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October 21, 1967
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Cooke Gives Kings’ ‘New Look’ From Coach John Wilson Down
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.- The Kings hockey club of the American I Hockey League I has been completely renovated from top to bottom. Eddie Shore sold the former Indians to Los Angeles sportsman Jack Kent Cooke for some $800,000. The LA team in turn will use Springfield as a top farm club. Eddie Shore is no longer with the team. He will be merely an “advisor.” However, shrewd Eddie retains the franchise in the AHL, rights to the Eastern States Coliseum ice for home games, concessions and such. Cooke got 26 players, their contracts and other physical equipment. Johnny Wilson is the general manager-coach this season. A former NHL star, he coached Princeton U. hockey team last season. He replaces general manager Jack Butterfield, who moved up to full time AHL president. Coach last season…
Portland Pilot In 11th Year
PORTLAND, Ore. - Hal Laycoe of the Portland Buckaroos was the dean of Western Hockey League coaches as the 1967-68 season got under way. Laycoe, who played 11 National Hockey League seasons with New York, Montreal and Boston, Is starting his 12th WHL campaign. He coached for three years at New Westminster and one at Victoria before moving to Portland where he now is starting his eighth season. Laycoe has won more championships during the regular season (five) and more games (415) than any coach in Western League history. His overall WHL record is 415 victories, 301 defeats and 58 ties for a victory percentage (discounting ties) of .580. The victory percentage is the highest in league history for any coach with more than there campaigns. Laycoe also piloted the Portland Buckaroos to the Lester Patrick Cup…
PITTSBURGH FANS REASSURED CLUB NOT MOVING TO ATLANTA
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The Pittsburgh Penguins had not yet played their first National Hockey League game when the city’s hard-core hockey fans were grumbling apprehensively about Jack McGregor the sale of part of the club to the owners of baseball’s Atlanta Braves. The fans, who supported the minor league hockey of the Pittsburgh Hornets for years, wondered if the move on the eve of the Penguins’ NHL opener foreshadowed a near future franchise shift from Pittsburgh to Atlanta. Even a flat denial of such intentions by Penguins club President, Jack McGregor, did not ease the fears of the city’s loyal hockey aficiondos. They were particularly wary of the Braves management, a free-wheeling but calculating organization which unceremoniously abandoned Milwaukee and its legion of dedicated baseball fans for the untapped gold mine in Atlanta…
Lonsberry Stepped On In Fracas
BOSTON, Mass. – Ross Lonsberry, the 20-year-old left wing who was one of the most Impressive players in Boston’s training camp, missed the first two games with a severely cut little finger. Lonsberry was stepped on by teammate Ken Hodge during one of the brawls that featured the Oct. 6 exhibition game with Montreal at the Garden … The cut required 11 stitches … A total of 33 penalties and 122 minutes were assessed in the fracas … The first period took an hour to complete. Captain Johnny Bucyk took over at left wing for Lonsberry on the line with Fred Stanfield and Johnny McKenzie … Visitors to the Garden for the first game of the season were surprised by the sprucing job accomplished during the summer … The new lockerrooms…
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