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October 12, 1968
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Old Rochester Club Wearing New Canuck Livery
SEATTLE, Wash. — If you want to play it cute, you can put it this way: The six-team Western Hockey League opened its 1967-68 season with four “defending champions.” Four defending champions? Well, you can start with the Seattle Totems. In two years under Coach Bill MacFarland, the Totems have won two Lester Patrick Cups in the playoffs. They will shoot this season to become the first team in Western Hockey League history to make it three in row. Now add the Portland Buckaroos. The charges of Coach Hal Laycoe have won the regular-season championship the last four seasons in a row. The Buckaroos are aiming for No. 5. Of course, they’ll just break their own record if they succeed. No other team ever won the regular-season title more than twice in row. Now throw…
Sinden Sees Title Dogfight With B’s In Thick Of Battle
BOSTON, MASS. — Harry Sinden is starting his third season as Bruins coach with a mixture of optimism and caution. feels the Bruins experience of finishing third last year could bring them all the way to the top of the National Hockey League this season. But a slip could drop them again out of playoff spot. “We saw a lot of good things from some of our kids during out training work,” said Sinden. “We also seem to be a little better organized than we were at the start of last season. “But that I mean we have a better idea of what we can expect from individuals and what we can do as a unit. “But when you ask me about the race and how teams will finish I don’t care to pick…
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PASSING THE PUCK
BALTIMORE may be the next U.S. team to join the National Hockey League when additional cities are added … It is figured that one team from the United States will be accepted to go along with Vancouver’s entry … Toronto Maple Leafs tossed more fists, shoulders and hips against New York Rangers in a back-to-back exhibition series recently than they did in all of last season. Montreal Canadians are worried about the knee trouble that Terry Harper is having this early in the season. The play of the tall defenseman is of major importance to the fate of the Montrealers and they need a healthy Harper on the backline if they are to repeat last season’s successes … Bill Gadsby, Detroit’s rookie coach, is aiming for a fourth-place finish for…
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