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November 18, 1967

The Hockey News November 18, 1967

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, New York. &mdash;Any goaltenders worrying about making their first professional hockey starts would be wise to consider the War Memorial here as the site.Two rookies had their first opportunity to start a pro game during the first four American League games played here this season, and both had exceptional evenings.Lynn Zimmerman was the first. He shares the Rochester goalkeeping job with veteran Bobby Perreault this season. Zimmerman was with Charlotte, N. C., of the Eastern Amateur League last year and played all 72 camps en route to a 3.19 goals-against average.He actually made his pro debut in Providence on Oct. 20, but that night he came in for the third period only and allowed two goals.Zimmerman&rsquo;s first start in the play-for-pay ranks was here Sunday, Oct. 29, and he came up with a 28-save performance as the Amerks hammered Quebec, 7-3.But even the most faithful Amerk followers agreed Lynn&rsquo;s job was over-shadowed by that of Tony Esposito here six nights later.On Wednesday, Nov. 1, Esposito sat on the end of the Cleveland Baron bench, watched his teammates whack Vancouver, 5-2, and wondered if he&rsquo;d ever get a chance to play.On Saturday, Nov. 4, Esposito found himself the starting goaltender for this same Vancouver team here in Rochester. The Canucks had dropped eight straight games, including six in a row on their tour of the American League.The Amerks saw a fine opportunity to fatten their scoring totals against this youngster who played college hockey for Michigan Tech last season.Rochester poured it to Esposito in the first period-firing 18 shots on goal, but only a deflection off a teammate escaped him and when the game was over, Vancouver had a 3-3 standoff. Tony had made 34 stops in his pro debut and coach Jim Gregory had received the nicest present of his 32ndbirthdayICICLES &mdash; Larry Hillman has made what seems like his annual trip to the Amerks. The veteran * defenseman was a holdout with the Toronto Maple Leafs this season and when, after a meeting withClarence Campbell, he finally signed, Larry was sent to Rochester to regain his playing condition. Hillman played 26 games for Rochester in 1961-62, 32 in &lsquo;63-64, 71 in 1964-65, 22 in &lsquo;65-66 and 12 last season. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Zimmerman, Esposito Hot In War Memorial Games

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01760/3109549-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here&rsquo;s big ED VAN IMPE, in centre, rushing to aid of Philadelphia goaler BERNIE PARENT (30) during net siege by members of Montreal Canadiens.</figcaption></div>PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-If Ed Van Impe has anything to say about It, the Chicago Black Hawks will have a fight on their hands whenever they play the expansion-bred Philadelphia Flyers.That&rsquo;s simple logic because Van Impe was a mainstay defenseman of the Black Hawks&rsquo;? team which won the NHL regular - season championship last year but, surprisingly, was made available in the expansion draft. Philadelphia grabbed him as their No. 1 pick among skaters.&ldquo;Believe me, I&rsquo;m not bitter or resentful,&rdquo; said Van Impe. &ldquo;Now that I&rsquo;ve had time to weigh the entire situation and examine all the angles, I really feel that I&rsquo;m better off In Philadelphia.&ldquo;While comparing the new clubs, I think we have the strongest club. We&rsquo;ve got some really good hockey players and a solid g organization,&rdquo; stated Ed. &ldquo;I think all the pieces (of a divisional championship) are there. We&rsquo;ve just got to get them to fit.&rdquo;If they do fit, one of the key people has to be Van Impe. He was elevated to the big time last season after six minor league campaigns and displayed impressive ability.In fact, his aggressiveness and hardnose play paid off In his selection behind the Boston Bruins&rsquo; fabulous Bobby Orr as rookie of the year.&ldquo;No, I don&rsquo;t know exactly how many votes Bobby received and I didn&rsquo;t hear how many I got,&rdquo; explained Van Impe. &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t worried about votes because I was just glad to have gotten a chance to play in the NHL. That&rsquo;s something I&rsquo;ll always be I grateful to Billy (Reay, the Hawks&rsquo; coach) for.&ldquo;As for the fella who beat me out In the voting, all I can I say Is that he is one heck of a hockey player,&rsquo;&rsquo; continued Ed. &ldquo;But finishing second wasn&rsquo;t too bad. After all. got $500.&rdquo;To Philadelphia general manager Bud Poile, Van Impe&rsquo;s availability in the expansion draft almost caught the Flyers with their plans down.&ldquo;Believe me, we were really surprised when we saw that Van Impe was left unprotected,&rdquo; said Poile. &ldquo;This changed our plans to a degree because we simply didn&rsquo;t think a player of his capabilities would be let go.&ldquo;But It&rsquo;s understandable,&rdquo; commented Bud. &ldquo;After all, the Black Hawks were really loaded up front and they&rsquo;ve got some outstanding kids In their organization, a few who are really good prospects.&ldquo;Yet there was no doubt as to our picking Van Impe if we got the opportunity,&rdquo; concluded Poile. &ldquo;Hell, anybody who played regularly on the Black Hawks&rsquo; defense, well, we just had to go after him.&rdquo;Van Impe, meanwhile, remembers that day In June when he first got the news that he&rsquo;d be heading for a new club.&ldquo;I was driving to work (an off-season job In public relations for a Canadian brewery),&rdquo; recalls Ed. &ldquo;Then all of a sudden my name was mentioned on the radio. The announcement said I wasn&rsquo;t being protected by the Black Hawks and that the Philadelphia team had made me their first-round choice.&ldquo;Boy. that&rsquo;s a heck of a way to be informed about such a big thing In your life,&rdquo; he smiled. Hearing about It over the radio!&rdquo;For a while, of course, Van Impe was shocked and saddened but, once he had time to put all of the pieces together, he wound up realizing that things may have worked out very well for him despite the fact he became, a stubborn pre-season holdout that forced him to miss the Flyers exhibition schedule.For one thing, it seems likely the 27-year-old defenseman will become the real anchorman of the Flyers instead of just being one of the horses as he was in Chicago. At least Flyers coach, Keith Allen, thinks so.The team gave him an &ldquo;A&rdquo; to wear on his sweater as one of the club&rsquo;s alternate captains, another tribute of their &ldquo;faith In him".&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt that Van Impe has all of the qualifications of being our team leader,&rdquo; related Allen. &ldquo;This guy comes to play. He&rsquo;s going to play a big role in our first few seasons.&rdquo;Both Poile and Allen have seen a lot of Van Impe the past few years, especially the five years he spent with Buffalo of the American League before being called up by the parent Chicago club.&ldquo;I played against both Poile and Allen when they both coached in the minors,&rdquo; said Van Impe. &ldquo;I know they&rsquo;re real good hockey people and that&rsquo;s one of the reasons I think we&rsquo;ll do all right.&rdquo;As far as joining one of the new franchises, the veteran of 61 regular - season and six Stanley Cup Games with the Black Hawks last season doesn&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s really a step down.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02635/3109542-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1267" height="1480"><figcaption class="caption-body">ED VAN IMPE &hellip; A leader with Philly</figcaption></div>He thinks it&rsquo;ll just be a while before the league is balanced out.&ldquo;Honestly, I think expansion was the greatest thing that could&rsquo;ve happened to hockey,&rsquo;&rsquo; remarked Van Impe. &ldquo;The only sad thing, they should&rsquo;ve gotten around to it several years sooner.&ldquo;Now, with twice as many teams, there&rsquo;s twice as many opportunities for players and twice as many opportunities in the front-office.&rdquo;Van Impe, however, is not concerned with the front office &mdash; not yet, anyway. His forte is getting out there on the ice and keeping the defense honest, as evidenced by his in penalty minutes with Chicago last season.As a player, Ed&rsquo;s only thoughts are having another-bangup year and, if possible, helping the fledgling Flyers to a title within their own confederation.As a bonus, he&rsquo;d like to have lowly Philadelphia defeat mighty Chicago a couple times in their four regular-season get-together. &#9632;

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Van Impe May Make Chicago Rue Day They Left Him Open For NHL’s Expansion Draft

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03506/3109749-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="490" height="461"></div>KEN McKENZIE, publisher of THE HOCKEY NEWS, is currently touring the new National Hockey League expansion cities in California. His column will be resumed next week upon his return. &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03413/3110391-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg"></div><h2>How They Stand</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04320/3110384-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="405" height="1278"></div> &#9632;

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American League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY LOU PRATO</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01165/3109418-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg" title="f0001-01" width="278" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hank Bassen</figcaption></div>PITTSBURGH, Pa.-It may not be Long before the Penguins&rsquo; 32-year-old rookie goalie, Les Binkley, becomes one of the best goaltenders in the NHL&rsquo;s new Western Division.Apparently, all Binkley lacks is experience.At the moment, Binkley shares the Penguins&rsquo; goaltending with Hank Bassen. Pittsburgh Coach Red Sullivan claims he has no number one goalie but two men who will play the position equally throughout the season.Yet, there&rsquo;s no doubt that the 34-year-old Bassen is currently the team&rsquo;s first line goalie. Bassen was the starter when the Penguins opened the season against Montreal and his previous NHL experience with Chicago&rsquo; and Detroit (127 games prior to this season) gave him a considerable edge over Binkley.But Binkley is coming on fast. He played his first NHL game against Minnesota early in the season and was quite Impressive, despite the 1-1 tie that resulted.It was Binkley who was in the Pittsburgh nets on Oct. 21 when Pittsburgh beat Chicago, 4-2, to become the first of the expansion clubs to defeat an established NHL club. Binkley made 34 saves that night, including several scoring attempts made at point blank range.Although Sullivan won&rsquo;t commit himself when talking about Binkley&rsquo;s performance, he is apparently convinced that Binkley may be his goalie of the future. He&rsquo;s attempting to give Binkley an acclerated course in net protection by using him in games against the established teams.No doubt Binkley&rsquo;s image is being helped by the erratic play of Bassen. At times, Bassen has looked like the best goalie around &mdash; but, then, there are the other times.Binkley, meanwhile, is making the best of his first crack at the NHL. He spent seven seasons in the minors, including six at Cleveland where he was the AHL&rsquo;s Rookie of the Year in 1961-62.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-02136/3109411-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="1196" height="1901"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pittsburgh goalie LES BINKLEY makes save off Oakland&rsquo;s RON BOEHM (11) while BILL SPEER (17) of Penguins moves in to aid Binkley in NHL action.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Binkley On Way To Winning Job

CHICAGO, m. -There was a time when the 500-goal plateau of the National Hockey League was thought to be unapproachable. Now that Gordie Howe has surpassed 600, there is a good possibility he will make it to 700 before i he hangs up his skates.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0367/3109449-1-eng-US/f0001-032.jpg" title="f0001-03" width="280" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>But will Howe&rsquo;s all-time mark i be safe when he retires?You would have thought so except J for the fact there is a skyrocketing i goal scorer by the name of Robert Marvin Hull off on a goal tangent that could lead to the Black Hawks i Golden Jet scoring in excess of 700 and maybe even 800-if he, stays around the big time long enough.At any rate, the 28-year-old blond bullet is already within sight of the 400-goal milestone of his &lsquo; auspicious NHL career and he i only needs 16 more to elevate himself to fourth behind Jean Bellveau who has 406.Hull who recently scored his &lsquo; 380th NHL goal to become hockey&rsquo;s, all-time greatest scoring left winger ahead of retired Ted Lindsay, &lsquo; has 14 goals in 14 games this season. &#9632;

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Hawks’ Star Eyeing 400th NHL Marker

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>CHICAGO &mdash; Doug Shelton, defenseman, sent to Dallas of CPHL.TORONTO &mdash; Gary Unger, forward, called up from London of Junior OHA for five-game pro tryout. Larry Hillman, defenseman, sent to Rochester of AHL subject to recall. &lsquo;MONTREAL &mdash; Danny Grant and Gary Monahan, forwards, assigned to Houston of CPHL.MINNESOTA &mdash; Parker MacDonald, forward, recalled from Memphis of CPHL. Len Lunde and Bob Charlebois, forwards, sent to Memphis.DETROIT &mdash; Jim Peters, forward, recalled from Fort Worth of CPHL. Buddy Blom, goaler, and Nick Libett, forward, transferred from San Diego of WHL to Fort Worth by Red Wings. John Brenneman, forward, sent to Fort Worth.OAKLAND &ndash; Mike Laughton, forward, recalled from Vancouver of WHL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>BALTIMORE - Dick Meissner, forward, secured (from Portland of WHL on loan. Art Chiupka, forward, called up from Long Tsland of EHL., Wally Chevrier, defenseman, purchased from Chicago of NHL.CLEVELAND - Steve Hunt,; defenseman, secured from (Houston of CPHL.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>VANCOUVER - Tony Esposito, goalkeeper, obtained from Cleveland of AHL on loan.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>TULSA - Ron Ward, defenseman, obtained from Phoenix-of WHL on loan. Len Bazay, forward, signed to pro contract after 5-game pro tryout.DALLAS &mdash; Larry Holmes, forward, assigned to Greensboro of EHL.FORT WORTH - Dave Richardson, forward, sent to | San Diego of WHL.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>PORT HURON - Ray Cyr, forward, signed as free agent. Dwight Bearchell, goalkeeper, released.COLUMBUS - Serge Boudreault, forward, secured from Providence of AHL. Stu Thomas, forward, sent to Long Island of EHL. Sandy McAndrew, forward, sent to Florida of EHL.MUSKEGON &mdash; Willie Terry, defenseman, obtained from Dallas of CPHL. Tim Rothwell, forward, released.<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2>NASHVILLE &ndash; Cliff Pennington, forward, picked up on waivers from Florida of EHL.LONG ISLAND - Don Rozich, forward, traded to New Jersey of EHL in exchange for Don Newman, forward.JOHNSTOWN - Pete Neukomm, goalkeeper, loaned to Fort Wayne of IHL.SYRACUSE - John Gallagher, defenseman, released.I FLORIDA &mdash; Gordie Daily, forward, dropped.NEW HAVEN - Rod Hebbert, forward, secured from Dayton of IHL. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES, Calif. -The kids continue to carry the Kings, who still hang tough and loom as expansion-division pennant-contenders. The brightest of the kids are Ted Irvine and Bill Elett. The toughest is Flett. After 12 games, Irvine and Flett led the club with six goals each, while Flett was tops in penalties with 11 and penalty-minutes with 30, Including a 10-minute misconduct.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01754/3109511-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="283" height="478"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Irvine</figcaption></div>Irvine is 22 and Flett 24. Irvine scored just 15 goals and Flett just 16 in the Central League last season. Yet, L.A. manager Larry Regan saw signs of super-skills in the youngsters and stole them from the Boston and Toronto organizations, who left them unprotected in the expansion draft. Not that Regan was totally sold on Flett, whom he drafted only 16th.The new clubs drafted 95 other men before the Kings picked Flett. Now he&rsquo;s one of the fellows who may make the established clubs look bad, who insist they left no budding stars unprotected.Significantly, while Flett has been blanked by the new clubs, he has scored all his goals against the old teams. He banged in two in Chicago to spark a rallying 5-3 upset of the Black Hawks, tallied one each in losses to Toronto and New York, then became the first King to score a hat-trick with three goals in Detroit in a rallying 6-4 upset of the Red Wings that drove young goalie Roger Crozier into retirement.Flett was the hero of the win in Detroit, which may have been a turning point for the Kings. After a swift start, they had slowed and begun to stumble. After winning in Chicago in their first game against an established foe, they had lost four straight to old clubs. Detroit was their second conquest of an old club and bolstered their confidence considerably.They then returned home to beat Oakland, rallying from 0-3 and 3-4 deficits to keep the Seals winless in 11 straight games. Terry Gray, who had not scored a single point until he got an assist in the Detroit game, starred with a goal and two assists in the Oakland game. He fought off two Seals to ram in the first goal, then battled into a corner to feed Brian Smith a perfect pass, which Brian rifled in for the final winner. Smith had not scored in seven straight games.Burly Bill White, who had drilled in a long shot for the winner against Detroit, drilled in another for the first tying goal, 3-3, against Oakland. Eddie Joyal, who is beginning to fly now that his injured ankle is better, slapped in the second tying goal, 4-4.This was the sixth game in their first 13 in which the Kings overcame a deficit of two goals or more. &ldquo;You do it a few times, then you figure you can always do it. It gives you confidence and you never quit trying. It&rsquo;s a great i thing for a club,&rsquo;&rsquo; coach Red Kelly i says.The Kings are gutsy and explosive. They rammed home four goals in one period in Chicago, four goals in ten minutes in Detroit, three goals in six minutes against Oakland. They have a lot of swift skaters and when they are flying, they are murderous. They start slow, but seem to come on late when other clubs are fading. No one is tougher than Flett in the late stages.&ldquo;We hate to admit it, but deep down inside we may be a little scared, a Httle tense playing against the big clubs before big crowds and we start poorly, but it seems that as soon as you find you&rsquo;re going to take your bumps anyway you begin to unwind and go all out,&rdquo; Flett comments.Flett is used to bumps. He&rsquo;s nicknamed &ldquo;Cowboy&rdquo; because he was born and raised near Calgary among some rodeo people and he roped some calves and rode an occasional bucking bronc as a teen-ager before he turned to hockey. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a tough way to make a buck. You get bruised up more than in hockey,&rdquo; he grims.Flett is dark, a 6-1, 195-pound right-winger. Actually, he&rsquo;s not one of the better skaters among the Kings &lsquo; kids, but he skates his position, checks his foes, handles the puck well and has a fast, heavy, accurate shot.Around Toronto, Leaf execs were asking, &ldquo;Where did this guy come from?&rdquo; But he turned pro and was buried alive in the Toronto organization, one year at Victoria and three at Tulsa, and played a lot of exhibitions for the Leafs. &ldquo;Last year, I held out on my contract and reported late, which was a mistake,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;I got Mono and wasn&rsquo;t strong the rest of the year. It was not a good season for me.&rdquo;This year, It has been better. &ldquo;Toronto goes with the older players and only breaks in a few special kids every season. I began to feel I&rsquo;d never get a chance withthem, so I was tickled when L.A. drafted me,&rdquo; Flett comments. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve found the skating in the NHL now isn&rsquo;t any faster than in the Central League, which is a kids&rsquo; league, but is less aimless. Up here, you have to anticipate the next play. The other guys check you closer and harder &gt; and you have a lot less time to make your moves.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02701/3109504-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="595" height="711"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL FLETT&hellip;Big With Kings</figcaption></div>But Cowboy Flett is making a big move in a hurry.KINGS THINGS &mdash; After seven games against expansion-division foes, the Kings have yet to lose, winning four and tying three. They are the only expansion club over .500 at home, on the road and overall. They played six of their first 12 and 10 of their first 19 against established foes, but over the season will play only a third of their games against these tougher clubs, so things should get easier, actually. Also, they played eight of their first 13 on the road.However, their attendance is deeply disappointing. Since opening with two modest turnouts in Long Beach, they have had some great victories televised home from the road. Bien they opened in L.A. against &ldquo;name&rdquo; foes with only 5429 for New York and 8012 for Chicago, followed by a miserable 4532 for Oakland. &#9632;

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‘Cowboy’ Flett Regular Head Hunter With Five Goals Aaainst Old Clubs

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL, Que.-<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01819/3109587-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="288" height="489"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption></div>Canadiens&rsquo; traditional strength down the middle is going to get the acid test, as the team swings out on a six-game trip that will keep them on the road until November 25.Minus the services of Big Jean Beliveau, out for three weeks with a sprained left knee, and John Ferguson who broke a bone in his hand in a brawl in Chicago, Habs appear to have plenty of headaches.Their principal problem has been an inability to put the puck in the net, and the loss of Beliveau &mdash; one of the few producers in the early going &mdash; is liable to be disastrous, unless other centres can pick up the slack.That means Henri Richard and Ralph Backstrom have to snap out of the slumps that have been with them since the season began.It&rsquo;s long been an established fact that as Canadiens centres go, so goes the team. The play of both Richard and Backstrom this season, has been a cause of concern. They had managed just five points between them in 12 games, and neither had been skating or moving the puck with their oldtime dash in those contests. As a result, Habs have been saddled with two non-producing lines and were the lowest scoring team in hockey&rsquo;s old division.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt that both Richard and Backstrom will be under more pressure with Beliveau sidelined", said Toe Blake. &ldquo;But maybe it&rsquo;ll work to their advantage and get them moving and scoring. It better, or we&rsquo;re in trouble".Says Backstrom: &ldquo;I can only speak for myself, but I don&rsquo;t feel that I&rsquo;m skating well. You get five months off in the summer and your legs feel lousy during the first part of a schedule. I&rsquo;m going to have to do something to keep my legs in better condition during the off season.&ldquo;The thing that&rsquo;s surprised me most so far, is that the other teams have been skating with us. They don&rsquo;t try to wear us down by hitting, or trying the rough stuff they did a few years ago. They&rsquo;re simply skating as fast and maybe even a step faster than we are. I&rsquo;d have to think that as a club we just haven&rsquo;t hit our real skating stride yet, and, until we do, we&rsquo;re bound to have trouble".Toe Blake sees the problem as nothing more than a plain lack of sharpness around the net.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re getting plenty of opportunities, but not making the most of them", he says. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s been only one game during the first twelve we played, when we scored like we should. That was our 6-2 win over Detroit in our second game of the season.&ldquo;When a team goes a few games without getting their share of goals, the players begin to tighten up when they get in front of the net. They miss chances they&rsquo;d ordinarily never miss. That&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s been happening.&ldquo;The only cure for it is a high-scoring game in our favor which will break the tension and put the fellows back on the beam. I hope we have one soon".Blake has been doing some rare shuffling in an effort to come up with a scoring combination. He&rsquo;s even had rookie defensemen Serge Savard and Carol Vadnais playing up front on a line centered by Jacques Lemaire. Bobby Rousseau has been shifted to centre, at times, though he&rsquo;s also been used on the right side of a Richard-Duff combine. And, erstwhile penalty killer Bryan Watson has been seeing duty as a regular at right wing.HAB BITS: Canadiens have indicated that they wouldn&rsquo;t call up anybody from the minors, following the injuries to Beliveau and Ferguson, but Sam Pollock has recently been spending time in Houston and other places in Habs minor-league chain&hellip;Terry Harper, back in action after sustaining a shoulder and head injury, is sporting a helmet for the first time in his career. Did it bother his vision? &ldquo;Only when someone from the other team pushes it down over my eyes,&rsquo;1 he said &hellip;If you think past performances don&rsquo;t mean anything, consider this: At this time last year, Habs had the same number of wins (5), the same number of goals-for (26) and were in the same position, second-last in the standings.<h2>Bad John Ferguson Suffers Broken Hand Clubbing Rookie</h2>MONTREAL, Que &mdash;John Ferguson continues to be a main-bout attraction at Chicago Stadium, but it&rsquo;s proving to be a costly business.Fergie recently broke a bone in his right hand after thumping rookie Wayne Maki on the head in a Montreal-at-Chicago clash, but his troubles had only begun.He spent the night in a Chicago hospital having his hand put in a cast, and when he checked out the next morning his money &mdash; $130.00 &mdash; was missing from the hospital&rsquo;s safe.&ldquo;I was a little steamed up about it,&rdquo; said John, later, in what was probably the understatement of the year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02770/3109580-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="291" height="472"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Ferguson</figcaption></div>It seems Ferguson had handed his money in at the desk upon checking into the hospital, and the loot was supposed to be put somewhere for safe-keeping. Next morning, there was no sign of the dough. Fortunately, Ferguson had a receipt so the hospital paid up.&ldquo;But, they paid off in American funds and charged me the rate of exchange,&rdquo; said John, plaintively. &ldquo;I only got a hundred and twenty dollars back.&rdquo;Ferguson&rsquo;s hand will be in a heavy cast for approximately a week, after which he&rsquo;ll change to a lighter cast and return to action. It&rsquo;s the second such injury he&rsquo;s had after a brawl in Chicago. The last was a couple of seasons ago, when he thumped Eric Nesterenko.&mdash; SMITH &#9632;

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Richard, Backstrom Under Gun For Hobs’ Swing West

<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/f0005-01760/3109625-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="277" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Darryl Edestrand</figcaption></div>Those tremors that shook the world of ice hockey on the nights of Nov. 1 and Nov. 4 were traced by earthquake recorders to St. Louis, Mo. where the slightly contemptuous Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings shockingly discovered that the term &ldquo;expansion&rdquo; does not mean &ldquo;surrender.&rdquo;In brazen, deliberate style, the St.Louis Blues carved up the Bruins and Red Wings in a couple of a classic responses to those who alleged the expansion division was made up of dropouts, the aged and infirm.For the first seven games the Blues had been defensively superb but unable to find the combination to opponent&rsquo;s nets. Now they had ripped Boston 5-1 and taken the best that Detroit could hurl at them before dumping the Wings, 3-2.And it was one of the &ldquo;aged and infirm&rdquo; by the name of RonStewart who rammed home what proved to be the winning marker in both games.Have the new expansion league clubs been taken too lightly?In St. Louis, Scotty Bowman, top aide to Coach and General Manager Lynn Patrick, thinks they have.&ldquo;I think the new teams have been taken lightly by the Eastern Division, &ldquo; says Bowman. &ldquo; I suppose it is natural since the old division was allowed to protect 11 players and they were confident they were keeping their top 11. Now I think they are going to have to revise their thinking because our section has only had a few bad games with them.&rsquo;&rsquo;But, &ldquo; says Bowman, &ldquo;the old section has had some bad performances in games between themselves like Detroit getting beat 9-3 by Toronto. I think those Eastern Division clubs will start pressing when they play us now and I really don&rsquo;t think there is that much difference between us.&rdquo;Bowman said that neither himself or Patrick are very much surprised at the ability of the Blues to keep up with any of the old clubs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02653/3109618-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="568" height="739"><figcaption class="caption-body">RONSTEWART &hellip; Two Game Winners</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We planned it that way when we went to the Montreal draft last summer,&rdquo; Bowman told this writer in an exclusive interview for Hockey News.&ldquo;We knew we would have to play 24 games with the established clubs and we tried to draft a team that would make a creditable showing and particular attention was placed on defense because we knew we would have to stop those old clubs to beat them.&rdquo;&ldquo;Bowman said that the theory of the Blues was to obtain players who would be able to play against the Eastern Division clubs for the two or three years that it would take the Blues to develop some of its younger players to take over.&ldquo;We wanted to buy ourselves some time,&rdquo; said Bowman, &ldquo;so that we would have a team that could keep us in contention while we were building our younger players to the point where they could move into the big time.&rdquo;Apparently the Blues succeeded in their plan. In the first four games against the Eastern Division they gave up only eight goals.While giving up eight goals, the Blues were scoring nine against Boston, Montreal and two engagements with Detroit.The Blues had to build their major league entry from scratch while such clubs as Philadelphia went out and bought a farm club at Quebec and Los Angeles bought Springfield.Bowman said that Montreal had agreed to sell the Blues Bill McCreary and Ron Atwell and two amateurs. Then the Blues traded their fourth draft choice, Rod Seiling, to New York in return for the Rangers&rsquo; Bob Plager and Gary Sabourin, plus two amateurs-Gordon Kanneglesser, and Tim Ecclestone.Bowman credits the four-for-one deal with New York and the purchasing of four players from Montreal not only with giving the Blues depth but some immediate strength. Plager and Kanneglesser have been strong operatives on defense. Another good one who has already seen emergency service with the Blues has been Darryl Edestrand, a defenseman, who was brought up from the Blues&rsquo; Kansas City farm to fill in for Bob Plager who suffered a knee Injury.Edestrand, a 10th round draft choice, caused some curious reactions by those at the draft meeting when the Blues claimed him.Typical reaction was that of Joe Crozier of Rochester who said how did the Blues ever decide to draft that fellow when they don&rsquo;t even know him? What Crozier and others didn&rsquo;t know is that Edestrand, who had only seven professional games of hockey to his credit, had impressed the Blues&rsquo; Bowman back in his junior hockey days.So the Blues have such reliable veterans as Ron Stewart, Al Arbour, Jim Roberts, Gerry Melnyk and Don McKenney to keep them alive, while youngsters such as Edestrand at 22, Kanneglesser at 21, Goalie Don Caley at 21, Tom Ecclestone at 20 and some other very promising yearlings are very attractive players in the future book. With a third deal with Detroit the Blues traded John Brenneman for 21-year-old Craig Cameron, a right winger, a defenseman Larry Hornung and Center Don Giesbrecht. The three deals netted the Blues 11 players for two and gave them a good backlog of promising prospects. &#9632;

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Twin Killing Of Bruins, Wings Sweet Music For Hockey Blues

<div class="byline">BY LOU PRATO</div>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;There&rsquo;s an aura of mystery surrounding the disclosure that the Atlanta Braves baseball team will not buy a minority interest in the Pittsburgh Penguins.Penguins officials confirmed a report circulating in Atlanta that negotiations for such a purchase broke off. But no one was saying the exact reason for the surprise move.Penguins&rsquo; President Jack McGregor would only say that complications developed during the negotiations.&ldquo;The more involved the fine points became, the more complicated and complex the transaction became,&rdquo; McGregor told the HOCKEY NEWS. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather not give any specifics but just say that the negotiations were far more complicated than originally anticipated.&rdquo;It was on the eve of the NHL season opener in early October that the Penguins announced that the Braves had bought a 40 percent interest in the Pittsburgh franchise. Although Penguins officials emphasized at the time that the purchase was only a financial move to bring fresh money into the organization, there had been speculation that the transaction was a prelude to a future shift of the Pittsburgh franchise to Atlanta.McGregor said the agreement to end purchase negotiations was reached on a &ldquo;mutually amicable basis.&rdquo; Yet, the manner in which the Penguins disclosed the end of negotiations produced a number of unanswered questions.McGregor admitted that talks with the Braves management ended about October 20. Yet, it was not until 2 1/2 weeks later that the story broke, and then only after a first report by the Associated Press. The Penguins never formally announced the termination of the purchase talks &mdash; a contrast to the original announcement which was made with much fanfare.Anyway, the Penguins are back in the complete hands of the original. Pittsburgh stockholders, for the moment, at least. And President McGregor says there are no immediate plans to look elsewhere for a minor partner. &#9632;

Baseball Braves Pull Out Of Pittsburgh Hockey Deal

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05290/3109680-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="740" height="190"></div><h2>Hails NHL President For Playoff Plan</h2>Hockey News Editor:Here is another vote for Clarence Campbell&rsquo;s playoff system vs. the decision of the Board of Governors to have the East-West winners battle for the Cup. Perhaps interleague semi-finals would bring the two strongest teams into the finals as in the past. We could possibly have the dullest Stanley Cup. final ever if changes aren&rsquo;t considered prior to close of the season. I&rsquo;m sure that all hockey fans, including those of the new clubs, would prefer to see this present plan revised.DAN CARAGHERSmithtown, New York<h2>New Teams Fooled Experts Says Fan</h2>Hockey News Editor:I felt I had to express my views (and the view of a great many hockey fans in this area) on the NHL&rsquo;s expansion.In the games to date between old and new, I have nothing but praise for the new teams, and cannot help but laugh out loud at the so-called experts who predicted (a) disaster for the LA team in their own division and (b) onesided results in games between old and new teams. So much for the experts.My real purpose in writing however, is to express my delight at the failure of some of the new teams in attracting crowds of any significance to their arenas. I can remember Clarence Campbell a few years ago saying that the NHL had no interest in expanding simply to increase the financial benefits of the existing clubs. Then along comes expansion and presto all new franchises are in the U.S.A., and all in fat &ldquo;TV&rdquo; areas.I see crowds Of less than 4,000 and cannot help but wonder what kind of attendance Vancouver would have had if the games had been played in their arena?GEORGE O&rsquo;LEARY,Ottawa, Ont.<h2>Best Teams Not In Stanley Cop Final</h2>Hockey News Editor:I understand the Stanley Cup playoffs this year will be decided between the champion of each division. This will probably mean that the 2 best teams will not be in the finals.It would seem more reasonable to arrange the situation something like this:Let the top 4 team sin each division (8 teams) participate in a two week round robin, each team playing all the other teams one game. This means each team would play 7 games. After this is completed, the four teams wret the best stayoff records world then compete in the semifinals and finals as usual.Such a plan would give the expansion teams an honest chance to compete, while assuring hockey fans of final competition among the best teams. Especially in view of new and expanded TV coverage is this to be desired.DAVID MOIILE,Houston, Tex. &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">BY LOU PRATO</div>PITTSBURGH. Pa. &ndash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02691/3109718-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="299" height="481"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dune McCallum</figcaption></div>Experience In the National Hockey League wars figured to make Pittsburgh&rsquo;s veteran loaded Penguins an early season power in the new Western Division. But the rapid development of three relative youngsters is now being credited with saving the Penguins from a potentional disaster.Injuries to defensemen Noel Price and Dick Mattlussi and center Earl Ingarfield has forced Penguins Coach Red Sullivan to rely on three substitutes whose total previous NHL experience came to six gemes.But Dune McCallum and Bill Speer on defense and Paul Andrea up front have given Sullivan no reason for alarm. McCallum and Speer, in fact, are playing so well that Price, now recovered from an injured knee, has been unable to win his regular job back.&ldquo;I have been very satisfied with McCallum and Speer,&rdquo; Sullivan said as the Penguins embarked on their fifth week of NHL play. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think they&rsquo;d let me down when those injuries gave them more responsibilities. And they haven&rsquo;t.&rdquo;McCallum, a 27-year-old product of the New York farm system, started this season as the Penguins fifth defenseman.The 25-year-old Speer wasn&rsquo;t even with the Penguins but rather on the team&rsquo;s American League farm club at Baltimore.Then suddenly there was an emergency. Mattlussi hurt his back in the fourth game of the season against Minnesota and Price aggravated a knee injury shortly thereafter. Overnight, McCallum &mdash; who had played in two NHL games with the Rangers two years ago &mdash; and Speer&mdash;who had never been in the NHL before &mdash; became regulars.&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been doing real well and I think a lot of the credit should go to Leo (Boivin) and Al (MacNeil)", says Sullivan. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been working Dune with Leo and Billy Speer with MacNeil and those two guys have been helping these kids along.&rsquo;I&rsquo;m not surprised by either Dune or Billy. We got McCallum in that deal that sent Larry Jeffrey to New York and you know we wouldn&rsquo;t have made that deal if we didn&rsquo;t think McCallum could do the job for us. As for Speer, well, we saw him two years ago in the American League and we thought then that he was one of the best in the league".Although Mattlussi will not be ready for play until mid-November, Price has been trying to get back into action for a few weeks. But he can&rsquo;t do it..<h2>WHL Executive Gets Hockey News&rsquo; Award</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04353/3109711-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="1102" height="2042"></div>While touring California hockey cities and getting a first hand glimpse of NHL expansion on the West Coast, KEN McKENZIE, left, publisher of THE HOCHEY NEWS, stopped in San Diego to present BOB BREITBARD, right, owner-president of the Western Hockey League Gulls, with the 1966-67 HOCKEY NEWS award as executive of the year. Presentation was made at centre ice between periods of the San Diego-Buffalo interlocking game, which attracted nearly 1 1,000 fans. &#9632;

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NEW FACES LIFT PENGUINS AS INJURIES RIDDLE CLUB

<div class="byline">BY GLENN REDMANN</div>TWIN CITIES, Minn. &ndash;It was dirty pool, but without malice when a reporter scribbled &ldquo;Jan. 16, 1966&rdquo; on a folded sheet of typing paper and shoved it under the nose of Cesare Maniago.The rangy goalkeeper of the Minnesota North Stars paused for 10, maybe 15 seconds, then in answer to the question of whether or not the date meant anything to him, politely answered:&ldquo;Gosh, I&rsquo;m sorry, but it doesn&rsquo;t ring a bell.&rdquo;The reporter had a ready hint. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll give you a clue,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You were in Chicago that day.&rdquo;Once again Maniago meditated, running a hand through his dark-colored crew cutlocks. &ldquo;Oh yeah,&rdquo; said the National Hockey League&rsquo;s tallest (6-foot-3) goalie, &ldquo;now I know what you&rsquo;re driving at &mdash; that was the day that Bobby Hull got four goals on me.&rdquo;After admitting that he has tried hard to forget about that game, played when he was laboring for the then uninspired New York Rangers, Maniago found it somewhat easy to recall how Hull scored those goals.&ldquo;One went in off Bobby&rsquo;s skate,&rdquo; said the Trail, B.C. native without trying one bit to take anything away from the great Golden Jet.&ldquo;Two were deflections. But the other one was a typical Bobby Hull goal.&rdquo;A typical Bobby Hull goal? With the North Stars slated to face Hull and his Chicago Black Hawk mates the day after the Interview and, Maniago due to be in goal for the Minnesotans, big Cec was asked to expound.&ldquo;Well, it was a clean break,&rdquo; said Maniago, &ldquo;probably from just outside our blue line. I did the only thing I could &mdash; come out in an attempt to cut down the angle &mdash; but Bobby just put down his head and let fly &hellip; from about 10 or 12 feet. It caught a corner high and was hit so hard it just stuck there in the net.&rdquo;The interview continued with Maniago having the usual fine things to say about Hull, who one day later tipped a long shot from the left point by Pat Stapleton past Cec for a goal in the Black Hawks&rsquo; 4-2 win over the Stars.Before he was through, however, Maniago made a rather startling statement in regard to his gaining status as the North Stars No. 1 goalkeeper before the season comes to an end on March 31.Presently sharing chores with Gary Bauman, the former Montreal back-up who was taken after Cesare in the special goalie draft, Maniago said;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think either of us is going to be No. 1 &hellip; And if this is the case, I won&rsquo;t be the least bit disappointed, because in this day and age, I personally think the job is too big for one man.&rdquo;Maniago points to his own case as back-up goalie for New York last season as having done the most to convince him that NHL goalkeeping calls for more than one man.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want it to sound like sour grapes,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;because Ed Giacomin did a tremendous job in goal for the Rangers last season. But I have to believe that there were times when he could&rsquo;ve used a rest, especially late in the season.&rdquo;Maniago saw action in only six games for the Rangers last season after playing in 28 during the l965-66 campaign with two shutouts and a goals-against average of 3.36.&ldquo;There will be times this season when our schedule calls for us to play four games in five days,&rdquo; continued the 28-year-old father of two daughters, &ldquo;and I frankly hope that Wren Blair doesn&rsquo;t intend to use just one man. I&rsquo;ve talked to him about it, and I think we&rsquo;re in agreement. &ldquo;Bauman, one year younger than Maniago but not nearly as experienced, had the more impressive training camp of the two to earn the nod from Blair in the season opener at St. Louis where the Stars and Blues tied, 2-2.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02688/3109780-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="578" height="737"><figcaption class="caption-body">CESARE MANIAGO &hellip; All For Sharing Net</figcaption></div>Although satisfied with the former Michigan Tech All American&rsquo;s work, Blair quickly shifted to Maniago for the second game and the two have been alternating ever since despite the fact that Bauman&rsquo;s back has been bothering him and Cec has had to be taken out for an eye cut and groin injury.&ldquo;I was quoted as saying I favored the one goalie system before training camp,&rdquo; said Blair, &ldquo;and this is correct. But I also said I saw nothing wrong with the two-man system if the two were even in ability.&rdquo;In view of his alternating so far, Blair apparently feels that there isn&rsquo;t much to choose between Maniago and Bauman &mdash; yet. If it stays that way, the last guy to complain will be Cesare.ICE CHIPS: General manager-coach Wren Blair plans to take advantage of every open Wednesday Thursday, Saturday or Sunday on the schedule to scout games in the American and Central Leagues &hellip;Blair&rsquo;s first such mission found him in Buffalo late last month to watch the Bisons&rsquo; inter-locking game against the Western League Vancouver team &hellip; &ldquo;Sure, we could use some help at forward,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but that doesn&rsquo;t mean I&rsquo;m specifically looking at one guy at anytime. I&rsquo;ve got next year&rsquo;s draft to prepare for &hellip; This is part of my job as general manager.&rdquo; &#9632;

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NHL Goaling Two-Man Job Says Maniago

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MacLEAN</div>NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash;A blazing eight game unbeaten streak has gladdened the heart of the most pessimistic citizen of Rangerville and catapulted the New York sextet into first place in the fledgling NHL race.Not since the 1957-58 campaign when Fiery Phil Watson&rsquo;s troops stormed the ramparts of first place has a Ranger team gotten off to such a fine start. Watson&rsquo;s men went nine games without a loss with a six win, three tie breakdown. Emile Francis&rsquo; well balanced sextet chalked up their eight straight with five win, three tie figure. The string was broken on November 4 when the redhot Toronto Maple Leafs upended the New Yorkers 4-1 in the Queen City.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01793/3109811-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="264" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Orland Kurtenbach</figcaption></div>This loss did not phase the doughty little Francis who has reveled in the dual job of General Manager and Coach.&ldquo;This loss was probably due to the cumulative effects of our West Coast trip. We were away from home from Monday through Saturday and twice changed time zones. This has to effect an athlete,&rdquo; said Francis.In order to counteract these factors Francis set a 10:00 P.M. curfew on Monday in Los Angeles before a Tuesday October 31 game. This worked out to a 6-1 Ranger win. He then enforced a 1:00 A.M. curfew after the Los Angeles game and came away from Oakland on the following evening with a 2-0 shutout victory over the California Seals.Despite the scores, neither game was a cakewalk. The Expansion NHL Western Clubs were &ldquo;up&rdquo; and in both cases the game was in doubt two thirds of the way through. Against California, the Blues and Seals were tied 0-0 at the end of the second stanza, only to see New York survive a major penalty to Orland Kurtenbach &mdash; and then bounce back to win on goals by Kurt and Rod Gilbert.Kurtenbach&rsquo;s goal was the key to the game and came fifteen seconds after Orland had been released from the penalty box. It again demonstrated the Rangers great overall balance. Kurt has five goals as we went to press and the clubs&rsquo; other two centers, Phil Goyette and Jean RateHe had five and three respectively. Ratty was leading the Blues in points with nine assists.Goaltender Eddie &ldquo;Go Go&rdquo; Giacomin actually was unscored upon by New York opponents in California. Rod Seiling put the puck in the net for Los Angeles&rsquo; only tally.When asked if Giacomin would get his $100 bonus for this game, Francis replied, &ldquo;The puck went in the net, didn&rsquo;t it".Nevertheless, the Cat has reason to be happy with his defense. When Jim Neilson hurt his hand, Francis used Seiling as a regular partner for Wayne Hillman. Sod, as the Blues have nicknamed Selling, played well against Toronto In New York on October 29 and also performed up to expectations on the Coast trip, despite the freak &ldquo;wrongway&rdquo; goal.This pleased Francis, who said, &ldquo;With Seiling coming along, those defensemen will have to scramble for jobs. Nelson and Arnie Brown have to note Rod&rsquo;s progress and It will make them work that much harder.&rdquo;This thinking may have come a cropper when Selling seemed to be responsible for two of the Maple Leafs goals In the 4-1 loss which ended the streak. Marcel Pronovost, the ancient Toronto defenseman sneaked behind Rod, picked up a pass and breezed in on Giacomln for a tally.While this one minor negative note has to be mentioned, Ranger plusses were literally sprouting like crab grass on a golf green. Rod Gilbert, who had to be considered a minor question mark when the season opened because of his history of back trouble has shown no signs of any problem whatsoever and was rolling along at almost a point a game clip. Gilbert was playing the point on the Ranger power play and his booming slap shot was intimidating enemy netminders.Rod says, &ldquo;I feel great &mdash; and just hope that I can keep up the good work. It is wonderful to be playing with Ratty again (Rod performs on a line with Center Jean Ratelie and left wing Vic Hadfield). Also Vic (Hadfield) Is really potting those goals which is making the whole line look good.&rdquo;This was true, as Hadfield, whose adoption of Bobby Hull&rsquo;s curved stick, has led to an early season scoring spree, was moving at a point per game and showing no signs of slowing down.Vic says, &ldquo;I have confidence in the curved blade and this has made all the difference.&rdquo;Another, and perhaps the most Important part of the Ranger success in the esprit de corps which Francis has slowly created since he took over as coach. Many clubs regard a California trip as a paid vacation, but the Broadway boys did not hit the beaches and the night spots when on the western side of the Great Divide.Francis says, &ldquo;This took a while to happen, but If you will notice all of our players have their wives and families with them In New York this year. This is the first time this has happened in the past twenty five years. It shows that the boys like New York and want to remain a part of the Ranger picture.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Rangers’ Hopes Soar As Blues Go Unbeaten After ‘Coast’ Sweep

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div>PHILADELPHIA. Pa.&mdash;If the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was really on the ball, it would keep an eye on Brit Selby for the next few weeks.That&rsquo;s because Brit, the Flyers&rsquo; fine young left-wing, will be spending a lot of time with his family&rsquo;s black cat back home in Toronto.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01835/3109849-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="291" height="473"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bud Poile</figcaption></div>For the second straight season, the National Hockey League&rsquo;s Rookie of the Year of 1965-66 has been cut down by a serious injury on the ice.Last year it was a broken leg in early December which kept him out of action for the duration of the campaign, and this year it is a shoulder separation which will keep him sidelined until around Christmas.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not superstitious or anything like that,&rdquo; explained Brit. &ldquo;So I can&rsquo;t really blame it on mom&rsquo;s black cat crossing my path. If I&rsquo;m jinxed, I just have to accept it as one of those things.&rdquo;Selby suffered the shoulder separation in the Flyers&rsquo; eighth game against the Minnesota North Stars at the Spectrum Nov. 2. The game wasn&rsquo;t even one period old when the mishap occurred.&ldquo;The sad part about it, I wasn&rsquo;t even checked real hard on the play,&rdquo; remembered Brit. &ldquo;It must&rsquo;ve been an elbow or stick that got me as I tried to go through the middle. I got through, all right, but when I did, (Tony) Goegan got me.&ldquo;Right then and there I knew something drastically was wrong,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know exactly what, however, because I&rsquo;ve never had such an injury before. But I anticipated bad news as I skated to the bench.&rdquo;The original prognosis was for a recuperation period of between six and eight weeks.&ldquo;Since I&rsquo;ve never had a shoulder injury, I don&rsquo;t know how this kind of thing responds to treatment. The doctor said it would be about six weeks but I&rsquo;m hoping sooner,&rdquo;Even though the injury bug has laid him low for the second straight season, Brit refused to curse the bad luck which has followed him since his big year with the Toronto Maple Leafs.&ldquo;Hockey has been too good for me to knock it,&rdquo; explained Brit. &ldquo;Sure, I&rsquo;m disappointed &hellip; very much disappointed. But I&rsquo;ve got to keep my chin up and look to the future.&ldquo;These sort of things often happen when you&rsquo;re playing professional sports. You&rsquo;ve simply got to accept them when they arise and then just hang in there until you&rsquo;re in one piece again.&ldquo;What&rsquo;s life without problems?&rdquo; he questioned. &ldquo;Problems crop up in everything and anything you do. The best thing you can do is make the best of them.&ldquo;All I can do right now is wait for this thing to heal so I can return to action. Then, when I&rsquo;m finally out there again, I&rsquo;ll try as hard as ever.&rdquo;In his eight games with the Flyers, Brit wasn&rsquo;t setting any worlds afire with his scoring (only one assist during that time). But he was really impressing people the way he was performing in other facets of the game.&ldquo;Keith Allen (the Flyers&rsquo; coach) was playing Brit on the other team&rsquo;s big man,&rdquo; explained Flyers&rsquo; general manager Bud Poile. &ldquo;We were really pleased with the way he was coming along and then &mdash; bingo! &mdash; this thing happens.&ldquo;Yet we&rsquo;ve always had a lot of confidence in Selby ever since we picked him up as one of our very high selections in the expansion draft. So we know he&rsquo;s going to come back better than ever.&rdquo;During Brit&rsquo;s departure to his home in Toronto while the shoulder mends, Poile recalled Claude La-forge from the farm club Quebec Aces to take over the vacated left-wing position.Selby, in fact, was in the stands both games following his injury as the Flyers routed Montreal, 4-1, and tied them the next night, 1-1,&ldquo;It&rsquo;s very hard watching the game as a spectator when you want to be down there on the ice,&rdquo; explained Brit. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t help wanting to be a part of the team so you can get out there and pitch in.&ldquo;Last year the broken leg costs me four valuable months of the season and this year the shoulder separation robs me of two more valuable months, it&rsquo;s a little hard not being very discouraged.&ldquo;I guess, in a way, I should consider myself lucky this time,&rdquo; sighed Brit in conclusion. &ldquo;I guess, when you think of it, it could&rsquo;ve very easily been another four months instead of just two.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02744/3109842-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="588" height="651"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRIT SELBY &hellip; Puck Star &lsquo;Jinxed&rsquo;</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Selby Ponders Future After Second Major Injury

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03615/3109929-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="872" height="736"><figcaption class="caption-body">1 This is Dave Prowse, Britain&rsquo;s Heavyweight Weightlifting Champion 1962/3/4. Here he demonstrates the exerciser used by some of the German Olympic Athletes in secret training before their success in Tokyo. The Exerciser is called &ldquo;BULLWORKER 2". You use it to develop any muscle group you want and each exercise lasts just 7 seconds a day.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04417/3109922-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="591" height="746"><figcaption class="caption-body">2 This exercise gives more powerful biceps. When you do the exercise you need use no more than 60% of your full strength and 7 seconds is the minimum time needed.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05320/3109915-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="752" height="753"><figcaption class="caption-body">3 This is the exercise you use to develop more muscle padding on your back around the region of the shoulder blades.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06261/3109908-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="428" height="747"><figcaption class="caption-body">4 If you want to develop the strength and bulk of your upper arm, this is the exercise for you. It will also build up your back muscles to give a broader, more powerful chest.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07205/3109901-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="736" height="705"><figcaption class="caption-body">5 The Bullworker 2 is used in a series of exercises, each designed to affect a different muscle group. This exercise for example, strengthens and increases the size of the forearm.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08167/3109894-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="752" height="708"><figcaption class="caption-body">6 This exercise is designed to give readers manly shoulders. Exercises like this will increase your strength by 4% per week, repeated just once each day.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-09138/3109887-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="683" height="643"><figcaption class="caption-body">7 Feeling a little overweight? This is the exercise that gets rid of the surplus on the waistline. Bullworker 2 is offered complete with diet advice for slimmers.</figcaption></div><h2>FREE FULL COLOUR BROCHURE</h2>The brochure on Bullworker 2 gives pictures of all the exercises, and page after page of facts, figures, medical and scientific testimony. To obtain your free brochure, which shows you how easily the Bullworker 2 can build you a power-packed body, just mail the coupon.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-11103/3109880-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="1603" height="471"></div> &#9632;

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Weighing Champion reveals how these 7 exercises can build you a power-packed body in exactly 48 seconds a day!

<div class="byline">BY SPENCE CONLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01813/3109967-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Top Seals&rsquo; scorer BILLY HICKE (9) is dumped to ice by Pittsburgh&rsquo;s LEO BOIVIN while AL MacNEIL retrieves puck at left.</figcaption></div>OAKLAND. Calif. -The effort has improved, but the results haven&rsquo;t and this is the frustration of the Oakland Seals.Off to a hot start this year with 5-1 and 6-0 wins over Philadelphia and Minnesota in the first two games, the Seals seemed destined to live up to the advance billing of tough defense and solid conditioning vital to survival in the late going.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02730/3109960-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="277" height="492"><figcaption class="caption-body">Charlie Hodge</figcaption></div>But suddenly the Seals flew apart: the defense slipped to just average despite some standout goaltending by Charlie Hodge, and the offense disintegrated.It all began with the Seals&rsquo; first meeting of the year with arch-rival Los Angeles, a game in which the Seals were checked right out of their own building by the flying Kings. Only a third period goal by Kent Douglas saved a 2-2 tie.But that was the beginning; the Seals became the victims of an enigmatic third period let down which cost them dearly on their first road trip.Opening in Minnesota in the spanking new Metropolitan Sports Center and before a record crowd of nearly 13,000 the Seals came out strong but just when it looked as if Bill Hicke had broken the game open with a key goal in a scoreless second period, referee Ron Wicks took it away &mdash; despite the North Star goal judge&rsquo;s ruling that it was a score.The Seals eventually lost, 3-1, and the stage was set for the most dreary of road trips, a swing through the East which cost the Seals five straight losses, a tie, and a bunch of frayed nerves because of a bomb scare on the &lsquo; plane carrying them home from Philadelphia.The Seals were beaten by Philly, 5-2. Pittsburgh. 4-1, Detroit. 8-2 in by an expansion team this year to an established club, by Toronto, 5-2, and then a 2-2 tie with the Flyers to conclude a journey which dropped them from first to last in the West.In nearly every game, the Seals were right in the thick of it, until the final 30 minutes, then they&rsquo;d sag miserably and lose.Fourteen of the 24 goals scored against them on the trip were scored in the third period.Seal coach Bert Olmstead was beside himself with anger and frustration because of the disaster, especially the third period breakdowns.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t explain it,&rdquo; he offered one night. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a mystery. I know we&rsquo;ve got a better team than we&rsquo;ve shown. We haven&rsquo;t been skating and when you aren&rsquo;t skating, everything suffers, passing, playmaking, defense, everything.&ldquo;They can&rsquo;t be tired, it&rsquo;s too early in the season.&rdquo;Olmstead refused to let the Seals use the tight travel schedule as an excuse either.Returning home with at least a relatively better knit group than the one which started the trip, Olmstead discovered his next big problem was one of scheduling. The Seals suddenly thought they&rsquo;d been put into the other division-seven of their next 10 games were against Eastern clubs.The Seals opened at home again against the New York Rangers and played dead even with them until old &ldquo;third period it is&rdquo; struck again. New York won, 2-0 in the final nine minutes.Pittsburgh was next and won 1-0 as the Seals&rsquo; offense was frustrated for six straight periods.Against the Black Hawks, however, things began to come together better than thay had. Hodge was great, as usual, and the Seals got goals and managed a 2-2 tie with the Chicagoans.Through that point, the Seals were victims of their own ineptness, but the intensity of scheduling was now becoming a major factor. They were put in the position of having to win against new teams and just hoping for the best against the old.Individually, with the sole exception of Hodge, the Seals were horribly erratic.Hicke managed six goals and six assists through the first 11 games, but hardly showed the kind of steady level of ability which the Seals had expected of him.Olmstead, seeking more firepower for his offense, called up Alain (Boom Boom) Caron from Buffalo and raw-boned Mike Laughton from Vancouver.Olmstead&rsquo;s big task now Is to get everything put together, to get a 100 percent offensive effort instead of 33 1/3 percent.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a pretty good team-and we are in the position now of just having to ride out the low spots.&ldquo;But no excuses for losing, the only way we&rsquo;ll get better Is to work harder.&rdquo; &#9632;

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But Seals Disappoint With All-Round Inept Play

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01826/3109998-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOMMY WILLIAMS &hellip; Plagued By Injuries</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass. &mdash;A year ago this time Tommy Williams was prone to quip, &ldquo;may be I can make a comeback next year with Minnesota".The 27-year-old American-born flyer not only still is a member of the Bruins, but a very big contributor to the Bruins early success.Last season was really a year right out of the life of tow-headed Williams.He injured his knee in training camp and went through an agonizing succession of injuries to the same knee right through the season.&ldquo;I never could get going.&rdquo; he says now. I&rsquo;d get back on the ice and the first time someone came near me the knee would go again.&ldquo;I was beginning to wonder if I&rsquo;d ever be able to play again.&rdquo;With this frame of mind and knowing expansion was in the wings, it is small wonder that Williams believed he&rsquo;d be among the first of the Bruins to go to the new division.And since his home is Duluth, Minn., he naturally expected that would be where he&rsquo;d wind up this season.&ldquo;And at the time I probably was taking a lot for granted that the North Stars would want me,&rdquo; he says with a grin.When Milt Schmidt took over the general managership of the Bruins, however, he had some definite ideas of his own on what the B&rsquo;s needed to make them go.And he had definite plans in mind for Williams.&ldquo;Milt called me in for a talk before the end of the season,&rdquo; says William s. &ldquo;I told him I wanted to play here in Boston and I hoped I&rsquo;d stay here.&ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t promise me a thing. He didn&rsquo;t even tell me the Bruins would protect me in the draft but he made me feel a lot better about things. Then before the draft he called me at home to check on the condition of my knee.&ldquo;This gave me the idea that I might fit into his plans for this season and after the draft when I still was part of the Bruins I was determined to prove Milt&rsquo;s faith in me. &ldquo;Although Williams played only 29 games all of last season and scored only 8 goals with 13 assists, Schmidt knew scoring was not one of Williams&rsquo; problems.The previous year he was the B&rsquo;s third leading scorer with 16 goals.&ldquo;And I knew he could skate as long as his knee was all right,&rdquo; says Scmhidt.In their post-season conversations, however, Schmidt made a point of telling Williams he could really help the team if he would concentrate on checking better.Tommy worked on this all through training camp and is continuing to work at it.&ldquo;And he has been a definite asset to the team,&rdquo; admits Schmidt.Playing left wing regularly for the first time in the National Hockey League, Williams has teamed well with Phil Esposito and Ken Hodge.In addition to playing a closer checking game he has scored twice and has six assists.&ldquo;What I like is the goals for and goals against as a line&rdquo; says Williams. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve scored 10 goals and have had only three scored against us. I think that&rsquo;s pretty good.&rdquo;Williams also thinks it&rsquo;s pretty good still being with the Bruins.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s much better making a comeback here than in Minnesota,&rdquo; he says with a grin.The Bruins still aren&rsquo;t convinced that Toronto&rsquo;s Brian Conacher didn&rsquo;t go out of his way to nail Bobby Orr in the Nov. 5 game at the Garden &hellip; But Coach HarrySinden breathed with relief when it developed that Orr came out of the brawl with no worse than a broken nose and a jammped thumb &hellip; &ldquo;That could have been really serious,&rdquo; he said &hellip; Johnny Bucyk was another near-casualty in that game when he was hit below the left eye with an Orr slap shot &hellip; He suffered a bad bruise and five stiches were required to close the wound &hellip; Veteran Left wing Ron Murphy has started to skate again after surgery to correct a torn bicep tendon in his left arm &hellip; But. it will be three or four weeks before he will be able to play. &#9632;

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Williams Playing Role In Bruins’ Upsurge

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03620/3110029-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="828" height="2817"></div> &#9632;

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NHL SCORING RACE

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT. Mich. &mdash;When Roger Crozier stoned the Chicago Black Hawks, stopping seven blistering Bobby Hull shots including one that knocked him right back Into the net, all appeared right in the Red Wing world.One week later it was a shambles. But, irony of Ironies, Gordie Howe, greatest Red Wing of them all, was off to his best start ever with 10 goals in 12 games.Perhaps &ldquo;shambles&rdquo; seems too strong a word. After all, Crozier stunned manager-coach Sid Abel with his retirement announcement, the Wings were only two points out of first place in the NHL&rsquo;s Eastern Division.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05425/3110060-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="260" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roy Edwards</figcaption></div>A LOOK at tne Detroit defense affirmed &ldquo;shambles&rdquo; as a proper description, however.Crozier was not the seat of Detroit problems. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d quit too If I had that defense in front of me,&rdquo; cracked a long-time follower of the club.The Detroit defense is inconsistent and, quite often, out of position.Until the deficiency is corrected, the Wings will have to rate as outside contenders to make the Stanley Cup playoffs.In Detroit&rsquo;s first five defeats, the opponent scored six goals three times and Toronto scored nine in the other game. Only Chicago, of all 12 NHL teams, had a poorer defensive record.Crozier quit after the Wings&rsquo; third straight defeat crowned by a 6-4 loss to the expansion Los Angeles Kings. Detroit had 3-1 and 4-2 leads, the latter at 5:34 of the final period, but then Crozier couldn&rsquo;t stop anything and the Kings scored four straight.The previous night St.Louis scored what Abel called two &ldquo;soft&rdquo; goals and beat the Wings, 3-2.&ldquo;We should have won both games,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;To win you&rsquo;ve got to have goaltending. There&rsquo;s no way you can stop the other team from shooting the puck.&rdquo;Abel didn&rsquo;t fault Crozier for the Wings&rsquo; 9-3 loss to Toronto, putting the blame on the defense which left Crozier unaided most of the night.But the nine goals bothered Crozier, an introvert whose brief career has been marked by a critical stomach ailment much like ulcers, rookie of the year honors in the American and National Leagues, All-Star team, Conn Smythe Trophy as outstanding player of the Stanley Cup playoffs and now, announced retirement at the age of 25.Crozier was brilliant his first two seasons with Detroit but then went sour last season, his goals against average shooting up to 3.35 and the Wings failed to make the playoffs.Crozier was sharp in training camp but then was knocked unconscious in the Detroit opener when a Bobby Orr slap shot hit him on the side of the head in Boston &mdash; he refuses to wear a mask.Montreal put five shots past him in less than two periods in his next start and he was lifted for three games but then shut out St. Louis, starting a string of four straight victories during which he gave up only four goals.It was then that the Wings began feeling good.&ldquo;I though that Chicago game would be the turning point for Roger because Chicago was his tough club,&rdquo; Abel said.Then came the three defeats and Crozier told Abel he&rsquo;d lost his confidence completely and lost all idea of how to play goal.Abel tried to dissuade him but Crozier wouldn&rsquo;t listen. Abel said he&rsquo;d stay in touch with Crozier, however.Crozier&rsquo;s troubles and the three straight defeats triggered a series of moves by Detroit. Abel planned on sending Crozier to Fort Worth in hopes he&rsquo;d find himself and in the meantime, Abel would take a look at 30-year-old Roy Edwards.Edwards set a Central League record by registering shutouts in the first three games of the season and he added another later as Fort Worth won its first eight and tied its ninth game.The Wings acquired Edwards, a veteran American League who&rsquo;d never played an NHL game, from Pittsburgh for Hank Bassen prior to the season opener. &#9632;

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Porous Wing Defense Aided Collapse Of Goalie Crozier

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div>CHICAGO, ILL. &mdash;No member of the deeply troubled Black Hawks will be happier to see ailing Chico Maki back in action that Dennis Hull.The burly youngster, who overcame all sorts of handicaps (not the least of which being that he&rsquo;s Bobby&rsquo;s kid brother) to become a 25-goal scorer last year, has been shifted around almost constantly since the start of this unhappy season. The result is that he&rsquo;d only managed 2 assists in the team&rsquo;s first 11 games.Making the production shutdown particularly tough for the generally and Dennis particularly to fathom is the fact that Hull was one of the few pillars of consistency during what had to be the strangest training camp the Hawks have held since Tommy Ivan arrived as general manager 13 years ago.Often, during the training session, in which he seldom knew who would be on the ice from day to day, Reay would sigh:&ldquo;Well, there are a few bright spots at least. And one of them sure has to be Dennis. He&rsquo;s pretty well licked the weight problems that bothered him the first few years and he&rsquo;s looked awfully good. &ldquo;Tilings began to go wrong for Dennis during the pre-season exhibition swing thru the west. Dennis came out of one of the games with a severe shoulder injury and had to be sent to Chicago for treatment.Since then, playing mainly with rookies Paul Terbenche and Wayne Maki, Dennis has been able to offer little help. Only recently, frustrated fans have begun to take out most of their anger on Dennis, who had a pretty sizeable jeering section prior to last season.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been getting the chances, particulary in the last couple of games,&rdquo; said Dennis. &ldquo;But I just haven&rsquo;t been able to do anything about them. Maybe I got complacent over&rsquo; the summer or something like that&rdquo;That&rsquo;s possible of course, but the more likely reason is that the big youngster misses the steadying influence of the veteran Eric Nesterenko, who has worked as his right wing almost from the time he arrived on the Hawk scene.&ldquo;I do feel kind of lost without Eric,&rdquo; Dennis admitted. &ldquo;When he&rsquo;s on your line, you know that he&rsquo;ll cover for you on defense and you know that you can spend that extra second or two in deep going after the puck. You don&rsquo;t have to worry constantly about being caught deep with the other team in control of the puck and going the other way.&rdquo;The fact that Nesterenko, who has been filling in for Chico Maki on the Bobby Hull-Pit Martin Line, had to be moved up points out one of the Hawks &lsquo; main problems in this first post-draft season &hellip; a lack of real depth.&ldquo;We can&rsquo;t kid ourselves,&rdquo; concedes Reay. &ldquo;We went into training camp with eight National league caliber forwards &mdash; Bobby and Dennis Hull, Chico Maki, Martin, Nesterenko, Stan Mikita, Ken Wharram, and Doug Mohns.&ldquo;The expansion draft took what big league material we had behind those eight and the kids just haven&rsquo;t come along fast enough.<h2>LOOKING AT NHL RACE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06240/3110098-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="828" height="754"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues. Nov. 7Oakland 4 at Los Angeles 5Wed Nov 8Montreal 2 at Chicago 3Toronto 6 at Oakland 1Boston 6 at New York 3Philadelphia I at Pittsburgh 1St Louis 1 at Minnesota 5Thurs. Nov. 9Toronto I at Los Angeles 4Sat. Nov. 11Chicago 3 at Montreal 3Toronto 1 at Minnesota 2Oakland 1 at Boston 2St. Louis 5 at Pittsburgh 1Sun. Nov. 12Montreal 1 at Detroit 3Oakland 3 at New York 5Philadelphia 4 at Boston 2St. Louis 2 at Chicago 5<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Wed Nov. 15Montreal at MinnesotaBoston at TorontoChicago at St. LouisPhiladelphia at PittsburghLos Angeles at CaliforniaThurs. Nov 16New York at PhiladelphiaDetroit at CaliforniaFri. Nov. 17Detroit of Los AngelesSat. Nov. 18Montreal at CalifornioChicago at TorontoNew York at BostonPhiladelphia at MinnesotaPittsburgh at St. LouisSun. Nov. 19Montreal at Los AngelesToronto of BostonMinnesota at New YorkDetroit at ChicagoSt. Louis at Philadelphia<h2>How NHL Goalers Rate</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05290/3110091-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="1344" height="1116"></div> &#9632;

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Chicago Fans Jeering Hull -- But It’s Not Golden Jet

The Los Angeles Kings are setting the pace for the new expansion teams in the National Hockey League and much of the credit for the club&rsquo;s lofty position belongs to the hot stick of Eddie &lsquo;Jet&rsquo; Joyal.The Black Hawks have their own jet, of course, in Bobby Hull, but the fans in Los Angeles think they have one of their own in the making and have dubbed the speedy Joyal &lsquo;Jef. Everytime he touches the puck on the ice, L.A. fans accord him as big an ovation as Chicago fans give Hull.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01801/3110129-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="280" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Joyal</figcaption></div>Joyal has been picking up the points in recent games and this past week triggered three L.A. goals to raise his 14-game output to 11 points. He ranks among the Kings&rsquo; top three scorers. Joyal&rsquo;s two goals against Toronto helped the Kings upset the Leafs.THE HOCKEY NEWS is pleased to salute the NHL&rsquo;s player-of-the-week in the West:<blockquote class="pullQuote">Eddie Joyal &hellip; Los Angeles</blockquote> &#9632;

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NHL Player Of The Week — IN THE WEST

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02689/3110160-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="279" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>Bobby Hull continues to turn in his hot scoring game week in and week out. The result wil inevitably lift the Black Hawks off the NHL floor and back into playoff contention.The Golden Jet, who recently became the NHL&rsquo;s highest scoring left winger when he notched his 380th big league goal to surpass retired Ted Lindsay, has been scoring on an average of a goal-a-game. This past week Hull dumped in three more goals to raise his season count to 14 goals in 14 games.Hull also took a three-point hold on first place in the individual scoring race and appears to be ready to pull away from the rest of the field.The Hawks are slowly regaining their form and no small credit is due to Hull&rsquo;s brilliant two-way play. He has been killing penalties, working the Chicago power play and taking his regular shift at left wing on his line.THE HOCKEY NEWS is pleased to salute the NYL&rsquo;s player-of-the-week in the East:<blockquote class="pullQuote">Bobby Hull &hellip; Chicago</blockquote> &#9632;

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NHL Player Of The Week — IN THE EAST

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01781/3110191-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"></div> &#9632;

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National Hockey League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont. &ndash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01783/3110222-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="276" height="467"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mahovlich</figcaption></div>There is considerable uncertainty about Frank Mahovlich&rsquo;s future In hockey, at least Insofar as Toronto Maple Leafs are concerned.Punch Imlach, Leafs&rsquo; coach and general manager, made that clear after The Big M was hospitalized because of nervousness and depression, the same complaints which kept him out of the lineup for a month during the 1964-65 season.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know when he&rsquo;ll be back with us", Imlach said. &ldquo;It could be a few weeks. He could be gone for the season. Or it may be that he won&rsquo;t play with us again".That latter remark was subject to varying interpretations. One was that Imlach was acknowledging that incompatibility between himself and Mahovlich was one of the problems and that It might be wise to trade him to some other team In the National Hockey League. Another was that big-league hockey may have become an Intolerable way of life for Mahovlich since It&rsquo;s impossible for him to avoid occupational pressures as, for example, business executives can when their nerves are affected.Many amateur psychologists have attempted to anlyze the things that bug The Big M. It&rsquo;s understood that in such situations one particular matter can&rsquo;t be pinpointed as the fundamental cause, so It became fashionable to list several things.Mahovlich Is a sensitive, introverted guy, for one thing. He says little which might Indicate that his problems pile up Inwardly. He may be troubled by the fact that despite his mighty goal-scoring achievements he never has received anything approaching total acceptance by Toronto fans. On the night his latest illness developed, he had played superlatively, only to be booed when Introduced asonte of the game&rsquo;s stars.Imlach&rsquo;s profane, rabble-rousing style of leadership Is far from the best for a troubled employee. Carl Brewer found It impossible to play under him and this may be the case with Mahovlich. Mind you, the pressures of major-league sport are unavoidable but It appears Imlach doesn&rsquo;t give special attention to Individuals who may need It desperately.Mahovlich had remained aloof from the NHL Players&rsquo; Association and, because he Is Leafs&rsquo; super-star, this was a crippling blow to the new organization. The situation bothered Mahovlich. He was doing what he believed, but he also felt he might be letting his colleagues down and that they might resent the stand he had adopted.So, one by one, the things other folks might shrug off compounded and built up within Mahovlich and he found he couldn&rsquo;t sleep In Leafs&rsquo; train car that was awaiting an early train to Detroit Nov. 2. Finally, at 4 a.m,, he got up, dressed, told some players he was leaving and went home. He contacted a Leaf doctor and checked Into hospital later on. In charge of the case was a psychiatrist.The last time this happened, no announcement was made regarding what was wrong with Mahovlich. This was at The Big M&rsquo;s own request but the wild speculation that ensued was worse than revelation of the real trouble. So this time, Leafs&rsquo; medical staff was authorized to specify the aliment.In the wide coverage that followed, Inconsiderate fans were blamed. Others seized upon the man&rsquo;s sickness as a chance to rap the players&rsquo; association. In the background, medical experts tried to point out that no single cause could be blamed but that many factors were Involved. It was even pointed out that Mahovlich might encounter the same problems under hockey&rsquo;s most relaxed regime, that of Detroit boss Sid Abel.What the ultimate outcome will be, no person can say. It seems obvious, though, that, in spite of awesome physical equipment, Mahovlich Is not fitted for the kind of life professional hockey has become at Its highest level. He Is a superbly gifted athlete but one wonders If the torture his profession Involves for him Is too great a price to pay. That&rsquo;s a decision he and his Leaf bosses will have to make when he Is well again.In the meantime, rookie Wayne Carleton has been given The Big M&rsquo;s left-wing spot with Dave Keon and George Armstrong. Brian Conacher has replaced Carleton on the line with Pete Stemkowski and Jim Pappin.But to say Leafs won&rsquo;t miss Mahovlich Is foolishness nobody could possibly believe. &#9632;

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Maple Leafs Puzzled But Big M’s Troubles May Hinge On Imlach

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><h2>Kelly Lauds Kilrea</h2>At first, xz Brian Kilrea told us he had been nicknamed &ldquo;Killer&rdquo; because he&rsquo;s so mild-mannered, the way fat people are nicknamed &ldquo;Skinny&rdquo; sometimes. Then he said maybe it was because he once hit a referee. Others tell it is becausehe broke up so many games in his eight years as a pro, all spent with Springfield in the American League. Eddie Shore might suggest it is because he was spokesman for the players during the almost-unprecedented revolt against Eddie last season. This may have urged Shore to sell out to Jack Kent Cooke, ending at least temporarily Eddie&rsquo;s long stay in the hockey spotlight. In any event. Kilrea, who does not look like a &ldquo;killer&rdquo; what with his handsome boyish face, holds little love for Shore.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03525/3110267-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="252" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Brian Kilrea</figcaption></div>Despite his feelings about playing under Shore, Kilrea served Springfield well with consistent, if not spectacular play, and, although he is 33, he was making the most of his long-overdue opportunity to move up with some fine service for L.A. until he was sidelined with a wrenched knee. Kings coach&rsquo; Red Kelly says, &ldquo;Kilrea is a complete player. He is not too good a skater, but he handles the puck well, makes good plays, shoots well, plays his position, digs and defends. He&rsquo;s very intelligent and plays a smart game.&rdquo; And Kelly adds, &ldquo;He says what he thinks, which is fine with me. He listens, he works and he cooperates. I have no complaints on his attitude. &ldquo;Kilrea adds, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a troublemaker as I&rsquo;ve been branded. I was driven to it.&rdquo; Perhaps it is significant that of the five Springfield players who made the L.A. club, four&mdash;Kilrea, Dale Rolfe, Bill White and Dave Amadio&mdash;were those suspended by Shore in the &ldquo;strike,&rdquo; and the fifth&mdash;Brian Smith&mdash;if not an active revolutionary, was at least a sympathizer. All five speak of Shore with a similar lack of affection. Still, few speak of Punch Imlach, Bert Olmstead or Rudy Pilous with affection, but all have succesful records. All are tough coaches and managers. Shore played tough and managed tough.<h2>Pressure Gets To Stars</h2>It&rsquo;s a tough game. Already this season, it has broken down two of the best. Toronto&rsquo;s Frank Mahovlich scored 48 goals in his fourth season. He has been an outstanding player ever since, but like Roger Maris, he set standards too high tooearly, too much was expected and the press and fans have been too tough on him. Now, early in his tenth season, Mahovlich, only 29, has been hospitalized for &ldquo;depression and tension,&rdquo; as he has been before. And Detroit goalie Roger Crozier, only 25, who has been slipping slowly, but surely since his first season has just retired after a bad start early in his fourth NHL season. Chances are they&rsquo;ll both be back, but under special pressure. The fans forget sometimes those are men with feelings out there on the ice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04380/3110260-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="263" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Orr</figcaption></div>We never have known any player to command more unanimous praise from hockey people than has Bobby Orr, who has stood up under the pressure of the big buildup admirably. Toronto&rsquo;s Brian Conacher high-sticked him the other night and war almost broke out. Boston is not going to let their &lsquo;wonder boy&rsquo; get pushed around, that&rsquo;s for sure.QUOTES: St. Louis goalie Glenn Hall: &ldquo;Hockey isn&rsquo;t any fun any longer. It&rsquo;s a business with me. It&rsquo;s a means to an end. I&rsquo;m making a big salary so I&rsquo;m still playing. I want to get my farm on a paying basis. I signed just a one-year contract.&rdquo; &hellip; St. Louis forward Lou Angotti: &ldquo;Glenn Hall is the greatest goalie in hockey today. And I&rsquo;ve never seen him work hard in practice. I don&rsquo;t know how he does it.&rdquo; &hellip; St. Louis boss Lynn Patrick: &ldquo;Hall has been playing too good. I benched him because some of my defensemen were beginning to take chances they wouldn&rsquo;t take if they didn&rsquo;t have Glenn to cover up for them. I don&rsquo;t want them to get into bad habits.&rdquo;MORE QUOTES: Phil Esposito, who was traded from Chicago to Boston: &ldquo;In Chicago I had to look to pass the puck to Bobby Hull whenever I could. After all, he&rsquo;s the greatest goal-scorer in the world. But I&rsquo;m a better scorer than most people realize. And if I can make more money in Boston by shooting than by passing, it&rsquo;s fine with me.&rdquo; &hellip; Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Andy Bathgate, who was passed up by everyone until the expansion draft&rsquo;s 17th round, but who has found a new lease on life in the new circuit, and who recently scored his sixth hat trick: &ldquo;I guess the last one was seven years ago, back when I used to be able to skate a little bit.&rdquo;<h2>Blair Tough Boss</h2>AND STILL MORE: Bathgate on Minnesota defenseman Bob McCord: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s still got a suitcase he borrowed from me last year. He said the bottom fell out of it. I don&rsquo;t doubt it the way he&rsquo;s been travelling.&rdquo; &hellip; philly&rsquo;s Ed Van Impe after a fight with Noel Picard of St. Louis, who left the ice bleeding: &ldquo;I was just trying to do my job and he was just trying to do his."&hellip; Ron Stewart of St. Louis after a session with his sore back with the team trainer and a stretching machine: &ldquo;It didn&rsquo;t help my back, but it made me two inches taller. I think I may make a complete recovery despite all the efforts of our great medical staff.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05281/3110253-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="259" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body">Murray Hall</figcaption></div>Minnesota defenseman Elmer Vasko, retired last year: &ldquo;At first, I didn&rsquo;t miss hockey, but I got the urge to come back around last Christmas. I decided to come back this year. Expansion wasn&rsquo;t the reason.&rdquo; Early this year, he spent two weeks in the hospital. The day he was released, he was on skates practicing. Two nights later, he played a regular turn in a game: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m notin shape yet and I got tired,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;But it will come. And I hope soon. I sure don&rsquo;t want to wind up back in that hospital. You can&rsquo;t play hockey from there.&rdquo;Among those in the hospital recently have been Earl Ingarfield of Pitt, out six weeks with a knee injury, and Brit Selby of Philly, out with a broken leg last year and a shoulder separation this year. Wayne Cashman, a young Boston forward prospect playing with Oklahoma City, tried to jump from one balcony to another at a motel, missed and fell 12 feet to the sidewalk, fracturing his jaw, knocking out two teeth and causing 20 stitches worth of cuts on his face. Did they lose the night before? People are walking around under Bert Olmstead with a safety net.Everyone thought Olmstead would be the toughest coach in the expansion division, but Bert&rsquo;s been holding up pretty well during the Seals&rsquo; 10-game winless streak. Meanwhile, Minnesota&rsquo;s Wren Blair has been the toughie, suspending Murray Hall briefly and fining four others for poor play &hellip; Congratulations to Barry Van Gerbig for re-naming the California Seals the Oakland Seals. That&rsquo;s where they play and what they should be called. It also should help stimulate local interest.No one wants to see San Francisco hockey enthusiasm blunted, but Oakland has the only game in town, and a big-league game at that, and if San Franciscans won&rsquo;t drive across the bridge to see a great sport in a fine arena, then they just don&rsquo;t care about hockey anyway. I imagine Van Gerbig will deny it, but they say he is looking toward San Diego or Vancouver as a future site if the poor early support should continue to be the case a season or two. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01757/3110298-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="414" height="3590"></div> &#9632;

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Central League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY JERRY AHRENS</div>NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash;Organized hockey at the junior level in the New York &lsquo; area is still in its infancy as the Metropolitan Junior Hockey Association enters its second season.The eight-team circuit, which had six clubs the first year, is exceptionally proud of the way some players developed. No less than three boys were offered hockey scholarship to leading colleges.The 1967-68 freshman squads of Providence College, Clarkson College and Connecticut University will feature such former MJHA stars as John Dunaj, Dale Leslie and Marty Manning.Dunaj played for Metro Arrows last season and missed a great part of the year due to an injury but in the 14 games he played at center he scored 6 goals for 15 points. Former pro star Zellio Toppazzini, now coach of Providence, caught John in action one day and was impressed with his performance. He is 18 years old.Leslie, a right winger with White Plains, was born in Detroit. He was being considered for an academic scholarship when Len Ceglarski, coach of the Golden Knights saw him play. Dale played in 13 games scoring 14 times for 25 points. He will be 18 years old this month.Manning plays both left wing and defense. Last season he was a member of the MJHA champion West New York (NJ) sextet. His total of 48 points was third highest in the league. Connecticut coach John Chapman scouted Manning. Marty is also 18 years old.Obtaining hockey scholarships is one of the prime reasons the league was started. It is hoped that many more will follow. Someday one of these may develop a player worthy enough to play in the National Hockey League.The MJHA has untertaken a 120-game schedule for its second season of play.The Loop has been divided into two divisions this season, with four teams in each section. The East Division is comprised of four Long Island teams &mdash; the Long Island Athletic Club Flyers, New Hyde Park Metro Arrows, Oyster Bay Gulls, and Commack Indians.The West Division is headed by West New York Raiders, the defending MJHA champions, and also includes the New York Greenleafs, White Plains Plainsmen and Riverdale Rams. &#9632;

New York Jr League Set For Start Of Second Year; Colleges Grab Loop ‘Grads’

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass. &mdash;A peek into the official family of the Springfield Kings hockey team is in order. Club president is the West Coast dynamoJack Kent Cooke. The Kings are advertised as a division of California Sports Association. Cooke bought the local team from Eddie Shore.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01595/3110353-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="274" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Butterfield</figcaption></div>John Wilson serves as general manager-coach of the team. A former NHL great, he was hockey coach last season at Princeton University. Charles Hill serves as publicity director. He also does &ldquo;color work&rsquo;&rsquo; on radio and TV of the Kings&rsquo; games.Which brings us to Bill Rasmussen, the play-byplay man for the team. He is sports director of Channel 22 here, which carries the Kings&rsquo; telecasts. In addition, Rasmussen has done U. of Mass, athletic games. Station WSPR carries radio accounts of games.Shore remains in the picture, though he sold the locals. He holds the franchise rights as well as his seat on the AHL Board of Directors. The Kings lease the Coliseum ice from Shore who holds the lease on this, too.Ted Shore, last season&rsquo;s coach, has a job around the hockey plant in various details. Jim Denver is in charge of public address work. He is well known as a member of the local Park Department.Jack Butterfield is still around. He is now full time AHL president. He has offices at the Coliseum. He helps run Springfield Management Corp, which operates the Coliseum. He helped raise the playoff pool in the league to a record $128,000.His major job is seeing to the Western League-American League merger. The leagues are playing a limited inter-locking slate this season. The merger, held up, should assist both leagues.&ldquo;We nearly took the NHL to court,&rsquo;&rsquo; Butterfield explained, &ldquo;over the Pittsburgh territory. The NHL cime in, took over and never told us what they would pay us. They knew we meant business with threatened court action. We must also settle the Los Angeles take over by the NHL for expansion.&rdquo;As soon as the problems are settled &mdash; and Butterfield hopes out of court &mdash; the proposed merger will go through. In the meantime, the AHL this season is a young, exciting league with a lot of younger players replacing the older pros who went up in NHL expansion. &#9632;

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Jack Butterfield Still Working For AHL-WHL Merger

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO. N.Y.&mdash;Injuries, recalls and a disastrous trip to the West Coast slipped the skids under the Buffalo Bisons after they had put together their first three-game winning streak in two years.The parent New York Rangers took right-winger Larry Mickey when Boom Boom Geoffrion came down with a stomach disorder, and the Oakland Seals recalled right-winger Alain (Boom Boom) Caron to put some zip in a sputtering attack.Surgery for a cyst on his ankle forced Camille Henry to the sidelines. A knee injury kept defenseman Bob Ash out for one game, and several others were on the limp with assorted bumps and bruises.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01507/3110429-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="257" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Clancy</figcaption></div>Out West, the Bisons lost four of five, and came home to learn that Mickey wouldn&rsquo;t be tack as soon as hoped. Geoffrion had resumed skating with the Rangers, but Mickey had strained ligaments in his left knee, and was off skates.Fred Shero, the Bisons&rsquo; freshman coach, seldom seeks out alibis for any shortcomings of his team, and never has an excuse.Yet, Shero couldn&rsquo;t help from feeling the Bisons deserved to win at least two of the four they lost.&ldquo;We certainly played well enough to win, just couldn&rsquo;t buy a goal or get a break,&rdquo; Shero said. &ldquo;But, I guess that&rsquo;s all part of this crazy business.&rdquo;The Bisons obtained right-winger Terry Clancy from Oakland as a replacement for Caron, and the lanky son of Frank (King) Clancy, assistant general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, scored three goals in his first two starts with the Herd.<h2>ALONG THE BOARDS</h2>Friends of Frank Christie, the Bisons&rsquo; veteran trainer, are making plans to honor him with a &ldquo;night&rdquo; this season. This is the &ldquo;Golden Greek&rsquo;s&rdquo; 21st season with the Herd &hellip; Owner Ruby Pastor of the Bisons was upset when goalie Roger Crozier of the Detroit Red Wings quit recently. Crozier played his first game as a pro for the Bisons while still a member of the St. Catharines Junior Teepees. Roger took over for Roy Edwards, who was ill, and beat Quebec in overtime although the Bisons were behind, 4-0, when Edwards departed. The next day, Pastor gifted Crozier with a suit of clothes. Now, Edwards is taking Crozier&rsquo;s place with the Red Wings.<h2>Point Race</h2><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3>(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 12)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02452/3110422-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="630" height="921"></div> &#9632;

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Recalls. Injuries Send Herd Reeling

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;When the Hershey Bears launched the 1967-68 season coach Frank Mathers was concerned about the scoring power of the right wing brigade of Myron Stankiewicz, Bud Debrody and Ted Snell.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04293/3110491-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="263" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body">Myron Stankiewicz</figcaption></div>So far, the trio has delivered the goods, causing Mathers to rest easy.Stankiewicz, shifted from the left side, has notched two goals, while Debrody has clicked for eight and Snell for three. Stankiewicz appeared in only five of the club&rsquo;s first seven games as he suffered a knee Injury against Buffalo on Oct. 27.The Eastern Division pacesetting Bears also have been receiving a solid scoring lift from the defensive crew of Bob Heaney, Mike Mahoney, Ralph Keller, Barry Ashbee and Pete Ford. They have pitched in with 17 points in seven games and rookie Heaney leads the pack with six assists.Veteran center and captain Mike Nykoluk, who had thoughts about retiring after last season, is the club&rsquo;s No. 1 pointman with a half-dozen goals and eight assists.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05241/3110484-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="604" height="928"><figcaption class="caption-body">MIKE NYKOLUK &hellip; Back In Old Time Form</figcaption></div>Nykoluk changed his mind about hanging up the blades after he was voted the league&rsquo;s most valuable player prize.Added to his scoring lift, Nykoluk has been turning in his usual tremendous job of killing penalties. He and do-everything Chuck Hamilton combined are as good a team of penalty killers in the loop.&ldquo;I was thinking about stepping out,&rdquo; said Nykoluk, &ldquo;but I kept myself in pretty good shape in the off-season and figured I could still help the club.&ldquo;My only regret is I was born too soon. Geez, if I was only a little younger I might have got a shot at the National League.&rdquo;Nykoluk is 32, but to watch the stocky skater manoeuvre around the ice, one would think he was much younger.Perhaps, one of Nykoluk&rsquo;s secrets to success is his ability to pace himself. He doesn&rsquo;t make foolish moves or go chasing the puck helter-skelter.&ldquo;Mike was bothered with a back ailment during training capip,&rdquo; said Mathers, &ldquo;but he shook it off and has been playing as well as I&rsquo;ve ever seen him play. He&rsquo;s an intelligent, heady guy who knows when to make the right move.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Changed Mind About Retiring, Nykoluk Bears’ Top Scorer

<div class="byline">BY VIN CIMINI</div>PROVIDENCE, R.I. &mdash;It&rsquo;ll be a long time before rookie Referee Bill Beagan forgets his first American Hockey League game at the Rhode Island Auditorium and the Reds hope they don&rsquo;t see him for just as long if not longer. As a matter of fact they couldn&rsquo;t be more pleased if they never see him again.Beagan worked a 3-3 draw between the Reds and the Hershey Bears on Sunday night. November5th and found himself constantly under fire from players and fans alike.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03374/3110522-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="267" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Buster Clegg</figcaption></div>On two occasions Reds&rsquo; general manager Buster Clegg and team owner Lou Pieri Jr. stormed from the Auditorium press box in hot protest of the fiasco which was being enacted below. However, their disfavor fell upon deaf ears and after the game an angry Clegg told Beagan, &ldquo;You did a lousy job and I plan to make a protest to the league about your work.&rdquo;Beagan&rsquo;s troubles, or should one say the Reds&rsquo; troubles, began in the opening minutes of the game when three Providence skaters were waved down for infractions in the first four minutes of play.The first was clear cut and totally warranted, but the following two would have made one wonder if the game was for real.For instance Choo-Choo Bouchard found himself helplessly hemmed into the boards trying to clear the zone, with a stick across his chest and the blade heatly tucked around his side. Whistle &hellip; The P.A. announcement &ldquo;Penalty, Bouchard, two minutes, holding. Time &hellip;&rdquo;On the ensuing faceoff three players found themselves locked together with sticks pointing straight towards the gray ceiling and heads facing down in the frustrating search for a lost rubber disc. Whistle. &ldquo;Penalty, Rogers, two minutes, high-sticking &hellip;&rdquo;Before the Reds knew what had happened and the crowd had ceased its booing, Hershey had scored twice. Upon recording the second Hershey tally, Beagan quickly turned towards center-ice, by the Reds bench. Meanwhile, Tony Goegan, who was skating in for a line change, stopped to avoid a linesman and Beagan collided with him. Tony found himself $25 poorer because the referee had skated into him.Thereafter the fans expressed their displeasure by littering the ice with almost every faceoff.A fired-up Reds squad had knotted the score when Pierre Gagne found himself atop a puck with a stick tangled about his legs-the instrument of an already prone Hershey forward. Whistle. &ldquo;Penalty^ Gagne, two minutes, holding the puck with his hands. Time &hellip;&rdquo;To put it mildly, a blizzard of litter rained upon the skating surface. It was heightened when a furious Beagan called a misconduct penalty on John Sleaver who was some 50 feet away, across the ice. The Reds&rsquo; John Rodger had to restrain a charging Sleaver from whatever he had in mind. And the blizzard continued. Some thirty minutes of delay resulted from the showering, and even some new ice, the contents of what had once been an irate woman&rsquo;s cup of beer, resulted. &#9632;

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Clegg Raps Official For Tie Decision

<div class="byline">BY JOHN WHITE</div>SAN DIEGO, Calif. &ndash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01511/3110595-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="269" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Holdaway</figcaption></div>Call it a myth or anything you choose, but there&rsquo;s something vital about a &ldquo;winning spirit&rdquo; in sports.And the San Diego Gulls, doormats of the Western Hockey League last year, just might have captured this spirit in the opening month of the current campaign.If this has happened &mdash; and if a couple of sound defensive moves by 3oach Max McNab pay off &mdash; the Sulls may be laughing over champagne instead of crying over beer next spring.It&rsquo;s far too early to start chilling any bottles, but as October ended and November began there were definite symptoms of recovery from the long Illness of 196667.The patient awakened on a Saturday night when 9,779 fans gathered in the International Sports Arena to watch the Gulls and the Portland Buckaroos battle.San Diego Captain Fred Hilts wasted no time wrapping this one up. He scored three times in the first period, and the Gulls stopped the Buckaroos, 4-2.Swell! But all this proved was that the Gulls could win at home, something they couldn&rsquo;t do last season.So the Gulls flew (certainly not unreasonable) to Portland for a test on the Buckaroos&rsquo; home ice. The prospects of two in a row were not particularly bright simply because no San Diego hockey club ever had won a game in Portland.Well, honey, you can rewrite that page of the record book. The Gulls did make it two in a row with a 3-1 triumph and there were smiles all around.On to Seattle. And watch the Totems wipe off those smiles.It is by no means impossible to whip the Seattle hockey team in Seattle. After all, at the time the Gulls took the ice, it had happened once &mdash; exactly once &mdash; in the Totems&rsquo; last 22 home tests in a row.San Diego didn&rsquo;t win, either. But the Gulls battled to a tie. And Seattle&rsquo;s, sizzling home record suddenly was 21-1-1.The Gulls flew home. It wasn&rsquo;t unusual except that they were so high they didn&rsquo;t bother with a plane.Their next game was against Buffalo of the American League, and 10,677 fans showed up. For two periods Buffalo wasn&rsquo;t impressed and led 2-1.In the final period, Buffalo was impressed. Sa ego scored four times for a come-from-behind victory &mdash; one of the marks of a championship contender.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02414/3110588-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="503" height="626"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK EVANS &hellip; Handy To Have Around</figcaption></div>Four straight without a defeat!In that stretch, San Diego had played even In the first two periods of games, six goals for and six goals against.But they had come alive In those vital final periods to outscore opponents 8-2.That, obviously, was one of the good signs.Another was that San Dlegoboasted the best power-play record &mdash; for and against &mdash; In the league. The Gulls, after a month of action, had scored 12 times with a man advantage and had yielded only three goals while short-handed.When the season opened, there was no question about San Diego&rsquo;s potential scoring power up front.Fred Hilts scored 4 5 goals a year ago to lead the Western League. Willie O&rsquo;Ree, obtained from Los Angeles, connected 34. Len Ronson sniped 32. Al Nicholson, one of the Western League&rsquo;s career leaders, chipped in with 25. Warren Hynes matched that. And even John MacMillan, never a top scorer, collected 20.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-07131/3110581-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="352" height="381"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB CHAMPOUX &hellip; Improving Every Game</figcaption></div>And there were no disappointing starts In this campaign.So much for the goals. That wasn&rsquo;t a problem anyway.But on defense, McNab had only veteran Gordon Sinclair, steady Jim Wilcox and a fine rookie prospect In Dennis Huculak. That defense without help, wasn&rsquo;t about to contend for championships.So McNab got help. For one thing, he added Jim Holdaway. And Holdaway, while no hitter or scorer, Is a steady journeyman.In fact, back in his Spokane Comet days In &lsquo;61 and &lsquo;62, Holdaway often was the only blueliner playing anywhere near the front of the nets. The rest of &lsquo;em &mdash; Larry McNabb and Connie Madigan and Sandy Hucul and Bill Shvetz and you&rsquo;re getting the picture &mdash; were out somewhere trying to chase (and sometimes succeeding) opponents out of rinks.Add Hold away and score one for McNab.Then the San Diego skipper brought veteran Jack Evans back Into action.Now Evans Is not about to beatWillie O&rsquo;Ree in a race around the rink. But a guy who has played 752 games In the National Hockey League doesn&rsquo;t waste energy making too many mistakes, either.Add Evans and score another one for McNab.Evans could help In another respect, too. The Gulls certainly don&rsquo;t lack courage, but they&rsquo;re not particularly muscular, either. Evans Is muscular. He&rsquo;s no longer the wildman he was back in his Saskatoon days when he drew, for example, 179 minutes in penalties In one season.But he&rsquo;s a very handy guy to have standing beside you when the sticks get a little high.That leaves goaltending.Well, Bob Champoux, who played strictly In the large shadow of Les Binkley last season, appeared to be Improving every game this year and In stretches was positively brilliant.And McNab also bought young Dave kelly from Portland, where goalies were so thick they were starting to think of forming their own players&rsquo; association.Kelly left Portland leading the league. He had played one game. He had allowed one goal. It had been scored while Portland was short-handed. And the shot was screened.In stretches, at least, Kelly can kill you. He had one of &lsquo;em for Portland In the tag end of the &lsquo;63-&rsquo;64 season. He simply played goal for 235 minutes and 22 seconds right smack in a row without an opponent scoring once.No goalie In the history of the Western League ever matched that shutout streak.What Kelly needs more than anything else, perhaps, is a little work and a bit more confidence after being shellshocked last season In Los Angeles where for the first time in history a hockey team played without a defense.Champoux and Kelly! Not Bower and Sawchuk. But not too bad.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06152/3110574-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="599" height="933"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRED HILTS &hellip;Toppled Portland</figcaption></div><h2>How They Stand</h2>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04242/3110567-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="633" height="280"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><h4>Wed. Nov. 8</h4>Phoenix 2 at Portland 8<h4>Sat. Nov. 11</h4>Vancouver 4 at Portland 2<h4>Sun. Nov. 12</h4>Seattle 3 at Portland 5<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><h4>Tues. Nov. 14</h4>Seattle at Phoenix<h4>Wed. Nov. 15</h4>Seattle at San Diego<h4>Thurs. Nov. 16</h4>San Diego at Phoenix<h4>Fri. Nov. 17</h4>Portland at VancouverSeattle at Son Diego<h4>Sat. Nov. 18</h4>Vancouver at Seattle Phoenix at Springfield<h4>Sun. Nov. 19</h4>Son Diego at PortlandPhoenix at Providence<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2>(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 5)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05186/3110560-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="629" height="535"></div><h2>Summaries</h2><h3>FRI. NOV. 3</h3>PHOENIX 1 at PORTLAND 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-08108/3110553-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="395" height="1041"></div> &#9632;

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Revamped San Diego Gulls Fly High With New Found “Winning Spirit”

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;Anyone who tries to dictate to a sports fan is nuts.He either takes the bills out of his wallet to pay for seat 23 in section 16&mdash;or he doesn&rsquo;t. It&rsquo;s his money and it&rsquo;s his choice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01491/3110626-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="279" height="467"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jimmy Armstrong</figcaption></div>But you have to wonder about the residents of the Ballard and Queen Anne Hill and Ravenna districts of the Queen City of the Pacific Northwest, Seattle.Washington football teams win games and fans debate the possibility of Coach Jim Owens walking on water. Seattle&rsquo;s baseball fans used to lead the nation&rsquo;s minors in attendance. The Gold Cup races actually create riot conditions in the city.Yet Seattle has the hottest professional hockey team in the whole wide world and you can buy a ticket, to put it mildly, for the Totems&rsquo; home games.There is no question about the claim to fame.After the first month of Western Hockey League action this season, the Seattle hockey club had played nine games and was still undefeated.The Totems had tied the all-time league record for a season-opening unbeaten string.But that is only part of the story.If you count the playoffs last spring and the stretch run during the regular campaign, you could look back, after the first week in November, on 32 consecutive Seattle hockey games.During that period, the Totems had lost exactly three times while winning 26 and tieing three.All right, fellow, you match that record in some other city with a professional hockey franchise.There was some deep suspicion in the early going of this season that Totem Coach Bill MacFarland was doing it with mirrors.Or look at it this way.In their first nine games, the Totems had been out shot six times. Yet Seattle was still undefeated.In the last four of those nine games, the Totems had outshot opponents in exactly one of 13 periods played &mdash; counting an overtime session. Yet Seattle was still unbeaten.On the plus side, the Totems were getting the jump consistently, scoring the first goal seven times in nine games.And Seattle was proving unbelievably steady. The players certainly didn&rsquo;t panic and start running around in their own end just because of one goal by the opposition.In their first 29 periods of play, by way of explanation, the Totems had yielded more than one goal in a single period only twice.The results speak pretty well of the goaltending of ex-Portland Buckaroo Don Head (1.35 after 310minutes of action) and second-season pro Jim Armstrong (2.16 after 250 minutes in the cage).The results also speak well of team spirit that makes up for Inexperience on defense.Now will someone please tell those sports fans of Seattle &hellip; who can be absolute nuts on occasion &mdash; about the situation.Just mention the figures &mdash; 26 victories, 3 ties, 3 defeats. &#9632;

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Seattle Ties WHL Record With Opening Season Run

SAN DIEGO, Calif.&mdash;Did you hear about the National Hockey League going into the song-writing business?Actually, the NHLers are just rewriting lyrics of an old favorite.They&rsquo;re going around singing, &ldquo;Standing on the corner, watching all the Gulls go by.&rdquo;San Diego Gulls, that is. And San Diego Gull fans would be more correct.After five home games this season, the Gulls had attracted 44, 825 fans to the International Sports Arena.That&rsquo;s an average of 8,965 a contest.And you can color the top brass of some expansion clubs of the National League a sickly green.San Diego last season set an all-time Western Hockey League attendance record of 291, 786.That was with a last-place hockey club.Overall, the first month of play had drawn 148,058 fans for 27 games in the five Western League cities &mdash; an average of 5,484 a contest.The unofficial figures for each city:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02420/3110657-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="642" height="263"></div>A capsule outlook in each city: San Diego &mdash; You don&rsquo;t explain success.Portland &mdash; A slump in the world&rsquo;s seven-season leader in minor league hockey attendance. Maybe some fans would return at the first show of real anger in defeat. Would you believe that a team with Connie Madigan, Jim (Red Eye) Hay, Mike Donaldson, Doug Messier, Cliff Schmautz, Arnie Schmautz and Larry Leach hadn&rsquo;t drawn a major penalty in 10 games with a losing record. The club was setting all-time records, instead, for dirty looks.Maybe one Buck fan summed it up best when he said, &ldquo;Watching the Bucks right now is like watching Fred Astaire fight Willie Pastrano.&rdquo;SEATTLE &mdash; For a wonder team, the crowd count was down. But once Seattle recovers from the annual attack of football fever, the turnstiles may click.VANCOUVER &mdash; Just mark time until the new 16,000 seat rink opens in January. A victory or two wouldn&rsquo;t hurt, either. This could be the most crowd-pleasing hockey club in the league.PHOENIX &mdash; Not bad, not great. Maybe a winning streak would start a small fire. And small fires have a way of getting bigger.Meanwhile the interlocking series between the Western and American Hockey Leagues was producing far better results on the Pacific Coast than back in snow country.Vancouver&rsquo;s eight-game swing through the AHL attracted a total turnout of 31,159 fans for an average of 3,895 a game.The first nine games played in the West by Cleveland and Buffalo drew 50,598 fans for an average of 5,622 a contest. &#9632;

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Gulls Pack Them In, 44,825 See 5 Games

PHOENIX, Ariz. &mdash;You take a teenager out of the Ontario junior ranks &mdash; where he was no superstar &mdash; and you put him in the Western Hockey League.You sent him out to face fellows like Jack Evans (1.239 professional hockey games as of the start of the season) and Phil Maloney (1,238 games) and Andy Hebenton (1,221 games).Naturally, the kid can&rsquo;t do anything but panic.Well someone forget to tell Walt McKecknie, rookie center of the Phoenix Roadrunners.After the first month of Western Hockey League action this year, McKecknie had boomed into second in the individual scoring race with 13 points on 4 goals and 9 assists in his first 11 games. &#9632;

Rookie McKecknie Dazzles WHL Vets

<div class="byline">BY MATT DENNIS</div>FORT WORTH, Tex. -&ldquo;It&rsquo;s great to be on top but in this league we&rsquo;re going to have to keep working to stay there. The competition is tough and all these young players want to go every time they take the ice,&rdquo; said Fort Worth Wings&rsquo; coach Fern Flaman after his club had gone through nine games without a setback.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02250/3110726-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="307" height="482"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roger Crozier</figcaption></div>They had just extended their undefeated streak to nine when the call for help came from the parent Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League.Goalie Roger Crozier suddenly decided to retire and with Roy Edwards showing four shutouts and a 1.33 goals-against average in nine games, he was tagged as the best netminder in the Detroit organization at the moment. So Detroit called him up along with forward Jimmy Peters to help Detroit who were slumping.Buddy Blom was assigned from San Diego to Fort Worth to play goal and Nick Libett also from the Western League club as a replacement for Peters.Rick McCann kept up his pace as the top point-getter of the league with four goals and 13 assists for 17 points over the nine games and Al Johnson, firing from the right side was the circuit&rsquo;s top sniper with eight goals.Forward Dave Richardson, who saw little action after coming to Fort Worth in the trade with Minnesota that involved Duke Harris, was sent to San Diego.A record-crowd of 6,892 turned out to see the Wings drop the visiting Oklahoma City Blazers, 3-1 with the Fort Worth fans going all out to support their strong club.TULSA:&mdash;Coach John McLellan&rsquo;s Oilers halted the Fort Worth winning streak at nine by battling them to a 4-4 deadlock and the freshman coach was pleased with his team&rsquo;s effort noting, &ldquo;They had to work for the full 60 minutes. There is plenty of experience on that Fort Worth club and I was pleased with the way my boys kept in there plugging. I&rsquo;ll be happy with a tie against Fort Worth so early in the season.&rdquo;Oilers were hoping that Gary Unger would be available as soon as the parent Toronto Maple Leafs shook off injuries and general manager Ray Miron inked Len Bazay to a pro contract after the rookie shone in his five-game pro tryout.Ron Ward&rsquo;s return gave the Oilers a lift as he scored four goals and helped set up six more in his first seven outings.OKLAHOMA CITY-The Oklahoma City Blazers&rsquo; power was cut when Wayne Cashman was sidelined for six weeks following injuries received when he fell from the second storey of a motel in Houston.Suffering from a broken jaw, loss of a couple teeth, cuts and bruises, Cashman had gotten away to a good start with seven points in three games.Defenseman Barry Gibbs was showing strong as a playmaker with eight assists in the Blazers&rsquo; first eight games and Ron Buchanan was chasing Fort Worth&rsquo;s Rick McCann for the loop&rsquo;s point getting honors with 13 in eight games.OMAHA:-With the addition of Billy Carter as assistant coach to general-manager-coach &ldquo;Jake&rdquo; Milford, the young Knights are slowly taking shape as a club that is improving.League president Jack Adams spoke at the Omaha Knights Booster club luncheon emphasizing &ldquo;Patience with you players In the early games as they are getting acclimatized to pro play and will be going all out before long as they came into this league with high rating in the amateur ranks.&rdquo;Bill Fairbairn was moving up and counted eight points over the Knights&rsquo; first seven games and Yuha Widing and Joe Johnstone had six apiece.DALLAS&mdash;The Black Hawks were strengthened when Doug Shelton was sent down from the parent Chicago club and he marked his return by helping set up a goal in his first game.Veteran pro Jack Stanfield was the club&rsquo;s top point-getter notching nine over the first seven games while Oscar Gaudet followed with eight.The Dallas club sent Larry Holmes to the Grensboro club of the Eastern Amateur League after a trial.MEMPHIS:&mdash;Ted McCaskill of the South Stars was fined $50 and suspended for one game following a stick-swinging duel with John Schella of Houston by league president Jack Adams.<h2>&nbsp;How They Stand</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0589/3110719-1-eng-US/f0020-052.jpg" title="f0020-05" width="410" height="1157"></div><h2>&nbsp;CPHL Summaries See Page 15</h2>Minnesota North Stars sent Len Lunde to the South Stars as a replacement for Parker MacDonald recalled by the National League Club.Forward Bob Chariebois and defenceman Jack Chipchase, loaned by Rochester, also joined the South Stars in an effort to give them more strength.KANSAS CITY: Coach Doug Harvey was pleased with the play of forward Frank St. Marseille who counted two goals and drew assists in the Blues first three games.Darryl Edestrand was recalled by the St. Louis Blues as an injury replacement.<h2>&nbsp;CPHL TEAM ROSTERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0668/3110712-1-eng-US/f0020-062.jpg" title="f0020-06" width="837" height="2259"></div> &#9632;

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Leading Wings Lose Ace Goalie Edwards, See Tulsa End Their 9-Game Win Streak

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div>KNOXVILLE, Tenn. &ndash;It&rsquo;s putting it mildly to say that Pat Egan is having his troubles with his youthful Knoxville Knights club Ln Eastern Hockey League action.The Knights are occupying the bottom rung in the Southern Division and unless there&rsquo;s a decided turn for the better, they may encounter difficulty extricating themselves from the cellar. Then to add to Egan&rsquo;s woes, he had some disputes with his former Florida Rockets club and came out on the short end each time.&ldquo;Our Inexperience is hurting is,&rdquo; Egan says. &ldquo;Our kids are Improving but meantime some of the mistakes are costing us games".At this writing the only Knoxville wins were posted over the expansion Salem team after three weeks of league play. That type of record wasn&rsquo;t good enough to lead Salem which had twice as many victories as Knoxville at last count and gave indications of improving as the season progresses.Thus the dreary outlook of a cellar finish faces Egan unless he can right his ship. While at Florida, Egan also had a last place team. But he has better personnel here, and it&rsquo;s just a matter of the team jelling. Since all the rivals in the South are tough, it behooves the Knights not to get too far behind as it isn&rsquo;t easy to make up ground.Meantime Egan was irate over Florida&rsquo;s tactics of icing the puck continually in a game here. Egan says Bob Sabourin, Florida mentor, did it deliberately to unsettle his rookies and keep them disorganized as the Rockets won 4-1.Egan was so upset, he promised, &ldquo;just wait until we play at your place. You&rsquo;ll need four linesmen, two of &lsquo;em just to chase down the puck. Any guy who doesn&rsquo;t follow my orders and ice the puck when we get into trouble, I&rsquo;ll fine him $50. I&rsquo;ll settle for a tie in Jacksonville. &ldquo;LONG ISLAND: Lots of action in personnel changes. Ducks traded Don Rozich to Jersey for Don Newman. Stu Thomas acquired from Columbus as part payment for the loan of goalie Gordie Dibley. Ken Leibel shoulder separation and coach Gene Achtymichuk (Groin Injury) on 20-day disabled lists. New forward Ed Lawson from Providence camp has helped front line. Marty Desmarais had hat trick vs Syracuse.NASHVILLE: Cliff Pennington, secured from Florida, on waivers, is proving real bargain. Captain Norm Ryder broke leg and will be sidelined indefinitely. Team hurting on defense and wingers Wayne Clairmont and Gil St-Jacques filling in. Matt Thorpe evidently has won goalie job from Harold Murphy.FLORIDA: Jackie LeClair&rsquo;s broken bone in his right elbow has sidelined him. Cummy Burton&rsquo;s knee bothering him. Rookie center Carson Ryan club&rsquo;s choice for EHI rookie laurels. Gordie Daily dropped. Team will get new home uniforms with Jacksonville onfront instead of Florida, according to director Gert Schmidt as soon as attendance hits 5,000. Harold White won sports coat for scoring first home goal of season.SYRACDSE: Garry Cooke broke his ankle to hurt club&rsquo;s scoring attack. John Gallagher dropped and some new defensemen due. Blazers gave Clinton a rough battle before losing, 6-5, but their goal output was highest against Comets this season.CHARLOTTE: No. 1 line of Chuck Stuart, Claude Ouimet and Art Hart doing well. Jack McCreary and Ernie Dyda are penalty killing duo. Winger Bill Malone decided to return to his family in Toronto. Stuart hit his 1000th point recently and is topped only by Dick Roberge among active performers. Roger Wilson had 49saves vs Salem and is battling Bob Whidden for goalie job.C L IN TO N: Ed Babiuk hates goals scored against him and he argues with officials about many plays. He was especially infuriated when Syracuse scored twice within three seconds against him. Jack Kane&rsquo;s four goals beat Long Island. Babiuk had only 13 saves in game. Ian Anderson nursing shoulder injury, Smith had 11 goals in the early going to top the league.KNOXVILLE: Dave Lee&rsquo;s two goals helped team win for the first time. Wayne Doll won the goalie&rsquo;s job after Ron Gilbert fluffed his chance. Egan is looking for help from two reinstated pros, and a Quebec skater. Bob Stoyko scored both goals in a tie with Greensboro. Mistakes have been hurting team. Ken Schutz has been steadiest scorer.SALEM: Bob Taylor ready after recovering from shoulder injury inopening game. Bob Zupan may get shot in nets as Roger Lalancette, last in the league, will have to improve to hold his job. Jim Jago&rsquo;s hat trick beat Greensboro.JOHNSTOWN: Jets have rough schedule playing 18 games in 24 days, including 10 on the road. Bill Ives, Ron Barkwell and Mike Crupi on disabled list. Bob Mullins nursing foot injury. John Nickerson worked out his family problems and will stick with team. Bob Delcourt scored goal in his first game. Goalie Pete Neukomm loamed to Fort Wayne for rest of year.GREENSBORO: Ron Spong after win at Nashville said, &ldquo;This is first time our youngsters played here. Now maybe they know a little more about what to expect.&rdquo; Don Carter and Don Burgess head club scoring. Goalie John Vosshadonly two saves in one period in Knoxville.NEW HAVEN: Don Perry expects Russ McClenaghan to bounce back from his bad 1966-67 campaign at Long Island. Perry has instituted a curfew on the road and recently pulled a bed check. Bruce Reier&rsquo;s goal won 1-0 game over Jersey. Blades looking for replacement for Benny LeBlanc, out with broken collarbone.JERSEY: AU Holdouts came to terms. Hec Lalande signed before a home game and scored a goal in 67 seconds. Coach Gordie Stratton&rsquo;s four goals helped beat Syracuse. Reggie Meserve penalized five times in a game. &#9632;

Knoxville Coach Pat Egan Dismayed By His Knights’ Early Difficulties

<h2>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE (Standings on Fri. Nov. 9)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01194/3110795-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="645" height="872"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-02140/3110788-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="660" height="1420"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><h3>Fri. Nov. 10</h3>Nationals 1 at St. Hyacinthe 4<h3>Sat. Nov. 11</h3>Drummondville 4 at Nationals 3<h3>Sun. Nov. 12</h3>Victorioville 6 at St. Hyacinthe 5LEADING SCORERS (including Games of Sun. Nov. 5)<h2>WESTERN CANADA JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 13)<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><h4>Fri. Nov. 10</h4>Calgary 5 at Saskatoon 7Estevon 5 at Moose Jaw 0Winnipeg 8 at Swift Current 6Edmonton 5 at Regina 2<h4>Sat. Nov. 11</h4>Edmonton 4 at Brandon 2Calgary 3 at Flin Flon 7Winnipeg 8 at Weyburn 5<h4>Sun. Nov. 12</h4>Calgary 0 at Flin Flon 11Regina 1 at Estevan 6Moose Jaw 7 at Swift C urrent 3Edmonton 1 at Saskatoon 4LEADING SCORERS(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 5)<h2>NEW YORK METRO LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0484/3110781-1-eng-US/f0021-042.jpg" title="f0021-04" width="655" height="755"></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Races

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0572/3110826-1-eng-US/f0021-052.jpg" title="f0021-05" width="643" height="766"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><h4>Tues. Nov. 7</h4>Johnstown 4 at Syracuse 1<h4>Wed. Nov. 8</h4>New Jersey 1 at Clinton 10Syracuse 4 at New Hoven 5Nashville 5 at Salem 2Florida 0 at Greensboro 6Charlotte 4 at Knoxville 0<h4>Thurs. Nov. 9</h4>Johnstown 14 at Syracuse4 Charlotte 4 at Nashville 4<h4>Fri. Nov. 10</h4>New Haven 6 at Long Island 3Syracuse 4 at New Jersey 8Clinton 5 at Johnstown 5Knoxville 7 at Salem 5Charlotte 4 at Greensboro 1Nashville 2 at Florida 5<h4>Sat. Nov. 11</h4>Syracuse 2 at Clinton 18New Haven 12 at New Jersey 5Long Island 4 at Johnstown 9Florida 2 at Salem 2Knoxville 4 at Greensboro 7Charlotte 2 at Nashville 8<h4>Sun. Nov. 12</h4>New Jersey 1 at New Haven 5Johnstown 1 at Long Island 5Knoxville 2 at Nashville 4Salem 5 at Florida 4<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><h4>Tues. Nov. 14</h4>Johnstown at New Jersey Salem at Nashville<h4>Wed. Nov. 15</h4>Johnstown at New Hoven Florida at Greensboro Salem at Charlotte<h4>Thurs. Nov. 16</h4>Charlotte at Salem<h4>Fri. Nov. 17</h4>Johnstown at ClintonSyracuse at Long IslandNew Haven at New JerseySalem at GreensboroFlorida at CharlotteNashville at Knoxville<h4>Sat. Nov. 18</h4>New Jersey at ClintonNew Haven at JohnstownGreensboro at SalemKnoxville at CharlotteFlorida at Nashville<h4>Sun. Nov. 19</h4>Syracuse at New HavenNew Jersey at Long IslandClinton at JohnstownFlorida at Knoxville &#9632;

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Looking At EHL Race

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div>TOLEDO, Ohio &mdash;When the International Hockey League board of governors decided in an off-season meeting to dispense with overtime play, they naturally had no way of forecasting the result.But early season play indicated that the elimination of &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; to decide overtimes would bring about an unusually large number of tie games.In the first three weeks there were four, giving visiting teams an opportunity to add a point rather than risk a &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; defeat, Oddly enough, however, two teams were involved in two of the four draws. Dayton and Toledo had played 3-3and 8-8 stalemates. Des Moines was involved in two, with Columbus 2-2 and Fort Wayne 3-3.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-04105/3110878-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="311" height="475"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Cyr</figcaption></div>Last season the IHL logged 32 overtime games. Of these, 24 were decided in the extra period, while eight remained on the books as ties.Computed at the rate of four ties in 27 games played, the IHL could be expected to engage in 35 tie games this season.FORT WAYNE&mdash;Komet offense missed the spark of LenThomson, who was out for a least four games with an injured leg &hellip; Merv Dubchak was the only consistent scorer with his 11th goal in six games &hellip; coach Ken Ullyot placed Bob Dickson on waivers &hellip; Defenseman Lionel Repka tied a game in Des Moines with a 55-foot goal with 1:28 left to play.DAYTON-Goalies Rick Best and John Adams had only 10 saves in a game with Columbus, only two off the league record &hellip; Bob Bailey had the Gems&rsquo; first hat trick in a 7-3 victory over Toledo &hellip; Newcomer Dune Rousseau was leading the team in penalties &hellip; Cliff Bristow had a streak going with five goals in five games.PORT HURON&mdash;Defenseman Guy James ran his consecutive game string to 644 &mdash; The Flags signed center Ray Cyr, seven-year veteran of the Vancouver and San Francisco teams of the Western League &hellip; The Flags had five straight games decided by one goal &hellip; Rookie Randy Prior, from North Bay Junior A hockey, was leading the team inscoring &hellip; Ron Vermette was out for at least 10 days with a sprained foot &hellip; Goalie Dwight Bearchell was given his release.COLUMBUS&mdash;The Checkers secured Serge Boudreault, seven-year winger with Providence in the American League&hellip; Released were winger Stu Thomas to Long Island and defenseman Sandy McAndrew to Jacksonville, both of the Eastern League &hellip; The Checkers were averaging 700 more per home game than last year.MUSKEGON&mdash;Joe Kastelic was near the 500 goal mark in regular season games. He passed the 500 total in all games last season &hellip; The Mohawks added defenseman Willie Terry, property of the Black Hawks and the last defenseman dropped by Dallas of the CPHL. Tim Rothwell was dropped &hellip;DES MOJNES-The Oak Leafs were scheduled for two exhibition games with Columbus in West Palm Beach, Fla, on Nov 19 and 20 &hellip; The Leafs went four straight home games without winning, a record for them in five years in the IHL. They had the Komets beaten, 3-1, with 2 1/2 to go but the Komets made it a tie game with two goals in 45 seconds &hellip;<h2>How They Stand</h2><h3>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h3>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01214/3110871-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="634" height="386"></div><h4>GAMES COMPLETED</h4>Wed. Nov. 8Des Moines 3 at Dayton 6Muskegon 1 at Fort Wayne 3Port Huron 3 at Columbus 1Thurs. Nov. 9Des Moines 2 at Port Huron 2Fri. Nov. 10Fort Wayne 4 at Muskegon 4 Dayton 6 at Columbus 4Sat. Nov. 11Toledo 5 at Fort Wayne 4Des Moines 3 at Muskegon 4Dayton 3 at Port Huron 5Sun. Nov. 12Port Huron 2 at Doyton 1 I Fort Wayne 2 at Columbus 7<h4>GAMES TO COME</h4>Tues. Nov. 14Muskegon at Des MornesWed. Nov. 15Doyton at Fort Wayne Muskegon at Des MoinesThurs. Nov. 16Columbus at Port HuronFri. Nov. 17Fort Wayne at ToledoSat Nov 18Columbus at Fort Wayne Doyton at Muskegon Port Huron at ToledoSun. Nov. 19Muskegon at Dayton Toledo at Port HuronLEADING SCORERS(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 4)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-02150/3110864-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="635" height="448"></div><h2>Hockey Races</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-03128/3110857-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="644" height="1820"></div> &#9632;

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Overtime Ban Leading To Rash Of Tie Games Veteran James Runs Iron Man’ Streak To 644

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST-CATHARINES, Ont. -The longest winning and losing streak of the 1967-68 Ontario Hockey Association junior A schedule came to an end within hours of each other and both involved teams using home arenas within 10 miles of each other.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-02152/3110923-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="280" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Ege</figcaption></div>Niagara Falls Flyers, after posting victories in their first eight consecutive games, finally came acropper in Kitchener and were trounced 8-2.In St.Catharines, the Black Hawks, who had won their first three games, then dropped seven in succession, picked on the last place Ottawa 67 s and scored a convincing 9-1 win.Kitchener Rangers, rated by many as the team to beat in the 10-team Ontario circuit, packed six goals into the space of eight minutes during the second period to spoil the previously unmarred Niagara Falls record.Jack Egers and Cam Crosby, the latter with Toronto Marlboros last season, scored two goals each Walt Tkaczuk, Mike Robitaille. Dennis Dupre and Don Luce added the others.Tom Webster and the junior A points leader Steve Atkinson produced the Niagara Falls goals.The attendance, announced at 6,500, was the largest ever to watch a regularly-scheduled junior game in Kitchener.Dale Power, rookie centre from suburban Toronto, sparked the Hawks to their win with a goal and four assists.Power returned to action after suffering the loss of six teeth and a 15 stitch cut when accidentally hit with a slapshot two weeks ago by teammate Jerry Korab, a sophomore defenseman from Sault Ste. Marie.Serious cuts however continued to plague the Hawks who lost forward Glen Sherwood for a week after being struck by the skate of Ottawa player Peter Laframboise during a flight.Laframboise was given a match penalty.The loss to the Flyers tightened up the top of the standings considerably.The defending Canadian junior champion Toronto Marlboros and Kitchener moved to within breathing distance of the Falls while Hamilton and Montreal were only a stride behind.Terry Caffery, younger brother of former National Hockey Leaguer Jack Caffery, has been the spark of the latest Marlboro team.Caffery scored three times and assisted on two others as the Dukes trounced Peterborough 8-4.Tkaczuk and Caffery are now closing in on Atkinson who has held the points lead since the first week of the schedule.The Canadiens, after a slow start, have responded well to the coaching of Roger Bedard and picked up victories over Hamilton (5-3) and London (5-1).Peterborough and Ottawa are both having early season problems.This was not unexpected as far as the Ottawa club was concerned as they are new in the league and have only one experience player defenseman Tom Blain.However, Peterborough has had a contending club for years and with only four points in their first 11 games could have trouble making one of the eight playoff positions.<h2>How They Stand</h2><h3>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</h3>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01192/3110916-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="644" height="505"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><h4>Tues. Nov. 7</h4>Toronto 2 at London 2<h4>Thurs. Nov. 9</h4>Oshowa 1 at Hamilton 4Montreal 4 at Peterborough 3<h4>Fri. Nov. 10</h4>Montreal 0 at Niagara Falls 0Hamilton 6 at Kitchener 1Toronto 4 at Ottawa 2<h4>Sun. Nov. 12</h4>Toronto 1 at Montreal 4London 4 at St. Catharines 5Hamilton 6 at Peterborough 3Niagara Falls 9 at Oshowa 4Kitchener 4 at Ottawa 2<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><h4>Tues. Nov. 14</h4>Niagara Falls at London<h4>Thurs. Nov. 16</h4>Jttawo at PeterboroughLondon at Hamilton<h4>Fri. Nov. 17</h4>Peterborough at Niagara FallsSt. Catharines at KitchenerMontreal at Toronto Ottawa at London<h4>Sat. Nov. 18</h4>Montreal at Oshowa<h4>Sun. Nov. 19</h4>Montreal at St. CatharinesNiagara Falls at TorontoOttawa at HamiltonLEADING SCORERS(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 5)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-03119/3110909-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="632" height="616"></div> &#9632;

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Kitchener Turns On Fire Power To End Flyers’ Eight-Game Run

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0023-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0575/3110954-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN NOVEMBER 25 ISSUE</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Pictured player.&mdash;Initials of Attwell of St. Louis.&mdash;Initials of Pictured player.&mdash;A Ranger defenseman.&mdash;An N.H.L. referee.&mdash;Extra Sensory Perception. (Abbr.).&mdash;Initials of a Seal defenseman.&mdash;Initials of ex &mdash; Hab Turner.&mdash;Nickname of Henry of Buffalo.&mdash;An N.H.L. General Manager answers to this.&mdash;Period of time.&mdash;5th and 25th letters of the alphabet.&mdash;One of the Rangers.&mdash;Ubriaco of Pittsburgh answers to this.&mdash;Initials of one of the Hawks.&mdash;Initials of Kurtenbach of New York.&mdash;Denotes number worn by Detroit Captain.&mdash;This Ranger wears number 9.<h2>DOWN</h2>&mdash;First N.H.L. team of pictured player.&mdash;One of the St. Louis Blues.&mdash;1962-63 Vezina trophy winner.&mdash;Initials of Lemieux of L.A.&mdash;Wears No. 5 for Montreal.9&mdash;Adverb.&mdash;15th and 1st letters of the alphabet.&mdash;Non Negotiable, (abbr.).&mdash;Coaches Quebec Aces.&mdash;This Ranger played U.S. College Hockey.17&mdash;Initials of Ehrenverthof.&mdash;Short for first name of an N.H.L. coach.&mdash;Initials of Goegan of providence.&mdash;Initials of Hall of Fame referee Elliott.&mdash;Number of times Tom Johnson won the Norris trophy.&mdash;13th and 5th letters of the alphabet.29&mdash;Denotes number worn by Claude Larose.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;SCHINKEL.&mdash;I.E.&mdash;SAN.9&mdash;N.N.10&mdash;N.D.12&mdash;KENNETH.14&mdash;ORR.&mdash;T.H.&mdash;WON.19&mdash;LEO.21&mdash;RATELLE.&mdash;D.M.&mdash;ABEL.28&mdash;MIKE.31&mdash;NORTH STAR.<h3>DOWN</h3>&mdash;SASKATCHEWAN.&mdash;HANNA.&mdash;NINE.&mdash;KENT.&mdash;LEN.8&mdash;A.E.11&mdash;DORNHOEFER.13&mdash;HOWELL.15&mdash;R.O.18&mdash;HARPER.20&mdash;E.L.&mdash;T.D.&mdash;EMMS.&mdash;B.O.&mdash;L.T.&mdash;I.T.30&mdash;K. A. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">BY DON LOBB</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01202/3110992-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="553" height="643"><figcaption class="caption-body">NORM DEFELICE&hellip; Eases Net Problem</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02146/3110985-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="582" height="637"><figcaption class="caption-body">GEORGE TRACY&hellip; Highly-Regarded Rookie</figcaption></div>SUDBURY, Ont. &mdash;Less than 2 months have rolled by since the Northern Ontario Hockey Association&rsquo;s five-team Junior A circuit hoisted anchor and set full sail into the 67-68 season, but in the short space of 10 games, fans around the loop are already hailing the emergence of a new star.Tommy Cassidy, a 15-year-old youngster Oshawa Generals just weren&rsquo;t interested in and who hails from a way-point on Highway 17 W, called Blind River, is setting the league on fire.In five games he has struck twice for the hat trick. In his first appearance he netted a trio to grease the skids for highly-rated North Bay Trappers as Sudbury Wolves launched their early season drive into a clear lead in the league standings. Then against Red McCarthy&rsquo;s hapless Eagles he rocketed the Wolves into sole possession of first place with a single goal in the second period and two in a row in the third as Wolves decimated Eagles 10-1.In five games the flashy young centerman has collected 10 goals and set up six others for a sparling rookie performance that has the entire league talking.When Cassidy led the pack from Sudbury into Espanola, a Paper-town, whose fan support had been dwindling after three horrible seasons in which they escaped total oblivion only because Joe Protuli pac&rsquo;s Garson-Falconbridge Combines were often worse, hockey fans poured into the arena for miles around, including a full contingent from Cassidy&rsquo;s home town, to see the brilliant youngster perform. He rose to the occasion.Elsewhere in the league, fans are waiting their chance to see the youngster and his mates, who were sleeper in the early assessments of team strength.At Sault Ste. Marie, where last year the Greyhounds won the championship in a walk after compiling an unbelievable 18-0 win-loss record that put them so far out in front of the pack the other clubs couldn&rsquo;t find them until the final month, Walter Dubas is having a few problems.Greyhounds had a reputation for being too tough to handle on home ice. The Red Shirts could get out in front and win, or come from behind. No matter what the situation, they could almost write 20 points into the record each season on the strength of that showing during the 40-game schedule.Right now they are batting .500 at home. In addition to Wolves, Ab Demarco&rsquo;s North Bay Trappers gave them a humbling demonstration of shooting and hitting in their own ice palace. &#9632;

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Sudbury’s Tommy Cassidy Early Scoring Sensation

<div class="byline">BY NEIL CAMPBELL</div>OAKVILLE. Ont.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0481/3111030-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="287" height="503"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Hway</figcaption></div>The emphasis on youth in the Ontario Senior A League this season doesn&rsquo;t seem to hurt the brand of hockey being played in the ten - team circuit.A new league rule requires each team to carry at least three players under 26 and three more under 25. Next year, each club will be carrying six under 23.Some of the youngsters added because of the new rule are helping to make the league better than ever.One of the most impressive rookies is Rod Graham, a junior B graduate with the Kingston Aces. Graham was the league&rsquo;s top scorer in the early part of the schedule.Toronto Marlboros. playing at Maple Leaf Gardens this year, are loaded with graduates of the junior Marlboros and the powerful University of Toronto Blues.Best of the Marlboro rookies are former Blue defenceman Doug Speyer and junior graduate Gary Milroy.Oakville has embarked on a major rebuilding program after last year&rsquo;s ninth-place finish. The Oaks are counting heavily on rookies George Tracy in goal and Terry Holmes on defence.Three teams in the league are operating under new coaches. Oakville has veteran Chicago scout Ed (Smokey) Wilson at the helm.Don McGregor has taken over from TED Power as player-coach of the Woodstock Alcans and Bill Wylie is coaching Galt.Despite the emphasis on youth, a veteran lineup has earned the Galt Hornets a &ldquo;team-to-beat&rdquo; rating.The Hornets have solved last year&rsquo;s goaltending problem with the addition of Norm Defelice, with New Jersey of the Eastern League last year.Other Hornet additions are Power and Vance Millar from Woodstock and Billy Hway from Knoxville of the Eastern League.<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2>Including Gomes of Jun. Nov. 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0565/3111023-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="631" height="734"></div> &#9632;

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