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December 21, 1968
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Blues’Spiralling Home Attendance Could Put Club Over 500,000 Mark
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The St. Louis Blues, already the pride of St. Louis in little more than a year of association with hockey’s major league, are blazing their name into the record books in a variety of ways but one of the most impressive is their assault on the attendance mark which could top 500,000 for the regular season if the current rate is maintained. If the present per-game average of nearly 14,000 continues through the 38-game home schedule, the Blues will end up somewhere around the 530,000 mark which will equal or surpass the best attendance marks in the established division of the National Hockey League. Sid Salomon, Ill, who at the age of 30 is the youngest chief executive of an NHL club, told THE HOCKEY NEWS that season ticket…
Dillabough Bests Harris In First Confrontation
OAKLAND, Calif.— There was an interesting “play within a play” at the Oakland Coliseum Arena recently — the individual performances of center Billy Harris and center Bob Dillabough. The Seals and the Pittsburgh Penguins had traded the two players just a few days before and there was much interest in the relative performances of the two against the teams which had traded them. As it turned out, the two clubs tied 4-4, but Dillabough won his battle with Harris, a goal and an assist to an assist. It was Dilly’s first goal of the season and one of his better efforts since joining the Seals one game before. Harris, who had trouble getting started this season with the Oaklanders, played well. It was his fifth assist of the year and first point with the Penguins. How…
Smith Rewards Bruins’ Patience In Rearguard With Stellar Ice Play
BOSTON, Mass.— Patience they say is a virtue found seldom in a woman but never in a man. In the case of the Bruins relationship with Dallas Smith this is one great, big fallacy. Had the Bruins not been patient with Smith and vice versa the National Hockey League today might not be without the best defensive tandem in hockey. Smith, a 27-year-old native of Oakner, Man., has been teaming with the sensational Orr for the last two seasons. As a’ result he has been underrated and overlooked by most of the so-called hockey experts. But as far as the Bruins are concerned, Smith is one of the major factors in Boston’s rise from the depression of the NHL cellar. “I don’t think there is any question about the help that Dallas has given us in…
Movements of Players
NATIONAL LEAGUE PHILADELPHIA — Larry Zeidel, defenseman placed on waivers without recall. Earl Heiskala, forward, sent to Quebec of AHL. Pat Hannigan, forward, recalled from Buffalo of AHL. ST. LOUIS — Larry Keenan, forward, recalled from Kansas City of CHL. TORONTO — Mike Byers, forward, recalled from Tulsa of CHL. Al Smith, goalkeeper, transferred from Tulsa to Rochester of AHL on emergency basis. DETROIT — Gerry Gray, goalkeeper, and Hank Monteith, forward, returned to Fort Worth of CHL. Rene Leclerc, forward, recalled from Fort Worth. LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Anderson, forward, recalled from Springfield of AHL. Marc Dufour, forward, returned to Springfield. MINNESOTA — Walt McKechnie, forward, recalled from Phoenix of WHL. Fern Rivard, goalkeeper, and Bill Goldsworthy, forward, assigned to Memphis of CHL. Parker MacDonald, forward, recalled from Memphis. AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE — Gilles Boisvert, goalkeeper, activated…
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