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November 7, 1969

The Hockey News November 7, 1969

EDMONTON&mdash;Glenn Hall has reiterated that he plans to remain retired unless the St. Louis Blues get caught up in a bind and need his help.Hall, commenting on latest reports that he might be considering a return to the NHL after announcing his retirement, said he would continue to tend to his farm here.&ldquo;I told Scotty Bowman before the seasonstarted that I would not return to the NHL unless the club is in a bind and needs my help through injuries. I haven&rsquo;t changed my mind on what I said then and I still feel the same way now,&rdquo; commented Hall.Hall, who is 38, said that he had had enough of the NHL grind of getting ready for hockey games. He said he was content to stay home with the farm. The NHL All-Star goaler last year, Hall added that money had nothing to do with his decision to quit. He played 14 years in the league.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0933/2423512-1-eng-US/f0002-092.jpg" title="f0002-09" width="249" height="373"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Hall</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

“I’Staying Retired Unless Club In Bind”

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER&mdash;When the Rochester Americans activated Barry Watson, they had no idea of how active he&rsquo;d be. But they&rsquo;re sure not sorry they did it.The just-turned 24-year-old forward didn&rsquo;t exactly set the American Hockey League on its ear last season. He was in uniform for 66 Amerk games and managed just 13 goals and 11 assists. But his 13 goals were still three more than he had registered in each of his previous professional campaigns, both with Vancouver of the Western League.So when Joe Crozier, who is general manager of both Rochester and the parent Vancouver club, said he was taking Watson to the West Coast for training camp this fall, there was only a &ldquo;so what&rsquo;s the difference&rdquo; attitude by Amerk fans.Barry didn&rsquo;t measure up to Crozier&rsquo;s conditioning program and got himself suspended during the pre-season workouts.Still suspended, he came to Rochester in time to be a spectator at the opening game on October 12. Amerk player-coach Dick Gamble sat down with him and asked Barry point blanh if he wanted to and intended to play hockey at all anymore.Watson said he did. Gamble lifted his suspension and Barry worked out with the Americans for a week before playing his first game Sunday, Oct. 19, here against Hershey.Shifted to center from his normal left wing spot, Barry found himself starting with John Gofton, who had been kept out of the club&rsquo;s previous game simply because there were too many players, on left wing and rookie Wayne Clairmont, who had been on the left side that previous game, moving back to his usual right wing berth.Watson scored a goal at 6:57 of the first period. He scored a goal at 17:46 of the first period. And he scored a goal at 13:13 of the second &mdash; giving him a three-goal hat trick in his first 43 &frac12; minutes of the season! Barry very nearly scored two more before the game, which ended 5-5, was finished.If Barry is ever going to follow the skatemarks of his father (Harry) to the National Hockey League, he&rsquo;s going to have to make a serious attempt before another season rolls past. &#9632;

Barry Watson Active And Amerks Are Glad

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0171/2425365-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="449" height="343"></div>All you do is simply attach the G. T. ENERGY CHAMBER on your fuel line. Since it is a precision instrument, with a special model for each make car, there are no special adjustments for you to make. They&rsquo;ve already been made for you at the factory. You simply screw it into place &hellip; and that&rsquo;s all. In fact, it&rsquo;s so easy you need not know a single thing about an engine to install it &mdash; and easy picture directions accompany each unit. Total installation time: 3 to 5 minutes. Total savings on gas: up to $200 a year! &#9632;

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LOOK HOW EASY IT IS!

<h2>Wed. Oct 15</h2>SALT LAKE 3 at PHOENIX 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0233/2425552-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="585" height="727"></div>DENVER 4 at PORTLAND 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0323/2425545-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="571" height="583"></div><h2>Thurs. Oct. 16</h2>VANCOUVER 4 at SEATTLE 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0415/2425538-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="579" height="559"></div><h2>Fri. Oct. 17</h2>SEATTLE 3 at SALT LAKE 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-057/2425531-1-eng-US/f0022-052.jpg" title="f0022-05" width="589" height="133"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-065/2425524-1-eng-US/f0022-062.jpg" title="f0022-06" width="587" height="679"></div>DENVER 4 VANCOUVER 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-075/2425517-1-eng-US/f0022-072.jpg" title="f0022-07" width="593" height="661"></div>PORTLANDS PHOENIX 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-085/2425510-1-eng-US/f0022-082.jpg" title="f0022-08" width="585" height="633"></div><h2>SAT. OCT 18</h2>SEATTLE 3 AT SALT LAKE 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-093/2425503-1-eng-US/f0022-092.jpg" title="f0022-09" width="583" height="117"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-103/2425496-1-eng-US/f0022-102.jpg" title="f0022-10" width="587" height="699"></div> &#9632;

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Western League Summaries

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01124/2426244-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg" title="f0001-01" width="777" height="1448"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-02100/2426237-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="2139" height="1887"></div> &#9632;

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ORR HOTTEST THING ON ICE

<h2>NHL Teams</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01567/2423450-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="529" height="613"></div><h2>Other Leagues</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02542/2423443-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="532" height="252"></div><h2>Columnists</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03469/2423436-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="537" height="154"></div><h2>Other Features</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04345/2423429-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="531" height="193"></div><h2>Specials</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05241/2423422-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="540" height="148"></div> &#9632;

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WHERE YOU’LL FIND IT ALL

ST. LOUIS&mdash;Jacques Plante is one hockey man who feels it&rsquo;s his prerogative to speak his mind and as far as he is concerned Glenn Hall will be back with the Blues before the 1969-70 is over.Hall is still on the farm, and his inscrutable thoughts on hockey vs. farming will shape the Blues&rsquo; plans. No one is presumptuous enough to anticipate Hall&rsquo;s decision. But perhaps Plante, who for many years watched Mr. Goalie from the other end of the ice in many Montreal-Chicago battles before joining him at St. Louis &mdash; can come closest to reading Hall&rsquo;s mind.Plante asks simply, &ldquo;What is he going to do when the crop&rsquo;s in?&rdquo;&ldquo;That farming all summer is fine,&rdquo; Plante said, &ldquo;But, when the snow comes, Glenn will be pacing the floor. He&rsquo;ll be back with us.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0784/2423481-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="249" height="391"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Plante</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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“When Snow Comes Glenn Will Be Back”

<div class="byline">BY VICTOR BERNS</div>ST.LOUIS&mdash;When Scotty Bowman was criticized last season for parading three goalies into St-Louis Blues&rsquo; games, he could have told the complaining National Hockey League coaches that they hadn&rsquo;t seen anything yet.Bowman has three goalies with the Blues now, and, if Glenn Halldecides to come south for another winter, Bowman may be carrying four. Just imagine if all four strapped on pads during one contest, the howl from the opposition could be heard all the way back to Hall&rsquo;s wheat farm in Stony Plain, Atla. But that won&rsquo;t happen.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06152/2423550-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="252" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ernie Wakely</figcaption></div>The Blues&rsquo; coach and general manager has no plans to switch goalies every 15 minutes. The only reason he resorted to three goalies in a couple of games last season was because Jacques Plante was hurt or Hall was either hurt or ejected.On Nov. 13 against the New York Rangers in Madison Square Garden, Hall, wearing a mask for the first time in his career, is ejected in the first period, and rookie Robbie Irons guards the net until Plante scrambles from his spectator&rsquo;s seat, dresses hurriedly and skates out on the ice, where Irons is now feigning injury. Emile Francis protests.On Dec. 11 against the Black Hawks at Chicago Stadium, Plante is hit in the head with a Stan Mikita slap shot, and rookie Gary Edwards finishes the first period while Hall pulls on his uniform and pads for the second and third periods. Billy Reay screams.On April 2 in a playoff game against the Philadelphia Flyers at the St. Louis Arena, Hall suffers a pulled hamstring muscle, and the Blues stall while Plante receives a cortisone injection in his arm in the dressing room before coming on the ice. Bud Poile roars in anger.Bowman explained that he never had more than two goalies dressed at one time, even though he used three goalies in two games. He said that in the Philadelphia game both dressed goalies were in the vicinity of the bench because the dressing room is considered to be in the vicinity of the bench.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0851/2423543-1-eng-US/f0002-082.jpg" title="f0002-08" width="1167" height="1042"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goaler JACQUES PLANTE, being tested here by Kings&rsquo; TED IRVINE (15), is carrying net load for the Blues this season with Glenn Hall retired.</figcaption></div>But the NHL, rising to Bowman&rsquo;s challenge, clarified those rules and made them a little more specific. The league says the dressing room is not in the vicinity of the bench and that the two goalies dressed at the beginning of the game are a team&rsquo;s limit of two goalies for the night and the one not in the net must be on the bench or within reaching distance of it. If both goalies are injured or ejected, well, the coach will just have to make one of his defensemen or forwards put on the catcher&rsquo;s mitt and the big pads.Bowman and the Blues realize the importance of good goaltending and have gone out of their way to secure it. Hall and Plante, as could have been anticipated years ago, were the best tandem in the NHL last season and won the Vezina Trophy by a wide margin.But the Blues are in another season now, and Bowman is juggling and shuffling his goaltending talent and hoping for the best.Plante, the 40-year-old wonder from another era. is in Hall&rsquo;s absence the top man and ready 10 handle all the work that position entails. Plante enjoyed the equal division of duties with Hall last season, but, like an old fire dog who barks when he hears the bell, Plante says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m ready to play however many games they want me to.&rdquo;With these various imponderables, the Blues during the offseason acquired 29-year-old Ernie Wakely, a top minorleague goalie in the Montreal organization for years who never quite made the grade in the NHL. Wakely is with the team and apparently will stay with it regardless of whether Hall winters in Alberta or Missouri.&ldquo;This is the chance I&rsquo;ve been waiting for,&rdquo; Wakely said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m here for the year and I hope to play as much as possible.&rdquo;Wakely realizes, too, that he has a chance for a good future with the Blues beyond this season. Sometime within the next five years the collective retirements of Hall and Plante will leave a big gap, and Wakely will probably have the first chance of proving himself man enough to fill it.Then the Blues have three good young goalies, who may someday be good in the big league. Ted Ouimet, Gary Edwards and Robbie Irons are enrolled for their second semester in one of the best hockey schools in the world.The three young goalies are following last year&rsquo;s pattern of spending one-third of the season with the Blues and two-thirds with the Blues&rsquo; farm club at Kansas City. Their private tutors in the science of goaltending were Hall and Plante, and a young netminder couldn&rsquo;t handpick two better teachers. It&rsquo;s like having U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee at the same military school or Van Cliburn and Andre Previn for your piano lessons. If a baseball rookie at batting practice had Ted Williams on one side of the batting cage and Stan Musial on the other, he ought to learn something about hitting.&ldquo;Hall and Plante are the best,&rdquo; Irons says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve learned a lot, and I know I&rsquo;m getting good training. &ldquo;The Blues this week sent Irons down to do his stint and recalled Edwards from Kansas City. Ouimet is patiently waiting his turn at KC.The game for the Blues could be called musical goalies with six &mdash; count &rsquo;em&mdash;six full time or part time. If Bowman has all of them in the right nets when the music stops, the result will be more satisfying than winning a parlor game. &#9632;

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If Hall Were To Return Bowman’s Blues Would Be First With Four-Goaler Plan In NHL Ranks

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01567/2423616-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02457/2423609-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="421" height="1145"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here&rsquo;s FRANK MATHERS in his early hockey days at Hershey and with his No. 1 fan, wife, PAT. A family man, the Mathers have three children and have spent their married lifetime in the game of hockey.</figcaption></div>HERSHEY &mdash;One was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the other in Brooklyn, N.Y., yet both achieved coaching fame in Pennsylvania. Amazingly the pair are alike in character, philosophy and coaching technique though attaining their mark in different sports in the same season.In this day of the quick buck, swinging times and anti-establishment, Frank Mathers and Joe Paterno are a couple of selfproclaimed cornballs who have a deep respect for family life and their fellow man. They believe in telling it like it is.It&rsquo;s somewhat startling in comparing their rise to lofty heights in the sport&rsquo;s world.Mathers, 45-year-old coach of the Hershey Bears, served as a bomber pilot in World War II with the Canadian Air Force; passed up an opportunity to become a dentist; starred as a fullback with Ottawa and Winnipeg in the Canadian pro league; was a five-time All-Star American Hockey League defenseman with the old Pittsburgh Hornets and after a 13-year stint at Hershey was named AHL &ldquo;Coach of the Year&rdquo; after piloting his third Bears Calder Cup championship team.Paterno, 42-year-old Penn State head football coach, served with the Army in Korea; earned college stardom as a quarterback at Brown University; gave up a chance to become a lawyer; took an assistant coaching position at State and after a three year reign as head man was named America&rsquo;s college &ldquo;Coach of the Year&rdquo; last season. He directed the Nittany Lions to an 11-0 record, including a thrilling last second victory against Kansas in the Orange Bowl.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03303/2423602-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="720" height="1145"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04184/2423595-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1748" height="921"><figcaption class="caption-body">Penn State football coach JOE PATERNO, left, urges his team on to win at left on way to unbeaten 11-0 record in 1968. At right, FRANK MATHERS helps in gala ceremonies that followed his third Calder Cup victory last season with the Hershey Bears.</figcaption></div>Paterno turned down an offer to coach the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League, reportedly a $50,000 bid, not to mention some other goodies.Among other reasons for staying at State, Paterno said he enjoyed taking his kids for a Sunday ride in the country so &ldquo;they could talk to the cows.&rdquo;Mathers, like Paterno, also was sought by the major leagues. He rejected five figure bids from &ldquo;at least four&rdquo; National Hockey League clubs. Frank elected to remain as general manager-coach in the minors because Hershey &ldquo;is a great place to raise a family&rdquo; and he enjoys &ldquo;coaching young players and watching them develop into prospective big leaguers.&rdquo;&ldquo;They would have to use a crow bar to get me away from Hershey,&rdquo; said Mathers.Both are conservative dressers and have a sharp sense of humor. They enjoy talking politics, current events, sports and about life in general. Neither smokes. Their drinking is limited to a couple of beers at most. Mathers relaxes by playing golf; Paterno once did, but gave up the sport because &ldquo;the whole game was my handicap.&rdquo;They live only 90 miles apart; yet, despite the proximity of their homes, they have never sat down to exchange views.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve attended a couple of sports banquets where Paterno spoke,&rdquo; said Mathers, &ldquo;and he always impressed me. He has a sharp mind.&rdquo;Their popularity with the press is noted. Writers in both sports tab their &ldquo;honesty&rdquo; and &ldquo;candid opinions&rdquo; refreshing. The tired, old cliches are absent &mdash; win or lose.The same holds true with the fans. After Paterno took over at State, running off victory after victory, tickets for home games went at a premium. Joe&rsquo;s teams have won two straight Lambert Trophies, emblematic of eastern football&rsquo;s top club.Since Mathers came to Hershey in &lsquo;56 and started producing winners, the fans have poured through the turnstiles. In 507 home games, including 53 playoff matches, 2,939,531 fans have piled into the 7200-seat Sports Arena in the Mathers&rsquo; era.In the wake of a .566 winning standard, Mathers has delivered one regular season title, three divisional championships and three Calder trophies.Frank married a hometown Winnipeg gal, Pat, who claims &ldquo;he hardly knew me&rdquo; when they attended high school. &ldquo;He lived only two blocks from me, but he was a big wheel in high school sports.&rdquo;The Mathers have three children, Mike, 20, a junior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Patti, 18, a freshman student in physical therapy at Thiel College, Greenville, Pa., and James David (Jay Dee), 15, a Hershey high school sophomore.Paterno married a gal from Latrobe, Pa., Suzanne, a 1961 Penn State grad, they have four young children, Diana Lynne, Mary Kathryn, David and Joseph Jr.Both men&rsquo;s coaching techniques are amazingly similar, though the sports are completely different.&ldquo;Defense is the key to a successful team.&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;If you can&rsquo;t stop people from scoring, you&rsquo;re in trouble.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01419/2423588-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="1428" height="1304"><figcaption class="caption-body">Professional hockey continued to spread to the American West with the opening of the Western Hockey League season Oct. 10 in Salt Lake City, the newest member of the WHL. It was a big night indeed for Salt Lake owner DAN MEYER, shown here with microphone greeting San Diego mayor FRANK CURRAN prior to start of first pro game ever played in the splendid new $6,000,000 Salt Palace. Sharing in Meyer&rsquo;s dream come true&rsquo; was San Diego owner, BOB BREITBARD, extreme right and Salt Lake City mayor J. BRACKEN LEE, with back to camera. Once the pre-game formalities were concluded, Mayor Curran dropped the first puck at right between San Diego&rsquo;s JOHN MacMILLAN, left, and Salt Lake&rsquo;s BILLY McNEILL, to get the contest under way. To heighten owner Meyer&rsquo;s evening, the Golden Eagles went out and won their opener from the Gulls4-2.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02349/2423581-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="1440" height="1316"></div>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been Paterno&rsquo;s tremendous defensive coaching techniques, ably assisted by his staff, that sent the Lions into the 1969 season boasting a 19 game unbeaten streak, longest in the nation and a good shot at a national title. His 1968 club allowed just a shade over 10 points a game.Mathers&rsquo; club of last season was the best defensive outfit in the Eastern Division, second best in the eight team circuit and tops in the 11-game Cup championship grind.Mathers couldn&rsquo;t say whether his football background had any bearing on his stress of defense in the ice game.&ldquo;Hockey and football are quite different, like in football you can run out of bounds if necessary. but in hockey there&rsquo;s only those hard dasher boards to run into,&rdquo; he laughed. &ldquo;I think you&rsquo;ll find any outstanding team in sports is a solid on defense.&rdquo;Paterno has often remarked that the kids coming into college football today are much smarter, bigger and quicker than a decade ago. The same case applies to hockey, says Mathers. &ldquo;The kids moving into the game today,&rdquo; said Mathers, &ldquo;are a different breed than when I played. They&rsquo;re stronger and faster skaters. They can make moves we never knew existed. A number are coming out of college into the sport; others are going to school in the off-season for their degrees. It&rsquo;s the kid with the quickness and sharp reflexes the scouts look for. Of course, like in football, you&rsquo;ve got to be a little tough too.&ldquo;Except through the magic of TV. Mathers has never seen a State football team as the seasons overlap.&ldquo;But I&rsquo;ve won a few bucks on Paterno&rsquo;s team,&rdquo; laughed Frank, who says maybe someday he and Joe might get a chance to have a chat.If so, it would be quite a session between two of Pennsylvania&rsquo;s finest coaches.The guy from Winnipeg and his counterpart from Brooklyn have brought a heap of honor and national recognition to the Keystone State. &#9632;

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Frank Mathers: King Of The Bears — AND — Joe Paterno: Pride Of Penn State “THEY BUILD CHAMPIONS”

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01630/2423668-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="373" height="425"></div>&bull; TED LINDSAY has told intimates in Detroit that he is not interested in coaching the Red Wings. He also added that he hasn&rsquo;t been offered the job. Lindsay has a good business going for him in the Motor City and would be reluctant tp return to hockey tor tear that he might neglect it and end up a loser &hellip;Rolland Ricard is the new publicity director of the Montreal Canadiens and their affiliated clubs, and the Canadiens couldn&rsquo;t have hired a better man. Extremely popular with the communication people, Roily has over 20 years experience as a hockey writer, broadcaster and publicist. He has also coached and managed teams at the junior level, as well as scouting for the team on occasions &hellip;Canadiens were slow in making the announcement but they finally came up with a good one &hellip;The National Hockey League 1969-70 Guide is now ready and it&rsquo;s the best one yet. Editor Ron Andrews has done a tremendous job with this book which is a must for all keen hockey fans &hellip;It mav be purchased for $2.25 through THE HOCKEY NEWS. Send a check or money order to THE HOCKEY NEWS, Book Dept., Box 248, Montreal 101, Canada &hellip;You should receive these NHL Guides within two weeks after sending in for them &hellip;On the current roster of the St. Louis Blues are 11 players who were members of the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; organization at one time or another &hellip;Cleveland Barons suffered a tough blow when Jim Niekamp suffered a fractured left ankle. The talented defenseman is the second Baron to sustain a serious injury this season. Winger Wayne Schultz has missed all the games to date with a broken left wrist &hellip;Last season the OHA Junior A League drew over one million fans. Look for an increase of over 200,000 this season &hellip;Dick Duff is said to have lost $50,000 in the Canadian stock market. He recently underwent a minor operation in Toronto. Canadiens hope to talk him out of retirement. This is the first year in the 33-year-historv of the AHL that they&rsquo;ve adopted the two-linesman system &hellip;Buffalo Bisons interests want a National Hockey League franchise and figure the six-Million asking price isn&rsquo;t too high. They&rsquo;re going to make a formal application.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02586/2423661-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="259" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rolland Ricard</figcaption></div>&bull; HOWIE YOUNG is now playing with Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League. He had originally been sold by Chicago to Portland but refused to report &hellip;&rdquo;It was strictly a matter of money,&rdquo; the much-travelled defenseman said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got five kids to feed and they weren&rsquo;t willing to pay me enough in Portland&rdquo; &hellip;He&rsquo;ll either be very good or very bad for Vancouver. There&rsquo;s no in-between with Young&hellip;One of the I best hockey announcers in the United States is unemployed this season. I That&rsquo;s Roy Storey of San Francisco who has broadcast for the Seals and other West Coast teams in former years. One of his moonlighting jobs right now is Sports Director of the San Francisco Playboy Club &hellip;Gary Aidcorn has been added to Canada&rsquo;s National Team as an assistant to Coach Jackie McLeod. Lowell MacDonald, who quit the NHL because of his distaste for flying and was inelgibile to play intercollegiate hockey for the University of St. Mary&rsquo;s at Halifax, will line up with Canada&rsquo;s Nationals &hellip;Vic Stasiuk, hard-working coach of the Philadelphia Flyers, goes into raptures when he&rsquo;s discussing Bob Clarke, the 20-year-old center the Flyers drafted from Flin Elon Juniors &hellip;&rdquo;I admire his dedication, guts and drive. There&rsquo;s no goofing off with this kid,&rdquo; Stasiuk raved. &ldquo;He reminds me of Leafs&rsquo; Norm Ullman the way he plays the corners and forechecks&hellip;Clarke is a rugged individual, too &hellip;and he is one of the few diabetics to ever perform in the National Hockey League &hellip;Andre Lacroix was so thrilled after scoring three goals for Philadelphia against Toronto as the Flyers defeated the Leafs, 4-3, that he vowed to wear the same suit every game day &hellip;New York&rsquo;s Rod Gilbert believes that Bobby Hull&rsquo;s contract problems have rubbed off on all of the Chicago players and that&rsquo;s one of the reasons the team had been playing so poorly this season &hellip;Pierre Pilote, who finished his NHL career with Toronto last season, is now in the luggage business in that city. Pierre was drafted by Buffalo but decided against reporting &hellip;Skip Krake, Los Angeles forward, is a brother of Barney Krake, former Portland player and now a WHL linesman &hellip; Anyone in Canada and the United States building a hockey rink and wanting to color the ice should use Polar Ice Paint. Complete information may be obtained from your nearest hardware, paint or department store. Polar Ice Paint does a fantastic job in coloring the ice and there are a number of shades to choose from.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03498/2423654-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="265" height="477"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pierre Pilote</figcaption></div>&bull; WREN BLAIR plans to spell Cesare Maniago when the North Stars play games on consecutive nights with travel involved. Blair hasn&rsquo;t decided yet who will be backup man to Maniago. It&rsquo;s between Ken Broderick and Fern Rivard. The loser will move to Waterloo, Iowa to play with the CHL club there .. Serge Savard, the mischievous Montreal defenseman, had his teammates in stitches the other day at a practice when he came out wearing John Ferguson&rsquo;s new jersey with the &ldquo;A&rdquo; for assistant captain. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got the nose for it,&rdquo; quipped Ferguson &hellip; the flint Generals have blasted off to a great start in the International League &hellip; Frank Gallagher&rsquo;s team is winning its&rsquo; share of games and attracting plenty of customers &hellip; When Flint drew over 3.000 fans in winning their opener it marked the first professional sports contest to take place in Flint sine&rsquo;e 1951 &hellip; Port Huron Flags are reported to be one of the most improved teams in the IHL this year. Coach Ted Garvin is very pleased with his charges and particurlarly likes their hustle &hellip; San Diego Gulls are off to their finest start in history attendance-wise. The Bob Breitbard-owned and Max McNab-coached Gulls drew 11,632, for their opener and 12,857 a week later &hellip; Bobby&rsquo; Hull&rsquo;s children are attending school in Chicago, if that means anything. Toronto Leafs would like to get Terry Harper from Montreal. The tall defenseman would be a terrific addition to the Leafs and just such a deal may take place soon.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04431/2423647-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="273" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Serge Savard</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 McKenzie President and PublisherCharlie Halpin Editorial 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 Second class mail&mdash;Registration No. 1327Printed in CanadaVol. 23 MONTREAL, NOVEMBER 7, 1969 No. 5<h2>NHL Should Add Car To Playoff MVP Award</h2>With the length of the regular NHL season plus the added number of playoff games before the Stanley Cup winner is determined, to me the present trophy &mdash; the Conn Smythe Trophy &mdash; for the outstanding player in the playoffs is hardly enough for such an achievement.I winder just how many fans like myself feel that hockey should follow the practice of baseball and award the Smythe Trophy winner a new car. It&rsquo;s a great incentive for World Series players and would have the same effect on hokey players at playoff time.REGGIE HUSKINS, Prince Rubert, B.C.<h2>Montreal Still The Team To Beat In NHL</h2>Lately all I have heard and lead about was how lucky the Montreal Canadiens were in the playoffs last spring against Boston. I say it is skill not luck as far as the Habs are concerned.When Jean Beliveau scored that goal in overtime that knocked Boston out of the series, it was the prettiest and cleanest goal in the whole series and certainly was not luck. It was team work from all the players.So Boston fans better luck next year and remember Montreal is still the class of the NHL and the team to beat.BILL CLEAVE. Waterford, Ont.<h2>Cleveland Suited For NHL Expansion</h2>In view of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s proposed expansion, I think it is necessary to review the city of Cleveland as a possible franchise. Cleveland not only has had a great history in hockey, but also has a bright future.This future is assured through the efforts of new owner, Nick Mileti. His accomplishments are numerous, but among the more notable are getting all the games aired on radio, contracting a top coach in Jack Gordon, and most important, purchasing good young hockey players for the future. All this in one short year. Mileti seems to be from the same mold as the Salomons of the Blues, and undoubtely would be a dynamic NHL owner.The city of Cleveland itself offers many advantages to the NHL. Rivalries would be inevitable with both Detroit and Pittsburgh. The Arena, owned by Mileti, though old, has the best sight-lines in hockey and could be expanded to seat better than 17,000 fans.Attendence would not be a problem, as evidenced by the Cleveland Browns, who are number one in attendence in the NFL.Hockey interest is growing extremely fast in Cleveland and the fans deserve the top brand of hockey. Finally, being a hockey &ldquo;nut&rdquo;, I must confess my own selfishness in longing to see all the stars of hockey in my own great city.MARK KRISTOFF Cleveland, Ohio.<h2>Montreal Contribution Aided Expansion Success</h2>Montreal Canadiens have made a great contribution to the NHL&rsquo;s expansion teams. The Canadiens deserve recognition as the builders of the Western Division teams. Take for example players like Danny Grant, Claude Larose, Gerry Desjardins, Carol Vadnais, Red Berenson, Jim Roberts, Norm Ferguson and Danny O&rsquo;Shea all of whom were traded to the new teams by the Canadiens to give the fans a better quality of players to see.Even though some people say that Canadiens have strings sith Minnesota North Stars and Oakland Seals to get Grant, Larose and Vadnais back. I think the North Stars and Seals will have good players coming up so they would not need them anymore. The Canadiens would then feel that they contributed in making hockey popular in the expansion cities. I surely hope that the NHL knows how much the Canadiens have helped since expansion.ROBERT RENAUD, Toronto, Ont. &#9632;

Fan Forum

Arthur Price of Ottawa has been selected as the October winner of the Fan Forum best letter contest. Mr. Price, who wrote that stick swingers should be banned from hockey to protect life and limb, will receive a free one year subscription to hockey&rsquo;s exciting magazine, HOCKEY PICTORIAL. Why don&rsquo;t you get in on the contest by sending in your letter to:Fan Forum, The Hockey News. 1434 St. Catherine St., West. Montreal 107. Canada. &#9632;

Fan Forum Letter of the Month

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MocLEAN</div>NEW YORK &mdash;The biggest impression made in the first four games of the new hockey season in Gotham is the absolute indispensability of Jean Ratelle. We have written about Ratelie before with the theme being that this was the year he could step out from the shadow of Rod Gilbert and be the big man on New York.&ldquo;Jean Ratelle is the key to our strength down the middle,&rdquo; says Emile Francis, the Rangers general manager-coach. &ldquo;When he is flying we win, it is as simple as that.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01588/2423747-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="252" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Ratelie</figcaption></div>When New York defeated Toronto 1-0 at Madison Square Garden on Sunday October 19, gaining a split in the first four games of the season, it was Ratty who set up Vic Hadfield&rsquo;s winning goal.Jean is the heart and guts of the Ranger attack. With Bob Nevin sidelined with a bad knee it has fallen upon the number one line of Ratelie, Hadfield and Gilbert to do the New York heavy scoring. Ratty has done his best. He was all over the ice against both Montreal and Toronto and now has a record of scoring at least one point in New York&rsquo;s last 17 games.&ldquo;Ratelie is a picture passer of the Jean Beliveau class,&rdquo; says King Clancy, the Toronto vice president. &ldquo;He threatened to break through as a big man for a number of years and this may be his season.&rdquo;When the opposition says things like this, you can bet it has merit.Ratelie is 29 and is three years removed from serious spinal surgery which treatened to end his career just as it was blossoming.&ldquo;My back is perfect now. I feel fine and hope to do at least as well as last year,&rdquo; says Ratelle. &ldquo;Most of the credit for my performance should go to Vic (Hadfield) and Rod (Gilbert)&rdquo;.One of the big plusses the Ratelie, Gilbert, Hadfield line has going for it is the almost constant familiarity they have with each other. Ratty and Rod have been playing together since they were kids on the icelots of Montreal. Hadfield joined the duo in 1966-67 and knows their every move like Gilbert knew Sullivan and we don&rsquo;t mean Rod and Red.Francis is eagerly looking forward to the return of Nevin who has played all of a minute and a half so far this season, having been injured on his first shift in Boston on opening night. He will then be able to work with his &ldquo;regular&rdquo; lines. Nevy will go with center Walter Tkaczuk and left winger Dave Balon. Ron Stewart has filled in for Bob and has done well.The third line right now is centered by Orland Kurtenbach with either Donnie Marshall, Real Lemieux or Bill Fairbairn on the wings. Juha Widing got on the ice only once in the Montreal-Toronto weekend with Francis using Kurtenbach against Jean Beliveau and sometimes Norm Ullman. Kurt is improving in his battle against the rust caused by a season of inactivity and then back surgery last season, but he still has a way io go.The defense, which includes Ed Giacomin&rsquo;s bad period in Montreal when six goals were scored in the third stanza a 7-3 loss, has overall been the strenght of the team. Brad Park lost a faceoff to Canadien rookie Marc Tardif deep in the New York defensive zone and Tardif hit Yvan Cournoyer with a scoring pass. Brad, however has been playing well and shows no sign of a sophomore jinx. He even has taken an odd turn on the right side, which since he is a left hand shot is his wrong side. Jim Neilson, Arnie Brown and Rod Seiling are playing well and are the backbone of this Ranger team. Francis is spotting Allan Hamilton, the fifth defenseman.BLUE CHIPS &mdash; New York set a new record for consecutive home ice wins when they defeated Minnesota in home opener 43. This was their 19th straight in the regular season and it erased the mark of the 1939-40 Stanley Cup winners &hellip; Minnesota got off to a three goal lead but Rangers roared back in third period with three goals in a little over two minutes &hellip; Balon is much happier this season than last. He is playing regularly and going both ways in good style &hellip; Rod Gilbert is playing with a bad heel, a bad knee and a charley horse &hellip; Barry Gibbs of the North Stars challenged Hadfield in the opener and Park rode toVic&rsquo;s rescue, although Hadfield needed no help&hellip; Billy Fairbairn, the aggressive right winger had five hits versus the Maple Leafs on October 19 &hellip; Francis expects to use Terry Sawchuk in the near future &hellip; Rangers feel Kurtenbach is over the hump in his conditioning battle and will give him more ice in the future. How this will affect Juha Widing is problematical&hellip; Mayor John V. Lindsay has wired the Rangers a cable wishing them well in their new season &hellip; &#9632;

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Ratelle Key Man In Eariy-Seuson Play; Francis Anxious For Bob Nevin’s Return

NEW YORK&mdash;Emile Francis has virtually clinched the 1969-70 Stanely Cup with the acquisition of one Arthur Friedman, demon statistician of WOR TV. Friedman, who was with the New York Jets when they won the American Football League and Super Bowl title last season, has just completed his season&rsquo;s work with the New York Mets, baseball&rsquo;s new champions.&ldquo;Art the Dart&rdquo; as the personable Artie is known to all is the only man to have seen every Met regular season game in the last four seasons. Firedman is the associate editor of the Rangers&rsquo; program. &#9632;

Rangers Get Mets’ Statistician

<div class="byline">by CHARLIE HALPIN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01657/2423802-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="267" height="358"></div>&bull; BLACK HAWKS have long been described as hockey&rsquo;s most temperamental performers. They do their thing one game and not the next, which undoubtedly contributed to their exclusion from last spring&rsquo;s Stanley Cup playoffs.But after watching them virtually decimate the Montreal Canadiens in their first weekend visit to the Forum during the NHL schedule, one cannot help wonder how they have the problems they do .Admittedly they were abetted by a horrendous goaling job turned in by Rogatien Vachon, but they looked like a team that had suddenly breathed in new life. There could have been a message behind their whomping of the reigning cup champs and it could spell out Bobby Hull.The Hawks&rsquo; superstar continues to wrangle over contract, which according to many, has had an adverse affect on the Chicago team as a whole. They showed their lack of interest by dropping their first five NHL starts but against Montreal they were transformed into a free-wheeling, hard-skating squad that didn&rsquo;t have a care in the world, including whether Hull signed or not.Then, too, they may have been thinking back to the preseason period when a teammate, Pit Martin publicly roasted them for lack of effort and being too lackadaisical on the ice. Maybe too, it was a combination of Martin&rsquo;s needling and Hull&rsquo;s absence that spurred the younger, new breed of Hawks on.Whatever the reason the Hawks and their colony of new faces&mdash;Cliff Koroll, Tony Esposito, Jim Wiste, Keith Magnuson, Terry Caffery and Gerry Pinder looked refreshing.&bull; GRANTED THAT a team without the likes of Hull, Ken Wharram, Doug Mohns and a slumping Stan Mikita, cannot perform in a manner which they are normally accustomed, but the Hawks&rsquo; future never looked better. It could be the start of a new era for Chicago and the way the Hawks&rsquo; fortunes have been dipping in recent years, it couldn&rsquo;t have come at a better time.Of course Bobby Hull will be back to blazen his big shot at left wing in due course.But in the meantime, the Hawks&rsquo; young fry are going to take advantage of Hull&rsquo;s reluctance to sign, to exert themselves.Magnuson looks like a good one, rugged and steady, a throwback to the heydeys of Vasko and Pilote. Esposito could push the veteran Denis Dejordy to the background in the Hawks&rsquo; goaling picture and Koroll, who abounds with talent may turn out to be the best right winger to come along with the Hawks in a decade.If the Hawks start to fly again, and Mikita begins scoring and Hull returns, the Tribe will quickly jet back into NHL contention. But don&rsquo;t overlook the Hawks&rsquo; &lsquo;Kiddie Corps&rsquo; &mdash; they&rsquo;re the best thing to happen to Chicago in years. &#9632;

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INSIDE HOCKEY

DETROIT&mdash;Alex Delvecchio had some week.The 37-year-old Detroit captain was belatedly honored for being the third player in NHL history to reach&rsquo; the 1000 points mark &mdash; only Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau got there before him.Some of Delvecchio&rsquo;s longtime friends and fans in Detroit got together and had a handsome plaque made to commemorate the feat &hellip; and club president Bruce Norris put in a $1,000 bonus, a dollar for each point.There was a thought of making it 1,000 silver dollars but they&rsquo;re out of circulation and would&rsquo;ve had to be purchased from private collectors &hellip; at a cost roughly of $2,000.After the big night, Alex got socked with a 10-minute misconduct penalty in his next start. The two-time Lady Byng winner &mdash; the latest was last season &mdash; drew 10 for arguing with Art Skov over a Detroit penalty.General manager and acting coach Sid Abel was unhappy with the call &mdash; &ldquo;Skov wouldn&rsquo;t even talk to Alex and yet later in the game he let Red Berenson chase him all over the ice.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03402/2423864-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="507" height="1138"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALEX DELVECCHIO</figcaption></div>The 10 minutes represents practically a full year&rsquo;s penalty time out put for Delvecchio.&mdash;BERRY &#9632;

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Alex handed $1,000 Bonus — Then Skov Gave His Gift

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT &mdash;In the simplest possible term, Bruce Norris didn&rsquo;t like the way Bill Gadsby was running his hockey team.So, exercising an owner&rsquo;s prerogative, he dismissed his coach.But why? That&rsquo;s what Gadsby has been trying to find out. Meanwhi1e, words like &ldquo;soph istication, communication and motivation&rdquo; are thrown about. The players don&rsquo;t under stand it &mdash; they all liked Gadsby. And they&rsquo;d won their first two starts this season under him.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02529/2423833-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="246" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Nick Libett</figcaption></div>Certainly Norris can do what he wants with his club and he fully expected to be rapped by the fans, press, radio and television for his move. To his credit he handled the news conference with poise and refused to pin down just what he didn&rsquo;t like about Gadsby&rsquo;s coaching.&ldquo;Who knows,&rdquo; Norris said, &ldquo;Bill may be right and we may be wrong &hellip; but he wasn&rsquo;t fitting the pattern we all agreed to.&rdquo;There was an inference that Gadsby&rsquo;s methods were out of date whereas coaching today is more sophisticated.More like it is that Gadsby decided entering this season that he was going to sink or swim on his own and he didn&rsquo;t want advice from the upper echelons as he had last season.Norris, who nearly fired Gadsby last season, agreed to stop telephoning orders to the bench via general manager Sid Abel.But it obviously didn&rsquo;t work out.What is disturbing though is that on the face of it, Gadsby had improved the team. He took a team that finishecd in the cellar and had it challenging for third place in the final month of the season. Then an injury to Pete Stemkowski and a long road trip &mdash; he had no say in the schedule &mdash; did in the Wings. They skidded to fifth place.But during that season Detroit&rsquo;s goals against mark improved by 36 and that certainly was some achievement. And further, Gadsby brought some sanity to the goalkeeping which had been in turmoil. He instilled confidence in Roy Edwards and Edwards rewarded him with the fourth best goals against average in the league.Then, in training camp this year, Gadsby stuck by his lines &mdash; they stayed the same from start to finish. Garry Monahan, acquired in trade from Montreal during the summer, was playing a new position &mdash; left wing &mdash; and he needed &mdash; time to familiarize himself with it. He got it, even though he didn&rsquo;t score a goal.In past years the Wings&rsquo; motto should&rsquo;ve been &ldquo;What&rsquo;s My Line?&rdquo; because the lines were in a state of constant flux. There was no stability.And, in training camp this year, Gadsby had a talk with left wing Nick Libett, a disappointment as a regular last season. Libett came out of the box this season throwing his weight around &mdash; he barged into Ron Ellis when the opener was hardly a minute old &mdash; and he scored the Wings&rsquo; first goal of the season. He played like the Libett the Wings expected of a couple years ago when he was coming out of junior hockey.Perhaps Gadsby wasn&rsquo;t a strong bench coach &mdash; that&rsquo;s one of the hints behind the firing &mdash; but he certainly did brace up a team that needed it badly, tightening it defensively and instilling confidence in spots where it was sorely needed.Then, with success in sight this season thanks to the addition ol Carl Brewer, everything looked like it was coming up roses.&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t believe it,&rdquo; Gadsby said after Norris called him in an hour prior to a game against Minnesota and told him he was through.&ldquo;And I was feeling sorry for Billy (Reay) the night before in Chicago when we beat the Hawks and 16,000 people were singing &lsquo;Goodbye Billy,&rdquo; Gadsby said wryly. &mdash; &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t realize they were singing it to me.&rdquo;Elder statesmen Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio, who along with Gadsby and Marcel Prono-vost used to form a sort of Kitchen Cabinet to Abel when he was manager and coach, weren&rsquo;t asked their views and heard it just when the rest of the team did &mdash; right before they took the ice against Minnesota.It was the worst possible psychological moment and if the Wings miss a playoff berth by two points, they can point back to that night.&ldquo;We were completely stunned,&rdquo; said one player. &ldquo;It took us two periods to settle down and get in the game.&rdquo;By then the North Stars, bigger and better this season, had a 3-1 lead. The Wings got one goal back but rookie goalie Ken Broderick very poised, stood off a strong third period assault.The Wings cooled themselves off then with three penalties in the final 10 minutes and they lost, 3-2.Afterwards the Wings sat shocked in the dressing room. Gordie Howe, a close friend of Gadsby, said he was &ldquo;sick&rdquo; and went to Gadsby&rsquo;s house following the game, trying to cheer up his old teammate.A Toronto paper called Howe the next morning and asked if he was going to quit because of the firing. That was the farthest thing from Howe&rsquo;s mind. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t quit and I don&rsquo;t think Bill would want me to. We don&rsquo;t do things that way.&rsquo;One NHL coach said &ldquo;Detroit&rsquo;s lucky that Howe isn&rsquo;t Bobby Hull &mdash; he&rsquo;d go off and pout about it.&rdquo;Instead, Howe came back in the next game and scored the clinching goal against St. Louis while killing a penalty in the final minute and with the Blues&rsquo; net empty. Howe checked the puck away from Gary Sabourin deep in St. Louis territory and easily slid it into the net for the 800th combined (regular season and playoff) goal of his fantastic career.Abel remains behind the bench while the search for a Gadsby successor goes on and among those you can count out are: 1 &mdash; Ted Lindsay, 2-Punch Imlach (with Brewer and Mahovlich?).The hunt should be interesting. &#9632;

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GADSBY: Wanted Freer Coaching Hand NORRIS: Didn’t Fit Wings’ Pattern

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01609/2423895-1-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 playedin today&rsquo;s game.CooperHockey EquipmentDon&rsquo;t play games with anything else. &#9632;

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By Bill Libby<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02563/2423933-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="273" height="369"></div><h2>No Security In Coaching</h2>THE LOS ANGELES RAMS of the NFL had hit a low ebb when George Allen was named their new coach before the 1966 season. Swiftly, he rebuilt them to respectability. They won a divisional pennant in 1967 and came within a game or two of winning everything in 1968. One morning last Christmas time, Allen picked up the phone and was told by the team owner, Dan Reeves, that he was fired. Later, after a lot of fuss, he was rehired. At the moment, his team is unbeaten and may win a championship, but he still shivers when he realizes how close he came to being somewhere else at this time.A year after he won a world championship in baseball at Baltimore, and was named &ldquo;manager of the year,&rdquo; Hank Bauer was fired. This season, managing Oakland, he finished second, and was fired. Dave Bristol, who finished third without pitchers at Cincinnati, also was fired. For baseball, this is nothing. Billy Martin managed Minnesota to the pennant in its division and he got fired. When Gil Hodges was named &ldquo;manager of the year&rdquo; for leading New York Mets to the world title, he smiled wistfully and said, &ldquo;I suppose this means I&rsquo;ll be fired in a year or so.&rdquo; He&rsquo;ll be lucky if it&rsquo;s not this season.In pro basketball last season, Bill van Breda Kolff coached the L.A. Lakers to the Western Division pennant, into the finals of the playoffs, and to within a few points of the world championship. So, this season he is in Detroit. Bill Russell, who coached the Boston Celtics to the championship, and led them to 10 of the last 13 titles, quit as coach. No doubt he realized the next time he lost one might be the last chance he&rsquo;d get, so he decided to go out on top.What baseball and football and basketball have done so successfully all these years-firing managers and coaches-hockey is beginning to emulate with its men in the middle. As a matter of fact, the way hockey is going, it may make managing in baseball seem a soft, safe touch.After two seasons of expansion, every single one of the six new teams had changed coaches. In this period, 10 of the 12 teams in the entire NHL had made coaching changes.After putting together a champion, Lynn Patrick moved upstairs halfway through his first season in St. Louis. After that season, Bert Olmstead was fired in Oakland. John Muckier took over in Minnesota for Wren Blair and lasted halfway through last season when Blair took over again. Keith Allen coached Philadelphia to a pennant the first season and to the playoffs both seasons now has moved uDstairs. Red Kelly coached L.A. to second place one season and the playoff finals last season and has wound up in Pittsburgh, where Red Sullivan had been fired.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01642/2423926-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="541" height="836"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL GADSBY &hellip; Can&rsquo;t Believe It All</figcaption></div>Bernie Geoffrion took over for Emile Franceis in New York and midway through last season, Francis took over for Geoffrion again. Punch Imlach coached Toronto to a string of Stanley Cup championships and the second season he tailed off, last season, although he did make the playoffs, he was fired. This had long been rumored, yet when you go over the records, it remains incredible. &ldquo;I never should have lost,&rdquo; Punch smiled wistfully. Sometimes, however, winning isn&rsquo;t enough, either.Last season, Bill Gadsby took over for Sid Abel as coach of the Detroit team. He stood on the sidelines one day and admitted, &ldquo;I love it, but the pressure is pretty bad.&rdquo; He narrowly missed the playoffs, but was not fired. Not then. Nor all through training camp. He entered this season and took his team to victories in the first two games. Then he was fired. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know why,&rdquo; the bewildered Gadsby said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m shocked. I can&rsquo;t believe it.&rdquo;Clearly Bill, newly unemployed, is a poor student of history. Where coaches are concerned, firing is inevitable, sometimes under the least likely of circumstances. It is not the sort of thing that builds respect for the game, yet the fact is, men go on taking jobs as coaches and managers. Replacing the retired Toe Blake in Montreal last season, Claude Ruel said, &ldquo;I know it seems foolish. I&rsquo;m supposed to win. If I lose, I&rsquo;ll be out. But I want the job.&rdquo;Blake said, &ldquo;Most of us love hockey. Once we can no longer play it, we have to coach it if we want to stay in it. Oh, maybe we can scout, but there&rsquo;s not much money in that. There are only so many general managers&rsquo; jobs and these are seldom open, since these men do more of the firing then they are the men fired. So we coach. We could coach in junior, maybe, with a bit more security, but less money and less fun. We&rsquo;ve been in the big leagues a long time. So we coach up here. As long as we get the chance. And as long as we can stand it. It got so I couldn&rsquo;t stand it any longer.&rdquo;<h2>Reay&rsquo;s Run Incredible</h2>FREDDIE GLOVER, WHO TOOK over Oakland last season and was named &ldquo;coach of the year&rdquo; for raising them from last place to second place,&rdquo; says the honor is very nice, but it doesn&rsquo;t guarantee job security. This was before a recent game early this season and the tough, taciturn little veteran said, &ldquo;when you&rsquo;re in this business and you hear of coaches being fired, you just accept it. Only a fool thinks it can&rsquo;t happen to him.The only good thing about it is that so many coaches are fired so often, sometimes for seemingly so little reason, that there&rsquo;s no shame connected to it.&rdquo;Only two coaches have lasted two straight years in the NHL now. One is Harry Sinden in Boston, who has lasted three straight years. &ldquo;Is that a record?&rdquo; Sinden asks. &ldquo;Why do we take these jobs under the circumstances? Because we want to stay in the game? Yes, that&rsquo;s most of it. The rest of it is that we&rsquo;re crazy, I guess.&rdquo;He is not the senior coach in the circuit currently. That dubious honor belongs to Billy Reay, who is in an unbelievable sixth season in Chicago. With Bobby Hull sitting it out, the Hawks are losing. When last heard, the fans were singing, &ldquo;Goodbye, Billy. Goodbye, Billy. It&rsquo;ll be nice to see you go.&rdquo;Oh, well, I guess if Billy had wanted security he&rsquo;d have married Liz Taylor. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY GLENN REDMANN</div>TWIN CITIES &mdash;When it was apparent last winter that the North Stars were going to have a devil of a time making the playoffs, Wren Blair was frequently heard to use the term &ldquo;youth movement&rdquo; in regard to the future of Minnesota&rsquo;s NHL entry.So you can imagine why more than just a handful of fans hereabouts thought The Bird was going out of his tree when he acquired the services of Leo Boivin, a 37-year-old defenseman, from Pittsburgh last January.But now the wily general manager and coach of the Minnesotans can righfully say, &ldquo;I told you so,&rdquo; because Boivin has become the anchor of a much tougher corps of blue-liners who have helped immensely in the Stars&rsquo; surprisingly fast 1969-70 start.In trading Duane Rupp, a well-thought? of minor pro with but one full season (196768) of NHL experience for Boivin, Blair lost some seven years in ageBut among the gains was considerably more hitting in as much as Boivin&rsquo;s style of play calls for more use of the body than that of the likeable Rupp, who has stuck with the Penguins.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03469/2423964-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="246" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Boivin</figcaption></div>And that&rsquo;s what Blair wanted &mdash; more hitting.While Boivin isn&rsquo;t the only one who has been giving it to him, it would appear that Leo&rsquo;s abrasiveness has inspired much of the same from back-line cohorts Lou Nanne, John Miszuk and rookies Tom Polanic and Barry Gibbs.And Blair couldn&rsquo;t be happier.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d known Leo a long time dating back to the days when he was with Boston,&rdquo; said Blair, &ldquo;and I was positive he would helps us.&ldquo;There were some rumors circulating that he was planning to call it quits, but when he assured me that it wasn&rsquo;t so, I immediately began to count on him as one of my leaders for 1969-70.&rdquo;Boivin had what Blair termed &ldquo;a fine training camp,&rdquo; and his leadership role came in vogue when Wren appointed him, newcomer Charlie Burns and Ray Cullen as alternates to Capt. Claude Larose.The 5-8, 185-pound Boivin readily admits that he considered calling it a day in the NHL after Pittsburgh GM Jack Riley dealt him to the North Stars.&ldquo;My father had passed away,&rdquo; said the softspoken veteran of nearly 1,100 NHL contests, &ldquo;And it meant moving the wife and kids again, so I was close to quitting.&ldquo;But after talking to Wren, who gave me plenty of time to get things in order before reporting, I kept going and I haven&rsquo;t regretted it because hockey still is fun for me.&rdquo;Blair&rsquo;s harping for more hitting has, of course, brought on a rash of penalties and one of the men who have been called on to kill most of them is Boivin.&ldquo;Leo&rsquo;s a good man to have out there when we&rsquo;re shorthanded,&rdquo; said Wren, &ldquo;because he rarely gets flustered.&rdquo;At full strength, Leo has been paired so far with Nanne, the former University of Minnesota All-American, who loves to jump in on attack whenever the opportunity presents itself. In shorthanded situations, however, it has been former Bruin chattel Gibbs sharing the bulk of back-line duty with Leo while tireless Billy Collins and Burns perform up front.Whenever anyone brings up the name of Gibbs within earshot of Boivin, Leo lights up with words of praise for the Central League&rsquo;s 1968-69 most valuable defenseman.&ldquo;Barry&rsquo;s one of the best looking young defensemen I&rsquo;ve seen,&rdquo; said Leo recently after Gibbs and Boivin did yeoman duty in the Stars&rsquo; 3-2 victory over the Red Wings in Detroit.&ldquo;In fact, this organization has a couple of other young defensemen (Dick Redmond and Dennis O&rsquo;Brien) who are going to make their marks in the NHL before too long.&rdquo;Boivin&rsquo;s contributions in the first four games of the regular season weren&rsquo;t confined to defense only.&ldquo;In fact with a goal and three assists, Leo found himself trailing only Larose among point-getters although Calder Award winner Danny Grant had started to find the range.STAR-LITES: Their 3-2 win over Detroit Oct. 16 was the first ever for the Stars on Olympia Stadium ice &hellip;The Minnesotans went without a road victory over the East last season and had only one triumph in 1967-68, a 4-3 win over &ldquo;Chicago &hellip;When Barry Gibbs went on the shelf with a severe charley horse in the first period of an Oct. 18 tilt at St. Louis (won by the Blues 4-2), Blair quickly called up Dick Redmond, the Stars&rsquo; No. 1 amateur draft choice from Waterloo in the Central League. &#9632;

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Boivin Proving Big ‘Hit’ Fulfilling Blair’s Clamor For More Muscle On Stars

JO ANN MADSEN, insurance executive, Los Angeles:&ldquo;I think five-minute penalties should be given out in penalty shot situations. It would be only fair. But the advantage is so much with the shooter in a penalty-type situation and goals are so precious in hockey, that I don&rsquo;t really believe a penalty shot is quite fair. It&rsquo;s just too much of a penalty.&rdquo;BOB MAXWELL, auto dealer, Phoenix, Arizona:&ldquo;1 think penalty-shots should be called much more often. The form of interference that stops players on clean breakaways really hurts the game. After all a penalty shot is really giving the player what he had in the first place before he was interferred with from behind of a clean break-way.&rdquo;JIM SQUIRES, dietician, Montreal, Que.:&ldquo;I think more penalty shots should be called but with one revision. Don&rsquo;t let the shooter carry the puck in on the goal-er, make him do what the rule implies. It&rsquo;s a penalty shot and players should, in my estimation, be forced to shoot the puck at the goaler from at least 45 feet out.&rdquo;WALTER HYDRUK, fire inspector, Toronto, Ont.:&ldquo;Penalty shots are definitely a must in a hockey game. If they didn&rsquo;t have them you&rsquo;d see more thrown sticks and incessant hauling players down from behind on breakaways. I would stick with the present rule in the NHL. Give the shooter the chance to score, if he misses, send the offender off with a minor penalty&mdash;but not a major, that&rsquo;s too much of an advantage for anv team.&rdquo;DON LAWRENCE, construe tion worker, San Francisco:&ldquo;Penalty shots definitely should be called. As it is, they seldom are and players take advantage of it by fouling flagrantly when a player on the other team gets a breakaway. If it was called more often, they&rsquo;d foul less often and there&rsquo;d be less reason to call it.&rdquo; &#9632;

THE FANS’ CORNER

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div>CHICAGO&mdash;Coaching the Black Hawks through the trying first weeks of the season hasn&rsquo;t been unrelieved agony for Billy Reay. For instance, there&rsquo;s Doug Jarrett to contemplate.Last year. Reay probably tried not to think of Doug any more than he absolutely had to. The big defenseman, for whom stardom has been predicted each season since he came up from the Central League five years ago, was a mjor disappointment last year while the Hawks were falling out of the playoffs for the first time in a decade.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01626/2424026-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="257" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Jarrett</figcaption></div>He was in almost constant trouble on the ice, whether he was trying to move the puck out of the defensive zone or impede the progress of an opposing forward. His 6-2, 204 pound frame betrayed him time and again.He didn&rsquo;t use it effectively as a checker and it often proved too great a burden for him, particularly in the third period.&ldquo;1 told Doug last spring that he&rsquo;d have to do something to toughen himself up, to build up his stamina.&rdquo; said Reay.That Doug followed his boss&rsquo;s advice has been apparent since training camp opened. From the start his play showed a zip that was missing much of last year, and it was apparent that he was better able to take the tough workouts that marked the first weeks of training.&ldquo;He told me he spent a lot of time on the bike during the summer.&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;I sure have to believe him because there&rsquo;s no comparison between the Jarrett of last year and the guy we have with us right now. I only hope he can sustain it because we need every bit of help we can get out of the defense.&rdquo;Doug lost little time making his presence felt once the new season opened.During the second period of the season opener in St. Louis, Doug pounced on a loose puck near center ice and set sail for the Blues&rsquo; blueline. Beating two defenders as he moved into St. Louis ice, Doug skated to within 30 feet of Goalie Jacques Plante, then fed a perfect pass onto the stick of the onrushing Gerry Pinder, who fired from 10 feet away and came up with his second goal of the night.HAWK TALK &mdash; Doug Mohns has been sidelined again with a recurrence of the sciatica nerve problem that put him out of action for several games last year&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02592/2424019-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="1776" height="1268"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chicago&rsquo;s DOUG JARRETT, right, moves in to lend a helping hand to goaler TONY ESPOSITO as he battles ANDRE BOUDRIAS of St. Louis for possession of puck.</figcaption></div>The Pit Martin-Jim Pappin-Dennis Hull line, which practically carried the Hawks thru theirfirst several weeks last season, came up with its first points in the fifth game, when Martin and Hull gained assists on a goal by Eric Nesterenko &hellip;Although reports are encouraging, Kenny Wharram remains in Henrotin Hospital, seven weeks after his heart attack. So far, only members of his family and teammates have been allowed to visit. &#9632;

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Rejuvenated Doug Jarrett Puts New Sock In Black Hawk Defense

CHICAGO &mdash;To complete his &lsquo;new look&rsquo; this season, the Chicago Black Hawks have even given defenseman Doug Jarrett a brand new sweater number.Jarrett is wearing No. 4 this year after yielding his old No. 20 to rookie Cliff Koroll.Former Hawks&rsquo; defenseman Elmer &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Vasko wore Jarrett&rsquo;s new number for many years with distinction before he was acquired by Minnesota in the expansion draft&hellip;. &#9632;

Jarrett Wearing New Number Four

CHICAGO &mdash;Pat Stapleton, who has served the Chicago Black Hawks a lot less years than some of the club&rsquo;s many veterans, has been chosen the team&rsquo;s new ice captain after a secret ballot co nd uc ted among the players. Sta pie ton, who is 29 and has been with the Hawks for the last four years, is the first Black Hawk captain since Pierre Pilote left the Chicago team before the 1968-69 season in a trade with Toronto Leafs that brought Jim Pappin to the Hawks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03522/2424081-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="253" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pat Stapleton</figcaption></div>The crew-cut 5&rsquo;8&rdquo; Stapleton, who had the distinction of making the NHL&rsquo;s second AllStar team in his first year in the league in 1965-66, is a giant on the Chicago defense. He not only plays a strong defensive game, but he&rsquo;s the club&rsquo;s valuable point man and playmaker. In his four seasons with the Hawks, Stapleton has accumulated 145 assists including a record-setting 50 last season for defensemen.Stapleton is the second new NHL captain named this season. Claude Larose of Minnesota North Stars was chosen last week. The Toronto Leafs are expected to name a new captain as well with George Armstrong&rsquo;s retirement. &#9632;

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Stapleton Hawks New Ice Captain

LOS ANGELES&mdash;Larry Cahan says he seriously intended to retire after 16 seasons of professional hockey, but when Bill White walked out on the Los Angeles Kings, creating a shortage of defensemen. the club made Cahan the sort of offer on a three-year contract he felt he could not afford to pass up. so, on the eve of the new season.the 35-year old veteran returned to action. And he says he&rsquo;ll play out his full contract.For the first time in his long career. Cahan is separated from his family His wife, at home in Vancouver with his two children, was expecting their third child early in November, and Hank didn&rsquo;t feel it would be wise to plan a move. Also, their children have reached school age, and last season, their first out of Vancouver after three seasons, was an unsettling one for them.So Cahan is leading the lonely life. &ldquo;But I couldn&rsquo;t make the kind of money I&rsquo;m making now outside of hockey and have to protect my family&rsquo;s future, &ldquo;Larry commented wistfully. &mdash; LIBBY<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02563/2424167-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="258" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Cahan</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Cahan Hustles Back to L.A. After White’s Camp Walkout

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;Late this summer, Jack Kent Cooke was host at a cocktail party in his Forum Club to introduce his new coaches, Hal Laycoe of the Kings and Joe Mulla-nev of the Lakers, to friends, old customers and the press. It was a smash success. Among the celebrities attending were Phyllis Diller, Art Linkletter, Shelly Berman, Barbara McNair, Jesse Unruh and Stu Nahan.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01642/2424136-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="258" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shack</figcaption></div>That was the last Laycoe, who passed his summer spare time taking his wife to TV shows, saw of Hollywood. He and his new players spent five weeks in training camp at Barrie, Ontario, and on the exhibition trail, and a sixth week on the road opening the regular season. They lost in Montreal, 51, in St. Louis, 4-1, and in Oakland, 5-1 .Last regular season, the Kings won only five games on the road. When Laycoe came in and was apprised of this statistic, he couldn&rsquo;t believe it. Now, perhaps he does. He promises it won&rsquo;t happen this season, but only a cold-blooded, cruel-hearted assassin would hold a coach to a pre-season or early-season promise.There were several valid excuses for the poor start of the Kings. They had a new coach who was just learning new players. Many of the players were new to their teammates, since there were several changes made between seasons. A couple of regulars were idled by injuries. Another, Larry Cahan, reported only when the season began. Another, Bill White, walked out before the pre-season season ended.Laycoe must be given time to install his new system. This figures to be a team which will get better as the season progresses. Still, it was discouraging when it opened the season looking not one bit better than it did epening the previous season. A lot of changes and nothing different.At the home opener, against Oakland, a young boy turned to the lady behind him and asked who she was rooting for She said she was rooting for the Kings. He said he was rooting for the Kings, too and that seemed a shame, &ldquo;because somebody should be rooting for the other team.&rdquo;However, the Kings seemed to need all the help they could get at this point, and they could certainly count on the lady. who while the lad didn&rsquo;t know it, was coach Lavcoe&rsquo;s wife.A pretty good crowd by L.A. standards for a Kings opener with an expansion rival turned out &mdash; 10.018. And they got their money&rsquo;s worth as the Kings turned around and righted themselves, temporarily at least, with a 5-0 rout of the Seals.It&rsquo;s hard to say being home was the reason. The Kings just got home in the wee hours of that morning. And for most of them, home was a hotel room. Few of them had their families in yet. And those that did had scarcely seen them and had not a chance to settle them.It&rsquo;s really rough, a hard business sometimes After six weeks apart, there were some warm reunions among King families, then some hustling to get settled. They did have almost four straight weeks at home ahead of them, then, but it was long overdue. They&rsquo;d have traded one of those weeks for a couple of days home just before the season began.Be that as it mav. the weary travellers saw the Forum, some of them for the first time, marvelled and turned marvellous Forwards hit A couple of them even hit the inside of the nets.Eddie &ldquo;The Entertainer&rdquo; Shack, who scored the team&rsquo;s first goal of the season in Montreal, continued to come through in the sport lighted moments as a star should, scoring three in this home opener. On nights like this.when Eddie gets one or two, he seems to figure it&rsquo;s his night and turns his considerable talent loose. On nights like this, you might not trade Eddie for Bobby Hull.When Larry Cahan, still out of shape, but sturdy as an oak, hit a long shot, the Seals seemed to give up. They roused themselves late to try to break the shutout, but when Gerry Desjardins smells bonus money, he&rsquo;s great. Protecting his shutout at the finish, Gerry made a couple of saves you wouldn&rsquo;t believe if you didn&rsquo;t see them.On the road, he played well, but was overpowered. He faced 46 shots in Montreal and 45 in St. Louis. At home now, he played better and got help, too.Laycoe walked briskly into the interview room for his first posu-game press-conference and a reporter asked him how it felt to win a game and Hal&rsquo;s laugh and voice had a little edge to it as he said, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not the first victory I&rsquo;ve coached in this game, you know.&rdquo; He then announced that the Kings had played better the night before, but simply hadn&rsquo;t gotten any breaks then, and he did think things were looking up.He then praised everyone. Or almost everyone. He neglected Shack. Someone asked if he didn&rsquo;t have a kind word for Eddie. Hal smiled and said, &ldquo;he could have had six goals. He came close.&rdquo; He did, too. It was that kind of night. But the long and very hard home stand, now ending, was just beginning, then, and so, too, was the long and very hard season, with all its difficult road trips and family separations. Then Laycoe went out and said hello to his wife, who looked like someone he used to know once. &#9632;

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Kings Walk Rocky Road Home But Laycoe Playing For Time

<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>DETROIT&mdash;Don McLeod, goalkeeper, returned to Fort Worth of CHL. Roger Crozier, goalkeeper, restored to active list.MONTREAL&mdash;Rejean Houle, forward, recalled from Montreal &lsquo; Voyageurs of AHL and later returned. Guy Lapointe, defenseman, recalled from Montreal Vov-ageurs. Brian Lavender forward, sold to Cleveland of AHL. Bob Paradise, defenseman, sent on loan to Omaha of CHL. Jim Pritchard, defenseman, assigned to Kansas City of CHL. Michel Poirier, defenseman, assigned to Canada&rsquo;s National Team. Andre Pronovost, forward, sent to Muskegon of IHL. Pete Mahovlich, forward, recalled from Montreal Voyageurs.MINNESOTA&mdash;Dick Redmond, defenseman, recalled from Waterloo of CHL. Moose Vasko, defenseman, assigned to Salt Lake City of WHL. Tom Reid, defenseman, assigned to Waterloo.CHICAGO&mdash;Howie Young, defenseman, sent to Vancouver of WHL. Paul Shmyr, defenseman, and Jean-Pierre Bordeleau, forward, assigned to Dallas of CHL. Ray McKay, defenseman, recalled from Dallas.BOSTON&mdash;Nick Beverly, defenseman, recalled from Oklahoma City of CHL and returned.ST. LOUIS&mdash;Robbie Irons, goalkeeper, assigned to Kansas City of CHL and Gary Edwards, goalkeeper, recalled from Kansas City as standby netminder. Don Giesebrecht, forward, recalled from Kansas City and assigned to Buffalo of AHL.LOS ANGELES&mdash;Noel Price defenseman, assigned to Springfield of AHL.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Gerry Meehan, forward, assigned to Seattle of WHL. Garry Peters, forward, recalled from Quebec of AHL. Earl Heiskala, forward, returned to Quebec.OAKLAND&mdash;Francois Lacombe, defenseman, recalled from Providence of AHL. Ray Clearwater, defenseman. assigned to Salt Lake City of WHL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>MONTREAL&mdash;Jim Bannatyne, defenseman, recalled from Muskegon of IHL.HERSHEY&mdash;Colin McCormick, goalkeeper, left team to return to Kelowna, B.C., to play amateur hockey.ROCHESTER&mdash;Barry Watson, forward, assigned bv Vancouver of WHL.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>SEATTLE&mdash;John Hanna, defenseman, rejoined team off inactive list. Jim Powers, forward, removed from roster.SAN DIEGO&mdash;John Haines, forward, assigned to Des Moines of IHL.VANCOUVER&mdash;Len Lunde, forward, reactivated from retired list.SALT LAKE&mdash;Merlin Jenner, goalkeeper, and Art Quoquochi, forward, added to roster.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>OKLAHOMA CITY&mdash;Greg Shepherd, forward, recalled from Baltimore of AHL in exchange for Dan Schock, forward.TULSA&mdash;Dale MacLeish, forward. placed on waivers.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>PORT HURON&mdash;Pete Mara, forward, rejoined team. Bob Payne, forward, secured from Charlotte of EHL and later released. Guy James, defenseman, and Ross Eichler, forward, placed on inactive list.TOLEDO&mdash;Dino Mascotto, defenseman, placed on club&rsquo;s inactive list. Laurent Girard, forward, and Bob Monteith, defenseman, placed on waivers.FORT WAYNE&mdash;Barry Burnett, defenseman, sent to Charlotte of EHL. Paul Evoy forward, sent to Bradford, Ont., of Western Ontario Junior League.COLUMBUS&mdash;Bert Fizzell, forward, returned by Providence of AHL. Pierre Gagne, forward, secured from Denver of WHL. Billy Staub, forward, dropped from roster. John Sleaver, forward, assigned by Providence of AHL.DES MOINES&mdash;Moe Morrissette, forward, joined team after being on inactive list following trade.MUSKEGON&mdash;Gary Gambuoci, forward, drafted into U.S. Army and placed on inactive list. Ted Tucker, goalkeeper, assigned to Clinton of EHL.<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2>NEW HAVEN&mdash;Pierre Gravel, forward, released. Gord Smith, defenseman, sent to Salem of EHL on loan. August George, forward, sent to Johnston of EHL on loan for season. Lars Hanson, defenseman, sent to Nashville of EHL on loan. Bob Peters, forward, reported from New York of NHL.CHARLOTTE&mdash;Mike Sauter, forward, sent to Flint of IHL. Chuck Stuart, forward, traded to New Haven of EHL in exchange for Hal Willis, defenseman.JOHNSTOWN&mdash;Norm Ryder defenseman, placed on inactive list. Bob Vanderberghe, forward, left team to return to school. Jim McCaffrey, forward, secured from Clinton of EHL.JACKSONVILLE&mdash;Bob Burgess forward, sent on loan to Long Island of EHL.NASHVILLE&mdash;Dick Chapman, defenseman, secured from Toledo of IHL. Karl Haggerty, forward returned by Oklahoma City of CHL. Gary Wood, defenseman, secured from Dayton of IHL. Pierre Brillant, forward, secured from columbus of IHL. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01639/2424198-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">MICHEL BRIERE&hellip;From Junior To The Penguins</figcaption></div>Few people have ever heard of Malartic and even less are familiar with the name Michel Briere. But NHL audiences may soon get to know both more familiarly with the emergence of this 19-year-old junior sensation as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins this season. Briere, who was a scoring sensation in 1968-69 with Shawinigan of the Quebec Junior League where he counted 75 goals and had 86 assists to win the loop point title, is a young centre ice smoothie who became an instant hit with new Penguin coach Red Kelly, Briere, who calls Malartic, Que, home, is making the big jump from junior ranks to the NHL&mdash;a feat not too many before him have been able to do successfully. &#9632;

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Meet The Rookies

OAKLAND&mdash;Harry Howell, the newest Seal, has started skating and figures he&rsquo;ll be ready to play by Dec. 1.&ldquo;I feel as though I could skate right now,&rdquo; he said before the Seals, home opener. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;ve come this far sticking to doctor&rsquo;s orders so I&rsquo;m not going to change now.&rdquo;Howell feels that the spinal fusion surgery which he underwent last spring is healing perfectly. &#9632;

Howell Skating, Eyes Dec. 1 Bow

<div class="byline">BY SPENCE CONLEY</div>OAKLAND&mdash;Quick, Freddie, the flit! The injury bug is biting your Oakland Seals much too often.The latest victims of the injury bug are defensemen Dick Mattiussi and Bert Marshall, a pair of regulars on the Seal blueline.Marshall has suffered a jammed thumb and wrist during the Seals&rsquo; loss to Los Angeles on Oct. 18 and the following morning Mattiussi was rushed to thehospital for an emergency appendectomy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02591/2424229-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="261" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Mattiussi</figcaption></div>Although just how seriously the Marshall injury would effect his play was not immediately know, Matiussi is out definitely from 10 days to two weeks.In order to fill for Mattiussi, the Seals sent out a call to Providence and brought in Frank Lacombe, the young defenseman who was a regular in Oakland last season.Generally, the Seals were in and out last week and mostly out for their 6-0 loss in Boston and for their 5-0 loss to the Kings sandwiched around a rounding 51 win over L.A. in the home opener in Oakland.General manager Frank Selke blames the erratic performances on injuries which struck hard during training camp.&ldquo;We are at least 10 days behind where we ought to be in terms of mental and physical conditioning,&rdquo; commented Selke. &ldquo;If we are unable to catch up in a hurry, then we are going to be in trouble. The loss of Mattiussi doesn&rsquo;t help any either.&rdquo;The whole problem started early in training camp when Mike Laughton (back) and Carol Vadnais (knee) were hurt and unable to practice. Then Earl Ingarfield suffered a bad cut on his wrist. He&rsquo;s still out for another week or so.Laughton has come back pretty strong and was a big gun in Oakland&rsquo;s 5-1 win over the Kings. He got a pair of goals in the 2-1 win over Chicago, then was a workhorse as linemates Bill Hicke (2) and Brian Perry scored against the Kings.Glover hasn&rsquo;t exactly been knocked out about they way either Hicke or Perry have been helping Mike and he is concerned about captain Ted Hampson&rsquo;s continuing scoring drought.With Ingarfield out, much responsibility has fallen on the shoulders of rookie pivot Joe Hardy, but the former Victoria-ville star has played pretty well, getting one goal and helping on scores by his wingers Norm Ferguson and Bob Dillabough.That line works pretty well together, although both Fergie and Dilly are much quicker than Hardy.Laughton is carrying his two wingers and Glover wants that changed immediately.Hampson, teamed with veteran Gerry Ehman and rookie Don O&rsquo;Donoghue, hasn&rsquo;t been able to get his line on the scoreboard. O&rsquo;Donoghue has been having much difficulty in adjusting to NHL play and so just this week, he was benched for a while to take the pressure off. Gary Jarrett took over his job.For all the problems, however, the Seals haven fared too badly and goaltending has been terrific. Beth Charlie Hodge and GarySmith have responded very well to the responsibility placed on their shoulders.As far as they are concerned individually, they both have played well. In the Seal losses &mdash; both shutous &mdash; they got little help offensively from the Oakland forwards who also had trouble backchecking.They did get some support from their defensemen, however, particulary Vadnais, Doug Roberts, and Wayne Muloin.Big Vad is still slightly overweight and his conditioning isn&rsquo;t what it ought to be&mdash;both conditions caused by his loss of time in training camp.&ldquo;Another week and I&rsquo;ll be OK,&rdquo; says Vad. &ldquo;My knee feels fine, but I&rsquo;m still carrying too much weight. I&rsquo;ll lose another five or seven pounds in a week and then I&rsquo;ll be ready.&rdquo;Until he loses those extra pounds and gets first rate conditioning, he will content himself to play a little more defensively and for a guy who is a wheelhorse in moving the puck out of the Oakland zone and a good shooter, that hurts.Another training camp injury victim was Tony Featherstone. His badly sprained ankle has healed but again his big problem now is conditioning. He is with the team in Oakland and probably will see his first-ever action during the Seals&rsquo; current five-game home stand.Once Glover gets his club over the miseries and into condition, the Seals will be much improved &mdash; Ingarfield will perk up the offense, Featherstone will give the club some muscle, and Howell ought to steady the defense.Wait a while, the Oakland Seals are solving some problems and when they do&mdash;look out! &#9632;

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Injuries Continue To Harass Seats, Mattiussi, Marshall Latest Victims

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01610/2424410-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02520/2424403-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="279" height="217"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03403/2424396-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="249" height="253"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04296/2424389-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="261" height="271"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05213/2424382-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="303" height="166"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06171/2424375-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="273" height="241"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07147/2424368-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="255" height="250"></div><h2>INDIVIDUAL SCORING LEADERS</h2>(Including Games of Sun. Oct. 26)<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08129/2424361-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="1221" height="1087"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-09111/2424354-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="237" height="271"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1099/2424347-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="261" height="208"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1191/2424340-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="294" height="190"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1274/2424333-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="249" height="244"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1363/2424326-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="261" height="226"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1457/2424319-1-eng-US/f0012-142.jpg" title="f0012-14" width="285" height="229"></div><h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1551/2424312-1-eng-US/f0012-152.jpg" title="f0012-15" width="603" height="1732"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1643/2424305-1-eng-US/f0012-162.jpg" title="f0012-16" width="594" height="616"></div><h2>WEST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1734/2424298-1-eng-US/f0012-172.jpg" title="f0012-17" width="603" height="1087"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1830/2424291-1-eng-US/f0012-182.jpg" title="f0012-18" width="591" height="1258"></div><h2>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1926/2424284-1-eng-US/f0012-192.jpg" title="f0012-19" width="588" height="340"></div> &#9632;

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TOP 25 SCORERS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-21" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2116/2424448-1-eng-US/f0012-212.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2023/2424455-1-eng-US/f0012-202.jpg" title="f0012-20" width="213" height="199"></div>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 29)<h2>EASTERN DIVISION</h2><h2>WESTERN DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2211/2424441-1-eng-US/f0012-222.jpg" title="f0012-22" width="1122" height="301"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues. Oct. 21Pittsburgh 3 at Oakland 4Wed. Oct. 22St. Louis 3 at Montreal 3Philadelphia 4 at Toronto 3Chicago 1 at New York 1Boston 3 at Minnesota 2Pittsburgh 0 at Los Angeles 2Thurs. Oct. 23Detroit 2 at Philadelphia 2Fri. Oct. 24Boston 4 at Oakland 2Sat. Oct. 25Chicago 5 at Montreal 0St. Louis 2 at Toronto 4New York 4 at Detroit 1Boston 3 at Los Angeles 2Pittsburgh 4 at Minnesota 1Sun. Oct. 26Montreal 8 at New York 3St. Louis 0 at Philadelphia 0<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Wed. Oct. 29Montreal at MinnesotaBoston at TorontoNew York at PittsburghDetroit at Los AngelesChicago at OaklandThurs. Oct. 30Montreal at St. LouisNew York at PhiladelphiaFri. Oct. 31Detroit at OaklandSat. Nov. 1Boston at MontrealNew York at TorontoChicago at Los AngelesPhiladelphia at St. LouisMinnesota at PittsburghSun. Nov. 2Toronto at BostonSt. Louis at New YorkPittsburgh at DetroitMinnesota at PhiladelphiaTues. Nov. 4Toronto at OaklandWed. Nov. 5Minnesota at MontrealToronto at Los AngelesNew York at ChicagoSt. Louis at BostonDetroit at PittsburghThurs. Nov. 6Montreal at PhiladelphiaSt. Louis at DetroitFri. Nov. 7New York at Oakland &#9632;

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THE NHL SCENE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-23" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2310/2424486-1-eng-US/f0012-232.jpg"></div>(Including games of Sun. Oct. 26) &#9632;

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Looking At NHL Goalers

&mdash; In Statistics<h2>TEAM STATISTICS AGAINST OWN DIVISION</h2><h3>East Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01603/2424580-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="579" height="183"></div><h3>West Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02559/2424573-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="581" height="177"></div><h3>Against Other Division East Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03520/2424566-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="589" height="179"></div><h3>West Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04478/2424559-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="579" height="181"></div><h2>HOME AND AWAY RECORD</h2><h3>East at Home</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05397/2424552-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="583" height="181"></div>East On Road<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06338/2424545-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="583" height="177"></div><h3>West At Home</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07313/2424538-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="587" height="179"></div>West On Road<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08295/2424531-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="581" height="183"></div><h2>POWER-PLAY SCORING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09281/2424524-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="595" height="337"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10261/2424517-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="558" height="1234"><figcaption class="caption-body">One of the more productive players in the NHL last week was ANDRE LACROIX of the Philadelphia Flyers, who scored a hat trick while beating the Torontg Leafs 4-3.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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NHL WEEk

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO&mdash;Jim Gregory coached Toronto Marlboros in 1964 when they won the Memorial Cup, the trophy that goes with the junior hockey championship of Canada.At that time, Gregory insisted that the finest National League prospect he had was Brit Selby. Other analysts preferred fellows like Pete Stem-kowski, Wayne Carleton, Mike Walton, Ron Ellis, Rod Seiling or Gary Dineen, who were on that same club. But Gregory always talked of Selby&rsquo;s speed and the throughness of his positional work both on offence and defence.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11237/2424618-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="273" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">John McLellan</figcaption></div>Now Gregory, is general manager of Toronto Maple Leafs and Selby, back with the Toronto club at least, is showing what his boss was talking about.Left-winger Selby has been one of the most pleasant surprises in the early weeks of what was supposed to be a disastrous 196970 season for Leafs. He scored a goal in a 2-2 tie with Montreal Canadiens and started his colleagues off on a 4-1 conquest of Chicago Black Hawks three nights later. He was supplying a lot of the lift for a new third line composed of Marlie alumni &mdash; Walton at centre, Wayne Carleton over on right wing.Selby had left the Toronto organization in 1967 when the NHL permitted its six new member clubs to draft some fringe players. Philadelphia Flyers claimed him. Then manager-coach Punch Imlach got him back last winter, trading Mike Byers, Gerry Meehan and Bill Sutherland to Phillv for Selb and centre Forbes Kennedy.Actually, Imlach had been reluctant to let him go. But Leafs were in an awkward position. Selby had broken his leg the previous fall while playing in the Western League with Vancouver Canucks and had missed most of the schedule.&ldquo;We had no way of knowing what his condition might be, so we couldn&rsquo;t afford to take a ohance on him&rdquo; Imlach explained.Selby had been awarded the Calder Trophy in 1965 as theNHL&rsquo;s outstanding rookie. The following September, he reported overweight to training camp and was sent out to Vancouver to get himself in shape, both physically and psychologically. It was while employed there, under coach, Bert Olmstead, that he suffered the discouraging injury that resulted ultimately in the move to Philadelphia.Coach Johnny McLellan wasn&rsquo;t especially happy with Selby&rsquo;s condition when he showed up at Leaf&rsquo;s Peterborough training base this fall. Nor was he pleased with Selby&rsquo;s performance in the exhibition series. And his efforts in Leafs opener at Detroit was listed as unsatisfactory.So McLellan set about straightening him out. In Leaf&rsquo;s next two practices, Selby was removed from his regular spot beside Walton and Carleton. And he was on the bench for that line&rsquo;s first shift against Canadiens.McLellan&rsquo;s ploy worked. Selby, when he got the word, hit though as if he&rsquo;d been shot from a gun and continued that pace all evening and again in the Chicago match.This was the kind of hockey Gregory knew Sleby was capable of. So did Imlach, which is why he retrieved him from Philadelphia.Everybody had been high on the youngster since he scored two goals in a 3-game tryout with Leafs in 1964.Selby had been at Maple Leaf Gardens for a Saturday workout with Marlboros and Gregory told him to stick around because Imlach wanted to see him. Selby was informed he was to return that evening because he was playing for Leafs.And on his first shift, Selby was sent out on left wing opposite Gordie Howe.He did a competent checking job, by the simple expedient of skating industriously after Howe everywhere he went. That included going into a corner once where he was greeted with an elbow under the chin and the words, &ldquo;welcome to the NHL, sonny.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13174/2424611-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="540" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRIT SELBY&hellip;Shot From A Gun</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Selby One Of Leafs’Surprises As Scoring Gives New Line Lift

MONTREAL&mdash;Bobby Orr of Boston Bruins missed one defensemen&rsquo;s record last season but the way the young star has started this National Hockey League season, he&rsquo;ll easily surpass the mark of 50 assists established in 196869 by Pat Stapleton of Chicago Black Hawks.Orr already has 12 assists in seven games. Add to that his two goals and he has a five-point lead atop the individual scoring parade. At this stage of the young season, no one knows how long Orr will remain on top but research for the last 25 years at least shows that no defenseman led the scoring list after three weeks of a season and perhaps he is the first ever to be leading after a couple of weeks or more. Orr&rsquo;s assist total is also five better than the second-high total in that department-recorded-by center Phil Goyette of St. Louis who has seven.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12208/2424649-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="282" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Orr</figcaption></div>Orr has also been the power in Boston&rsquo;s power-play. The Bruins have scored seven times with an opposing player in the penaltybox-tying St. Louis for the lead in power-play goals-and Orr&rsquo;s power-play total is one goal and six assists. &#9632;

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Orr Sets Sizzling NHL Pace

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01599/2424680-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNIE PARENT &hellip; Held Hobs at BayInjuries&hellip;</figcaption></div>It was the end of one of the Flyers&rsquo; shifts and, instead of three fresh forwards substituting for three who were beat, five new players took to the ice.Not only did a new forward line go out there, but a new pair of defensemen also skated from the bench.It didn&rsquo;t happen just once, but almost every time the Flyers changed lines in their 1-1 deadlock against the Montreal Canadiens at the Spectrum.New coach Vic Stasiuk was employing a novel experiment, keeping the same five players together for as long as he could.&ldquo;1 figure this way,&rdquo; reasoned Vic, &ldquo;if three guys on a line play better by becoming accustomed to the moves of the other guys they are playing with, shouldn&rsquo;t it be even better if all five guys on the ice play together most of the time.&ldquo;Oh, sure, you can&rsquo;t use this all the time because of penalties, But if you have six defensemen, it certainly is something worth trying&rdquo;.In the Flyers&rsquo; home opener before 14,370 at the Spectrum, Stasiuk had Ed Van Impe and Joe Watson playing as a defensive unit with the &ldquo;French Line&rdquo; of center Andre Lacroix with wingers Jean-Guy Gendron and Dick Sarrazin.Defensemen Larry and Wayne Hillman were on the ice with the new line of center Bob Clarke with wingers Reggie Fleming and Lew Morrison, and defensemen Ralph McSweyn and Dick Cherry were out there with center Jimmy Johnson and wingers Gary Dornhoefer and Earl Heis-kala.Cherry, of course, was one of the best utilitymen in the entire league last season. He played every position but goal tender for the Flyers but, since he is primarily a defenseman, Stasiuk has been using him there during the noble experiment.It must&rsquo;ve had good results because the Flyers played their best game of the early season &mdash; exhibition and otherwise &mdash; during their standoff with the Canadiens.Marc Tardif&rsquo;s goal midway through the final period was the only score allowed by netminder Bernie Parent, while Gendron&rsquo;s , long shot in the final minute earned the Flyers the tie in the thrilling contest.It was quite an about-face for the Flyers who used an outstanding forechecking game to keep the Canadien skaters bottled up most of the night. There was very little good hard forechecking in the club&rsquo;s previous two games, at Minnesota in a 4-0 shutout and in Pittsburgh in a 3-3 tie.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re improving,&rdquo; said Stasiuk later. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re getting better and that&rsquo;s what counts. I thought a lot of our players did a fine job out there.&rdquo;Vic doesn&rsquo;t exactly know how much of an asset this experiment was in the fine showing against the Canadiens. He knows it must&rsquo;ve had something to do with the heads-up performance by his skaters.Even the Flyer players themselves appeared to like the setup. It meant that the defensemen were getting longer rests between shifts and not one single man warmed the bench. &#9632;

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Flyers’ Five-Man Line Plan Wins Approval and Success

&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;PHILADELPHIA &mdash;He doesn&rsquo;t skate and he doesn&rsquo;t score goals but Jean Gravel helped set American history at the Spectrum in a recent game.Upon the invitation of the Flyers, Gravel did the public address announcing at the Spectrum in both French and English.It was simply a gimrpick, since the Montreal Canadiens were the opponent in the Flyers&rsquo; home opener.Gravel is the PA man for the Flyers&rsquo; farm club Quebec Aces and was flown down to add a touch of French atmosphere to the place.It is reliably reported that bilingual announcing has never been done before in any city outside of the French speaking province of Quebec . &mdash;CONRAD &#9632;

Bilingual PA Philly First

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-2023/2424868-1-eng-US/f0015-202.jpg" title="f0015-20" width="843" height="556"></div><h2>Tues. Oct. 21</h2>PITTSBURGH 3 AT OAKLANO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01575/2424861-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="589" height="633"></div><h2>WED. OCT. 22</h2>BOSTON 3 AT MINNESOTA 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02516/2424854-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="591" height="603"></div>ST. LOUIS 3 AT MONTREAL 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03438/2424847-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="585" height="581"></div>CHICATO 1 AT NEW YORK 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04335/2424840-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="577" height="501"></div>PITTSBURGH 0 AT LOS ANGELES 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05252/2424833-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="587" height="451"></div>PHILADELPHIA 4 AT TORONTO 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06212/2424826-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="597" height="285"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07190/2424819-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="589" height="383"></div><h2>THURS. OCT. 23</h2>DETROIT 2 AT PHILADELPHIA 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08169/2424812-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="593" height="577"></div><h2>FRI. OCT. 24</h2>BOSTON 4 AT OAKLAND 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09155/2424805-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="581" height="483"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-10133/2424798-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="581" height="163"></div><h2>SAT. OCT. 25</h2>CHICAGO 5 AT MONTREAL 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-11113/2424791-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="581" height="653"></div>ST. LOUIS 2 AT TORONTO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1288/2424784-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="579" height="531"></div>NEW YORK 4 AT DETROIT 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1376/2424777-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="583" height="83"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1463/2424770-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="591" height="459"></div>PITTSBURGH 4 AT MINNESOTA 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1550/2424763-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="583" height="601"></div>BOSTON 3 AT LOS ANGELES 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1646/2424756-1-eng-US/f0015-162.jpg" title="f0015-16" width="589" height="417"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1743/2424749-1-eng-US/f0015-172.jpg" title="f0015-17" width="567" height="131"></div><h2>SUN. OCT. 26</h2>ST. LOUIS 0 AT PHILADELPHIA 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1834/2424742-1-eng-US/f0015-182.jpg" title="f0015-18" width="581" height="379"></div>MONTREAL 8 AT NEW YORK 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1929/2424735-1-eng-US/f0015-192.jpg" title="f0015-19" width="583" height="845"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

<h2>MONTREAL</h2>GOALKEEPERSLome WarstayRogatten VachonDEFENSEMENJacques UporrioraGuyLapointaTod HarrisSerge SavardTerry HarperFORWARDSJeon BebveouRe jean HexdeRalph BockstremPetar MohovlichClaude ProvostBobby RousseauHenri RichardMarc TardifJohn FergusonChris BordetaauMickey ReadmondJacques Lemaire<h2>BOSTON</h2>GOALKEEPERSGerry CheeversEd JehnstanDEFENSEMENBobby OnRick SmithDaRos SmithMl SpeerGary DoakDon AwreyFORWARDSKen HodgeJahn BucykWayne CashmanGarnet BaileyDerek SandersonFred StanfieldEd WestfallJohn McKenziePM f gas riteJim HarrisonJim LorentzRan Murphy<h2>CHICAGO</h2>GOALKEEPERSDearis DeJordyTesay EspositoDEFENSEMENDave DrydenKeilh MognusonDoug JarrettRoy McKoyPat Staple tanFORWARDSGiles MaratteLeu AngottiPit MartinJon PappinDennis HuiDoug MohnsTerry CafferyEric NesterenkoChico MalaOiff KorolJim WisteStan MikitaGerry Pinder<h2>DETROIT</h2>GOALKEEPERSRoy EdwardsRoger CrazierDEFENSEMENGory BergmanBob BounCad BrewerPoul PopedRon HarrisMatt RavfichMlae IBcAkahonFORWARDSGary UngerGonfie HoweAlex DelvecchioGarry MonahanBruce MacGregornick LibettHank MonteithWayne Connelypete stemskovFrank AAohovfichRick McConn<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALKEEPERSBruce GambleMarv EdwardsJohn BowerDEFENSEMENTim HortonRicky LeyMike PelykPat QuinnJim DoreyJim McKennyBrian GlennieFORWARDSRon EllisMurray OliverWayne CartatonDave KeonBrit SelbyMike WaltonFloyd Smithrow raenoersonBobPulfocdTerry ClancyRon WardNorm UHman<h2>NEW YORK</h2>GOALKEEPERSEd GiocominTerry SawchukDEFENSEMENBrad ParkAmie BrownJim NeilsonRod SeilingABan HamiltonFORWARDSRod GilbertBob NevinReal LemieuxBill FairbairnVic HadfieldRan StewartDave BatonWalt TkoczukJean RateHeJuha WidingDon MarshallOrland Kurtenbach<h2>ST. LOUIS</h2>GOALKEEPERSJacques PlanteErnie WahelyGary EdwardsDEFENSEMENRoy FortinsAl ArbourNoel PicanlBebPiogerBarday PiagorJanRobertsJean-GuyTaRratFORWARDSRed BovemenFrank St. MarreiSePW GoyetteGory SabsurinTim EcclestoneBiM McCrearyRen AndersonLarry KeenanAndra BoudriasAB McDonaldCamdta HenryRon Buchanan<h2>OAKLAND</h2>GOALKEEPERSGory SmithCharite HedgeChris WorthyDEFENSEMENDoug RobertsCoroTvodaaisDick MattiusriBert MarshalFORWARDSBilly HideGerry HamanDen ODeneghareGary JarrettJoe HardyMike UughtanGene Ubriaconorm FergusonBrain DiloboughTomy Frethersbone<h2>pHILADELPHIA</h2>GOALKEEPERSBerate PoraratDoarg FavelDEFENSEMENEd Van ImpeJoe Watsonlorry HillmanWayne HBmonrulph macswaeynDidi CherryFORWARDSAndra LacroixSimen NetatJaanGary GendronDick SanazinReg FlamingBeil SutherlandGory DoirakeeferBeb CloreLew MorrisonGarry Peter<h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>GOALKEEPERSLes BinkleyJee DaleyAlSnrifhDEFENSEMENDuaune RuppBeb BlackbumBryan WatsonTracy PrattJim MorrisonFORWARDSBryon HextalKeith McCrearyVai FonteyneNick HatharukKenSchinkelGlen SatherRon SchockWaly BoyerJeon PrenovostDoon PrenticeMichel Brioro<h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>GOALKEEPERSGerry DesjardinsClaude HardyDEFENSEMENData RolfeBrent HughesBab WalDole HagansonJacques LemieuxLarry CohanFORWARDSEddie JoyalEddie ShackDennis HextalJim PetarsBil FlettTod IrvineSkip KrakeHowie rvugnesBryan CampbelRoss LansberryLeon Rochefort<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>GOALKEEPERSFem RivardKen BroderickCesare ManiagoDEFENSEMENJohn MiszukLeo BoivinLou NanneTom PoianicDarryl SlyDick RedmondFORWARDSDanny O&rsquo;SheaBiH GoldsworthyCharlie BumsRay CullenJean-Poul PonseTommy WilliamsBob BartowClaude LaroseDanny LawsonBiH CollinsDanny GrantWalt McKechnie &#9632;

National League Rosters

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div>Bruins&rsquo; Quiet Man, Fred Stanfield, Substitutes Solid Ice Play For ColorBOSTON&mdash;For a silent man, Fred Stanfield is awfully effective once he laces on his skates.Stanfield is the center for the Bruins line of Johnny Bucyk and Johnny McKenzie and he normally lets the Chief (Bucyk) and little Pieface (McKenzie) do most of the talking around the locker room.The other day, for example, Bruins practice had been over for 30 minutes. Fred was dressed and sitting by his lonesome with his arms folded across his chest.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01339/2424923-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="240" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Stanfield</figcaption></div>McKenzie came out of the shower and yelped, &ldquo;Come on Fred I&rsquo;ve been waiting for a half hour for you. We&rsquo;ve got to drive home together.&rdquo;Fred just raised his eyes and curled his lip in that shy smile of his and remarked to a visitor, &ldquo;You know he&rsquo;s kidding, don&rsquo;t you?&rdquo;Even McKenzie had to break up a bit a that&rsquo;.&ldquo;You know,&rdquo; remarked McKenzie, &ldquo;if you never saw him on the ice or played with him you&rsquo;d never realize what a hockey player this guy is.&ldquo;He just never changes. He never let&rsquo;s anything upset him.At least, since I&rsquo;ve known him I have never seen him upset by anything.&ldquo;But when I&rsquo;m out there on the ice with him I know what he is going to do all the time. I never even have to look. He passes the puck. He digs it out. If I don&rsquo;t have a good shot at the net I just throw it out there and he&rsquo;s a ways there to get it.&ldquo;The guy is uncanny.&rdquo;There must be something to what McKenzie said. In three years since joining the Bruins from Chicago in the now celebrated trade that also brought Phil Esposito and Ken Hodge to Boston, Stanfield has been one of the steadier centers in the league.His first season he scored 20 goals and had 44 assists. Last year he jumped his goal produc-i ion to 25 with 29 assists.In the first four games this season he registered three goals and a pair of assists.When he broke in with Chicago back in the 1964-65 season Stanfield managed only seven goals and 10 assists in 58 games. The next season his record was 2-2 in 39 games and he was allowed only 10 NHL games with the Black Hawks in 1967-68.Yet the only difference Stanfield can pin-point in the statisti-cis is the fact that he finally got some ice time with the Bruins.&ldquo;Fred is one of those unusual players,&rdquo; says General Manager Milt Schmidt, the man who brought him to the Bruins.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s so efficient you don&rsquo;t notice him. But he has that knack of doing the right thing at the right time.&ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t throw his weight (180 pounds) around a lot. But you don&rsquo;t see him getting pushed around much either.&ldquo;And he is durable.&rdquo;His first year with the B&rsquo;s, Stanfield played in 73 games. Last year he played in all but five of the 76 games that moved the Bruins into the East Division Stanley Cup finals against Montreal.He may be quiet and he may not be flashy or make little attempt to attract attention to himself, but he&rsquo;s highly effective.Stanfield is not worried about his image and doesn&rsquo;t care for &lsquo;charisma&rsquo;. But when the job has to be done, Fred is there to do it.ICE CHIPS &mdash; The condition of Derek Sanderson still is of concern to the Bruins&hellip; The talented young center injured his right knee during the exhibition season &hellip; He was able to start t he season then reinjured his left knee which put him out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs last spring &hellip; Fortunately the medics decided surgery was not necessary &hellip; But he did need therapy treatment that wouls carry until the first of November &hellip; Then there was the period of skating condition necessary before he could return to the lineup &hellip; The B&rsquo;s were using Jim Lorentz at center for Eddie Westfall and Wayne Cashman and Jim Harrison was a penalty killer in the early games with Sanderson on the shelf&hellip; Rookie defenseman Rick Smith also suffered a cracked rib but was able to stay in the lineup and Eddie Johnston took his regular turn at goal despite a virus that hit him before the opening game of the season. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;Crowds are flocking to the Eastern States Coliseum early in the season to watch the Springfield Kings put on continued improved performances. The way it looks, tickets tor the games are going to be at a premium.&ldquo;The team has showed great efforts thus far this season,&rdquo; general-manager coach John Wilson explained, &ldquo;but we have a long way to go. All the boys are digging and working hard to stay in first place. The response from the fans has been great.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01345/2424954-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="267" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mike Corrigan</figcaption></div>If the club can improve its road record, the Kings will certainly look the part of a first place team. Over a period of years, Springfield has not been a good club.A valuable asset to the Springfield Kings at home or on the road is center Mike Corrigan, who has been a member of the team three seasons. He can skate at center as well as any wing position. That makes him a valuable man to have around the club.Working on his line is center Bob Goring and winger Randy Miller. That means Mike is working one of the wings now. Goring is the promising, young amateur the Kings took in the draft last spring. He is shifty and tosses his weight around the ice.Miller is familiar to Springfield fans. He started the season last year with Springfield and after he hit a dreadful scoring slump was dispatched for the season to Denver of the Western League. He is back full of hope and expectation.Randy is the type of player who works hard and never stops hustling. He&rsquo;s popular with both the fans and his teammates.Getting back to Corrigan, he started as a pro in 1966 with Tulsa, a Toronto farm club. In 1967, he played with the Rochester Americans where he had 11 goals and 21 assists.Last season, Mike was slow getting into shape due to a knee operation that summer. He spend some time with Denver but came back later to collect 17 goals and 16 assists here. Though a 23-year old, Mike is the father of three young children.He&rsquo;s an all around sportsman, too. Corrigan likes fishing, basketball, softball and baseball. Mike is quite a guy with the kids and a special favorite of Kelly Wilson, son of the Springfield coach. &#9632;

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Corrigan Skates Back Into Kings ‘Picture

LOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada byHILLERICH & BRAOSBY CO LIMITEDWALLY ENTERPRISES LIMITED AFFILIATEArnold Street Wallaceburg OntarioLOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada byHILLERICH & BRADSBV CO LIMITEDWALLY ENTERPRISES LIMITED AFFILIATEArnold Street Wallaceburg. OntarioLEADING SCORERS(Including games of Sun. Oct. 19)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1336/2424992-1-eng-US/f0018-132.jpg" title="f0018-13" width="589" height="583"></div>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1435/2424985-1-eng-US/f0018-142.jpg" title="f0018-14" width="583" height="483"></div>Most Penalties &mdash; Rosoire Poiement, Quebec 30 minutes. &#9632;

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AHL Point Race

<h2>TUES. OCT. 21</h2>Cleveland 5 at Quebec 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02259/2425093-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="585" height="695"></div><h2>WED. OCT. 22</h2>SPRINGFIELD 3 at BALTIMORE 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03170/2425086-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="589" height="603"></div>CLEVELAND 4 at PROVIDENCE 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04127/2425079-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="581" height="487"></div><h2>FRI. OCT 24</h2>ROCHESTER 0 at MONTREAL 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0594/2425072-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="581" height="407"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0682/2425065-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="581" height="157"></div>CLEVELAND 3 at SPRINGFIELD 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0771/2425058-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="593" height="757"></div><h2>SAT. OCT. 25</h2>MONTREAL 5 AT BALTIMORE 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0861/2425051-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="585" height="551"></div><h2>SUN. OCT. 26</h2>MONTREAL 2 AT BUFFALO 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0953/2425044-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="581" height="431"></div>QUEBEC 5 AT PROVIDENCE 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1046/2425037-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="589" height="305"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1141/2425030-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="583" height="213"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1239/2425023-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="569" height="205"></div> &#9632;

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American Hockey League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO &mdash;Gilles Villemure is three games ahead of the shutout pace he set a year ago, and last year was a very good one for the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; brilliant goaltender.The 29-year-old Villemure collected six shutouts and finished with a 2.41-goals-against average in 62 games with the Bisons. In four games with the parent New York Rangers, Villemure had a 2.25 average.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01322/2425124-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="267" height="467"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Giesebrecht</figcaption></div>As he steered the Bisons to the Western Division title, Villemure was named the AHL&rsquo;s most valuable player and the All-Star goaltender.A year ago,&rsquo; his first shutout came in game No. 3 and his second in game No. 6. This time, Gilles connected in games No. 2 and 3, and put together 185 minutes and 13 seconds of shutout goaltending.Villemure is the best goaltender in the minors and better than many in the National League. A major league salary keeps him happy here.&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t trade him for any goalie in the game, major or minor league,&rdquo; said Fred Shero, the Buffalo coach. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the heart of our club, and when you need the big save, Gilles gives it to you.&rdquo;Shero and the Bisons, down to eight forwards through injuries and the 30-day suspension to Wayne Maki, got help when the St. Louis Blues sent left-winger Giesebrecht here.Maki was set down for his stick-swinging fracas with Ted Green of Boston in a preseason game while Maki was with St. Louis. Gerry Ouellette was out for two weeks after sustaining a deep facial laceration when struck by a skate, and Forbes Kennedy was hobbled by a sore knee.Kennedy, who underwent knee surgery last April, hadn&rsquo;t played a shift with the Bisons when he was returned to New York for further tests.Center Billy Knibbs missed the last period of a 5-2 win over the Baltimore Clippers when he strained his left knee, but wasn&rsquo;t expected to sit out any further action.Meanwhile, Shero, General Manager Fred Hunt and Emile Francis, the New York general manager and coach, were seeking help for the undermanned forward lines. &#9632;

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Villemure Improves AHL Image Running Ahead Of Shutout Puce

<div class="byline">BY BOB ELMER</div>BALTIMORE &mdash;One of the brighter sides of the early season problems besetting Coach Rudy Migay and his &ldquo;new look&rdquo; Baltimore Clippers, has been the surprisingly sound play of backup goaler Paul Hoganson.Although this affable 19-year old youngster from Toronto has not had too much chance to display his goaltending wares in behalf I of the Clippers, he has performed extremely well when called upon by Migay.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02270/2425155-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="257" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Hogansor.</figcaption></div>At this writing, Hoganson is the backup netminder for Baltimore&rsquo;s sophomore, Andy Brown. In the club&rsquo;s first four games, Hoganson finished the final period of the locals 6-0 opening game loss in Springfield, and then played two-thirds of the tough 5-2 loss in Buffalo last Sunday.&ldquo;Hoganson has really shown me something,&rdquo; Migay commented recently. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s tough to be tossed into the action once a game has started, buthe&rsquo;sgone in there and done the job. He&rsquo;s cool, shifty, has good hands, and we think he has an excellent future with us.&rdquo;On November 12, the blackhaired, slightly built youngster will celebrate his twentieth birthday. He has been playing hockey ever since he was seven years old, and his love for the sport pretty much controlled his education which as he says, &ldquo;was acquired in the school systems of Quebec, Hamilton or wherever I was playing at the time.&rdquo;Paul&rsquo;s father is manager of a car leasing agency in Toronto where the young Clipper lives with his parents, and younger brother Jimmy, 9. Hoganson, who has a cousin playing for th LA Kings, started out as a left winger in the Toronto Hockey League&rsquo;s pee-wee division, but &ldquo;one day the coach asked me to fill in for our goalie, who got ill all of a sudden, and I&rsquo;ve been a goalie ever since.&rdquo;Hoganson went through the usual schooling system for all hockey players and eventually wound up playing for Eddie Bush and his Hamilton Red Wings in Junior A play in 1966-67.&ldquo;Mr. Bush taught me a great deal about the game,&rdquo; the soft spoken Hoganson revealed, and although he is quite a taskmaster, he really knows the fundamentals of the sport.&rdquo;Hoganson was backup goalie for Gerry Gray in Hamilton, and since he wasn&rsquo;t getting too much chance to play, he asked to be traded. &ldquo;I was sent to the Toronto Marlboros,&rdquo; he recalled, &ldquo;and we got to the finals. Gerry Meehan and Mike Byers, now with the Flyers, were a couple of my teammates.&rdquo;In 1967-68 Hoganson played for the Quebec Aces in Junior A hockey and was that club&rsquo;s regular backstop. Last winter he was traded to Kitchener and then after Christmas to the Marlboros from which club he was picked in the amateur draft by the Penguins.&ldquo;I think it must have been Ed Chadwick who recommended me to Pittsburgh,&rdquo; Hoganson said. &ldquo;Being a goalie, I guess that&rsquo;s what helped me out. You know the old saying about all goalies stick together.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hoganson’s Net Play Bright But Clipper Problems Mount

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Oct. 28)EASTERN DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03217/2425193-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="585" height="171"></div>WESTERN DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04189/2425186-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="589" height="207"></div>(Affiliation: 1 Montreal 2 Detroit 3 Boston 4 New York. 7. Lot Angele. 8. Pittsburgh. 9. Oakland. 10. Philadelphia. 13. Vancouver.)GAMES COMPLETEDTues. Oct. 21Cleveland 5 at Quebec 5Wed. Oct. 22Springfield 3 at Baltimore 4Cleveland 4 at Providence 0Fri. Oct. 24Rochester 0 at Montreal 5Cleveland 3 at Springfield 6Sat. Oct. 25Montreal 5 at Baltimore 0Providence 4 at Buffalo 5Cleveland 1 at Hershey 4Rochester 4 of Springfield 7Sun. Oct. 26Montreal 2 at Buffalo 2Quebec 5 at Providence 4Baltimore 4 at Rochester 7GAMES TO COMETues. Oct. 28Cleveland at BaltimoreBuffalo at QuebecThu. Oct. 30Buffalo at QuebecFri. Oct. 31Rochester at BaltimoreHershey at ClevelandBuffalo at MontrealProvidence at SpringfieldSat. Nov. 1Montreal at ClevelandHershey at SpringfieldSun. Nov. 2Buffalo at ProvidenceHershey at QuebecSpringfield at RochesterTues. Nov. 4Hershey at QuebecFri. Nov. 7Quebec at BuffaloProvidence at ClevelandHershey at Montreal &#9632;

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HOW THEY STAND

<div class="byline">BY BOB BROWN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05159/2425224-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="498" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body">REY COMEAU</figcaption></div>CLEVELAND&mdash;Rey Comeau by physical standards is not an impressive hockey player. The diminutive mighty mite, all 5&rsquo;8&rdquo;&mdash;170 pounds of him, looks a bit out of place among some of the AHL&rsquo;s bigger players.However, his lack of size doesn&rsquo;t discourage the hustling Comeau in the least. He digs and battles opponents all the way and is rapidly becoming one of the &ldquo;biggest little men in the league.Comeau came to the Barons at the beginning of last season.. He was signed by Montreal Canadiens and out of junior hockey in Verdun was sent to the Barons of the tough American League. Last year, his first as pro and only 19 years of age, Comeau played in 71 games scoring 17 goals and adding 23 assists for 40 points.&ldquo;The thing about Rey that you have to like,&rdquo; said Barons&rsquo; General Manager-Coach Jackie Gordon, &ldquo;is the way he hustles on the ice. He always gives it everything he has and overcomes mistakes just because he refuses to quit.&rdquo;The twenty year old Comeau now has found a home in Cleveland. The Barons acquired him from Montreal during the off season. &#9632;

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Smallest Baron Sets Sizzling Pace

<div class="byline">BY GEORGE DUFFY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0020-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01190/2425255-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Team physician DR. LEONARD TRIEDMAN examines new Reds&rsquo; winger BOB &lsquo;BATTLESHIP&rsquo; KELLY while dub trainer ERNIE MARCONI looks on.</figcaption></div>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Bob &ldquo;Battleship&rdquo; Kelly played for the Columbus Checkers of the International Hockey League last season and gained his share of popularity. But now he&rsquo;s at Providence and all signs point to Kelly being one of the most popular players ever to wear the black and red.The 6-2 right winger from Fort William, Ont., has gained a left wing spot with the Reds and has proven he is ready for the American Hockey League.He has also let it be known that he will not be pushed around. Kelly has had two exhibition battles, one against Guy Lapointe of the Montreal Voyageurs, and another against Norm Ferguson of the Oakland Seals. The latter wound up with an eight stitch gash on his forehead after tangling with Kelly.However, the likeable left wing admits he is not with the Reds to fight. &ldquo;I came here to play hockey and that&rsquo;s what I plan to concentrate on&rdquo;.The presence of Kelly in the Providence camp is still another bit of the &ldquo;new look&rdquo; which has taken over this old franchise. For years the club operated independently and as a result, most of the squad comprised veterans. New a &ldquo;youth movement&rdquo; is on and the populace in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut seems to enjoy it.Proof of the acceptance of the 1969-70 Reds can be had from the attendance at the opening night game on October 12 against the Springfield Kings. The crowd was 5,959, the largest ever to attend a Providence opener in the 44-year history of the team. Montreal Voyageurs, the newest AHL team this season, drew 5,689 on their first visit a week later. &#9632;

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Reds’ New ‘Battleship’ Is Battling Bob Kelly

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY&mdash;When Alfie Pike gets a load of what Ted Snell is doing tese days, the Phoenix Roadrunner coach will probably take a header into the nearest Arizona swimming pool.Shell, it will be recalled, is the guy who told Alfie he wasn&rsquo;t interested in sticking around the Arizona countryside because there was no snow. The thought of high temperatures and sunshine everyday bugged Snell. The Ottawa product wanted to play where there was snow, like Hershey, for instance.You see, Snell liked the Pennsylvania landscape, especially in the winter when a guy, if he wanted, could make a snowball ane bean a teammate if he so chose. Besides, Snell stopped off in Hershey late last season and aided the Bears to the Calder Cup championship, not to mention picking&rdquo;up a fat $2,000 check for an 11-game playoff stint.Well, Alfie sold Snell back to Hershey a couple of weeks ago Coach Frank Mathers promptly reunited Snell and his old linemates, center Bobby Leiter and winger Stan Gilbertson. Mathers knew a good line when he saw one. They combined for 32 points in Calder playoffs, 13 goals and 19 assists.In the first two games out of the box in the American League, the Bears clobbered Baltimore and Quebec by identical 6-1 scores. The top line? You guessed it. Snell & Co. The trio showed five goals and eight assists for 13 points.&ldquo;They have really clicked,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;For some reason they work splendidly together. Even in practice they&rsquo;re flying. The three of them just complement each other, Leiter is a smart centerman with experience, Gilbertson is a hustler and Snell a fine checking forward.&rdquo;Snell&rsquo;s been acting like a kid turned loose in a candy shop since returning here.&rdquo;He&rsquo;s happy and we&rsquo;re happy to have him,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;It was a weird deal with the snow bit, but it was a good one for us.&rdquo;Rookie goalie Colin McCormick, who had a fine start last season winning five of his first six games, has decided to quit pro hockey and return to his hometown of Kelowna, B.C. He will play amateur hockey. After being injured at mid-season last year, McCormick couldn&rsquo;t seem to regain the splendid touch he showed earlier, Mathers said. &#9632;

Snell’s Preference For Snow Gives Bears Hot Forward Line

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0021-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0242/2425334-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">HERE IT IS IN ACTION The miracle G. T. ENERGY CHAMBER, caught by the eye of ultra high-speed cameras at one of the world&rsquo;s most famous proving grounds. Yes, here on the big viewing console you see dramatic picture-proof of tests conducted by leading automotive authorities at the Indianapolis Speedway &hellip; tests that PROVE you can now actually take ordinary gasoline &hellip; feed it into your engine in a new and different way &hellip; trigger it into piston-driving energy &hellip; and unleash a blazing source of power for your car. For full documented proof of just how this amazing new discovery can save you up to $200 in gasoline bills in the next 12 months &hellip; read the rest of this page. (Tests performed by official Indianapolis test driver.)</figcaption></div>Laboratory reports &hellip; PLUS road tests conducted on Indianapolis proving grounds reveal you may now get as much as 37 miles of driving from each gallon of gas &hellip; save up to SO gallons of gas each month &hellip; save up to $200 on your car each year!Six months ago, for perhaps the first time in history, the United States Government issued patent protection to an invention that has been classified ILLEGAL! Sound strange? Not really here&rsquo;s why:I&rsquo;m sure you&rsquo;re familiar with the famous gasoline-economy tests run by all the major oil companies. Well, do you know that the remarkable new invention described on this page is actually banned from these tests because it is TOO EFFECTIVE! Do you know that because this invention saves so much gasoline &hellip; that because it gives so much economy, it is actually ILLEGAL for a test-driver to fit one on his car! And do you know that because it boosts gasoline mileage up to 11 more miles per gallon &hellip; it has actually been OUTLAWED in every recognized cross-country economy run &hellip; simply because the officials who conduct these tests were forced to rule that it gives all cars that have it AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE!In other words, if you are a person planning on entering one of these cross-country economy runs &hellip; then this message is not for you. YOU JUST WON&rsquo;T BE ALLOWED TO USE THIS NEW INVENTION-SORRY. BUT IT&rsquo;S SIMPLY ILLEGAL. BUT &mdash; if you are a person who is not interested in setting any records &hellip; who is only interested in getting more miles per gallon than you ever dreamed possible &mdash; and doing it the very same way that many of America&rsquo;s leading corporations are doing at this very moment &mdash; then what you are about to read is perhaps the most thrilling and exciting news in automotive history.<h2>TEST DRIVERS REPORT UP TO 11 MORE MILES PER GALLON&mdash;</h2>The name of this great new invention is the G. T. ENERGY CHAMBER &hellip; and there is no ketter way to describe to you the increased performance and economy it will give you &hellip; than to tell you of the &ldquo;bombshell effect&rdquo; it had on, research scientists and test-drivers, who simply refused to believe their own gasoline gauges when they first tried it out. Look:<h2>CUTS GASOLINE COSTS TO AS LITTLE AS 1C A MILE</h2>1. When the G.T. ENERGY CHAMBER was first tested by the same research laboratories used by Ford, General Motors and Chrysler &hellip; results were so overwhelming, (a staggering increase of up to 68 per cent) &hellip; it actually lowered gasoline costs to as little as ONE CENT A MILE.2. When tests were made by the world&rsquo;s leading auto rental system with this incredible money saving invention &hellip; and then test-run on the road and on such world famous proving grounds as the Indianapolis Speedway &hellip; the test-drivers of these vehicles were absolutely amazed to see big 8 cylinder sedans get better gas-mileage than small European economy cars!3. When large Heet owners and some of the nation&rsquo;s largest taxi fleets tested this great new invention to determine just how much gas it would save them &hellip; the results were so dramatic that within 30 days they reported savings of not hundreds &hellip; but thousands of gallons of gas the very first month alone!<h2>UP TO 500 MILES OF DRIVING FROM A SINGLE TANK OF GAS</h2>Yes. from test after test &hellip; road tests, laboratory tests, tests by some of the world&rsquo;s most famous drivers &hellip; come reports of cars that drive for hundreds and hundreds of miles ON A SINGLE TANK OF GAS! Reports of test cars from Ford, General Motors, Chrysler that get more miles per gallon today than when they were brand new! Reports of big, luxury sedans that weigh 2&frac12; times more than small European cars &hellip; yet get better mileage, better performance and huge dollar savings thanks to this new miracle invention.<h2>IF IT WORKS SUCH MILEAGE-MIRACLES, HOW COME THE CAR MANUFACTURERS HAVEN&rsquo;T INSTALLED THIS TYPE UNIT IN THEIR CARS?-THE ANSWER IS THAT TWO ALREADY HAVE!</h2>By now you are probably wondering just what is the G. T. ENERGY CHAMBER &hellip; and how does it work? Well, to make a long story short &hellip; if you were to look under the hood of one of those $20,000 European luxury cars like the Maseratti or the Aston-Marton, you would see sitting in those engines &hellip; a special gasoline unit &hellip; especially designed to extract more blazing power, more energy from each gallon of gasoline. This remarkable booster-unit is what gives these cars such magnificent performance &hellip; such TOTAL POWER &hellip; such increased engine efficiency.And this is precisely what the G. T. ENERGY CHAMBER is designed to do &mdash; enable your engine to extract more piston-driving power, more raw, blazing energy and more gasoline economy &hellip;ONLY, instead of costing $100 to $150 (like the European booster-units) &hellip; the G.T. ENERGY CHAMBER costs but a mere fraction.That&rsquo;s because after years of intensive research automotive experts have finally found a way to simplify these booster units &hellip; reduce the number of parts in each unit &hellip; mass produce them &hellip; slash costs to a mere fraction &hellip; and make them available at a price so low it&rsquo;s almost too ridiculous to mention. Why do you realize what this means to you if you are a person who is determined to save yourself up to $16 a month on your gas bills &hellip; up to 50 gallons of gas each month &hellip; yes, up to $200 a year on wasted gasoline.<h2>INSTALLS IN MINUTES PAYS FOR ITSELF IN AS LITTLE AS 15 DAYS!</h2>It means that no matter what kind of car you now have &hellip; no matter how old that car may be &hellip; no matter what condition it is in &hellip; no matter how many miles you pile on each month &hellip; here at last is the automotive discovery you&rsquo;ve long dreamed about &hellip; and has now come true.Because, from this day on you too can now save up to 500 gallons of gas each and every year. NOW you too can drive for weeks and weeks on end without ever stopping at a service station. Now you too can drive across 6 states of the union on just a single tank of gas, blaze a trail from New York to Chicago on just 2 or 3 tankfuls. In other words, perform mileage miracles that only yesterday you thought were impossible.So if you too want to achieve the same wondrous results as America&rsquo;s largest automotive fleet owners, by Indianapolis test-drivers, and by research scientists at the very same testing laboratories used by Ford, Chrysler and General Motors, then take advantage of this special Free-Trial introductory offer. Remember, all you risk is the few minutes it takes to fill out the special reservation coupon below, and you have a lifetime of driving convenience and economy to gain.<h2>THIS OFFER EXPIRES IN 15 DAYS-YOU MUST ACT NOW!</h2>Now the price of the G. T. ENERGY CHAMBER on this special introductory offer is not the 15 or 20 dollars you might expect &hellip; but only $5.95. Why, you&rsquo;ll save up to 10 times that amount in gasoline savings in no time at all &hellip; not to mention the hundreds of gallons of gasoline and hundreds of dollars in money you save year after year.However, due to the enormous demands of trucking companies, car-rental companies. taxicab fleets and other large users, only a limited number of G. T. ENERGY CHAMBERS can possibly be allocated each month for consumer orders. Therefore, all orders must be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. So to take advantage of this limited introductory offer &hellip; mail the no-risk coupon today! &#9632;

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NOW! 30 DAYS OF DRIVING ON A SINGLE TANK OF GAS!

World&rsquo;s Leading Rent-A-Car Company Road-Tests Amazing New Invention For 3 Solid Months &hellip; Then Orders Fleet Of Cars IMMEDIATELY EQUIPPED!they report &ldquo;Savings of up to 54 gallons a month per car&rdquo;Yes, from one of the nation&rsquo;s largest automobile fleet owners comes the most dramatic proof of all &hellip; A company that spends more money on gasoline in one weekend than the average person spends in a lifetime &hellip; they tested this incredible new invention and here is what they found. BOOSTED GASOLINE MILEAGE A WHOPPING 32% ON ALL CARS TESTED. Wouldn&rsquo;t you like to save up to $200 a year on your car? For full details read the rest of this page. &#9632;

BEST PROOF OF ALL!

<div class="byline">BY JOHN WHITE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0188/2425427-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="509" height="788"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM HOLDAWAY &hellip;Steady On Backline</figcaption></div>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 PublicationDENVER&mdash;Man, what a difference a year and a few hockey players can make.The Denver Spurs last season got off to the worst start in the history of the Western Hockey League &mdash; 10 consective defeats.And this fall? After two weeks of action, the Spurs were in first place with three victories in their first four games and with two of the three victories being earned on the road.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-113/2425420-1-eng-US/f0022-112.jpg" title="f0022-11" width="234" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rudy Pilous</figcaption></div>The Spurs were having an ear-ly-season love affair with the score of 4 to 3, too. They won their home opener from Salt Lake City, 4-3. They won in Portland, 4-3. And they won in Vancouver, 4-3.Coach Rudy Pilous was his old self, grousing about the Spurs single defeat, 4-1 in Seattle.He pointed out that the score was 1-1 with only five minutes t o play and growled, &ldquo;We blew it. We may have to blow a few until I get the message across to them.&rdquo;Pilous expects a tough race from top to bottom in the Western Hockey League this season and said, &ldquo;That point could be big enough to keep us out of the playoffs at the end of the season. That&rsquo;s how tight I expect things to get.&rdquo;&ldquo;Portland already is there,&rdquo; he said. &rsquo;Phoenix is improved. San Diego is good. Vancouver thinks it is there, just as Portland. It&rsquo;ll be tough. Those points count just as much in October as they do in March.&rdquo;Pilous sees no major mystery about Denver&rsquo;s surge from the very bottom to the very top.&ldquo;Last year at Denver, we just couldn&rsquo;t find players,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We went through 63 of them in one season. It was like Grand Central Station. But those days are over now. Now more young players are devoloping in Canada and they are available because they see the chance for big salaries in our leagues.&rdquo;Pilous says hockey in the Western League is &ldquo;definitely on the upgrade.&rdquo;When the National Hockey League saw others trying to get into the gold market.&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;it expanded. Well, for one year it hurt some of the clubs. But now things are swinging the other way and we are in a new era of good hockey.Denver, in the early going, was getting top production from a line with WHL veteran Del Topoll (he&rsquo;s played with six different clubs in the league) centering Wilf Martin and John Rodger. Martin led the club in goals last season with 37. Rodger was second with 31.Ed Hoekstra, who scored 69 points in 62 games last season, was as steady as ever. And as captain, he even was coaching the club while Pilous was in the East briefly to bring his family to Denver.A newcomer who could help up front is Brian McDonald 5-10 and 193. In two Central League seasons with Dallas he didn&rsquo;t mind the rough going.&ldquo;Brian can work either center or right wing,&rdquo; says Pilous, &ldquo;and has a hard, quick accurate shot. He has the size and strength. If he plays to his ability, he could be one of our best players this season.&rdquo;But the big improvement in Denver, at least in the early going, was on defense.Returning from last year&rsquo;s club are Jim Holdaway, John Schella and Larry Mavety. Holdaway is steady if not spec-&lsquo; tacular. Schella and Mavety can be spectacular&mdash;as their combined 289 minutes in penalties with the Spurs last season indicate. But they were not steady.With more experience, both were showing great improvement this season.And joining this returning trio are Jerry Lafond from Providence of the American League, plus a pair of Central Leaguers in Roger LaFreniere from Omaha and Dan Sharpe from Amarillo.Lafond is another blueliner of the steady variety; while LaFreniere, and Sharpe both were potent on offense last season. LaFreniere, picked up 40 points on 14 goals and 26 assists, Sharpe collected 30 on 10 goals and 20 assists.In the nets for the Spurs were Jacques Caron and Rocky Farr, both capable if they get help in front of them.The Denver defense last season gave up 308 goals&mdash;highest total in the Western Leauge. And that was the problem because the Spurs scored 254 goals, just five fewer than playoff champion Vancouver.In the early going this season, defense had tightened up allowing just 3.25 goals a game for the first four clashes.And the Spurs had bounced from last a year ago to first place. &#9632;

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Denver’s Improved Spurs Big Surprise Of Early Season With Tighter Defense

<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Oct. 28)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-123/2425465-1-eng-US/f0022-122.jpg" title="f0022-12" width="563" height="269"></div>(Affiliations: 2. Detroit 5. Chicago 6. Toronto x-independent.)GAMES COMPLETEDTues. Oct. 21San Diego 3 at Salt Lake 3 Phoenix 3 at Vancouver 3Wed. Oct. 22San Diego 4 at Denver 3Seattle 2 at Portland 5Thurs. Oct. 23San Diego 2 at Phoenix 2Fri. Oct. 24Denver 6 at Salt Lake 6Portland 1 ot Vancouver 3Sat. Oct. 25Vancouver 3 at Phoenix 2Denver 2 at Portland 7Sun. Oct. 26Vancouver 2 at San Diego 5Denver 2 at Seattle 6GAMES TO COMETues. Oct. 28Seattle at San DiegoWed. Oct. 29Portland at DenverSeattle at PhoenixThurs. Oct. 30Portland at Salt LakeFri. Oct. 31Seattle at VancouverSat. Nov. 1Salt Lake at DenverPhoenix at San DiegoVancouver at SeattleSun. Nov. 2Vancouver at PortlandPhoenix ot SeattleTues. Nov. 4Phoenix at VancouverWed. Nov. 5Seattle at Salt LakeDenver at San DiegoPhoenix ot PortlandThurs. Nov. 6Portlond at VancouverFri. Nov. 7Seattle at DenverPhoenix ot Salt Lake<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2>(Including Games of Sun. Oct. 19)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-132/2425458-1-eng-US/f0022-132.jpg" title="f0022-13" width="579" height="155"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div>SAN DIEGO &mdash;The jury is still out on the physical condition of the San Diego Gulls but wasn&rsquo;t expected to stay out long.Coach Max McNab charged the Gulls with being out of condition when they lost their first two games with third period fadeouts and employed an early-season week-long layoff for &ldquo;training camp tough&rdquo; drills.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0169/2425583-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="252" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Len Ronson</figcaption></div>In their next start, the Gulls stopped the defending champion Portland Buckaroos 5-3 before 12,857 Gullniks. But the Gulls&rsquo; margin shrunk from a 4-0 second period lead. And that was against a Portland team playing its third game in four nights.After a two-day rest the Gulls faced a telling three road games in three nights at Salt Lake City, Denver and Phoenix.Len Ronson appears to be regaining the form which produced 45 goals for San Diego two years ago when against the Bucks, be triggered the Gulls&rsquo; first &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; of the season.Meanwhile, Coach AlfPike scheduled extra shooting practice after his Phoenix Roadrunners outshot the Portland Buckaroos 49-24 but suffered their first setback of the season, 5-3, before a Phoenix crowd of 7,180.The Runners had defeated San Diego 4-2 and Salt Lake City 7-3.They faced their toughest early-season test with a two-game road trip into the Pacific Northwest where they have found nothing but hardship.Brightest of the 12 players, starting their first season with the Roadrunners, have been rookies Bill (Sandy) Snow from Fort Worth of the Central Hockey League, and Frank Hughes 20-year-old first year pro from the Ed-mondon Oil Kings. Snow scored two goals against Portland and one against San Diego. Hughes had two against San Diego and one against Salt Lake City. &#9632;

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McNab’s Whip-Cracking Paying Off As Gulls Bounce Back To Stop Bucks

SAN DIEGO&mdash;San Diego Gulls, the box office champions of the Western Hockey League, are well on their way to keeping their cherished WHL honor.They had the fans knocking down the doors at their first two home games, which they divided. A crowd of 13,632 saw them blow their league opener 4-2 but there were 12,857 on hand for the second &lsquo;home&rsquo; game as they toppled Portland 5-3.The two-game attendance count was 26,489. &#9632;

Gulls Attract 26,489 At Home

<h2>DENVER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0236/2425694-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="531" height="501"></div><h2>PORTLAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0323/2425687-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="539" height="529"></div><h2>SAN DIEGO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0415/2425680-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="535" height="191"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-059/2425673-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg" title="f0023-05" width="539" height="465"></div><h2>VANCOUVER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-066/2425666-1-eng-US/f0023-062.jpg" title="f0023-06" width="543" height="493"></div><h2>SEATTLE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-076/2425659-1-eng-US/f0023-072.jpg" title="f0023-07" width="547" height="315"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-085/2425652-1-eng-US/f0023-082.jpg" title="f0023-08" width="535" height="211"></div><h2>PHOENIX</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-094/2425645-1-eng-US/f0023-092.jpg" title="f0023-09" width="537" height="503"></div><h2>SALT LAKE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-103/2425638-1-eng-US/f0023-102.jpg" title="f0023-10" width="545" height="617"></div> &#9632;

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WHL Scoring, Team Rosters

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0184/2425739-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="540" height="778"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAUL SHMYR &hellip;Back With Dallas</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0238/2425732-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="546" height="727"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM REID &hellip;Bolsters Iowa Stars</figcaption></div>Special to The Hockey NewsST. LOUIS &mdash;The Central Hockey league definitely has a rookie-flavor this season as more than half the players opening the season in the seven-team circuit are in their first campaign of professional hockey.Of the 133 players answering the opening call, 67 are getting their first taste of CHL play. That leaves 66 other players who have had one or more years of experience in the pro ranks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0412/2425725-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="273" height="394"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marcel Pronovost</figcaption></div>Of the 66 veterans, only 58 are playing with the same clubs on which they finished the 1968-69 season. Two of the other eight have moved from one team to another while the remaining six vets did their thing in another pro league last winter.Kansas City has the most returning veterans with 12 in their lineup while Dallas, last year&rsquo;s CHL champion, has 11 back from its championship club. Fort Worth returns nine while Tulsa has eight back in the fold. The other three clubs &mdash; Oklahoma City, Iowa and Omaha &mdash; each have only six vets back in uniform.Oklahoma City has the most first-year men on its squad with 13 while Tulsa and Omaha have 12 each.Tulsa&rsquo;s new coach Marcel Pronovost, at 39, is the oldest player in the league while all clubs have a sprinkling of 20-year-olds.Here is a team-by-team rundown of the seven club rosters:DALLAS: Returness: Ken Brown, Barry Long, Kerry Bond, Paul Shmyr; Forwards: Brian Bradley, J.P. Leblanc, Oscar Gaudet, Rick Morris, Garth Rizzuto and Jim Stanfield.Rookies: Goal: Ernie Miller; defense: Dave Burrows; Forwards: Tom Serviss, Bill Young, Jean Pierre Bor-deleau, Don Gordon and Larry Romanchych.OKLAHOMA:Returnees: Goal, Joe Junkin; Defense: Dave Woodley, Barry Wilkins and Nick Beverley; Forwards: Tom Webster and Steve Atkinson.Rookies: goal: John Adams; Defense: Jim Jones and Paul Hurley; forwards; Bill Klatt, Ron Fairbrother, Frank Spring, Bob Trembecky, Nels Jacobson, Don Tannahill, Ross Webley, Ivan Boldirev, Jim Adair and Greg Shepherd.IOWA: Returness: forwards: Jim Benzelock, Dan Seguin, Gary Dineen, Joey Johnston, Barry Meissner and Mike Chernoff.Veteran newcomers: defense: Tom Reid; Forwards: Rick Sentes, Grant Erickson and Bill Orban.Rookies: Goal: Gilles Gilbert and Jim Coyle; Defense: Dennis O&rsquo;Brien, Dick Redmond, Barry Buchanan and Marshall Johnston; Forwards: Cal Russell, Bob Whitlock and Bob Walton.FORT WORTH: Returness: Defense: Kerry Ketter, Jim Cardiff, Gerry Hart and Brian Gibbons; Forwards: Ed Hatoum, Randy Gates, Fred Speck, Ren Leclerc, Ron Walters.Veteran Newcomers: Forward: Jim Shires.Rookies: Goal: Jim Rutherford, Don McLeod; Defense: Joe Zanussi and Randy Ma-nery; Forwards: Doug Vol-mar, Al Karlander, Ron Gar-wasiak, Ray Bredin and Steve Andrasik.OMAHA: Returness: Defense: Mike Robitaille; Forwards: Don Luce, Mike Pari-zeau, Ron Boehm and Jim Krulicki.Rookies: Goal: Peter Mc-Duffe and George Surmay; Defense: Dick Paradise, Brian Lefley, Ab DeMarco, Andre Dupont; Forwards: Bruce Van Hellemond, Bert Wilson, Dennis Dupere, Pierre Jarry, Syl Apps Jr., and Tom Miller.&lsquo;KANSAS CITY: Returness: Goal: Ted Ouimet and Gary Edwards; Defense: Gordon Kannegiesser, Gerald Lemire, Dick Proceviat and Terry Gray; Forwards: Ken Faranski, Claude Cardin, Phil Obendorf, Gary Veneruzzo and Norm Dennis.Veteran Newcomers: Defense: Larry Hornung; Forward: Ralph Stewart.Rookies: Defense: Dave Pulkkinen; Forwards: Skeeter Teal, Brian Glenwright, Tommi Salmelainen, and Jaroslav Jirik.TULSA: Returnees: Goal: Ray Reeson and Serge Aubry; Defense: Randy Murray and Gordie Nelson. Forwards: Gary Brown, Cal Swenson, Len Bazay, Dan Johrtson.Veteran Newcomer: Defense: Coach Marcel Pronovost.Rookies: Defense: Willie Terry, Jim Blain, Ken Murray and Larry McIntyre; Forwards: Ted Hargreaves, Brian Marchinko, Tom Martin, Doug Brindley, Bob Lidding-ton, Ernie Moser, Doug Acomb, and Brian Spencer. &#9632;

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CHL Clubs Show Off 67 Newcomers Among 133

<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 29)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0321/2425770-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="594" height="286"></div>(Affiliations: 2. Detroit. 3. Boston. 4. Now York. 5. Chicago. 6. Toronto. 11. Minnesota. 12. St. Louis).GAMES COMPLETEDWed. Oct. 22Omaha 4 at Fort Worth 3Fri. Oct. 24Fort Worth 4 at Tulsa 2Kansas City 8 at Oklahoma City 10Omoha 6 at Dallas 1Sat. Oct. 25Dallas 2 ot Fort Worth 2Kansas City 2 at Tulsa 4Oklahoma City 3 at Waterloo 3Sun. Oct. 26Omaha 6 at Oklahoma City 3Tulsa 3 at Waterloo 3GAMES TO COMEWed. Oct. 29Tulsa at DallasWaterloo at Oklahoma CityFri. Oct. 31Konsas City at OmahaWaterloo at TulsaSat. Nov. 1Oklohoma City at DallasOmaha at WaterlooTulsa at Fort WorthSun. Nov. 2Fort Worth ot TulsaWaterloo at OmahaWed. Nov. 5Kansas City ot DallasThurs. Nov. 6Dallas at Tulsa &#9632;

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EASTERN LEAGUE(Standings on Tues. Oct. 28)NORTHERN DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0179/2425850-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="597" height="235"></div>SOUTHERN DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0239/2425843-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="585" height="199"></div>(Affiliations: 2. Detroit. 3. Boston. 4. New York. 5. Chicago. 6. Toronto. 10. Philadelphia, x-independent.)GAMES COMPLETEDTues. Oct. 21New Jersey 2 at Syracuse 6Wed. Oct 22Jacksonville 4 at Greensboro 4Thurs. Oct. 23Syracuse 1 at New Haven 11Charlotte 7 at Jacksonville 3Fri. Oct. 24Syracuse 0 at Clinton 6New Haven 4 at New Jersey 4Long Island 5 at Johnstown 6Salem 1 at Greensboro 8Jacksonville 0 at Charlotte 6Sat. Oct. 25New Haven 2 at Clinton 2Syracuse 3 at Long Island 4New Jersey 4 at Johnstown 6Chorlotte 7 at Salem 2Greensboro 2 at Nashville 5Sun. Oct. 26New Jersey 2 at New Haven 6Jacksonville 5 at Salem 1Charlotte 1 ot Greensboro 5GAMES TO COMETues. Oct. 28Salem at CharlotteGreensboro at JacksonvilleWed. Oct. 29Clinton ot New HavenThurs. Oct. 30Greensboro at SalemLong Island at SyracuseFri. Oct. 31New Haven at Long IslandClinton at New JerseySyracuse at JohnstownGreensboro at CharlotteSalem at JacksonvilleSat. Nov. 1New Jersey ot ClintonNew Haven at Long IslandCharlotte ot JohnstownSalem ot GreensboroJacksonville at NashvilleSun. Nov. 2Clinton at SyracuseCharlotte ot New HavenJohnstown at SalemGreensboro at NashvilleLEADING SCORERS(including games of Sun. Oct. 19)NORTHERN DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0319/2425836-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="599" height="237"></div>SOUTHERN DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0410/2425829-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="591" height="185"></div>Most Penalties &mdash; Forgie, Salem, 20 mins.<h2>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Fri. Oct 24)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0510/2425822-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="591" height="307"></div><h2>Western Ontario Junior</h2>(Standings on Wed Oct. 22)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-065/2425815-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="581" height="199"></div><h2>NEW YORK METRO JUNIOR</h2>(Standing! on Thurs. Oct 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-075/2425808-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="585" height="265"></div><h2>MICHIGAN JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Thur. Oct. 16)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-085/2425801-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="585" height="237"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div>CHARLOTTE &mdash;Fred Creighton&rsquo;s reputation as a developer of young defensive talent could conceivably boost the chances of the Charlotte Checkers in Eastern Hockey League play during the current campaign.The renown that Creighton enjoys in that direction enabled the Checkers to secure the services of rookie defender John Van Horlick, a 20-year-old junior from Williams Lake, British Columbia.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-095/2425895-1-eng-US/f0025-092.jpg" title="f0025-09" width="255" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Tucker</figcaption></div>It seems Van Horlick played in a Victoria Junior League last season, but realized he needed considerable instruction in defense. Del Wilson, head scout for Montreal Canadiens, suggested that the proper place to get such help would be from Creighton. Wilson said he thought Van Horlick would be able to make the jump to the EHL, especially since the league rules specify the compulsory carrying of juniors.Creighton took the youngster in tow and has infiltrated him into the club&rsquo;s defense with Bob Shupe, Hal Willis and Bob Graham. As Van Horlick says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never had anyone teach me anything about defense before but I&rsquo;ve already learned a lot from Fred. In fact I continue to pick up pointers from him.&rdquo;Van Horlick was on the all-star team in his league last year even though it was only his second season as a defenseman. He&rsquo;s just 180 pounds but he says &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t consider myself a tough guy but I&rsquo;ve never been afraid to start something either. I got in a few fights last year in Victoria but it was mostly just helping out some of the little guys on my team.&rdquo;The Checkers have lost Rick Foley this year as the 1968-69 policeman is now at Portland. So the defense needs help and Creighton believes a developing Van Horlick can help fill the void left by Foley&rsquo;s departure.NEW HAVEN: Blades came from 3-0 last period deficit to tie Syracuse. Trainer Ken Garrett did a lot of goaltending during pre-season while Dave Hain-sworth wasn&rsquo;t available and will provide emergency assistance during the year. Talent-filled squad had to drop a Rangers farmhand Pierre Gravel even though he had a hat trick vs Long Island. Mike Rouleau had a 4-goal performance in the opener. Coach Don Perry and his former sidekick Blake Ball had some wrangles in games with Long Island.LONG ISLAND: Ducks lost all five exhibitions and their first league game before posting initial triumph oyer Johnstown. Wayne Doll had 42-save game vs New Haven. Coach Blake Ball trying to instill more offense into his Ducks.CHARLOTTE: Winger Ernie Dyda suffered a chipped shoulder bone in early going. Rookie Mike Sauter was lost to Flint since he signed a summer pact with the IHL team even though he wanted to stay here. Checkers traded Chuck Stuart to New Haven for defenseman Hal Willis in effort to shore up what coach Fred Creighton deemed weakest phase of club.SYRACUSE: Some disenchantment here about EHL schedule which has Blazers playing back-to-back weekday home games several times this year, plus heavy home log in December. Ray Crew to be non-playing pilot. Blazers won opener and tied second game to get off to great start. Brian Elwell had hat trick in inaugural to win cash award from fans club.SALEM: Rebels won first two games as goalie Jim Letcher posted shutout vs Greensboro and one goaler vs Jacksonville. Colin Kilburn is aggressive nonplaying coach from bench. Left winger Angus George is a full-blooded Indian Philly. Flyers GM Bud Poile has been in contact with Rebels to lend them assistance. Club home games are on radio for first time. Pete Shearer&rsquo;s broken wrist will sideline him two months.JERSEY: Wayne Kitchen named captain. Ken Miller and Bobby Brown each had four point games in opening win over Johnstown. Coach Lou Jankowski sat out early action as he gave others a chance to stick with team. Gordie Stratton seeking 35 goals this year to reach 400 mark. Brown, who came to camp late because he gained permission to play lacrosse in Canada, started year quickly.JOHNSTOWN: Norm Ryder&rsquo;s retirement was blow to club defense. He couldn&rsquo;t get together on terms with club. Terry Sexsmith sent home to work on skating and Bob Vandebergher decided to return to school. Club opened season with 11-man roster and took three straight road whippings, Gene Peacosch suffered 14-stitch cut around eye. Rookie defenseman Jim Pinnegar suffered mild conclussion. Only 3 holdovers on club. Jim McCaffrey secured from Clinton.JACKSONVILLE: To get goalie John Voss, Rockets sent forward Bob Mullins to Greensboro. Defense is coming along slowly but offense is more scoring-minded and more aware of defense play, according to skipper Bob Sabourin. Rockets sent Tom Burgess to Long Island on loan. Ed Kea, 210-pound defenseman, is selling his Canadian farm and will join Rockets this month.NASHVILLE: Dixie Flyers had trouble putting squad together and took two trouncings to open season. Goalie Duffy Lewis couldn&rsquo;t get together on contract terms and two rookies battled for goalie job. Deal for Dave Lee didn&rsquo;t materialize with Jersey but club got defenseman Dick Chapman from Toledo, Karl Haggerty back from Oklahoma City, and Gary Wood from Dayton. Pierre Brillant, veteran from Providence, should steady lines.CLINTON: Rookies Bob Malcom, goalie Ted Tucker and wing Bob Lacey made the veteran squad. League VP Ed Stanley presented pennant flags from last year to Comets at opener. Club season ticket sales doubled. Coach Pat Kelly working on club&rsquo;s speed. Tucker played for Montreal Junior Canadians last year. Pete Provost has made a great comeback from auto accident.GREENSBORO: Trainer Bob Smith opened season in Generals&rsquo; nets when goalie Gens were awaiting was tardy arriving. Ron Muir didn&rsquo;t start year due to salary squabble and also his decision not to go to club&rsquo;s training camp. Dom DiBerardino will miss first month of season until his knee is right. Bill Young&rsquo;s elbow, operated on four times in the off-season, also is healing and he is due back in December.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-103/2425888-1-eng-US/f0025-102.jpg" title="f0025-10" width="534" height="706"><figcaption class="caption-body">New FlyersKARL HAGGERTY &hellip; Returns From CHL</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-113/2425881-1-eng-US/f0025-112.jpg" title="f0025-11" width="546" height="724"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY WOOD &hellip; Sent by Dayton</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Creighton’s Reputation Lands Prospect; Nashville Rushes In More Player Help

<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 29)NORTH DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0187/2425961-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="583" height="171"></div>SOUTH DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0240/2425954-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="585" height="161"></div>(Affiliations: 1. Montreal. 2. Detroit. 3 Boston. 5. Chicago, x-independent.)GAMES COMPLETEDWed Oct. 22Dei Moines 1 at Dayton 5Muskegon 4 at Columbus 4Fri. Oct. 24Des Moines 6 at Toledo 5Sat. Oct 25Flint 1 at Toledo 2Des Moines 2 at Muskegon 5Columbus 6 at Fort Wayne 3Dayton 8 at Port Huron 5Sun. Oct. 26Toledo 1 at Port Huron 6Fort Wayne 3 at Dayton 5Sun. Oct. 26Toledo 1 at Port Huron 6Fort Wayne 3 at Dayton 5GAMES TO COMEWed. Oct. 29Port Huron ot Des MoinesToledo at FlintMuskegon ot DaytonFri. Oct. 31Fort Wayne at Des MoinesPort Huron at ToledoDayton at FlintSat. Nov. 1Fort Wayne ot Des MoinesColumbus ot MuskegonDoyton at ToledoFlint ot Port HuronSun. Nov. 2Columbus at FlintToledo at DoytonMuskegon at Port HuronWed. Nov. 5Muskegon at Fort WaynePort Huron at ColumbusToledo ot Des MoinesFri. Nov. 7Port Huron at MuskegonDayton at FlintDes Moines at ColumbusLEADING SCORERS(including games of Sun. Oct. 19)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0324/2425947-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="585" height="629"></div><h2>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Oct. 28)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0411/2425940-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="577" height="365"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDTues. Ort. 21Oshawa 4 ot London 4Thurs. Oct. 23Toronto 7 at Hamilton 7Niagara Falls 4 ot Peterborough 8Fri. Oct. 24St. Catharines 4 at Kitchener 2Montreal 2 at Toronto 6Peterborough 4 ot Niagara Falls 4Oshawa 1 at Ottawa 5Sun. Oct. 26Ottawa 3 at Oshowa 3Hamilton 4 at Toronto 5Kitchener 5 at London 6Peterborough 4 at St. Catherines 7Niagara Falls 1 at Montreol 7LEADING SCORERS(Including games of Sun. Oct. 19)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0510/2425933-1-eng-US/f0026-052.jpg" title="f0026-05" width="587" height="421"></div><h2>NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Mon. Oct. 20)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-064/2425926-1-eng-US/f0026-062.jpg" title="f0026-06" width="589" height="213"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div>FLINT &mdash; Any new team coming into the International Hockey League faces a challenge from the old, established powers. Recent newcomers such as Dayton and Columbus found out but they were gradually able to build up to champions and contenders.This season the new Flint Generals, gambling on a strictly youth accent, were given an especially difficult assignment. They were called upon to open up with the long trip to Des Moines, which every team in the league dreads, for two games, then rush back to Flint for their opening home game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-074/2425999-1-eng-US/f0026-072.jpg" title="f0026-07" width="249" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Perreault</figcaption></div>But the youthful Generals were equal to the challenge. They came away with an even split in the two games at Des Moines and opened up their home season with a 9-5 triumph over their state rivals, Muskegon Mohawks.This is early in the season and it was still to be determined whether the newcomers would be able to maintain a comparable pace. The Generals did not have a player in their opening game over 23 years of age. Their oldest performer is Jiri Bastl, 27, a native of Czechoslovakia. All others average 23, including their coach, Ken Hodge.Said Hodge, after the Generals got off to an auspicious start, &ldquo;I think Flint hockey fans would much rather watch youngsters on the way up instead of oldtimers on the way down.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-094/2425992-1-eng-US/f0026-092.jpg" title="f0026-09" width="540" height="541"><figcaption class="caption-body">HUGH HARRIS &hellip; Four-Goal Opener</figcaption></div>Early games in the IHL gave little indication of what was to come, since every club was in the experimental stage. After every team had been in action, none had a clean slate, including the favored Dayton Gems.Muskegon looked like the early [lower team. The Mohawks rolled up 20 goals in their first three games but still couldn&rsquo;t win them all. Hugh Harris of the Mohawks was the first to register a hat trick and he went one over when he hit for four goals against Davton in the opening encounter.DES MOINES &mdash; Terry Slater decided to confine his work to general manager and hired former National League goalie Bob Perreault as coach. He will play in goal when needed &hellip; Moe Morrisette, obtained in a trade from Port Huron, was lured out of retirement and joined the Oak Leafs &hellip;The Leafs drew 2,503 for opening game.FORT WAYNE &mdash; Terry Pembroke, former Komet who spent the past two seasons with Omaha and Buffalo, was named captain of the team &hellip; Defenseman Barry Burnett was sold to Charlotte of the Eastern League and Paul Evoy was sent to Bradford of the Western Ontario Junior League &hellip; Ron Ullyot, son of Komet General Manager Ken Ullyot, hit for the first goal of the season &hellip;The usual big opening night crowd numbered 7,777, almost capacity.COLUMBUS &mdash; The Checkers welcomed back Bert Fizzell, high scoring center who failed to come to terms with the Providence Reds &hellip; Pierre Gagne, former Providence left wing, was added to the roster. He was at Denver&rsquo;s training camp &hellip; The Checkers were handicapped by lack of ice for training and had five of their first seven games on the road. .DAYTON &mdash; The Gems opened with 12 of last year&rsquo;s champions back. Only losses were goalie John Adams and center Gerry Mazur, who turned pro; Duke Asmundsen, drafted by Des Moines and Cliff Bristow, who retired &hellip; When the Gems lost their opening game at Muskegon, it continued a losing streak there dating back to Feb. 2, 1968 &hellip; Latest report on season ticket sales was a record 1.912.PORT HURON &mdash; Marty Reynolds, who played two seasons with the Flags, returned after getting his release from Pittsburgh of the National League &hellip; The Flags had four new defencemen after Guy James and Ross Fichler failed to report, Marcel Goudreau was traded and Jerry Korab signed with Portland of the Western League &hellip; Billy LeCaine worked out and was a possible addition to the Flags.MUSKEGON &mdash; Andre Prono vost, veteran of eight seasons in the National League, was waived out of the pro leagues and joined the Mohawks &hellip; Gary Gambucci, one of the outstanding prospects, was lost to the U.S. Army for a four month hitch&hellip; Hugh Harris, who scored four goals in the opening game, was a late cut by the Montreal Canadiens.TOLEDO &mdash; The Blades were going temporarily with three goalies: Glenn Ramsay, Bill White and Al Albert &hellip; Defenseman Dino Mascotti was apparently lost after failing to come to terms with management &hellip; Ramsay had 46 saves in a 6-4 loss to Muskegon &hellip; Stan Maxwell, Jim Sanko and Butch McLean missed early games because of injuries. &#9632;

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Flint Meeting New Team Challenge; Slater Hires Bob Perreault As Coach

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>PETERBOROUGH&mdash;The emergence of Peterborough Petes as a definite contender in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A League was one of the highlights of the first three weeks of the 270-game schedule.Coached by high school teacher Roger Neilson, a man who is a stickler for hockey fundamentals, the Petes were unbeaten and untied in their first five games despite the absence of any individual stars.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-084/2426030-1-eng-US/f0026-082.jpg" title="f0026-08" width="249" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al McDonough</figcaption></div>They opened the season using a tightly-knit defense to edge St. Catharines Black Hawks 2-1, then proved they could also score goals in bundles with victories by 8-4 over Ottawa, 7-3 over Montreal and 7-3 and 7-5 over Oshawa.Their most impressive win was in Montreal. Prior to their encounter with the Petes the defending Memorial Cup champions had an unblemished record and many had already conceded them a repeat title.However the loss on home ice apparently so unnerved the Canadiens that they promptly dropped another game, 5-3, to the last place club in 1968-69, Kitchener Rangers.The entire 10-team league shapes up as much better balanced than a year ago when the Canadiens and St. Catharines dominated both the standings and the individual scoring.Kitchener and Oshawa, the two clubs to miss the playoffs last spring, have definitely improved and are sticking midway in the standings while eighth place Ottawa 67s have been flirting with first place.The Canadiens, despite their two losses, still remain as the most feared team in the league but St. Catherines, which finished second to Montreal in the standings last year and runners-up in the finals, have had some early season problems and are still deep in the second division.Marcel Dionne, a native of Drummondville who set a rookie ecord of 100 points in 1968-9, seven points behind points champion Rejean Houle of Montreal has not matched that performance so far.However one of the bright spots with St. Catharines has been the play of club captain Al McDonough.Now in his third and final season of junior hockey, McDonough scored 13 goals in the first seven Hawk games and took over the league scoring leadership with 20 points.In 54 games last year McDonough had 26 goals. &#9632;

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Peterborough Becomes Contender To Highlight Curly OH A Action

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0171/2426082-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="525" height="889"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON JONES &hellip; Defensive Giant</figcaption></div><h2>WESTERN CANADA JUNIOR</h2>Eastern Division<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0241/2426075-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="585" height="165"></div>Western Division1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0322/2426068-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="579" height="173"></div>LEADING SCORERS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0418/2426061-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="591" height="233"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY ALEX HARDY</div>EDMONTON &mdash;When Ron Jones was a youngster in the Western Canadian prairie town of Vermilion, Alberta, he spent his Saturday evenings during the winter in front of the TV set.Like mos other athletic minded boys he sat spell bound as the announce! boomed: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s Hockey Night in Canada.&rdquo;And like the other kids, young Ron had a hero.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0511/2426113-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="249" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Garry Young</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Mine was Doug Harvey. He was the only reason I became a defenseman instead of a forward,&rdquo; insists Jones, who is now a standout blue liner with Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Canada Hockey League. &ldquo;I loved to watch the way he fed passes and moved the puck around.&rdquo;Ten years after watching Harvey&rsquo;s magic on TV, Jones is considered by NHL scouts to have the potential to become another Harvey.Says New York Rangers&rsquo; chief scout Lou Passador: &ldquo;He makes more clean hits in one game than all other players on the ice combined.&rdquo;Boston Bruins&rsquo; chief scout Garry Young is reported to have said of him: &ldquo;That kid has class.&rdquo;Although only 18 (he will be 19 in April), Jones stars in a league of players as old as 21 (the WCHL is basically a junior league, but each team is allowed five over-age players).He was the defensive star in the WCHL&rsquo;s opening weeks and a chief reason Oil Kings have allowed the fewest goals.Oil Kings use him on power plays, on regular shifts, and to kill penalties. In the last period of close games they also run him double shifts, meaning he plays 40 minutes per game.In his third season with Edmonton, Jones has fashioned a reputation as a quiet kid who doesn&rsquo;t take cheap penalties. He is not a great rusher in the Bobby Orr tradition.Jones is above all a &ldquo;clean&rdquo; hockey player, which in itself separates him from most of the defensemen in the ultratough WCHL.Ron&rsquo;s father, who now operates a motel in B.C., is credited with encouraging young Jones to take up hockey. As an 8-year-old in the Vermilion peewee league, Ron played against boys six years older.A good student, Ron is completing his Grade 12 this year, Although interested in university, he would prefer to play in the NHL as soon as he can.Despite his lack of weaknesses, Jones feels he can improve his ability to bring the puck out of his own end.&ldquo;I can also improve on taking my man out,&rdquo; he admits.Off the ice, Jones developed an interest in auto racing this summer and worked on the Can-Am Race at Edmonton&rsquo;s Speedway Park. He also got two trips to San Francisco out of the deal, picking up and returning the pace car.On the ice, one of Jones&rsquo; biggest pluses is his skating. He also possesses an excellent point shot, which he keeps low. A third quality is his puck sense, which keeps him in the midst of the action. At 6-1 and 190 pounds and still growing, he also has size.&ldquo;There may be other defencemen in the West who are better right now, but they don&rsquo;t possess nearly as much potential as Ron,&rdquo; says Merv McDonald. &ldquo;Dale Hoganson was drafted No. 1 by Los Angeles Kings, but Jones is already bigger, has more moves, a harder shot, and is a faster skater.&rdquo; &#9632;

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NHL Scouts Rank Oil Kings’ Ron Jones Highly

EDMONTON &mdash;SLAP SHOTS &mdash; Flin Flon Bombers have retired sweater No. 11 &mdash; the one that Bobby Clarks wore with distinction for three star-filled years. Unlike most Bombers, whose homes were elsewhere, Clarke rose through the ranks of the Flin Flon minor system. He amassed a career total of 172 regular season goals with Bombers. Clarke has since signed with Philadelphia Flyers, and was the NHL club&rsquo;s leading scorer during exhibition play.Henry Boucha, Winnipeg Jets&rsquo; defenceman, has been wined and dined more than O.J. Simpson, according to Dick (Calgary Albertan) Chubey. Boucha, an 18-year-old, 200-pound American Indian, was sought by U.S. colleges and OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs. He was also the centre of a dis&rsquo; pute among three WCHL teams as to who owned him. The issue was settled when league president Ron Butlin of Calgary awarded the Warroad, Minn., native to the Jets.Eleven rookies on the opening-week NHL rosters were one-time members of WCHL teams. They include Gerry Pinder, Ray McKay, Keith Magnuson and Jim Wiste, who started with Chicago Black Hawks; Jim Harrison (Boston); Bill Fairbairn and Juha Widing (New York); Barry Gibbs (Minnesota); Bob Clarke (Philadelphia); and Dale Hoganson and Ross Lonsberry (Los Angeles). Pinder and Magnuson are Saskatoon Blades grads; McKay, a lanky defenceman, and Wiste, a winger, played with Moose Jaw Canucks; Harrison, Gibbs, Hoganson and Lonsberry are former Estevan Bruins; Clarke starred with Flin Flon; and Fairbairn and Widing, the latter a Swedish transplant, learned at Brandon.&mdash;HARDY &#9632;

Bombers Retire Clarke’s Number

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-066/2426168-1-eng-US/f0027-062.jpg" title="f0027-06" width="870" height="1165"></div>SOLUTION IN NOV. 14 ISSUE<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Pictured player.6&mdash;One of the Hawks.7&mdash;Initials of Polano of Baltimore.9&mdash;Barclay, Bill and Bob.10&mdash;Number worn by Flett of L.A.11&mdash;Pronoun.12&mdash;Grande.15&mdash;Every team needs this.16&mdash;To make mistakes.18&mdash;Opposite to out.19&mdash;Short for first name of a ex-NHL coach.21&mdash;9th and 4th letters of the alphabet.22&mdash;Scored 10 goals for N.Y. last season.25&mdash;A former Hawk.27&mdash;An NHL right wing.28&mdash;One of the Leafs, (initials)30&mdash;Every team needs these, (abbr.)31&mdash;An NHL captain.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Native province of pictured player.2&mdash;Initials of Locas.3&mdash;Each team uses miles of this in one season.4&mdash;NHL centre.5&mdash;An All-Star defenseman.8&mdash;One of the Hawks answers to this.13&mdash;First name of the NHL referee in chief.14&mdash;A former NHL goaler.17&mdash;1956 Byng trophy winner.20&mdash;Initials of a Hawk veteran.22&mdash;One of the Wings.23&mdash;Initials of Nicholson of San Diego.24&mdash;Denotes scoreless tie.26&mdash;One of the Rangers.27&mdash;Initials of an NHL right winger.29&mdash;One the Flyers.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;PRICE.3&mdash;NEB.6&mdash;PERU.7&mdash;ANGOTTI.9&mdash;DALEY.10&mdash;ERR.12&mdash;R.A.F.13&mdash;OO.15&mdash;VI.16&mdash;NIL.18&mdash;ALE.19&mdash;L.A.20&mdash;HILLMAN.23&mdash;C.D.24&mdash;A.C.25&mdash;J.R.26&mdash;H.H.27&mdash;KELLY.29&mdash;CRISP.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;PLAGER.2&mdash;INGARFIELD.3&mdash;NEILSON.4&mdash;E.R.5&mdash;BUCYK.6&mdash;P.T.A.8&mdash;TD.11&mdash;RAVLICH.14&mdash;OIL.17&mdash;LARRY.18&mdash;A.H.21&mdash;MAKI.22&mdash;ACES.25&mdash;J.L.26&mdash;HI.28&mdash;L.P. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">BY PAT CURRAN</div>MONTREAL &mdash;Although the Canadiens were unbeaten through five games, Coach Claude Ruel was hardly satisfied with his defence corps which may have been reason for him to sound off, out of character, to the press. And the object of his blast was a rearguard who hadn&rsquo;t been playing &mdash; veteran Terry Harper.The Harp, 29-year-old athlete of six seasons with the Habs, had enjoyed a fine training camp in his comeback from knee surgery that limited him to only 21 games in 1968-69. However he was used only sparingly in three games before sitting out all the wav through a 1-1 tie at Philadelphia.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0193/2426206-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="252" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">J.C. Tremblay</figcaption></div>The benching of Harper, short on offence but solid at the blueline. started stories that he was in the coach&rsquo;s doghouse. And Ruel readily said so.The coach wasn&rsquo;t happy with Terry&rsquo;s attitude of taking things easy in practice.&ldquo;Let him give me a reason to put him back in the game regularly,&rdquo; said Ruel. &ldquo;What I want is the Harper of three or four years ago. If he wants to olay he must work hard. He must win his job. He is not going to be given a chance, he must earn it.&rdquo;Harper gave Ruel some reason by pushing himself in the next practice and got aid from young Serge Savard who made the biggest mistake at Philadelphia when Jean Guv Gendron had tied the game for the Flyers with 6! seconds to go.Harper came on for regular shifts against St. Louis and his lob shot produced a goal that started Canadiens back from a 20 deficit in a game that wound up 3-3.Savard, last year&rsquo;s Conn Smythe Trophy winner, continued to play disappointing hockey. The 23-year-old defenceman was caught out of position on both of the Blues&rsquo; first period goals and then took a silly tripping penalty that paved the way for Andre Boudrias&rsquo; equalizer.&ldquo;That guy was on the moon,&rdquo; said Ruel in post-game anger.Meanwhile the Canadiens got another setback in the same game when veteran Jean-Claude Tremblay suffered a twisted wrist. Forunately, the x-rays didn&rsquo;t reveal anything to miss more than two games. After a poor effort last season, the 30-year-old defenceman was off to a fine start this time.Guy Lapointe, a fine defence prospect with the AHL Montreal Voyageurs, was called up to replace J.C.John Ferguson returned to the lineup for only one game before having trouble with the thumb injury that sent him to the sidelines during the exhibition swing. After he played only one shift at Philadelphia, Fergy had been expected to miss three or four contests while the thumb ligaments got stronger. However, after missing the St. Louis game, he was right back with the club against Chicago.Gilles Tremblay spent another eight days in hospital for a change in medication for the bronchial trouble that sent him to the sidelines last season. On release he was ordered away from the rink pending a club decision whether he will try to work back into shape again or take a scouting job the rest of the season.Dick Duff, the bewildered winger who had talked retirement, entered hospital for surgery on hemorroids. His attitude changed fo the better and he may decide to start skating again for a possible return to the team.Junior grad Marc Tardif has been gaining confidence and could remain as the only new face on the Montreal team this season. He earned two assists against New York before coming through the next night at Philadelphia with his first NHL goal.Coach Ruel was well satisfied with his goaltenders, alternating Rogatien Vachon and Gump Worsley equally in the first six games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0240/2426199-1-eng-US/f0028-022.jpg" title="f0028-02" width="525" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body">TERRY HARPER Earns Coach&rsquo;s Wrath</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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November 7, 1969

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