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March 27, 1970

The Hockey News March 27, 1970

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0255/2641363-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="264" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>George Hulme</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0335/2641356-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="264" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rick MacLeish</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>FIRST TEAM</b></h2><p>Goal&mdash;George Hulme, St. Cath.</p><p>Defense&mdash;Ron Plumb, Peterboro.</p><p>Defense&mdash;Bob Stewart, Oshawa.</p><p>Center&mdash;Gil Perreault, Mtl.</p><p>R. Wing&mdash;Al McDonough, St. Cath.</p><p>L. Wing&mdash;Rick MacLeish, Peterboro.</p><h2><b>SECOND TEAM</b></h2><p>Goal&mdash;John Garrett, Peterboro</p><p>Defense&mdash;Steve Cuddy, Toronto</p><p>Defense&mdash;Serge Lajeunesse and Jocelyn Guevremont, Mtl (tied)</p><p>Center&mdash;Marcel Dionne, St. Cath.</p><p>R. Wing&mdash;Buster Harvey, Hamilton</p><p>L. Wing&mdash;Bobby Guindon, Mtl.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0430/2641349-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="265" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marcel Dionne</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0522/2641342-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="266" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al McDonough</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

OHA All-Stars

<p>1&mdash;The year 1943-44 was a milestone season for the NHL. What happened? Did the one referee system come into being or was the red line at center ice introduced?</p><p>2&mdash;What year did expansion come to the NHL, was in 1963, 1965 or 1967?</p><p>3&mdash;The NHL jumped its playing schedule from 70 games. Was it increased from 70 to 74 or from 70 to 76?</p><p>4&mdash;Who was the president of the NHL before Clarence S. Campbell? Was it Red Dutton. Frank Calder or James Norris?</p><p>5&mdash;The NHL award for the most valuable player is called what trophy? The Lady Byng, Calder Memorial or Hart?</p><p>6&mdash;Two of these three hockey men were big league referees. Which two would you pick from Red Storey, John Crawford and Eddie Powers?</p><p>7&mdash;We all know Toe Blake was the most winningest hockey coach in Stanley Cup play, but who managed the most winners? Was it Punch Imlach, Frank Selke or Jack Adams?</p><p>8&mdash;The St. Louis Blues led all expansion teams at the end of the regular schedule last season. What club led the first year of expansion? Was it Philadelphia Minnesota or St. Louis?</p><p>9&mdash;Since 1942-43 Montreal Canadiens have been out of the NHL playoffs only once. What was the year? Was it 1956-57, 1947-48 or 1944-45?</p><p>10&mdash;Among hockey&rsquo;s top five all-time scorers, which one of these players is out of rotation: Howe, Richard, Beliveau, Hull and Geoffrion?</p><p><b>(Answers in next week&rsquo;s issue.)</b></p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S QUIZ ANSWERS</h2><p>1&mdash;False. Ab DeMarco. Sr., was a forward, his son is the defenseman.</p><p>2&mdash;True.</p><p>3&mdash;True.</p><p>4&mdash;True.</p><p>5&mdash;False. Two of them are. Morenz and Stewart.</p><p>6&mdash;False. It was introduced in 1934-35.</p><p>7&mdash;False. He played one, year in the old USHL with Omaha.</p><p>8&mdash;True. After he started with Detroit, he was swapped to Boston and traded back to Detroit in 1957 for John Bucyk.</p><p>9&mdash;False. John Wilson is the NHL Iron Man.</p><p>10&mdash;False. Bill Quackenbush was the first, defenseman to win the Byng in 1949. Red Kelly later won it three times playing defense.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

two minute hockey quiz

<h2>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</h2><p>HOCKEY STICKS</p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Walleceburi, Ontarie Sold in US and Canada</p><h2>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</h2><p>HOCKEY STICKS</p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Walleceburi, Ontarie Sold in US and Canada</p><h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h3><b>CENTRAL LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Wed, March 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0339/2640913-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="567" height="269"></div><p>Affiliations: 2. Detroit 3. Boston 4 New York 5. Chicago. 6. Toronto. 11. Minnesota. 12. St. Louis)</p><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Wed March 11</b></p><p>Dallas 4 at Omaha 5</p><p>Kansas City 1 at Tulsa 3</p><p>Iowa 6 at Oklahoma City 4</p><p><b>Thurs, March 12</b></p><p>Kansas City 4 at Fort Worth 5</p><p><b>Fri, March 13</b></p><p>Fort Worth 3 at Tulsa 5</p><p>Oklahoma City 0 at Dallas 8</p><p>Omaha 1 at Iowa 5</p><p><b>Sat, March 14</b></p><p>Kansas City 2 at Dallas 3</p><p>Oklahoma City 3 at Fort Worth 2</p><p>Iowa 2 at Omaha 2</p><p><b>Sun, March 15</b></p><p>Dallas 7 at Oklahoma City 4</p><p>Omaha 1 at Tulsa 2</p><p>Iowa 0 at Kansas City 6</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Wed, March 18</b></p><p>Oklahoma City at Kansas City</p><p>Omaha at Dallas</p><p>Iowa at Fort Worth</p><p><b>Thurs, March 19</b></p><p>Tulsa at Omaha</p><p><b>Fri, March 20</b></p><p>Fort Worth at Iowa</p><p>Kansas City at Oklahoma City</p><p><b>Sat, March 21</b></p><p>Fort Worth at Kansas City</p><p>Oklahoma City at Omaha</p><p>Tulsa at Dallas</p><p><b>Sun, March 22</b></p><p>Oklahoma City at Iowa</p><p>Tulsa at Fort Worth</p><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><p><b>(Including games of Sun, March 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0428/2640906-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="573" height="632"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

<h2><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><h3>(Final Standings)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0617/2641558-1-eng-US/f0027-062.jpg" title="f0027-06" width="578" height="405"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues. March 10</b></p><p>Oshawa 5 at Hamilton 4</p><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0714/2641551-1-eng-US/f0027-072.jpg" title="f0027-07" width="577" height="282"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h2><h3>(Final Standings)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0814/2641544-1-eng-US/f0027-082.jpg" title="f0027-08" width="574" height="171"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0914/2641537-1-eng-US/f0027-092.jpg" title="f0027-09" width="587" height="775"></div><h2><b>NEW YORK METRO LEAGUE</b></h2><h3>(Final Standings)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1013/2641530-1-eng-US/f0027-102.jpg" title="f0027-10" width="574" height="265"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1111/2641523-1-eng-US/f0027-112.jpg" title="f0027-11" width="578" height="330"></div><h2><b>WESTERN CANADA LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed., March 11)</b></p><h3><b>Eastern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1210/2641516-1-eng-US/f0027-122.jpg" title="f0027-12" width="577" height="170"></div><h3><b>Western Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-137/2641509-1-eng-US/f0027-132.jpg" title="f0027-13" width="578" height="171"></div><h2><b>CENTRAL JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><h3>(Final Standings)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-147/2641502-1-eng-US/f0027-142.jpg" title="f0027-14" width="577" height="204"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-156/2641495-1-eng-US/f0027-152.jpg" title="f0027-15" width="587" height="605"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-166/2641488-1-eng-US/f0027-162.jpg" title="f0027-16" width="586" height="567"></div><h2><b>WESTERN INTERNATIONAL</b></h2><h3>(Final Standings)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-176/2641481-1-eng-US/f0027-172.jpg" title="f0027-17" width="578" height="200"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-185/2641474-1-eng-US/f0027-182.jpg" title="f0027-18" width="579" height="304"></div><h2><b>NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</b></h2><h3>(Standings on Wed, March 11)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-195/2641467-1-eng-US/f0027-192.jpg" title="f0027-19" width="580" height="199"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-204/2641460-1-eng-US/f0027-202.jpg" title="f0027-20" width="585" height="375"></div><h2><b>MICHIGAN JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><h3>(Standings on Mon, March 2)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-213/2641453-1-eng-US/f0027-212.jpg" title="f0027-21" width="578" height="233"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-223/2641446-1-eng-US/f0027-222.jpg" title="f0027-22" width="579" height="280"></div><h2><b>BORDER CITIES JUNIOR</b></h2><h3>(Final Standings)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-232/2641439-1-eng-US/f0027-232.jpg" title="f0027-23" width="578" height="204"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-242/2641432-1-eng-US/f0027-242.jpg" title="f0027-24" width="580" height="404"></div><h2><b>NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE</b></h2><h3>(Final Standings)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-252/2641425-1-eng-US/f0027-252.jpg" title="f0027-25" width="574" height="200"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-262/2641418-1-eng-US/f0027-262.jpg" title="f0027-26" width="581" height="283"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Looking At The Hockey Races

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01472/2641651-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><p><b>&mdash;PAGE 14</b></p><p><b><i>Bruce Norris Says</i></b></p><p><b>&bull; RED WINGS NEED FIERY ICE LEADER</b></p><p><b>&bull; NEXT YEAR&rsquo;S COACH WILL BE &lsquo;OUTSIDER&rsquo;</b></p><p><b>&mdash;PAGE 3</b></p><p><b>BOBBY ORR Camts 101 Paints Ta Set UHL Retard</b></p><p><b><i>HOCKEY NEWS PHOTO BY RICHARD PELLEGRINI</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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ORR CRACKS CENTURY POINT MARK

<div class="byline">BY PAT CURRAN</div><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>fter breaking the slump of four straight losses that dropped them into fifth place, the Canadiens might have been smiling following a crucial home-ice victory over the Rangers. But the Habs couldn&rsquo;t even appreciate that old joke of laughing only when it hurts.</p><p>They had been jolted by another injury and one that surely dimmed their chances of making a playoff spot, let alone their slim hopes of the East Division title.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01632/2638602-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="259" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Gauthier</b></figcaption></div><p>Serge Savard, last year&rsquo;s Conn Smythe Trophy winner, and one of the most consistent performers all season on defence, penaltykilling and at leftwing, was sidelined for the season. He crashed into the goalpost early in the third period of that March 11 game at the Forum and suffered a badly broken leg.</p><p>The 24-year-old star knew he was severely injured as soon as it happened.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t touch me, I broke my leg,&rdquo; moaned Savard as teammates rushed to his aid. He had slid into goalie Rogatien Vachon and the post just as Bob Nevin scored the Rangers&rsquo; third goal.</p><p>Savard had made a great play by getting back in time to check Vic Hadfield but lost his balance and fell against the cage.</p><p>&ldquo;I could see he wanted something to hold while in severe pain,&rdquo; said Referee Vern Buffey after the game. &ldquo;He said his leg was broken and when I put out my arm he nearly wrenched it off.&rdquo;</p><p>X-rays revealed a severe fracture of the tibia bone in his left leg and the definite loss of Savard for the rest of the season and the playoffs.</p><p>Loss of the versatile youngster was felt right down the line of Canadiens who realized his value to the club all season. He had been one of the stars of that win over New York, picking up his 19th assist on Larry Pleau&rsquo;s first NHL goal while they were killing a penalty in the first period. In 64 games, Savard scored 12 goals and earned 19 assists.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02603/2638595-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1766" height="1099"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Habs will miss SERGE SAVARD, left, for final playoff run. The multi-talented Canadian suffered a broken leg against New York when he slid into goal-post and will be lost for the season.</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03507/2638588-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="536" height="723"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>J.C. TREMBLAY&hellip;Back As Regular</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Right away we knew his leg was broken,&rdquo; said goalie Vachon. &ldquo;He was terrific the last few weeks, wasn&rsquo;t he? I guess we have to win for him, now. &lsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s tough to take a thing like this,&rdquo; said Terry Harper. &ldquo;The team comes up with a pretty good game and we lose a guy like that. He made a heck of a play just before he was hurt.&rdquo;</p><p>Coach Claude Ruel tried to take it in the stride of facing so many handicaps with the struggling Canadiens all season.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to miss Serge but maybe the rest of the guys will think of the money he helped put in their pockets in the playoffs last year.&rdquo;</p><p>The absence of Savard meant that veteran Jean-Claude Tremblay returned to a regular defence role as partner to Ted Harris. The veteran J.C. had been spotted most of the season, unable to regain his old form&mdash;especially before critical fans at home.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re hoping that since the chips are down, J.C. will come through from now on.&rdquo; said GM Sam Pollock.</p><p>To replace Savard, the Habs looked over the strong defence corps on the AHL Voyageurs and came up with Jean Gauthier, 32-year-old rearguard who has been up and down the pro ladder for 10 seasons.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re taking Gauthier because of his experience,&rdquo; explained Ruel. Gauthier, an unpredictable rearguard with a lot of natural talent, played a full season for the Canadiens in 1962-63 before being demoted to the minors. He was with Philadelphia two years ago before being drafted by Boston and played 11 games in emergency for the Bruins last season.</p><p>As though the loss of Savard wasn&rsquo;t enough of a jolt, the Canadiens got another scare the day after the New York game when their leading scorer Jacques Lemaire (32 goals and 27 assists) had to rush to hospital because of back pains. X-rays didn&rsquo;t reveal any bone damage but he was on the sidelines as the Habs embarked on a four-game road trip in the home stretch of the schedule.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ruel Tells Hubs To Put Out After Big Suvurd Breaks Leg

<div class="byline">&#x2014;BERRY</div><p>DETROIT&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Wings wrapped up their season series with Montreal this season by winning four, tieing two and losing only two&hellip;they were unbeaten in the Montreal Forum, winning three and tieing one and it was only the second time in 18 seasons Detroit took the season set from the Canadiens.</p><p>Goalie Roy Edwards isn&rsquo;t regarded as one of the classicists of the game&hellip;all he does is stop shots. Edwards, who explained his lack of whitewashes this season with &ldquo;I guess I&rsquo;m just not a shutout goalie,&rdquo; snapped New York&rsquo;s record run of scoring in every game for nearly two years.</p><p>The CBS-TV eye blinked on Canada&rsquo;s two teams, Toronto and Montreal, and picked up Detroit-Boston and Detroit-New York for the final two matinee telecasts of the season&hellip;Toronto and Montreal were the original choices but when they fell in the standings, they fell along Madison Avenue.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Wings Hot In Forum

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he gypsy in the Red Wings&rsquo; soul has done them a world of good this season, one in which the victories haven&rsquo;t been coming on home ice the way they once did.</p><p>With one month left in the season, the Red Wings had the best road record in the National Hockey League. Their 38 road points in 30 games marked the best harvest in 15 seasons, going back to the great old days of the 1950s when Detroit ruled the NHL.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01634/2638647-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="245" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><p>Thanks to the road record and their longest unbeaten streak this season, the Wings not only were thinking of making the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in four years but maybe even finishing second or third.</p><p>Club owner Bruce Norris, in a rare, extensive interview, said the Wings&rsquo; tendency in recent years to just aim at making the playoffs has &ldquo;been one of my pet peeves.</p><p>&ldquo;With the material we have on hand, what are we doing just talking about making the playoffs?&rdquo;</p><p>Norris said he felt all along the Wings &ldquo;could be right up there with the leaders.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve certainly played a lot better than last season. We&rsquo;ve improved on defense. Our goaltending has been more than adequate&hellip;I definitely feel that we&rsquo;re in contention.&rdquo;</p><p>Norris said he thought the Wings need improvement &ldquo;in our offensive style. I can&rsquo;t fault Sid Abel because we all agree that forechecking is a great part of the game and our fellows at times seem to hesitate in their desire to do so. I&rsquo;d say this is our greatest fault.&rdquo;</p><p>Asked if he feels the Wings need a leader, someone to fire them up, Norris replied he thinks that is one of the problems.</p><p>Couching it carefully, Norris said the team attitude seems to be one of letting Gordie Howe do it and that while Howe is one of the greatest players&mdash;or greatest&mdash;of all time, he is not a fiery type.</p><p>Asked if Howe is so good and does things so effortlessly that it has some effect on the rest of the club, that he sets too easy-going a tone for the team, Norris answered:</p><p>&ldquo;Well, it goes right back to just what I was saying: Do we have a fiery leader on the team? I would categorically say no! You take somebody like Bobby Baun for instance and the spirit he shows in the dressing room.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s important but it is still overshadowed by Gordie&rsquo;s presence. Understand now, I&rsquo;m not faulting Gordie. But it&rsquo;s just the position we are in now. If we&rsquo;d have somebody leading us who had a feistier nature, you wouldn&rsquo;t notice these things.</p><p>&ldquo;But I do feel that we could have more spirit. Gordie plays his own game and it&rsquo;s very difficult to appraise exactly how he is playing because he plays so easily and smoothly. It&rsquo;s difficult to be critical of his game&mdash;is he playing as well as he has on other evenings, or is something happening to him? It&rsquo;s just hard to tell.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02517/2638640-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1771" height="1079"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Wings&rsquo; depend entirely too much on the great GORDIE HOWE, claims Detroit owner Bruce Norris. The Red Wings&rsquo; boss feels club could show more spirit and he doesn&rsquo;t expect Howe to provide it at his age.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Hockey News Photo by Richard Pellegrini)</span></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I do know that there are other elements on this team that are hard to motivate, and I think they would be hard to motivate with any kind of leadership,&rdquo; Norris said.</p><p>Norris was asked if he is looking for &ldquo;a feisty-type coach&rdquo; to succeed Abel next season when Sid again will concentrate on being general manager.</p><p>Stating once and for all that Lindsay never was offered the Red Wing post &ldquo;in a formal way,&rdquo; Norris said the man he&rsquo;s seeking is &ldquo;a coach you can respect and one who can motivate the players. This is a necessary quality these days.</p><p>&ldquo;Hockey has changed quite a bit in caliber. The players are getting paid a lot more than they used to and I think the motivation is probably less than it used to be. I don&rsquo;t want to be treading on anybody&rsquo;s toes but I think this area of remuneration has some bearing on attitude,&rdquo; Norris said.</p><p>Regarding Lindsay, Norris said he is &ldquo;very fond of Teddy,&rdquo; that he was &ldquo;a great player and is a great Red Wing fan.&rdquo; But Norris added &ldquo;I do know that Teddy doesn&rsquo;t aspire to be a coach.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s in line with what Lindsay said several days earlier, following an Old Timers&rsquo; game, when he said he was just too happy with his business, his family life and skiing in the winter to want to go back to living out of a suitcase. He&rsquo;s turned down four coaching offers.</p><p>Quizzed about who he will hire as the Wings&rsquo; next coach, Norris said three or four people are under consideration but they are under contract to other organizations and Detroit won&rsquo;t be able to make any moves until the season is over.</p><p>There&rsquo;ve been all sorts of rumors&mdash;college coaches, coaches from the minors, coaches from the NHL and ex-Red Wings Red Kelly and Marcel Pronovost have been mentioned. Judging from Norris&rsquo; remarks, Doug Barkley, rookie coach at Fort Worth, is not among the serious candidates.</p><p>Specifically, Norris said: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a candidate but we need good men at every level. One way or another, he&rsquo;s going to stay in our organization.&rdquo;</p><p>Asked about Howe, Norris said &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think that would particularly interest him.&rdquo;</p><p>Mentioning qualities he&rsquo;s looking for in a coach, Norris said he thinks &ldquo;there are some techniques that can be improved on. I don&rsquo;t think a lot of coaches really coach.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll probably get blasted for this, but I think a lot of coaches just get out there and let their teams play hockey. I don&rsquo;t think you can do this anymore. You&rsquo;ve got to motivate these players and if you want to call that sophistication, okay.&rdquo;</p><p>Norris said he feels Abel, who took up the coaching reins again just two games into the season after Bill Gadsby was fired, is &ldquo;a good coach&hellip;and I don&rsquo;t think you&rsquo;ll find anyone more knowledgeable about how to play.&rdquo;</p><p>But he feels the dual role of general manager and coach is too much &ldquo;and I think he&rsquo;s happy to stick to the managing end of it.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03347/2638633-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="537" height="881"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRUCE NORRIS&hellip;We&rsquo;re In Cup Hunt</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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But Wings Need Fiery Leader; New Coach Will Be ‘Outsider’

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01696/2638723-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="353" height="432"></div><p><b>&bull; DURING OUR</b> recent trip along the Pacific Coast we witnessed games in Los Angeles and Oakland where the crowds were 11,500 and 12,042 respectively. The Oakland attendance was an all-time record crowd to see a game in that city and the Seals played one of the best games in their history in bowing to hockey&rsquo;s hottest club, the Chicago Black Hawks, 3-2&hellip;Interest and enthusiasm was terrific in both cities and NHL hockey will be a great success in both areas within the next few years&hellip;What both franchises need right now are contending teams. The fans are eager but they haven&rsquo;t had much to cheer about in either city&hellip;Just ice a contending team in either city and there&rsquo;ll be SRO signs posted at every game&hellip;We still maintain that eventually the Los Angeles Kings will be one of the most profitable and successful franchises in the National Hockey League&hellip;Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles declared the week of March 1 to 7 as &ldquo;Los Angeles Hockey Week&rdquo;&hellip;Many of the Hollywood and television stars attend the Kings games and former Torontonians Larry Mann and Saul Ilson seldom miss a game. Larry is seen in many TV shows and right now is working on a new television series with Glenn Ford called &ldquo;Howdy&rdquo;&hellip;Saul has produced the Dick Van Dyke and Bill Cosby TV series and is currently producing Doris Day&rsquo;s first variety special&hellip;The Kings&rsquo; victory song is played continually throughout the games at the Forum and the catchy tune is fast becoming a favorite with hockey fans in attendance&hellip;Bill MacKenzie, supervisor of minor officials working all home games of the Oakland Seals, wishes to be remembered to all his friends in the Detroit area. At one time Bill was a minor official for the Red Wings. He hasn&rsquo;t missed a game in San Francisco or Oakland since professional hockey came there in 1960&hellip;Lots of banners are seen in the Oakland Coliseum now. This wasn&rsquo;t allowed prior to this season. Some of them read: &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s Give Smitty some help. Knock the Hull out of Chicago&rdquo;&hellip;&ldquo;Happiness is a Stanley Cup&rdquo;&hellip;&ldquo;No more Screamin at Ehman&rdquo; and &ldquo;Mad for Vad.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02647/2638716-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="248" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>George Morrison</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; CONGRATULATIONS TO</b> the Jun ior All-America Team which was honored at the recent Lester Patrick Dinner in New York. The boys were flown in from all over the States and they lined up as follows: Ed Monfort, goal; Mark Shepherd and Chris Murfey, defense; plus Forwards Peter McNab, Bruce Meehan, Rob Palmer and Danny Condon. Four forwards were selected as there was a tie for the center position. The selection committee was headed by Norman MacLean, New York correspondent for THE HOCKEY NEWS&hellip;Peter McNab is the husky, six-foot plus son of Max McNab, General Manager-Coach of the San Diego Gulls. He is rated one of the best young pro prospects in the United States and has received scholarship offers from 14 colleges in the States. Right now he leans towards University of Denver&hellip;The National Hockey League TV rating for the CBS Sunday Game of the Week is now up to 5.9 according to the latest Neilson poll. It was 4.4 last year. Reason for the increase is due to better games this year, wider exposure by CBS and a more professional presentation&hellip;The American Hockey League is in its best shape ever and there are indications that it may expand to 12 teams in the next two years&hellip;Incidentally the AHL will hold their annual meeting in the Bahamas this June. This will mark the first time a professional hockey league has held its annual conclave outside of either Canada or the United States&hellip;Dan Kelly, hockey voice of the CBS, was criticized by New York fans recently for pronouncing Ed Giacomin&rsquo;s name correctly as &ldquo;Jackomin&rdquo;. Dan defended himself: &ldquo;I ought to know how to pronounce Ed&rsquo;s name. I knew &lsquo;Jackomin&rsquo; back when he was quarterback for the Sudbury Hard Rocks&rdquo;&hellip;During Boston&rsquo;s pre-game warmup at the St. Louis Arena the other evening a youngster yelled to Derek Sanderson: &ldquo;Hey, Sanderson, when are you going to get a haircut?&rdquo; Sanderson turned and replied: &ldquo;When I get a hat trick&rdquo;&hellip;Jack Patterson, U.S. scout for Detroit Red Wings, says colleges will continue to produce players for the NHL. Patterson says there are five collegians right now who should make it to the big league soon. They are left wing George Morrison and center Tom Miller of Denver, Defenseman Mike Hyndman of Boston University; Tim Sheehy, center from Boston College; and Bob Murray, a defenseman from Michigan Tech.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03552/2638709-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="251" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wren Blair</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; WREN BLAIR</b> has been taking a pretty good beating in the press of late for his deals which apparently have backfired. Some notable ones are peddling Dave Balon to New York, Wayne Connelly to Detroit, and Larry Hillman to Montreal for Brian Smith, now in the minors&hellip;One scribe also pointed out that Billy Plager would look good on the Minny defense instead of the Blues&rsquo; about now. Blair failed to protect him after the 1967-68 season&hellip;Garry Unger says he knew when he was 14 he was going to make the NHL but didn&rsquo;t think it would be this fast. As a kid he used to play road hockey ana announce himself as Gordie Howe. Now he dresses next to Howe and sometimes plays on a line with him. He says he recently received a letter from a boy who says he plays road hockey and announces himself as Garry Unger&hellip;One of things that Unger has noticed about his success is that the papers are starting to spell his name right&hellip;with two r&rsquo;s in Garry&hellip;Mrs. Bobby Hull, wife of the Chicago scoring star, gave birth to a baby girl recently. This is the first daughter for the Hulls who have fours sons&hellip;Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs have never missed the NHL playoffs the same year&hellip;Detroit reverted to an old playoff tactic recently when Sid Abel put the team up at a suburban motel after returning late at night from an out-oftown game. They got back about 2 a.m., Thursday, went right to the motel and bused into the Olympia prior to the Thursday game against Pittsburgh&hellip;I hey got back from Montreal about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, went right to the motel and then bused to Olympia for the game that night with Minnesota&hellip;&ldquo;Most of the players are married and have kids and it&rsquo;s impossible to keep the little ones quiet in the morning,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;This way the players can have their rest and not be disturbed. The players like the idea, too&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04480/2638702-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="252" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Garry Unger</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<p>Founded October 1st, 1947</p><p><b>Published weekly except monthly June through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</b></p><p><b>1434 St. Catherine Street West Montreal 107, Canada.</b></p><p><b>Kenneth William McKenzie</b><br>President and Publisher</p><p><b>Charlie Halpin</b><br>Editorial Director</p><p><b>Yearly SUBSCRIPTION Rates: $6.00 in Canada $7.00 in the U.S.A. and $9.00 in Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Postage paid at Rouses Point. N.Y</p><p>Second class mail&mdash;Registration No. 1327</p><p><b>Printed in Canada</b></p><p><b>Vol. 23 MONTREAL, MARCH 27, 1970 No. 25</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<h2><b>Pittsburgh Fan Claims City Cynical To NHL</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>n a letter in the March 6th issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS a reader stated that the fans in Pittsburgh are apathetic. Well, he is absolutely wrong.</p><p>Out of the 2, 5 million Pittssylvanians (city and suburbs), you have to chalk up 2.5 million to cynicism and ignorance, not apathy. Pittsburghers are innately cynical, sportswise, after having 50 years of &ldquo;losers&rdquo; unloaded on them.</p><p>A team in Pittsburgh would have to go 14-0-0, 162-0, and 76-0-0 before any fan would trust them with their three bucks a game.</p><p>It&rsquo;s also true that one needs a powerful magnifying glass to find any Pen news in our newspapers, and one also needs a keen ear tuned to the 30-odd T.V. and radio stations 24 hours a day just hoping that you might hear one word about the NHL.</p><p>Many fans fear the Penguins will move, so why spend the money on a team that is not going to be here next year?</p><p>KARL KRAMMER,<br>Heidlberg, Pa.</p><h2><b>Atlanta Fan Says City Would Welcome The NHL</b></h2><p>I read Norman MacLean&rsquo;s article in March 13 HOCKEY NEWS concerning TV and hockey with great interest. I was especially pleased by his mention of Atlanta as a possible site for an NHL franchise.</p><p>Atlanta is a city made up of families from all over the U.S., and some from Canada, too. Many of us have had exposure to hockey and would be overjoyed to have a team here.</p><p>In recent years, Atlanta has proven to be a truly big-league city. Given a chance, hockey will become the most popular of all sports here.</p><p>WILLIAM MacLEOD,<br> Atlanta, Ga.</p><h2><b>New Alignment of NHL Not Competitive Enough</b></h2><p>Can anything be done re the alignment of the NHL? Just because baseball thinks Atlanta is West and St. Louis is East and the NFL calls Baltimore a Western team and St. Louis is East their logic escapes me. But the ideal setup for the NHL beginning now or in the fall for &lsquo;70-71 is thus:</p><p>East: Montreal, Boston, New York, Toronto, Buffalo, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.</p><p>West: St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago, Minnesota, Los Angeles, Oakland and Vancouver.</p><p>From a competitive angle, there would be a good fight for the 4th spot in the east assuming Montreal, New York and Boston will form the strength (as they do now). The remaining four teams would have quite a race tor that other playoff spot.</p><p>In the West, Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis would have it made (as of now) and there again we would have a battle for 4th place. By splitting the expansion teams up a bit believe we would have two divisions of about equal strength, instead of one good one and one weak as of this year. Have no use for Toronto (a Montrealer never has!) but it is tough to play as well as they have-win more games than any western team (except the Blues)&mdash;and be last in their division.</p><p>A.G. &lsquo;WOODY&rsquo; WOODS<br>Palm Springs, Calif.</p><h2><b>Remarking Ice Surfaces Would Help Pro Hockey</b></h2><p>I have recently sent to Mr. Clarence Campbell, President of the NHL the following suggestions for marking the ice surface:</p><p>The center line changed from red to blue. The blue lines changed to red and widened to twice the present width and the additional width taken from the defending-attacking zone.</p><p>Changing to red for the attacking-defending zones is logical because these are the most critical or danger zones and red has always been identified with danger or at least marking a significant situation or area. Another point in favor of the change is the fact that all other markings, in these zones are in red including the goal crease, goal line and face-off circles.</p><p>Additionally, the contrast between the red lines and black puck would be greater thus helping linesmen in calling offsides. The greater width of the red lines would, in my opinion, tend to eliminate many over the line offsides which now slow the game and too many times stop the completion of an exciting offensive play.</p><p>The broadened red lines would also improve the game by giving the point men more maneuvering space in promoting their offensive play.</p><p>In the interest of uniformity the idea of making the four faceoff dots in the neutral zone in blue might be considered since the center line would be blue.</p><p>It would be interesting to read what your readers think of this plan.</p><p>LOUIS A. POIRIER,<br>Harrisburg, Pa.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fan Forum

<div class="byline">BY SPENCE CONLEY</div><p>OAKLAND&mdash;</p><p>The Oakland Seals have had just about everything going for them this year except themselves.</p><p>Fan support has been excellent and it reached its climax on March 6 when an all-time Coliseum Arena record hockey crowd of 12,042 showed up to see the Seals beaten by Chicago, 3-2 in a thrilling game.</p><p>It was the best game the Seals have played in a while, but they got nothing for it and by March 10, they continued their longest winless streak of the season (six losses and a tie) and their playoff hopes were being seriously challenged by Minnesota.</p><p>Entering their last 12 games of the regular season, the Seals were tied with the North Stars in fourth place in the West, a serious situation, indeed, since it wasn&rsquo;t too long ago that Oakland led the Stars by five points.</p><p>In a 20-game span before Feb. 25, the Seals had won eight and tied four and appeared to have solved most of their problems. They even had one streak of four wins in five games and things never looked better.</p><p>But then, bit by bit, they began to break apart.</p><p>It was a combination of many things&mdash;injuries, mostly&mdash;and the Seals lost six in a row after Feb. 25, with one tie.</p><p>Poor defense was hurting plenty. But even worse, was the loss of scoring touch by the forwards, particularly by Bill Hicke. He never missed so many good scoring chances in his life.</p><p>Take the 2-2 tie with L.A. for example. Hicke had the puck right in front and goalie Denis Dejordy down. He hit the cross bar!</p><p>Carol Vadnais, certainly the most popular player in Oakland right now besides Harry Howell, scored his 20th goal in L.A. on March 7. He became the first Seal this year to hit 20 and it was the first time in his NHL career that he&rsquo;s scored that many goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01649/2638826-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="547" height="579"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CAROL VADNAIS&hellip;A Bright Spot</b></figcaption></div><p>Although primarily a defenseman, Vadnais has seen plenty of work at left wing this season, too. Many of his goals were scored as a forward.</p><p>Even so, Vad has toiled on defense as a penalty killer and on the point of the power play.</p><p>The Seal power play, incidentally, is another major area of concern. So far this season, the Oaklanders have had a dozen goals scored against that power play&mdash;far and away tops in the league in that department.</p><p>But such is life.</p><p>Earl Ingarfield was due to come off the injury list as was Bob Dillabough. But just as quickly as they were healed, Norm Ferguson suffered a badly wrenched ankle and was out 10 days and Bert Marshall, jammed an already weak wrist.</p><p>The Seals haven&rsquo;t been able to take up slack, however. Injuries plague most clubs, but Oakland seems to have had more than its share this season, especially Ingarfield. Three times he&rsquo;s been sidelined.</p><p>Since recovery from the slump has been so slow, the North Stars have been able to catch up. By March 10, Minnesota and Oakland were even at 44 points, but the Stars held two games in hand.</p><p>It isn&rsquo;t a very bright picture, but Fred Glover has a way of pulling surprises out of his hat.</p><p>It isn&rsquo;t too late for the Oaklanders, but time is running out. From here on out, they&rsquo;ve got to do it them selves.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Seals In Death Struggle With Stars For Playoff

<p>OAKLAND&mdash;</p><p>The first sound you heard was that of the Oakland Seals falling on their backsides in the National Hockey League&rsquo;s West Division race.</p><p>The second sound vou heard was Seal coach Fred Glover hitting the ceiling.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02590/2638857-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="273" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fred Glover</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;We had a pretty good record at home before that road trip. But we didn&rsquo;t do well on the road and I think some of our guys thought that all they had to do was come home, drop their sticks on the ice, and coast to a win. It isn&rsquo;t that way, though.</p><p>&ldquo;If some of our guys worried more about hockey than they do about the latest hair styles or men&rsquo;s fashions, we&rsquo;d be OK.&rdquo; After a torrid streak of eight wins and two ties in 15 games, they lost four straight.</p><p>Howie Menard and Harry Howell, two of the more steady Seal performers lately, were upset by the slump, but optimistic:</p><p>&ldquo;Sure, things are going bad for us,&rdquo; said Menard, &ldquo;but we can&rsquo;t get panicky. That&rsquo;s the worst thing that could happen. We&rsquo;ve just got to keep working. We&rsquo;ll be OK.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;When things are going bad,&rdquo; added Howell, &ldquo;then everyone tries to do it all himself and we can&rsquo;t do that. We&rsquo;ve got to play steady hockey whether we are two goals ahead or two goals behind. We&rsquo;ve got to keep plugging.&rdquo;</p><p>What Glover wants is a team effort&mdash;16 guys doing a job. That&rsquo;s how they got going before and that&rsquo;s how they&rsquo;ll do it again. He refuses to blame the slump on injuries.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fading Seals Worry Too Muth About Hair Styles, Men’s Fashions—Clover

<div class="byline">BY CHARLIE HALPIN</div><p><b>&bull; <i>THE NHL</i></b>&nbsp;<i>is going into the spying business in the near future to keep undesirables from consorting with their higher paid super stars&mdash;the ones who are considered prone to gamblers in every professional sport.</i></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01723/2638888-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="263" height="441"></div><p><i>The league has initiated an anti-glambling committee, headed by Clarence S. Campbell, to investigate the possibility of setting up some means of security before the NHL becomes involved in a scandal similar to the Denny McLain affair.</i></p><p><i>Campbell reiterated that there has been no suspicion of any wrong-doing within the NHL but added that the league was only acting in a precautionary way by looking into a security system.</i></p><p><i>Campbell said the operation, which will cost the NHL anywhere from $75,000 to $400,000, will be totally financed by the league.</i></p><p><i>Campbell said there was a definite possibility, however, that the NHL would discuss with other pro sports a co-operative effort and even the mutual employment of a security staff, the expense of which would be shared by hockey, lootball and baseball.</i></p><p><i>&ldquo;Had the NHL&rsquo;s suspicion been aroused at all by any one incident among its member teams?&rdquo; Campbell was asked recently.</i></p><p><i>&ldquo;No there has been nothing to give the NHL concern and there has been no suspicion of wrongdoing within our league,&rdquo; he told newsmen at a press conference. However, he said recent extensive publicity about gambling investigations and players in football, basketball and baseball befriending well-known underworld characters, had convinced the NHL governors it was time to start thinking of a security force.</i></p><p><i><b>&bull; CAMPBELL REVEALED</b> that the closest the NHL came to trouble was the case of the name player last season who was unknowingly fronting for a Mafia type business enterprise. He was quickly advised to rid himself of the operation or suffer the consequences.</i></p><p><i>Campbell said the NHL was mainly interested in keeping its athletes out of the clutches of the quick buck gamblers who would seek to exploit the name players in the league.</i></p><p><i>The NHL&rsquo;s new anti-gambling committee was not established to become watchdogs, said Campbell, but to merely examine the possibility of setting up a security program, which will likely be operated by a specific agency.</i></p><p><i>The NHL is likely to follow the same security pattern adopted by both football and baseball and employ a security officer with &lsquo;undercover agents&rsquo; to keep tab on the athletes.</i></p><p><i>Campbell disclosed that security details will be decided before the NHL&rsquo;s annual meeting. He added that the governors must agree on what type organization they want.</i></p><p><i>Some information will be released but a considerable amount of it will be withheld from the public.</i></p><p><i>Campbell said he had conferred with the commissioners of football and baseball and had learned much from these meetings.</i></p><p><i>Baseball recently placed a former FBI man under contract as its chief security officer with orders to go out and hire a staff. Hockey may do likewise.</i></p><p><i>Campbell said the committee will strive to have the program in full operation by the start of training camp in September.</i></p><p><i>The NHL has been most fortunate through the years. It hasn&rsquo;t been involved in any type betting or gambling scandal since the infamous Don Gallinger-Billy Taylor affair back in the late 1930&rsquo;s. Since then, hockey has been clean and they would like to keep it that way.</i></p><p><i>Campbell said the NHL did not frown on its players becoming involved in outside businesses as long as their associates were beyond reproach. He said there were no requirements a player had to subject himself to nor did a player have to have the NHL&rsquo;s permission to become involved in a restaurant or night club venture like football&rsquo;s Joe Namath.</i></p><p><i>Some players operate restaurants and clubs, like Boston&rsquo;s Derek Sanderson, but their actions are not governed by NHL legislation.</i></p><p><i>This could all change and invariably it will, once the league introduces it&rsquo;s own security plan program.</i></p><p><i>The day may be near when the NHL will have its own &lsquo;Man in a Suitcase&rsquo; or a &lsquo;Mannix&rsquo; or even its own &lsquo;Mod Squad&rsquo; to keep the hockey stars in line.</i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE HOCKEY

<div class="byline">BY GLENN REDMANN</div><p>TWIN CITIES&mdash;</p><p>Cesare Maniago, the genial giant from North Burnaby, B.C., never has looked upon a backup goalkeeper as his rival during any of the three seasons he has spent with the Minnesota North Stars.</p><p>And after Gump Worsley came out of his self-imposed exile to join the Minnesotans recently, the 6-foot-3 Maniago reiterrated his &ldquo;no rivalry&rdquo; stand.</p><p>Okay&mdash;all well and good&mdash;no rivalry.</p><p>But the fact remains that Cesare, who like the club he plays for has been up and down this season, performed sensationally in two of three starts following Worsley&rsquo;s arrival.</p><p>With The Gumper dressed in a Minnesota uniform for the first time and serving as his backup March 1, Maniago blanked Toronto with a splendid 41-save effort while his mates were bombarding the Leafs&rsquo; Bruce Gamble for eight goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02587/2638919-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="541" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CESARE MANIAGO&hellip;Shows New Life</b></figcaption></div><p>Then after Worsley had taken over netminding chores in a 2-2 tie at home against Philadelphia and a resounding 8-3 win over the Maple Leafs at Toronto, Cesare returned to action in Detroit and turned in a 45-save job that earned the Stars a 2-2 tie and had Sid Abel talking to himself afterward.</p><p>Said the affable general manager and coach of the Red Wings:</p><p>&ldquo;They save that guy for us and look what happens&hellip;I think he&rsquo;s got a hex on us.&rdquo;</p><p>Abel&rsquo;s head-shaking was easily understood since the tie was Minnesota&rsquo;s fourth of the season against the Wings&mdash;two at Detroit and two on home ice and Maniago was in goal for every one of them. In the inter-divisional rivals&rsquo; other game at this writing, the Stars edged the Wings, 3-2, in the Motor City with rookie Ken Broderick (now in Phoenix) doing the netminding honors.</p><p>Maniago&rsquo;s &ldquo;no rivalry&rdquo; theory likely is based upon the fact that the 31-year-old expectant father strongly believes NHL goaling is a two-man job.</p><p>&ldquo;With all the traveling we do and so many games being played back-toback, you&rsquo;ve got to have two goaltenders,&rdquo; said Cesare recently.</p><p>Even before his strong efforts against the Leafs and Wings, Maniago had been playing quite well for more than a month.</p><p>But still the Stars were unable to rack up a victory from the middle of January though all of February and it looked like curtains regarding a playoff spot until they racked up those six points in eight days at the expense of the Leafs, Flyers and Wings.</p><p>Worsley and Maniago weren&rsquo;t by any means the only heroes in the Minnesotans&rsquo; surge.</p><p>Billy Collins picked up two hat tricks&mdash;both against the Leafs&mdash;and the blueline corps (Tom Reid, Leo Boivin, Barry Gibbs, Marshall Johnston and Lou Nanne) performed more steadily than it had all season long.</p><p>Although he hadn&rsquo;t scored a point since returning to active duty in the first Toronto rout, playing coach Charlie Burns definitely made his presence felt with tireless checking and strong penalty-killing play.</p><p>Having caught Oakland by virtue of the Detroit tie, it was the Stars&rsquo; fervent hope that they could keep going in order to establish some kind of bulge over the Seals because of the fact that the Stars must play five of their last six games on the road while the Ice Follies occupies the Sports Center.</p><p>At any rate, the two most important games left seemed to be a March 24 date here against Oakland and a return match there five days later. The Seals, at this writing, own the Stars with five wins, a tie and no losses.</p><p><b>STAR-LITES</b>: Billy Collins&rsquo; wife, Carol, delivered the couple&rsquo;s second child, a 10-pound, nine-ounce boy, just a few hours after her husband potted his 18th, 19th and 20th goals of the season in an 8-3 win at Toronto March 7&hellip;The newcomer has a two-year-old sister&hellip;</p><p>Two of Collins&rsquo; goals came with teammates in the penalty box and the 26-year-old right winger&rsquo;s shorthanded goal total soared to five, leading the league&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Goaling Two-Man Job Claims Cesare

<div class="byline">&#x2014;LIBBY</div><p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;</p><p>Prior to the massive trades which altered the makeup of the L.A. Kings, Eddie Joyal, Bill Flett, Ross Lonsberry and Jim Peters had seemed to be the most effective players on the lowly team and this fact is substantiated by NHL statistical records which show the &ldquo;plus&rdquo; and &ldquo;minus&rdquo; figures for each player as regards goals scored by and against his team while he is on ice.</p><p>On a last-place team, everyone figures to have a minus, but those with small minuses probably would have big plusses on a successful team. After two-thirds of the current season, Joyal topped the Kings with a minus five, followed by Peters at minus six, Flett at minus 13 and Lonsberry at minus 15.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02612/2638981-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="248" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Flett</b></figcaption></div><p>Then came Ted Irvine at 18, Leon Rochefort at 20, Skip Krake at 23, Eddie Shack at 25 and Bryan Hextall at 28. The minuses for the defensemen were Dale Rolfe and Bob Wall at 22 each, Brent Hughes at 28 and Larry Cahan, 34.</p><p>The fewer games a player plays, the less his minus is likely to be. Among those who missed many games, the minuses were Howie Hughes at six, Bryan Campbell at 10, Bill White at 14, Butch Goring at 16, Mike Corrigan at 17, Dale Hoganson at 18 and Bryan Hextall at 28.</p><p>White, Rofe, Campbell, Irvine and Hextall were traded, Corrigan demoted.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Peters, Joyal, Flett Most Effective Kings

<p>VANCOUVER&mdash;</p><p>Hal Laycoe is going to get another chance to prove he can coach in the National Hockey League.</p><p>The former pilot of the Los Angeles Kings quit the NHL club to accept the coaching job of the Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League, who move into hockey&rsquo;s higher stratosphere next season as a member of the NHL.</p><p>Laycoe, 47-years-old and with 14 years coaching experience, took over the reins of the WHL Canucks immediately to finish out the present season and start the 1970-71 NHL campaign as the coach of the new NHL Canucks.</p><p>Appointment of Laycoe was announced by Bud Poile who was named general manager Feb. 25 in a shake-up that resulted in the firing of Joe Crozier for &ldquo;rank insubordination.&rdquo;</p><p>Crozier, who held both the general manager&rsquo;s and coaching jobs, left the door open for Laycoe when he turned down Poile&rsquo;s offer of the Canuck&rsquo;s coaching position. The WHL club has been without a coach since.</p><p>Poile and Laycoe was one of two persons under consideration for the job after Crozier refused it. He didn&rsquo;t name the other, but there was speculation it was Bill Gadsby. former Detroit Red Wings coach.</p><p>Laycoe started the season as coach of the NHL Kings, but was replaced by Johnny Wilson. The club kept him on as personnel director.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03481/2639012-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="512" height="1045"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HAL LAYCOE&hellip;Another Chance</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0007-03

Hal Laycoe Quits Kings To Couth Vancouver Club

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;</p><p>During the day, there was a total eclipse of the moon. That night, the Los Angeles Kings won a hockey game. The first occurs once every 56 years or so. The second is somewhat more common, occurring on the average of once every couple of weeks. The last time, however, was Jan. 28 and this one came March 7 after a winless February. It ended a string of 17 consecutive games without a victory, falling short of the modern NHL record of 21.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01675/2638950-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="245" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Peters</b></figcaption></div><p>It was the 10th for the Kings this season and fourth over the hapless Oakland Seals, whom they sadly had not seen since Dec. 6. This one, 5-3, was in L.A. and the next afternoon they came together in Oakland where they tied, 2-2, which if not another victory, was a moral victory for the Kings, who still have a shot at the modern marks of fewest victories, 12, and most losses, 51.</p><p>The team has played better and tighter hockey since Jack Kent Cooke and Larry Regan went on a trading binge, which brought in defensemen Matt Ravlich and Gilles Marotte, who have reduced the shots-against figures to respectable proportions. However, the team still was not winning and it is perhaps significant that the key goal in the conquest of the Seals and one of the goals in the tying of them were scored by Jimmy Peters, who has not been playing much lately.</p><p>Peters stands 6-2 and weighs 188 pounds. He is big and strong and skates well. He was traded to L.A. for Terry Sawchuk by Detroit prior to last season and wasn&rsquo;t expected to make the team, but played himself onto it. He played at least a small part of every game and scored 10 goals and was so highly-regarded he was not given two full pages in the press guide as were 19 other Kings, most of whom are not around now, but had to share one page with three other players.</p><p>This season, he has been used mostly as a penalty-killer and spare, but whenever he has played regularly he has played well. Everyone on this team has a &ldquo;minus&rdquo; in goals for-and-against while on the ice, but he has the lowest minus of any full-season player. He plays defense as well as offense, chases down the puck, controls the puck and makes good plays.</p><p>Recently he was playing real well when suddenly he wasn&rsquo;t playing again. Coach Johnny Wilson explained, &ldquo;I had to use our top veteran, Eddie Joval, and top kid. Butch Goring, and I also had to see what new players Juha Widing and Gary Monahan could do at center. I know that Peters can do and he&rsquo;s a valuable man on this team, but I had to spot him so I could test the newcomers.&rdquo;</p><p>Widing promptly broke a bone in a wrist, sidelining him for the season, Peters went back in and led a victory and a tie. He actually scored two goals in the victory, and the one in the tie gave him 15 for the season. If he played full-time and on the power-play. he&rsquo;d have 20 or 25 goals, and the fact is if he could average just 15 to 20 a season he&rsquo;d be a valuable player for any team in the NHL, because he does everything else so well.</p><p>Peters is 25, the son of a longtime NHL player and a studious former collegian. He&rsquo;s talked of resuming his book-work if he doesn&rsquo;t make it as a major leaguer, but that should be forgotten now. He&rsquo;s a boyish, modest lad, who had a history of being a poor shooter, who laughs with lack of confidence about his shooting, but who suddenly has developed a stronger, more accurate shot and good moves to get off his shots. Suddenly, the handsome bachelor shows signs of becoming a star, if only the Kings give him the opportunity. He is one around whom they can build for the future.</p><p>Eddie Shack, bidding to erase the memory of the middle 50 games, also scored two in the 7 win, giving him seven in five games, but Peters was the key.</p><p>Oakland had come from behind to tie the Kings, 3-3, when Peters and Dick Duff skated in on two Seal defensemen. Duff had the puck and his defender fell down in front of him, but instead of going around him, Duff passed to Peters, who was guarded, but who shot and scored. It was a funny play and proves that when it&rsquo;s time for you to win, you&rsquo;ll win. It brought the crowd cheering to its feet like a pennant had been won and restored the old smile and bounce to owner Cooke. Manager Regan growled something about it being about time, but Wilson was whistling with relief.</p><p>The eclipse got more publicity the next day, but then the sun and moon have more fans.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-01

Penalty Killer Peters Delivers In Pinch Role

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01709/2639050-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="295" height="381"></div><h2><b><i>A Leader Like Orr</i></b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>H</span>E WAS ON TOP</b> of the world, Brad Park was, a month ago, the kid ringleader of the New York Rangers who appeared to be roaring toward the National Hockey League pennant, their third in history and first in 28 years. He was one of the outstanding rookies in the circuit last season and now he was one of the outstanding players in the loop this season.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a little hard to believe,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Here I am, 21 years old, two years out of the anateurs, playing with and against the best players in hockey, guys I was only reading about just the other day it seems like, and holding my own, sort of, and reading how good I am in the newspapers and magazines, and trying to keep my head from swelling up like a balloon.&rdquo;</p><p>This was after a victory in Los Angeles. His boyish face was beaming, and his smile was accented by missing teeth. The big city goes overboard for winners, making them instant immortals. How was life on the great white way for a kid celebrity, who had entree to the finest watering holes and is recognized by the famous?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02624/2639043-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="487" height="868"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRAD PARK&hellip;Likes The Contact</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Pretty good, I got to admit,&rdquo; he laughed. &ldquo;I go to places and meet people that were far out of my life not so long ago. Am I a swinger? Well, I&rsquo;m a bachelor. Do I have a special girl? Doesn&rsquo;t everybody? Yes, I got to admit, life is pretty good right now. But I have to keep it in perspective. I have to keep in shape. There&rsquo;ll be plenty of time to party after the season is over. The season has to come first. I keep waiting for the bubble to burst.&rdquo;</p><p>Brad was born in Toronto in July of 1948. His dad, Bob Park, an insurance salesman, also is an amateur coach, who had Brad on skates at the age of five and in an organized league at the age of seven. He played three years of Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey for Toronto Marlboros, but was drafted out of the Maple Leaf organization by Rangers in April of 1966.</p><p>He was turned pro with Buffalo of the American League last season, but after 17 games, was promoted to Rangers in November, and swiftly made a place for himself in the regular lineup. Outside of Bobby Orr, we think he is the finest young player in hockey. He is incredibly cool and smart for a defenseman his age, can skate and shoot and loves to hit. We are not alone in our opinion of him.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how we let him get away,&rdquo; sighs Toronto aide King Clancy. I have never Seen a young player with as much poise as Park shows.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He is a leader back there already,&rdquo; says Ranger scout Dennis Ball. &ldquo;The only player who is as cool is Orr and he is not human. Park does everything. He is going to be something.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He is something already,&rdquo; says Ranger scout Steve Brklacich. &ldquo;What we all like best is that when he makes a mistake he admits it and listens to advice so it won&rsquo;t happen again.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He is more like Carl Brewer than like Bobby Orr,&rdquo; adds Clancy.</p><h2><b><i>Confident Young Man</i></b></h2><p><b>PARK SAT ON A BENCH</b> holding an ice bag on an ugly welt on his thigh. &ldquo;Dale Rolfe got me with a knee,&rdquo; he smiled. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s part of the game. I love the contact. It gives me the best satisfaction I get in hockey. You get more hits than you do points. At least I do.&rdquo; He backs down from no one and got publicity for challenging Gordie Howe.</p><p>Still, Park is scoring. He is one of the new breed of defensemen, who skate the puck out and carry it deep and shoot it. It is hard to find defensive defensemen these days. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s true, but I think offense is the best defense sometimes,&rdquo; Park says. &ldquo;If you have the puck, the other team can&rsquo;t score with it.</p><p>&ldquo;I think most kids concentrate on offense growing up so they&rsquo;re more advanced offensively than defensively and it&rsquo;s easier for an offensive player to make the majors sooner. Defense takes more technique. The greatest defensive defensemen are older players who&rsquo;ve been around, like Harry Howell and Tim Horton and Leo Boivin. I understand Howell, for instance, was more of an offensive defenseman when he was younger.</p><p>&ldquo;They tell me it&rsquo;s a lot faster game than it was years ago and the style tor defensemen has changed. Anyway, I was always taught to move the puck. I look to headman it, to pass it out in a hurry, now, but I follow it up ice. Our coach, Mr. Francis, stresses team play. I get trapped once in a while, but there&rsquo;s always a forward dropping back to cover up for me.</p><p>&ldquo;We have a lot at stake. I haven&rsquo;t been around very long and I feel the pressure. I sweat out the games and take them home with me afterwards.&rdquo;</p><p>Then, New York was winning and its dressing room was joyous. Someone said that Stan Mikita had scored six points in another game that night. &ldquo;That beats your record,&rdquo; Francis said to Park. &ldquo;And yours,&rdquo; Park answered. &ldquo;I just didn&rsquo;t kick &lsquo;em out far enough,&rdquo; Francis laughed.</p><p>Dressed fancy, Park swung out into the corridor, where Laycoe was loafing. Hey, you little so and so, how come you think you&rsquo;re so good?&rdquo; Laycoe asked. &ldquo;Because I haven&rsquo;t learned enough about hockey to know what I&rsquo;m doing wrong, Park laughed. I keep waiting for that bubble to burst.&rdquo;</p><p>Shortly after that, Park collided with Brewer and broke his ankle and the Rangers began to lose and now are struggling without Park down the stretch. The bubble had burst.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-01

Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div><p>CHICAGO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>ubert Jacques (Pit) Martin put himself squarely on the spot early last September when he decided to be a spokesman for the Black Hawk journeymen against what many considered to be the discriminatory policies of the team&rsquo;s management.</p><p>It was Pit&rsquo;s feeling that the Hawks&rsquo; stars were being catered to by the brass and that the rest of the players barely were considered. The situation, he contended, made for poor morale and was the main cause for the Hawks&rsquo; fall into last place last season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03513/2639081-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="244" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pit Martin</b></figcaption></div><p>The merits of Pit&rsquo;s argument aren&rsquo;t at issue here, altho changes have been made and the team&rsquo;s spirit is noticeably improved this year.</p><p>But by speaking up, Pit did leave himself open for considerable heat. Unless he was traded, and that wasn&rsquo;t likely in view of the fact that he was working on the second year of a two-year contract and considering the Hawks&rsquo; shortage of centers, Pit was going to have to come up with a great effort this year or risk being labeled a no-talent &lsquo;crybaby&rsquo;.</p><p>Never mind the fact that Martin has been a solid center ever since he came into the National League with Detroit in 1963. He was going to have to deliver this year.</p><p>Adding to Pit&rsquo;s burden was the fact that, shortly after the season started, he was going to get along with rookie Gerry Pinder as his left wing, in place of Dennis Hull, who was shifted over to Stan Mikita&rsquo;s line.</p><p>Last year, Dennis and right wing Jimmy Pappin each had come up with 30-goal seasons while flanking for Pit, who, himself, enjoyed his best big league campaign with 23 goals.</p><p>But even with the handicap of working with a new wing, Pit has responded by turning in a season which may yet earn him a rating among the top middlemen in the game.</p><p>With 13 games left in the regular season, Pit had picked up 21 goals, Pappin, still his right-sider, had the same number, and the rookie Pinder had 11.</p><p>Moreover, the line, led by the hardworking Martin, had been the key unit during a six-game road trip, in which the Hawks had picked up 10 out of a possible 12 points and moved into third place in the East division standings.</p><p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t say enough about what Pit has meant to us this year,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;Sure, his goal record is there for everybody to see but the big thing, as far as I&rsquo;m concerned, has been his line&rsquo;s defensive record. With him doing a great job as forechecker, the line was the best we had during the long trip.&rdquo;</p><p>Upon their return from the long jaunt, which carried them to the east coast to the west and back again, the Hawks were greeted by Captain Pat Stapleton, wearing a light walking cast over his damaged left knee and predicting that he&rsquo;ll be back in action before the end of the season.</p><p>&ldquo;This cast is supposed to come off in about a week,&rdquo; said the ever-optimistic Pat. &ldquo;Then, all I have to do is regain complete movement of the knee and I&rsquo;ll be able to start skating and getting into shape.</p><p>&ldquo;The trainer says it shouldn&rsquo;t take much more than three or four days for the knee to start working right, and then 10 days of skating should have me ready for action. I don&rsquo;t see why I shouldn&rsquo;t be able to play the last few games of the season, at least.&rdquo;</p><p>Reay wore a slight, skeptical smile as he listened to Pat&rsquo;s enthusiastic outburst. Billy would like nothing better than to have his sparkplug captain back in action during the final, perilous games of this tension-filled season.</p><p>But Reay, above all, is a realist.</p><p>&ldquo;Nobody would like to see Pat come back to help us more than I would,&rdquo; said Billy. &ldquo;But he&rsquo;s going to have to be 100 percent before we&rsquo;ll even think about such a thing.</p><p>&ldquo;If he were to come back before that knee is perfectly sound, and reinjure it, a great career might be ruined. Nothing could be worth that.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-03

Martin’s Ice Play Proof He Popped Off For Good Of Hawks

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02640/2639112-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Three members of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame were honored simultaneously during the recent Sportsman&rsquo;s dinner put on by the Calgary Stampeder Hockey Club in Calgary, Alberta. Left to right, they are DAVE SWEENEY&rsquo; SCHRINER, TINY&rsquo; THOMPSON and LLOYD TURNER. Schriner and Thompson were both NHL stars for more than a decade. Turner was first person ever to replace his goaltender in favor of an extra forward in organized hockey.</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON&mdash;</p><p>Winning isn&rsquo;t the most important thing in life, it&rsquo;s the only thing.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the way coach Harry Sinden and the Bruins feel at this late stage in the National Hockey League season.</p><p>Starting on March 19, the Bruins enter their final nine games of the season. They will play four games at home and five on the road.</p><p>The break-down also lists them with seven games against East Division competition and two against the West.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01690/2639119-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="237" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Westfall</b></figcaption></div><p>The Western Division games will be home-and-home contests with Minnesota on March 21 and 22.</p><p>The other games will be against Chicago, Detroit and Toronto at Boston and New York, Detroit, Montreal and Toronto on the road.</p><p>Sinden still will not predict the outcome of the East Division race, but he definitely is thinking positively.</p><p>&ldquo;The guys have had their taste of being in first place and I think they feel the same way I do,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They know the advantage of winning. There is the pride and prestige of finishing first in our division over 76 games. There is the advantage of getting the first two games at home and also the seventh if that should be necessary.</p><p>&ldquo;Then,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;there is the financial reimbursement.&rdquo;</p><p>For finishing first in their own division there is a remuneration of $2,500 per man to go all the way and win the Stanley Cup could count up to $10,000 for each player.</p><p>But there is a personal satisfaction that even overrides the financial consideration and no one knows it better than veteran wing Eddie Westfall.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great feeling to walk down the street and have a perfect stranger come up and want to shake your hand,&rdquo; said the 29-year-old Westfall.</p><p>&ldquo;There were a good many days in some of the past years that I&rsquo;d almost want to sneak down an alley rather than see anyone.&rdquo;</p><p>Those were the lean days of Eddie&rsquo;s first six years with the Bruins when the team was the doormat of the league and always out of the playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;But since we have been winning,&rdquo; says Westfall, &ldquo;things have been a lot different. It&rsquo;s not just that they ask for the autograph and recognize you on sight.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the fact that they realize you are another human being. You feel like you are wanted. Let&rsquo;s say it gives you the feeling that you are a successful businessman and are respected for what you have accomplished.&rdquo;</p><p>On an individual basis Westfall should be respected for what he has accomplished both on and off the ice.</p><p>As one of the most versatile players in the game he has played every position but goal in his tenure with the Bruins.</p><p>He also has gained a reputation as one of the best checkers in the NHL with assignments of stopping Bobby Hull, Gordie Howe, Frank Mahovlich and Rod Gilbert.</p><p>And on the business front he has worked his way from a sales promotion job with a brewery into a position as a vice-president and assistant plant manager in the off season.</p><p>As a result, Eddie, who was born and raised in Oshawa, Ont., has become a staunch New Englander.</p><p>A year ago he built a home in Pelham, N.Y., where he makes his permanent residence with his wife and four children.</p><p>&ldquo;After being separated from the family for nearly five years during the hockey season, it&rsquo;s great to be together,&rdquo; he says.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a true New England home. There is some of every part of New England in the makeup. For example, I have 250-year-old beams from Portsmouth, N.H. and marble from Vermont.&rdquo;</p><p>The only thing that is lacking right now is a replica of the Stanley Cup as a center piece for his trophy room.</p><p>After a near-miss last year losing to Montreal in three overtime games, Westfall agrees with Sinden that winning is the only thing that matters.</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS&mdash;</b> The Bruins are not without their injury problems going into the stretch run&hellip;They have lost Ace Bailey for the year with a broken ankle and Ron Murphy announced his retirement during the past week&hellip;Bailey was due for surgery on his ankle but fortunately the doctors were able to get the bones into place and decided to forego the operation&hellip;Murphy felt he would not be able to come back from another arm injury and surgery to play the brand of hockey he demands of himself.</p><h2><i>Hockey Oldtimers Honored</i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0009-02

Sinden, Westfall See Winning Only Way To Grab Elusive Cup

<p>TORONTO&mdash;</p><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs are not exactly acting like a last-place team in the National Hockey League season windup.</p><p>The Leafs actually are putting out as though they still had a chance of catching a playoff berth. Mathematically, they have, but logically they don&rsquo;t.</p><p>With 10 games remaining to play, the Leafs are mired in the cellar some 15 points off the fourth and final playoff spot.</p><p>But the Leafs figure on going out in a blaze of glory and they could have a lot to say as to what teams will ultimately make the playoff round.</p><p>The Leafs gave the rest of the NHL a small sample of what they can expect the rest of the way when they upended the leading Boston Bruins 2-1 and held the desperate Montreal Canadiens to a 3-3 draw. It represented three unexpected points out of four for the lowly Torontonians.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01709/2639181-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="274" height="480"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Mike Walton</b></figcaption></div><p>Leafs&rsquo; coach John McLellan figures his team is starting to play the kind of hockey they are capable of, but too late to do anything about their position this season.</p><p>With Mike Walton gone for the season with torn knee ligaments and Jim Harrison shelved for the year with a badly broken finger, the Leafs have been calling on some of their top talent from the farms to fill the gaps. Doug Acomb was summoned from Tulsa of the CHL and then young Brian Spencer got the call from the Oilers when Walton went out for the rest of the season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02621/2639174-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="559" height="614"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RON ELLIS&hellip;Scored N. 30</b></figcaption></div><p>Two of the Leafian heroes in the big weekend double against Boston and Montreal were Paul Henderson and Ron Ellis. Henderson hit for the game-winning goal in the win over the Bruins and Ellis provided the climatic tying goal in the third period against the Canadiens. It was No. 30 for Ellis allowing him to keep pace with team captain Dave Keon, who has triggered 31.</p><p>With their playoff hopes fleeting, the Leafs can only concentrate on finishing up strong. What&rsquo;s ahead in their schedule?</p><p>They have 10 remaining, four at home and six on the road. The Leafs meet the Hawks three times, Detroit once, Montreal once, Boston twice and have a pair with the Rangers. A strong skating performance in any of these games by Toronto could have a determining effect on what teams finally make the playoffs in the Eastern Division.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-01

Leafs Facing Elimination, Turn ‘Spoilers’ Strech

<p>Following are the latest player movements in hockey:</p><h2><b>NATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p>TORONTO&mdash;<b>Brian Spencer,</b> forward, recalled from Tulsa of CHL to replace <b>Mike Walton,</b> forward, out for season with torn knee ligaments. <b>Doug Acomb,</b> forward, returned to Tulsa of CHL. Jim <b>Harrison,</b> forward, placed on injury list for rest of season with broken finger.</p><p>NEW YORK&mdash;<b>Don Luce,</b> forward, recalled from Omaha of CHL as replacement for <b>Don Marshall,</b> forward, on injury list indefinitely with shoulder separation.</p><p>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;<b>Ralph MacSweyn,</b> defenseman, and <b>Darryl Edestrand,</b> forward, recalled from Quebec of AHL.</p><p>BOSTON&mdash;<b>John Adams,</b> goalkeeper, recalled from Oklahoma City of CHL, placed on active roster as backup after <b>Gerry Cheevers,</b> goalkeeper, placed on injury list with cracked rib.</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;<b>Jean Gauthier,</b> defenseman, recalled from Montreal Voyageurs of AHL as replacement for <b>Serge Savard,</b> defenseman, out for season with broken leg.</p><p>OAKLAND&mdash;<b>Brian Perry,</b> forward, recalled from Providence of AHL as replacement for <b>Norm Ferguson,</b> forward, on injury list with wrenched ankle. <b>Joe Hardy,</b> forward, returned to Providence.</p><p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;<b>Mike Corrigan,</b> forward, returned to Springfield of <b>AHL. Juha Widing, for</b>ward, out for season with broken bone in wrist.</p><h2><b>AMERICAN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;<b>Jim Watson,</b> placed on injury list with ruptured blood vessel in leg.</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;<b>Bernie Blanchette,</b> forward, returned to Muskegon of IHL. <b>Bob Murdoch,</b> forward, joined team from Canadian Nationals.</p><p>ROCHSTER&mdash;<b>Jack Wells,</b> forward, returned to Charlotte of EHL.</p><h2><b>WESTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>SALT LAKE&mdash;<b>Merlin Jenner,</b> goalkeeper, assigned to Oklahoma City of CHL as replacement for <b>John Adams,</b> goalkeeper. <b>Billy McNeill,</b> forward, placed on injury list and replaced in lineup by <b>Galen Head,</b> forward.</p><p>PHOENIX&mdash;<b>Bill Terry,</b> defenseman, returned to Tulsa of <b>CHL. Bob McCord,</b> defenseman, returned from injury list.</p><p>SAN DIEGO&mdash;<b>John MacMillan,</b> forward, and <b>Irv Spencer,</b> defenseman, returned from injury list. <b>Ross Perkins,</b> forward, removed from active roster.</p><h2><b>CENTRAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p>DALLAS&mdash;<b>Bob Sicinski</b> and <b>Moe L&rsquo;Abbe,</b> forwards, returned to Greensboro of EHL after five-game pro tryout.</p><p>TULSA&mdash;Ivan <b>Walmsley,</b> goalkeeper, recalled from Ontario Senior League as emergency replacement for <b>Serge</b> Aubry, goalkeeper, who was on injury list.</p><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p>TOLEDO&mdash;<b>Jerry Dionne,</b> forward, jumped team to return to Oshawa, Ont., home.</p><p>DAYTON&mdash;<b>Alain Beaule,</b> defenseman, reinstated to active roster off suspended list.</p><p>FORT WAYNE&mdash;<b>Merv Dubchak</b> and <b>Ron Ullyot,</b> forwards, returned from injury list. <b>Butch McLean,</b> defenseman, out for season with broken foot.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01701/2639212-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="547" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SIMON NOLET&hellip;Sizzles Since Recall</b></figcaption></div><p>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;</p><p>Simon Nolet will have to share some of the blame if the Montreal Canadiens lose more than possession of the Stanley Cup this season.</p><p>Nolet&rsquo;s first National Hockey League hat trick earned the Flyers a thrilling 5-5 deadlock with the Boston Bruins, matching Montreal&rsquo;s all-time record of 23 ties in a season. The Flyers had 13 games left in which to break it.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure, we would like to have 23 wins instead of 23 ties,&rdquo; philosophized Nolet who now has 17 goals since recalled in December. &ldquo;But we are happy to have 23 ties&mdash;which means 23 points in the standings&mdash;than to have 23 losses&rdquo;.</p><p>The 23 ties presented quite an oddity in the division since the Flyers, with only 15 victories which was fewer than Oakland, were firmly entrenched in third place while the Seals were struggling to finish in fourth.</p><p>It was even more noticeable the day after the tie with Boston, which was the Flyers&rsquo; third consecutive stalemate, when the Chicago Black Hawks were the opponent before the 10th consecutive sellout crowd of 14,606 at the Spectrum.</p><p>Hot as they were the Black Hawks left the rink with their 36th victory of the season, (3-2) but were still uncertain about making the Stanley Cup playoffs in the East Division. The Flyers, despite lack of victories, had a playoff berth virtually sewed up in the West Division. It was due to all their ties and the fact that points go a lot farther in the &ldquo;new&rdquo; division.</p><p>Another oddity is that Chicago finished the season unbeaten against the Flyers with four victories and two ties in six games, yet has to stay hot in the final weeks of the regular schedule to assure a playoff position.</p><p>&ldquo;People knock the fact&bdquo; that we&rsquo;ve only got 15 victories,&rdquo; said defenseman Larry Hale, who has been playing very well for the Flyers. &ldquo;Well, they should look at the loss column. They&rsquo;ll find, we&rsquo;ve only lost a couple more games than St. Louis, the first place team in our division.&rdquo;</p><p>This is the situation, of course, because of all the ties which, incidentally, gives the Flyers a unique distinction. Never before in the league&rsquo;s long history has a team had 20 or more ties in two consecutive seasons as the Flyers have done.</p><p>Never before has a team had as high an average for playing ties as the Fivers over a two-season span. They hadn&rsquo;t picked up their third last season until the 22nd game, therefore accumulated 19 in their remaining 55 contests. This means that the Flyers have played 42 ties in 118 regularseason games following the stalemate with Boston. It averaged out to one tie in every 2.8 games.</p><p>The 3-2 loss to Chicago had the makings of the most thrilling deadlock of the season&mdash;if it had happened! The Flyers were trailing 3-0 and goalie Tony Esposito was gunning for his 12th shuthout of the season. Then Larry Hillman beat him with less than three minutes remaining and, after goalie Bernie Parent was removed from the net in lieu of an extra skater, Jimmy Johnson pushed one by him with less than a minute left. The Flyers never got another decent shot on goal in the final 51 seconds.</p><p>The tie, if it had materialized, would&rsquo;ve been even more dramatic than the 2-2 tie in Minnesota when Gump Worsley made his first start for the North Stars following his departure from the Montreal organization. Gump, too, had a shutout with eight minutes left but Bill Sutherland&rsquo;s pair of goals salvaged the standoff for the &ldquo;Tying Flyers&rdquo; as they&rsquo;re nickamed.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;We play to win,&rdquo; said Sutherland. &ldquo;But we 11 settle for a tie anytime instead of a loss.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Nolet Gets First NHL Hat Trick, Helps Flyers Equal ‘Tie’ Mark

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div><p>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>t&rsquo;s not often a sportswriter signs a National Hockey League coach to a two-year contract but, in the case of Vic Stasiuk, this apparently has been a reality.</p><p>Even Stasiuk, who received a substantial increase in salary on the new pact which extends until the end of the 1971-72 season, laughs about it.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02649/2639243-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="262" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Vic Stasiuk</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I owe you a steak dinner,&rdquo; grinned Vic, to this scribe the day after he came to terms. &ldquo;I guess, in a way, you helped. They read what you wrote and maybe it got them thinking&rdquo;.</p><p>The report, the day before Bud Poile got the job as general manager of the new Vancouver franchise, said Bud would definitely be considering Vic as his coach if the job were not filled at the termination of Stasiuk&rsquo;s existing one-year contract which was to expire at the end of the season.</p><p>It was pointed out that Bud, before he was dismissed as Flyers&rsquo; general manager in a surprise move a week before Christmas, had given Vic his big break by bringing him into the Philadelphia organization.</p><p>Last summer, when Keith Allen was promoted to assistant general manager, Vic was promoted to fill Allen&rsquo;s shoes as coach of the Flyers. Then, after only a few months in the job, Poile was let go and consequently wound up running the show in Vancouver.</p><p>When Poile was officially named to the position, it triggered the rumor that Stasiuk may decide to head to British Columbia if Bud asked him to join him out there.</p><p>Just a few days after Bud got the job, GM Allen huddled with Vic and announced the extension of the contract with the Flyers. Later, however, Stasiuk said he had no thoughts of leaving the Philadelphia organization.</p><p>&ldquo;Bud or nobody else for that matter has contacted me, but if they had, I wouldn&rsquo;t have discussed leaving the Flyers,&rdquo; said Stasiuk. &ldquo;As much as I owe Bud, I wouldn&rsquo;t have left the Flyers. I think he knows that and respects me for that attitude.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s ever been a moment in my hockey career that I haven&rsquo;t been completely loyal to the team I was working for at the moment&rdquo;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Flyers Hand Vic Stasiuk New Two-Year Contract

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01677/2639302-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>INDIVIDUAL SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun. March 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02583/2639295-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1828" height="1451"></div><h3><b>EAST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03457/2639288-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="619" height="2379"></div><h3><b>WEST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04338/2639281-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="608" height="2571"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES BY TEAMS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05251/2639274-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="577" height="337"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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TOP 25 SCORERS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06204/2639347-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg"></div><h2><b>THE TOP 10 NETMINDERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday, March 15)</b></p><h2><b>COMPLETE GOALKEEPING RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07180/2639340-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="1216" height="1990"></div><h2>EAST-WEST SCOREBOARD:</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08157/2639333-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="1197" height="205"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Looking At NHL Goalers

<p><b>(Including Games of Sun. March 8)</b></p><h2><b>TEAM STATISTICS AGAINST OWN DIVISION</b></h2><h3><b>East Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01668/2639462-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="577" height="176"></div><h3><b>West Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02623/2639455-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="583" height="178"></div><h2><b>AGAINST OTHER DIVISION</b></h2><h3><b>East Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03579/2639448-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="575" height="176"></div><h3><b>West Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04529/2639441-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="577" height="180"></div><h2><b>HOME AND AWAY RECORDS</b></h2><h3><b>East at Home</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05435/2639434-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="583" height="182"></div><h3><b>East On Road</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06370/2639427-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="579" height="177"></div><h3><b>West At Home</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07341/2639420-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="575" height="179"></div><h3><b>West On Road</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08321/2639413-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="575" height="198"></div><h2><b>POWER PLAY GOALS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09305/2639406-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="589" height="414"></div><h2><b>INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS POWER PLAY GOALS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10284/2639399-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="585" height="432"></div><h2><b>GAME-WINNING GOALS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11259/2639392-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="582" height="353"></div><h2><b>SHORTHAND GOALS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12226/2639385-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="578" height="158"></div><h2><b>GAME TIEING GOALS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13192/2639378-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="575" height="202"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL WEEK—In Statistics

<div class="byline">BY VICTOR BERNS</div><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;</p><p>The St. Louis Blues have been fairly fortunate in avoiding injuries this season as they romp in front of the pack in the Western Division of the National Hockey League.</p><p>But one injury has hurt the whole team, and that&rsquo;s the loss indefinitely of Noel Picard because of back surgery. The talent-laden Blues have been able to maintain their big lead without Picard but they really would prefer to have their big &lsquo;policeman&rsquo; on the ice with them.</p><p>&ldquo;The team has been doing well,&rdquo; Picard said, &ldquo;but I wish I could be there. Although, with my condition before the operation there was no way I could be of any help.&rdquo;</p><p>Picard had been bothered earlier this season with a painful back problem. The big defenseman was finally forced out of the lineup in mid-January.</p><p>&ldquo;It bothered me a lot when I skated,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I guess it was also affecting my shooting, because I didn&rsquo;t have the strength for it.&rdquo;</p><p>Picard said, &ldquo;It had been pretty bad all the time, and I realized I couldn&rsquo;t go any longer. I knew I needed an operation.&rdquo;</p><p>The operation came Feb. 6, when a team of three physicians headed by the Blues&rsquo; team physician, Dr. J. G. Probstein, removed pieces of shattered disc from between Picard&rsquo;s fourth and fifth vertebrae. Probstein said the disc had ruptured and needed to be removed although a spinal fusion was not necessary.</p><p>As Picard was undergoing surgery, the Blues were in a six-game losing streak, their worst slump since the first few months of post-expansion hockey.</p><p>Blues&rsquo; coach Scotty Bowman was disturbed by an apparent lack of effort by the team and said, &ldquo;Some of the players are using Noel&rsquo;s absence as an excuse.&rdquo;</p><p>But the Blues broke out of their slump magnificently by winning seven of their next 10 games. Billy Plager, youngest of the Blues&rsquo; three Plager brothers, had been recalled from Buffalo of the American League and was performing capably on the St. Louis defense corps. And, of course, Jimmy Roberts needs advance notice of only about two seconds to convert from a wing to a defenseman and back again, if necessary. Having Roberts&rsquo; versatility is like having two men.</p><p>The Blues miss Picard for reasons other than his being a sound defenseman. Bob and Barclay Plager can handle the police work and they&rsquo;ve done so admirably. Indeed, the opposition will have to knock quite a few players out of the lineup before the Blues can be intimidated on the ice.</p><p>Picard also performs a function as the mischievous agitator of the Blues&rsquo; dressing room. He cuts a wide swath among his teammates and holds their respect. He is the guy who can shout, curse, joke or inspire as those motivations are needed throughout the long season.</p><p>The 31-year-old Picard established himself in the NHL when the Blues took him in the expansion draft. The curly-haired defenseman is a popular favorite of the St. Louis fans, and the youngsters in the crowd wait for the end of the Blues&rsquo; pre-game warmup when Picard flips the last puck into the net and then retrieves it to hand it over the glass to some boy or girl before following his team mates off the ice.</p><p>Picard, a French-Canadian, was born in Montreal on Christmas Day in 1938, and his mother named him Noel, the French word for Christmas. However, that name must be ironic to opposing players, who can find little peace on earth when facing Picard. Players who have scrapped with him will tell you that they weren&rsquo;t tangling with the Christmas Angel. Harry Sinden coaches the Boston Bruins with a jaw once fractured by Picard&rsquo;s right hand. The incident happened six years ago in the Central Professional Hockey League when both men engaged in some name-calling.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-14161/2639493-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="557" height="655"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NOEL PICARD&hellip;Lost Indefinitely</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Blues Doing AH Right But They Miss Bia Noel

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-15" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-15132/2639531-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg"></div><p><b>(Standings on Mon, March 16)</b></p><h2><b>EAST DIVISION</b></h2><h2><b>WEST DIVISION</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1692/2639524-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="1106" height="300"></div><h2><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h2><p><b>Wed, March 11</b></p><p>New York 3 at Montreal 5</p><p>Detroit 3 at Toronto 1</p><p>Boston 0 at Chicago 0</p><p>Pittsburgh 2 at Oakland 2</p><p>St. Louis 9 at Minnesota 1</p><p><b>Thurs, March 12</b></p><p>Philadelphia 2 at St. Louis 4</p><p>Pittsburgh 1 at Los Angeles 4</p><p><b>Sat, March 14</b></p><p>Montreal 6 at St. Louis 2</p><p>Boston 1 at Toronto 2</p><p>New York 4 at Chicago 7</p><p>Philadelphia 5 at Los Angeles 3</p><p>Pittsburgh 3 at Minnesota 6</p><p><b>Sun, March 15</b></p><p>Montreal 3 at Toronto 3</p><p>Minnesota 4 at New York 2</p><p>Detroit 5 at Boston 5</p><p>Los Angeles 2 at Chicago 5</p><p>Philadelphia 1 at Oakland 2</p><h2><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h2><p><b>Tues, March 17</b></p><p>Los Angeles at Detroit</p><p>Minnesota at St. Louis</p><p><b>Wed, March 18</b></p><p>Montreal at Oakland Chicago at Toronto New York at Pittsburgh Detroit at Minnesota</p><p><b>Thurs, March 19</b></p><p>Montreal at Los Angeles</p><p>New York at Philadelphia</p><p>Chicago at Boston</p><p>Pittsburgh at St. Louis</p><p><b>Fri, March 20</b></p><p>Detroit at Oakland</p><p><b>Sat, March 21</b></p><p>Philadelphia at Montreal</p><p>Toronto at St. Louis</p><p>Boston at Minnesota</p><p>Detroit at Los Angeles</p><p>Chicago at Pittsburgh</p><p><b>Sun, March 22</b></p><p>Pittsburgh at Montreal</p><p>Toronto at New York</p><p>Minnesota at Boston</p><p>St. Louis at Chicago</p><p>Oakland at Philadelphia</p><p><b>Tues, March 24</b></p><p>Oakland at Minnesota</p><p>St. Louis at Los Angeles</p><p><b>Wed, March 25</b></p><p>Toronto at Montreal</p><p>Boston at New York</p><p>Philadelphia at Oakland</p><p>Minnesota at Pittsburgh</p><p><b>Thurs, March 26</b></p><p>Chicago at Detroit</p><p>Philadelphia at Los Angeles</p><p><b>Fri, March 27</b></p><p>St. Louis at Oakland</p><div class="sidebar"><p>TV GAME of the WEEK</p><p>Toronto at New York, Sun March 22 at 2 p.m.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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THE NHL SCENE

<div class="byline">BY BYRON YAKE</div><p><b><i>&ldquo;You like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</i></b></p><p><b><i>&ldquo;You like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</i></b></p><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;</p><p>Goalie Al Smith of the Penguins got his first National League shutout, but he&rsquo;d prefer to have respect.</p><p>&ldquo;I hate being a rookie,&rdquo; the 24-year-old goaltender said after the Penguins shut out the Los Angeles Kings 1-0 and took undisputed possession of second place in the West Division.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t wait until I&rsquo;m 35. Then 1&rsquo;11 be a journeyman and if 1 have a bad game, they&rsquo;ll still respect me,&rdquo; speaking of his teammates.</p><p>Smith&rsquo;s passion is winning. When he believes he&rsquo;s caused a loss, he takes it hard.</p><p>Frustration has caused him so much anguish on the ice this season that his total fines for roaring out of the nets to engage in battle now total $700.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s suffering, suffering. It&rsquo;s pain out there when things are going bad. But there&rsquo;s no way you can take out your frustration,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>&ldquo;Your just have to learn it&rsquo;s not going to be the end of the world when you have a bad game and lose. 1 think I&rsquo;m learning.&rdquo;</p><p>Against the Kings, Smith stopped 30 shots. Ken Schinkel scored the only goal of the game. But the shutout didn&rsquo;t seem to particularly thrill Smith, a blondish, dapper young man.</p><p>&ldquo;We won 1-0. The whole team played well. I was a part of the team. I wasn&rsquo;t the weak link. At times I&rsquo;ve been the weak link. The idea, you learn, is to win. It doesn&rsquo;t matter how you do it,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>The desire for respect haunts Smith. He realizes he can&rsquo;t expect his teammates and his peers in the league to give him respect overnight, after one game, that he has to prove he deserves it.</p><p>&ldquo;Disrespect, what does it mean?&rdquo; he asked in return to a question about the meaning of the word to him.</p><p>&ldquo;It means they don&rsquo;t laugh as loud at. your jokes, they don&rsquo;t recognize you quite as much. They let you alone.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just the way it is, though,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;When you&rsquo;re a rookie&mdash;everybody goes through it.</p><p>&ldquo;Look, I&rsquo;m usually good for at least one bad goal a night,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;And when you&rsquo;re going bad, it&rsquo;s frustration. All you can do is suffer the pain.&rdquo;</p><p>Actually, Smith may be putting himself down a bit too much.</p><p>He took over&mdash;along with Joe Daley who has now been returned to the Baltimore Clippers&mdash;Jan. 18 when veteran Les Binkley injured his knee. Since that time&mdash;with Daley and him sharing the net&mdash;the Pens are 10-1-1 against West Division opponents.</p><p>From Jan. 21, until the end of February the Penguins had a 7-1-2 record.</p><p>Smith has played in a total of 3.5 games this season. He has a goals against average of 3.12 and a record while he has been in the nets of 13-16-4.</p><p>For his shutout, the first of the year by any Penguin goalie in the Civic Arena, Smith was rewarded with $100 from a local businessman.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t enough to pay much toward his fines&mdash;the club usually picks them up anyway&mdash;nor to use as an incentive to urge his 2-year-old son Adam, to become a hockey player.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s already an avid fan,&rdquo; Smith said. He calls me the &ldquo;Ghoulee.&rsquo; He knows who &lsquo;Boom Boom&rsquo; Geoffrion is and he can say &lsquo;puck, puck.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;But 1 don&rsquo;t want him to be a hockey player. 1 want him to be a lawyer or a reporter.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01665/2639562-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="545" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AL SMITH&hellip;Just Wants Respect</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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‘HardLoser’ Smith Pays $700 But Pens’ Coaler “Learning”

<h2><b><i>In The East</i></b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>obby Orr, the great young defenseman of the Boston Bruins, has been setting all kinds of scoring records this season. This past week he added another&mdash;one that was seemingly considered impossible to accomplish at one time.</p><p>Orr became the first defenseman in NHL history to register more than 100 points and the fourth player to top the century mark in points. The remarkable Boston &lsquo;Glamor Boy&rsquo; now has 101 points on 27 goals and 74 assists, all three totals being records for defenseman in a season. Last year Phil Esposito collected 126 points, Bobby Hull 107 and Gordie Howe 103. Now the name of Orr can be added.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02557/2639600-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="255" height="383"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bobby Orr</b></figcaption></div><p>Orr appears to be well on his way to making further league history by being the first non-forward to take the scoring title. He enjoys a 16-point bulge atop the race and isn&rsquo;t easing up in the least.</p><p>THE HOCKEY NEWS and El Producto are pleased to salute the NH, L&rsquo;s player-of-the-week in the East:</p><p><b><i>BOBBY ORR&hellip;Boston</i></b></p><h2><b><i>In The West</i></b></h2><p>Red Berenson was the NHL&rsquo;s most productive performer among the expansion teams last season and it appears he&rsquo;s determined to do it again this year judging by his pace set last week as St. Louis Blues rolled up two wins in three starts.</p><p>Berenson collected two goals&mdash;his 30th and 31st of the season&mdash;last week and assisted on five more for a seven-point week. It raised his seasonal count to 67 points, three behind teammate Phil Goyette, who currently leads the Western Division scorers. Berenson has 10 games left to close in on his 82-point mark compiled in 1968-69.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03424/2639593-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="259" height="373"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Berenson</b></figcaption></div><p>At any rate, the &lsquo;Red Baron was flying last week and so were the runaway Blues. Berenson scored twice in the club&rsquo;s 9-1 romp over Minnesota and came back to set up all four goals, including the winner by Goyette, as the Blues beat Philadelphia 42.</p><p>THE HOCKEY NEWS and El Producto are pleased to salute the NHL&rsquo;s player-of-the-week in the West:</p><p><b><i>RED BERENSON&hellip;St. Louis</i></b><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/f0015-01640/2639750-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="846" height="575"></div><h2><b>Game-By-Game Summaries</b></h2><h3><b>Wed, March 11 NEW YORK 3 AT MONTREAL 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02575/2639743-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="586" height="626"></div><h3><b>BOSTON 0 AT CHICAGO 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03487/2639736-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="573" height="377"></div><h3><b>DETROIT 3 AT TORONTO 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04375/2639729-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="580" height="513"></div><h3><b>ST. LOUIS 9 AT MINNESOTA 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05280/2639722-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="578" height="863"></div><h3><b>PITTSBURGH 2 AT OAKLAND 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06231/2639715-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="581" height="527"></div><h3><b>Thurs, March 12 PHILADELPHIA 2 AT ST. LOUIS 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07205/2639708-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="581" height="693"></div><h3><b>PITTSBURGH 1 AT LOS ANGELES 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08183/2639701-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="580" height="582"></div><h3><b>Sat, March 14 BOSTON 1 AT TORONTO 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09168/2639694-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="577" height="451"></div><h3><b>MONTREAL 6 AT ST. LOUIS 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-10145/2639687-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="581" height="743"></div><h3><b>NEW YORK 4 AT CHICAGO 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-11126/2639680-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="580" height="848"></div><h3><b>PITTSBURGH 3 AT MINNESOTA 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-12101/2639673-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="582" height="737"></div><h3><b>PHILADELPHIA 5 AT LOS ANGELES 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1389/2639666-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="576" height="653"></div><h3><b>Sun, March 15 MONTREAL 3 AT TORONTO 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1476/2639659-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="577" height="578"></div><h3><b>DETROIT 5 AT BOSTON 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1561/2639652-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="577" height="824"></div><h3><b>PHILADELPHIA 1 AT OAKLAND 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1657/2639645-1-eng-US/f0015-162.jpg" title="f0015-16" width="574" height="476"></div><h3><b>MINNESOTA 4 AT NEW YORK 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1754/2639638-1-eng-US/f0015-172.jpg" title="f0015-17" width="574" height="521"></div><h3><b>LOS ANGELES 2 AT CHICAGO 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1845/2639631-1-eng-US/f0015-182.jpg" title="f0015-18" width="575" height="623"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

<h2>MONTREAL</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Rogatien Vachon</p><p>Phil Myre</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><p>C. Tremblay</p><p>Ted Harris</p><p>Jean Gauthier</p><p>Terry Harper</p><p>Jacques Laperriere</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Jean Beliveau</p><p>Ralph Bockstrom</p><p>Bobby Rousseau</p><p>Yvan Cournoyer</p><p>Mickey Redmond</p><p>John Ferguson</p><p>lorry Pleau</p><p>Luc Grenier</p><p>Christian Bordeleau</p><p>Henri Richard</p><p>Peter Mahovlich</p><p>Lorry Mickey</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>Claude Provost</p><p>Jnrmioc lorrmiro</p><p>Jacques Lemaire</p><p>Serge Savard</p><p>C&mdash;Captain.</p><p>A&mdash;AlternateCaptain</p><h2>ST. LOUIS</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Jacques Plante</p><p>Ernie Wakely</p><p>Glenn Hall</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><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 A</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Phil Goyette</p><p>Red Berenson A</p><p>Frank St. Marseille</p><p>Gary Sabourin</p><p>Tim Ecclestone</p><p>Bill McCreary</p><p>Lorry Keenan</p><p>Ron Anderson</p><p>Jim Roberts A</p><p>Terry Crisp</p><p>Terry Gray</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>Noel Picard</p><p>Ab McDonald</p><h2>BOSTON</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Ed Johnston</p><p>John Adams</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><p>Bobby Orr</p><p>Rick Smith</p><p>Dallas Smith</p><p>Bill Speer</p><p>Don Awrey</p><p>Gary Doak</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Derek Sanderson</p><p>Ken Hodge</p><p>John Bucyk A</p><p>Wayne Carleton</p><p>Fred Stanfield</p><p>Ed Westtali A</p><p>Phil Esposito A</p><p>JimLorentz</p><p>Wayne Cashman</p><p>Don Marcotte</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>Gerry Cheevers</p><p>John McKenzie</p><p>Garnel Berley</p><h2>OAKLAND</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Gary Smith</p><p>Charlie Hodge</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><p>Doug Roberts A</p><p>Wayne Muloin</p><p>Carol Vadnais</p><p>Harry Howell</p><p>Dick Mattiussi</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Billy Hicke A</p><p>Brian Perry</p><p>Ted Hampson C</p><p>Don O&rsquo;Donoghue</p><p>Gary Jarrett</p><p>Barry Boughner</p><p>Mike Laughton</p><p>Norm Ferguson</p><p>Bob Dillabough</p><p>Howie Menard</p><p>Gerry Ehman</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>Bert Marshall</p><p>Earl Ingarfield A</p><h2>CHICAGO</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Tony Esposito</p><p>Gerry Desjardins</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><p>Keith Magnuson</p><p>Doug Jarrett A</p><p>Bill White</p><p>Paul Shmyr</p><p>Doug Mohns</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Lou Angotti</p><p>Pit Martin</p><p>Jim Pappin</p><p>Dennis Hull</p><p>Eric Nesterenko A</p><p>Chico Maki</p><p>Cliff Koroll</p><p>Bobby Hull</p><p>Stan Mikita A</p><p>Gerry Pinder</p><p>Gene Ubriaco</p><p>Bryan Campbell</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>Pat Stapleton C</p><h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Bernie Parent</p><p>Dune Wilson</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><p>Ed Van Impe C</p><p>Ralph MacSweyn</p><p>Larry HillmanA</p><p>Wayne Hillman</p><p>Dick Cherry A</p><p>Larry Hale</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Earl Heiskala</p><p>Andre Lacroix</p><p>Simon Nolet</p><p>Jean-Guy Gendron A</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>Darryl Edestrand</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>Doug Favell</p><p>Joe Watson</p><h2>DETROIT</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Roy Edwards</p><p>Roger Crozier</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><p>Bobby Baun</p><p>Gary Bergman A</p><p>Carl Brewer</p><p>Ron Harris</p><p>Dale Rolfe</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Alex Delvecchio C</p><p>Garry Unger</p><p>Gordie Howe</p><p>Gary Croteau</p><p>Bruce MacGregor A</p><p>Nick Libett</p><p>Wayne Connelly</p><p>Pete Stemkowski</p><p>Frank Mahovlich</p><p>Billy Dea</p><p>Hank Monteith</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>Al Kariander</p><h2>PITTSBURGH</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Al Smith</p><p>Les Binkley</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><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>Dune McCallum</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Bryan Hextall</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 A</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>None</p><h2>TORONTO</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Bruce Gamble</p><p>Marv Edwards</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><p>Pat Quinn</p><p>Jim McKenny</p><p>Ricky Ley</p><p>Brian Glennie</p><p>Mike Pelyk</p><p>Jim Dorey</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Dave Keon C</p><p>Ron Ellis A</p><p>Murray Oliver</p><p>George Armstrong</p><p>Brit Selby</p><p>Brian Spencer</p><p>Floyd Smith</p><p>Paul Henderson</p><p>Bob Pulford A</p><p>Terry Clancy</p><p>Norm Ullman</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>Jim Harrison</p><p>Mike Walton</p><p>John Bower</p><h2>LOS ANGELES]</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Denis DeJordy</p><p>Wayne Rutledge</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><p>Dale Hoganson</p><p>Brent Hughes A</p><p>Bob Wall A</p><p>Larry Cahan C</p><p>Gilles Marotte</p><p>Matt Ravlich</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Eddie Shack</p><p>Dick Duff</p><p>Bill Rett</p><p>Jim Peters</p><p>Butch Goring</p><p>Skip Krake</p><p>RealLemieux</p><p>Ross Lonsberry</p><p>Leon Rochefort</p><p>Garry Monahan</p><p>Eddie Joyal</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>Howie Hughes</p><p>Juha Widinq</p><h2>NEW YORK</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Ed Giacomin</p><p>Terry Sawchuk</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><p>Lorry Brown</p><p>Arnie Brown</p><p>Rod Seiling</p><p>Allan Hamilton</p><p>Jim Neilson A</p><p>Ab DeMarco</p><p>Tim Horton A</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Rod Gilbert A</p><p>Bob Nevin C</p><p>Orland Kurtenbach</p><p>Ted Irvine</p><p>Bill Fairbairn</p><p>Vic Hadfield</p><p>Ron Stewart</p><p>Dave Balon</p><p>Walt Tkaczuk</p><p>Jean Ratelle</p><p>Don Blackburn</p><p>Don Luce</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>Brad Park</p><p>Don Marshall A</p><h2>MINNESOTA</h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS</h3><p>Cesare Maniago</p><p>Lorne Worsley</p><h3>DEFENSEMEN</h3><p>Lou Nanne</p><p>Barry Gibbs</p><p>Leo Boivin A</p><p>Marshall Johnston</p><p>Tom Reid</p><h3>FORWARDS</h3><p>Charlie Burns</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>BillCollins</p><p>Danny Grant</p><h3>INJURED</h3><p>None<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

National League Rosters

<p>GREEN BAY&mdash;</p><p>When goaler Mike Curran of the Green Bay Bobcats was forced to undergo emergency surgery for a perforated ulcer several weeks ago, he probably didn&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;d be missed as much as he has by the Cats.</p><p>It seems the Bobcats were rolling along when Curran was healthy but the moment he left the lineup, the club&rsquo;s fortunes dipped. The team had to ward off a stiff challenge from the Sault Canadians to hold on to second place and ultimately ended up tied in points with the Sault. Curran was also missed by the American Nationals as well. He was to share the netminding with the touring Yanks along with former NHL goaler Carl Wetzel. The operation took care of Curran&rsquo;s trip to the World hockey championships in Bucharest. Romania, and put an end to his hockey playing for this season at least.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01486/2639805-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="273" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Mike Curran</b></figcaption></div><p>But the 34-year-old native of International Falls, Minn., was not forgotten. When the United States Hockey League All-Star team selections were announced there was Curran, named to the first team. It was a glowing tribute to a courageous young man. who was the Bobcats&rsquo; MVP last year and a star with the U.S. Nationals in the 1969 World tournament at Stockholm.</p><p>Curran and teammate Bob Lindberg, who accompanied the successful American Nationals to Romania, were the only two Green Bay players named to the first USHL team. The champion Marquette Iron Rangers made up the major bulk of the selections on both teams.</p><p>Marquette placed defenseman Bob Cook and Henry Ackervall, also a rearguard on the first team along with center Gerry Sullivan and winger Ozzie O&rsquo;Neill. Acker-vall tied with the Sault&rsquo;s John Longarini for the second defense spot. On the second team. Marquette goaler Brian Lunney made it along with Wayne McQuaig, who tied with Larry Stordahl of Rochester for the second wing position. Other players chosen were Carl Lackey of Green Bay and George Konik, the former National Leaguer with Oakland and Pittsburgh, on the defense, Bob Empire of Green Bay at center and the Sault&rsquo;s Bennie Greco on the other wing.</p><p>O&rsquo;Neill, who lost out in the individual USHL scoring race to teammate Sullivan, 49-43 in points, gained some consolation by being picked as the most valuable player in the league.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Surgery Shelves Curran But Coaler An All-Star

<h2><b>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Final Standings)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02414/2639843-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="574" height="169"></div><h2><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03327/2639836-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="585" height="655"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOW THEY STAND

<h2>FIRST TEAM</h2><p>Goal</p><p>MIKE CURRAN, Green Bay</p><p>Defense</p><p>BARRY COOK, Marquette</p><p>JOHN LONGARINI, Sault and HENRY ACKERVALL, Marquette (tied)</p><p>Center</p><p>GERRY SULLIVAN, Marquette</p><p>R. Wing</p><p>OZZIE O&rsquo;NEILL, Marquette</p><p>L. Wing</p><p>BOB LINDBERG, Green Bay</p><h2>SECOND TEAM</h2><p>Goal</p><p>BRIAN LUNNEY, Marquette</p><p>Defense</p><p>CARL LACKEY, Green Bay</p><p>GEORGE KONIK, Rochester</p><p>Center</p><p>BOB EMPIE, Green Bay</p><p>R. Wing</p><p>BENNIE GRECO, Sault</p><p>L. Wing</p><p>WAYNE McQUAIG Marquette and LARRY STORDAHL, Rochester (tied)</p><h2>LEAGUE MVP</h2><p>OZZIE O&rsquo;NEILL, Marquette<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

USHL Names All-Star teams

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04260/2639898-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>ith the help of Mayor JIM NORICK of Oklahoma City, Blazers&rsquo; coach MURRAY DAVISON, and team star TOM WEBSTER, were on hand to help launch the North American Hockey School to be held this summer at the Oklahoma City Fairgrounds Arena. Boston coach Harry Sinden and two of the Bruins&rsquo; top performers, goaler Gerry Cheevers and defenseman Dallas Smith, will assist Davison and Webster at the July 12 to July 31 school.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey School Given Send Off

<h2>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</h2><p>HOCKEY STICKS</p><p><b>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S and Canada</b></p><h2>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</h2><p>HOCKEY STICKS</p><p><b>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S and Canada</b></p><h2>HOW THEY STAND AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. March 17)</b></p><h3><b>Eastern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02352/2639936-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="569" height="165"></div><h3><b>Western Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03289/2639929-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="574" height="278"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Mon, March 9</b></p><p>Quebec 0 at Providence 6</p><p><b>Wed, March 11</b></p><p>Quebec 2 at Hershey 3</p><p><b>Fri, March 13</b></p><p>Montreal 2 at Providence 3</p><p>Baltimore 4 at Springfield 6</p><p><b>Sat, March 14</b></p><p>Montreal 3 at Hershey 5</p><p>Providence 2 at Springfield 4</p><p><b>Sun, March 15</b></p><p>Springfield 2 at Buffalo 9</p><p>Montreal 3 at Cleveland 6</p><p>Hershey I at Providence 1</p><p>Baltimore 3 at Rochester 1</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Tues, March 17</b></p><p>Rochester at Baltimore</p><p><b>Wed, March 18</b></p><p>Springfield at Cleveland</p><p>Baltimore at Hershey</p><p><b>Thurs, March 19</b></p><p>Montreal at Quebec</p><p><b>Fri, March 20</b></p><p>Hershey at Baltimore</p><p>Providence at Montreal</p><p><b>Sat, March 21</b></p><p>Baltimore at Cleveland</p><p>Rochester at Hershey</p><p>Buffalo at Springfield</p><p><b>Sun, March 22</b></p><p>Buffalo at Montreal</p><p>Baltimore at Providence</p><p>Springfield at Quebec</p><p>Cleveland at Rochester</p><p><b>Tues, March 24</b></p><p>Spring field at Quebec</p><p><b>Wed, March 25</b></p><p>Providence at Baltimore</p><p>Cleveland at Hershey<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01401/2639974-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="553" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRUCE LANDON&hellip;Top Goaling Hope</b></figcaption></div><p>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>o hockey club has made better use of drafted players than the Springfield Kings. The Kings snagged six out of the draft last pring and they have all helped the local club to an AHL playoff berth.</p><p>Former Springfield Indians&rsquo; player Noel Price was grabbed in the reverse draft by Springfield off the roster of the Pittsburgh Penguins. He has been tops here. Los Angeles, which could have used him on defense, could not play him since they had to negotiate a player with the Pittsburgh club.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04227/2639967-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="267" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Sneddon</b></figcaption></div><p>Off the Philadelphia Flyers roster came Bob Sneddon, a wandering nomad in the goaltending game. He has played well in the nets for the Kings and showed he only needed a chance to get regular work in goal to reach stardom.</p><p>Last season, Bob played everywhere but not too much. The tall backstop appeared in games with Quebec and Baltimore in the American League and with Vancouver in the Western League. Johnny Wilson &ldquo;liked&rdquo; him and Price and took both in the draft. As it turned out he was right.</p><p>Greg Boddy, one of four selections from the amateurs, has played here all season. He is a 20-year-old, 5-11, 200 pounder taken off the Edmonton Junior Roster. Greg, back in action after severing the top of a finger, has been gaining experience and confidence in his game.</p><p>Butch Goring did not last too long here. He was not as heralded as some of the other top amateurs, but he was so good he was recalled and became a regular with Los Angeles, scoring 10 goals. He played for the Canadian National team and is a product of the Western Canada Junior Hockey League.</p><p>Bruce Landon needs little introduction. The 20-year-old played with Peterboro Juniors last season. His record this year was great. In 38 games, he allowed 127 goals and scored three shutouts and had a 3.22 goals against average. He won his first game were as a pro, a shutout at that, and today he ranks as a definite prospect for the big time.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-01

Draft Choices Helped Kings Nail Down AHL Playoff Spot

<div class="byline">BY GEORGE DUFFY</div><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>t long has been said in hockey circles that men who earn their living in the fast world of ice hockey thrive on home cooking. In other words, they seem to do better on home ice.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05183/2640036-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="270" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creighton</b></figcaption></div><p>For the Providence Reds, home ice has kept them in the running for a berth in the playoff carnival of the American Hockey League slated to get going early in April.</p><p>Trailing the third place Quebec Aces in the East by five points with 17 games remaining to be played, Coach Dave Creighton&rsquo;s Reds have been setting a torrid pace here on the ancient old rink at 1111 North Main St.</p><p>On December 7, the Providence team played the Montreal Voyageurs in a game televised in most of New England. It turned out to be a disaster before the home fans as the Reds were buried, 7-1.</p><p>That Voyageur setback seemed to bring home to the Reds that they needed to do better before the home folks. &ldquo;Come on boys,&rdquo; the bleacherites kept saying, &ldquo;your wives don&rsquo;t cook that bad.&rdquo;</p><p>And so the Reds began to play like champions at home. Following the Montreal loss, the Reds went on a tear with an 8-1-4 record in 13 games, good for an important 20 points of a possible 26. It kept the Providence squad hot on the heels of Turk Broda&rsquo;s Aces.</p><p>But while Creighton, a veteran of 22 years in pro hockey, rejoiced over the fine play at home, he had cause to be worried over the fortunes of his team away from Providence. It was almost a complete reversal of the form displayed at home.</p><p>Back on January 6, the Reds went into Quebec Coliseum and downed the Aces, 4-2. It was a big moment for the Reds but for the next 11 games, things took a definite turn for the worse. Over that span of games, the Reds showed an 0-9-2 slate with a gain of only four points out of a possible 22.</p><p>Everyone in Rhode Island gets the jitters when the Reds fail to win on the road. A few years ago, the Providence sextet went 64 games on the road without recording a single triumph. It is a record which stands in the AHL and probably will for some time.</p><p>Creighton, one who always sees some brightness even at the darkest hour, feels the Reds will shake their road woes and make the playoffs. &ldquo;We have three more home games than the Aces,&rdquo; Dave points and &ldquo;and we are doing a great job at home. I&rsquo;m sure we can get out of our losing ways on the road. It means money to every man and with eight away tilts left, you can count on a few victories.&rdquo;</p><p>In the pre-Creighton days in Providence, the Reds were annually on the sidelines for the playoffs. Dave has led his team into the semi-finals two years running. &ldquo;I want,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;to make it again.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-05

Reds Capitalizing On Home Ice To Stay In Running For Playoffs

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO&mdash;</p><p>In any reckoning of hockey&rsquo;s great jugglers, the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; Fred Shero has to be near the head of the list.</p><p>Circumstances have forced the Buffalo coach to reshuffle his people continuously despite a long lead in the Western Division from the outset, and Shero shows no signs of letting up.</p><p>With less than a month remaining in the regular schedule, and with the division title almost a certainty, the inventive Shero is juggling all three forward lines.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-06154/2640005-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="261" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fred Shero</b></figcaption></div><p>Dennis Kassian will shift to the left-wing post on a unit with Guy Trottier and center Ron Attwell, and Wayne Maki will replace Kassian on a line with Bob Jones and Wayne Rivers.</p><p>Capt. Gerry Ouellette will play his &ldquo;wrong&rdquo; wing with leftwinger Gary Veneruzzo and center Billy Knibbs, and Forbes Kennedy will continue as the extra forward.</p><p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t shift lines for something to do,&rdquo; Shero said.</p><p>Primarily, it&rsquo;s a matter of trying to get the right people working together. Of course, injuries and recalls force changes.</p><p>&ldquo;Some guys can play the right side although they are left-hand shots. Others cannot make the switch. Rocket Richard was a left-hand shot, and played the right side throughout a great career.</p><p>&ldquo;Forward lines should have various ingredients. A guy who can dig in the corners&hellip;a good shooter&hellip;a strong checker. Few players can do it all.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess I have made a lot of switches here, but all with good reason. Sometimes the changes work, sometimes they don&rsquo;t. So you keep working.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bisons are in something of a slump these days, and Shero is trying to shake them out of it. The Herd has won only four, lost five and tied four of its last 13 games, hardly cause for worry, yet hardly the type of pace a division winner should be setting.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-06

Recalls, Injuries Make Juggler Of Fred Shero

<p><b>(Including Games of Sun. March 1)</b></p><h2><b>MONTREAL</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01407/2640123-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="582" height="382"></div><h2><b>BUFFALO</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02320/2640116-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="579" height="386"></div><h2><b>BALTIMORE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03228/2640109-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="579" height="427"></div><h2><b>HERSHEY</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04178/2640102-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="582" height="404"></div><h2><b>CLEVELAND</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05129/2640095-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="582" height="480"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06107/2640088-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="584" height="480"></div><h2><b>PROVIDENCE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0793/2640081-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="586" height="459"></div><h2><b>ROCHESTER</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0880/2640074-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="584" height="355"></div><h2><b>SPRINGFIELD</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0970/2640067-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="587" height="387"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-01

AHL SCORING

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>here&rsquo;s little chance of Andre Gill gaining All-Star goaltending honors this season: However, the little guy rates quite a hand for his efforts, especially if the Hershey Bears come on in the stretch to clinch second in the American League&rsquo;s Western Division.</p><p>The 27-year-old Sorel, Que. native has practically had to go it alone all season for the injury-riddled Bears.</p><p>And with the chips on the line in the final stages, Gill has performed admir-ably. From Feb. 18 until Mar. 7, he won four, tied two and lost a pair as coach Frank Mathers&rsquo; outfit made its late charge at the Baltimore Clippers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1062/2640161-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="243" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Leiter</b></figcaption></div><p>In the short span, Gill allowed 22 goals for a 2.75 average on 272 shots. It enabled the Bears to close to within a point of Baltimore (55-54) as of Mar. 7.</p><p>&ldquo;Gill&rsquo;s had a lot of pressure on him,&rdquo; said Mathers, &ldquo;but he&rsquo;s done an outstanding job. He&rsquo;s come up with some big stops in the key games and he&rsquo;s kept us hanging right in there for the shot at second place.&rdquo;</p><p>With the exception of Bob Whidden, Rochester, and Marcel Paille, Providence, Gill has played more games than any of the other league&rsquo;s netminders.</p><p>Gill played in 44 of 59 games, posting a record of 19 wins, 17 defeats and eight ties. He allowed 146 goals on 1524 shots for a 3.3 average.</p><p>With luck, Gill may soon get some relief when John Henderson returns to duty. He&rsquo;s been side lined since Dec. 7 with a knee ailment which finally required surgery. He played only five games and five minutes in another before the ailment put him out of action.</p><p>Winger Bud Debrody is among a number of forwards who have come on strong of late. Debrody notched seven goals in his last ten starts; Stan Gilbertson five in eight games, and Bill Lesuk three in a half-dozen.</p><p>And the hottest forward as of early March was veteran center Bob Leiter. He scored 22 points in the last 18 games, including seven goals for his finest stretch of the 1969-70 campaign.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1157/2640154-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="1159" height="1344"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hershey&rsquo;s FRANK MATHERS holds microphone as he addresses fans after recently receiving THE HOCKEY NEWS award as minor league coach of the year. Making presentation is publisher KEN McKENZIE. Mathers led Hershey to AHL title and Calder Cup last season.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-10

Gill’s Hot Goaling Big Plus For Bears

<div class="byline">BY BOB BROWN</div><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Cleveland Barons are fighting for their playoff lives, but even if they don&rsquo;t make Calder Cup play, the Barons will have a lot to say about who does.</p><p>The two spots behind Western Division leader Buffalo are up for grabs. Balti-more and Hershey are in the best positions but Rochester is close behind and the Barons are driving. In addition the Cleveland skaters play seven of their last eleven games against the other playoff contenders. The Barons take on Hershey once, Baltimore twice, and play four games with Rochester. Only three of the seven faceoffs are road games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1252/2640192-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="234" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Poul Popiel</b></figcaption></div><p>The Barons, too, have received added defensive strength in Poul Popiel, who rejoined the club on the road. Popiel was with the Barons earlier for fifteen games, then was recalled by Detroit. His reappearance on the Cleveland scene lends depth to the Barons&rsquo; defensive foursome of Jim Watson, Jim Niekamp, Bill Needham, and Bob Falkenberg.</p><p>Hap Myers, a backliner when the season began, has found a home up front on a line with Rey Comeau and Norm Beaudin, the Barons&rsquo; most productive line in recent weeks. However, before Popiel&rsquo;s return, Myers occasionnaly had to be moved back to defense to help out during penalty situations.</p><p>After a frustrating four months, everything has seemed to come together at once for Jack Gordon&rsquo;s club. The Barons, at the time of this writing, had been beaten only three times in their last thirteen games. Suddenly people being counted on to score goals began to find the range. Norm Beaudin, who tallied 32 times at Buffalo last season, came off a bout with the flu a few pounds lighter, and according to him, a faster skater as a result. Beaudin in one stretch scored in six consecutive games. John Cunniff also moved past the twenty goal mark as the Cleveland attack began to jell.</p><p>The only question is whether the Barons&rsquo; drive began too late. However it turns out, they seem determined to finish the season with a flourish.</p><p>The Barons are not particularly proud of their showing this season but they want to be remembered as the club that wouldn&rsquo;t quit. If they don&rsquo;t make the playoffs, they will have a lot to say about who does.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-12

Barons Not Giving Up On Playoffs

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01384/2640223-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="536" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK STANFIELD</b></figcaption></div><p>ROCHESTER&mdash;</p><p>Nobody can call Jack Stanfield a &ldquo;homer&rdquo;.</p><p>That term is reserved for a player in any sport who does all his heroics in front of the home fans, but seldom is noticed on the road.</p><p>Not that Stanfield doesn&rsquo;t try to play well in front of Rochester fans, but amazingly enough, 14 of his first 18 goals this American Hockey League season were scored in out-of-town games.</p><p>The folks in Buffalo had seen the Amerks&rsquo; 27-year-old left wing score more goals&mdash;five&mdash;in his five visits to their rink than Rochester spectators here had over the first 32 homes games.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if it&rsquo;s the same with other players or not, but I find some rinks are better for me than others,&rdquo; Stanfield explains. &ldquo;Sometimes it&rsquo;s the shape of the rink and in others it&rsquo;s the feel of the ice surface.&rdquo;</p><p>There&rsquo;s one other thing that sets Stanfield apart from the rest of the Amerks&hellip;and from just about everybody else in the AHL.</p><p>It seems that he&rsquo;s almost as dangerous when he&rsquo;s on the ice killing off a penalty to a teammate as he is just skating a regular shift.</p><p>The schedule hadn&rsquo;t even reached the first of February when Stanfield already had scored three short-handed goals and assisted on four others. That meant he was on the ice while Rochester tallied seven goals against opponents&rsquo; powerplays!</p><p>His first goal while killing a penalty came here Oct. 26 and was Rochester&rsquo;s third goal in a 7-4 win over Baltimore. His second was scored in Buffalo Nov. 15 and was the Amerks&rsquo; lone goal in a 3-1 defeat. And his other came Dec. 7 in Quebec and was the winner in an 8-1 romp.</p><p>Both his success on the road and his talent at killing penalties just might earn Jack Stanfield a chance in the National Hockey League next season. He&rsquo;d like that, because his younger brother, Freddy, is with the Boston Bruins. And there are more Stanfield brothers on the way.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-01

Amerks’ Star Hot On Road

<h2><b>Fri, March 6 QUEBEC 4 AT SPRINGFIELD 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02332/2640338-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="585" height="523"></div><h2><b>ROCHESTER 6 AT BUFFALO 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03269/2640331-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="586" height="799"></div><h2><b>Sat, March 7 MONTREAL 3 AT SPRINGFIELD 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04231/2640324-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="589" height="673"></div><h2><b>CLEVELAND 2 AT HERSHEY 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05192/2640317-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="588" height="451"></div><h2><b>Sun, March 8 CLEVELAND 2 AT ROCHESTER 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06149/2640310-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="581" height="422"></div><h2><b>HERSHEY 3 AT BUFFALO 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-07129/2640303-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="587" height="521"></div><h2><b>BALTIMORE 3 at MONTREAL 8</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-08115/2640296-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="586" height="771"></div><h2><b>Mon, March 9 QUEBEC 0 AT PROVIDENCE 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0998/2640289-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="585" height="526"></div><h2><b>Wed, March 11 QUEBEC 2 AT HERSHEY 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1084/2640282-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="582" height="453"></div><h2><b>Fri, March 13 BALTIMORE 4 AT SPRINGFIELD 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1175/2640275-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="590" height="669"></div><h2><b>MONTREAL 2 AT PROVIDENCE 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1269/2640268-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="591" height="448"></div><h2><b>Sat, March 14 MONTREAL 3 AT HERSHEY 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1360/2640261-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="591" height="623"></div><h2><b>Sun, March 15 MONTREAL 3 AT CLEVELAND 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1456/2640254-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="589" height="702"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0019-02

American Hockey League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY NORM MACKIE</div><p>NEW YORK&mdash;</p><p>Hats off to the 1969-70 Junior All-America team. The select group of boys were honored by the National Hockey League at the annual Lester Patrick Award Dinner on March 9 at Toots Shor&rsquo;s famous New York restaurant.</p><p>The NHL selected seven boys from all over the country. They are Ed Monfort of Lima, Ohio in goal; Chris Murfey of Oak Park, Mich., defense: Mark Shepherd of Framingham, Mass., defense; plus four forwards Danny Condon, New York, N.Y., Peter McNab, San Diego, Calif., Bruce Meehan, Minneapolis, Minn and Rob Palmer, Grosse Pointe, Mich. McNab&rsquo;s father, Max, is the general managercoach of the San Diego Gulls of the Western Hockey League. The selection committee was headed by Norman MacLean of New York, Harry Stewart of Natick, Mass., J. Lawrence Caine of Detroit, Colin Lister, Fort Wayne, Ron Woodey of the Arrowhead District in Minnesota and Tom Mumford of Los Angeles&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01231/2640369-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="268" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Murray Williamson</b></figcaption></div><p>Congratulations to Murray Williamson and his United States Nationals on their triumph in the &ldquo;B&rdquo; Division of the World Hockey Tourney. This will insure the United States return to &ldquo;A&rdquo; competition next season&hellip;Hawley Chester of the NHL office in New York is a particularly avid college hockeybuff. He was amazed at the recent turnout of 4,627 who saw the first local Metropolitan Collegiate Hockey League game at Madison Square Garden.</p><p>The New York Green Leafs, champions of the Metropolitan Junior Hockey League in New York have challenged the Olympia Agencies of the Michigan Junior Hockey League to a one game series. Both teams ran away with the competition in their respective circuits. Olympia boasts of Rob Palmer of the Junior All-America team and the Green Leafs have Danny Condon. The Detroit sextet actually won two league titles, winning the diadem in the combined MJHL and Border Cities Junior Hockey League. In interlocking play between the two loops, the CJHL edged the MJHL 29-27-4. That&rsquo;s almost parity&hellip;Palmer&rsquo;s stats are incredible. He holds a 32-point lead over runne-rup Doug Ross of Tri-County Jays as we went to press. Rob hit for 56 goals and 53 assists for 109 points&hellip;</p><p>The seventh annual Capitol Invitation Hockey Tournament was a whopping success&hellip;John M. Crerar did his usual wonderful job in promoting this extravaganza. Five hundred and fourteen boys on 32 teams competed in the fifth annual Washington, D.C. event. The Honorable A. Edgar Ritchie, the Canadian Ambassador, is the honorary chairman along with His Excellency Hugo B. Margain, the Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Ching Johnson of Ranger fame and a resident of Silver Springs, Md. was also in attendance as were many D.C. area dignitaries&hellip;In all, the tourney has eight divisions in which champions were crowned. Port Huron, Rhode Island. New Jersey and New York finished in that order in Squirt AA with Ottawa, Philadelphia and Fraser, Mich, leading Rhode Island in Pee Wee AA. Bantam AA went to Hyannis, Mass., with nearby Rhode Island being the runner-up and Fraser, Mich, third with Hershey, Pa. fourth&hellip;Juvenile AA&rsquo;s titleholder is Buffalo with Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Knoxville, Tenn. following. Squirt A competition was won by Baltimore, with, get this, Huntsville, Ala second, Knoxville, Tenn, third and Washington, D.C. fourth. The South is rising again. Pee Wee A went to Baltimore followed by Livingston, N.J., Washington D.C. and Knoxville, Tenn. Bantam A also went to Baltimore with Washington D.C. second, Chevy Chase, Md. third and Knoxville, Tenn. fourth. Mite A was won by Washington, D.C. with Fells Church, Va. second&hellip;</p><p>Junior hockey is booming in the Boston area with the Suburban Boston League boasting five teams. They are the Alouettes, Nashoba, Moon Club, Acton and Burlington&hellip;With Buffalo coming into the NHL next season, I am sure that General Manager Punch Imlach will be glad to hear that the Tonawanda Recreation Department sponsors nine pee wee, seven bantam, five midget, five juvenile and eight senior teams&hellip;Hats off to Eli Lilly & Co. located at Indianapolis, Indiana. This forward looking company is sponsoring two intermediate teams knows as the Mud Puppies and Wampus Cats&hellip;Ron Fournier is the man almost solely responsible for the tremendous amateur hockey program in Kansas City, Missouri&hellip;Jim Harris, manager of the E.C. Levy Company Mite Travel team in Trenton, Michigan boasts that his team has a 24 win, one loss and one tie record. The loss and tie were to squirt teams. Harris feels he can beat Bart Grillo&rsquo;s seven and eight year olds from the Greater New York Ice Hockey League in New York. Let&rsquo;s arrange a game and find out. What about it, gentlemen? This office will act as the go between. Just drop a line to the editor at Madison Square Garden&hellip;</p><p>Did you know that the AHAUS has nineteen girls teams registered this season? Burlington. Massachusets, under the direction of Mrs. Mary Lou Young has eight clubs on the list. The Natick Comets Hockey Club of Natick, Mass, has five registered teams and Port Huron, Mich, has three clubs. Saint Clair Shores, Detroit, and Lima, Ohio also boast distaff sextets. Shades of Abbie Hoffmann of Toronto, who actually reached bantam level in boys competition before her disguise was revealed. Abbie is now a famous woman track star&hellip;</p><p>At Eagle Butte, South Dakota an ice skating rink is being built for the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Mrs. Rita Minahan of the Legal Service Center in Eagal Butte, South Dakota, 57625 would like to hear from anyone who can donate ice skates or supply rental skates at a minimal cost&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0020-01

Junior All-Americans Saluted By NHL Teams

<div class="byline">By Hugh Hood</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02161/2640400-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="304" height="429"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>is style of play has produced many imitators, but there is only one Jean Beliveau. The veteran centre and captain of the Montreal Canadiens is one of professional hockey&rsquo;s most illustrious stars.</p><p>STRENGTH DOWN CENTRE follows Jean&rsquo;s career from his first games of shinny as a boy in Victoriaville to his present status as the leader of the championship Montreal team.</p><p>The hockey fan is given insight, in Beliveau&rsquo;s words, to what it is like to play with and against many of the NHL stars of recent years. He discusses varying styles of play, game tensions and preparations and many other aspects of the game.</p><p>In one chapter, the author describes his experience on the ice in a practice session with Beliveau and his analysis of the Beliveau style of play will be of great interest and value to aspiring young hockey players.</p><p>Author Hugh Hood has combined his experience and talent as a published novelist and an amateur hockey player to produce a refreshingly different and exciting book on hockey and one of its greatest stars.</p><p>The book features over fifty action-packed photos of the game.</p><p><b>Available in French and English editions.</b></p><p><b>Attractive Hard Cover</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0020-02

STRENGTH DOWN CENTRE: JEAN BELIVEAU STORY

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03130/2640431-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="820" height="1094"></div><h2><b>SOLUTION IN APRIL 3 ISSUE</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Pictured player.</p><p>6&mdash;Scoreless tie (num.)</p><p>7&mdash;Given name of Ranger veteran.</p><p>8&mdash;Nickname of L.A. football team.</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of one of the Leafs.</p><p>11&mdash;Toronto suffered one March 11.</p><p>12&mdash;One of the North Stars.</p><p>14&mdash;Initials of Ward of Seattle.</p><p>15&mdash;Finished 4th last season, (abbr.)</p><p>16&mdash;Initials of one of the Kings.</p><p>17&mdash;Winter sport.</p><p>19&mdash;No. (fr.)</p><p>21&mdash;Recently traded by Toronto. (first name.)</p><p>22&mdash;One of the Rangers.</p><p>23&mdash;Initials of Rizzuto of Dallas.</p><p>24&mdash;One of the Blues answers to this.</p><p>25&mdash;Sound the bell.</p><p>27&mdash;This Bruin scored 8 goals last season.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of one of the Hawks.</p><p>31&mdash;An ex-Black Hawk.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;A Bruin left winger.</p><p>2&mdash;Wears No. 10 for Toronto.</p><p>3&mdash;Phil Esposito won this trophy last year.</p><p>4&mdash;11th and 14th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>5&mdash;First name of an injured Seal.</p><p>6&mdash;One of the San Diego Gulls.</p><p>9&mdash;1st and 15th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>13&mdash;One of the Flyers.</p><p>18&mdash;9th and 13th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>20&mdash;Leading pointgetter for Iowa.</p><p>23&mdash;A St. Louis forward.</p><p>24&mdash;Nickname of ex-great Bailey.</p><p>26&mdash;Card game.</p><p>28&mdash;Initials of former Leaf Day.</p><p>29&mdash;Wore number 9 for Montreal. (Init.)</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;KRAKE.</p><p>7&mdash;NOLET.</p><p>9&mdash;ROD.</p><p>11&mdash;ERIC.</p><p>13&mdash;TREMBLAY.</p><p>14&mdash;ERR.</p><p>16&mdash;BRO</p><p>18&mdash;OAK.</p><p>19&mdash;ANN.</p><p>22&mdash;R.N.</p><p>23&mdash;HENDERSON.</p><p>28&mdash;RODGER.</p><p>29&mdash;LA NYON.</p><p>30&mdash;HY.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;KURTENBACH</p><p>2&mdash;ANDERSON.</p><p>3&mdash;K.O.</p><p>4&mdash;E.L.</p><p>5&mdash;STRATTON.</p><p>6&mdash;VIC.</p><p>8&mdash;EEL</p><p>10&mdash;ORR.</p><p>12&mdash;I.Y.</p><p>15&mdash;MCKENNEY.</p><p>17&mdash;R.N.</p><p>20&mdash;EDDY</p><p>21&mdash;WREN.</p><p>22&mdash;R.O.</p><p>24&mdash;ERA.</p><p>25&mdash;NON.</p><p>26&mdash;EGO.</p><p>27&mdash;SR.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0020-03

Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">BY ALEX HARDY</div><p>EDMONTON&mdash;</p><p>National Hockey League teams will take an especially close look at Western Canada League talent in June&rsquo;s amateur draft.</p><p>Major reason is that the three players to jump from junior to the NHL this season&mdash;Boh Clarke, Dale Hoganson and Butch Goring&mdash;all played last year in the WCHL.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0198/2640469-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="264" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dale Hoganson</b></figcaption></div><p>WCHL stars most likely to be grabbed this summer for the $3,000 draft figure are Reg.</p><p>Leach and Ray Martynuik of Flin Flon Bombers, Greg Polis of Estevan Bruins, Chuck Lefley of Brandon Wheat Kings, Chris Oddleifson and Jim Hargreaves of Winnipeg Jets, and Ted Mc-Aneeley and Larry Bignell of Edmonton Oil Kings.</p><p>Leach, 5-11, 190-pound right winger, leads the circuit in scoring and has the best wrist shot outside the NHL.</p><p>Martynuik, 5-foot-9 and 160 pounds, occasionally showboats but has pro-type intensity and is the league&rsquo;s least-scored-upon and most consistent goalie.</p><p>Polis could be the best NHL prospect in the league, according to new Vancouver GM Bud Poile, who first spotted the husky left winger a few years ago. Rival defensemen say the 5-10, 180 pounder is the strongest forward in the league. A prolific scorer and top shooter both backhand and forehand, Polis is second in individual scoring.</p><p>Lefley is the league&rsquo;s newest sensation, joining Brandon from the Canadian Nationals after the Nats folded for the year. Big (6-1, 180), he has the range and ability of a future super-star. A left winger, his strongest points are skating and checking.</p><p>Oddleifson is Winnipeg&rsquo;s top scorer. In his second year in the league, he excels at skating, checking and shooting, sometimes takes bad penalties. Six-one and 170 pounds, he has the size and aggressiveness to make it to the big league as a centre or winger.</p><p>Hargreaves, 5-11 and 195, is unrivalled in the WCHL for sheer strength among defensemen, has been compared to another former Winnipeg star, Ted Green. Hargreaves boasts the advantage of a righthanded shot, rare among defensemen.</p><p>McAneeley and Bignell, along with Ron Jones (who won&rsquo;t be eligible until the 1971 draft), give Edmonton the best defensive corps in the league. McAneeley, a 5-10, 185-pound left defenseman, has been one of the West&rsquo;s most rugged blueliners for three years. His major assets are aggressiveness (he will fight anytime) and intense desire to play.</p><p>Bignell, who can play either side, is the most underrated rearguard in the WCHL. He handles the puck well and isn&rsquo;t afraid to shoot and hit. Inexperience is his biggest drawback, also needs to gain weight. A rookie with Edmonton, he would have quit hockey if he hadn&rsquo;t made the Oil King roster.</p><p><b>SLAP SHOTS&mdash;</b> HOCKEY NEWS publisher Ken McKenzie visited Edmonton during an airplane tour of major Pacific Northwest centres, including Vancouver and Seattle. Appearing on CBC-TV and radio station CJCA, he expressed confidence that Edmonton, with its 400,000-plus population, could support a solid WHL franchise. The city last had a Western League entry, the Flyers, seven years ago, but local officials are hopeful of a revival.</p><p>Edmonton Oil Kings staged a mammoth &ldquo;100,000th Fan&rdquo; promotion covering the final three regular season home games. Winning fans took home a new car, color TV, men&rsquo;s suits, bicycles and other prizes&hellip;The return of Jim Schraefel to Oil Kings&rsquo; roster makes them favorites to win the Western Division playoffs. Schraefel quit in January, allegedly to catch up on university studies. Not a top scorer, he is nonetheless the club&rsquo;s best checker.</p><p>Victoria Cougars of the B.C. Junior League will likely join the WCHL within two years. Vancouver is also a good bet, Kelowna, Penticton and Kamloops possibles.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0269/2640462-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="553" height="557"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUTCH GORING&hellip;Clicked With L.A.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0021-01

NHL Watching WCHL’S Top Scorers For Draft

<h2><b>ALLAN CUP ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><h3><b>Semi-Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0341/2640633-1-eng-US/f0021-032.jpg" title="f0021-03" width="581" height="259"></div><h2><b>NEW BRUNSWICK SENIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Semi-Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0433/2640626-1-eng-US/f0021-042.jpg" title="f0021-04" width="575" height="126"></div><h3>Quarter-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0528/2640619-1-eng-US/f0021-052.jpg" title="f0021-05" width="577" height="156"></div><h2><b>WESTERN INTERNATIONAL</b></h2><h3><b>Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0623/2640612-1-eng-US/f0021-062.jpg" title="f0021-06" width="582" height="125"></div><h3>Semi-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0719/2640605-1-eng-US/f0021-072.jpg" title="f0021-07" width="579" height="245"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0815/2640598-1-eng-US/f0021-082.jpg" title="f0021-08" width="578" height="127"></div><h2><b>WESTERN CANADA</b></h2><h3><b>Quarter-Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0912/2640591-1-eng-US/f0021-092.jpg" title="f0021-09" width="579" height="152"></div><h2><b>NEWFOUNDLAND SENIOR</b></h2><h3>Semi-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-1012/2640584-1-eng-US/f0021-102.jpg" title="f0021-10" width="581" height="168"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA SENIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-118/2640577-1-eng-US/f0021-112.jpg" title="f0021-11" width="578" height="168"></div><h2><b>MEMORIAL CUP ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><h3><b>Ouarter-Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-126/2640570-1-eng-US/f0021-122.jpg" title="f0021-12" width="584" height="615"></div><h2><b>CENTRAL JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-136/2640563-1-eng-US/f0021-132.jpg" title="f0021-13" width="581" height="176"></div><h3><b>Semi-Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-145/2640556-1-eng-US/f0021-142.jpg" title="f0021-14" width="582" height="313"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><h3><b>Semi-Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-155/2640549-1-eng-US/f0021-152.jpg" title="f0021-15" width="584" height="306"></div><h2><b>WESTERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Semi-Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-164/2640542-1-eng-US/f0021-162.jpg" title="f0021-16" width="579" height="274"></div><h2><b>NEW BRUNSWICK JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-173/2640535-1-eng-US/f0021-172.jpg" title="f0021-17" width="586" height="166"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-183/2640528-1-eng-US/f0021-182.jpg" title="f0021-18" width="578" height="138"></div><h2><b>ALBERTA JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-193/2640521-1-eng-US/f0021-192.jpg" title="f0021-19" width="578" height="173"></div><h2><b>B.C. JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-203/2640514-1-eng-US/f0021-202.jpg" title="f0021-20" width="578" height="140"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Semi-Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-213/2640507-1-eng-US/f0021-212.jpg" title="f0021-21" width="578" height="174"></div><h2><b>THUNDER BAY JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-223/2640500-1-eng-US/f0021-222.jpg" title="f0021-22" width="579" height="169"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0021-03

PLAYOFF RACES

<h2>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</h2><p>HOCKEY STICKS</p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH 4 BRADSBY, LTD.</p><p>Arnold Street, Wallacaburg, Ontario Sold in US and Canada</p><h2>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</h2><p>HOCKEY STICKS</p><p>Mada in Canada Mr HILLERICH A BRADSBY, LTD.</p><p>Arnold Street, Wallacaburg, Ontario Sold in US and Canada</p><h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h3><b>WESTERN LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Tues. March 17)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01115/2640678-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="575" height="322"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Wed. March 11</b></p><p>Salt Lake 7 at San Diego 3</p><p>Phoenix 3 at Portland 3</p><p>Seattle 3 at Vancouver 3</p><p><b>Fri. March 13</b></p><p>Salt Lake 3 at San Diego 3</p><p>Phoenix 3 at Vancouver 15</p><p><b>Sat. March 14</b></p><p>Seattle 6 at Salt Lake 1</p><p>Denver 3 at Portland 5</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Tues. March 17</b></p><p>Portland at Salt Lake</p><p>Denver at Vancouver</p><p><b>Wed. March 18</b></p><p>Portland at Denver</p><p>Seattle at Phoenix</p><p><b>Fri. March 20</b></p><p>Phoenix at Denver</p><p>Seattle at San Diego</p><p>Salt Lake at Vancouver</p><p><b>Sat. March 21</b></p><p>Portland at Phoenix</p><p>Seattle at San Diego</p><p><b>Sun. March 22</b></p><p>Seattle at Denver</p><p>Salt Lake at Portland</p><p><b>Tues. March 24</b></p><p>Seattle at Denver</p><p>San Diego at Salt Lake</p><p><b>Wed. March 25</b></p><p>Salt Lake at Phoenix</p><p>Vancouver at Portland</p><p><b>Thurs. March 26</b></p><p>Denver at San Diego</p><p>Vancouver at Seattle</p><p><b>Fri. March 27</b></p><p>Denver at Salt Lake</p><p>Portland at Vancouver</p><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. March 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0259/2640671-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="583" height="706"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0348/2640664-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="585" height="250"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0022-01

WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div><p>PHOENIX&mdash;</p><p>When Sandy Hucul was named player-coach of the Phoenix Roadrunners, he commented: &ldquo;I hope no one is expecting any miracles.&rdquo;</p><p>Just over three weeks later, the Phoenix Roadrunners had made up 13 points, climbed from sixth and wrested fourth place in the Western Hockey League standings from the Seattle Totems and the Seattle press was calling him &ldquo;The Miracle Worker.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0435/2640716-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="257" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sandy Snow</b></figcaption></div><p>Under Hucul, the Roadrunners have fashioned an 8-3-2 record with all but two games on the road. They have only lost once in the last 10 starts, since Ron Ward&rsquo;s arrival gave them a third line.</p><p>Ward&rsquo;s rightwinger, Jim Paterson&mdash;converted from center&mdash;is on a 10-game point streak, three goals and 12 assists, almost doubling his season-total (10-21-31)</p><p>Sandy Snow, switched from right to left wing with Ward and Paterson, broke from a two month scoring slump and pushed his seasort&rsquo;s total to a new per-sonal high of 15 goals and two assists in three games earned him a share of WHL player-of-the-week honors with Portland Buck-aroos&rsquo; Norm Johnson.</p><p>Ken Broderick returned from the Minnesota North Stars and scored a shutout, 4-0, in his debut, the first of a pair of weekend victories over the Totems in Seattle. Broderick, owned by Minnesota, played 34 games for Phoenix last season.</p><p>The hopeless schedule of 19 of the final 28 games on the road which faced the Runners just over a month ago, has turned in their favor with six of the last 11 on home ice.</p><p>The emergence of a third line has eased the pressure on Larry Lund&rsquo;s &ldquo;Go-Go&rdquo; Line of rookie Frank Hughes and Andy Hinse. The result is that Larry made the first Roadrunner appearance in the WHL&rsquo;s top 10. His 30 goals and 36 assists, for 10th spot, is his second best production in pro hockey and labels Lund the league&rsquo;s comeback player of the year.</p><p>The return to regular action of Hucul, undecided whether to play the bench-coach or playercoach role, and Bob (Jason) McCord, missing a month with a severe charley-horse, not only bolstered the defense, but made the whole club more aggressive.</p><p>&ldquo;Wouldn&rsquo;t you be,&rdquo; quipped defenseman Jim Murray, &ldquo;If you had big Jason standing behind you,&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0527/2640709-1-eng-US/f0022-052.jpg" title="f0022-05" width="553" height="1072"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM PATERSON&hellip;On Hot Streak</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0022-04

Runners On Rampage In WHL As Hucul Pulls Phoenix Up

<p>SEATTLE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Western Hockey League&rsquo;s playoff pool has jumped to a record $108,000 for the four teams that will participate in the Lester Patrick Cup action this season.</p><p>The individual award could be as much as $2,500 per player, an increase of $400 over the 1968-69 prize pool, according to Gene Kinasewich, president of the WHL.</p><p>The four teams that participate in the Patrick Cup playoffs will split $80,000. The winning teams in Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; and &ldquo;B&rdquo; (semifinals) will each share $15,000 and the teams each $10,000.</p><p>In Series &ldquo;C&rdquo; (finals), the winning team will share $20,000 and the losing team $10,000.</p><p>On the basis of 20 shares per team, the winning members of the semifinal teams will each receive $750 and members of the losing teams $500 each.</p><p>Individual members of the team winning the Lester Patrick Cup will add another $1,000 each and the runners-up will each receive $500.</p><p>The four teams that reach the playoffs will also share an additional $28,000 in prize money for their positional finish during the regular season. The first place team will receive $750 per player based on a 20-share split. Members of the second place team will earn $350, third place is worth $200 per player, and the fourth place team claims $100 per man.</p><p>Members of a first place team winning the Patrick Cup would receive a total of $2,500 each. If a second place team wins, each player will receive $2,100; players on a third place team would earn $1,950 and a fourth place team $1,850.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

WHL Sets Up Top $162,000 Playoff Pool

<p>VANCOUVER&mdash;</p><p>The political beliefs of John Arbour, defenseman for the Vancouver Canucks, are strictly his own business.</p><p>But judging by his approach to professional hockey, it would seem doubtful that Arbour ever will run for office as a peace candidate.</p><p>In his first 62 games of the season, Arbour was whistled for 219 minutes in penalties.</p><p>He needed only nine minutes in his final 10 games of the campaign to set a new all-time Western Hockey League record for penalty minutes in a single season.</p><p>The current record was set in 1964-65 by Howie Young, who at that time was playing with the Los Angeles Blades.</p><p>Nine minutes in 10 games?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0197/2640771-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="545" height="866"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN ARBOUR&hellip;Canuck Hard Rock</b></figcaption></div><p>Why, for big John that wasn&rsquo;t even a challenge. Shake hands with the new champ.</p><p>Or better yet&mdash;keep your head up.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0023-01

Arbour Near Record As New ‘Bad Man’

<h2><b>Wed, March. 4 SALT LAKE 3 AT PORTLAND 8</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0262/2640837-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="587" height="779"></div><h2><b>Fri, March. 6 PHOENIX 7 AT DENVER 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0346/2640830-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="589" height="620"></div><h2><b>PORTLAND 2 AT SAN DIEGO 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0437/2640823-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="585" height="526"></div><h2><b>Sat, March 7 VANCOUVER 9 AT SALT LAKE 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0525/2640816-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg" title="f0023-05" width="594" height="940"></div><h2><b>PORTLAND 4 AT SAN DIEGO 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0620/2640809-1-eng-US/f0023-062.jpg" title="f0023-06" width="591" height="528"></div><h2><b>PHOENIX 4 AT SEATTLE 0</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0717/2640802-1-eng-US/f0023-072.jpg" title="f0023-07" width="585" height="427"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0023-02

Western League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY JOHN WHITE</div><p>SALT LAKE CITY&mdash;</p><p>In late January there appeared hope&mdash;just a faint one&mdash;that the Salt Lake City Golden Eagles might battle their way into the playoffs in the Western Hockey League.</p><p>The Eagles blanked Seattle 3-0, dropped a tight 3-1 decision to Denver and then stunned the Portland Buck-aroos twice in a row, 5-4 and 65.</p><p>Then San Diego came to town, bombed Salt Lake City 10-3 and for the Golden Eagles it was the beginning of the end. The Eagles, in a stretch of 19 straight games from January 28 into mid-March, won only two while losing 13 and tieing four.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0814/2640875-1-eng-US/f0023-082.jpg" title="f0023-08" width="262" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Heaney</b></figcaption></div><p>And so Salt Lake City&rsquo;s first professional club is destined to wind up in the cellar.</p><p>For the most part, the Golden Eagles simply were outmanned this season.</p><p>The major problem obviously was defense.</p><p>In one stretch, the Golden Eagles scored five goals in each of four consecutive games. They won only once (5-2) while losing 7-5, 8-7 and 7-5 again</p><p>In another stretch, Salt Lake City scored 22 goals in five consecutive games. They won once, 5-4, and lost by counts of 9-5 twice, 5-4 and 8-3.</p><p>Salt Lake City, even in defeat, was not a drag for the paying customers. In their first 60 games, a staggering 500 goals were scored&mdash;an average of better than eight a contest.</p><p>The problem, for Salt Lake, was that the Eagles scored only 200 of them while giving up 300. If that pace continued to the end, the Golden Eagles would give up 360 goals&mdash;more than any club in Western League history. (The Los Angeles Blades gave up 329 in &rsquo;66 to set the record before this season.)</p><p>Injuries hurt Salt Lake City badly. Only two Eagles&mdash;Bob Toothill and Bob Heaney&mdash;played in all of the club&rsquo;s first 57 games of the year. The loss for more than half the year of such a potential key performer as center Billy McNeill was a low blow.</p><p>There were some fine individual efforts, such as that of little forward Rollie Wilcox, who with 12 games to play already had scored a career record of 25 goals.</p><p>But overall, Salt Lake City simply was outmanned. You can bet on some changes for next season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0911/2640868-1-eng-US/f0023-092.jpg" title="f0023-09" width="557" height="956"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROLLIE WILCOX&hellip;Hits Career High</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0023-08

Salt Lake Simply ‘Outmanned’; Weak Defense, Injuries Too Much

<div class="byline">BY BOB LINDLEY</div><p>ST-LOUIS&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>entral League president Emory Jones has announced a record playoff purse of $62,000 which goes up for grabs March 24 when four clubs open action seeking the coveted Adams Cup Trophy.</p><p>The four clubs are the Omaha Kinghts, Fort Worth Wings, Tulsa Oilers and Iowa Stars.</p><p>The issue was finally settled on March 8 when the Wings beat Tulsa 5-1 to mathematically eliminate Oklahoma City, the only club among the second divisioners that still had an outside chance. only club among the second divisioners that still had an outside chance.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01109/2640951-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="257" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tom Miller</b></figcaption></div><p>The playoff lineup assures the CHL of a new titleholder since defending champion, Dallas, failed to earn a berth in the post season round.</p><p>Both Tulsa and Omaha will be seeking their second CHL crowns. The Knights reigned in the league&rsquo;s inaugural season of 1963-64 and Tulsa took it in the 1967-68 campaign.</p><p>This will be Fort Worth&rsquo;s second playoff venture, the first one ending in the finals of the 196768 season when Tulsa swept four straight.</p><p>Iowa, a new entry, gives the Waterloo fans a playoff series in their league debut.</p><p>The $62,000 jackpot includes $32,000 in finish money, and the way the race has gone most of the season, the final order may not be determined until the buzzer blows in the final game of the regular campaign.</p><p>Through 65 games, only four points separated the top four clubs and only two stood between first and third.</p><p>The first place finisher will pocket $12,000, second $8,000, third $6,000, and fourth $4,000.</p><p>On a per-man basis it breaks down to $600, $400, $300 and $200.</p><p>The two winners in he first round of the best-of-seven playoffs again pocket $12,000, the losers go home with $8,000 for their pains.</p><p>The final-round winner not only claims the Adams Cup for the team showcase, there&rsquo;s also a check for $14,000 to sweeten the pot. The runner-up consoles itself with another $8,000 payday.</p><p>In all, the most a team could win is $38,000 ($1,900 per player) and the worst a club could do is $12,000.</p><p>And what did the most exciting race in the league&rsquo;s history do to the turnstiles? Not much.</p><p>Omaha fans responded in record-setting style as the Knights flirted with or claimed possesssion of first place throughout the campaign.</p><p>Per game attendance at Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum sky-rocketed from 3,149 last season to 4,030 this season.</p><p>But the hectic chase got little or no response at Fort Worth, where the Wings&rsquo; per-game average dropped over last year&rsquo;s when the team finished in the division cellar.</p><p>For loyalty, the fans at Oklahoma City and Kansas City proved the stoutest at heart, backing their clubs solidly despite dismal seasons.</p><p>Kansas City turned out at the rate of 3,800 fans per game to see a club that stayed in or around the cellar all year, and Blazer followers showed up at a 3,758 clip even though the club was a mere skeleton of former Oklahoma City powerhouses.</p><p><b>IOWA</b>: Defenseman Daryl Sly joined Iowa Stars for the remainder of season, boosting club&rsquo;s chances of taking Central League crown. Rookie defenseman Dennis O&rsquo;Brien established a league record for penalty minutes in a single season when he drew a two-minute minor in March 3 game at Fort Worth. That hiked total to 295, eclipsing old mark established by Bryan Watson at Houston in 1967-68 when Watson sat out 293 minutes. Potent Stars also had a hand in second highest scoring game in league history when they whipped Kansas City 11-6 on March 8. The old record of 16 was broken earlier this year when Oklahoma City (10) and Kansas City (8) tallied 18. With talented snippers Mike Chernoff, Bill Orban, Danny Seguin, Grant Erickson. Bob Whitlock and Walt McKechnie in the lineup, Stars look like team to beat in upcoming playoffs.</p><p><b>OMAHA</b>: Knights equalled CHL single game scoring record with even dozen goals against Oklahoma City on March 7. Tulsa had held record with 12-3 win over Dallas during 1967-68 season. Barrage included three goals by Tom Miller, hiking his total to 17. Knights scored seven goals in final period. Five goals came on power plays and five were unassisted, including four straight in the final period. Don Luce got two of the goals, hiking his total to 22, then the big forward left for New York to fill in for injured Ranger Donnie Marshall.</p><p><b><i>FORT WORTH:</i></b> Doug Volmar continued to add to his club goalscoring record, notching No. 30 on March 8 in game against Tulsa. Old Fort Worth record was 25 set by Gary Marsh in 1967-68 season. Fred Speck also surpassed old record with 25th and 26th goals in same Tulsa contest. Speck was total point leader-with 69. Other 20-goal sniper was Ron Walters with 22.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0261/2640944-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="547" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG VOLMAR&hellip;Sets Club Record</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0024-01

CHL Establishes Record $62,000 Playoff Pool

<h2><b>Sun, March 1 OKLAHOMA CITY 3 AT IOWA 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0522/2641052-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="593" height="690"></div><h2><b>OMAHA 2 AT KANSAS CITY 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0618/2641045-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="580" height="594"></div><h2><b>FORT WORTH 0 AT DALLAS 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0716/2641038-1-eng-US/f0024-072.jpg" title="f0024-07" width="572" height="373"></div><h2><b>Wed, March 4 FORT WORTH 4 AT OKLAHOMA CITY 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0813/2641031-1-eng-US/f0024-082.jpg" title="f0024-08" width="581" height="479"></div><h2><b>Fri, March 6 OKLAHOMA CITY 2 AT OMAHA 12</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0911/2641024-1-eng-US/f0024-092.jpg" title="f0024-09" width="584" height="860"></div><h2><b>IOWA 3 AT TULSA 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1011/2641017-1-eng-US/f0024-102.jpg" title="f0024-10" width="584" height="670"></div><h2><b>OMAHA 2 AT KANSAS CITY 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1111/2641010-1-eng-US/f0024-112.jpg" title="f0024-11" width="575" height="472"></div><h2><b>FORT WORTH 2 AT DALLAS 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-128/2641003-1-eng-US/f0024-122.jpg" title="f0024-12" width="579" height="398"></div><h2><b>Sun March 8 TULSA 1 AT FORT WORTH 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-135/2640996-1-eng-US/f0024-132.jpg" title="f0024-13" width="578" height="572"></div><h2><b>OMAHA 3 AT OKLAHOMA CITY 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-143/2640989-1-eng-US/f0024-142.jpg" title="f0024-14" width="585" height="662"></div><h2><b>KANSAS CITY 6 AT IOWA 11</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-152/2640982-1-eng-US/f0024-152.jpg" title="f0024-15" width="581" height="1112"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0024-05

Central League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;</p><p>The thorniest paths to the Eastern Hockey League playoffs were traveled by the Jacksonville Rockets and the Syracuse Blazers.</p><p>Both clubs hope that the pressure won&rsquo;t be so tough in the playoffs as it was during the regular season when they went down the homestretch before winding up in the postseason round with Clinton, New Haven and Johnstown in the North and Greensboro, Salem and Charlotte in the south.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0193/2641090-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="263" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jamie Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><p>Bob Sabourin was a nervous wreck at Jacksonville until his club nipped rival Nashville 3-2 in a humdinger on the Rockets&rsquo; ice. Even that wasn&rsquo;t enough as it turned out even though Sabourin had four home games the final week of the season. It took a triumph over Charlotte two days before the season expired to clinch a berth by one point over Nashville. One extra tie gave the nod to the Rockets by a 64-63 point status.</p><p>Syracuse for the last three weeks of the campaign had two rivals in Long Island and Jersey. Ray Crew managed to play fairly decent hockey by winning at home and eventually Jersey fell by the wayside. The Blazers killed Long Island&rsquo;s chances by gaining a win and a tie on the Ducks&rsquo; ice in the late stages of the season.</p><p>Eventually the Blazers landed fourth spot by five points to gain a playoff berth for the first time in their history. What is more, the club was doing its best at the gate in its history and new general manager Bill Charles was delighted with the fan support. He has definitely gone on record as saying the club will be back in Syracuse next year at the War Memorial.</p><p>As the playoffs got underway, however, both Clinton and Greensboro were heavy choices to wipe out their divisional rivals and battle for the overall title.</p><p><b>SYRACUSE</b>: For third time in history lack of ice caused a game to be called off here. Linesman Steve Susco said he intends to lay charges against Long Island coach Blake Ball for deking him during a melee here. A tan also was arrested for attacking Ball. Chuck Charlong rejoined club after injury sidelined him in late season. Club led league in penalties. Bill McLeod helped improve defense. Largest crowd in history, over 4,000, saw key game with Long Island.</p><p><b>JACKSONVILLE</b>: Goalie Michel Plasse bothered by dislocated knuckle as playoffs started. Dale MacLeish&rsquo;s ankle also was acting up&hellip;Club&rsquo;s 64 points were Rockets record. Ken Turlik had late season brawl with Nashville&rsquo;s Don Labelle. Club awards weot to Billy Glashan (most valuable), Denis Romanesky (most popular), Ted Baylis (most valuable defenseman), and Wayne Horne (too scorer).</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0253/2641083-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="551" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DENIS ROMANESKY&hellip;Most Popular Rocket</b></figcaption></div><p><b>CHARLOTTE</b>: John Rodger posted late season hat trick vs Salem to set stage for playoff series with Rebels. Checkers confident due to 8-5-2 edge they enjoyed in season play with Salem. Barry Burnett picked as club&rsquo;s MVP. Bob Shupe bothered by groin injury at playoff time. John Voss&rsquo; first shutout came vs Salem. Voss played for Tulsa and Jack Wells for Rochester in late season loans.</p><p><b>NASHVILLE</b>: Flyers kicking themselves for missing playoffs by one point for first failure since club came here. Ex-goalie Norm Martel gave club coup de grace by beating them 7-1 in Salem nets. Loss of 12 home games blamed by coach Lloyd Hinchberger for playoff failure. Flyers drew 98,887 for season. Wally Sprange picked for MVP laurels. Loss at Jacksonville in final week killed last hope.</p><p><b>JOHNSTOWN</b>: Jets landed third in north to earn playoff series with New Haven. Jets had bad playoff schedule due to building problems and had to play nine games in 11 days including four playoff games in four nights with Blades. Jim Coombs posted third shutout at Jersey in last week. Winger Dick Loe and ref Howie Newstate have a &ldquo;thing&rdquo; going. Reg Kent led club scoring again.</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN</b>: Blades finished second in north but far back of a Clinton team the Blades earlier thought they would beat. John Brophy rested hand injury in late season games. Mike Hornby and Murray Kuntz each had 4 goals in game with Jersey, their fifth and fourth hat trick, respectively. Don Perry unhappy over four straight nights of playoff action.</p><p><b>GREENSBORO</b>: Gens won southern division laurels with 97 points, a 13-point margin over Salem. Gens met Jacksonville in first round of playoffs. Bob Sicinski and Moe L&rsquo;Abbe played several games with Dallas at tailend of regular season. Stu Roberts tabbed hat trick in 3&frac12; minutes for club mark. Defenseman Barry Salovaara had a holein-one on club golf outing. Roger Wilson set club mark for penalties.</p><p><b>JERSEY</b>: Devils blew playoff aspirations by losing 12 straight games before winning finale on Jamie Kennedy&rsquo;s fifth hat trick. Club missed playoff berth by 13 points. Kennedy topped club with 49 goals and Bob Brown was leading scorer with 106 points. Log of 13 games in 16 days ruined club&rsquo;s record.</p><p><b>CLINTON</b>: Comets led both divisions in wins (50) points (108), goals scored (394) and least goals allowed (222). Team earned odd home game for all series and met Syracuse in first round. Jake Rathwell picked for club MVP laurels. He had third hat trick vs Jersey. Lack of ice at Syracuse forced Comets to conclude season day after regular campaign ended. Bill Bannerman voted fans&rsquo; favorite player.</p><p><b>LONG ISLAND</b>: Ducks slumped in stretch to fail to make playoffs and to post their worst season since 1962. Two wins on road all season contributed to club&rsquo;s ills. Wayne Doll&rsquo;s shutout over New Haven marked first such Duck effort over Blades in five years. Wayne Maxner led team in goals.</p><p><b>SALEM</b>: Rebels beat out Charlotte for second place in south and met Checkers in first round of playoffs. Captain Jim Jago picked for MVP laurels and Dave Schultz as most popular. Goalie Norm Martel lauded coach Colin Kilburn. Battle between Schultz and Greensboro&rsquo;s Stu Roberts should be corker if teams reach southern finals. Many Rebs bothered by flu and Wayne Mosdell by wrist injury as playoffs began.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0025-01

Jacksonville, Syracuse Grab Playoff Spots In Hectic Run

<h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE (Final Standings)</b></h2><h3><b>Northern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0333/2641128-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="575" height="241"></div><h3><b>Southern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0423/2641121-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="574" height="260"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Mon, March 9</b></p><p>Clinton 5 at Syracuse 5<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0025-03

<h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><h3>Northern Division Semi-finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0522/2641180-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="578" height="141"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Wed, March 11</b></p><p>Syracuse vs Clinton</p><p>(At Utica, postponed)</p><p><b>Thurs, March 12</b></p><p>Syracuse 3 at Clinton 8</p><p><b>Sat, March 14</b></p><p>Syracuse 1 at Clinton 2</p><p><b>Sun, March 15</b></p><p>Clinton 2 at Syracuse 1</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Tues, March 17</b></p><p>Clinton at Syracuse</p><p><b>Wed, March 18</b></p><p>Syracuse at Clinton (if necessary)</p><p><b>Thurs, March 19</b></p><p>Clinton at Syracuse (if necessary)</p><p><b>Sat, March 21</b></p><p>Syracuse at Clinton (if necessary)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0613/2641173-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="576" height="141"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues, March 10</b></p><p>Johnstown 4 at New Hoven 5</p><p><b>Wed, March 11</b></p><p>Johnstown 4 at New Haven 7</p><p><b>Thurs, March 12</b></p><p>New Haven 5 at Johnstown 3</p><p><b>Fri, March 13</b></p><p>New Haven 4 at Johnstown 2</p><h3><b>Southern Division Semi-Finals</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0713/2641166-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="577" height="136"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues, March 10</b></p><p>Jacksonville 0 at Greensboro 8</p><p><b>Wed, March 11</b></p><p>Greensboro 6 at Jacksonville 4</p><p><b>Thurs, March 12</b></p><p>Jacksonville 2 at Greensboro 13</p><p><b>Sat, March 14</b></p><p>Jacksonville 2 at Greensboro 8</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0810/2641159-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="581" height="135"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Wed, March 11</b></p><p>Charlotte 2 at Salem 1</p><p><b>Fri, March 13</b></p><p>Charlotte 4 at Salem 5</p><p><b>Sun, March 15</b></p><p>Charlotte 6 at Salem 5</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Tues, March 17</b></p><p>Salem at Charlotte</p><p><b>Wed, March 18</b></p><p>Salem at Charlotte</p><p><b>Sun, March 22</b></p><p>Salem at Charlotte (if necessary)</p><p><b>Mon, March 23</b></p><p>Salem at Charlotte (if necessary)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0025-05

EHL Playoffs

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><p>TOLEDO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>ith playoff positions virtually decided, remaining games in the International Hockey League were to determine many individual honors. And there was not one certainty among a half dozen awards.</p><p>It appeared that the scoring race might go down to the final games of the season. Don Westbrooke. last year&rsquo;s champion loomed as a fairly easy repeater earlier in the season, having held the lead from the start. But all of a sudden Muskegon&rsquo;s Gary Ford broke out in front and passed Westbrooke by three points.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01101/2641211-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="253" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Westbrooke</b></figcaption></div><p>It was the third consecutive year these two had been engaged in a contest for scoring honors. Ford won in 1967-68 with 115 points, with Westbrooke five points behind. Last season Westbrooke was the leader with 118 points while Ford slipped to third behind Bert Fizzell of Columbus.</p><p>Ford&rsquo;s high position was based on his assists, which had reached 69, far ahead of Westy&rsquo;s 47. However, the latter had 45 goals, compared to Ford&rsquo;s 26.</p><p>In addition to Westbrooke and Ford, three others had outside chances: Andre Pronovost and Bernie Blanchette of Muskegon and Fizzell.</p><p>The leading point scorer was to be awarded the Leo Lamoureux Memorial Trophy. Even more highly regarded was the James Gatschene Trophy, for, &ldquo;outstanding ability and sportsmanship&rdquo;. At least a half dozen loomed as possibilities for this honor. It could be Westbrooke or Ford, or Glenn Ramsay, the great Toledo goalie, Ray Brunel, the veteran who proved the sparkplug of the Komets, Muskegon&rsquo;s Pronovost, Fizzell of the Checkers, Cliff Pennington, another veteran who sparked the Des Moines Oak Leafs, or it could be one of the rookies.</p><p><b>MUSKEGON</b>&mdash;The Mohawks had their 24-game unbeaten home game record ended by Flint, 5-1, two short of the league record&hellip;The Hawks virtually clinched the Northen Division title with a 13-2-1 record in 16 games&hellip;Largest crowd of the season, 4,765 saw the Hawks against the Oak Leafs&hellip;Bernie Blanchette notched his fifth hat trick of the season. Blanchette just returned after playing several games with the Montreal Voyageurs in the American League.</p><p><b>DAYTON</b>&mdash;Defenseman Alain Beaule was back in Gems&rsquo; lineup following his suspension over weight troubles&hellip;Sid Garant moved up to second place in all-time Gem scoring, behind Guy Trottier, now with Buffalo in the American League. The Gems were to have a Hall of Fame night, honoring Trottier, Bob Bailey and Warren Back.</p><p><b>FORT WAYNE</b>&mdash;The Komets, who are usually up for a televised game, played badly against Des Moines to lose. 3-1. The Oak Leafs took a season lead of 6-3-2 over the K&rsquo;s&hellip;Merv Dubchak and Ron Ullyot returned to the lineup&hellip;Three straight losses cost the Komets a good shot at second place in the North. Season attendance hit an average of 5,409.</p><p><b>COLUMBUS</b>&mdash;Although the team was for sale, Checker management was apparently planning for next season, with a &ldquo;Fan Appreciation Night&rdquo;, with a ticket stub good for admission to a game early next season&hellip;Bert Fizzell was gunning for his 500th point in IHL play&hellip;Ken Knapton&rsquo;s 49 points already exceeded his last season output of 44&hellip;The Checkers would not have home ice if they reached the first playoffs.</p><p><b>TOLEDO</b>&mdash;The Blades lost a chance to gain on Dayton when they were trounced in Des Moines, 8-1. Gerry Fleury was used in goal to replace Ramsay&hellip;Ramsay kicked off 46 shots in beating the Leafs the night before, 4-1. Ken Sutyla spoiled his shutout with 49 seconds remaining to play&hellip;Ray Germain, fined for missing an exhibition in Green Bay, fired four goals in the next three games. Jerry Dionne jumped the club for a job in Canada and was suspended by General Manager Jerry Nuerge&hellip;A Blades&rsquo; slump gave them only five wins in 17 games.</p><p><b>FLINT</b>&mdash;The Generals, who stopped Muskegon&rsquo;s home streak at 24 games, had the best record in the league against the Mohawks, 4-5-2&hellip;The Gens had their fourth sellout crowd of the season&hellip;Coach Ken Hodge ordered a 11 p.m. curfew, 10 p.m. on pre-game nights&hellip;Wally Kozak drew his first penalty since Dec. 14.</p><p>Defenseman Gary Gilbert was in a close race with Dayton&rsquo;s Dave Simpson for most penalty minutes&hellip;Coach Ken Hodge was left without an ablebodied center after injuries to Wayne Ego, Ron Ringler and Trevor Conn&hellip;Jim Booth had a hat trick in 5-5 tie with Des Moines.</p><p><b>PORT HURON</b>&mdash; The Detroit Red Wings called up goalie Ron Marlow to help at Fort Worth and coach Ted Garvin suited up Jim Ralph, Port Huron Junior goalie&hellip;The Flags had five stright wins before being stopped at Columbus to gain a 10 point edge for second place in the North&hellip;Bob McCammon broke a slump with his first goal in 30 games&hellip;</p><p>Ken Gratton, secured from Columbus, notched his 24th goal&hellip;Dave Gorman was stopped after getting a point in nine stright games.</p><p><b>DES MOINES</b>&mdash;Center Cliff Pennington was named player of the month for February&hellip;Ivan Prediger was almost certain to become the IHL all-time penalty leader with only four more minutes needed.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0026-01

Ford, Westbrooke In Dogfight; Flint Stops Muskegon At 24

<h2><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun. March 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0254/2641242-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="579" height="624"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IHL POINT RACE

<h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. March 17)</b></p><h3>NORTH DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0338/2641280-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="579" height="169"></div><h3><b>SOUTH DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0424/2641273-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="580" height="224"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Mon, March 9</b></p><p>Dayton 2 at Columbus 4</p><p><b>Tues, March 10</b></p><p>Muskegon 5 at Des Moines 3</p><p><b>Wed March 11</b></p><p>Columbus 5 at Fort Wayne 3</p><p>Muskegon 1 at Des Moines 9</p><p><b>Fri, March 13</b></p><p>Flint 2 at Muskegon 7</p><p>Port Huron 4 at Columbus 9</p><p><b>Sat, March 14</b></p><p>Fort Wayne 5 at Muskegon 6</p><p>Des Moines 3 at Port Huron 5</p><p>Columbus 2 at Flint 7</p><p><b>Sun, March 15</b></p><p>Dayton 4 at Fort Wayne 1</p><p>Toledo 5 at Columbus 3</p><p>Muskegon 5 atPort Huron 3</p><p>Des Moines 3 at Flint 1</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Tues, March 17</b></p><p>Fort Wayne atDayton</p><p>Columbus at Des Moines</p><p><b>Wed, March 18</b></p><p>Port Huron at Fort Wayne</p><p>Columbus at Des Moines</p><p>Dayton at Flint</p><p>Muskegon at Toledo</p><p><b>Thurs, March 19</b></p><p>Flint at Dayton</p><p><b>Fri, March 20</b></p><p>Columbus at Muskegon</p><p>Toledo at Port Huron</p><p><b>Sat, March 21</b></p><p>Des Moines at Fort Wayne</p><p>Port Huron ot Muskegon</p><p>Flint at Toledo</p><p>Dayton at Columbus</p><p><b>Sun, March 22</b></p><p>Toledo at Dayton</p><p>Muskegon at Columbus</p><p>Des Moines at Port Huron</p><p>Fort Wayne at Flint<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>ST. CATHARINES&mdash;</p><p>Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; centre Gilbert Perreault finished second to St. Catharines Black Hawk centre Marcel Dionne in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A scoring race but still skated off with two major awards for the 196970 season.</p><p>Perreault completed the 54-game schedule with 51 goals and 70 assists for 122 points while Dionne, with one season of junior eligibility remaining, topped the list with 132 points on 55 goals and 77 assists.</p><p>However sports writers in the 10 league cities selected Perreault, who will graduate to pro hockey at the end of the current season, as most valuable player and winner of the Red Tilson Memorial Trophy.</p><p>Dionne was a close second in the balloting.</p><p>Perreault also edged Dionne for the centre position with the league&rsquo;s All-Star team, on a ballot conducted among the league coaches.</p><p>This is Perreault&rsquo;s final junior year and his brilliant OHA career has placed him squarely in line as the No. 1 amateur choice for the National Hockey League draft this summer. The new Vancouver Canucks of the NHL have first pick and have already assured one and all they intend to pick young Perreault as their first draft selection.</p><p>Others on the first OHA AllStar team are goaltender George Hulme of St. Catharines; defensemen Ron Plumb of Peterborough and Bob Stewart of Oshawa; left winger Rick MaeLeish of Peterborough; right winger Al McDonough of St. Catharines.</p><p>The second team includes goaltender John Garrett of Peterborough; defensemen Steve Cuddie of Toronto and Serge Lajeunesse and Jocelyn Guevremont of Montreal (tied); centre, Dionne of St. Catharines; left winger Bob Guindon of Montreal; right winger Buster Harvey of Hamilton.</p><p>The final standings, after 270 games, showed Montreal in first place for the second successive year followed by Peterborough, St. Catharines, Toronto Marlboros, Ottawa, London and Kitchener.</p><p>However for the first time in history an extra game was required to decide the last team to enter the playoffs.</p><p>According to OHA rules goal average decides the higher team in the case of a tie in total points, in all cases except when a final playoff spot is at stake.</p><p>The last day of the schedule Oshawa and Hamilton were tied with 44 points and both clubs lost&mdash;the Generals 4-2 to Toronto Marlboros; the Red Wings 3-2 to Hamilton Red Wings.</p><p>This necessitated a suddendeath playoff in Maple Leaf Gardens with Oshawa beating Hamilton for the right to meet the Marlboros in the quarter-finals.</p><p>Other pairings in the first round are Montreal and Ottawa, Peterborough and London, St. Catharines and Kitchener.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0185/2641311-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="553" height="1167"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GILBERT PERREAULT&hellip;Bound For Pros</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Perreault Winding Up Hot Amateur Career, Wins Tilson MVP Award, All-Star Berth

<p>SPOKANE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>pokane Jets and Nelson Maple Leafs reached the finals of the Western International Hockey League playoffs and will clash in a best-of-seven final for the Savage Cup.</p><p>The Jets toppled Cranbrook in five games and the Leafs had to go to seven games to oust Kimberley Dynamiters.</p><p>The Jets downed Cranbrook 8-1 in the opener led by Buddy Bodman&rsquo;s two goals in a game that was never close. The second game of the series was another story. The Royals goalie, Bill Sides, turned in a spectacular game turning aside numerous scoring opportunities by the Jets to lead Cranbrook to a 4-2 win. The third and fourth games were all Spokane. The Jets were led by the fine play of centers Gordon Turlik and Tom Rendall and skated to 5-1 and 14-3 victories.</p><p>The Maple Leafs used the power play for 3 goals and coasted to a 6-2 win in their opener. The Leafs had to come from behind to take a 6-5 overtime win on a goal by Leroy Mowrey in Game No. 2, The third contest was a 9-2 runaway for the Leals who got the hat trick from Wayne Green who has scored six goals in the three games.</p><p>Scoring champion Ron Huston of the Cranbrook Royals was awarded the WIHL&rsquo;s most valuable player award for the third year in a row and Captain Tom Hodges of the Spokane Jets, for many years one of the finest defensemen in the league, was awarded the Paul Kozak Memorial Trophy as the outstanding rearguard.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Spokane, Nelson Gain Cup Finals In WIHL

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MacLEAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0243/2641589-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="550" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EMILE FRANCIS&hellip;Sleepless Nights</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK&mdash;</p><p>A scoring slump just before the Ides of March seemingly has written finish to the Rangers pennant bid and even put their playoff chances in danger. This despite the acquisition of defenseman Tim Horton from the Toronto Maple Leafs in an eleventh hour bid to shore up a defense corps depleted by injuries to All-Stars Brad Park and Jim Neilson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0143/2641596-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="239" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rod Gilbert</b></figcaption></div><p>Not only did the Rangers see their all time National Hockey League record shutout mark stopped at 130 straight when the Red Wings and Roy Edwards did them under on by 2-0 March 4, but they continued their scoring slump in a 3-1 loss to St. Louis in the Mound City on March 6 and then played a galling 0-0 tie with Pittsburgh on March 8.</p><p>Going back to a 3-1 loss to Chicago on March 1 it meant they had score two goals in four games.</p><p>Emile Francis, the dynamic general manager-coach who hardly slept during the player emergency caused by the injury outbreak, said, &ldquo;I can hardly fault our defense. Also, we are checking just as good as ever. The goals simply aren&rsquo;t coming. We will just have to work that much harder. You can&rsquo;t go looking for goals or you suddenly will see your own net being filled up.&rdquo;</p><p>Be that as it may, Horton played up to his advance billing in his first three Rangers games and lent a touch of professional class to the New York blueline. Since he is one of the few right handed shooting defensemen in the NHL, Tim would seem to be a tremendous acquisition for the Gothamites, despite his 40 years and $75,000 salary.</p><p>At five foot ten inches and 180 pounds, Horton is deceptively strong. With the possible exception of Bobby Hull, Gilbert Miles &ldquo;Tim&rdquo; Horton is the strongest man in the league. When the two clashed at an All-Star game it was said the ice seemed to be about to crack.</p><p>The key to the Rangers non scoring amazingly lies with the defense, as well as the forwards. Defensively the Ranger blueline brigade help up amazingly well while under duress. However, with the exception of Arnie Brown, himself now out with a painful groin injury, the New York defense just was not getting the puck out of its own end and up to the forwards as fast as it did with Park and Neilson. Even Brownie was carrying the puck himself more than head manning it, which is the quickest way to the enemy goal.</p><p>The Jean Ratelle-Rod GilbertVic Hadfield trio was doing fairly well, although Gilbert was bogged down at 14 goals with even the minimal target of twenty slipping fast. The NHL&rsquo;s best, Walter Tkaczuk-Dave Balon and rookie of the year candidate Billy Fairbairn had also tailed off a bit, but this observer thinks Park&rsquo;s presence or lack of is the biggest factor in this.</p><p>&ldquo;They had played so well they were entitled to a bit of a slowdown,&rdquo; said Francis. &ldquo;The biggest thing is we must put it together again and break out. We can still finish first, but we have to score.&rdquo;</p><p>When asked which was more important-making the playoffs or finish first-Francis roared, &ldquo;I have always emphasized that making the playoffs is paramount.&rdquo;</p><p>With twelve games left, only four of which are with the West, New York can still win it all-and they can slip all the way back to fifth and out. We think second is more likely and this is based on the legerdermain of Francis, a little guy who won&rsquo;t take failure in stride and who knows what he wants.</p><p>The defense is set now with Horton, Rod Seiling, Larry Brown and Jim Neilson, who is playing with a brace on his knee, plus Allan Hamilton. Arnie Brown undoubtedly will replace Larry and team with Horton when he returns.</p><p>A couple of quick goals in the early part of the next game or so and smiling faces will again return to Rangerville. This seemingly is all that is needed by a team which lead the NHL from November 16 until March 1. The youthful New York squad boasted the most mobile defense in the league prior to the injuries and while its power play was not awe inspiring it was getting the job done. Trying to build a new defense and power play with less then twenty games left in a season can be a herculean job.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Prolific Rangers Hit Ill-Timed Scoring Slump

<p>NEW YORK&mdash;</p><p>Vic Hadfield and Billy Fairbairn were leading with five game-winning goals each. Jean Ratelle and Ron Stewart also had four, with three of Ste&rsquo;s being while the team was shorthanded.</p><p>Emile Francis was forced to keep Ab DeMarco Jr. even after getting Horton because the emergency conditions had been taken off&hellip;Don Luce, big Omaha wing also was upped to the big team under injury conditions&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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March 27, 1970

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