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April 6, 1968
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Trottier Makes Sparkling Ice Return With Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y.- Guy Trottier rejoined the Buffalo Bisons for the closing 10 days of the American Hockey League schedule and made his presence felt in a hurry. The rookie right-winger was considered through for the season when he underwent knee surgery Jan. 29. Instead, he resumed skating March 4, took part in a scrimmage March 19, and played a regular shift March 23 in Hershey. The next night Trottier and Wayne Larkin scored two goals apiece as the Heard romped to a 7-1 decision over the Baltimore Clippers in a key game in Buffalo’s Memorial Auditorium. Trottier was the club’s top goal-getter with 13 when he was hurt. The problem was compounded by the loss of Larry Mickey, also a right-winger, for the season, Mickey broke the left arm, the same one he fractured…
Attitude Of Barons Baffling Even To Old Pro Like Glover
CLEVELAND, OHIO - Youth is having its day and the list of those unable to understand what goes on in the minds of today’s younger generation would stretch around the world-by the elongated route the astronauts fly. Add to those admittedly confused by youthful thinking is one Fred Glover, Cleveland Barons’ coach, to whom the vagaries of the youthful mind are about as plain as Sanskrit. Glover, whose team had to battle right down to the wire before finding out whether or not it would gain the playoffs, confesses that (he thought processes of some of his players have him completely at sea. About his team, which floundered badly at season’s end after leading the Western Division for most of the campaign Glover was quoted as saying: “With the majority of players, you can see…
Hockey Ad Lib
Blair Blasts Stars Struggling through the stretch at then of this. first regular season of expansion the National Hockey League, the professional in the infant Western Divison were suffocating under pressures more severe than most of than ever had known before. Few of them ever had earned the sort of prestige and money that were at stake As Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Minnesota, St. Louis and Pittsburgh fought for a pennant or for playoff positions, the strain wore on them. On a Saturday night in Minnesota, the North Stars lost a lead and a game to the Kings in the last five minutes. Manager and coach Wren Blair blistered his players afterwards, while rival Red Kelly’s crew whooped and hollered in their nearby quarters. Only four nights later in Los Angeles, the Kings…
Aging Gordie Howe Winds Up Fantastic 39-Goal Year
DETROIT. Mich. - Aging like the finest wine, Gordie Howe wound up his best goal-scoring season in 11 years with 39 goals. The Detroit Red Wings’ superstar right wing thus easily swept most of the club’s individual trophies, winning the Bruce A. Norris total points award for the 15th time in 22 seasons, the James Norris goals trophy for the 15th time and the Hockey Writers’ most valuable player award for the 13th time. Howe also figured to be named to the NHL All-Star team by the coaches and finished in the top five of league scoring for the 19th straight year, a fantastic achievement unequalled in other major professional sport. “It was a good year but a disappointing year’’, said Howe who reached his 40th birthday the final night of the regular schedule.…
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