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October 12, 1968
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Vet Willie Marshall, Brinkworth Must Fly To Get Clippers Up
—BALTIMORE, Md. Two players who will come under close scrutiny from Aldo Guidolin, the Baltimore Clippers’ new player - coach, when the squad swings Into the 1968-69 American Hockey League season, figure to be the veteran center Willie Marshall and young Bobby Brinkworth. Much attention will be paid to these offensive threats because both are looked upon as key factors in the scoring success of the Clippers for the new campaign. Marshall is the league’s second all-time leading scorer, and Brinkworth is regarded as one of the game’s more promising prospects. However, both skaters will have to prove themselves this winter, because at this stage of the game, their physical status remains uncertain. Each comes off a severe injury suffered during the past season which had a lot to do with the Clippers…
Champs Virtually Unchanged — Still Team To Beat
MONTREAL, Que — Despite the record horde of 110 players invited to their twin training camps, Montreal was expected to line up as the same old Canadiens in defence of the Eastern Division and Stanley Cup crowns. Claude Ruel, 30-year-old coach who steps into the big shoes of Toe Blake, loomed as the only new face on the club again favored to sweep the big-league hockey board. And that’s the way the team may wind up — with a pat hand of the players who raced from last to first in the second half last season and then through Boston, Chicago and St. Louis in a total of 13 playoff games. Talent-wise the Habs are as thick as ever. However injuries — the great equalizer in all sports — could force a change…
Cesare Will Be No. 1 But Four-Way Battle Looms For Backup
TWIN CITIES, Minn. When Wren Blair took his Minnesota North Stars to Hallburton. Ont. for the first 10 days of training camp, he knew he had one goalkeeper capable of giving him a National Hockey League Job most every time out. That man, of course, Is rangy Cesare Maniago, who proved his mettle during the Minnesotans’ initial NHL campaign with a regular season record of six shutouts ans a 2.77 goals against average in 52 games. And, if there were any dissenters at season’s end. Cesare must’ve made believers out of them with an even more spectacular 2.52 GA mark while working in all 14 of the Star’s Stanley Cup playoff games, nine of which were played on foreign Ice. When the North Stars had completed the Ontario phase of camp, it wasn’t long…
But Bathgate Release Proves Big Shocker
PITTSBURGH, Pa.— Things were moving so fast in the Penguins’ camp before the opening of the National Hockey League season that it was difficult keeping up with the happenings. At any rate, the Penguins dropped their big bomb when they handed top expansion scorer Andy Bathgate his pink slip and promptly went out and pried the captain of the Minnesota North Stars — defenseman Bob Woytowich — loose to shore up a sagging rearguard situation. Both moves were eye popping events. Bathgate, who led the new Western Division last year with 59 points and proved he could still play with the best despite what the critics said, was cut loose in a surprise move. Then it wasn’t totally unexpected when you stop to consider that the veteran NHL scoring great didn’t really finish strong…
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