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October 19, 1968
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North Stars’ Help Could Prolong Clinton Reign
CLINTON, N.Y. — The hopes of their Eastern Hockey League rivals that they would be weaker this season have been killed by the Clinton Comets as they prepare for the defense of their title. As the tailend of last year, it was reported that the Comets were going all out for the title because of rumors that their ranks would be depleted considerably this year. Retirements and a desire of others to stay in Canada were the reasons given for this situation. Well, the reports were not 100 percent wrong as the ranks have been sliced but only slightly. And to fill in the gaps, general manager Wren Blair of Minnesota, holder of the same title with the Comets, has supplied the Clinton six with some outstanding fresh material. As a consequence, coach Pat…
Central Junior Loop Opens Play Without Cornwall Club
SMITHS FALLS, Ont. — The Central Junior A Hockey League opened its seventh season with five clubs three holdovers from last year and two new entries, but minus their league champion. Cornwall Royals, who won it all last year, have joined the Montreal Metro League, leaving the Brockville Braves, Pembroke Lumber Kings and Smiths Falls Bears to clash with new entries Ottawa M & W Rangers and Hull Hawks. First place finishers, Brockville Braves, appear to have been the hardest hit club in player losses. Andy Teeple, Al Ferguson and Larry Reilly were a 131-goal forward unit in 1967-68 and made up the complete forward line of the first all-star team. All three have graduated from junior ranks. Coach Danny Dexter places his hopes on a strong defence, featuring two second-team all-stars Gord…
Cut Other Team’s Goals Is Sinden’s Aim
BOSTON, Mass. — The Bruins were four exhibition games removed from the opening of their National Hockey League schedule when Coach Harry Sinden finally settled on the lineup he hoped would take the team again into the playoffs and possibly to the top of the Eastern Division. The Bruins then posted a 1-1-2 record and scored only eight goals while allowing six. For a team that had registered the most goals in the league this year this - seemed a disappointing output but Sinden was hardly disturbed. “I was a bit disappointed”, he said. “Because I want to see our team win every game we play and I want to see that puck going into the net. “But when I analyzed each game against what we had been trying to work on from the…
Montreal Castoffs Larose, Grant ‘Hot’ Additions To North Stars
TWIN CITIES, Minn.— A year ago, while dozens of fellow pros were finding a new lease on life in the expanded National Hockey League” Claude Larose and Danny Grant were virtually rusting on the Montreal Canadiens’ bench. But that’s all changed now and, off of what these two former Hab forwards have shown in exhibition games played by Minnesota, it would appear that the North Stars have themselves a couple of potential West Division stars for years to come. Going into regular season play, the all-newcomer line of Larose at right wing, Grant at left wing and former Canadian Olympic star Danny O’Shea at center, had accounted for 13 goals in 12 games. Grant, the 5-foot-10, 180-pound third-year pro out of Fredericton, N.B., accounted for six of those goals and added a like number…