LOOKING AT NHL RACE

Springfield Can’t Win Road Games

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — The Kings — nee the Indians — are surely up to their old tricks again, this season. We don’t know how or why, but is some sort of miracle that the club has been so close to first place in the AHL Eastern division. Putting it simply, the forces of coach-general manager Johnny Wilson just can’t seem to win games on the road. The Indians faced the same problem last season, which is the major reason they missed the playoffs. As the Indians they won just 7 of 37 road games last year. Surely, the Kings must play a lot better than that away from home the remainder of the schedule if they are to be serious title contenders. The team puts so much pressure on itself at home, where…

Blues Hope Moore Will Lift Team

ST. LOUTS, Mo. — For the St. Louis Blues it was a “red alert". They were being beaten to the punch, beaten to the puck and just generally beaten. Most of the squad was working like a band of Chinese coolies in a sand pit but to no avail. Things were so desperate that General Manager Lynn Patrick was expected to file a protest with the Security Council of the United Nations charging mistreatment by enemy mercenaries from California to New York. With nearly a third of the season shot, the Blues were searching for a route out of the NHL’s Western division basement. In the wake of Scotty Bowman’s elevation to the head coaching job, a move designed to free Patrick for other duties, there were so many player changes and line…

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