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May 8, 1970

The Hockey News May 8, 1970

PORTLAND&mdash;A total of 708 minutes in penalties whistled on one player in one season?Naw, it didn&rsquo;t happen. But that was the pace Rick Foley, big defenseman of the Portland Buckaroos, was setting in the first round of the Western Hockey League playoffs.In six games against the Seattle Totems, Foley was called for 59 minutes on 12 minors, three majors and two misconducts.At that pace over a 72-game schedule, Foley would finish with 708 minutes off the ice. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Foley Embarked On Penalty Spree

This is our final weekly issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS for this season. Commencing with the forthcoming June issue, which will contain the complete and final Stanley Cup playoff story and will come out right after the last playoff game, we will publish once monthly through the summer months. So keep up with all the hockey happenings during the off season with THE HOCKEY NEWS. &#9632;

OUR LAST WEEKLY ISSUE

THUNDER BAY&mdash;Alex &lsquo;Fats&rsquo; Delvecchio, 19-year veteran of Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey league, will receive home-town recognition of his achievements here Sunday, June 14.The city of Thunder Bay will salute its most illustrious hockey product with a special &ldquo;Alex Delvecchio Day&rdquo; here on that date. Alex was born here Dec. 31, 1931, in Fort William, now a ward of the new city of Thunder Bay.The day for Delvecchio starts with a civic brunch at 11.30 a.m. There&rsquo;s a parade through the city starting at 2 o&rsquo;clock which winds up at the Fort William Stadium. There Delvecchio and other NHL players and officials on hand will meet and mingle with the thousands of fans who&rsquo;ll be on hand.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01732/2739433-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="507" height="662"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALEX DELVECCHIO</figcaption></div>This will be followed by a testimonial dinner and reception where Alex will be the recipient of gifts.Among those who&rsquo;ll be in attendance to help Delvecchio celebrate his day will be his two famous linemates with Red Wings, Gordie Howe and Frank Mahovlich.In 19 NHL seasons the durable Delvecchio has played 1,309 games, scoring 396 goals and 689 assists for 1,085 points. That makes him the NHL&rsquo;s third all-time point producer behind only teammate Howe and Montreal&rsquo;s Jean Beliveau. &#9632;

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‘Day’ Set For Wings Ice Star

SPOKANE&mdash;The Spokane Jets, striving to become the first American team to win the Allan Cup in history, put their best foot forward in the start of their best-of-seven final against the Eastern champions-the Orillia Terriers.The Jets, coached by former National Hockey League League Vezina Trophy winner Al Rollins, dumped the Terriers 5-2 in the start of the Canadian National senior hockey finals, which will be played in its entirety on Spokane ice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0196/2740926-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="272" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Seth Martin</figcaption></div>No team has ever won the Allan Cup represententing a United States city and the Jets appear to be the first solid threat to Canadian domination of their senior ice laurels.The Jets who play in the Canadian Western International Hockey League to make them eligible for the Allan Cup, scored three times in the final period to put the first game out of reach of Orillia.Seth Martin, the one-time St. Louis Blues&rsquo; goaler, was in the Spokane net opposing big Gerry McNamara, the six-foot-seven giant who helped the Toronto Leafs this year as backup goaler during a run of injuries.The Terriers reached the Allan Cup finals by disposing of Victoriaville, Sault Ste. Marie and Galt while Spokane recently downed St. Boniface Mohawks, the Manitoba-Thunder Bay champions, 3-1 in a best-of-five Western final.Despite their American backdrop, the Jets are basically Canadian. Some of the players have taken out U.S. citizenship but all came to this argicultural city of 183,000 from Canada.Spokane joined the WIHL in 1947 and, after losing in the 195758 Allan Cup final to Whitby Dunlops, acquired a Western Hockey League franchise.The professional Comets lost money for five years and when Spokane re-entered the WIHL in 1964-65, the financial picture was still very dim for three years.Then along came Al Rollins, who took over the coaching reins and general manager&rsquo;s duties three years ago and his record speaks for itself.Jets have won three league titles and playoff crowns. Three years ago they were eliminated from the Allan Cup trial by Drumheller, Alta, Miners in a four-game series.Last year they were edged by Calgary Stampeders in a five-game series. But this year they breezed by Stamps in three straight.On the Memorial Cup front, things aren&rsquo;t quit as flexible. The Montreal Canadiens appear to be on their way to the Eastern finals and an all-Quebec showdown with the rampagning Quebec Remparts for the right to host the national finals against either Weyburn Red Wings or Thunder Bay&rsquo;s Westfort Hurricances.As things stood after the April 26 weekend, the Canadiens had a 3-1 stranglehold on their best-of-seven Eastern semi-final series with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, who just weren&rsquo;t in the same class as the talent rich Montrealers. The Habs crushed the Hounds 10-1 in one game. The Remparts, who disposed of Charlottetown Islanders four straight games after losing the first two in their best-of-seven Eastern semi-final series, are champing at the bit waiting for a crack at the highly-touted Canadiens,Meanwhile, the Weyburn Wings were moving towards a cup berth after leading the Thunder Bay champions 3-2 in their best-of-seven Western Canada finals. &#9632;

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Spokane Takes Step Toward Amateur Hockey History

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‘News’ Awards Winners

<div class="byline">BY KEN MCKENZIE</div>MONTREAL&mdash;Jack Egers, the rising young hockey ace, all but won himself a spot on the New York Rangers for next season the way he performed in the recent Stanley Cup playoffs.And that&rsquo;s not the only thing the dynamic Egers has won. He has now been named the minor league player-of-the-year by THE HOCKEY NEWS in their third annual poll to establish the top figures in hockey outside the National Hockey League for the 1969-70 season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01655/2738892-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="571" height="595"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAT KELLY&hellip;Superb Record</figcaption></div>Joining Egers in the select company are Pat Kelly, the 34-year-old builder of champions with the Clinton Comets of the Eastern Hockey League, who was named coach of the year, and Lefty McFadden, the highly imaginative executive vice president and general manager of the Dayton Gems of the International Hockey League, who got the nod as the outstanding executive of the year.The three top minor league figures take their places with some illustrious hockey company who have been past winners of THE HOCKEY NEWS awards. Last season Jim Lorentz, currently with Boston Bruins, won the player-of-the-year selection. Hal Laycoe was chosen the top coach and Frank Mathers of Hershey was the executive of the year. In 1967-68, Ron Ward of Tulsa was the top player, Joe Crozier the best coach and Jerry DeLise of Muskegon of the IHL, executive of the year.Young Egers, in the estimation of the selecting editors of THE HOCKEY NEWS, was the best minor league player and certainly the most promising to come along in years. The Rangers, recognizing his hockey attributes. promoted the youngster for the closing weeks of the season and the Stanley Cup playoffs when veteran Don Marshall went out for the season with a shoulder injury. Egers didn&rsquo;t disappoint. He scored three playoff goals for the Rangers and displayed enough talent to be singled out for a starting position with New York in 1970-71.The slap-shot whiz of the Omaha Knights of the Central League made a big impression on the CHL this season before his recall by the Rangers. His big shot carried him to the league scoring title with 90 points where he registered a high of 42 goals and went on to grab the All-Star left wing berth on the first team.Egers&rsquo; Omaha general manager. Jake Milford, says the young winger is a can&rsquo;t miss prospect. His shot was the hardest in the CHL this season and added Milford &ldquo;if he keeps shooting the puck, he&rsquo;ll fill the net wherever he plays.&rdquo;The awards&rsquo; selectors had a difficult choice between Egers, Montreal Voyageurs&rsquo; fine young star Jude Drouin, who won the AHL scoring championship, and Art Jones, the veteran Portland Buckaroos&rsquo; ace, who nailed down the WHL scoring crown for the third straight year with a record 127 points.The naming of Kelly as coach of the year was another difficult choice. The playing-pilot of the EHL Clinton club had plenty of competition from the likes of Fred Shero of Buffalo, Larry Popein of Omaha. Marcel Pronovost of Tulsa and Doug Barkley of Fort Worth.But Kelly&rsquo;s record has been tremendous in his five years with the Comets, one of the true hockey powers in the history of the Eastern League. A member of the Minnesota North Stars&rsquo; coaching elite, Kelly has possibly won himself elevation in the team system after playing and directing Clinton to the EHL crown this season for the third straight year. In addition, he per-sonally won a first team All-Star berth and obviously was the inspiration behind the club&rsquo;s all out title win. He has won four pennants in five years since coming to the Comets from Greensboro where he was a defense star.General manager Wren Blair of Minnesota is one of Kelly&rsquo;s biggest boosters. &ldquo;Pat has done an excellent job and I hope to be able to move him up in our organization. He certainly deserves credit for the fine effort he has put in at Clinton,&rdquo; added Blair.Kelly&rsquo;s Clinton team won the Northern Division title and went on to capture the playoffs this year for the third time in succession.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02623/2738885-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="263" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lefty McFadden</figcaption></div>Joining Egers and Kelly in the awards&rsquo; department is McFadden, the idealistic hockey man who has helped build the Dayton Gems into a powerhouse in the IHL. A former newspaperman, McFadden has served the Gems for six seasons and they have brought home the Turner Cup, emblematic of the IHL playoff championship, two years in succession including this season when they beat out Port Huron Flags.McFadden has pushed the Gems&rsquo; attendance past the 180,000 mark in a few short years with his great promotional ideas. Dayton hockey fans have become highly knowledgeable through his efforts and the Gems have become a power on the ice, the result of McFadden&rsquo;s wheeling and dealing with the parent Boston Bruins.The selectors had to ponder over such progressive minor hockey executives as Ed Stanley, the successful general manager of Clinton, Jake Milford, the industrious GM of the Omaha Knights, John Muckier of Iowa, Ray Miron of Tulsa and Don Perry of New Haven.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03521/2738878-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="954" height="1734"><figcaption class="caption-body">One of the finest young minor hockey league players to come along this season is JACK EGERS, who blazed a hot trail in the CHL with Omaha Knights winning the league scoring title while shooting 42 goals. He also won promotion to the New York Rangers for the Stanley Cup playoffs.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Egers Player Of Year, Kelly Leading Coach, McFadden Top Executive

<div class="byline">BY OLIVER LEHTO</div>SAULT STE. MARIE&mdash;Montreal has its Expos and Sault Ste. Marie has its Espos.Phil Esposito, as the brilliant center star with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, and Tony Esposito, who has just finished a fantastic rookie year as goalie with the Chicago Black Hawks, have made hockey history like it&rsquo;s never been made before. And the amazing part of it all is that they&rsquo;re just beginning.Incredible, unbelievable un comparable are a few superlatives that fit. But Pat Esposito, their father, takes it all in stride.Says Pat of his now famous sons. &ldquo;They asked me in Boston after Philly broke the scoring record last year if I was happy. I said no, not until the other one (Tony) wins the Vezina Trophy. They thought I was kidding!&rdquo;Phil and Tony were inseparable as youngsters. They loved to play hockey which isn&rsquo;t anything unusual because most boys growing up do.But it was a mania with the Esposito brothers. The winters were never long enough and when the spring break up came it was the season &lsquo;of nothing to do&rsquo; in the household of Patrick and Frances Esposito. Little Phil and Tony, with their spirits at their lowest ebb, liked the summer sports but their burning desire for hockey was something else again.&ldquo;They&rsquo;d play road hockey a lot in the summer and shoot balls and pucks around in the basement,&rdquo; Pat remembered very well. &ldquo;Phil still plays road hockey, the game is in him, he&rsquo;d play it for nothing, I know he would.&rdquo;Patrick Esposito is a big man. He thunders when he laughs and though he admits to being a little overweight, he&rsquo;s got the frame to carry it.The boys&rsquo; mother has a sparkling personality. She&rsquo;s witty and charming and her dark sharp features, inherited by her eldest son, Phil, contrast sharply from her husband&rsquo;s making for a very handsome couple.Pat and Fran were ardent supporters of their boys hockey leagues. They attended the games faithfully, sometimes knee-deep in snow piles and shivering from the freezing north winds sweeping across the outdoor rinks, but they never complained.It wasn&rsquo;t something they had to do&mdash;it was something they enjoyed doing.Never in their wildest dreams did they envision the sensational careers that were budding then.&ldquo;I thought Phil was pretty good with his stick&mdash;and Tony was a smooth skater, far better than Phil. But I didn&rsquo;t see any-thing in either of them as boys that stood out,&rdquo; said Pat.The Espositos live in a comfortable, spacious home in the east end of Sault Ste. Marie, the new residential area of the spreading Steel city. When the boys were growing up their home then was more in the centre of the town. Where the neighborhood rinks were a little more than a &lsquo;stone&rsquo;s throw&rsquo; in any direction.When supper was ready Pat&rsquo;s piercing whistle summoned the boys. It became a trademark and instant response from the two fledgling hockey stars.Talking with Pat, at times, can be a little uncomfortable and uneasy. He weighs all questions making sure that before he replies he&rsquo;s understood explicity.It takes a while to get warmed up to the occasion. But once he&rsquo;s in high gear Pat can be very humorous and entertaining.When asked if he&rsquo;d help me out with a little background on the boys he replied, &ldquo;What do you want me for? I haven&rsquo;t done anything that anybody would be interested in, it&rsquo;s the boys you want.&rdquo;Hardly the kind of introduction for an interview. Nevertheless, with perseverence and &lsquo;one foot in the door&rsquo; we got over the rough spots.And Fran, sensing the uneasiness, broke in, &ldquo;that Tony, he was such a good skater, we didn&rsquo;t want him to play goal, anything but that, even defense, anywhere but goalie.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01657/2738968-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="535" height="845"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL ESPOSITO&hellip;Always Confident</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02539/2738961-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="541" height="879"><figcaption class="caption-body">TONY ESPOSITO&hellip;Went To College</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03361/2738954-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1744" height="1174"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tony and Phil Esposito can always count on a little hometown cheering from their dad, PAT, mother FRANCES and the boys, only sister, 13-year-old TERRY. Here they are showing off one of Phil&rsquo;s puck momentos at their Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., home. (Hockey News Photo by Stan Stratichuk)</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Even now when he plays I worry&mdash;those shots are so fast, they scare me&mdash;he could get hurt.&rdquo;Pat nodded his head in agreement. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s harder for us to watch him (Tony) than Phil, I guess It&rsquo;s because he&rsquo;s a goaltender.&rdquo;With Phil it&rsquo;s different. &ldquo;He always had a lot of confidence. We don&rsquo;t worry about him, he takes good care of himself.&rdquo;Aside from the fact that they were born with an abundance of talent the real secret to their success lies in the early years spent on the outdoor rinks, house basement and city streets.&ldquo;It was always Phil shooting and Tony in goal. That&rsquo;s all they did. They had their little spats as boys always do but they spent a lot of time together playing hockey,&rdquo; Pat recalls.His dad believes Phil would play hockey for nothing, now. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s how much he likes it and he hasn&rsquo;t changed his desire for the game since he was a boy.&rdquo;Hockey is still No. 1 with Tony, but Pat says he&rsquo;s more a money player than his super star brother.Parents experience heartbreak occasionally with their children. The Espositos were no exception.When Phil was of junior age there was no league in the Sault. So to make his way Pat and Fran sent him away to St. Catharines where he could play hockey with the junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; club there and attend school.It was no deep, dark secret that going to school wasn&rsquo;t exactly a favorite pastime with Phil. Without his parents knowing he quit school and it wasn&rsquo;t until after the school term was over that the truth leaked out.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know what to do with him,&rdquo; Pat said. &ldquo;He knows how we felt and I told him that if he&rsquo;s ever going to get anywhere in hockey now&rsquo;s the time, otherwise he&rsquo;d be driving a truck the rest of his life.&rdquo;Even when he made it into the pro ranks with St Louis of the Central Pro League Phil wasn&rsquo;t out of the woods. &ldquo;I still had to send him money. He wasn&rsquo;t making enough there to live.&rdquo;There were a couple of bleak years but when he moved up with the Black Hawks in 1963-64 he was never again to return to the minors.His name is synonymous with hockey now. He&rsquo;s made his way and there&rsquo;s no one that comes remotely close to his point output for a similar span in the NHL. His 126 points, though endangered this season by one Bobby Orr with 120, made shambles of all existing records.He&rsquo;s got natural instinct at smelling out plays and no one is harder to move from in front of the net that the big Bruin center.With Tony it was school first and hockey second.The Sault Greyhounds, a junior team in the newly-formed NOHA Northern Ontario Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; League, needed a goalie and Tony won the job hands down.He had a great season winning the goaltending averages with an impressive 2.62 average mark in a high scoring league. From there he accepted a scholarship at Michigan Tech in Houghton where he starred for four years winning all-American and all league honors in his last three years at the college.Upon graduation he set out on his pro career. Montreal Canadiens had him on their list and he went to Vancouver Canucks of the WHL on loan eventually winding up in Montreal as backup to Gump Worsley and Rogatien Vachon in 1968-69.He enjoyed a fine season, though seeing limited action, only when the Gumper and Rogie both happened to be in sick bay at the same time.It was with Montreal that the two Espositos met for the first time in the NHL. Tony shut the door on his big brother and the Bruins in their first confrontation.Second time Phil gained some measure of revenge beating Tony for the only two Boston goals while the Canadiens man-aged two of their own for a 2-2 stalemate.Mrs. Esposito, bedridden in a hospital at the time, remembers it well. She didn&rsquo;t want to see the games, not even listen to them. But every once in a while she couldn&rsquo;t resist asking the nurses to check on the scores as the games wore on. &ldquo;It just about drove me crazy,&rdquo; she laughed.The Esposito boys even fooled their parents in their stunning climb up the ladder of success in the NHL. Pat will be the first to admit it. &ldquo;I never thought they&rsquo;d make it in the NHL. never they were good but I didn&rsquo;t think they were that good.&rdquo;So it&rsquo;s no wonder the Chicago Black Hawks and Montreal Canadiens blundered. The now, famous trade of 1967 that saw Phil go to the Bruins from Chicago has to rate with the biggest daylight jobs of all time.It was then that Phil 6-2 and 195 pounds, started to blossom into full bloom and the Bruins stock in trade took a big step forward. They&rsquo;ve been contenders for first place ever since missing out by the slimmest of margins the last couple of seasons. Meanwhile Chicago tumbled to last in 1968-69.This year they shot right back up to the top in a spectacular reversal and for reasons?&mdash;well how about starting with Esposito.No it wasn&rsquo;t Phil, it was his brother Tony. The Hawks redeemed themselves for their &rsquo;67 fiasco by acquiring Tony, who stands a shade under six feet, when he became available in the June draft.Montreal, like Chicago earlier, figured an Esposito was expendable. Their faces had to be redder than the proud Habitant sweaters they display. It&rsquo;s history now but the Canadiens finished out of the playoffs for the first time since who knows when.So it goes with the greatest brother act to hit the NHL in recent years. There&rsquo;s been other great ones, the Bentleys. Cooks. Hulls and Conachers. are a few that come to mind.But the un comparable Espositos. both still in the prime of their careers, with Tony winning the Vezina Trophy in his rookie year, have just begun to rewrite the record books.Phil piled up seven records in his awesome display of &lsquo;68-69. He&rsquo;s 28 now, just finishing his seventh year under the big top. Tony&rsquo;s just turned 27. The sky&rsquo;s the limit with these two. Where they stop nobody knows.Neither is a stylist. When Phil is is full flight he resembles a wayward bus, certainly not graceful&mdash;but very deceptive and strong. &ldquo;His greatest asset is his hockey sense, he anticipates as well as anyone.&rdquo; said his coach Harry Sinden last season when Phil was on his way to a record-shattering campaign.And watching Tony play goal sometimes makes you wonder. He&rsquo;s up and down, here &lsquo;n&rsquo; there, completely unorthodox in his manner of blocking shots. But very few get by.Both boys are married and make their homes in the Sault during the off-season. Phil and his wife Linda have two girls, Laurie Jane, 5, and Carrie Lynn, 2.Tony and Marilyn have one son, Mark, aged 2.The boys call home regularly. Tony called the other night. &ldquo;He was laughing like h&mdash;,&rdquo; said Pat.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got no favorites,&rdquo; says Pat. &ldquo;Only Boston and Chicago and may the best team win.&rdquo;No one had to ask Pat if he was proud of his boys. It showed. And Fran, standing nearby, smiled understandingly. &#9632;

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PAT ESPOSITO PLAYS NO FAVORITES, HE’S JUST PROUD OF HIS FAMOUSSONS

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01719/2739044-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="361" height="433"></div>&bull; BOSTON&mdash;JOHN McKENZIE, one of the most respected players in the NHL, was the hero here in game four of the eastern finals when he tallied the winning goal with only one minute and 41 seconds left to play to give the Bruins a clean four-game sweep over Chicago&hellip; McKenzie fired a high shot past Tony Esposito in the Hawk nets. It was his fourth goal in the playoffs&hellip; The Bruins, fans went wild with joy after the hard-digging McKenzie scored as they eagerly look forward to winning their first Stanley Cup since 1941&hellip; Outside of a slight letdown in the second period it was Boston all the way just as it has been throughout the series which surprised many by the ease with which Boston handled the Hawks&hellip; Tony Esposito, top NHL rookie this season, didn&rsquo;t play quite as well in goal for the Hawks in the playoffs as he had throughout the season. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I played good anytime during the series,&rdquo; said Tony. &ldquo;You never play good when you lose&rdquo;&hellip; Outstanding player for Chicago in the windup was Keith Magnuson, rookie defenseman. who probably played the finest game of his life. This desire-driven rearguard should be one of the standout NHL defensemen in the years to come&hellip; John McKenzie and his wife won themselves a trip to Greece immediately following the Stanley Cup finals. John was picked as the most popular Bruin by the fans in a poll conducted by Channel 38, WSBK-TV in Boston&hellip; Channel 38, which has televised the Bruins&rsquo; games all season, had more viewers than all other Boston IV stations combined during the Bruins&rsquo; second game in Chicago. It was the first time in UHF history that this has happened anywhere in the United States. Channel 38 had a 57 percent share of the viewing audience. The rating score for channel 38 was 32, which translates to 488,000 homes and one and one-third million viewers. Both figures are unprecedented&hellip; Boston&rsquo;s Phil Esposito has been great throughout the playoffs and should easily establish a new NHL playoff record for goals scored. The record is 12 and he already has 11.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03573/2739037-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="249" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">John McKenzie</figcaption></div>&bull; GERRY CHEEVERS has been sensational for the Bruins. The colorful net-minder who always has snappy remarks in answering questions, said: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all 99 percent luck and one percent praying&rdquo;&hellip;After he stopped a booming drive off of Dennis Hull in the third game he quipped: &ldquo;I was lying there wishing that I had been able to skate better when I was a kid so that I could play some other position&rdquo;&hellip;One sign hanging in the Boston Garden read: &ldquo;Hull doesn&rsquo;t like going steady with our Eddie&rdquo;&hellip;Another read: &ldquo;Keith Magnuson Fan Club. Boston Chapter&rdquo;&hellip;Everywhere we travel we keep hearing stories of Bobby Hull&rsquo;s class off the ice and we heard a couple more in Boston. He&rsquo;s been hockey&rsquo;s finest goodwill ambassador during the past decade&hellip;Johnny Bucyk, oldest player on the Bruins, is playing his finest hockey in several years during the playoffs&hellip;Boston coach Harry Sinden says Bobby Orr is the most complete athlete of all. &ldquo;No other athlete has so dominated his sport, doing it all in every facet as Bobby has this season&rdquo;&hellip;Also, what makes it so hard to compare Orr with other hockey players is that he&rsquo;s doing things never witnessed before&hellip;Don&rsquo;t forget to order your May copy of HOCKEY WORLD. It&rsquo;s the Stanley Cup issue and contains some great anecdotes and statistics on the previous playoffs. Send 75&cent;to HOCKEY WORLD. Box 248, Montreal 101, Canada.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02670/2739030-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="258" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Cheevers</figcaption></div>&bull; ALL THE Bruins did during the series against Chicago was shut out the Bobby Hull line, limiting Bobby to four shots on goal, held the high-flying Pit Martin, Gerry Pinder, Jim Pappin unit to two goals, stopped Stan Mikita cold and continually intimidated the Chicago defense right in the Black Hawks&rsquo; zone. As John Robertson of the Montreal Star said: &ldquo;I feel sorry for the Western champions&rdquo;&hellip;Incidentally, the Bruins average 193 pounds per player, 16 of them are within an inch of six feet or over, and more important in many ways, 11 of them are 25 or under&hellip;It&rsquo;s going to take a great team to beat them out for the Stanley Cup&hellip; All of the NHL teams had at least one representative at the games here&hellip;The two sellouts in Pittsburgh in a row may signal the turn as far as hockey popularity is concerned in that city&hellip;The Penguins great showing in the playoffs has supplied their fans with lots to cheer about and Red Kelly, THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; Coach of the Year, has proven once again that he&rsquo;s the finest handler of players around today&hellip;The Pens are a first-rate checking team and make the most of their scoring opportunities&hellip;Bob Plager of the St. Louis Blues recently received a &ldquo;best groomed&rdquo; award from the International Association of Barbers, Beauticians and Allied Industries. He is the Blues&rsquo; sole bachelor&hellip;Red Berenson has been picked as the Blues most valuable player in a vote of his teammates. The voting was for the annual awards given by The Goaltenders, an organization of St. Louis hockey fans. Other awards by The Goaltenders went to Goalie Ernie Wakely as rookie of the year, Tim Ecclestone as the most improved player and to Jimmy Roberts and Barclay Plager as the players who give 110 percent in effort&hellip;Center Garry Peters of Philadelphia Flyers had a successful elbow operation since the close of the season&hellip;Coach Vic Stasiuk while on a Philadelphia TV sports show took all the blame for the Flyers missing the playoffs. He stated that he would do certain things differently next season. Stasiuk said he is thinking of breaking up the French line and putting Bobby Clarke in Andre Lacroix&rsquo;s spot&hellip;Official scorer at the home games of the Boston Bruins is Woody Dumart. The same Dumart who played on a line with Milt Schmidt the last time the Bruins won the Cup 29 years ago. Woody has been very successful selling Bauer skates in the New England area since hanging&rsquo;em up himself as a player.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04501/2739023-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="250" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Plager</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Published weekly except monthly June through September byKen-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 St. Catherine Street West Montreal 107, Canada.Kenneth William McKenzie President and PublisherCharlie Halpin Editorial DirectorYearly SUBSCRIPTION Rates: $6.00 in Canada $7.00 in the U.S.A. and $9.00 in Foreign Countries.Postage paid at Rouses Point. N.YSecond class mail&mdash;Registration No. 1327Printed in CanadaVol. 23 MONTREAL, MAY 8, 1970 No. 31 &#9632;

The Hockey News

<h2>Round-robin Series Would End Layoffs</h2>I feel this one week layoff for Chicago and Pittsburgh is an old system running a new school.Why do they not have a roundrobin type playoff? In this wav the first two winners after the first round would meet within three days after the finish of the quarter-finals and so on down the line.I realize they are trying to help the &lsquo;new&rsquo; clubs in the league but how much longer do the hockey fans have to put up with this arrangement?CPL A.S. MacDONALD, Duluth. Minn.<h2>Shoe On Other Foot For NHL Canadiens</h2>Since Canadiens&rsquo; coach Claude Ruel was complaining about the Rangers&rsquo; windup 9-5 victory over Detroit that put Montreal out of the playoffs, I would like to point out that in 1958-59, the year of the &lsquo;Great Ranger Collapse&rsquo;, the Canadiens had two games with Toronto toward the end of the schedule. And who did the Canadiens play in goal?Well both Jacques Plante and Charlie Hodge were rested. In these crucial games (for Toronto and New York), two goalers, whom I doubt even the Canadiens can remember, carried their colors. However, on the last day Hodge came back to play goal. The Red Wings did the same thing when they clinched a layoff spot so I don&rsquo;t see where the Canadiens get off yelling about their predicament now.ALLEN ROSENBLUM. Freehold. N.J.<h2>Helmet Wearing Should Be Decision Of Players</h2>I think the players of the 12 National Hockey League teams should be polled and allowed to vote for the wearing of helmets. The players should have the say because they know better than the owners whether they need them or not.KENNETH CUMMINGS, Marblehead. Mass.<h2>New Playoff Plan, And Shorter Season</h2>I think it is time the NHL should change the play-off setup and also shorten the hockey season.First: When two teams finish in a tie in points they should be designated as co-champions and the first and second place monies be split. Just because a team wins one or more games should not entitle them to the championship. In the AHL a play-off game is played but this is not fair either as one game does not make a champion.Second: I think the playoff system is all wrong. In the NHL the fourth finish team could win the Stanley Cup.How many times does the championship team have to prove itself?A playoff should be for the top team in each division only.I realize this is a money making scheme but this is ridiculous. There is a possibility that the season may run into May with the ice in poor condition which could cause injury to the players.I am for a shorter season. Hockey should be finished by end of March.CHARLES WARNOCK. Providence, R.I.<h2>Cheers For Brad Park New Breed Rearguard</h2>I have read in the March 27 issue of HOCKEY NEWS the Hockey Ad Lib column by Bill Libby with much interest, being a Brad Park fan. I think Mr. Libby put it right when he said Park is the &ldquo;new-breed&rdquo; defenseman who skates the puck out of his own end. carries in deep and shoots at the goal. When the Rangers were plagued by the injuries to whom I believe are the &ldquo;new-breed&rdquo; defensemen namely Park, Neilson, and Arnie Brown, they started their unbelievable downfall.Then, the Ranger&rsquo;s top defensemen were Rod Seiling and Allan Hamilton. I felt that they handled the job inadequately.DAVID GORDON. TEANECK. N.J. &#9632;

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WINS GRUEN WATCH

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div>BOSTON&mdash;Blood is thicker than water but it still freezes on ice.If you don&rsquo;t think so consider the case of the Esposito brothers, Phil of Boston and Tony of Chicago.They met head-on this season in eight games and it was a standoff. Yet in the first game of the Stanley Cup semi-finalround Phil bombed three shots past his kid brother to give the Bruins a 6-3 victory.Asked about it after the game, Phil could only say &ldquo;We still are brothers. I admire the kid for what he did this season, breaking the record for shutouts and proving he is a big league goal-tender.&ldquo;But I&rsquo;m a professional and he&rsquo;s a professional. I&rsquo;m trying to beat him and he&rsquo;s trying to stop me.&ldquo;When we &lsquo;are on the ice against each other 1 don&rsquo;t let myself think of him as my kid brother. He&rsquo;s another guy on the ice.&rdquo;Phil was sounding hard and tough. And the NHL scoring record holder is hard and tough. But it was not all really that way.Those who saw that opening game in Chicago on television or read the following newspaper accounts knew Tony was hit on the side of the head by a Ken Hodge slap shot.The Vezina Trophy winner was stunned and there was a chance he was seriously injured.Phil saw it happen, knew the possibilities but he never went near the Chicago cage.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t dare.&rdquo; he said after the game. &ldquo;I was concerned and I was worried. I immediately thought of how sick Eddie Johnston was after he took a similar shot in practice before a game at Detroit last year.&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t even go up to Tony. We don&rsquo;t speak to each other when we are playing&mdash;and this now is the playoffs&rdquo;.Phil skated around in circles at mid ice. His head was down and he didn&rsquo;t even speak to any of the other Bruins.&ldquo;Finally, Bobby Orr and Bobby Hull came up and told me the kid was all right,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Then I relaxed a little.&ldquo;But I couldn&rsquo;t think of what had happened when I had those chances to score on him.&ldquo;You see,&rdquo; went on Phil, &ldquo;we are all programmed to win in this game or any game if you are going to play it right. I can&rsquo;t think &lsquo;this is my brother&rsquo; when I am going in on him.&ldquo;It takes a little doing but you have to discipline yourself to those possibilities.&ldquo;So when Johnny Bucyk was on mv left and I had a chance to pass. I didn&rsquo;t because Tony gave me some room and I let the puck go. It hit the post and banged in off his pads.&ldquo;On the second goal. I got a great pass from Bobby Orr on the power play and slid it under him into the net.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t have time to think on either of those goals. The third one was a little different. It was the only time I had time to figure. I knew I had to flip it up on him and that too went in.&ldquo;I just did my job the best way I knew.&rdquo;Phil has been doing that ever since he came to the Bruins three seasons ago from Chicago and after seven playoff games he was largely responsible for the Bruins success in their quest to bring the Stanley Cup back to Boston after 29 years.In that seven-game stretch, with the money on the table. Phil hit for nine goals and has four assists.Although Bobby Orr broke a Stanley Cup playoff record with his seven goals and five assists in the same number of games. Espo still deserves a great deal of credit for the Bruins&rsquo; playoff surge.But he deserves even more credit for being able to forget the fact that Tony is his 27-year-old kid brother.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01672/2739178-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="275" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Esposito</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02605/2739171-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1176" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body">Among the interested &lsquo;spectators&rsquo; at the Boston-Chicago series were two of the Hawks&rsquo; indisposed stars, PAT STAPLETON, left, and KEN WHARRAM. Both fidgeted on the sidelines, Stapleton with a leg injury and Wharram from an early season heart attack. (Hockey News Photo by Keith Jackson)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Espositos’ Brotherly Love Ends When Ref Drops Puck

1&mdash;Serge Savard of Montreal Canadiens won the Smythe Trophy last season as the outstanding playoff performer. Who was the first winner of the award in 1964-65?2&mdash;Going into this year&rsquo;s playoffs, Gordie Howe of Detroit owned most of the records. But he wasn&rsquo;t the all-time &lsquo;bad man&rsquo; of cup play. Who was?3&mdash;Speaking of Gordie Howe, he owns two dozen records and in spite of the fact he has performed in 156 playoff games, one scoring feat has escaped him in playoff action. Do you know what it is?4&mdash;Only one man in the modern history of the Stanley Cup playoffs ever coached two different teams to the cup. Who was he and what were the teams?5&mdash;When Lord Stanley first purchased the Stanley Cup it cost him less than $50. Can you remember the exact amount?6&mdash;When Toronto won the cup in 1948-49 one of the club&rsquo;s star defensemen didn&rsquo;t return the next season because of a tragedy. Do you remember the nature of the tragedy and the player&rsquo;s name?7&mdash;Who was the top scoring star of last year&rsquo;s Stanley Cup playoffs? He had 18 points but his team never made the finals. Name him.8&mdash;Montreal has won the most Stanley Cups with 14, but what team has won the second highest number and how many?9&mdash;The shutout king of the Stanley Cup playoffs with 13 is Turk Broda, Jacques Plante or Terry Sawchuk?10&mdash;Bobby Orr has already set a new record for goals scored by a defenseman in the playoffs. But who held the old mark and how many goals constituted the record?<h2>HOCKEY QUIZ ANSWERS</h2>1&mdash;Jean Beliveau.2&mdash;John Ferguson with 224 minutes. Howe had 216.3&mdash;Howe has never scored an overtime goal in playoffs.4&mdash;Dick Irvin. He coached Montreal three times and Toronto once.5&mdash;The cup cost $48.67.6&mdash;Bill Barilko disappeared on an airplane flight in the Canadian North while on a fishing trip a few weeks after sparking Toronto to the cup. He was never seen again.7&mdash;Phil Esposito.8&mdash;Toronto is second with 11.9&mdash;Broda and Plante share the record.10&mdash;Earl Seibert and Red Kelly with five each. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY CHARLIE HALPIN</div>&bull; IT SEEMS inconceivable that anyone but the Boston Bruins will wind up with the Stanley Cup this season.With the Bruins it is a case of having too much of everything and the rest not having enough.The B&rsquo;s showed clearly in the Eastern Division playdowns that they are masters of the NHL and it is going to take a monumental effort on the part of the West to deprive them from winning their first Stanley Cup since 1940-41&mdash;a dearth of 29 years.The Bruins have acquired that cup fever now and since they are rolling with a full head of steam, it will be difficult to slow them down. As little John McKenzie put it, &ldquo;this club is hungry. We want that cup now and we&rsquo;re going to get it.&rdquo;The only obstacle that could confront the onrushing Bruins is an enforced layoff similar to the one that dulled the Black Hawks in their just completed series with Boston. The Bruins could be idle for nine days should Pittsburgh and St. Louis go all the way in their Western final and that would be to the Bruins&rsquo; disadvantage.Boston coach Harry Sinden, like Billy Reay of the Hawks, fears a layoff and is anxious to get his club back in action with a minimum of delay. Reay admitted after the Hawks were ousted by Boston that the long 11-day hangup after the quarter-finals took the edge away from his players.&bull; IT WAS one of the misfortunes of the playoffs that the Hawks were eliminated with such swiftness and humiliation. They certainly deserved a better fate for their efforts over the 76-game league schedule and had they been able to get untracked sooner in the series, they undoubtedly would have prevented a Boston sweep. But they found their legs and scoring eyes too late and their defense, which had sagged ingloriously in the first three games against the B&rsquo;s, suddenly came to life in game four, but again, too late.Nonetheless, the Hawks&rsquo; performance this season has to rank as one of the all time great comebacks in NHL history. No club ever came from last place to win the league title in the manner the Hawks did this year and for this Billy Reay and the Hawks are to be commended.But no one will deny that the Boston Bruins have leaped into the spotlight still bearing grudges from their playoff ouster the past two years at the hands of the Montreal Canadiens. They appeared to be playing with a vengeance this year in the post-season round and seemed to gain momentum when the Canadiens were left on the outside looking in at playoff time. It was as if someone had taken a 100 pound weight off their shoulders they were so relieved not to have to face the Canadiens again.&bull; NOW THEY are the feared club and no matter which team corrals the Western title, they are in for a lot of hard knocks in the cup final. The big, bruising Bruins took their toll on the Rangers and left their mark on Chicago&rsquo;s rookie set&mdash;Magnuson, Koroll, Esposito, Campbell, Shmyr&mdash;just as the Canadiens intimated the Boston rookies the past two seasons.The Bruins are a rough, tough hockey club. They take a little bit of everybody they come up against and if ultimately wears a team down as it did the Hawks and Rangers. The B&rsquo;s hold it over all the rest in both offense and defense. They are solid from the goal out and with Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, John McKenzie, Fred Stanfield, Derek Sanderson, we could go on all night, manning their attack, its like trying to stop a runaway locomotive with your bare hands. You know what chance you have.The Bruins don&rsquo;t envision any problems with the West and they are not being cocky or over confident in their thinking. They have the record to back them up. During the regular season, they literally murdered the Western clubs winning 26 and tieing eight in 36 starts, meaning they lost only twice. They outscored the West 162-88 and had the most imposing record of all the established clubs in interlocking play.So you see, the Bruins know their potential and they have the figures to support their confidence.You don&rsquo;t know whether to feel sorry for the West or hope that any layoff will cool off the Bruins and possibly bring the Stanley Cup back to respectability.Like the man said, those Bruins are just too much!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01748/2739209-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="273" height="430"></div> &#9632;

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INSIDE HOCKEY

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;Late this past season, various deals altered about one half the roster with which the Los Angeles Kings opened the 1969-70 NHL season. Although owner Jack Kent Cooke currently is primarily concerned with the fortunes of his L.A. Lakers in the NBA championship playoffs, it is certain that moves to transform the Kings into a winner will be made for the 1970-71 campaign.Well into the third season, the Kings had not drastically altered their original club but when it could no longer be ignored that the group was not going to make it, changes began to take place with regularity and more now are certain. Cooke is deeply disappointed with the retrogression of his hockey forces and determined to alter course.First he must make clear his top aides, which means he must announce pubicly on the probable rehiring of Larry Regan as manager and John Wilson as coach. The decision already has been made. Then there are trades to be completed which already have been initiated and new ones to be initiated and draft decisions to be made. The Kings are not so much looking for spectacular &ldquo;name&rdquo; players and high scorers as they are solid all-around performers, who check and play defense.No one on the roster is untouchable, although the Kings would be most reluctant to part with Butch Goring, Red Hogan-son and Ross Lonsberry. However, whereas going into last season it did appear the Kings were strong in goal and on left wing, for example, they now could use beefing up everywhere. Pending trades, here&rsquo;s the picture:Denis Dejordy, 31, was uneven after being obtained to man the nets, but might be steady if given a regular&rsquo;s role from the outset. Wayne Rutledge, 27, was a brilliant rookie, but has not yet come back strongly from a groin injury and operation which slowed him the last two seasons. Bruce Landon was disappointing in his first professional season at Springfield. The critical goal-tending spot is a question-mark area.Gilles Marotte and Matt Ray-lich helped on defense after Cooke and Regan acquired them late, and with rookie Hoganson form the nucleus of an adequate defense. However, at least one real good defenseman must be found to fit in here. Larry Cahan has another year to go on a good contract, but has slowed down, while Bob Wall is now deemed not rough enough. Brent Hughes was a disappointment.Eddie Joyal did not come back strongly from an ankle injury, but he&rsquo;s one solid center. The brilliant rookie Goring is another. A third, one who can make plays and forecheck, if not score big, is a critical need. Jim Peters might do the job if given a regular role. Juha Widing, obtained late, but then hurt, is a possibility. Skip Krake also is available.Lonsberry is solid on left wing. Real Lemieux is handy. Dickie Duff has been a great player, but he did not show he has much left. Eddie Shack led the team in goals scored, but his all-around performance and consistency left much to be desired. He wound up the season in a rhubarb with Regan, but it is unknown if any&mdash;one else wants &ldquo;The Entertainer.&rdquo; Perhaps he should not be protected.Bill Flett&rsquo;s all-around play improved enormously, but he had an off-year in scoring. Still, he is one good right-winger. Leon Rochefort was disappointing and his future in dim. Howie Hughes is a solid veteran, but was hurt most of the year. Lowell MacDonald came out of retirement late and could return to help a lot. Garry Monahan is a forward who could fit in at one position or another.The Kings need a good pointman and they need to solidify their power-play and penalty killing units.Another good center, left-winger, defenseman and goal-tender would give this team a lot of hope for improvement, but no one is giving outstanding talent away.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02607/2739240-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="283" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROSS Lonsberry</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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More Changes Seen For Lowly Kings With Few Untouchables On Roster

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;It was Lou Angotti, all right, but this time he was playing Solomon.He had just been put on the spot, being asked whom he thinks is the best young goaltender in the National Hockey League: Tony Esposito or Bernie Parent?&ldquo;That&rsquo;s tough to answer since Tony&rsquo;s having such an unbelievable year,&rdquo; said Lou. &ldquo;On the basis of just this season, I&rsquo;d have to say Esposito, but the answer&rsquo;s not that simple when everything is taken into consideration.&rdquo;Angotti&rsquo;s opinion is valued because he is the only guy who has spent an entire season with both Esposito and Parent, the Flyers&rsquo; standout young goalie.This year Lou, a veteran center, has been a teammate of Espo&rsquo;s as the Chicago Black Hawks wound up winning the East Division championship after finishing in the cellar the year before.Two years ago he was captain of the Flyers&mdash;and a teammate of Parent&mdash;as the team went on to win the West Division title in the first season of expansion.So, having played with both goaltenders, Angotti seems a good man to evaluate their respective talent at stopping shots at the net. It is understandable, though, that it has been awhile since he was watching Parent game in and game out, as he is now able to do with Esposito.&ldquo;First, let me put it this way,&rdquo; said Lou. &ldquo;If Tony plays anywhere near as well next season as he did this year, there&rsquo;s no one in the entire league even going to be close. Certainly, he can&rsquo;t have the same kind of sensational year, but if he just has a real good year, he&rsquo;ll still be in a class by himself.&ldquo;Based on his record this season, Tony would deserve to be called the best young goaltender. The only thing is, it doesn&rsquo;t tell whether he&rsquo;ll be consistent as he&rsquo;s been his rookie year.&ldquo;Parent didn&rsquo;t have a tremendous year, but he again was consistent. Every year Bernie&rsquo;s done a real fine job. He hasn&rsquo;t had a bad year (in five in the NHL).&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think Bernie has that much on Tony in talent but he certainly is consistent. He&rsquo;s been able to do a job year in and year out. Tony might be able to do so, too, but only time will tell.Esposito will walk away with the Rookie of the Year award this season, in addition to playing a big part in the Black Hawks&rsquo; gaining temporary ownership of the Vezina Trophy for fewest goals allowed. Then, too, he&rsquo;s been the biggest reason in the Hawks&rsquo; reversal of form from last place to first in just one season.Parent, who was forced to be an &ldquo;Iron Man&rdquo; the last two months of the season due to Doug Favell&rsquo;s injury, finished the season with a respectable 2.69 average. It wasn&rsquo;t his fault the Flyers didn&rsquo;t make the playoffs, since he allowed only two goals in the last two games but still lost 1-0 to St. Louis and 1-0 to Minnesota.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02628/2739302-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="263" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Angotti</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Ex-Flyer Picks Espo Over Parent As ‘Best Coaler’

<div class="byline">BY GLENN REDMANN</div>TWIN CITIES&mdash;Before the start of the Minnesota-St. Louis Stanley Cup playoff series a few weeks ago, Charlie Burns expressed fear that the North Stars&rsquo; gruelling regular season finish might catch up with them somewhere along the line against the eager, more-rested Blues.That &ldquo;somewhere along the line&rdquo; wasn&rsquo;t noticeable during the first four games which the arch-rivals split byprevailing twice apiece on their home ice.Then, in the fifth game (at St. Louis) after the Minnesotans jumped to a 2-1 lead in the first period on a pair of power play goals by J.P. Parise, the expected slump hit&hellip; and hard.Scotty Bowman&rsquo;s two-time West Division champions tied the game early in the second period, went ahead to stay late in the same stanza and put it completely out of reach with three goals before the third period was half over.Minnesota scored first in game No. 6, too, converting a 5-to-3 manpower edge to the delight of nearly 15,000 partisans at Metropolitan Sports Center in nearby Bloomington.But that early, first period goal by rookie defenseman Barry Gibbs was matched later in the period by St. Louis&rsquo; Ab McDonald and, even though it took a couple more goals with the North Stars at a two-man disadvantage to give the Blues their second and third tallies less than a minute apart in the second period, the Minnesotans&rsquo; fate seemed sealed.It was ironic that St. Louis should score three of its four goals in the 4-2 windup while the Stars were shorthanded.Before a puck was dropped in the series, Burns warned his players that unnecessary penalties might well be costly because of the Blues&rsquo; potent power play which had racked up 72 goals in the regular season.The warning should really not have been needed because it was a well publicized fact that 13 of those 72 tallies had come at the Stars&rsquo; expense in 32 power play situations during eight regular-season clashes.For the series, St. Louis scored 20 goals to Minnesota&rsquo;s 16, and half of the Blues&rsquo; came on the power play.Burns himself was the victim of a rarely-called playing the puck with the hands minor which put the Stars down 5-to-3 in skaters to set up St. Louis&rsquo; 2-1 goal, also by the crafty McDonald.Minnesota&rsquo;s other regular penalty-killing forward, Billy Collins, already had been whistled off by referee Bill Friday.And, no sooner had McDonald scored when Friday knicked Collins again, thus setting up the second 5-to-3 edge which the Blues quickly took advantage of via a goal by Red Berenson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01700/2739271-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="294" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Charlie Burns</figcaption></div>Yet even in defeat, one must feel that the North Stars made giant strides in their third National Hockey League season.From a playing standpoint, Bill Goldsworthy led all West Division goal scorers with 36&mdash;the most by any right winger in the league&mdash;and added four more in the playoffs.J.P. Parise, the gritty little left winger, scored 72 points to finish seventh among the league&rsquo;s scoring leaders.Tommy Williams, the third member of the Goldsworthy-Parise line, hit 67 points to tie the fabled Bobby Hull for 15th on the point-making list.The young corps of defensemen, which included such inexperienced hands as Marshall Johnston, Gibbs and Tom Reid, improved immensely as the season wore on and gives promise of better things to come.Cesare Maniago had his ups and downs in goal until Gump Worsley arrived on the scene in March and, if the Stars&rsquo; management protects these two veterans in the June draft. Minnesota figures to have a strong 1-2 punch right from the word go in 1970-71.Burns suffered through a near NHL record of 20 games without a victory (15 losses, five ties) during one stretch after taking over as coach in December, but by finishing third proved that he deserves a chance to return strictly as a bench operative next season.Attendance is another area in which the Minnesota organization shone. Three straight playoff sellouts pushed final figures to 588,390 for 41 games which is an average of 14,351 or just 17 per game short of capacity. &#9632;

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Expected Slump Hit Minnesota

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01734/2739340-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="299" height="369"></div><h2>True Brotherly Love</h2>EARLY THIS PAST SEASON, Boston was playing in Los Angeles while Chicago was playing in Montreal. It was announced that Chicago had shut out Montreal during Boston&rsquo;s triumph over L.A., and in the Boston dressing room afterwards, Phil Esposito was not nearly as concerned with discussing the good game he&rsquo;d enjoyed as he was trying to find out if his brother, Tony, had played goal for Chicago. Montreal hadn&rsquo;t protected Tony, who had been drafted by Chicago, and Phil figured it would be revenge if Tony went into Montreal and blanked the mighty Canadiens on the feared Forum ice. When Phil found out this was what had happened, he was delighted. So, for that matter, was Tony.Of course, then no one knew this would be a hard season for Montreal at home, and on the road, too, and they&rsquo;d miss the Stanley Cup playoffs by the narrowest of margins for the first time in 28 years, since they finished sixth in the wartime years of 1941 and 1942. Nor did anyone even remotely guess that Tony Esposito would win the Vezina Trophy with a mere 2.17 goals a game permitted on the average, plus a modern league record of 15 shutouts. Meanwhile, Montreal&rsquo;s regular goaltender, Rogatien Vachon, had a 2.63 mark with four shutouts. Vachon is a good young goal-tender, but it can be said now that Montreal missed the playoffs and possibly the pennant when it permitted Esposito to go, and for nothing, which is incredible. With Espo, Chicago soared from last to a tie for first.Of course, there is more to Montreal&rsquo;s decline than one bad move. We remember that when Montreal gave up such gifted young players as Gerry Desjardins, Carol Vadnais, Norm Ferguson, Danny Grant and Claude Larose but still won the pennant and playoffs last season that all of us said it just goes to show you how much deeper and better Montreal&rsquo;s talent is than anyone else&rsquo;s but perhaps it has created a greater problem than realized. Desjardins and Grant, for example, might have contributed just enough to lift Canadiens back to the top had they been kept and used. Still, one shouldn&rsquo;t go overboard because of the drama of the situation. Montreal finished only seven points out of first place and only three goals out of the playoffs, so the Canadiens do not have much ground to regain to return to the heights.In any event, it was by the grace of the Canadiens that Tony Esposito could backstop Chicago to four straight triumphs in the opening-round playoff sweep of Detroit and could be in the nets to be victimized most dramatically by three goals by brother Phil in the opening loss to Boston. It is no disgrace to be victimized by Phil Esposito but when he is your brother and it is done on your home ice in the first game of the most crucial Stanley Cup series and before an international television audience, well it is quite a story to say the least.Everyone was asking Phil if he plays as hard against Tony as against other goalies, and he was saying of course he did, and if he felt sorry for Tony, that just couldn&rsquo;t be helped; they were both pros playing for different teams with high stakes. And Tony was saying he wouldn&rsquo;t want to give up three goals to anyone, not his brother, not his mother, no one. To add to the ironies, Chicago gave up Phil in a deal every bit as bad as the one Montreal made in giving up Tony.<h2>A Genuine Super Star</h2>PHIL IS A BIG CENTER, 6-1 and 205 pounds. He scored 49 goals and set an NHL record with 126 points last season and came back with 43 goals and 96 points this season to establish himself as one of the league&rsquo;s genuine super-stars along with Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe, Frank Mahovlich, Jean Beliveau and Stan Mikita. He is 28 years old and just reaching his prime. He scored the most points of anyone in the playoffs last season and has been doing even better this season, proving his pressure ability.Tony is a good-sized goaler, 5-11 and 185 pounds, and he did well enough with a 2.73 goals-against mark in 13 games for Montreal last season before shooting to stardom with Chicago this season, in what, technically, was his rookie season. He is certain to be &ldquo;rookie of the year&rdquo; and if he is not one of the close runnersup to Bobby Orr in the MVP voting, it will be a big surprise. After four years at Michigan Tech, he is arriving late, but he also is just reaching his prime at 27. He is an unorthodox, scrambling, fall-down net-minder, but Billy Reay was smart enough to use him without changing him, and his way works, even if not always against his brother, who used to beat him in the basement of their home in Sault Ste. Marie. Ontario, sometimes, too.Actually both boys are Anthonys. It is Phil&rsquo;s middle name and he got it 14 months before Tony. Only twice before in history have brothers been first-team All-Stars, but the Espositos should be that this year which will be a source of rare familial pride, even if loyalties are rent asunder when the more experienced Phil overwhelms a nervous Tony at the outset of their post-season duel. &ldquo;We are very, very close,&rdquo; says Phil, &ldquo;but we won&rsquo;t even break bread together until the playoffs are over.&rdquo; Adds Tony, &ldquo;Right now I&rsquo;m not too fond of him, even though I love him like a brother.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02646/2739333-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1177" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goaler Tony Esposito&rsquo;s rise to NHL stardom his first year has been one of the big surprises of the season.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO&mdash;Maybe Toronto Maple Leafs never were good enough to be contenders in the National Hockey League this season.But injuries made it impossible for anybody to say for sure.Trainer Joe Sgro is busy right now, preparing a medical report on the 1969-70 Leafs and when it&rsquo;s submitted to NHL headquarters, Toronto may be declared a disaster area.For the 76 games Leafs&rsquo; coach Johnny McLellan was forced to operate with a total of 225 regular workmen out of his lineup because of injuries or suspensions.It&rsquo;s questionable who&rsquo;s endured the more difficult rookie campaign, McLellan or the new club physician, Dr. Dave Hastings.Put it another way: On the average, three first stringers have been missing in each match Leafs have played.And that doesn&rsquo;t take into account the fact the reserve goalies, Marv Edwards and Johnny Bower, were unavailable for prolonged periods, again because of injuries.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03530/2739371-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="259" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">John McLellan</figcaption></div>Consider some comparisons: Montreal Canadiens moaned about the injury jinx they battled all winter, but their man-games missed didn&rsquo;t hit 200.The loss of Brad Park, Jim Neilson and Don Marshall sent New York Rangers skidding from first place to fifth. Boston Bruins began to struggle when Derek Sanderson developed knee trouble.Leafs&rsquo; centres Jim Harrison and Mike Walton and right winger George Armstrong went out for the season with injuries.The defence was handicapped the most and this, says team vice president King Clancy, was particularly harmful.&ldquo;This was to be a year when our young defensemen would be learning and gathering experience, and that was just impossible,&rdquo; Clancy pointed out.&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t make the headway we were hoping for, simply because so many of the young defensemen were out of action for such long stretches.&ldquo;So it&rsquo;s not just all the games they&rsquo;ve missed, which would be bad enough. It&rsquo;s the education they&rsquo;ve lost out on, too.&rdquo;Mike Pelyk lost 40 games. Injuries cost Ricky Ley 28, Brian Glennie 24 and Pat Quinn 17. Getting hurt wasn&rsquo;t enough for Jim Dorey; he had to get suspended for six games besides and he wound up being absent 30 times.Murray Oliver and Ron Ellis were the only ones who worked in all 76 Leafs&rsquo; games.&ldquo;Losing Bower and Edwards hurt us severely, too,&rdquo; Clancy said, &ldquo;because we weren&rsquo;t able to rest Bruce Gamble as much as we should have.&ldquo;I have an idea Bruce hasn&rsquo;t been in many more games this season than last, but it&rsquo;s been tougher because of that inexperienced defense. For that reason, he should have been spelled off a lot more. But we just couldn&rsquo;t do it.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not rapping Gamble. You couldn&rsquo;t ask for better goalkeeping than he gave us. I just think some time off might have helped.&rdquo;Karl Elieff, Leafs&rsquo; staff physiotherapist, refused to believe the injury epidemic is anything more than bad luck, just a sad coincidence. He dismissed the possibility there&rsquo;s anything wrong with Leafs&rsquo; physical condition.&ldquo;We went years and years without a knee injury and suddenly this season, we had seven. You can&rsquo;t explain something like that. It just happens,&rdquo; said Elieff. &#9632;

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Leafs Could Have Declared Campaign ‘Disaster’ Season

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01713/2739402-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Photographs by Ken Regan)</figcaption></div><h2>GORDIE HOWE: No. 9 *</h2>Jim VipondHis teammates call him &ldquo;Power&rdquo; for Gordie Howe is still the driving force behind the Red Wings&rsquo; attack after 22 seasons in the NHL. Read the amazing story behind magic No. 9, the world&rsquo;s greatest hockey player who doesn&rsquo;t know the meaning of the word quit.Illustrated $4.95<h2>FIRE-WAGON HOCKEY *</h2>The Story of the Montreal Canadiens Andy O&rsquo;BrienA half century of thrilling hockey success is the story of the Montreal Canadiens.Since the founding of the National Hockey League in 1917, the Canadiens have burned up the ice with their personal brand of hockey action. What is it that makes this team stand out, and has won it fans across the nation? The author describes the careers of the superstars who have contributed so much to the special elan that characterizes the Frenchmen&rsquo;s game&mdash;Howie Morenz, Rocket Richard and his brother Henri (the Pocket Rocket), Jean Beliveau, and the whole colourful roster. None of the action is missed in the author&rsquo;s vibrant portrayal of Canada&rsquo;s best-loved sport.Illustrated $3.95<h2>THE MEN IN THE * NETS</h2>Hockey&rsquo;s Tortured HeroesJim HuntIf fakes a special kind of courage for a man fa strap on forty pounds of equipment and act os a human target for pucks fired at speeds up to 120 miles per hour. Yet a brave group of men have been doing just this for many years. They are the goal-keepers of the National Hockey League, and their personal stories make fascinating reading in this new book by popular sports writer Jim Hunt.Illustrated $3.95<h2>FOSTER HEWITT</h2>His Own Story Foster HewittEvery sports enthusiast in the country must surely be familiar with the oft-spoken words, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s hockey night in Canada!&rdquo;&mdash;and the voice which speaks them each week.The name of Foster Hewitt is well known and well loved by hockey fans young and old. Now, for the first time, Mr. Hewitt reveals the highlights of his forty-four fascinating years in broadcasting, in this absorbing and completely enjoyable autobiography.Illustrated $4.95<h2>THE LEAFS I KNEW</h2>Scott YoungCanada&rsquo;s favourite sportswriter was there to see it happen-&mdash;to watch the Maple Leafs grow into giants of hockey. Here is his inimitable first-hand account of a great hockey club, its coach and management including behind-the-scenes stories of its stars. &ldquo;Any hockey fan would share my feelings that Scott recaptures the excitement and drama of the game.&rsquo;&rsquo; Frank Mahovlich. &ldquo;Scott has captured those years well.&rdquo; Bob Pulford$4.50<h2>BOBBY HULL*</h2>Jim HuntThis dynamic story of the most celebrated player in the NHL reveals many sides of Bobby Hull: the brilliant hockey player, the fascinating perscnality, the astute business man and the family man to whom hockey is a means to an end retirement on his farm. &ldquo;A frank and penetrating study.&rdquo; Toronto Telegram.Illustrated $3.95<h2>ROCKET RICHARD</h2>Andy O&rsquo;BrienColourful, quick tempered but always a star, Maurice Rocket&rdquo; Richard was one of hockey&rsquo;s all time greats. Here is Andy O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s full-dress portrait of the man, who, in his 18 seasons with the Montreal Canadiens, rewrote the NHL record book.Illustrated $3.95<h2>THE STANLEY CUP STORY*</h2>Third EditionHenry RoxboroughCompletely revised to include 1968 Stanley Cup play-offs and champions. The Stanley Cup Story is an exciting account of hockey&rsquo;s development in Canada, exploits of hockey &ldquo;greats&rdquo;, a history of the NHL teams and a complete record of Stanley Cup winners. Well-known veteran sportswriter Henry Roxborough has written his Canadian bestseller with humour, interest and fascinating behind-the-scenes anecdotes.Illustrated $4.95<h2>HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA</h2>New, Revised EditionFoster HewittBig Names of the Fifties, behind the scenes stories of World and Olympic tournaments, the Hockey Holl of Fame&mdash;all these and more are contained in Foster Hewitt&rsquo;s completely revised account of the people and events that made hockey Canada&rsquo;s national sportIllustrated $4.95<h2>HEADLINE HOCKEY</h2>Andy O&rsquo;BrienA colourful inside view of Canada&rsquo;s national game through Andy O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s vivid prose. The author also includes tips from the greats, some unforgettable anecdotes and suggestions for a new expansion programme for pro hockey.Illustrated $3.95<h2>HOCKEY *</h2>Gerald EskenaziNew York Times sports writer Gerald Eskenazi examines all phases and aspects of the game from the development of organized play, to strategy and statistics to anecdotes about players and play-offs. Ken Regan&rsquo;s full colour and black and white action shots capture the sheer thrill of hockey.$13.95 &#9632;

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NOW Read about hockey’s Great Goalies…Great Teams and Stars in Ryerson’s line-up of exciting hockey books

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT&mdash;Ned Harkness is a specialist, a coaching specialist, a very successful coaching specialist and that&rsquo;s why he&rsquo;s the Red Wings&rsquo; new coach.But before Red Wing owner Bruce Norris cracked the mold of National Hockey League coaches and jumped a man from college right to the NHL without any professional way stations, it took an evolution.Throughout most of its history, the NHL was the most inbred of professional sports. For years it restricted its membership to a tight little circle of six cities&hellip;and, after watching expansion hockey, that wasn&rsquo;t all bad.Then, in keeping with the times, expansion in all sports, the prospects of lucrative television contracts and the threat of the Western League proclaiming itself major league, the NHL doubled it-self. It went coast-to-coast and new ideas and men arose.Scotty Bowman and Claude Ruel, men who&rsquo;d never played in the league but instead were groomed in the lower reaches of the system, were handed NHL posts.Suddenly it wasn&rsquo;t necessary to be an ex-player to get a coaching job. Rather, it was almost preferable not to be a former major leaguer.College players, for years looked down on by old NHL hands, began getting an opportunity because expansion demanded twice the number of players as before. The league found out the collegians played pretty fair hockey.It stood to reason, with that groundwork, that an NHL team would shatter completely tradition and pick a college coach to run its team.Denver&rsquo;s Murray Armstrong perhaps got the most publicity but Cornell&rsquo;s Harkness was getting offers. Philadelphia twice offered him a job and this past winter, while the Red Wings courted him, two other NHL teams made inquiries.It&rsquo;s a big step to the NHL but college coaches have made the leap&mdash;successfully&mdash;both in pro football and basketball.Norris said Harkness&rsquo; record speaks for itself: seven years at Cornell with a 163-27-2 won-lost-tied record climaxed by a 29-0 record this past season and the Ivy League, Eastern College Athletic Conference and National Collegiate Athletic Association championships.Harkness put in 14 seasons as hockey coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., and won an NCAA crown there and had a 176-96-7 record.Jim Bishop, who holds a title of &ldquo;director&rdquo; of Olympia, was Norris&rsquo; &ldquo;coach scout&rdquo;. While Bishop wants to stay out of the spotlight, his values certainly had a great deal to do with his recommendations. He spent most of the season searching for the right man while Sid Abel had his hands full wearing two hats as general manager and coach.Bishop is a firm believer in new coaching techniques and keeping the players involved and interested. He talks of Vince Lombardi and Hank Stram and the greater sophistication of players today.&ldquo;I feel there are three things involved in coaching: 1&mdash;adrenalin, 2&mdash;teaching and 3&mdash;psychology,&rdquo; Bishop said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;ve been coaches in the National League who&rsquo;ve had two of those ingredients, the adrenalin and the psychology, and they&rsquo;ve been very successful&mdash;men like Toe Blake and Hap Day.&ldquo;I feel that Ned has all three of them,&rdquo; Bishop said.As for No. 2, teaching, Bishop said there&rsquo;s a feeling often expressed in some quarters that by the time a player reaches the NHL, he knows everything there is to know.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02639/2739464-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="255" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ned Harkness</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Do you stop learning after you reach 21? Pro football teams obviously don&rsquo;t think so&mdash;they&rsquo;ve got eight and nine assistant coaches.&rdquo;Any thought that the Red Wing veterans would resent Harkness, an outsider, being named was quickly quelched by the greatest Red Wing of them all, Gordie Howe, who was present when Harkness was introduced at a press conference.A questioner asked if the older players might be unhappy about it and before he could finish his question and before Harkness could respond, a voice rose from the back of the room: &ldquo;NO!&rdquo; It was Howe.Someone else wondered about a college coach making the transition to the NHL.&ldquo;They didn&rsquo;t hire a college, they hired a man,&rdquo; Howe said quietly in the back of the room.&ldquo;I like him,&rdquo; Howe said afterward. &ldquo;I think he&rsquo;s real down-to-earth and I liked it when he said he was going to ask Sid and the older players for advice. He didn&rsquo;t just come in and say he was going to take over.&rdquo;Asked about his own coaching aspirations, Howe said he has none&mdash;&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen what it does to them&hellip;it ages them and I&rsquo;d like to stay young a while longer. I want to stay in hockey after I stop playing but I don&rsquo;t want to coach.&rdquo;-Harkness showed a good wit at the news conference, one he&rsquo;ll be sure to need over the long season, and he also made clear on what basis he accepted the job.He talked of his great admiration for Howe, for Abel, for Alex Delvecchio and he said he will lean on them for advice. He also said &ldquo;I am the coach and have been everywhere I&rsquo;ve been.&rdquo;He has a reputation of being a tireless worker and the lights at Olympia, which have gone out early for some years now, figure to burn at night. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a high-strung person&hellip;very energetic,&rdquo; Harkness said.He also has a reputation of being a perfectionist.&ldquo;Hockey basically is a simple game. The name of the game is hustle and skate and that&rsquo;s the way to win. Our practices are fast, there&rsquo;s no standing around. I want them to work as hard in practice as they would in a game&mdash;to go in full gear and high gear.&rdquo;And he&rsquo;s a stickler on discipline and he explained it:&ldquo;Discipline is doing it the same way every time, not doing it that way one time and forgetting it the next time. That&rsquo;s the way you get in trouble. To become a winner, you&rsquo;ve got to have discipline,&rdquo; Harkness said. &#9632;

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Upsurge In US. College Hockey Prompted Wings To Hire Harkness

<div class="byline">&#x2014;BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01722/2739495-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE&hellip;No Intention Of Retiring</figcaption></div>DETROIT&mdash;Gordie Howe said he will undergo surgery this summer on the arthritic left wrist which hampered him all last season.&ldquo;A doctor in Ann Arbor (University of Michigan Hospital) guaranteed me he can give me upward and downward movement,&rdquo; Howe said. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;m going to get in a few rounds of golf first&rdquo;.Howe said he will play in the June NHL-American Airlines tournament in Toronto and then the Gordie Howe Invitational in suburban Detroit, a huge day-night celebrity pro-am started last year in his honor, before submitting to surgery.The arthritic condition isn&rsquo;t the aging type&mdash;the joint isn&rsquo;t swollen. It developed from a fracture of several seasons ago and tissue built up, forming a lump and making it very painful to move the wrist.Howe refused to wear a special brace last season, saying it restricted his movements even more. It was obvious the condition affected the 42-year-old superstar&rsquo;s play&mdash;wherever possible he used only his right hand to hold the stick.Despite the pain and impairment, he finished in the top 10 in scoring for the 21st straight time&mdash;the first time he&rsquo;s fallen out of the top five after 20 straight years&mdash;and figured to have a strong shot at the All-Star team again.Howe has no intention of retiring now but isn&rsquo;t talking beyond next season which will be his 25th. &#9632;

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Howe To Undergo Surgery For Arthritic Condition

DETROIT&mdash;The hiring of Ned Harkness as coach of the Detroit Red Wings changed the course of two other men&rsquo;s hockey lives last week.Richard &lsquo;Dick&rsquo; Bertrand, one of Harkness&rsquo;s great stars at Cornell University, was chosen to succeed his erstwhile boss as coach of the &lsquo;Big Red&rsquo; upon his graduation.At the same time that the Wings announced that Harkness was their new coach, they disclosed that former Detroit hockey great and ex-Wing coach, Bill Gadsby, had been dismissed as chief scout of the National Hockey League club.Gadsby was told of his dismissal in a letter from club owner Bruce Norris. Gadsby was appointed chief scout after he was ousted as coach of the Wings this season before the third game of the schedule last October.The former hard rock defenseman of the Wings said he had no immediate plans but wanted to remain in hockey. Speculation is that Gadsby will return to the Canadian west and take up junior coaching again, from where he came to rejoin the Wings after felling his lucrative insurance business.Meanwhile the naming of Bertrand, one of the big stars of Cornell&rsquo;s undefeated season that saw them post a 29-0 record under Harkness on the way to winning the U.S. college championship, probably raised some surprise since Bertrand has no coaching experience.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02668/2739526-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="255" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Bertrand</figcaption></div>Bertrand, 28, of Connaught, Ont., was the senior wing on the team and one of the three co-captains. He played here for three years.After completing his junior hockey, Bertrand served on the Metro Toronto police force for two years before enrolling at Cornell.Robert J. Kane, Cornell&rsquo;s athletic director, said: &ldquo;Bertrand will be an able replacement for Ned Harkness. He has many factors going for him. He was a fine Cornell player, an admired leader and he will be a Cornell graduate.&rdquo;Bertrand was Cornell&rsquo;s fifth highest scorer this season. He didn&rsquo;t receive a penalty in 27 games.&ldquo;I am overwhelmed, but I shall do my best,&rdquo; Bertrand said. &ldquo;You know, four years ago Cornell didn&rsquo;t seek me out, I sought out Cornell.&rdquo;New Detroit coach Harkness lauded the choice of Bertrand as Cornell coach.&ldquo;I know he will enjoy great success at Cornell,&rdquo; said Harkness, who stepped off the Ithaca campus last week into the NHL in a move that evoked considerable surprise in hockey circles. &#9632;

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Bertrand Named To Coach Cornell; Wings Dismiss Gadsby As Head Scout

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01700/2739564-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="329" height="654"></div><h2>Penguins Rebound To Tie Up Series As Briere Stars</h2>PITTSBURGH&mdash;The Pittsburgh Penguins were down but they weren&rsquo;t out. At least that&rsquo;s how it looked after the Pens came up off the floor to overcome a two-game deficit and win the next two to square their best-of-seven Western final series at 2-2.Rookie center Mike Briere was the inspiration for the aroused Penguins as he ran in two winning goals in the two games on Pittsburgh ice as the Penguins won 3-2 and 2-1 after losing the first two games in St. Louis.The Blues, with two of the last three games on their home ice where they are practically invincible, appeared to still be in the driver&rsquo;s seat but the Penguins were refusing to roll over and play dead for them.Spurred by coach Red Kelly&rsquo;s bold move in dumping $7,500 in cash on the dressing room floor with the additive that he hoped the Penguins weren&rsquo;t going to let the Blues take that money out of their pockets because it represented their playoff bonus money if they beat St. Louis, came on strong in their two home ice fixtures.They checked the Blues relentlessly and turned on their rivals with a 51-shot offense, an almost unheard of move against the defensive minded Blues. Only the spectacular net play of goaler Ernie Wakely kept the Penguins from running the Blues right out of the rink with a capacity 12,923 fans looking on.The Penguins, held to two goals in the two games at St. Louis when they lost 3-1 and 4-1, came back strong to take game three 3-2 as Briere pushed the winner past Jacques Plante and repeated his performance in game four when his second-period goal stood up the rest of the way for a 2-1 win.While Kelly was optimistic that his Penguins were due for a win in St. Louis, something they haven&rsquo;t been able to accomplish this season. Blues&rsquo; coach Scotty Bowman figures the hometown crowd will give his club the lift it needs to oust the Penguins and send them against Boston in the Stanley Cup final.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02605/2739557-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="255" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ernie Wakely</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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STANLEY CUP ’70

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03477/2739595-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here&rsquo;s MIKE BRIERE of Penguins chasing puck at right in series.</figcaption></div>BOSTON&mdash;The Boston Bruins&rsquo; 12 year wait for a spot in the Stanley Cup finals was over and the man who ended it all was little John McKenzie, the rough-tough right winger who used to make a living breaking steers in rodeos.McKenzie triggered the payoff goal with one minute and 41 seconds to play to give the Bruins a dramatic 5-4 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks and a clean sweep of their Stanley Cup best-of-seven Eastern final.McKenzie proved to be the man on the spot as he cradled the puck in the Chicago end after John Bucyk had originally boxed the Hawks in, to score the winner with a high rising shot that caught the top corner over goaler Tony Esposito&rsquo;s shoulder.The goal set off wild scenes in the Boston Garden as 14,835 fans were delirious over the conquest of the vaunted Hawks, who had nothing left for the final after knocking off Detroit in the semifinals.The win convinced Beantowners that the Stanley Cup was as good as theirs for the first time in 29 years. It mattered little to them who their Bruins opposed now. They were hungry and they seemed confident that Boston would overpower either St. Louis or Pittsburgh in the cup showdown.Rookie Don Marcotte, John Bucyk, Fred Stanfield and Ken Hodge were the other Boston goalgetters. Dennis Hull was a standout for the Hawks scoring twice. Rookie Keith Magnuson scored his first NHL goal ever and another new face, Bryan Campbell, notched one for the Hawks.Esposito, worn out and injured three times in goalmouth skirmishes, was bombarded with 54 shots compared to 24 for Gerry Cheevers of the Bruins.Coach Billy Reay finally admitted the layoff after his team&rsquo;s quick sweep of Detroit hurt the Black Hawks.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t want to say so before as an alibi and it&rsquo;s not an excuse now,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;But we lost our momentum, hanging around home without playing for 10 days.&ldquo;But Boston was full value for winning the series. I hope they can uphold the prestige of the east division in the final.&rdquo;Then he was able to laugh, referring to next season when Chicago will shift to the west division in the new expansion setup.&ldquo;This is probably the last year the east will do well against the west.Bobby Hull, a little bitter that he was unable to get untracked against the tight checking of the Bruins, said the Hawks gave it all they had. &#9632;

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Bruins Reach Finals After 12 Year Wait By Ousting Chicago

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01690/2739675-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"></div><h2>SERIES E</h2><h3>Tues. April 21 BOSTON 4 AT CHICAGO 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02644/2739668-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="585" height="557"></div><h3>Thurs. April 23 CHICAGO 2 AT BOSTON 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03599/2739661-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="585" height="683"></div><h3>Sun. April 26 CHICAGO 4 AT BOSTON 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04548/2739654-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="596" height="796"></div><h2>SERIES F</h2><h3>Tues. April 21 PITTSBURGH 1 AT ST. LOUIS 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05452/2739647-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="593" height="622"></div><h3>Thurs. April 23 ST. LOUIS 2 AT PITTSBURGH 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06384/2739640-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="607" height="616"></div><h3>Sun. April 26 ST. LOUIS 1 AT PITTSBURGH 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07354/2739633-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="586" height="484"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08332/2739626-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="1174" height="1239"><figcaption class="caption-body">Defenseman AL ARBOUR of the Blues battles KEN SCHINKEL of Pittsburgh, along the boards for puck during Western final series. Puck is behind Arbour. (Hockey News Photo by Richard Pellegrini)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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STANLEY CUP PLAYOFF SUMMARIES

<h2>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09316/2739748-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="579" height="204"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. April 8Detroit 2 at Chicago 4Thurs. April 9Detroit 2 at Chicago 4Sat. April 11Chicago 4 at Detroit 2Sun. April 12Chicago 4 at Detroit 2<h2>SERIES &lsquo;B&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10294/2739741-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="577" height="141"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. April 8New York 2 at Boston 8Thurs. April 9New York 3 at Boston 5Sat. April 11Boston 3 at New York 4Sun. April 12Boston 2 at New York 4Tues. April 14New York 2 at Boston 3Thurs. April 16Boston 4 at New York 1<h2>SERIES &lsquo;C&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11269/2739734-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="574" height="135"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. April 8Minnesota 2 at St. Louis 6Thurs. April 9Minnesota 1 at St. Louis 2Sat. April 11St. Louis 2 at Minnesota 4Sun. April 12St. Louis 0 at Minnesota 4Tues. April 14Minnesota 3 at St. Louis 6Thurs. April 16St. Louis 4 at Minnesota 2<h2>SERIES &lsquo;D&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12236/2739727-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="581" height="206"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. April 8Oakland 1 at Pittsburgh 2Thurs. April 9Oakland 1 at Pittsburgh 2Sat. April 11Pittsburgh 5 at Oakland 2Sun. April 12Pittsburgh 3 at Oakland 2<h2>SERIES &lsquo;E&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13202/2739720-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="542" height="160"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Sun. April 19Boston 6 at Chicago 3Tues. April 21Boston 4 at Chicago 1Thurs. April 23Chicago 2 at Boston 5Sun. April 26Chicago 4 at Boston 5<h2>SERIES &lsquo;F&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-14171/2739713-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="556" height="170"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Sun. April 19Pittsburgh 1 at St. Louis 3Thun. April 21Pittsburgh 1 at St. Louis 4Thun. April 23St. Louis 2 at Pittsburgh 3Sun. April 26St. Louis 1 at Pittsburgh 2<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tues. April 28Pittsbrugh at St. LouisThun. April 30St. Louis at PittsburghSun. May 3Pittsburgh at St. Louis (if necessary)<h2>PLAYOFF SCORING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-15141/2739706-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="559" height="2533"></div> &#9632;

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Looking At The NHL Playoff Scene

<div class="byline">BY VICTOR BERNS</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaST. LOUIS&mdash;Ab McDonald, who has scored more points in Stanley Cup competition than any of his St. Louis teammates, scored what probably was the key goal as the Blues moved past this year&rsquo;s quarterfinals.With the score tied 1-1 against the Minnesota North Stars in the sixth and final game the Blues were given a tremendous opportunity when Minnesota drew two quick penalties. Bill Collins went off the ice for tripping, and 42 seconds later player-coach Charlie Burns, who had lost his stick, took a swat at the puck with his hand. The penalty for moving the puck with a hand has sometimes gone uncalled in the National Hockey League, but referee Bill Friday did not hesitate in calling Burns&rsquo; infraction. Captain Claude Larose saw his coach heading toward the penalty box and protested so loudly that he joined him with a 10-minute misconduct.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01688/2739779-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="521" height="643"><figcaption class="caption-body">AB MCDONALD&hellip;Lifted Blues</figcaption></div>The Blues maneuvered methodically on their devastating power play with the two-man advantage. With Burns in the penalty box the North Stars were without one of their regular penalty killers.The Blues kept the puck in the Minnesota end of the ice until the North Stars had the puck on the left boards and appeared to be ready to dump it far into the Blues&rsquo; end.At that point McDonald, who had scored the first St. Louis goal, raced in on the play and grabbed the clearing pass just short of the blue line as the puck was headed for center ice. He whirled toward the boards and faced a stunned Danny O&rsquo;Shea. McDonald skated around him, then cut toward the middle and fired a 30-foot shot past Cesare Maniago. The Blues took a 2-1 lead and held the lead until they brought an end to Minnesota&rsquo;s hockey season.Collins came out of the penalty box on McDonald&rsquo;s goal but was back in the box a minute later. McDonald handled the puck and passed to Barclay Plager, who gave it to Red Berenson. The Red Baron, who had scored in the series three goals, including a shorthanded unassisted goal in the fifth game, and who had played brilliantly throughout the sixth game, had the honor of scoring the winning goal in the winning game. During the regular season Berenson had the Blues&rsquo; highest number of winning goals and highest number of power-play goals.And so, the Blues demonstrated in winning the quarter-finals that the NHL&rsquo;s second-best power play is better than ever. It&rsquo;s a terror with a one-man advantage and simply unstoppable with a two-man advantage. Half of the Blues&rsquo; goals in the Minnesota series came on power plays.Burns said after his team had been eliminated, &ldquo;Our penalty killing wasn&rsquo;t that bad-it was their power play that killed us. You can&rsquo;t give them a two-up advantage and expect to hold them off.&rdquo;The Blues&rsquo; power play shared credit with a hustling, tenacious defense and some excellent goaltending by Glenn Hall, playing in his 108th Stanley Cup game to extend his own record.Early in the game the Blues were the ones who were two men short while Noel Picard and Plager were in the penalty Box, and Barry Gibbs gave the North Stars a 1-0 lead by hammering a goal from the point. But Al Arbour and Jim Roberts worked dilligently to limit the harvest to one goal.Arbour said, &ldquo;That probably was the turning point. If we don&rsquo;t hold them then, we can start planning for a seventh game.&rdquo;After Larry Keenan added the final St. Louis goal at 2:53 of the third period, the Blues bottled the North Stars in the Minnesota end of the ice for the remainder of the game.Hall, who stopped 32 shots, had some important work in the first period, when he stopped 13 and weathered the two penalties.Blues&rsquo; coach Scotty Bowman said, &ldquo;In the first six minutes Glenn made some tremendous saves. If he hadn&rsquo;t, we&rsquo;d have been two goals down and we might not have have come back.&rdquo; &#9632;

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McDonald Key Man In Blues’ Explosive Power Play

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03442/2739810-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="247" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mike Briere</figcaption></div><h2>In The East</h2>John Bucyk is playing the finest hockey of his career this season and the Boston Bruins are thriving from it. Bucyk has been a real ball of fire in the Stanley Cup playoffs&mdash;ask the Chicago Black Hawks.The 35-year-old left winger, skating like a young rookie, has tallied five playoff goals and added seven assists in Bruins&rsquo; 10 games and he has been a going concern on the ice both offensively and defensively.His performance this past week put the Black Hawks out of the Eastern finals in four straight. He scored twice in the B&rsquo;s 5-2 romp in game three and added another in the windup 5-4 fourth game as well as trapping the puck in the Chicago zone for John McKenzie&rsquo;s game winning goal.Bucyk has been an inspiration to the younger Bruins and he could be the man to lead them all the way to the cup for the first time since 1940-41.THE HOCKEY NEWS and El Producto are pleased to salute the NHL&rsquo;s player-of-the-week in the East:JOHN BUCYK&hellip;Boston<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02579/2739817-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="239" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Bucyk</figcaption></div><h2>In The West</h2>The way young Mike Briere is performing in the current Stanley Cup playoffs for the Pittsburgh Penguins you would think he has been around a long time. But he hasn&rsquo;t. He&rsquo;s a rookie.The smooth-skating center of the Penguins has already scored four goals in his first NHL playoff action and that has to rank as pretty special for a youngster who jumped directly from a junior league team to the NHL.Briere this past week put the Penguins back on an even footing with St. Louis Blues singlehandedly by scoring two game winning goals. He popped the deciding goal in a 3-2 decision in game three on Pittsburgh ice and squared the series with a second period goal in a 2-1 win-in game four.His performance in both league and playoff play has been gratifying to coach Red Kelly, who gambled with Briere at the start of the year by using him regularly when he could have gone with seasoned players.THE HOCKEY NEWS and El Producto are pleased to salute the NHL&rsquo;s player-of-the-week in the West:MIKE BRIERE&hellip;Pittsburgh &#9632;

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NHL PLAYER OF THE WEEK

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MACLEAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;In January, if Ranger fans had been told that their club would play the big bad Bruins in the playoffs with Vic Hadfield, Donnie Marshall, Rod Seiling and Arnie Brown on the sidelines, not to mention Brad Park and Jim Neilson playing under severe physical handicaps, most New York buffs would have shuddered at the result.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01663/2739855-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="303" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tim Horton</figcaption></div>Despite a horrendous run of injuries which started February 13 when Jim Neilson tore the ligaments in his knee, continued February 19 when Brad Park broke his ankle and never let up after that. New York was even with Boston after four games of their quarter final series. They led 2-1 at the end of the second period of the crucial fifth game when Orland Kurtenbach put them ahead midway in the second period. Then came a let down which resulted in a Boston rally and ultimate triumph.Bobby Orr was the real difference in the series. The Jean Ratelle-Rod Gilbert-Jack Egers&mdash;line played even with the Phil Esposito trio of Boston. Each got eight goals. The Rangers checking line was down a goal 3-4 to the Bruins and the Walt Tkac-zuk-Billy Fairbairn-Dave Balon line was even up at three apiece. Orr&rsquo;s seven goals made the difference.Arnie Brown and Rod Seiling missed games in the series, with Brownie missing the last two and Seiling the middle four. Ab De Marco, Jr., a smooth puck handling youngster of 21, could easily challenge for a blue line spot next season. He has moves with the puck which make some centers seem clumsy.Also in the defense picture is Tim Horton, the high priced defenseman from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Tim had some good games with Rangers and some bad ones. He was a tower of strength in the playoffs, but did make a bad pass which led to Boston&rsquo;s go ahead goal in the final game. With his salary in the upper stratospheric regions of about $90,000, Horton probably will not be protected and most likely will not be claimed.Jack Egers, the 21-year-old winger up from Omaha where he led the Central League in scoring, moved right into Hadfield&rsquo;s spot and might just stay there next season. Vic had played with Ratelle and Gilbert. Another possibility is Egers, a left hand shot, playing on the right side.Hadfield, after watching Egers get three playoff goals, in spite of a bad groin injury which kept him out of one game, said, &ldquo;if I had to crawl I would have played in the seventh game. The kid is good, real good.&rdquo;Hadfield was only joking about playing as his injured ankle was still unfit for competition, but he knew that Egers posed a threat to his job or any other forwards&rsquo;s job next season. Jack stands six foot one and weighs 175 pounds. He has a Rocket like slap shot off a curved stick and like Hadfield shoots from anywhere on the rink.&ldquo;I am proud of the effort my men gave,&rdquo; said Francis. &ldquo;The young fellows really showed what they could do. There were times when we had four fellows who played most of the season in the minors out there.&rdquo;Francis is also proud of the fact that New York is the only team to make the playoffs four seasons in a row, something no one else in the well balanced NHL can say.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02596/2739848-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="535" height="793"><figcaption class="caption-body">AB DEMARCO&hellip;Has The Moves</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Playoff Injuries Beat Rangers But Future Stars Turned Up

NEW YORK&mdash;BLUE CHIPS: Several Rangers will be examined by the medicos for various ailments starting right now. Billy Fairbairn played most of the playoffs with a cracked rib, which he refused to have X-Rayed&hellip; Jim Neilson&rsquo;s knee will have to come under another examination. Jim played quite well with it in a Joe Na-math type brace&hellip; The rough Boston-New York series resulted in several records being set including most penalty minutes, most penalty minutes one game (174), most penalty minutes one team one game (93), most penalties one period (24) and most penalty minutes one period (132) &#9632;

Medical Checks Await Rangers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01509/2739917-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02435/2739910-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="1471" height="973"><figcaption class="caption-body">Can you find PHIL and TONY ESPOSITO in these two pictures taken during their minor hockey days in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont? You shouldn&rsquo;t have too much trouble. That&rsquo;s Phil at extreme right in front row of photo at left as a 14-year-old midget wearing No. 7 and a C on his sweater. On right, Tony is easy discernible by the No. 1 he&rsquo;s wearing on his bantam hockey jersey. He was a goaler then, too.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Espositos Made Their Mark Young in Sault Minor Hockey

LOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada byHILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD.Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. OntarioSold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada byHILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD.Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. OntarioSold in U.S. and Canada<h4>Voyageurs Retreat To Mountain Hideaway</h4>MONTREAL&mdash;The Montreal Voyageurs are stealing a page from the parent Canadiens&rsquo; book as they prepared for the second game in the round-robin semi-final series for the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Calder Cup.The club announced at the beginning of the week that the players were being removed to a secret hideaway in the Laurentians north of Montreal between games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01424/2739955-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="548" height="1052"><figcaption class="caption-body">MIKE CORRIGAN&hellip; Sank The Vees</figcaption></div>Ron Caron, chief scout for the Canadiens who also coached the Voyageurs at intervals during the regular season, said the team would travel from the Laurentian resort to the Forum each day for practices and then return to the north.They face the Buffalo Bisons here May 1 in the second game of the semi-final series and were to arrive at the Forum only an hour before game time.&ldquo;We think this will give the team some spirit and you know that we picked up a lot of points. on spirit during the season.&rdquo; Caron said in making the announcement.&ldquo;We want to win this series and we want to win the finals as well,&rdquo; the former school professor said after a meeting With the players.The Voyageurs didn&rsquo;t get off to a good start in the semi-final round as the Springfield Kings upset the Montrealers 3-2 on Forum ice last week in the first game on a goal by Mike Corrigan.It was Springfield&rsquo;s first victory at the Forum all season. As a matter of fact, Springfield&rsquo;s closest loss at the Forum was a 2 setback by the Vees.&ldquo;If Springfield can win on our ice then I&rsquo;m sure we can beat Buffalo on their own ice,&rdquo; Caron said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m confident we&rsquo;ll make it to the finals.&rdquo;Moving the Voyageurs to the Laurentians is a practice followed by the Canadiens once the NHL team reached the playoff stage of the season.One of the main reasons for this was because management didn&rsquo;t want the players being bothered by the public for much sought-after playoff tickets.After the May 1 game at the Forum, the Voyageurs were to travel to Buffalo for their third game in the round-robin series and then on to Springfield.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02375/2739948-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="265" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dennis Kassian</figcaption></div>The Kings got two quick power-play goals early in the first period and the Voyageurs just couldn&rsquo;t come back for the win in the opening game.The Vees tied it up but then Mike Corrigan got the winner at 1:17 of the third period and held off a late rally by the Voyageurs to earn the win.Rookie goalie Bruce Landon was the big story. Although the Voyageurs had only 29 shots at him, Landon made several superb saves to keep the Kings in the game.However, the Kings didn&rsquo;t have the same good fortune in Buffalo April 26, losing 2-1 in overtime. Dennis Kassian got both goals for the Bisons, with the winnner coming at the eight-second mark of the first overtime period. &#9632;

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Springfield, Buffalo Win Round Robin Starts

<h2>Wed. April 22 SPRINGFIELD 3 AT MONTREAL 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-07149/2739993-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="579" height="558"></div><h2>Sun. April 26 SPRINGFIELD 1 AT BUFFALO 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-08118/2739986-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="581" height="532"></div> &#9632;

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Calder Cup Playoff Summaries

<h2>SEMI-FINALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03309/2740045-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="578" height="107"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Wed. April 22Springfield 3 at Montreal 2Sun. April 26Springfield 1 at Buffalo 2<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Wed. April 29Buffalo at SpringfieldFri. May 1Buffalo at MontrealSun. May 3Montreal at BuffaloTues. May 5Montreal at Springfield<h2>QUARTER-FINALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04242/2740038-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="581" height="73"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues. April 7Baltimore 0 at Montreal 4Fri. April 10Baltimore 3 at Montreal 6Sun. April 12Montreal 3 at Battimare 4Wed. April 15Montreal 3 at Baltimore 1Fri. April 17Baltimore 6 at Montreal 10<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05198/2740031-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="574" height="69"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Wed. April 8Quebec 2 at Buffalo 1Fri. April 10Quebec 3 at Buffalo 4Sun. April 12Buffalo 2 at Quebec 3Wed. April 15Buffalo 3 at Quebec 2Thurs. April 16Quebec 0 at Buffalo 2Sat. April 18Buffalo 3 at Quebec 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-06166/2740024-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="570" height="69"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Wed. April 8Hershey 2 at Springfield 1Sat. April 11Hershey 2 at Springfield 3Sun. April 12Hershey 6 at Springfield 3Tues. April 14Springfield 4 at Hershey 3Thurs. April 16Springfield 4 at Hershey 3Sat. April 18Springfield 1 at Hershey 2Sun. April 19Hershey 4 at Springfield 5 &#9632;

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AHL PLAYOFFS

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01430/2740076-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Among the most industrious fan dubs in existence is the Sports Boosters of Maryland, who support the Baltimore Clippers. Recently they took the occasion to honor the club&rsquo;s top performer of the year. Big Defenseman MIKE McMAHON is shown receiving Boosters&rdquo; MVP award from president ED BOROW, left, while secretary MAURICE SHOCHATT looks on approvingly.</figcaption></div>BUFFALO&mdash;The Big Gun moved into the tiring line for the first time in two weeks, unloaded twice, and the Buffalo Bisons were on their wav into the second round of the American Hockey League Calder Cup playoffs.An eye injury, the result of a deflected puck, kept Guy Trottier out of the first five games of the Bisons&rsquo; opening-round series with the Quebec Aces. And an adverse reaction to a shot of cortisone almost kept him from playing in the sixth game.Although both ankles were swollen and he was covered with red blotches of skin from head to toe, Trottier, who led the lead with a record-equaling 55 goals this season, insisted on playing.After Capt. Gerry Ouellette put the Herd back on even terms in the finale at Quebec, Trottier collected the winning and insurance goals in a 3-1 triumph which provided a 4-2 decision in the best-of-seven series.The Bisons, who lost the series opener at home, and sustained two overtime losses at the hands of the Aces, thus moved in to the second round, a round-robin affair, with the Montreal Vovageurs and the Springfield Kings.The Vovageurs eliminated the Baltimore Clippers and the Kings moved past the defending champion Hershey Bears The top two clubs in the round-robin will meet in a best-of-seven for the Calder Cup.Trottier, unhappy with his enforced idleness, vainly sought medical permission to play earlier. But the doctors were adamant and Trottier, who took part in the warm-up for Game No. 5. was forced to watch in street clothes.After he was hospitalized in Providence for three days, his eve tired easily and he was bothered by dark spots and shadows. The doctors were afraid body contact too early might prove harmful.In addition to Trottier, the Bisons also welcomed the return of center Billy Knibbs for the sixth game. Knibbs missed two games after sustaining a bruised knee.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m very proud of this club.&rdquo; said Coach Fred Shero. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t remember any team I&rsquo;ve been with having so many people hurt at the same time. But our guys are gutty&hellip;and they never quit.&rdquo;Gilles Villemure, the Buffalo goaltender, and the Quebec backstops. Dunc Wilson and Bobby Taylor, turned in brilliant efforts. Villemure went all the way for the Bisons. and Taylor played the first two games for Quebec.ALONG THE BOARDS-Mrs. Adrian Ouellette was watching her son play for the first time in 10 years when he opened the scoring for the Bisons in the series&rsquo; clincher at Quebec. Gerry didn&rsquo;t know his parents were coming to the game from their Grand Falls, New Brunswick home, until he called a brother to inquire about their wellbeing&hellip;The three playoff games in Quebec drew less than 6.000. In Buffalo, the clubs attracted close to 19,000 for three games. &#9632;

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Bisons’’BigGun’Trottier Fires Up Club

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;This writer feels pretty proud. Of course, we did not get to pick any American League All-Stars. But we made our own &ldquo;mental&rdquo; picks at the start of the season and saw two players whom we felt would make great stars.Sure enough, both have come through here. That would have to be goaler Bob Sneddon and centerman Brian Murphy.Perhaps we were drawn to them through their great physical appearance. We don&rsquo;t, know what it is, but size in any sport seems to draw attention.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02343/2740107-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="280" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Sneddon</figcaption></div>And they both have it. Sneddon, who is 26 and stands 6-2, has put in an amazing season with the Kings. Murphy, younger at 22 and even bigger at 6-3, needed only a chance to get some regular action to prove his worth, which has been much for the Kings.We must credit former coach Johnny Wilson with a keen eye for picking talent. No one off Sneddon&rsquo;s last season record, would have picked him in the draft. But Wilson did, and he plucked him off the Philadelphia Flyers list.On the other hand, Murphy was drafted out of the amateurs by George McGuire, chief Los Angeles scout, from the London Junior A club. His season was nothing to write home about but for the big kid&rsquo;s plus, he never got a chance to play too much.Sneddon has stepped in to become a specialist for the team. He manages to play most of the games on the road in the goal. And his record is impressive. In only 27 games, Bob put together an 11-14-2 slate, which is truly amazing since he did nearly all of his tending away from home.Funny thing is that Los Angeles might not even protect big Bob here so he will go in the draft again this spring. Last winter, he goaled, if that&rsquo;s what it might be called, for Baltimore, Quebec and Portland in the Western League. He played little but still his stats were not too bad.Murphy on the other hand came on like the wind this sea-son. The big center, who also put in some work on defense, hits, checks, scrambles for the puck and has developed a great wrist and slap shot. He was very unhappy here last year and it looked like another season of frustration.The big center, surely an up and coming star, has a great future in the game. A big, strong and aggressive kid who can score and do so many things he can&rsquo;t get to stay here in Springfield forever. He, like most in all fields, just needed that chance to play. &#9632;

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Kings Uncover ‘Stars’ In Sneddon, Murphy

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01407/2740159-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div>WEST SPRINGFIELD&mdash;With the quarter-final safely behind them the Montreal Vovageurs. Buffalo Bisons and Springfield Kings are now turning their attention to round-robin the semi-finals which opened in Montreal for the right to play for the Calder Cup. Here&rsquo;s how the schedule will go:Wed. Apr. 22 Springfield at MontrealSun. Apr. 26 Springfield at Buffalo.Wed. Apr. 29 Buffalo at Springfield.Fri. May 1 Buffalo at Montreal.Sun. May 3 Montreal at Buffalo (if necessary).Tue. May 5 Montreal at Springfield (if necessary).Under the new format, this year&rsquo;s semi-final round will be an elimination home-and-home series with a minimum of four games and a maximum of seven.In scheduling the semi-final round the teams are seeded according to their finish in the final AHL standings. The seeding is: No. 1 Montreal. No. 2 Buffalo. No. 3 Springfield.Since the object of the round is simply to eliminate one of the teams, the series will end when a team is mathematically ousted. In other words, the series will finish when one of the teams, according to the schedule, cannot possibly attain enough points to tie one of the other teams.Of course, the schedule also favors the teams according to their seeding. For example. Buffalo and Springfield could be eliminated in four games while for Montreal to be out the series would have to go at least five &bull; games. To further clarify this, several examples are provided bythe accompanying chart illustrating how the teams can be eliminated.Elimination is not necessarily based on losses but on a combination of wins involving all three teams. The semi-final game will be played under the same rules as those in the quarter-final and final rounds.<h2>How Playoffs Go</h2>The following chart of examples is being provided to help clarify just how a team can be eliminated at any point in the schedule.In reading the charts the three columns on the right indicate the standings of the teams as the series progresses. You read from left to right.&hellip;.Example 1 (In order to eliminate Springfield in four games Buffalo and Montreal must win their first two games).The series would end here as although Springfield did not compete in the fourth game, they are eliminated since they only have one game left and a possible two points while Montreal and Buffalo each have four.Example 2 (Buffalo eliminated in four games).<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02355/2740152-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="1201" height="190"></div>Buffalo is eliminated as it is impossible for them to attain four points as they have only one game left to play.Example 3 (Montreal eliminated in five games).<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03288/2740145-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="1198" height="233"></div>Montreal is eliminated as they cannot attain four points.Example 4 (Three-way tie).The best way to illustrate this possibility is to figure on each team winning its two scheduled home games. If this should occur, Buffalo and Springfield will meet in a sudden-death game in Buffalo while Montreal will earn a bye on the merit of winning the regular season title.Example 5 (Two-way tie).<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04246/2740138-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="1198" height="274"></div>In this case Buffalo automatically qualifies for the finals while Springfield and Montreal must play a sudden-death game for the right to compete in the finals. &#9632;

f0019-01

AHL Begins Intricate Semi-Final Round

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY&mdash;Smack in the middle of the Hershey Bears-Springfield Kings Calder Cup quarter-final playoff series, the Bay Staters&rsquo; coach Jimmy Anderson turned loose an &ldquo;SS&rdquo; line. It shot down the Pennsylvania outfit in the seventh game of a gruelling, pulsating battle.After Spring field dropped two of the first three games on home ice, Anderson made more gambling moves than a Vegas bookie.He switched goalies and broke up his &ldquo;Giant Line&rdquo; of Gordon La-bossiere, Marc Dufour and Doug Robinson. The dice came up seven in three of the next four games for Anderson is his playoff debut as a coach.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01252/2740197-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="258" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Leiter</figcaption></div>But it was the young &ldquo;SS&rdquo; line of Jim Stanfield. Doug Shelton and Mike Corrigan that delivered the knockout punch against coach Frank Mathers&rsquo; defending Cup champions, who also had their share of stars in the brutal checking series which saw 239 minutes in penalties assessed.Stanfield & Co. racked up eight goals, helped set-up 14 for 22 of the Kings 52 points. Stanfield nailed two game winners and topped off his heroics with a three-goal &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; in the final game, including a $14,000.00 playoff shot at the 66 second mark of a sudden death overtime. Each Kings player picked up a $700 check.It was a case of the Kings not knowing when they were whipped. They checked into Hershey trailing 2-1 in games. The Bears forged leads of 3-2 and 2-1 in the fourth and fifth matches, but blew them both in the waning minutes as Stanfield&rsquo;s line hit with deadly accuracy.In the sixth game, Hershey rallied to take a 2-1 decision when Bobby Leiter drilled in a 30-footer in the final nine seconds of play. But the next night in Springfield, the Kings surrended an early 3-1 lead to the Bears before storming back again to pull it all out in overtime.Ironically, rookie goalie Bob Landon, beaten twice in the first three games by Hershey, came on as a last minute replacement for Bob Sneddon in the seventh match to backstop Springfield to a 5-4 victory. Sneddon suffered a finger injury in the sixth match at Hershey.Hershey&rsquo;s goalie Andre Gill was superb in defeat. The little guy allowed only 20 goals in 441 minutes, turning aside 258 shots for a 2.73 average. And his defense of Barry Ashbee, Mike Mahoney, Ralph Keller and Bob Barber, performed admirably. The four blueliners contributed 10 points on two goals and eight assists.The Bears only effective offensive line was the trio of Gil Gilbert. Ted Snell and rookie Bill Lesuk. They closed with 24 of the club&rsquo;s 57 points on 10 goals and 14 assists. The next best line was Leiter&rsquo;s crew of Stan Gilbertson and Bud Debrody with six goals, eight assists for 14 points.In four games Landon allowed 13 goals, made 110 saves for a 3.2 average, while Sneddon permitted only seven goals in three starts. He came up with 102 saves for a 2.3 average.Six of the seven games were decided by a single goal. Three contests went into overtime with the Kings winning a pair of the sudden death matches.Springfield out-shot Hershey, 277 to 235 and had four power play markers to the Bears&rsquo; three.Labossiere, because of a painful ankle injury, saw limited duty in the fourth and fifth games, but came back in the sixth and final game to lend a helping hand. However, the feared line which paced the American Hockey League with 107 goals in regular season play, was held to a halfdozen by the Bears.Billy Inglis, who moved into Labossiere&rsquo;s center spot, and defenseman Noel Price, were without question two of the biggest factors in the Kings advance to the semi-final round. Their penalty killing was brilliant. Price easily played better then 50 per cent of every game. Both may probably get a shot at the NHL next season as even the scouts following the series were impressed with their play.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02179/2740190-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="558" height="587"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILLY INGLIS&hellip;Rough On Bears</figcaption></div> &#9632;

f0020-01

Kings ‘New Line Delivers Blow That Knocked Bears Out Of It

SOLUTION IN JUNE ISSUE<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03147/2740228-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="861" height="1164"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;New Buffalo coach.5&mdash;Initials of an NHL left winger.7&mdash;Negative answer.8&mdash;A former Bruins line.9&mdash;One of the Blues answers to this.12&mdash;Verb.13&mdash;Usual pre-game meal.16&mdash;One of the Flyers.17&mdash;Number of goals scored by Baun this year.18&mdash;First name of Cushenan.20&mdash;Number worn by Oakland captain.22&mdash;Period of time.23&mdash;One of the Leafs.24&mdash;Initials of one of the North Stars.25&mdash;First name of one of the Bruins.29&mdash;1962-63 Calder trophy winner.31&mdash;Scored winning goal in longest Stanley Cup game played.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Pictured player.2&mdash;A former St. Louis forward.3&mdash;NHL Statistician does this.4&mdash;A San Diego defenseman.5&mdash;An NHL general manager.6&mdash;Initials of NHL coach.10&mdash;Birthplace of 9 across.11&mdash;15th and 19th letters of the alphabet.14&mdash;5th and 15th letters of the alphabet.15&mdash;A former Leaf captain.19&mdash;An NHL captain.21&mdash;To make mistakes.25&mdash;Color man on St. Louis radio broadcasts.26&mdash;A Ranger farmhand.27&mdash;A Pittsburgh forward, (first name)28&mdash;Initials of a former Flyer defenseman.30&mdash;Maple Leaf veteran.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;MONTEITH7&mdash;ORE8&mdash;HAY.10&mdash;HULL11&mdash;OBENDORF13&mdash;VET15&mdash;LL.16&mdash;BRO18&mdash;ILL19&mdash;YES20&mdash;C.V.21&mdash;HENDERSON27&mdash;A.O.28&mdash;ART29&mdash;BURNS30&mdash;AMI32&mdash;NHL<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;MAHOVLICH2&mdash;NOLET3&mdash;T.R.4&mdash;E.R.5&mdash;TURLBY6&mdash;HALF9&mdash;YL10&mdash;H.O.12&mdash;BELIVEAU14&mdash;BOS.17&mdash;RENO22&mdash;NORM23&mdash;EAST24&mdash;R.R.25&mdash;STAN24&mdash;NEIL29&mdash;B.O.31&mdash;M.H. &#9632;

f0020-03

Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">BY ALEX HARDY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0021-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01116/2740259-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg"></div>EDMONTON&mdash;With no possibility of a postseason playoff with the Western Ontario Junior League, the Western Canada League stretched out its own playoff schedule to the limit.The Winnipeg-Flin Flon series for the Eastern Division championship went the full nine games and took three weeks to play.The Edmonton-Calgary series in the Western Division took even longer. The teams played and average of only two games a week. Part of the reason was a boat and trailer show which occupied the Edmonton Gardens and Calgary Corral for almost two weeks. Other playoff obstacles to the Oil Kings: a rodeo in the Gardens and. later, a light horse show. Edmonton owner Bill Hunter could have avoided the layoff by scheduling games in smaller arenas in Edmonton. but refused because of the limited seating capacity.Fans apparently became disenchanted with the league for scheduling semi-finals and the inter-division final as best-of-nine affairs. In the West playoff, only 4,709 watched the opeinng Edmonton-Calgary game at Calgary. It was two-thirds of capacity, less than the attendance at regular-season games in Calgary between the clubs. And the 2,386 at the next game in Edmonton was 2,000 short of the Gardens&rsquo; capacity.Del Wilson. Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; personnel director, has reportedly bought 51 per cent controlling interest in Regina Pats. Pats are seeking a WCHL franchise. but the league wouldn&rsquo;t negotiate with the team&rsquo;s previous owner.This season Pats played in the four-team Saskatchewan Jr. League with Weyburn, Moose Jaw and Saskatoon, attracted fewer than 700 fans a game (including playoffs), and are deep in debt. Wilson, who would likely relinquish his pro post if Pats are accepted into the WCHL, is rumored seeking former Montreal Canadien Bob Turner as his coach.Medicine Hat has already been accepted in the WCHL for 197071. and a Regina entry would boost the roster to 10 teams. Rumors that Estevan&rsquo;s franchise would move to Regina are apparently out the window as a result of Wilson&rsquo;s purchase. A group which included ex-Western Leaguer Bill Folk has also been interested in the Regina franchise.Bob Clarke is back home in Flin Flon after a superb rookie season with Philadelphia Fivers&hellip; Flin Flon Bombers&rsquo; goalie Ray Martynuik carried on a feud with Winnipeg Jets&rsquo; fans after they began riding him in the East Division final. It hurt his performance, and after being shelled for half a dozen goals, Martynuik pulled himself.Martynuik&rsquo;s troubles resulted in Flin Flon coach Pat Ginell giving back-up goalie Cal Hammond plenty of work. Hammond, the best second-string netminder in the league, is one of only two Flin Flon players not employed at the Hudson&rsquo;s Bay Mining and Smelting Co. mine in Flin Flon. He is completing Grade 12.Rumors had Skip Krake of Los Angeles Kings replacing Scotty Munro as Calgary Centennials coach. But Munro denies them. Krake played junior hockey under Munro in Estevan. &ldquo;I told him then he&rsquo;d eventually become a good coach, but right now he&rsquo;s got 4-5 years of NHL play to think about.&rdquo; Krake is 26.A youngster presented Winnipeg Jets with a fist full of rabbits&rsquo; feet and a gold horseshoe before the seventh game of their East Division final against Flin Flon. It didn&rsquo;t work. Jets lost 5-4.Oakland Seals&rsquo; scout Bob Turner, after viewing Flin Flon-Winnipeg playoff game comented: &ldquo;Is it more than a coincidence that the last two guys out of the dressing room are married?&rdquo;Winnipeg goalie Mikre Schneider required cortizone injections to ease an injured knee during the Flin Flon playoffs&hellip;Edmonton Oil Kings travelled by bus to Calgary for the first two road games of their West Division final. Then they reverted to chartered aircraft to allow the several University of Alberta students on the team more time to concentrate on studying for exams. &#9632;

f0021-01

Failure To Arrange East-West Series With Ontario Forces Move By WOHL

&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;<h2>WHL Playoffs</h2><h3>FINALS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0541/2740304-1-eng-US/f0022-052.jpg" title="f0022-05" width="582" height="169"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. April 22Portland 1 at Vancouver 4Fri. April 24Vancouver 2 at Portland 0Sun. April 26Vancouver 1 at Portland 4<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. April 29Portland at VancouverSat. May 2Portland at VancouverTues. May 5Vancouver at Portland (if necessary)Fri. May 8Portland at Vancouver (if necessary)<h3>SEMI-FINALS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0634/2740297-1-eng-US/f0022-062.jpg" title="f0022-06" width="571" height="136"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues. AprilSon Diego 1 at Vancouver 7Fri. April 10Son Diego 5 at Vancouver 4Sat. April 11Vancouver 6 at Son Diego 3Mon. April 13Vancouver 3 at San Diego 6Wed. April 15San Diego 4 at Vancouver 7Sat April 18Vancouver 5 at San Diego 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0734/2740290-1-eng-US/f0022-072.jpg" title="f0022-07" width="572" height="139"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. April 8Seattle 0 at Portland &oacute;Fri. April 10Portland 3 at Seattle 6Sat. April 11Portland 2 at Seattle 6Sun. April 12Seattle 0 at Portland 5Wed. April 15Seattle 1 at Portland 8Sat. April 18Portland 3 at Seattle 1 &#9632;

f0022-05

WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY JOHN WHITE</div>VANCOUVER&mdash;The most dramatic championship series in the history of the Western Hockey League playoffs!That was the strong prospect as the Vancouver Canucks and the Portland Buckaroos squared off in their best-ot-seven set for the Lester Patrick Cup.The Canucks swept into the finals by eliminating the third-place San Diego Gulls in six games, wrapping up the series with a 5-3 victory on the road.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0363/2740349-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="265" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hal Laycoe</figcaption></div>The Buckaroos made the finals for the fifth time in six years by stopping the fourth-place Seattle Totems in six games. And the Bucks, too. won the series on foreign ice with a wrapup 3-1 triumph.Highlighting Vancouver&rsquo;s drive to the finals was the sizzling play of the Gerry Goyer-Ted Taylor-Murray Hall line that accounted for almost half of the Canucks&rsquo; goals. 15 of 32. Gover and Hall each scored 14 points to lead Vancouver, while the rugged Tavlor contributed 9 and added a team-leading 34 minutes in penalties.Portland was paced by the scoring of Art Jones and Norm Johnson (11 points each), the steady play of defenseman Connie Madigan, the aggressiveness of Rick Foley (an all-time record of 59 minutes in penalties in six games) and. above all. by the goaltending of Jimmy McLeod.McLeod, in four appearances, allowed only two goals for a 0.50 average. He won all four games.So it&rsquo;s Vancouver against Portland in the finals and for sheer drama try these facts:Vancouver won the league title with an all-time record of 102 points in the standings and Portland was second with 91 points, a total that would have meant first or a tie for first in 17 of the last 21 Western League seasons.Vancouver scored more goals, 334, than any team in the history of the WHL. Portland scored 322 goals, second-highest total of alltime in the Western circuit.The top five scorers in the league are in action in the cham-pionship series&mdash;Art Jones of Portland (an all-time record of 127 points). Andy Bathgate of Vancouver (108). Norm Johnson of Portland (96). Paul Andrea of Vancouver (91) and Bill Saunders of Portland (91).The title series also features seven of the Western League&rsquo;s top nine goal scorers.Portland representatives are Jones with 43 goals. Cliff Schmautz with 40. Saunders with 39 and Andy Hebenton with 36. The Canucks were Andrea with 44, Bathgate with 40 and Ted Taylor with 36.The final series gives the fans in Portland and Vancouver a look at 12 of the 18 players who were voted to the first, second and third All Star teams.Six were Canucks&mdash;Marc Reaume. Bathgate. George Gardner, Andrea, Brad Selwood and Taylor. Six were Buckaroos&mdash;Dennis Kearns, Hebenton. Jones. Dave Kelly. Schmautz and Connie Madigan.Defense? Yep, Vancouver ranked No. 1 and Portland No. 2 defensively during the regular season. And among regulars, the teams boasted three of the top four WHL goaltenders&mdash;Gardner of Vancouver and Kelly and McLeod of the Buckaroos.And to top it all off. the series pits Vancouver&rsquo;s coach. Hal Lav-coe. who was skipper at Portland the last nine years, against his one-time captain and star left winger. Gordon Fashoway.During the regular season. Vancouver won 7. lost 3 ans tied 2 against Portland, out scored the Buckaroos 46 to 34 and outshot them 416 to 365. Vancouver won five of six at home, played 2-2-2 in Portland&rsquo;s Memorial Coliseum.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01133/2740342-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="526" height="830"><figcaption class="caption-body">MURRAY HALL&hellip;Hot Against Gulls</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0276/2740335-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="535" height="838"><figcaption class="caption-body">NORM JOHNSON&hellip;Helped Topple Totems</figcaption></div> &#9632;

f0022-03

Drama Packed WHL Cup Final May Be Best In Loop History

SALT LAKE CITY&mdash;In a close scoring battle going down to the final moments of their final game, Ernie Hicke, the youthful left wing of the Salt Lake Golden Eagles tied Rollie Wilcox for the goal-scoring championship of the team in this first WHL season.Hicke notched his 29th goal late in the middle period of the final game against Phoenix. while Wilcox, who&rsquo;d been the leader throughout the season, narrowly missed his 30th by hitting the pipe with just two seconds remaining in the game.Hicke, 21, the property of Montreal, played in six fewer games than Wilcox. Both playdrs ended the season with identical scoring marks of 29 goals, 26 assists and 55 total points. The diminutive Wilcox, one of the shortest players in the league, but winner of this year&rsquo;s &ldquo;Hustle&rdquo; Award, is owned by the Eagles. He established personal career highs in all three scoring categories and penalty minutes. (61) as well.Hicke also copped the monthly scoring championship by one point over ageless Guyle Fielder. Both Fielder and Hicke had been deadlocked in the scoring column with 18 points prior to Hicke&rsquo;s blinking the red light.Wilcox finished third in the scoring derby for March-April with 16 points and steady Bruce Carmichael was fourth with 15.For the season, the great Fielder led the team in scoring after a late start, coming out of retirement late in November and missing 17 games, he still picked up 66 points on eight goals, 58 assists. Carmichael was runnerup with 57 points. For &ldquo;Hoagy it was his 15th consecutive season in which he&rsquo;d recorded 20 or more goals, a remarkable record for consistency.Just two Golden Eagles played every game this season, center Bob Toothill and defenseman Bob Heaney. Wilcox missed only one game.One of the season&rsquo;s highlights was the recorq-tying performance of Hicke, who potted goals in nine consecutive games, tying a mark that had stood the onslaught of same of the games greatest gunners since 1960 when Seattle&rsquo;s Jim Powers established the record.Carmichael crossed the 800 plateau in scoring by two, and, of course, every time Fielder played a game, scored a point, picked up an assist, he increased his lifetime marks in alltime play. The same applied to defenseman Jim &ldquo;Red Eve&rdquo; Hay.Hard-skating Golden Eagle rightwinger led Hodgson was released from Salt Lake&rsquo;s Cottonwood Hospital, following crrective surgery on his right shoulder.Hodgson missed 14 games this past season primarily because of two dislocations of his right shoulder. Trainer Howard Adams expects Hodgson to complete range-of-motion conditioning in five weeks and to be completely recovered within ten weeks.Hodgson, 24, thrilled Eagles fans with a three-goal hat-trick performance in the season&rsquo;s opening game against San Diego. He also potted three goals in the next-to-last home game vs Denver. The rugged Hobema Indian ended the season with 18 goals. 22 assists for 40 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0449/2740380-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="249" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ernie Hicke</figcaption></div> &#9632;

f0022-04

Fielder Leading Eagle Scorer But Hicke, Wilcox Top Snipers

DENVER&mdash;The Denver Spurs finished their second season out of the playoffs with a record of 24 wins, 37 losses and 11 ties for 59 points. In their first year of the Western Hockey League, the Spurs recorded 23 wins, 44 losses and seventies for 53 points.Attendance the first year was 96,483, or an average of 2,607, in 37 home games. This year in 36 games (Including three at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs), 24,780. Largest crowd: April 4, 1970 (last home game) 7,114.Larry Mavety ended the 1969-70 season as the WHL&rsquo;s leading pointgetter amond defensemen, Mavety scored 10 goals and added 47 assists for 57 points, four shy of the WHL record of 51 set by Seattle&rsquo;s Danny Sprout in 1951-52, and four ahead of Dennis Kearns of Portland who was 11-42-53.Wilf Martin, runner-up to Ed Hoekstra in the Spurs&rsquo; individual scoring race last year, was Denver&rsquo;s top man this year with 77 points, eight more than Hoekstra had last season. Martin, one of only three players who played the entire 72-game schedule for the Spurs, had 33 goals and 44 assists. Brian McDonald was Denver&rsquo;s leader in goal with 34, while Mavety led the Spurs in assists with 47. John Schella was the Spurs most penalized player with 198 minutes. Mavety had 123. Schella&rsquo;s total last year, also tops on the Denver club was 152.Brian Smith ended the season with a hot streak, getting eight goals and six assists in the Spurs last six games.In addition to Martin and McDonald, the Spurs had one other 20-goal scorer&hellip; Brian Harper with 24. Three Spurs were close to the magic 20-goal plateau&hellip; Del Topoll with 19; rookie Kent Byrnes with 18 and Smith with 17.Last year the Spurs had five players with 20 or more goals. Hoekstra (20); Martin (37); Gordie Vejprava (26); Allan Johnson (27); and John Rodger (31).In the Spurs first two seasons, Martin picked up the most points in a season (77) and goals, 37. Billy Carter and Hoekstra have the most assists in a Denver season, 49, and Schella the most penalty minutes, 198.Harper, McDonald and Martin each scored three game winning goals, and Martin led in first goals of the game with 5. Gordie Vejprava and Harper had four each.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01114/2740411-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="259" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Mavety</figcaption></div> &#9632;

f0023-01

Crowds Up But Spurs Still Down

SEATTLE&mdash;Andy Hebenton, professional hockey&rsquo;s all-time ironman, was voted the Fred Hume Cup as the Western League&rsquo;s most gentlemanly player during the past season.Hebenton, right winger for the Portland Buckaroos, drew 238 of a possible 540 voting points from the players to top teammate Art Jones, who finished with 175 points. He will receive a check for $400 from the WHL.Hebenton, who drew only two penalties all season (one minor, one major), also won the Hume Cup with Portland in 1965.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0278/2740449-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="550" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDY HEBENTON&hellip;WHL&rsquo;s Cleanest Player</figcaption></div>And he is a former winner of the Lady Bing Memorial Trophy in the National Hockey League for gentlemanly play with the New York Rangers.Hebenton scored 36 goals and a total of 78 points during the past season&mdash;at the age of 40.Art Stratton of Seattle was third in the voting with 110 points and veteran Guyle Fielder of Salt Lake fourth with 81.Fielder is a three time winner of the award, an honor shared by Phil Maloney of Vancouver, now retired. Gord Fashoway and Lou Jankowski also won the award once each.Marc Reaume a first All-Star during the 1969-70 season, was selected as the winner of the Hal Laycoe Cup which annually is awarded to the league&rsquo;s outstanding defenseman as selected by the players.Reaume compiled 479 of a possible 540 points in the balloting by the players on an all opponent basis with five points for first, three for second, and one for third. Second in the voting was Portland defenseman Dennis Kearns who finished with 120 points and third was John Hanna of Seattle, the 1969 winner, with 78 points.Reaume is the second Vancouver player to win the Laycoe Cup. Larry Cahan of the Canucks won the award in 1967. Other winners of the award include Pat Stapleton and Con Madigan of Portland, and Sandy Hucul of Phoenix.The Canuck defenseman will also receive a check for $400 and a trophy from the League.The awards were the second and third announced by the WHL since the close of the season. Young Brad Selwood of Vancouver was chosen rookie of the year. The league&rsquo;s MVP award is still to be announced.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0358/2740442-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="545" height="652"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARC REAUME&hellip;No. 1 On Blueline</figcaption></div> &#9632;

f0023-02

Hebenton Voted Hume Award; Reaume Named Top Defenseman

<h2>Wed. April 15 SAN DIEGO 4 AT VANCOUVER 7</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0446/2740525-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="583" height="901"></div><h2>SEATTLE 1 AT PORTLAND 8</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0533/2740518-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg" title="f0023-05" width="591" height="808"></div><h2>Sat. April 18 VANCOUVER 5 AT SAN DIEGO 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0628/2740511-1-eng-US/f0023-062.jpg" title="f0023-06" width="586" height="706"></div><h2>PORTLAND 3 AT SEATTLE 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0724/2740504-1-eng-US/f0023-072.jpg" title="f0023-07" width="575" height="503"></div> &#9632;

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WHL Playoff Summaries

LOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada byHILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD.Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. OntarioSold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada byHILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD.Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. OntarioSold in U.S. and CanadaSYL APPS JR.&hellip; Sizzled In Playoffs<h2>CHL PLAYOFFS</h2><h3>FINALS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0276/2740570-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="571" height="104"></div>(Omaha wins best-of-seven series 4-1)<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Omaha 6 at Iowa 2Sat. April 11Omaha I at Iowa 3Wed. April 15Iowa 2 at Omaha 4Fri. April 17Iowa 6 at Omaha 7Sat. April 18Iowa 5 at Omaha 7<h3>SEMI-FINALS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0352/2740563-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="572" height="106"></div>(Omaha wins best-of-seven series 4-3)<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. March 25Omaha I at Fort Worth 2Fri. March 27Omaha 2 at Fort Worth 3Sat. March 28Forth Worth 1 at Omaha 5Sun. March 29Fort Worth 1 at Omaha 3Tues. March 31Fort Worth 1 at Omaha &oacute;Wed. April 1Omaha 4 at Fort Worth 5Fri. April 3Fort Worth 0 at Omaha 3Iowa wins best-of-seven series 4-2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0440/2740556-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="567" height="109"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. March 25Tulsa 2 at Iowa 4Sat. March 28Tulsa 1 at Iowa 2Sun. March 29Iowa 0 at Tulsa 5Tues. March 31Iowa 6 at Tulsa 2Wed. April 1Tulsa 5 at Iowa 3Fri. April 3Iowa 4 at Tulsa 0 &#9632;

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY BOB LINDLEY</div>OMAHA&mdash;&ldquo;Well the Pablum Kids came through, just like I predicted they would.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01124/2740608-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="545" height="681"><figcaption class="caption-body">SYL APPS JR&hellip;Sizzled In Playoffs</figcaption></div>The speaker was Jake Milford, general manager of the Omaha Knights&mdash;correction, make that the Central Hockey League champion Omaha Knights&mdash;and he was as proud as a new papa.&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t have beans when we beat Iowa in that first game over in Waterloo,&rdquo; Milford continued, &ldquo;but our kids refused to quit. They played a great game, won it 6-2 and steered us toward the championship.&rdquo;After Iowa won the second game 3-1, also at home, the Knights got Don Luce and Jack Egers back from the New York Rangers and it was all over.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll say one thing for Iowa.&rdquo; Milford said, &ldquo;they came into our building and gave us a run for our money. They scored a lot of goals and had us hanging on the ropes a couple of times. They never gave up.&rdquo;But the Knights, under the astute handling of coach Larry Popein, were like a team of destiny, ending the season like they started it, romping over all comers.It was during their opening six-game road trip that Jake tabbed his youngsters with the nickname &ldquo;Pablum Kids.&rdquo;&ldquo;Our team is so young,&rdquo; he said at the time, &ldquo;that for our road trip were taking along two cases of Pablum and a box of bubble gum to tide us over.The Knights promptly won five of the six road games and went home in first place.Although they didn&rsquo;t maintain the phenomenal pace on the road, they were absolutely unbeatable in the friendly and usually throbbing confines of Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum, and that dominance before the home folks prodded them into a first-place finish through the regular season.They did not lose a game in the playoffs at home, whipping the Fort Worth Wings four times there to win the opening series 43. then taming the Iowa Stars three out of three to wrap up the championship, their second since the Central League went into operation seven years ago.The Knights lost veteran center Don Luce just prior to the end of the regular season, bid adieu to 42-goal sniper Jack Egers (a star for the Rangers during their NHL playoffs) after one game in the semi-final round against Fort Worth, lost 26-goal scorer Pierre Jarry with a broken bone during that same series, then were stunned by the loss for the remainder of the playoffs of the team&rsquo;s inspirational leader, Ron Boehm with an ankle injury.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0531/2740601-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="256" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jake Milford</figcaption></div>Syl Apps Jr., who had a so-so regular season, formed the backbone of the potent Knight attack in the playoffs, tying the CHL record for most playoff goals with 10. Oklahoma City&rsquo;s Tom Webster set the record last year.Not only did the Knights claim the coveted Adams Cup, symbolic of supremacy in the league, they also were overwhelmingly successful at the turnstiles, playing to standing-room crowds in six of the seven playoff games at Ak-Sar-Ben.&ldquo;We could have sold 24,000 tickets for those final who games against Iowa,&rdquo; Milford said. &ldquo;but, the fire marshall put the clamp on us and held us to seating capacity&mdash;5,985.&rdquo;,Before the firemen laid down the law, however, Jake and the Knights had crammed 6,700 into the building for one playoff game and 6,200 for another.And 600 fans trekked to Waterloo for the games over there.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got the greatest fans in the league,&rdquo; Jake said.And Jake rewarded them with the best team in the league, it might be added. &#9632;

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‘Pablum Kids ‘Came Through, Milford Tribute To His Knights

OMAHA&mdash;There&rsquo;s yet another honor bestowed upon Knights of which GM Jake Milford is most proud.&ldquo;The Barbers Union of America presented our club with the Golden Shear Award,&rdquo; Jake said proudly, for having the cleanest cut group of pro athletes in the country.&rdquo; &#9632;

Barbers Union Names Knights ‘Cleanest Cut In Country’

<h2>Wed. April 8 OMAHA 6 AT IOWA 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0627/2740670-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="599" height="869"></div><h2>Sat. APRIL 11 OMAHA 1 AT IOWA 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0724/2740663-1-eng-US/f0024-072.jpg" title="f0024-07" width="585" height="653"></div> &#9632;

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CHL Playoff Summaries

<h2>FINALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01104/2740736-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="576" height="138"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Sat. April 4Greensboro 5 at Clinton 7Sun. April 5Clinton 2 at Greensboro 7Tues. April 7Greensboro 7 at Clinton 8Wed. April 8Greensboro 0 at Clinton 3Sun. April 12Greensboro 2 at Clinton 4Tues. April 14Greensboro 2 at Clinton 8<h2>NORTHERN DIVISION</h2><h3>FINALS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0264/2740729-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="584" height="122"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Sat. March 21New Haven 2 at Clinton 5Tues. March 24New Haven 2 at Clinton 3Thurs. March 26Clinton 3 at New Haven 0Sat. March 28Clinton 0 at New Haven 2Mon. March 30New Haven 2 at Clinton 0Tues. March 31Clinton 0 at New Haven 3Wed. April 1New Haven 3 at Clinton 4<h3>Semi-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0343/2740722-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="577" height="302"></div><h3>Southern Division</h3>FINALS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0433/2740715-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="578" height="173"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Sat. March 21Charlotte 2 at Greensboro 5Sun. March 22Greensboro 3 at Charlotte 6Tues. March 24Charlotte 1 at Greensboro 4Wed. March 25Greensboro 1 at Charlotte 2Fri. March 27Greensboro 4 at Charlotte 3Sat. March 28Charlotte 3 at Greensboro 4<h3>Semi-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0532/2740708-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="600" height="140"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Wed. March 11Charlotte 2 at Salem 1Fri. March 13Charlotte 4 at Salem 5Sun. March 15Charlotte 6 at Salem 5Tues. March 17Salem 4 at Charlotte 5Wed. March 18Salem 2 at Charlotte 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0622/2740701-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="566" height="134"></div> &#9632;

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EHL PLAYOFFS

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div>GREENSBORO&mdash;To put it mildly, the Greensboro Generals are bitter about their failure in the Eastern Hockey League championship finals.Coach Ron Spong is both unhappy about the six-game loss to Clinton this year, but also over his club&rsquo;s failures in past seasons in the playoffs. Only once in the club history has it won the Walker Cup even though it&rsquo;s been the division winner seven times.What made it worse this year was the club&rsquo;s feeling that it could have won it all had they been given fair shake on dates. But the Gens were thwarted by the fact that their Coliseum was being renovated and the construction firm coudn&rsquo;t wait if it hoped to finish before next season. As it was, the company extended the Gens time until April 5, a week later than an earlier deadliner.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0721/2740774-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="255" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Stankiewicz</figcaption></div>Spong felt his club could win the series if it had played three games at home especially since it had momentum going with wins over Jacksonville and Charlotte while Clinton had tough series with New Haven and Syracuse. Spong at first didn&rsquo;t have a single home date and checked out the possibilities of playing at Charlotte or Salem. Then he induced the builders to stay open until Apr. 5.It was then he requested that Clinton play the first two games here and the five remaining at Clinton. The Comets, who had won the odd home game advantage for the playoffs by posting the most points in the regular season, rejected Spong&rsquo;s request although they did play the second game here.The Gens were so mad that they won the first two games over an obviously weary Clinton team, and it appeared despite the overwhelming odds of road frays that the Gens would topple the Comets. A last minute pitch to move Greensboro&rsquo;s home games to New Haven also was turned down by the Comets.With all this background and spending 10 days away from home, Spong couldn&rsquo;t exactly blame his team for dipping in spirit. Spong tried to rouse his team after it dropped the third game in sudden death by tossing Pat Kelly&rsquo;s remarks at the squad. The Clinton coach called the Greensboro squad &ldquo;gutless&rdquo; for staying clear of any rough play.Even these disparaging remarks failed to rouse the Gens. The club failed to put the puck in the net in the last three games after high scoring in the opening trio. Spong especially was disappointed in the club&rsquo;s power play but he did confess that was one of his team&rsquo;s weaknesses all season. In the first three games, the Gens also jumped out to early leads. In the last three they trailed at the outset and never were able to overcome the deficits.GREENSBORO: Spong at-tributed lack of hitting on defense for some of the problems with Clinton. Bob Sicinski checked well by Comets. Bob Mullins suffered jaw injury that hurt his playoff action. Moe L&rsquo;Abbe missed two vital breakaway goals that could have turned the tide of the series. Some Gens fans can&rsquo;t see why the city couldn&rsquo;t pressure the Coliseum contractor to delay start of renovations. Spong led Gens to 7 divisional titles in 10 years.CLINTON: Pat Kelly&rsquo;s strategy was to hit Gens wings and halt their attack. Jake Rathwell went to Iowa Stars for CHL playoffs as did Joe Robertson to Omaha. Each Comet received 31 percent of playoff pool while each Gen got 25 percent. Receipts weren&rsquo;t as high as anticipated since so many games were in small Clinton Arena. Comets now have five Walker Cup crowns. Fans gave Kelly a bucketful of money in appreciation of his efforts in winning four pennants in five years. Jake Rath-well&rsquo;s mother saw him perform in playoffs for first time since his junior days.JERSEY: John McAdams, assistant GM, attended many playoff games to establish con-tact with major league scouts. He hoped to wangle invites to training camps next fall to see which players could be sent to the Devils. The club is seeking some muscle to protect goalie Gilles Banville next season.CHARLOTTE: John Gould was only player who didn&rsquo;t reach championship finals with 10 goals. John Rodger and Tom Trevelyan with 19 and 18 points respectively were Checkers top playoff pointmakers. Bob Shupe&rsquo;s 69 penalty minutes were topped only by Clinton&rsquo;s Ian Anderson who had 73 minutes.NEW HAVEN: Dave Hain-sworth was No. 1 playoff goalie with 2.55 average and three shutouts. Pierre LeBlanc&rsquo;s 13 points and 11 by Kevin Morrison led team. Hainsworth had 348 saves in 11 games. Mike Hornby will go to the Oakland camp next year and Don Perry doesn&rsquo;t expect him back. He also looks for Hainsworth Bob Peters, Murray Kuntz and Morrison to make the grade.LONG ISLAND: New coach and general manager Ed Stankiewicz has been busy trying to line up some talent for next season. He&rsquo;ll be a non-playing coach at 44, although he&rsquo;s kept in shape for last couple of seasons playing amateur hockey while in business outside of Toronto. He&rsquo;s the club&rsquo;s first bench coach since John Muckier.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0818/2740767-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="556" height="948"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON SPONG&hellip; Miffed Over Windup</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Spong Laments Lack Of Home Ice In Final After Clinton Rode Over Gens For Title

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div>DAYTON&mdash;Having the advantage of home ice in a playoff was never more evident than it was in declaring the 1969-70 champion of the International Hockey League&mdash;the Dayton Gems. The Gems defeated the Port Huron Flags 5-3 in the seventh and deciding game of their best-of-seven final series to win the Turner Cup for the second straight year. Without home ice it is conceivable the Gems may not have made it, judging by the course the windup series took.The Gems won the first game here in Dayton, lost the second on Port Huron ice, won the third at home, lost the fourth in Port Huron, won the fifth at home and dropped the sixth in Port Huron to force what amounted to a &lsquo;homer&rsquo; final back to Dayton to decide the titleholder.But the Gems proved beyond a doubt that they are a superior hockey club with the added edge of their home rink and that&rsquo;s what the teams play a 72-game schedule for&mdash;to gain the advantage of the odd games in playoffs should it come down to a situation similar to this year&rsquo;s final championship series.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01112/2740812-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="262" height="406"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Ramsay</figcaption></div>Coach Larry Wilson and general manager Lefty McFadden thus provided Dayton with another winner and the Gems&rsquo; fans responded appreciatively by turning out in record numbers this season. More than 180,000 fans watched the Gems play this season in league and playoff action.For the first time in 10 years the final playoff series was forced into the maximum number of games. When the teams went into the seventh game for the decision it was the first time a seven game final had been staged since the still remembered battle between St. Paul and Fort Wayne in 1960, one of which went into a fourth overtime before an early morning decision was reached.Even in a scheduled five-game windup the winners have been in the habit of winding it up early. Dayton took it in three straight last year from Muskegon after losing to the Mohawks the previous season, four out of five. Tolede beat Fort Wayne four out of six in 1967, Port Huron allowed Dayton to win only one in taking the Turner Cup in 1966, and so on.But not this season. The Flags; termed the &ldquo;dark horses&rdquo; when the playoffs opened, carried the Gems to a seventh game in which they gained home ice as a result of winning the Sothern Division title, although the Flags had nosed them out in the over-all standings by one point. 81 to 80. The odd game loomed as ultra-important, since it had been strictly a home-and-home affair, each winning three on its own ice.The playoffs continued to be marked by some hassles that had featured earlier competition in the playoffs, mainly centering about the goal-keepers.Coach Ted Garvin and the Flags finally managed to get the veteran All-Star goalie Glenn Ramsay into the nets for the second time in their playoffs to replace Phil Headley. Ramsay had been used as a backup in the Des Moines series but Commissioner Bill Beagan ruled that he could not be used unless the no. 2 net-minder, Ron Marlow, was injured. And Marlow did get hurt, bringing Ramsay into action as the Flags took out Des Moines to enter the finals.With Marlow out, that left Headlev and Ramsay available for duty. Coach Garvin had some ideas of alternating the two but Commisioner Beagan quickly nixed this idea, saying Ramsay could be used only in case of injury to Headley. And sure enough, Headley did get hurt, in the fourth game, when he suffered a groin injury and was replaced by Ramsay after Referee Skeets Harrison was assured by the examining doctor that he was unable to continue.&ldquo;I know Dayton won&rsquo;t believe me,&rdquo; Garvin said, &ldquo;but Phil first injured that groin in the Des Moines series.&rdquo; Said Headley, &ldquo;It has bothered me for two weeks. And tonight it felt like sharp needles.&rdquo; The Gems were openly derisive but Dayton coach Wilson said, &ldquo;Let them use Ramsay. You can beat any goalkeeper if you are working&rdquo;.The Gems, too, made a change in goal in this game. The 20-year-old rookie Mike Dumas, who had toiled in the nets through nine playoff games, was relieved by Pat Rupp after the Flags had scored six goals.The close nature of the series required the teams to wind up with three games in three nights, which they managed by plane trips between the two cities.Marty Reynolds and Ken Gratton were the big offensive men for the Flags, Don Westbrooks and Barry Merrell for the Gems. Gratton had a hat trick in an 8-5 victory. The Flags were heartened by the return to duty of Bob Cunningham, giving some relief to the three defensemen who had borne the brunt of battle&mdash;Mike Doersam, Ron Hopkinson and Bob Howard and also the return of Billy LeCaine, who missed one game because of a previous business engagement.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0265/2740805-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="526" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY WILSON&hellip; Second Cup Winner</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Day ton Wins Turner Cup Again Beating Flags In 7-Ga me Final

69-70&mdash;Dayton Gems68-69&mdash;Dayton Gems67-68&mdash;Muskegon Mohawks66-67&mdash;Toledo Blades65-66&mdash;Port Huron Flags64-65&mdash;Fort Wayne Komets63-64&mdash;Toledo Blades62-63&mdash;Fort Wayne Komets61-62&mdash;Muskegon Zephyrs60-61&mdash;St. Paul Saints59-60&mdash;St. Paul Saints58-59&mdash;Louisville Rebels57-58&mdash;Indianapolis Chiefs56-57&mdash;Cincinnati Mohawks55-56&mdash;Cincinnati Mohawks54-55&mdash;Cincinnati Mohawks53-54&mdash;Cincinnati Mohawks52-53&mdash;Cincinnati Mohawks51-52&mdash;Toledo Mercurys50-51&mdash;Toledo Mercurys49-50&mdash;Chatham Maroons48-49&mdash;Windsor Hettche47-48&mdash;Toledo Mercurys46-47&mdash;Windsor Spitfires45-46&mdash;Detroit Auto Club &#9632;

IHL Champions

<h2>FINALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0349/2740895-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="578" height="147"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Thurs. April 9Port Huron 1 at Dayton 6Sun. April 12Dayton 0 at Port Huron 3Wed. April 15Port Huron 1 at Dayton 4Fri. April 17Dayton 5 at Port Huron 8Sat. April 18Port Huron 2 at Dayton 5Sun. April 19Dayton 2 at Port Huron 4Tues. April 21Port Huron 3 at Dayton 5<h2>Semi-Finals</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0434/2740888-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="580" height="142"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Thurs. March 26Dayton 1 at Muskegon 2Sat. March 28Dayton 5 at Muskegon 4Sun. March 29Muskegon 2 at Dayton 7Wed. April 1Muskegon I at Dayton 9Fri. April 3Dayton 3 at Muskegon 7Sat. April 4Muskegon 1 at Dayton 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0530/2740881-1-eng-US/f0026-052.jpg" title="f0026-05" width="572" height="132"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues. March 31Des Moines 1 at Port Huron 3Thurs. April 2Des Moines 3 at Port Huron 4Sat. April 4Port Huron 2 at Des Moines 5Mon. April 6Port Huron 4 at Des Moines 10Wed. April 8Des Moines 3 at Port Huron 5<h2>Quarter-finals</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0621/2740874-1-eng-US/f0026-062.jpg" title="f0026-06" width="570" height="141"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues. March 24Fort Wayne 3 at Port Huron 5Thurs. March 26Port Huron 3 at Fort Wayne 1Sat. March 28Fort Wayne 4 at Port Huron 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0719/2740867-1-eng-US/f0026-072.jpg" title="f0026-07" width="571" height="172"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Wed March 25Des Moines 4 at Toledo 2Fri. March 27Des Moines 2 at Toledo 1Sat March 28Toledo 3 at Des Moines: &#9632;

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IHL PLAYOFFS

<h2>ALLAN CUP Finals</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0266/2741069-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="578" height="140"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Sun. April 26Orillia 2 at Spokane 5<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tues. April 28Orillia at SpokaneThurs. April 20Orillia at SpokaneSat. May 2Orillia at SpokaneSun. May 3Orillia at Spokane (if necessary)Tues. May 5Orillia at Spokane (if necessary)Wed. May 6Orillia at Spokane (if necessary)<h3>Eastern Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0345/2741062-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="575" height="142"></div><h3>Semi-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0440/2741055-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="580" height="132"></div><h3>Eastern Quarter-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0531/2741048-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="572" height="140"></div><h3>Western Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0627/2741041-1-eng-US/f0027-062.jpg" title="f0027-06" width="578" height="139"></div><h3>Western Semi-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0724/2741034-1-eng-US/f0027-072.jpg" title="f0027-07" width="578" height="173"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0823/2741027-1-eng-US/f0027-082.jpg" title="f0027-08" width="584" height="142"></div><h3>Western Quarter-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0922/2741020-1-eng-US/f0027-092.jpg" title="f0027-09" width="590" height="303"></div><h2>MEMORIAL CUP</h2><h3>Eastern Semi-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1020/2741013-1-eng-US/f0027-102.jpg" title="f0027-10" width="586" height="172"></div><h3>Eastern Semi-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1118/2741006-1-eng-US/f0027-112.jpg" title="f0027-11" width="576" height="143"></div><h3>Quarter-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1217/2740999-1-eng-US/f0027-122.jpg" title="f0027-12" width="590" height="618"></div><h3>Western Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1314/2740992-1-eng-US/f0027-132.jpg" title="f0027-13" width="582" height="174"></div><h3>Western Semi-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1414/2740985-1-eng-US/f0027-142.jpg" title="f0027-14" width="579" height="277"></div><h2>CHA PLAYDOWNS</h2><h3>WESTERN ONTARIO LEAGUE Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1512/2740978-1-eng-US/f0027-152.jpg" title="f0027-15" width="579" height="140"></div><h2>WESTERN CANADA LEAGUE</h2><h3>Western Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1610/2740971-1-eng-US/f0027-162.jpg" title="f0027-16" width="577" height="140"></div><h3>SEMI-FINALS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-178/2740964-1-eng-US/f0027-172.jpg" title="f0027-17" width="578" height="306"></div><h3>EASTERN FINALS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-187/2740957-1-eng-US/f0027-182.jpg" title="f0027-18" width="577" height="135"></div> &#9632;

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