div>In announcing the acquisition, Max McNab, coach and general manager of the Gulls, said quietly, &ldquo;Willie is the best skater in the Western League and he&rsquo;s a proven scorer. He&rsquo;s got an average of 29 goals a year for his Western League career.&rdquo;San Diego owner Bob Breitbard was a bit more enthusiastic, to say the least.&ldquo;I believe we have acquired one of the most exciting players in all professional hockey,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Willie has the speed and excitement of a Maury Wills, and l&rsquo;m sure he&rsquo;ll add some power to our right side.&rdquo;O&rsquo;Ree, who had brief flings with Boston before settling for the last six seasons in Los Angeles, should help.The purchase of O&rsquo;Ree, plus purchases of last season, indicate a strong drive toward San Diego being as independent as possible.And when you own players, you don&rsquo;t have to worry so much about material. &#9632;

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Gulls Expecting O’Ree To Lift Club Scoring

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01486/3098948-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIMMY Me LECD &hellip; Set With Portland</figcaption></div>PORTLAND, Ore.-In one of the more staggering trades of Western Hockey League history, the Portland Buckaroos and the Seattle Totems have switched goalies.Don Head of the Buckaroos, if he reports, will go to Seattle. Jimmy McLeod of the Totems opened fall training with Portland.The &ldquo;if he reports&rdquo; phrase is Included because Head&rsquo;s first public reaction to the transaction was typical of the blunt netminder known, and not affectionately by opponents, as &ldquo;the Big Bear.&rdquo;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going,&rdquo; he said from his Portland home. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve spent the best years of my like In Portland and I&rsquo;m staying here.&rdquo;Now an Eastern authority of considerable repute warned years ago never to bet on hockey because &ldquo;it ain&rsquo;t got no form.&rdquo;Despite this advice, it still seems a pretty sound bet that Head this winter will wear the green uniform of the Totems because Head does have form.He is an expert technician, a rugged guy with hams for fists and a person with tremendous pride. Above all, and quite understandably, he is disenchanted at present with the Portland hockey club. He would love nothing better than to pound his ex-teammates into submission.The trade is called one of the more staggering in the league&rsquo;s history with justification.<h2>Bucks Big Winners</h2>Portland, and it&rsquo;s a fact, has won more hockey games in the past seven years than any professional team in the world. And no player was more responsible for this success than Head.It&rsquo;s been written repeatedly that no single player ever wins a hockey game. You can cart that out with the rest of the rubbish. Head, on numerous occasions, won hockey games all by himself.Hockey is one of the few games in the world &mdash; maybe soccer is another &mdash; in which a goalie can do this.On paper, the two toddlers from Seattle, General Manager Murray Costello and Coach Bill Mac-Farland, really took a beating from two of hockey&rsquo;s wisest front office heads, Portland Managing Director Harry Glickman and Coach Harold Richardson Laycoe.Look at the 1966-67 record:The Seattle club swept to the Lester Patrick Cup. During the regular season, Jimmy McLeod in the Totem nets held opponents to just 2.44 goals a game, an average which is about one bad contest from the league&rsquo;s all-time record of 2.40.In the playoffs, McLeod was even hotter, holding foes to just 1.88 goals a contest.Head, meanwhile, was 2.73 for the regular season and 2.72 in the playoffs.Besides, Head is 34 and McLeod is 30.Ho! Ho! Ho! Did the Jolly Green Giants of Seattle ever get taken on this deal!But hockey games, as many coaches have learned painfully, are not played on paper.And no goalie in the past seven years has turned in more brilliant clutch performances than Head.The transaction smacks of irony.It was at the relatively ripe old age of 27 back in the fall of 1960 when Ontario-born Head turned professional with Portland.Head, as a rookie, was more than a mild sensation. He did more than post the lowest goals-against average in the league in both the regular-season and the playoffs. He also methodically punched out a number of forwards who violated his crease and in the process set a penalty record of 101 minutes unmatched by any netminder in the game.It was during this campaign that the then Seattle coach, a genial fellow named Keith Allen who&rsquo;s now with Philadelphia, permitted himself the opinion, publicly expressed, that he was unconvinced about the merits of Head in the nets.For some reason, Head immediately proceeded to play his best hockey against Seattle. Over the next six seasons, in fact, Head&rsquo;s goals-against mark was exactly 2.11 for 45 games against Seattle.Even in the waning moments of last season, when the Totems were laughing at everyone in the league, it was Head who spoiled the party for Seattle&rsquo;s largest home crowd of the year with a 2-0 shutout victory.Now the skate, so to speak, is on the other foot.The major question seems to be whether Head, injury-prone at times during the past six seasons, can whip himself into top shape.He shrugs this off.&ldquo;I am in good shape,&rdquo; he said.And he&rsquo;s made believers of a number of persons in the past.Don&rsquo;t, however, get the wrong impression. Even before his brilliant campaign of last year, McLeod was no slouch in the nets.The Portland hockey club of 1962-63 was perhaps the best, on paper, in Buckaroo history. This crew set all kinds of records In taking the regular-season championship.But in the playoffs, it was McLeod, then with San Francisco, who beat the Bucks when the chips were down. Portland managed to score a total of exactly one goal in the sixth and seventh games of the playoff semifinals combined.And McLeod, a Port Arthur product who broke into hockey as a trainer, went on to lead the Seals to the Lester Patrick Cup.He repeated, with brilliance, during the last campaign with Seattle.So, in terms of performance on the ice, it appears that neither Seattle nor Portland will be hurt badly by the trade.And one thing seems certain.The guys who man the box offices In Portland and in Seattle will earn their money on the evenings when the Cuckaroos and the Totems clash this winter.The three largest crowds In Seattle hockey history gathered to watch games against Portland. And Portland won all three games with Head In the nets.You think these fans might not return to watch the Big Bear as one of the &ldquo;good guys?&rdquo; &#9632;

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Staggered By Trade, Head Says He May Not Show In Seattle Camp

<div class="byline">BY MATT DENNIS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01332/3099038-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="284" height="472"><figcaption class="caption-body">Warren Godfrey</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich. &ndash;As he watched his Fort Worth Wings I work out at Olympia Stadium, Fern Flaman had s every reason to feel optimistic.&ldquo;These players know what they are doing. The majority of them have had pro experience and it shows. They skate fast and they know how to make their moves. We will have a stronger club than the one we had in Memphis last season,&rdquo; said the new Fort Worth coach.Flaman, the former National Hockey League All-Star defenseman, is making his debut in the Central Pro League after successful coaching positions in the American and Western Leagues.From last year&rsquo;s Memphis club, Flaman has centremen Rick McCann and Jimmy Peters. McCann, a graduate of the Canadian National team, showed 15 goals and 26 assists in 61 games for Memphis and Peters, who doubles as a defensive forward, had six goals and 19 assists in 51 games after joining the club from Pittsburgh of the AHL.Rightwinger Ron Anderson is another returnee who scored 12 goals and notched 22 assists last season in 67 outings.Three newcomers who impressed at camp are Peter Mahovlich, a brother of Frank, who toils for the National Hockey League Toronto Maple Leafs; Hank Monteith, a graduate of four years of Canadian college hockey with the University of Toronto Blues and Sandy Snow, a junior graduate from the Detroit Ontario Hockey Association junior farm club at Hamilton, Ont.Mahovlich, a six-feet-four and weighing 204 pounds, patrols the left wing and saw limited action in 34 games with Detroit and 18 at Pittsburgh last season.Monteith, also a portsider, is 21, stretches to five-feet-10 and weighs 175 pounds scored 80 goals and drew 95 assists in his four seasons in the college hockey ranks.Snow, a 20-year-old rightwinger hits the scales at 180 pounds on a six-foot frame and chalked up 33 points in 48 games in amateur competition last season.The defence situation was not completely settled but it appeared that Lou Marcon and Irv Spencer, at Memphis last season, would be in the lineup. Warren Godfrey, former NHL star was ticketed in the direction of Fort Worth and, one of the following trio, Bob Falkenberg, Bart Crashley or Jim Watson was expected to head for the Texas city.Allan Johnson. an NHL veteran, bidding for a comeback after retiring from pro hockey in 1963, was striving for a right wing berth.Roy Edwards, who toiled for the saw CPHL action with St. Louis Braves in the 1964-65 campaign, appeared to have clinched the goaltending spot held by Joe Daley last season. In the expansion draft, Daley was claimed by the Pittsburgh Penguins. Edwards was sent to the Detroit organization in a direct trade from Pittsburgh for Hank Bassen.OKLAHOMA CITY-After training with the Boston Bruins, the Oklahoma City Blazers opened camp and coach Murray Davison was happy to find Wayne Cashman, Jean Pronovost, Bob Heaney, Brian Bradley, and Dave Woodley back on his roster. All were members of the club that Davison guided to the league and playoff championships last season.One of the most promising rookies was Jim Lorentz who scored 33 goals and chalked up 59 assists for 92 points with Niagara Falls Flyers of the OHA. Junior League last winter. Another threat up front was Lorentz&rsquo;s teammate Clem Tremblay, who notched 30 goals and added 51 assists as they both played 48 games.Barry Wilkins and Nick Beverly from Oshawa Juniors were bidding for rearguard berths. Wayne Doll was making a strong challenge for the goaltending spot.OMAHA &mdash;"Jake&rdquo; Milford, at the reins of the Omaha Knights, was waiting for help from the parent New York Rangers but liked the work of centreman Marty Reynolds who shone in the Northern Ontario junior ranks.Bill Hway, who divided his time between Fort Wayne of the International League and Knoxville of Eastern League and Al Osborne from Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Junior Association were also trying for entry into the pro ranks.MEMPHIS&mdash;General manager coach John Muckier welcomed over 40 players to the South Stars&rsquo; training camp and looked to Andre Dubuc, who played for Los Angeles Blades in the Western League last season, to hold down one of the defense berths.Ted McCaskill, who garnered 118 scoring points for Nashville in the Eastern League last season, was expected to join the pro ranks with the South Stars.DALLAS-Goalie Matt Thorp and Ken Laidlaw who saw service with Columbus of the International League last season and teammate Kerry Bond, a 74-point producer, are listed for a full pro examination.General manager-coach Bob Kromm of the Black Hawks was looking for Mike Chernoff, Paul Terbenche and Yves Cournoyer back for their sophomore season in pro company after their rookie term last winter in St. Louis.TULSA &mdash; General manager Ray Miron and coach Johnny MacLellan of the Oilers looked over the prospects at the Peterborough, Ont. training camp and were impressed with defense rookies Randy Murray and Marc Brunet, a pair of 200-pounders who played for Charlotte in the Eastern League last season.Gerry Meehan and Mike Byers, two forwards who combined for 51 goals with Toronto Junior Marlboros last season, were working with Barry Simpson and Andre Hinse.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02246/3099031-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="555" height="818"><figcaption class="caption-body">RICK McCANN &hellip; Top Sniper Back</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03204/3099024-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="617" height="912"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROY EDWARDS &hellip; Clinches Goal Job</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-04155/3099017-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="629" height="946"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDRE DUBUC &hellip;Memphis newcomer</figcaption></div>Injuries hit early with Gary Unger sidelined with a knee Injury, left winger Bob Kelly nursing a broken toe and goalie Serge Aubry out with strained leg muscles. &#9632;

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Flaman Sees Fort Worth Wings Better Than Old Memphis Club

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0586/3099069-1-eng-US/f0020-052.jpg" title="f0020-05" width="271" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ernie Wakely</figcaption></div>HOUSTON, Tex.-Houston coach Ray Kinasewich said no stone is I being left unturned in the club&rsquo;s efforts to make the I Apollos a top CPHL contender this season.&ldquo;We are working to put together the best club in I our third season at Houston. Last spring at the end of the schedule we finished in third place but we have high hopes we can better that spot. We are out to finish first in our South Division and here at camp we have a good crop of young, agressive players,&rdquo; said Kinasewich with enthusiasm as he looked over the talent at the Apollos&rsquo; training camp in Granby, Quebec,The Apollos lost out in their bid for the playoff championship when they were sidelined in the semi-final round by the first-place Oklahoma City Blazers who carried on to also annex playoff laurels.Although final positions won&rsquo;t be known until the Apollos break camp, it appeared as if Ernie Wakely would nail down the goaltending assignment. No stranger to the Central League, the 26-year-old netminder sparkled as Omaha Knights topped the loop in the 1963-64 season.Since then he has journeyed to the American League where he saw action with Cleveland and Quebec and the Western League where he wore the big pads for Seattle.When the Montreal Canadiens sent Jerry Desjardins, who shared the job with Rogatien Vachon last season to Cleveland, 10 days ago, it paved the way for Wakely to take over the Apollos&rsquo; cage.Fern Rivard and Pete Sternig, apair of amateurs who spent last winter with Muskegon in the International League and New Haven of the Eastern League, were bidding for the backup job behind Wakely. But Rocky Farr, a young netminder who displayed an abundance of ability with London Nationals of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks last season, was working with determination to become a pro with the Houston club.Germain Gagnon, Jim Paterson, Doug Piper, Bill Staub, Norm Dennis, Norm Ferguson and Butch Barber, all Apollos last season, went with Desjardins to Cleveland.In the National Hockey League expansion draft from last season&rsquo;s Apollos&rsquo; roster Bill Inglis went to Los Angeles and Garry Peters to Philadelphia. In trades with the parent Montreal Canadiens, Mike McMahon, Andre Boudrias, Bob Charlebois, Leo Thiffault and Bill Plager became the property of the Minnesota major league team and Bill McCreary headed to St. Louis.But Kinasewich, beginning his second term at the helm of the Apollos, liked what he saw in the young talent at camp noting that John Vanderburg, a 74-point forward with Peterboro Juniors last season was &ldquo;flying&rdquo; in the workouts.John Schella and Steve Hunt, a rugged pair who picked up 361 penalty minutes between them last winter at Peterboro and Paul Curtis, another hard skater from the same club, were prime candidates for defence posts.Jude Drouin, a hard-shooting sniper who scored 32 goals in 47 games and drew 36 assists with the Montreal Junior Canadiens, shone in the workouts along with Jacques Beaudoin, Chris Borde-leau and Robin Burns, his team mates last season with the Junior Habitants.Moe St. Jacques, a centreman with London Nationals in the O.H.A. Junior ranks last winter brought credentials to camp showing that he had scored 15 goals and chalked up 12 assists in 47 games.Jean-Guy Lagace and Drake Jopling, a pair of rearguards who were in the amateur ranks with Muskegon of the International League last season, also were in camp seeking to earn pro jobs. &#9632;

f0020-05

Houston Building To Make A polios Top CPHL Threat

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0480/3099145-1-eng-US/f0021-042.jpg" title="f0021-04" width="309" height="495"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Spong</figcaption></div>GREENSBORO, N.C.-Coach Ron I Spong, al-I ready signed I for his eighth seasoq greeted the Greens-I boro hockey team at I training camp I October 10 at Niagara Falls, Onta-Ron Spong the home season at the Greensboro Coliseum will begin Wednesday, October 25.With a new working agreement with the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, the Generals may have quite a few new faces in the gold, green and white uniforms this skating season.The home schedule of 36 games features a series with the Generals&rsquo; top rival, the Charlotte Checkers. This year the Eastern Hockey League is divided Into Northern and Southern divisions for regular season play, and Greensboro meets the other five Southern teams.There Is a 16-game series with Charlotte, 14 each with Knoxville, Nashville, Florida (Jacksonville) and the new Salem team from Virginia.The home schedule brought praise from new president Richard Bullard, who succeeded Carson Bain after Bain resigned from the hockey club office upon being elected Mayor of the city of Greensboro. Bullard pointed out that 25 weekend games give the Generals the strongest home11 home games) Is the other &ldquo;hockey night&rdquo; in Greensboro.Opening night, with a crowd of 6,000 expected, will find the Generals facing the always tough Knoxville Knights. On Saturday, Oct. 28, the Salem Rebels make their first appearance in the Greensboro Coliseum. &#9632;

f0021-04

Greensboro Gets Hook-Up With Chicago Black Hawks

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0023-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01187/3099176-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN OCTOBER 14 ISSUE</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Birthplace of pictured player.7&mdash;First name of a Leaf defenseman.9&mdash;Francisco.10&mdash;16th and 9th letters of the alphabet.11&mdash;First name of Heller an ex-Ranger.13&mdash;Initials of Toronto&rsquo;s Captain.14&mdash;Initials of one of the Hawks.15&mdash;Nickname of an N.H.L. coach.16&mdash;Verb.17&mdash;1966-67 Stanley Cup Champs, (abbr.)18&mdash;Initials of an N.H.L. coach.19&mdash;9th and 7th letters of the alphabet.21&mdash;Non-Negotiable. (init.)22&mdash;Golf ball stand.23&mdash;1963-64 Art Ross trophy winner.27&mdash;18th and 15th letters of the alphabet.28&mdash;One of the Leafs.30&mdash;Initials of 62-63 Lady Byng trophy winner.31&mdash;Each, (abbr.)32&mdash;Rookies have to show plenty of this to make the ! N.H.L.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Pictured player.2&mdash;A Chicago forward. 43&mdash;1939-40 Stanley Cup Champs, (abbr.)4&mdash;Initials of 54-55 Calder-trophy winner.5&mdash;Former Hawk Rollins answers to this.6&mdash;1963-64 top Rookie. 48&mdash;Number worn by Fleming of New York.12&mdash;Also.16&mdash;McDonald of Pittsburgh answers to this.20&mdash;First name of an N.H.L. J coach.21&mdash;First name of ex-Ranger Mickoski.24&mdash;There are 12 of these In a foot. (S).25&mdash;20th and 1st letters of the alphabet.26&mdash;Nickname of an A.H.L. team.29&mdash;3 Goal game.30&mdash;Initials of Robinson of L.A.<h2>LAST MONTH&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;CONACHER.8&mdash;AGE.9&mdash;DAVE.10&mdash;10.12&mdash;A.C.13&mdash;LEITER.14&mdash;D. A.16&mdash;RIO.18&mdash;RON.19&mdash;V.N.20&mdash;ENG.21&mdash;A.A.22&mdash;L.N.23&mdash;TALBOT.26&mdash;00.27&mdash;BERT.28&mdash;ANDRE.31&mdash;NO.32&mdash;ED.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;CALDER.2&mdash;O.G.3&mdash;NEILSON.4&mdash;C.D.5&mdash;HART.6&mdash;E.V.7&mdash;REARDON.11&mdash;O.E.15&mdash;ANGOTTI.17&mdash;IVAN.18&mdash;REIBEL.21&mdash;ALLAN.23&mdash;TOR.24&mdash;L.B.25&mdash;OR.26&mdash;O.D.29&mdash;NO.30&mdash;E.E. &#9632;

f0023-01

Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">BY GEOFFREY FISHER</div>ST. LOUIS. Mo. &mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-02147/3099207-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="327" height="503"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Roberts</figcaption></div>Sid Salomon Jr., St. Louis insurance tycoon and I sportsman, has a past performance record as a winner in just about everything he has ever touched.He has a special touch for Roberts promotion, too. One could suspect 1 that he arranged a World Series &rsquo; for St. Louis this week just to : call attention of the world to the debut of his St. Louis Blues in the expanded National Hockey 1 League.In any event, the eyes of the &rsquo; world will be turned in the direction of St. Louis as the Blues, representing a package worth some $7 million, take the ice in the dolled-up St. Louis Arena here Wednesday evening, Oct. 11 against the Min-nesota North Stars.That is, of course, if Lynn Pa-trick can get his boys to tear themselves away from the plush luxury of their dressing room, which with wall-to-wall thick blue carpeting and sauna baths, could easily turn a millionaire member of the New York Yacht Club green with envy.&ldquo;They talk about going first class,&rdquo; one player told this writer, &ldquo;but this must be like where good hockey players go when they die.&rdquo;It must be like a dream of Alice in Wonderland for a fellow like Bill McCreary, the crack forward from Sun Ridge, Ont. When he was with Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Spring-field Indians in the American Hockey League, McCreary had to get in line to take a shower at the old Eastern States Coliseum where Shore has never had the reputation of spoiling his chattels.This St. Louis Blues squadron that Patrick and his top aide, Scotty Bowman, have patched together from draft choices and shrewd bartering, Is a good one, particularly in a-new division where absolutely nobody has any idea about what the other army is coming up with.The Blues are tough as nails up the middle, an area where every good hockey club must be tough. There are no hot-shot scoring wizards who are likely to grab off any individual medals for record performances. The attack is well balanced and the firepower neatly spread. The Blues will not be stopped by the simple expedient of corralling one big player or two.From the goalmouth out through the defense and up the center there is muscle, experience and brains. With the veteran Glenn Hall standing guard at the net, the experience of Al Arbour and Jim Roberts and the muscle of Noel Picard and Bob Plager on the defense, these Blues will stand for no footloose and fancy free tactics of opposing clubs.Patrick feels good about his centers.There&rsquo;s Don McKenney, Ron Stewart, Terry Crisp, Gerry Melnyk, Ron Schock, and Ron Att-well.On the wines, the Blues will start with less experience than Patrick would like. He&rsquo;ll have such youngsters as Wayne Rivers, Larry Keenan, Max Mestinek, Norm Beaudin, Roberts and McCreary.Patrick has been ma: ing little clucking sounds of satisfaction over a couple of rookies, particularly Gordon Kannegeisser, a strapping 190-pound defenseman who played with Des Moines last year. The other is Tim Ecclestone a forward from Kitchener Jrs. Both are first year pros and will be assigned to the Blues&rsquo;Kansas City farm club. Kannegeisser has shown enough in training camp to indicate he will spell a flock of trouble for enemy action. He is only 22.The Blues will go to the wars with one of the best penalty killers<h2>Show Basiaess Stars To Opea Blaes&rsquo; Year</h2>ST. LOUIS, Mo. &ndash;A full scale stage show will launch the St. Louis Blues into their opening game at the St. Louis Arena, Saturday evening, October 11.Radio-television personality Arthur Godfrey, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, Anna Maria Alberghetti and figure skating champion Aja Zanova will perform in a program starting at 7:30 p.m. The hockey will start at 9 p.m.in the game in Roberts, obtained from the Montreal Canadiens.Patrick has the comfortable feeling that he and his scouting corps got away with legalized larceny in grabbing up amateurs Kannegeisser and Ecclestone together with Bob Plager and Gary Sabourin in a trade for defenseman Rod Seiling, who they had originally claimed in the draft from the Rangers.One top draft choice the Blues will apparently have to forget about is Bill Hay, the 6-3 center veteran drafted from the Chicago Black Hawks. Hay, who retired last year, apparently does not intend to report.But it&rsquo;s the fellow back in the hole with the big pads, his name Glenn Hall, who will be looket upon to give the Blues their poise and the kind of super-support tha will enable them to concentrate with confidence on the business of skirmishing with the enemyTo keep Hall happy, the Blues had to agree to let him report October 1, nearly three weeks after the training camp opened, and just 11 days before the season opener. He said he couldn&rsquo;t show until the crops were in on his big farm up near Edmonton, Alberta.Asked how much time his goaltender would need to get into shapi once he arrived, Patrick meditates for all of four seconds and replied: &ldquo;About 10 minutes.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Patrick To Ice Rugged Squad For Blues’ Bia Leaaue Debut

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Montreal Canadiens, who had trouble putting the puck in the net most of last season, have been on a scoring rampage in early exhibition contests.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0180/3099245-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="593" height="1101"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hobs&rsquo; defenseman J.C. TREM-BLAY came to training camp with western-style sideburns and said he had no intention of becoming a hippie or long hair. However, he declined to have them shaved off.</figcaption></div>Habs scored 20 goals in the first three games of their exhibition schedule, though most of .the markers were against opposition that was well below NHL calibre. Nevertheless, the scoring outburst was an encouraging sign that the team will be on the beam when they start to play for real on October 11th.Rookie Mickey Redmond, ve-teran Dick Duff and powerplay specialist Yvan Cournoyer were the early pace-setters for Habs. Redmond, a standout in training camp, showed plenty of skill and poise for a kid fresh out of Junior ranks and may well make the team as the result of his heads-up performance. He&rsquo;s been working on a line with Duff and a fine young center named Gary Monahan, and the unit has been a standout. Duff, a 31-year-old veteran who&rsquo;s now entering his 13th season in the NHL, has shown a surprising amount of early foot in the pre-season games. Cour-noyer, the team&rsquo;s top goal-getter last season with 25 goals appears to be as handy as ever once he&rsquo;s inside the enemy&rsquo;s blueline.Claude Larose and Gilles Tremblay are a couple of others who have been flying, as well as Ralph Backstrom who centers them, while on defence Jacques Laperriere has looked sharp as has newcomer Serge Savard. ! Worsley, Vachon and Ernie Wakeley have been splitting the goaltending chores and all have come up with good performances in early exhibitions. Vachon&rsquo;s efforts have been particularly encouraging for they came on the heels of his gosh-awful training camp during which he &ldquo;couldn&rsquo;t stop a football,&rdquo; in the words of a team official.As compared to last year, when training camp injuries cut a heavy swath through Canadiens ranks and got them off to a rocky start, this year&rsquo;s camp was a breeze. Among regulars, only Claude Provost was sidelined when he collided with a teammate and appeared to have injured his right side. He missed the first couple of exhibitions. Larose suffered a cheek injury when accidentally hit by Jacques Laperriere&rsquo;s stick, but didn&rsquo;t miss action.A rook e defenceman, Steve Hunt, was the most serious casualty of training camp when he was hospitalized with a lacerated eye and nose, after running into Larose&rsquo;s stick, but he was released shortly afterwards. However, an ironic and unfortunate footnote to the week of training camp actlvlte came about when team psysiotheraplst Yvon Belanger came down with what was reported as a heart ailment.With most of the regulars showing good form and some of the rookies fairly sparkling, Habs may be in the enviable position of being over-stocked with talent when the season officially begins. This is because teams are required to dress only 16 players, plus goalies, when the regular schedule gets underway, a departure from the old rule whereby they could dress 18 men exclusive of goalies.What may well happen is that Montreal may keep some of the brighter new faces like Redmond, Monahan and Savard around and dress-them periodically while sitting out some veterans on a game-to-game basis. Redmond assured of a berth, but he may have to have Monahan as his centre to Be most effective. The two have played most of their Junior hockey together and know where to find each other without looking.It&rsquo;s a situation reminiscent of the one involving Cournoyer and Andre Boudrias, a couple of years ago. Both started with Canadiens on the same line, though Boudrias was subsequently sent to the minors and then traded in the expansion draft. As for Serge Savard, if he continues to flash the form of early games, he&rsquo;s going to be very difficult to ship out to the minors and may be kept around for spot duty and, of course, as an immediate replacement should injuries hit the blueline corps. In that case, he&rsquo;d be a sixth defenseman.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0338/3099238-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="1956" height="1532"><figcaption class="caption-body">WHEN Canadiens opened training camp in Montreal, BRYAN WATSON, centre, had a chance to renew old acquaintances with goalie LCRNE WORSLEY and JOHN FERGUSON, right. Watson came back to Habs from Minnesota after expansion draft trade.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Habs Wield Hot Sticks In Camp Play

<div class="byline">SMITH</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0261/3099276-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="263" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gilles Tremblay</figcaption></div>Gilles Tremblay, the fleet left-winger who has managed to play a full schedule only twice in the last seven seasons, has changed his sweater number and hopes that his luck changes with it.Tremblay has traded in his old number &ldquo;21&rdquo; for sweater &ldquo;No. 5&rdquo; a jersey made famous on Canadiens by the scoring feats of Bernard &ldquo;Boom Boom&rdquo; Geoffrion.The new number seemed to have sparked Gilles In the first exhibition game that Habs played against New York Rangers, for he scored the first goal and assisted on the winner by Larose In a 4-1 victory. But, what Tremblay is really ho-ping is that he will remain free of the injuries that have plagued him since he joined Canadiens during the 1960-61 campaign. He has suffered a seemingly endless number of injuries, including cracked cheekbones and fractured legs and has rarely been at his best as a result. The hope is that the change of sweaters will signal the start of an injury-free cycle for the popular Gilles, who, when healthy, is one of the best players in the NHL.Actually, there&rsquo;s a precedent for this kind of thing on Canadiens and it involved Maurice Richard. When he first came into the league he wore a jersey other that the famed &ldquo;No. 9&rdquo; and suffered so many hurts that he was actually termed &ldquo;brittle". Once he&rsquo;d switched sweaters, however, the Rocket went into orbit. &#9632;

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