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November 13, 1970
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Burns Stars In Adjusting From Coach To Player Role
TWIN CITIES— It might have been a difficult adjustment, for a lesser man, but Charlie Burns has been making transitions throughout his professional hockey career. Burns, who coached the Minnesota North Stars over the last 60 per cent of the 1969-70 season, is now just one of the boys. He seems happy in his current role with the North Stars, and is playing some of the best hockey of his life. To background briefly, the North Stars acquired Burns from Pittsburgh in June of 1969. He was a utility forward at Minnesota until Dec. 30, 1969, when Wren Blair, his health impaired by the dual responsibilities of general manager and coach, named Bums to coach the club. The North Stars floundered through January and February, winning just one of 33 games during a bleak stretch,…
CYCLES OF DOMINATION
BOSTON— The Boston Bruins’ chances of repeating as National Hockey League champions are good according to history. Hockey’s major circuit has run in long cycles of domination by one team or another through 26 of its 46 years of pennant races. Only 17 times did the pennant-winner of one season fail to repeat the following season at least once. Of course, the Bruins were not the pennant-winner of record last season, since they only tied Chicago’s Black Hawks for The Prince of Wales Trophy and were denied a share of the laurel only by the technicality of the debatable rule according the preference to the team with the greater number of victories. However, the Bruins did go on from there to win the Stanley Cup and only six times in the last quarter…
Toledo Veteran White Nets Five-Coal Came; Komets Land Boileau
TOLEDO— The first spectacular performance of the International Hockey League season was turned in by the Toledo Hornets’ Hal White when he scored five goals in one game against Port Huron. The one-game record for the IHL is six, held by four different players: Pierre Brillant (Feb. 18, 1959), Bryan McLay, Muskegon (March 8, 1961); Elliott Chorley, St. Paul (Jan. 17. 1962) and Joe Kastelic, Muskegon (March 1, 1962). White’s five goals paced the Hornets to a 9-4 victory over the Flags. Two of them came in the first period, one in the second and two more in the third. This is the second season for the veteran left winger in a Toledo uniform. He joined the team last January after a long career in the Eastern and Western Leagues but was able to…
Cote Back As Kings’ Ice Leader
SPRINGFIELD— The “Toothpick’s Back in Town” and that could only be rugged defenseman Roger Cote with his ever familiar toothpick dangling from his mouth. It is no act either. That thing is in his mouth all the time, even when he is playing. Some say he even sleeps with it. Cote did not have a happy season here with the team last winter. The 30-year veteran was shuffled off to the Buffalo Bisons on loan for the season. He didn’t mind that too much, but it was right around the time his wife was expecting a child. Roger passed that crisis, however, with flying colors, but still did not see too much action with the Buffalo club which won the Calder Cup. It seemed Roger suffered a groin pull which did not respond…
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