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August 1, 1970

The Hockey News August 1, 1970

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01404/2650422-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02355/2650415-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="1470" height="886"><figcaption class="caption-body">When the AHL went to Castle Harbour, Bermuda for its annual meeting the league combined a golf tournament with hockey business during the late June gathering. Here are two of the many foursomes that ventured out on the Beach and Golf Club fairways. On the left, starting from the left, JOHN MUCKLER, Cleveland GM, GEORGE SAGE, Providence owner, TERRY REARDON, Baltimore GM, and RAY EMBRO, Baltimore co-owner. In right hand photo from the left, R.C. &lsquo;JAKE&rsquo; EMBRY, Baltimore co-owner, GORDON ANZIANO, AHL publicist, TED SHORE, Springfield executive, and DAVE CREIGHTON, Providence GM.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

There’s A Time For Hotkey…And a Time For Coif

<h2>TRADING</h2>MONTREAL&mdash;Bobby Rousseau, forward, traded to Minnesota of NHL in exchange for Claude Larose, forward.MINNESOTA&mdash;Bill Collins, forward, traded to Montreal to, complete pre-draft deal for Jude Drouin, forward with Montreal Voyageurs last season, and Ted Harris, defenseman.PITTSBURGH&mdash;John Arbour, defenseman, sold outright to Vancouver of NHL. Rod Zaine, forward, purchased from Balti-more of AHL for cash and other considerations. Clippers will retain Zaine&rsquo;s minor league rights for one year.<h2>INTRA LEAGUE DRAFT</h2>LOS ANGELES&mdash;Paul Curtis, defenseman, drafted from Montreal. Kings left Billy Inglis, forward, off list and Montreal claimed him.NEW YORK&mdash;Guy Trottier, forward, drafted by Toronto, Gerry Lemire, forward, drafted from St. Louis.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Bill Lesuk, forward, drafted from Boston. Flyers left Dick Cherry, forward, off list and Boston claimed him.MONTREAL&mdash;Bob McCord, defenseman, drafted from Minnesota. Canadiens left Ted Harris defenseman, off list and Minnesota claimed him.OAKLAND&mdash;Gary Croteau, forward, drafted from Detroit; Paul Andrea, forward, drafted from Vancouver reserve list.MINNESOTA&mdash;John Gofton, forward, drafted from Rochester reserve list; Jean-Guy, Lagace, defenseman, drafted from Pittsburgh.PITTSBURGH&mdash;Joe Daley, goalkeeper, placed on waivers and claimed by Buffalo. Lowell MacDonald, forward, drafted from Los Angeles. Penguins left Craig Cameron, forward, off list and he was claimed by Los Angeles.ST. LOUIS&mdash;Ted Atkinson, forward, drafted from Hershey reserve list; Chris Evans, defenseman; drafted from Phoenix reserve list.DETROIT&mdash;Tom Martin, forward, drafted from Phoenix reserve list.<h2>INTER-LEAGUE DRAFT</h2>BUFFALO&mdash;Kevin O&rsquo;Shea, forward, drafted from San Diego of WHL; Cliff Schmautz, for ward, drafted from Portland of WHL; Brian McDonald, forward, drafted from Denver of WHL; Billy Inglis, forward, drafted from Montreal Voyageurs of AHL.DETROIT&mdash;Roger Crozier, goalkeeper, swapped to Buffalo of NHL in return for Tom Webster, foward, with Oklahoma City last year.ST. LOUIS&mdash;Andre Boudrias, forward, sold to Vancouver of NHL.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Barry Ashbee, defenseman, purchased from Hershey of AHL in return for Darryl Edestrand, and Larry McKillop, both defensemen with Qu&eacute;bec Aces last season.<h2>COACHING CHANGES</h2>MINNESOTA&mdash;Jack Gordon named to succeed Charlie Burns, who remains with North Stars as player. Gordon with Cleveland in AHL last year.CLEVELAND&mdash;John Muckier named general manager and Parker MacDonald Coach replacing Jack Gordon. Both served with Iowa in CHL last year.QUEBEC&mdash;Eddie Bush named to succeed Turk Broda as coach of Aces. Bush coached Hamilton of Ontario Junior League last year.PROVIDENCE&mdash;Larry Wilson named to succeed Dave Creighton as coach, Creighton remains as GM. Wilson coached Dayton in IHL last year.OMAHA&mdash;Fred Shero named to succeed Larry Popein as coach. Shero coached Buffalo in a AHL last year.SEATTLE&mdash;Larry Popein named to replace Bill McFarland as coach. McFarland remains as GM. Popein coached Omaha in CHL last season. &#9632;

Off-Season Movements

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02335/2650677-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg"></div><h2>REVERSE DRAFT SELECTIONS</h2><h2>INTER-LEAGUE DRAFT PICKS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03272/2650670-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="1064" height="211"></div><h2>INTRA-LEAGUE DRAFT PICKS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04234/2650663-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="1066" height="591"></div> &#9632;

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HOW DRAFTS WENT

<div class="byline">BY CHARLIE HALPIN</div>&bull; CAN&rsquo;T YOU just envision the brash young hockey star, pockets bulging with press clippings and wearing the latest in mod garb, strutting into the office of a major league team while beckoning to his lawyer to do his thing and then sitting back to watch the out-come.You had better because it&rsquo;s a new trend in modern hockey neg-otiations. Hockey moguls are not exactly enamored with the idea but they may not have a choice. Some are already beginning to live with it because it seems to be the thing to do when you are dealing with today&rsquo;s modern ice heroes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01726/2649663-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="263" height="441"></div>The situation really came to light during the recent summer hockey meetings in Montreal. NHL teams soon found out that some of the 20-year-old wonder boys they drafted came complete with &lsquo;mouthpieces&rsquo; or &lsquo;financial advisers&rsquo;.Of course the man who started it all was R. Alan Eagleson, the executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association. Through Eagleson&rsquo;s astute manipulations, super star Bobby Orr is well on the way to becoming hockey&rsquo;s first boy millionaire.Now Eagleson has competition in the negotiations field. He&rsquo;s Robert Woolf, a dynamic Boston lawyer who has some of the most lucrative player accounts in the sports business. Between them, Eagleson and Woolf are going to lighten the pocketbooks of many an NHL club owner on behalf of their talented clients.&bull; NHL CLUBS have been gearing for an onslaught of legal advisers since Eagleson arrived on the scene armed with a contract signed by Orr to represent him in all endeavors dealing with hockey. Orr hasn&rsquo;t regretted the move.He and Eagleson recently huddled with the Bruins&rsquo; brass in Florida to discuss a new contract the Boston club had proposed for Orr and which may not start until 1971-72 since he still has a year to run on his present pact.No matter how you look at it, Orr is going to get rich on the new contract. The multi-talented Boston defenseman could pick up a cool $1,000,000 for his services over the next five years if Eagleson has his way. The attorney didn&rsquo;t mention any salary figure but it is understood, Eagleson was aiming for a million dollar contract for his super client.&ldquo;Orr is an unusual case,&rdquo; said Eagleson. &ldquo;It is usually the player who wants to negotiate a new contract but in Bobby&rsquo;s case, it is the Bruins who want to sit down and talk contract.&rdquo;Eagleson said he would demand a longer contract than the five-year offer the Bruins have suggested for their ace defenseman, who this past year created hockey history by becoming the first player to win four major trophy awards not to mention scoring the game-winning overtime goal that clinched the Stanley Cup for the Bruins.It appears that Orr is worth the money at any price. But what about the others, the Dale Tallons, the Gilbert Perreaults, the Reg Leaches and the rest who have been drafted into the NHL this season.Eagleson is representing Tallon, too. The dual forward-defenseman of the Toronto Marlboros was picked off in the expansion draft by Vancouver Canucks and if the new NHL team wants to sign him they&rsquo;re going to have to pay. Someone mentioned $20,000 to Eagleson as a reasonable amount. &ldquo;Peanuts,&rdquo; snapped the hockey legal-beagle. Some say Eagleson wants $45,000 just to get Tallon&rsquo;s name on a Canuck contract. And if Vancouver doesn&rsquo;t think their top draft choice is worth it, then Tallon can turn his attention to golf, where he is reputed to be good enough to become a professional.Woolf, the Boston attorney who represents Derek Sanderson, baseball star Ken Harrelson and football ace Joe Namath among others, also has strings on the third, fifth and sixth picks in this year&rsquo;s amateur draft. They are Leach, goaler Ray Martynuik and Chuck Lefley. Leach was grabbed by Boston and the other two by Montreal.Woolf believes that none of the top six draft picks can be had for a figure of $20,000 any longer. &ldquo;That would have been correct a few years ago, but we would have to improve on it today,&rdquo; he added.An indication of what the hockey people are up against when they sit down to dealing with Eagleson and Woolf lies in the fact Woolf alone has nego-tiated 300 sports contracts since turning to this field. He landed a whopping $600,000 pact for Boston Celtic basketball star John Havlicek.Woolf doesn&rsquo;t think any of today&rsquo;s hockey stars, possibly outside of Orr, are worth that kind of money. But he does expect hockey to equal the other major sports in time.And when that time comes, it&rsquo;s going to cost the hockey barons plenty. &#9632;

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INSIDE HOCKEY

<div class="byline">BY CHARLIE HALPIN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01474/2651121-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">FINLEY&rsquo;S SEALS TO GET NEW LOOK</figcaption></div>MONTREAL&mdash;President Clarence Campbell has reiterated that the National Hockey League has no thought of further expansion before 1973 at the earliest, but what the NHL chief didn&rsquo;t say was that scheduling may be the underlying factor that could force the league&rsquo;s hand&mdash;and sooner than the NHL wants.Campbell recently said he was merely speaking hypothetically when he was quoted as saying the NHL will add four more teams, probably by 1973. The report declared that Dallas, Kansas City, Atlanta and Seattle would be in the NHL.&ldquo;There is no consideration being given to expansion at this time,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The basic realignment of the current two divisions in 1973-74 could conceivably contain some expansion,&rdquo; he added.Campbell didn&rsquo;t say as much but he has hinted that present scheduling arrangements are not quite conducive to the NHL. He admits the addition of Seattle, for example, would give the league four West Coast cities&mdash;Vancouver, Oakland, Los Angeles and Seattle&mdash;and create a more balanced plan to arrange the schedule.NHL teams travelling to the coast now only play one game with a club on a trip. With Seattle in, they could play two games with each team, creating equality in the schedule and reducing expenses in the process.The city of Seattle apparently would be in the forefront of the next NHL expansion according to general manager-coach Emile Francis of New York, who recently visited the coast city to tie up loose ends of his club&rsquo;s new working agreement with the Western League Totems.&ldquo;I think you have a major league facility all the way,&rdquo; Francis told anxious Seattle newsmen on his trip. &ldquo;If you look at the four cities mentioned for NHL expansion, only one has a major league facility right now&mdash;Seattle.&rdquo; &#9632;

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SCHEDULING TO FORCE EXPANSION

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div>BOSTON&mdash;It takes a long time and a lot or hard work to climb from last place to first in the National Hockey League. But that first step down can come very easily.No one knows this better than Bruin general manager Milt Schmidt which is why he was steaming when he was asked how he was enjoying his vacation.&ldquo;What vacation?&rdquo; exclaimed Schmidt. &ldquo;In this business there is no vacation. At least if you want to stay on top.&rdquo;Milt is one of the better amateur golfers in the state of Massachusetts and he enjoys the game thoroughly.&ldquo;But I haven&rsquo;t had time for golf.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There are too many other things more important than golf right now.&rdquo;Milt did take a weekend off recently to see his daughter, Nancy, married.&ldquo;But that is about the only break I have taken away from hockey since the season ended,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;We are busy planning and working for next year,&rdquo; he went on. &ldquo;I mean we are planning and working to make sure we don&rsquo;t make that first step downhill.&rdquo;Part of those plans have been signing the four amateur draft choices the Bruins made at the annual meetings in Montreal.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got them all signed,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and I think we came out of the meetings without too much damage.&ldquo;We did lose Tom Webster and Gary Doak. I didn&rsquo;t want to lose either one of them. But it couldn&rsquo;t be helped. We had to lose someone. But we were fortunate to have made previous deals with Los Angeles, Philadelphia and St. Louis that gave us four of the best youngsters in Canadian amateur hockey last season.&ldquo;We also are fortunate that we had Tom Johnson in our organization to replace Harry Sinden when Harry decided to give up coaching to go into private business.&ldquo;Johnson is familiar with the entire organization. He knows all the players and he knows the game.&ldquo;With all of this I am looking forward to next season with enthusiasm and a lot of positive thinking.&ldquo;I just hope the players we are carrying over from last year are thinking the same.&ldquo;I hope they react to the situation with the attitude that this is no time to get complacent.&ldquo;There is no room for complacency in this league the way it is set up right now. There are too many good teams around and when you are on top everyone is taking cannon shots at you.&ldquo;We have the basics of another fine team this coming season. Essentially we have all the same men back with the exception of Doak. But that doesn&rsquo;t mean they all will be playing the same amount of time.&ldquo;We may make several changes before the season starts. As I have said, we have the basics for a sound team and we have underlying talent that could break through and force changes.&ldquo;It takes a lot of hard work on the part of a great many people to make a winner out of a loser. And it takes even harder work from all the people to keep winning.&ldquo;If you want to know what we can do for an encore after last year just remember we didn&rsquo;t finish first in the East Division. We still have that goal to accomplish and we still have to keep that Stanley Cup in Boston.&rdquo; &#9632;

GM Schmidt Warns Bruins No Time For Complacency

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POSITION WANTED

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01635/2649343-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Buffalo manager-coach PUNCH IMLACH greets Vancouver coach HAL LAYCOE during summer hockey meetings. Two will guide NHL&rsquo;s two newest expansion clubs in 1970-71.</figcaption></div>BUFFALO&mdash;Punch Imlach won everything but the Stanley Cup at the National Hockey League&rsquo;s annual meeting, then boldly predicted his Buffalo Sabres would be the first expansion team to carry away Lord Stanley&rsquo;s birth-bath.Imlach shut out his opposite number, General Manager Bud Poile of the Vancouver Canucks, in one flip of a coin and two turns of a wheel of fortune. As a result, the Sabres:A&mdash;Had first pick of all players placed on waivers by the other 12 clubs.B&mdash;Had first pick in the expansion draft.C&mdash;Had first pick in the amateur draft.Shortly after winning the coin toss for players put on waivers, Imlach grabbed goalie Joe Daley from the Pittsburgh Penguins. It was obvious Daley was &ldquo;delivered&rdquo; to the Sabres.Imlach took froward Tom Webster from the Boston Bruins as the No. 1 selection in the expansion draft, and minutes after the draft ended traded him to the Detroit Red Wings for goalie Roger Crozier.It was a foregone conclusion Gilbert Perreault, the handsome young center from the Montreal Junior Canadiens, would be No. 1 in the amateur draft, and Imlach, with clear, ringing tones, made it official.The Sabres reached in for such elderly gentlemen as Don Marshall, Phil Goyette and Reg Fleming, and Allan Hamilton, Tracy Pratt, Fran&ccedil;ois Lacombe, Mike McMahon, Skip Krake and Jim Watson, all with extensive NHL credentials.Imlach didn&rsquo;t want to deal away Webster, his No. 1 selection in the expansion draft, but wasn&rsquo;t able to resist the Detroit offer of Crozier. And the deal had some ramifications.Milt Schmidt, the Boston general manager, clearly accused Imlach of double-dealing, a charge Imlach promptly refuted.&ldquo;I had a deal with Punch in which he would take Gary Doak as No. 1 pick, and we would fill with Webster,&rdquo; Schmidt said.&rdquo; Punch double-crossed me,&rdquo; he added.&ldquo;My deal with Schmidt was an iffy one&hellip;and wasn&rsquo;t finalized&rdquo;, Imlach said.&rdquo; It was never confirmed. When the Detroit club said they would trade Crozier for Webster, but not for Doak, naturally I took Webster. But Milt isn&rsquo;t right when he said we had a firm deal. We didn&rsquo;t.&rdquo;In any event, Schmidt was loud and clear, and it&rsquo;s unlikely the two will make another deal without a retinue of lawyers moving in first.Imlach was the center of attraction at the meeting&rsquo;s end.&ldquo;We came out with the greatest hockey player in the world.&rdquo; he said, referring to Perreault.&rdquo; Who can ask for anything more?&ldquo;And we got some young, tough kids who can play this game. One of them, Dutch Deadmarsh, got 301 minutes in peanlties in Brandon, and he&rsquo;ll knock some people dead for us.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure the Polish fans of Buffalo will like Randy Wyrozub, a good, tough Polish youngster from Edmonton.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m extremely pleased with the way things went at all the drafts. We went to Montreal hoping to leave with 37 hockey players, and we have 40 we can talk about.&ldquo;But I will talk about this. The Buffalo Sabres will be the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup. You can be sure of that.&rdquo;<h2>ALONG THE BOARDS</h2>The Sabres will train in Peterborough, Ont., where Imlach conditioned four Toronto teams which won Stanley Cups. The Leafs, after 11 years in Peterborough, will train at home in Maple Leaf Gardens this fall&hellip;Frank Christie, trainer of the Buffalo Bisons for 24 years, will have a similar post with the Sabres&hellip;Bob Hewitson, a Torontonian, is the Sabres&rsquo; box office chief. The Sabres reported 4,100 season-tickets had been sold by mid-June.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02606/2649336-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1187" height="877"><figcaption class="caption-body">Buffalo&rsquo;s No. 1 amateur draft pick was junior sensation GILBERT PERREAULT of the Montr&eacute;al Canadiens.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Imluch Predicts Buffalo First Expansion Team To Win Cup

<div class="byline">&#x2014;CONLEY</div>OAKLAND&mdash;Charley Finley&rsquo;s Oakland Seals may or may not wear white skates next season, but one thing is certain. They are going to be a newly attired and colorful looking hockey club when they take the ice.Finley has changed the team colors from green, white and pale blue to kelly green and gold, the same colors worn by his Oakland baseball team.In addition Finley has disclosed that the Seals will wear their names on the back of their uniforms&mdash;a practice that is common in baseball but rare in hockey. Detroit attempted the name tags on their jerseys during training camp a few years back but dropped the idea. None of the present NHL teams carry their names on their sweaters.As far as the white skates are concerned, Finley isn&rsquo;t too sure. But he has promised that whatever skates the Seals put on they&rsquo;ll look more colorful than those they wore previously. &#9632;

Seals Get New Colors—Wear Names On Uniforms

<div class="byline">BY SPENCE CONLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01637/2649453-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="547" height="1624"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHARLES O. FINLEY is one of sports&rsquo; most controversial but colorful figures. He is a self-made millionaire who became one of the country&rsquo;s most successful insurance men. But he&rsquo;s also an innovator whose ideas make money. Now the owner of the Oakland Athletics big league baseball club, Finley has added the major league hockey Seals to his interests. He likes progress and wants a hockey winner. He also wants a super star of the Boddy Hull class for his Seals and since he usually gets what he wants, he&rsquo;ll probably end up with one, too. Finley already has his eye on the Stanley Cup and predicts fans will be standing in line in a few short years to buy Oakland hockey tickets.</figcaption></div>OAKLAND&mdash;Charles O. (as in Owner) Finley, controversial and colorful by his own design, is the new owner of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s problem child&mdash;the Oakland Seals.He paid $4.5 million for the club, including a cash downpayment of $2.6 million. He wrestled with some formidable opposition in the form of the franchise sellers, and won. At least he took two out of three falls.Finley, owner of the American League&rsquo;s Oakland Athletics, admits that he doesn&rsquo;t know much about hockey, but he played baseball until he was 29 and feels he knows enough about that sport to be his own general manager.That won&rsquo;t be the case with the Seals, however. At least not right now. Finley has retained the services of the three men who were responsible for putting the hockey operation on an even keel in terms of performance: Executive vice president Bill Torrey, general manager Frank Selke, and coach Fred Glover.Retention of the three hockeymen doesn&rsquo;t mean that Finley won&rsquo;t have anything to say about what goes on in the front office, or how the sport will be promoted. He&rsquo;s pretty active in those departments.His baseball team wears white shoes, a specially designed synthetic this season, an improvement over the albino kangaroo leather he had been using. Home runs and victories are punctuated by fireworks. A mechanical bunny pops out of the ground to provide umpires with baseballs, and a former Army mule, nicknamed &ldquo;Charlie O.&rdquo; is the team mascot.He&rsquo;s toying with the idea of getting a couple of trained Seals to put on an act in the lobby of the Coliseum Arena. But Finley frankly declares that he&rsquo;d be more interested in winning Seals than trained ones.Finley has his eye on a superstar and told a recent press conference in Oakland&mdash;his first as the new Seal owner&mdash;that he hadn&rsquo;t been a certified member of the NHL for more than an hour when he made a pitch to another owner for a superstar. Speculation is that he wants Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull.He told Bay Area newsmen that he wants to attack the myriad problems of the Oakland operation by first giving the fans a club to be proud of&mdash;a championship team.Initially, he said, the number of full time scouts and part-time &ldquo;bird-dogs&rdquo; will be increased. Attempts will be made to enter more working agreements with minor league clubs, other than Providence, in order to get potential big leaguers necessary experience. He wants to ice his own development club, too. He said he&rsquo;s looking into the possibility of putting a team into Birmingham, Ala., where a 12,000-seat arena is under construction.But what of Finley, the man? How did he get the Seals?Charlie Finley is a self-made millionaire who rose from the Gary, Ind. steel mills to become one of the country&rsquo;s most succesful insurance men. He&rsquo;s an innovator whose ideas make money.Some of his medical plans have been purchased by the American Mecical Association and the American Dental Association for their own membership. He&rsquo;s got other clients, too.Finley&rsquo;s interest in the Seals goes back a long way. Not long after he moved his baseball team to Oakland, he got word that the hockey club was for sale and began some investigation.His purchase offer didn&rsquo;t become a reality until early this spring.On May 29, 1969, after it had missed five closing deadlines, Trans-National Communications, Inc. of New York, headed by Ellis E. (Woody) Erdman, bought the Seals for $4 million. TNC owned 80 percent of the operation, and the Knox brothers of Buffalo, N.Y., the owners of the Buffalo Sabres expansion franchise right now, had 20 percent.They formed a company known as the San Francisco-Oakland Hockey Club. It was obvious right from the start that the Hockey Club was in a financial pinch. Bills began to backlog until there were more that $640,000 in due debts just for daily operation, not to mention missed payments on certain longterm indebtedness.Seals, Ltd., a company headed by Barry Van Gerbig, the original holder of the Seals&rsquo; NHL franchise, moved to foreclose on the Hockey Club in order to solve the problems which were becoming greater in number and more complex.Seals, Ltd., acting under a provision of the California Commercial Code, reclaimed the Seal assets sold them to Finley for $3.4 million, with the baseball owner waiving his claim on $700,000 in notes due the team by reason of the $12 million received by the NHL from expansion.The Hockey Club, now accused of defaulting on leans it assumed when it bought the Seals, sued to block the Finley sale as too cheap and have a court declare that no defaults existed.After a week-long trial in San Francisco Superior Court, Judge Robert H. Schnacke ruled that the Hockey Club, indeed was in default and that the proposed sale to Finley was commercially reasonable and ought to go through.In the meantime, however, Judge Schnacke put the Seals up for public sale for a week, giving TNC time to find somebody willing to pay more for the team than Finley.By the time the deadline arrived, TNC had come up with Jerry Seltzer, a highly successful promoter of Roller Derby, who was backed by such pro football names as Wayne Valley of the Oakland Raiders, Lamar Hunt of the Kansas City Chiefs. Ralph Wilson of the Buffalo Bills, and Bud Adams of the Houston Oilers.But Seltzer wasn&rsquo;t able to produce a bonafide package for the judge and the judge approved Finley&rsquo;s bid as commercially reasonable&mdash;a blow to the Hockey Club since two of its executives had testified that the franchise was worth anywhere from $6 million to $8 million.A few days later, the Hockey Club took additional action. It filed for bankruptcy and during the bankruptcy hearing produced a $500,000 cashier&rsquo;s check from Seltzer and a firm offer to buy the club at $4.5 million.The Federal Court took over jurisdiction and delayed the sale further, giving Seltzer additional time.Finally, the matter of the two offers was tossed into the lap of the NHL governors. Seltzer was voted down, 9-5, and Finley voted in, 12-2.But that wasn&rsquo;t the end. During Finley&rsquo;s press conference in Oakland, he and Erdman, and Seal president William N. Creasy, Jr., were cordial and smiling. A day later when the deal was to have been closed once and for all, a snag developed.The Hockey Club didn&rsquo;t provide the necessary closing papers, a Finley spokesman said. Two days later, after long, and at times bitter haggling, the deal was closed&mdash;at 4 a.m. in the offices of the Wells-Fargo bank in San Francisco.Finley was obviously upset. A TNC spokesman in New York had charged that Finley was going to renege on the deal because he didn&rsquo;t have the money, and the deal with Seltzer would be reinstated.It didn&rsquo;t work out that way, obviously. Finley had deposited $3.2 million in the Wells Fargo bank the day the deal was supposed to close, more than $500,000 over what was needed.Since then, Creasy has resigned and Finley has moved in as president. He commenced staff meetings with the Seal front office to get things squared away to right the sinking franchise. Those meetings continue.He also is investigating the possibility of a full-time homeroad radio package. He wants to TV all, or as many as he can, of the home games.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got two ways to go. We get people to come to the games or we take the game to the people. We&rsquo;ve got a lot of people in the Bay Area who know very little about hockey. We are going to educate them&rdquo; Finley promised.Whatever it takes, a successful team, full-time radio, and home television, Finley has a difficult road ahead to put the Seals in the black.He is optimistic, however, and declares; &ldquo;I predict that in three years, there will be a waiting line for season tickets.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02520/2649446-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1773" height="871"><figcaption class="caption-body">Executives BILL TORREY, left, and FRANK SELKE, will remain with club.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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CHARLEY 0. TO MAKE SEALS ‘WINNER’

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01699/2649529-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="359" height="432"></div>&bull; FRANK MAHOVLICH and Gary Berg man of Detroit were the winning team among the hockey players in the second annual American Airlines Golf Tournament held at the Board of Trade Golf Club outside Toronto during the last week of June. Colin Lorimer of Yardley of London and Irv Keegan of Seven-Up Ontario were the winning team among the invited business executives in this 54-hole tourney which pairs 24 two-man teams of hockey players (two teams from each NHL club) with 24 outstanding business executives from across Canada&hellip;This year&rsquo;s tournament was even better than last year&rsquo;s and everyone in attendance, players, executives, fans etc., all raved about the big league atmosphere surrounding the four-day event, which starts off the first day with a proam tournament that pits one hockey player and three amateurs. The amateurs are selected from the business and sports world&hellip;F. J. (Jack) Mullins, senior vicepresident of marketing for American Airlines in New York and P.E. (Paddy) Priestman, Canadian manager of American Airlines, were the official hosts&hellip;Associated with American Airlines in the promotion of the tournament was the NHL Players&rsquo; Association&hellip;Henry Kelly, sports representative of American Airlines in Toronto, worked tirelessly as Tournament director for the second year in a row. Everyone attending were lavish in their praise of the outstanding job turned in by Kelly&hellip;Frank Mahovlich also won a new Ford car for coming closest to a hole-in-one on the 16th hole&hellip;Mahovlich and Bergman, who shared $5,000 first-prize money, gave half of it to Variety Village, a vocational training school for handicapped youngsters. The five money-winning teams behind Mahovlich and Bergman also pledged half of their winnings and the proceeds of the tournament were turned over to Variety Village as well&hellip;The ratings are out for the CBS Hockey Game of the Week and the news is disappointing. The telecasts gained only an 18 percent average of the Neilsen trend, compared with 28 percent for ABC&rsquo;s Basketball Game of the Week&hellip;Many of the 200 CBS affiliates refused to carry the broadcasts. The rumor is that Harry Sinden will replace Bill Mazer as the color commentator on the telecasts if CBS decides to renew&hellip;Channel 38 in Boston, a UHF station has such drawing power carrying Bruins&rsquo; games that they are asking and getting $1,500 per minute for a TV commercial. This is a rate unheard of for UHF telecasts.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02650/2649522-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="253" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Sinden</figcaption></div>&bull; A TRADE that just failed to click had Boston sending Derek Sanderson to Detroit for Garry Unger&hellip;Trade rumors still persist involving Toronto&rsquo;s Mike Walton and Phila-delphia&rsquo;s Doug Favell&hellip;Chicago Black Hawk goalie Tony Esposito was named Sportsman of the Year by the Rotary Club in Sault Ste. Marie. His brother Phil of the Boston Bruins was the winner last year&hellip;Gordie Drillon, one of the most stylish scoring stars to ever play in the NHL, was recently inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of games for Montreal Canadiens, was recently elected to the Loyola Sports Hall of Fame Drillon was named among the first members to the Hall of Fame. Now 57, he won scoring titles with Toronto in 1938 and 1939&hellip;Jack Kent Cooke&rsquo;s new ranch consists of 8,000 acres and is two-and-a-half hours outside Los Angeles. He has 2,200 steers on it at the moment and his son John is resigning as sales manager of the Forum to become manager of the ranch&hellip;William Wirtz of Chicago was elected chairman of the NHL board of governors. Montreal&rsquo;s David Molson is vice chairman and Charles Mulcahy of Boston is secretary&hellip;Now that he&rsquo;s a coach Al Arbour of St. Louis says his playing days are over&hellip;Emile Francis says the Rangers will complete a three-year youth program this year. &ldquo;We started with Park and Tkaczuk, then Fairbairn and Hamilton and this season we may have as many as five new faces.&rdquo;&hellip;Bowdoin College has accepted an invitation to play in the 10th annual ECAC Holiday-Hockey Festival at New York&rsquo;s Madison Square Garden this December 21-22. Other participating teams will be Clarkson, Harvard and Yale&hellip;New York&rsquo;s Vic Hadfield and Philadelphia&rsquo;s Gary Dornhoefer were the only scratch players participating in the American Airlines tourney&hellip;Both are golf pros during the summer. Hadfield at the new Lido Club in Oakville, Ont&hellip;Frans Henrichs of Utrecht, Holland, is looking for Canadian hockey players of OHA Junior standard to play in Holland next season. Players who happen to possess Dutch passports would be eligible to play with Holland&rsquo;s National Team and these players would be extra welcome&hellip;The American Hockey League Booster Clubs Convention takes place at Watkins Glen, N.Y. this September 11, 12 and 13. Anyone interested in attending should contact their local club president or write the convention Chairman, Sandy Wymers, P.O. Box 322, Palmer, Mass., 01069<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03554/2649515-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="254" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">William Wirtz</figcaption></div>&bull; PHILADELPHIA FLYERS have passed the 7,000 mark in season tickets for the coming season. Previous high was last season when the club had 4,001&hellip;Chicago&rsquo;s Keith Magnuson is spending the summer as a busy marketing representative for a soft drink company in the Windy City. &ldquo;So far I really like it,&rdquo; said the Hawks&rsquo; rookie sensation. &ldquo;I majored in general business at Denver so it isn&rsquo;t entirely new&rdquo;&hellip;Ron Cantera, public relations director of the Detroit Red Wings for the last five years, has been named Harvard&rsquo;s new Director of Sports Information&hellip;Cliff Malone, former star forward with Montreal Royals who played a number of in Montreal. Cliff is now president of Chemcell Limited&hellip;Yardley Black Label is featuring Bobby Orr in much of their current advertising&hellip;Donnie Graham, head scout for Detroit Red Wings in Eastern Canada, is training harness horses this summer&hellip;Sports fans in the Tulsa area were saddened this summer with the passing of Travis Graham. Travis was stick boy for the Tulsa Oilers back in the 1930&rsquo;s and later played amateur hockey in Tulsa. A wonderful person and one of the area&rsquo;s leading sportsmen, he was statistician for the Oilers at the time of his death&hellip;Another untimely death took place this summer in the passing of Bill Mackenzie, scorer and supervisor of minor officials at all home games of the Oakland Seals. Years ago Bill worked as a minor official for Red Wings games in Detroit before moving out to the Pacific Coast. He was a minor official and attended every game played in the San Francisco&mdash;Oakland area since San Francisco joined the Western Hockey League back in the 1950&rsquo;s&hellip;New York&rsquo;s Madison Square Garden is plannng to install giant TV screens in the arena so spectators can be shown instant replays of goals&hellip;Barry MacKenzie, veteran defenseman with Canada&rsquo;s National Team, will coach Sudbury Wolves, a junior team this winter&hellip;Mont Gabriel Golf Club in the beautiful Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal is a favorite spot for Montreal and district golf tornaments. It is also a popular course for many NHL players living in the Montreal area.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04482/2649508-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="247" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Keith Magnuson</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 McKenziePresident and PublisherCharlie HalpinEditorial 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, AUGUST, 1970 No. 34 &#9632;

The Hockey News

<h2>NHL Should Consider Memorial To Sawchuk</h2>Please permit me a few lines to express my tragic grief over the untimely death of Terry Sawchuk. I am sure there are many who will agree that he was the greatest goaltender in the history of the National Hockey League.I feel it would be most fitting if the National Hockey League would give serious consideration to perpetuating the memory of this great hockey player. I have written League President Clarence Campbell and suggested that the NHL establish a &ldquo;Terry Sawchuk Memorial Trophy&rdquo; to be awarded each year to the goaltender having the most shutouts during the regular season. Since Sawchuk holds the record for the most career shutouts (103), I strongly feel that this would be most fitting to his memory.HERBERTMEISEN, Commack, N.Y:<h2>Players&rsquo; Excuses Poor For Rejecting Helmets</h2>On the matter of helmets being mandatory for all hockey players, I would like to say this. I have been doing some research on the excuses that players give and this is what I have concluded.The players say they do not wear helmets because they sweat too much. That is a poor excuse in my opinion. You sweat anyway playing hockey, because you are working hard and the lights shine on you in the rinks.Then the players say that they do not wear helmets because they do not fit and are uncomfortable. Well when you buy a hockey helmet it is made so that it can be adjusted to fit your head properly and comfortably. Also when a player gets a suspension helmet he has it custom fitted for his head.The excuse that is given about a player&rsquo;s scoring and play in general deteriorating because he wears a helmet is a lot of trash because Stan Mikita, Red Berenson, and Phil Goyette all wear helmets and they had their best NHL season this past year.The same goes for the argument that players can&rsquo;t be recognized with helmets on. Football players are covered up even more by their helmets, and they are further away from the crowds yet the fans are able to recognize the players. Most goalies wear masks in the NHL and they are easily recognized.I feel that after the Green-Maki episode that players ought to wear helmets because some players are not scared of swinging a stick at someone even though they know that they can end a player&rsquo;s career. I think that when players swing their sticks as freely as they do they ought to wear helmets.I see no sense in players wearing all the protective padding they do when they&rsquo;re not going to put on a helmet when the head is the most vital part of the body.JAMES KENWORTHY Norton, Mass.<h2>Ted Green&rsquo;s Name Inscribed On Cup</h2>Seeing Teddy Green at the conclusion of the fourth and final game of the Stanley Cup finals has brought a doubt to my mind.Since he was not on the active roster of the Bruins at the time they won the title, will his name appear on the Stanley Cup with the rest of the Bruins?STANLEY POLNY, McKees Rocks, Pa.(Editor&rsquo;s note: Yes Green&rsquo;s name was inscribed on the cup along with the other Bruins. He also received a Stanley Cup share like the rest of the players, too.) &#9632;

Fan Forum

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01652/2649608-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Members of the Chicago Black Hawks draft delegation had reason to smile during the summer hockey meetings. The Hawks were virtually untouched which was all right with coach BILLY REAY, left, general manager TOMMY IVAN, chief Western scout TINY THOMPSON, partially hidden, and top Eastern scout KEN CAMPBELL, right.</figcaption></div>CHICAGO&mdash;It wasn&rsquo;t exactly a Windy City version of The Great Escape, because they didn&rsquo;t fear losing much, but the Chicago Black Hawks emerged virtually unscarred from the recent NHL draft meeting.Only a fringe center-Jim Wiste was taken from the basic parent roster which propelled the Chicagoans to the Eastern division championship last season. Wiste, who played just 26 games for the Hawks, was the seventh pick of the expansionist Vancouver Canucks.The other losses to expansion teams were two minor leaguers, Paul Terbenche of Portland and Garth Rizzuto of Dallas, who were drafted by Buffalo and Vancouver, respectively. The Hawks were not drafted against during the intra-league draft, so, overall, Chicago suffered few wounds.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re very fortunate to be in the position we&rsquo;re in,&rdquo; said Tommy Ivan, Hawks general manager, when it was all over. &ldquo;We got away without losing too much. Wiste and Terbenche didn&rsquo;t figure in our plans. Rizzuto might have warranted another crack.&rdquo;The rule on exemptions of first year pros allowed the Hawks sixteen such &ldquo;untouchables&rdquo;&mdash;the second highest number in the league. Eight of the players were from the Hawks parent roster, including rookie stars Magnuson and Gerry Pinder.&ldquo;When you don&rsquo;t have to worry about players like Magnuson and Pinder, that&rsquo;s a real plus,&rdquo; Ivan beamed. &ldquo;And we were lucky to get by without losing our third young goalie. Ken Brown. We&rsquo;ve got three fine young goalies now&mdash;Tony Esposito. Gerry Desjardins, and Brown. We should be set in goal for a long time. And the rest of the Exempted list has some good ones.&rdquo;These include: J.P.Bordeleau, Dave Burrows, Terry Caffrey, Barry Long, and Billy Young, all of whom performed for Dallas in 1969-70, and Portland&rsquo;s Jerry Korab.Wiste, who had injury problems with the Hawks, recorded 8 assists during the early part of the season. He eventually was sent down to complete the campaign with Dallas and scored 6 goals and 9 assists in 11 games.Rizzuto was the 13th highest scorer in the CHL with 20 goals and 42 assists. Defenseman Terbenche played 68 games with Chicago in 1967-68, but was returned to the minors the ensuing year.Ivan and Coach Billy Reay pulled a bit of a surprise by leaving popular Lou Angotti unprotected for the expansion session, along with two other small centers, Gene Ubriaco and Jean-Paul Leblanc. When Wiste was plucked by Vancouver, the Hawks filled with Leblanc, and when Terbenche went. Angotti, a seven-year NHL veteran, was saved.In the amateur draft, the Hawks picked last in each round because of their first place finish, and selected only five players. The first was Dan Maloney from the London Knights of the Ontario Junior League. He is a 6-foot, 1 inch, 195 pound left wing who notched 31 goals, 35 assists in 54 games&hellip;plus 232 penalty minutes.In the second round Chicago landed Michel Archambault, a 69-goal scorer for Drummondville of the Quebec Junior League. The other selections were Glen Frig, a center-defenseman from Calgary; Walter Ledingham. a left wing from the University of Minnesota, and Gilles Meloche, a Verdun goalie.The most noteworthy Black Hawks&rsquo; event during the summer meeting had nothing to do with drafts. Pit Martin, Chicago&rsquo;s spunky center, was presented the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy by the NHL Writers Assn. The award honors the memory of Bill Masterton, a Minnesota North Stars&rsquo; player who died in 1968 of head injuries incurred in a game.Last fall Martin severely criticized the Chicago hockey team, which had finished last for its preferential treatment of certain players, mismanagement and generally poor attitude.&ldquo;Our management was quite upset shortly after the story first came out,&rdquo; Martin said. &ldquo;Then things started to change. Attitude improved and that&rsquo;s one of the main reasons we finished first this year.&rdquo;Martin, typically humble, said he didn&rsquo;t take credit for the resurgence, although he had his best season ever (30 goals, 33 assists).&ldquo;I was part of the problem, so I had to be part of the solution,&rdquo; Martin said. &ldquo;Fortunately, the players took the criticism as constructive, not negative. Then management took the same approach. I didn&rsquo;t dislike anyone on the team&mdash;I just disliked the situation.&ldquo;Anyway, I&rsquo;m gratified by the award&mdash;it&rsquo;s probably the only one I&rsquo;ll ever win.&rdquo; &#9632;

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First Year Pro Rule Leaves Hawks Unscathed

DETROIT&mdash;Old teammates gathered sadly in suburban Detroit for the funeral of Terry Sawchuk. one of the greatest goalkeepers in the game&rsquo;s history.Gordie Howe, Red Kelly, Vic Stasiuk, Sid Abel, Ted Lindsay Marcel Pronovost and Johnny Wilson, who were with Sawchuk in the Red Wings&rsquo; glory days of the early 1950s when Terry backstopped five straight league title teams with averages of less than two goals a game, attended the funeral mass at Our Lady of LaSalette Church in Berkley.Pronovost, Sawchuk&rsquo;s closest friend during their days in Detroit and Toronto, was among the pallbearers who also included New York Ranger manager-coach Emile Francis and Ranger goaltender Ed Giacomin.Most of the Ranger team attended the funeral and acted as honorary pallbearers. Among them was Ron Stewart with whom the 40-year-old Sawchuck was involved in a fight that led to Sawchuk&rsquo;s tragic death after three operations.A New York grand jury refused to indict anyone, including Stewart, in the bizarre death of Sawchuk. It took the jury less than an hour to determine that the goalkeeper&rsquo;s violent death was an accident.Representatives of 10 of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s 14 teams were at the funeral&mdash;&middot; Tommy Ivan and Billy Reay of Chicago&hellip;Ivan was Sawchuck&rsquo;s first NHL coach; Hal Laycoe from Vancouver; Floyd Curry from Montreal; Johnny Bower, George Armstrong, King Clancy, Harold Ballard, Stafford Smythe and Tommy Nayler from Toronto; Punch Imlach from Buffalo who told Terry to rip up his birth certificate when he starred for him in Toronto plus Kelly now with Pittsburgh, Wilson now with Los Angeles and Staisuk now with Philadelphia.Detroit had a large contingent&mdash;Abel, who played with Terry, was his coach and his general manager, Howe, Doug Barkley and the whole front office.Sawchu k, divorced last summer, is survived by seven children ranging in age from three to 15. They live with their mother in suburban Union Lake. &#9632;

Stewart Exonerated In Death Of Sawchuk

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;The Los Angeles Kings took enormous strides at the NHL meetings. They ceased to be the worst team in the majors. Either Buffalo or Vancouver inherited that dubious distinction.However, the Kings stepped out to do it on their own by making many changes from the roster which completed last season. With all the other changes that have occurred at mid-season, this is a new team.Now, only a few players remain on the major league roster from the team which began last season. These are Eddie Joyal, Bill Flett, Ross Lonsberry, Jim Peters and Eddie Shack Larry Cahan also is available. The team is still trying to trade Shack and Cahan, too.Originally, three years ago, the Kings built with more youth than any of their rivals. The team played enormously promising hockey, but got worse, not better, as time went on. Now, the Kings have rebuilt with youth and again may be the youngest team in the newly-expanded 14-team circuit.Here are this summer&rsquo;s transactions to date:Acquired right wing Mike Byers from Philadelphia for defenseman Brent Hughes.Acquired right-wingers Larry Mickey and Lucien Grenier and goaler Jack Norris from Montreal for right-winger Leon Rochefort, defenseman Greg Boddy and goaler Wayne Thomas. (Boddy was a minor-leaguer, Thomas a collegian.)Acquired defenseman Ray Fortin from St. Louis for defenseman Bob Wall.Lost forward Lowell MacDonald to Pittsburgh in the intra-league draft. The Kings acquired Craig. Cameron from Pittsburgh and defenseman Paul Curtis from Montreal and lost Billy Inglis to Montreal in the same draft. Cameron and Skip Krake were subsequently lost to Buffalo and Mike Corrigan to Vancouver in the expansion draft.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02590/2649708-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="253" height="487"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Fortin</figcaption></div>Summing it up:GAINED&mdash;Forwards Mike Byers, Larry Mickey, and Lucien Grenier; defensemen Ray Fortin and Paul Curtis, and goaler Jack Norris.LOST&mdash;Forwards Leon Rochefort, Lowell MacDonald, Skip Krake and Mike Corrigan and defensemen Bob Wall, Brent Hughes and Greg Boddy.Here then is the Kings potential training camp roster as it stands at this time with players listed in suspected order of importance:GOALERS&mdash;Denis DeJordy, Jack Norris, Wayne Rutledge, Bruce Landon.DEFENSEMEN&mdash;Gilles Marotte, Matt Ravlich, Dale Hoganson, Paul Curtis, Ray Fortin, Noel Price, Larry Cahan, Brian Gibbons.CENTERS&mdash;Eddie Joyal, Butch Goring, Juha Widing, Jim Peters, Gary Monahan, Jim Stanfield, Gordon Labossiere.RIGHT WINGS&mdash;Bill Flett, Larry Mickey, Lucien Grenier, Mike Byers, Howie Hughes.LEFT WINGS&mdash;Ross Lonsberry, Eddie Shack, Real Lemieux, Dickie Duff, Doug Robinson.Among players gone who opened last season are Dennis Hextall, Billy Inglis, Ted Irvine, Bryan Campbell, Gary. Croteau, Bill White, Dale Rolfe, Dave Amadio and Gerry Desjardins.The Kings had traded away their first-round selection in the amateur draft but took Al McDonough of St. Catharines in the second round and Terry Holbrook of London in the third round. Both are considered good prospects. Two first year pros plucked from last year&rsquo;s amateur list, Goring and Hoganson, wound up with the Kings last season.Frankly, it is difficult to assess the newcomers as not much is known about them. A few have been passed around, but general manager Larry Regan is extremely high on them and says NHL veterans feel the Kings have done a remarkable rebuilding job. Here is some information on some of them with some comments by Regan:MICKEY&mdash;27 in October, 511, 180, sixth-year pro. Drafted originally from Chicago by New York, then by Toronto, then by Montreal. Scored four goals in 21 NHL games last season, has 12 in 86 games for career. Regan: &ldquo;Big, strong, tough and can shoot.&rsquo;&rsquo;GRENIER&mdash;24 in November, 5-10, 165, fifth-year pro. Three seasons at Houston in Montreal chain. Scored two goals in 23 NHL games last season. Regan: &ldquo;Up and down winger, tremendous defensive player, has had trouble scoring.&rdquo;BYERS&mdash;24 in September, 510, 175, fourth-year pro. Originally Toronto prospect traded to Philadelphia before last season and spent season at Quebec City in AHL, scoring 15 goals. Regan: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s big, and a good kater.&rdquo;CURTIS&mdash;23 in September, 0, 185, fourth-year pro from Montreal minors. Regan: &ldquo;No scorer, but a defensive defenseman. An average skater, but moves the puck, blocks shots and hits. The best prospect available to us.&rdquo;FORTIN&mdash;Was 29 in March, 5-8,180, long-time amateur, fourth-year pro. Regan: &ldquo;Got his chance as a pro late with St. Louis, a team deep in defenseman. He&rsquo;s a tremendous competitor, good defensively, passes the puck out well and shoots well.&rdquo;NORRIS&mdash;28 in August, 5-10,185&mdash;eighth-year pro. Broke in as pro with old L.A. Blades in Boston system, traded to Chicago in 1967 and Montreal last season. Thirty games in NHL, most of career in minors. All-star goaler in AHL last season. Regan: &ldquo;Some in L.A. remember him unfavorably with old Blades, but he was young player on terrible team then. He has matured, has great natural ability and is rated an NHL goaler.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03445/2649701-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="539" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY MICKEY Highly Rated</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04321/2649694-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="543" height="579"></div>PAUL CURTIS&hellip;Top Prospect &#9632;

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Drafts, Trades Give L.A. Kings New Look As Only Six Remain From 1969 ‘Starters’

LOS ANGELES&mdash;Johnny Wilson has not been signed to return as Kings&rsquo; coach yet, but GM Larry Regan says &ldquo;it&rsquo;s just a formality.&rdquo;&hellip;Dan Avey has been named Director of Advertising and Merchandising for California Sports Inc., the Kings&rsquo; parent group, so the club needs a new broadcasting &ldquo;color man.&rdquo;John Wolfe is the new PR man of the Kings, replacing Jon Washington, who departed after last season. &#9632;

Avey, Wolfe Get Posts On Kings

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01678/2649763-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"></div>Brad Park, brilliant defenseman of the New York Rangers, has joined the Adirondack-Sherwood pro advisory staff. Brad, the youngest Ranger ever selected for the National Hockey League All Stars&rsquo; first team, joins these NHL stars on the Adirondack-Sherwood team: Don Awrey, John Bucyk, John Ferguson. Danny Grant, Ted Green, Ken Hodge, Keith McCreary and Ed Westfall.Adirondack-Sherwood, the best stick on ice, from pee wee to pro, has the lightness and balance you want for effortless stick handling; the strength and controlled flex you need for tough, accurate shooting.If Adirondack-Sherwood is Brad&rsquo;s kind of stick, shouldn&rsquo;t it be your kind, too? &#9632;

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BRAD PARK JOINS ADIRONDACK-SHERWOOD

<div class="byline">&#x2014; By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03515/2649801-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="328" height="349"></div><h2>Goyette Drafting Shocker</h2>PHILIPPE GOYETTE is 37 years old and with his second expansion team. He has played professionally 15 seasons. In the majors, he played six full seasons with Montreal and then six full seasons with New York, before being traded to St. Louis last season. Although he scored 20 goals or more three different seasons, he was considered mainly a competent workman with Montreal and New York, though a hardworking, unselfish and valuable team player.Just when he seemed to be on the way out&mdash;a slender fellow of 5-11 and 170 pounds, whose legs perhaps were going when he was dealt for an amateur draft choice last season he had his greatest year. He became the first expansion division player to lead the NHL in scoring at any point in the season, he wound up fourth with 78 points, surpassed by Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito and Stan Mikita. He scored 29 goals on 152 shots for a 19.1 per cent accuracy mark, best in the majors.Late in the season, trim and neat in a business suit, he sat in the stands watching some youngsters play a preliminary game prior to a Blues&rsquo; contest, and rejoiced at his good fortune. &ldquo;It is always a shock to be traded,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s part of any sport, but it shakes you up, like you&rsquo;re not wanted any more. It&rsquo;s hard for a Frenchman to leave Montreal. It&rsquo;s hard for any player to leave the most successful organization in hockey. I was disappointed when I was traded to New York.&ldquo;Then I found a home in New York. And just when Rangers seemed on the way to their greatest success, I was sent to the other division. But I found a home in St. Louis. It is a great organization, very generous, very good to players. There isn&rsquo;t a player in hockey who would really mind coming to St. Louis. The owners, the manager and coach, the players, all have great spirit. I have to look at the positive side. I should be grateful someone still wanted me. It should add time to my carrer.&rdquo;With St. Louis, he passed the 800 mark in NHL games played and reached 188 in goals scored. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t explain why I&rsquo;m going so good at this point in my life and my career,&rdquo; he grinned wistfully. &ldquo;I hope I&rsquo;ve learned something in all this time. I&rsquo;m smarter than I was. But I&rsquo;m also slower. I&rsquo;m not a powerful shooter. I try to put my shots on the net. I&rsquo;m as interested in making a good play as getting a goal. I&rsquo;m as interested in stopping the other guy from scoring as I am in scoring myself. I have to be. I&rsquo;m no Bobby Hull. I have to do a lot of things to be of value.&rdquo;He has been a good defensive player without being a hitter. He has only 111 minutes in penalties in his entire career. Some fellows might pick up that many in a good month. He had only 16 minutes last season, which, while, ironically, the second-most of any season in his career, earned him the Lady Byng Trophy, thanks partly to an aggressive public relations campaign on his behalf by the Blues&rsquo; publicist Wayne Cooper. Wayne was justified. Goyette never got a nod for the honor before, though extremely qualified for it other times, other places.Some demean this trophy, which goes to the player who best combines sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct with a high standard of performance, but the quality of the past winners, including Alex Delvecchio, Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull, Dave Keon and Red Kelly, justifies it. Hockey is a game of hitting, but those who can do jobs outstanding without fouling their foes merit recognition. Goyette fits this category. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m tickled to have won it,&rdquo; he said.His face is flecked with scars. This is not an easy job, even for a tidy performer. His face seems gaunt, his body frail. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not a big man&rsquo;s game,&rdquo; he shrugs. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a hustler&rsquo;s game. You have to work at it. A fellow with less natural ability and more desire has a better chance of getting by in hockey than in most sports. I&rsquo;ve worked hard and the game has repaid me well. I played on five Stanley Cup championship teams. Now after all this time, I&rsquo;m having my greatest year. It&rsquo;s hard to believe. I&rsquo;d like to stay in St. Louis a long time.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01712/2649794-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="796" height="809"><figcaption class="caption-body">Battling super star Bobby Orr is severe test for a veteran like Phil Goyette.</figcaption></div><h2>Phil Wonders About Justice</h2>SO, ST. LOUIS didn&rsquo;t protect him and in the seventh round of the expansion draft he was selected by Punch Imlach, which put him in Buffalo as a member of the expansion Sabres. It was the biggest surprise of the draft, that the Blues would let him go and that then he was not taken sooner than he was. There were other surprises, such as Minnesota not protecting Ray Cullen, with Hal Laycoe taking him for Vancouver Canucks on the third round, but the Goyette thing was the shocker.Hockey men move in wondrous ways sometimes.St. Louis has dominated the expansion division since Scotty Bowman took over midway in the first season of expansion. But they have lost 12 straight games in Stanley Cup finals and do not appear to be gaining any ground on the established teams. With the established teams&rsquo; pennant-winner, Chicago moving into their division next season, Bowman seems intent on replacing some of his old men, who have done so well for him, with younger players. Al Arbour retired from defense to take over as coach, freeing Bowman to manage the front office. The great old goalie Jacques Plante was dealt to Toronto. Goyette was cut loose. Is the shape of a brief era ending or just altering?Hockey has treated others worse. So has life. Terry Sawchuk, a tough old veteran, suddenly is dead as the result of a fight with teammate Ron Stewart, hockey&rsquo;s funniest fellow, who does not now find the world funny. Mike Briere, Pittsburgh&rsquo;s hard-to-hit rookie find, crashed a car and has lain intolerably long in a coma. Coaches are fired almost carelessly. Charley Burns was the latest to get the axe after only half-a-season in Minnesota, in which he got his team into the playoffs. But Phil Goyette has a right to wonder about justice. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02627/2649832-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chicago center PIT MARTIN, left, receives Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy from JACK DULMAGE, secretary-treasurer of the NHL Writers&rsquo; Association, as the 1969-70 winner. Presentation was made during summer hockey meetings in Montreal.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL&mdash;When diminutive Pit Martin of the Chicago Black Hawks stepped up to receive the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy he jumped at the chance to get in a few licks for his favorite crusade&mdash;the compulsory wearing of helmets.The 26-year-old center of the Hawks, who has worn a helmet for the last five NHL seasons, thinks all National Leaguers should wear the protective headgear.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m totally in favor of helmets,&rdquo; said the outspoken Chicago star. &ldquo;So many tragic things can happen on the ice. Bill Masterton was lost because he played without one. I&rsquo;m sure if he had been wearing a helmet at the time, he&rsquo;d still be here today,&rdquo; commented Martin.The Hawks&rsquo; gritty little pivot doesn&rsquo;t think the helmet issue will make any headway in the NHL until the league makes them mandatory. Martin admits the players would wear them if they were ordered to. Boston&rsquo;s Bobby Orr has said repeatedly that he will put on a helmet when the NHL orders its performers to wear them.Most NHL players frown on the helmets because they are unsightly and uncomfortable. However, the league has alloted funds to research a helmet that will prove suitable for all and the day may not be far off when they will become common place around the NHL.In the meantime, Martin says he intends to wear his helmets until the day he hangs up his skates, which may be some time judging by his sterling performance on the ice last season with the Hawks.Martin was selected by the National Hockey League Writers&rsquo; Association as the 1969-70 winner of the Masterton Memorial Trophy and the award was presented to him during the summer hockey meetings in June at Montreal.Martin&rsquo;s selection as winner of the &lsquo;unsung hero&rsquo; award was vindicative for the fast-skating Hawk centerman who was publicly and unfavorably cast in the role of a &lsquo;dressing room lawyer&rsquo; during training camp last September.Martin, native of Noranda, Que., but a resident of Windsor, Ont., achieved wide attention last fall when he publicly criticized the Chicago team for coddling stars.In consequence, Chicago management equalized player priveleges, reversed its style to defense, swept from last place to first, and saw Martin enjoy the best of a seven-season career which began at Detroit.Martin edged Jim Roberts of St. Louis Blues, 15 voting points to 13 in balloting conducted by the 12 chapters of the NHLWA. Roberts was runner up in 1969 as well, losing to Ted Hampson of Oakland by only one-third of a point.Claude Provost of Montreal Canadiens was first winner of the 1968 instituted award which goes to the NHL player who best exemplifies qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.The award commemorates the late William Masterton, a player of Minnesota North Stars who exhibited those qualities in high degree, and who died January 15, 1968 from head injuries sustained in a league game.Martin received three first-place votes and was the only candidate among 19 to receive more than one. Jean Ratelle of New York finished third with 11 points. Ed Westfall of Boston and Phil Goyette of St. Louis had 10 each.Martin finished 19th in league scoring at 63 points including 30 goals in 73 games. His career totals are 123 goals and 146 assists.Voting was to three places on a basis of five points for first, three for second and one for third.Others named were Al Arbour, St. Louis 8 points; Eric Nesterenko, Chicago 6; Jean Paul Parise, Minnesota 5; Fred Stanfield, Boston 5; Dean Prentice, Pittsburgh 5; Alex Delvecchio, Detroit 4; Ron Ellis, Toronto 4; Harry Howell, Oakland 3; Terry Harper, Montreal 2&frac12;; Dave Balon, New York 1&frac12;; Henri Richard, Montreal 1&frac12;; Carl Brewer, Detroit 1; John Bucyk, Boston 1; and John McKenzie, Boston 1. &#9632;

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Martin Makes Pitch For Helmets In NHL During Award Speech

<div class="byline">BY VICTOR BERNS</div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Scotty Bowman was right when he said that Al Arbour&rsquo;s main problem as coach of the St. Louis Blues will be &ldquo;replacing himself on the ice.&rdquo;Bowman had relied greatly on the master defenseman in forging the Blues into the class of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s expansion teams. Arbour was the Blues&rsquo; first and only captain and had the respect of his teammates from the very first of those dark days when the Blues started their existence by dropping to last place in the Western Division.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01693/2649877-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="528" height="1429"><figcaption class="caption-body">AL ARBOUR&hellip;New Challenge</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02643/2649870-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="247" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Wall</figcaption></div>Bowman knew that the lanky body of his top defenseman was made of something akin to pure rawhide. Arbour played virtually every game over his three seasons as a St. Louis player and he showed a stamina and endurance that left younger players with surprised looks on their faces.Now the 37-year-old Arbour has moved into the coaching spot with Bowman as the team&rsquo;s general manager.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m in a very envious position,&rdquo; Arbour said. &ldquo;Quite a few hockey men would like the coaching job in St. Louis.&rdquo;Arbour demanded the maximum effort from himself as a player; in one playoff game in St. Louis in 1969 he slumped in a state of exhaustion at the final siren and was helped off the ice by two teammates. In his quiet way he will probably demand the same effort from his players. And there is no evidence that they will not give it willingly, for the perennial rewards for the Blues can continue to be great.Arbour played defense with no ifs, ands or buts. His understanding of the position is that it was created to prevent goals&mdash;all goals&mdash;without so much as even a thought of conceding a point now and then. This kind of thinking fit well with Bowman&rsquo;s concept of defensive hockey and will continue to be the golden rule for St. Louis teams.Arbour says, &ldquo;I believe in a good defensive hockey team&mdash;and I mean defense by the forwards. too. I&rsquo;ve always thought that, if you have a good defense, the offense will take care of itself.&rdquo;Even though Arbour leaves behind a gaping hole in the ranks of the Blues, they still have a strong corps of defensemen. The Plager brothers, Billy, Barclay and Bob, are the past, present and future of the defense. Noel Picard has recovered completely from spinal surgery, and the Blues picked up Bob Wall from the Los Angeles Kings in a trade for Ray Fortin. Old pro Jean-Guy Talbot survived the expansion draft, and versatile Jim Roberts can play the blueline or a forward line.In the expansion draft the Blues lost two of last year&rsquo;s players, Phil Goyette and Wayne Maki, and will miss both of them.Without Goyette, Arbour will have the problem of reconstituting the Blues&rsquo; power play, which had been less than impressive during its first two years of existence but was transformed with Goyette last season into a weapon of consistent efficiency and occasional awe. It broke the previous NHL record of powerplay goals as set several years ago by the trigger-happy Chicago Black Hawks but finished second to the Boston power play, which also broke the old Chicago record.Goyette, the polished playmaker who spent one year with the Blues, had his best season in a 13-year-old NHL career finished fourth in the league in scoring and won the Lady Byng Trophy. The Blues&rsquo; power play at its best was not a shooting gallery, but rather a smoothly operating cat-and-mouse game with Goyette wheeling and dealing uncannily in the center position until someone could whack the puck into the net.Arbour has sufficient talent to have an excellent power play. His task will be rejuggling that talent&mdash;a job at which Bowman worked so hard&mdash;to find the right combination.Red Berenson and Frank St. Marseille are presumably ready to serve again as outstanding point men. Ab McDonald and Larry Keenan performed on the power play, and both have remarkable puck sense.Arbour has two of the league&rsquo;s most exciting young players in Gary Sabourin and Tim Ecclestone, both still developing into All-Star pros.One job which Arbour did not inherit from Bowman was the delicate duty of keeping three goalies sharp by moving them into and out of the starting lineup. The Blues have traded Jacques Plante to Toronto. His many fans in St. Louis will miss him, but there was just no way the Blues could slip three goalies through the expansion draft, and so the trade of the oldest of the three was made before the draft meetings started.The maneuver leaves the Blues with an enviable goaltending team of Glenn Hall and Ernie Wakely.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03549/2649863-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="1157" height="975"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pittsburgh scout RED SULLIVAN, left, renews old acquaintances with LYNN PATRICK, now an executive of the St. Louis Blues, during summer hockey confab at Montreal. Both were together with the Rangers in past years.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Finding Another ‘Arbour’ Seen Big Tusk For New Blues ‘Couch

MONTREAL&mdash;Pittsburgh hockey star Michel Briere started his third month in a coma after a near fatal automobile accident and prospects of when or if he would regain consciousness, remained a mystery to hospital officials.An early report said that Briere, a 20-year-old first year sensation with the NHL Penguins, had emerged from his coma which began after a hometown auto crackup in his spanking new sports car May 15.Briere has been making progress and his gradual return to normalcy is a routine recovery pattern for the kind of head injury Briere suffered.But Penguin team officials and hospital authorities were becoming a little apprehensive that Briere would make it out of his coma. He has reportedly gone from his playing weight of 156 pounds to 120 since entering hospital. &#9632;

Briere Starts Third Month InDeepComa

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01712/2649932-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">New Minnesota coach JACK GORDON, left, stops to chat with incoming Boston coach TOM JOHNSON during summer draft sessions. Gordon steps up from Cleveland in AHL</figcaption></div>TWIN CITIES&mdash;Jack Gordon has been up and down the hockey pike for years but this season he will get to realize a long-standing ambition when he steps in to coach the Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League.&ldquo;It has been a life-long goal of mine to coach a National League team,&rdquo; said Gordon. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great challenge for me, one I&rsquo;m eager to face.&rdquo;Gordon said he was impressed with the young talent the North Stars have on their roster but indicated he would not try to make the team play his kind of hockey. Instead he plans to adapt the style of play to the players.North Stars&rsquo; general manager Wren Blair said he felt he was fortunate to land Gordon as his coach because the latter has been &ldquo;one of the most sought after men in hockey&rdquo;.Blair said he first approached the 42-year-old general manager-coach of the American League Cleveland Barons 18 months ago.&ldquo;We talked to Jack again last fall,&rdquo; Blair said, &ldquo;and were delighted that we were finally able to obtain his services at this time.&ldquo;We feel in the years since expansion that Jack Gordon, Harold Laycoe and Frank Mathers have been the three most sough-after men in hockey. There&rsquo;s no question in my mind that we have hired one of the most respected men in the game.&rdquo;Blair said he believed Gordon, who spent 17 years in Cleveland as a player, coach and general manager, would add maturity and experience to the Minnesota organization.&ldquo;We have a great deal of youth on our club,&rdquo; he explained, &ldquo;and Jack&rsquo;s maturity should balance that factor.&rdquo;Walter Bush, Jr., president of the North Stars, characterized Gordon as &ldquo;the best man we could possibly get.&rdquo;The four-time winner of the Calder Trophy as AHL playoff titlist, becomes the fourth man to coach Minnesota. He was preceded by Blair, John Muckier and Charlie Burns.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve known Wren Blair and Walter Bush for some time and I think a great deal of the Minnesota organization. From what I have seen it is a hardworking and well-organized operation.&ldquo;I am, of course, sorry to leave the Barons and President Nick Mileti. We have many roots in Cleveland that will be difficult to pull up after 17 seasons with a wonderful organization.&rdquo;The 1963-64 winner of THE HOCKEY NEWS &ldquo;Executive of the Year&rdquo; award&mdash;ironically, he joins another Executive of the Year in Blair, the 1958-59 winner. &#9632;

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Gordon Realizes Ambition To Coach NHL Team

<div class="byline">BY GLENN REDMANN</div>TWIN CITIES&mdash;If Gump Worsley can come close to matching the form he showed in goal for Minnesota late last season&hellip;If defenseman Ted Harris and forward Bobby Rousseau can perform as ably for Minnesota as they did for Montreal&hellip;And if newcomers Judes Drouin, Murray Oliver and John Gofton justify the faith of general manager Wren Blair.Then the North Stars&rsquo; faithful may easily forget the loss of the three forwards (Billy Collins, Ray Cullen and Claude Larose) who scored 70 goals between them in the club&rsquo;s stirring third-place finish last season.Worsley won&rsquo;t lack for incentive in 1970-71.The 41-year-old goalkeeper will receive $500 for every winning effort, $250 for every tie and $100 for every shutout in addition to his $38,000 base salary.&ldquo;I think I can play in from 35 to 40 games,&rdquo; said Worsley, who signed his lucrative pact during the NHL meetings in Montreal.Harris, 34, was deemed excess baggage by Montreal. So Blair talked his old friend Sam Pollock into taking a minor leaguer (Bob McCord) off the Minnesota roster during the intra-league draft and leave 6-2,185-pound Ted unprotected.According to Blair, the price for Worsley was an unspecified amount of cash since Pollock turned down the chance to get goalies Ken Broderick or Fern Rivard.Harris came more expensive. He went for Larose. Sammy sweetened the pot by tossing in Rousseau. Collins earlier had been delivered to Pollock in return for Drouin, who despite leading the American League in scoring last season, remains an unknown commodity in the NHL.Oliver, the 11-year NHL veteran left winger-centerman, was plucked from Toronto before the meetings and Gofton, a 25-year-old left winger, was taken from Rochester in the intra-league draft. He scored 27 goals for the 1969-70 Americans.Collins&rsquo; departure as well as that of Cullen leaves only two original North Stars-goalie Cesare Maniago and right winger Bill Goldsworthy.Blair said Maniago seemed pleased to learn that he was being protected in the drafts. Wren talked to the rangy veteran from Montreal and told him that he would be sharing duties with Worsley much in the same manner as he did late last season.Neither Collins nor Larose seemed surprised at being dealt away despite scoring 29 and 24 goals, respectively, last year.&ldquo;I would have liked finishing my hockey career in Minnesota,&rsquo;&rsquo;said Larose, the 1969-70 captain. &ldquo;But if I had to go some place, I guess I&rsquo;m glad it is where I&rsquo;m acquainted.&rdquo;Larose thus becomes the third captain in as many seasons to last only one season wearing the North Stars&rsquo; &lsquo;C&rsquo;. Earlier, Bob Woytowich was dealt to Pittsburgh and Moose Vasko was shipped to the minors.Collins, who at one time was a star for the old St. Paul Rangers of the Central League, purchased a house in Bloomington, Minn., recently.&ldquo;I liked it here,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;In fact, I&rsquo;ve always felt that Minnesota was one of the greatest places for a pro athlete to play, live and raise a family.&rdquo;Cullen was the Stars&rsquo; player representative and extremely well liked by his teammates.But Ray probably couldn&rsquo;t help feeling that he would be on the block, because his ice time fell off considerably last season after he had potted 28 and 26 goals in his first two campaigns here. With 71 goals and 91 assists, he was the Stars&rsquo; leading all-time scorer.Cullen had the distinction of being the first West Division player to be taken by either of the new teams in the expansion draft. He went to Vancouver and should be a standout with the Canucks.The best example of how much the Stars&rsquo; brass felt they needed a defenseman of Harris&rsquo; stature can be found by looking at their protected list. In addition to Ted, Minnesota protected only two other blueliners in the expansion draft-Barry Gibbs and Tom Reid.Collins&rsquo; penalty-killing ability is sure to be missed. Last year&rsquo;s playing coach, Charlie Burns, was protected after being offered a two-year playing contract and will help in this department.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02624/2649984-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="545" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED HARRIS&hellip;High Asking Price</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03524/2649977-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="538" height="937"><figcaption class="caption-body">LORNE WORSLEY&hellip;Bonuses All Around</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01704/2649970-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="550" height="1486"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN MCKENZIE Golf scores</figcaption></div>Here&rsquo;s how the NHL teams finished in the 54-hoie best ball competition:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02652/2649963-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="584" height="613"></div> &#9632;

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Stars Hand Worsley Fat Incentive Contract

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03560/2650029-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">To the winners go the spoils and here F.J. MULLINS, left, senior vice-president of marketing for American Airlines, and P.E. &lsquo;PADDY&rsquo; PRIESTMAN, right, Canadian manager for American, present oversized check for $5,000 to the Detroit team of GARY BERGMAN, second left, and FRANK MAHOVLICH, after they won second annual American Airlines golf tournament at Toronto.</figcaption></div>TORONTO&mdash;Frank Mahovlich and Gary Bergman may not be the two best golfers in the National Hockey League but they did all right for themselves in the second annual American Airlines golf tournament this year.The two Detroit Red Wing players combined their best shots and handicaps for a three day 54-hole net best-ball total of 183 to walk off with the first prize money of $5,000, half of which they turned over to the Variety Village, to help in the construction of a new electronic limb center in Ontario. Overall proceeds of the tournament were donated to the Variety Club work as well by American Airlines, which sponsors the tourney each year in conjunction with the National Hockey League Players Association at the Toronto Board of Trade Country Club.The Big M and Bergman finished four strokes ahead of the Oakland team of Billy Hicke and Harry Howell, who won second place prize money of $3,000. Les Binkley and Ken Schinkel of Pittsburgh ended deadlocked with Tim Ecclestone and Red Berenson, both members of the St. Louis Blues. Both teams had totals of 189 and received $1,000.In fifth place was the Toronto tandem of Mike Walton and Jim McKenny, who finished with 190, one stroke ahead of Ted Hampson and Carol Vadnais of Oakland Seals. The teams earned $1,000 each for placing in the top five.Mahovlich added frosting to the cake when he won a new automobile by coming closest to a hole-in-one on the 16th. Oddly, the shot that won the car was the only one the Big M was able to put on the green in three days of shooting at the 16th hole.P.E. (Paddy) Priestman, Canadian manager of American Airlines and F.J. Mullins, senior vice-president of marketing for AA, presented a check and trophy to the winning Detroit duo. Priestman said he was elated with the way the tourney progressed. Attendance was reported better than 19,000 for four days of golf. A total of 11,308 turned up for the final day&rsquo;s play to watch the NHL stars swing on the Board of Trade fairways.The five money-winning teams behind the leading Detroit pair also pledged half their winnings to the Variety Club raising a sum of $6,000 the hockey stars donated to the charitable project.In a prelude to the NHL Players Tournament, Hicke and his foursome of Newman McLenaghen, Ross Powell and Bob Hall, posted a best ball score of 55 to win the competition by one stroke over a team headed by R. Alan Eagleson. the executive director of the NHL Players Association, and which also included George Birchmore, Ross McKenzie and Ab Cooper.Gordie Howe showed for the tournament with a cast on his hand and was replaced by Jim Pappin of the Chicago Black Hawks. Pappin partnered Bruce MacGregor. Al Arbour, the new St. Louis coach, was unable to attend with Tim Ecclestone filling in for him. Minnesota&rsquo;s Danny Grant couldn&rsquo;t make it and his place was taken by Paddy Priest man.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04472/2650022-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="844" height="1477"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05396/2650015-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="841" height="1478"><figcaption class="caption-body">Defenseman BOB WALL, left, formerly of Los Angeles but now with St. Louis, uses a little body English on a shot at left. On right, super star BOBBY ORR of Boston shows F.J. MULLINS of American Airlines, how he grips his putter as two met on green.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Detroit’s Bergman, Mahovlich Join To Win American Airlines Golf Play

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div>VANCOUVER&mdash;There wasn&rsquo;t even a hint of apprehension from the camp of the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins, but Bud Poile insisted he was satisfied.Poile, general manager of the New National Hockey Leaguebound Vancouver Canucks, had just finished drafting 20 pros and seven amateurs at the league&rsquo;s annual June meetings in Montreal&mdash;a privilege that will cost his owners $6 million.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01680/2650074-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="247" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dunc Wilson</figcaption></div>And while the collection of &ldquo;talent&rdquo; Poile acquired to augment the 40 minor leaguers already owned by Vancouver isn&rsquo;t likely to pose any threat to the Bruins in the forseeable future, he believes he at least has a solid base from which to build.&ldquo;We concentrated on young, big kids who can skate,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Some may not have big reputations now, but at least they have a chance to make it.Nevertheless, the lineup Poile and coach Hal Laycoe will shepherd into the Canucks&rsquo; first NHL season next fall isn&rsquo;t likely to cause rival Eastern Division coaches to lose much sleep. That is, except perhaps Punch Imlach, general manager-coach of the Buffalo Sabres.Buffalo is the NHL&rsquo;s other expansion city and like Vancouver it has been placed in the tough eastern sector where the Bruins, New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs loom as considerable obstacles to any premature playoff aspirations.The ground rules the existing 12 clubs placed on the expansion cities ensured that neither Buffalo nor Vancouver is going to emerge as an instant contender.The established clubs were allowed to protect 15 players, two goaltenders, all first year pros and all unsigned amateurs under 22 years of age. In addition, predraft deals&mdash;most of them involving the Canadiens&mdash;further diluted the supply of available talent.Under those circumstances, both Poile and Imlach came out of the expansion draft remarkably well.Imlach, starting with an organization that included only two minor league players, at least had lady luck on his side. He came out a winner in three separate lotteries with Poile&mdash;lotteries that gave him first choice from the expansion pool, first choice of the amateurs and first crack at the waiver list.All three proved vitally important.First choice in the expansion draft enabled him to grab winger Tom Webster from Boston and deal him to Detroit for Roger Crozier, a proven NHL goaltender.First shot at the amateurs enabled him to claim Gilbert Perreault, the country&rsquo;s most publicized and perhaps its most talented junior.Winning the rail position on waivers gave Punch the chance to claim Joe Daley, a goaltender with NHL experience with the Pittsburgh Penguins.But while Poile resolved to stay out of any poker games with el Puncho, he insisted his three losses did not seriously affect his plans.&ldquo;Of course Punch got some players we would have liked,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but Tracy Pratt (Pittsburgh defenceman) is the only one we were prepared to draft as early as he did.&rdquo;And with a large supply of solid minor league talent&mdash;at least six have solid chances to make the NHL roster&mdash;Poile was able to concentrate on future potential while Imlach was forced to lean more heavily toward immediate help.As a result, Poile drafted only two real veterans&mdash;goaltender Charlie Hodge from Oakland and centre Orland Kurtenbach from New York.&ldquo;An expansion team just has to have an established goalie,&rdquo; he explained, &ldquo;and Charlie certainly fits that description.&rdquo; (Later Hodge became the first Canuck to sign his NHL contract). On Kurtenbach he said: &ldquo;I think you&mdash;have to have a leader and I&rsquo;m convinced Kurt will be that leader for us. He can probably be our captain if he wants to be.&rdquo;In his other selections, Poile went heavily for youth and size. If a certain pugnacity went with it, so much the better.He thinks he got a defenseman with outstanding potential in Gary Doak from Boston, his first draft choice. He grabbed a playmaker and goal-scorer (71 in three years with Minnesota) in Ray Cullen. Kurtenbach and defenseman Pat Quinn from Toronto should come in handy when the trouble starts.And in Dune Wilson from Philadelphia, Poile insists he has &ldquo;the best young goaltending prospect in hockey today.&rdquo;As the man who drafted Bernie Parent and Doug Favell for Philadelphia Flyers in the original expansion, Poile has a certain reputation in these matters.Despite losing first choice to Buffalo, Poile and Laycoe were even more enthusiastic about their crop of amateurs.&ldquo;We hoped to get two players who can play in the NHL,&rdquo; said Laycoe. &ldquo;I think we got three.&rdquo;The three in question are Dale Tallon of the Toronto Marlboros, Jim Hargreaves from the Winnipeg Jets and Ed Dyck of the Calgary Centennials.Tallon, a 39-goal-man who plays both center and defense was the Canucks&rsquo; first choice and perhaps the only player on their roster with a chance to achieve that elusive superstar status.&ldquo;To be honest, we would have grabbed Perreault, too, if we&rsquo;d had the chance,&rdquo; Poile admitted, &ldquo;but the scouts&mdash;and not just our own claim Tallon could turn out to be the better player.&rdquo;Certainly, at 6-2 and 195 pounds, he has the kind of size. coaches are looking for.Basically, Poile is looking at a five year building program. &ldquo;And if we do it well, we should be competitive with everyone,&rdquo; he insists.Vancouver hockey fans, who have been clamoring for an NHL franchise for years obviously are prepared to go along with him.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02585/2650067-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="2399" height="886"><figcaption class="caption-body">In spite of what they picked up in players for their $6,000,000 members of the new Vancouver Canucks managed to smile during the summer expansion draft meeting. Sitting around table from left, JOHN &lsquo;PEANUTS&rsquo; O&rsquo;FLAHERTY, chief amateur scout, DICK GAMBLE, Rochester farm club coach, HAL LAYCOE, Canuck coach, BUD POILE, general manager, LYMAN WALTERS, vice-president, JACK MacDONALD, scout, BABE PRATT, asst. to the vice-president, and DOUG ADAM, scout. Standing, left, DAVID POILE, son of Bud Poile, and GREG DOUGLAS, the club&rsquo;s public relations director.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03459/2650060-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="2393" height="840"><figcaption class="caption-body">The new Buffalo hockey club was well represented at the expansion draft and the Sabres emerged with what they considered a pretty good selection of players for their six million. From the left, ROBERT SWADOS, vice-president, DAVID FORMAN, vice-president, NORTHRUP KNOX, vice-president, SEYMOUR KNOX III, team president, FRED HUNT, asst. general manager, JOHN ANDERSEN, asst. to the GM, PUNCH IMLACH, manager-coach, and GEORGE COLLINS a club director.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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New Vancouver Club Gambling On Kids Rather Than Vets

<h2>BOSTON</h2>GOALKEEPERS1&mdash;CHEEVERS, Gerry2&mdash;JOHNSTON, EddieOTHERS1&mdash;AWREY, Don2&mdash;BUCYK, John3&mdash;CARLETON, Wayne4&mdash;CASHMAN, Wayne5&mdash;ESPOSITO, Phil6&mdash;GREEN, Ted7&mdash;HODGE, Ken8&mdash;MARCOTTE, Don9&mdash;McKENZIE, John10&mdash;ORR, Bobby11&mdash;SANDERSON, Derek12&mdash;SMITH, Dallas13&mdash;SMITH, Rick14&mdash;ST ANFIELD, Fred15&mdash;WESTFALL, EdAdded to fillBAILEY, GarnetSCHOCK, DannyLost in draftsWEBSTER, TomDOAK, GaryWILKINS, BarryATKINSON, SteveLESUK, BillNot ProtectedSPEER, BillGILBERTSON, StanWOODLEY, DaveGained in draftCHERRY, DickGained in trades None.Lost in trades None.<h2>ST LOUIS</h2>GOALKEEPERS1&mdash;HALL, Glenn2&mdash;WAKELY, ErnieOTHERS1&mdash;ANDERSON, Ron2&mdash;ATKINSON, Steve3&mdash;BERENSON, Red4&mdash;BORDELEAU, Christian5&mdash;ECCLESTONE, Tim6&mdash;LORENTZ, Jim7&mdash;MCDONALD, Ab8&mdash;PICARD, Noel9&mdash;PLAGER, Barclay10&mdash;PLAGER, Bob11&mdash;PLAGER, Bill12&mdash;ROBERTS, Jim13&mdash;SABOURIN, Gary14&mdash;ST. MARSEILLE, Frank15&mdash;WALL, BobAdded to fillKEENAN, LarryCRISP, TerryLost in draftsGOYETTE, PhilMAKI, WayneEVANS ChrisNot protectedBUCHANAN, RonDENNIS, NormCRISP, TerryMCCREARY, BillTALBOT, Jean-GuyVENERUZZO, GaryGRAY, TerryHENRY, CamilleLost in tradesBOUDRIAS, Andre<h2>DETROIT</h2>GOALKEEPERS1&mdash;CROZIER, Roger2&mdash;EDWARDS, RoyOTHERS1&mdash;BERGMAN, Gary2&mdash;BREWER, Carl3&mdash;CONNELLY, Wayne4&mdash;DELVECCHIO, Alex5&mdash;HARRIS, Ron6&mdash;HART, Gerry7&mdash;HOWE, Gordie8&mdash;LIBETT, Nick9&mdash;MacGREGOR, Bruce10&mdash;MAHOVLICH, Frank11&mdash;MONTEITH, Hank12&mdash;ROLFE, Dale13&mdash;SPECK, Fred14&mdash;STEMKOWSKI, Peter15&mdash;UNGER, GarryAdded to fillBAUN, BobMARTIN, TomLost in draftsWATSON, JimHATOUM, EdPOPIEL, PoolGARWASIUK, RonMYERS, HaroldHAWRYSH, WayneCROTEAU, GaryNot protectedDEA, BillyJEFFREY, LarryMcCANN, RickGained in tradesWEBSTER, TomLost in tradesCROZIER, Roger<h2>CHICAGO</h2>GOALKEEPERS1&mdash;DESJARDINS, Gerry2&mdash;ESPOSITO, TonyOTHERS1&mdash;CAMPBELL, Bryan2&mdash;HULL, Dennis3&mdash;HULL, Bobby4&mdash;JARRETT, Doug5&mdash;KOROLL, Cliff6&mdash;MAKI, Chico7&mdash;MARTIN, Pit8&mdash;McKAY, Ray9&mdash;MIKITA, Stan10&mdash;MOHNS, Doug11&mdash;NESTERENKO, Eric12&mdash;PAPPIN, Jim13&mdash;SHMYR, Paul14&mdash;STAPLETON, Pat15&mdash;WHITE, BillAdded to fillLEBLANC, Jean-PaulANGOTTI, LouLost in draftsWISTE, JimTERBENCHE, PaulRIZZUTO, GarthGRAHAM, JimNot protectedUBRIACO, GeneGAUDET, OscarCAFFERY, TerryBROWN, KenGained in trades None.Lost in trades None.<h2>MONTREAL</h2>Goalkeepers1&mdash;MYRE, Phil2&mdash;VACHON, RogatienOthers1&mdash;BACKSTROM, Ralph2&mdash;BELIVEAU, Jean3&mdash;BOUCHARD, Pierre4&mdash;CORNOYER, Yvan5&mdash;FERGUSON, John6&mdash;HARPER, Terry7&mdash;LAPERRIERE, Jacques8&mdash;LAPOINTE, Guy9&mdash;LEMAIRE, Jacques10&mdash;MAHOVLICH, Peter11&mdash;REDMOND, Mickey12&mdash;RICHARD, Henri13&mdash;ROUSSEAU, Bobby14&mdash;SAVARD, Serge15&mdash;TREMBLAY, J.C.Added to fillROCHEFORT, LeonPROVOST, ClaudeLost in draftsHARRIS, TedLACOMBE, FrancoisSTEWART, RalphSCHELLA, JohnCURTIS, PaulCARON, AlainGRIERSON, DonCUMMINS, BarryINGLIS, BillyFARR, RockyGained in tradesCOLLINS, BillLACOSE, ClaudeLost in tradesROUSSEAU, Bobby<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALKEEPERS1&mdash;GAMBLE, Bruce2&mdash;PLANTE, JacquesOTHERS1&mdash;DOREY, Jim2&mdash;ELLIS, Ron3&mdash;GLENNIE, Brian4&mdash;HARRISON, Jim5&mdash;HENDERSON, Jim6&mdash;KEON, Dave7&mdash;LEY, Rick8&mdash;McKENNY, Jim9&mdash;PELYK, Mike10&mdash;PULFORD, Bob11&mdash;SELBY, Brit12&mdash;SELWOOD, Brad13&mdash;TROTTIER, Guy14&mdash;ULLMAN, Norm15&mdash;WALTON, MikeAdded to fillROBERT, ReneNELSON, GordLost in draftsQUINN, PatOHNSON, DannyWARD, RonAUBRY, SergeWRIGHT, JohnMARTIN, TomNot protectedARMSTRONG, GeorgeEDWARDS, MarvCLANCY, TerrySMITH, FloydHINSE, AndreMURRAY, Randy<h2>NEWYORK</h2>GOALKEEPERS1&mdash;GIACOMIN, Ed2&mdash;VILLEMURE, GillesOTHERS1&mdash;BALON, Dave2&mdash;BROWN, Arnie3&mdash;BROWN, Larry4&mdash;FAIRBAIRN, Bill5&mdash;GILBERT, Rod6&mdash;HADFIELD, Vic7&mdash;IRVINE, Ted8&mdash;KRULICKI, Jim9&mdash;LUCE, Don10&mdash;NEILSON, Jim11&mdash;NEVIN, BOB12&mdash;PARK, Brad13&mdash;RATELLE, Jean14&mdash;SEILING, Rod15&mdash;TKACZUK, WaltAdded to fillROBITAILLE, MikeSTEWART, RonLost in draftsHAMILTON, AllanKURTENBACH, OrlandMARSHALL, DonTROTTIER, GuyBARBER, JohnROBERTSON, JoeJOHNSTONE, AlCADLE, BrianNot protectedHORTON, TimBLACKBURN, DonKENNEDY, ForbesGained in draftLEMIRE, GerryLost in tradesHODGSON, TedPITTSBURGH<h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>GOALKEEPERS1&mdash;BINKLEY, Les2&mdash;SMITH, AlOTHERS1&mdash;ARBOUR, John2&mdash;BOYER, Wally3&mdash;HARBARUK, Nick4&mdash;HEXTALL, Bryan5&mdash;McCALLUM, Dunc6&mdash;McCREARY, Keith7&mdash;MORRISON, Jim8&mdash;PRENTICE, Dean9&mdash;PRONOVOST, Jean10&mdash;RUPP, Duane11&mdash;SATHER, Glen12&mdash;SCHINKEL, Ken13&mdash;SCHOCK, Ron14&mdash;WATSON, Bryan15&mdash;WOYTOWICH, BobAdded to fillMacDONALD, LowellBLACKBURN, BobLost in draftsPRATT, TracyMcMAHON, MikeBARRIE, DougDALEY, JoeLAGACE, Jean-GuyCAMERON, CraigNot protectedSWARBRICK, GeorgeFONTEYNE, Vol SNELL, TedGained in draftMacDONALD, LowellLost in tradesARBOUR, John<h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>GOALKEEPERS1&mdash;DEJORDY, Dennis2&mdash;NORRIS, JackOTHERS1&mdash;CURTIS, Paul2&mdash;DUFF, Dick3&mdash;FLETT, Bill4&mdash;FORTIN, Ray5&mdash;GRENIER, Lucien6&mdash;JOYAL, Ed7&mdash;LEMIEUX, Real8&mdash;LONSBERRY, Ross9&mdash;MAROTTE, Gilles10&mdash;MICKEY, Larry11&mdash;MONAHAN, Garry12&mdash;PETERS, Jim13&mdash;RAVLICH, Matt14&mdash;SHACK, Ed15&mdash;WIDING, JuhaAdded to fillSTANFIELD, JimPRICE, NoelLost in draffsKRAKE, SkipCORRIGAN, MikeCAMERON, CraigDUFOUR, MarcSNEDDON, BobINGLIS, BillyMacDONALD, LowellNot protectedCAHAN, LarryROBINSON, DougRUTLEDGE, WayneAMADIO, DaveBYERS, MikeLABOSSIERE, GordLEMIEUX, JacquesHUGHES, Howie<h2>OAKLAND</h2>GOALKEEPERS1&mdash;SMITH, Gary2&mdash;WORTHY, ChrisOTHERS1&mdash;ANDREA, Paul2&mdash;CROTEAU, Gary3&mdash;FERGUSON, Norm4&mdash;HAMPSON, Ted5&mdash;HEXTALL, Dennis6&mdash;HICKE, Ernie7&mdash;HICKE, Billy8&mdash;HOWELL, Harry9&mdash;INGARFIELD, Earl10&mdash;JARRETT, Gary11&mdash;LAUGHTON, Mike12&mdash;MARSHALL, Bert13&mdash;MULOIN, Wayne14&mdash;ROBERTS, Doug15&mdash;VADNAIS, CarolAdded to fillEHMAN, GerryMATTIUSSI, DickLost in draftsHODGE, CharliePERRY, BrianDILLABOUGH, BobMENARD, HowieMALLETTE, Jean-PierrreGOEGAN, TonyNot protectedEDUC, BobERICKSON, AutrySZURA, JoePOLANO, NickGained in draftCROTEAU, GaryANDREA, Paul<h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>GOALKEEPERS1&mdash;FAVELL, Doug2&mdash;PARENT, BernieOTHERS1&mdash;ASHBEE, Barry2&mdash;BERNIER, Serge3&mdash;DORNHOEFER, Gary4&mdash;GENDRON, Jean-Guy5&mdash;HALE, Larry6&mdash;HEISKALA, Earl7&mdash;HILLMAN, Larry8&mdash;HILLMAN, Wayne9&mdash;JOHNSON, Jim10&mdash;LACROIX, Andre11&mdash;LESUK, Bill12&mdash;MORRISON, Lew13&mdash;NOLET, Simon14&mdash;VAN IMPE, Ed15&mdash;WATSON, JoeAdded to fillPETERS, GarryHUGHES, BrentLost in draftsPAIEMENT, RosaireFLEMING, RegWILSON, DuncHARVEY, RughCHERRY. DickNot protectedBALL, TerryEDESTRAND, DarrylSARRAZIN. DickSUTHERLAND, BillGained in draftLESUK. BillGained in tradesASHBEE, Barry<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>GOALKEEPERS1&mdash;MANIAGO, Cesare2&mdash;WORSLEY, LomeOTHERS1&mdash;BURNS, Charlie2&mdash;COLLINS, Bill3&mdash;DROUIN, Jude4&mdash;GIBBS, Barry5&mdash;GOFTON, John6&mdash;GOLDSWORTHY, Bill7&mdash;GRANT, Danny8&mdash;HARRIS, Ted9&mdash;LAROSE, Claude10&mdash;LAWSON, Danny11&mdash;OLIVER, Murray12&mdash;O&rsquo;SHEA, Danny13&mdash;PARISE, Jean-Paul14&mdash;REID, Tom15&mdash;WILLIAMS, TomAdded to fillSEGUIN, DannyMcKECHNIE, WaltLost in draftsCULLEN, RaySLY, DarrylLAG ACE. Jean-GuyWALTON, BobbyLost in tradesLAROSE, ClaudeCOLLINS, BillNot protectedBARLOW, BobNANNE, LouBOIVIN, LeoGained in draftHARRIS, TedGOFTON, John &#9632;

NHL Rosters After Draft

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;It may not exactly be a long hot summer for the Flyers but they&rsquo;re confident they&rsquo;ll be able to maintain their cool in the fall.Even with the departure of four players in the expansion NHL draft, the Flyers&rsquo; front office feels sure it&rsquo;ll ice a better team when the 1970-71 season finally gets underway.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01668/2650136-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="275" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Lesuk</figcaption></div>Gone via the draft have been wingers Reggie Fleming and Rosaire Paiement, along with center Gerry Meehan and goaler Dunc Wilson. Only Fleming had been a regular with the Flyers this past season, when the club&rsquo;s late-season nosedive cost it a playoff berth for the first time in its three-year existence.&ldquo;We felt Fleming was expendable because of our situation at left wing,&rdquo; said Flyers&rsquo; GM Keith Allen. &ldquo;We also felt that Meehan didn&rsquo;t fit into our plans. However, we hated to give up Rosey or Dunc because we realize these two young kids have plenty of potential.&rdquo;Paiement and Wilson have joined their old boss, Bud Poile, in Vancouver while Fleming and Meehan will be playing for &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach in Buffalo.The reason for the Flyers&rsquo; optimism is that their defense has remained intact. The brightest note is the addition of Bill Lesuk, whom the Flyers acquired from the Boston Bruins in the intraleague draft.Lesuk is a left wing who played at Hershey and saw action in two Stanley Cup playoff games for the Bruins. Hershey&rsquo;s knowledgeable coach-GM Frank Mathers says the addition of Lesuk definitely will be a big plus for the Flyers, who desperately needed help in that position.&ldquo;Lesuk&rsquo;s a good one, there&rsquo;s no doubt in my mind,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;I feel he finally is the offensive player he always would&rsquo;ve been if he didn&rsquo;t limit his thinking to playing strictly defensive hockey. He proved that by scoring 20 goals for us this past season.&ldquo;I have all the confidence in the world in him. In fact, I feel if he gets anywhere near the number of good chances that Gary Dornhoefer (another Flyers&rsquo; forward who is an alumni of the Bruins and the Bears), he will score more goals than Dornhoefer did.&rdquo;This is saying a mouthful because Dornhoefer led the Flyers in goals with 24 and his contribution to the offense was most encouraging. However, disaster struck in the stretch run when the club lost six straight games, a club record, to miss the playoffs on a technicality.&ldquo;We feel Lesuk is the guy who can really help us and score some goals, especially in close games.&rdquo; said Allen. &ldquo;He might&rsquo;ve been playing in Hershey but he would have been up with Boston if they weren&rsquo;t so well-stocked in left wingers.&rdquo;Other Flyers player movements saw winger Mike Byers go to Los Angeles in a trade for defenseman Brent Hughes, and utility man Dick Cherry headed to the Bruins in the intra-league draft which saw Lesuk coming to Philadelphia.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been happy how the whole draft went, and looking back, I realize we could&rsquo;ve come out of it a lot worse,&rdquo; concluded Allen. &ldquo;We honestly feel we came out of it smelling pretty good.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02560/2650129-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="1779" height="1325"><figcaption class="caption-body">Flyers&rsquo; annual promotion day in downtown Philadelphia brought out a crowd and some shapely shooters too for &lsquo;goaler&rsquo; JOE KADLEC, the club&rsquo;s publicist. Here&rsquo;s Joe receiving some equipment adjustment from the club&rsquo;s star netminder BERNIE PARENT while JOAN DESANTO gets set to lift a backhand shot at the net.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Newcomer Lesuk To Boost Offense

PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Goaltenders of the 1990s, beware! There&rsquo;s another Bernie Parent.This one wears Jr. after his name, given to him by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Parent, who greeted him into the world May 8.The baby weighed in at 8 pounds 8 ounces and was ample reason why his dad, the Flyers&rsquo; outstanding young goaltender, was beaming. It was the Parent&rsquo;s first child. &#9632;

Another Goaler For The Parents

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03427/2650205-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="550" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body">EUGENE DIXON</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04322/2650198-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="545" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOE SCOTT</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05249/2650191-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="541" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body">LOUIS SCHEINFELD</figcaption></div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Will Bill Putnam invest his dough in another NHL team?That is the question, following Putnam&rsquo;s surprise sale of his quarter-share of stock in the Flyers for a reported $2 million.An extremely wealthy Philadelphia businessman, F. Eugene Dixon, has bought out Putnam. Dixon, who also is associated with thoroughbred racing, had been named to the Flyers&rsquo; board of directors last season.Announcement of the sale was made by the Flyers when questioned about Putnam&rsquo;s absence from the NHL draft meetings although the team&rsquo;s governor, Ed Snider, who still retains his 60 percent of the club and is its chairman of the board, represented the Flyers.There were reports of a rift between Snider and Putnam, but neither party officially would authenticate it.Insiders say Putnam&rsquo;s interest soured when Bud Poile, whom be personally had hired to serve as Flyers&rsquo; general manager when the club was first formed was fired this past season. The club had announced at that time that the &ldquo;owners&rdquo; had done the axing. But those close to the scene say Putnam and Joe Scott, who owns 15 per cent of the team, had no say in the matter.In the Flyers&rsquo; front office shakeup, Scott steps up from executive vice president to the presidency of the club while Dixon will assume the title of vice chairman.Louis Scheinfeld has been elevated from the position of promotion and advertising director to vice president.The shuffling put the Flyers&rsquo; stock breakdown at 60 per cent for Snider, 25 percent for Dixon and 15 for Scott.Dixon, a Philadelphia civic leader and sportsman, was named to the Flyers board of directors last fall, joining Snider, Scott, investment broker George L. Davis Jr. and club attorney Earl M. Foreman.Scott is a former partner of Scott & Grauer beer distributors and invested in the Flyers in 1967 a year after the club was awarded a franchise in Philadelphia. &#9632;

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Will Putnam Reinvest In NHL? Sells Stock For Two Million

MINNEAPOLIS&mdash;A revolutionary new mouthguard made of clear vinyl material has hit the sports market and reports indicate the players are going for it in a big way.It is hardly noticeable in the mouth, a feature most hockey performers like. Defenseman Lou Nanne of Minnesota North Stars and Boston&rsquo;s great center Phil Esposito, have both endorsed the new guard.Half the members of the North Stars wore the mouthguard last season and in addition to Nanne and Espo, center Red Berenson of St. Louis was outfitted with the Pro-Form tooth protector as well as seven of the nine WCHA college teams last year.Developed and manufactured by Northstar Athletic Industries of Minneapolis, Minn., the custom-fit protector&mdash;called the Pro-Form Mouthguard&mdash;was designed by Dr. Robert H. May, team dentist for the NHL North Stars and a former coach and player himself at the University of North Dakota.Pro-Form claims the protector is designed in such a way that there is no hindrance whatsoever to the athlete user. It permits normal breathing and talking and positively eliminates gagging. Another fine feature is the fact that a player may chew gum while wearing one. The University of Denver varsity team tried it last season successfully.The mouthguard is electrally formed over a cast of the player&rsquo;s upper teeth which is obtained from an impression of the athlete&rsquo;s mouth.The Pro-Form Company then fabricates the cast in its industrial laboratory here through the use of a high-powe-red vacuum-former. Cost to the individual is only $5. a small price to pay to save a player&rsquo;s teeth.Nanne, a hard-hitting Minnesota defenseman, was quoted as saying &ldquo;the greatest advantage of the Pro-Form is primarily that it is so comfortable and secondly, it is invisible in your mouth.&rdquo; &#9632;

New Mouthguard Pleases Players

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MacLEAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;The 1970 National Hockey League drafts (both regular and expansion) became history without New York having lost any potential 1970-71 regulars. Alan Hamilton, the fifth defenseman last season was drafted by Buffalo as well as forward Donnie Marshall. Marsh missed almost all of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a broken shoulder. The other loss was rangy center Orland Kurten bach who went to the Vancouver Canucks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01643/2650267-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="266" height="472"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ab DeMarco</figcaption></div>Balancing these losses were the acquisition of nine amateurs in the annual overage junior draft.Dennis Ball, the director of the Rangers&rsquo; farm system said, &ldquo;We did ourselves proud in the selections.&rdquo;Steve Brklacich, the director of player personnel chimed in with, &ldquo;Some of these boys will make the big club in a year or two and they are good enough now to make some of the regulars think twice about their jobs.&rdquo;High on the Ranger list is Norman Gratton, a 170 pound, five foot eleven inch forward who played with the Memorial Cup winning Montreal Junior Canadiens last season. Norm Scored 32 goals and 41 assists for 73 points with the little Canucks. Ball says he is a winning hockey player who scores important goals.From the Canadiens arch rivals, the Toronto Marlboros, the Rangers plucked Mike Murphy, a big tough left winger. Murph went 23-27-50 with the Junior Dukes. The Weyburn Red Wings of the Saskatchewan Junior League contributed Wendall Bennett II, a tough right winger. From Drummondville of the Quebec Junior League comes Andre St. Pierre, a small, but rugged defenseman.&ldquo;St. Pierre handles the puck very well,&rdquo; noted Ball. &ldquo;He reminds me a lot of Ab DeMarco Jr.&rdquo;DeMarco came up to New York just prior to the Stanley Cup playoffs and made an outstanding impression with his smooth headmanning and booming slap shots during the Stanley Cup playoffs.Gary Coalter of the Hamilton Red Wings was another left wing on the Ranger list. Gary went 2226-48 in 1969-70 and was vastly improved at the end of the season. Center Duane Wylie of the St. Catherines BlackHawks was a special choice of the Rangers scouting staff. He logged 18 goals, 43 assists and can lay down a smooth pass. Pierre Brind&rsquo;Amour a left winger with the Montreal Junior Canadiens was another New York selection. Pierre hit for 25 goals and assisted 18 times more. Saskatoon Blades of the WCHL, also chipped in with right wing Bill Hogaban, a future NHL prospect.With the unfortunate death of Terry Sawchuk, Francis&rsquo; decision to go next season with all-star American Hockey League goalie Gilles Villemure as his number two man was finalized. There are also strong rumors which give rise to the thought that Sawchuk had been headed for St. Louis as part of the complicated Tim Horton trade, which saw Jacques Plante go to Toronto from the Mound City.With all this in mind New York, drafted Goalie Wayne Bell of the Estevan Bruins. They also have Peter McDuffe, who was a second all-star team choice while pastiming with the Omaha Knights, the Central League champions last season.Any assessment of the Rangers for 1970-71 leaves one with the feeling they are at worst number two in the NHL. They carried Boston farther than anyone else and did it with four players on the injured list. In goal will be Eddie Giacomin and Villemure. On defense all-star Brad Park plus Jim Neilson, Tim Horton, Arnie Brown, Rod Seiling, Ab De Marco, Mike Robitaille, Andre Dupont and others. DeMarco should make the squad, although Robitaille impressed. Mike finished up playing for both champions, Omaha and Buffalo in the minor clubs playoffs. Brownie had knee surgery to correct ligament damage suffered in the playoffs.Up front, New York has two set lines. They are Walter Tkaczuk centering for Billy Fairbairn and Dave Balon. Balon popped 33 goals and Tkaczuk nailed down 77 points. Jean Ratelle, the quiet man will pivot for Rod Gilbert and either Jack Egers or Vic Hadfield.The third trio is up for grabs. Ron Stewart, despite his unfortunate involvement in the Sawchuk tragedy, will be back. He was superb last season, with 14 goals and 10 assists in limited ice time. His sense of anticipation is fantastic and so were those four shorthanded goals. Other third candidates include centers Don Luce, who spent time with New York late in the season and made the first all-star team in the Central League for Omaha, Hadfield or Egers and such as Syl Apps Jr., the leading scorer in the Central League playoffs. Apps, also wound up playing for Buffalo in the Calder Cup finals. Bob Nevin will be back again, as will Ted Irvine.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02578/2650260-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="558" height="661"><figcaption class="caption-body">DON LUCE&hellip;To Get Big Chance</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Francis Figures Ranger ‘Kids’ Ready To Fill Shoes Of Vets

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01489/2650298-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cleveland owner NICK MILETI, left, and Minnesota GM WREN BLAIR check over players available in summer drafts after two signed working agreement between their respective clubs starting in 1970-71. Barons will become North Stars&rsquo; No. 1 development club.</figcaption></div>CLEVELAND&mdash;Things will be different in Cleveland this winter. Within a period of four weeks, the Barons&mdash;had a new working agreement, a new general manager and a new coach.The working agreement is a three year development club pact with the Minnesota North Stars. The new GM is John Muckier. The coach is Parker MacDonald. Longtime Cleveland favorite, Jackie Gordon, is off to Minnesota to direct the North Stars.&ldquo;We wanted to make some changes after last season,&rdquo; Barons&rsquo; owner Nick Mileti said. &ldquo;While we didn&rsquo;t anticipate anything this dramatic, Jack Gordon is a big league guy and we wish him all the best. In John and Parker, I believe we have two men who can do the job here and give us a winner.&rdquo;Muckier and MacDonald worked together at Waterloo, Iowa, last season winding up in second place in the Central League just one point off the pace. Muckier, 37, has vast experience in hockey as a manager and coach. MacDonald, 36, played fifteen seasons in the National League taking over the coaching reins at Waterloo a year ago.&ldquo;This should work out well for both the North Stars and the Barons,&rdquo; Minnesota General Manager Wren Blair said. &ldquo;There now are men in both locations who know the circumstances on the other end. This should be mutually beneficial.&rdquo;There is little question how Mileti feels about the competitive needs of his hockey club. &ldquo;We think the fans of Cleveland deserve a winner,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Hopefully this arrangement will provide that. Minnesota has some good young players and we are looking forward to an exciting season.&rdquo;The Barons, fourth place finishers in the five team Western Division last season, won only nine games the first four months of the campaign. &ldquo;We tried buying our own players,&rdquo; Mileti went on. &ldquo;It just didn&rsquo;t work out. It is most difficult for any minor league club to purchase players of the desired caliber.&rdquo;Cleveland has had only one regular season title the past eighteen years. The Barons last Calder Cup winner was in 196364 after a third place finish in regular season play.&ldquo;Fans here will come out to see good hockey,&rdquo; Mileti added. &ldquo;Last year, even with our dismal start we were up a thousand fans a game over the same period the season before. We know the support will substantially increase if we give our fans a competitive club.&rdquo;With the new. agreement, Mileti is hoping for a winner in the year ahead. &ldquo;Minnesota has some fine, aggressive young players,&rdquo; he concluded. &#9632;

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Barons Link With North Stars To Become Development Club, Nick Mileti Eyes Bright Future

MONTREAL&mdash;Jimmy Arnold, former star hockey player with Brother Paul&rsquo;s great Catholic High Teams of Montreal is now the golf professional at the Chantecler Golf Club in nearby Ste. Adele, Que.The 6,060 yard Chantecler course is one of the finest and most picturesque in Canada. Located in mid-Laurentians. about 45 miles north of Montreal, it is the site of many tournaments throughout the summer months. Many of Canada&rsquo;s major companies hold their annual golf outings at Chantecler, which is owned and operated by the Chantecler Hotel, rated one of Canada&rsquo;s most luxurious and up to date all-year round resorts.Arnold says the owners of the tricky golf layout are spending more money every summer improving and developing the property. Montreal Expos are staging a big tournament at Chantecler this month. Players, club officials and the press will participate in the Expos tourney.The Chantecler golf course is a hive of activity weekends and on Canadian holidays, but there are vacancies during August and September on weekdays for company tournaments. Interested parties should contact Jimmy Arnold at the Chantecler, Ste. Adele, Que. or by telephone in Montreal. The number in Montreal is 866-6661 or 229-3551 in Ste. Adele. &#9632;

Ex-Puck Star Now Golf Pro At Chantecler

PROVIDENCE&mdash;The Providence Reds have taken some of the pressure off Dave Creighton for the 1970-71 season with the hiring of Larry Wilson as bench coach.The 39-year-old Wilson, who has guided the Dayton Gems to the International Hockey League&rsquo;s Turner Cup playoff championship twice in the past two seasons, will take over Creighton&rsquo;s job as coach allowing him to concentrate on his duties as the club&rsquo;s general manager.The Reds, who are a development club for the Oakland Seals of the NHL, ended in last place last season narrowly missing a playoff berth by one point in a stretch battle with Quebec Aces.Creighton, who did a commendable job handling both positions for the Reds, said he feels the club selected the best man available to handle the young Oakland players who are assigned here by Oakland. Wilson had a youthful club at Dayton the past two years.A former National Leaguer with Detroit and Chicago, Wilson had to break a contract with Dayton to accept the Providence post. He had already inked a new one-year pact with Dayton.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02417/2650353-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="535" height="1187"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY WILSON&hellip;Steps Up Ladder</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Providence Names Larry Wilson Coach

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER&mdash;To borrow an expression that has become common in the hockey worlds &ldquo;there&rsquo;s no way&rdquo; the Rochester Americans will finish in the American Hockey League&rsquo;s cellar for the third straight season when the 1970-71 campaign rolls around.The results of the June draft meetings in Montreal have even coach Dick Gamble smiling, and when Gamble smiles, well&hellip;Dick has had rather a rude beginning in the coaches&rsquo; fraternity&mdash;being saddled with two last place clubs in his first two tries.But when the parent Vancouver Canucks left Montreal following the expansion, reverse and amateur drafts, the Amerks and their backers were more than satisfied.So strong should the &lsquo;70-71 Amerks be that probably no more than three or four players who skated here last season will return for another term.Just play the numbers game yourself and see that sort of a lineup Rochester can expect to have as the No. 1 farm club of the Canucks. Take your top two goalies, five or six defensemen and 11 or 12 forwards off the following list and put them down for the National League Canucks. Then give the Amerks two goalies, five defensemen and 11 or 12 forwards.Goalkeepers&mdash;Charley Hodge, George Gardner, Serge Aubry, Dunc Wilson, Lynn Zimmerman and Ed Dyck (Vancouver&rsquo;s third pick in the amateur draft).Defensemen&mdash;Gary Doak, Darryl Sly, Marc Reaume, Pat Quinn, Ken Block, John Arbour, Poul Popiel, Barry Wilkins, Jim Hargreaves (Vancouver&rsquo;s second amateur pick), Kent Douglas, John Schella, Doug Dunville, Billy Orr, Tim Gould, Jack Chipchase and Wayne Mosdell.Centers&mdash;Orland Kurtenbach, Ray Cullen, Andre Boudrias. Dale Tallon (the No. 2 pick of all the juniors going over-age this year), Ron Ward, Mike Corrigan, Gerry Goyer, Howie Young, Jack Wells, Barry Watson, Keke Mortson, Andy Champagne, Ralph Stewart and Garth Rizzuto.Right wings&mdash;Murray Hall. Pat Hannigan, Red Armstrong. Bob Dillabough, Duke Harris, Rosey Paiement, Ed Hatoum, Bill McFadden (an amateur selection), Ted McCaskill, Bob Cook. Gerry Sillers and Wayne Clairmont.Left wings&mdash;Teddy Taylor, Jim Wiste, Dan Johnson, Jack Stanfield, Len Lunde, Wayne Maki and Craig Beveridge.There&rsquo;ll be some shifting up front since many of the centers can also play a wing and the wings can go at center.And there&rsquo;ll undoubtedly be more deals made by the Canucks which will change the aforementioned roster.It appears happy days are here again for the Rochester Americans.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03330/2650384-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="254" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Gamble</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Drafts Put Amerks Back In Contention

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;The Kings won some and lost some, in the hockey drafts. Overall, they should have a fairly good club for another strong run at the American Hockey League flag again next season.Of course the makeup of the team will be decided in training camp when the Springfield and Los Angeles clubs work together.Mike Corrigan was claimed by the new Vancouver club in the National Hockey League. The young skater, who spent parts of two seasons in Springfield as well as Los Angeles, will now get a real test and a chance to make a big league club next season.Hustling centerman Billy Inglis was plucked by that wise old sage of hockey, Punch Imlach for the new Buffalo club in the NHL. Inglis, who toiled the whole season here last winter, was a standout skater, scorer and checker who could help Buffalo.Springfield was furthur belted in the reverse draft when winger Marc Dufour, who was in the doghouse here during the final playoffs, was taken by the Baltimore Clippers.Dufour, a great playmaker and scorer, was a key member of the &ldquo;Giant Line&rdquo; along with Doug Robinson and Gordon Labos-siere. Marc became a star when he was purchased by Los Angeles from Vancouver for Springfield. He played at Baltimore when the Rangers had a farm there.Bob Sneddon was grabbed off by the Providence Reds. This does not sit too well with Springfield fans. The paying customers felt Bob should have been protected because he was the better Springfield goaler down the stretch run of the season.Sneddon will work in the Providence nets since Marcel Paille, their regular backstop, is headed for regular work along with Gary Smith in goal for the parent Oakland Seals. Sneddon really developed very well here after he was taken off the Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; roster in last season&rsquo;s draft.Overall, the Kings did not do too badly. They still have many of their star players returning, unlike many of the other clubs. Montreal in particular was really cleaned out with trades and drafts. Springfield still has Robinson, Labossiere, Gary Marsh, Doug Shelton, Jean Potvin, Noel Price, Dave Amadio, Randy Miller, Brian Gibbons, Brian Murphy and Jim Stanfield on its roster.A development club now, the Springfield team likely will have to deal off some of its older veterans to secure younger players to fill out the roster. Reports say Miller will head for Denver and Amadio will be traded. Price will likely make the Los Angeles Kings. He&rsquo;s that good.Springfield picked up some more good talent for next season. A sleeper was Gary Dineen, taken for $7,500 from the Minnesota North Stars special NHL list. He played here last winter, was returned after they found he had a bad knee. He was operated on and is back ready to go. It would have normally cost $15,000 to draft him off the regular list.The amateur talent coming here is good or better than last season. Winger Al McDonough was All-Star in Junior A with St. Catharines and third highest scorer in the league with 47 goals and 103 total points. He is ticketed for Springfield if he does not make the big club. &#9632;

Kings Likely To Be Flag Threat

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY&mdash;Frank Mathers has initiated a re-building program for the Hershey Bears.The coach-general manager of the Pennsylvania-based club intends to strengthen the 1970-71 outfit &ldquo;from the goal out.&rdquo;Just prior to the National League draft sessions in Montreal, Mathers traded veteran defenseman Barry Ashbee to the Philadelphia, Flyers. In return he received forward Larry McKillop and defenseman Darryl Edestrand. Both skated for the Quebec Aces last season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03292/2650477-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="267" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barry Ashbee</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t like to turn Ashbee loose, but we figured he would get grabbed quick in the expansion draft and that&rsquo;s why we made the trade,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;Barry deserves a shot in the NHL.&rdquo;Mathers has 21-owned Hershey skaters and is in the trading market.At the draft sessions, Mathers latched on to a young centerman, Hugh Harvey, for $15,000. Last season he was with the Kingston Aces of the OHA. Harvey was highly recommended by Gary Young, the Boston Bruins&rsquo; chief scout. In the past three years, Mathers has been fortunate in his draft selections, picking up defenseman Bob Barber and Jean Lapointe and forward Jean Gratton.Mathers, whose Bears closed out second in the American League&rsquo;s Western Division last season, then were kayoed by Springfield in the Calder Cup playoff opening round, is optimistic about the aid he will receive from the Bruins.Boston drafted nine fine junior skaters, including Reggie Leach and Rick McLeish, a pair of highly sought after performers. Leach was with Flin Flon; McLeish with Peterborough.&ldquo;We have hopes of obtaining three or four players from Boston,&rdquo; said Mathers, who, at one time, was among the list of potential replacements for Harry Sinden&rsquo;s job. &#9632;

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Mathers Grabs Pair Of Aces To Start Rebuilding Program

QUEBEC CITY&mdash;The Quebec Aces have another new hockey coach, their third in three years.Former NHL defenseman Eddie Bush has been hired to coach the American Hockey League team for the 1970-71 season. He replaces Walter (Turk) Broda, who guided the Aces for one season after taking over from Vic Stasiuk.Bush has been coaching the Hamilton Red Wings in the Ontario Junior Hockey League A series for the past few years. He led Hamilton to the Canadian junior championship in 1961 and 1962.The naming of Bush leaves the AHL with still one more coaching vacancy to fill. The Baltimore Clippers are seeking a successor to Rudy Migav, who has moved to Amarillo of theCHL. &#9632;

Eddie Bush Appointed Aces’ Coach

SEATTLE&mdash;The Seattle Totems have entered into a working agreement with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, a move that will ensure the WHL club of the top discards from the major league team.The pact between the Western Hockey League Totems and the New York organization was ratified at the summer hockey meetings in Montreal as both organizations joined forces to participate in the various hockey drafts.The Totems will have a new bench coach as the result of the affiliation with the Rangers. He&rsquo;s Larry Popein, a former National Leaguer who performed with New York from 1954 to 1961 before settling in the WHL with Vancouver for eight seasons.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01410/2650539-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="257" height="407"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kerry Bond</figcaption></div>Popein, a 39-year-old who guided Omaha Knights to the Central Hockey League championship last season, returned to finish his NHL career with the expansionist Oakland Seals in 1967-68 before moving to Omaha the following year. He has since retired as a player.The appointment of Popein, a native of Vancouver, means that general manager Bill MacFarland can now concentrate on acquiring the player personnel the Totems need to become a contender. MacFarland has combined the two jobs for several years.It is expected that the bulk of the players the Rangers employed last season at Buffalo, which has now stepped up into the NHL, will be diverted to Seattle for training camp where members of both teams will train together before the Rangers make their final player cuts.In other WHL developments during the off season, the Denver Spurs continued to build for the future by purchasing the contracts of two more player&rsquo;s.The Spurs bought Kerry Bond from the Chicago Black Hawks and Dick Sentes from Minnesota.Bond, a leftwinger, was with Chicago&rsquo;s farm club, Dallas, of the Central Hockey League the last three years. During the 196970 season. Bond, who possesses a hard shot, fired 20 goals and added 27 assists for Dallas. He also spent 92 minutes in the penalty box.The 25-year-old forward was the International Hockey League&rsquo;s rookie of the year with the Columbus Checkers in 1966-67 with 36 goals and 38 assists for 74 points. Spurs&rsquo; center, Lyle Bradley, who played against the 6&rsquo;190 pound Bond that year when Bradley was with Des Moines, described him as &ldquo;a tough hockey player who likes to hit.&rdquo; In his rookie year with Columbus, Bond picked up 183 minutes in penalties.Bond&rsquo;s purchase brings to 17 players the total owned by the Spurs. In the reverse draft in Montreal, June 11, the Spurs acquired a teamate of Bond&rsquo;s last year, 23-year-old Jim Graham. The 6&rsquo;190 pound defenseman was also owned by Chicago of the NHL. General Manager Rudy Pilous said the Spurs were fortunate to acquire a young player like Graham, who has a bright future. &ldquo;Both Chicago coach, Billy Reay, and Dallas coach, Bobby Kromm, think Graham has great potential&rdquo;, said Pilous.The 23-year-old Sentes made an impressive debut with the Spurs last season, collecting 12 points, including seven goals, in 15 games. Sentes started last year with the Iowa Stars of the Central Hockey League, and his contract was purchased from Minnesota.In the NHL expansion draft the Spurs lost goaltender Rocky Farr to Buffalo and defenseman John Schella to Vancouver. And in the inter-league draft, rightwinger Brian McDonald was taken by one of the new NHL entries, Buffalo.Also in the reverse draft, rightwinger Don Grierson, on loan to the Spurs last year from Montr&eacute;al, was drafted by Hershey.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02323/2650532-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="2373" height="1171"><figcaption class="caption-body">With hands locked together in unision, members of the Seattle Totems and New York Rangers seal their new working agreement at the Montreal summer meetings. From the left, MURRAY COSTELLO, executive director of the Totems, new coach LARRY POPEIN, Rangers&rsquo; manager-coach EMILE FRANCIS, and BILL MacFARLAND, the Seattle club&rsquo;s GM. Popein led Omaha to the Central League title last season.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Popein New Coach In Seattle-New York Hook-Up

SAN DIEGO&mdash;Bob Courcy, an All-Star right wing in the Western Hockey League for the past two seasons, has been purchased by the San Diego Gulls from the Philadelphia Flyers of the National League, it was announced by Gulls&rsquo; General Manager-Coach Max McNab.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03231/2650577-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="252" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Courcy</figcaption></div>Courcy, 34, has performed most of the last three seasons with the Seattle Totems. He has made the first All-Star team in 1968-69, and was a second team selection this past season, losing the first team berth by only three votes.&ldquo;We are, of course, delighted to have Bob Courcy on the Gulls,&rdquo; said McNab. &ldquo;I think he will be an outstanding addition to our team.&ldquo;My first inclination is to put him with our Len Ronson-Alex Faulkner combination. He and Ronson are both good two-way players and this line could be one of the best in the league.&ldquo;Physically, Courcy reminds me of Ronson. He is not as husky as Len, but he is in excellent physical condition,&rdquo; said McNab. Courcy is 5-11, and weighs 170 pounds.In the 1968-69 season. Courcy scored 43 goals and assisted on 26 others for 69 points, 12th in the WHL point parade. He was the leading goal-scorer among WHL right wingers, and beat out Willie O&rsquo;Ree for the first All-Star berth by 50 votes.Last season, Courcy ranked sixth in the point standings with 40 goals and 49 assists for 89 points. Again he was the leading goal-scorer among the league&rsquo;s right wingers.Portland&rsquo;s Andy Hebenton beat Courcy out for the All-Star right wing spot by only three votes.Courcy is a 14-year professional. He started his career in the Quebec Hockey League and played most of his pro hockey in the East. He came west in the 1967-68 season to join the Totems.Bob&rsquo;s best season was in 195960 at Hull-Ottawa of the Eastern Professional League when he had 46 goals and 56 assists for 102 points. He is a very durable player, too. He has not missed a WHL game in the last two seasons.&ldquo;With Courcy, we will have the best right side that we have ever had,&rdquo; said McNab, &ldquo;and possibly the best right side in the league. Courcy, Alain Caron and Willie O&rsquo;Ree give us lots of firepower on that side.&ldquo;It balances our offense, too. We have been dependent on the left side for our goals for the last four seasons and this should even things out quite a bit.&rdquo;McNab came home from the National Hockey League meetings in Montreal &ldquo;very happy with the way things went,&rdquo; but he didn&rsquo;t have a chance to relax and think about his accomplishments.It was right back to work for McNab, as he tried to finalize some of the deals that he had started working on at the meetings.The moves that were completed at the meetings included the acquisition of defenseman Jim Cardiff and right winger Alain (Boom Boom) Caron in the reverse draft, and a deal with Minnesota for defenseman John Miszuk.Cardiff played with the Gulls during the 1968-69 season and was a favorite. He won the Sandy Award for inspirational play and was co-winner of the Booster Club&rsquo;s Mr. Gull Award as most popular player!With the Gulls&rsquo; first round pick, McNab took Caron, a hard-shooting winger. &ldquo;I checked him out pretty well, and I was happy with the reports I got from everyone on his play last season with the Montreal Voyageurs.&ldquo;There isn&rsquo;t much difference between his shot and Len Ronson&rsquo;s. Caron is a good point man and he should improve our power play. He has a great record.&rdquo;Caron holds the all-time professional hockey record with 77 goals in a single season, and over the last eight seasons of play he has averaged 44.5 goals per season.Miszuk is 6-2 and weighs 200 pounds. He has played most of the past three seasons in the National League with Philadelphia and Minnesota.Miszuk played two seasons in the Western League with the Edmonton Flyers and compiled 67 scoring points in those two seasons.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04181/2650570-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="546" height="870"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN MISZUK&hellip;New Gull Defender</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Gulls Land Courcy, Miszuk, Crab Caron, Cardiff In Draft

Available with 12 Years Experience International Hockey&bull; National coach Poland&bull; 6 years in Sweden&bull; 2 world championships, 1 Olympic Games&bull; Attended coaching clinics in Russia, SwedenSeeks Position. Suitable Qualifications. Write:HUGHES, 5803, 43rd AVE., RED DEER, ALBERTA,CANADA &#9632;

HOCKEY COACH

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01387/2650632-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Salt Lake owner DAN MEYER, right, has a few interested onlookers as he checks draft lists during summer hockey meetings in Montreal. Peering over Dan&rsquo;s shoulder are Golden Eagles, GM and coach RAY KINASEWICH, left, and his brother, GENE, who is the president of the Western Hockey League.</figcaption></div>SALT LAKE CITY&mdash;The Salt Lake City Golden Eagles have several deals on the fire to acquire new faces to make the WHL&rsquo;s newest franchise a playoff contender for 1970-71.Owner Dan Meyer said he expects the Eagles will be a better hockey club after their disappointing first season when the club ended last in the seventeam league despite the fact the team attracted 221,000 fans, won only 15 games and had an injury roll throughout the year that looked more like a &lsquo;disaster list&rsquo;.Meyer knows that purchasing his own players is the only way to make Salt Lake a threat in the WHL. He shelled out $30,000 to acquire Jack Rathwell from Minnesota and Harold Myers from Detroit during the summer reverse draft in Montreal. He threw in another $7,500 for Wayne Hawrysh, an amateur from Flin Flon who belonged to the Detroit Red Wings.Since many of the Eagles were transients last season and were the property of other NHL teams, Meyer will probably ice a fairly new team his season. Many players have already moved on. Ernie Hicke has gone to Oakland and Ted Hodgson to Buffalo. Meyer will get replacements from NHL working agreements but he&rsquo;s looking forward to the day when he owns his own players outright&mdash;and don&rsquo;t bet it won&rsquo;t be sooner than you expect.Meanwhile the Eagles will stage their training camp this Fall again in Kelowna, British Columbia. General ManagerCoach Ray Kinasewich, in making the announcement, said that players will report September 18 with full workouts commencing the following day.&ldquo;We were extremely pleased last year with the training camp conditions present in Kelowna,&rdquo; said Kinasewich, &ldquo;and an indication of the favorable atmosphere was that we broke extremely fast in league play at the start of the season. This year several other WHL teams will be working out in the general area and we already have eight exhibition games tentatively scheduled which will aid our training program.&rdquo;The San Diego Gulls have already announced they&rsquo;ll be training in Trail, B.C., 250 miles from Kelowna. The Seattle Totems will be 100 miles away in Kamloops and the Portland Buckaroos will train in Spokane, Washington, 275 miles away. &#9632;

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Meyer Building Eagles For Future, Picks Up Three Players In Drafts

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0020-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01233/2650715-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Among the CHL delegates at the summer meetings were RAY MIRON, the Tulsa GM, left, and BOB CAMPBELL, who fills a similar role with the Dallas Black Hawks.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02163/2650708-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="1758" height="1020"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHL President EMORY JONES, second left, greets JIM BUTTON of Amarillo on the occasion of Amarillo&rsquo;s return to the CHL. Also on the welcoming committee are BOBBY KROMM, left, Dallas coach, and FRED HUCUL, right, Kansas City GM.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

SOLUTION IN SEPTEMBER ISSUE<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03132/2650746-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="790" height="1056"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;1963-64 Byng trophy winner.6&mdash;15th and 12th letters of the alphabet.7&mdash;Pictured player answers to this.8&mdash;Recent Cup winners.11&mdash;A former Leaf defenseman.13&mdash;Article.15&mdash;Birth month of Jim Roberts.17&mdash;Initials of one of the Schmautz brothers.18&mdash;Fifty one. (Rom. Numb.)19&mdash;First name of an NHL referee.20&mdash;Ronson of San Diego answers to this.22&mdash;13th and 9th letters of the alphabet.23&mdash;One of the Rangers answers to this.25&mdash;An NHL centre.26&mdash;Recent Vancouver draft choice, (first name)27&mdash;Native Province of AHL coach MacNeil.28&mdash;All the Jr. Canadiens are these. (S)30&mdash;Recently skated around Boston Garden with Cup.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Pictured player.2&mdash;New St. Louis coach.3&mdash;NHL trophy.4&mdash;Highest male voice.5&mdash;Initials of one of the Kings.7&mdash;Black Hawk veteran.9&mdash;15th and 13th letters of the alphabet.10&mdash;Native province of pictured player.12&mdash;A St. Louis farmhand.14&mdash;A former Canadien defenseman.16&mdash;First name of a former NHL star.21&mdash;A Philadelphia forward.24&mdash;One of the North Stars answers to this.25&mdash;Initials of &rsquo;62-&rsquo;63 Calder winner.26&mdash;First name of a former Ranger.29&mdash;Initials of one of the Habs.<h2>JUNE ISSUE ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;BELIVEAU8&mdash;ATTWELL10&mdash;TED11&mdash;LE12&mdash;YVES13&mdash;M.S.14&mdash;R.A.15&mdash;ONE17&mdash;TEN19&mdash;ENG.20&mdash;WATSON24&mdash;CONACHER25&mdash;ART27&mdash;LOCAS<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;BATHGATE2&mdash;LADY BYNG3&mdash;IT4&mdash;VT5&mdash;EWES6&mdash;A.E.7&mdash;ULLMAN9&mdash;LES14&mdash;ROUSSEAU16&mdash;EGANI8&mdash;ENIO20&mdash;W.A21&mdash;ACES22&mdash;TH23&mdash;ORR24&mdash;CAL26&mdash;T.W. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

AMARILLO&mdash;The Central Hockey League will be restored to its seven team complement for the 1970-71 season with the return to the league of the Amarillo, Tex., franchise.Representative Jack Button disclosed that the city is ready to come back to the CHL wars after a one-year suspension of operations. Amarillo will replace the Iowa Stars, the Minnesota North Stars&rsquo; farm club affiliate which dropped from the CHL after one season due to failing attendance and financial losses.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-04101/2650777-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="257" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Shero</figcaption></div>Button said the Amarillo club, which will be affiliated with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL and will become the Pens&rsquo; CHL development club, will be coached by Rudy Migay. Button will be the general manager and executive director of the team, which last operated in the league as the Wranglers in 1968-69. Both Amarillo and Houston dropped from the CHL in a realignment move last year. Houston is returning to hockey as well this season with an entry in the Eastern Hockey League.Migay, who coached the Baltimore Clippers last season, was also the coach when Amarillo was last in the CHL. He is also the second new pilot to be named during the off season in the league.Fred Shero has been appointed coach of the Omaha Knights after directing the Buffalo AHL club to the Calder Cup last season. The parent New York Rangers moved Shero into Omaha when Buffalo quit the AHL and became an NHL expansion club this year. Shero will replace Larry Popein, who leaves a championship club behind for Shero. Popein will handle the Seattle Totems of the Western League in 1970-71. The Totems and Rangers signed a working agreement during the off-sea on.The return of Amarillo assures the CHL of a seventeam circuit again. Omaha, Tulsa Oilers, Fort Worth Wings, Dallas Hawks, Oklahoma City Blazers and Kansas City Blues will all be back in the fold for the new season. &#9632;

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Shero, Migay Named New Coaches As Amarillo Returns To League

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div>NEW YORK&mdash;The possibility of the Eastern Hockey League expanding to become a 12-team circuit for 1970-71 still loomed with an unexpected application from Houston to join the loop for next season.The Texas entry, which would be known as the Apollos, was given a deadline to meet the EHL&rsquo;s financial requirements. Formerly members of the Central Hockey League, Houston was without hockey last season. General manager Herb Elk of the Apollos reports they have already signed a working agreement with the St. Louis Blues which would allow them to secure about seven of the NHL club&rsquo;s better young players from training camp cuts.Should the EHL accept Houston, the Apollos would play in the Southern Division and it would lead to the cessation of interdividion play between the North and South next season. Houston&rsquo;s entrance would place six teams in the south&mdash;Greensboro, Charlotte, Salem, Jacksonville, Nashville and of course Houston. The six Northern teams include Clinton, New Haven, Johnstown, Long Island, Syracuse and New Jersey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0199/2650808-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="501" height="591"><figcaption class="caption-body">BLAKE BALL&hellip;Suspension Dropped</figcaption></div>All of last year&rsquo;s 11 starters have signified their intention of returning for the 72-game schedule. League play opens Oct. 14 says President Tom Lockhart.Meanwhile, there have been cases where EHL suspensions have been lifted quickly but the latest two incidents are as rapid as any in history.Lockhart has announced that the bans on Blake Ball and Tom Trevelyan, both originally scheduled to last through Jan. 1, 1971, have been ended. Thus both will be able to start the new season with their respective clubs.Ball, who was the pilot of Long Island last season, now is the property of the Johnstown Jets, while Trevelyan, the rookie of the year in the South for Charlotte this past campaign, is expected to return to the Checkers next season unless he is sent to a higher classification.Ball&rsquo;s suspension didn&rsquo;t take place until after the season expired. It was assessed after his altercation with a linesman in Syracuse March 5, and no immediate action was taken since the Long Island team didn&rsquo;t make the playoffs. But after Lockhart had heard the facts from all the principals concerned he inflicted the suspension only to lift it after the recent league session.Trevelyan on the other hand did his villainous deed in the playoff series with Greensboro. He pushed referee Howie Newstate in the fifth game at Charlotte which the Gens won 4-3. So Tom missed the finale the next night in Greensboro which the Gens won by an identical score.In Tom&rsquo;s case, no doubt his youthfulness was taken into account as well as his previous lack of unruly actions. Coach Fred Creighton stressed these factors in gaining the lifting of the ban on his young skater. Trevelyan, oddly, finished the 1969-70 season playing with Seattle of the WHL during the playoffs on a pro tryout basis.GREENSBORO: Ron Spong considered his 1969-70 team the hardest working squad he&rsquo;s coached in 10 years here. Spong is confident he will come up with a crew that next fall that will be tough to beat in the quest of a fourth straight regular season Southern crown.NASHVILLE: The most unusual award of the past season was presented by local fans here to forward George Standing. It was labeled the &ldquo;Golden Garbage Award&rdquo; for consistently scoring the most &ldquo;garbage&rdquo; goals of any Flyer player. He received a plaque with the award name painted in gold letters and a gold tin can glued at the bottom. Official Flyers&rsquo; attendance for the year was 98,887.CHARLOTTE: President Al Manch visited NHL summer meetings along with Don Perry of New Haven and Al Baron of Long Island and his New coach Ed Stankiewicz. Manch reported he was still negotiating with his coach Fred Creighton on a new contract for 1970-71.JERSEY: Prexy Jerry Burg wants to play as many Friday nights as possible next season. Burg lost an appeal to get the fines rescinded for the actions of his players in the season windup with Syracuse. His contention was that the players were fined after they had left for home and the club had to absorb the fines. However the lifting of the $2,500 fine for the Devils failure to make a Johnstown game provided more than anough loot to pay the fines. &#9632;

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Houston Makes Bid For Entry; Ball, Trevelyan Buns Lifted

GREEN BAY&mdash;The United States Hockey League will expand from four teams to five teams for the 1970&mdash;71 season.The Waterloo, Iowa Black Hawks will be returning to the league after a year&rsquo;s absence and Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada has been granted a franchise while charter member Rochester, Minnesota will be dropping from the league.Waterloo spent the 1969-70 season as a member of the Central Hockey League under the banner of the Minnesota North Stars. However, sagging attendance ended the operation and the Hawks are coming back to the USHL where the team has been successful in the past.The return of Waterloo and the acceptance of Thunder Bay gives the loop five teams. Others are Green Bay, Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette.Thunder Bay is the new name for the old Fort William-Port Arthur communities which have combined into one. They have two top notch Canadian senior teams which will combine to form the new USHL entry. The team will be nicknamed the &ldquo;Bearcats.&rdquo;Thunder Bay, which Green Bay Bobcat General Manager John Mayasich terms, &ldquo;Prime Hockey Country&rdquo; has an ice arena which is capable of seating over 6,000 fans. In noting the new addition, Mayasich said: &ldquo;This will be a vast improvement. Waterloo had always been a power in the league when they were in it and we bad developed quite a rivalry with them. Thunder Bay has tremendous facilities and top players. A good percentage of NHL players come from that area.&rdquo;Rochester left the league because they were unable to play a full forty game schedule which will be employed by the league next season. Each team will play each other team five times at home and five times on the road.Mayasich said the Bobcats, in addition to the twenty&mdash;game home schedule, will play at least four exhibition games, one against Marquette in the Brebner Cup series, and then probably against the United States Nationals and possibly a few International Hockey League teams.At the recent league meeting, Green Bay owner Jim Van Essen was elected secretary treasurer of the league with Marquette&rsquo;s Bob Hoppe as president and Waterloo&rsquo;s Joe Nutting and Thunder Bay&rsquo;s Bill Pristi as vice presidents. &#9632;

Waterloo Hawks Rejoin USHL, Thunder Bay New 5th Member

NEW YORK&mdash;An Eastern Hockey League innovation next season will be the imposing of a deadline for the loaning of players from one league team to another.A deadline date of Dec. 15 has been set for such practices whereby a player is loaned to a club for the remainder of a season but reverts back to the lending club at the expiration of the campaign.The league also has decided not to back a Jersey Devils&rsquo; proposal that an extra player be carried throughout the season for injury insurance. At this point, it also has been decided that all playoff series next March and April will be best four-out-of-seven affairs just as they were this past season. &#9632;

Player Lending Deadline Set For Eastern League

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div>ST. CLAIR&mdash;Some important business was transacted by the International Hockey League at its summer meeting here but it was not in the intra-league draft department. Only seven players changed uniforms in the annual draft session.The Des Moines Oak Leafs were the only team claiming more than one player. They took Doug Piper of Muskegon and Larry Klewchuk of Flint. Port Huron drafted Dave Padzerski from Dayton, Flint took Mike Doersam from Port Huron, Muskegon claimed Mike Cunningham of the Port Huron Flags, Columbus claimed Dino Mascotto from Toledo, who in turn drafted Wally Kozak from Flint.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01116/2650901-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="265" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Ullyot</figcaption></div>The Flint action in allowing Kozak to pass from the Generals was the big surprise, at least on paper. He was one of the outstanding rookies in the league and the leading scorer for the Generals. But General Manager Frank Gallagher explained the action in not protecting Kozak: &ldquo;I talked with Wally by phone and he assured me he will not play in the IHL this coming season. He apparently has signed a contract to teach school in Saskatchewan and we felt it was in the best interest of the Generals to protect another player we are quite certain will return in October. We were happy to acquire a defenseman with the experience and ability of Mike Doersam.Fort Wayne and Dayton did not claim any of the players eligible for draft. The Komets left four players, Bill Bond, Butch McLean, Les Hunt and Trevor Fahey unprotected, but none were taken.The IHL made one important decision in abandoning the two-division setup of last season. The league will play in one division of eight clubs, with six qualifying for the playoffs. Training camps will open on Oct. 5 and the opening games will be Oct. 16, with the season closing on March 21.The contract of Commisioner Bill Beagan was extended for another year.There will be at least two new coaches in the league next season, with the departure of Larry Wilson at Dayton and Moe Bartoli at Fort Wayne already announced.Wilson has signed as coach of the Providence Reds in the American League, a surprise announcement after he had already been announced as locked up for another season with the Gems, along with Lefty McFadden as general manager.Bartoli resigned at Fort Wayne, saying he preferred to remain in Sudbury with his family. He hoped to land a job with the Sudbury Wolves in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. He had one year with the Komets, after two and one-half years coaching at Columbus in the IHL. He was a star with Louisville and Minneapolis before turning to coaching and still holds the league record for hat tricks in a season (seven), along with Don Westbrooke and Guy Trottier of Dayton.It was expected that Ken Ullyot, general manager of the Komets, would again take up the dual role of coaching and managing, which he held for seven of his 12 years in Fort Wayne.Already retained as coaches were Moose Lallo at Muskegon, Ted Garvin at Port Huron and Bill Mitchell at Toledo, where Jerry Nuerge was also retained as general manager. Both held these positions last season when the Blades finished Second to Dayton in the Southern Division.The Port Huron Flags became the property of the city when owner John Wismer turned over the franchise, saying that other business prevented him from giving the proper amount of time to the club. He said he had several feelers from potential buyers but all wanted to move the club and he felt it should remain in Port Huron. Morris Snyder, manager of McMorran Sports arena, where the Flags play, was named general manager. Ted Garvin, who led the team to second place in the Northern Division and extended the Dayton Gems to seven games in the playoff, was retained as coach.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0260/2650894-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="2383" height="1028"><figcaption class="caption-body">IHL Commissioner BILL BEAGAN is flanked by representatives of the Columbus and Toledo clubs during summer hockey meetings in Montreal. From left Columbus coach MOE MANTHA, new club executive DICK KNOX, Toledo GM JERRY NUERGE and team coach BILL MITCHELL. Knox is part of new group that has purchased ownership of the Checkers.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0349/2650887-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="1755" height="1173"><figcaption class="caption-body">There were smiles of contentment on all sides at the summer hockey gatherings. Here&rsquo;s Flint coach KEN HODGE, left, Generals&rsquo; President FRANK GALLAGHER and Dayton executive GM LEFTY MCFADDEN, right, who had to go coach-hunting when Larry Wilson left to join Providence.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IHL Decides To Abandon Two-Division Plan

TOLEDO&mdash;Man things are really going to be wild in this hockey mad town for the 1970-71 season.At least that&rsquo;s the prospect for the &lsquo;new look&rsquo; Toledo Hockey Club who are undergoing a facelifting programs that will include a name change, a new NHL working agreement, new uniforms and you may not believe it&hellip;but they&rsquo;ll be wearing gold skates, too.Thus the long-standing name &lsquo;Blades&rsquo; will disappear from the International Hockey League scene with the Toledo club being christened with a new &lsquo;monicker&rsquo; through a newspaper name contest.Toledo is entering a new hockey era and according to general manager Jerry Nuerge. &ldquo;The team needs a new, revitalized and tangible name to typify the style of club Toledo is expected to ice in 197071,&rdquo; he said.The club will be wearing new, blazing gold and black uniforms. Gold with black and white trimmings at home&mdash;and black with gold and white trimmings on the road. Along with that devastating color arrangement, the team will be initiating a major hockey breakthrough&mdash;they will be sporting &lsquo;gold&rsquo; skates. &#9632;

Toledo Facelifting To Include New Team Name, Gold Skates

PORT HURON&mdash;The International Hockey League is going to experiment with curved bluelines during its 1970-71, exhibition games.That&rsquo;s the word from the IHL&rsquo;s inventive commissioner Bill Beagan, who said the lines will be curved back so that the wingers would be a stride ahead of the puckcarrying center skating into the defending zone.Beagan, a former NHL linesman, said he decided to give the curved bluelines a try after witnessing thousands of offsides by a foot or less during his tenure in the NHL.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to give it a try in our exhibition games to see what results it will bring in cutting down offsides,&rdquo; said Beagan, who added that if the experiment is successful the IHL may consider employing it during the regular season but not likely this season. It would have to have the unanimous approval of the teams to be implemented. &#9632;

IHL Will Test Curved Bluelines

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0023-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0198/2650980-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Western Canada Hockey League delegates were in evidence at the summer hockey meetings in Montreal. Here are three of them conversing during a lull in the draft activities. From the left, DEL WILSON BOB TURNER and SCOTTY MUNRO.</figcaption></div>TORONTO&mdash;The outlaw Western Canada Hockey League came back to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association fold but the only trouble is the league may not have anybody to play against when Memorial Cup time rolls around.The Ontario and Quebec junior hockey associations, embittered by the distribution of junior development money handed the returning WCHL by the CAHA, have flatly refused to become a part of the new Tier I set-up of the CAHA in which the WCHL, Ontario and Quebec will be grouped in a super national playdown, unless there is equal treat ment for all.Both dissenting hockey bodies maintain they will not meet the WCHL in a national playoff unless they are placed on the same footing with the Western league in the matters of finance and permission to use over-age players&mdash;21 and under&mdash;up to four on each team.CAHA President Earl Dawson said he hopes to resolve the quality differences in a meeting between the NHL negotiating committee, headed by Clarence Campbell, and his association along with the OHA and QAHA who will send representatives to air their objections.Meanwhile, the WCHL returned to the CAHA recently after operating as an outlaw league since 1967-68 when the circuit broke away from the governing body over an age dispute.The CAHA has been desperately trying to get the top-flight Western league back ever since. They succeeded this year after signing an agreement with the WCHL which puts the loop in the top tier of junior hockey in Canada.WCHL president Ron Butlin said the two-year agreement, endorsed in writing by the National Hockey League, gives the WCHL a minimum of $100,000 a year, with each of the teams receiving $5,000 in travel money and $5,000 in development money.Butlin said that in addition to the travel and development funds, the WCHL will receive $53,908 for players drafted by the NHL during the 1967-68 and 1968-69 seasons.Each WCHL team will be permitted to use four over-age players during the 1970-71 season and two in 1971-72. The CAHA&rsquo;s junior age limit is 20 at Dec. 31, while the WCHL&rsquo;s has been 21 at Dec. 31 with further age consideration to players attending universities. &#9632;

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WCHL Return To CAHA Angers OHA, Quebec Over Equality Rights

TORONTO&mdash;Soon there won&rsquo;t be a solitary goalkeeper playing in the big time without a mask.Another of the NHL&rsquo;s durable puck-stoppers, who has long resisted the face protector, has yielded. Toronto&rsquo;s Bruce Gamble has declared he will join the mask set next season.What prompted Gamble to put on the mask? The rangy netminder said that the incident in the playoffs when a shot felled Jacques Plante, helped convince him to wear one. Plante had a mask on at the time when he suffered a concussion. However, the mask probably saved his life. Gamble said that the affair should be fair warning to all goalers. &#9632;

Gamble Says He’ll Wear Face Mask

MONTREAL&mdash;Four more hockey figures were elected to the NHL Hall of Fame, the players received a new deal as the result of player-owner council meetings, a raft of rule changes were ratified and the NHL agreed to recognize the referees and linesmen association.These were some of the events that swelled the summer hockey calendar.Taking them in their order, the NHL moved to admit four new members&mdash;three former playing greats and one hockey executive&mdash;to its select Hall of Fame. Defensemen Bill Gadsby and Tom Johnson, and the late Cecil &lsquo;Babe&rsquo; Dye, an old-time ice great, were selected by the Hall of Fame committee for inclusion in the hockey hall. Bob Lebel of. Montreal, former president of the CAHA and a long-time representative and worker for amateur hockey, was named as a builder.Gadsby, a defense stalwart with Detroit, Chicago and New York for 20 years, and Johnson, a 15year performer with Montreal and Boston, were picked from the NHL&rsquo;s modern day stars to be honored. Johnson was recently named coach of the Boston Bruins.In their dealings with the NHL, the league&rsquo;s players came away with a better deal in the matter of putting them on waivers. The new agreement specifies that a player with two years service in pro hockey at any level cannot be sent to the minors without first asking waivers from the other clubs in the league.Other benefits included the concession that any player on the 18-man list, should he be waived out of the NHL to a minor league, will still get a full season pension benefit.Among the new rule changes approved by the NHL were the restriction of the curvature of a hockey blade. The new limit is one half inch as compared to the former one inch curve.Players fines for infractions were also doubled on the approval of the NHL governors. A misconduct will now cost $50, game misconduct $100, match penalty $200 and a major penalty lor causing bodily injury will carry a $500 fine. No change was made in the $100 stipend for leaving the bench in the event of a melee. Players drawing three majors in a game will be ejected from the contest from now on.NHL president Clarence Campbell said negotiations will be instituted between a committee of league executives and four representatives of the officials&mdash;Bill Friday, Bruce Hood, Matt Pavelich and Tom Smith. Referee-in-chief Scotty Morrison will represent the NHL along with his two aides&mdash;Frank Udvari and Dutch Van Deelan&mdash;in talks with the NHL groups to attain better conditions and rights for the referees and linesmen. &#9632;

Gadsby, Johnson Named To Hall Of Fame

Following players were selected by the 14 National Hockey League teams in the summer amateur draft. Number shown before names indicates when player was drafted:<h2>BUFFALO</h2>1&mdash;Gilbert Perreault from Mtl. Canadians15&mdash;Dutch Deadmarch from Brandon.29&mdash;Steve Cuddie from Toronto Marlboros43&mdash;Randy Wyrozub from Edmonton Oil Kings.57&mdash;Mike Morton from Shawinigan.71&mdash;Mike Keeler from Niagara Falls.84&mdash;Tim Regan from Boston University.97&mdash;Doug Rombough from St. Catharines.108&mdash;Luc Nadeau from Drummondville.<h2>VANCOUVER</h2>2&mdash;Dale Tallon from Toronto Marlboros.16&mdash;Jim Hargreaves from Winnipeg Jets.30&mdash;Ed Dyck from Calgary.44&mdash;Brent Taylor from Estevan Bruins.58&mdash;Bill McFadden from Swift Current.72&mdash;Dave Gilmore from London.98&mdash;Gerry Kemp from Clarkson College.<h2>BOSTON</h2>3&mdash;Reg Leach from Flin Flon.4&mdash;Rick McLeish from Peterborough9&mdash;Ron Plumb from Peterborough.13&mdash;Robert Stewart from Oshawa.27&mdash;Danny Bouchard from London.41&mdash;Ray Brownlee from Univ. of Brandon.55&mdash;Gord Davies from Toronto Marlboros.69&mdash;Robert Roselle from Sorel.83&mdash;Murray Wing from Univ. of N. Dakota.96&mdash;Glen Siddal from Kitchener.<h2>MONTREAL</h2>5&mdash;Ray Martyniuk from Flin Flon.6&mdash;Chuck Lefley from Canadian Nationals.31&mdash;Steve Carlyle from Weyburn.45&mdash;Cal Hammond from Flin Flon.52&mdash;John French from Toronto Marlboros.66&mdash;Richard Wilson from Univ. of N. Dakota.80&mdash;Robert Brown from Univ. of Boston.93&mdash;Bob Fowler from Estevan.106&mdash;Rick Jordan from Univ. of Boston.<h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>7&mdash;Greg Polis from Estevan.21&mdash;John Stewart from Flin Flon.35&mdash;Larry Bignell from Edmonton.49&mdash;Connie Forey from Ottawa.63&mdash;Steve Cardwell from Oshawa.77&mdash;Bob Fitchner from Brandon.90&mdash;Jim Pearson from St. Catharines.103&mdash;Cam Newton from Kitchener.111&mdash;Ron Lemieux from Dauphin.<h2>TORONTO</h2>8&mdash;Darryl Sittier from London.22&mdash;Errol Thompson from Charlottetown.36&mdash;Jerry O&rsquo;Flaherty from Kitchener.50&mdash;Bob Gryp from Univ. of Boston.64&mdash;Luc Simard from Three Rivers.78&mdash;Calvin Booth from Weyburn.91&mdash;Paul Larose from Quebec.104&mdash;Ron Lowe from Dauphin.<h2>OAKLAND</h2>10&mdash;Chris Obdliefson from Winnipeg.19&mdash;Pete Laframboise from Ottawa.33&mdash;Randy Rota from Calgary Centenials.47&mdash;Ted McAneeley from Edmonton.61&mdash;Gray Gibbs from Charlottetown75&mdash;Doug Moyes from Sorel.88&mdash;Terry Murray from Ottawa.101&mdash;Al Henry from Univ. of N. Dakota.<h2>NEW YORK</h2>11&mdash;Normand Gratton from Montreal.25&mdash;Mike Murphy from Toronto Marlboros.39&mdash;Wendell Bennett from Weyburn.53&mdash;Andre St. Pierre from Drummoneville.67&mdash;Gary Coalter from Hamilton.81&mdash;Duane Wylie from St. Cahtarines.94&mdash;Wayne Bell from Estevan.107&mdash;Pierre Brind&rsquo;Amour from Mtl. Canadiens.<h2>DETROIT</h2>12&mdash;Serge Lajeunesse from Mtl. Canadiens.26&mdash;Robert Guindon from Mtl. Canadiens.40&mdash;Yvon Lambert from Drummondville.54&mdash;Tom Johnson from Toronto Marlboros.68&mdash;Tom Mellor from Boston College.82&mdash;Bernie MacNeil from Espanola.95&mdash;Ed Hays from Univ. of Denver.<h2>CHICAGO</h2>14&mdash;Dan Maloney from London.28&mdash;Michel Archambault from Drummondville.42&mdash;Glen Frig from Calgary56&mdash;Walter Ledingham from Univ. of Minnesota.70&mdash;Gilles Meloche from Verdun.<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>17&mdash;Buster Harvey Hamilton.20&mdash;Fred Barrett from Toronto.34&mdash;Dennis Patterson from Peterborough.48&mdash;Dave Cressman from Kitchener.62&mdash;Henry Lehvonen from Kitchener.76&mdash;Murray McNeill from Calgary.89&mdash;Gary Geldart from London.102&mdash;Mickey Donaldson from Peterborough.<h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>18&mdash;Bill Clement from Ottawa.32&mdash;Bob Kelley from Oshawa.46&mdash;Jacques Lapierre from Shawinigan.60&mdash;Doug Kerslake from Edmonton.74&mdash;Dennis Giannini from London.87&mdash;Henry Nowat from Oshawa.100&mdash;Gary Cunningham from St. Catharines.110&mdash;Jean Daigle from Sorel.<h2>ST. LOUIS</h2>23&mdash;Murray Keogan Univ. of Minnesota.37&mdash;Ron Climie from Hamilton.51&mdash;Gordon Brooks from London.65&mdash;Mike Stevens from Univ. of Minnesota.79&mdash;Claude Moreau from Mtl. Canadiens.85&mdash;Jack Taggart from Univ. of Denver92&mdash;Terry Marshall from Brandon.105&mdash;Dave Tataryn from Niagara Falls.109&mdash;Bob Winograd from Colorado College.113&mdash;Jeff Rotsch from Univ. of Wisconsin.114&mdash;Al Carver from Kitchener.115&mdash;Gerry MacDonald from St. Francis Xavier.116&mdash;Gerry Haynes from Kenora,<h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>24&mdash;Al McDonough St. Catharines.38&mdash;Jerry Holbrook from London.59&mdash;Billy Smith from Cornwall.73&mdash;Gerry Bradbury from London.86&mdash;Brian Carlin from Calgary.99&mdash;Bryan Chinnick from Peterborough. &#9632;

NHL Amateur Draft Picks

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT&mdash;Sid Abel had his eye on Gordie Howe&rsquo;s birth certificate at the National Hockey League summer meetings and it says Gordie is 42 years old.So Abel made an end run around Boston Bruin general manager Milt Schmidt and grabbed promising right wing Tom Webster who scored 29 goals each of the last two seasons at Oklahoma City despite undergoing knee surgery each year to remove cartilages.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0244/2651090-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="258" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roger Crozier</figcaption></div>Abel tried to made a direct Roger Crozier for Webster deal with Schmidt but Uncle Miltie wanted to keep Webster to himself and thought he&rsquo;d worked a horse trade with Buffalo&rsquo;s Punch Imlach to do it.Imlach had first call in the expansion draft and was supposed to take Garnet (Ace) Bailey.But Punch knows a club&rsquo;s foundation is its goalkeeping and the old clubs weren&rsquo;t about to give him a name goalie&mdash;Buffalo and Vancouver were going to get third string goalies.So Abel headed for Imlach and told him he&rsquo;d give him Crozier if Punch would draft Webster first. In the Imlach-Schmidt deal, Imlach would draft Bailey and Schmidt would put Webster back on his protected list.Twenty minutes before the drafting started, Imlach told Schmidt it was no deal, Abel had Webster locked up and Imlach had Crozier.&ldquo;Roger played very well for us,&rdquo; Abel said, &ldquo;but we have to take Gordie&rsquo;s age into consideration and our people are very high on Webster.&rdquo;Howe has played 24 years in the NHL and while he made the All-Star team this season and again finished among the top 10 scorers for the 21st straight time, he has implied that the upcoming season might be his last one.Howe underwent wrist surgery this summer to correct an arthritic conditions that grew from an old fracture. A number of bone chips also were removed. The wrist caused great discomfort last season.The Webster-Crozier deal was Detroit&rsquo;s major transaction at the June meeting. Abel left the weeklong session with a smile on his face having lost in the expansion draft three players he wasn&rsquo;t counting on&mdash;defensemen Jim Watson and Poul Popiel and forward Ed Hatoum. Gary Croteau was taken by Oakland in the Intra League draft for $30,000.Abel took a chance in not protecting veteran defenseman Bob Baun on the first round of the expansion draft&mdash;again going for youth and putting tough, young Gerry Hart on his list&mdash;but he filled with Baun after Watson was taken by Imlach on the fifth round.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the first time we&rsquo;ve gone into the meetings in a long time with our blueline set and not looking for another defenseman,&rdquo; Abel said.Obviously Baun will be fighting Hart for a job in training camp in September with Gary Bergman, Carl Brewer and Ron Harris all set.Jim Rutherford, Detroit&rsquo;s No. 1 pick in the 1969 amateur draft, will duel Gerry Gray and Don McLeod for backup man to goalie Roy Edwards.Rutherford and McLeod had strong seasons for Doug Barkley&rsquo;s Fort Worth Wings in the Central League, Rutherford posting a 2.68 goals against average, second best in the high-scoring league. McLeod was 2.99 as they split the season.The big questions for the Wings are: 1&mdash;Will Edwards stand up under the heavier load and 2&mdash;Are Webster&rsquo;s knees sound. They&rsquo;ll have to wait a couple months before the answers start coming in.The Wings, who haven&rsquo;t had a French flavor in years, went strongly for French-Canadians in the amateur draft, plucking two members of Montreal&rsquo;s Memorial Cup Champion team in the first two rounds and then going to the free-scoring Quebec League for their third pick.Detroit, picking 12th, took 5-foot-11,185 pound, right-hand shooting defenseman Serge Lajeunesse, and then Robert Guindon on the second round both from the Montreal junior Canadiens.Guindon, 5-9,165, was left wing on first amater pick Gilbert Perreault&rsquo;s line and scored 43 goals and assisted on 51 in 53 games.The third Detroit pick was Yvon Lambert who scored 50 goald and assisted on 52 for 102 points for Drummondville in the Quebec Junior League. He&rsquo;s a 61,194-pound center.Lajeunesse and Guindon both were present at the draft and met and talked to Abel and coach Ned Harkness following their selections. Lajeunesse is a handsome youngster and celebrated his 20th birthday the day of the draft. Serge has a little summer work to do before reporting to camp&mdash;he&rsquo;s going to school to take English.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0144/2651083-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="530" height="760"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM WEBSTER&hellip;Big Shoes To Fill</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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