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February 1, 1969
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Leafs Better Prepared This Time-Imlach
TORONTO. Ont. — The Ice Follies were Toronto Maple Leafs’ downfall last season, one of the chief reasons they wound up in fifth place and out of the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in a decade. You see, Leafs must go on the road when the ice show plays their rink in Toronto. The rest of the time, they work on almost an alternating basis, home and away, home and away. But during Follies’ Toronto run, they take off for a 2-week stretch that takes them from one coast to the other. Last winter, this junket was decisive and crushing. They hit a slump from which they never did recover. On Jan. 28, 1968, Leafs scored a 3-1 victory in Chicago and moved to within a point of first place. They then…
Slow-Starting Vancouver Gaining Momentum As Canucks Blaze Into Battle For Top Place
For The Best In Hockey Reading It’s HOCKEY PICTORIAL Hockey’s Most Exciting Publication It Will Be A Happy 1969 If You Give The HOCKEY NEWS To The Family VANCOUVER. B.C.— In me medical world. 1968 was the year of the mass transplant of human hearts. In the professional hockey world, 1968 also was the year of the mass transplant — of human hockey players. The Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League shelled out a million bucks and bought themselves a farm club, the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League. Medically speaking, transplant of hearts was working out quite well, thank you, by early 1969. The other transplant wasn’t doing too badly, either. The most simple way to tell the story is this: Rochester’s Amerks last season won the American League championship. In the Western League, Vancouver finished…
Early North Stars’ Successes Gave Muckier False Security
TWIN CITIES. Minn. — In the wake of John Muckier being relieved as coach of the Minnesota North Stars by general mana ger Wren Blair after a 3-1 loss to St. Louis, on Jan. 19 extended the National Hockey League club’s winless streak to 14 games, there are many things that should be said. 1. Muckier started out in fine fashion by leading the North Stars to three victories and a tie in their first six starts under him, but then was victimized by a string of injuries which simply made it impossible to put three capable lines on the ice for long stretches. 2. By starting out with reasonable success—the Stars went from 3-6-1 to 6-82 in his first two weeks behind the bench — Muckier may have been lured into a…
Clippers Discover How To Win On Road
BALTIMORE. Md. — A funny thing happened to the Baltimore Clippers on their way out of the Civic Center recently. They discovered how to win on the road. Beginning with the January 5th game in Cleveland on an overcast and chilly afternoon and ending with a rain-spattered night in Hershey on January 18th, Coach Aldo Guidolin’s minions played six straight games away from home and didn’t lose one. Putting it the other way around. Baltimore’s hockey team won four and tied two in the current American League’s eastern division pennant chase and took a giant step towards closing the gap between themselves and first place Hershey. In setting a new club record for consecutive road triumphs, the Clippers got started with a 6-4 win over the Barons in Cleveland when Sandy McGregor broke a…
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