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October 24, 1969

The Hockey News October 24, 1969

DAVID FORTGANG, advertising Director, Queens, N.Y.:Helmets should be made mandatory. Ted Green&rsquo;s career is ruined because he wasn&rsquo;t wearing a helmet. Stick fights will always happen no matter how harshly the NHL tries to curb them. Football players wear helmets and nose guards, why shouldn&rsquo;t hockey players. It is almost stupid to play without them.JOE EARLY, beer vendor, Bronx, N.Y.:Everyone says that helmets are a must, but I like hockey when it is played without helmets. It is more colorful and I think the players are easier to identify. Those baseball players with their &ldquo;little league&rdquo; batting helmets and protective ear flap look like goons from Mars or something. Hockey seemed to be the last strong hold where men played with a devil may care spirit. I think this might change if everyone became osuper cautious and started to worry about his looks or his noggin.ROSS MARTIN, sports supervisor, Toronto:&ldquo;Definitely in any kind of, hockey. Don&rsquo;t you think there has been enough evidence around what with the death of Masterton two years ago and now the Ted Green affair that players should put a helmet on their head the moment they set foot on the ice.SHEILA BACON, hostess, Cleveland, Ohio.:Maybe if everyone had to wear helmets there would be even more fights. That would be terrific. No one could really get hurt and everyone would have a great time. Bobby Hull played with a face, mask last season when his jaw was broken and he did alright. Another thing, if a face guard was developed it would eventually do away with all those sunken cheeks from no teeth.GEORGE McANDREWS, recreation director, White Plains, N.Y.:I coach pee wee and bantam hockey and my kids must wear helmets. I wouldn&rsquo;t have it any other way. Eventually all the players in the NHL will wear the helmets because the younger players in the Junior leagues in Canada are wearing them. It is only the old guard that regard them as sissified Some of the coaches in the NHL don&rsquo;t like helmets either but I think that by 1975 almost everyone in the NHL will wear a helmet. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

THE FANS’ CORNER

New Subscribers To THE HOCKEY NEWS Guaranteed To Get First Issue Within Two WeeksHOCKEY NEWS Makes An Ideal Gift On Any Occasion. Give A Subscription To Dad Or Brother<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0291/2807979-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="588" height="422"></div>(Affiliations 2 Detroit 3 Boston 4 New York 5 Chicago 6 Toront 11 Minnesota 12 St-Louis)<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Sat. Oct 11Kansas City 1 at Tulsa 1Oklahoma City 2 at Fort Worth 3Omaha 3 at Iowa 4<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Oct. 15Kansas City at Fort WorthFri. Oct. 17Omaha at Fort WorthSat. Oct. 18Dallas at WaterlooF. Worth at OklahomaC. Omaha at TulsaSun. Oct. 19Konsas C. at Fort WorthDallos at WaterlooWed. Oct. 22Omaha at Fort WorthFri. Oct. 24Fort Worth at TulsaKansas C. at Oklahoma C.Omaha at DallasOklahoma C. at Waterloo &#9632;

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HOW THEY STAND

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01671/2806103-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02636/2806096-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1778" height="1518"><figcaption class="caption-body">The new hockey season got away to a flying start on all NHL fronts and here&rsquo;s some of the action in the Montreal-Los Angeles lid lifter. In photo above, goaler GERRY DESJARDINS makes save off stick of CLAUDE PROVOST (14) of Montreal. BOB WALL (2) comes in to help out. In right top, Wall and DALE ROLFE (6) watch puck along with JACQUES LEMAIRE of Canadiens. Below, big BRENT HUGHES (5) of Kings tussles with Montreal captain JEAN BELIVEAU for possession of the puck. Habs won opener 5-1.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03531/2806089-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="1157" height="1184"></div> &#9632;

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OPENING NIGHT In The NHL

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01142/2808348-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg" title="f0001-01" width="298" height="371"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-02115/2808341-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="380" height="556"></div>Just before THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press it was reliably learned that Dick Duff had announced his retirement from the NHL. &#9632;

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Duff Retires From NHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0350/2808379-1-eng-US/f0001-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">IT&rsquo;S AMAZIN&rsquo; GORDIE HOWE PLAYING HIS 24TH SEASON</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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HULL HOLDS OUT ON OPENER

<h2>NHL Teams</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04376/2806162-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="533" height="594"></div><h2>Other Leagues</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05263/2806155-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="525" height="255"></div><h2>Columnists</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06170/2806148-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="531" height="152"></div><h2>Other Features</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0798/2806141-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="531" height="211"></div><h2>Specials</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0859/2806134-1-eng-US/f0002-082.jpg" title="f0002-08" width="534" height="197"></div> &#9632;

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WHERE YOU’LL FIND IT ALL

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div>CHICAGO&mdash;Despite their large and seemingly impressive list of candidates the Black Hawks opened the 1969-70 season with only three defensive positions set &mdash; and ace scorer Bobby Hull still holding out.The Hawks went into their first NHL action without Hull, who was sitting tight In his Addison, III., winter home quite content to let the Hawks take the lead in their contract negotiations with him. Hull, whose services come close to $100,000 per annum, was reported by the club to have signed a four-year contract last fall and the next move was up to Bobby said the Hawks.Hull, in an interview with this HOCKEY NEWS correspondent, said, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s a lot more to it than that. Sure I signed a four-year contract to play last year. but Tommy Ivan knows at those very meetings promises were made to me that he Hawk management hasn&rsquo;t lived up to for more than a year. They weren&rsquo;t written into the contract, but they sure were part of the deal,&rdquo; said Hull.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0938/2806193-1-eng-US/f0002-092.jpg" title="f0002-09" width="242" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m through playing hockey. At least, I don&rsquo;t want to be. But it could come to that.They may be forcing me to that,&rdquo; he added.Meanwhile, Billy Reay and Tommy Ivan&rsquo;s crew opened its bid to escape the Eastern division basement with veteran Pat Stapleton on the left side of one defense unit and rookie Keith Magnuson, playing his first pro season, working the right side.The left side of a second rearguard was set, too. Veteran Doug Jarrett, turned in a disappointing effort last year, came to camp intent upon redeeming himself and lost little time taking over.But finding a running mate for Doug has presented one of Reay&rsquo;s kinkier problems.Based on his performances when young Ray McKay was brought up from Dallas late last year, the tall, gangly kid was expected take over the job vacated when Gilles Marotte wasmoved up to left wing.In fact, it was Ray&rsquo;s promise which prompted Reay to make the switch.McKay was expected to get some competition from veteran Mike McMahon and rookie Paul Shmyr but it was generally felt that those two would wind up fighting for the No. 5 spot.But as the training season developed, none of the candidates, including McKay, was able to take charge.&ldquo;All three of the guys trying for the job have been in-and-out.&rdquo; said a disturbed Reay. &ldquo;The real disappointment is McKay. They way he went last year, I just figured I wouldn&rsquo;t have too much to worry about as far as he was concerned. Now, I don&rsquo;t know.&rdquo;The problem may force Billy to keep only one of the three candidates and ship the two losers out, rather that keeping one of them as a spare.In that event, Reay would use either Marotte or Doug Mohns as the emergency defenseman.There seems to be little chance that Marotte will be moved back permantly to the position he&rsquo;d played since he entered organized hockey. Reay approves of Gilles&rsquo; willingness to employ his considerable bulk on opposing skaters in the offensive zone and wants to make sure he gets ample apportunity to do it.&ldquo;From here on in, Gilles is a left wing as far as I&rsquo;m concerned,&rdquo; said Billy. &ldquo;He hits more guys during one shift that a lot of our forwards did during entire games last year. We have to get that kind of play from out bigger forwards this year if we&rsquo;re going to have any hope of moving up.&rdquo;Magnuson&rsquo;s training camp performances were little short of astounding, considering the fact that at this time last year he was preparing to help Denver University bid for the NCAA title.HAWK TALK &mdash; The Hawks&rsquo; right wing corps was beefed up during the next-to-last week of camp when they managed to sign Gerry Pinder, the former Canadian National team star, who had balked at earlier efforts to get him into camp. He succumbed to Ivan&rsquo;s blandishments during the Hawks&rsquo; two-game trip to Vancounver. Besides Magnuson, the Hawks chapter of the Denver U. alumni association includes left wing Jim Wiste and right wing Cliff Koroll, both of whom appear to have won spots on the team after a season of minor league play with Dallas&rsquo; Central League playoff winners. &#9632;

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‘Holdout’ Hull Misses Opener, Wants Hawks To Keep Promises

<div class="byline">BY BOB HARRIS</div>MONTREAL &mdash;The 1955-56 edition of the Montreal Canadiens was the greatest team in National Hockey League history by a slim margin over the 1951-52 Detroit Red Wings and 1940-41 Boston Bruins in the opinion of veteran hockey managers, coaches, players, writers and broadcasters polled for a special feature in the October issue of HOCKEY WORLD.The &rsquo;56 Canadiens were managed by Frank Selke and coached by Toe Blake. Playing a 70-game schedule, they won 45 games, lost 15 and tied 10 to win the pennant by a whopping 24 points. Then, in the postseason playoffs, they won the Stanley Cup in ten games over two series.That was the first pennant the Canadiens had won in eight seasons and ended a string of seven straight pennants won by Detroit. And the nucleus of that Canadien team lost the pennant to Detroit the following season, but then went on to win the next five straight and six of the next seven seasons.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01673/2806231-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="240" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toe Blake</figcaption></div>Beginning with that 1956 season, however, the Canadiens did win five consecutive Stanley Cup playoff triumphs.That season, Jean Beliveau, then 25 and completing his third professional campaign, scored what was to be his all-time high of 47 goals. He also set up 41 others and totalled 88 points to win the league scoring title. And he was named the league&rsquo;s most valuable player and, of course, all-star center. He then led all playoff scorers with 12 goals and 19 points.Maurice Richard, who had lost the scoring title when suspended the previous season, touching off the famed Montreal riot, added 38 goals, and Bernie Geoffrion added 29 and young Henri Richard 19. Richard was third in the scoring race with 71 points, while Bert Olmstead, who scored 14 goals, was fourth with 70 points, and Geoffrion seventh with 62 points.Doug Harvey, then a 31-year-old veteran of nine NHL seasons, scored five goals, set up 39 others and was named the outstanding defenseman in the circuit. Tom Johnson was another star of the rearguard. Jacques Plante permitted only 1.86 goals per game on the average to win the first of five straight Vezina Trophies as hockey&rsquo;s outstanding goalkeeper. He also had seven shutouts and two more in the playoffs. He was 27.Harvey and Geoffrion were the &ldquo;point men&rdquo; on the most potent power-play in history. Harvey and Plante joined Beliveau on the first All-Star team, while Johnson and Olmstead made the second team. Dickie Moore, Butch Bouchard, Bob Turner, Jean-Guy Talbot, Dollard St. Laurent, Floyd Curry, Jackie Leclair, Ken Mosdell, Don Marshall and Claude Provost also were on that team.Beliveau and Provost are the only players still remaining on the Canadiens from that great team, though several others were still active last year or still will be active this year, including Marshall and Plante.Beginning with the 1949-50 season, Detroit Red Wings had won seven straight pennants, and eight out of nine, and four Stanley Cups, and many rate the nucleus of this the best team ever. By consensus, our voters rated the 1951-52 Wings second by only a shade to Montreal, and the 1955 Wings the 11th best team of all time.The 1952 Wings were managed by Jack Adams and coached by Tommy Ivan. The 1952 team won 44 games, lost 14 and tied 12, and won the pennant by 22 points over that year&rsquo;s Montreal club. Then the Wings swept the Stanley Cup series in eight straight games, blanking Toronto 3-0 to open the first round and blanking Montreal 3-0 and 3-0 to end the final round.Terry Sawchuk won the Vezina Trophy with a 1.90 record and had 12 shutouts in the regular season and four more in the playoffs. Swift Red Killy scored 17 goals, assisted on 37 and an chored the defense. Gordie Howe scored 43 goals, assisted on 43 more and won the scoring title with 86 points. He also was named MVP. Ted Lindsay had 24 goals and Sid Abel 23.Sawchuk, Kelly, Howe and Lindsay all made the first AllStar team. Others on the team included Marcel Pronovost, Tony Lewswick, Metro Prystai, Marty Pavlich, Glen Skow, Alex Delvecchio, Vic Stasiuk, Johnny Wilson, Bob Goldham, Leo Reise, Ben Woit and Larry Zeidel.The 1941 Bruins, rated by many the best, set NHL records with 23 games without a defeat and 15 straight on the road without a loss. They won their fourth straight pennant with 27 wins, eight losses and 13 ties, in the days of a 48-game schedule, and won the Stanley Cup in 11 games, sweeping Detroit four straight in the final after sqeezing by Toronto in the opening round.Art Ross was the manager and Cooney Weiland the coach of that great club. Bill Cowley was scoring champion and MVP. The team&rsquo;s offense was keyed around &ldquo;The Kraut Line&rdquo; of Milt Schmidt, Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer. Dit Clapper anchored the defense,.&rsquo;While Frankie &ldquo;Mr. Zero&rdquo; Brimsek manned the nets.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02555/2806224-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1195" height="2059"><figcaption class="caption-body">The greatest single living hockey player of his era was MAURICE &lsquo;ROCKET&rsquo; RICHARD, who was a part of the all-time top hockey team in history &mdash; the 1955-56 Montreal Canadiens. Richard retired from the NHL after scoring an amazing 544 league and 82 playoff goals for a grand total of 626.</figcaption></div><h2>TOP 10 TEAMS</h2>1 &mdash; 1956 Montreal Canadiens2 &mdash; 1952 Detroit Red Wings3 &mdash; 1941 Boston Bruins4 &mdash; 1948 Toronto Maple Leafs5 &mdash; 1928 New York Rangers6 &mdash; 1929 Boston Bruins7 &mdash; 1932 Montreal Canadiens8 &mdash; 1927 Ottawa Senators9 &mdash; 1944 Montreal Canadiens10 &mdash; 1967 Chicago Black Hawks &#9632;

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The 1955-56 Montreal Canadiens Ranked Over ’51-’52 Wings In Poll

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01735/2806283-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="377" height="443"></div>&bull; TIM HORTON is reported to have signed a contract with Toronto Maple Leafs calling for a salary of $70,000 a year, which would make him the highest paid player in the history of the Toronto Maple Leafs by a wide margin &hellip; Conn Smythe, his son, Stafford, and Hap Day, three former executives with the Toronto Maple Leafs, lost a tax case to the Canadian Government recently. It was a 1961 income tax levy on $728,652 in undistributed income from a company they once jointly owned &hellip; The elder Smythe and Day are both members of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame &hellip; Toe Blake will work as an analyst with the Montreal crew of Hockey Night in Canada&hellip; Danny Gallivan and Dick Irvin are the regular broadcasters &hellip; and ex-star Dickie Moore also acts as an analyst from time to time &hellip; Bob Goldham will be color man on the Toronto crew of Hockey Night in Canada along with Bill Hewitt. The former defenseman replaces Brian McFarlane &hellip; Ward Cornell and Jack Dennett will again serve as host intermission guests &hellip; Canadiens&rsquo; Jean Beliveau was released from hospital with a clean bill of health after undergoing a complete medical checkup &hellip; Hal Laycoe&rsquo;s son Bob has been named assistant football coach at the university of Saskatchewan. The 47-year-old rookie Los Angeles coach believes his team will start the season as one of the best conditioned in the NHL &hellip; Laycoe considers his new job &ldquo;the biggest coaching challenge I have ever faced, but I&rsquo;m looking forward to it&rdquo; &hellip; Minnesota North Stars will ice the youngest team in the National Hockey League &hellip; The Stars opened the season with a blueline brigade changed 100 percent since the season opened a year ago. New faces on the blueline include such names as Barry Gibbs, Tom Polanic, Dick Redmond and John Miszuk. Returnees Leo Boivin and Lou Nanne were not with the club when the last season opened &hellip; Newcomers up front to crack the North Stars lineup include wingers Bob Barlow and Tom Williams and center Charlie Burns.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02686/2806276-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="251" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hap Day</figcaption></div>&bull; CLARENCE CAMPBELL, presi dent of the National Hockey League, received the Al Laney Award for long and dedicated service to hockey recently at the annual dinner of the Metropolitan New York Hockey Writers Association &hellip; Oakland Seals signed a contract to air 30 of their home games on radio in San Francisco &hellip; Scheduled for broadcast are all the Seals&rsquo; weekend games, both home and away &hellip; &ldquo;This now means that hockey fans throughout Northern California will come to rely on KGO Radio for weekend Seals&rsquo; hockey,&rdquo; said Bill Creasy, Jr., president of the Oakland Seals, in making the announcement &hellip; Following the procedure in vogue for years in Toronto, the three stars will skate out on the ice after all Canadiens&rsquo; games at the Montreal Forum this season &hellip; Henri Richard had a great exhibition series. The veteran Montreal center was the top point getter on the Stanley Cup champs &hellip; Big things are expected of Mickey Redmond by the Habs &hellip; Frank Gallagher, bossman of the Flint Generals, newest entry in the International Hockey League, thinks Flint will be one of the strongest franchises in that league. Other IHL governors feel much the same way&hellip; Vic Tisler, who played with Springfield of the American Hockey League last season, has decided to remain in Europe after finding his long-missing father behind the Iron Curtain &hellip; Crowds of 14,034 and 10,474 turned out to see the Vancouver Canucks and Chicago Black Hawks play successive exhibition games at the Vancouver Arena &hellip; Many of the West Coast sports editors and writers think the $6 million asking price for an NHL franchise is far too high and are urging the Canucks to forget the whole thing and remain in the Western Hockey League &hellip; They say Wayne Hillman must produce for Philadelphia Flyers this season or he&rsquo;ll be out of the league &hellip; Jim Gordon will broadcast New York Ranger games over cable TV this year in a limited New-York area. It is a forerunner to pay TV.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03588/2806269-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="251" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Creasy</figcaption></div>&bull; THE KINGS have officially filed tampering charges with the NHL against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the case of defenseman Bill White, who walked out of the Los Angeles&rsquo; camp at Barrie, Ont., in a hassle over contract. White, who was earning close to $30,000, signed a new contract last season for four years. This term he wanted to renegotiate the pact with the Kings and they turned him down. The club felt his play last season didn&rsquo;t warrant it and they did not care to set a precedent. The Leafs were reportedly interested in White &mdash; before Tim Horton quit his retirement and signed last week. Where does that leave White now? &hellip; The Seattle Totems of the Western Hockey League don&rsquo;t miss a bet. Club general-manager-coach Bill MacFarland, reacting to the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis affair in New York recently when she is alleged to have flipped a newspaper photographer with a judo hold, sent a telegram by Western Union to Mrs. Onassis in New York. It read in part, &ldquo;this is firm offer for you to sign with the Seattle Totems to play defense. Please advise your interest and availability soonest.&rdquo; McFarland also whipped off a wire to the news photog &mdash; Mel Finkelstein. It said in part: &ldquo;Seattle Totems interested in signing Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis to play defense. Would you please give us a scouting report on Mrs. Onassis. Please phone collect.&rdquo; &hellip; The Montreal Canadiens were reluctant to cut big Pete Mahovlich, brother of Detroit&rsquo;s &lsquo;Big M&rsquo; before the NHL opener. Pete had a tremendous training camp and no doubt will be recalled promptly if injuries hit the club &hellip; This season could be the biggest in NHL history for new faces excluding the expansion year of course. A look at the 12 league teams&rsquo; opening game rosters showed a total of 44 newscomers taking ice for the first time.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04513/2806262-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="223" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill White</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Published weekly except monthly June through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd. 1434 St. Catherine Street West Montreal 107, Canada.Kenneth William McKenziePresident and PublisherCharlie HalpinEditorial DirectorYearly SUBSCRIPTION Rates: $6.00 in Canada $7.00 in the U.S.A, and $9.00 in Foreign Countries.Postage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y.Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Second class mail registration number 1327 Printed in CanadaVol. 23 MONTREAL, OCTOBER 24, 1969 No. 3<h2>Automatic Suspension For Stick Swingers</h2>Regarding the recent brawls in exhibition hockey, I would like to recommend that an automatic suspension of two games without pay be imposed on anyone committing a high-sticking or spearing penalty and drawing blood, besides the regular fine.One reads of old hockey stars stating that today&rsquo;s game is much faster but not as rough. Maybe it isn&rsquo;t as rough but it is vicious and hazardous for some players to get in a fight or antagonize some of today&rsquo;s players. Then we hear of some coaches saying their players are marked and the referees are watching them too close. How can some of these players escape unnoticed?It is also ridiculous to see two goalies getting in a ruckus, like Giacomin and Worsley last year. What could they have against each other? They never come into contact with each other.I hate to say it, but is hockey, the greatest all-time sport, beginning to adopt some of the fake grandstand tactics of wrestling to keep the fans interested? Let us sincerely hope not.DAVID HOFFMAN, Sheho, Sask.<h2>Wants The Russians To Oppose Rangers</h2>I&rsquo;m putting in my two cents worth about the Russian hockey team. I saw them play once at the old Garden at 50th street against the American team. Jack McCartan was the goalie. It looked like a good game and I thought Uncle Sam&rsquo;s boys might win. I don&rsquo;t remember the score but it was no contest.The Russians are supposed to be an amateur team. I don&rsquo;t know about that, but after reading the September issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS I will agree that any NHL team could not only beat the Russians, but murder them. I would very much like to see them play the New York Rangers. That would be a good test for any Russian team.SID SEIDMAN, Bronx, N.Y.<h2>NHL Should Ban Stick Swinging</h2>The recent outbreak of stick swinging in hockey has been alarming and very dangerous. I happened to be on hand for both instances when Wayne Maki of St. Louis connected and put Ted Green of Boston out of commission for the season. I was also there when Dennis Potvin of the junior 67&rsquo;s cracked a St. Catharines player, Fran McKay, over the head and gave him a concussion.Both events were vicious and I am not in a position to judge who was right and who was wrong. But I can say one thing. It&rsquo;s time they got tough with stick swingers and banned them from hockey for all time.No wonder the Junior players swing at one another. They see their big brothers doing it at the NHL level and figure it&rsquo;s the thing to do.Let&rsquo;s have stern action in this serious matter. Ban all the stick swingers in hockey. We don&rsquo;t need them.ARTHUR PRICE, Ottawa, Ont.<h2>NHL Parity Still Five Years Away</h2>I don&rsquo;t think the NHL has done enough to give the expansion teams a chance to catch up to the established clubs.This was obvious after the first two years when the Establishment teams held a wide edge over the new entrants. Montreal&rsquo;s decisive victory over the strong St. Louis Blues last spring in the Stanley Cup final was further proof that the West isn&rsquo;t ready to skate with the East and won&rsquo;t be for another five years.Why not reduce the protected number of players on each of the old clubs to 10 and only one goalkeeper. That would permit the Western teams to grab off some of the established team&rsquo;s better players and it would help create parity faster. How about it?WALTER HUDSON, Buffalo, N.Y. &#9632;

Fan Forum

<div class="byline">BY GLENN REDMANN</div>TWIN CITIES &mdash;&ldquo;This could be the year for Goldy,&rdquo; said Wren Blair in tones dripping with confidence.Goldy is, of course, William Alfred Goldsworthy, the strapping right winger out of Waterloo, Ont., who in two seasons with the Minnesota North Stars has become one of the most popular professionals ever to play the game hereabouts.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01688/2806369-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="246" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Goldsworthy</figcaption></div>The big blonde&rsquo;s popularity stems mainly from his abrasiveness, a love of contact that followed him here after the Stars drafted him in the first year of NHL expansion from the Boston Bruins&rsquo; organization.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d have to say his attitude is much, much better than last year at this time,&rdquo; said General Manager-Coach Blair of a man who scored 14 goals for the disappointing Stars of 1968-69 despite a pitifully slow start which caused Wren to dispatch Goldy to the minors for a couple weeks.Blair would be pleased if the 6-1, 195-pounder could return to his late 1967-68 form which found him leading all NHL playoff point-getters with eight goals and seven assists.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll never forget the aggressiveness Goldy showed in that final playoff series in the West against St. Louis that year,&rdquo; said Blair.&ldquo;He worked as hard as any forward I&rsquo;ve coached and to tell you the truth, I thought he was going to have a real big year in 1968-69.&ldquo;But it didn&rsquo;t turn out that way and it wasn&rsquo;t until the last couple of months of the season that he started playing the type of hockey that both he and I know he can play.&rdquo;Goldsworthy has had many a talk with Blair during the summer when Bill has served as an instructor at Wren&rsquo;s hockey camp in Haliburton. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s one of the finest instructors on our staff,&rdquo; said Blair, &ldquo;and is just great with kids. They idolize him.&ldquo;In our talks, we both agree that Bill&rsquo;s big problem is consistency. He&rsquo;ll look like a million bucks on one shift, then do practically nothing right on the next&rdquo;.In racking up his 14 goals and 24 points last season, Goldsworthy didn&rsquo;t always see as much ice time as he&rsquo;d have liked to because on most occasions he worked with the No. 3 line.This season, Blair has experimented by putting Goldy on a line with playmaking centerman Ray Cullen and hard-working left winger J.P. Parise and it could be that the one-time Bruin will profit to the extent of becoming a 20-goal man such as Cullen has been the last two years and Parise became last season.Before opening their regular season at home for the first time in three years, the North Stars went West for a series of exhibition contests against the Denver Spurs and Phoenix Roadrunners of the WHL.Goldsworthy was one of the top men on ice in all four games of the trip, notching three goals, two of which were key tallies.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02614/2806362-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1171" height="1622"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here&rsquo;s BILL GOLDSWORTHY (8) being dumped by big DALE ROLFE of Los Angeles. Goldsworthy&rsquo;s popularity in Minnesota stems from his ruggedness.</figcaption></div>Perhaps the prettiest goal of the three came in Phoenix when with the score tied at 22 in the second period, Goldy stepped out of the penalty box where he was serving a roughing minor and stole the puck from a Roadrunner defenseman to beat goalie Rick Charron unassisted.STAR-LITES: The North Stars were honored for the second straight year at a Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce Welcome Home Luncheon in the Mill City&rsquo;s Nicollet Hotel on Oct. 9 &hellip; The gala affair drew nearly 1,000 fans and this HOCKEY NEWS correspondent was among a half dozen newsmen who were asked to interview and introduce players&hellip; The Stars renewed acquaintances with ex-mate Bob McCord when they visited Phoenix for a game early in October&hellip; Al Shaver and Larry Jagoe will again do the Stars&rsquo; games over WCCO radio while Frank Buetel begins his third year behind the mike of televised contests on WTCN (Channel 11)&hellip; There will be 27 Stars&rsquo; road games and three home tilts on the tube. &#9632;

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Goldsworthy Aiming For 20-Goal Year After Dazzling Blair With Camp Play

Asked to name their favourite Scotch, today&rsquo;s outgoing people are finding more and more that John Begg comes most easily to their lips. Gentle in taste. Light in price. Growing in demand. Only the Scots could have perfected such a blend. How canny can you get!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03467/2806400-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="545" height="311"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN BEGG OLD SCOTCH WHISKY</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Incoming Scotch for Outgoing People

TWIN CITIES &mdash;The Minnesota North Stars have a new leader on the ice for the 1969-70 National Hockey League season.He&rsquo;s Claude Larose, high-scoring right winger, whom general-manager-coach Wren Blair desig nated as the new captain of the North Stars this season.Larose, who came to Minnesota from Montreal Canadiens with the advent of NHL expansion, scored 25 goals and 37 assists last year playing on the club&rsquo;s top line with Danny O&rsquo;Shea and Danny Grant. He was also chosen as Minnesota&rsquo;s most valuable player for the 1968-69 season. &#9632;

Larose Named North Stars’ Captain

<div class="byline">by CHARLIE HALPIN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01764/2806455-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="281" height="381"></div>&bull; YOU MAY not have deected as much because the detected as much because the new National Hockey League season has just begun, but this appears to be a transformation year for the NHL.Excluding the 1967-78 expansion season, the player turnover this year has to be the largest in modern hockey times. A glance at NHL rosters for the first weekend of play revealed that approximately 44 newcomers dotted the lineups of the 12 teams and if that doesn&rsquo;t force a revamping of your kid&rsquo;s bubble gum card collection, then nothing will.The influx of new faces this season had to come. Too many of the so-called &lsquo;old pros&rsquo; were hanging on past their time and some of the no-so-old performers were having second thoughts about making the NHL their livelihood.There are a few more who are wavering and no doubt before this season is recorded for posterity, others will have moved from the active NHL scene. In this category you can scribble in such names as John Bower, who is nearing 45. George Armstrong is 39 past; Ron Murphy is 36, Harry Howell, 37 in December, Leo Boivin, 37, Elmer Vasko, 34 soon, to mention a few.Already such oldtime household hockey names as Doug Harvey, Marcel Pronovost, Pierre Pilote, Glenn Hall and Allan Stanley have disappeared from the league since last season.&bull; WITH THE departure of so illustrious a group of &lsquo;name&rsquo; players, there has to be someone to take their places and this season the NHL is furnishing a refreshing &lsquo;new look&rsquo; in young skaters to fill the gap.No team has been spared. Some, like the Chicago Black Hawks, believe that the answer to attaining success in the NHL can only be accomplished by bringing in new, young talent. They&rsquo;ve been wallowing on the rocks with the old faces so why not try something new.The Boston Bruins have injected several fine young prospects into their lineup in their relentless battle to wrest NHL, supremacy away from Montreal. Canadiens have countered with the two best junior hockey players in Canada last season &mdash; Rejean Houle and Marc Tardif. Toronto has a bevy of young lions to unleash at rival NHL teams this season. Only time will make the experiment look worthwhile.The NHI. rookie crop this season appears to be the most imposing in many years.Names like Houle, Tardif, Keith Magnuson, Cliff Koroll, Jim Wiste, Tony Esposito, Allan&rsquo; Hamilton, Juha Widing, Jim Lorentz, Garnet Bailey, Jim McKenny, Dale Hoganson, Michel Briere, Dennis Hextall, Rick McCann, Ron Ward, Tracy Pratt, Wayne Muloin, Bryan Hextall, Tom Polanic and Barry Gibbs.They may not rouse too many pulses today by the mention of their names, but you are looking at the big league &lsquo;stars of tomorrow&rsquo;. &#9632;

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INSIDE HOCKEY

<div class="byline">BY SPENCE CONLEY</div>OAKLAND&mdash;The Oakland Seals started training camp amid the optimism that they had all the ingredients to be an even stronger contender for the West Division title in the National Hockey League this year. But their nine-game exhibition season ended ignominously in Buffalo. The Bisons clubbed the Seals, 5-1, and the Oaklanders finished with a 3-5-1 record.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02623/2806500-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="300" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Muloin</figcaption></div>But in the middle, there were injuries &mdash; Mike Laughton, Carol Vadnais, Earl Ingarfield,. Chris Worthy; disappointments &mdash; goalie Gary Smith, center Joe Szura and defenseman Frank Lacombe, and sometimes Gary Jarrett and Gene Ubriaco; and surprises &mdash; impressive rookies Don O&rsquo;Donohue, Ron Stackhouse Neil Nicholson and Wayne Muloin.Among them all, the most important single individual was Gary Smith, the 6-4, 220-pound goalie. Smitty had reported to camp 10 pounds lighter than the year before. It appeared as though he was going to take over right where he left off last year.If he did, that meant a struggle for survival among young Chris Worthy, veteran Charlie Hodge, and newcomer Marcel Faille.But Smitty had his problems and before he knew it, he was in Providence, along with Szura and Lacombe.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03467/2806493-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="530" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY SMITH &hellip; oAnswers SOS</figcaption></div>Time went by and the Seal goaltending didn&rsquo;t seem to be any more stable without Smitty than with him. So the call went out &mdash; &ldquo;Get Smitty back.&rdquo;He arrived back in the Seal camp with special assignment scout Ed Chadwick, a former goaler himself and both Chad and Fred Glover were determined to help Smitty get back on the track.The exhibition season this year, unlike last year when Glover had his club pretty well set at the start, was mostly a time for looking, experimenting and decision making.When the Seals returned from the debacle in Buffalo, the looking, the experimenting and the decision making had concluded.Glover juggled his lineup, partially to improve his three attack lines and defensive pairings and partially to compensate for the loss of Ingarfield (out for a month with severed wrist tendons).Throughout most of the exhibition games, center Ted Hampson had been playing with wings Jarrett and O&rsquo;Donoghue. That line was changed by moving veteran Gerry Ehman into O&rsquo;Donoghue&rsquo;s place on the right side and placing O&rsquo;Donoghue on the left instead of Jarrett.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04332/2806486-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="541" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB DILLABOUGH &hellip;Changes Helped</figcaption></div>On the second unit, Bob Dillabough had been playing center in Ingarfield&rsquo;s place. He went back to his left wing spot-where he is of considerably more value &mdash; and youngster Joe Hardy took over at pivot between Dilly and soph sizzler Norm Ferguson.The third unit &mdash; center Laughton and wings Bill Hicke and Brian Perry &mdash; stayed intact.Jarrett and Ubriaco landed in Glover&rsquo;s doghouse.Then Glover switched his defensemen around. Vadnais worked with Bert Marshall, Doug Roberts with Muloin and Dick Mattiussi took over as swingman.Nicholson, Stackhouse and Paille were sent to Providence and defenseman Stan Fuller assigned to Salt Lake City of the WHL.The effect of Glover&rsquo;s changes in personnel was immediate in its first trial &mdash; Hampson was more effective and Dillabough more at home.&ldquo;It looks as though Teddy, Dilly, and even Fergie, got a real shot in the arm from the changes and for the first time in a while our workouts were cleaner, crisper and we moved the puck, very, very well.&ldquo;And with five veterans on defense for the first time, it was obvious that we had improved there too.&ldquo;Dilly is far more valuable to us as a left wing and penalty killer than as a center and while both he and Fergie are quicker than Joe Hardy, if they can wait that extra half step for him, then Joe will get the puck to them in behind the defense.&ldquo;I think we finally got a few problems worked out,&rdquo; Glover said.The assignment of Stackhouse and Nicholson &mdash; two fine young prospects &mdash; had a twofold purpose for Providence: strengthen the Reds&rsquo; defense and provide two more young players which will help the American League squad qualify as a development team under the NHL&rsquo;s strict age standards.Satisfied that young rookies Tom Foxcroft, Barry Bougner and Pierre Farmer were going to make it as pros, the Seals sent chief scout John Anderson down to Providence to sign them, while general manager Frank Selke began contract talks with ex-Providence pro Muloin, who won himself a job with the Seals.About the only other problem facing the Seals last week was getting No. 1 draft choice Tony Featherstone recovered from a bad ankle. He was sent to the doctor again and the ankle was x-rayed.His future is still uncertain, however, since he has had little time for development in training camp. &#9632;

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Seals Rush Smith Back From Minors After Club’s Dismal Camp Record

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01716/2806531-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"></div>In today&rsquo;s game, this young man handed out five stiff body checks, blocked two slapshots from the point, was boarded by a big right winger, caught an elbow while digging the puck out of the corner, was flattened trying to clear the puck, and picked up an assist on a goal.He played a good game.He played it hard.But most important, he&rsquo;s still in one piece.That&rsquo;s the part we played in today&rsquo;s game.260 Laughton Avenue, Toronto 9, Ontario, Canada.Triangle Industrial Plaza, Division and Robinson Street, North Tonawanda, N.Y. 14120. &#9632;

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Cooper

<div class="byline">&#x2014; By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01750/2806569-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="281" height="370"></div><h2>Names In The Hotkey News</h2>TIM HORTON&mdash;He earned just under $40,000 for playing last season. This year he held out for $80,000 to play. Whether or not he got what he wanted, we don&rsquo;t know. It is not for us to say what a hockey player is worth, but we were happy to see Horton on hand when the new campaign began in earnest. He is 39 years old and will be 40 before this season is ended and he has played 18 full seasons in the National Hockey League already, but Tim remains the strongest and best defensive defenseman in the game today. Ask anyone in the game. They all will tell you the same thing. The 5-10, 185-pound veteran has been a tower of strength for Toronto.Horton never has been winner of the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player in the NHL, but he should have been. So should have been Doug Harvey and Red Kelly, and so, maybe, should be Bobby Orr before long. But when was the last time a defenseman won the MVP award? I&rsquo;ll bet it&rsquo;s longer than you realize. It&rsquo;s been a quarter of a century &mdash; since Babe Pratt of Toronto won it in 1944. Of course, the defensemen have an award all their own, the Norris Trophy, but that&rsquo;s only been given out 16 seasons now, and isn&rsquo;t the MVP, and shouldn&rsquo;t disqualify men from being named MVP. As far as that goes, Horton never won that, either.Harvey won it seven times, Pierre Pilote three times, Orr twice now, Kelly, Jacques Laperriere and Harry Howell once each, but Horton never was named the outstanding defenseman in the game. He only made the first All-Star team three times. Yet, it seems to us that the muscular, mobile Leaf veteran has been one of the great performers of modern times. Although he scored 10 or 12 goals a couple of seasons and has been a fine offensive defensemen, as he nears the end of the road he is renowned mainly as a defensive rearguard and there may not be another close to him right now.&ldquo;They pay off on points,&rdquo; he said late last season. &ldquo;So all the defensemen want their scoring points. Teddy Green has been a teriffic factor for Boston for some seasons, but it wasn&rsquo;t until he began scoring points that he began getting All-Star votes. Bobby Orr is a great player, maybe the greatest prospect to come into the league in several seasons, but he&rsquo;s much better offensively than defensively at this point and he&rsquo;s inspiring kids all over Canada to copy his rushing style. In this respect, he could be a bad influence, though I don&rsquo;t mean that in an unkind way.&rdquo;Horton sat in the Leaf dressing room, his undershirt, soaked with perspiration, sagging around him. He had played a hard game and he was weary. He said, &ldquo;As a kid, I wasn&rsquo;t as keen on defense as I was later. It&rsquo;s just as important to stop goals as it is to score them, but it&rsquo;s not as spectacular The real good defensive defensemen, the good body-checkers, are all older men, like Leo Boivin and Marcel Pronovost. Tim Horton&rsquo;s an old man, too. It&rsquo;s an era of change in defensemen.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02662/2806562-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="548" height="800"><figcaption class="caption-body">TIM HORTON &hellip; Best In The Game Today</figcaption></div>Pronovost is coaching. Stanley has retired Boivin was hanging on, Horton was back and Doug Harvey had retired. Finally. Maybe. Pilote maybe. Even before the last season ended, Horton was talking retirement. &ldquo;My outside business investments have gotten so heavy and demand so much of my attention, I don&rsquo;t know if it&rsquo;s practical for me to go on playing,&rdquo; he smiled. &ldquo;I still enjoy it and I guess I can still pull my weight, but that time to wuit is coming close. I&rsquo;ll miss it when it&rsquo;s gone. But all good things have to end sometime.&rdquo;<h2>Man With Heart&hellip;</h2>KENNY WHARRAM &mdash; The Chicago Black Hawk speedster, who scored 30 goals last season has scored more than 250 in 11 seasons in the big time, is another underrated player who may not play this season and who would be missed. He suffered a heart attack in training camp and is sidelined. We spoke to him last season and remember him saying, You play and play and play and you never know when you won&rsquo;t be playing any more. Hockey palyers mostly don&rsquo;t like to think about it, but as your career gets longer you can&rsquo;t help realizing the time may come suddenly when they don&rsquo;t want, you any more or you can&rsquo;t make it any more. You see old friends fall by the wayside and pretend it can&rsquo;t happen to you. But you know it can.PIT MARTIN &mdash; The husky young Hawk who has bounced around three NHL teams in his brief big-time career spoke out against his bosses and teammates, saying the Hawks were &ldquo;starry-eyed&rdquo; and played as selfish individuals. When he got to camp, he laughed, &ldquo;It sort of created a bit of controversy, didn&rsquo;t it?&rdquo; As he skated on the ice, he was enveloped by TV lights and cameras, microphones and reporters with pads and pencils. Stan Mikita, one of a few Martin had singled out as being blameless, grabbed a mike end asked, &ldquo;Pit &mdash; how can you talk with your mouth full of foot?&rdquo;SANDY HUCUL &mdash; The veteran Western League defenseman turned down a chance to try out for Toronto this fall, preferring to remain with Phoenix. &ldquo;When I was younger, they used to bring me East every year. After a week, they&rsquo;d send me home again. The last time I went, I played as well as anyone. And what happened? They sent me back. They didn&rsquo;t have any room for me before when they had veteran defenseman and they don&rsquo;t have any room for me now when they have young defensemen. I&rsquo;m 35 and happy where I am. It&rsquo;s not that big a deal.&rdquo;HAL LAYCOE &mdash; The new Los Angeles Kings coach played a long time in the NHL without attracting any attention. Except for an occasional publicized rhubarb, he did his job and went his way without drawing All-Star votes.No fan clubs were begun for him. Once, however, Sid Abel met Hal at the league meetings and reported he had just come from the bedside of a sick neighbor who worshipped Laycoe and knew every detail of his career. Hal was impressed. To the best of his knowledge, he&rsquo;d never had a fan before. He was thrilled. He asked if wouldbe all right to write the sick fan a not. Abel said he thought that would be wonderful. Hal sat up half the night carefully composing the note. He took it to Abel the next morning &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sorry,&rdquo; Sid said. &ldquo;I heard the follow just died.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div>PHILADELPHIA &mdash;You&rsquo;d thing a guy who had just pocketed a full share ($9,750) of Stanley Cup playoff money would like nothing better than to remain right where he&rsquo;d have the best chance of doing it again this season.Larry Hillman, strangely, is glad he&rsquo;s now with the Flyers instead of the Canadiens.&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t get me wrong,&rdquo; said Larry. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s great when they&rsquo;re handing out big checks like that. But I&rsquo;m the kind of guy who wants to play hockey not warm the bench. And I did too darn much sitting last season.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s okay if you&rsquo;re near the tail end of your career but it&rsquo;s not such a good situation when you feel you&rsquo;ve got three &mdash; maybe five &mdash; good years left. You sit out too much and then, when something happens and you&rsquo;re called upon to play steady, you just may not have it.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03546/2806600-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="248" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Hillman</figcaption></div>&ldquo;With Philadelphia, I imagine I&rsquo;ll be playing a lot more than I did with the Canadiens. I&rsquo;ll be very glad about it, though. After all, hockey is my bread and butter.&rdquo;Hillman, a 15-year veteran, will reach the magic 500 mark in NHL games played in only his second contest with the Flyers. His long career had included stops in Detroit, Boston, Toronto and Minnesota before he was traded to the Canadiens last season.&ldquo;I played in only 12 games with Minnesota before they sent me to Montreal,&rdquo; recalled Larry, 32. &ldquo;The Canadiens used me quite a bit at first, but then I didn&rsquo;t play too much, I wound up appearing in only 25 games with them. You can see, then, that I did a lot of sitting last season. That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m so anxious to get out there and play steady again.&rdquo;It appears than Larry, who played on six Stanley Cup championship teams, will team up with his younger brother Wayne to form a defensive unit for the Flyers. Both of the Hillmans are anxious to show they can play well together, even though they have never played side by side in professional hockey.Another thing, they are determined to prove that Minnesota&rsquo;s complete collapse last season couldn&rsquo;t be blamed on them entirely. They were part of the reason the pre-season consensus predicted the North Stars would go all the way in the NHL&rsquo;s Western Division.What happened, though, is that too many players were not contributing and, consequently, Minnesota shuffled its roster. Larry was among the first to go, because the Stars felt they needed the manpower help he could bring them in trade.So Wayne had to suffer through the remainder of the campaign at Minnesota, while Larry was playing little but eventually reaping in the sizeable playoff check in Montreal.According to Larry, though, he profited even by sitting on the bench with the Canadiens.&ldquo;It was quite an experience just being part of the team,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;I learned an awful lot just watching. I could see why Montreal is the class of the league.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not only on skates, either. The Canadiens have been in operation for 50 years and they&rsquo;ve got a knack for solving problems &mdash; both on and off the ice. They never allow minoi problems to get blown out of proportion before they solve them.&ldquo;Montreal&rsquo;s also winning because they&rsquo;ve got great personnel, of course. The players know what they&rsquo;ve got to do to get the job done, and they go out and do it. The managers and owners do, too, because, after all, it&rsquo;s all got to start at the top. The, if you&rsquo;ve got harmony on your club, you&rsquo;re a winner.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Tired Of Bench Sitting, New Flyer Larry Hillman Hopes For More Ice Time

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div>BOSTON&mdash;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.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01729/2806662-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="266" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rick Smith</figcaption></div>Bruins&rsquo; 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 to prove himself.The came Green&rsquo;s fractured skull in the second exhibition game of the fall when he was involved in a stick duel with rookie Wayne Maki of St. Louis.The Bruins now had to face the loss of Green for at least five months. When Green suffered a setback and required another operation for the removal of a blood clot the Bruins could not count on their burly protector for at least this season.Now there developed another battle among Doak, Smith and Speer for the Green&rsquo;s job on right defense.Starting the season it still was not completely resolved, but Doak was giving a good account of himself.&ldquo;I went to camp in good shape,&rdquo; says Doak. &ldquo;I know the pressure was on me to prove I could come back from the trouble I had last year. But I was certain I could do it.&ldquo;Even if Teddy had not been injured, I was trying to do basically the same thing. I was just trying to play my position and do my best to Combine with my partner effectively.&ldquo;My major problem was to prove to everyone that I was physically capable of doing the job.Searching for the most effective defensive pairings after Green&rsquo;s injury, Coach Harry Sinden first tried Bobby Orr and Don Awrey together while Dallas Smith worked with Doak, Rick and Speer.&ldquo;Things didn&rsquo;t seem to jell with that arrangement, though,&rdquo; said Sinden.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t put my finger on it or explain it. But Awrey didn&rsquo;t work with Bobby the way Dallas did so I shifted and put Don and Gary together and put Dallas back with Orr.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve come to the conclusion that there are few players in the league who can work with Orr as efficiently as Dallas.&ldquo;He just seems to sense what Bobby is going to do. How I don&rsquo;t know, because Bobby certainly doesn&rsquo;t play orthodox defense.&ldquo;But Dallas seems to know how to get out of Bobby&rsquo;s way and they go together like corn beef on rye.Awrey and Doak work well together too. They play differently than Orr and Smith but they too are effective. Don can rush the puck if he wishes and Gary has a knack of getting the puck out on the zone without rushing.&rdquo;On the other hand, both are effective at protecting the zone.Still only 23 years old, Doak feels he has a lot to learn about playing defense and he is working to master all the tricks of the trade.But if he can survive this year without injury he hopes to be able to prove one thing. That he belongs in the National Hockey League with the Bruins.Ice Chips &mdash; Sinden believes Detroit has improved greatly after seeing the Red Wings in three pre-season games &hellip; &ldquo;Carl Brewer has helped the defense along with Bobby Baun,&rdquo; he said &hellip; &ldquo;But you still have to stop that Gordie Howe, Alex Delvecchio and Frank Mahovlich combination to beat them. Those guys still have the scoring ability and are the key to Detroit.&rdquo; &hellip; Injuries and illness interfered with the organization of the Bruins for the start of the season &hellip; &ldquo;We never really were able to put a semblance of starting lines together in training camp,&rdquo; said Sinden &hellip; But he still feels the Bruins will take a lot of beating to keep them out of first place come the end of the season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02671/2806655-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="554" height="1340"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY DOAK &hellip; Making Strong Bid</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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With Green Out, Doak Looms In Bruins’Defensive Shuffling

3247 W. LAWRENCE AVE. &mdash; CHICAGO, ILL. 60625 &mdash; Phone: 539-4939.SKATE EXCHANGEBRAND NAMESCCM &mdash; COOPER WEEKS &mdash; BAUER &mdash; NORTHLAND &mdash; WINNWELL &mdash; SHERWOOD &mdash; VICTO-RIAVILLE &mdash;JOHNSON<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02652/2806825-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="367" height="364"></div><h2>MAILORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY</h2><h3>KNIT CAPS (TOUQUES)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03543/2806818-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="778" height="139"></div><h3>SWEATSHIRTS</h3>Detroit, Chicago, New York, Montreal, Boston, Toronto, St. Louis, Los Angeles.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04422/2806811-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="782" height="98"></div><h3>JERSEYS</h3>Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Boston, Si. Lous, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Minnesota<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05320/2806804-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="791" height="131"></div><h3>TEAM CREST</h3>(Swiss embroidered)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06249/2806797-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="793" height="431"></div><h3>SEWING CHARGE</h3>(for crest and numbers)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07180/2806790-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="795" height="112"></div><h3>HOCKEY PANTS</h3>(Send actual waist size)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-08136/2806783-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="780" height="170"></div>NEW !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our completely illustrated HOCKEY CATALOGUE 1.00 (&lsquo; Deductable on first order of S5.00 or more)<h3>HOCKEY STOCKINGS</h3>NEW NYLON STRETCH !!!!!!!!!!Chicago, Montreal, Boston, Detroit, New York, Toronto. Minnesota. Pittsburgh, St. Louis.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-09105/2806776-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="676" height="106"></div><h3>HOCKEY GLOVES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1086/2806769-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg" title="f0010-10" width="789" height="270"></div><h3>SHINGUARDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1168/2806762-1-eng-US/f0010-112.jpg" title="f0010-11" width="783" height="177"></div><h3>HELMETS AND MASKS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1251/2806755-1-eng-US/f0010-122.jpg" title="f0010-12" width="784" height="194"></div><h3>HOCKEY CATALOGUE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1337/2806748-1-eng-US/f0010-132.jpg" title="f0010-13" width="782" height="102"></div> &#9632;

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NED SINGER’S HOCKEY SUPPLY CO.

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>MONTREAL &mdash; Peter Mahovlich, forward, assigned to Montreal Voyageurs of AHL. Chuck Hamilton, forward, sold to Hershey of AHL. Judes Drouin, forward, assigned to Voyageurs but refused to report. Ernie Hicke, forward, assigned to Sale Lake City of WHL. Bob Sheehan, and Gilbert Drolet, forwards, signed to pro contracts and assigned to Voyageurs.TORONTO &mdash; Tim Horton, defenseman, rejoined team after holding out.NEW YORK &mdash; Larry Brown and Bob Jones, defensemen, assigned to Buffalo of AHL.ST. LOUIS &mdash; Wayne Maki and Terry Crisp, forwards, sent to Buffalo of AHL.MINNESOTA &mdash; Grant Erickson, forward and Tom Reid, defenseman, sent to Iowa of CHT.OAKLAND &mdash; Gary Smith, goalkeeper, recalled from Providence of AHL. Marcel Paile goalkeeper, assigned to Providence along with Ron Stackhouse and Neil Nicholson, defensemen. Stan Fuller, defenseman, sent to Salt Lake City of WHL.CHICAGO &mdash; Bill Saunders, forwards, returned to Portland of WHL.PHILADELPHIA &mdash; Earl Heiskala, forward, recalled from Quebec of AHL.DETROIT &mdash; Dennis Huculak, defenseman. returned to San Diego of WHL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>PROVIDENCE &mdash; Tom Foxcroft, Barry Bougner and Pierre Farmer, forwards, signed to pro contracts and assigned by Oakland of NHL.SPRINGFIELD &mdash; The following players were assigned to the AHL Kings by Los Angeles: Bruce Landon and Bob Sneddon, goalkeepers; Roger Cote, Greg Boddy, Dave Amadio, defensemen, Marc Dufour, Mike Corrigan, Randy Prior, Doug Robinson, Larry Croteau, Randy Miller, Gord Labossiere, Bob Goring and Billy Inglis, forwards.ROCHESTER &mdash; Al Millar, goalkeeper, Kent Douglas, defenseman, and Len Lunde, forwards, assigned by Vancouver of WHL. Don Cherry and Les Duff, forwards, placed on voluntary retired list.HERSHEY &mdash; Alain Beaule, defenseman, returned to Dayton of IHL. Don Marcotte, forward, returned by Boston of NHL.BALTIMORE &mdash; Paul Hoganson, goalkeeper, Doug Barrie, Jean-Guy Lagace, John Ferguson, Dave Simpson, Ted Lanyon, Yvon Labre and Jim Morrison, defensemen, Ron Snell, Ed Patenaude, Bob Rivard, Rick Kessell, Marty Reynolds, Gary Swain and Larry Billows, forwards, assigned to Clippers by Pittsburgh of AHL. Rod Zaine, forward, signed to pro contract. Gilles Boisvert, goalkeeper, and Bob Brinkworth, forward placed on voluntary retired list.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>SALT LAKE &mdash; Bob Heaney, defenseman, secured on loan from Kansas City of CHL.PHOENIX &mdash; Aut Erickson, defenseman, secured from Oakland of NHL on loan for season. Tommie McVie, forward, traded to Seattle of WHL in exchange for Larry Lund, forward. Andre Hinse, Gary Marsh and Frank Hughes, forwards, assigned by Toronto of NHL.PORTLAND &mdash; Glen Lindsay, goalkeeper, and Jean Potvin, defenseman, dropped from roster. Larry Leach, forward, rejoined team from inactive list. Jim Shaw, goalkeeper, signed to pro contract.VANCOUVER &mdash; Craig Beveridge, forward, and Mike Sauter, defenseman, assigned to Rochester of AHL. Tim Gould, defenseman, placed on injury inactive list. Following players are on club roster: George Gardner, George Wood, Lynn Zimmerman and Don Wallis, goalkeepers; Marc Reaume, Bill Orr, Bob Lemieux, John Arbour, Dale Zeman and Brad Seiwood, defensemen; and Paul Andrea, Phil Maloney, Andy Bathgate, Ted Taylor, Ted McCaskill, Rene Robert, Germain Gagnon, Herb Pinder, Barry Watson, Murray Hall, Pat Hannigan and Duke Harris, forwards.<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2>NASHVILLE &mdash; Cliff Pennington, forward, sold to Des Moines of IHL. Duffy Lewis, goalkeeper, returned by Des Moines. George Standing and Gil St. Jacques, forwards, returned by Jacksonville of EHL. Chuck Goddard, goalkeeper, left team to return to college in Canada.SYRACUSE &mdash; Paul Lessard, forward, traded to New Haven of EHL. Ron Dundas, forward, traded to Long Island of EHL. Fraser Rice, forward, returned by Hershey of AHL.GREENSBORO &mdash; Larry Gibbons, forward, and Jan Popeil, defenseman, recalled from Salem of EHL. John Murray, defenseman, left team to return to college in Canada.CLINTON&mdash;Tom Mitchell and Jake Rathwell, forwards, returned by Minnesota of NHL. Bill Bannerman, forward, returned by Salt Lake City of WHL.JACKSONVILLE &mdash; Jean Therrien defenseman, acquired as free agent. Gord Haworth, forward, signed as free agent. Jean Levesque, defenseman, signed as free agent. Gord Bradley, assigned by St. Louis of NHL. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT&mdash; Bobby Hull&rsquo;s home counting his cattle, Jean Beliveau has tired blood&hellip; and Gordie Howe keeps rollin&rsquo; along.Scene: The Gardens, London, Ont. Exhibition game, Detroit vs. Boston. It&rsquo;s Detroit&rsquo;s fourth game in six nights and kicking off a string of three in three nights. It&rsquo;s late in the game&mdash;less than two minutes to play&mdash;and Detroit Leads Boston, 4-2. The third Cordie Howe (winning) goal had been scored by Howe capping a picture play with linemates Frank Mahovlich and Alex Delvecchio.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01748/2806717-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="261" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div>Now here it is, less than two minutes to play, and there&rsquo;s a stoppage. Coach Bill Gadsby looks down the bench for a right wing. Howe alre dy has one leg over the dasher and a little smile on his face. Gadsy instead sends one of his younge players out.Scene: Olympi Stadium. First in a string of fou exhibitions in as many nights ii as many cities&mdash;Detroit, Cleveland, Fort Worth and New York. By now, it&rsquo;s the Wings&rsquo; eighth game in 12 nights and they&rsquo;ve gone as far as Halifax, N.S., and Minnesota.It&rsquo;s the second period and Howe swipes the puck from a New York Ranger in the faceoff circle inside the New York blue line. Howe moves in on goal with the Ranger on him and goalie Ed Giacomin moves out to meet him. The puck starts sliding just by the corner &hellip; Howe dives headfirst over Giacomin and with one hand on his stick, curls the puck into the net as he goes crashing into it himself.That&rsquo;s Gordie Howe, 41 years old, entering his 24th National Hockey League campaign. He plays the game only one way all out.Sure, Gordie&rsquo;s showing some age. It almost seems like the gray hairs have caught up with the blacks and his forehead is higher than ever. He&rsquo;s lost a step,, maybe more. He&rsquo;s got a little bursitis in his left wrist and is wearing a strengthener.But he&rsquo;s still the Incomparable One, still the greatest of them all.Howe, as you&rsquo;d expect, was Detroit&rsquo;s top point-maker with six goals and six assists, a point ahead of linemates Delvecchio (seven and four) and Mahovlich (four and seven).Howe enjoyed his most productive point year ever last season 44 goals and 59 assists for 103 points, good for third place in the scoring chase, his 20th straight season among the top five, perhaps the most incredible statistic of all.Howe is in the second year of a two-year contract that is estimated at $80,000 and who knows, if he keeps this up, he might hit $100,000 for his 25th year and wouldn&rsquo;t that be a grand (100) gesture on the part of Bruce Norris?ICE CHIPS: Hard luck continues to follow Larry Jeffrey. Jeff, not a noted goal scorer, popped home three gools and assisted on three in nine games and was playing quite well&hellip; then he went into the boards in Cleveland after tripping on bad ice and jammed his knee into the boards, fracturing the kneecap &hellip; he&rsquo;ll be out two months.Gadsby was ready to do some line juggling for the first time since camp opened when Garry Unger still didn&rsquo;t have a goal or an assist more than halfway through the exhibition schedule.&ldquo;His line hasn&rsquo;t been putting the puck in the net and he hasn&rsquo;t been getting up and going,&rdquo; Gadsby said.The blond, 21-year-old pivot from Edmonton got the message he set up lenemate Wayne Connelly for the Wings&rsquo; first goal the next night in a game against New York and played quite well.Unger is centering for Connelly on right wing and Garry Monahan on left wing. Monahan, acquired from Montreal in a trade for Peter Mahovlich during the summer, is having some problems in making the switch from center, the position he&rsquo;s always played, to the port side.Actually, the third line, which Gadsby expected to be the defensive unit, has been the second most potent scoring unit. Jeffrey started at left wing there but now Nick Libett has taken his place with Jeff injured, Pete Stem-kowski&rsquo;s at center and Bruce MacGregor on right wing. MacGregor, coming off a disappointing season, had a good camp and very productive exhibition campaign.The Wings went into the season with 19 men: goalies Roy Edwards and Roger Crozier, defensemen Bob Baun, Carl Brewer. Gary Bergman, Matt Ravlich, Ron Harris and Poul Popiel and forwards Mahovlich-Delvecchio-Howe, Monahan-Lmger-Connelly, Libett-Stemkowski-Mac-Gregor and Rick McCann and Hank Monteith.That&rsquo;s some turnover from the unit that started a year ago &hellip; seven men, as a matter of fact. &#9632;

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Howe Still Coing All Out Playing 24th Season At 41

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01738/2806856-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">DALE HOGANSON &hellip; Kings Are High On Him</figcaption></div>One of the big surprises of the Los Angeles &lsquo;Kings&rsquo; training camp this season was the performance of a young defenseman named Dale Hoganson, a 20-year-old amateur who never played a game of professional hockey before. Hoganson, who was the No.14 pick in the Canadian amateur hockey draft this summer, could be one of those unique hockey players to make the jump directly from junior to the NHL. Hoganson, who is 6&rsquo; fall and weighs .195, is a native of North Battleford, Sask. He has been playing organized hockey since he was 13 and performed with Estevan Bruins in Western junior hockey circles last season before being drafted by the Kings. &#9632;

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Meet The Rookies

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO&mdash;Honesty is the best policy. Jim Gregory, rookie general manager of the Toronto Maple Leats, agrees. &ldquo;But not always,&rdquo; he Cautions. &ldquo;You can go too far, being honest.&rdquo;Gregory held a press conference the day before Leafs opened their 1969-70 training camp at Peterborough. In the course of the meeting, Gregory confirmed that he had signed centre Norm Ullman to the biggest contract the Leafs had ever given a player. He confirmed that Ullman&rsquo;s basic salary this season would fall between $50,000 and $60,000 and it didn&rsquo;t take much probing to peg the figure at $57,000.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02681/2806887-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="252" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Keon</figcaption></div>Gregory added that defenceman Tim Horton had said he would abandon retirement if his $42,500 contract were doubled, Even assuming Horton could be haggled into accepting less, he still would beat Ullman&rsquo;s record in the event that he did change his mind.But Gregory had no idea what problems that revelation about Ullman would let him in for.Dave Keon and Bob Pulford, already signed up for 1969-70, let it be known they were interested in reopening negotiations.Gregory was forced to admit they had a point, particularly Keon, who had another winter to go on a long-term deal. His 1968-69 work had been at least comparable to Ullman&rsquo;s. He had scored 27 goals and 34 assists, against 35-42 for Ullman. He had checked diligently all season long and he was one of Leafs&rsquo; few respectable Stanley Cup performers. He had a goal and three assists in the four matches it took Boston Bruins to eliminate Toronto from the quarter-final round.Accordingly, Gregory made an adjustment in Keon&rsquo;s Financial Set up.Keon will be 30 before the 1969-70 schedule is completed. He has reached the point where he is one of Leafs&rsquo; senior members, and a key figure both on the ice and in the dressing room. Up on the forward line, he and Ullman are the leaders, both perfect illustrations of what a Toronto centre must be-indefatigable checkers, shrewd playmakers and opportunistic scorers.Keon produced under Punch Imlach, the only boss he&rsquo;d known since turning professional with Leafs in 1960. On the other hand, he wasn&rsquo;t an unreserved Imlach admirer. He happens to be a professional who would put out for any coach.On the other hand, Johnny McLellan wouldn&rsquo;t have been his choice as Imlach&rsquo;s successor. Keon had been associated with Jim Gregory when both were with St. Michael&rsquo;s College juniors in Toronto. They are friends. One of Gregory&rsquo;s children is named David. But McLellan, the incoming coach, had to win Keon over.The background is that McLellan, as coach of Leafs&rsquo; Central League farm team at Tulsa, released Keon&rsquo;s younger brother, Jimmy, last winter. There was some leftover resentment concerning this incident.It seems safe to say that difference of opinion has been forgotten. Keon was Leafs&rsquo; best player throughout training camp and the exhibition series.The next goal Keon scores in regular season play will be the 200th of his career. He rested through the final weekend of the 1968-69 campaign, stopping at 199.Keon has played nine NHL seasons and his totals read 199 goals and 288 assists. During those 614 games, he has incurred a total of 24 minor penalties, no more. Even more impressive, perhaps, is the fact that in 67 Stanley Cup matches, he has produced 26 goals and 23 assists. Four of the Toronto teams he played on won the Cup.His linemates last season, most of the time, were Murray Oliver and Ron Ellis. Various combinations have been tested this fall, including one with Pulford on his wing. He always has enjoyed working with George Armstrong, too. The chances are, though, that he&rsquo;ll wind up eventually with Oliver and Ellis again. &#9632;

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Leafs Boost Salary Demands After Ullman’s Record Contract

<div class="byline">BY PAT CURRAN</div>MONTREAL&mdash;When the Canadiens brought together more than 100 players for training camp, it was a laugh that only one or two new faces might break into the champions&rsquo; lineup.Now, although Coach Claude Ruel had to do some juggling the last 10 days of training, he wound up with &ldquo;the same old Canadiens to start the NHL season. It was merely a question whether Marc Tardif or Rejean Houle, or both of the promising Junior Canadiens grads, would suit up for the early season games.And, even then, the tenure of Tardif and Houle looked temporary until John Ferguson had the cast removed on a thumb injury or if Jean Beliveau needed a few more days rest.Ferguson suffered torn ligaments in the left thumb during an exhibition at Halifax, Sept. 22 and had to confine himself to staying in shape the rest of training camp. However he wasn&rsquo;t expected to miss more than the opening weekend of the NHL schedule.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01716/2806925-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="221" height="483"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Duff</figcaption></div>Beliveau gave the club a scare when he left them to enter hospital for a complete medical checkup for fatigue and depression. However after five days of extensive tests, the all-time great centre was given a clean bill of health.Big Jean was on the ice almost as soon as he was released from hospital and took part in scrimmages for two days before Montreal&rsquo;s home opener against Los Angeles.Another veteran cropped up as questionable a week before the schedule. Dick Duff skipped practice and then missed the last two exhibition contests. The report was that Duff had taken sick with the flu but that was really an alibi.The 33-year-old winger had personal problems to handle and was excused by G.M. Sam Pollock after a stern talk about his future with the Canadiens. Duff wound up working overtime to get into good enough shape to start the schedule.Peter Mahovlich, a strong candidate for left wing before he suffered a knee injury in an early exhibition, wound up on option to Montreal Voyageurs where he might play himself into another bid for NHL status.Thus hard-luck Gilles Tremblay remained the only question mark as the Canadiens started a new season. Tremblay&rsquo;s bout with the bronchial trouble that sent him to the sidelines last season was an up and down struggle. He feels fine one day and disconsolate the next so it&rsquo;s still a matter of time whether or not he will play this season.Thus the Canadiens start out with the same team with which they finished last season, winning the Eastern Division title and the Stanley Cup.Veteran Gump Worsley, now 40, and the 24-year-old Rogatien Vachon share the net-minding.Ted Harris, last year&rsquo;s second all-star, and the exciting Serge Savard, winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy, are back on defence with Jacques Laperriere, Jean Claude Tremblay and Terry Harper.Henri Richard had a great training season to go back at centre along with Jean Beliveau and Ralph Backstrom&mdash;besides Jacques Lemaire, Bobby Rousseau and Chris Bordeleau as fill-in pivots.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02619/2806918-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="216" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gilles Tremblay</figcaption></div>The strong right side comprises 43-goal scorer Yvan Cournoyer, Rousseau who netted 40 last year, Claude Provost and Mickey Redmond.John Ferguson comes off a production of 29 goals to top the left wings, backed by Dick Duff, Lemaire and Bordeleau.If any of the old hands falter, the Canadiens need merely go down the Forum corridor for replacements from Les Voyageurs. &#9632;

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Habs Start Title Bid With Only 2 New Faces; Beliveau Medical ‘OK’

TORONTO &mdash;It&rsquo;s $70,000 to doughnuts Tim Horton is pleased with the contract he signed with Toronto Maple Leafs last week.Horton, 37, and a veteran of 18 years in Toronto blue, announced his retirement last April hours after Punch Imlach was fired after 11 seasons in charge.He said at the time that outside business interests, principally his string of doughnut shops, influenced his decision, and that there &ldquo;just wasn&rsquo;t time for everything any more.&rdquo;At the time of his retirement, Horton was drawing $42,600 a year from Toronto.And he said it would take $85,000 to bring him back.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03489/2806956-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="244" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tim Horton</figcaption></div>Well, Jim Gregory and the other Leafs&rsquo; Brass were not prepared to meet so high a price, but they needed Horton desperately and both sides knew it.Had Horton made his retirement stick the Leafs&rsquo; defense would have consisted of youthful and untested Rick Ley, Pat Quinn, Jim Dorey, and Jim McKenny.So last week, after three months of talk, Horton agreed to come back after meeting with Gregory between periods of the annual Blue and White intra-squad game.Gregory immediately called a press conference and announced that Horton would &ldquo;honor his present contract and special considerations would be made. We&rsquo;re both happy.&rdquo;Nobody around this city is willing or able to say what these &ldquo;special considerations&rdquo; are. But informed sources insist the new contract is worth an additional $28,000 to Horton. Bringing his total hockey income to $70,000.Horton said when he asked for $85,000 he had been deadly serious about quitting, &ldquo;and I didn&rsquo;t think they would meet that figure, now times have changed.&rdquo;Although Horton has never won the Norris Trophy, he has been chosen an All-Star several times, and the last two seasons, has lined up with Bobby Orr on the first team.And his value to the Leafs has been immeasurable. Through all the Imlach years, Horton anchored a defense that helped bring the Stanley Cup to Toronto four times.And plainly the Leafs are relying on him to stick around for at least two more seasons, until the younger hands come into their own.Horton&rsquo;s signing left club captain George Armstrong as the lone unsigned Leaf. But Armstrong retires before every season these days and is expected back in uniform before long. &#9632;

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‘Special Considerations’ Lure Tim Horton Back - Leais Relieved

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01705/2806987-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rangers&rsquo; goaler TERRY SAWCHUK goes down on the ice to make save against Montreal&rsquo;s HENRI RICHARD in pre-season exhibition play.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL &mdash;If they were to play the Stanley Cup final right now the two teams who would qualify would be the New York Rangers and St. Louis.The two clubs dominated their respective divisions at the conclusion of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s exhibition schedule.The Rangers, who posted 7-3-2 record playing against all-NHL opposition, outclassed Detroit and Montreal to capture the &lsquo;Grapefruit&rsquo; League honors in the East. St. Louis with an 8-3-1 overall record, were the best of the Western teams. The Blues were almost as good as the Rangers when it came to stacking up against NHL rivals in the pre-season exhibitions. They were 7-3-1.Most surprising teams in the training camp competition were the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins. Detroit, which missed the NHL playoffs last year, was 6-4-2 in exhibitions and had an impressive 5-3-2 record with NHL opposition. Pittsburgh, also out of the playoffs last season, was 4-1-3 overall and 4-1-2 against NHL teams. Philadelphia Flyers were the most disappointing.The Flyers, who played eight pre-season games but only two with NHL teams, were 2-4-2 overall and lost both their &lsquo;NHL&rsquo; games. The ironic part of it all was that American League teams beat the Flyers twice and tied them twice. Hershey Bears, the Calder Cup champions of the American League in 1968-69, twice toppled the Philly team.In other so-called upsets, Fort Worth of the CHL embarrassed their big borthers from the NHL, Detroit Red Wings, 6 3. Both Providence and Buffalo of the AHL defeated Oakland Seals in exhibitions.For what it&rsquo;s worth, AHL teams did favorably against the superior NHL. They won four, lost one and tied three in eight starts with big league team opposition. &#9632;

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New Yorkers Best Against NHL Rivals

<h2>FINAL STANDINGS OF TEAMS</h2><h3>OVERALL RECORD</h3>Eastern Division<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02658/2807039-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="539" height="234"></div>Western Division<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03611/2807032-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="537" height="235"></div><h3>AGAINST NHL TEAMS</h3>Eastern Division<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04560/2807025-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="543" height="231"></div>Western Division<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05463/2807018-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="538" height="241"></div><h2>SCORES OF COMPLETED GAMES</h2>Mon. Sopt. 15St. Louis 6, Kansas City (CHL) 3Wed. Sept. 17Minnesota 3, Iowa (CHL) 1Thurs. Sept. 18St. Louis 5, Toronto 3Fri. Sept. 19New York 4, St. Louis 1Los Angeles 5, Oakland 4Minnesota 3, Chicago 1Sat Sept. 20Montreal 4, Boston 1Oakland 3, Los Angeles 2Minnesota 4, Chicago 1Sun. Sept. 21Montreal 2, Philadelphia 1Detroit 6, Los Angeles 3Pittsburgh 3, Buffalo (AHL) 3St. Louis 5, Boston 1New York 5, Toronto 3Chicago 6, Dallas (CHL) 2Mon Sept 22Detroit 5, Montreal 3Boston 5, Toronto 1Tues. Sept. 23Montreal 4, Detroit 1Pittsburgh 4, Minnesota 0New York 5, Boston 2Wed. Sept 24Pittsburgh 2, Minnesota 1St. Louis 8, Oakland 2Toronto 4, Chicago 1Philadelpbio 2, Quebec (AHL) 2Los Angeles 6, Springfield 2Thurs. Sopt. 25New York 4, Chicago 2Fri. Sept 26Detroit 4, Boston 2Pittsburgh 3, Los Angeles 3Oakland 5, St. Louis 4New York 4. Toronto 2Philadelphia 8, Quebec (AHL).Sat. Sept. 27Montreal 2, Chicago 0Oakland 4, Philadelphia 3St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1Boston 3, Detroit 3Sun. Sept. 28Chicago 6, Montreal 1Minnesota 5, Detroit 4St. Louis 7, New York 4Providence (AHL) 3, Oakland 2Toronto 6, Boston 6Tues. Sept. 30Montreal 3, St. Louis 3Detroit 3, Los Angeles 2Minnesota 4, Iowa (CHL) 2Chicago 8. Vancouver 2Wed. Oct. 1Montreal 3, Toronto 3Pittsburgh 5, Los Angeles 2St. Louis 2, Minnesota 0New York 5, Boston 4Chicago 7, Vancouver (WHL) 5Thurs. Oct. 2Detroit 6, New York 1Pittsburgh 3, Oakland 2Fri. Oct. 3Detroit 5, Cleveland 2Boston 6, St. Louis 4Sat. Oct. 4New York 7, Montreal 4Oakland 3, Pittsburgh 3Minnesota 2, Denver (WHL) 0Hershey (AHL) 4, Philadelphia 3Fort Worth (CHL) 6, Detroit 3Sun. Oct. 5Buffalo (AHL) 5, Oakland 1Los Angeles 12, Seattle (WHL) 4Boston 4, Montreal 1Detroit 3, New York 3Chicago 6, Toronto 2Tues. Oct. 7St. Louis 4, Minnesota 0Los Angeles 3, Vancouver (WHL) 1Wed. Oct. 8Boston 4, Detroit 1Los Angeles 5, Portland (WHL) 3Hershey (AHL) 4, Philadelphia 2Chicago 7, Flint (IHl) 2Thurs. Oct. 9Quebec (AHL) 4, Philadelphia 4 &#9632;

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Exhibition Scoreboard

Halfway through the first period of the Rangers 3-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs in a pre-season contest at Madison Square Garden, Orland Kurtenbach, the six foot two inch, 195 pound center of the Blueshirts skated onto the Garden freeze and prepared to face off.Suddenly the din was deafening. As the crescendo of applause for Kurt rose, Referee Bill Friday actually stepped in and stopped play before it started. He waited a minute or so until the applause had died down and then signalled that the game should commence.This was Gotham&rsquo;s way of saying, &ldquo;Hello, Kurt, welcome back.&rdquo;Kurtenbach was visibly affected by the ovation and it has to help him in his battle to regain his former status as New York&rsquo;s third line center and chief ice trouble shooter. &#9632;

N.Y. Fans Hails Kurt’s Return

<div class="byline">&#x2014;LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;As the Los Angeles Kings opened the new season coach Hal Laycoe had the following players:Wings&mdash;Bill Flett, Ted Irvine, Skip Krake, Howie Hughes, Bryan Campbell, Ross Lonsberry and Leon Rochefort.Centers&mdash;Eddie Joyal, Eddie Shack, Dennis Hextall and Jim Peters.Defensemen&mdash;Dale Rolfe, Brent Hughes, Bob Wall, Noel Price, Dale Hoganson, Jacques Lemieux, and Larry Cahan.Goalies&mdash;Gerry Desjardins and Claude Hardy.There are eight new faces from the roster which closed last season &mdash; Lonsberry, Rochefort, Shack, Hextall, Price, Hoganson, Lemieux and Hardy. Hoganson and Hardy are the only rookies. However, Hardy&rsquo;s assignment is only until Wayne Rutledge recovers from an operation. The Kings prefer to prep hot prospect Bruce Landon properly at Springfield in the AHL.Lowell MacDonald, and Bill White are listed as &lsquo;retired&rsquo;. White&rsquo;s status is indefinite. The Kings filed with NHL &ldquo;tampering&rdquo; charges against Toronto in the case of White, who walked out of camp and is sought by Leafs. Several deals involving several key play rs have been discussed.Tae most surprising cut probably was that of promising left-winger Gary &ldquo;Bull&rdquo; Croteau, although Gordon Labossiere had a fine camp. Labossiere has been sent to Springfield for the third time now. The Kings no doubt were reluctant to demote men for whom they had traded. &#9632;

White Among The Missing With Kings

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;LOS ANGELES&mdash; Jack Kent Cooke&rsquo;s Forum in Inglewood in suburban L.A. is a spectacular success story Opened at the end of 1967, the building drew 2,096,000 fans for 230 events in 1968 and is projecting more than 2,250,000 for 250 events in 1969.The top crowds have not been for sporting events. A meeting of Jehovah&rsquo;s Witnesses attracted 22.598. Rock groups have been boffo. The Jimi Hendrix Experience lured 18,705. The Temptations twice and the Supremes once have topped 18,000. The Cream drew 35,109 for two straight nights.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01704/2807108-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="242" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shack</figcaption></div>The Ringling Bros, circus twice lured more than 160,000 and the Ice Follies twice more than 150,000 for long stands.A boxing match, Lionel Rose vs. Chu chu Castillo, drew 15,096 fans who paid $193,020. TheaterTV of Joe Frazier fights with Jerry Quarry and Buster Mathis drew $87,000 and $84,000, which were records of their kind.The Lakers of the NBA drew 652,000 fans and averaged more than 13,000 fans per game, with a high of 17,392 for the last playoff game last season.By contrast, the Kings drew 379,521 for an average of 8,826. Their high in the Forum has been 15,752 for a Chicago game in February of 1968.In their first season, the Kings drew just 334,034 fans, for an average of 8,147 fans. However, that was at the L.A. Sports Arena and Long Beach Arena, as well as at the Forum. Their Forum average of 9,636 actually was higher than it was last season.Where hockey is established, it is the biggest draw in indoor sports. Where it has expanded, St. Louis and Minnesota crowds have surpassed larger L.A. This is disappointing. Yet, Cooke contends he expected it would be awhile before his new Kings and major league hockey caught fire in sunny Southern California, but that once it does, it will be the best attraction in his building.As the Kings opened their third season at home in mid-October, some were saying the Kings most needed a colorful personality, who may be Eddie Shack, to draw fans. More likely, they need a winner, a first at least. They have flopped in key games which drew big crowds. Let them come through on a couple of occasions like this in a row and their tickets may get scarce. Once they catch fire at the box office, they&rsquo;ll draw big, win, lose or draw.They will have to contend with reduced public exposure this season.Last season, 20 road games each of the Kings and their sister Lakers were televised on KTLA-Channel 5. This season, sponsors asked and received 25 Laker games and only 15 King games on the station.Last season, all Laker and King games, home and away, were broadcast on KHJ-AM Radio, which now has gone &ldquo;all news.&rdquo; This season, all Laker games will be broadcast on KABC-AM (790) and all King games on KBIG-FM (104.3.) The King weekend games also will be carried on KABC-AM, though often delayed behind the more popular Lakers.Many potential listeners do not have FM radios, especially in their cars, which is critical since King road games from the east reach L.A. at the evening rush hour. However, the Kings radioTV package remains superior to that in some other NHL cities, such as Oakland.A thin Ed &ldquo;Jiggs&rdquo; McDonald will broadcast King games with Dan Avey doing &ldquo;color&rdquo; in place of Ed Fitkin, now Cooke&rsquo;s special aide. Chick Hearn continues as Laker broadcaster with Dick Schad doing color in place of Rod Hundley, who has gone to Phoenix.Hockey does not yet enjoy a proper press in L.A. Reporters make Tew trips and little space is made available in the papers. The Times promoted Chuck Garrity. He now sits on top of the desk. Basketball writer Dan Hafner takes over the Kings, but only part time.The top old hands include Walt Marlow of the HeraldExaminer, new president of the local chapter of the NHL Writers&rsquo; Assn., Ron McGrath of the Ontario paper, the new secretarytreasurer, and Rich Roberts of, the Long Beach newspapers.Jon Wahington, the Kings&rsquo; energetic publicist, is doing his best, which is considerable. The club has a brilliant new coach, Hal Laycoe. There are many bright new faces &mdash; Eddie Shack, Ross Lonsberry, Leon Rochefort, Noel Price, Dale Hoganson, Claude Hardy and Dennis Hextall, son of a National Hockey League Hall of Famer. The team&rsquo;s fate will be reflected at the gate.Los Angeles sporting events, pro and college, drew more paid admissions than those in any other city, including New York, last year. The Forum filled more dates and had greater turnouts than any building except New York&rsquo;s Madison Square Garden, and exeeded all in profits. Cooke and company hope hockey begins to lure its expected share of the public&rsquo;s entertainment dollar this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02594/2807101-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="544" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROSS LONSBERRY &hellip; A New Face With Kings</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03456/2807094-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="533" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body">DENNIS HEXTALL &hellip; Carries Famous Name</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Cooke Expects Kings To Be Top Draw In Forum Once Fans Take To Sport

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01679/2807170-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="520" height="1562"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY DESJARDINS</figcaption></div><h2>MONTREAL</h2>GOALKEEPERSLome WorsleyRogatien VachonDEFENSEMENJacques LaperhereJ.C. TremblayTed HarrisSerge SavardTerry HarperFORWARDSJean BeliveauGilles TremblayRalph BackstromDick DuffRejean HouleYvan CoumoyerClaude ProvostBobby RousseauHenri RichardMarc TardifJohn FergusonChris BordeleauMickey RedmondJacques Lemaire<h2>ST LOUIS</h2>GOALKEEPERSJacques PlanteErnie WakelyRobbie IronsDEFENSEMENRay FortinAl ArbourNoel PicardBob PlcgerBarclay PlagerJim RobertsJean-Guy TalbotFORWARDSRed BerensonFrank St. MarseillePhil GoyetteGary SabourinTim EcclestoneBill McCrearyRon AndersonLarry KeenanAndre Baud riasAb McDonaldCamille HenryRon Buchanan<h2>BOSTON</h2>GOALKEEPERSGerry CheeversEd JohnstonDEFENSEMENBobby OrrRick SmithDallas SmithBill SpeerGary DoakDon AwreyFORWARDSKen HodgeJohn BucykWayne CashmanGarnet BaileyDerek SandersonFred StanfieldEd WestfallJohn McKenziePhil EspositoJim HarrisonJim LorentzRon Murphy<h2>OAKLAND</h2>GOALKEEPERSGary SmithCharlie HodgeChris WorthyDEFENSEMENDoug RobertsWayne MuloinCarol VadnaisDick MattiussiBert MarshallFORWARDSBilly HickeGerry EhmanTed HampsonEarl IngarfieldDon O&rsquo;DonoghueGary JarrettJoe HardyMike LaughtonGene UbriacoNorm FergusonBrian PerryBob DillaboughTony Featherstone<h2>CHICAGO</h2>GOALKEEPERSDenis DeJordyTony EspositoDave DrydenDEFENSEMENKeith MagnusonDoug JarrettRay McKayPat StapletonMike McMahonPaul ShmyrFORWARDSGilles MarotteLou AngottiPit MartinJim PappinDennis HullDoug MohnsTerry CafferyEric NesterenkoChico MakiCliff KorollJim WisteStan MikitaGerry Pinder<h2>DETROIT</h2>GOALKEEPERSRoy EdwardsRoger CrozierDEFENSEMENGary BergmanBob BaunCarl BrewerPaul PopeilRon HarrisMatt RavlichFORWARDSGary UngerCordie HoweAlex DelvecchioGarry MonahanBruce MacGregorNick LibettHank MonteithWayne ConnellyPete StemkowskiFrank MahovlichRick McCannLarry Jeffrey<h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>GOALKEEPERSLes BinkleyJoe DaleyAl SmithDEFENSEMENDuane RuppBob WoytowichBob BlackbumBryan WatsonTracy PrattJim MorrisonforwardsBryan HextallKeith McCrearyVai FonteyneNick HarbarukKen SchinkelBilly DeaGlen SatherRon SchockWally BoyerJean PronovostDean PrenticeCraig CameronMichel Briere<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALKEEPERSBruce GambleMarv EdwardsJohn BowerDEFENSEMENTim HortonRicky LeyMike PelykPat QuinnJim DoreyJim McKennyFORWARDSRon EllisMurray OliverWayne CarletonDave KeonBrit SelbyMike WaltonFloyd SmithPaul HendersonBob PulfordTerry ClancyRon WardNorm Ullman<h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>GOALKEEPERSGerry DesjardinsClade HardyDEFENSEMENDale RolfeBrent HughesBob WallNoel PriceDale HogansonJacques LemieuxLarry CahanFORWARDSEddie JoyalEddie ShackDennis HextallJim PetersBill FlettTed IrvineSkip KrakeHowie HughesBryan CampbellRoss LansberryLeon Rochefort<h2>NEW YORK</h2>GOALKEEPERSEd GiacominTerry SawchukDEFENSEMENBrad ParkAmie BrownJim NeilsonRod SeilingAllan HamiltonFORWARDSRod GilbertBob NevinReal LemieuxBill FairbairnVic HadfieldRon StewartDave BalonWalt TkaczukJean RatelieJuha WidingDon MarshallOrland Kurtenbach<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>GOALKEEPERSFem RivardKen BroderickCesare ManiagoDEFENSEMENBarry GibbsJohn MiszukLeo BoivinLou NanneTom PolanicDarryl SlyFORWARDSDanny O&rsquo;SheaBill GoldsworthyCharlie BumsRay CullenJean-Paul PariseTommy WilliamsBob BarlowClaude LaroseDanny LawsonBill CollinsDanny GrantWalt McKechnie<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02611/2807163-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="469" height="1568"><figcaption class="caption-body">SKIP KRAKE</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Opening Rosters For National League Teams

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04399/2807208-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03515/2807215-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="196" height="197"></div>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 15)EASTERN DIVISIONWESTERN DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05302/2807201-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="1125" height="293"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Sat. Oct. 11Los Angeles 1 at Montreal 5Toronto 2 at Detroit 3Chicago 2 at St. Louis 7Philadelphia 0 at Minnesota 4Oakland 2 at Pittsburgh 2Sun. Oct. 12New York 1 at Boston 2Oakland 2 at Chicago 1<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Wed. Oct. 15Montreal at TorontoMinnesota at New YorkOakland at BostonDetroit at ChicagoPhiladelphia at PittsburghLos Angeles at St. LouisThurs. Oct. 16Minnesota at DetroitFri. Oct. 17Los Angeles at OaklandSat. Oct. 18New York at MontrealChicago at TorontoBoston at PittsburghMinnesota at St. LouisOakland at Los AngelesSun. Oct. 19Montreal at PhiladelphiaToronto at New YorkPittsburgh at BostonSt. Louis at DetroitMinnesota at ChicagoTues. Oct. 21Pittsburgh at OaklandWed. Oct. 22St. Louis at MontrealPhiladelphia at TorontoChicago at New YorkBoston at MinnesotaPittsburgh at Los AngelesThurs. Oct. 23Detroit at PhiladelphiaFri. Oct. 24Boston at Oakland &#9632;

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THE NHL SCENE

<h2>Sat. Oct 11</h2>CHICAGO 2 AT ST. LOUIS 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06250/2807309-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="589" height="867"></div>OAKLAND 2 AT PITTSBURGH 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07224/2807302-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="584" height="598"></div>TORONTO 2 AT DETROIT 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08200/2807295-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="589" height="279"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09185/2807288-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="583" height="327"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-10162/2807281-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="564" height="569"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY SABOURIN &hellip;Two-goal start</figcaption></div>PHILADELPHIA 0 AT MINNESOTA 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-11142/2807274-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="582" height="651"></div>LOS ANGELES 1 AT MONTREAL 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-12115/2807267-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="574" height="107"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-13101/2807260-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="581" height="578"></div><h2>Sun. Oct. 12</h2>OAKLAND 2 AT CHICAGO 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1488/2807253-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="576" height="574"></div>NEW YORK 1 AT BOSTON 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1572/2807246-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="582" height="553"></div> &#9632;

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National League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY LOU PRATO</div>PITTSBURGH&mdash;It may have been simply because of training camp enthusiasm but the Pittsburgh Penguins have displayed some unexpected muscle in their style.Now. anyone who has seen the Penguins play in the NHL the past two years can&rsquo;t help but be surprised by this development. For the Penguins had been one of the most punchless teams in the league.Everybody, 5 picked on the Penguins. Oh sure, there were fights on the ice. And the Penguin players spent some time in the penalty box.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01525/2807347-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="243" height="391"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glen Sather</figcaption></div>But the Penguins always seemed to lack that fighting, aggressive spirit. They would hit but the other team usually hit back harder. And there was no &ldquo;policeman&rdquo; around to defend the smaller Penguins from the vicious attacks of opponent&rsquo;s.Last year&rsquo;s mid-season acquisition of hustling Bryan Watson from Oakland changed the situation somewhat. But Watson often found himself alone when hurtling at a foe. And when he was in the penalty box&mdash;which was often&mdash;the team&rsquo;s muscle frequently turned to jelly.But there are indications that Watson has found several muscle-bound companions on the Penguin team reformed by new coach Red Kelly. Fist fights and violent body collisions marked the Penguins&rsquo; exhibition season and just about everyone got into the act.Take the Penguins 5-2 victory over Los Angeles before a partisan crowd at Brantford, the Penguins&rsquo; training camp site. Early in the second period Pittsburgh&rsquo;s defenseman Tracy Pratt started belting away with Los Angeles&rsquo; Skip Krake. Penguins rookie goalie Al Smith, battling veterans Les Binkley and Joe Daley for a job, left his net and skated to the scene to aid Pratt. Los Angeles&rsquo; goalie, Gerry Desjardins, saw Smith and joined the fray himself. Soon, several Penguins and Kings had squared off in individual confrontations.Referees finally restored order. But for the rest of the game, there was hard hitting on both sides.The significance of this game is that it typifies the Penguins&rsquo; new style of aggressive, vicious hockey. It showed that the Penguins are not a team to be pushed around&mdash;at least in the exhibition season. Whether this style carries over during the regular season is unpredictable. But Red Kelly thinks it will.&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ll&rsquo; run into our share of penalties because of the style of hockey we&rsquo;ll play this year,&rdquo; Kelly said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a fairly rugged style and we may be using the body more than other teams.&rdquo;Newcomers have helped Kelly transform the Penguins into a muscle-bound threat. The most valuable addition is Glen Sather, drafted off the Boston roster over the summer.Sather has been involved in a half dozen fights during the exhibition season, including one with teammate Doug Barrie in an intrasquad game. Sather learned his rough house techniques from the masters&mdash;the Boston Bruins&mdash;and he says he&rsquo;s going to help his new team become a copy of the Bruins.&ldquo;The first couple of times around the league the other teams will try and push us around,&rdquo; Sather said. &ldquo;I think a lot of teams will underestimate us.&rdquo;Rookie Brian Hextall, trying to make it into the NHL after nine years in the minors, also has demonstrated a desire to flex his muscles. So has rookie Nick Harbaruk, up from Tulsa.So with Sather, Hextall, Harbaruk and others joining Watson, Pratt and Bob Woytowich, the Penguins have muscled their way through a 4-1-3 exhibition record, their best ever. Now, if they can only keep it up in the regular season.PUCK STOPS &mdash; One time NHL superstar Andy Bathgate has decided to forget his come back and return to the minor leagues.Bathgate was trying for a spot on the Penguins again after playing last year with Vancouver. He had a big year in the WHL, scoring 37 goals and 36 assists. And, some observers figured he could make it back with the Penguins despite his age.But the 37-year-old veteran of 15 NHL seasons decided to return to Vancouver. He told general manager Jack Riley that his legs simply weren&rsquo;t able to carry him over the rugged NHL season.However, Riley said Bathgate still could be called up from Vancouver in an emergency.Meanwhile, another NHL veteran has retired. Center Billy Harris said he would retire rather than play in the minors again.The 34 year old &ldquo;Harris said he ad been thinking about retirement for some time. And when edged out of a center spot by youthful new Penguins, Harris decided to quit.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02451/2807340-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="1644" height="1060"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ice Quips &hellip;by Maki&ldquo;This is NOT a slow motion replay&hellip; it&rsquo;s a certain player&rsquo;s TOP speed&rdquo;</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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If Nothing Else ‘New’ Penguins To Be Aggressive

<div class="byline">BY VICTOR BERNS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01440/2807385-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="493" height="1013"><figcaption class="caption-body">LYNN PATRICK</figcaption></div>ST. LOUIS &mdash;Lynn Patrick can&rsquo;t foresee the St. Louis Blues at the head of another runaway in the Western Division of the National Hockey League.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to see the Blues in another runaway because it&rsquo;s easier on us,&rdquo; Patrick said. &ldquo;But I think the race will be tighter this year. We have to beat Minnesota and Los Angeles; and I&rsquo;m saying that even though Oakland finished second last season.&rdquo;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&rsquo;s the kind of lead that Patrick likes. It was built by his energetic young coach and general manager, Scotty-Bowman, and Patrick, whose title is nowmanaging director, was able to enjoy a little grandfatherly relaxation because of it.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02390/2807378-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="251" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Fortin</figcaption></div>Bowman was a toddler in Montreal when Patrick was approaching All-Star status as a player with the New York Rangers. Patrick was later coach of the Rangers and then coach, general manager and vice president in 15 years with the Boston Bruins!Patrick dropped out of big-league hockey in 1965 when he became coach and general manager of the old Los Angeles Blades in the Western Hockey League.&ldquo;At that time I never even thought of the possibility that I would be handed the challenge of building an NHL team from scratch,&rdquo; Patrick said.But the following year he was the first man picked by Sidney Salomon Jr., to build the Blues.Patrick said, &ldquo;My biggest thrill in hockey was my first year in St. Louis-putting a team together and watching it win.&rdquo;Patrick started that first season as coach and general manager with Bowman as his assistant but he says now, &ldquo;I was ever the hill as a coach; I hadn&rsquo;t coached in 13 years except for the time in Los Angeles.&rdquo;Bowman took the coaching duties in November and then assumed the job of general manager when the Blues became the first expansion team in the Stanley Cup finals. The Blues made Patrick their elder statesman in residence, and the Patrick Bowman brain trust has put the Blues far out in front in the scramble among expansion teams to gain a solid toehold in an established league.Bowman has been talking this year about the Blues&rsquo; depth, and some observers have estimated that the Blues are about 25 per cent better than the Stanley Cup finalists of 1968-69.Bowman said during the Blues&rsquo; training camp, &ldquo;You know, there were a couple of fellows at our first camp who really looked good in the company they were in. But when you campare them with what we&rsquo;ve got now, they fall considerably short.The Blues, who have never beaten the Montreal Canadiens in any game, outskated and outshot the Habs in an exhibition game that ended in a 3-3 tie in St. Louis.Montreal Capt. Jean Beliveau, huffing and puffing after the game, said simply that the Blues &ldquo;have a very much improved team this year,&rdquo; and Terry Harper added, &ldquo;a lot better than anything else we&rsquo;ve seen in the Western Division this season.&rdquo;Patrick believes that the Blues&rsquo; depth may be an indication that the caliber of big-league hockey may not have been diluted by expansion.&ldquo;You always have four or five or six players who are the key players on a club,&rdquo; Patrick said. &ldquo;We have our key players, but we also have a good balanced club. It&rsquo;s nice to have that depth.&rdquo;Patrick believes that expansion forced hockey to search more thoroughly for its talent.&ldquo;We got Ray Fortin and Frank St. Marseille out of the boondocks, where you probably would have passed them by, he said. &ldquo;St. Marseille turns out to be a star player, and Fortin, who&rsquo;s still young, will be getting to see more action.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Patrick Doesn’t Envision Another ‘Runaway’, Sees Kings, Stars Teams Blues Must Beat

MONTREAL &mdash;Phil Esposito, record setting centreman of the Boston Bruins, and Barclay Piager, rough and tumble defenseman of the St. Louis Blues, were fined $250 apiece by NHL President Clarence Campbell last week.The fines resulted from separate incidents in pre-season games, in which each player received a game misconduct.Esposito, who set an NHL scoring record last season with 126 points on 49 goals and 77 assists, was ejected from an exhibition game played at Ottawa against the Blues Sept. 21.Esposito pushed referee Ken Bodendistel while protesting a minor penalty which he had been given.&ldquo;The incident had no implications in the conduct of the game,&rdquo; Campbell said. &ldquo;But players must realize that physical interference with referees will not be tolerated and when such conduct is repeated the penalty will be substantially increased.&rdquo;It was later in the same game that Boston defenseman Ted Green received a fractured skull in a stick-swinging duel with Wayne Maki of St. Louis. Green is recovering from the injury in an Ottawa hospital.Campbell still hasn&rsquo;t ruled on the Green-Maki affair.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03321/2807416-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="542" height="549"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL ESPOSITO</figcaption></div>Piager was ejected from a game played in Oshawa, Ont., against Oakland Seals Sept. 26 when he charged referee Jim McCauley and jostled the official while protesting a misconduct penalty. &#9632;

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Esposito, Barclay Piager Hit With $250 NHL Fines

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY CO. LIMITED WALLY ENTERPRISES LIMITED. AFFILIATE Arnold Street, Wollaceburg. OntarioLOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY CO. LIMITED WALLY ENTERPRISES LIMITED. AFFILIATE Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01446/2807454-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="573" height="1211"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY CROTEAU &hellip; The Bull Returns</figcaption></div>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;Considerable improvement has been made in the Springfield Kings&rsquo; playing personnel this season. However, two relatively inexperienced goal-tenders are again on the scene. The club has tried for an experienced AHL (jack-stop, but the asking price has been high.Bob Sneddon and Bruce Landon will take care of the goalie work. Sneddon has played some AHL games and looks like he might get the nod for the starting job. Landon comes from Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; with a great reportcard. He was with Peter boro last season. In 38 games, he allowed 127 goals, had three shutouts and a 3.22 average.Jacques Lemieux and Larry Johnston are the lone holdovers on defense from last season. Lemieux came here from the Western League. Johnston is a hitter on defense and was named best player here by the Kings Booster Club last season.Roger Cote, Greg Boddy and Dave Amadio are new faces, but not really. Cote and Amadio played here before. Roger was in the Western League with Phoenix while Amadio was in the NHL with Los Angeles and is a former Indians&rsquo; player.Boddy was a top amateur defenseman with Edmonton Juniors last winter. He is a fine prospect who should do well.Gordon Labossiere, Brian Murphy and Bob Goring make up the center icemen. Labossiere divided his time between Springfield and Los Angeles last season. A former star with the Quebec Aces, he is one of the top AHL players in history. Murphy played here last season in his rookie year.The Kings brass expect a good job from Goring at center, though he was with the Ottawa Nationals in amateur play last season as a wing. He is a highly rated prospect and could well be on his way to a career in the NHL.Some fine players will skate the wings for the Springfield unit. Marc Dufour, Mike Corrigan, Randy Prior, Jim Anderson, Doug Robinson, Gary Croteau, Randy Miller and Bill Inglis are included. All had a good training period, too.Croteau, who is called the &lsquo;Bull&rsquo;, is the biggest surprise. He played well here, did even better with Los Angeles but the locals are proud to have him back. However, we think he will be back in LA before long. Dufour and Corrigan do plenty of scoring, Robinson looked so good in camp he nearly made LA.Randy Miller comes back here from Denver of the Western League and Jim Anderson returns for his 15th season ready to skate and help coach the younger players.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0895/2807447-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="551" height="510"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY JOHNSTON</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Kings’ Coalers inexperienced But Rest Of Squad Solid Crew

<h2>Fri. Oct. 10</h2>QUEBEC 1 AT CLEVELAND 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02357/2807520-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="590" height="641"></div>PROVIDENCE 2 AT MONTREAL 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03262/2807513-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="588" height="687"></div>BALTIMORE 0 AT SPRINGFIELD 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04206/2807506-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="588" height="440"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05153/2807499-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="592" height="162"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06127/2807492-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="585" height="172"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-07111/2807485-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="1190" height="1773"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rookie netminder BRUCE LANDON of the Springfield Kings won&rsquo;t forget his first game as professional for a long time. The 21-year-old goaler shut out the Baltimore Clippers 6-0 in his first AHL start after coming down from the Los Angeles training camp.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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American League Summaries

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Oct. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0983/2807551-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="587" height="487"></div>(Affiliations: 1. Montreal. 2. Detroit. 3. Boston. 4. New York. 7. Los Angeles. 8. Pittsburgh. 9. Oakland. 10. Philadelphia. 13. Vancouver.)<h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Fri. Oct. 10Quebec 1 at Cleveland 3Providence 2 at Montreal 2Baltimore 0 at Springfield 6Sat. Oct. 11Buffalo 1 at Cleveland 2Baltimore 1 at Hershey 6Providence 1 at Springfield 4Sun. Oct. 12Quebec 0 at Buffalo 6Springfield 1 at Providence 3Montreal 2 at Rochester 2<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tues. Oct. 14Quebec at BaltimoreBaltimore at MontrealWed. Oct. 15Quebec at HersheyFri. Oct. 17Cleveland at MontrealBuffalo at ProvidenceQuebec at RochesterSat. Oct. 18Providence at HersheyBuffalo at SpringfieldSun. Oct. 19Baltimore at BuffaloMontreal at ProvidenceCleveland at QuebecHershey at RochesterTues. Oct. 21Cleveland at QuebecWed. Oct 22Springfield at BaltimoreCleveland at ProvidenceFri. Oct. 24Rochester at MontrealCleveland at Springfield &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01423/2807596-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Two of the many new faces with the Cleveland Barons this season are goaler GARY KURT and hard-rock defenseman JIM WATSON, a former National Leaguer with Detroit. Kurt is making his debut in the higher pro hockey company after playing with Omaha of the Central League last year.</figcaption></div>Special To The Hockey NewsCLEVELAND &mdash;The 1969-70 American Hockey League season is just underway, but already Cleveland fans are getting excited about Jack Gordon&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll have to be reckoned with in the AHL&rsquo;s West.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03300/2807589-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="264" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Beaudin</figcaption></div>The main physical strength comes from backliners Jim Watson, Bob Falkenberg and Jim Niekamp who team up with the Barons&rsquo; veteran captain, Bill Needham, to give the Clevelanders a more solid defense.The most bruising of the four is Watson, a 6&rsquo;2&rdquo;, 210 pound &ldquo;rock&rdquo; who seems to delight in bouncing opponents off the boards.&ldquo;We have more size and more experience back there,&rdquo; Gordon said. &ldquo;If we can keep the pressure off our goaltenders, we&rsquo;ll be all right.&rdquo; Last season, it was no secret that Baron goaltenders often had to dig in under the enemy barrage.Up front a &ldquo;go&rdquo; line is emerging that combines speed and scoring punch. Veteran right winger Norm Beaudin, a 32-goal scorer at Buffalo last year, is teamed with center Rey Comeau and Ken Kelly. The &ldquo;quick ones&rdquo; as they have been named by a local scribe, can move the puck and pick up the pace when they are on the ice.Gordon&rsquo;s checking line suffered a blow during pre-season play when veteran left winger, Wayne Schultz, suffered a broken wrist. However, the Barons still have the experience of center Cecil Hoekstra and wingers Howie Glover and Jim Mikol to kill penalties.&ldquo;We still have several rough spots,&rdquo; Gordon added. &ldquo;We have to get more scoring from our attack, but I like the way the club is coming along.&rdquo;If further injuries don&rsquo;t cripple the Barons, and if they can get off to a good start in their first nine games (including seven away), they will give their Western Division foes a skate for their money.Meanwhile, Cleveland fans are awake. The new Barons look exciting.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02370/2807582-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="1167" height="2065"></div> &#9632;

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New Barens Proving Exciting, Hard-Hitting Crew

Special To The Hockey NewsBALTIMORE &mdash;There&rsquo;s an old sports expression to the effect that &ldquo;you can&rsquo;t tell the players without a program&rdquo;. It&rsquo;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-&ldquo;team&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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 pretty Mary Jo Zarachowicz begins her second season as the club&rsquo;s secretary.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04257/2807627-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="258" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Yvon Labre</figcaption></div>But then the similarity with previous Baltimore hockey clubs begins to fade.Rudy Migay has replaced Aldo Guidolin as coach as a new and tighter working agreement between the Clippers and the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL has been effected. And, at least ten new faces may ultimately gain berths on the 18 man squad.Promising a host of talented young legs &mdash; about 15 in all &mdash; to help mix with the older heads owned outright by Baltimore, the Penguins have furnished Migay with goalie Paul Hoganson, an amateur who played last year with the Toronto Marlboros; defensemen Doug Barrie, Jean Guy Lagace, John Ferguson, Dave Simpson, Ted Lanyon and Yvon Labre, and fowards Ron Snell, Ed Patenaude, Bob Rivard, Rick Kessell, Marty Reynolds, Gary Swain and Larry Billows. Labre, Kissell and Hoganson were teammates last season.Of course, not all of these fuzzy cheeked youths will remain, since GM Jack Riley of the Penguins and Coach Red Kelly expect to dispatch from five to six others here as they pare their 24-man Penguin roster. Along with the Penguin personnel, the Clippers who are battling for survival include goalie Andy Brown; Guidolin, Ed MacQueen, and Jim Morrison on defense, and forwards Willie Marshall, Jim Bartlett, Jean-Marie Cossette, Keke Mortson and Bob Cunningham.Wayne Hicks, the veteran right winger who belongs to the Penguins, has had a fine camp while recovering nicely from a broken femur bone in his leg late last season. Showing no ill effects from the tragedy, Hicks is expected to carry much of the offensive burden from the Clippers especially since last year&rsquo;s top goal-getter Sandy McGregor has retired and the ageless Marshall is still sidelined with a slow healing wrist operation.Another young prospect in the Clipper organization is Rod Zaine who last winter played for the Canadien Nationals. He is the property of Baltimore and signed his first pro contract earlier this week. The 23-year old Ottawa native is a center. CLIPPER CLIPS &hellip; All 72 games of the Clippers will again be broadcast this year over Baltimore station WBAL (1090 on your dial)&hellip;This is the city&rsquo;s biggest 50,000 watt outlet and pulls in a lot of listeners from Canada to Miami &hellip; Jim West, winner of the Jim Ellery League Plaque two years ago, will again handle the play-by-play with the veteran News-American sports writer George Taylor on color&hellip; Veteran goalie Gilles Boisvert has retired again, but since he lives here and keeps himself in tip top hockey shape, he could be called upon to unretire again as he did last winter&hellip;Sandy McGregor and family have moved to Columbus, Ohio where he has taken over the job of regional sales for Eastern Stainless Steel now known as EASCO&hellip; Also retired is little Bobby Brinkworth, who moved to Detroit and is now on the Sperrv Rand pavroll&hellip; &#9632;

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Penguins Despatch 15 Skaters To Change Look Of Clippers

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02192/2807696-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="546" height="1722"><figcaption class="caption-body">DON CHERRY &hellip; Hangs Up Skates</figcaption></div>ROCHESTER&mdash;Don Cherry and Les Duff originally joined the Rochester Americans for the 1963-64 American Hockey League season.Both were members of the Amerks&rsquo; Calder Cup championship teams in 1965, 1966 and 1968 and of the finalists in 1967.Both settled here permanently with their families&mdash;the only Rochester players to do so except for Red Armstrong, who married a Rochester girl.And now the two have retired within 24 hours of each other. Cherry, 35-year-old defenseman, announced he was hanging up his skates for good after a meeting with Joe Crozier, general manager of the Amerks and of their parent Vancouver Canucks.The following afternoon it was Duff, a 34-year-old left wing, who sadly revealed he was finished with pro hockey.Cherry, who also was on a playoff winner with Vancouver of the Western League last spring, was a surprise &ldquo;no show&rdquo; when the Amerks opened their training camp in Stamford, Ont. Sept. 26.Don had been considering retirement, he said, and while he continued to work out at a YMCA here, he had pretty much made up his mind he was calling it quits.Cherry&rsquo;s long career in the American League saw him spend three seasons with Hershey and three and part of another with Springfield in addition to his stay here.Duff, an AHLer for 909 of his 922 regular season games, wasn&rsquo;t as happy about ending his career.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s all over kid &hellip; but it&rsquo;s not easy,&rdquo; he said, his voice choking with emotion. &ldquo;I met with Joe and got the idea I didn&rsquo;t fit into their plans &hellip; that really made it tough.&rdquo;Duff&rsquo;s 112 AHL playoff games is second only to Fred Glover&rsquo;s 120, and his five Calder Cups (two with Hershey and three with Rochester) tie him with Glover for the all time record. He was a standout penalty killer and defensive forward for Hershey for seven seasons before coming to Rochester in a trade.Both Cherry and Duff will continue to live here. Cherry works for Ridge Construction, a subsidiary of Eastman Kodak, while Duff will be with Neptune Worldwide Movers.Somehow, no matter what the &lsquo;69-70 Amerks do, there&rsquo;ll be something missing with the retirement of two alltime fan favorites here. &#9632;

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Vets Cherry, Duff End Pro Careers

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;Gerry Ouellette has been the hockey Bisons&rsquo; jack-of-all-trades for four years, and this season it appears he&rsquo;ll get some help in the handyman department.Bob Jones, a left-winger who will be 24 next month, was used as a center in the 5-1 victory over the Oakland Seals in the pre-season finale. Earlier, he played on defense in several exhibition games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03160/2807734-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="250" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Ouellette</figcaption></div>A 6-foot one-inch 190-pounder, Jones collected 19 goals and 37 assists with the Herd a year ago after bagging 21 goals and 32 assists in his first term here in 1967-68.&ldquo;Bobby played quite a bit on the defense as a junior in Kitchener, Ont., and I&rsquo;ve always felt he could do an adequate job at center,&rdquo; said Fred Shero, the Buffalo coach.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s big enough to be a defenseman, and has all the tools to be a good forward, either on the wing or in the middle. It&rsquo;s a plus to have diversified people available.&rdquo;Ouellette has played everywhere but in goal for the Bisons. He is a sturdy athlete, and a strong skater with excellent puck sense.Jones, like Ouellette, is an accomplished penalty-killer, and has a sizzling shot. Jones is often used on the point in the power-play.The lanky Jones had a thorough trial with the parent New York Rangers at training camp, and was returned to the Bisons when Emile Francis, the New York general manager and coach, decided one more winter in the minors would prepare Jones for service in the NHL.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy to have Bobby back, and we&rsquo;ll give him some extra work to get him ready to play anywhere,&rdquo; Shero said. &ldquo;This youngster is a fine hockey player, anywhere you put him.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-04122/2807727-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="1182" height="1079"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB JONES &hellip; Sent By Rangers</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bob Jones Slated For Double Duty As Attucker, Defender With Herd

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY &mdash;Coach Frank Mathers expressed disappointment with his Hershey Bears initial performance in their pre-season exhibition game with Baltimore but even Mathers had to admit he couldn&rsquo;t find anything wrong with the way his Bears manhandled the Philadelphia Flyers in exhibition play.The Bears twice racked the NHL Flyers over the coals in warm-up games and while the margin of victory wasn&rsquo;t great, it was a feather in the caps of the Hershey skaters and delighted Mathers no end.The Bears showed a strong game to edge the Flyers 4-3 in the first and in the return encounter, Hershey won again 4-2 as Larry McNabb scored his first goal as a member of the Bears.The double coup by the Bears also helped American League teams to an impressive record of four wins, one loss and three ties in eight exhibition starts against NHL clubs.The defending Calder Cup champions were beaten, 7-2 by Baltimore, but Mathers only had a handful of his veteran skaters in the lineup.&ldquo;Baltimore out-skated us all the way in that one and they have a good looking team which will be rough for the whole league to handle,&rdquo; predicted Mathers, who is starting his 14th season as the Bears&rsquo; pilot.The Bears training camp was attended by 27 skaters, largest turnout in club annals.One of the better looking rookies was Jean Guy Gratton, claimed from the Montreal Canadiens in last summer&rsquo;s draft.The 5-9 former junior star hammered home 46 goals last year playing for the Junior Canadiens and Sorel, Que.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01267/2807665-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="542" height="943"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY McNABB &hellip; First AHL Goal</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01131/2807658-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="1775" height="2221"><figcaption class="caption-body">CANADIENS&rsquo; ICE GREATS HONOREDWith the opening of the 1969-70 season, the Montreal Canadiens took the occasion to honor four of its finest hockey performers in the club&rsquo;s history. Each received giant-sized oil paintings Al top left TOE BLAKE, and on right, JEAN BELIVEAU. At bottom, left, HOWIE MORENZ JR., who received award on behalf of his late father. At right, the incomparable MAURICE RICHARD, one of hockey&rsquo;s all-time great scorers</figcaption></div>&ldquo;The kid looks pretty good,&rdquo; said Mathers, who has been playing him on a line with veteran center Mike Nykoluk.The 20-year-old Gratton scored a goal in the Baltimore scrimmage.The Bears also purchased Ted Snell&rsquo;s contract from Phoenix and the hard-checking forward will bolster the club&rsquo;s forward crew. Snell joined the Bears for the final 20 games last season and turned in a fine effort.He again will skate on a line with center Bob Leiter and left winger Stan Gilbertson. This trio delivered 14 goals in 11 playoff games last spring.Mathers sent out three rookies before the team wound up their camp for the league opener.Bill Yeo, the 20-year-old goaltender from the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Junior League, was sent to Des Moines of the International League. Alain Beaule, a 23-year-old defenseman, was returned to Dayton, also of the IHL. Fraser Rice, a 22year old center, was returned to Syracuse of the Eastern League. &#9632;

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Bears Ready After Beating NHL Flyers Twice

<div class="byline">BY JOHN WHITE</div>SAN DIEGO&mdash;Before San Diego&rsquo;s Gulls and the Portland Buckaroos clashed in the finals of the world&rsquo;s first four-team professional tournament in Portland, Coach Max McNab of the Gulls was moaning a bit about his offense.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re supposed to have goal scorers,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But that&rsquo;s just what we haven&rsquo;t been doing in exhibition games &mdash; scoring goals.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01148/2807786-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="271" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Willie O&rsquo;Ree</figcaption></div>Less than two hours later it appeared that sly old Max qualified as one of the sharpest-con-artists in professional hockey.His Gulls wiped out the Portland hockey club, 9-2, in the tournament finals. And let&rsquo;s just put it this way. The Buckaroos are completing their first decade in the Western Hockey League. And no other club ever scored more than eight goals against them in their Memorial Coliseum.As San Diego&rsquo;s Al Nicholson grinned after the game, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a good hockey club this season.&rdquo;That&rsquo;s an understatement.The Gulls have as much scoring power as any club in the league up front. The defense appears definitely improved over last season when San Diego finished third. And San Diego has a second All-Star in the nets in Jack McCartan.The Gulls rate as a definite contender for the championship in their fourth season in the Western Hockey League.McNab&rsquo;s biggest problem seemed to be which players to cut. He still had 22 professionals in camp, along with three rookies. Under new Western League, rules, two rookies must be dressed. The limit is 18 players dressed for a game. So it&rsquo;s pretty obvious that six professionals &mdash; some of them with great records in hockey &mdash; were going to leave the club or be watching games from the press box.This was the breakdown:McNab had two goalies. He had eight defensemen &mdash; all professionals. He had five centers, just one of them a rookie. And he had five professional left wingers and three pros plus two rookies on right wing.And there were 17 holdovers from last season&rsquo;s team.Checking out the Gulls, position by position:Goaltending is at least potentially strong with McCartan, second All-Star last season, and improving Bobby Champoux in the nets.The defense is improved, especially with newcomers Irv Spencer from Fort Worth and the veteran Gerry Odrowski, who played the last two seasons with Oakland in the National League. Odrowski, a second All-Star in his last full season in the Western League, could be the key.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0290/2807779-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="1778" height="1834"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK McCARTAN&hellip; Gulls&rsquo; All-Star Netminder Back In Harness</figcaption></div>Holdovers are Jack Evans an Goldon Sinclair (combined age 77), plus Al Lebrun, Les Hunt: Jim Eagle and Dennis Huculak, who impressed at the Detroit camp. Last season Evans and Sinclair ranked sixth and seventh in voting for All Star defensemen. But how long will the old pistons continue to pump?The Gulls have two strong veteran centers in Warren Hynes (88 points last season for fifth in the Western League) and Alex Faulkner (68 points). They are backed by 22-year-old Ross Perkins from Fort Worth and 24-year-old Sandy Fitzpatrick from Memphis, plus rookie John Haines from Michigan Tech.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0377/2807772-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="542" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body">DENNIS HUCULAK &hellip; Impressed Red Wings</figcaption></div>At left wing the Gulls are loaded. There are Fred Hilts (44 goals), Bruce Carmichael (26), Al Nicholson (22), Len Ronson (24 in only 47 games and a leagueleading 45 a year earlier), plus tough Dave Richardson.On right wing the Gulls have Willie O&rsquo;Ree (38 goals and 79 points), Captain John MacMillan (22), hard-checking Ed Ehrenverth, plus rookies Paul Morris and Kevin O&rsquo;Shea.O&rsquo;Shea, a 6-2, 205-pounder from the Canadian Nationals, is a cinch to be one of the two rookies on the roster.It appears that McNab will have to cut &mdash; or sideline &mdash; some pretty fair professional hockey players.If San Diego has a weakness, it could be lack of a really effective policeman &mdash; which can be important when the going gets rough.There is no lack of courage from player to player. But the Gulls don&rsquo;t have that one really big guy who is mean.But the way the Gulls were skating when they whipped Portland 9-2, maybe they&rsquo;ll just blaze their way around trouble this season. It&rsquo;s pretty tough to hit players you can&rsquo;t catch.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0462/2807765-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="565" height="619"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRED HILTS</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Gulls Clean Ice With Buckaroos To Rate As Contenders For Title

Save $$$$$$ Subscribe To The HOCKEY NEWS Receive 35 Issues At HomeFor The Best In Hockey Reading It&rsquo;s HOCKEY PICTORIAL Hockey&rsquo;s Most Exciting Publication<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h3>WESTERN LEAGUE</h3>(Standings On Wed. Oct. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0553/2807817-1-eng-US/f0022-052.jpg" title="f0022-05" width="588" height="267"></div>(Affiliations: 1. Montreal 2. Detroit. 5. Chicago. 6. Toronto, x-independent).<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri. Oct. 10San Diego 2 at Salt Lake 4Seattle 4 at Vancouver 1SAT Oct. 11Salt Lake 3 at Denver 5Phoenix 4 at San Diego 2Portland 8 at Seattle 5Sun. Oct. 12Vancouver 5 at Portland 2Denver 1 at Seattle 4<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Oct. 15Salt Lake at PhoenixDenver at PortlandThurs. Oct. 16Vancouver at SeattleFri. Oct. 17Seattle at Salt LakePortland at PhoenixDenver at VancouverSat. Oct. 18Seattle vs. Salt Lake(At Colorado Springs)Portland at San DiegoSun. Oct. 19Phoenix at PortlandTues. Oct. 21San Diego at Salt LakePhoenix at VancouverWed. Oct. 22San Diego at DenverSeattle at PortlandThurs. Oct. 23San Diego at PhoenixFri. Oct. 24Denver at Salt LakePortland at Vancouve &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">by doug McConnell</div>PHOENIX &mdash;The Phoenix Roadrunners have traded away most of their bigger name players over the last two seasons and Coach Alf Pike isn&rsquo;t bashful about discussing his motives.&ldquo;People ask me why and I tell &lsquo;em,&rdquo; says Alf. &ldquo;We got better players in return.&rdquo;The &ldquo;New Look&rdquo; Roadrunners, who escaped last season&rsquo;s six-team Western Hockey League basement by a single point, will finish no worse than third in this season&rsquo;s seventeam circuit, predicts Pike.Pike&rsquo;s housecleaning has left only eight of last season&rsquo;s 18-man squad.The club&rsquo;s biggest improvement is on defense and at center ice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01128/2807855-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="251" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Aut Erickson</figcaption></div>Bob McCord, loaned by the Minnesota North Stars, and Jim Murray, obtained from the Springfield Kings in exchange for Roger Cote, are the new rearguards.Sandy Hucul, after missing one-third of last season with a cracked vertebra, appears to have returned to the form which won him the 1967-68 WHL outstanding defenseman award. Aut Erickson has been borrowed again from the Oakland Seals and precocious Harry Shaw is gaining a little polish.Tommy McVie, the top goal scorer in the club&rsquo;s two-year history, was traded to the Seattle Totems for Larry Lund and the 29-year-old center&rsquo;s training camp play indicates a return to his 34-goal form of 1966-67.Milan Marcetta, obtained from Minnesota late last season, and 22-year-old Morris Stefaniw give the club two more solid pivotmen.Other additions are Don Caley to back up Rick Charron in goal, leftwingers Andre Hinse from Tulsa and rookie Dennis Schick, and rightwingers Gary Marsh, from Tulsa, making the switch from left wing, and rookie Frank Hughes.Bill Young, the Runners&rsquo; No. 1 draft. choice, has not yet reported. The 6-1, l94-pound left winger who scored 38 goals, 48 assists for Greensboro in the Eastern Hockey League last season, is still recuperating from a series of elbow operations.Additional help is expected from the Toronto Maple Leafs &mdash; a defenseman and a center or rightwinger.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0369/2807848-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="1158" height="1125"><figcaption class="caption-body">SANDY HUCUL &hellip; Showing Old Form</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Only Eight Return As Pike Gives Club ‘New Look’

SALT LAKE CITY&mdash;The new Salt Lake City Golden Eagles of the Western Hockey League are certainly in step with the times.To put it mildly, there is a generation gap between the Eagles and the rest of the Western League that is difficult to believe.If Salt Lake City&rsquo;s players don&rsquo;t trust anyone over 30, then there were only two players on the club in trouble.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0292/2807893-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="252" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Heaney</figcaption></div>Bob Kabel who is 34, and Billy McNeill, who is 33, were the only individuals on Coach Ray Kinasewich&rsquo;s roster who were over the age of 28.You want some contrasts?San Diego, one week before the season opened, had 15 players over 28 years old. Seattle had 11. Portland had 12.The Salt Lake City Golden Eagles had two.And that&rsquo;s not the end of it. The Eagles &mdash; a week before their opener &mdash; had been carrying a squad of 24 players. Only five were between the ages of 25 and 28. That left 17 players who were 24 years of age or younger.Salt Lake City took the ice with the youngest team in the history of the Western Hockey League.Kinasewich appears undaunted.&ldquo;We can skate,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;with any team in the league.&rdquo;After watching the Eagles fly over Portland&rsquo;s Memorial Coliseum ice for two tournament clashes, there was no questioning this statement.&ldquo;Those guys have motors on their skates,&rdquo; said San Diego&rsquo;s Max McNab. Not original but close to the truth.Kinasewich also says, &ldquo;Offensively, we&rsquo;ll be okay.&rdquo; Ray has been around pro hockey a long time. Maybe he knows what he&rsquo;s talking about. But the record says Salt Lake was starting the season without a single player who scored 20 goals in professional hockey a year ago.Defensively, even Kinasewich admitted some problems.There was absolutely no question, after watching Salt Lake, that this will be an exciting hockey team for the fans. The kids skate. They hustle. They hit.But will it be a winner? The wiser heads around the league say, &ldquo;No, not without some help.&rdquo;Hustle can go a long way toward winning hockey games, but it would have to be superhuman to offset the experience of the old pros the Eagles will face&hellip; Fred Hilts&hellip; Andy Hebenton&hellip; Art Jones&hellip; Norm Johnson&hellip; Willie O&rsquo;Ree&hellip; Warren Hynes&hellip; Andy Bathgate&hellip; Marc Reaume&hellip; and you could go on and on.As the season opened, Kinasewich had Russ Gillow in the nets. Not bad. He was 3.02 for Oklahoma City last season.On defense he had Murray Flegel from the Montreal organization, Bob Heaney from Kansas City, Dick Pagnutti from Springfield, Jim Pritchard from Houston, Drake Jopling from Memphis. The oldest were Jopling and Heaney at 23.The kids were skating and hitting. But at least two experienced professionals seemed a must.Up front, the keys could be Billy McNeill, Bobby Schmautz and perhaps Galen Head.McNeill, when he&rsquo;s happy, is one of the Western League&rsquo;s alltime greats. He proved it by winning most valuable player honors in back-to-back seasons &mdash; 1965 and 1966 &mdash; with Vancouver. At 33 he&rsquo;s not old.But McNeill has not always been happy. And when he&rsquo;s not happy, he&rsquo;s not much help. Kinasewich sees no problem. But neither did a few other coaches before him.Schmautz is young, tough and has a wicked shot. He&rsquo;s fresh from a full season with Chicago. If he plays to potential, he could be an All Star.Head scored 67 goals in 72 games last season. You&rsquo;re reading it right &mdash; 67 goals in 72 games.But that was with Johnstown in the Eastern League.If Head can score half that total in the Western League, he&rsquo;ll be having a great season.Make no mistake. Salt Lake City fans will love watching this hockey club. Those youngsters really tramp and play with spirit.But unless help arrives, it looks like a building year for Kinasewich.&mdash;JOHN WHITE<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0456/2807886-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="543" height="833"><figcaption class="caption-body">RUSS GILLOW &hellip; Newcomer In Goal</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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New Eagles Loom As Youngest Club In WHL But Kinasewich Building An Exciting Teum

<h2>OCTOBER</h2>Wed. 15 Kan. City at Ft. WorthFri. 17 Omaha at Ft. WorthSat. 18 Dallas at WaterlooFt. Worth at Okla. CityOmaha at TulsaSun. 19 Kan City at Ft. WorthDallas at WaterlooWed. 22 Omaha at Ft. WorthFri. 24 Ft. Worth at TulsaKan. City at Okla. CityOmaha at DallasOkla. City at WaterlooSun. 26 Omaha at Okla. CityTulsa at WaterlooWed. 29 Tulsa at DallasWaterloo at Okla. CityFri 31 Kan. City at OmahaWaterloo at Tulsa<h2>NOVEMBER</h2>Sat. 1 Okla. City at DallasOmaha at WaterlooTulsa at Ft. WorthSun. 2 Ft. Worth at TulsaWaterloo at OmahaWed. 5 Kan. City at DallasThu. 6 Dallas at TulsaSat. 8 Ft. Worth at WaterlooOmaha at Kan. CityTulsa at Okla. CitySun. 9 Okla. City at TulsaOmaha at Ft. WorthWaterloo at DallasWed. 12 Kan. City at TulsaOkla. City at OmahaWaterloo at Ft. WorthFri. 14 Kan. City at Ft. WorthOmaha at DallasTulsa at WaterlooSat. 15 Dallas at Kan. CityOmaha at Okla. CityWaterloo at TulsaSun. 16 Dallas at OmahaFt. Worth at WaterlooKan. City at Okla. CityTue. 18 Ft. Worth at Kan. CityWed. 19 Ft. Worth at OmahaTulsa at Okla. CityFri. 21 Ft. Worth at Okla. CityTulsa at DallasWaterloo at Kan. CitySat. 22 Dallas at Ft. WorthOmaha at WaterlooTulsa at Kan. CitySun. 23 Tulsa at OmahaWaterloo at Okla. CityWed. 26 Ft. Worth at DallasOkla. City at Kan. CityWaterloo at OmahaThu. 27 Dallas at TulsaKan. City at WaterlooFri. 28 Okla. City at Ft. WorthOmaha at Kan. CitySat. 29 Dallas at Okla. CityOmaha at Ft. WorthTulsa at WaterlooSun. 30 Kan. City at OmahaOkla. City at TulsaWaterloo at Dallas<h2>DECEMBER</h2>Wed. 3 Okla. City at Kan. CityOmaha at TulsaWaterloo at Ft. WorthFri. 5 Dallas at TulsaOkla. City at OmahaWaterloo at Kan. CitySat. 6 Kan. City at Ft. WorthOkla. City at WaterlooTulsa at DallasSun. 7 Kan. City at DallasOmaha at WaterlooWed. 10 Tulsa at Kan. CityFri. 12 Dallas at Kan. CityFt. Worth at OmahaOkla. City at TulsaSat. 13 Dallas at OmahaFt. Worth at WaterlooSun. 14 Okla. City at DallasWaterloo at Kan. CityWed. 17 Dallas at WaterlooOkla City at Ft. WorthOmaha at Kan. CityFri. 19 Dallas at Kan. CityFt. Worth at Okla. CityWaterloo at TulsaSat. 20 Dallas at OmahaFt. Worth at TulsaOkla. City at WaterlooSun. 21 Kan. City at Okla. CityOmaha at DallasThu. 25 Dallas at Okla. CityWaterloo at OmahaFri. 26 Dallas at Ft. WorthKan. City at TulsaSat. 27 Ft. Worth at DallasKan. City at WaterlooTulsa at OmahaSun. 28 Ft. Worth at Kan. City Omaha at TulsaWaterloo at Okla. CityWed.31 Kan. City at OmahaTulsa at Okla. CityWaterloo at. Ft. Worth<h2>JANUARY</h2>Fri. 2 Okla. City at OmahaWaterloo at DallasTulsa at Kan. CitySat. 3 Dallas at Ft. WorthKan. City at Okla. CityOmaha at TulsaSun. 4 Ft. Worth at OmahaKan. City at DallasWaterloo at TulsaWed. 7 Ft. Worth at TulsaOmaha pi DallasWaterloo at Kan. CityFri. 9 Dallas at Okla. CityOmaha at Ft. WorthTulsa at WaterlooSat. 10 Ft. Worth at DallasOkla. City at Kan. CityTulsa at OmahaSun. 11 Omaha at Okla. CityTulsa at Ft. WorthWaterloo at DallasWed. 14 Dallas at TulsaOkla. City at Ft. WorthOmaha at Kan. CityFri. 16 Ft. Worth at OmahaKan. City at WaterlooOkla. City at DallasSat. 17 Dallas at Kan. CityFt. Worth at Okla. CityWaterloo at TulsaSun. 18 Dallas at WaterlooKan. City at Okla. CityTulsa at Ft. WorthWed. 21 Tulsa at DallasOmaha at Ft. WorthWaterloo at Okla. CityFri. 23 Ft. Worth at WaterlooOmaha at Okla. CitySat. 24 Kan. City at DallasTulsa at Okla. CityWaterloo at OmahaSun. 25 Ft. Worth at Kan. CityOkla. City at WaterlooTulsa at OmahaWed. 28 Dallas at OmahaOkla. City at Kan. CityFri. 30 Dallas at WaterlooKan. City at TulsaSat. 31 Dallas at Ft. WorthOkla. City at TulsaWaterloo at Kan. City<h2>FEBRUARY</h2>Sun. 1 Kan. City at OmahaOkla. City at DallasTulsa at WaterlooWed. 4 Ft. Worth at OmahaKan. City at DallasFri. 6 Ft. Worth at WaterlooOmaha at Okla. CityTulsa at Kan. CitySat. 7 Ft. Worth at Kan. CityOmaha at DallasTulsa at Okla. CitySun. 8 Dallas at TulsaKan. City at WaterlooOkla. City at OmahaWed. 11 Dallas at Okla. CityOmaha at TulsaWaterloo at Ft. WorthFri. 13 Okla. City at Kan. CityTulsa at OmahaWaterloo at DallasSat. 14 Dallas at OmahaFt. Worth at Kan. CityWaterloo at Okla. CitySun. 15 Kan. City at Ft. WorthOkla. City at DallasTulsa at WaterlooWed. 18 Dallas at Kan. CityFt. Worth at TulsaThu. 19 Dallas at WaterlooFri. 20 Tulsa at Kan. CityWaterloo at OmahaSat. 21 Ft. Worth at DallasKan. City at OmahaOkla. City at TulsaSun. 22 Dallas at TulsaKan. City at WaterlooOkla. City at Ft. WorthWed. 25 Dallas at Kan. CityTulsa at Ft. WorthFri. 27 Ft. Worth at Okla. CityOmaha at WaterlooTulsa at DallasSat. 28 Dallas at Ft. WorthKan. City at OmahaTulsa at Okla. City &#9632;

CHL Games To Come

WATERLOO &mdash;It couldn&rsquo;t have been written more perfect for the new coaches in the Central Hockey League.Their 1969-70 debuts in the CHL were nothing short of a howling success. In fact, they didn&rsquo;t lose a game in the league&rsquo;s triple bill opener.Parker MacDonald, the coach of the Waterloo Iowa Stars watched as his team settled comfortably in its new setting and knocked off the Omaha Knights 4-3 in their home start.To give his Stars more teeth for the long grind ahead, the parent Minnesota North Stars dropped defenseman Tom Reid and forward Grant Erickson in MacDonald&rsquo;s lap as they made their final cuts for the new NHL season. Erickson was drafted from the Boston Bruins&rsquo; Oklahoma City club and he will be returning to the CHL after a brilliant last, two years with the Blazers. Reid was with the Chicago Black Hawks before Minnesota got him.Meanwhile, two other fled gling CHL coaches were doing all right in their first appearance in the league. Doug Barkley, who took over from Fern Flaman, steered the Fort Worth Wings to a home ice 3-2 decision against Oklahoma City in another game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01139/2807948-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="530" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body">PARKER MACDONALD &hellip;His Stars Fly High</figcaption></div>In the third inaugural contest, Marcel Pronovost, stepping into the big shoes of John McLellan at Tulsa, saw his young Oilers play a 1-1 tie with Fred Hucul&rsquo;s Kansas City Blues in a rugged contest to open the long CHL season.Only the champion Dallas Black Hawks failed to get into action on the first weekend but Bobby Kromm&rsquo;s titleholders were ready and waiting for their first taste of league play and all indications were, they would be just as tough as last year. &#9632;

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New CHL Coaches Unbeaten As Teams Kick Off Schedule

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01117/2808024-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="545" height="575"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN THERRIEN &hellip; Newcomer To Rockets</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0277/2808017-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="541" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLIFF PENNINGTON &hellip; Sold Unexpectedly</figcaption></div>JACKSONVILLEIf Bob Sabourin has his way, he will divorce himself from the coaching duties of the Jacksonville Rockets as quickly as possible during the current Eastern Hockey League season.Bob will start off the campaign in the double role of coach and general manager, but his goal is to confine his activities to the front office and turn the coaching reins over to someone else.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0354/2808010-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="272" height="388"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Sabourin</figcaption></div>That someone else likely will be veteran defenseman Jean Therrien who is making his debut this year as the assistant mentor of the Rockets.It is Sabourin&rsquo;s hope that Therrien will gradually take over more of the coaching chores as he learns the EHL ropes.&ldquo;Sometime during the season, I think he&rsquo;ll be ready to take over the whole deal and then I can run things better in the office,&rdquo; says Sabourin. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s difficult to be trying to perform the double duty and the quicker I can relinquish the coaching duties, the better we&rsquo;ll be.&rdquo;Sabourin and Therrien went over the club&rsquo;s roster from last year and weeded out the men they thought would not be beneficial in their goal to produce a winning hockey team here.&ldquo;We only brought back the men who we believe want to play winning hockey. We&rsquo;re not looking to have any indifferent men on the squad. They will have to show me they want to play here or else we&rsquo;ll get men that do feel that way,&rdquo; Sabourin said.At the club&rsquo;s training camp in Trenton, Ont., Sabourin was really tough. He banned the use of cars to and from the rink. Since the rink is a mile from the club&rsquo;s motel, that meant that the players walked four miles each day for the double workouts. That was in addition to the three hours of ice time.Apparently the club&rsquo;s hopes will be centered around the performances of Ron Willy, Billy Glashan and Jack Smith. Most other clubs in the league, when discussing trades with the Rockets, brought up the name of this trio. But Sabourin has no desire to let any of them go. Instead he figures they&rsquo;ll help him get higher in the Southern race.Like other years, the Rockets won&rsquo;t start their season before friendly fans. They play six games, five on the road and one at neutral Macon, Georgia, before getting to play here.NASHVILLE: Advance ticket sales have set a club high and club officials are predicting a new record for seasonal gate receipts. Team trained at Port Colborne, Ont. Dixie Flyers seeking to get Dave Lee from Jersey to replace the high scoring Cliff Pennington who was unexpectedly sold to Des Moines.SYRACUSE: Blazers aim to get help both from Boston and Los Angeles if pre-season talks pan out. Brian Elwell&rsquo;s foot injury bothered him while training with Tulsa. Club drilled at Welland, Ont. Winger Paul Lessard likely will stick with New Haven but if not he&rsquo;ll be back here. Center Ron Dondas traded to Long Island. Fraser Rice drilled with Oklahoma City.LONG ISLAND: Blake Ball is high on goalie Wayne Doll. Ball has promised that his Ducks will be more aggressive this season. Returnees include Les Calder, Jean Nicol, Dwight Winters, Russ McClenaghan, Butch Morris, Ray Melnyk, John Chapman and Ed Megaffin. The departed include Norm DeFelice, Ed Lawson and trainer Bill Lumley.JERSEY: Devils played four exhibitions in four days to get sharp for season. One exhibition was a benefit for a slain policeman. Club had contest among fans to design its logo. At each home game, two players sign autographs and pose for pictures as club tries to generate fan interest.GREENSBORO: Prexy Car son Bain is quite a golfer, shooting steadily in the low 70&rsquo;s. Team trained at St. Catharines. Ron Spong in 10th season at club&rsquo;s helm. Club aiming to break club record of 155,646 fans and to exceed last year&rsquo;s attendance of 140,416. Club never has drawn less than 102,000. New pro basketball team hereabouts hasn&rsquo;t affected hockey interest.CLINTON: Bill Bannerman was a welcome returnee from Salt Lake City camp and Tom Mitchell and Jake Rathwell from Minnesota. It&rsquo;s touch and go as to whether Bucky Buchanan, Pete Prevost and Joe Robertson will come back from Waterloo. Club trained here. Jack Kane is playing his 10th year here, Dave Armstrong his sixth and Len Speck his ninth.JACKSONVILLE: Rockets have new bus which carries a sign on side, &ldquo;Jacksonville Rockets Hockey Club from the AllAmerican City.&rdquo; Harry Summerfield will be the club&rsquo;s trainer and reserve goalie. Tom Burgess is a fine prospect at right wing where Rockets were weak last year. &#9632;

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Sabourin Grooming Therrien As Next Jutksonville Coach

ITHACA&mdash;Hockey in New York State is usually spelled C-O-R-N-E-L-L. However, rounding the bend and heading into the spotlight is the eight-team Finger Lakes Collegiate Hockey League, which is starting its seventh year of competition.The teams who will be represented this season include Brockport State, Ithaca, University of Rochester, Utica, Hobart, Rochester Tech. Buffalo University and St. John Fisher.&ldquo;The first two years of activity were a lot different from the organization the league has now,&rdquo; commented Pete Reilly, one of the league&rsquo;s founders and a top performer for Ithaca. &ldquo;We had a lot of fights, cancellations, and the officiating left something to be desired. Most important, though, was the fact that we kept the thing going until the coaches and faculty advisors eventually took over the administration of the league.&rdquo;The &ldquo;coup&rdquo; came in 1964, when. Oswego and Canton Tech moved into the FLCHL and the coaches, including Oswego&rsquo;s George Crowe, Ithaca&rsquo;s George Moore, and Ron O&rsquo;Brien of Canton Tech, began to assert more influence and control.The league had never had any playoffs. It was decided that 1966 would be the target date for the first such tourney. Oswego, which had won the first official pennant in 196465, and repeated in &lsquo;65-&rsquo;66, hosted and won the premier tourney in 1966. They repeated in &lsquo;67 and &lsquo;68.Canton Tech broke the string in 1969.From the awkward beginning in 1962, time has found Rochester University and Oswego dropping out of the League with Buffalo University and St. John Fisher taking their places. Oswego decided to go independent to pursue a more ambitious schedule. &#9632;

Finger Lakes Colleges Set With 8 Teams

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0026-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01125/2808086-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Fort Wayne Komets have only seven holdovers from last season. Included among them is high-scoring veteran MERV DUBCHAK, who drilled 43 goals despite missing first part of season with an injury.</figcaption></div>FORT WAYNE&mdash;The Fort Wayne Komets opened the International Hockey League season with probably the biggest rebuilding job of any club in the league.Retirements, trades and sales left new coach Moe Bartoli only seven holdovers from last year&rsquo;s club. And one of the largest holes to be filled was that of Len Thomson, alltime point and assist champion of the league, four times chosen on the league AllStars and six times winner of the James Gatschene Trophy, awarded for outstanding ability and sportsmanship.Thomson played in the IHL for 13 years, all but the first of these with the Komets. His retirement was not unexpected, since he had not recovered sufficiently from an injury to his eye, which forced him to miss 26 games last season. He finished with an alltime record of 1,377 points and 898 assists, far more than any other player in the league. He had seven seasons in which he scored 100 or more points.Thomson&rsquo;s injury came on Nov. 17, when he was accidentally struck in the eye by the hockey stick of Nelson Tremblay of Port Huron. Ironically, it is Tremblay upon whom the Komets are placing their hopes to fill the gap left by Thomson at center. Tremblay was purchased from Port Huron during the offseason by General Manager Ken Ullyot.In addition to Thomson, the Komets lost another veteran center, Reggie Primeau, by retirement. Another replacement at center, besides Tremblay, was Ed Lawton, whom the Komets secured from Long Island of the Eastern League in a trade for defenseman Jake Hendrickson.Three other Komets, defenseman Ted Wright and Lionel Repha and goalie Gerry Randall retired, goalie Jim Shaw sighed with Portland of the Western League, defenseman Mike Doersam was lost to Port Huron in the draft and Doug Reid, a foward, was sold to Charlotte of the Eastern LeagueSo that left the Komets with only seven holdovers: High-scoring Merv Dubchak, Bob Baird, Ron Ullyot, Eric Sutcliffe, Ken Knapton, Ron Burman and goalie Ken Lockett. In addition, a couple of others were available: defenseman Cal Purinton, who was forced out with a back injury after playing only one game, Ivan Robertson, also out most of the season with an injury; Ken Shutz and Barry Burnett, who played part of the season. Of course, Coach Moe Bartoli was being counted upon to supply some scoring punch at the right wing position.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0361/2808079-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="557" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">NELS TREMBLAY &hellip; Secured From Flags</figcaption></div>The Komet management had other problems, being forced out of Memorial Coliseum during the training period while waiting for a new ice floor to be completed. They held training camp at a park ice arena and had to curtail their exhibition schedule.DAYTON&mdash; The Gems sold a total of 1,854 season tickets and were shooting for the 2,000 mark &hellip;They were expected to have 12 of last year&rsquo;s championship team back in the fold &hellip;The Gems signed Paul Patrick White, right winger from Quebec who played last year in Leige, Belgium.PORT HURON&mdash; The Detroit Red Wings sent goalie Ron Marlow and defenseman Gordon Redden to the Flags &hellip;The Toronto Maple Leafs sent them right wing Tom Deacon &hellip;The Flags picked up four promising recruits in Ron Guzzo, Sault St. Marie Juniors; Mayou Paquette Chatham juniors; Mario Vernelli, Sault St. Marie seniors and Gordon Gallagher also from Chatham juniors. &#9632;

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Riddled By Retirements, Trades, Fort Wayne Banking On Tremblay To Fill Len Thomson’s Big Shoes

TOLEDO&mdash;The International Hockey League underwent a drastic change since the 1968-69 season closed and any resemblance to the cast of teams and individuals that opened the IHL&rsquo;s new silver anniversary campaign, was almost unbelievable.Expansion, realingnment to a two-division eight-team circuit, a new idea-filled president and numerous innovations to make league play more attractive, were just a few changes in the IHL&rsquo;s &lsquo;new look&rsquo; season.In the Northern Division are Muskegon, new-entry Flint, Port Huron, and Fort Wayne. The Southern Division is made up of Dayton, Columbus, Toledo and Des Moines. The last time the league was split was during the 1960-61 campaign, and only Toledo, Fort Wayne, and Muskegon are holdovers from that eight-club circuit.The league has a new commissioner, 31-year-old Bill Beagan of McGregor, Ont., Canada and a new secretary, John Gugger, 24 of Toledo, Ohio.Beagan, former National Hockey League referee who also officiated several IHL games a few seasons ago, has several items he hopes to implement to improve the league&rsquo;s image. Among those include the speeding-up of games and the improvement of officiating during the forthcoming season. Beagan plans to make a personal appearance in each league city at least twice a month and will see at least three games a week.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0278/2808117-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="294" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Moose Lallo</figcaption></div>The new look reaches into the coaching field where just three of the men who called signals during 1968-69 return. The holdovers are Ted Garvin at Port Huron, Moose Lallo in Muskegon, and Larry Wilson of Dayton. New, and in some cases familiar faces, include Moe Bartoli at Fort Wayne, Terry Slater in Des Moines, Ken Hodge in Flint, Moe Mantha in Columbus and Bill Mitchell in Toledo. Only Wilson, Bartoli and Mantha will play in addition to coaching.The new look is evident in executive duties, too, as Slater takes over the General Manager&rsquo;s duties at Des Moines, former IHL commissioner Frank Gallagher will be the new GM at Flint, and Jerry Nuerge graduates from business manager to general manager at Toledo.Even two of the league&rsquo;s arenas have undergone refurbishing of sorts. The memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, a new cement floor has been set. At Toledo, the seats have been painted three bright colors and the lighting has been improved.Each team will play a 72-game schedule, meeting six opponents 10 times and meeting a seventh opponent 12 times. The teams playing each other the extra games were decided, basically, on a geographical basis. The lineups for the extra games: Flint-Muskegon; Toledo-Port Huron; Columbus-Dayton, and Fort Wayne-Des Moines.The top three teams in each division will qualify for the playoffs with all teams except the two divisional champions needing to win three play-off series to capture the Turner Cup. &#9632;

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IHL Sporting Definite New Look For 25th Year

<h2>OCTOBER</h2>Fri. 17 Flint at Des MoinesDayton at MuskegonColumbus at ToledoSat. 18 Flint at Des MoinesColumbus at DaytonToledo at MuskegonPort Huron at Fort WayneSun. 19 Dayton at ColumbusMuskegon at FlintFori Wayne at Port HuronWed.22 Des Moines at DaytonMuskegon at ColumbusFri. 24 Des Moines at ToledoSat. 25 Des Moines at MuskegonColumbus at Fort WayneDayton at Port HuronFlint at ToledoSun. 26 Fort Wayne at DaytonToledo at Port HuronWed. 29 Port Huron at Des MoinesToledo at FlintMuskegon at DaytonFri. 31 Fort Wayne at Des MoinesPort Huron ot ToledoDayton at Flint<h2>NOVEMBER</h2>Sat. 1 Fort Wayne at Des MoinesColumbus at MuskegonDayton at ToledoFlint at Port HuronSun. 2 Columbus at FlintToledo at DaytonMuskegon at Port HoronWed. 5 Muskegon at Fort WaynePort Huron at ColumbusToledo at Des MoinesFri. 7 Port Huron at MuskegonDayton at FlintDes Moines at ColumbusSat. 8 Toledo at Fort WayneFlint at MuskegonDes Moines at Port HuronDayton at ColumbusSun. 9 Des Moines at FlintColumbus at Port HuronFort Wayne at DaytonWed. 12 Port Huron at Fort WayneFri. 14 Fort Wayne at ColumbusPort Huron at FlintMuskegon at ToledoDayton at Des MoinesSat. 15 Flint at Fort WayneColumbus at MuskegonPort Huron at ToledoDayton at Des MoinesSun. 16 Toledo at DaytonFort Wayne at Port HuronMuskegon at ColumbusWed. 19 Toledo at Fort WayneMuskegon at Des MoinesFri. 21 Flint at ColumbusFort Wayne at ToledoSat. 22 Des Moines at Fort WayneFlint at MuskegonColumbus at DaytonToledo at Port HuronSun. 23 Fort Wayne at DaytonMuskegon at ToledoPort Huron at ColumbusDes Moines at FlintWed.26 Des Moines at ToledoPort Huron at FlintColumbus at DaytonThu. 27 Flint at Fort WyaneDes Moines at MuskegonDayton at Port HuronFri. 28 Toledo at ColumbusSat. 29 Toledo at Fort WayneDayton at MuskegonColumbus at Des MoinesFlint at Port HuronSun. 30 Muskegon at ToledoPort Huron at DaytonFort Wayne at Flint<h2>DECEMBER</h2>Wed.3 Dayton at Fort WayneFlint at Des MoinesColumbus at ToledoFri. 5 Fort Wayne at MuskegonPort Huron at ColumbusSat. 6 Flint at Fort WayneToledo at MuskegonDayton at Des MoinesColumbus at Port HuronSun. 7 Fort Wayne at ToledoMuskegon at DaytonPort Huron at FlintWed. 10 Flint at DaytonFri. 12 Muskegon at Des MoinesPort Huron at ToledoFort Wayne at ColumbusDayton at FlintSat. 13 Dayton at Fort WayneMuskegon at Des MoinesToledo at Port HuronFlint at ColumbusSun. 14 Toledo at DaytonColumbus at FlintTue. 16 Fort Wayne at ToledoWed. 17 Des Moines at Fort WayneFri. 19 Port Huron at MuskegonFort Wayne at FlintSat. 20 Muskegon at Fort WayneFlint at Port HuronDayton at ToledoDes Moines at ColumbusSun. 21 Fort Wayne at Port HuronDes Moines at DaytonMuskegon at FlintThu. 25 Columbus at Fort WayneToledo at MuskegonFlint at DaytonPort Huron at Des MoinesFri. 26 Fort Wayne at ToledoSat. 27 Toledo at Fort WayneDayton at MuskegonFlint at ColumbusPort Huron at Des Moines &#9632;

IHL Games To Come

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01109/2808172-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="543" height="575"><figcaption class="caption-body">ONTARIO JUNIORDALE TALLON</figcaption></div>TORONTO&mdash;The 270-game Ontario Hockey Association Junior A schedule has only just begun but already there are signs that the two teams with t&rsquo;e largest arenas and the greatest population from which to draw players will be strong contenders for the championship.Montreal Canadiens won the pennant in 1968-69 and went all the way to the Memorial Cup while losing only one game (to Sorel, Quebec Champions) in five playoff series.With Roger Bedard back as coach but missing several of last year&rsquo;s stars, including points champion Rejean Houle and talented Marc Tardif, the Canadiens seem to be just as strong as ever.In their opening game the Baby Habs demolished Ottawa 67s 11-3, a club which is generally rated to be much improved over the one which finished eighth a year ago.Bill Long&rsquo;s 67s defeated St. Catharines Black Hawks 5-3 in their home opener but were simply no mathch for the powerful Canadiens.Toronto Mariboros, a disappointing sixth last season, won their first two starts, 2-1 in Niagara Falls and 10-7 in St. Catharines.Their most impressive victory was in St. Catharines where they trailed 5-1 in the first period, then came back with six successive goals in the third.Dale Tallon, who won the Canadian junior golf championship last summer, had a sensational first game with the Mariboros, scoring three goals and assisting on four others.Pierre Brind&rsquo;Amour was the Montreal leader against Ottawa with three goals in his first junior A game. He played last season with Laval Saints, a Quebec junior B club.St. Catharines, runners-up to Montreal last spring both in the regular league standings and playoffs, lost their first three games and have been handicapped by early-season injuries and failure to obtain releases of four players they had counted on as regulars.High-scoring forward Dennis Giannini and rookie winger Fran McKey were both injured during the loss to Ottawa while clearance has not yet been obtained for Glenn Irwin, John Stewart and Pierre Guite, who played last year with Sorel and Mike Bloom from North Bay.Hamilton Red Wings, with 13 players with previous junior A experience, also had a less than auspicious debut.The Wings lost their home opener 5-4 to Oshawa then had to settle for a 4-4 tie in Oshawa two nights laterIn was recently reported here that all 10 of the 1969-70 coaches had returned from last season.There is one change. Gerry Forler, a public school vice-principal has replaced Dave Weber, who handled the Kitchner Rangers on an interim basis during the last half of the 1968-69 schedule. &#9632;

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Big City Teams — Canadiens, Mariboros Get Off To Fast Start In OH A Opening

<h2>ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Tues. Oct. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0278/2808203-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="592" height="369"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Thurs. Onct. 2St. Catharines 1 at Peterborough 2Oshawa 5 at Hamilton 4Fri. Oct. 3Toronto 2 at Niagara Falls 1St. Catharines 3 at Ottawa 5Sat. Oct. 4Hamilton 4 at Oshawa 4Sun. Oct. 5Toronto 10 at St. Catharines 7Ottawa 3 at Montreal 11Tues. Oct. 7Kitchener 1 at Niagara Falls 3Wed. Oct. 8Toronto 2 at Ottawa 4Thurs. Oct. 9St. Catharines 6 at Hamilton 7Ottawa 4 at Peterborough 8Fri. Oct 10Ottawa 5 at Niagara Falls 9London 3 at Kitchener 6Sat. Oct. 11Montreal 8 at Oshawa 1Sun. Oct. 12Kitchener 4 at Toronto 6Niagara Falls 3 at Ottawa 10Hamilton 5 of St. Catharines 7Peterborough 7 at Montreal 3<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tues. Oct. 14Montreal at St. CatharinesToronto at OshawaLondon at OttawaThurs. Oct. 16Ottawa at HamiltonOshawa at PeterboroughFri. Oct. 17Montreal at Niagara FallsOttawa at KitchenerSun. Oct. 19Niagara Falls at St. CatharinesLondon at TorontoHamilton at OttawaPeterborough at OshawaKitchener at MontrealTues. Oct. 21Oshawa at LondonThurs. Oct. 23Toronto at HamiltonNiagara Falls at PeterboroughFri. Oct. 24St. Catharines at KitchenerMontreal at TorontoPeterborough at N. FallsOshawa at Ottawa &#9632;

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Looking At OHA Race

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0450/2808234-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="914" height="1195"></div>SOLUTION IN OCT. 31 ISSUE<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Pictured player.7&mdash;Preposition.8&mdash;Pronoun.9&mdash;Initials of Kachur of Providence.11&mdash;An N.H.L. General Manager.13&mdash;City in Alaska.15&mdash;One of the Penguins.16&mdash;Pictured player once played for this club, (abbr.)17&mdash;Number of points registered by Pittsburgh and Minnesota last season. (Rom. Numb).18&mdash;Period of time.20&mdash;Verb.22&mdash;30 across once coached this team.23&mdash;Negative. (abbr.)24&mdash;The Bruins belong to this section.25&mdash;The Expos play in this league.26&mdash;One of the Blues answers to this.29&mdash;Initials of a Hawk Vet.30&mdash;An N.H.L. coach.32&mdash;Initials of Nicholson.33&mdash;62-63 Byng trophy winner.35&mdash;An N.H.L. centre.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;An N.H.L. defenseman.2&mdash;Corn grows on this.3&mdash;Island. (abbr.)4&mdash;A U.S. State. (abbr.)5&mdash;First name of one of the Bruins.6&mdash;One of the Habs.10&mdash;Pictured player answers to this.12&mdash;First name of a King forward.14&mdash;This Ranger wears No. 25.19&mdash;1953-54 Hart trophy winner.21&mdash;A former N.H.L. defenseman.26&mdash;A forward line.27&mdash;That is.28&mdash;A Hawk winger.31&mdash;Adverb.32&mdash;Initials of Erickson.34&mdash;Denotes scoreless tie.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;BATHGATE.6&mdash;ORR.8&mdash;STAPLETON.11&mdash;FLETT.12&mdash;ONE.14&mdash;N.I.15&mdash;N.P.17&mdash;11.18&mdash;EEL.19&mdash;BOO.20&mdash;STANLEY.24&mdash;ENTRANCE.26&mdash;VET.27&mdash;R.G.28&mdash;NEB.29&mdash;W.R.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;BOSTON.2&mdash;ART.3&mdash;TRADE.4&mdash;GOLF.5&mdash;TOTEMS.7&mdash;ONTARIO.9&mdash;E.L.10&mdash;O.T.13&mdash;NINETEEN.16&mdash;PLANTE.17&mdash;10.18&mdash;E.S.19&mdash;BYNG.21&mdash;N.T.22&mdash;L.R.23&mdash;EARL.25&mdash;ERR. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MacLEAN</div>NEW YORK &mdash;At the conclusion of the New York Rangers&rsquo; tough, almost every night twelve game pre-season schedule, one thing seemed certain. The 1969-70 edition of the Broadway Blues would start the season in top condition.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01102/2808279-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="255" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Juha Widing</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We should be in top shape for what&rsquo;s ahead,&rdquo; said Emile Francis, the general manager coach of the New York sextet. &ldquo;Playing the early part of the regular schedule should be almost a breeze compared to nine games in eleven days, eleven in sixteen or if you prefer nine in eleven or five in five.&rdquo;The Cat was almost purring as he reeled off these figures which add up to blood, sweat and toil for his minions. Years ago, Ranger teams almost always lost their first few games as they belatedly played themselves into shape during the season. Under Francis this hasn&rsquo;t happened and isn&rsquo;t going to.The Blueshirts won seven, lost three and tied two in their pre season grind. They appeared almost set in their player personnel. At present they are carrying nineteen players, one over the regular season limit. This breaks down into two goalies, five defensemen and twelve forwards.The goalies, of course, are &lsquo;Mr. Regular&rsquo; of the NHL. Eddie Gia-comin and the long time ex-Toronto and Detroit great. Terry Sawchuk. Giacomin will play most of the time but the 39 year old Sawchuk will relieve him for about twelve to fifteen games.The defense lists Brad Park with-Jim Neilson and Arnie Brown with Rod Seiling. The fifth man is Allan Hamilton, a right hand shot.&ldquo;Hamilton won the job in training camp.&rdquo; reveals Francis. &ldquo;He was very aggressive and I think he will more than hold his own.&rdquo;For Hamilton, a big six foot two inch, 195 pound westerner, this is his third shot at the New York squad. Last season he was the odds on favorite to nail down the last berth hut was beaten out by Park. This season, Allan held off the challenges of such as Mike Robitaille, Ab DeMarco Jr. and Andre Dupont.Dennis Ball, the New Yorkers&rsquo; new farm system chief says, &ldquo;Allan has played very well and we think he can do a job for us. Another thing in his favor is the fact that he is a right hand shot. Most defensemen are left hand shots and righties are harder to find than white whales.&rdquo;Up front the New Yorkers list Jean Ratelle pivoting for Vic Hadfield and Rod Gilbert, with the remaining combinations not yet set. In the three game weekend series October 3-5, Francis juggled furiously as he endea voured to put the right combination together. There was an all&rsquo; newcomer line of Center Yuha Widing with wingers Bill Fairbairn and Real Lemieux. Lemieux was with Los Angeles last season and Widing and Fairbairn with the Rangers&rsquo; Omaha farm team. Another trio had sophomore center Walter Tkaczuk making the plays for Bob Nevin and Dave Balez. Orland Kurten bach worked most often with veterans Donnie Marshall and Ron Stewart.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0327/2808272-1-eng-US/f0028-032.jpg" title="f0028-03" width="556" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALLAN HAMILTON &hellip; Wins 5th defense spot</figcaption></div>This setup lists four centers, Ratelle, Tkaczuk, Widing and Kurtenbach. Kurt, returning after missing almost all of last season with spinal fusion surgery might require a bit more time to round into top shape. Widing has taken advantage of this and has done well in the pre-season activities. He is a big Finnish born Swede, who has blonde hair and rugged six foot one inch, 190 pound physique.&ldquo;I think I can make it up here,&rdquo; says Yuha. &ldquo;You can bet I am going to give it my best shot.&rdquo;With the pre-season games out of the way, the Rangers are home in Gotham to stay. This will be history when you read this, butj the week&rsquo;s hiatus before the opening of the season again showed Francis&rsquo; fine hand. Getting a family settled in a large city can be difficult and time consuming. It almost makes the playing of a hockey game seem unimportant and early season Ranger losses of a decade ago were often blamed on this problem. Now the players are estab, lished, for the most part, in Long Beach, Long Island, N.Y.BLUE CHIPS&mdash; Skateland, the Rangers&rsquo; practice rink in New Hyde Park, L.I. became hockey headquarters for the week prior to the season as the Blues completed their training at the well set up ice palace&hellip;Larry Brown played in the first MSG game on Ocotber 3 but then was assigned to Buffalo leaving NY with five blueliners&hellip; New faces with Rangers include vet goalie Sawchuk, forwards Lemieux, Fairbairn and Widing and new old Hamilton &hellip; Ranger Fan Club is celebrating its twentieth anniversary and is planning all sorts of whoop to doo under Prexi Nick Panzera, a charter member.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0355/2808265-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="1175" height="1063"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON STEWART &hellip; Ready to roll</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rangers’ Top Condition Asset To Club For Early NHL Play

NEW YORK&rsquo;Jean Ratelie led the Rangers in pre-scoring with 12 points in the team&rsquo;s dozen exhibition games. The Blues ended with an overall record of 7-3-2.Here is the Rangers&rsquo; exhibition individual scoring records:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0249/2808310-1-eng-US/f0028-022.jpg" title="f0028-02" width="534" height="666"></div> &#9632;

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October 24, 1969

THE FANS’ CORNER

HOW THEY STAND

OPENING NIGHT In The NHL

Attention Hockey Fans