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August 19, 1969
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Rookie Award Win Like Gold For Grant
TWIN CITIES, Minn.— Danny Grant, the young left winger who brightened an otherwise dismal 1968-69 season for the Minnesota North Stars by winning NHL rookie-of-the-year honors, is wondering if he can come up with a successful encore in 1969-70. “Yes, 34 goals and 31 assists (Grant’s 1968-69 totals) was quite a season for me,” said Danny on a mid-summer visit to the St. Paul-Minneapolis area recently. “I’m still receiving congratulations every place I go … and am trying to absorb it all. “The coming season? Well I’d certainly settle for the same kind of totals I had in my first year with the North Stars. “But there’s one thing I’d like to see changed. It concerns making the playoffs. We didn’t make it this time (tie for fifth and sixth in the West Division with…
AHL Bears, NHL Flyers To Share Hershey Ice Training Sessions
HERSHEY, Pa. — Winners of the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup, the Hershey Bears will open training camp at the Hershey Sports Arena on September 22, according to plans announced by general manager-coach Frank Mathers. Also training at the Sports Arena will be the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League who come in October 1. Pre-season games have been scheduled by Mathers and General Manager Bud Poile of the Flyers at the Sports Arena for October 4 and October 8. Hershey’s opening date will be announced after this year’s American Hockey League schedule is adopted. Mathers indicated that the Bears will have possibly twenty-four players on hand for the opening of their training grind. Hershey lost Chuck Hamilton, veteran forward and penalty-killer to the Detroit Red Wings in the annual draft: Hamilton then went…
NHL Coaching Tough Business, Kelly 8th New Pilot In 2 Years
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Coaching a National Hockey League expansion team has become a precarious business. At least that’s the impression you get from looking back at the original coaching lineup of the NHL’s Western Division. Of the six coaches who started out with the new clubs in 1967, only one — Minnesota’s Wren Blair — is still on the job. The newest Western Division coach is Leonard ‘Red’ Kelly, who left the Los Angeles Kings after serving a two-year hitch to sign a one-year contract as bench boss of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Kelly takes over from Red Sullivan, one of the West’s ‘originals’, and his task will be to lift the Penguins out of the doldrums where they have rested for their first two years in the NHL and into the playoffs. The West’s expansion coaches…
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Fan Forum OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY Founded October 1st, 1947 Published weekly except monthly June through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd. 1434 St. Catherine Street West Montreal 107, Canada. Kenneth William McKenzie Charlie Halpin President and Publisher Editorial Director Yearly Subscription Rates: $5.00 in Canada $6.00 in the U.S.A, and $8.00 in Foreign Countries. Postage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y. Authorized as second Class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa Second class rtiail registration number 1.327 Printed i n Canada Vol. 22 MONTREAL, AUGUST, 1969 No. 34 Revised Draft Plan Needed For Equality I have recently heard and read a lot about revising the playoffs so that the two best teams-will always meet for the Stanley Cup. I think a much more important matter is the draft conducted by the National Hockey League. If the Western Division quality of play is ever going to catch…
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