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March 16, 1968
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Denver, Cornell Top Threats For Title
DULUTH, Minn. - Murray Armstrong, for ten years a pro hockey defenseman with the New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League and Syracuse of the American League, again has his Denver University team on the threshold of a national championship. Denver, runaway winner of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association regular season championship, is expected to be one of four teams to gather in Duluth March 14-16 for the 21st NCAA tournament. Armstrong, now 50 and in his 12th year at DU’s helm, has had some mighty fine teams in collegiate circles since he arrived in the Mile High City in 1956. His 1960-61 team, his third national championship squad in four years, was generally acclaimed the “finest college hockey team over assembled.” But as the Pionners swept down the…
FAN FORUM
Russians Not On Par With Teams In NHL HOCKEY NEWS EDITOR: Reading the letter to Fan Forum in the March 9 issue by Alexander Kurchikov, the Russian exchange student, who states “NHL teams would find it difficult to skate with the Soviet National team, etc.” He sounds more like a Russian and less like a fan. The Olympic games were played by amateur hockey teams. The fact that the Russians play 365 days a year makes them a better team than the amateurs from the free world who have not played together as long. North American players are amateurs and practically all of them would not be able to even hope of ever playing NHL hockey. If the Russian team played in the NHL I do not believe they would do as well as some…
NHL Player Of The Week — IN THE EAST
Lorne Worsley is enjoying the finest season of his major league hockey career and barring a complete collapse, he should carry off the Vezina Trophy this season with the help of his goaling mate, Rogatien Vachon. Worsley, who had never scored more than four shutouts in any previous NHL season, already has six to his credit and two of them came last week in spectacular back-to-back performances. The Gumper lowered his season goaling average to a fantastic 1.90 by blanking the Oakland Seals 2-0 on the West Coast and then returning home to collar the slipping Black Hawks 5-0 in Montreal. The twin shutouts gave the Montreal goaling team a 12-goal pull over their nearest rivals in the Vezina race and again established the veteran Worsley as Canadiens’ top net custodian. THE HOCKEY NEWS…
Shack - Zeidel Stick ‘Duel’ Could Have Been Disaster
MONTREAL, QUE – National Hockey League president Clarence Campbell labelled last week’s Larry Zeidel-Eddie Shack stick-swinging affair “a near-disaster”. And then he promptly meted out a grand total of seven games in suspensions — four for Zeidel, whom Campbell claimed was “the aggressor” of the incident, and three for Shack, who did the retaliating. “This was without a doubt the most vicious episode of its type the league has experienced in many years,” Campbell stated after doling out what he considered stiff suspensions. “The force of any one of the blows could easily have produced a disaster. “Both of the principals are most fortunate that their injuries were of a minor nature,” continued the NHL chief. “But such conduct is absolutely intolerable. A realistic effort will be made to stamp out such behavior…
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