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March 6, 1970

The Hockey News March 6, 1970

<h2>Fri Feb. 6 PORTLAND 1 AT VANCOUVER 9</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0357/2689807-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="590" height="723"></div><h2>PHOENIX 3 AT DENVER 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0443/2689800-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="593" height="627"></div><h2>Sat. Feb. 7 VANCOUVER 3 AT PORTLAND 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0535/2689793-1-eng-US/f0022-052.jpg" title="f0022-05" width="593" height="748"></div><h2>DENVER 1 AT SAN DIEGO 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0629/2689786-1-eng-US/f0022-062.jpg" title="f0022-06" width="595" height="622"></div><h2>Tues. Feb. 10 DENVER 2 AT SEATTLE 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0729/2689779-1-eng-US/f0022-072.jpg" title="f0022-07" width="587" height="424"></div><h2>WED. Feb. 11 SAN DIEGO 7 AT SALT LAKE 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0826/2689772-1-eng-US/f0022-082.jpg" title="f0022-08" width="590" height="781"></div><h2>DENVER 6 AT PORTLAND 8</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0923/2689765-1-eng-US/f0022-092.jpg" title="f0022-09" width="596" height="866"></div><h2>Fri. Feb. 13 PORTLAND 6 AT DENVER 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1018/2689758-1-eng-US/f0022-102.jpg" title="f0022-10" width="592" height="599"></div><h2>SALT LAKE 5 AT SAN DIEGO 8</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1117/2689751-1-eng-US/f0022-112.jpg" title="f0022-11" width="588" height="826"></div><h2>PHOENIX 2 AT VANCOUVER 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1216/2689744-1-eng-US/f0022-122.jpg" title="f0022-12" width="594" height="573"></div><h2>Sat. Feb. 14 PHOENIX 7 AT SEATTLE 0</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0530/2689737-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg" title="f0023-05" width="586" height="577"></div><h2>PORTLAND 7 AT SALT LAKE 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0625/2689730-1-eng-US/f0023-062.jpg" title="f0023-06" width="585" height="772"></div><h2>Sun. Feb. 15 PHOENIX 2 AT PORTLAND 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0722/2689723-1-eng-US/f0023-072.jpg" title="f0023-07" width="591" height="632"></div><h2>SAN DIEGO 8 AT DENVER 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0819/2689716-1-eng-US/f0023-082.jpg" title="f0023-08" width="587" height="680"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Western League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div><p>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he &ldquo;Giant Line&rdquo; has been doing a great job for the Kings this season. They are collection of three veteran skaters. of the time, they play as a unit but often, due to injuries to other players, they break up to help out the other lines.</p><p>Gordon Labossiere, Doug Robinson and Marc Dufour make up the &ldquo;Giant Line&rdquo;. They have plenty of good hockey savvy and know how. Labossiere and Robinson spent time with the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL while Dufour has played strictly in the minors.</p><p>In a recent game in which the Kings walloped Baltimore 9-4, the line went on a 19&mdash;point scoring rampage accounting for eight of the nine goals. Robinson scored four times, Dufour three and Labossiere once.</p><p>Lab is a center and great playmaker and ranks as one of the top point-makers in the AHL. The 6&mdash;1, 180 pounder is a great puck handler and skater. He scored 13 goals, had 23 assists in 25 games here last season. But in 48 games with LA he could muster only 10 goals last year.</p><p>Gordie&rsquo;s top years in the AHL came in 1963 at Baltimore with 38 goals. In 1966 at Quebec, he popped 41 goals. The 29-year-old veteran was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba but lives in the offseason now in Lac Beauport, Quebec with his wife Claire.</p><p>The Kings &ldquo;Giant Line&rdquo; gets some extra help from Robinson, 6-2, 200 pounder. He started 1968 with Los Angeles but came back to Springfield in the latter part of the season. Right now, he is having a terrific season as the Kings&rsquo; top scorer with 30 goals and 26 assists for 56 points. Dufour has 54 and Labossiere 49 points.</p><p>He was turned pro in 1961 by the Chicago Black Hawks. Doug was AHL rookie-of-the-year in 1962 at Buffalo, hitting for 36 goals, 37 assists. He was traded to New York in 1964.</p><p>The Rangers sent him to Baltimore in 1966 where he was hot, counting 39 goals. He has been here the last two seasons, hoping for a chance with LA again. Doug is married with two sons. The 29-year-old winger was born and still lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.</p><p>Dufour, the &ldquo;Gentleman Jim&rdquo; on the club, came here in 1967 from Vancouver of the Western League The Kings drafted him from the Rangers&rsquo; organization. He spent 1965 with Baltimore and parts of two other seasons there. He received a brief NHL trial with the Rangers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01421/2689243-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="373" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Robinson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02334/2689236-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="377" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gord Labossiere</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03241/2689229-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="383" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marc Dufour</b></figcaption></div><p>Marc, who stands 6&mdash;1, 175, comes from Three Rivers, Quebec. He is tremendous on power play and penalty killing work here and has always been right up among the team&rsquo;s top scorers. He is married with three daughters and has varied business interests in Three Rivers.</p><p>Back in 1962, Marc was rookie-of-the-year in the Eastern Pro Hockey League with Sudbury, Ontario. He had 34 goals, 36 assists here last season<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Kinas’ ‘Giant Line’ On Wild Scoring Spree

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>TORONTO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>his city&rsquo;s Maple Leafs can&rsquo;t afford to give away a single thing in terms of manpower. Even at full strength, they aren&rsquo;t one of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s outstanding teams. They&rsquo;re weak, in fact, faced with a difficult struggle in qualifying for the Stanley Cup play-Offs.</p><p>It was easy to understand, therefore, why coach Johnny McLellan was so annoyed at defenseman Ricky Ley recently. Ley received 10-minute misconducts in successive games and for nothing more significant than arguing with the referee&mdash;a waste of time under the best of circumstances.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03525/2688117-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="271" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ricky Ley</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;ll cost him,&rdquo; McLellan said, indicating that Ley faced a club fine, as well as the amount he would be required, automatically, to pay league headquarters. Misconducts normally are worth $25.</p><p>&ldquo;A lot of our guys take a rough ride out there and keep quiet,&rdquo; McLellan said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s silly not to. You can&rsquo;t win a debate with the referee anyway, so what&rsquo;s the point?</p><p>&ldquo;If Ley is going to be the kind of hockey player we think he can be, he&rsquo;ll have to overcome that sort of stuff.</p><p>McLellan earlier had lectured Jim Dorey about a similar episode&mdash;depriving Leafs of his services for 10 minutes over a minor disagreement with an official&rsquo;s decision. The same happened in Leafs&rsquo; 1-0 victory over St. Louis Blues. Mike Walton scored the decisive goal and then took himself out of the match for protesting an offside call by linesman Matt Pavelich.</p><p>&ldquo;There is simply no way we can hope to get away with things like this,&rdquo; McLellan said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re the kind of a team that has to have everything going for it at all times.&rdquo;</p><p>Since McLellan and general manager Jim Gregory assumed command of Toronto&rsquo;s NHL entry, Leafs have been playing a much milder brand of hockey&mdash;to their detriment, some observers contend. They felt Leafs were at their best when they were hitting. McLellan seems to emphasize skating, instead.</p><p>Some Toronto players would love to take a few shots at the enemy, but don&rsquo;t feel such procedures would have top level backing.</p><p>For a long time this season, Leafs had incurred fewer penalty minutes than any other NHL club. That&rsquo;s changed recently, mainly because of a big brawl in Boston, and now only five teams have worse crime records than Toronto.</p><p>The Leaf organisation was fined $1, 000 for the Boston affair, just because they&rsquo;d failed to control the players on their bench. The reserves had left the sidelines to enter the fight. All who did were fined, too, but the major punishment was directed against the bosses&mdash;McLellan, really&mdash;for not preventing this exodus.</p><p>It would have been a mistake, of course, to hold the players back&mdash;as bad as the Boston trouble was. It&rsquo;s vital to a team&rsquo;s togetherness, its esprit de corps, that each player know he&rsquo;ll get assistance from his colleagues in emergencies. Where this feeling does not exist, you&rsquo;ll find almost a total absence of the sort of collective effort hockey requires.</p><p>If a player won&rsquo;t fight for a teammate, he isn&rsquo;t likely to check for him or pass for him&mdash;in moments of stress, anyhow.</p><p>The philosophy behind McLellan&rsquo;s approach is commendable but it may also be unworkable for a last-place team. A club that&rsquo;s equipped with fast skaters and high scorers, such as Montreal Canadians, can afford to place the emphasis on those assets. But a club that isn&rsquo;t set up that way has to get by on hustle and aggressive forechecking.</p><p>So far, Leafs haven&rsquo;t or at least they haven&rsquo;t punished the opposition the way they need to. But with Dave Keon, Norm Ullman and Jim Harrison at centre, they do possess the forecheckers who can beat any team in the league.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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McLellan Raps Leafs Mouthing Off Tactics With Ricky Ley Target

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05258/2688459-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg"></div><h2>THE TOP 10 NETMINDERS</h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Feb. 22)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06211/2688452-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="1201" height="471"></div><h2>COMPLETE GOALKEEPING RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07186/2688445-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="1217" height="1761"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lookinq At NHL Coalers

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01482/2690462-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="883" height="1643"></div><p><b>BOBBY HULL JOINS SELECT COMPANY AS &lsquo;500&rsquo; SCORER</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02358/2690455-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1237" height="1583"></div><p><b>Blues&rsquo; Net Team Best &lsquo;Fielders&rsquo;</b></p><p><b>ALL-STAR BALLOTS Pick Your Favorites&mdash;PAGE 2</b></p><p><b>BILL WHITE</b></p><p><i>Leases L.A. Kings For The Black Hawks</i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Kings Sacrificed Youth in Six-for-Six Swaps

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01646/2687638-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="550" height="587"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TONY ESPOSITO&hellip;Goalkeeper</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02615/2687631-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="551" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOBBY ORR&hellip;Defense</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03514/2687624-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="550" height="591"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRAD PARK&hellip;Defense</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04366/2687617-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="551" height="587"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL GOYETTE&hellip;Center</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p>Hockey fans, the big moment you&rsquo;ve been waiting for, has arrived.</p><p>This week THE HOCKEY NEWS launches its 23rd straight National Hockey League All-Star selections and offers you that rare opportunity to stump the experts by picking your very own &lsquo;dream&rsquo; teams.</p><p>If you are a red-blooded hockey fan, you&rsquo;ll welcome the chance to get in on the fun and participate in our annual poll.</p><p>Do you think Gordie Howe should be the first-team right winger instead of Rod Gilbert, John McKenzie or Frank St. Marseille? And what about goaling? How about that Tony Esposito of Chicago. Do you think you would pick him over Ed Giacomin or Jacques Plante? These are just a few challenges awaiting you in our poll. Don&rsquo;t wait, sit right down and knock off those All-Star teams and see if you can better the official NHL selectors.</p><p>Merely clip the ballot shown on this page, read the voting regulations carefully and then fill in your selections. It&rsquo;s simple and it can be fun.</p><p>As has been the custom in the past, you are requested to pick a first and second NHL all-star team, printing the names of the players carefully on the ballot.</p><p>Remember, you are also afforded a chance to cast a vote for the league&rsquo;s out standing rookie and most valuable player of the year. It&rsquo;s all contained in your ballot.</p><p>The ballot will appear in three issues only and your team will be announced in THE HOCKEY NEWS dated April 3.</p><p>Remember, if one of your favorites should fail to gain a berth on the Fans&rsquo; All-Star team by the margin of just a few points, it could be because you didn&rsquo;t send that ballot in as you had intended. So right now, while it&rsquo;s still fresh in your mind, fill out the ballot on this page and mail it right away to All-Star Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, Room 212, 1434 St. Catherine St. West, Montreal 107, Canada.</p><p>Hockey fans take note. This is your only chance to exercise your right to select an NHL All-Star team. THE HOCKEY NEWS is pleased to be able to extend this opportunity to its readers.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05254/2687610-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="1200" height="853"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DANNY GRANT&hellip;Left Wing</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06162/2687603-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="542" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE&hellip;Right Wing</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0791/2687596-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="550" height="575"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE&hellip;Right Wing</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOCKEY NEWS OPENS FANS’ ALL-STAR POLL

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>o help you in your NHL All-Star team selections, we have prepared a breakdown of the leading players by positions. We hope it will make your task easier:</p><h2>GOALKEEPERS</h2><p>East: Ed Giacomin, Rogation Vachon, Bruce Gamble, Roger Crozier, Roy Edwards, Gerry Cheevers, Ed Johnston, Tony Esposito.</p><p>West: Jacques Plante, Glenn Hall, Ernie Wakely, Cesare Mani ago, Al Smith, Les Binkley, Bernie Parent, Doug Favell, Gerry Desjardins, Gary Smith, Charlie Hodge.</p><h2>DEFENSEMEN</h2><p>East: Bobby Orr, Dallas Smith, Don Awrey, Keith Magnuson, Pat Stapleton, Doug Jarrett, Jacques Laperriere, Ted Harris, Terry Harper, J.C. Tremblay, Bob Baun, Carl Brewer, Gary Bergman, Tim Horton, Brad Park, Jim Neilson, Arnie Brown, Red Seiling,</p><p>West: Bob Plager, Barclay Plager, Al Arbour, Bert Marshall, Harry Howell, Doug Roberts, Ed Van Imple, Larry Hillman, Wayne Hillman, Joe Watson, Bob Woytowich, Bill White, Larry Cahan, Dale Rolfe Barry Gibbs, Leo Boivin, John Miszuk.</p><h2>CENTERS</h2><p>East: Phil Esposito, Fred Stanfield, Derek Sanderson, Jean Beliveau, Henri Richard, Ralph Backstrom, Stan Mikita, Pit Martin, Alex Delvecchio, Garry Unger, Dave Keon, Mike Walton, Norm Ul-man, Walt Tkaczuk, Jean Ratelle.</p><p>West: Phil Goyette, Red Berenson, Ted Hampson, Earl Ingarfield, Andre Lacroix, Bobby Clarke, Mike Briere, Eddie Joyal, Danny O&rsquo;Shea, Ray Cullen.</p><h2>RIGHT WINGS</h2><p>East: Ken Hodge, John McKenzie, Bobby Rousseau, Yvan Cournoyer, Jim Pappin, Chico Maki, Cliff Koroll, Eric Nesterenko, Gordie Howe&rsquo; Bruce MacGregor, Wayne Connelly, Ron Ellis, George Armstrong, Rod Gilbert, Bob Nevin, Ron Stewart.</p><p>West: Frank St. Marseille, Gary Sabourin, Tim Ecclestone, Billy Hicke, Gerry Ehman, Norm Ferguson, Gary Dornhoefer, Lew Morrison, Ken Schinkel, Jean Provost, Bill Flett, Leon Rochefort, Bill Goldsworthy, Claude Larose, Tommy Williams.</p><h2>LEFT WINGS</h2><p>East: John Bucyk, Jacques Lemaire, John Ferguson, Bobby Hull, Dennis Hull, Frank Mahovlich, Nick Libett, Brit Selby, Paul Henderson, Vic Hadfield, Don Marshall.</p><p>West: Ab McDonald, Bill McCreary, Gary Jarrett, Jean-Guy Gendron, Bill Sutherland, Earl Heiskala, Keith McCreary, Dean Prentice, Ross Lonsberry, Jean-Paul Parise, Danny Grant.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Know Your Players Before Picking Them

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01648/2687693-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Blues&rsquo; netminder ERNIE WAKELY ranks among top puck stoppers.</b></figcaption></div><p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;</p><p>It often has been said, with much merit, that the Vezina Trophy should be given not as a team award, but to the individual goaltender who compiles the best fielding average. Thus, the goaler would be judged on percentage of shots stopped, not penalized by the goals-against column on the basis of lack of team support.</p><p>NHL statistician Ron Andrews contends that over a five-year period, the rankings of the leaders in fewest goals-against were the same as those in fielding average. However, this at least would provide confirmation of a goaler&rsquo;s performance. And of the two stats, fielding average still seems a truer test. And there are same variations in the standings this season.</p><p>There are other problems, Andrews notes. Shots-against are official scorers&rsquo; judgement calls, while goals-against is fact. And the NHL would have to employ more scorers to determine shots-against each goaler. Still, assists are judgement calls, too and goal-tending stats are as significant and as interesting as those of the scoring stats.</p><p>In any event, for games through mid-February, Tony Esposito of Chicago, Jacques Plante of St. Louis and Ed Giacomin of New York ranked first through third in fewest goals-against among individual goalers who had played half or more of their team&rsquo;s games.</p><p>Ernie Wakely of St. Louis and Roger Crozier of Detroit ranked with them, but had played slightly fewer than half their team&rsquo;s games.</p><p>In team totals, Chicago, New York, St. Louis and Montreal formed the first four in that order.</p><p>Fielding averages, unavailable on an individual basis, have been compiled on a team basis and are reported in full in the accompanying box. They are arrived at by dividing shots-against into unsuccessful shots. And they show the St. Louis goalers, Plante, Wakely, Glenn Hall and Gary Edwards (who played only one game) to be the best at. 945, followed by the Chicago duo of Esposito and Denis DeJordy at. 927.</p><p>Separated only by fractions are the third-place New York duo of Ed Giacomin and Terry Sawchuk (who played only two games) at. 918, the fourth-place Montreal trio of Rog Vachon, Lome Worsley and Phil Myre at. 9178, the fifth-place Philadelphia duo of Bernie Parent and Doug Favell at. 9174 and the sixthplace Toronto trio of Bruce Gamble, Marv Edwards and Johnny Bower (one game) at. 916.</p><p>Then comes Detroit&rsquo;s Roy Edwards and Roger Crozier at. 914 in seventh place, Oakland&rsquo;s Gary Smith, Charley Hodge and Chris Worthy (one game) at. 909 in eighth place, Boston&rsquo;s Ed Johnston and Gerry Cheevers at. 906 and Minnesota&rsquo;s Cesare Maniago. Fern Rivard and Ken Broderick at. 902.</p><p>Bringing up the rear, the only ones below. 900, and only fractionally apart are L.A.&rsquo;s Gerry Desjardins and Wayne Rutledge at. 8898 and Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Al Smith, Les Binkley and Joe Daley (three games) at. 8892. Of course, the more shots a goaler must handle, from game to game and week to week, the more he is apt to crumble.</p><p>Shots-against are interesting in themselves in that they reflect the quality of team play. The teams that permit the fewest shots obviously are controlling the puck best, forechecking best, clearing the puck best, blocking best, and vice-versa. In this respect,. New York is doing the best all-around, two-way job, followed by St. Louis and Pittsburgh, while Philadelphia is doing the worst job, followed by Toronto Oakland, Minnesota and L.A.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Blues ‘Best’ In Net Fielding Averages

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Fielding Averages

<p><b>Here is how the NHL teams rank in fewest shots against:</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02530/2687755-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="529" height="629"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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How NHL’s Teams Rate

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01710/2687807-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="353" height="433"></div><p>&bull; <b>CLAUDE RUEL</b> has offered his resignation to the Canadiens if they think a change in coaches would benefit the team. It&rsquo;s a mighty big gesture by the portly mentor but instead of changing coaches maybe the Canadiens should change a few players. 1 here must De three or four players currently with the American League Montreal Voya-geurs who could advantageously replace some of the: slumping Habs&hellip;It&rsquo;s too bad more of the Canadiens didn&rsquo;t have the same fight and spirit as courageous Terry Harper, who in less than a season has developed into one of the toughest and most effective defensemen in the National Hockey League&hellip;Take a look at the current NHL standings and see how they compare with THE HOCKEY NEWS pre-season poll. Here&rsquo;s how the experts selected the teams to finish back in early October: Eastern Division&mdash;1. Montreal, 2. Boston, 3. New York, 4. Detroit, 5. Chicago, 6. Toronto. In the Western Division they picked them this way: 1. St. Louis, 2. Oakland, 3. Philadelphia, 4. Los Angeles, 5. Minnesota, 6. Pittsburgh&hellip;Philadelphia Flyers spent an uneasy night before a recent game in Detroit. Their bus from the airport was involved in an accident in which the driver of a passenger car was killed. Still they went out the next day to upset the Red Wings&hellip;The for-real Rangers of New York are really packing them in at Madison Square Garden with 24 sellouts in 27 home games&hellip;Pat Doyle is the longest standing member of the New York Rangers&rsquo; organization. He has been working the PA microphone for every game since 1955 and has been club secretary since 1946 when Lester Patrick appointed him to the job&hellip;Larry Keenan and Andre Boudrias, two of the players St. Louis Blues recently sent down to Kansas City, found the scoring range early in their efforts to get back with the big team&hellip;Keenan scored-three times and Boudrias twice in their first three games with Kansas City.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02661/2687800-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="255" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Harper</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>MARCEL PELLETIER</b> has been named director of player personnel by the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League. The likeable Pelletier, a former goalie with 13 different clubs during his career, will oversee the scouting duties of the Flyers organization in the United States and Canada. He has been in the Flyers&rsquo; family for the past four years, working as a player and scout&hellip;Gordie Howe has been receiving all kinds of advice on how to cure the arthritis in his left wrist. One writer suggested that he keep two small potatoes in his pocket and squeeze them from time to time. Another sent him a magnetic wrist band while others have forwarded diets of citrus fruit and juices&hellip;Barclay Plager of the St. Louis Blues was forced to wear a protective face mask and helmet after Bryan Hextall broke his nose in a game at Pittsburgh. The scrappy Plager tolerated the cumbersome helmet for two games but ripped it off during a game with Boston and bared his newly-set nose to the Bruins. Plager said: &ldquo;I just couldn&rsquo;t stand that helmet. I couldn&rsquo;t see very well, I couldn&rsquo;t take passes properly, and I just didn&rsquo;t like it&rdquo;&hellip;They say Toronto&rsquo;s Floyd Smith and Montreal&rsquo;s retired Gump Worsley will both wind up with Punch Imlach at Buffalo next season&hellip;Buffalo&rsquo;s new NHL entry will be known as the Sabres and they received over 13, 000 entries suggesting no less than 1, 047 different names. The &ldquo;Name the Team&rdquo; contest was a most successful promotion by the Buffalo club and over 70 people attended the press conference when the winning name was announced. The Buffalo owners hope to sell 9, 000 season tickets by the time the first puck is dropped next season, with 3, 000 of these being sold in neighboring Canada.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03565/2687793-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="256" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marcel Pelletier</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>MONTREAL VOYAGEURS</b> aren&rsquo;t drawing the fans as well as anticipated but they&rsquo;re sure attracting the scouts. Recently Minnesota&rsquo;s Ted O&rsquo;Connor, Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Red Sullivan, St. Louis scout Bucky Hollingsworth and Boston G.M. Milt Schmidt were in Montreal for the game against Hershey. Since the Voyageurs have at least six players of NHL calibre, it should be interesting to see what trades are made by Sam Pollock before the June draft&hellip;Montreal Forum fans are never happy unless the Canadiens win. The usually popular Serge Savard got a jolt recently when the crowd jeered him on selection as one of the three stars&hellip;Things have also been going wrong with Canadiens&rsquo; travel and hotel arrangements of late. In order to get as much sleep as possible before their afternoon game at New York, the team elected to stay at a hotel bordering LaGuardia Airport. They were awakened early, however, when some of the jets appeared to be coming through the windows&hellip;Preston Estep, a member of the St. Louis Blues&rsquo; board of directors, died recently. He was a prosperous insurance executive and was credited with much of the success for the downtown St. Louis urban renewal project&hellip;Philadelphia Flyers, now one of the hottest teams in pro hockey, in one week sold more than 500 season tickets for next season. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s astounding,&rdquo; said Howard Baldwin, the ticket manager. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen anything like it.&rdquo;&hellip;The Flyers now have an &lsquo;Early Bird&rsquo; plan whereby fans ordering tickets for next year&rsquo;s 30 Spectrum games, could get those same seats for this year&rsquo;s Stanley Cup playoffs. It&rsquo;s a splendid plan one no doubt that will be copied by other pro clubs&hellip;Carl Brewer is starting to attract more notice and is given a great deal of credit for Detroit&rsquo;s improved play and strong contention for Eastern Division honors&hellip;Boston&rsquo;s ace defenseman Bobby Orr has a new nickname acquired from some of his fans. They&rsquo;re calling him &ldquo;Iron&rdquo; Orr, because he&rsquo;s always on his metal&hellip;There was both joy and sadness in the hockey world last weekend. Joy because Bobby Hull reached his 500th NHL goal, a rich plateau for a high class athlete&hellip;There was sadness, too, with the sudden death of Dr. Kazuo Yanagisawa at age 51. Known as &lsquo;Dr. Yana&rsquo;, he served as the Rangers&rsquo; physician for many years and performed the delicate spinal fusion operations on such New York superstars as Rod Gilbert and Jean Ratelle.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04493/2687786-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="256" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Carl Brewer</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 Charlie Halpin</b></p><p>President and Publisher Edltorial 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 Printed in Canada</p><p><b>Vol. 23 MONTREAL, MARCH 6, 1970 No. 22</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<h2>Apathy Towards Pens Should Be Wiped Out</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span> think somebody in Pittsburgh should shake-up those sleepy, apathetic anachronisms, who go by the name of &ldquo;sports writers and reporters&rdquo; for the local news media. Come on fellows! You have an exciting, professional hockey team in that city&mdash;and a genuine all-star coach named Kelly&mdash;and those Pens are battling for second place, and headed toward their first Stanley Cup play-off. What is this I read, over and over again, about five and six thousand empty seats for every home game? What is this I hear about the meager news coverage by TV and local papers?</p><p>Can it be that Pittsburgh alone is the only city to recognize just how dull professional hockey is? And can it be that all those &ldquo;hard-nose&rdquo; sport fans of the Steeel City prefer the brutal sport of college basketball? I doubt the truth of both questions. I think there are still several thousand folks around the suburbs of the city who remain in ignorance over the N.H.L. They need, if you will, a real conversion experience. But who will be the bearers of the &ldquo;good news?&rdquo; Obviously the leaders in the news media have opted out. Then the responsibility now rests with those who have been converted. The Pen fans themselves must therefore pick up the slack. Everybody knows how much difference it makes to play hockey in front of a screaming &ldquo;full house!&rdquo; (Look what happens in St. Louis!) Then&hellip;let us go about shaking-up those sleepy, apathetic people in Pittsburgh.</p><p>R. LAWTON MUSE.<br>Trenton, N.J.</p><h2>Orr Best Defenseman Playing Up Or Back</h2><p>In the January 30th issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, a letter from San Bruno, Calif., stated, &ldquo;Orr not the Greatest Defenseman.&rdquo; In a recent issue from a popular sports magazine, the writer stated that Orr was on the ice for 88 of the 131 goals the Bruins scored. At the same time, it stated that Orr was on the ice for 42 of the 103 goals scored against the Bruins. Now if this is not playing defense. I don&rsquo;t know what is. By the way, for Orr, it works out to a plus 46.</p><p>It does not matter that Orr tries to score, because when the other team starts a rush, the first man back there is Orr. He blocks as many shots as the goalies do, so I cannot see why everybody is criticizing him for being too-offensively minded.</p><p>JIM VANURE, <br>Amerson, N.J.</p><h2>Many Factors Keeping Habs From First Place</h2><p>There has been a lot of talk recently as to why Montreal is having trouble overtaking first place in the East Division. Being an avid Canadiens&rsquo;fan I would like to suggest why this is so.</p><p>Firstly, it is evident that the Canucks are having netminding problems, which were caused by the Gumper&rsquo;s retirement. Roga-tien Vachon is not playing up to potential and has looked very tired lately. Phil Myre, the rookie goaler, is doing an outstanding job as backup man, but he won&rsquo;t be trusted with too many big games.</p><p>Secondly, certain Montreal forwards are playing below par, defensively or offensively, such as Yvan Cournoyer, Jean Beliveau, and Mickey Redmond, along with a few defensemen.</p><p>Lastly, their inability to play well at home is ruining their chances for the number one spot. All of these factors add up to the conclusion that the Montreal Canadiens will not make first place this year, but I have no doubts about their winning the Stanley Cup again this year.</p><p>FRANK LEPERE, <br>Thunder Bay, Ont.</p><h2>East-West Equality Could Be Long Coming</h2><p>With all the talk of expansion flying around, there are many yeas and nays to be offered. However, one fact stares us in the eye, the East is far superior to the West. This can be seen every-time a crucial game occurs between the two divisions.</p><p>Just recently we had three teams viewing for the first half Vezina Trophy leadership. The Black Hawks visited the St. Louis Arena and proved beyond a shadow of a doubt which team deserved the victory as the Hawks crushed the Blues 6-2.</p><p>I&rsquo;m an avid Blues&rsquo; fan, but can&rsquo;t help facing reality. St. Louis, the class of the West, has played some fantastic hockey against Eastern opponents, but when the chips were down, the East prevailed.</p><p>Expansion hasn&rsquo;t been bad for hockey as any St. Louis fan can attest, but it looks like a much longer road to equality than anyone has foreseen.</p><p>JESSE FREY, <br>New Baden, Ill.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fan Forum

<p>1&mdash;Gary Smith of Oakland and Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Al Smith, both goalkeepers, are related:</p><p>&#9633; TRUE &#9633;FALSE</p><p>2&mdash;Gilles Tremblay, the Montreal forward who is ailing with asthma, and teammate defenseman J.C. Tremblay are related:</p><p>&#9633;TRUE &#9633;FALSE</p><p>3&mdash;The Makis, Wayne and Chico, and Chicago&rsquo;s tandem of Bobby and Dennis Hull, are related:</p><p>&#9633;TRUE &#9633;FALSE</p><p>4&mdash;Al Arbour the bespectacled defenseman of the St. Louis Blues, is a brother to John Arbour, the Pittsburgh defense hopeful who has become the &lsquo;bad man&rsquo; of the WHL with Vancouver:</p><p>&#9633;TRUE &#9633;FALSE</p><p>5&mdash;Marcel Pronovost, the former Leaf coaching Tulsa of the CHL, is related to Jean Pronovost of Pittsburgh:</p><p>&#9633; TRUE &#9633; FALSE</p><p>6&mdash;Jimmy Peters of Los Angeles Kings and Philadelphia&rsquo;s Gary Peters are borthers and sons of former NHL star Jimmy Peters.</p><p>&#9633;TRUE &#9633;FALSE</p><p>7&mdash;Tony and Phil Esposito are brothers of course but Tony is older than Phil by a year.</p><p>&#9633;TRUE &#9633;FALSE</p><p>8&mdash;There were there Richards playing pro hockey at one time, Maurice, Henri and Jacques. The were all brothers.</p><p>&#9633;TRUE &#9633;FALSE</p><p>9&mdash;There were some great brother combinations like Don and Nick Metz, Bill and Bun Cook, Neil and Max Colville, Doug and Max Bentley. What about &ldquo;Brian, Barry and Ray. Cullen of the North Stars. They were brothers, too:</p><p>&#9633;TRUE &#9633;FALSE</p><p>10&mdash;Bryan Hextail and Dennis Hextali both made the NHL this season following into the big time their uncle, Hall of Famer Bryan Hextail:</p><p>&#9633;TRUE &#9633;FALSE</p><h2>HOCKEY QUIZ</h2><h3>ANSWERS</h3><p>1&mdash;False. Gary Smith and Brian Smith are brothers.</p><p>2&mdash;False.</p><p>3&mdash;True.</p><p>4&mdash;False.</p><p>5&mdash;True.</p><p>6&mdash;False. Only Jimmy is the son of Jimmy Peters Sr.</p><p>7&mdash;False. Phil is older. He&rsquo;s 28 and Tony is 27.</p><p>8&mdash;True. Jacques even got a trial with the NHL Canadiens.</p><p>9&mdash;True.</p><p>10&mdash;False. Bryan Hextall Sr., was their father not uncle.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

two minute hockey quiz

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div><p>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;ll be up to Bernie Parent to bear the brunt of the Flyers&rsquo; goaltending load from now until the end of the season.</p><p>A freak injury to Doug Favell, who partially severed a tendon in his left Achilles heel, has kay-oed his sidekick for the remainder of the campaign and puts the netminding chores solely on Parent&rsquo;s shoulders.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01663/2687917-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="247" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bernie Parent</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;It is a shame what happened to Dougie but I will go out there and try to do my best,&rdquo; said Bernie. &ldquo;There are a lot of big games ahead with a lot of pressure, so I realize I will have to play well because the team needs me.&rdquo;</p><p>Parent and Favell were sharing the goaltending ever since Doug Snapped his victory slump with his first win of season Christmas night against Oakland. He had lost only twice in his nine starting assignments after that, and the Parent-Favell combination was really clicking same as it did the first season of expansion when the Flyers captured the West Division title.</p><p>Then, following a brisk workout at the Spectrum recently, Favell accidentally backed into Reggie Fleming&rsquo;s skate which was lying on the floor in front of Fleming&rsquo;s locker waiting to be wiped off.</p><p>&ldquo;&ldquo;I was shooting the breeze with Bobby Clarke after just I somehow backed up,&rdquo; said Doug. &ldquo;My left foot caught the edge of the blade on Reggie&rsquo;s skate.&rdquo;</p><p>Favell took a step or two, then collapsed. His teammates, knowing his reputation as a practical joker, watched him groaming. Then the seriousness of the situation was recognized when someone spotted blood gushing from behind Doug&rsquo;s left heel.</p><p>Because the deep two-inch gash seemed to have cut the tendon, Favell was rushed to a hospital where surgery was performed. The operation was termed a success but doctors said it&rsquo;d be highly unlikely that Doug would be able to get back on skates for seven weeks or more.</p><p>&ldquo;The operation came out okay and we&rsquo;re sure glad of that,&rdquo; said Flyers&rsquo; GM Keith Allen. &ldquo;How long it takes for complete recovery, only time will tell. I&rsquo;ve been told not to expect Doug back with us before the end of the season, though.&rdquo;</p><p>Dr. Stanley Spoont, the club physician, said there is some consolation in the fact that the tendon was cut, rather than ripped apart as is what usually happens to football, baseball and basketball players who suffer Achilles tendon injuries and find their careers threatened.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not the same type of injury such as Luke Jackson of the 76ers or Bill White (formerly) of the Phillies,&rdquo; explained Dr. Spoont. &ldquo;Their tendons got pulled apart, like frayed ends of a rope. Doug&rsquo;s was a clean cut and, now that it&rsquo;s been repaired, he should be as good as new when it heals.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03457/2687910-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="545" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG FAVELL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Favell’s Cut Hee! Tendon Puts Pressure On Parent

<div class="byline">BY BYRON YAKE</div><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;</p><p>You search for an answer, an easy one of course, to the rise of the Penguins, and you find it just about where you start with Red Kelly.</p><p>You notice that Dean Prentice, perhaps thought over the hill by Detroit last year, is leading the Penguins with total points. That&rsquo;s a big plus.</p><p>There&rsquo;s Glen Sather, who&rsquo;s beginning to score, and as always continues to agitate the opponent to the point of frustration. Last year he was a Boston Bruin. That&rsquo;s a plus.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02597/2687948-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="252" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption></div><p>There&rsquo;s rookie Michel Briere, at least one of the best rookies in the league this season, Nick Harbaruk, who&rsquo;s been fast improving at right wing, Bryan Hextali, Jim Morrison and Ron Shock, all have contributed to the rise along with the veterans.</p><p>The new faces have made a difference in the Penguins, but the biggest difference has to be Kelly.</p><p>Last year he took the Los Angeles Kings into the West Division playoffs. The Kings finished in fourth place, seven points ahead of Pittsburgh and Minnesota.</p><p>Today, the Kings, minus Kelly are nestled snugly in last place while the Penguins have climbed to within two points of second place Philadelphia.</p><p>Kelly, 42, has a one-year contract with the Penguins, but he may soon own Pittsburgh if he can make the Pens a winner.</p><p>The quiet devout Kelly has a way with players and people&mdash;a quiet, unassuming way&mdash;yet he&rsquo;s demanding of his players.</p><p>After a recent road trip which ended in Pittsburgh late at night, he had his players on the ice the next morning.</p><p>Once they went straight from the airport to the Civic Arena to practice.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never played for anyone better,&rdquo; says Prentice. &ldquo;He is fair with everybody.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We have a different attitude this season,&rdquo; says Bob Woytowich, who has become one of the leading defensemen in the league this year. &ldquo;He just in stills something in you.&rdquo;</p><p>The Penguins have been going well. In 10 games they had a record of 6-2-2.</p><p>Then came the Chicago Black Hawks, who the Pens have never beaten. Dean Prentice gave Pittsburgh a short-lived 1-0 lead. But Chicago came back to blitz the Penguins 7-1 on Stan Mikita&rsquo;s three goal hat trick.</p><p>The Penguins, it can be said, have their downs, but hockey is a game of percentages. And this season the &ldquo;ups&rdquo; are more frequent than the &ldquo;downs.&rdquo;</p><p>It&rsquo;s the difference between a winner and a loser.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Kelly’s Coaching Seen Difference In Penguins

<div class="byline">BY CHARLIE HALPIN</div><p>&bull; <b>AN AFTERMATH <i>of the recent Wayne Maki-Ted Green hearings in Ottawa over their training camp stick swinging duel could possibly result in future flare ups of this nature landing before the civil courts instead of NHL President Clarence settlement.</i></b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01737/2687979-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="256" height="435"></div><p><i><b>We are not hinting or predicting that it will happen but such feeling was keenly expressed in arguments presented by an Ottawa crown attorney, who said he feared the NHL was adopting &lsquo;the morality of ancient Rome&rsquo; by declaring that players accept the risk of deliberate injury once they venture into the NHL.</b></i></p><p><i><b>He argued that alleged assaults by players, as in the Maki-Green stick affair, should be brought to court and not left to the jurisdiction of hockey people to judge.</b></i></p><p><i><b>In other words, the next time hard-nosed Reg Fleming of Philadelphia gets his stick up on rough, tough John Ferguson of Montreal or vice versa, the combatants had better think twice. They could spend a few days before a criminal court judge, who may not be as tolerant or as understanding as the knowledgeable Mr. Campbell when dealing with their case.</b></i></p><p><i><b>Hockey has always settled its own problems and will likely go on doing so in spite of the sentiment expressed by the Ottawa legal people attached to the Green-Maki hearings.</b></i></p><p><i><b>A significant factor on the NHL&rsquo;s future control of its own outbreaks may lie in the actual judgment of the current case. If the court judge decides to throw the book at Maki and charge him with bodily assault for something he did on a hockey rink, then the NHL may expect to find its brawling performers hauled into court again and again.</b></i></p><p>&bull; <b>AS FOR the <i>Maki-Green encounter, young Maki concluded his testimony and now must await his fate, which may or may not have a damaging effect on his future big league career.</i></b></p><p><i><b>Maki, a passive young man with a fiery temper, contends that he swung at Green in &ldquo;desperation and self defence&rdquo;.</b></i></p><p><i><b>The 25-year-old St. Louis player said he was merely protecting himself from a man whose reputation as a fighter he feared. Green has said little in the matter since Maki&rsquo;s stick crashed down on his head and he was forced to undergo surgery for a depressed skull fracture. He has been in and out of hospital since last September and only recently was operated on for a third time to have a metal plate inserted in his skull. He has said that he has recovered about &ldquo;95 per cent&rsquo; since the incident with both the slured speech and face paralysis almost completely disappeared.</b></i></p><p><i><b>But Green hasn&rsquo;t played a game of hockey since the day he was struck down and may yet never play again. Maki is currently up with St. Louis after being recalled from Buffalo where he has spent the last two and a half months earning enough experience to get back to the NHL. The call went out for him a few weeks ago and he responded with two goals in his first game. But life hasn&rsquo;t been easy for him since the Green affair.</b></i></p><p><i><b>At any rate, the situation should serve hockey as a perfect example that stick swingers are neither welcome nor needed in the greatest of all sports. Hockey can stand on its own reputation for speed, color and excitement.</b></i></p><p><i><b>Stick swinging need not be a part of it.</b></i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE HOCKEY

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div><p>CHICAGO&mdash;</p><p>Tough young Paul Shmyr is on the verge of realizing an ambition he&rsquo;s held since his grade school days out in Cudworth, Sask.</p><p>But his bosses, and, more importantly, he himself, realize he still has a few problems to overcome before he becomes a full-fledged member of the Black Hawks.</p><p>The 24-year-old rearguard was called up from Dallas recently when the Hawks lost the services of captain Pat Stapleton for the season with a knee injury.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02600/2688017-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="265" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Reay</b></figcaption></div><p>Paul has been used frequently since the call-up and has been fairly impressive. However, his bosses feel he&rsquo;s a little too inclined to ignore his defensive duties in favor of sorties deep into the attacking zone and they want him to reform.</p><p>A free spirit, Paul doesn&rsquo;t agree with Coach Billy Reay and Manager Tommy Ivan&rsquo;s assessment, but he wants more than anything else to remain a member of the Black Hawks, so he&rsquo;s heeding their warnings.</p><p>&ldquo;I feel I can run the risk of being caught and still get back in time if I do,&rdquo; said Paul.&ldquo;But the people here have told me they want me to concentrate on playing defense. They are in charge and I&rsquo;m doing as I&rsquo;m told.&rdquo;</p><p>Paul first confessed him ambition to play with the Hawks to a grade school teacher.</p><p>&ldquo;We were supposed to write about what we hoped to become,&rdquo; Paul recalled. &ldquo;I said I wanted to be a pro hockey player with the Chicago Black Hawks. Bobby Hull had come up a few seasons earlier and the Hawks were pretty big out our way.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03451/2688010-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="543" height="645"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAUL SHMYR&hellip;Doing As Reay Says</b></figcaption></div><p>It took a deal involving one of hockey&rsquo;s biggest names, Camille Henry, to get Shmyr into the Hawks&rsquo; organization.</p><p>Camille, whom the Hawks picked up from the Rangers, had balked at being sent to the minors in 1967 and gone home to Quebec-There, he began to agitate to get back to the Rangers, where he&rsquo;d be appreciated.</p><p>In August of 1967, Ivan obliged by dealing Camille to the Rangers in exchange for Shmyr, who then still was playing amateur hockey for the Fort Wayne, Ind., Komets of the International league.</p><p>Paul spent the entire 1967-68 season with Dallas and returned there last year. Late in the season, he got his first glimpse of NHL play when the Hawks brought him up for three games in an emergency.</p><p>&ldquo;I liked everything about big league play the first time I saw it,&rdquo; said Paul. &ldquo;This is the only place to be.&rdquo;</p><p>Because of his enthusiasm, Paul was deeply disappointed when the Hawks made him the last defenseman sent out from training camp last fall.</p><p>&ldquo;It took me a little while to perk up once I got back to Dallas but I figured I&rsquo;d have to keep on plugging,&rdquo; said Paul. &ldquo;I was going pretty well when the call came this time.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rookie Shmyr Heeds Black Hawks’ Advice

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MacLEAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01689/2688048-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Goaler ED GIACOMIN has been a major figure in Rangers&rsquo; rise to top of NHL this season. His 2-0 shutout of Montreal recently was key win.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Hockey News Photo by John Barnett)</span></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s kinda nice for you guys to see me happy for a change,&rdquo; grinned Eddie Giacomin, a full half hour after the Rangers had shut out the Montreal Canadiens 2-0 on February 15. Eddie was delayed by a post game CBS TV interview, after his calcimine job against the Rangers&rsquo; nemesis.</p><p>For the 30-year-old Sudbury, Ont. native it had to be the biggest win of his career and proof positive that he can win the big ones. Eddie has carried the reputation of being the best goaler in the National Hockey League in the regular season, but his playoff performances have been suspect. Also, in a previous confrontation between Montreal and New York on January 11, Giac was something less than sensational on a Canadien goal in the first seventeen seconds. He got his chance to play that one over again with almost the same situation. New York versus Montreal, with the Rangers hanging on to first place by the slim margin of more wins than Boston and with the Canucks only three points behind the pacesetters.</p><p>In the past, Montreal had always won key games and Giacomin had looked like he was at least partly at fault. To his credit he never alibied and when he took the kudoes he tried to give the credit to his teammates.</p><p>&ldquo;I really didn&rsquo;t have much to do. They only took 19 shots and about ten of them were from far out,&rdquo; said Eddie.</p><p>This is not quite true. Eddie made a big second period save on Jacques Lemaire when the Rangers were winning by a 1-0 score (courtesy of early goal by Donnie Marshall) and later in the third period he saved his shutout with a fantastic save when Yvan Cournoyer gave the puck over to Ralph Backstrom right in front.</p><p>&ldquo;I saw that one on instant replay in the TV room and didn&rsquo;t believe it myself. I think Ralph was starting to lift his stick signaling a goal when he realized I had stopped it,&rdquo; said Eddie.</p><p>For Giacomin it has to be a big lift in the stretch drive coming up and in the playoffs later on. They said Johnny Mize couldn&rsquo;t win the big ones when he played with the New York Giants, but when he became a Yankee, Mize was a pinch hitting fool at an advanced age. Usually, circumstances have much to do with winning or losing. Early in his Ranger career Eddie lacked confidence and was brought along carefully by Emile Francis, the Blueshirts&rsquo; General ManagerCoach. This meant Giacomin went it alone for the most part as the New York goalie, in an era when two men had become a necessity. Eddie wanted it that way and Francis did not want to bruise his confidence.</p><p>&ldquo;1 owe everything I have to Francis,&rdquo; says Giacomin. &ldquo;He stuck with me when I first came up and practiced long hours with me to help me improve.&rdquo;</p><p>The win over Montreal was superbly put together by the entire team. Billy Fairbairn was flying both ways up and down his wing. He notched the insurance goal and still means more to the NHL race than does Tony Esposito of Chicago, shutouts notwithstanding. Fairbairn now has 19 goals.</p><p>The game marked a new NHL record for New York. They broke the record of the Rangers circa 1940-42 by scoring in their 118th straight contest. Rod Seiling was the real hero of this streak. He scored at 19.38 of the third period in Minnesota in a 4-1 Ranger loss on December 14 1968 and this is the goal that made it all possible. It is the only tally in the last minute of play in the entire skein.</p><p>One cloud on the horizon, is the knee ligament injury sufferea by defenseman Jim Neilson in a 4-2 loss to Oakland in California on February 13. Neilson will be out for only a few games, but he will lose sharpness and conditioning in the meantime.</p><p>BLUE CHIPS: New York has had 24 sellouts in their first 27 home games. Kudoes for John Halligan and his hard working PR staff. Incidentally, the job done by the Ranger PR had to be fantastic when CBS zeroed in on February 15. John also gets far more work from the far flung media in New York than do most NHL publicity men&hellip;The NHL record for non shutouts including playoffs is 128, also by the Rangers of 1940-42&hellip;Rangers are now 2-3 with Montreal, the only team in which they don&rsquo;t hold an edge in the season series&hellip;The Bulldog line continues to lead the NHL with 170 points, including 68 goals&hellip;Rangers Fan Club threw sumptous Dinner Dance at the Hotel Statler Hilton on February 16. All Ranger players, their wives and 800 fans attended&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Giacomin Suberb In Rangers’ Record-Setting Romp

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><h2>All That Glitters&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01723/2688086-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="292" height="369"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>I</span>N THE FIRST HALF</b> of the current season, Bill Goldsworthy ranked among the league&rsquo;s goal-scoring leaders. He had 20 by the midway mark, which represented incredible improvement for a fellow who scored only 28 the previous two full seasons put together. And it represented a striking change in attitude for a guy who was demoted to the minors only one season back.</p><p>&ldquo;I had a good playoff after my rookie season and I felt I had the club made,&rdquo; Goldy explained. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mean I said it, even to myself, in so many words but I thought it. I&rsquo;m sure others have thought it after good first years, though players usually won&rsquo;t admit it. I then went out last season and wasn&rsquo;t giving a full effort. 1 don&rsquo;t mean I wasn&rsquo;t trying. I was. No one ever deliberately dogs it. But I didn&rsquo;t have that extra desire that puts a person above the class of the ordinary.</p><p>&ldquo;When things went wrong, I got disgusted and said the heck with it. When I was sent down, I got disgusted. 1 figured tne club was maxing a mistake, had misjudged me. But it shook me up. I mean, after you&rsquo;ve been in the majors, the minors is no place to be. I was determined to beat my way back up to show my bosses how wrong they were. They did bring me back up, though I didn&rsquo;t set the world on fire. And they kept me this season and I got off to a great start. I came to camp in good shape. If you&rsquo;re in shape, you play more. If you play more, you get sharper quicker.</p><p>&ldquo;Looking back on it now, I can see 1 had a lot to learn. I wasn&rsquo;t giving as much as I thought I was. I can see now you can always give more. The thing is, we&rsquo;re not all the same inside. To some, hustle is a way of life. They run through brick walls to get somewhere. To others, having fun is the most important part of life. We have to psych ourselves to give the extra effort that pays off. Some never do. There are guys with the ability of superstars who never make it, because they just aren&rsquo;t willing to make the sacrifices.&rdquo;</p><p> Goldsworthy is an admirably honest young man, perhaps a more thoughtful person than the average fellow. He points to his marriage as a turning point in his career. Nearly three years ago he married, his wife, June, and a year and a half later they had a daughter, Tammy Lynn. Was he a swinger before taking a bride. &ldquo;Isn&rsquo;t everyone?&rdquo; the good-looking blonde grins. &ldquo;Some never stop. And it&rsquo;s easy for a professional athlete, who is in the spotlight.</p><p>&ldquo;However, marriage makes the difference for most guys as it did for me. Suddenly, instead of swinging carefree through life, you have a wife and you&rsquo;re setting up a home. Suddenly, you&rsquo;re thinking in terms of the future. Then your wife gets pregnant and you really think of a home and the future. Our little girl was just a new born baby, practically, when I was sent to Memphis. Suddenly, it&rsquo;s not just the tough travel and short expense money when you&rsquo;re down below, but it&rsquo;s moving around a wife and infant or being apart from them, and this shakes you up. It makes you sad. It makes you see you got responsibilities. Suddenly you have a reason to do well and build a good life, for more than just a little glory.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02638/2688079-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="546" height="880"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL GOLDSWORTHY&hellip;Shook Up By Demotion</b></figcaption></div><h2><i>Goldy A Castoff Prize</i></h2><p><b>GOLDSWORTHY WAS BORN</b> in Waterloo, Ontario, Aug. 24, 1944. He was a promising amateur for the Niagara Falls team, and turned pro in the Boston organization four seasons back. But he did not make a big impression on the Bruins in two trials and was unprotected during the expansion draft and selected by Wren Blair for Minnesota. He scored 14 goals each of his first two regular seasons in the NHL with the North Stars, but really awakened interest with eight goals in 14 playoff games after his rookie season.</p><p>The North Stars missed the playoffs last season and they are an iffy proposition to make it to post-season play this season. And Goldsworthy has tailed off somewhat from his surprising start. But the lean 6-foot, 195-pound winger, who benefitted enormously from the help of linemates Tom Williams and Jean-Paul Parise his grand getaway, and is quick to credit them for this, is a strong, tough, aggressive performer with a knack for being in the right place at the right time and he has a quick, accurate shot. He led the team in penalty minutes with 108 last season, which isn&rsquo;t bad for a forward. He may lead it in goals with 30 or more this season. At 26, he now is coveted by most of the other teams in the circuit.</p><p>The last couple of seasons have been trying ones for most of the expansion teams, which have not progressed from their first season as steadily as most expected. Lately, Los Angeles and Minnesota have been floundering forlornly, fortunate to pick up one victory in a month, while Oakland has been only a bit better. L.A. and Minnesota have made three changes of coaches in the last two seasons each. A few players on these teams have played well, however, including Goldsworthy, who is struggling with his mates now, in front of the full houses Minnesota fans provide for their suffering ice heroes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY VICTOR BERNS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01704/2688148-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Blues&rsquo; manager-coach Scotty Bowman was miffed at his club for failing to show enough aggressiveness and for not coming to the aid of some of their belabored teammates. Here&rsquo;s rookie WAYNE MAKI dripping blood after a rough session with the Boston Bruins.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Hockey News photo by kichard pollegrini)</span></figcaption></div><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;</p><p>One of the troubles of being in first place is that you have to keep proving you belong there.</p><p>And in the National Hockey League you can&rsquo;t prove it simply by looking at the printed standings, doing a little quick arithmetic and saying, &ldquo;My, my, that 14-point lead sure looks good.&rdquo;</p><p>No, you have to prove it on the ice at least twice a week, and the whole process of taking over first place and staying there is a lot of hard work.</p><p>Scotty Bowman decided that his St. Louis Blues had lost interest in the whole idea and he reacted as would any winning coach faced with the makings of a losing proposition.</p><p>The Blues lost road games at Pittsburgh and Toronto, and the offense didn&rsquo;t have much punch.</p><p>Back on home ice virtually everyone on the team had a bad night in a loss to the Oakland Seals, and Bowman lectured his men behind closed doors after the game.</p><p>Then the losing streak went to four in an ignominious 7-1 loss to the Boston Bruins in Boston, and Bowman gave the team its first wholesale shakeup since its humble beginnings when a trade brought Red Berenson and Barclay Plager to a club then in last place.</p><p>Larry Keenan, Andre Boudrias and Ron Anderson were demoted to the minors. Those who remained were given some hard words and a lot of practice time.</p><p>&ldquo;There has been a total lack of aggressiveness that has cost us plenty of points,&rdquo; Bowman said. &ldquo;If the fans knew how much some of these players were making and knew their performances in the second half, they&rsquo;d be as upset as I am.&rdquo;</p><p>Bowman said his players had been &ldquo;indifferent&rdquo; after building a big lead in the Western Division.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to be work and more work,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll give them double time on the ice whenever I can arrange it.&rdquo;</p><p>The coach rescrambled all of his forward lines and changed the partners of his six defensemen. Terry Crisp, the hustling dynamo of last season, was recalled from Buffalo of the American League.</p><p>Bowman said of the humiliating loss to the Bruins, That&rsquo;s the first time I&rsquo;ve even ashamed of a team. The blues used to be known as a team with a lot of fighting spirit.&rdquo;</p><p>The harsh words from the coach were not easy for the players to swallow, and the Blues came up with a better effort in their next game, another bout with Boston.</p><p>&ldquo;Well, at least tonight more than half of them were playing well,&rdquo; Bowman said with a hint of optimism about a team that has known unbounded optimism over most of three seasons. &ldquo;We played with more zest, more determination. We were spotty but we were trying.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hard Words, Extra Ice Practices Bowman’s Order To Slumping Blues

<div class="byline">BY GLENN REDMANN</div><p>TWIN CITIES&mdash;</p><p>For a guy who wasn&rsquo;t taken until the 14th round of the original NHL expansion draft, Minnesota&rsquo;s Billy Collins sure has worn well.</p><p>In a season which began better than most anyone would have expected but has turned into something of a nightmare, Collins has truly been one of the steadiest North Star performers.</p><p>At this writing, the amiable one-time office boy at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto had a career NHL high of 13 goals to his credit and, as usual, was doing a bang-up job of killing penalties for the slump-ridden Minnesotans.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02650/2688179-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="276" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Collins</b></figcaption></div><p>In addition, Billy was drawing the assignment of shadowing such super stars as Bobby Hull, whom he held scoreless to no avail in the Stars&rsquo; 5-2 loss to Chicago here Feb. 14.</p><p>&ldquo;I would like to think that I&rsquo;m having a pretty good year,&rdquo; said Collins, &ldquo;but when the club isn&rsquo;t winning, it really doesn&rsquo;t give a guy too much satisfaction.&rdquo;</p><p>Collins, now 26 and playing in his third full season in the NHL, was credited with nine goals in each of his first two camoaigns with the North Stars.</p><p>This season, while taking a regular shift at right wing, he reached nine by the middle of December, but then was switched to the left side to make room for Danny Lawson and his production fell off to nil.</p><p>But now he&rsquo;s back on the right side again and it paid off with a goal apiece in games against the Black Hawks and St. Louis (a 3-3 tie on Feb. 15).</p><p>Because he is not a pop-off guy, Collins remained silent during his unproductive tour at left wing. Privately, he would confide that he couldn&rsquo;t blame Coach Charlie Burns for trying different things when the club went into a horrible tailspin after beating Chicago here 8-5 on Dec. 10.</p><p>From that time until the deadlock with the Blues, the North Stars managed only one victory (by 5-2 over St. Louis here Jan. 14) and 10 ties in 29 games.</p><p>That&rsquo;s just 12 points out of a possible 58 after having garnered 24 in their first 24 games of the season (nine wins, nine losses and six ties), so it&rsquo;s easy to understand how they dropped from second place in the West Division all the way to fifth.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve still got an outside chance for the playoffs,&rdquo; reasoned Collins, &ldquo;but we&rsquo;ll have to stick close to Oakland until our last two games against them late in March.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Collins Bright Spot Amid Stars’ Gloom

<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>L</span>OS ANGELES&mdash;Bill White,</b> defenseman, <b>Gerry Desjardins,</b> goalkeeper, and <b>Bryan Campbell,</b> forward, traded to Chicago in re-turn for <b>Denis DeJordy,</b> goal-keeper, <b>Gilles Marotte,</b> defense-man, and <b>Jim Stanfield,</b> forward, <b>Dale Rolfe, and Larry Johnston,</b> defensemen, and <b>Gary Croteau,</b> forward, traded to Detroit in re-turn for <b>Brian Gibbons,</b> defenseman, and <b>Garry Monahan,</b> for-ward <b>Matt Ravlich,</b> defenseman, picked up from Detroit on waiv-ers. <b>Dale Hoganson,</b> defenseman, recalled from Springfield of AHL.</p><p><b>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Michel Belhumeur,</b> goalkeeper, recalled from Charlotte of EHL as emer-gency standby goaler after <b>Doug Favell,</b> goalkeeper, lost for season with severed Achilles tendon. Bel-humeur later optioned to Quebec of AHL and <b>Dunc Wilson,</b> goalkeeper, recalled from Quebec to become standby with Flyers.</p><p><b>BOSTON&mdash;Gary Doak, de</b>fenseman, sent to Oklahoma City of CHL. <b>Barry Wilkins,</b> defenseman, recalled from Oklahoma City.</p><p><b>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Ron Anderson,</b> forward assigned to Buffalo of AHL along with <b>Gary Veneruzzo,</b> forward, recalled from Kansas City of CHL. <b>Terry Gray,</b> for-ward, rejoined Blues from injury list.</p><p><b>NEW YORK&mdash;Larry Brown,</b> defenseman, recalled from Buffalo of AHL to replace <b>Jim Neilson,</b> defenseman, placed on injury list. <b>MONTREAL&mdash;Fran Huck,</b> i forward, signed to pro tryout contract from Canada&rsquo;s National team for eight game trial. <b>Larry Mickey and Larry Pleau, for-</b>wards, recalled from Montreal Voyageurs of AHL. <b>Jack Norris,</b> goalkeeper, recalled from Voyareurs for emergency standby and returned.</p><p><b>MINNESOTA&mdash;Grant Erick-son and Walt McKechnie, for-wards, returned to Iowa of CHL.</b></p><h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;Gary Dineen,</b> forward, removed from active roster.</p><p><b>ROCHESTER&mdash;Lee Duff,</b> forward, rejoined team from voluntary retired list. <b>Al Millar,</b> goalkeeper, removed from active roster.</p><p><b>BUFFALO&mdash;John Barber,</b> defenseman, secured from Omaha of CHL after being inactive since training camp.</p><h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>PORTLAND&mdash;Connie Madigan,</b> defenseman, sent to Dallas of CHL.</p><p><b>PHOENIX&mdash;Sandy Hucul,</b> defenseman, named playing-coach i to replace <b>Alf Pike. Ron Ward,</b> forward, secured from Tulsa of CHL. <b>Bob McCord,</b> defenseman, placed on 14-day injury list.</p><p><b>DENVER&mdash;Bill Dineen, for-</b>ward, named playing-coach to replace <b>Rudy Pilous. Lyle Brad</b>ley, forward, placed on disabled list with broken finger.</p><h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2><p><b>OKLAHOMA CITY&mdash;Tom Webster,</b> forward, returned from, injury list. <b>Bill Klatt,</b> forward, placed on disabled list with bro-ken collarbone. <b>Don Tannahill,</b> forward, placed on disabled list for rest of season with knee surgery. Jim <b>Booth,</b> forward, returned to Flint of IHL after five-game pro tryout.</p><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>TOLEDO&mdash;Shorty Malanchuk,</b> defenseman, placed on waivers.</p><p><b>DES MOINES&mdash;Ivan Prediger,</b> defenseman. secured from, Toledo of IHL on loan for rest of season.</p><h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>NEW JERSEY&mdash;Gil Drolet,</b> defenseman, sent to Syracuse of EHL in exchange for <b>Bob son,</b> forward.</p><p><b>NASHVILLE&mdash;Norman Martel,</b> goalkeeper, placed on waivers to make room for new-comer <b>Al Cecile,</b> goalkeeper. Martel later claimed by Salem of EHL.</p><p><b>SYRACUSE&mdash;Pete Christian,</b> forward, secured from Jack-sonville of EHL.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Movements of Players

<p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01723/2688262-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="540" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DENIS DEJORDY&hellip;Comes To Kings</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02633/2688255-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="530" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GILLES MAROTTE&hellip;Headed to LA.</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03531/2688248-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="523" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY DESJARDINS&hellip;Goes To Hawks</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04411/2688241-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="530" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL WHITE&hellip;Hawks&rsquo; Prize Catch</b></figcaption></div><p>The struggling Los Angeles Kings cleaned house this past week and only time will tell whether or not they made the right moves.</p><p>When a team is floundering as the Kings are this season, changes are usually in store at the termination of the year. But the Kings decided to get them done early.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05312/2688234-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="255" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dale Rolfe</b></figcaption></div><p>In one big swoop, the Los Angeles club found itself with no less than six new faces. Six members of the Kings&rsquo; organization were gone to new pastures and now all messers Jack Cooke, Larry Regan and John Wilson had to do was sit back, hope and pray a little, that they didn&rsquo;t give away too much for what they received.</p><p>The Kings finalized two major trades involving Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks and when the smoke had cleared, L.A. had acquired goaler Denis DeJordy, defenseman-left wing Gilles Marotte and a minor league chattel by the name of Jim Stanfield, a center, from Chicago in exchange for promising netminder Gerry Desjardins, rearguard Bill White, a former NHL All-Star, and Bryan Campbell, a center who has bounced between L.A. and Springfield this season.</p><p>Some hours later, in a separate deal, the Kings dealt off defenseman Dale Rolfe and minor league blueliner Larry Johnston from Springfield and another potential big league left winger, Gary Croteau, also with Springfield, to Detroit in return for Gary Monahan, a left wing of dubious nature, minor league defenseman Larry Gibbons and the right to claim veteran defenseman Matt Ravlich.</p><p>Just to keep the body shuffling in motion, the Kings also sent out a call for young Red Hoganson from Springfield to report back to the NHL team.</p><p>On the surface, it appears the Black Hawks got the better of the Kings for the present by plucking White from the L.A. roster. The Hawks, girding for a stretch run with Detroit for the fourth and final Eastern playoff berth, wanted White desperately. Chicago GM Tommy Ivan made no bones about it.</p><p>&ldquo;That was the idea,&rdquo; said Ivan in response to queries that the Hawks obtained White to replace the injured Pat Stapleton, who tore knee tendons recently and may be unable to play anymore this season.</p><p>The Kings gained an experienced goaler in DeJordy, who lost his No. 1 job to rookie Tony Esposito this season. Just how the newcomer will stand up in comparison to Desjardins&rsquo; performance remains a question mark. Possibly more serious is the fact the Kings yielded two experienced defensemen in White and Rolfe. Marotte, who has been employed as a forward by the Hawks the past two seasons, will no doubt revert to the blueline with the Kings. Hoganson comes back to help plug the gap as well and Ravlich could be the &lsquo;sleeper&rsquo; in the whole deal.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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LA. Kings Swap Six-for-Six As Black Hawks Crab White

<p><b>CHICAGO&mdash;</b></p><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>obby Hull reached another milestone in his already fabulous career when he scored his 500th NHL goal the night of Feb. 21 before the home fans.</b></p><p><b>For Hull it mean&rsquo;t a place in select hockey company. Only three players in the entire history of the NHL have ever scored that amount and Hull is the third. Gordie Howe has counted 752 in his 24-year career and the retired Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo;. Richard left the game with 544 to his credit in 18 seasons.</b></p><p><b>What makes Hull&rsquo;s feat all the more incredible is the fact it took him only 13 seasons to turn the trick. His 500th goal came in his 861st NHL game.</b></p><p><b>Here is hockey&rsquo;s top 15 scorers of all time, including games of Sunday, Feb. 22.:</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06243/2688300-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="517" height="550"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07177/2688293-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="516" height="863"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hull Joins Richard, Howe As NHL’s 500-Goal Scorers

<div class="byline">BY SPENCE CONLEY</div><p>OAKLAND&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>hat playoff spot the Oakland Seals have been scrambling for, seems at last to be money in the bank and the chief source of income in the last month or so has come from Harry Howell, Bert Marshall, goalie Gary Smith, and a generally improved of-offense.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01714/2688338-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="255" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gary Smith</b></figcaption></div><p>Coach Fred Glover feels that much of the success&mdash;four wins and a tie in their last six games&mdash;is due to some long-awaited comprehension by his skaters of what made them a solid club last season.</p><p>&ldquo;The turn around started because they started to work the same way they did a year ago. Good plain hard work is the stuff which can make up for a lot of mistakes.</p><p>&ldquo;If you work hard,&rdquo; continued Glover, &ldquo;you force your opponents to make mistakes and give yourself opportunities to score.</p><p>&ldquo;The change began with a couple of stops and starts, but I really think it started to come when we played those two games against New York and Detroit (Jan. 30-Feb. 1) We lost those games by one goal, but we deserved to win. We proved to ourselves that if we worked hard we could stay with anybody, and by correcting mistakes, we could come up with the bacon.&rdquo;</p><p>With that kind of an idea in mind, the Seals followed up those two one-goal losses with their best streak of the season and bolted into a strong fourth place standing.</p><p>They blew five goals past Montreal in the third period and won the key game. Then they beat St. Louis in Blues Arena, 21, the first time that&rsquo;s ever happened. They played a not-so-hot game in Toronto and lost 5-1 in the only really bad performance in a while.</p><p>But they came back from the Toronto loss with two wins, over Minnesota and New York, and a tie (Feb. 17) with the Boston Bruins, their first point in six games with the Bruins.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s taken all this time to understand how they did it last year and now they are starting to win hockey games,&rdquo; says Glover.</p><p>Of all the games, the most important were against the Rangers and the Blues. The Seals just couldn&rsquo;t beat them and then they came up with victories over them in the same week.</p><p>&ldquo;Whatever they had in their minds&mdash;the mental block&mdash;has been eliminated now,&rdquo; believes Glover. &ldquo;There is no doubt in my mind that if they work hard and play to their capabilities they can beat any club. I don&rsquo;t mean a superhuman effort either. I mean going out and doing the job, just as they&rsquo;ve shown they can do in these past few games and just as they did last year.&rdquo;</p><p>Smith, Howell, and Marshall have really been going strong for the Seals and they, perhaps, more than the others, are largely responsible for the upswing in the Seal fortunes.</p><p>Unfortunately, Marshall was injured in the Boston tie (3-3, Feb. 17) and had to be taken from the ice on a stretcher with a twisted back.</p><p>Marshall and the Bruins&rsquo; John McKenzie were locked together by their sticks and as McKenzie pulled away. Marshall went spinning down into the boards. He hit pretty hard and while his shoulders stopped turning, the rest of his body didn&rsquo;t.</p><p>He was examined by a neurosurgeon and the diagnosis was that the injury was not serious, but in all likelihood, he&rsquo;ll be out for a couple of games, or a week to 10 days.</p><p>Since Dick Mattiussi was already out with a badly bruised ankle, the Seal defensive corps was cut by two men with the added loss of Marshall. Mattiussi&rsquo;s injury is not serious.</p><p>Glover did some juggling to take up the slack by shifting Carl Vadnais back to defense from left wing and giving Bill Hicke more ice time on the right wing. Earl Ingarfield shifted over to the left side with Ted Hampson in the middle.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02661/2688331-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="542" height="525"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY HOWELL&hellip;Steadying Defense Down</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01691/2688414-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><h2>TOP 25 SCORERS</h2><p><b>INDIVIDUAL SCORING LEADERS</b></p><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Feb. 22)</b></p><h3>EAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02596/2688407-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="616" height="2477"></div><h3>WEST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03469/2688400-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="610" height="2233"></div><h3>PENALTIES BY TEAMS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04346/2688393-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="574" height="324"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL SCORING GOALING PENALTY RECORDS

<div class="byline">BY PAT CURRAN</div><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe the change should be made behind the bench. Maybe that&rsquo;s the change that&rsquo;s needed &ldquo;</p><p>Bitterly disappointed over his team&rsquo;s third straight loss and their fading hopes for the East Division title, this is how Coach Claude Ruel answered questions of a possible shakeup in the once-mighty Canadiens.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11263/2688490-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="231" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Claude Ruel</b></figcaption></div><p>The statement brought speculation Ruel planned to retire in only his second NHL season, despite guiding Montreal to a clean sweep of first place and the Stanley Cup in his first try last year.</p><p>After a few hours rest from his outburst following the 5-3 loss at Toronto, the 31-year-old coach explained his position.</p><p>He wasn&rsquo;t quitting but readily opened the door for management to replace him behind the bench if such a step would do any good for the slumping Habs.</p><p>&ldquo;I had a talk with Sam Pollock and Mr. Molson (club president J. David Molson),&rdquo; Ruel revealed. &ldquo;I told them if they felt someone else could get more out of the team, not to be afraid to make the move.&rdquo;</p><p>Hesitate was what he meant, rather than &ldquo;afraid&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to be tough to make first place now,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I told Sam and Mr. Moson they can&rsquo;t do it by changing 18 players from the Voyageurs. They can easily replace one man, though, and I think enough of the team to want that if it will help. With someone else behind the bench, the players that are not working now may decide to prove something.&rdquo;</p><p>Ruel said his concern about the job wasn&rsquo;t prompted only by the Habs&rsquo; first loss to the last-place Leafs.</p><p>&ldquo;It has been coming for a few weeks and I don&rsquo;t want to put myself in a box worrying. When you try to push and push your players and there&rsquo;s no answer something must be wrong.&rdquo;</p><p>The young coach said he discussed things with G.M. Pollock several times the past month only to be assured he&rsquo;s not to blame and that an incredible number of injuries hasn&rsquo;t helped Canadiens.</p><p>Ruel complains that for some reason the Canadiens haven&rsquo;t been working together with five or six players doing a good job one game and five others playing well the next.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s something wrong when a team gives up easy goals game after game&mdash;goals that never should be scored in the NHL. It&rsquo;s mistakes, mistakes and bad goals so we have to score four or five maybe to get a tie. And this is a pro team, not a bunch of kids.&rdquo;</p><p>Another complaint is that the Habs have played so badly at home where they lost six and tied seven of 27 games, including the loss of nine points to expansion teams. There has also been a give away of nine points in the last four minutes of play.</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;d think that once in a while we could win easily at home but every game is a fight.&rdquo;</p><p>Has dissension cropped into the Canadiens after so many years of harmony and victory?</p><p>&ldquo;That I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; replied the disturbed coach. &ldquo;I am not a detective. But something is wrong when some fellows feel like playing one night and leave it up to the other guys the next game.&rdquo;</p><p>Ruel declined comment on the possibility his players were miffed by club treatment of Dick Duff, who was coddled because of personal problems, allowed to retire and then brought back before being traded to Los Angeles. Gump Worsley&rsquo;s retirement, rather than accept demotion to the minors, also may have affected the Habs.</p><p>Still it&rsquo;s difficult to accept dissension. Every position in the standing means more money in the athletes&rsquo; pockets from $2, 500 for finishing first to $500 for fourth place, not to mention the $7, 500 boddle that goes with winning the Stanley Cup.</p><p>It&rsquo;s hard to figure the Canadiens passing up the rewards they have been used to in 10 league titles and nine cups the past 14 seasons, no matter how they react to the coach.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Habs Not Ready To Blame Ruel For Dedine Despite His Plea

<p><b>(Including games of Sun. Feb. 15)</b></p><h2>TEAM STATISTICS AGAINST OWN DIVISION</h2><h3>East Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01681/2688584-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="575" height="234"></div><h3>West Dvision</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02635/2688577-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="581" height="235"></div><h2>AGAINST OTHER DIVISION</h2><h3>East Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03590/2688570-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="572" height="235"></div><h3>West Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04539/2688563-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="574" height="235"></div><h2>HOME AND AWAY RECORDS</h2><h3>East at Home</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05444/2688556-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="575" height="234"></div><h3>East On Road</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06378/2688549-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="575" height="232"></div><h3>West at Home</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07348/2688542-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="578" height="239"></div><h3>West on Road</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08326/2688535-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="578" height="237"></div><h2>INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS POWER PLAY GOALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09310/2688528-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="596" height="537"></div><h2>GAME WINNING GOALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10288/2688521-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="586" height="339"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL WEEK—In Statistics

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-13" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13196/2688622-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg"></div><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Feb. 25)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12230/2688629-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="194" height="197"></div><h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><h2>WEST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-14165/2688615-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="1119" height="304"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><p><b>Tues. Feb. 17</b></p><p>Boston 3 at Oakland 3</p><p>Philadelphia 2 at Pittsburgh 4</p><p><b>Wed. Feb. 18</b></p><p>Montreal 3 at Toronto 5</p><p>Philadelphia 3 at New York 3</p><p>Boston 5 at Los Angeles 5</p><p>Detroit 1 at Minnesota 1</p><p>Chicago 2 at St. Louis 5</p><p><b>Thurs. Feb. 19</b></p><p>New York 3 at Detroit 3</p><p>Minnesota 2 at Chicago 3</p><p>Pittsburgh 6 at Los Angeles 1</p><p><b>Fri. Feb. 20</b></p><p>St. Louis 3 at Oakland 1</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 21</b></p><p>Philadelphia 3 at Montreal 5</p><p>Detroit 7 at Toronto 5</p><p>New York 2 at Chicago 4</p><p>Pittsburgh 3 at Oakland 6</p><p>St. Louis 4 at Los Angeles 2</p><p>Boston 4 at Minnesota 2</p><p><b>Sun. Feb. 22</b></p><p>Montreal 1 at Detroit 0</p><p>Toronto 3 at New York 5</p><p>Boston 3 at Chicago 6</p><h2>GAMES TO COME</h2><p><b>Wed. Feb. 25</b></p><p>Pittsburgh at Montreal</p><p>Oakland at Toronto</p><p>St. Louis at New York</p><p>Los Angeles at Minnesota</p><p><b>Thurs. Feb. 26</b></p><p>New York at Boston</p><p>Oakland at Detroit</p><p>Chicago at Philadelphia</p><p>Los Angeles at Pittsburgh</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 28</b></p><p>St. Louis at Montreal</p><p>Los Angeles at Toronto</p><p>New York at Detroit</p><p>Chicago at Boston</p><p>Minnesota at Philadelphia</p><p>Oakland at Pittsburgh</p><p><b>Sun. March 1</b></p><p>Toronto at Minnesota</p><p>Chicago at New York</p><p>St. Louis at Boston</p><p>Los Angeles at Philadelphia</p><p><b>Tues. March 3</b></p><p>Toronto at Oakland</p><p>Chicago at Los Angeles</p><p><b>Wed. March 4</b></p><p>Montreal at Pittsburgh</p><p>Detroit at New York</p><p>Boston at St. Louis</p><p>Philadelphia at Minnesota</p><p><b>Thurs. March 5</b></p><p>Toronto at Los Angeles</p><p>Pittsburgh at Detroit</p><p><b>Fri. March 6</b></p><p>New York at St. Louis</p><p>Chicago at Oakland<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE NHL SCENE

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><p>&ldquo;You like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</p><p>DETROIT&mdash;</p><p>It was an almost unbelieveable scene.</p><p>For so many years&hellip;two decades&hellip;teammates made a fast exit from the dressing room when Gordie Howe exited and was mobbed by the waiting autograph seekers. Where Howe went, the crowd went and the other players got out to their cars or met friends.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01679/2688660-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="265" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Garry Unger</b></figcaption></div><p>But here was Howe, standing in the Red Wing dressing room, waiting for a teammate to go out so that he, instead of Howe, would be engulfed by the fans.</p><p>&ldquo;C&rsquo;mon Ungy, split the scene so we can go,&rdquo; Howe said.</p><p>Garry Unger, who has a choirboy face that seems as if it was painted by Norman Rockwell, blushed a bit, then stepped out the door and the delighted squeals of the girls went up.</p><p>In the words of the times, Unger turns on the younger generation, especially the female portion. Murray Oliver did, too, when he was a youngster, and Pit Martin did to a greater degree. But neither had the following Unger has.</p><p>He is Mister Mod. This particular night he wore window-pane check, flair-bottom trousers over brown boots, an orange shirt and flowered tie, royal blue double breasted jacket with brass buttons and a brown leather coat&hellip;all topped with a full growth of blond hair.</p><p>When a teammate suggested he needed a haircut, Unger was incredulous. &ldquo;Whaddya mean? I just had it cut!&rdquo;Manager-coach Sid Abel kids Unger that &ldquo;the boys are going to give you a real haircut after practice some morning.&rdquo;</p><p>But Abel goes along with his young center. Unger is the freshest thing that&rsquo;s happened to Red Wing hockey in years. It also helps that he plays the game exceedingly well, that instead of reaching a plateau and staying there as some phenoms have in the past, he is getting better.</p><p>It hasn&rsquo;t been all sweetness and light. After a brilliant start last season, his first full one in the National League, Unger tapered off in the second half and Abel and then coach Bill Gadsby were convinced it happened because Unger wasn&rsquo;t giving his full concentration to hockey.</p><p>And then, in training camp last fall, Gadsby called Unger in for a talk. It worked and he had a good first half. Recently Abel chastised Unger and his linemates. left wing Pete Stemkowski and right wing Wayne Connelly, for their defensive record.</p><p>The line led the team in scoring but it was giving up big goals, too.</p><p>Unger got away with it one night in Boston where he made a bad move and it resulted in a go-ahead goal for the Bruins with 4:42 to play. Unger, who&rsquo;d scored the Wings&rsquo; first goal that night, got mad, picked off the puck in the Bruin zone and beat Gerry Cheevers with 3:44 to go to earn a 2-2 draw.</p><p>But the next afternoon his line gave up two goals 87 seconds apart to Philadelphia late in the first period enabling the Flyers to take a 3-0 lead. Detroit, playing its fourth game in 4&frac12; days, just couldn&rsquo;t recover.</p><p>Irritated over the line&rsquo;s play in its own zone, Abel worked the unit hard during the week and in the next game it didn&rsquo;t give up a goal&hellip;and scored three, one by Unger and two by Stemkowski, in a 5-2 victory over St. Louis.</p><p>While Unger was the least-known name in the big trade between Detroit and Toronto on March 3, 1968, he ultimately may wind up as the best part of the deal.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s still growing,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;He has strong legs and wrists but he hasn&rsquo;t filled out yet and when he does, he&rsquo;ll be stronger.&rdquo;</p><p>Right now Wing defenseman Bob Baun says Unger is exceptionally tough to knock down in front of the net&mdash;&ldquo;He&rsquo;s strong on his skates,&rdquo; is the way Baun put it.</p><p>There are some players who seem born to their skates and Unger is one. He works the puck with his skates as easily as he works it with his stick.</p><p>And he&rsquo;s picked up a few things this season. First, he junked the hooked stick for one with only a slight curve and stickhandles better and gets off a good backhand.</p><p>Last season he seemed to always go to the slap shot. This season he&rsquo;s mixing up his shots and really seems to do better with the wrist shot.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve spent a lot more time practicing it,&rdquo; Unger admits.</p><p>Putting them all together, the wrist, the backhand, the slap and pulling the goalkeeper, Unger had 31 goals through 56 games.</p><p>His pre-season aim was a 30-goal season&mdash;he had 24 last year. He&rsquo;s raised his sights considerably but doesn&rsquo;t want to divulge the figure.</p><p>&ldquo;Goals have always come for me,&rdquo; he said, confidently. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never worried about scoring.&rdquo;</p><p>Ah, the confidence of youth! And that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s turning on the Wings&rsquo; young fans&hellip;their older ones, too.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Unger New Pin-Up Boy Of Red Wings

<h2><i>In The East</i></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>obby Hull is in full flight again after missing 18 games at the outset of the season and this past week marked another milestone in his great career&mdash;he scored his 500th NHL goal.</b></p><p><b>The Black Hawks&rsquo; Golden Jet turned it on last week to help the Chicagoans to three wins in four starts as they climbed into fourth place in the Eastern race. Hull scored four times raising his season count to 29 and added four assists for an eight point week.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02570/2688698-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="258" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bobby Hull</b></figcaption></div><p><b>The highlight of course for the brilliant Hawks&rsquo; star was the fact he became only the third man in NHL history to score 500 goals. It came Feb. 21 on Chicago ice as the Hawks toppled Rangers 4-2. Hull counted twice to join Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard as the only 500-goal scorers.</b></p><p><b>THE HOCKEY NEWS and El Production are pleased to salute the NHL&rsquo;s player-of-the-week in the East:</b></p><p><i><b>BOBBY HULL&hellip;Chicago</b></i></p><h2><i><b>In The West</b></i></h2><p><b>The Pittsburgh Penguins are rolling in the NHL&rsquo;s West Division and so is the club&rsquo;s rookie center Bryan Hextall. He has collected 16 points in his last five games.</b></p><p><b>Hextall, 28-year-old son of Hall of Famer Brvan Hextall Sr., has justified the Penguins&rsquo; move in purchasing his contract from Toronto in one of those after-the-season deals following the 1968-69 campaign. Hextall has been coming on strong with his linemates, Ken Schinkel and Jean Pronovost. The trio has picked up 39 points in their last 15 games.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03435/2688691-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="253" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bryan Hextall</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Hextall had a productive week with four goads and three assists as the Penguins beat&rsquo; Detroit, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in a line before losing to Oakland.</b></p><p><b>THE HOCKEY NEWS and El Production are pleased to salute the NHL&rsquo;s player-of the-week in the West:</b></p><p><i><b>BRYAN HEXTALL&hellip;Pittsburgh</b></i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NHL PLAYER OF THE WEEK

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01654/2688869-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="849" height="573"></div><h2>Game Summaries</h2><h3>Tues. Feb. 17 BOSTON 3 AT OAKLAND 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02588/2688862-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="588" height="606"></div><h3>PHILADELPHIA 1 AT PITTSBURGH 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03498/2688855-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="585" height="527"></div><h3>Wed. Feb. 18 MONTREAL 3 AT TORONTO 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04385/2688848-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="592" height="645"></div><h3>DETROIT 1 AT MINNESOTA 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05288/2688841-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="577" height="332"></div><h3>CHICAGO 2 AT ST. LOUIS 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06237/2688834-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="582" height="617"></div><h3>PHILADELPHIA 3 AT NEW YORK 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07211/2688827-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="587" height="614"></div><h3>BOSTONS AT LOS ANGELES 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08189/2688820-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="589" height="798"></div><h3>Thus. Feb. 19 MINNESOTA 2 AT CHICAGO 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09174/2688813-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="584" height="492"></div><h3>NEW YORK 3 AT DETROIT 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-10151/2688806-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="583" height="529"></div><h3>PITTSBURGH 6 AT LOS ANGELES 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-11132/2688799-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="591" height="632"></div><h3>Fri. Feb. 20 ST. LOUIS 3 AT OAKLAND 1 Dcoirtn</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-12106/2688792-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="585" height="452"></div><h3>Sat. Feb. 21 PHILADELPHIA 3 AT MONTREAL 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1393/2688785-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="605" height="693"></div><h3>DETROIT 7 AT TORONTO 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1480/2688778-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="592" height="795"></div><h3>NEW YORK 2 AT CHICAGO 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1565/2688771-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="584" height="517"></div><h3>BOSTON 4 AT MINNESOTA 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1661/2688764-1-eng-US/f0015-162.jpg" title="f0015-16" width="589" height="579"></div><h3>ST. LOUIS 4 AT LOS ANGELES 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1758/2688757-1-eng-US/f0015-172.jpg" title="f0015-17" width="585" height="520"></div><h3>Sun. Feb. 22 PITTSBURGH 3 AT OAKLAND 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1849/2688750-1-eng-US/f0015-182.jpg" title="f0015-18" width="586" height="697"></div><h3>BOSTON 3 AT CHICAGO 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1942/2688743-1-eng-US/f0015-192.jpg" title="f0015-19" width="587" height="759"></div><h3>MONTREAL 1 AT DETROIT 0</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-2032/2688736-1-eng-US/f0015-202.jpg" title="f0015-20" width="579" height="367"></div><h3>TORONTO 3 AT NEW YORK 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-2127/2688729-1-eng-US/f0015-212.jpg" title="f0015-21" width="586" height="723"></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>Phil 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>Jean Beliveau C</p><p>Ralph Backstrom</p><p>Bobby Rousseau</p><p>Yvan Coumoyer</p><p>Claude Provost</p><p>Mickey Redmond</p><p>Jacques Lemaire</p><p>Bobby Sheehan</p><p>Luc Grenier</p><p>Henri Richard A</p><p>Fran Huck</p><p>INJURED</p><p>John Ferguson</p><p>Christian Bordeleau</p><p>SUSPENDED</p><p>Lome Worsley</p><p>C&mdash;Captain.</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>Bill Plager</p><p>Barclay Plager</p><p>Al Arbour C</p><p>Jean-Guy Talbot</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Phil Goyette</p><p>Red Berenson</p><p>Frank St. Morell.</p><p>Gory Sabourin</p><p>Tim Ecclestone</p><p>Bill McCreary</p><p>Ab McDonald</p><p>Wayne Maki</p><p>Jim Roberts A</p><p>Terry Crisp</p><p>Terry Gray</p><p>INJURED</p><p>Noel Picard</p><p>C&mdash;Captain</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>Bill Speer</p><p>Don Awrey</p><p>Barry Wilkins</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Ken Hodge</p><p>John Bucyk A</p><p>Wayne Carleton</p><p>Fred Stanfield</p><p>Garnet Bailey</p><p>Ed Westfall A</p><p>John McKenzie</p><p>Phil Esposito A</p><p>Jim Lorentz</p><p>Wayne Cashman</p><p>Don Marcotte</p><p>Derek Sanderson</p><p>INJURED</p><p>Ron Murphy</p><p>A-Alternate Captain</p><h2>OAKLAND</h2><p>goalkeepers</p><p>Gary Smith</p><p>Charlie Hodge</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Doug Roberts A</p><p>Wayne Muloin</p><p>Carol Vadnais</p><p>Harry Howell</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Billy Hicke A</p><p>Gerry Ehman</p><p>Ted Hampson C</p><p>Don O, Donoghue</p><p>Gary Jarrett</p><p>Earl Ingarfield A</p><p>Mike Laughton</p><p>Norm Ferguson</p><p>Bob Dillabough</p><p>Howie Menard</p><p>INJURED</p><p>Dick Mattiussi</p><p>Bert Marshall</p><p>A-AlternateCaptain</p><h2>CHICAGO</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Tony Esposito</p><p>Gerry Desjardins</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Keith Magnuson</p><p>Doug Jarrett A</p><p>Ray McKay</p><p>Paul Shmyr</p><p>Doug Mohns</p><p>Bill White</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 A</p><p>Chico Maki</p><p>Giff Koroll</p><p>Jim Wiste</p><p>Stan Mikita A</p><p>Gerry Pinder</p><p>Gene Ubriaco</p><p>INJURED</p><p><b>Pat Stapleton C</b></p><h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Bernie Parent</p><p>Dune Wilson</p><p>DFENSEMEN</p><p>Ed Van Impe C</p><p>Joe Watson</p><p>Larry Hillman A</p><p>Wayne Hillman</p><p>Dick Cherry A</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>Lew Morrison</p><p>Terry Ball</p><p>Garry Peters</p><p>Jim Johnson</p><p>INJURED</p><p>Doug Favell</p><h2>DETROIT</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Roy Edwards</p><p>Roger Crozier</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Bobby Baun</p><p>Gary Bergman A</p><p>Carl Brewer</p><p>Ron Harris</p><p>Dale Rolfe</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Alex Delvecchio C</p><p>Garry Unger</p><p>Gordie Howe</p><p>Gary Croteau</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>AlKarlander</p><p>INJURED</p><p>None</p><h2>PITTSBURGH</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>AlSmith</p><p>Joe Daley</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Duane Rupp A</p><p>Bob Woytowich</p><p>Bob Blackburn</p><p>Tracy Pratt</p><p>Jim Morrison A</p><p>Bryan Watson</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Bryan Hextali</p><p>Vai Fonteyne</p><p>Nick Harbaruk</p><p>Ken Schinkel A</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><p>Keith McCreary</p><p>INJURED</p><p>Les Binkley</p><h2>TORONTO</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Bruce Gamble</p><p>Marv Edwards</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Tim Horton</p><p>Pat Quinn</p><p>Jim McKenny</p><p>Ricky Ley</p><p>Brian Glennie</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Dave Keon</p><p>Ron Ellis A</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>Norm Ullman</p><p>George Armstrong</p><p>INJURED</p><p>Jim Dorey</p><p>John Bower</p><p>Mike Pelyk</p><h2>LOS ANGELES</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Denis DeJordy</p><p>Wayne Rutledge</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Dale Hoganson</p><p>Brent Hughes</p><p>Bob Wall A</p><p>Larry Cahan C</p><p>Gil Marotte</p><p>Matt Raviich</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Eddie Shack</p><p>Dick Duff</p><p>Bill Hett</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 Rochefort</p><p>Garry Monahan</p><p>Eddie Joyal</p><p>INJURED</p><p>Howie Hughes</p><h2>NEW YORK</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Ed Giacomin</p><p>Terry Sawchuk</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Brad Park</p><p>Amie Brown</p><p>Rod Seiling</p><p>Allan Hamilton</p><p>Larry Brown</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Rod Gilbert A</p><p>Bob Nevin C</p><p>Orland Kurtenbach</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 A</p><p>Mike Robitaille</p><p>INJURED</p><p>Jim Neilson A</p><h2>MINNESOTA</h2><p>GOALKEEPERS</p><p>Cesare Maniage</p><p>Gilles Gilbert</p><p>DEFENSEMEN</p><p>Lou Nanne</p><p>John Miszuk</p><p>LeoBoivin A</p><p>Marshall Johnston</p><p>Darryl Sly</p><p>Tom Reid</p><p>Elmer Vasko</p><p>FORWARDS</p><p>Danny O&rsquo;Shea</p><p>Bill Goldsworthy</p><p>Danny Lawson</p><p>Ray Cullen A</p><p>Jean-Paul Parise</p><p>Tommy Williams</p><p>Bob Barlow</p><p>Claude Larose C</p><p>Bill Collins</p><p>Danny Grant</p><p>INJURED</p><p>Barry Gibbs</p><p>Ken Broderick<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

National League Rosters

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01500/2688924-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="539" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROGER BEDARD&hellip; Talk isn&rsquo;t Cheap</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>riticizing Ontario Hockey Association Junior A referees has proven to be an expensive proposition for Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; coach Roger Bedard.</p><p>Following a game between Montreal and Toronto Marlboros which was lost 8-2 by the Canadiens Bedard was quoted by Toronto writers as saying: &ldquo;There&rsquo;s not an honest one (referee) in the league&rdquo;.</p><p>Bedard told the OHA executive that the language problem had caused a misunderstanding.</p><p>&ldquo;What I meant&rdquo;, said Bedard, &ldquo;was that the referees are inconsistent&rdquo;.</p><p>However OHA president Clarence Schmalz took a dim view of the criticism and fined Bedard $300 plus an eight-game suspension.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bedard Out For 8 Games, Fined $300

<h2>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Fob. 24)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02426/2688983-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="580" height="375"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><p><b>Tues. Feb. 17</b></p><p>London 11 ot Niagara Falls 0</p><p><b>Thur*. Fab. 19</b></p><p>Oshawa 0 at Peterboro 6</p><p>St. Catharinas 7 at Hamilton 3</p><p>Toronto 4 ot Montreal 5</p><p><b>Fri. Fab. 20</b></p><p>St. Catharines 4 at Niagara Falls 4</p><p>London 1 at Kitchener 3</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 21</b></p><p>Hamilton 3 ot Peterboro 2</p><p>Kitchener 4 at Oshawa 5</p><p><b>Jun. Feb. 22</b></p><p>Oshowa 5 at St. Catharines 8</p><p>Niagara Falls 0 at Toronto 9</p><p>Ottawa 7 at Kitchener 4</p><p>Peterboro 5 at Hamilton 6</p><p>London 2 at Montreal 8</p><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03337/2688976-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="590" height="406"></div><h2>WESTERN CANADA LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed., Feb. 18)</b></p><h3>Easter Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04268/2688969-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="581" height="174"></div><h3>Western Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05199/2688962-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="579" height="162"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06161/2688955-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="576" height="203"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOW THEY STAND

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>TORONTO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>ew could blame Toronto Marlboro coach Gus Bodnar if he demanded that his players take a saliva test before the start of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A playoffs.</p><p>Junior hockey has always been unpredictable but the Marlboros during the 1969-70 schedule have carried it to extreme.</p><p>With a big, tough hockey club they were rated one of the teams to beat before the start of the 270-game schedule.</p><p>Some nights they have lived up to expectations, other nights they&rsquo;d have difficulty winning a game in a girls&rsquo; private school tournament.</p><p>Early in February they were trounced 12-1 in St. Catharines, four days later they defeated the Black Hawks 4-2 Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>They followed up that win with a decisive 8-2 victory over first place Montreal Canadiens, then in a week of sheer frustration they lost 6-4 to the last place Niagara Falls Flyers, 4-3 to sixth place London Knights and salvaged a 1-1 tie with ninth place Hamilton Red Wings.</p><p>Bodnar, rookie of the year in the National Hockey League in 1944 with Toronto Maple Leafs, is at a loss to explain the in and out performances of his team.</p><p>&ldquo;All I hope is that we&rsquo;re on the upswing when we start the playoffs&rdquo;, said Bodnar. &ldquo;If we&rsquo;re right we could go the distance, if we&rsquo;re not we could be gone in the first round&rdquo;.</p><p>However there is still a general feeling that the Dukes will be tough to handle when the Ontario circuit gets down to the business of deciding a champion.</p><p>Like most teams, the Marlboros have been hit by injuries but are finally back at full strength.</p><p>Bodnar has thus been able to return talented Dale Tallon to centre after the husky Canadian junior golf champion spent two months on defense.</p><p>With Gord Davies and Bill Harris on the wings, the Marlboros will have one of the most dangerous lines in junior hockey and the return of Steve Cuddie on defense should give them ballast in that position.</p><p>The Marlboros weren&rsquo;t the only team to have trouble with second division clubs.</p><p>The same day Toronto was losing to London, first place Montreal Canadiens dropped 5-4 decision to Oshawa Generals while third place St. Catharines was beaten by the same score by Kitchener Rangers.</p><p>The loss on home ice was only the fifth for the Hawks in 25 games at Garden City Arena while the Rangers, struggling for a playoff position, ended an eightgame losing streak.</p><p>Despite their defeat to Oshawa, Montreal has the inside track on a second straight pennant.</p><p>Only Peterborough appears to have a chance at catching the defending Memorial Cup champions while St. Catharines and Toronto battle for third and fourth positions.</p><p>Ottawa 67s, thanks to a splendid home ice record, are fairly certain of finishing fifth.</p><p>However sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth positions probably won&rsquo;t be decided until the final weekend of the schedule.</p><p>Eight of the 10 teams qualify for the playoffs which begin the second week of March.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Marlies’ Inconsistencv Puzzles Bodnar

<div class="byline">BY ALEX HARDY</div><p>FLIN FLON&mdash;</p><p>Ray Martynuik of Flin Flon Bombers has blossomed into the top pro goaltending prospect in Western Canada.</p><p>Martynuik, in his third season with the Western Canada League East Division leaders, is a cinch to be a high choice in this summers NHL draft. Because of his sizzling play since January (including the Uoano All-Star game, when he helped pace the All-Stars to a 7-2 romp over Edmonton Oil Kings before a large gathering of NHL scouts), he will likely be among the first 10 picks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07148/2689038-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="240" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pat Ginnell</b></figcaption></div><p>The quick-moving 19-year-old has a 2. 36 goals-against average. Since Christmas he has allowed barely two goals per game, incredible in a league where an average of 8 goals are scored every game.</p><p>Martynuik is not only the best goalie, he is also the most colorful. Two years ago he wore a mask painted half yellow and half red. He often moves from his net like Jacques Plante and usually assists on at least one goal a season.</p><p>And he goes into fits of disgust when scored His momentary outbursts are gobbled up by fans in opposing centres, who spend the rest of the game shouting in A 5-9, 160-pounder, Martynuik played his first few years without a mask and has the scars and lost teeth to prove it.</p><p>He plans to marry his sweetheart, a Winnipeg girl, as soon as the season ends. Then he&rsquo;ll sit back and await the draft &lsquo;I don&rsquo;t care where I play as long as I&rsquo;m drafted. Hockey&rsquo;s my whole future.</p><p><b>SLAP SHOTS&mdash;</b>Mike Shabaga, coach of Swift Current Broncos, says this might be his last season. He cites Personal reasons, chiefly lack of time to spend at home&hellip;WCHL grad Bob Clarke is the difference between Philadelphia Flyers being 4th and 2nd in the NHL West, according to Frank Mario, director of player personnel tor St. Louis Blues&hellip;</p><p>Jimmy Skinner, director of player personnel for Detroit Red Wings, says NHL teams will draft fewer players from WCHL and OHA teams this season than last. Both circuits are in minor rebuilding years&hellip;Flin Flon Bomber coach Pat Ginnell says morale is his team&rsquo;s biggest advantage over other WCHL clubs. Winnipeg is mentioned as the site of next year&rsquo;s All-Star game. Confirmation won&rsquo;t come until the league&rsquo;s annual meeting in June.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Martynuik Top Prospett For NHL Summer Draft

<div class="byline">BY CHARLES BARTON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02366/2689076-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="543" height="509"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GARY VENERUZZO&hellip;Good puck handler</b></figcaption></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>BUFFALO&mdash;</p><p>Fred Shero had some juggling to do when Gary Veneruzzo and Ron Anderson joined the Buffalo Bisons and Gerry Ouellette, as usual, was involved.</p><p>In their third game with the Bisons, veneruzzo, a leftwinger, and Anderson, a right-winger, had Ouellette in the middle.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01415/2689083-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="231" height="354"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry Ouellette</b></figcaption></div><p>Ouellette is the Bisons&rsquo; 31-year-old captain who has played both wings, center and on the defense. Nobody has suggested he be fitted for a goaltender&rsquo;s equipment.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s amazing how Gerry can do any job he&rsquo;s asked to handle,&rdquo; said Shero, now in his third season as the Bufalo leader.</p><p>&ldquo;He has the&rsquo; rare ability of being able to adapt himself to any style his linemates want to play.</p><p>&ldquo;Veneruzzo handles the puck real well, and has all the tools to play center himself. But, with Gerry in there, the three of them went real well. Ouellette made the ling go.&rdquo;</p><p>Anderson was the victim of the recent player shakeup by Scotty Bowman of St. Louis and is likely to remain here for the rest of the AHL season. Veneruzzo was transferred from Kansas City of the CHL here by St. Louis after the NHL Blues called up Terry Crisp from the Bisons. Veneruzzo was the team captain the past two years at KC.</p><p>This is Ouellette&rsquo;s fifth season with the Bisons. His goal production has improved steadily despite a variety of jobs, and the record shows totals of 11, 17, 18 and 25.</p><p>He is an accomplished penalty killer, and frequently has been held in reserve for this type of work, with the resultant loss in goal production himself.</p><p>With 18 games remaining this season, Ouellette had 19 goals and 28 assists, and was certain he would better the 25 goals he collected a year ago.</p><p>Incidentally, Ouellette, Guy Trottier and Dennis Kassian are the home-owned Bisons who will be acquired by the new National League club here next winter.</p><p>However, Trottier&rsquo;s NHL rights may be acquired by the New York Rangers, who hold an option on his major league services.</p><p>Punch Imlach, general manager and coach of Buffalo&rsquo;s NHL club, will have to give Ouellette a long look next fall. Trottier, if he&rsquo;s available, and Kassian also will come under close scrutiny from Imlach.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03300/2689069-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="546" height="528"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RON ANDERSON&hellip;Dropped in Shakeup</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Shero ‘Fits’ Ouellette Into Pivot Slot For Newcomers Anderson, Veneruzzo

<h2>Sat. Feb. 14 QUEBEC 1 AT BALTIMORE 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04235/2689198-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="577" height="500"></div><h2>SPRINGFIELD 5 AT PROVIDENCE 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05191/2689191-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="577" height="522"></div><h2>BUFFALO 2 AT CLEVELAND 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-06161/2689184-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="578" height="567"></div><h2>Sun. Feb. 15 BALTIMORE 1 AT BUFFALO 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-07145/2689177-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="577" height="570"></div><h2>QUEBEC 1 AT ROCHESTER 7</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-08114/2689170-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="585" height="647"></div><h2>SPRINGFIELD 1 AT PROVIDENCES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-09102/2689163-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="579" height="519"></div><h2>HERSHEY 1 AT MONTREAL 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1093/2689156-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="581" height="520"></div><h2>Tues. Feb. 17 SPRINGFIELD 4 AT BALTIMORE 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1176/2689149-1-eng-US/f0017-112.jpg" title="f0017-11" width="576" height="495"></div><h2>HERSHEY 0 AT CLEVELAND 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1267/2689142-1-eng-US/f0017-122.jpg" title="f0017-12" width="584" height="600"></div><h2>ROCHESTER 2 AT MONTREAL 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1353/2689135-1-eng-US/f0017-132.jpg" title="f0017-13" width="584" height="622"></div><h2>Wed. Feb. 18 SPRINGFIELD 2 AT HERSHEY 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1443/2689128-1-eng-US/f0017-142.jpg" title="f0017-14" width="581" height="597"></div><h2>Thurs. Feb. 19 ROCHESTER 2 AT QUEBEC 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1534/2689121-1-eng-US/f0017-152.jpg" title="f0017-15" width="580" height="426"></div><h2>Fri. Feb. 20 SPRINGFIELD 2 AT MONTREAL 9</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1632/2689114-1-eng-US/f0017-162.jpg" title="f0017-16" width="582" height="771"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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American League Summaries

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Feb. 24)</b></p><h3>Eastern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04191/2689288-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="574" height="172"></div><h3>Western Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05139/2689281-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="574" height="197"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><p><b>Tues. Feb. 17</b></p><p>Springfield 4 at Baltimore 2</p><p>Rochester 2 at Montreal 6</p><p>Hershey 0 at Cleveland 6</p><p><b>Wed. Feb. 18</b></p><p>Springfield 2 at Hershey 5</p><p><b>Thurs. Feb. 19</b></p><p>Rochester 2 at Quebec 1</p><p><b>Fri. Feb. 20</b></p><p>Providence 3 at Buffalo 3</p><p>Springfield 2 at Montreal 9</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 21</b></p><p>Buffalo 5 at Baltimore 2</p><p>Quebec 4 at Cleveland 4</p><p>Montreal 3 at Hershey 1</p><p>Rochester 5 at Springfield 6</p><p><b>Sun. Feb. 22</b></p><p>Rochester 4 at Buffalo 6</p><p>Hershey 2 at Cleveland 2</p><p>Quebec 2 at Montreal 2</p><p>Baltimore 1 at Province 1</p><h2>GAMES TO COME</h2><p><b>Tues. Feb. 24</b></p><p>Providence at Quebec</p><p><b>Wed. Feb. 25</b></p><p>Cleveland at Hershey</p><p><b>Thurs. Feb. 26</b></p><p>Cleveland at Baltimore</p><p><b>Fri. Feb. 27</b></p><p>Providence at Montreal</p><p>Buffalo at Rochester</p><p>Hershey at Springfield</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 28</b></p><p>Providence at Baltimore</p><p>Buffalo at Hershey</p><p>Cleveland at Springfield</p><p><b>Sun. March 1</b></p><p>Hershey at Buffalo</p><p>Springfield at Providence</p><p>Cleveland at Quebec</p><p>Montreal at Rochester</p><p><b>Tues. March 3</b></p><p>Buffalo at Baltimore</p><p><b>Wed. March 4</b></p><p>Cleveland at Montreal</p><p>Rochester at Providence</p><p><b>Thurs. March 5</b></p><p>Baltimore at Quebec</p><p><b>Fri. March 6</b></p><p>Rochester at Buffalo</p><p>Baltimore at Montreal</p><p>Quebec at Springfield</p><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun. Feb. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06116/2689274-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="582" height="553"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">BY BOB ELMER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-07102/2689319-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Members of the Baltimore Clippers brought two youngsters inflicted with cerebral plasyto a recent practice prior to their March 3 benefit game against Buffalo with proceeds going towards the Palsy fund. Front row, goaler ANDY BROWN and ED MACQUEEN flank little KENNY DAVIS. In rear DEVORA JETTER sits between BOBBY RIVARD, left, and RON SNELL</b></figcaption></div><p>BALTIMORE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>O</span>nce again the Baltimore Clippers and one of their chief radio sponsors&mdash;the Black and Decker Manufacturing Company of Maryland&mdash;are banding together for the benefit of the United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Baltimore, Inc.</p><p>On Tuesday, March 3, the second annual CP benefit hockey game will be presented at the Clippers&rsquo; home rink, the Baltimore Civic Center, when Coach Rudy Migay&rsquo;s skaters play host to the runaway leaders of the AHL West, the Buffalo Bisons.</p><p>Last year, the first such benefit game was held here and proved to be a whopping success both artistically, as the Clips won, and financially, as more than $6, 000 was raised in behalf of palsy victims. As with last year, Baltimore Mayor Tommy D&rsquo;-Alesandro has officially proclaimed March 3 as Cerebral Palsy Day.</p><p>Approximately 2, 000 tickets for the game has been donated to UCP by the Clippers and Black and Decker. The entire proceeds of these ducats, which were peddled by more than 100 volunteers including members of the Baltimore Clippers active Booster Club, will go to the Delrey Development Center in suburban Catonsville and two day care centers in Arbutus.</p><p>Manuel V. Nodar, vice president product planning at Black & Decker, heads up the project again as general chairman. An enthusiastics hockey fan, it was Nodar who first realized the tremendous potential of this game, and has been especially ecstatic over the sponsorship of the play-by-play radio broadcasts which are carried on Maryland&rsquo;s largest station, WBAL, and handled so deftly by announcer Jim West.</p><p>Carrying the burden for CP has been their school director Paul Hughes. He has worked tirelessly to tie all the loose ends together and as he says, &ldquo;The money we receive, which this year will top $7, 500, goes a long way towards implimenting our total 1969-70 budget of approximately $190, 000.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Clippers Planning Second ‘Palsy’ Game

<div class="byline">BY JOE CELDAK</div><p>QUEBEC CITY&mdash;</p><p>While the parent Philadelphia Flyers are going through their third season it appears also that the Quebec Aces have found the added muscle and hustle they needed so badly.</p><p>&ldquo;Nobody in the American Hockey League is going to push around that team,&rdquo; said Flyers&rsquo; and Aces&rsquo; general manager Keith Allen. &ldquo;The Aces have a lot of muscle in the likes of Jim Mair, Rosaire Paiement, Bill Brossart and Ralph MacSweyn. That is enough muscle for any club.&rdquo;</p><p>The Aces were without Mair for one game but the rugged rookie defenseman is back and helping the Quebecers backline.</p><p>The Eastern Division race continues to be a close one with only the Montreal Voyageurs running up a big first-place lead.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a good race all season long,&rdquo; said Aces&rsquo; coach Turk Broda. &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t let up for one minute or Providence will be on us. I&rsquo;m still looking toward second place, though. If we won some of those games in our division we will be right up in second place.&rdquo;</p><p>Center Rene Drolet continues to lead the Aces scoring and still has a good chance of overtaking Buffalo&rsquo;s Guy Trottier for the AHL scoring championship.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Aces Boast New Muscle For AHL Run

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>f the Hershey Bears entertain any ideas of defending their Calder Cup title they will have to catch a hot hand on home ice in the stretch run for a Western Division playoff spot.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01398/2689374-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="275" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Chuck Hamilton</b></figcaption></div><p>As of Feb. 13, Baltimore Hershey and Rochester were headed for a blanket finish in the final two months of the 1969-70 American League season.</p><p>The Buffalo Bisons, who move into the National League next season, are on the verge of wrapping up their second straight Western Division title. The New Yorkers will be heavy favorites to win the Cup this time around. They were last season, but the Bears ousted the Bisons in a startling upset in the semi-final round.</p><p>Hershey, which has been plagued with injuries, lost the services of forwards Chuck Hamilton and Stan Gilbertson on an eightgame road swing earlier this month. And through the first six road games, the Bears lost five and tied one. The opposition outscored coach Frank Mathers&rsquo; charges, 30-16, in the short span.</p><p>Mathers&rsquo; outfit was scheduled to return home Feb. 18 to face the Springfield Kings From that point on the schedule favors Hershey in its scrap for a playoff spot.</p><p>The Bears play 13 of the last 21 games at the Sports Arena where they have posted a respectable 12-8-3 mark. Meanwhile, Baltimore has 13 road games and nine at home, while Rochester plays ten of its last 17 on foreign ice.</p><p>Added to this, Hershey can go a long way in helping its own cause in the struggle to close out second to Buffalo. They have two games remaining with Baltimore. The Bears are 3-2-3 against the Clippers. Hershey also faces Rochester twice at home. The Bears, though down 2-4-2 to the Amerks on the season, have beaten Rochester twice in three starts at Hershey.</p><p>It&rsquo;s expected that veteran goalie John Henderson will be ready to return to the nets in the latter part of March. He underwent a knee operation in early January.</p><p>Mathers also is hoping his ailing skaters will be healthy for the final two months. Some of the injured players stayed in the lineup though skating at only 70 per cent efficiency. At one stage of the road trip the Bears were down to mine forwards and defenseman Pete Ford has been used as a forward at times.</p><p>Only last season the Bears were in the same predicament, but Mathers put the pieces together and Hershey went on to win eight of its final 11 games enroute to the east division crown and the Cup championship which saw the Bears take out Buffalo in six games and the Quebec Aces in five.</p><p>&ldquo;These guys are pros and they know what they have to do,&rdquo; said Mathers.</p><p>One thing is certain. Despite a losing record and the struggling effort to gain a playoff berth, the club has been backed solidly by its fans. In its first 23 home games, Hershey drew 122, 618 fans, about a 1, 000 ahead of last year&rsquo;s pace. In January, Hershey played to three standing room only crowds and pulled a whopping&rsquo;50, 960 into the 7, 200-seat Arena. The club averaged 5, 662 a game for the month.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Desperate Bears Hope Home Stand Witt Help Lock Up Second Place

<div class="byline">BY BOB BROWN</div><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Cleveland Barons hope they haven&rsquo;t started too late. Mired in last place in the Western Division for most of this season, the Barons suddenly have come alive and are making a bid to reach post season play.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02346/2689405-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="269" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Cec Hoekstra</b></figcaption></div><p>To get there, the Barons have their work cut out. Not only do they have to make up considerable ground on Hershey and Rochester, the third and fourth place clubs hut they will soon face a two week wad swing that includes seven games on foreign ice.</p><p>However, the Barons still have five games to play with each of their rivals (Hershey and Rochester) for that final playoff berth. The point spread is not insurmountable, but the Barons must continue to show the spark demonstrated in recent games if they are to get there.</p><p>Much of the Barons&rsquo; recent surge can be attributed to the play of veteran center Cecil Hoekstra. Never slow on the draw, Hoekstra is the man Jack Gcrdon looks to in critical face off situations and the 35-year-old pro seldom fails. In a recent game here against Springfield, Hoekstra won four consecutive face offs, then came back on the ice in the closing seconds to save the day by winning another.</p><p>Hoekstra has also made a major contribution to the Barons&rsquo; cause all season by his effective penalty killing, and as the season progresses, he seems to keep get-ting better.</p><p>Hoekstra, in his seventh season here, is a favorite with fans. As an instructor in the Barons&rsquo; hockey school last summer, Cecil always went out of his way to help teach the fundamentals of the game to his eager students. He is also a very articulate spokesman for the club before school groups and civic clubs. &ldquo;Cecil is just great at explaining the game in basic terms,&rdquo; said Barons&rsquo; radio broadcaster Tom Kelly who has accompanied Hoekstra on several speaking engagements this season. &ldquo;Cec is always willing to answer questions regardless of how much time it takes. He&rsquo;s just great with people,&rdquo; Kelly added.</p><p>Hoekstra and the Barons are pulling out all stops to make the playoffs. If they don&rsquo;t get there, it won&rsquo;t be because of a lack of hustle on Hoekstra&rsquo;s part. There are a lot of games to be played and, who knows, the Barons may pull off a few surprises yet.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hoekstra Putting Spark In Barons’ Late Drive

<div class="byline">BY JOHN GILBERT</div><p>MINNEAPOLIS&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he struggle in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association race is more than just trying to catch Minnesota. It also means getting a good position for the post-season playoffs.</p><p>Two Western teams and two Eastern teams will meet for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship March 19-2021, and eight of the nine WCHA teams are in position to get shots at the playoffs.</p><p>The WCHA playoffs will be held at Duluth, Minn., and Denver, Colo., March 12-1314, with four teams at each site.</p><p>At Duluth, Minnesota, Michigan Tech, North Dakota and host Minnesota-Duluth will square off.</p><p>It appears likely that UMD will meet Michigan Tech March 12, with Minnesota battling North Dakota March 13, since the pairings are determined by freezing the standings and taking 1 vs. 4 and 2 vs. 3 among the four participants.</p><p>The winners will then meet March 14 in the Duluth Arena with that winner entering the NCAA tournament pending official &ldquo;approval&rdquo; of a &ldquo;selection&rdquo; committee.</p><p>At Denver, Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin and host Denver will comprise the field, barring a sudden winning streak by Colorado College.</p><p>Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin are bunched tightly in the standings, but Denver will face the lowest finisher of the three in one game, with the other two meeting the next day, and those winners battling for the other Western slot in the NCAA.</p><p>It is possible, then, that when the NCAA tournament gets going at Lake Placid, N.Y., two also-rans during the season could wind up in the field.</p><p>The system has proven itself worthy in the past, however, as Michigan State has indicated.</p><p>The Spartans struggled through a sub-.500 season in 1965-66, but coach Amo Bessone put things together for a late-season surge. When Michigan State upset powerful Michigan Tech and won its way into the NCAA tournament, the league moaned.</p><p>Having finished sixth in the eight-team WCHA at 9-11, after standing 4-9 at mid-season, the Spartans went to the NCAA tournament that year in Minneapolis and upset Boston University to reach the finals, where they beat Clarkson and won the national championship.</p><p>The very next season, Michigan State again upset Tech and got into the NCAA, but Boston University stopped the Spartans, in what has become known as the year the west did not win the NCAA.</p><p>And, who knows? If Michigan State can put it together from now on, it could be another Cinderella year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Minnesota Favorites In WCHA But Eiaht Teams Eve Playoffs

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01243/2689460-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="874" height="1173"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN MARCH 13 ISSUE</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1&mdash;Pictured player.</p><p>7&mdash;Number of times Bobby Hull won Bing trophy.</p><p>8&mdash;1961-62 Hart trophy winner.</p><p>11&mdash;Initials of rookie winner in CHL last season.</p><p>12&mdash;Players do this hours before a game.</p><p>13&mdash;Finished out of the playoffs last year (abbr.)</p><p>15&mdash;Initials of Robert of Rochester.</p><p>16&mdash;San Diego player.</p><p>17&mdash;First name of one of the Rangers.</p><p>18&mdash;Former L.A. forward who retired this year, (init.)</p><p>19&mdash;Initials of Spencer of Tulsa.</p><p>20&mdash;Nickname of a former U.S. President.</p><p>22&mdash;Central League coach. (Nickname)</p><p>24&mdash;Distress signal.</p><p>25&mdash;Color man for Boston TV broadcasts.</p><p>29&mdash;First name of a Hawk centre.</p><p>30&mdash;An NHL centre.</p><p>31&mdash;First name of recently traded Hab.</p><p>32&mdash;Philadelphia defenseman answers to this.</p><p>33&mdash;Initials of a Profidence forward.</p><p>34&mdash;Number worn by Oakland captain.</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1-1963-64 Calder Trophy winner.</p><p>2&mdash;First name of a Ranger veteran.</p><p>3&mdash;Native Province of 9 down, (abbr.)</p><p>4&mdash;28 down blows his whistle when the puck is.</p><p>5&mdash;24th and 5th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>6&mdash;A Red Wing forward.</p><p>9&mdash;An NHL captain.</p><p>10&mdash;Preposition.</p><p>11&mdash;They call him &ldquo;stemmer&rdquo;.</p><p>14&mdash;An All-Star right wing.</p><p>21&mdash;One of the Kings.</p><p>23&mdash;A Buffalo defenseman.</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of one of the Seals.</p><p>27&mdash;First name of &lsquo;58-59 Hart Trophy winner.</p><p>28&mdash;This NHL linesman wears No. 8.</p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p><b>I&mdash;SMITH</b></p><p><b>2&mdash;K.O.</b></p><p><b>6&mdash;UNGER</b></p><p><b>7&mdash;NEVIN</b></p><p><b>10&mdash;INTERN.</b></p><p><b>12&mdash;DEA.</b></p><p><b>14&mdash;RYE.</b></p><p><b>I5&mdash;DR.</b></p><p><b>16&mdash;Y.L</b></p><p><b>17&mdash;O.W.</b></p><p><b>30&mdash;NICHOLSON.</b></p><p><b>23&mdash;U.H.</b></p><p><b>24&mdash;AT.</b></p><p><b>25&mdash;CEC</b></p><p><b>27&mdash;RENE.</b></p><p><b>20&mdash;EARL.</b></p><h3>DOWN</h3><p><b>1&mdash;SANDERSON.</b></p><p><b>2&mdash;IRVINE.</b></p><p><b>3&mdash;HUNT.</b></p><p><b>4&mdash;KENNEDY.</b></p><p><b>5&mdash;ORR.</b></p><p><b>8&mdash;IN.</b></p><p><b>11&mdash;R.D.</b></p><p><b>13&mdash;ARLENE.</b></p><p><b>18&mdash;WISTE</b></p><p><b>19&mdash;SHEA.</b></p><p><b>21&mdash;HOWE.</b></p><p><b>22&mdash;LUCE.</b></p><p><b>24&mdash;A.R.</b></p><p><b>26&mdash;C.R.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0020-01

Hockey Crossword

<h2>WCHA DIVISION</h2><p><b>(Standings on Sat. Feb. 14)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02173/2689533-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="575" height="235"></div><h2>ECAC DIVISION</h2><p><b>(Standings on Sun. Feb. 14)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03142/2689526-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="573" height="235"></div><h2>NEW YORK COLLEGE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Thurs. Feb. 12)</b></p><h3>East Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-04110/2689519-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="576" height="297"></div><h3>West Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0551/2689512-1-eng-US/f0020-052.jpg" title="f0020-05" width="579" height="339"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><p><b>Fri. Feb. 13</b></p><p>Bowdoin 6, Middlebury 2</p><p>Army 5, Norwich 4</p><p>Toronto 9, Windsor 4</p><p>Montreal 4, Queen&rsquo;s 1</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 14</b></p><p>Boston U. 9, Northeastern 5</p><p>Cornell 5, Boston College 3</p><p>St. Lawrence 7, RPI 4</p><p>Minnesota 4, Michigan State 2</p><p>Michigan Tech 6, North Dakota 4</p><p>Lake Superior 10, Lakehead 4</p><p>Yale 9, Princeton 3</p><p>Brown 6, Penn 0</p><p>Harvard 8, Dartmouth 1</p><p>Oswego State 8, Boston State 5</p><p>Hamilton 7, Ithaca 4</p><p>Army 4, Vermont 0</p><p>New Hampshire 4, Colgate 4</p><p>Colby 7, Middlebury 4</p><p>Williams 10, Amherst 4</p><p>McGill 4, Carleton 1</p><p>Loyola 7, Sherbrooke 4</p><p><b>Sun.Feb.15</b></p><p>Laval 8, Montreal 2</p><p>Tues. Feb. 17</p><p>Boston U. 12, Merrimack 1</p><p>Clarkson 4, Colgate 2</p><p>RPI 7, Army 2</p><p>Western 2, Guelph 2</p><p>York 7, Ryerson 1</p><p><b>Thurs Feb. 19</b></p><p>Army 3, Hamilton 0</p><p>Connecticut 8, Holy Cross 1</p><p>Salem State 8, Boston State 4</p><p>Williams 8, American International 6</p><p>Sherbrooke 5, Bishop&rsquo;s 2</p><p><b>Fri. Feb. 20</b></p><p>Merrimack 5, Norwich 4</p><p>Canton Tech 10 Brockport State 2</p><p>Oberlin 7, Toledo 5</p><p>St. Anselm 3, Worcester Tech 2</p><p>Montreal 6, Ottawa U. 5</p><p>Guelph 4, McMaster 3</p><p>Carleton 8, Queen&rsquo;s 7</p><p>Toronto 9, Waterloo 6</p><p>Loyola 7, Macdonald 2</p><p>Sir George Williams 14, CMR 0</p><h2>ONTARIO-QUEBEC COLLEGE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Feb. 18)</b></p><h3>EASTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0636/2689505-1-eng-US/f0020-062.jpg" title="f0020-06" width="587" height="602"></div><h3>WESTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0732/2689498-1-eng-US/f0020-072.jpg" title="f0020-07" width="574" height="243"></div><h3>OTTAWA&mdash;ST. LAWRENCE</h3><p><b>(Final Standings)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0825/2689491-1-eng-US/f0020-082.jpg" title="f0020-08" width="573" height="234"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0020-02

COLLEGE RACES

<div class="byline">BY TOM BURKE</div><p>ITHACA&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;You know,&rdquo; mused Snooks Kellev on the flight back to Boston. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the kind of thing I really love to see.&rdquo;</p><p>Such a remark seemed odd coming from Snooks at the time. His Eagles from Boston College had just played their hearts out before succumbing to unbeaten Cornell in Ithaca. 5-3. But it soon became clear that Snooks wasn&rsquo;t thinking about the result of the game, which dropped BC a notch in the tight ECAC playoff race.</p><p>&ldquo;Did you see the crowd they had in that arena tonight? Plus the line outside? Plus the kind of show we put on for them&rdquo; he enthused. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s what I call college hockey at its best. The interest they&rsquo;ve built up for college hockey around here is amazing. You know. I bet we could have filled Boston Garden for this one, there was so much enthusiasm about the game.&rdquo;</p><p>The genial BC mentor couldn&rsquo;t have been more correct. Cornell&rsquo;s Lvnah Rink, a 4.2(10 seat edifice on the South Hill overlooking downtown Ithaca and picturesque Lake Cayuga, was jammed fuller than it had ever been, according to some officials. A line for the 2(XX) or so general admission tickets began forming at 4 o&rsquo;clock that afternoon of February 14, some 4 hours before face off time. An estimated 3000 fans were turned away.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01109/2689571-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="528" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN KELLEY&hellip;Lauds Enthusiasm</b></figcaption></div><p>Once inside, the general admission ducat holders, mostly students, pass the time by batting balloons around in the stands. Some bring their books and squeeze in a little Kafka, Camus, or chemistry before game time. Others make up for their missed dinner by devouring buckets of fried chicken, while a few clandestinely gulp down beer or other contraband spirits. A paunchy character in a bear costume and wearing a Carnelian and White muffler patrols the ice surface in the darkened arena, retrieving stray balloons and keeping the crowd loose with his wobbly skating histrionics.</p><p>When their heroes, led by the redoubtable Ned Harkness, take the ice for the pre-game warmup, the lights flash up to full brilliance arid the din is deafening. By contrast, should the enemy sextet dally a bit too long and give the Big Red rooters a chance to catch their breath, then the boo far outstrips anything they&rsquo;ve ever heard along the lines of verbal putdown.</p><p>The game that night was spectacular. BC. the last pretender to face Cornell for the ECAC throne and second in the standings, played up to everyone&rsquo;s expectations. Both teams, the fans, writers, ushers, doormen, and Zam-boni operator were sky high for this one. and none were disappointed.</p><p>Paul Schilling put the Eagles on the scoreboard first at 0:59 of the first frame, but Kevin Pettit got that one back at 2:40. ending the scoring for the period in which no penalties were called, and goalies Jim Barton of BC and Brian Cropper of Cornell had 18 and 13 saves, respectively. Kevin Ahearn capped off a pretty passing play with Scott Godfrey early in the second period to put BC up 2-1. But Pettit whipped a high backhander under the BC crossbar to tie it up again. Cornell&rsquo;s Dick Bertrand and BC&rsquo;s Tom Mellor traded goals as the lead changed hands again, before Garth Ryan potted the actual winner at 17:29 of the second stanza.</p><p>Pettit completed his hat trick, and the scoring for the game, at 1:30 of the third period, but the game was far from over as Cropper and Barton did their thing brilliantly in the nets, foiling breakaways, smothering second and third rebounds, and flopping on loose pucks in the crease. Barton wound up with 40 saves. Cropper with 34. his high for the year. Only three penalties per side were tooted in the rough but clean hitting and hard skating contest, the kind that every fan and player enjoys most.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t another close hockey game, it was an experience, giving the Ithacans a tough tussle on their home ice. The Big Red haven&rsquo;t lost in 38 outings at Lvn-ah, since dropping a 4-3 overtime decision to Yale in 1967.</p><p>&ldquo;It was the best team, and the best game, we&rsquo;ve played all year,&rdquo; concluded Harkness afterward.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0347/2689564-1-eng-US/f0021-032.jpg" title="f0021-03" width="521" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEVIN PETTIT&hellip;Fired Hat Trick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0021-01

Ithaca Really Rocks When ‘Big Red’ Wins

<div class="byline">By John Gilbert</div><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hile Minnesota kept rolling along by sweeping two games from Michigan State Feb. 13-14, Colorado College shook up the Western Collegiate Hockey Association by knocking Minnesota-Duluth out of the race.</p><p>Duluth had just beaten Michigan twice the weekend before, and went west for week to play Colorado College and Denver twice each.</p><p>Facing Colorado College tuesday out peeKing to Wednesday&rsquo;s game at Denver. UMD was zapped 6-2 as Colorado College won its first game of the WCHA season after 13 losses.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0278/2689602-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="259" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John Marks</b></figcaption></div><p>Ironically, it was a couple of Minnesota boys who might have been at UMD that did the damage. All-American Bob Collyard had first wanted to attend UMD before Colorado College showed more interest in his services. And Bill Baldrica played on Collyard&rsquo;s Hibbing High School line before enrolling at UMD and transferring west to CC.</p><p>Each scored twice in the 6-2 victory. Duluth then stunned Denver 8-4 before losing that Friday 53 at Denver. On Saturday, Duluth went back to Colorado Springs. Larry Wrights two goals helped UMD to a 3-1 lead, but Collyard narrowed it to 3-2. Baldrica scored to tie it, and Collyard tallied again for a 4-3 CC triumph.</p><p><b>MINNESOTA:</b> The pace-setting Gophers turned on the power by bombing Michigan State 8-0 and 4-2. Craig Sarner and Steve Hall, both juniors from the Twin Cities, had two goals each and Murray McLachlan notched the shutout. The next night freshman Mike Antonovich returned from a one-game suspension to set up goals by Sarner and Mike Kurtz to put the Gophers ahead 3-1. When State closed in to 3-2, Ron Peltier lofted a 130-foot shot into an open net in the final minute to clinch it.</p><p><b>MICHIGAN STATE:</b> Once 7-3 and a strong contender, injuries have caused a Spartan tailspin. Denver. Michigan Tech and Minnesota swept consecutive two-game sets. MSU missed star sophomore centers Don Thompson and Gilles Gagnon for both the Tech and Minnesota-series, then the third center, Pat Russo, scrapped with Gopher freshman Dean Blais and the two were ejected from the first game and suspended for the second, meaning State was without all three regular centers.</p><p><b>MICHIGAN TECH:</b> Before going to the mountains for a showdown with Denver to decide Minnesota&rsquo;s top competitor, Tech tied 22 and won 6-4 at North Dakota. Terry McKnight and Herb Boxer scored for Tech in the tie, but Tech couldn&rsquo;t score on 12 overtime shots. Barry Sawchuk. Al McLeod and the second goal by Ed Shillington led Tech to the 6-4 victory capped when Boxer hit an open net at the end.</p><p><b>NORTH DAKOTA:</b> Freshman Gerry Miller and star senior defenseman John Marks, a 6-foot-3 NHL cinch prospect, scored in the 2-2 tie with Tech while goalie Jim Nelson made 44 saves, holding the fort with 12 of those in the overtime. Earl Anderson, another freshman. scored twice leading the Sioux to a 3-2 lead before Tech came on to win the rematch 6-4.</p><p><b>WISCONSIN:</b> Lloyd Bentlev, Tim Dool and Norm Cherrey scored once each to pace Wisconsin to a 4-2 victory over Michigan., slipping the Badgers out of eighth place for a day. Michigan came back to win the Saturday rematch 4-3 however, to climb back ahead of Wisconsin in the WCHA standings.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0021-02

WESTERN WAY

<div class="byline">By Tom Burke</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0021-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0439/2689647-1-eng-US/f0021-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>ROWN&mdash;</b>Veteran coach Jim Fullerton, the Bruins&rsquo; first full time hockey coach who&rsquo;s been at the helm since 1955, announced that he would retire for reasons of health at the end of this season. A native of Beverly, Mass., Jim is one of the most personable of all ECAC coaches. He graduated from Norwich, class of &lsquo;30, and received offers to turn professional as a goalie but declined them to become coach there for a season. Thence he moved on to Northwood School where he taught and coached for 24 years, and during that time his teams won 86% of their games. Moving on to Brown, Jim revitalized their hockey program and took, the 1964-65 team to a berth in the NCAA championships. His overall record was 163-158-8 going into this season, and the present Bruin sextet is a tough, experienced club which could make Fullerton&rsquo;s farewell campaign one of his best as the playoffs approach. Jim will remain in his capacity as member of the ice hockey committee for the 1971 Pan-American games and the 1972 winter Olympics.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0534/2689640-1-eng-US/f0021-052.jpg" title="f0021-05" width="263" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Fullerton</b></figcaption></div><p><b>HARVARD&mdash;</b>Not thinking that his team was playing quite up to their capabilities, Cooney Weiland was mulling over some personnel changes for the latter half of the season. The line of Joe Cavanagh centering for Steve Owen and Dan DeMichele will remain as is, but Jack Turco has been switched tentatively from his position as third line center to second line right wing Leif Rosenberger was slated to move from wing to center on the third line, and Weiland said that he was toying with the idea of a fourth line, with defensemen Terry Flaman and Howie McAlpine skating up front in an effort to get more muscle into the corners. Ron Mark, who hadn&rsquo;t been the same since his shoulder injury, notched a hat trick in a recent 8-1 win at Dartmouth.</p><p><b>NEW HAMPSHIRE&mdash;</b>Continuing their battle for a playoff spot, the&rsquo; Cats dumped Providence 5-2 as co-captain Allen Clark tallied two goals and one assist. In a rematch with Colgate, who tied them 4-4 earlier, Charlie Holt&rsquo;s skaters again played to an identical 44 deadlock. The Red Raiders are one of UNH&rsquo;s chief foes in the playoff scramble, and neither is going down without a fight Lou fngon took over the team scoring lead with 23-25-48, followed closely by Mike McShane with 47 points and Dick Umile with 44 Soph forward turned-defenseman Guy Smith has 38 points. Overall, the Wildcats average over 6.6 goals per game, scoring 141 times in 21 contests.</p><p><b>BOSTON COLLEGE&mdash;</b>The Eagles entered the roughest stretch of the season recently, with 5 of their last 7 games against top notch foes in the loop. Goalie Jim Barton had 52 saves as BC lost the Beanpot final to Boston University, 5-4. Sophomore defenseman Jack Cronin has been sparkling as replacement for injured John Powers. Left wing John Snyder has been moved to the club&rsquo;s second line along with Tim Sheehy and Charlie Toczylowski, as soph Scott Godfrey is now the left wins for Kevin Ahearn and Paul Schilling.</p><p><b>CORNELL&mdash;</b>There doesn&rsquo;t appear to be a chink in the formidable Cornell armor, as the Big Red, barring a deus ex machina, are headed for an undefeated season. The Cornell frosh team is also unbeaten in 16 outings, and recently trounced the Mt. Royal Junior B Eagles 20-2. On the varsity, defenseman Gordie Lowe was sidelined with a knee iniurv. but Ron Simpson returned from his own knee problems and stepped right into the lineup. Simpson, a sophomore from Islington, Ont., may be the best rearguard ever to matriculate at Cornell and is considered a definite pro prospect. He&rsquo;s a devastating body checker, and some say he&rsquo;s better than senior Dan Lodboa, generally considered the best in the East. &ldquo;Boa&rdquo;, a smallish type and excellent puck carrier, isn&rsquo;t looking forward to a pro career, but Simpson at 5-11, 185 lbs. has all the tools.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0628/2689633-1-eng-US/f0021-062.jpg" title="f0021-06" width="240" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ron Mark</b></figcaption></div><p><b>DARTMOUTH&mdash;</b>&ldquo;We seem to have turned the corner in our rebuilding program,&rdquo; said coach Ab Oakes at a recent luncheon. &ldquo;In our last three games, we&rsquo;ve averaged over 100 shots per game in the other team&rsquo;s end. I&rsquo;m very pleased with our offense, and with Mike Turner in particular, through the Big ureen lost 11-6 to Brown, the Bruin goalie, Don McGinnis, had to come up with 60 saves. Turner, a sophomore center, has been logging some 40 minutes a game as first line center, on power plays, and killing penalties. Ken Davidson, a junior center who has been shifted to wing on the first line with Turner and Jeff Kosak, has also played well after being on the shelf for two weeks. Captain Denis O&rsquo;Neill, oft injured through two seasons, has given Dartmouth a boost just by remaining in the lineup. Playoffs appear out of reach this season, but next year could be a big one for Dartmouth as few key men will be graduating.</p><p><b>YALE</b>&mdash;It&rsquo;s been a frustrating season for Dick Gagliardi&rsquo;s Bulldogs. They recently broke a nine-game losing streak with a 9-3 win over Princeton, and in so doing scored the most goals in one game since 1967. Brian Bird, a junior who&rsquo;s been their top forward, scored a hat trick in 16-6 loss to Dartmouth, and had two goals in the Princeton win along with Ed Wright and John Ormiston. Greg Rivet banged his knee up in a 4-1 loss to Cornell, and hasn&rsquo;t seen action since. Sophomore Mark Fitzsimons has been working his way into the goaltending picture along with junior John Cole.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0021-04

DOWN EAST

<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>L</span>OUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by</b> HILLERICHL BRAOSBY CO LIMITED WALLY ENTERPRISES LIMITED. AFFILIATE <b>Arnold Street Wallaceburp Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01126/2689685-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="542" height="877"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SANDY HUCUL&hellip;Takes Over Runners</b></figcaption></div><p>PHOENIX&mdash;</p><p>The Western Hockey League has two new coaches for the final stretch run of the 1969-70 season.</p><p>Sandy Hucul, five times an All-Star WHL defenseman, stepped up to become the playing-coach of the Phoenix Roadrunners, replacing Alf Pike.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0270/2689678-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="259" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Dineen</b></figcaption></div><p>At almost the same moment, the Denver Spurs figured that Rudy Pilous, the club&rsquo;s general-manager and coach, would be more of an asset to the team if he concentrated on managerial duties and left the coaching to someone else. That someone was Bill Dineen, a well-travelled 37-year-old forward, who has been a pro for the last 16 years.</p><p>Dineen, who wasn&rsquo;t even playing with the Spurs during the first half of the season, was a late pickup from Seattle on waivers. He will take over the Spurs&rsquo; coaching immediately from Pilous.</p><p>Pike, 52, completing a three-year contract with the Runners, remains in an advisory and scouting capacity. He resigned, said club president Bob Whitlow, in hopes &ldquo;a change in chemistry&rdquo; would get the club moving.</p><p>The coaching change was announced only hours before the club left on an extended road trip. Hucul, who is 36, didn&rsquo;t have a chance to practice his team and it will be almost three weeks before a break in the tight scheduling allows him such a luxury.</p><p>Meanwhile, he couldn&rsquo;t have faced a tougher opponent in his coaching debut. The Runners became the Vancouver Canucks 21st straight home-ice victim, losing 5-2 in a game much tighter than the three-goal margin indicates.</p><p>The Roadrunners followed up with a 7-0 goalfest at the expense of the Seattle Totems on Seattle ice. It was the Runners&rsquo; fifth road win of the season, the first since Dec. 14.</p><p>Hucul got it started with his eighth goal of the season, a career high.</p><p>Andy Hinse and Frank Hughes both broke month-long scoring slumps. Hinse and Hughes both have 18 goals. The club leader is Milan Marcetta with 29 and Larry Lund has 20.</p><p>Hucul is faced with the problem of trying to get a club into the playoffs that was 12 points behind the fourth place Totems when he took over. Under Pike, the Runners had compiled a 1525-8 record and were 2-10-3 since Jan. 1.</p><p>Bob McCord, 35-year-old defenseman, was lost the first part of the road trip, with a severe charley horse but Phoenix got some outstanding performances from Dwight Carruthers, who was with Seattle the early part of the season, and from Bill Terry, young defenseman from Tulsa Oilers, who hadn&rsquo;t played since contracting mononeucleosis in late November.</p><p>Hucul said he planned no immediate lineup changes although there were &ldquo;a couple of irons in the fire&rdquo; to get some scoring help. He said the club would concentrate on &ldquo;basic fundamental hockey&rdquo; with little juggling of lines.</p><p>Pike had been continually shaking up the lines, looking for a scoring combination, and had defensemen skating at forward to add some muscle up front.</p><p>One of Hucul&rsquo;s first duties was to appoint Milan Marcetta his successor as team captain.</p><p>Pike had been the coach and Hucul the team captain since the Roadrunners came into being in the 1967-68 season. The most outstanding defenseman of the &lsquo;67-68 season is the only active player remaining from the Victoria Maple Leafs, the club which was purchased and moved to Phoenix.</p><p>Hucul&rsquo;s former Victoria teammate, Dick Lamoureux, recovering from back surgery two months ago, is acting as road secretary and a spotter from the stands.</p><p>Meanwhile, San Diego after posting a league low of 127 goals in 42 games, exploded for 67 in their last 11 games, won eight of them and have taken a solid grip on third place.</p><p>Len Ronson, headed for his best season ever, took less than four minutes against Denver to bag his fifth &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; of the season. It ties a league record also shared by teammate Fred Hilts and Bronco Horvath.</p><p>Ronson has 38 goals with 17 games remaining to better his career high of 45, set two years ago.</p><p>Hilts fired two against Denver to top the 20-goal mark again, with 21, and Warren Hynes registered No. 20.</p><p>The Gulls have gone 119 games without being shut out, just 14 short of the league record of 133.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0022-01

Hucul, Dineen Named New Coaches

<div class="byline">BY JOHN WHITE</div><p>SEATTLE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>n the first 21 professional seasons of the Western Hockey League, it wasn&rsquo;t much of a chore to forecast the names of the penalty leaders of the circuit.</p><p>Depending on the decade, the same names kept popping up&hellip;Pete Durham and Frank Arnett and Jim (Red Eye) Hay&hellip;Sandy Hucul and Connie Madigan and bashing Bill Burega&hellip;Bill Shvetz and Don Ward and Howie Young, whenever he was around&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01107/2689845-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="267" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jerry Korab</b></figcaption></div><p>Not any longer!</p><p>The new breed has taken over this season, big and strong kids who wouldn&rsquo;t mind slashing and crashing and punching their way to the National Hockey League.</p><p>By mid-February, three of the four leaders were playing their first season in the Western League and the fourth, John Schella of Denver, was playing only his second season in the circuit.</p><p>In mid-February, John Arbour of Vancouver was leading the league with 197 minutes. Rick Foley of Portland was second with 154 minutes, Schella of the Spurs was third with 144 and Jerry Korab of Portland was fourth with 130.</p><p>To get the picture, consider for a minute that Arbour picked up his 197 minutes in just 54 hockey games.</p><p>The muscular blueliner had 18 games to play and the only way to keep him from breaking Howie Young&rsquo;s all-time league record would be to tie his hands and feet for the rest of the campaign.</p><p>Young set the record in 1965 when he was whistled for 227 minutes with the old Los Angeles Blades.</p><p>Consider, too, that 197 minutes in penalties would have led the Western Hockey League in 16 of the first 21 seasons.</p><p>Only leaders with higher totals were Young with his 227, Mike Donaldson of Portland with 226 in 1964, Frank Arnett of Seattle with 210 in 1959, Harry Dick of Vancouver with 208 in 1955 and Pete Durham of New Westminster with 205 in 1957.</p><p>The four &ldquo;new breed&rdquo; leaders in mid-February had one or two things in common&mdash;youth, strength, toughness and, for the most part, size.</p><p>Arbour, playing his fourth professional season, is 24, carries 195 pounds on a 5-11 frame.</p><p>Foley, a rookie with Portland, is 6-4 and weighs about 215 at best playing weight. He&rsquo;s also 24.</p><p>Korab, another rookie with Portland, has 215 pounds of muscle on his 6-2 frame and is just 21 years old, two years out of junior with St. Catharines.</p><p>Schella, playing his third professional campaign, is 22 years old, and is the highest of the four at 180 pounds. He stands an even six feet in height.</p><p>You could hardly call any one of the four youngsters bashful.</p><p>Arbour, whose first 197 minutes included a league-leading seven majors for fighting, told Jim Taylor of the Vancouver Sun:</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a bad skater, I don&rsquo;t shoot very well. I&rsquo;m not a scorer and I&rsquo;m never gonna be one.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;But there&rsquo;s a shortage of tough defensemen,&rdquo; adds a chap who already has been hung in effigy in Salt Lake City. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s my ticket to the National Hockey League.&rdquo;</p><p>Schella of Denver says, &ldquo;If I&rsquo;m not hitting, I don&rsquo;t feel I&rsquo;m really in the game. I don&rsquo;t like to get unnecessary penalties but I want to keep the opposing forwards honest in our own end.&rdquo;</p><p>Schella even has revised his equipment to hello him in fights.</p><p>&ldquo;I finally got our trainer, Bud Kessel, to attach a piece of cord to my sweater,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;So I could hook it to my pants. This way the players can&rsquo;t pull the jersey over my head.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0442/2689838-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="559" height="599"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN ARBOUR&hellip;WHL penalty leader</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0023-01

Arbour, Foley, Korab, Schella Turn On Muscle

<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Feb. 23)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0271/2689883-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="575" height="267"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><p><b>Tues. Feb. 17</b></p><p>Phoenix 2 at Salt Lake 0</p><p>San Diego 0 ot Vancouver 4</p><p><b>Wed. Feb. 18</b></p><p>Phoenix 2 at Denver 2</p><p>San Diego 2 ot Portland 9</p><p>Vancouver 5 at Seattle 4</p><p><b>Thurs. Feb. 19</b></p><p>Salt Lake 2 at Phoenix 6</p><p><b>Fri. Feb. 20</b></p><p>San Diego 3 at Denver 5</p><p>Seattle 4 at Vancouver 8</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 21</b></p><p>Vancouver 2 at Phoenix 5</p><p>Salt lake 3 at Seattle 3</p><p><b>Sun. Feb. 22</b></p><p>Vancouver 5 at San Diego 7</p><p>Salt Lake 3 at Portland 6</p><h2>GAMES TO COME</h2><p><b>Tues. Feb. 23</b></p><p>Phoenix at Vancouver</p><p><b>Wed. Feb. 24</b></p><p>Salt Lake at San Diego</p><p><b>Thurs. Feb. 25</b></p><p>Denver at Salt Lake</p><p>Phoenix at Seattle</p><p><b>Fri.Feb.26</b></p><p>San Diego at Denver</p><p>Sun. March 1</p><p>Salt Lake at Seattle</p><p><b>Wed. March 4</b></p><p>Salt Lake at Protland</p><p><b>Fri. March 6</b></p><p>Phoenix vs Denver at Colorado Springs</p><p>Portland at Son Diego</p><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun. Feb. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0353/2689876-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="584" height="653"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<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>WATERLOO&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;No sense in us working hard any more,&rdquo; John Muckier laughed, &ldquo;since the Silver Fox (Omaha G.M. Jake Milford) already has the championship sewed un.&rdquo;</p><p>Muckier, the general manager of the Iowa Stars, was poking fun at a prediction made by Milford that the Knights were a shoo-in for the Central League title.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01117/2689914-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="278" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Larry Keenan</b></figcaption></div><p>But contrary to what Muckier said about tossing in the towel, his Stars seemed in a strong position to make a run for the title with return of Walt Me-Kechnie and Grant Erickson from Minnesota.</p><p>McKechnie was leading the team with 13 goals when he and Danny Lawson were lifted off the Iowa roster by the struggling North Stars. He missed 23 Iowa games, but in his absence, Danny Seguin and Mike Chernoff picked up the slack so quickly that Stars never really felt the loss of top scorers.</p><p>Erickson was gone for less than three weeks and the Stars must be considered prime contenders with their potent offense almost intact again.</p><p>Seguin was team leader and second in CHL point race with 15 goals, 42 assists. Chernoff had 27-27&mdash;54 through 55 games. Bill Orban, forced to shift to rearguard with Marshall Johnston&rsquo;s call up and injury to Dick Redmond, was third with 22 goals and 28 assists, followed by Erickson with 19-27&mdash;46 and Joey Johnston with 14-24.</p><p><b>TULSA&mdash;</b>Oilers lost veteran Ron Ward and rookie defenseman Willie Terry, who recently returned from long bout with mononucleosis, to Phoenix of AHL. Danny Johnson enjoys 20-point lead in team scoring race, totaling 55 on 24 goals, 31 assists. Second is rookie Tom Martin with 15 and 20 for 35.</p><p><b>KANSAS CITY&mdash;</b>Addition of veteran national leaguers Larry Keenan and Andre Boudrias give Blues big offensive lift, but move may have come too late to help club reach CHL playoffs. Keenan showed superiority quickly by scoring two goals in first CHL appearance and another in second game. Boudrias got two goals in first three games. Another veteran performer, Ron Buchanan, made surge in scoring race and through 55 games had 51 points on 16 goals, 35 assists.</p><p><b>FORT WORTH&mdash;</b>Rick McCann and Hank Monteith, playing their third season as teammates at Fort Worth, led Wings into thick of chase for CHL play-off spot. Wings&rsquo; coach Doug Barkley high in praise of the veteran McCann, known around Fort Worth as &ldquo;Mr. Hustle.&rdquo; In his fourth pro season, McCann joined Wings on Dec. 12 and over next 29 games, club lost only nine. Monteith was sent to Fort Worth on Nov. 12 and through 41 games had 37 points on 15 goals, 22 assists.</p><p><b>DALLAS&mdash;</b>Defenseman Paul Shmyr called up by Chicago Black Hawks as replacement for injured Pat Stapleton. Hawks sent veteran rearguard Connie Madigan to Dallas from Portland, where he was in doghouse with team management. Goalie Ken Brown chalked up second shutout of season with 3-0 victory over league-leading Knights at Omaha. It was Dallas&rsquo; third shutout over Knights this season, Bob Champoux backstopping the other two. Oscar Gaudet among league&rsquo;s top 10 scorers with 15 goals, 37 assists for 52 points.</p><p><b>OMAHA&mdash;</b>Despite slump, Jack Egers held 10-point lead in CHL point race through club&rsquo;s first 56 games. The second year pro had league-leading 32 goals and 35 assists for 67 points. Pierre Jarry joined Egers and rookie Dennis Dupere as Omaha&rsquo;s 20-goal snipers. Jarry had 21, Dupere 26. Rookie goalie George Surmay, who grabbed the league spotlight with brilliant seven-game stretch in which he allowed meager 1.71 goals against average, fipally came down to earth Feb. 11 when Tulsa punctured him for eight counters in Oiler&rsquo;s 8-3 victory.</p><p><b>OKLAHOMA CITY&mdash;</b>Tom Webster returned to Blazer lineup and took up immediately where he left off before knee injury sidelined him six weeks earlier. Webster tallied a goal in his first game and another in his third following his return. Despite layoff Webster retained team scoring lead with 26 goals, 27 assists. 13-37&mdash;52 through 54 games. Veteran defenseman Gary Doak returned to Oaklahoma City by Boston Bruins. Rookie goalie John Adams recorded fifth shutout (6-0) over lowa to lead CHL in that department.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Iowa Stars’ Hopes Lift As NHL Recalls Return

<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Feb. 25)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0269/2689952-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="577" height="265"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><p><b>Wed. Feb. 18</b></p><p>Dalles 2 at Kansas City 2</p><p>Fort Worth 3 at Tulsa 3</p><p><b>Thun. Feb. 19</b></p><p>Dallas 3 at Iowa 6</p><p><b>Fri. Feb. 20</b></p><p>Tulsa 6 at Kansas City 9</p><p>Iowa 1 at Omaha 3</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 21</b></p><p>Fort Worth 5 ot Dallas 2</p><p>Kansas City 2 at Omaha 5</p><p>Oklahoma City 1 at Tulsa 5</p><p><b>Sun. Feb. 22</b></p><p>Dallas 2 at Tulsa 4</p><p>Kansas City 4 at Iowa 5</p><p>Oklahoma City 2 at Fort Worth 3</p><p><b>GAMES TO COME</b></p><p>Wed. Feb. 25</p><p>Dallas at Kansas City</p><p>Tulsa at Fort Worth</p><p><b>Fri. Feb.27</b></p><p>Fort Worth at Oaklohoma City</p><p>Omaha ot Iowa Tulsa at Dallas</p><p><b>Sat Feb.28</b></p><p>Dallas at Fort Worth</p><p>Kansas City at Omaha</p><p>Tulsa at Oaklahoma City</p><p><b>Sun. March 1</b></p><p>Fort Worth at Dallas</p><p>Oaklahoma City at Iowa</p><p>Omaha at Kansas City</p><p><b>Tues. March 3</b></p><p>lowo at Fort Worth</p><p><b>Wed. March 4</b></p><p>Forth Worth at Oaklahoma City</p><p>Tulso at Kansas City</p><p>Iowa at Dallas</p><p><b>Fri. March 6</b></p><p>Oaklahoma City at Omaha</p><p>Iowa at Tulsa</p><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Feb. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0346/2689945-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="587" height="656"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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LOOKING AT CHL RACE

<h2>Wed. Feb. 4 FORT WORTH 1 AT OMAHA 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0435/2690053-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="587" height="475"></div><h2>KANSAS CITY 4 AT DALLAS 7</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0527/2690046-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="584" height="774"></div><h2>Fri. Feb. 6 OMAHA 3 AT OKLAHOMA CITY 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0623/2690039-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="587" height="476"></div><h2>FORT WORTH 3 AT IOWA 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0720/2690032-1-eng-US/f0024-072.jpg" title="f0024-07" width="586" height="502"></div><h2>Sat. Feb 7 FORT WORTH 1 AT KANSAS CITY 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0817/2690025-1-eng-US/f0024-082.jpg" title="f0024-08" width="580" height="376"></div><h2>OMAHA 0 AT DALLAS 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0915/2690018-1-eng-US/f0024-092.jpg" title="f0024-09" width="583" height="426"></div><h2>SUN. Feb. 8 OKLAHOMA CITY 2 AT OMAHA 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1014/2690011-1-eng-US/f0024-102.jpg" title="f0024-10" width="592" height="641"></div><h2>DALLAS 2 AT TULSA 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1114/2690004-1-eng-US/f0024-112.jpg" title="f0024-11" width="589" height="641"></div><h2>KANSAS CITY 2 AT IOWA 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1211/2689997-1-eng-US/f0024-122.jpg" title="f0024-12" width="591" height="628"></div><h2>Fri. Feb. 13. TULSA 1 AT OMAHA 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-136/2689990-1-eng-US/f0024-132.jpg" title="f0024-13" width="583" height="605"></div><h2>IOWA 7 AT DALLAS 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-144/2689983-1-eng-US/f0024-142.jpg" title="f0024-14" width="592" height="828"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Central League Summaries

<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Feb. 23)</b></p><h3>Northern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01100/2690119-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="579" height="239"></div><h3>Southern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0260/2690112-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="583" height="304"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><p><b>Tues. Feb. 17</b></p><p>Greensboro 4 at New Jersey 9</p><p>Salem 2 at Charlotte 3</p><p>Nashville 13 at Jackonville 2</p><p>Johnstown 5 at Syracuse 5</p><p><b>Wed. Feb. 18</b></p><p>Clinton 5 at Syracuse 0</p><p><b>Thurs. Feb. 19</b></p><p>Salem 9 at Jacksonville 2</p><p><b>Fri. Feb. 20</b></p><p>Johnstown 3 at Clinton 8</p><p>New Haven 4 at Long Island 3</p><p>Syracuse 4 at New Jersey 4</p><p>Greensboro 2 at Charlotte 2</p><p>Salem 4 at Jacksonville 5</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 21</b></p><p>Long Island 3 at Clinton 7</p><p>New Jersey 3 at Johnstown 8</p><p>Charlotte 2 at Greensboro 5</p><p>Salem 4 at Nashville 8</p><p><b>Sun. Feb. 22</b></p><p>Salem 6 at Nashville 3</p><p>Syracuse 4 at New Haven 4</p><p>Clinton 3 at Long Island 7</p><p>New Jersey 2 at Johnstown 5</p><p>Jacksonville 2 at Greensboro 3</p><h2>GAMES TO COME</h2><p><b>Mon Feb. 23</b></p><p>New Jersey at Salem</p><p><b>Tues. Feb. 24</b></p><p>New Jersey at Charlotte</p><p><b>Wed. Feb. 25</b></p><p>Long Island at New Haven</p><p>New Jersey at Greensboro</p><p>Nashville at Jacksonville</p><p><b>Fri. Feb.27</b></p><p>New Haven at Long Island</p><p>Clinton at New Jersey</p><p>Salem at Jacksonville</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 28</b></p><p>New Jersey at Clinton</p><p>Syracuse at Long Island</p><p>New Haven at Johnstown</p><p>Charlotte at Jacksonville</p><p>Greensboro at Nashville</p><p><b>Sur. March 1</b></p><p>New Jersey at New Haven</p><p>Syracuse at Long Island</p><p>Clinton at Johnston</p><p>Jacksonville at Greensboro</p><p>Nashville at Charlotte</p><p><b>Tues. March 3</b></p><p>Johnstown at New Jersey</p><p>Salem at Charlotte</p><p>Nashville at Jacksonville</p><p><b>Wed. March 4</b></p><p>Long Island at Clinton</p><p>Johnstown at New Hoven</p><p>New Jersey at Syracuse</p><p><b>Thurs. March 5</b></p><p>Nashville at Salem</p><p><b>Fri. March 6</b></p><p>Clinton at New Jersey</p><p>Syracuse at Johnstown</p><p>Greensboro at Salem</p><p>Charlotte at Jacksonville</p><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><p>(Including games of Sun. Feb.15)</p><h3>NORTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0339/2690105-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="588" height="280"></div><h3>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0429/2690098-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="585" height="278"></div><h2>NEW YORK METRO LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Feb. 9)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0528/2690091-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="581" height="265"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0618/2690084-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="583" height="301"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Syracuse Blazers could wind up with the individual scoring king of the Eastern Hockey League and yet be sitting on the sidelines during the post-season playoffs.</p><p>Ray Crew&rsquo;s I Blazers and star pointmaker Ray Adduono I both won&rsquo;t know until the dying stages of the race whether they have achieved their goals, but at this juncture, Adduono&rsquo;s chances loom brighter. Ray is clearly the man to beat in the Northern Division scoring race.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0717/2690157-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="286" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Sicinski</b></figcaption></div><p>His unexpected ret-.n to the Syracuse roster this year gave the Blazers an early lift. The sparkling center quickly moved into the circuit&rsquo;s scoring lead and has been staving off the advances of Mike Hornby of New Haven and Johnstown&rsquo;s Reg Kent.</p><p>Adduono is the loop&rsquo;s No. 1 man in assists, boasting more than twice as many as any man on his own club. He also is well up in the goal department.</p><p>Yet his efforts have not kept the Blazers in the lofty position they maintained in the early going. Syracuse has dropped down to fifth spot and it will be touch and go as to whether they can beat out Long Island for the fourth playoff spot. They also had to look behind at a Jersey team which came to life under the coaching of Wayne Kitchen.</p><p><b>JERSEY:</b> Devils play has improved considerably since Wayne Kitchen took over coaching role from Lou Jankowski. At one stretch club won five out of six to challenge for playoff berth. Bobby Brown has topped his best previous scoring year of 91 points. Gilles Banville picked up $100 for shutout over Nashville. Former owner Harold Aranow honored at game here. Devils traded Gil Drolet to Syracuse for Bob Jamieson. Gordie Stratton shooting for 400th EHL goal.</p><p><b>CLINTON:</b> Comets already have exceeded goal total of 284 of last year. Second year men Jake Rathwell, Joe Robertson and Tom Mitchell all have experienced big campaigns, topping last year&rsquo;s totals. Ref Bob Smith had to tack on 4.48 of second period to final period after 50-minute free-for-all here in game with Jersey. Pat Kelly nixed Syracuse request to play a postponed game day after regular season.</p><p><b>GREENSBORO:</b> Gens blanked at home by Charlotte and historians were checking record books to discover last time it happened. Gens did well on northern jaunt including whitewashing of Clinton. Bob Sicinski fell one game shy of Bobby. Boucher&rsquo;s 26-game consecutive scoring streak. Coach Ron Spong lauded improved play of goalie Ernie Miller.</p><p><b>LONG ISLAND:</b> Coliseum Properties, Inc., is new owner of Ducks but Al Baron still prexy. New firm applied for AHL franchise. Goalie Wayne Doll has been brilliant on occasion. Loss of defenseman John Dolby and wing Doug Reid hurt Ducks in stretch drive. Playoff berth not likely to be decided until final week of season. Blake can&rsquo;t understand ups and downs of club.</p><p><b>NASHVILLE:</b> Dixie Flyers averaged 2, 463 fans in first 32 home games and could top last year&rsquo;s total of 94, 229&hellip;Club purchased goalie Allen Cecile from Toledo in late deal and put Norm Martel on waivers. Latter was picked up by Salem. Doug Smith grabbed by Des Moines. Jim Mclnally&rsquo;s parents celebrated their silver wedding anniversary by coming here to see their son play.</p><p><b>SALEM:</b> Coach Colin Kilburn kicked the dressing room wall after a loss to Greensboro and kept quiet about the officiating. Goalie Jim Letcher suspended for punching head ref Ted Daily, while Kilburn received $150 fine for his part in the ruckus&hellip;Kilburn received an additional $50 fine for fracas at Charlotte Jim Jago back after being sideline with hand injury. Rebel fan arrested for attacking Daily. Don Rozich&rsquo;s hat trick topped Charlotte.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0814/2690150-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="538" height="527"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY ADDUONO &hellip; Can&rsquo;t Do It Alone</b></figcaption></div><p><b>JACKSONVILLE:</b> Gilles Leclerc&rsquo;s goal with 11 seconds left beat New Haven. Dennis Romanesky&rsquo;s second hat trick of season helped down Charlotte. Rockets won two of six on northern jaunt to stay ahead of Nashville in race for fourth spot. Roger Bamburak&rsquo;s goal nipped Johnstown. Billy Glashan and Ken Turlik bothered by injuries.</p><p><b>JOHNSTOWN:</b> Dick Roberge received plaque commemorating 700th goal. Reg Kent&rsquo;s hat trick hiked his point total over century mark. Roberge cleared 1, 600 point plateau along with the 900 assist level. Ref Bill Pringle suffered ankle injury here and was taken to hospital.</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN:</b> New Haven mayor donated trophy for special exhibition with Nashville. Murray Kuntz&rsquo; hat trick beat Syracuse. Trainer Gunner Garrett posted shutout at Jersey while subbing for injured Dave Hains-worth. Blades owner made his pitch for rights to an AHL team in new Coliseum. Blades borrowed Brian Caley from Jersey as fill-in goalie.</p><p><b>SYRACUSE:</b> Only fair crowd watched Blazers win on Colgate University&rsquo;s rink. Pete Christian scored goal for Blazers in first-start after acquisition from Jacksonville. Talk here about trying to match Blazers with independent Syracus Stars. Club drew well in game at Coliseum.</p><p><b>CHARLOTTE:</b> Fred Creighton fined $100 for rushing across ice to clout Salem coach Colin Kilburn. Goalie Michel Belhu-meur recalled by Philly Flyers. Checkers blanked Greensboro though playing short for five minutes on four straight penalties. Ernie Dyda broke 17-game scoreless streak. Jack Wells gave Greensboro&rsquo;s Barry Salovaara a good whipping after hampering the defenseman by pulling the jersey over his head.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0025-07

Ray Adduono Could Win Scoring Without Team Making Playoffs

<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Feb. 25)</b></p><h3>NORTH DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01108/2690209-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="583" height="170"></div><h3>SOUTH DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0261/2690202-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="582" height="225"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><p><b>Wed Feb 18</b></p><p>Toledo 5 at Fort Wayne 10</p><p>Des Moines 5 at Columbus 7</p><p><b>Thurs Feb. 19</b></p><p>Des Moines 6 at Dayton 3</p><p><b>Fri. Feb. 20</b></p><p>Columbus 3 at Muskegon 7</p><p>Port Huron 2 at Flint 2</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 21</b></p><p>Columbus 3 at Fort Wayne 3</p><p><b>Flint 2 at Dayton 6</b></p><p>Toledo 1 at Port Huron 5</p><p>Des Moines 3 at Muskegon 7</p><p><b>Sun. Feb. 22</b></p><p>Toledo 4 at Flint 1</p><p>Muskgeon 4 at Port Huron 5</p><p>Dayton 1 at Columbus 6</p><h2>GAMES TO COME</h2><p><b>Wed. Feb. 25</b></p><p>Columbus at Dayton</p><p>Port Huron at Toledo</p><p><b>Fri. Feb. 27</b></p><p>Flint at Muskegon</p><p>Toledo at Des Moines</p><p>Fort Wayne at Port Huron</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 28</b></p><p>Columbus at Muskegon</p><p>Dayton at Port Huron</p><p>Fort Wayne at Flint</p><p>Toledo at Des Moines</p><p><b>Sun. March 1</b></p><p>Des Moines at Fort Wayne</p><p>Port Huron at Columbus</p><p>Flint at Dayton</p><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun. Feb. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0345/2690195-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="585" height="455"></div><h2>IHL JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standinas on Fri. Feb. 13)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0430/2690188-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="579" height="173"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0026-01

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><p>FORT WAYNE&mdash;</p><p>As the International Hockey League season neared its close, there was the usual speculation regarding one of the most important awards of the season&mdash;rookie-of-the year.</p><p>It was a notable fact that the veterans were stealing the show this season. They held 11 of the first 12 scoring positions at this writing, but there were still enough first-year men to create interest in the potential winner of the Gary F. Longman Memorial Trophy, named in honor of the late rookie star of the Columbus Checkers who was killed in an industrial accident.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0526/2690240-1-eng-US/f0026-052.jpg" title="f0026-05" width="276" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alain Beaule</b></figcaption></div><p>Every team in the league, with the possible exception of the Des Moines Oak Leafs, who had placed the emphasis on veterans, had a candidate to offer. The Flint Generals, who established a youth policy from the start, appeared to be leading in numbers, and possibly in talent.</p><p>Although it was the veteran goal tender Bob Perani who put the mid-season spark in the Generals, Frank Gallagher&rsquo;s Flint team had some exciting firs-year performers, led by Wally Kozak, Doug Abel and Wayne Ego.</p><p>The Toledo Blades, another club that was built up largely on experienced players, had a leading candidate in Wayne Zuk, who was their leading goal scorer and who was a standout in the All-Star game.</p><p>This could be the year of the goal-tenders and there were several who will undoubtedly get some support. Fort Wayne&rsquo;s Komets had a couple in Paul Hoganson and Jim Keough. Dayton had Mike Dumas, who was good enough to get ahead of the veteran Pat Rupp. There was also Ron Marlow of Port Huron and Mike Lovett of Columbus.</p><p>Others who were offered as candidates were Muskegon&rsquo;s Bob Munro and Darrell Knibbs, Mike Quinn of Columbus and Tom Deacon of Port Huron.</p><p><b>DAYTON&mdash;</b>The Gems returned Gordie Malinoski to the active list and asked waivers on Art Thomas&hellip;Alain Beaule assisted on four of the South&rsquo;s six goals in the All-Star game which his team won, 6-3&hellip;The Gems had not lost to Flint in five meetings and then were clobbered, 80, in a game that was televised from Flint&hellip;General Manager Lefty McFadden was on a scouting trip in the Southwest during the All-Star break.</p><p><b>FORT WAYNE&mdash;</b>Playing coach Moe Bartoli went on the retired list to make the cutdown limit but Merv Dubchak and Ron Ullyot had not returned&hellip;This city will again host the U.S. national midget tournament, comprised of eight teams, on March 21 and 22&hellip;Rich Brown was one of the three voted tops in the All-Star game. Trevor Fahey, Paul Hoganson and Terry Pembroke were also standouts in the North&rsquo;s losing cause.</p><p><b>TOLEDO&mdash;</b>Rookie Wayne Zuk was voted No. 1 star in the All-Star game&hellip;The Blades had only 10 players for an exhibition game in Green Bay and Coach Bill Mitchell had to play on defense with his team losing, 5-3&hellip;Largest crowd of the season&mdash;5, 337&mdash;brought home attendance to an average 2, 886 Glenn Ramsay had his fifth shutout of the season&hellip;Veteran defenseman Shorty Melanchuk was cut to reach the player limit.</p><p><b>COLUMBUS&mdash;</b>A 3-3 tie with Port Huron gave the Checkers most tie games in the league&mdash;11&hellip;Bright spot for the Chex was their new &ldquo;scooter&rdquo; line of Bob Trembecky, Ken Knapton and Mike Quinn&hellip;The Chex claimed Knapton was &ldquo;robbed&rdquo; of two goals in Toledo by &ldquo;foul-ups&rdquo; of the referee and goal judge&hellip;Coach Moe Mantha had the cast removed from his broken foot&hellip;The Chex haven&rsquo;t scored a league shutout since March of 1968, by Gerry Fleury, their only such in four-year history.</p><p><b>MUSKEGON-</b>The Mohawks, with a 17-point lead in the Northern Division, were also 12 ahead of Dayton in competition for the over-all title and the Huber Trophy&hellip;Darrell Knibbs was hospitalized with a leg infection&hellip;The Mohawks practiced at Notre Dame and Michigan State while Walker Arena was occupied by the boat show.</p><p><b>PORT HURON&mdash;</b>The Flags placed center Reggie Bechtold, who broke his leg on Dec. 12, on the inactive list&hellip;Coach Ted Garvin was unable to arrange a trade with Flint for defenseman Bill Horton&hellip;Geoff Powis, who broken foot&hellip;The Chex haven&rsquo;t scored a league shutout since scoring&hellip;Dave Gorman was scoring leader with 29 goals and 29 assists.</p><p><b>DES MOINES&mdash;</b>Ivan Prediger regained his old number 4 jersey when he returned to the Oak Leafs in a deal with Toledo. The Leafs also picked up Jean Losier from Fort Wayne on waivers&hellip;Dale Blomquist and young winger Doug Smith were cut.</p><p><b>FLINT&mdash;</b>Defenseman Bill McLeod was loaned to Syracuse of the Eastern League&hellip;Jim Booth returned from a trial with Oklahoma City&hellip;The Generals handed an 8-0 defeat to Dayton, the only team they hadn&rsquo;t beaten this season&hellip;A season record crowd of 4, 138 saw the Gens lose to Muskegon, 4-3.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0026-05

Rookie Crop Eyeing IHL Award; Brown, Beaule, Zuk Top ‘Stars’

<div class="byline">BY NORM MACKIE</div><p>NEW YORK&mdash;</p><p>Although we talk an awful lot about junior hockey and the development program in the United States, let&rsquo;s not forget the seniors, those twenty and over citizens who sometimes are pushing their luck and forty, too. Participant hockey is just that but there are some outstanding senior clubs in the United States, who could give many Canadian teams a real battle. One of them is the Washington Chiefs, who play in the Washington Coliseum, 3rd and M Streets, N.E., Washington, D.C. Right now Washington stands at 5-5 with Jim Langlois, former St. Lawrence defenseman having given the club a big lift. Concord of the New England Senior circuit has contributed Ed Sheehan, former Boston College luminary to the Chiefs&rsquo; forward line.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0192/2690271-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="274" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Morley Howe</b></figcaption></div><p>The Washington minor hockey tourney which was conducted on February 12-1314 under the auspicies of the Capitol Boys Hockey Club has an interesting aside. Bob Parker runs a game for the coaches and fathers and Alice Crerar books a Mother&rsquo;s game. I&rsquo;d like to take it that last item some year.</p><p>Coach Murray Williamson has made his final selections for the U.S. Nationals who will compete in the World Tourney Class B at Bucharest, Rumania February 24-March 5. The Nats drew Japan in their opener February 24 and play Poland on the 25th, Yugoslavia the 27th, West Germany the next day followed by Rumania March 2, Norway March 4 and Switzerland on the 5th&hellip;</p><p>Glad to hear from Joe Rogers out Salt Lake City way. Little League hockey is in its seventh season in Utah with 300 boys in the program this year. Rogers has been pushing hockey in all forms in Salt Lake City for twenty four years. He was a behind the scenes factor in an ice rink being included in the Salt Palace and had a lot to do with and Jerry Frenette. Up front Shaw has done a wonderful The Eagles have helped the youth hockey program in Salt Lake City, but the big tip of the fedora should go to good old Joe&hellip;We chatted with Don Clark, Hal Trumble and Bob Fleming during a recent trip to Minnesota and came away impressed with the job these men are doing for amateur hockey in the entire area around North Star land&hellip;The Edina International Youth Tourney saw the host Edina squad win the pee wee and bantam tourneys while Chicago edged Winnipeg for the midget crown&hellip;Clark puts out a superb Minnesota Amateur Hockey Association bulletin which informs us that new programs are under way in southern Minnesota in Waseca, Wabasha. Red Wing, Lakeville, Rewood Falls, Worthington, Windom, Pine Island and Pipestone. In Central Minnesota Little Falls and Brainered have picked up the beat and St. Cloud is showing renewed interest&hellip;</p><p>Dick Thayer informs us that the Philadelphia Little Flyers complete with Marcel Pelletier Jr., Vic Stasiuk Jr., Jay Snider, Brew Schaeffer and Chris and Rick Thayer will compete in the Rhode Island pee wee tournament. The fledgling Philadelphians defeated the Washington Caps 3-0 between periods of a recent Chicago-Philadelphia NHL game at the Spectrum. Chris Thayer got the winning goal&hellip;</p><p>We thought we might acknowledge the hard work of Morley Howe, the United States Hockey League publicist and statistician. In 1952 Howe signed a bonus contract with the St. Louis Cardinals reversing the usual procedure for a Canadian born in St. John, New Brunswick. Morley now lives in Sault Ste-Marie where he has resided for ten years&hellip;The players and coaches of the USHL selected the All-Star squad which played and beat the first place Marquette Iron Rangers 4-1 on Feb. 13. Green Bay selectees were Mike Curran, the goalie with defenseman Paul Riutta and Jerry Frenette. Up from the Bob Cats chipped in with Pauli Coppo, Bob Empie and Bob Lindberg. Rochester sent tough former pro George Konik and Ted Steakeli for the blueline and forwards Larry Strodahl, Gary Gambucci, Lome Grosso and Bob Lillo. Sault supplied goaltender Matt Thorpe, defensemen John Longarini and his brother Carlo plus forwards Alf Coletti, Bernie Greco and Wayne Caulfield. The coach was Green Bay&rsquo;s Pete Buckman with Don Grosso of Sault assisting&hellip;Gerry Sullivan of Marquette, the USHL&rsquo;s leading scorer had his string of 13 straight games in which he collected at least one point broken by the Sault Canadians.</p><p>Bruce Meehan, a forward, in the first Junior All-America selection to be certified by the NHL for honors at the annual Lester Patrick Dinner in New York on March 9. Bruce will represent the Arrowhead Hockey League. He is 18, five nine and 170 and is out of West High School in Minneapolis&hellip;</p><p>Tom Mumford has done a fine job in keeping the Los Angeles Junior Hockey League progressing&hellip;D. Kelly Campbell chaired a meeting of the executive committee of the Board of Directors of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame on Saturday January 17 at Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington. Minn&hellip;.</p><p>The National Junior championship will be played this year at the International Sports Arena in San Diego, April 3, 4, 5. The contact is Alvin Strep, president of the San Diego Amateur Hockey Association, P.O. Box 15682, Jackson Static, San Diego, California 92115&hellip;Marvin Shaw has donw a wonderful job in organizing the Tri-State Bantam Loop in the Greater New York Area&hellip;John War-chol, who played on the 1960 Olympic squad which won the big gold medal at Squaw Valley, is following his usual rugged schedule this season&hellip;John, who once played for the Rovers in the Eastern Hockey League, coaches the Essex Comets in the N.Y. Met League and is player coach of the famous Jersey Rockets of the Mid Atlantic Association. Warchol&rsquo;s Rockets and Oscah Mahle&rsquo;s Chiefs from Washington, whom we led off this column with, are arch rivals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0027-01

Washington Chiefs Rate With Top Senior Ice Squads

<h2>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Fri. Feb.20)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0262/2690386-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="574" height="303"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0341/2690379-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="583" height="653"></div><h2>MICHIGAN JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Feb.9)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0436/2690372-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="569" height="232"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0527/2690365-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="574" height="277"></div><h2>INTERLOCKING PLAY</h2><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Feb.9)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0623/2690358-1-eng-US/f0027-062.jpg" title="f0027-06" width="574" height="401"></div><h2>QUEBEC JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Fri. Feb. 20)</b></p><h3>East Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0720/2690351-1-eng-US/f0027-072.jpg" title="f0027-07" width="570" height="241"></div><h3>West Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0819/2690344-1-eng-US/f0027-082.jpg" title="f0027-08" width="572" height="199"></div><h2>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Sat. Feb. 21)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0918/2690337-1-eng-US/f0027-092.jpg" title="f0027-09" width="574" height="171"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1016/2690330-1-eng-US/f0027-102.jpg" title="f0027-10" width="580" height="506"></div><h2>NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2><p><b>(Strandings on Mon. Feb 16)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1114/2690323-1-eng-US/f0027-112.jpg" title="f0027-11" width="576" height="203"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1213/2690316-1-eng-US/f0027-122.jpg" title="f0027-12" width="577" height="474"></div><h2>NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Thurs. Feb. 12)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1310/2690309-1-eng-US/f0027-132.jpg" title="f0027-13" width="571" height="202"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1410/2690302-1-eng-US/f0027-142.jpg" title="f0027-14" width="571" height="249"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0027-02

Looking At The Amateur Hockey League Races

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div><p>BOSTON&mdash;</p><p>Change doesn&rsquo;t always mean progress but there are times when a shake-up helps in sports.</p><p>The Bruins can be cited as prime evidence of this in the past two weeks.</p><p>Harry Sinden is a coach who prefers to go with a set lineup from game to game. Ever since he has been with the Bruins he has applied this philosophy to the utmost.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01178/2690424-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="274" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Johnston</b></figcaption></div><p>He has picked his lines and gone with the individuals, making changes only because of injury or emergency.</p><p>But two weeks ago, Harry became disenchanted with the way things were going with the B&rsquo;s. True they were in a second place tie with Montreal but actually they were just about treading water.</p><p>After a 7-6 victory over Toronto and an 8-4 loss to Chicago in the Windy City, Harry decided something had to be done.</p><p>His first move was to bench last year&rsquo;s high scoring wing Ken Hodge. He also benched recently acquired left wing Wayne Carleton.</p><p>Thus he remade a first line of rookie Don Marcotte on left wing and Wayne Cashman on right wing with Phil Esposito.</p><p>He also decided to give Gerry Cheevers a more steady diet of goal-tending.</p><p>And with Derek Sanderson back in playing shape he made a third line of Sandy, Ace Bailey on left wing and Eddie Wesjtfall on right wing.</p><p>Why all these changes?</p><p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; explained Harry, &ldquo;we were holding our own but we seemed to have lost something. We weren&rsquo;t playing good defensive hockey as a team.</p><p>&ldquo;I just had a thought that maybe we had gone into a rut of thinking that no matter how many goals the other team scored we could score more.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s not entirely bad thinking but when you are in a tight race when every goal is important, I believe the percentage will go against you.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m no genius. I made changes hoping I was right and that we could regroup and correct our basic thinking.&rdquo;</p><p>Whether or not Sinden is a genius remains to be seen.</p><p>But the results certainly were not negative.</p><p>In the next five games, the Bruins came up with four wins and a tie.</p><p>They not only continued their scoring with 20 goals but held the opposition to but six goals.</p><p>&ldquo;The overall defense did improve,&rdquo; said Sinden with a bit of a smile. &ldquo;And our scoring certainly didn&rsquo;t suffer.</p><p>&ldquo;I always have felt that good defense would not hurt an offense and maybe this stretch proves that point.</p><p>One thing has bothered Sinden in this stretch, however. It&rsquo;s the feeling that people may think he has soured on Eddie Johnston as a goalie.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s an impression I certainly would like to correct.&rdquo; he said.</p><p>&ldquo;When we started the season I went along with the goalie on a game-by-game basis. I said all along that if I thought one was in a hot streak I&rsquo;d break the pattern.</p><p>&ldquo;Now when we made the changes, Cheevers was in the net and it did seem he was hot. So I decided to go along with him for another game, then another and another.</p><p>&ldquo;But this was no rap against Eddie. He is a pro. He&rsquo;s been around and he knows how to play goal. He has proved it in the past.</p><p>&ldquo;I have no intention of sitting Eddie on the bench for the remainder of the season.</p><p>&ldquo;He can do the job just as well as Gerry and in fairness to him, he hasn&rsquo;t had a chance to play with the new lineup.</p><p>&ldquo;But he will. I have no special formula for picking one goalie over another when they are as equal as Gerry and Eddie. It&rsquo;s just a matter of a hunch.</p><p>&ldquo;Sometimes a hunch pays off, But I have been murdered by hunches, too.</p><p>&ldquo;Eddie will be back in the nets and I&rsquo;m sure he&rsquo;ll do just the same kind of job Gerry has done.</p><p>&ldquo;The main thing is that we have played more solid hockey as a team and at this stage of the season that&rsquo;s what we needed.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-02163/2690417-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="1167" height="1629"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bruins broke up giant&rsquo; line of WAYNE CARLETON, PHIL ESPOSITO and Ken Hodge. Carleton, shown here with Espo (7), was benched in shakeup.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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