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April 6, 1968
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Larry Regan Comes Through For L.A. Kings
LOS ANGELES. Calif. — The spotlight never sets on the owner, Jack Kent Cooke. It also shines on the coach, Red Kelly. In the shadows, the manager, Larry Regan, may have been obscured, but he has not been outsmarted. The surprising success the L.A. Kings have enjoyed this season has been heavily Regan’s. It has been a great upset. Regan wasn’t the first choice for the job and he was a surprise selection. Few felt he as a rookie in his role working with a rookie coach under a domineering owner could succeed. After he drafted the youngest and least-known expansion team, he was expected to land in last place. Instead, with the help of an aggressive owner who bought him a minor league franchise full of pros to back up his scouted…
Bowman’s Player Moves Factor Getting Blues Into Playoffs
ST. LOUIS. Mo - When they write the story of the St. Louis Blues first season in the National Hockey League and how they muscled their way into the Stanley Cup playoffs, there will be a lot of Ink given to the likes of Gordon (Red) Berenson, Glenn Hall, Jimmy Roberts, Al Arbour, and Noel Picard’s special fan club will be hootin’ and Hollerin’ for their gargantuan hero of the blue line. But it could be the most valuable tag ought to be hung around the neck of Scotty Bowman, who at 32 is the youngest coach in the big time of ice hockey. Bowman’s promising career as a professional hockey player was cut off abruptly back in 1951 during a junior hockey game at the Montreal Forum when Jean Guy Talbot…
Kings’ Hopes For Pennant Dimmed By L.A. Recalls
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Kings tans have been rewarded well in the first season West Coast millionnaire Jack Kent operated a club here. The team got into the AHL Play-offs this term after finishing up the track the last few seasons. But we can’t help wondering what might have been here. The team looked like a sure fire cinch for first place much of the season. Recalls to Los Angeles and some injuries — but mostly recalls — depleted the local team. No club, not even Springfield, could afford to lose players such as Brent Hughes, Doug Robinson, Howie Menard and Jim Murray without hurting. They even lost Dave Amadio and Dale Rolfe. The parent club sent them down to help, then recalled both. Springfield did get back center ice man Brian Kilrea. The 32-year…
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…
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