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January 9, 1970

The Hockey News January 9, 1970

<h2><b>Sat. Dec. 13SAN DIEGO 2 AT SEATTLE 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0642/2800854-1-eng-US/f0022-062.jpg" title="f0022-06" width="577" height="523"></div><h2><b>Sun. Dec. 14 PHOENIX 7 AT SALT LAKE 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0741/2800847-1-eng-US/f0022-072.jpg" title="f0022-07" width="577" height="722"></div><h2><b>Tues. Dec. 16 SAN DIEGO 2 AT VANCOUVER 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0836/2800840-1-eng-US/f0022-082.jpg" title="f0022-08" width="578" height="564"></div><h2><b>Wed. Dec. 17 DENVER 6 AT PHOENIX 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0933/2800833-1-eng-US/f0022-092.jpg" title="f0022-09" width="579" height="722"></div><h2><b>SAN DIEGO 1 AT PORTLAND 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1026/2800826-1-eng-US/f0022-102.jpg" title="f0022-10" width="593" height="526"></div><h2><b>Fri. Dec. 19 PHOENIX 4 AT DENVER 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0367/2800819-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="596" height="760"></div><h2><b>PORTLAND 4 AT VANCOUVER 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0455/2800812-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="596" height="683"></div><h2><b>Sat. Dec. 20SAN DIEGO 2 at PHOENIX 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0541/2800805-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg" title="f0023-05" width="585" height="681"></div><h2><b>SALT LAKE 6 at SEATTLE 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0635/2800798-1-eng-US/f0023-062.jpg" title="f0023-06" width="585" height="732"></div><h2><b>VANCOUVER 4 AT PORTLAND 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0731/2800791-1-eng-US/f0023-072.jpg" title="f0023-07" width="600" height="758"></div><h2><b>Sun. Dec. 21 SALT LAKE 0 AT SAN DIEGO 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0827/2800784-1-eng-US/f0023-082.jpg" title="f0023-08" width="582" height="580"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Western League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><p>JACKSONVILLE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>G</span>eneral-manager-coach Bob Sabourin has moved into action in an effort to save a playoff berth for the Jacksonville Rockets in the Eastern Hockey League&rsquo;s Southern Division.</p><p>The Rockets had higher aspirations in the early going when they thought they might challenge for the divisional lead due to the evenness of the competition. But the club has faltered to fall behind the pace of a year ago and plummeted into the fifth and non-playoff spot behind Nashville.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0443/2801204-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="284" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harold White</b></figcaption></div><p>So Sabourin felt action had to be taken. First he took Harold White off the active list despite the forward&rsquo;s popularity here. Then he decided that goalie John Voss couldn&rsquo;t do the job and voted to keep Michel Plasse.</p><p>Then he sent an SOS to Ray Miron the general manager of Tulsa who is supposed to provide player help for the Rockets in time of need. At this writing, Sabourin still hadn&rsquo;t received any additional aid and unless some was forthcoming things looked bleak for the playoffs. The rise of Salem this year and the continued fine steady performances of Greensboro and Charlotte have lowered Jacksonville&rsquo;s hopes.</p><p>Now their goal is to beat out a Nashville team which started off badly but which has come to life of late to overtake the Rockets. Sabourin did pick up Roger Bamburak who was dropped by Syracuse, but he wasn&rsquo;t the answer Sabourin sought.</p><p>The Rockets have been only soso at home but Sabourin claims there is a nucleus of a good club present, but it has to get started. The uncertainty of the playing rights to Ed Kea was still in question too as Jersey and the Rockets continued to Wrangle over his ownership. The skipper also was tinkering with the idea of changing the makeup of his lines.</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN&mdash;</b>Blades&rsquo; bad southern trip didn&rsquo;t hurt so much when Clinton also had Southern problems. Chuck Stuart decided to quit after two-game comeback. Murray Kuntz broke nose in three places. Gordon Smith beat his old Salem mates with win-ning goal in lone Blades&rsquo; win in south. Mike Hornby pacing club in goals, points and assists. Loss of Mike Rouleau and Kevin Morrison hurting team as coach Don Perry searches for replacements.</p><p><b>JERSEY&mdash;</b>Devils had three-game win streak for first time this season. Jacques Turmel switched to defense from wing and posted deciding goal against New Haven. Gilles Banville. who was yanked off the ice during a game by Coach Turk Broda for indifferent play and suspended, was finally assigned here by Quebec via the Philly Flyers and has supplanted Brian Caley in the cage. Dave Lee hit hat trick against Syracuse in club&rsquo;s first road win in 16 starts. George Forgie placed on waivers to make room for Gary Gresdal from Johnstown.</p><p><b>SYRACUSE&mdash;</b>Ed Skyhar&rsquo;s nose broken against Clinton. Winger Rod Diamond added to club as badly needed &ldquo;cop&rdquo; and released Roger Bamburak went to Jacksonville. Diamond from Quebec Senior League picked up 34 minutes in penalties in his debut. Ray Crew is father of new daughter and he visted his New Haven home briefly. Chuck Charlong posted hat trick at Long Island. Defenseman George Graham is likely to join team. Blazers have topped club seasonal record of 12 wins.</p><p><b>LONG ISLAND&mdash;</b>Blake Ball confident his club can overtake Syracuse and possibly Johnstown for playoff berth. A CBS film crew shot the Ducks as part of a report on minor league hockey. Veteran Russ McClenaghan leads club in points, Jake Hendrickson in assists and Dwight Winters and Jean Marie Nicol are battling for goal laurels. Brian McDowell gave Syracuse&rsquo;s Rod Diamond quite a lacing.</p><p><b>CLINTON:</b> Comets went sour on southern jaunt when Don Herriman suffered twisted knee and was lost. Pat Kelly&rsquo;s hopes for three wins in south never materialized. Comets had rough game with Syracuse in which 92 penalty minutes were assessed in one period by ref Ted Daily. Ian Anderson running his new sporting goods store while recuperating from fractured leg.</p><p><b>JOHNSTOWN:</b> Jets picked up two wins and a tie on southern trip to do better than New Haven or Clinton. Reg Kent has risen to third in the club scoring race. Defenseman Larry Young bothered by knee problems. Pete Christian came off injured list after missing 14 games with knee injury. Tom Burgess&rsquo;s housing problems for his family bothered him.</p><p><b>SALEM:</b> Rebels finally lost first home game after 12 starts, bowing to New Haven on exmate Gordie Smith&rsquo;s goal. In first 17 home games last year, Rebels drew 22,597 fans compared to 40,018 for same period this year or an average of 2354 fans, better than 1,000 fans a game over last year. Coach Colin Kilburn has cautioned his squad not to get off on the wrong foot as &ldquo;catch up hockey&rdquo; takes too much out of the Rebels.</p><p><b>GREENSBORO:</b> Club had 4-game win streak to get into race for division lead. Bob Sicinski is now the southern division scoring leader. Moe L&rsquo;Abbe is only Gen to wear a helmet as result of head injury last year. Ex-Gen goalie, Pete McDuffe doing well with Omaha. Recuperating Dom Di Berardino in civvies inadvertently struck on head with stick white sitting on Gens bench in game with New Haven.</p><p><b>CHARLOTTE:</b> Art Hart cut when Allie Sutherland came off injured list. He may join Jersey, having played with Philly at one time. Captain Frank Golembrosky&rsquo;s bad foot marring his performances. Still his two goals beat Nashville. Tom Trevelyan&rsquo;s two goals beat Clinton as Charlotte&rsquo;s line outdid Clinton&rsquo;s fear-some No. 1 trio.</p><p><b>JACKSONVILLE:</b> Rockets had five game losing streak to fall to basement Bob Sabourin bothered by laryngitis attack. Club&rsquo;s power plays beat New Haven. Michel Plasse gaining more confidence now that he has goalie job to himself. Goalie John Voss cut to keep club within junior quota. Roger Bamburak scored goal and two assists in his debut.</p><p><b>NASHVILLE:</b> Coach Lloyd Hinchberger says his club is strong at center with Pierre Gagne, Ed Lawson and Wally Sprange. Bill Cameron playing wing instead of defense for injured Karl Haggerty. Flyers fined $50 for failing to provide police protection for official Bob Giovati who was hit by water and debris. Norm Martel&rsquo;s third shutout came against Salem</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0540/2801197-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="545" height="593"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GILLES BANVILLE&hellip;Takes Over Jersey Net</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0629/2801190-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="539" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB SICINSKI.&hellip;New Scoring Leader</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PLUMMETING ROCKETS STRIVE TO HALT SLIDE

<h2><b>CENTRAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Dec. 31)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01115/2801159-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="587" height="380"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Thurs. Dec. 25</b></p><p>Dallas 2 at Oklohoma City 5</p><p>lowa 3 at Omaha 5</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 26</b></p><p>Dallas 3 at Fort Worth 6</p><p>Kansas City 1 at Tulsa 3</p><p><b>Sat. Dec. 27</b></p><p>Fort Worth 3 at Dallas 4</p><p>Kansas City 2 at Iowa 7</p><p>Tulsa 4 at Omaha 4</p><p><b>Sun. Dec.28</b></p><p>Fort Worth 2 at Kansas City 5</p><p>Omaha 3 at Tulsa I</p><p>lowo 4 at Oklahoma City 1</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Wed. Dec. 31</b></p><p>Kansas City at Omaha</p><p>Tulsa at Oklahoma City</p><p>Iowa at Fort Wort</p><p><b>Fri. Jan. 2</b></p><p>Oklahoma City at Omaha</p><p>Iowa at Dallas</p><p>Tulsa at Kansas City</p><p><b>Sat. Jan. 3</b></p><p>Dallas at Fort Worth</p><p>Kansas City at Oklahoma City</p><p>Omaha at Tulsa</p><p><b>Sun. Jan. 4</b></p><p>Fort Worth at Omaha</p><p>Kansas City at Dallas</p><p>Iowa at Tulsa</p><p><b>Wed. Jan. 7</b></p><p>Fort Worth at Tulsa</p><p>Omaha at Dallas</p><p>Iowa at Kansas City</p><p><b>Fri. Jan. 9</b></p><p>Dallas at Oklahoma City</p><p>Omaha at Fort Worth</p><p>Tulsa at Iowa</p><h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Dec. 30)</b></p><h3><b>Northern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0275/2801152-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="581" height="249"></div><h3><b>Southern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0353/2801145-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="584" height="260"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Thurs. Dec 25</b></p><p>Syracuse 2 at New Haven 8</p><p>Charlotte 6 at Jacksonville 6</p><p>Greensboro at Nashville (postponed)</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 26</b></p><p>New Haven at Syracuse (postponed)</p><p>Johnstown at Clinton (postponed)</p><p>New Jersey 2 at Long Island 9</p><p>Charlotte 2 at Greensboro 6</p><p>Jacksonville 6 at Nashville 6</p><p><b>Sat. Dec. 27</b></p><p>Long Island at Clinton (postponed)</p><p>Syracuse at New Jersey (postponed)</p><p>New Haven 4 at Johnstown 4</p><p>Greensboro 4 at Charlotte 3</p><p>Jacksonville 6 at Nashville 5</p><p><b>Sun. Dec. 28</b></p><p>Long Island 1 at New Haven 5</p><p>Salem 3 at Nashville 0</p><p>New Jersey at Johnstown (postponed)</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Dec. 30</b></p><p>Long Island at Syracuse</p><p><b>Wed. Dec. 31</b></p><p>Clinton at Johnstown</p><p>Salem at Greensboro</p><p>Nashville at Jacksonville</p><p><b>Thurs. Jan. 1</b></p><p>Long Island at New Haven</p><p><b>Fri. Jan.2</b></p><p>Johnstown at Clinton</p><p>Syracuse at Long Island</p><p>New Haven at New Jersey</p><p>Jacksonville at Charlotte</p><p>Salem at Nashville</p><p><b>Sat. Jan. 3</b></p><p>Syracuse at Clinton</p><p>New Jersey at Long Island</p><p>New Haven at Johnstown</p><p>Salem at Jacksonville</p><p>Charlotte at Nashville</p><p><b>Sun. Jan. 4</b></p><p>Clinton at Syracuse</p><p>New Jersey at New Haven</p><p>Jacksonville at Greensboro</p><p>Charlotte at Nashville<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOW THEY STAND

<h2>FINGER LAKES COLLEGIATE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Fri. Dec. 19)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0361/2800639-1-eng-US/f0021-032.jpg" title="f0021-03" width="584" height="305"></div><h2><b>NEW YORK COLLEGE LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Dec. 16)</b></p><h3><b>EAST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0452/2800632-1-eng-US/f0021-042.jpg" title="f0021-04" width="578" height="234"></div><h3><b>WEST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0546/2800625-1-eng-US/f0021-052.jpg" title="f0021-05" width="580" height="233"></div><h3><b>WESTERN CONFERENCE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Thrus. Dec. 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0639/2800618-1-eng-US/f0021-062.jpg" title="f0021-06" width="580" height="329"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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U.S.Colleges

<p><b>&mdash;Page 14</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01498/2801603-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="656" height="960"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DENIS DEJORDY and TONY ESPOSITO</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Making A Prophet Of Billy Reay&mdash;Page 14</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02372/2801596-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1370" height="1878"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>TONY ESPOSITO</b></p><p><b>DENIS DEJORDY</b></p></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-03163/2801589-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="438" height="740"></div><p><b><i>PARENT SAYS FAVELL SHOULD ASK 1 TO BE TRADED</i></b></p><p><b>KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PUCK</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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CHICAGO GOALERS STEAL NHL LIMELIGHT

<div class="byline">BY PAT CURRAN</div><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p>Has Gump Worsley reached the end of the line with the Canadiens?</p><p>That was the baffling question while the veteran goalie not only remained out of action but also out of uniform as the Habs neared the midway mark of the NHL schedule.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01669/2798886-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="260" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Myre</b></figcaption></div><p>Speculation on the Gumper&rsquo;s demise started suddenly Dec. 20 when he wasn&rsquo;t on the bench as backup goalie to Rogatien Vachon for a Forum game against Detroit. Instead Jack Norris of the AHL Voyageurs was in uniform.</p><p>And although he made the trip to Boston, Worsley watched from the stands the next night while Vachon worked the 5-2 victory and Phil Myre of the Voyageurs was the alternate.</p><p>Then Worsley didn&rsquo;t even make the trip to Detroit for a Boxer&rsquo;s Night tie with the Wings and sat out again for the fourth straight game when Philadelphia came to the Forum Dec. 27.</p><p>Management has dodged any definite statement on Worsley&rsquo;s status and the goalie claims he&rsquo;s in the dark about anything that might have put him in Coach Claude Ruel&rsquo;s doghouse.</p><p>However there may be something to reports that the 40-year-old netminder balked about his last invitation to start at Pittsburgh Dec. 17. The word was that Worsley, although willing to face the Penguins, had claimed he wasn&rsquo;t really ready because of a lack of work and a lack of practice.</p><p>He had started only six times&mdash;the last time in a 4-3 home loss to Minnesota&mdash;but with a record of three wins, one loss and two ties while giving up only 14 goals.</p><p>The Gumper has complained several times this season about being shunned in practice while Vachon has been given most of the work.</p><p>Ruel&mdash;with no love lost for the goalie since they had a couple of tiffs last season&mdash;claims Worsley doesn&rsquo;t want to work in practice, anyway.</p><p>Gump&rsquo;s aversion to practice isn&rsquo;t new since he started in the NHL with the Rangers 17 years ago. He has never been an earnest off-night goalie and Ruel isn&rsquo;t the first coach to fret about it.</p><p>However the sophomore coach has a rebuttal when Gump says he&rsquo;s not ready or sharp when called upon for a game.</p><p>&ldquo;If he didn&rsquo;t practice when he was 20 or 30 years old, that&rsquo;s his business,&rdquo; says Ruel. &ldquo;But at the age of 40, he needs the work in practices more than ever before. It will be better for him to practice with the Voyageurs for awhile than sit on the end of our bench and not be ready when we need him.&rdquo;</p><p>Worsley may have got the message by now. He apparently has become determined to work as hard as possible in practice awaiting another chance.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to let it worry me,&rdquo; says Gump. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to get sick like last year.&rdquo; Worsley quit the club halfway through last season after a fit of aeraphobia and depression before coming on strong in the playoffs.</p><p>Meanwhile it&rsquo;s a waiting game for both Worsley and the Canadiens who would be happy to have insurance for the overworked Vachon. Young Roggie has been showing sings of fatigue in some games, having worked 27 times for 13 wins, six losses and eitht ties.</p><p>If Montreal gives up on Worsley to rely on either Norris or Myre, who have been playing well with the American League team, waivers may be asked on the Gumper.</p><p>There&rsquo;s slim chance of a trade since Worsley probably will retire rather than leave Montreal and his family in suburban Beloeil.</p><p>On another note of concern for the Habs, centre Henri Richard has been lost for another three to four weeks with a fracture of the left foot. Jean Beliveau was due to lose the cast on his cracked ankle Dec. 29 but won&rsquo;t play for another week or 10 days the-re-after. John Ferguson was to wear the cast on his broken thumb until Jan. 5.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02634/2798879-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1814" height="1396"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Veteran netminder GUMP WORSLEY may be at the crossroads in his major hockey career. The 40-year-old puck stopper has been pulled out of the Montreal lineup and supplanted by a minor leaguer as standby behind No. 1 goalkeeper Rogatien Vachon.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Worsley’s Absence From Hubs’ Het Raises Question,“Is Gump Through?”

<p>BUFFALO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>ccording to reports emanating out of this future National Hockey League city, George &lsquo;Punch&rsquo; Imlach will be named the team&rsquo;s general manager prior to the NHL All-Star game Jan. 20 in St Louis.</p><p>Buffalo Courier-Express hockey writer and HOCKEYS NEWS correspondent Charley Barton disclosed that Imlach has met with club officials here at least four times and will be named &ldquo;sometime before the All-Star game.&rdquo;</p><p>Imlach. manager coach of the Toronto Leafs for 11 years prior to his firing last April, has been linked with every vacated hockey job in the NHL since. He turned down offers from Minnesota, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh to become either general manager or coach to await the Buffalo job.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Imlach To Get Buffalo Job

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01671/2798955-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="638" height="440"></div><p>HARRISBURG&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span> number of hockey players probably could add a few goals to their record but for unknown faulty vision. Take it from two noted optometrists, Drs. A.I. Garner of Harrisburg, Pa., and Wayne F. Martin. Seattle, Wash. They have spent countless hours of research into visual problems of athletes in all sports.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02553/2798948-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="267" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Nevin</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Every team, whether it be at a high school, college or pro level, is concerned with the physical condition of the players&hellip;the heart, bone structure, pulse, blood pressure, etc., but few. if any, are greatly concerned with the eyes, said Dr. Garner.</p><p>&ldquo;To my knowledge only two hockey teams, the Hershey Bears of the American League, and Seattle Totems of the Western League, have ever had a complete visual screening examination by a team of optometrical experts.</p><p>&ldquo;Undoubtedly, in severe and obvious cases of an eye problem, experts have been consulted on an individual basis.</p><p>&ldquo;One would be surprised how many athletes are competing with eve problems of which they are completely unaware.&rdquo;</p><p>One National League skater who would agree to Dr. Garner&rsquo;s observations and concern is Bob Nevin, of the New York Rangers. Nevin began wearing contact lenses on the ice in 1958.</p><p>&ldquo;Without the contacts I couldn&rsquo;t have made the National League,&rdquo; says Nevin, who, incidentally, has averaged better than 20 goals a season the past five years.</p><p>In contacting various athletic departments, high schools, colleges and professional organizations, Dr. Martin said he was &ldquo;shocked by the lack of visual programs of any type.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Vision is the trigger mechanism controlling the athlete&rsquo;s first move, yet this (visual examination) has been the most difficult program to be accepted.</p><p>&ldquo;Many times I have heard the term &lsquo;keep your eye on the ball&rsquo; and &lsquo;why don&rsquo;t you look what you&rsquo;re doing?&rsquo; Unknown to the coaches shouting the commands, it could be the athlete has a visual problem.&rdquo;</p><p>In presenting a paper at the Seattle Sports Medical Seminar this year, Dr. Martin revealed he had screened 809 athletes for visual problems. He reported 171 failed&mdash;21.1 per cent. They were from the ranks of colleges, pro baseball, Little League and even referees.</p><p>Dr. Garner after examining the Hershey hockey team with the aid of Dr. Gerald Fragin, Harrisburg, said he was &ldquo;surprised by the excellent results.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We found only a few players needed corrective measures. However, what was startling, was discovering that 50 per cent of the Hershey players had never had a professional eye examination in their hockey careers.&rdquo;</p><p>Only a few years ago Dr. Garner aided Gary Dornhoefer, Philadelphia Flyers forward, who had an eye condition.</p><p>&ldquo;We fitted Gary with contact lenses. He wears them for both hockey and golf. As everyone knows, he&rsquo;s quite a fine golfer as well as a hockey player. But the corrective measures aided him tremendously.</p><p>&ldquo;I have found that hockey players have, in most instances, excellent vision. There&rsquo;s a reason. In Canada, the youngsters are not glued to a television set and they don&rsquo;t read as much as American children. Canadians are more the outdoor type. They have less tendency to develop eye strain or other visual problems.&rdquo;</p><p>Coach Frank Mathers of the Hershey Bears was only too happy to have his players screened by Drs. Garner and Fragin.</p><p>&ldquo;Eye examinations are something every hockey club should consider, said Mathers. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s something we&rsquo;ve all overlooked.&rdquo;</p><p>Dr. Garner pointed out just a few visual problems an athlete could have without his knowledge.</p><p>&ldquo;He should be examined for acuity (clearness), depth perception, vertical and lateral balance, visual motion fields (side vision) and opthalmoscopy (eye health) to make certain of no cataracts, detached retinaes and amblyopia.&rdquo;</p><p>In working with the Seattle Totems, Dr. Martin found one player with less than 20/20 vision in each eye. He was fitted with contacts just prior to being sent down to Toledo. In 20 games at Toledo, the players scored 21 points to help carry them to the playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;Another player whom we fitted with contacts wound up as the Western League&rsquo;s leading scorer and was the lone unanimous All-Star choice,&rdquo; Dr. Martin said.</p><p>Dr. Garner currently is examining close to 500 Pennsylvania athletes, ranging from high school to a pro level. In the pro-cess. he claims &ldquo;it&rsquo;s shocking to discover the number of athletes who have eye problems of which they were not aware.&rdquo;</p><p>He says of all sports, hockey is one of the most demanding for perfect vision.</p><p>&ldquo;If in my research, I personally can help one player to become a better athlete because of corrected vision, then my work has not gone unheeded.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03372/2798941-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1788" height="1414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harrisburg optometrists DR. A.I. GARNER, left, and DR. GERALD FRAGIN, centre, look on as nurse NANCY FLEAGER records results of eye tests on Hershey defenseman BARRY ASHBEE, looking into machine while two other members of the Bears, goaler JOHN HENDERSON, seated, and RALPH KELLER, standing, wait their turn.</b></figcaption></div><p><b><i>Two Prominent Optometrists Were Startled To Discover That 50 Per Cent Of The Hershey Bears Hockey Team Had Hever Had A Professional Eye Examination In Their Hockey Careers. The Results Showed Only A Few Heeded Corrective Measures. However, of 809 Athletes Screened Last Year In The United States For Visual Problems, 171 Failed.</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Keep Your EYE On The Puck—IF YOU CAN SEE IT!

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01733/2799000-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="370" height="443"></div><p>&bull; <b>PHILADELPHIA&rsquo;S VIC</b> Stasiuk is rated as one of the best coaches to enter the NHL for a long time. The late Jack Adams tabbed Stasiuk as a potential big league coach when Vic was, playing in the National Hockey League&hellip;Talking about coaches, how about the terrific job Red Kelly is doing with the Pittsburgh Penguins. It&rsquo;s Red&rsquo;s fine coaching and leadership qualities more than anything else that is responsible for the Penguins improved play this year&hellip;Donnie Marshall, 37-year-old veteran player and assistant coach with the New York Rangers, had this to say the other day: &ldquo;For the past few years I&rsquo;ve just been playing out the season and deciding afterwards if I&rsquo;ll come back. It&rsquo;s year to year with me now.&rdquo;&hellip;Monte Hall, our old Winnipeg buddy, got out onto the ice and took shots at Goalie Gerry Desjardins during a recent Los Angeles practice over the nationally-televised Joey Bishop show on the ABC network. Monte, besides his other nationally-televised shows out of Hollywood, has been filling in for Bishop of late&hellip;Roy Edwards, the 32-year-old netminder with Detroit, has been sensational for the Red Wings in recent games. Roy is another case of a goalie over 30 finally making it to the NHL. He kicked around the minor pro leagues for 10 years before getting his chance with Detroit. Edwards is profiled in depth in the February issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL in a story titled: &ldquo;The Day Roy Edwards Almost Quit&rdquo;&hellip;Another good feature in the same issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL is on cover boy Yvan Cournoyer: His Unspoken Dream, To Hit That Magic 50-Goal Plateau&hellip;New York&rsquo;s Rod Gilbert announced his engagement Christmas Day in Montreal to Thailand beauty Arunee Lee Aphorn. He&rsquo;s been going with her for over a year now&hellip;Bobby Orr may be the first defenseman in the history of the NHL to win the scoring championship. He seems a cinch to set a National League record for a defenseman for most goals, most assists and most points in a season. The youthful Boston ace is already being rated the best defenseman of all time.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02684/2798993-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="272" height="484"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>HOCKEY PLAYERS</b> are the most fearless, toughest people around&hellip;except when they sit in a dentist&rsquo;s chair. Then they&rsquo;re scared just like everyone else. Dr. Henry H. Weishoff, who has been dentist to numerous pro hockey players, once extracted one of Leo Labine&rsquo;s teeth when Labine was playing with Boston, which was in last place at the time. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s unusual for a player to ask me for the tooth once it&rsquo;s pulled, but Labine did,&rdquo; said Dr. Weishoff. &ldquo;He said he wanted it for good luck and was going to put it under his pillow that night just like kids do. You know what? Labine put it under his pilow and the next day he was traded to Detroit, which was in fourth place. He got into the Stanley Cup playoffs, too&hellip;Another time he extracted one of Tony Leswick&rsquo;s wisdom teeth. The next day the Rangers went to Detroit and he scored three goals. The next thing I knew the New York management had ordered every one of their players to have their teeth checked by me.&rdquo;&hellip;They say this might be the last season tor Gump Worsley with the Montreal Canadiens. The popular 40-year-old goalie is not as keen and as determined as the Montreal management would like him to be&hellip;During Bobby Orr&rsquo;s first season with the Boston Bruins his team was in the second division. People raved about how much greater he would be with one of the better clubs in the league. During one losing game, a leather-lunged fan yelled at the then general manager, Hap Emms: &ldquo;Hey Emms, why don&rsquo;t you trade Orr? He&rsquo;s making the rest of the Bruins look bad.&rdquo;&hellip;Tim Horton and Norm Ullman, the two highest-paid players on the Toronto Maple Leafs, have been the two biggest disappointments for the Leafs so far this season&hellip;Buffalo&rsquo;s new NHL entry is busy selling season tickets for next season and from all accounts are doing very well, too&hellip;New York Rangers would like to sponsor an American Hockey League team in Long Island sometime in the future&hellip;The Fort William, Ont., Elks Lodge No. 82 are looking forward to the sixth annual International Pee Wee tournament. For more info write the Elks at Box 366, Fort William, Ont.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03586/2798986-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="272" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Roy Edwards</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<p><b>OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p>Founded October 1st. 1947</p><p><b>Published weekly except monthly June through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</b></p><p><b>1434 St. Catherine Street West Montreal 107, Canada.</b></p><p><b>Kenneth William McKenzie</b> President and Publisher</p><p><b>Charlie Halpin</b> Editorial Director</p><p><b>Yearly SUBSCRIPTION Rates: $6.00 in Canada $7.00 in the U.S.A. and $9.00 in Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Postage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y</p><p>Second class mail&mdash;Registration No. 1327</p><p><b>Printed in Canada</b></p><p><b>Vol. 23 MONTREAL, JANUARY 9, 1970 No. 14</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<h2><b>Bugged Hockey Pucks Would End Disputes</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hy don&rsquo;t we take the mistaken human element out of goal judging? Let&rsquo;s install a special metal disc in each hockey, puck, wire the goal posts so each time the puck crosses the line, the red light will go on instantly.</p><p>I am not an expert in this, but a little research and some money well spent will produce the right combination to solve such a serious problem that keeps cropping up in NHL games.</p><p>I&rsquo;ll bet Montreal would have appreciated this the last time they played Chicago when they claimed they put the puck in the Hawk net in the last seconds and were overruled.</p><p>I would like to hear some opinions on this from some of the scientific wizards around the country.</p><p>JOHN TOTH, <br>Bellingham, Wash.</p><h2><b>Boston Players Show Tiny Boy They&rsquo;re Human</b></h2><p>In this day of the businessman athlete, it was very heart warming to see something nice occur after the Oakland-Boston game of Nov. 10. I thought that I should write and tell you about it, I was so impressed.</p><p>The Bruins as a team had not won in their last five games, which I imagine would get on anyone&rsquo;s nerves if they were a member of the team. I happened to be outside the Bruins&rsquo; dressing room when the players were leaving. There was this litte boy who had apparently been in an accident and almost his whole body was in a cast. The various players, Bobby Orr, Ken Hodge and Don Awrey stopped to sign his cast, which was a nice gesture, and left. The boy and his parents were waiting for the other Boston players to come out when Awrey returned from the team parking lot, went into the dressing room, took one of his sticks and brought it out and presented it to the boy. It was tremendous to see the youngster&rsquo;s eyes light up.</p><p>This kind of unselfish act just brings to mind that people in this day and age are still human after all.</p><p>M. HOFFMAN, <br>Malden, Mass.</p><h2><b>Neilsen Most Underrated Of Defensemen in NHL</b></h2><p>I would like to say that Jimmy Neilsen of the New York Rangers is one of the most underrated defensemen in the NHL.</p><p>When hockey experts talk about backliners, the names of Bobby Orr, Tim Horton, Teddy Green, Jacques Laperriere, Ted Harris, Al Arbour are always mentioned. These men are great players but I think that &lsquo;The Chief rates right up there with them.</p><p>A recent writer to the Fan Forum said that Bobby Orr should not have won the Norris Trophy the last two years. Well if this is true, then Neilsen should have received it two years ago. In recent years, Harry Howell has been in the limelight as far as the New York defense was concerned and now that Harry is gone, Brad Park has taken Howell&rsquo;s place. Not that I want to take anything from either man but I think that Neilsen has been grossly overlooked.</p><p>Emile Francis says that Neilsen is second only to Orr as the best defenseman in the NHL. I totally agree with the Ranger coach and I hope that &ldquo;The Chief&rdquo; proves it to everybody this year. Finally, I would like to join any Jimmy Neilsen fan club so if anybody knows of one, please contact me.</p><p>STEVE FRAHER, 573 West 195th Street, <br>New York, N.Y. 10040.</p><h2><b>Konik Now Playing In U.S. Hockey Loop</b></h2><p>In response to a recent letter to the Fan Forum inquiring as to the whereabouts of George Konik, the former Oakland and Pittsburgh player, we wish to inform Lloyd Cohen of 18 Sumner street in Reverse, Mass., that Konik is now performing with the Rochester, Minn., team in the United States Hockey League.</p><p>The Editor, <br>Hockey News.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fan Forum

<div class="byline">BY VICTOR BERNS</div><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;</p><p>The Eastern Division All-Star team may wonder what team it is opposing Jan. 20 at the St. Louis Arena.</p><p>The scoreboard will call the opposition the Western Division All-Stars, but the squad may suspiciously resemble the regular home team, the St. Louis Blues.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01686/2799093-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="251" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Goyette</b></figcaption></div><p>The Blues are out in front of the other Western teams again this year, and plenty of individual St. Louis players are distinguishing themselves sufficiently to merit All-Star consideration.</p><p>Last season the Blues placed eight players on the 19-man squad&mdash;four picked by hockey writers and four added to the team by Scotty Bowman, the Blues&rsquo; coach and again this year the Western Division coach.</p><p>This season the Blues are likely to again have at least an eight-man contingent on the team and could place as many 10. or more than half of the squad. The writers pick the division&rsquo;s top 12 players to the team, and the All-Star coach adds seven more.</p><p>If the top 10 scorers in the National Hockey League make their respective division&rsquo;s teams, the Blues will have four forwards among them. Phil Goyette. Ab McDonald. Red Berenson and Frank St. Marseille have been among the top 10 virtually all season, and each deserves a chance for the All-Star team.</p><p>Goyette is almost certain to make the team. He&rsquo;s been battling Bobby Orr of the Boston Bruins all season for the scoring lead and has been a big reason for the Blues&rsquo; success.</p><p>The Blues had an ineffective power play last season, but Goyette. acquired from the New York Rangers during the off-season, has added enough punch to transform the St. Louis power play into the league&rsquo;s best.</p><p>Goyette&rsquo;s main competitor for the starting center position could come from Berenson, who last season drew more votes than any player in the division in being selected to start the All-Star game. Berenson hasn&rsquo;t slowed this season, even though Bowman has been juggling Berenson&rsquo;s wings in an attempt to find a compatible combination.</p><p>McDonald and St. Marseille are the wings on Goyette&rsquo;s line, which is the highest-scoring line in the NHL. McDonald made the All-Star team last season, but St. Marseille, plucked by the Blues out of amateur hockey at age 27. would be making it for the first glorious time.</p><p>The Blues provided two of the All-Star team&rsquo;s three goalies last season, and the selections of Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante by the writers could have been predicted many years ago. These two had been in other All-Star games during the course of long careers with Chicago and Montreal. They won the Vezina Trophy last season as the best in the NHL. Bowman added Philadelphia&rsquo;s Bernie Parent as his third goaltender.</p><p>Plante can be expected to make the team again this year. While shouldering most of the goalkeeping load for the Blues, he has kept his goals-against average among the lowest in the league.</p><p>Hall, of course, reported to the team late, and the writers and Bowman may have second thoughts about naming him. However. Hall is as good as ever and deserves consideration under any circumstances.</p><p>In being selected to last season&rsquo;s All-Star team Al Arbour polled more votes than any defenseman in the division except Bill White of the Los Angeles Kings. The 37-year-old veteran, steady as a rock in the St. Louis defense, is certainly as eligible this season as last and could outpoll White this time because of White&rsquo;s late start.</p><p>And this year may be the first time that Barclay Plager makes an All-Star game. Plager. playing with Arbour on the blue line, has been steadily improving for a long time. He is one of the leading scorers among the division&rsquo;s defensemen and harasses the opposing forwards with skill and enthusiasm.</p><p>Jimmy Roberts, named by Bowman to the team last season. is as valuable as ever to the Blues and could be considered again for All-Star recognition.</p><p>So. the Blues once again should dominate the Western Division All-Star team. This year is the second year of the new format in which East plays West instead of an All-NHL team against the previous season&rsquo;s Stanley Cup champions.</p><p>Last season the West surprised the East with a 3-3 tie. This season as many as half of the Western players will be playing before their own fans, so the result may be an even bigger surprise.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02612/2799086-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1162" height="1005"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03465/2799079-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1171" height="1006"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Two members of the Blues who are certain to make the West&rsquo;s All-Star team for the Jan. 20 game in St. Louis are goaler JACQUES PLANTE, left, and helmeted FRANK ST. MARSEILLE, on right. Plante will be game&rsquo;s starting goaler. St. Marseille has never played as an All-Star.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Hockey News Photos by Richard Pellagrini)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Blues Could Put 10 Men On All-Star Squad

<div class="byline">BY CHARLIE HALPIN</div><p>&bull; <b><i>IT WOULD seem that Canada will finally be able to take its rightful place alongside the powerful Russians for the forthcoming World hockey tournament and if this occurs successfully-you can give a big tip of your stetson to the pros.</i></b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01762/2799124-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="272" height="483"></div><p><b><i>The Canadian National team was brought back to respectability this season through the efforts of professional men both on and off the ice. While Hockey Canada president Charles Hay and team general manager &lsquo;Buck&rsquo; Houle were doing some fancy stickhandling in the committee rooms across the nation, the ice Nationals were equally as proficient on the ice against the Russians.</i></b></p><p><b><i>With the likes of Brian Conacher, Billy Harris, Bill Heindl and Barry McKenzie, expatriates of professional hockey shoring up their lineup, the Nationals brought the Russians down to their level during the Soviets&rsquo; recent Canadian tour by winning three of their five games from the reigning world champions.</i></b></p><p><b><i>The climax to the Nationals&rsquo; resurgence came in their final meeting with the Ruskies in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens. With 15,614 fans straining for an upset, the Nats nipped the Russians 3-2 on a final period goal by Heindl, who has jumped are and the Eastern Hockey League and the American League in recent years before throwing in with Canada&rsquo;s national squad. The thing that raised the Canadians&rsquo; hopes was the manner in which they skated the Russians into the ice. That hasn&rsquo;t happened for years and it was a good omen for the March tournament in Montreal and Winnipeg.</i></b></p><p>&bull; <b><i>IN SPITE of their impressive performance against the Russians, president Hay wasn&rsquo;t entirely satisfied that Hockey Canada has accomplished what it has set out to do&mdash;make the Canadians superior in strength to the Soviets. He emphasized that several changes are still to be made and one could result in his son Bill &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Hay, former Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; centre ice star, coming out of retirement to abet the Nationals&rsquo; cause. He is reportedly in good condition and undoubtedly his experience would be an asset in a tough tournament against the Europeans.</i></b></p><p><b><i>The elder Hay has been pleased with the team&rsquo;s progress but still wants perfection from the Nationals and the only way he can achieve this is to make changes.</i></b></p><p><b><i>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re looking for about six additions,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Hay. &ldquo;We really need another good forward line and some backup strength in goal.&rdquo; It is believed that the team &lsquo;brass&rsquo; has become disenchanted with the play of Ken Dryden, the former Cornell collegiate flash who turned down the pros this season to line up with the Canadian team. His play has been sub par and he has been outshone by Wayne Stephenson, who is a veteran of world hockey play. There is a possibility that a goaler of the calibre of Seth Martin, who starred in this kind of competition in past years, will be added at the last moment to bolster the team&rsquo;s netminding. Leafs&rsquo; John Bower was said to be available but no one is saying whether they can entice the 40-plus netminded to leave the Leafs or whether he would be eligible.</i></b></p><p><b><i>At any rate, the Canadians are going to succeed as long as the pros keep a vigilant eye on their progress and they are permitted to play nine professionals despite the many protests emanating around the world.</i></b></p><p><b><i>Canada can&rsquo;t hope to skate with the Russians without players like Brian Conacher, Billy Harris, Bill Hay, Barry McKenzie and others who will be solicited for the world tournament, ment.</i></b></p><p><b><i>Thanks to the pros Canada won&rsquo;t have to run and hide its head any longer in International hockey and it&rsquo;s about time.</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE HOCKEY

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT&mdash;</p><p>What is it about helmets that when a player discards one, he seems to go better?</p><p>Right at the time that Boston Bruins board chairman Weston Adams asked that the clubs be polled to see if they&rsquo;d go for a rule change to require helmets, the Red Wings&rsquo; Pete Stemkowski doffed his and played like a man possessed.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the best hockey he&rsquo;s played for us,&rdquo; manager-coach Sid Abel said.</p><p>Stemkowski went to the headgear early in the season after sustaining two head cuts from high sticks and a crack on the head by teammate Ron Harris&rsquo; head.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02621/2799162-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="250" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Larry Jeffrey</b></figcaption></div><p>Stemkowski complained of headaches and the Wing doctor advised a helmet. Stemkowski acceded but later complained he couldn&rsquo;t get a good fit, that it was uncomfortable and the helmet gave him headaches.</p><p>And, his play wasn&rsquo;t making management too enthusiastic. He started out at center and had a variety of linemates. Then, with rookie Al Karlander up from Fort Worth, Stemkowski lost his slot spot and was moved to left wing on a line with Gary Unger and Wayne Connelly.</p><p>Spurred by Stemkowski&rsquo;s hard-hitting, the line became Detroit&rsquo;s best and Stemkowski scored four goals in as many games.</p><p>Perhaps more important than his scoring though was his bodywork, the kind the Wings desired when they acquired him from Toronto in that big 1968 trade.</p><p>When he was wearing the helmet it seemed Stemkowski wasn&rsquo;t as aggressive.</p><p>And Abel cast a &ldquo;no&rdquo; vote on the helmet issue but not because he feels players aren&rsquo;t as combative. Abel feels the players would lose their identities, that they&rsquo;d just be numbers to the fans.</p><p>The players themselves aren&rsquo;t in any hurry to order the headgear. Bruce MacGregor has worn one occasionally but Karlander is the only player to wear one regularly. Karlander became accustomed to it while playing college hockey at Michigan Tech.</p><p>There are recently-graduated collegians on other clubs, though, who aren&rsquo;t wearing helmets&mdash;Keith Magnuson of Chicago for one.</p><p>And, you practically can count the number of helmet-wearers on the fingers of two hands&mdash;Phil Goyette, Red Berenson, Frank St. Marseille and Jean-Guy Talbot at St. Louis, J.C. Tremblay at Montreal, Paul Henderson of Toronto, Doug Mohns, Stan Mikita and Pit Martin of Chicago&hellip;and then you&rsquo;re reaching.</p><p>New York&rsquo;s Dave Balon was quoted earlier in the season as saying that he decided to go bareheaded during the summer after hearing the Rangers traded Goyette and Larry Jeffrey, both helmet men.</p><p>Balon said he didn&rsquo;t know if it was coincidence or not, but he decided then to get rid of his helmet&hellip;and he&rsquo;s off to his best NHL season.</p><p>It appears the only way helmets will be made mandatory is by club action&mdash;the players won&rsquo;t do it themselves. And. so far, sentiment among the clubs doesn&rsquo;t seem to be for a rule requiring helmets.</p><p><b>WING NOTES:</b> It was a happy holiday season for Larry Jeffrey who got the go-ahead to skate again&hellip;Jeffrey sustained a fractured kneecap in an exibition game and the surgeon who operated told him he&rsquo;d never known of a hockey player to come back after a similar injury, injury.</p><p>But Jeffrey is skating now, was given the OK for light scrimmages and hopes to be playing again in late January.</p><p>The Wings had a chance to virtually eliminate Toronto in the race for the final playoff spot but Toronto, crippled by injuries, came up with a big game by Bruce Gamble and blanked the Wings, 3-0. Had the Leafs lost, they would have been 12 points out of fourth place.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03465/2799155-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="555" height="1109"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PETE STEMKOWSKI&hellip;Turns On Muscle</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Stemmer Comes Up Hot For Wings After Discarding Bulky Helmet

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01714/2799193-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Both Philly goalers DOUG FAVELL, left, and BERNIE PARENT, have been together since their junior hockey days. Now Parent thinks Favell should ask to be traded in order that he can capitalize on his youth and play regularly. He is currently riding the Flyers&rsquo; bench while Parent plays.</b></figcaption></div><p>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>hey have been the best of friends and teammates as long as they can remember, so it is with sympathy for Doug Favell that Bernie Parent says they should go separate ways.</p><p>Parent says Favell. who has been relegated to backup duty behind him with the Flyers, should ask to be traded so he can play for another team.</p><p>&ldquo;The way things stand right now. I am playing a lot and Dougie is playing very little.&rdquo; explained Bernie. &ldquo;This is a bad arrangement. He is 24 years old, same as I am, and he should be playing regularly.</p><p>&ldquo;After all, any player who is only 24 years old should be capable of playing at least 50 games a season. That is what 1 am doing now, but Dougie only played 20 games last season. This year, the way things are going, he might only play in 15.&rdquo;</p><p>Parent&rsquo;s comments were voiced following Favell&rsquo;s performance against the Black Hawks in Chicago when rookie Chris Koroll&rsquo;s three-goal hat trick doomed Doug to a 4-1 defeat, even though he did a very respectable job.</p><p>For two periods Doug played well&mdash;allowing only a goal to Koroll in the first 6 minutes then gave up three goals in the final period. Two of Koroll&rsquo;s shots came off rebounds which no goalie probably would have stopped and the final one was a scorcher by Bobby Hull which came close to burying Favell. The force of the shot knocked Doug, stick and all, into the net.</p><p>&ldquo;It is tough playing in Chicago (with 17,000 fans yelling support of the Black Hawks) and even worse when you have not played in quite awhile&rdquo;, said Parent. &ldquo;They had 41 shots against him and, everything considered, he gave a good effort.&rdquo;</p><p>Parent did reveal, though, that Favell might have done an even better job if he had not been away from game action in so long. It was his first starting assignment in quite awhile and only his fourth start all season.</p><p>&ldquo;When you do not play regularly, you are not as sharp as you should be. said Bernie who also came from the Boston Bruins&rsquo; organization during the NHL expansion draft three years ago. &ldquo;A goaltender can only be sharp by playing steady.</p><p>&ldquo;That is why I say, if I were in his situation, I would ask to be traded. If he were with another team, he probably would be playing a lot more instead of just once in awhile. And if he were playing regularly, he would be much sharper (and a definite asset to another team).</p><p>&ldquo;When you do not play steady, you cannot get better. You can only get worse. You do not have the moves you would have if you were playing more often.</p><p>&ldquo;Myself, I like to play at least 50 games a season. I feel the more I play, the more opportunity you have to gain All-Star recognition. And, of course, you also gain more respect (from opposing players).</p><p>&ldquo;When you are only 24 years old you still have a lot to learn about the game, It&rsquo;s hard to learn if you play only once in awhile. You can only learn by playing.&rsquo;</p><p>Favell was sensational two years ago as a rookie when he and Parent divided the netminding as the Flyers captured the Western Division championship. In fact, Doug saw more regular-game action than Parent. In fact, his goals-against average was 2.27 to Parent&rsquo;s 2.70.</p><p>Last year, though. Favell experienced a sophomore jinx and slumped badly. It appeared that his assurance of returning to the Flyers, roster, following his outstanding contribution the year before, had affected his training camp. Consequently, it carried over into the season.</p><p>There was one pratfall after another last year. Most memorable was the night &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Berenson tied a modern NHL record with six goals in the St. Louis Blues 8-0) victory at the Spectrum. It was almost duplicated a little later when the Black Hawks bombarded him for six goals in the first period en route to a 12-0 romp, the most one-sided shutout for a team on the road.</p><p>This season Favell. one of the most colorful players in the league because of his bouncy style on the ice and his light disposition off of it, has regained much of the sharpness he had two years ago. If he had been playing regularly, there&rsquo;s no doubt he&rsquo;d be even better.</p><p>The Flyers, however, are being forced to go with Parent who has proven the more consistent of the two. So they use Favell only when the schedule makes it mandatory to give Bernie a rest.</p><p>&ldquo;Older guys like Jacques Plante (40) and Glenn Hall (38) do not mind dividing the season equally.&rdquo; reasoned Parent. &ldquo;They enjoy the rest between starts and they like the idea of playing only every other game (which they did last season while helping the Blues win the division title).</p><p>&ldquo;But when you are young like Doug and me, you want to play much more, I am playing a lot but Doug is not. If I were him, I would ask the Flyers to do something about it.&rdquo;</p><p>While Favell is vegetating on the bench, he might very well be helping some team that&rsquo;s willing to take a gamble and give him a chance.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-01

Long-Time Hotkey ‘Buddies’, Parent Thinks Favell Should Demand That Flyers Trade Him

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01748/2799231-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="303" height="364"></div><h2><b>Coach&rsquo;s Life Short</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>I</span>N A LITTLE MORE</b> than two years since expansion began, 10 or the 12 NHL teams have made 14 coaching changes. This is a dreadful rate, making hockey the worst sport in this respect at the moment, though the other sports have had their moments. Some coaches were permitted to slip away in the shadows of off-seasons, but others were bucked off in mid-stream, adding insult to injury. In New York, Minnesota and Los Angeles, Bernie Geoffrion, John Muckier and Hal Laycoe were ousted early in their first seasons as coach. In Detroit, Bill Gadsby was fired after one season and two games as coach, two winning games at that. These are men who worked and waited many years for their chance. They are men of ability or they would not have been given their jobs in the first place. They are with families and feelings. It is hard not to sympathize with them, though no more than with the writer who gets bad reviews and thus no work, or the professional soldier who is killed in battle. They chose their risky courses.</p><p>Out of all of this, we are left with the realization that hockey, as any sport, is a business, and there is no room for sentiment in business. Those of you out there who cheer success and boo failure on our playing fields should remember that. There is little fun in the games of sport, and the animals in the pit, young or old, amateur or pro, are not to be regarded as carefree souls. In what other profession are men&rsquo;s successes and failures, moment by moment, day by day, year by year, recorded in columns of statistics and criticized publicly?</p><p>It might be helpful to examine more closely the Los Angeles case, which by accident of geography we are in a position to consider. After a long and remarkably successful minor-league coaching career, Laycoe was summoned into the majors to rebuild an ordinary team for the future. He was asked to take a longrange view in his methods, and promised patience by management. Every move he made was fashioned along these lines. He treated the players like gentlemen while trying to gain their confidence. He used a rookie on defense, Dale Hoganson, to develop him. He went with one goalkeeper so another rookie, Bruce Landon, could be allowed to develop in the minors.</p><p>Meanwhile, Laycoe had problems. Along with only one goalkeeper who was ready, he had only three defensemen who were ready. Larry Cahan did not report until the first week of the season and Bill White until the fifth week, both out of shape. Laycoe needed another play-making center and did not get one until the seventh week, when a rookie, Butch Goring, was called up. There is not a single King who played well throughout Laycoe&rsquo;s brief tenure. Only a few rewarded his dignity. Gerry Desjardins started strong, but then faded. Eddie Joyal began slow, but then came on. Bill Flett never got going and was demoted.</p><p>Advised the long-ailing Wayne Rutledge finally was ready after a tuneup period in the minors, Laycoe used him to give Desjardins a much-needed rest in the last game of his ninth week. St. Louis routed Rutledge, not the Kings. And the next day, Laycoe was fired. Then manager Larry Regan and new coach Wilson, who had Rutledge in Springfield, commented that Rut would not be ready for at least another month.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02660/2799224-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="563" height="907"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WAYNE RUTLEDGE&hellip;He Wasn&rsquo;t Ready</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Time And Time Again&hellip;</b></h2><p><b>OWNER JACK KENT COOKE&rsquo;s</b> timing in firing Laycoe after only 24 games and after this 24th game in particular was not good. One-third-of-a-season is insufficient test of a coach&rsquo;s, ability. On the other hand. Cooke&rsquo;s timing may have been perfect, since there still was two-thirds to go and time enough to rescue the season. The team seemed to be getting worse, not better and attendance was falling off. I he Kings&rsquo; business was had and to have waited longer might have been disastrous.</p><p>In their first three games under Wilson, the Kings played inspired hockey. They were aggressive and persistent. Goring was brilliant. Given new responsibilities, Flett was better than he&rsquo;d ever been. No goaler ever was better than Desjardins was. White and Cahan, now ready, played at their peaks. Who is to blame or credit when players play uninspired or inspired, the players or the coach?</p><p>In Los Angeles, management might have been crazy not to make a move when it did. No management ever is patient, no matter what it preaches, as Laycoe should have known. And owner Cooke, who is crazy as a fox, is more determined than he is patient, as Laycoe found out. And as Wilson may find out some day. We respect Laycoe. Given another chance elsewhere, we feel certain he will succeed. And we most certainly respect Cooke, who will succeed in sports as he has succeeded in everything else he has tackled, with Wilson or with someone else. We do not condemn Cooke tor cruelty. We condemn the system. He didn&rsquo;t invent it, and he has to live wit it.</p><p>It is the men who take coaching jobs who are crazy, such as Punch Imlach, fired in Toronto after a decade of success and two seasons of failure, but ready to try again with an expansion team in Vancouver. And the men who become managers who are a bit batty, too, such as Bud Poile, awakened at midnight recently with a telephone firing. Couldn&rsquo;t it have waited until he&rsquo;d had his morning coffee?</p><p>Possibly we are too sensitive. Certainly, we are now cynical. For example, we plan to pass up press conferences in which new coaches are hailed as geniuses. We 11 attend one when they give the new whipping boy not only a contract, but an undated letter of dismissal, to be used at the inevitable time. In this respect, we asked Wilson if he would like to follow his acceptance speech with a departure address, so he would not have to bother later, when he was feeling bad. No fool, he declined, but laughed.</p><p>This Christmas, he was one of the temporarily lucky ones. Santa gave him a new job, instead of booting him out in the cold snow.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-01

Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY SPENCE CONLEY</div><p>OAKLAND&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>arol Vadnais was stretched out on the trainer&rsquo;s table in the Oakland Seal&rsquo;s Coliseum Arena dressing room. Dr. Bob Albo, the team surgeon, hovered over him.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s broken,&rdquo; Albo said with a shake of his head.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03544/2799262-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="281" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Carol Vadnais</b></figcaption></div><p>Vadnais reached up tenderly and felt, the swelling around his nose and winced a little. It was painful, yet he swung up off the table, recinched the towel around his waist and smiled at a couple of sportswriters who were watching.</p><p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; he said with a kind of sheepish grin, &ldquo;I guess I&rsquo;ve lost my heavyweight championship. He&rsquo;s tough, that, kid.&rdquo;</p><p>Vadnais was talking about fiery Keith Magnuson, the rookie defenseman for the Chicago Black Hawks. For three periods, the two young NHLers were at each other&rsquo;s throats in a game (Dec. 19) which Chicago won 4-0.</p><p>Finally, referee Lloyd Gilmore stood back and let them have it out in what probably was the most damaging fight to take place in Oakland this season. Vadnais blasted Magnuson right in the mouth opening a gash inside which required six stitches to close. For his trouble, Vadnais took a stiff belt right in the nose.</p><p>It was a 50-minute penalty night for Vad and Magnuson.</p><p>Vadnais had been brawling and the Seals had been enjoying a slight break in the dark clouds which had been hovering over them for such a long time.</p><p>In a quiet move, designed to take advantage of Vad&rsquo;s toughness and a hot-scoring hand, Seal coach Fred Glover moved the big defenseman up to left with center Earl Ingarfield and right wing Bill Hicke.</p><p>That took place on Dec. 10 for the St. Louis game in Oakland. The Seals got a 3-3 tie and managed wins the next two times out over Pittsburgh. 4-1. and Minnesota, 3-1.</p><p>Vadnais bulled and scrapped his way around enemy territory. He got three goals, and three assists in just three games and extended his scoring streak-longest of the season for a Seal&mdash;through seven consecutive games. In that time he scored 10 points on five goals and five assists.</p><p>More importantly, perhaps, than Vadnais&rsquo; power-packed showing as a winger, was the rejuvenition of center Earl Ingarfield.</p><p>Earl had been having problems getting back his scoring touch since returning from a bad wrist injury which stalled him for six weeks. But Vadnais helped solve that.</p><p>During that three-game undefeated streak&mdash;also a season best for the Seals&mdash;Ingarfield scored eight points in three games, including three goals.</p><p>But all of a sudden, the party was over,&mdash;at least temporarily. The Hawks took care of that and on Sunday, Dec. 21, the New York Rangers made it two losses in a row.</p><p>But for all of it, Glover was optimistic that his fifth-place Seals were about to start a run on the pack in the West Division.</p><p>Not only was Ingarfield coming around, but Norm Ferguson, who hadn&rsquo;t scored a goal in two months and 24 games, finally snapped out of it and got one against the Rangers. And Gary Smith was doing a terrific job in the nets on a full-time basis.</p><p>Then, too, the NHL schedule which has Oakland on the road for 22 games out of their first 36 games, was improving. In the &ldquo;second season&rdquo; the Seals will have a 24-game home schedule, and a greater number of West Division opponents.</p><p>The biggest immediate problem, however, was keeping Ingarfield and Ferguson on the stick, getting Vadnais&rsquo; nose healed, and surviving during their second and last long seven-game road swing through the East.</p><p>The Seals left on Dec. 20 and won&rsquo;t return until Jan. 7 when they host Boston. Hopefully, the Seals will have done well enough to at least keep pace with Philadelphia in what now looms as a battle between the two clubs for a playoff position.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-03

Vadnais Shows Versatility With Hot Scoring Streak Playing Wing For Seals

<p>NEW YORK&mdash;</p><p>The Eastern Division front running New York Rangers had what could be called a disastrous Christmas week as they dropped a 3-2 decision to the Western division Pittsburgh Penguins and had to settle for a 3-3 tie with the lowly Los Angeles Kings.</p><p>The Rangers, leading their division for most of the season, had their lead cut to only one point over the high scoring second place Boston Bruins.</p><p>As if this was not enough of a jolt for the hoarse Ranger fans, who have been chanting &ldquo;we&rsquo;re no. 1&rdquo; for some time, the female rooting corps of New York had to absorb the news that handsome Ranger winger Rod Gilbert is making wedding plans.</p><p>Gilbert&rsquo;s bride-to-be, Arunee Lee Aphorn of Thailand, said in an interview that the wedding would take place at the end of the season, &ldquo;after the Rangers win the Stanley Cup&rdquo;.</p><p>Ed Giacomin, the Rangers all-star netminder, allowed six goals in the two games against expansion opposition as his team salvaged only one point.</p><p>The Rangers face the hot and cold Chicago Black Hawks in New York and the leagues two leading goaltenders, Giacomin and the Hawks Tony Esposito, will be trying to usher out the old year on a winning note.</p><p>The Rangers are getting stellar performances from Walt Tkaczuk and Brad Park, as well as from veterans Jean Ratelle and Dave Balon. Tkaczuk is fourth in the individual scoring race with 14 goals and 23 assists for 37 points. Balon and Ratelle have each contributed 13 goals and have records of 36 and 35 total points respectively.</p><p>The New Yorkers continue to dominate the expansion teams, despite their poor showing last week against the Kings and the Penguins. Only the Boston Bruins remain undefeated in East-West competition after 17 games this season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01727/2799307-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="940" height="1047"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02669/2799300-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="948" height="1048"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03559/2799293-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="938" height="1047"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>It takes the ingenuity of the three Allen brothers, Mickey, Charlie and Sam to operate their Montreal clothes emporium. Here&rsquo;s CHARLIE outfitting Boston&rsquo;s JOHN McKENZIE, left, and coach HARRY SINDEN in centre SAM gets his chance to show Toronto coach JOHN McLELLAN, right, his tailoring talents. Many of the top NHL players are among their clients.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

Gilbert Wedding Bells, Expansion Teams Take Toll On Rangers

<p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p>Mickey Allen has a theory.</p><p>&ldquo;Athletes are difficult to fit properly for a suit of clothes,&rdquo; says the Montreal tailor, &ldquo;because they he physically developed so much more than ordinary people.</p><p>&ldquo;Their muscles are so advanced that they tend to bulge out in the back, arms, shoulders and thighs. For example an athlete&rsquo;s calves will strain against the seams of a suit to the point where there is not sufficient comfort.&rdquo;</p><p>Allen a one-time middleweight boxer and Canadian pro football player with the Montreal Bulldogs, should know. But he claims to have surmounted this problem.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re the only company I know of that takes the time and trouble to see that the boys buy a suit which fits them.&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve overcome difficulties that normally hamper athletes when they select their clothes.&rdquo;</p><p>How has Allen managed to do that?</p><p>&ldquo;Very simple,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;We know our business. We know suits have to be made differently to fit athletes, allowing ample space to enable their muscles to enjoy some breathing room.&rdquo;</p><p>Why bother to go to all this trouble?</p><p>&ldquo;Basically, we take pride in seeing people&mdash;particularly athletes&mdash;look well-dressed, says Allen, &ldquo;We will take any pains necessary to accomplish this goal, even if it means having an individual return for several fittings and alterations. If a fellow isn&rsquo;t satisfied he doesn&rsquo;t pay for the suit.&rdquo;</p><p>As a result of this policy, Allen&rsquo;s modest Bleury Street clothes emporium in the heart of Montreal is often swarming with visiting professional athletes, particularly hockey players.</p><p>Frequent customers, for instance, include well-known NHL performers like Frank Mahovlich, Stan Mikita, Bob Pulford, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe, John Bucyk, Paul Henderson, Danny O&rsquo;Shea, Red Berenson, Ed Giacomin, and John McKenzie and such NHL coaches as Harry Sinden and John McLellan.</p><p>The story goes as to how a junior hockey flash was once quizzed about his hopes for eventual pro stardon.</p><p>&ldquo;My first ambition is to play in the NHL, said the youngster. &ldquo;My second goal,&rdquo; claimed the hot prospect, &ldquo;is to get a suit made to measure at Mickey Allen Clothes!&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve even been known to rush suits to the airport as hockey teams were leaving town,&rdquo; he says.</p><p>One of the funniest incidents Allen relates regarding his dealings with pucksters concerns a frugal NHL customer whose name won&rsquo;t be mentioned here.</p><p>&ldquo;This hockey player insisted on three pairs of pants with his suit.&rdquo; recalls Allen. &ldquo;He wanted to be well prepared just in case anything went wrong. As luck would have it,&rdquo; chuckles Allen, &ldquo;he went and burned a hole in the jacket.&rdquo;</p><p>Allen says that after he outfitted the entire St. Louis Blues team with trousers and blazers, the Salomon family was so impressed with their players&rsquo; clothes that they flew to Montreal themselves for suits of their own.</p><p>&ldquo;Our motto is to strike up a winning combination for players, retailers and the manufacturer, says Allen. &ldquo;After athletes are well-fitted with suits here, we advise our retailers in different parts of the country to take over the accounts of these players.&rdquo;</p><p>Actually, Allen was born Michael Abramov-itch, but he altered the name when he launched his ring career &ldquo;because I thought fight announcers would find it too difficult to pronounce &lsquo;Abramovitch&rsquo;. Getting my name legally changed was just about the only fight I ever won, joked the former Canadian Golden Gloves champ.</p><p>Although at one time there were six brothers working together in the family business since 1946, there are now three left: Mickey, Sam and Charlie.</p><p>&ldquo;Sam designs all the patterns and supervises the complete construction of the garment and final fittings,&rdquo; says Mickey. &ldquo;Charlie is highly-regarded not only as a crack clothing man, but also as a shrewd hockey connoisseur.&rdquo;</p><p>Charlie, who attended the wedding of St. Louis hockey coach Scotty Bowman last summer, claims that business at the Allen establishment is &ldquo;never solicited. We obtain our customers through personal contract, camaraderie and brotherhood,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;If for some reason a guy is not happy with his suit, we refund his money and still remain fast friends.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Montrealer Mickey Allen Caters To NHL’s Well-Dressed Players

<p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>fter surprising many hockey experts with their winning ways during this first half of the NHL season, coach Red Kelly&rsquo;s Pittsburgh Penguins tailed off by dropping five games in a row, three of them to Eastern Division teams. But they leaped back into prominence with a bang by dropping the powerful new New York Rangers in Madison Square Garden, handing the blueshirts their first loss of the season in 16 games to an expansion club, and on their home ice.</p><p>Ron Schock led the Penguins assault in that game with two goals, while the teams &lsquo;hot line&rsquo;, Michel Briere, Jean Pronovost and Val Fonteyne, were held pointless.</p><p>Back at home, Pittsburgh handed Chicago&rsquo;s Tony Esposito his seventh shutout of the season for a split of two games with Eastern clubs.</p><p>In the standings, the Penguins hold down fourth place, one point back of the Philadelphia Flyers and three points up on the Oakland Seals.</p><p>With ten wins, the club is second only to the division leaders, the St. Louis Blues, in that column, but have managed only five ties. Second place Minnesota and third place Philadelphia have ten and twelve ties respectively.</p><p>After 32 games, the Penguins have scored only 71 goals, the same as Oakland and only six better than the weak scoring Los Angeles Kings. Their goals against total, however, is third best in their division, and as good as the records of their Eastern Division foes, Toronto and Boston.</p><p>A little more scoring punch and a defense playing up to par should stave off any challenge the Oakland Seals come up with in the second half of the season, notwithstanding the leadership of mentor Red Kelly. The young talent is maturing rapidly, with Briere a top candidate for rookie of the year honors, and the Steeltowners look and are playing 100 better than anyone thought they would at the begenning of the season-with the exception, perhaps, of Red Kelly.</p><p>This could be the coming of age for the Penguins.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01746/2799369-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="548" height="569"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RON SCHOCK&hellip;Led Ranger Upset</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Ice Quips&hellip;&hellip;By Maki</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02651/2799362-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="1206" height="1735"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;Pardon Me, But Could You Direct Me To The Officials&rsquo; Dressing Room?&rdquo;</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0010-01

Penguins Continue To Surprise Everyone With Ice Play—Except Coach Red Kelly

<p><b>Following are the latest player movements in hockey:</b></p><h2><b>NATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p>TORONTO&mdash;<b>Marcel Pronovost,</b> defenseman, recalled from Tulsa of CHL.</p><p>MINNESOTA&mdash;<b>Tom Polanic,</b> defenseman, assigned to Iowa of CHL.</p><p>NEW YORK&mdash;<b>Larry Hale,</b> defenseman, and <b>Rosaire Paiement,</b> forward, recalled from Quebec of AHL.</p><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;<b>Terry Gray,</b> forward, returned to Kansas City of CHL.</p><p>PITTSBURGH <b>&mdash;Bryan Watson,</b> defenseman, recalled from Baltimore of AHL. <b>Mike McMahon,</b> defenseman, assigned to Baltimore.</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;<b>Marc Tardif</b> and <b>Guy Charron,</b> forwards, and <b>Phil Myre,</b> goalkeeper, recalled from Montreal Voyageurs of AHL <b>Jack Norris,</b> goalkeeper, returned to Voyageurs.</p><h2><b>WESTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>DENVER&mdash;<b>Ed Hoekstra,</b> forward, placed on suspended list after quitting club.</p><p>SALT LAKE CITY&mdash;<b>Gary Dineen,</b> forward, secured from Iowa of CHL. <b>Rick Pagnutti,</b> defenseman, and <b>Dave Rochefort,</b> forward, sent on loan to Oklahoma City of CHL.</p><p>SAN DIEGO&mdash;<b>Dave Richardson,</b> forward, recalled from Fort Worth of CHL. <b>Ross Perkins,</b> forward, activated from injury re-serve list. <b>Alex Faulkner and Willie O&rsquo;Ree,</b> forwards, placed on injury reserve list.</p><p>SEATTLE&mdash;<b>Dwight Carruthers,</b> defenseman, restored to active roster. <b>Bill Dineen,</b> forward, rehoved from lineup.</p><h2><b>AMERICAN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>MONTREAL&mdash;<b>Ron Roberts,</b> forward, secured from Salt Lake of WHL. <b>Lyle Carter,</b> goalkeeper, recalled from Clinton of EHL.</p><h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>JACKSONVILLE&mdash;<b>Roger Bamburak,</b> forward, picked up on waivers from Syracuse of EHL. <b>John Voss,</b> goalkeeper, dropped from roster. <b>Harold White,</b> forward, placed on inactive list.</p><p>NEW HAVEN&mdash;<b>Chuck Stuart,</b> forward, placed on voluntary retired list again.</p><p>NEW JERSEY&mdash;<b>Gilles Banville,</b> goalkeeper, secured from Quebec of AHL. <b>George Forgie,</b> forward, placed on waivers.</p><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;<b>Rod Diamond,</b> defenseman, added to roster from Quebec Senior League. George <b>Graham,</b> defenseman, signed as free agent.</p><p>CHARLOTTE&mdash;<b>Art Hart,</b> forward, dropped from roster. <b>Allie Sutherland,</b> forward, activated from injury reserve list.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY GLENN REDMANN</div><p>TWIN CITIES&mdash;</p><p>After yielding 270 goals last season&mdash;the most by any National Hockey League team in several years&mdash;the Minnesota North Stars, naturally, placed defense at the head of their improvement list for 196970.</p><p>Some players who had done so well offensively while the club was finishing out of the playoffs were reminded in no uncertain terms that they&rsquo;d have to pick up on defense.</p><p>Others who&rsquo;d done reasonably well defensively were asked to do even better.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01736/2799424-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="276" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean-Paul Parise</b></figcaption></div><p>And then of course there were those who were simply sent packing in order to make room for newly-acquired players such as John Miszuk, Barry Gibbs, Bob Barlow, Charlie Burns and Tommy Williams.</p><p>In the Stars&rsquo; first 17 games, seven of which were victories compared to eight defeats and two ties, defensive improvement was highly evident to the opposition, fans and anyone else who bothered to check the figures.</p><p>With veteran Cesare Maniago in goal for 13 games and rookie Ken Broderick working the other four, only 46 goals were allowed while the offense produced 47.</p><p>That&rsquo;s a 2.7 average, or far better than the overall 3.6 mark the club had a year ago.</p><p>In the next 11 games, the Minnesotans didn&rsquo;t give either Maniago or another rookie goaler. Fern Rivard, ample protection and the result was 41 goals against or almost four per game.</p><p>Fortunately, the North Stars themselves picked up a bit on offense with 37 goals over that stretch and, by doing so, managed to pull out two victories and six ties while suffering only three setbacks.</p><p>But had they been able to maintain that defensive pace of the first 17 games, there is little doubt that at least half of those deadlocks could have been turned into triumphs.</p><p>After getting a 5-5 tie at home against Toronto on Ray Cullen&rsquo;s third goal of the game only a few minutes from the finish, most of the Stars admitted they&rsquo;d blown a good opportunity for two points.</p><p>Bill Goldsworthy&rsquo;s goal early in the third had staked the Minnesotans to a 4-2 lead and the momentum was theirs as the Leafs seemed confused for several minutes afterward.</p><p>Then came one of those seemingly unnecessary penalties which gave the visitors a chance to get back to within a goal, and when they did, two more tallies came quickly forcing the home team to fight for its life to get a tie.</p><p>Capt. Claude Larose, who just may be the top two way right winger in the entire West Division, was among those who seemed to be unhappy with the defensive backslide.</p><p>&ldquo;We had the Leafs right where we wanted them and let &lsquo;em off the hook,&rdquo; said the abrasive former Montreal chattel.</p><p>Prospects of improvement weren&rsquo;t at all bright after the team was tied in Los Angeles (4-4) and beaten in Oakland (3-1) on its first trip of the season to the West Coast.</p><p>J.P. Parise, a premier checker on the left side, suffered a shoulder separation against L.A. in a game which saw the Kings get the tie with 24 seconds left after pulling goalie Gerry Desjardins.</p><p>&ldquo;You gotta miss a guy like J.P.,&rdquo; said defenseman Lou Nanne. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a shame, because he was going so well (nine goals, 17 assists) when he got hurt.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Stars’ Better Defense Plan Hits Snag As Club Lapses Through 11 Games

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01714/2799476-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>INDIVIDUAL SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Dec. 28)</b></p><h3><b>EAST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02617/2799469-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="627" height="2535"></div><h3><b>WEST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03488/2799462-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="620" height="2606"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES BY TEAMS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04360/2799455-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="583" height="340"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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TOP 25 SCORERS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06221/2799514-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05268/2799521-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="192" height="202"></div><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Dec. 30)</b></p><h2><b>EASTERN DIVISION</b></h2><h2><b>WESTERN DIVISION</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07193/2799507-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="1115" height="308"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Dec. 23</b></p><p>Minnesota 3 at St. Louis 5</p><p><b>Wed. Dec. 24</b></p><p>Los Angeles 1 at Toronto 8</p><p><b>Thurs. Dec. 25</b></p><p>Los Angeles 1 at Boston 7</p><p>Chicago 4 at Minnesota 4</p><p>Oakland 1 at Philadelphia 3</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 26</b></p><p>Montreal 3 at Detroit 3</p><p>Toronto 1 at St. Louis 3</p><p>Pittsburgh 3 at New York 2</p><p><b>Sat. Dec. 27</b></p><p>Philadelphia 2 at Montreal 2</p><p>St. Louis 1 at Toronto 4</p><p>Chicago 3 at Pittsburgh 0</p><p>Oakland 5 at Minnesota 3</p><p><b>Sun. Dec. 28</b></p><p>Los Angeles 3 at New York 3</p><p>Boston 5 at Philadelphia 4</p><p>Oakland 3 at Detroit 5</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Dec. 30</b></p><p>St. Louis at Montreal</p><p>Minnesota at Los Angeles</p><p><b>Wed. Dec. 31</b></p><p>Montreal at Pittsburgh</p><p>Oakland at Toronto</p><p>Chicago at New York</p><p>Boston at Detroit</p><p><b>Thurs. Jan. 1</b></p><p>Philadelphia at Los Angeles</p><p><b>Sat. Jan. 3</b></p><p>Oakland at Montreal</p><p>Chicago at Toronto</p><p>New York at Minnesota</p><p>Boston at Los Angeles</p><p>Detroit at Philadelphia</p><p>Pittsburgh at St. Louis</p><p><b>Sun. Jan. 4</b></p><p>Toronto at Pittsburgh</p><p>Oakland at New York</p><p>Chicago at Detroit</p><p>Minnesota at Philadelphia</p><p><b>Tues. Jan. 6</b></p><p>Los Angeles at Montreal</p><p><b>Wed. Jan. 7</b></p><p>Minnesota at Toronto</p><p>New York at Pittsburgh</p><p>Boston at Oakland</p><p>Detroit at Chicago</p><p>Philadelphia at St. Louis.</p><p><b>Thurs. Jan. 8</b></p><p>Pittsburgh at Montreal</p><p>Los Angeles at Philadelphia<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE NHL SCENE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08168/2799552-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg"></div><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES OF SUN. DEC. 28)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Looking At NHL Goalers

<p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Dec. 21)</b></p><h2><b>TEAM STATISTICS AGAINST OWN DIVISION</b></h2><h3><b>East Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01703/2799660-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="573" height="180"></div><h3><b>West Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02656/2799653-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="577" height="178"></div><h3><b>AGAINST OTHER DIVISION East Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03610/2799646-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="578" height="181"></div><h3><b>West Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04559/2799639-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="576" height="181"></div><h2><b>HOME AND AWAY RECORD</b></h2><h3><b>East At Home</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05462/2799632-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="575" height="179"></div><h3><b>East On Road</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06394/2799625-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="573" height="179"></div><h3><b>West At Home</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07364/2799618-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="574" height="180"></div><h3><b>West On Road</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08341/2799611-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="575" height="188"></div><h3><b>POWER PLAY GOALS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09324/2799604-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="589" height="432"></div><h2><b>INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS</b></h2><h3><b>POWER PLAY GOALS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10302/2799597-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="583" height="456"></div><h3><b>GAME WINNING GOALS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11277/2799590-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="578" height="404"></div><h3><b>GAME TIEING GOALS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12242/2799583-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="579" height="327"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL WEEK—In Statistics

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-14" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-14176/2799722-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB CLARKE&hellip;Flyers&rsquo; Junior Scoring Find.</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>he Philadelphia Flyers were able to inject a little more youth into their NHL program this season and one of their new additions was a blond-headed hopeful named Bob Clarke. This 20-year-old center has managed to do what few National Leaguers have been able to accomplish over the years&mdash;jump directly from junior hockey to the NHL. Clarke was the scoring sensation of the junior Flin Flon Bombers last season, which prompted the Flyers to draft him last summer. He is also no ordinary hockey rookie. Clarke is also the NHL&rsquo;s first diabetic player but he hasn&rsquo;t let this hamper him in his big league progress in the least. Through Philadelphia&rsquo;s first 32 games, Clarke had scored seven times and assisted on 11 other goals, not a bad start for a young man playing the rugged game of hockey with such a personal handicap.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Meet The Rookies

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>TORONTO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>t wasn&rsquo;t without prolonged and agonizing soul-searching that Toronto Maple Leaf&rsquo;s finally decided to give up on Wayne Carleton, who&rsquo;d once been described by president Stafford Smythe as the greatest junior he&rsquo;d ever had.</p><p>Big, strong and skillful, Carleton possessed vast potential. Of that, there was never the slightest doubt. But Leafs, dropping deeper and deeper at the bottom of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s eastern standings, simply couldn&rsquo;t wait any longer. They needed immediate help, not the continued hope that Carleton would eventually surmount a frustrating injury jinx and an apparent mental block regarding Leafs and their farm teams.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13208/2799691-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="255" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Harrison</b></figcaption></div><p>So they dealt with Boston Bruins, a club so deep in talent that it could afford to gamble on Carleton&rsquo;s ability to deliver for them. He had the stuff to be a super-star. Everybody acknowledged that. There was an outside possibility he might still live up to that immense promise.</p><p>Bruins had so much surplus manpower that they could give Leafs one of their extra men for Carleton. If the big lad failed to come through, the loss wouldn&rsquo;t hurt the Boston team very much anyhow.</p><p>The man Leafs got was Jim Harrison, a truculent 196-pound who can play either right wing or centre.</p><p>The right flank originally was what coach Johnny McLellan had in mind for Harrison, who&rsquo;s 22. Carleton is 23.</p><p>It&rsquo;s on the starboard side that Leafs are quite vulnerable. George Armstrong, 39, has been playing there, as well as Bob Pulford, who normally skates at centre or left wing.</p><p>However, when Harrison became a regular, it was at centre, as a replacement when Dave Keon was injured.</p><p>Keon stopped a slap shot on the ankle in Leafs&rsquo; Dec. 20 loss to New York and suffered a severe bruise. He was missing the following night, when Leafs played at Detroit, and Harrison took his place.</p><p>The newcomer scored once in an important, 3-0 win over Detroit. Moreover, he played a sound and aggressive 2-way game.</p><p>That, of course, is what McLellan and general manager Jim Gregory liked about Harrison: His toughness.</p><p>He had fit neatly into the Boston team&rsquo;s system and worked 16 NHL matches last winter as a replacement in various emergencies. In 43 games with the Oklahoma City farm club, he totalled 130 penalty minutes.</p><p>&ldquo;I was coaching Toronto&rsquo;s Tulsa team so I knew Harrison pretty well,&rdquo; says McLellan. &ldquo;I liked his attitude.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You were pretty sure of a playoff bonus with Boston, but I knew I&rsquo;d be going somewhere else sooner or later because they&rsquo;re so well-fixed at centre,&rdquo; says Harrison. &ldquo;I mean it&rsquo;s pretty tough to win a regular job when they have Phil Esposito. Fred Stanfield and Derek Sanderson at centre.&rdquo;</p><p>Harrison had opened the season with Bruins on account of Sanderson&rsquo;s knee problems.</p><p>As for Carleton, he was injured before training camp while touring Russia with Canada&rsquo;s national team and 1969-70 seemed to be developing into another lost season for him. He&rsquo;d lived with this sort of thing&mdash;one injury or another&mdash;almost since the time he came to Toronto to play junior hockey.</p><p>Chances are that if Leafs were a stronger team, they would indulge in the luxury of waiting a while longer on Carleton. His talents haven&rsquo;t diminished and Leafs&rsquo; investment in him was gigantic.</p><p>But the versatile, industrious Harrison looked like a good bet and he happened to be available.</p><p>That victory in Detroit,&mdash;to which Harrison made such an important contribution&mdash;marked the second time in a week Leafs had won on the road, unexpectedly, after losing at home. These wins were keeping Leafs within hailing distance of the fourth and last playoff spot while they were riding out a series of injuries.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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McLellan, Gregory Like Toughness Of Harrison As New Leaf Impresses

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div><p><i>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</i></p><p><i>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</i></p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;</p><p>Black Hawk goalies are making Billy Reay look like a coaching genuis.</p><p>Consider recent events. A couple of weeks ago, rookie Tony Esposito was benched after a couple of rocky efforts in favor of Denis DeJordy, who had been languishing on the bench since Oct. 22.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01702/2799760-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="271" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Denis DeJordy</b></figcaption></div><p>So, all DeJordy did was come up with a 4-1 victory over Philadelphia. Then, after DeJordy had turned in a most respectable effort in a 3-1 loss to Los Angeles in the opener of a west coast tour, Reay switched back to Esposito in an effort to gain a victory in Oakland, where the Hawks have been playing python to the Seals&rsquo; mongoose since the team was formed.</p><p>Tony responded by turning back all Seals&rsquo; thrusts in a 4-0 victory, then came back with his second shutout in a row and his sixth of the season two nights later in Chicago against the St. Louis Blues.</p><p>What was the thinking be-hid the quick switch back to Esposito?</p><p>&ldquo;There was nothing mysterious about it,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;We&rsquo; been having trouble winning in Oakland and, since Esposito had the best goals against average in the league, I wanted to have the best in the nets.&rdquo;</p><p>Esposito has indeed been that, altho on occasion he&rsquo;s given Reay concern over his penchant for wandering away from his net in pursuit of loose pucks.</p><p>The Blues game provided an excellent instance. In the first period, with the Hawks ahead 2-0, Tony moved out of his net for a puck which the Blues&rsquo; Red Berenson also was chasing.</p><p>Esposito got to it but mishandled it and found himself watching as The Red Baron gained control and fired on an unprotected net.</p><p>This time, however Defenseman Pat Stapleton was able to skid across the goalmouth and block the shot, which this time was on goal.</p><p>&ldquo;If Tony had blown that shutout he&rsquo;d have had nobody but himself to blame,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;If he has a fault, it&rsquo;s that he is inclined to move around too much.&rdquo;</p><p>Another Hawk who has been moving around much, at least as far as he&rsquo;s concerned, is newcomer Gene Ubriaco, whom the Hawks acquired from Oakland in exchange for Howie Menard.</p><p>The little left wing-center knocked around the minors with several teams before expansion provided a job in the National league. And then, since moving up, he&rsquo;s worked for Pittsburgh, Oakland and now the Hawks.</p><p>&ldquo;I just hope I get the chance to settle down now,&rdquo; said Gene, shortly after arriving in Chicago with his family. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t doubt that I would be traded from Oakland, because Fred Glover wasn&rsquo;t using me at all. But I hope I can spend some time here, even if it is as a spare. I&rsquo;m always ready to get off the bench and help out.</p><p>&ldquo;Besides, It&rsquo;s good to be here with the Hawks, particularly since Louie Angotti is here. We were together in Pittsburgh.&rdquo;</p><p>Hawk Manager Tommy Ivan figures that Ubriaco will provide a little insurance on the left side in the event that Doug Mohns, who normally works at left wing for Stan Mikita and Cliff Koroll, has to move back on defense in an emergency.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02593/2799753-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="561" height="1272"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Reay&hellip;Just playing hot hand</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hawk Goalie Making Reay Look Like ‘Master Switcher’

<h2><b><i>In The Fast</i></b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>he Toronto Maple Leafs have been searching for a new ice leader for the past few years and they might just have their man in fast-skating Ron Ellis.</b></p><p><b>The Leafs&rsquo; right winger enjoyed a productive week with three goals and an assist to raise his season total to 17 goals and nine assists for 26 points to put him in the NHL&rsquo;s top 26 scorers.</b></p><p><b>Toronto won two of its three starts last week to close the gap on the cellar spot and a playoff berth and Ellis played a prominent part in the club&rsquo;s surge.</b></p><p><b>Ellis counted the first two goals to start the Leafs rolling towards an 8-1 bombing of the Los Angeles Kings and then added the insurance marker in a 4-1 defeat of the St. Louis Blues last weekend.</b></p><p><b>THE HOCKEY NEWS and El Producto are pleased to salute the NHL&rsquo;s player-of-the-week in the East:</b></p><p><b><i>RON ELLIS&hellip; Toronto</i></b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03455/2799798-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="292" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ron Ellis</b></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>In The West</i></b></h2><p><b>There&rsquo;s a fine line between the big time and the minors and a fellow named Simon Nolet always seems to be on the wrong side of it. At least until this season.</b></p><p><b>Nolet is the young prospect the Philadelphia Flyers have been patiently waiting to produce and since his second recall by the NHL club from the Quebec Aces in recent weeks, the onetime junior hockey flash appears to be ready to take his place permanently with the Flyers.</b></p><p><b>Nolet came up with four goals and two assists in the Flyers&rsquo; three games last week as they won, lost and tied. Nolet had a hand in all three contests. He scored once in a 31 win over Oakland, then scored a goal at 18:34 of the third period to salvage a 2-2 tie with Montreal. When the Boston Bruins outlasted the Flyers 5-4 on the weekend, it wasn&rsquo;t Nolet&rsquo;s fault they lost. He scored two of their goals.</b></p><p><b>THE HOCKEY NEWS and El Producto are pleased to salute the NHL&rsquo;s player-of-the-week in the West:</b></p><p><b><i>SIMON NOLFT&hellip; Philadelphia</i></b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04334/2799791-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="286" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Simon Nolet</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL PLAYER OF THE WEEK

<h2><b>Game-By-Game Summaries</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01677/2799934-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="862" height="574"></div><h3><b>TUES. DEC. 23 MINNESOTA 3 AT ST. LOUIS 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02609/2799927-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="587" height="655"></div><h3><b>WED. DEC. 24 LOS ANGELES 1 AT TORONTO 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03513/2799920-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="592" height="730"></div><h3><b>Thurs. Dec. 25 LOS ANGELES 1 AT BOSTON 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04398/2799913-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="585" height="658"></div><h3><b>OAKLAND 1 AT PHILADELPHIA 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05301/2799906-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="586" height="526"></div><h3><b>CHICAGO 4 AT MINNESOTA 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06249/2799899-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="598" height="648"></div><h3><b>Fri. Dec. 26 MONTREAL 3 AT DETROIT 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07223/2799892-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="589" height="582"></div><h3><b>PITTSBURGH 3 AT NEW YORK 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08199/2799885-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="600" height="550"></div><h3><b>TORONTO 1 AT ST. LOUIS 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09184/2799878-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="583" height="479"></div><h3><b>Sat. Dec. 27 PHILADELPHIA 2 AT MONTREAL 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-10161/2799871-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="586" height="477"></div><h3><b>ST. LOUIS 1 AT TORONTO 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-11141/2799864-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="583" height="529"></div><h3><b>CHICAGO 3 AT PITTSBURGH 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-12114/2799857-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="580" height="451"></div><h3><b>OAKLAND 5 AT MINNESOTA 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-13100/2799850-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="590" height="630"></div><h3><b>Sun. Dec. 28 LOS ANGELES 3 AT NEW YORK 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1487/2799843-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="594" height="552"></div><h3><b>BOSTON 5 AT PHILADELPHIA 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1571/2799836-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="595" height="781"></div><h3><b>OAKLAND 3 AT DETROIT 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1667/2799829-1-eng-US/f0015-162.jpg" title="f0015-16" width="586" height="728"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

<h2>MONTREAL</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Rogatien Vachon</p><p>Phi Myre</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>J.-C. Tremblay</p><p>Ted Harris</p><p>Serge Savard</p><p>Terry Harper</p><p>Jacques Laperriere</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Ralph Backstrom</p><p>Dick Duff</p><p>Bobby Rousseau</p><p>Yvan Cournoyer</p><p>Claude Provost</p><p>Chris Bordeleau</p><p>Mickey Redmond</p><p>Jacques Lemaire</p><p>Marc Tardif</p><p>Guy Charron</p><p>Peter Mahovlich</p><p>Phil Roberto</p><h2>ST. LOUIS</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Jacques Plante</p><p>Ernie Wakely</p><p>Glenn Hall</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Ray Fortin</p><p>Bob Plager</p><p>Noel Picard</p><p>Barclay Plager</p><p>Jim Roberts</p><p>Jean-Guy Talbot</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Red Berenson</p><p>Frank St. Marseille</p><p>Phil Goyette</p><p>Gary Sabourin</p><p>Tim Ecclestone</p><p>Bill McCreary</p><p>Ron Anderson</p><p>Larry Keenan</p><p>Andre Boudrias</p><p>Ab McDonald</p><h2>BOSTON</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Gerry Cheevers</p><p>Ed Johnston</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Bobby Orr</p><p>Rick Smith</p><p>Dallas Smith</p><p>Gary Doak</p><p>Don Awrey</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Derek Sanderson</p><p>Ken Hodge</p><p>John Bucyk</p><p>Wayne Carleton</p><p>Garnet Bailey</p><p>Bill Lesuk</p><p>Ed Westfall</p><p>John McKenzie</p><p>Phil Esposito</p><p>Jim Lorentz</p><p>Wayne Cashman</p><h2>OAKLAND</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Gary Smith</p><p>Charlie Hodge</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Doug Roberts</p><p>Wayne Muloin</p><p>Carol Vadnais</p><p>Dick Mattiussi</p><p>Bert Marshall</p><p>Harry Howell</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Billy Hicke</p><p>Gerry Ehman</p><p>Ted Hampson</p><p>Don O&rsquo;Donoghue</p><p>Gary Jarrett</p><p>Earl Ingarfield</p><p>Mike Laughton</p><p>Norm Ferguson</p><p>Brian Perry</p><p>Bob Diliabough</p><p>Howie Menard</p><h2>CHICAGO</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Denis DeJordy</p><p>Tony Esposito</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Keith Magnuson</p><p>Doug Jarrett</p><p>Ray McKay</p><p>Pat Stapleton</p><p>Gilles Marotte</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Lou Angotti</p><p>Pit Martin</p><p>Jim Pappin</p><p>Bobby Hull</p><p>Dennis Hull</p><p>Eric Nesterenko</p><p>Chico Maki</p><p>Cliff Koroll</p><p>Jim Wiste</p><p>Stan Mikita</p><p>Gerry Pinder</p><p>Gene Ubriaco</p><p>Doug Mohns</p><h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Bernie Parent</p><p>Doug Favell</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Ed Van Impe</p><p>Joe Watson</p><p>Larry Hillman</p><p>Wayne Hillman</p><p>Dick Cherry</p><p>Larry Hale</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Earl Heiskala</p><p>Andre Lacroix</p><p>Simon Nolet</p><p>Jean-Guy Gendron</p><p>Reg Fleming</p><p>Bill Sutherland</p><p>Gary Dornhoefer</p><p>Bob Clarke</p><p>Tosa ire Paiement</p><p>Terry Ball</p><h2>DETROIT</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Roy Edwards</p><p>Roger Crozier</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Bobby Boun</p><p>Gary Bergman</p><p>Carl Brewer</p><p>Ron Harris</p><p>Matt Ravlich</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Garry Unger</p><p>Gordie Howe</p><p>Alex Delvecchio</p><p>Garry Monahan</p><p>Bruce MacGregor</p><p>Nick Libett</p><p>Wayne Connelly</p><p>Pete Stemkowski</p><p>Frank Mahovlich</p><p>Billy Dea</p><p>Al Karlander</p><h2>PITTSBURGH</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Les Binkley</p><p>Al Smith</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Duane Rupp</p><p>Bob Woytowich</p><p>Bob Blackburn</p><p>Tracy Pratt</p><p>Jim Morrison</p><p>Bryan Watson</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Bryan Hextali</p><p>Keith McCreary</p><p>Val Fonteyne</p><p>Nick Harbaruk</p><p>Ken Schinkel</p><p>Glen Sather</p><p>Ron Schock</p><p>Wally Boyer</p><p>Jean Pronovost</p><p>Dean Prentice</p><p>Michel Briere</p><h2>TORONTO</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Bruce Gamble</p><p>Marv Edwards</p><p>John Bower</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Tim Horton</p><p>Pat Quinn</p><p>Jim Dorey</p><p>Marcel Pronovost</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Jim McKenny</p><p>Ron Ellis</p><p>Murray Oliver</p><p>Jim Harrison</p><p>Brit Selby</p><p>Mike Walton</p><p>Floyd Smith</p><p>Paul Henderson</p><p>Bob Pulford</p><p>Terry Clancy</p><p>Ron Ward</p><p>Norm Ullman</p><p>George Armstrong</p><p>Dave Keon</p><h2>LOS ANGELES</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Gerry Desjardins</p><p>Wayne Rutledge</p><p>DENSEMEN</p><p>Dale Rolfe</p><p>Brent Hughes</p><p>Bob Wall</p><p>Dale Hoganson</p><p>Larry Cahan</p><p>Bill White</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Eddie Joyal</p><p>Eddie Shack</p><p>Bill Rett</p><p>JimPeters</p><p>Butch Goring</p><p>Ted Irvine</p><p>Skip Krake</p><p>Mike Corrigan</p><p>Ross Lonsberry</p><p>Leon Rochefor</p><h2>NEW YORK</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Ed Giacomin</p><p>Terry Sawchui</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Brad Park</p><p>Amie Brown</p><p>Jim Neilson</p><p>Rod Seiling</p><p>Allan Hamilto</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Jack Egers</p><p>Bob Nevin</p><p>Real Lemieux</p><p>Bill Fairbairn</p><p>Vic Hadfield</p><p>Ron Stewart</p><p>Dave Balon</p><p>Walt Tkaczuk</p><p>Jean Ratelie</p><p>Juha Widing</p><p>Don Marshall</p><h2>MINNESOTA</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Cesare Maniago</p><p>Fem Rivard</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>John Miszuk</p><p>Leo Boivin</p><p>Lou Nanne</p><p>Darryl Sly</p><p>Barry Gibbs</p><p>Tom Reid</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Danny O&rsquo;Shea</p><p>Bill Goldsworthy</p><p>Charlie Burns</p><p>Ray Cullen</p><p>Jean-Paul Parise</p><p>Tommy Williams</p><p>Bob Barlow</p><p>Claude Larose</p><p>Bill Collins</p><p>Danny Grant</p><p>Walt McKechnie<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

National League Rosters

<p>BRAINTREE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>ockey fans in this humble little New England hockey community paid their final respects on Tuesday Dec. 16 to Jean Guy Landry, who died as a result of an accidental head injury received a week previous during a New England Hockey League game.</p><p>Some 3,200 fans jammed the Ridge Arena in Braintree on Jean Guy Landry Memorial Night as his teammates, the Braintree Hawks, squared off against the Nashua Maple Leafs in a regularly scheduled NEHL game with proceeds going to the stricken player&rsquo;s wife. Helen, and their two surviving children. aged four and 14 months.</p><p>Many heartfelt people donated their services to the night including officials, the Braintree Police Department, rink emplovees, the two teams, coaches, trainers and Gerald Ridge, owner of the building, who donated entire proceeds of the game to the Landry family.</p><p>Members of the Boston Bruins of the NHL attended the game including Ed Johnston, Gerry Cheevers, Gary Doak. Rick Smith. Phil Esposito and Derek Sanderson.</p><p>A special fund has been established for the Landry family. Donations to the fund will be accepted by Mr. Gerald Ridge, c/o the Ridge Arena. West Street, Braintree. Mass., 02185. Checks should be made payable to the JEAN GUY LANDRY MEMORIAL FUND.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Final Tribute Paid Hockey Star As Landry Memorial Fund Set Up

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>atthew Kuzyk of 453 Beaconsfield Blvd., Beaurepaire, Que,. Canada, has been selected the November winner and Eli Lemkowitz of 67-17 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, N.Y. 11367, USA, has been selected the December winner of the monthly Gruen Precision Watch contest.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

GRUEN WATCH WINNERS

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div><p>BOSTON&mdash;</p><p>&mdash;When hockey fans sit and sip their beverages and talk about right wings in the National Hockey League, invariably the conversation will center around Gordie Howe.</p><p>There is no doubt the 41-year-old Howe, who now is in his 24th season with Detroit, deserves all the conversation that surrounds him.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01523/2799996-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="252" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John McKenzie</b></figcaption></div><p>But there is another right wing in the league and he is one of the driving forces of the Bruins. His name: John Albert McKenzie.</p><p>Most people in Beantown don&rsquo;t know him by that. He is Johnny, Johnny Pie, just plain Pie or Mack.</p><p>Regardless of what you call him, though, McKenzie has been one of the top right wings in the NHL since he joined the Bruins in trade for Reg Fleming in January of 1966.</p><p>Since then he has scored 13, 17, 28 and 29 goals for the Bruins and at Christmas this season McKenzie has registered 13 goals with 17 assists.</p><p>For a guy who broke into the league with Detroit back in 1959 and now is 32-years-old this may seem a long time to come of age as a hockey player.</p><p>Johnny may even admit that 10-years is a long time to become established in any profession but there is a ready explanation.</p><p>In the first place McKenzie is only 5&rsquo;9&rdquo; tall, although he has 178 pounds packed around that frame.</p><p>In the second place Johnny hardly was in one place long enough to become known as a fiery and hustling hockey player. In the third place he suffered a ruptured spleen while playing for Chicago and many hockey men figured his days were numbered as a professional.</p><p>As a final item, Johnny was accustomed to spending his summers roping calves in rodeos around his native Alberta.</p><p>But, significant of his nature, McKenzie never stopped plugging. He believed in himself as a hockey player and when he was traded from New York to Boston he finally found someone who believed in him.</p><p>You might say he actually found a hockey home in Boston.</p><p>The first thing the Bruins did o make him welcome was to honor a bonus clause in his New York contract. He was to receive an additional stipend from the Rangers if he scored 20 goals in the 1965-66 season.</p><p>When he came to the B&rsquo;s he had scored only six goals. When he finished the season with 13 for the B&rsquo;s and a total of 19, he wasn&rsquo;t counting his extra cash.</p><p>But the Bruins gave him the bonus as a traveling present when he went home.</p><p>The following season after scoring 17 goals with 19 assists the Bruins requested he abandon his hobby of calf roping.</p><p>&ldquo;This was the first time anyone ever had shown an interest in what I was doing,&rdquo; says McKenzie now. &ldquo;I really appreciated it.</p><p>&ldquo;When you know someone cares you feel wanted. It makes quite a difference. It makes you want to put out even more than ever.</p><p>&ldquo;I thought I always had played as hard as I could everywhere I was. But I think I got a little more inspiration playing for the Bruins.&rdquo;</p><p>Of course the fact that he is playing on a line with Johnny Bucyk and Fred Stanfield hasn&rsquo;t hurt the aggressive little right wing.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got to give them credit,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;They are great guys to play with. We&rsquo;ve been working together now for almost three seasons. We know each others moves and are able to help each other.</p><p>&ldquo;It still takes three men to make a line.&rdquo;</p><p>What McKenzie says is true. But the fact still remains there is only one &ldquo;Pieface&rdquo; in the National Hockey League and he deserves a big shot at the All-Star team this year.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02449/2799989-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="1140" height="1600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Despite his 5&rsquo;9&rdquo; frame, little JOHN McKENZIE can hold his own with the &lsquo;giants&rsquo; of the NHL, like Montreal&rsquo;s SERGE SAVARD.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bruins’ John McKenzie Admits Being Wanted Raised His Stock Among Top Right Wings In NHL

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01438/2800096-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="729" height="961"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stretching for a look at the action.</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02388/2800089-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="735" height="961"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Not too happy at what he saw.</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03319/2800082-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="730" height="958"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Oh, no! Not another goal.</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04251/2800075-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="739" height="967"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Will it ever end? At least we tied.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Kings’ Coach John Wilson Sweats Out First Game

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;</p><p>At the time of Hal Laycoe&rsquo;s firing, the only Los Angeles King playing the best hockey of his career was Eddie Joyal. For this, Joyal can be regarded most favorably. Laycoe treated the players well, but they did not treat him well with their performances. Some tried, but few seemed inspired.</p><p>Generally, players can best be judged in difficult situations. For one thing, those that keep hustling while losing stand above the rest. In this respect, goal-tender Gerry Desjardins must be commended for performing valiantly under unreasonable pressure before he began to wear down. He is the only goal-tender in the majors who played in every game of the first third of the season, so can be excused for slipping.</p><p>Above all, Joyal must be commended. After a slow start, he was playing better than he ever has before. Always a swift skater and a swift wrist-shooter, he sped and shot to 33 goals last season, but did not make his share of good plays, did not forecheck aggressively and did not defend tenaciously. Since the first few weeks of this season, he not only has been speeding and scoring, but making good passes and forechecking and backchecking effectively.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure why,&rdquo; the sharp, handsome bachelor comments. &ldquo;I do know that after last season I felt like a leader on this team, and, during this season, while things were going bad, I felt like I had a responsibility to do the best I could. Sure it&rsquo;s hard to keep hustling while the team is losing, some times badly, but I knew a lot was. expected of me and I felt I had to live up to that, so I&rsquo;ve really been bearing down.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05205/2800127-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="252" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Joyal</b></figcaption></div><p>When some of the Kings were unhappy about some things, they let it affect their play. Joyal was unhappy when his buddy, Bill Flett, was demoted to Springfield, but he plays with the pride of the true pro and he kept going out and doing better and better. At 29, in his 10th season as a pro, the shrewd Joyal is at the peak of his career and is one of the finer players in hockey. It is unfortunate he was sidelined with a knee injury early in Laycoe&rsquo;s last game as coach, but he was back in action three games later.</p><p>At 26, in his sixth season as a pro, Flett has reached the turning point of his career. While scoring 50 goals his first two seasons in the NHL, he sometimes seemed lethargic, and he was demoted when he got off to his usual slow start this season. After two weeks, he was recalled. And in the first three games of Johnny Wilson&rsquo;s coaching tenure, Bill played the best hockey he&rsquo;s ever played.</p><p>He didn&rsquo;t score three goals in a game as he did several times in his career previously, but he forechecked and back-checked viciously, hustled every second he was on the ice and got his stick on the puck twice as often as in the past. Assigned to shadow Bobby Hull in one game, which put the big winger on the ice for penalty-killing as well as for power-plays, he hit Hull as Hull admitted he seldom has been hit. And he hit other people too.</p><p>Flett is not a great skater and he does not always play smart, but he has good size, is unusually strong and has a powerful shot. It always has been said that his assets could make him a big star. In his last three games, you could see why.</p><p>&ldquo;The big thing was I got ice-time,&rdquo; Flett said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m always a slow starter, every season and every game. I&rsquo;m the sort of guy who needs work to get going. The goals still aren&rsquo;t coming, but I hope they will if I keep getting the chances. Sometimes I think too much is expected of me, but I always do my best. It&rsquo;s just hard to get going sitting around.&rdquo;</p><p>If Flett can psych himself or be psyched into extra effort such as he has given lately, he, too, could be one of the big men in the game. He has had chances before, but the Kings&rsquo; management has been reluctant to give up on him.</p><p>In the wake of Wilson&rsquo;s hiring, some changes were made. Day-of-the-game practices were inaugurated, such as got Punch Imlach in trouble in Toronto. And, even at home, the players were quartered in a motel between those practices and the games, so they could concentrate on the games, such as they do on the road, where they seldom have won in the past.</p><p>It is hard to believe it will help the Kings to make a road-away-from-the-road for them, although by the time this reaches print we will have some evidence if Wilson is able to win on the road.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Joyal, Flett Approach The Pinnacle As Wilson Makes Favorable Debut

<div class="byline">BY BOB ELMER</div><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b></p><p>HOCKEY STICKS Mode in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY CO. LIMITED WALLY ENTERPRISES LIMITED. AFFILIATE Arnold Street Wallacebura. Ontario Sold in U.S, and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b></p><p>HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY CO. LIMITED WALLY ENTERPRISES LIMITED AFFILIATE Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S and Canada JEAN-MARIE COSSETTE&hellip;Production Way Off</p><p>BALTIMORE&mdash;</p><p>One of the more provoking mysteries of the Baltimore Clippers early season hockey pyrotechnics has been the failure of the popular little veteran left winger, Jean-Marie Cossette to light the goal scoring lamp.</p><p>After twenty two games into the 1969-70 campaign, the quiet, personable Quebec native had only scored one goal. Last winter at the same period, Cossette the team&rsquo;s leading point producer with 14 goals plus 19 assists for 33 points, and the year before that he had logged 17 points on 9 goals and 8 scoring passes after 26 outings.</p><p>At the recent Epicurean Club&rsquo;s annual sports banquet during which the Clippers&rsquo; Willie Marshall was honored along with the Colts&rsquo; Tom Matte and Willie Richardson, the Orioles&rsquo; Paul Blair and Dave McNally, the Bullets&rsquo; Westley Unseld and golfdom&rsquo;s Carol Mann, the outstanding lady pro from here, Mariette Cossette, Jean&rsquo;s charming wife was allowing as to how &ldquo;Jean-Marie seems to have one real good year, then another not so good, then another still not so good, and then a big year again.&rdquo;</p><p>And, as Mariette was explaining in her Anglo-Saxon French as her four children, Jacques, Sylvie, Pierre and Andre nodded in assent, it is true that &ldquo;Coss&rdquo; as he is known to his teammates, is not a completely predictable hockey player. However, he is a &ldquo;solid skater&rdquo; says Coach Rudy Migay, and as Boom Boom Geoffrion said to Clipper GM Terry Reardon when the latter drafted Cossette in the reverse draft of 1965, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s the best player in the whole lot. He&rsquo;ll give you 100 every game, whether he&rsquo;s scoring or not.&rdquo;</p><p>At this writing, Jean-Marie has only one goal but he has 14 assists, which means he&rsquo;s been responsible for 15 of the Clippers 63 goals, and these figures don&rsquo;t give credit to his fine all-around play like penalty killing, back checking and fore-checking, and generally putting himself among the best of the AHL&rsquo;s defensive forwards.</p><p>After nine solid winters with Quebec&rsquo;s Aces, Cossette went west to Seattle for two seasons before being selected by Reardon in the first reverse draft ever held between the AHL and the NHL owned players. He is now in his fifth year with Baltimore and has become one of the best known and liked skaters on the squad. He had survived the onslaught of the parade of young skaters whom the Pittsburgh Penguins have assigned here, and once the puck begins finding its way into opponents nets as it has been for him the past few years, Jean-Marie should play a major part in Baltimore&rsquo;s post season playoff hopes.</p><h2><b>CLIPPER CLIPPINGS</b></h2><p>The Booster Club held its annual Christmas Party for the players, their wives, girl friends and fans at the Overlea Hall and it was its usual smash success&hellip;Hockey buffs in the area are still talking about Willie Marshall&rsquo;s 500th goal&hellip;Yvon Labre, promising defenseman should return to the lineup soon&hellip;Gary Swain, 22-year-old center, is expecting to become the assistant golf pro next summer at the Fonthills Course in Ontario&hellip;He shot a 77 at tough Pine Ridge in Baltimore County recently to win the annual Clippers&rsquo; players tourney&hellip;Rick Kessell has been slowly recovering from the loss of three front teeth due to an injury suffered in a game against Rochester three weeks ago&hellip;The Esskay Turkey Shoot held after the game here with Buffalo was another rousing success with fans winning a 14-pound bird for scoring in the puck shooting ordeal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01444/2800158-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="568" height="773"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JEAN-MARIE COSSETTE&hellip;Production Way Off</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cossette’s Scoring Slump Puzzles Clippers

<h2><b>Sat. Dec. 20 MONTREAL 2 AT SPRINGFIELD 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02355/2800301-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="588" height="534"></div><h2><b>BUFFALO 2 AT BALTIMORE 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03260/2800294-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="576" height="377"></div><h2><b>ROCHESTER 5 AT CLEVELAND 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04205/2800287-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="586" height="782"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC 3 AT HERSHEY 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05152/2800280-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="588" height="628"></div><h2><b>Thurs. Dec. 25 BUFFALO 6 AT ROCHESTER 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06126/2800273-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="591" height="723"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC 4 AT PROVIDENCE 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-07110/2800266-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="583" height="703"></div><h2><b>Fri. Dec. 26 SPRINGFIELD 3 AT MONTREAL 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0894/2800259-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="582" height="729"></div><h2><b>BALTIMORE 5 AT ROCHESTER 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0982/2800252-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="579" height="607"></div><h2><b>SPRINGFIELD 3 AT BUFFALO 8</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1074/2800245-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="584" height="807"></div><h2><b>Sat. Dec. 27 QUEBEC 5 AT CLEVELAND 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1169/2800238-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="584" height="829"></div><h2><b>Sun. Dec. 28 CLEVELAND 3 AT PROVIDENCE 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1263/2800231-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="580" height="680"></div><h2><b>BALTIMORE 5 AT ROCHESTER 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06168/2800224-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="588" height="555"></div><h2><b>SPRINGFIELD 3 AT BUFFALO 8</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-07145/2800217-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="595" height="1003"></div><h2><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Thurs. Dec. 25)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-08131/2800210-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="587" height="307"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01421/2800203-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="540" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON MARCOTTE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02368/2800196-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="548" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MIKE NYKOLUK</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03298/2800189-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="543" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROGER DEJORDY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-02

American League Summaries

<h2><b>AMERICAN LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Thurs. Jan 1)</b></p><h3><b>Eastern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04256/2800339-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="585" height="176"></div><h3><b>Western Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05214/2800332-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="576" height="206"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Thurs. Dec. 25</b></p><p>Quebec 4 at Providence 6</p><p>Buffalo 6 at Rochester 4</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 26</b></p><p>Springfield 3 at Montreal 7</p><p>Rochester at Baltimore (ppd. snow)</p><p><b>Sat. Dec. 27</b></p><p>Quebec 5 at Cleveland 4</p><p>Baltimore 6 at Hershey 2</p><p>Buffalo 2 at Springfield 1</p><p><b>Sun. Dec. 28</b></p><p>Springfield 3 at Buffalo 8</p><p>Cleveland 3 at Providence 3</p><p>Baltimore 5 at Rochester 3</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Thurs. Jan. 1</b></p><p>Cleveland at Baltimore</p><p>Buffalo at Rochester</p><p><b>Fri. Jan. 2</b></p><p>Providence at Buffalo</p><p>Quebec at Montreal</p><p><b>Sat. Jan. 3</b></p><p>Quebec at Baltimore</p><p>Rochester at Cleveland</p><p>Montreal at Hershey</p><p>Providence at Springfield</p><p><b>Sun. Jan. 4</b></p><p>Baltimore at Buffalo</p><p>Hershey at Cleveland</p><p>Montreal at Providence</p><p>Springfield at Rochester</p><p><b>Tues. Jan. 6</b></p><p>Providence at Quebec</p><p><b>Wed. Jan. 7</b></p><p>Montreal at Baltimore</p><p>Springfield at Hershey</p><p><b>Thurs. Jan. 8</b></p><p>Providence at Quebec</p><p><b>Fri. Jan. 9</b></p><p>Hershey at Baltimore</p><p>Springfield at Cleveland</p><p>Providence at Montreal</p><p>Buffalo at Rochester<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-04

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>hould the Hershey Bears eventually come on to make a run at the Western Division leading Buffalo Bisons, a move made by coach Frank Mathers on Nov. 30 could prove to be the turning point of the season for his club.</p><p>Going into a game against the Quebec Aces on Nov. 30, the Bears, caught in their worst slump in recent years, had lost five of their last seven games.</p><p>Mathers decided to reunite the line of center Mike Nykoluk and wingers Don Marcotte and Roger DeJordy.</p><p>In the next half-dozen games the Bears lost only two as Nykoluk & Co. popped in 14 goals to finally break the club&rsquo;s losing ways.</p><p>In the stretch, Hershey moved into second place in the Western Division, but still trailed Buffalo by a whopping 21 points. However, Hershey had played six less games and as Mathers pointed out, &ldquo;if we can win those six in-hand games, we&rsquo;re back in the race against Buffalo.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bears appeared to have finally found the touch again. On Dec. 12-13 in back-to-back matches against Baltimore and Rochester, Hershey won both, out-scoring the opposition, 14-3. It was the team&rsquo;s most explosive punch in months.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what got Nykoluk&rsquo;s line started,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;But it really sparked the whole club. The line had been together earlier in the season, but couldn&rsquo;t click.&rdquo;</p><p>Perhaps, part of the reason was the fact the Boston Bruins had recalled Marcotte and the big guy seemed to have lost his zing. But once he returned and got the chance to settle down, the burly winger started to pound enemy goalies. He hung up a pair of &ldquo;hat tricks&rdquo; and scored an incredible 11 goals in ten games.</p><p>Added to this, Bob (Cowboy) Barber, a gamecock of a defenseman, recovered from a pneumonia bout and returned to the lineup. Right out of the box he started challenging all wingers at his blueline. It set a spark under the rest of the defense.</p><p>&ldquo;Barber is a tough, little guy who hangs right in there against much bigger men,&rdquo; said Mathers.</p><p>Meanwhile, the physical status of veteran goalie John Henderson remained a question mark. He has been hampered all season with an ailing knee. He played in only six games and it was feared an operation will be required to correct the injury. This means Mathers must find another goalie to help spell Andre Gill, who has done the lion&rsquo;s share of the netminding in fine fashion.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Mathers Whips Up Potent Old Line To Shake Bears From Long Lethargy

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div><p>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he transition in Springfield from John Wilson to Jim Anderson as new coach has been very smooth. Both men think alike. Wilson hopes to move the big Kings while Andy will surely do his best to get the local team into first place.</p><p>&ldquo;I will combine the tactics of both men,&rdquo; Anderson said, &ldquo;in my coaching routine. Eddie Shore taught me fundamentals and discipline while Johnny showed me how to handle men and situations. I am prepared to coach.&rdquo;</p><p>Anderson is making the move from player to coach after 18 years in the game. The last two seasons, he has been assistant to Wilson here. He has been keeping game stats, making reports every period on players, coaching the youngsters and scouting.</p><p>Born in Pembroke, Ontario, Jim has lived in this area for many years. He married a former Agawam girl, Virginia Pisano, and the couple has three children, including two boys who play on a line with Kelly Wilson, son of the new NHL coach.</p><p>No one has to be convinced of Anderson&rsquo;s ability.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-09111/2800394-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="261" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Anderson</b></figcaption></div><p>Jimmy&rsquo;s work with his own Sacred Heart pee wee and bantam teams along with your correspondent&rsquo;s Little Devils bantams last winter was highly commendable. That&rsquo;s when coaching counts, when a mentor can take American lads, many of them not too fancy on skates, and turn them into winners.</p><p>&ldquo;The players respect your many years in the game,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;They can smell the Calder Cup money and if we can win over Montreal, there is no reason why we can&rsquo;t be in first place. We have a great bunch of players who are very co-operative and want to win for the fans.&rdquo;</p><p>For the books, Jimmy is rated among the top four in the AHL all-time greats along with former teammate Harry Pidhirny, Willie Marshall. Fred Glover and Dune Fisher. His name is sprinkled through the book for many records which are a credit to his ability.</p><p>A couple years ago, he had an ambition to play in the NHL when the Los Angeles Kings called him up for a spell. Before that time, he had spent many years in Springfield and had turned pro in 1952 with Edmonton of the Western League where he played two seasons.</p><p>In 1954, Eddie Shore acquired his contract and he has been here ever since. During the off-season, he likes to golf. In past summers, he has been employed by a Springfield firm in their sales department.</p><p>The NHL Kings selected Anderson for the job primarily for the same reason they elevated John Wilson to the big club in place of Hal Laycoe. He can handle men and has a way with young players, two very essential commodites for grooming future big league hockey material.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-09

Anderson To Implant Some Wilson ‘Tactics’ In Coaching AHL Kings

<div class="byline">BY GEORGE DUFFY</div><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;What has happened to Bobby Leduc and the R.I. Reds?&rdquo;</p><p>The whole American Hockey League is asking that question. Leduc, a left winger who scored only 14 goals all last season, popped in his 15th of the season in a December game against the Rochester Americans and started off on a hot streak for him and his young linemates.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01265/2800439-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="253" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Leduc</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Things are going better for me now&rdquo;, says Leduc who hails from a place called Azilda, not far from Sudbury, Ont. &ldquo;I have a lot of chances now that Tony Featherstone and Joe Hardy are my linemates. They are setting me up and I&rsquo;m able to take better advantage this year than last.&rdquo; He currently has 19 goals for the season.</p><p>Leduc&rsquo;s scoring spree and a battling type of play has been causing officials at R.I. Auditorium to hang out the SRO sign often. In the first 13 home games, the Reds have sold out 10 tmes. The 44-year-old Auditorium on North Main St. seats 5,075 but close to 6,000 has been at many games.</p><p>The Reds, with their best season ticket sales in years, have become a free wheeling, fighting team. Fellows like Featherstone, Bob &ldquo;Batteship&rdquo; Kelly and Nick Polano give the Reds the muscle which has been missing from the Providence scene for a long time. Rookie Pierre Farmer has helped in the fighting department, too. He boxed as a pro a few times in Quebec and showed a great left in a duel with Renald Leclerc of the Cleveland Barons. Featherstone has had several tiffs since joining the Reds. Leduc and Billy Orr of Rochester had a whing ding here.</p><p>Dave Creighton, the coach and general manager of the Reds, insists he is not running a fight club. &ldquo;I want the guys to concentrate on playing hockey,&rdquo; says the likeable Creighton, &ldquo;but I love having some fellows around who will not let anyone push them around.&rdquo;</p><p>Featherstone and Hardy are the two promising youngsters the parent Oakland Seals sent down to the Reds for seasoning to get them ready for their return to the NHL. Both have been eye catching for the Reds and have played a major role in the club getting back into contention and keeping up its hot pursuit of the Quebec Aces, the club they have to beat out in the Eastern Division.</p><p>In a recent game in which the Reds trounced the Aces 6-4, the Providence line actually accounted for all six goals in the whomping of the Quebecers. Leduc scored three times, Featherstone twice and Hardy once. In all the trio collected 15 scoring points for the biggest single game onslaught by a Providence line this season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02190/2800432-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="543" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TONY FEATHERSTONE&hellip;Adds Muscle to Reds</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03158/2800425-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="546" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOE HARDY&hellip;Giving Club Lift</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0020-01

Oakland ‘Kids’ Help Bob Leduc Turn Into Sizzling Goal Scorer

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>red Shero doesn&rsquo;t need to be reminded the Buffalo Bisons hold a 21-point lead in the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Western Division, but was somewhat surprised to learn they are just a shade behind the torrid pace set by last winter&rsquo;s club.</p><p>In 31 games this season, the Bisons have 43 points on 19 wins, 7 losses and 5 ties. A year ago. when they won the division title by 25 points, the Bisons won 19. lost 6 and tied 6 of their first 31 games for 44 points.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think we were that close to approaching the record set by the team a year ago,&rdquo; Shero said.</p><p>&ldquo;I really don&rsquo;t pay too much attention to figures, but I thought we were away behind last season&rsquo;s pace. We have a fine road record this season, but a year ago we played 18 road games before losing one.&rdquo;</p><p>This is Shero&rsquo;s third term as the Buffalo coach, and after five championships in nine seasons before coming here, he thinks the present Bisons may be the best disciplined club he&rsquo;s ever had.</p><p>&ldquo;These guys have great discipline on and off the ice, maybe the best I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; Shero said. &ldquo;They play for one another, and puli for each other.</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ll notice we don&rsquo;t take as many silly penalties as some clubs do. They can ruin a team, even a good one.</p><p>&ldquo;The best disciplined teams play well on the road. A good road record is the mark of a winner. You can shift people from one position to another at home more easily than on the road. We&rsquo;ve been able to do it anywhere.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bisons are operating with 17 players, one under the AHL limit, but Shero isn&rsquo;t over-anxious to fill the vacancy.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll wait until we get the man we want&hellip;the right type to fit in with this club.&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s important to maintain the attitude and morale we have established.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bisons Surprise Shero By Nearing Record Pace

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-04121/2800494-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="886" height="1199"></div><h2><b>SOLUTION IN JAN. 16 ISSUE</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Pictured player.</p><p>7&mdash;Initials of one of the Hawks.</p><p>9&mdash;An NHL goaltender.</p><p>11&mdash;New Rochelle, (abbr.)</p><p>12&mdash;16th and 18th letters of alphabet.</p><p>13&mdash;Houston has one.</p><p>15&mdash;An NHL defenseman.</p><p>16&mdash;A female sheep.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of one of the Penguins.</p><p>19&mdash;A winter sport. (S).</p><p>21&mdash;Skating requisite.</p><p>22&mdash;Edmonton&mdash;Kings.</p><p>23&mdash;An NHL leftwinger.</p><p>27&mdash;66-67 Stanley Cup champs. (abbr.)</p><p>28&mdash;Number worn by 5 down.</p><p>30&mdash;Hit from behind.</p><p>31&mdash;Wears No. 10 for Minnesota.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Came from Red Wings.</p><p>2&mdash;Formerly in the NHL.</p><p>3&mdash;Initials of one of the Leafs.</p><p>4&mdash;Each team uses this.</p><p>5&mdash;Last Norris trophy winner.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of U.S. State.</p><p>8&mdash;One of the Habs answers to this.</p><p>10&mdash;63-64 Art Ross Trophy winner.</p><p>14&mdash;Pronoun.</p><p>18&mdash;One of the L.A. Kings.</p><p>20&mdash;A U.S. State (abbr.)</p><p>24&mdash;First name of one of the Seals.</p><p>25&mdash;City in Italy.</p><p>26&mdash;A Hawk centre.</p><p>28&mdash;Initials of a former Hab.</p><p>29&mdash;21st and 12th letters of alphabet.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of an NHL captain.</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p><b>1&mdash;PRENTICE.</b></p><p><b>3&mdash;A.H.L</b></p><p><b>7&mdash;LONSBERRY.</b></p><p><b>11&mdash;O.L</b></p><p><b>12&mdash;EAGLE.</b></p><p><b>13&mdash;TIM.</b></p><p><b>15&mdash;ENG.</b></p><p><b>16&mdash;EVE.</b></p><p><b>17&mdash;T.V.</b></p><p><b>18&mdash;E.E.</b></p><p><b>19&mdash;O.E.</b></p><p><b>20&mdash;ARK</b></p><p><b>21&mdash;N.R.</b></p><p><b>22-EARl.</b></p><p><b>25-T.M.</b></p><p><b>27&mdash;RARE</b></p><p><b>29&mdash;HY.</b></p><p><b>30&mdash;E.R.</b></p><p><b>31&mdash;ROD.</b></p><p><b>33&mdash;YES.</b></p><p><b>34&mdash;ANDRE.</b></p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p><b>1&mdash;PILOTS.</b></p><p><b>2&mdash;NOSE.</b></p><p><b>3&mdash;CARLETON.</b></p><p><b>4&mdash;EHRENVERTH.</b></p><p><b>6&mdash;LY.</b></p><p><b>8&mdash;OLIVER.</b></p><p><b>9&mdash;B.A.</b></p><p><b>10&mdash;E.G.</b></p><p><b>14&mdash;MEEKER.</b></p><p><b>20&mdash;AWREY.</b></p><p><b>23&mdash;A.E.</b></p><p><b>24&mdash;LEON.</b></p><p><b>26&mdash;MYRE.</b></p><p><b>28&mdash;ARE.</b></p><p><b>31&mdash;R.A.</b></p><p><b>32&mdash;D D.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0020-04

Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">By Tom Burke</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0021-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01129/2800532-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>DOWN EAST</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>C</span>ORNELL&mdash;</b>The Big Red has lost super sophomore defenseman Ron Simpson, possibly for the season, but the defense and backchecking has more than compensated. The first line has been particularly effective, with John Hughes centering for Brian McCutcheon, a converted center, and Keving Pettit. No one had double scoring figures after 4 games, but the team&rsquo;s balance is evident in that Dick Bertrand and Garth Ryan had 9 points while McCutcheon, Larry Fullan, and Dan Lodboa all had eight. Yale (8-1) and St. Lawrence (70) both were victims of Cornell&rsquo;s blitzing attack.</p><p><b>BOSTON COLLEGE&mdash;</b>Eagles came from 4-2 deficit in third period to beat Harvard 6-5 and grab top rung with Cornell. They did the same thing last year at Harvard, winning 6-5 in overtime after trailing 5-3 in third period. Tim Sheehy had the winning goal, his second in three games. Tom Mellor had a key goal and saved a tying goal in the waning seconds by taking a tripping penalty. BC power play shot at 48 through 4 games while opponents failed to click with a man advantage. Wing Joe Keaveney, who missed all of last season with mono, is shelved again for the season with a severe shoulder separation suffered against Notre Dame.</p><p><b>BOSTON UNIVERSITY&mdash;</b>Long exam layoff may hurt the Terriers, but two key veterans have a chance to recuperate. Larry Davenport has been slowed by a hyper-extended elbow and Bruce Hatton has been on the shelf since mid-November with a severe charley horse. Junior wing Steve Stirling (6-4-10) leads scorers, followed by defenseman Mike Hyndman with 3-5-8. John Danby and Guy Burrowes, both sophs, have 2-4-6 each. In goal, Tim Regan has apparently won a three-way sophomore battle and sports a 2.16 average.</p><p><b>COLGATE&mdash;</b>The senior-stocked Red Raiders ran up a 20-1 Div. 1 record before exams, which is the best start in 5 years for coach Ron Ryan. Junior center Dave Conte led the scorers with 6-5-11, followed by All-America candidate Tom Earl with 6-3-9. Soph Rich Rowell is coming along, with 4-5-9. Every one of Colgate&rsquo;s top 14 players has at least one point, including goalie John Haney, whose play has been especially stellar.</p><p><b>RPI&mdash;</b>Engineers sputtered in early games, losing to Cornell 8-2 and Yale 4-2, but played their best game of year in 6-2 win over St. Lawrence. Norm Bean, a senior centerman, has led the club with 4-7-11 and has been the best player on the ice. He had a goal and 3 assists vs. the Larries and 1-1 vs. Yale. Sophomores Terry Jordan and Bill Wetherell have been splitting the goaltending chores and doing well, but haven&rsquo;t had much protection.</p><p><b>NEW HAMPSHIRE&mdash;</b>The Wildcats, who have been good and bad, but who are young and coming, have some problems, and they&rsquo;re not on the ice but at the ticket window. In their 7-3 win over Porvidence at Snively Rink, 1,000 general admission tickets were put on sale since the students were home on vacation. With the combined hockey mania on the part of the students and Durham townspeople, every other game has been sold out for the season.</p><p><b>PROVIDENCE&mdash;</b>Second year coach Lou Lamoriello has one of those dangerous hot-and-cold teams in his young Friars. At their best, they beat cross-town rival Brown, one of the better Div. I clubs, 5-2, then turned around and lost to Div. 11 Boston State 5-3. Junior forward Rich Pumple is a bona-fide All-America candidate.</p><p><b>ARMY&mdash;</b>Coach Jack Riley said &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve come to Boston a year too late&rdquo;, before the Garden Christmas Tournament, in which the Cadets were humbled 9-3 by Harvard and 9-2 by Brown. Loss of high scoring line of Dave Merhar, Tony Curran, and John Ahlbrecht has hurt, and the defense isn&rsquo;t much either. Goalie Dan Scioletti can keep Army in the game and is better than his average seems to indicate. The Cadets may play a spoiler rolelater on if the team jells some more; they&rsquo;ve shown well in beating Princeton 2-0 and losing to UNH 2-1.</p><p><b>DARTMOUTH&mdash;</b>Underclassmen played well in Indians&rsquo; early tilts, which augurs well for later on. Junior center Ken Davidson and soph center Mike Turner, last season&rsquo;s leading frosh scorer, lead the scoring parade with 4 and 5 points respectively. Junior wing Dave Hill, back from shoulder surgery, had 2 goals in 5-3 win over Middlebury.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0295/2800525-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="273" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Riley</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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COLLEGE HOCKEY SCENE

<div class="byline">BY TOM BURKE</div><p>BOSTON&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>ooney Weiland&rsquo;s Harvard sextet posted a 4-1 lead, then held off determined Clarkson in the third period to capture the Charles F. Adams Trophy in the finals of the Boston Garden Christmas Tournament before a surprisingly sparse crowd of about 4,000. It wasn&rsquo;t a battle for the top spot in the East as one would have thought a while ago, but the teams who were the preseason ECAC picks played like champs in their only confrontation during the regular season.</p><p>The Crimson were paced by captain-defenseman Chris Gurry, who was voted the round-robin&rsquo;s MVP. He played superbly on defense and scored the team&rsquo;s third goal, paving the way for Ron Mark&rsquo;s third period winning tally. Other Harvard scorers were Leif Rosenberger and Dan DeMichele, who left with a shoulder injury after scoring the initial goal of the game.</p><p>Clarkson, who had defeated a stubborn Brown team 3-1 in the opening round the previous night, showed a fast skating, tight-checking style of play. John Halme, a junior center, had two goals while junior rearguard Keith MacLean, a rugged one who likes to dish out those bodychecks, closed the gap to one in the third period, but Bruce Durno closed the door from then on. The Golden Knights, who were coming off a two week exam break, showed that they indeed can play with any team in the East. They had as many shots as Harvard (36) while outshouting Brown 43-25.</p><p>The Crimson rolled over Army 9-3 in the opener without All America center Joe Cavanagh, whose place was taken by sophs Tom Paul and Joe&rsquo;s younger brother Dave. These two also subbed for DeMichele after he was hurt in the second round. Harvard, who is still favored by many to win all the marbles in the East, now has a record of 5-2 in Div. I, by virtue of upset losses to Brown and Boston College. Next time they take the ice is in the Montreal Invitational on Jan. 2 against McGill.</p><p>Brown, on the streng of diminutive Don McGinnis&rsquo; goaltending, kept up with Clarkson and toyed with Army in the consolation game. The Bruins were next slated to appear in the St. Louis Invitational, while Army, outclassed in both games, adjourned until January 10 and a game with Bishop&rsquo;s College.</p><p>Though Clarkson and Harvard are still much in the ECAC title picture, their roles as favorites in the race were temporarily usurped by always-tough Cornell and surprising Boston College in the early going.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0733/2800563-1-eng-US/f0021-072.jpg" title="f0021-07" width="549" height="789"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CHRIS GURRY&hellip;Sparked Harvard</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Harvard Edges Clarkson To Win Boston Tourney

<p>ITHACA&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>ed by outstanding right winger Jim McCoubrey, and anchored by two fine goaltenders, Jim Hamilton and Mike Dunn, the University of Buffalo has quickly established itself as No. 1 in the Finger Lakes Collegiate Hockey League.</p><p>The Bulls gained their fast reputation after belting Ithaca College 8-0 and Brockport State 8-1. Both of those clubs are favored to make the FLCHL playoffs this year.</p><p>McCoubrey scored six goals in the brace of wins, while Dunn shut out Ithaca and Hamilton held a good Brockport team to one goal.</p><p>John Becker of St. John&rsquo;s with six goals and two assists, leads the league in scoring at this juncture. McCoubrey (6-1) and Rich Keefer (4-3) and Dave Scheer (3-4) of Brockport, are right behind with seven points each. Joe Brady of St John&rsquo;s (4-2) is next with six points.</p><p>What do you do after losing three hockey games in three starts? &ldquo;You forget about them and plan for the next three, which will be just as tough,&rdquo; says Ithaca College Coach Forbes Keith whose charges have been stung by Brockport, the University of Buffalo, and Oswego, in quick succession.</p><p>Ithaca will be at Boston State and Salem State, January 7-8, on its annual Boston swing, and then return to Ithaca for a game with Brock University on Jan. 17.</p><p>&ldquo;Our solutions are basic,&rdquo; Keith added. &ldquo;We have to start scoring early and our defense has to improve. Despite those three losses, we have been getting plenty of scoring opportunites, but can&rsquo;t seem to find the net. Our best period was the first one we played this year, when we scored four goals against Brockport. Since then we haven&rsquo;t done very much.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Buffalo Shows Power In Early Lakes’ Play

<p>BOSTON&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>erriers have split their first four games of the season, blanking Yale 5-0 and blitzing Princeton 10-2 on Arena ice. The losses have come at the hands of Brown (3-1) and Cornell (5-3).</p><p>Junior left winger Steve Stirling leads the BU point parade with ten (six goals and four assists). Mike Hyndman, the team&rsquo;s leading scorer for the past two seasons while playing a wing post, has eight points on threee goals and five assists. His move to a defense position does not appear to have slowed his offensive output.</p><p>The next two names on the scoresheet are all sophomores, reflecting the young character of this BU team. John Danby has accumulated six points on two goals and four assists while Guy Burrowes has duplicated those figures. The two are skating together at center and right wing on the orange line, respectively.</p><p>Sophomore Tim Regan has exhibited some bright moments in the nets, although he has also experienced some inconsistency not uncharacteristic of a sophomore. Overall, however, he sports an efficient 2.16 goals against average while making 75 saves in 83 shots.</p><p>Coach Jack Kelley, commenting on his young team, indicates that he is satisfied with its development although a little disappointed that it didn&rsquo;t get a victory in the two tough games with Brown and Cornell. &ldquo;We have missed a healthy Larry Davenport (slowed by a hyperextended elbow) and Bruce Hatton hasn&rsquo;t been with us since mid-November&rdquo; (severe charleyhorse). The defense has been all I could expect, maybe more. Mike Hyndman and Wayne Decker have lent experience and Bob Murray. Ted Bryand and Bill Fenwick have been promising newcomers.&rdquo;</p><p>The Terriers will travel to Syracuse to participate in the Syracuse Invitational Tournament on January 2 and 3. The first round opponent is Cornell, while Colgate and defending Western champion Michigan Tech square off in the other first-round contest.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0828/2800670-1-eng-US/f0021-082.jpg" title="f0021-08" width="271" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Kelley</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0021-08

Boston U. Gets Split In First Four Starts

<div class="byline">BY JOHN WHITE</div><p><b>Save $$$$$$ Subscribe To The HOCKEY NEWS Receive 35 Issues At Home</b></p><p><b>For The Best In Hockey Reading It&rsquo;s HOCKEY PICTORIAL Hockey&rsquo;s Most Exciting Publication</b></p><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;</p><p>By Christmas the Vancouver Canucks already had played two distinctly separate Western Hockey League seasons.</p><p>The first lasted 17 games and ended on November 14. It was not a smashing success. The Canucks won six, lost eight and tied three to pick up only 15 of a possible 34 points in the standings.</p><p>And then, or at least Coach Joe Crozier certainly hopes so, the real Vancouver Canucks stood up. You know, the ones the coaches picked to win the Western League title.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01146/2800729-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="546" height="595"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDY BATHGATE&hellip;The Pacesetter</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0288/2800722-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="547" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAT HANNIGAN&hellip;Tripled Production</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0375/2800715-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="549" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAUL ANDREA&hellip;Impressive Gain</b></figcaption></div><p>These Canucks, going into Christmas night, played 14 games and they were a smashing success. They won 12, lost one and tied one to pick up 25 of a possible 28 points in the standings.</p><p>By the holidays, they were sporting a 10-game undefeated streak and held a five-point lead over the Portland Buckaroos, regular-season titlists for the last five vears in a row.</p><p>The difference between the two Vancouver &ldquo;seasons?&rdquo;</p><p>There wasn&rsquo;t much difference on defense. Both &ldquo;teams&rdquo; were strong. The Canucks gave up only 48 goals in their first 17 games and just 41 in their next 14 clashes.</p><p>They were rock-hard from the season opener to Christmas.</p><p>So that leaves offense. And what a change there was in this department!</p><p>The Canucks scored only 45 goals in their first 17 games. Only once in that stretch did they score as many&mdash;and never more&mdash;as five goals in a single game.</p><p>In the next 14 games that resulted in only one loss the Canucks exploded for 73 goals. And that&rsquo;s an average of better than five goals a contest.</p><p>Just about everyone picked up the scoring pace but the surge was by far the most dramatic on the line with Andy Bathgate centering Paul Andrea and Pat Hannigan.</p><p>Check the point production for the first 17 games of the campaign for each:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0460/2800708-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="573" height="167"></div><p>Now then check these same Canucks on offense in that 14-game stretch when Croziers charges got hot:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0552/2800701-1-eng-US/f0022-052.jpg" title="f0022-05" width="568" height="163"></div><p>Hannigan more than tripled his production, Bathgate more than doubled his and suddenly was averaging better than two points a game and Andrea was up an impressive percentage.</p><p>In 14 games from November 15 to Christmas these three players accounted for a combined total of 29 goals.</p><p>There were a couple other players who should be singled out in the offensive explosion.</p><p>Veteran sniper Len Lunde scored only three goals in his first 13 games after reporting to the Canucks, then collected 12 in his next 14 contests.</p><p>Then there was Gerry Goyer. Placed on waivers by Portland after scoring only one point in seven games. Goyer was snapped up by Crozier, sent to Rochester to get in shape and then brought back to Vancouver.</p><p>He responded with 18 points in his first 11 games for the Canucks. was especially hard on his former Portland teammates by scoring five points (three goals two assists) the first two times he faced them.</p><p>As mentioned earlier. Vancouver had been rock-hard from the season&rsquo;s start and by Christmas the Canucks were leading the league in penalty minutes with 492 in 31 games.</p><p>At that pace over a full season, the Canucks would wind up with 1.142 minutes off the ice and break the all-time Western League record of 1.118 set by Portland in 1965.</p><p>The Canucks by no means had a lock on first place at Christmas. not in a Western League in which most teams seemed to be either torrid or frigid in stretches this season.</p><p>The chief challengers were still the Buckaroos of Portland, and Vancouver picked up three victories. tied twice and lost only once in the first six meetings with the Bucks.</p><p>And a bitter series was shaping up. In two back-to-back meetings just before Christmas, the Bucks and Canucks drew 22 minors, 9 majors, 1 misconduct and 2 game misconducts in 120 minutes of action.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0022-01

Canucks Play Back To Title Form As Bathgate Line Leads Way To Top

<p>SEATTLE&mdash;</p><p>As Christmas approached, Art Jones of the Portland Buckaroos was scoring at an all-time record pace in the Western Hockey League.</p><p>Jones picked up 50 points&mdash;18 goals, 32 assists&mdash;in his first 29 games. At that pace over a full campaign he would finish with 124 points and break the all-time Western League record of 122 scored in &lsquo;58 by Seattle&rsquo;s Guyle Fielder.</p><p>Sniping goals at a near record pace, meanwhile, was winger Len Ronson of the San Diego Gulls. He collected 24 goals in 31 games and at that pace would finish the season with 56&mdash;just one off Lou Jankowski&rsquo;s all-time mark of 57.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Art Jones Setting Record Point Pace

<h2><b>WESTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Dec. 30)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01126/2800885-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="584" height="331"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Thurs. Dec. 25</b></p><p>Vancouver 4 at Portland 2</p><p>Salt Lake 3 at Seattle 8</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 26</b></p><p>Son Diego 5 at Salt</p><p>Lake 0 Portland 4 at Phoenix 2</p><p>Seattle 1 at Vancouver 8</p><p><b>Sat. Dec. 27</b></p><p>Salt Lake 4 at Denver 3</p><p>Portland 5 at Phoenix 7</p><p><b>Sun. Dec. 28</b></p><p>Denver 1 at San Diego 3</p><p>Vancouver 5 at Seattle 6</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Dec. 30</b></p><p>Portland at San Diego</p><p>Denver at Vancouver</p><p><b>Wed. Dec. 31</b></p><p>Salt Lake at Phoenix</p><p>Denver at Seattle</p><p><b>Thurs. Jan, 1</b></p><p>Seattle at Portland</p><p><b>Fri. Jan. 2</b></p><p>Denver at Salt Lake</p><p>Phoenix at Vancouver</p><p><b>Sat. Jan. 3</b></p><p>Vancouver at Denver</p><p>Salt Lake at San Diego</p><p>Phoenix at Portland</p><p><b>Sun. Jan. 4</b></p><p>Vancouver at Denver</p><p>Portland at Seattle</p><p><b>Tues. Jan. 6</b></p><p>Seattle at Phoenix</p><p><b>Wed. Jan. 7</b></p><p>Vancouver at Salt Lake</p><p><b>Thurs. Jan. 8</b></p><p>Seattle at Phoenix<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0023-01

<p>DENVER&mdash;</p><p>1 Team captain and center Ed Hoekstra of the Denver Spurs, has quit the Western Hockey League club.</p><p>In a surprise announcement Hoekstra told Spurs&rsquo; General Manager and coach, Rudy Pilous, that he had decided to return to his home, in St. Catharines, Ontario to be with his family. &ldquo;Ed told me&rdquo;, said Pilous,&rdquo;that he didn&rsquo;t feel he was playing well, and wouldn&rsquo;t be able to unlesshis family was with him.&rdquo;</p><p>Hoeskstra and his wife Carole, have five children, including four of school age.</p><p>Hoekstra, 32, was the Spurs&rsquo; number one draft choice in 1968. He was purchased from the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League for $20,000.</p><p>Hoekstra reported late to the Spurs last year for the same reasons he left the club now. However, after missing the first 12 games of the 1968-69 season, Hoekstra ended as the Denver team&rsquo;s top poingetter with 20 goals and 49 assists for 69 points, and tied for 12th overall in the WHL.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0290/2800916-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="265" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Hoekstra</b></figcaption></div><p>Hoekstra started and played in all of the Spurs first 27 games this year and was second in scoring on the Denver Club with 27 points, six back of team leader, Wilf Martin.</p><p>&ldquo;I tried to talk him into staying.&rdquo; said Pilous, &ldquo;but obviously his mind was made up, We&rsquo;re naturally going to miss a player of Ed&rsquo;s calibre, and he&rsquo;s going to be tough to replace. I have no other choice but to place Hockstra on the suspended list.&rdquo;</p><p>Trying to smooth their ruffled feathers, the Salt Lake Golden Eagles were on the receiving end of some rather strong words from Coach Ray Kinasewich. Referring to their recent 7-4 loss to Phoenix on home ice, Kinasewich said, &ldquo;That was the worst, we can&rsquo;t play any worse than we did against Phoenix. In that game we reached the bottom of the barrel.&rdquo;</p><p>As specifics, Kinasewich offered this: &ldquo;We had scoring opportunities, but we couldn&rsquo;t capitalize on them. We had a total and complete breakdown defensively. (Merlin) Jenner had what should have been a fine game in the nets, but he just couldn&rsquo;t do it alone.&rdquo;</p><p>What does Kinasewich see for the future. For one thing, he&rsquo;s still not giving up his hopes for a playoff berth, in other words, a fourth place finish in regular season play. &ldquo;We have talent and ability on this team, but we we&rsquo;re still making stupid mistakes. Some of the problems stem from a few players not being in the best of condition physically. And when that happens, you can almost count on the fact that their mental condition is shoddy too. For some of these players, as a matter of fact for almost the entire squad, if it means going back to basics, going back to training camp conditioning programs, if that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s necessary, that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;ll do&rdquo; said the coach.</p><p>The Eagles, who won their opening game of the season and a couple of weeks into the campaign held onto first place, haven&rsquo;t won a contest since November 5. Since then they&rsquo;ve tied four times (twice each against Denver and Portland, twice at home and two times on the road) while losing 12 times.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0023-02

Ace Scorer Ed Hoekstra Quits Denver

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0023-09" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0920/2800954-1-eng-US/f0023-092.jpg"></div><p>SEATTLE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Western Hockey League &ldquo;rookie&rdquo; rule was designed with more than one purpose in mind. If you rate the rule only on bringing exciting new players into the league, it&rsquo;s been a howling success.</p><p>Twenty-two rookies have been around more or less on a regular basis with the seven WHL clubs this season. And more than one of the new breed plays a regular and important role with his club.</p><p>Top scorer among the group is Frank Hughes of Phoenix with 26 points. Hughes, who picked up a hat trick in his last start, has a 10-point bulge over teammate Gary Marsh who is runnerup among the rookie scorer with 16 points. Top goal scorer is Bill &lsquo;Sandy&rsquo; Snow, also of Phoenix, with seven. Portland defenseman Rick Foley is the penalty leader with 59 minutes.</p><p>Rookie records through December 14, 1969:</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1015/2800947-1-eng-US/f0023-102.jpg" title="f0023-10" width="1214" height="214"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0023-09

Phoenix Duo Top Men Among Rookies In WHL

<div class="byline">BY BOB LINDLEY</div><p><b>New Subscribers To THE HOCKEY NEWS Guaranteed To Get First Issue Within Two Weeks</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY NEWS Makes An Ideal Gift On Any Occasion. Give A Subscription To Dad Or Brother</b></p><p>DALLAS&mdash;</p><p>The volcanic eruption of goals that coach Bobby Kromm had been threatening all season, finally became a reality when the long-suffering Black Hawks filled the Omaha net to the tune of a 9-0 plastering.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been saying that one of these nights we&rsquo;d put it all together and break it open,&rdquo; an elated Kromm said after the game before Dallas&rsquo; biggest crowd of the year (4,033), &ldquo;and we did it up proper.</p><p>&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t that Omaha played so badly. It&rsquo;s just that we played so well in all phases of the game. This certainly has to help this club.&rdquo;</p><p>Crippled badly by injuries, the Hawks have been in the CHL cellar for most of the season, but Kromm believes that &ldquo;when we get a couple more guys to help and we get healthy, we&rsquo;re going to be in there with them.&rdquo;</p><p>It was quite a night all the way around in the Dallas camp.</p><p>For one thing, goalie Bob Champoux&rsquo;s wife, Vicki, had just arrived on the morning of the game and was there to witness hubby&rsquo;s shutout over the first-place Knights.</p><p>It was also the first time for coach Kromm&rsquo;s family to see the Hawks play in Dallas.</p><p>And eight different Hawks tallied goals&mdash;defenseman Barry Long got a pair&mdash;which is the kind of balanced scoring Kromm has been hoping for all season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01137/2800985-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="255" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Champoux</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re down in the standings.&rdquo; the volatile Kromm warned, &ldquo;but don&rsquo;t count us out yet.&rdquo;</p><p>The Black Hawks will have four games televised and five sent over the radio waves through the remainder of the season. KDTV Channel 39 will air the home game of Feb. 4 against Kansas City, and road games Jan. 14 at Tulsa, Feb. 8 at Tulsa and March 15 at Oklahoma City. Radio station WRR will broadcast five road games with Mike Whitman handling the play by-play. It&rsquo;s a first for the Hawks where radio is concerned.</p><p><b>FORT WORTH</b> Well, the Wings&rsquo; long unbeaten streak was finally snapped as John Adams and the Oklahoma City Blazers cut it off at 10 straight by shutting out Fort Worth 2-0. It was Adams&rsquo; second shutout over Fort Worth. Wings goalie Don McLeod back in action after missing four games with a wrenched back. His return was spoiled by 4-2 loss to Tulsa, but it was only the third setback pinned on the veteran net guard in 18 outings. Fred Speck took over goal-scoring lead in absence of rookie Al Karlander, who had 15 before call-up. Speck had 14 in 30 games. Ed Hatoum leading scorer with 27 points on eight goals, 19 assists.</p><p><b>KANSAS CITY</b> Veteran Terry Gray returned to the Blues lineup and picked up exactly where he left off before his promotion to St. Louis. The tall, talented right winger notched a goal in each of his first two games on his return, giving him 14 for the season in only 17 games. Team captain Gary Veneruzzo doubled his previous output in two-week stretch and had 10 through 29 contests. The Blues got good news from the bandage brigade with veteran defenseman Sheldon Kannegiesser due to return shortly after a long layoff with a broken thumb. And forward Don Giesbrecht came out of his knee cast and was on a crash conditioning program.</p><p><b>OKLAHOMA CITY</b> In an effort to bolster a porous defense, the Blazers acquired Rick Pagnutti from Salt Lake of the Western League. The 6-1, 185 pounder had spent two full seasons with the Springfield Kings in the AHL prior to the 1969-70 campaign. Also coming east from Salt Lake was center Dave Rochefort, who played the entire 1967-68 season at Fort Worth and last year was at Baltimore in the AHL. Tom Webster leads league in points with 17 goals. 23 assists through 29 games. Don Tannahill sheds knee cast, but facing long conditioning period for regaining strength.</p><p><b>TLLSA</b> The Oilers halted three-game skid and roared to seven wins in eight outings during first three weeks of December to remain the surprise team in the CHL. &ldquo;Balanced scoring, a vastly improved defense and great goaltending,&rdquo; credits general manager Ray Miron. Oilers had best goals-against average through 29 games (2.75) and in first eight games in December did not allow more than two goals in any game. Only loss in that stretch was 2-1 setback at Kansas City. Danny Johnson&rsquo;s 18 goals in 29 games was tops in league.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hawks Finally Fill Hats As Kromm Predicted

<h2><b>Wed. Dec. 10 TULSA 1 AT KANSAS CITY 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0289/2801114-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="587" height="550"></div><h2><b>Fri. Dec. 12 DALLAS 4 KANSAS CITY 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0363/2801107-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="586" height="610"></div><h2><b>FORT WORTH 2 at OMAHA 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0449/2801100-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="580" height="491"></div><h2><b>Sat. Dec. 13 FORT WORTH 4 AT IOWA 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0538/2801093-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="574" height="782"></div><h2><b>DALLAS 3 AT OMAHA 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0633/2801086-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="571" height="723"></div><h2><b>Sun. Dec. 14 OKLAHOMA CITY 3 AT DALLAS 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0729/2801079-1-eng-US/f0024-072.jpg" title="f0024-07" width="575" height="676"></div><h2><b>IOWA 2 AT KANSAS CITY 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0825/2801072-1-eng-US/f0024-082.jpg" title="f0024-08" width="570" height="514"></div><h2><b>OKLAHOMA CITY 2 AT FORT WORTH 0</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0922/2801065-1-eng-US/f0024-092.jpg" title="f0024-09" width="573" height="350"></div><h2><b>DALLAS 4 AT IOWA 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1019/2801058-1-eng-US/f0024-102.jpg" title="f0024-10" width="577" height="822"></div><h2><b>Wed, Dec. 17 OMAHA 4 AT KANSAS CITY 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1118/2801051-1-eng-US/f0024-112.jpg" title="f0024-11" width="574" height="630"></div><h2><b>Fri. Dec. 19 FORT WORTH 3 AT OKLAHOMA CITY 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1215/2801044-1-eng-US/f0024-122.jpg" title="f0024-12" width="576" height="629"></div><h2><b>Sat. Dec. 20FORT WORTH 2 AT TULSA 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-139/2801037-1-eng-US/f0024-132.jpg" title="f0024-13" width="576" height="539"></div><h2><b>DALLAS 3 AT OMAHA 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-147/2801030-1-eng-US/f0024-142.jpg" title="f0024-14" width="583" height="621"></div><h2><b>SUN. DEC. 21 KANSAS CITY 2 at OKLAHOMA CITY 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-154/2801023-1-eng-US/f0024-152.jpg" title="f0024-15" width="581" height="652"></div><h2><b>OMAHA 0 AT DALLAS 9 FIRST PERIOD</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-163/2801016-1-eng-US/f0024-162.jpg" title="f0024-16" width="578" height="780"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Central Hockey League Summaries

<h2><b>MICHIGAN JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Thurs. Dec. 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01123/2801263-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="571" height="235"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0276/2801256-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="572" height="279"></div><h2><b>IHL JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Fri. Dec. 19)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0359/2801249-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="568" height="169"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0442/2801242-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="575" height="254"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0537/2801235-1-eng-US/f0026-052.jpg" title="f0026-05" width="577" height="228"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<p>FORT WAYNE&mdash;</p><p>The Fort Wayne Komets are starting to flex their muscles in the International Hockey League and if they continue their present pace, they could conceivably end up grabbing off first place.</p><p>The Komets made the biggest advance of the season last week by capturing four victories in five outings and moving to within three points of the top in the North Division.</p><p>Three of the Komets&rsquo; victories came on the road&mdash;in Toledo, Flint, and Port Huron&mdash;and ran the Komets road victory total for the season to seven. This figure already surpasses Fort Wayne&rsquo;s total road victories for last season.</p><p>The backbone of the Komet charge over the .500 mark for the first time since opening night was rookie goalie Paul Hoganson. The 19-year-old netminder was touched for just nine goals in the five games and just one goal in three of the games. He carried shutouts into the third period in Toledo and Flint before late goals deprived him of a whitewash. Hoganson leads the league in goals-against average with a skimpy 2.28 mark and he is tied for the league lead in shutouts with two.</p><p>Shifty veteran Ray Brunel, Trevor Fahey, Eric Sutcliffe, Mery Dubchak, and defenseman Les Hunt paced the Komets in scoring for the week although the club had to play without the services of third-leading scorer Ron Ullyot. Defenseman Terry Pembroke also missed three games with an eye injury.</p><p>Brunel moved into a tie for third on the IHL scoring list with two goals, four assists for a season total of 42 points. Sutcliffe, who has been scoring at better than a point a game since being switched to center, had three goals and four assists for the week; Fahey had three goals and four assists and now has 17 points in 13 games since being traded to Fort Wayne from Des Moines; Dubchak scored three times and added an assist, and Hunt scored twice and added three assists during the week past. Rich Brown, also obtained from Des Moines, had five points in his first four games with Fort Wayne.</p><p>Fort Wayne&rsquo;s surge left it with 15 victories on the season, just nine fewer than the club won all of last season. The lone Komet loss during the week, strangely, was at home to Des Moines. Oak Leaf goalie Gaye Cooley recorded his second shutout of the season in that game and the first by an IHL goalie this year on the road.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0823/2801294-1-eng-US/f0026-082.jpg" title="f0026-08" width="533" height="752"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAUL HOGANSON&hellip;Sizzles In Net</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Fort Wayne ‘s Komets Step Up With Torrid Run In IHL Rate

<h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Dec. 31)</b></p><h3><b>North Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0628/2801332-1-eng-US/f0026-062.jpg" title="f0026-06" width="581" height="170"></div><h3><b>South Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0726/2801325-1-eng-US/f0026-072.jpg" title="f0026-07" width="576" height="235"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Thurs. Dec. 25</b></p><p>Columbus 4 of Fort Wayne 7</p><p>Toledo 2 at Muskegon 7</p><p>Flint 2 at Dayton 4</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 26</b></p><p>Port Huron 3 at Des Moines 7</p><p>Fort Wayne 1 at Toledo 2</p><p><b>Sat Dec. 27</b></p><p>Toledo 5 at Fort Wayne 2</p><p>Port Huron 2 at Des Moines 5</p><p>Flint 3 at Columbus 5</p><p>Dayton 3 at Muskegon 7</p><p><b>Sun. Dec. 28</b></p><p>Muskegon 5 at Des Moines 7</p><p>Columbus 12 at Flint 3</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Wed. Dec. 31</b></p><p>Dayton at Fort Wayne</p><p>Des Moines at Muskegon</p><p>Columbus at Port Huron</p><p>Flint at Toledo</p><p><b>Thurs. Jan. 1</b></p><p>Port Huron at Dayton</p><p><b>Fri. Jan. 2</b></p><p>Fort Wayne at Columbus</p><p>Des Moines at Flint</p><p><b>Sat. Jon. 3</b></p><p>Des Moines at Fort Wayne</p><p>Flint at Muskegon</p><p>Port Huron at Toledo</p><p>Dayton at Columbus</p><p><b>Sun. Jan. 4</b></p><p>Columbus at Dayton</p><p>Des Moines at Port Huron</p><p>Muskegon at Flint</p><p><b>Tues. Jan. 6 Des</b></p><p>Moines at Toledo</p><p><b>Wed. Jan. 7</b></p><p>Muskegon at Fort Wayne</p><p>Toledo at Flint</p><p>Port Huron at Dayton</p><p><b>Fri. Jan. 9</b></p><p>Fort Wayne at Muskegon</p><p>Dayton at Des Moines</p><p>Flint at Port Huron</p><p>Toledo at Columbus<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">BY TOM DARBY</div><p>LONDON&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>ondon Knights&rsquo; right winger Clyde Simon has turned back the clock more than 20 years for some long-time fans of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit.</p><p>The jet-black hair. high cheek-bones, quiet demeanor and ability to score goals with a quick right-hand shot have evoked comparison with the young George Armstrong who was the-courge of the league in his pre-NHL days.</p><p>Simon at five-feet-nine-inches tall and 160 pounds lacks the size of the Leafs&rsquo; former captain but at 18 years of age is-till growing in strength and stature.</p><p>Both Armstrong and Simon come by their nick-name&mdash;the chief&mdash;naturally. Both have Indian blood in their vein-. Simon, however, unlike most players of Indian extraction to make it to the threshold of big-time hockey is a full-blooded native, a Chip pewa. In fact, Simon grew up on and still spends the offseason at his parents&rsquo; home on the Sarnia reserve, about 60-miles west of London.</p><p>Simon says his success with the Knights has prompted the entry of teams from the reserve into the Ontario Minor Hockey Association. During his younger day-on the reserve, pick-up team-played organized squads from nearby centers.</p><p>Three-years ago. Doug Simon took his sons, Clyde and Ron and a neighbor Steve DeGurse to Strathroy to try out with the OHA Western Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; Rockets. Clyde made it big the first year, scoring 32-goal and earning a shot with the Knights who had a working agreement with the Strathroy team. Ron Simon is out of hockey but DeGurse is one of the leading-corer-with the-Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; team in Chatham. Ont.</p><p>Last year with the Knight. Simon was the biggest and most pleasant surprise on the team, scoring 25-goals for the seventh place club. Hi-points&rsquo; total placed him among the top five on the team, a position he has held this year, collecting 14-goals with two-games left before the midway point in the schedule.</p><p>Simon carried the Knights through the first seven-game-of the schedule with a goal-a-game pace but ha-tailed-off somewhat, since Bep Guidolin took over as coach in late October, replacing Gene Taylor who resigned. Guidolin ha-stressed a defensive attitude and the team&rsquo;s scoring has decreased.</p><p>Of his native right-winger. Guidolin says. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a good skater. a good worker and very popular with the other players on the team. I only wish he were a little more aggressive. It&rsquo;s not that he doesn&rsquo;t go into the corners, but he could do with a little more holler.&rdquo; the coach says.</p><p>Clyde says he feel-he&rsquo;s helping the team and is satisfied with his play to date but admits he should be getting more shot. &ldquo;I want to play pro hockey so this year and next are very important to me. I&rsquo;m working harder at hockey now than I ever did in the past and I hope it pays off.&rdquo; he aid.</p><p>The high point in Simon&rsquo;s career came last season when a special Indian night was held at London Gardens. More than 5,300 fan-turned out for the game, including about 500 from southwestern Ontario reserves. Clyde responded with a pair of goals, including the winner a the Knights beat Peterborough 5-3. &ldquo;It was my biggest thrill and I think I proved that Indians can compete with the best. I hope I was able to influence some of the younger Indians at the game.&rdquo; he-aid.</p><p>Making the NHL would be a big lift to the morale of those youngsters and that&rsquo;s where Simon&rsquo;s ambitions lie. Guidolin. who played with the Boston Bruins in the late &lsquo;40s. says Simon has to improve his positional play. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s so quiet I wonder sometimes if I&rsquo;m getting through.&rdquo; Guidolinays, &ldquo;But then he&rsquo;ll do something we&rsquo;ve been working on and I know he&rsquo;s got the idea.&rdquo;</p><p>Clyde attend-London&rsquo;s Beal Secondary School, studying construction and drafting, but sometimes is-truck with the wanderlust. characteristic of his race.</p><p>Knights manager Doug Pratt has the cure for his right-winger&rsquo;s absenteeism. When Clyde took a couple of days off school last fall for some fishing. Pratt put his foot down&mdash;&ldquo;no school. no &ldquo;hockey.&rdquo; Clyde hasn&rsquo;t missed a day in the classroom since.</p><p>The &ldquo;can&rsquo;t miss&rdquo; tag has not been applied to Simon as it was to Armstrong during his junior days. Even without an NHL career. however. Simon has given the kids in the Sarnia reserve minor hockey set-up a goal and a purpose.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01107/2801370-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="541" height="697"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CLYDE SIMON&hellip;He&rsquo;s Aiming High</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0276/2801363-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="539" height="621"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE ARMSTRONG&hellip;His inspiration</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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London’s Indian-born Clyde Simon Hoping To Follow in Armstrong’s Footsteps To NHL

<h2><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Dec. 30)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0354/2801520-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="580" height="375"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Fri. Dec. 26</b></p><p>Oshawa 6 at Niagara Falls 2</p><p>London 2 at Hamilton 5</p><p>St. Catharines 5 at Toronto 3</p><p>Ottawa 3 at Peterboro 3</p><p>Montreal 5 at Kitchener 2</p><p><b>Sat. Dec 27</b></p><p>Ottawa 5 at Oshawa 2</p><p><b>Sun. Dec 28</b></p><p>London 2 at Toronto 0</p><p>Peterboro 2 at Ottawa 5</p><p>Oshawa 2 at St. Catharines 4</p><p>Niagara Falls 1 at Hamilton 6</p><p>Kitchener 3 at Montreal 5</p><h2><b>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Fri. Dec. 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0449/2801513-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="583" height="309"></div><h2><b>WESTERN ONTARIO JUNIOR (Standings on Fri. Dec. 26)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0538/2801506-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="583" height="208"></div><h2><b>BORDER CITIES JUNIOR (Standings on Fri. Dec. 19)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0632/2801499-1-eng-US/f0027-062.jpg" title="f0027-06" width="581" height="207"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0729/2801492-1-eng-US/f0027-072.jpg" title="f0027-07" width="583" height="311"></div><h2><b>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Sat. Dec. 27)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0827/2801485-1-eng-US/f0027-082.jpg" title="f0027-08" width="585" height="174"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0926/2801478-1-eng-US/f0027-092.jpg" title="f0027-09" width="590" height="513"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1024/2801471-1-eng-US/f0027-102.jpg" title="f0027-10" width="581" height="206"></div><h2><b>NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE (Standings on Fri. Dec. 19)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1122/2801464-1-eng-US/f0027-112.jpg" title="f0027-11" width="585" height="238"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1221/2801457-1-eng-US/f0027-122.jpg" title="f0027-12" width="585" height="289"></div><h2><b>NEW YORK METRO (Standings on Mon. Dec. 15)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1317/2801450-1-eng-US/f0027-132.jpg" title="f0027-13" width="577" height="268"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1417/2801443-1-eng-US/f0027-142.jpg" title="f0027-14" width="580" height="156"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR LEAGUE (Standings on Mon. Dec. 22)</b></h2><h3><b>EAST SECTION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1515/2801436-1-eng-US/f0027-152.jpg" title="f0027-15" width="581" height="242"></div><h3><b>WEST SECTION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1613/2801429-1-eng-US/f0027-162.jpg" title="f0027-16" width="579" height="206"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1710/2801422-1-eng-US/f0027-172.jpg" title="f0027-17" width="585" height="528"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Dec. 16)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-189/2801415-1-eng-US/f0027-182.jpg" title="f0027-18" width="577" height="169"></div><h2><b>ARROWHEAD JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Dec. 16)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-197/2801408-1-eng-US/f0027-192.jpg" title="f0027-19" width="576" height="169"></div><h2><b>CENTRAL JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Sat. Dec. 20)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-206/2801401-1-eng-US/f0027-202.jpg" title="f0027-20" width="575" height="201"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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