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December 2, 1967
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Marotte Licks Problems To Become Hawks’ Top Man
CHICAGO, m. — For the most part, Hawk Manager Tommy Ivan has been a pretty astute trader. But he’s blown a few. Older fans will remember the mid-1950s when he sent current Pittsburgh Coach Red Sullivan to the Rangers in exchange for Wally Hergesheimer. Sully provided the Rangers with solid center play for several years while Wally barely lasted one season here. For a while this year, it looked as though Tom and Coach Billy Reay had goofed once more in accepting defenseman Gilles Marotte as part of the deal with Boston in which the Bruins picked up centers Fred Stanfield and Phil Esposito, and Wing Ken Hodge. Despite the fact that he’d spent nearly two full seasons in the National Hockey League, GiUes pulled blunders that wouldn’t be tolerated by a junior B coach.…
Clinton Team Takes Aim At All-Time EHL Record
CLINTON N.Y.— Unless they slump as some of their opponents predict, the Clinton Comets have an excellent chance of establishing the best won and lost record in the Eastern Hockey League’s modern history. Pat Kelly’s Comets waded through their first 16 games without a setback, just two ties marring an otherwise perfect slate. There seems to be no chance for a let-down on their part, but some players on the Jersey Devils think otherwise. “The Comets always start off fast,” said one member of the Devils “but they come back to the pack later in the year. Remember we took them last year in the playoffs after they had handled us during the year.” Some other coaches in the league are more pessimistic about first chance. The Ducks’ Gene Achtymichuk for one evidently has…
Worry Nearly Drove Irvine Out Of Hockey
LOS ANGELES, Callf.- The love of a good woman saved him says Ted Irvine, and the saving of the good player may have saved this first season for the Los Angeles Kings. Irvine has been one of three or four oustanding kids who have carried the club the first fourth of the current campaign. Tall and powerful, 6-2 and 190 pounds, handsome enough to become some kind of matinee idol before he’s done, the shy youngster who Is to turn 23 on December 8, has been thinking of quitting hockey the last couple of seasons. It wasn’t that he wasn’t doing well, though he might have been doing better. “It’s that I’m Intense, too moody. I’m a bit of a brooder", Irvine admits. “There was so much to learn, I didn’t think I’d…
North Stars Secure Catton To Bolster Scouting Ranks
TWIN CITIES, Minn.- The shiny new station wagon pulled into the parking lot at Metropolitan Sports Center in nearby Bloomington on the afternoon of Nov. 16. One of the two men who climbed out was easily recognized — it was Minnesota North Stars manager-coach Wren Blair, who earlier in the day had been presented with the car by an area Buick dealer. The other, a rugged-looking individual who appeared (and at age 64 is) old enough to be Blair’s father, turned out to be Harold (Hal) Cotton, who moments later was introduced to members of the press as the North Stars’ new Director of Scouting ^d field Operations. “We’re extremely happy and fortunate to have obtained the services of a man of Harold’s stature,” said Blair, who was associated with Cotton for seven years…
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