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October 24, 1969
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New Barens Proving Exciting, Hard-Hitting Crew
Special To The Hockey News CLEVELAND — The 1969-70 American Hockey League season is just underway, but already Cleveland fans are getting excited about Jack Gordon’s icers. The Barons are a different club from avear ago, They hit more, have more experience up front, and if their young goaltenders come along, they’ll have to be reckoned with in the AHL’s West. The main physical strength comes from backliners Jim Watson, Bob Falkenberg and Jim Niekamp who team up with the Barons’ veteran captain, Bill Needham, to give the Clevelanders a more solid defense. The most bruising of the four is Watson, a 6’2”, 210 pound “rock” who seems to delight in bouncing opponents off the boards. “We have more size and more experience back there,” Gordon said. “If we can keep the pressure off our goaltenders,…
Penguins Despatch 15 Skaters To Change Look Of Clippers
Special To The Hockey News BALTIMORE — There’s an old sports expression to the effect that “you can’t tell the players without a program”. It’s an old bromide of the arena hawkers plying their trade, which for the most part is generally ignored since most hockey fans are very familiar with their-“team” without the aid of program prompter. However, such may not be the case this winter in Baltimore. There appears to be so much new about this year’s Clippers, one scarcely knows where to begin. Jake Embry is till president of the club and Zanvyl Krieger has always been chairman of the board. Terry Reardon is the only general manager the Clippers have ever known and Bob Elmer, Woody Ryan and Joe Aman continue in their respective front office tasks as always, and…
Patrick Doesn’t Envision Another ‘Runaway’, Sees Kings, Stars Teams Blues Must Beat
ST. LOUIS — Lynn Patrick can’t foresee the St. Louis Blues at the head of another runaway in the Western Division of the National Hockey League. “I’d like to see the Blues in another runaway because it’s easier on us,” Patrick said. “But I think the race will be tighter this year. We have to beat Minnesota and Los Angeles; and I’m saying that even though Oakland finished second last season.” Last season the Blues were all alone in first place by the first week in November and then started pulling away from the field. They held as much as a 20-point lead nearly two months before the playoffs. After more than 30 seasons of toil in professional hockey that’s the kind of lead that Patrick likes. It was built by his energetic young…
With Green Out, Doak Looms In Bruins’Defensive Shuffling
BOSTON— A year ago Gary Doak fretted and fumed with a back aliment and a case of mononucleosis that limited his hockey activity to but 22 games with the Bruins. He spent most to the season resting at his home in Goderich, Ont. When he reported to training camp in mid-September his status was clearly suspect. Bruins’ management still was concerned about his back condition, although they knew Gary had completely recovered from mononucleosis. But in his absence last year they had come up with a young defenseman name Rick Smith and in the draft they had replaced Glen Sather by claiming Billy Speer from Pittsburgh. With Bobby Orr, Dallas Smith, Teddy Green and Don Awrey already established as the top four defenseman, there was a hot battle for the No. 5 spot and Doakie has…
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