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November 27, 1970

The Hockey News November 27, 1970

<p>Founded October 1st, 1947</p><p><b>Published weekly except monthly June through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</b></p><p><b>1434 St. Catherine Street West Montreal 107, Canada.</b></p><p><b>Kenneth William McKenzie</b><br>President and Publisher</p><p><b>Charlie Halpin</b><br>Editorial Director</p><p><b>Yearly SUBSCRIPTION Rates: $6.00 in Canada $7.00 in the U.S.A, and $9.00 in Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Postage paid at Rouses Point. N.Y Second class mail&mdash;Registration No. 1327</p><p><b>Printed in Canada</b></p><p><b>Vol. 24 MONTREAL, NOVEMBER 27, 1970 No. 8</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

The Hockey News OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01996/3706406-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="307" height="365"></div><h2><i><b>You Worry When You&rsquo;re Last</b></i></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>HE TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS&rsquo;</b> main defenseman this season are Rick Ley, 21; Brad Selwood, 22; Jim Dorey, 23; Mike Pelyk, 23, and Brian Glennie, 24. This is the youngest defense group in the NHL. It is made up of players less established than those on the rearguards of the newest expansion teams. It is made up of players who may become good hockey players, but who make mistakes. To compound the problem, it often protects the oldest goaltender in the league, Jacques Plante, who will be 41 in two months. Jacques doesn&rsquo;t make many mistakes, but he may be wearing out. While his record in recent years remains excellent in recent games he has seemed often to tire.</p><p>In a recent game in Los Angeles, Dave Keon, one of a few superlatively skilled veteran stars remaining on Leafs, intercepted a foolish, blind pass by Eddie Shack, who does foolish, careless things, of course, sped off on a breakway and neatly outmanuevered Denis DeJordv to shove the lead goal home early in the second period. Leafs held on to this advantage for 20 minutes, but as the game went on, their kid defensemen began to make mistakes. The game was tied and then with less than five minutes to play, the much-penalized Dorey, who often ploughs into foolish penalties, ploughed into one and less than a minute later the Kings had powered the winner past Plante. The Leafs had won a couple and things were looking up, but this loss sent them sagging again.</p><p>John McLellan, the ruddy-cheeked coach of the club, seems tense these days. &ldquo;You worry when you&rsquo;re down at the bottom,&rdquo; he admitted, &ldquo;but I guess you worry when you&rsquo;re on top, too. However, there&rsquo;s nothing like winning. Coaching is a bit of an ordeal under any circumstances, but when you&rsquo;re losing, it&rsquo;s pretty near unbearable. I must say fans in Toronto have been kind to us. We&rsquo;re rebuilding and they&rsquo;re showing patience. But the demand for a winner in hockey in one of the few Canadian cities in the NHL is bound to be greater than in the American cities.&rdquo;</p><p>Toronto has a proud history in major league hockey, though not nearly what Montreal has had. Strangely, Leafs have won only two pennants, one in 1948 and one in 1963. However, they have won the Stanley Cup playoffs 11 times, four times under manager and coach Punch Imlach in the 1960&rsquo;s. When the team slipped and Imlach was fired after 11 seasons as coach at the end of the 1969 seasons, Leafs reached into their organization for youth to replace him, with Jim Gregory as manager and McLellan as coach.</p><p>Gregory never played in the NHL. McLellan played two games in the NHL, for Leafs. Gregory was a trainer for amateur teams before becoming a successful manager and coach in amateur hockey. He coached Vancouver in the Western League, directed Leafs&rsquo; minor league operations and scouted for them before being manager of the big team, the youngest manager in the NHL, last season at 33. McLellan played on championship amateur teams, played nine seasons in the pro minors, then coached Nashville and Tulsa to minor league titles before succeeding Imlach at the age of 41. &ldquo;It was the biggest thrill of my life because it was so unexpected.&rdquo; admits the South Porcupine, Ontario, product.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02896/3706399-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="543" height="874"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN McLELLAN&hellip;Can&rsquo;t Feel Secure</b></figcaption></div><h2><i><b>Tough Act To Follow</b></i></h2><p><b>&ldquo;PUNCH WAS A TOUGH</b> act to follow, no question of it,&rdquo; he says wistfully. When Leafs failed to make the playoffs last season, it was odds-on Gregory and McLellan&rsquo;s career at the top would be cut short, but the bosses decently decided to give them more time. Punch won with old men who&rsquo;d had it and Gregory and McLellan had to start all over again with kids who didn&rsquo;t yet know what it was. Many doubted that the youthful leaders had much real authority to exercise, but they have revamped the roster and assumed a pose of strength which impresses many close to the team, including the players.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t feel secure. The coach who feels secure is foolish.&rdquo; McLellan says.&rdquo; There is no security in coaching. If a winner such as Punch didn&rsquo;t know that before, he knows it now. Leafs decided to build up anew from the bottom and we were given the opportunity to direct the rebuilding. We didn&rsquo;t figure to do well last season. I could see that. But you always hope for the best, so I was disappointed, I felt we&rsquo;d do better this season, so our slow start has been disappointing. I feel we have to show progress soon, I feel we have the sort of players with whom we can make progress, but our veterans will have to carry our kids for awhile.&rdquo;</p><p>One of the veterans, Keon was quietly getting dressed in the depressed Leafs locker room. He accepted praise for his beautiful, breakway play with a smile. &ldquo;I thought it would be enough for awhile,&rdquo; he signed. &ldquo;If I played well, fine, but losing makes it hollow. Winning makes up for playing bad more than playing good makes up for losing.&rdquo; The super-skater, one of the great players, said he felt good physically, but was depressed mentally by his team&rsquo;s problems the last few years. &ldquo;Our kids have talent. We have to be patient with them,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You just keep going and hope things will improve.</p><p>A handsome fellow, he was dressing mod-style in a wine shirt and a grey suit wildly striped with wine. He walked out to the fans and friends who awaited him, holding his head up as he went past his coach, who had his head down in depressed thought.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03752/3706392-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="546" height="867"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM GREGORY&hellip;Team Disappointed Him</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02786/3706814-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg"></div><h2><b>THE TOP 10 NETMINDERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03695/3706807-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="1216" height="2041"></div><h2><b>NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Fri. Nov. 6)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04618/3706800-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="577" height="237"></div><h2><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05506/3706793-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="567" height="283"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Looking At NHL Goalers

<div class="byline">BY GEORGE DUFFY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-10133/3707515-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="534" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOE SZURA&hellip;Ace Playmaker</b></figcaption></div><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>ennant fever is already gripping this hockey mad city which lies 187 miles North of N.Y. Ranger territory and 37 miles south of Boston Bruin land.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-09152/3707522-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="235" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Larry Wilson</b></figcaption></div><p>It is still very early&mdash;12 games to be exact&mdash;but you cannot convince the populace that the R.I. Reds of 1970-71 are not on the way to a Calder Cup. It has been a long time&mdash;1955-56&mdash;since the coveted American Hockey League trophy has rested in Providence.</p><p>On street corners, in taxi cabs the talk is about the Reds who have the highest scoring forward line in the league in Randy Rota, veteran Joe Szura and second year man Alton White. In 12 games, this trio piled up 47 points in playing a leading role in steering the Reds into first place in the AHL&rsquo;s Eastern Division.</p><p>Rota, a 20-year-old rookie with a blazing shot from the left side, has been bulwarking the Reds&rsquo; &ldquo;Hot Line.&rdquo; But Szura, with many years of service, after a slow start, has been passing the puck like Bob Cousy used to flip a basketball around.</p><p>White, one of only two Negroes playing in professional hockey, had 24-24-48 for totals last season and he did it all on hustle. Alton is much the same kind of player again and is looking for a bigger year.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-11117/3707508-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="490" height="608"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALTON WHITE&hellip;Hustle Pays Off</b></figcaption></div><p>Things seem more different than ever in Providence where professional hockey has held forth since 1926. In the days when Lou Pieri owned the Reds, he for the most part operated independently. As a result, most of the Providence teams had older players.</p><p>Nowadays, Coach Larry Wilson, has what some fans are calling the &ldquo;Whiz Kids.&rdquo; There are more 20-year-olds around than ever before. At times, it looks like a gathering at the local draft board.</p><p>Even the look of the fans has a new look. Men with beards and girls smoking small cigars buy tickets. Others race on to the scene aboard motorcycles.</p><p>Harold Gederman, whose been at the Auditorium for close on 40 years and is a premier ticket seller. tells it like this: &ldquo;I see sights from this ticket window I have never looked at before. Of course the old time, hard core fans are still around, but this is a new crowd and they love this hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>It is showing at the gate. The Reds, who had their greatest year at the gate in history last season, are already running ahead of that pace. Of the seven home games played to date, the standing room only sign has been needed five times. And with the Reds in first place, the demand for tickets is bound to increase.</p><p>Owner George Sage, now in his second year as the boss man of the Reds, is overjoyed. And like he said some weeks ago, &ldquo;I am hopeful but I always am wondering how well we will do when we go head on with a Boston Bruin game on television.&rdquo; The channel carrying the Bruin games comes into Rhode Island loud and clear.</p><p>The first big test came on Sunday, November 8. The Reds were playing at home to Hershey and Boston played at home to the Montreal Canadiens. The Reds faced that game having last the previous night at Hershey by a 9-2 margin. Everyone at R.I. Auditorium waited to see.</p><p>At 2 o&rsquo;clock on the afternoon of the 8th, the tickets for the Reds-Hershey game were sold out. Some standees showed up later. The Reds had come to grips with Bobby Orr & Co. and finished in fantastic financial shape. Said Sage: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to keep winning and stay in the pennant race. If we do, nothing is going to stop us from having a great year at the gate.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>AHL Team Scoring</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 1)</b></p><h3><b>PROVIDENCE</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01626/3707501-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="568" height="504"></div><h3>CLEVELAND</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02518/3707494-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="566" height="454"></div><h3>HERSHEY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03405/3707487-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="570" height="432"></div><h3>BALTIMORE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04345/3707480-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="564" height="578"></div><h3>SPRINGFIELD</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05283/3707473-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="565" height="428"></div><h3>ROCHESTER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06220/3707466-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="564" height="500"></div><h3>MONTREAL</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-07192/3707459-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="559" height="470"></div><h3>QUEBEC</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-08176/3707452-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="564" height="422"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Whiz Kids Help Give Providence Hew Look On Ice, At The Gate

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01918/3706109-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="525" height="595"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NED HARKNESS&hellip;Troubled Coach</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>oach Ned Harkness didn&rsquo;t expect the National Hockey League to be a bed of roses but the new Detroit Red Wings coach didn&rsquo;t expect the briar patch of problems he&rsquo;s fallen into.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02839/3706102-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="261" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Roy Edwards</b></figcaption></div><p>Harkness has been ridiculed by a sarcastic television sports caster, booed by the fans and one Detroit hockey writer wrote that if the Red Wings are to salvage the season, they&rsquo;ll have to make a coaching change.</p><p>The writer said the club was in &ldquo;almost open revolt&rdquo; against Harkness and based it on some quotes from goalie Roy Edwards after Edwards was beaten on a rebound with 2:03 to play to enable Pittsburgh to tie Detroit. The Red Wings had a two goal lead in the game and had outshot Pittsburgh 44-26.</p><p>Edwards was quoted as saying he had been playing too much&mdash;13 of Detroit&rsquo;s 14 games at the time&mdash;and it was too much.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t believe that writeup,&rdquo; Edwards said when he saw it in the paper. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s not a damn bit of truth to it. I&rsquo;m just flabbergasted. It sounds like I&rsquo;m leading a rebellion and that&rsquo;s the farthest thing from the truth.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m 100 percent for Ned and I think the rest of the guys are too,&rdquo; Edwards said.</p><p>He admitted he said he was tired but also said Harkness had talked to him for 30 minutes two days before the game and gave him his choice of whether or not he wanted to play. Edwards said he would.</p><p>Harkness and the Wings were in a bind. A five game trip faced them and they wanted to go on the road with two straight victories, something they hadn&rsquo;t achieved all season.</p><p>If Edwards didn&rsquo;t go in goal they&rsquo;d have to go with Jim Rutherford, the 21-year-old rookie who played 34 games in his first professional year at Fort Worth last season and just one this season, a 4-3 loss at Buffalo.</p><p>After the newspaper story said the Wings wouldn&rsquo;t go anywhere without a coaching change Harkness held up his palm and smiled weakly: &ldquo;The only thing missing are the nails.&rdquo;</p><p>He felt he was crucified by the story, a rare one for that particular writer and extremely rare in Detroit press-Red Wing coaching relationships. Sid Abel was general manager and coach two years when the club missed the playoffs three straight years, the only time that&rsquo;s happened in Detroit hockey history, and there never was an outright demand for a coaching change.</p><p>But Harkness is following a tough act. The club finished in third place last season with 95 points and was in the race for first place until the last five days of the season. It tied the NHL record for road victories with 20.</p><p>This is not the same team, however, and many people overlook that. Carl Brewer was the single most important reason why the Red Wings went from fifth place in 1968-69 to third in 1969-70. Brewer retired on the eve of training camp this year and contrary to reports, hasn&rsquo;t been in contact with the Red Wings nor they with him about another comeback.</p><p>Roger Crozier, who had an excellent season last year with a 2.65 goals against average, was traded to Buffalo.</p><p>The 1969-70 team got by without serious injuries. This one had three by the time it played two games.</p><p>The 1969-70 team hardly had a rookie&mdash;Al Karlander was the only one who stuck and he didn&rsquo;t join the team until December. This year&rsquo;s club has five.</p><p>Harkness&rsquo; experiment moving Gordie Howe to defense didn&rsquo;t work because it broke up one of the greatest lines in the game&rsquo;s&mdash;history. But the experiment had worked well in the exhibitions.</p><p>Some of Harkness&rsquo; rules and ideas have been unpopular&mdash;he&rsquo;s very strong on meetings, there is no smoking in the dressing room or hotel lobbies and flights into cities for road games usually are timed to get the club into its hotel late in the evening instead of giving the players the full evening in the city.</p><p>There was an implied charge that he overcoaches and he replied he isn&rsquo;t coaching as much as he&rsquo;d like&hellip;&ldquo;especially when you hear people say they&rsquo;ve never had any coaching.&rdquo;</p><p>He&rsquo;s doing things that haven&rsquo;t been done before and change almost always is resisted.</p><p>Harkness is a frantic pacer behind the bench and four times this season the Wings have embarrassingly been caught with too many men on the ice and that hasn&rsquo;t sat well with the fans or brass.</p><p>It has been a season to remember&hellip;and it&rsquo;s hardly begun.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Red Wings’ Goaler Edwards Denies ‘Remarks’ Hinted At Team Revolt

<div class="byline">BY PAT CURRAN</div><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>fter the drubbing they took on their first visit to Boston, a 6-1 defeat and a lacing in the brawl, then only a pair of ties in three more road games, the Canadiens can&rsquo;t help but welcome the return of John Ferguson.</p><p>The rambunctious leftwinger, who retired only three days before the start of the schedule for business reasons, announced his return to hockey Nov. 13 following two lengthy meetings with Montreal G.M. Sam Pollock.</p><p>The return of Ferguson to the NHL triggered a week of unusual player activity that saw three other one-time big names re-establish themselves with major league teams and a fourth a possibility to return as well.</p><p>Both Don Marshall and Phil Goyette ended their retirements and signed contracts with the new Buffalo Sabres, a move that will undoubtedly help the NHL expansion team both on the ice and at the box office. The third, Bob Baun, found himself back with Toronto Maple Leafs, his old stamping ground when he was purchased from St. Louis after being suspended when the Blues couldn&rsquo;t resolve his personal problems.</p><p>Now there is speculation that the trend of returning old faces will continue with Carl Brewer likely wearing a Toronto Maple Leaf uniform before long after the Leafs and Detroit get together on a trade.</p><p>There&rsquo;s no doubt the change of heart to play on the part of Ferguson provoked the most discussion and surprise around the NHL. The &lsquo;bad man&rsquo; has been sorely missed.</p><p>Ferguson, 32-year-old veteran of seven NHL seasons in which he scored 129 goals and had 1,052 minutes in penalties, found time for hockey again after the knitwear firm of which he was a partner was sold. He was itching to get back into the game and Pollock readily made it worthwhile for Fergy to come out of retirement.</p><p>Fergy agreed to finish out the two-year-contract he signed last year but has been assured of a healthy raise for 1971-72.</p><p>Although Ferguson missed 28 games through injuries and a controversial suspension last season he still managed 19 goals and 13 assists. The previous season he netted 29 goals and 23 assists to establish himself as probably the most valuable player to the team.</p><p>Now the Canadiens, riddled by injuries the first two months of the schedule&mdash;losing ace scorer Yvan Cournoyer and Jacques Laperriere for several games, are hoping Fergy&rsquo;s desire will lift them to real contention in the East Division.</p><p>To do so, however, Ferguson will have to start scoring goals to spark the team from its recent slump.</p><p>After going wild at home for an 11-2 victory over Buffalo, the Habs were not the same team on their first extended road trip. The humiliating 6-1 setback at Boston was followed by a 2-0 loss at Oakland, a 1-1 tie at St. Louis and a 2-2 sawoff at Buffalo after the Sabres hardly appeared worthy of the same league in two previous games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01923/3706161-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="549" height="879"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB BAUN</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02789/3706154-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="549" height="879"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON MARSHALL</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03528/3706147-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="549" height="879"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL GOYETTE</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04312/3706140-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1176" height="882"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN FERGUSON&hellip;He Came Back</b></figcaption></div><p>Between their goal in the first period at Boston and the equalizer at St. Louis by Jacques Lemaire with only 25 seconds to play the Canadiens had been scoreless for 167 minutes and six seconds.</p><p>It seems every opposing goaltender has been rising to stardom against the Habs who, in turn, have been making the goalies look good by shooting into the pads or by missing wide-open nets.</p><p>This has been true especially from left wing (Ferguson&rsquo;s position) where Marc Tardif has been set up repeatedly by Jean Beliveau without success, Pete Mahovlich has tailed off after a quick start and rookie Rejean Houle has had the chances without paying off. Jacques Lemaire, who scored 32 goals last season, counted only four times in 16 games while being shuffled between left wing and centre.</p><p>Beliveau, the 38-year-old captain, has been the only consistent performer for the new look Habs with three goals and 15 assists that might have been doubled with sharper linemates.</p><p>On defence, Serge Savard obviously lacked condition and timing in his first games after returning from the fractured leg he suffered last March. Terry Harper was handicapped without partner Jacques Laperriere who suffered a neck injury in a game against Vancouver Oct. 31 and isn&rsquo;t due to play again until late November. Guy Lapointe continued as a candidate for the rookie award with five goals and five assists in addition to solid checking at the Montreal blueline.</p><p>Brightest spot in Canadiens&rsquo; play On the road was the work of young Phil Myre who wound up taking over goaltending chores from Rogatien Vachon.</p><p>Coach Claude Ruel, disenchanted with Vachon&rsquo;s work in other games, really gave up on Roggie at Boston and yanked the 25-year-old goalie after Boston&rsquo;s fourth goal early in the second period.</p><p>Myre took over and kept the score down against the Bruins&rsquo; bombardment. He played well in the next three games, giving up a total of only seven goals in 11 periods.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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OLD FAVORITES HEED THE CALL

<p>TORONTO&mdash;</p><p>The Toronto Maple Leaf&rsquo;s brought an old warrior back to the fold and there was an introduction they would add another before too long.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-05175/3706192-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="249" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Carl Brewer</b></figcaption></div><p>Bob Baun has returned to the Leafs from the St. Louis Blues by way of Buffalo and Detroit and the Leafs are glad to have the experienced rearguard with the club once more. He left in the 1967 NHL expansion program to join California Seals.</p><p>Now there is speculation that Carl Brewer, long Baun&rsquo;s defense running mate, will also be back with the Leafs, who are reportedly close to making a deal for him. Brewer has been idle since quitting the Detroit Red Wings at the start of the present season and the word is that Brewer would come back to the NHL and gladly with the Leafs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Leafs Grab Baun Back; Brewer Next?

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01975/3706244-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="359" height="440"></div><p>&bull; <b>FRANK SELKE</b> is all through with the California Golden Seals, as was predicted several weeks ago. He has been talking to friends in Montreal about business opportunities and it looks like he might move back to his former citv&hellip;Montreal Canadiens lured John Ferguson out of retirement but they say they had to up the ante considerably from the opening salary discussions. Ferguson is also said to be in the fold for next season as well&hellip;Garry Unger has been a big. disappointment to Detroit so far this season&hellip;Bobby Baun, happy he&rsquo;s back with Toronto Maple Leafs, his former club. It&rsquo;s rumored the Leafs will talk Carl Brewer out of retirement again and unite this former Leaf defensive duo&hellip;The California Golden Seals have a brother act with Bill and Ernie Hicke playing wings on a line with center Ted Hampson&hellip;Owner Jack Kent Cooke of the Los Angeles Kings feels his club is capable of finishing first or second in the Western Division this season, and who knows he may be right. The Kings certainly rate as the most improved team in the NHL to date&hellip;Toronto is planning a big celebration for King Clancy&rsquo;s 50th year in the NHL. He&rsquo;s been a player, coach, referee and assistant general manager at one time or another during those years&hellip;Phil Myre is Canadiens No. 1 goalie right now and will be until he loses the job, if he does lose it&hellip;Canadiens have made no bones about their disappointment in the play of Roggie Vachon in the Montreal nets. They were looking forward to a great season from the hot-and-cold netminder&hellip;Joe Tucker, veteran Pittsburgh sports announcer who did the Penguins&rsquo; games on TV during last spring&rsquo;s playoffs, suffered his second heart attack recently&hellip;Red Kelly, Pittsburgh coach, has been putting the Pens through two-hour practices regularly this year&hellip;Ed Snider of the Philadelphia Flyers, a popular owner among the fans of his city. Ed has been doing everything possible to make this an enjoyable and exciting season for the Philadelphia fans&hellip;Doug Favell, Flyers&rsquo; colorful goalie, is being kidded by his teammates for his long hair. Recently they gave him a band&mdash;a la Hiawatha&mdash;and he wore it into Buffalo Airport on the Flyers&rsquo; first visit there. Favell celebrated Halloween in style. He had his face mask painted orange and Ed Conrad, our Philly correspondent, referred to him the next day as &ldquo;the bumpkin pumpkin.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02931/3706237-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="261" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Snider</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>WAYNE MAKI</b> of the Vancouver Canucks is having a sensational year so far and hockey fans are happy for the Sault Ste. Marie native who had everything go wrong for him last season. If he can continue his early pace he will end up among the top ten scorers in the NHL&hellip;A crowd of 18,630 watched the Montreal Canadiens come from behind to tie St. Louis Blues, 1-1. This marked the largest crowd to watch a hockey game in St. Louis&hellip;Bill Flett of Los Angeles would like to play against Detroit every night. The prolific-scoring right winger has three &ldquo;hat tricks&rdquo; in the NHL and all were against the Red Wings&hellip;There were so few people at the recent Rangers&rsquo; game in Oakland that New York&rsquo;s Ron Stewart quipped: &ldquo;We had more people at practice on Tuesday&rdquo;&hellip;Jack Egers, THE HOCKEY NEWS minor league player of the year last season, scored his first goal for the Rangers recently and he was jubilant. &ldquo;I figure that did it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d been missing the net and shooting wildly. Just pressing too much. It&rsquo;s only one goal but it has already loosened me up. Now the season starts for me&rdquo;&hellip;Goalie Bruce Gamble of the Maple Leafs played his finest NHL game as the Torontos edged Boston, 3-2. He was superb to say the least&hellip;Bob Baun received a terrific ovation from the Toronto fans in his first game back as a Maple Leaf. He was also selected as the game&rsquo;s No. 1 star&hellip;Bud Poile, Vancouver general manager, says he knew his team was in trouble prior to a recent game against Chicago when one of his rookies lined up to get Bobby Hull&rsquo;s autograph&hellip;Energetic George Sage has done an excellent job with the American Hockey League Providence Reds franchise since he bought it two years ago. The Reds are one of the most exciting clubs to watch outside the National League and they play to sell-out crowds in almost all of their home games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03826/3706230-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="257" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wayne Maki</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>WREN BLAIR</b>, peppery General Manager of the Minnesota North Stars, discovered in a recent survey that there is a scarcity of left wingers in the NHL. This is something new because for years there were more left wingers available than anything else. According to Blair&rsquo;s survey there is an acute shortage of wingers period. He said that most U.S. boys coming into the sport are right-hand shots&hellip;Fran Huck is playing regularly now with Canadiens and improving with each game&hellip;Three NHL coaches wear fedoras throughout the game while working behind the bench. They are Jack Gordon of Minnesota, Billy Reay of Chicago and Punch Imlach of Buffalo&hellip;The improved play of Minnesota&rsquo;s Danny Grant this year is being credited to Wren Blair&rsquo;s instructions for him to concentrate more on checking and improve his all-around game&hellip;Los Angeles Kings have yet to win a game at the St. Louis Arena&hellip;Reports persist that Jean-Guy Gendron, the Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; veteran left wing, is playing his last season in the NHL. Although Gendron himself admits nothing, there is some feeling that at age 36, he&rsquo;d like to get away from all of the travel which keeps him from his family&hellip;Oklahoma City Blazers have sent more players to the NHL in recent years than any other minor professional club anywhere. No less than 27 ex-Blazers are in the NHL right now. And this has all happened since 1965&hellip;Boston and Toronto have been trying to make a trade since the season started but they just can&rsquo;t get together on the players involved&hellip;Buffalo has the smallest rink in the NHL with a 10,331 capacity.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04724/3706223-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="261" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wren Blair</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<h2><b>Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Color It Beautiful</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>n this age of color television, color is the &lsquo;in&rsquo; thing. The use of colored skates in the NHL is an aspect of color to be commended. But some of the uniforms need to have a little more color added to them. Right away, I think of the Leaf uniform, which is a natural for color improvement. The Maple Leaf is a very beautiful thing in its autumn dress, and this color could be easily added to the Leaf on the uniform. It would make the Leaf uniform one of the most colorful in the league, with the big maple leaf and the small shoulder leafs colored. So, color the leaf.</p><p>DON HADLEY, <br>Brampton, Ont.</p><h2>Charley O. Good for NHL Hockey</h2><p>I must comment on the story in the HOCKEY NEWS of Nov. 13 by Spence Conley on Charles O. Finley of California Golden Seals. It says &ldquo;Charles 0. Finley may have bought a National Hockey League franchise, but some members of the NHL and the majority of the hard core fans in Oakland, haven&rsquo;t bought Charley Finley&rdquo;. It is my opinion that Mr. Finley is not a person you buy and sell.</p><p>&ldquo;Finley&rsquo;s problem is that he won&rsquo;t take advice, a fact of his rock hard personality that could cost him the services of his executive vice-president Bill Torrey and general manager Frank Selse&rdquo; I am sure Mr. Finley recognizes talent, and in the case of these gentlemen he would keep them if they can improve upon the Golden Seals.</p><p>&ldquo;In the years he has owned the Oakland A&rsquo;s, Finley has hired and fired seven field managers and a few front office executives.&rdquo; In those ten years the A&rsquo;s have progressed and he has talent on the farm.</p><p>If I may give my opinion as a person that has followed sport and knows the phases of the game, is a positive fact that Finley is a person that should make it with professional hockey. California has two very good men in Finley, who has major league hockey and baseball, and another very successful man in Jack Kent Cooke who made it big in major league baseball, hockey, basketball and football. I also feel that the Golden Seals will improve under Finley and that Charles 0. picked up something that needed help and he is able to do so. Now lets hope Pittsburgh can remedy their situation. I am sure if the fans fill the hockey arena and ball park, they can come out okay with Finley.</p><h2><b>Crotian Ice Stars Plentiful In Game</b></h2><p>Recently I came across the old article of the famed Boston Bruins UKE line of Horvath, Bucyk & Stasiuk The word UKE was short for Ukrainian, meaning that all three were of that descent. However, I believe that Bronco Horvath is a Croation descent. This started me thinking, just how many Croats have participated in this the greatest sport in the wold&mdash;Ice Hockey. Naturally, having been born in ardent spectator at the old Madison Square Garden in New York City since 1938, my reasons for writing this letter are self-explanatory. So here goes the list of names of people who I believe to be of Croation ancestry and who have contributed to this great sport in their own way:</p><p>Bronco Horbath, Frank Mahovlich, Pete Mahovlich, Marty Pavelich, Matt Pavelich, Matt Ravlich, Tom Polanic, Joe Kastelic, Gus Bodnar, Joe Zorica, Bob Zupan, Steve Brklacich, John Polich, Rudy Zunich, Tony Bukovich, Steve Latinovich, Don Rozich, and Frank Udvari. I also believe that Mike Karakas falls into the above category.</p><p>STEVE G. BASIC<br>Oradell, N.J.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fan Forum

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;</p><p>Some of the frustration felt by the St. Louis Blues during Boston&rsquo;s four-game sweep in the Stanley Cup finals last spring came bubbling to the surface in a recent game at Boston Garden.</p><p>The two Cup finalists of last year met for the first time in the new season, and the Blues probably wished the game had been in May rather than November. They beat the Bruins, 2-0, and gave Boston its first loss on home ice in 30 games, including playoffs.</p><p>But two points in November is worth more now than a face-saving in May, and Jim Roberts, who set up the first goal and scored the second, undoubtedly spoke for his teammates when he said of the game, &ldquo;That was satisfying&mdash;really satisfying.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-011006/3706330-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="549" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLENN HALL&hellip;The Heat Got Him</b></figcaption></div><p>Roberts brought a hush to the Boston crowd when he scored into an empty net with two seconds remaining in the game. When a group of fans hasn&rsquo;t seen its team lose since last January, they sit there a little stunned with the blood rushing to their heads.</p><p>Boston coach Tom Johnson had pulled goalie Eddie Johnston with 40 seconds remaining in the game, and the Bruins spent most of that time in trying to crack through the St. Louis defense in the St. Louis zone. Suddenly Roberts and Bob Wall broke out of their own zone with the puck and raced toward the Boston net.</p><p>Bobby Orr was the only obstacle remaining between them and the insurance goal, and Orr stayed with the two attackers as perfectly as a defender can when he is confronted with that kind of a situation. If Orr had intercepted Wall&rsquo;s pass centering the puck to Roberts, he could have outskated both St. Louis players, and Boston could possibly have tied the game with a six-on-three break.</p><p>But Roberts maneuvered the puck beautifully, backed Orr into his own goalpost, then fired the puck into the net. Orr slumped to one knee against the goalpost and lowered his head. Even though the loss did not knock Boston out of anything, including first place, Orr probably felt about the way the Blues did last spring, when they were forced to eat humble pie.</p><p>Roberts&rsquo; goal was climactic, but the game had been won with superior St. Louis goaltending and constant harassment of Boston&rsquo;s shooters.</p><p>Johnson said, &ldquo;They played the way expansion teams played in the first year&mdash;just tight checking. But we still had the chances&mdash;38 shots and no goals.&rdquo;</p><p>The Blues&rsquo; defensive strategy against Orr appeared to represent a shift in thinking from the cup finals. At that time one St. Louis player, usually Roberts, shadowed Orr throughout the game to keep the puck away from him. In this game tight checking was the general rule, but the Blues also ganged up on Orr every time he touched the puck.</p><p>However, the Bruins still outshot the Blues, 38-25, and an outstanding two-man effort was needed in the St. Louis goal-mouth to deprive Boston of any scoring. Glenn Hall started in the St. Louis net, and Johnson was understating an opponent&rsquo;s phenomenal performance when he said grudgingly, &ldquo;Hall looked sharp.&rdquo;</p><p>But the heat that left puddles of water on the ice began to have an effect on Hall, and he had trouble seeing and moving in the second period, when he stopped 16 shots. The nervous netminder is usually ill in the dressing room before a game, but for the first time in his 16 seasons in the National Hockey League he was feeling weak on the ice after the game started.</p><p>Hall said later, &ldquo;I just had trouble breathing. I had a couple of dizzy spells at the end of the period. This has never happened before.&rdquo;</p><p>The condition was described as heat exhaustion, and Hall left the game in favor of Ernie Wakely. Hall fans who were worried received reassurance two nights later when Mr. Goalie played three full periods against the Minnesota North Stars and stopped 34 shots in a 1-1 tie on Minnesota ice.</p><p>But in the Boston game Wakely suddenly became the man of the moment, and the pressure on top of his head was almost visible.</p><p>Wakely said, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s one of the toughest spots I&rsquo;ve ever had to step into. In addition to stepping in cold, you have to be worried about letting the team down and disgracing yourself in a situation like that.&rdquo;</p><p>Wakely was the opposite of a disgrace as he stopped 13 shots in the final period to preserve the big victory. Before Roberts scored the empty-net goal, Frank St. Marseille&rsquo;s tally in the second period had been the only goal scored against Boston in three games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02779/3706323-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="547" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM ROBERTS&hellip;Told It As It Was</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Blues Scuttle Bruins At Home

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MacLEAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01906/3706361-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Plans are moving ahead for the annual ECAC Holiday Hockey Festival to be held at New York&rsquo;s Madison Square Garden Dec. 21-22. Here&rsquo;s the special alumni working committee shown with ED OST, right, vice-president of the Garden corporation, and EMILE FRANCIS, second right, Rangers manager-coach. From the left they are ROY SHELDON, Clarkson; JACK COOKE, Yale; ED KENYON, Harvard; JOHN COSENTINO, Harvard; JOHN NICHOLS, Bowdoin; DAN DAYTON, Bowdoin; and JOE FORTUNATO, Yale.</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Sometimes one man&rsquo;s misfortune is another man&rsquo;s good luck,&rdquo; said Emile Francis, the Rangers&rsquo; General ManagerCoach. &ldquo;Billy Fairbairn has been sent back to New York (from Oakland where New York was playing) and his place on the Walt Tkaczuk&mdash;Dave Balon line will be taken by Jack Egers. Fairbairn has mononucleosis and will be out at least a month.&rdquo;</p><p>It was just a little over a year ago, that Bob Nevin was boarded in Boston and hurt his knee. Fairbairn stepped into Nevvy&rsquo;s spot with Tkaczuk and became a strong contender for the rookie of the year honors, losing out only because of the phenomenal success of Chicago&rsquo;s goalie, Tony Esposito.</p><p>Now Fairbairn is sidelined with mono, after first apparently coming down with the flu. Billy did not regain his strength after the flu was cured and since he is only a boy of 23, a closer physical was ordered. The verdict was mono&mdash;and the cure is a complete rest.</p><p>Egers opened the season as the cure-all potential rookie of the year as the left wing on the Jean Ratelle&mdash;Rod Gilbert line. However, he had a lot of trouble adjusting to the new rule limiting the curvature of his stick to one half inch, instead of the one inch which last season&rsquo;s rules permitted. At 21, six one and 175 pounds, the mod haired Egers is a colorful looking young man.</p><p>&ldquo;Getting that goal in Oakland was like lifting a veil,&rdquo; commended Jack. &ldquo;I was starting to press, shooting when I should have passed and trying to shoot too often and from too far out.&rdquo;</p><p>Egers was referring to New York&rsquo;s only goal in a 3-1 loss suffered on November 4 at the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum to the California Golden Seals. It was his first marker of the young campaign and Jack wanted if so bad he could taste it.</p><p>&ldquo;Now we start the season,&rdquo; Jack exulted. &ldquo;I think playing with Walter (Tkaczuk) is a great break. I have played more left wing than right, but someone told me Maurice Richard was a left hand shot playing the right side, so I&rsquo;ll do alright. Also, I played quite a bit of right wing in the past.&rdquo;</p><p>Previous dispatches have chronicled the wonderful jobs turned in by Vic Hadfield and Rod Gilbert this season, but none have exactly glowed over the work of their center, Jean Ratelie. He led the Broadway boys to a 6-2 win over Los Angeles in a Saturday November 7 match, which gave the Rangers a split on their two game Coast trip. The odd ball schedule calls for five separate trips to the West Coast this season, with the next being a one game shot with LA on November 18.</p><p>&ldquo;Ratelle is a veteran pro with the stamina of youth,&rdquo; says Jim Gregory, the Toronto General Manager. &ldquo;He is very key on the Rangers. When his line is flying, it is hard to beat New York.&rdquo;</p><p>Jean has six goals, including two against LA, so far this season. He kills penalties, although this chore may lessen a bit with the addition of Pete Stemkowski. He works the power play and he takes key faceoffs at both ends of the rink. His passes are works of art and he takes charge on the ice, even if his off the ice personality is low keyed.</p><p>&ldquo;Ratelie is overlooked every season when the so-called experts vote for the All Star team,&rdquo; says Francis. &ldquo;Year in and year out, he is worthy of all star recognition.&rdquo;</p><p>For three seasons in a row he has notched 32 goals and if he keeps going this season can look forward to another thirty goal campaign. Ratelle is now 30. Has matured physically to about 180 pounds on his once spare, six foot one inch frame. He goes in the corners and gets the puck, whereas in his early years some thought he was afraid to take a check. He shoots more than he used to realizing you must shoot to score and all in all acts like the game of ice hockey is his special dish.</p><p>Another player worthy of note&mdash;again we might add&mdash;is so called backup netminder, 30 year Gilles Villemure. who won the most valuable player award in the American Hockey League the last two years running. Gilles has been the Rangers most valuable goalie, so far, with four straight wins. After Eddie Giacomin, the all star incumbent of the number one goalie spot, lost in Oakland. Francis named Villemure against the Kings and Gilles pulled it off again. This is the second time that Villemure has been used after a Giacomin loss and he has stopped the reverse motion both times.</p><p>&ldquo;I said before the season started that Villemure would play his share of games and he has vindicated my judgement,&rdquo; noted Francis. &ldquo;We are blessed with a fine pair of netminders. Giacomin is the best in the NHL and has been for a number of years now and Gilles had done plendidly. I have complete faith in either man.&rdquo;</p><p>Villemure did not know until just before the LA contest that he was going to play. This is a Francis manoeuvre which helps a player get a full night&rsquo;s sleep and enables him to be at his best for a game.</p><p><b>BLUE CHIPS:</b> Pete Stemk owski has been playing center with Bob Nevin and Ted Irvine on the third or checking line&hellip;For awhile Francis formed a fourth line with Syl Apps at center. along with Egers on one wing and Ron Stewart on the other, but this arrangement was slowed by Egers move to sub for Fairbairn&hellip;It was good seeing Andy Bathgate, the former Ranger super star back in the Garden on November 11 in a Pittsburgh Penguin uniform. Andy lends a touch of class to the entire NHL just by being there&hellip;Before the advent of Stemkowski, Walter Tkaczuk was taking key defensive zone faceoffs for Apps, which shows how Walt has come along. A couple of seasons ago, Ka-Chook himself was a faceoff liability, who was occasionally lifted for the likes of Phil Goyette&hellip;In games through November 10 Villemure stood 4-0-0, with Ed Giacomin at 4-3-1&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fairbairn’s Mono Gives Rookie Chance

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div><p>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;</p><p>When it comes time to the hard luck injury guys of the NHL the past few seasons, Gerhardt Otto Dornhoefer would have to rank right up there.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04450/3706437-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="268" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gary Dornhoefer</b></figcaption></div><p>Few players have had a worse time of it physically than Dornhoefer, the Flyers&rsquo; veteran right wing, who currently is out of action with a recurring knee problem.</p><p>Doctors say he&rsquo;ll be out of action for anywhere from three to six weeks, which is only half the story because he must remain off skates for that duration. It&rsquo;ll take another few weeks until he is back skating an again rounds into shape.</p><p>&ldquo;I had the knee drained again (for the tenth time since he had cartilage removed in an operation last summer),&rdquo; explained Dornie. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been ordered to take it easy and stay off the ice for a few weeks.&rdquo;</p><p>Dornhoefer, who led the Flyers in goals with 26 last season, had been off to a reasonably good start with three goals in a handful of games when the knee gave out.</p><p>&ldquo;It was irritating me, but not that badly.&rdquo; he noted. &ldquo;However, things got progressively worse and I wasn&rsquo;t able to bend it completely. This gave me all kinds of problems skating.&rdquo;</p><p>Coach Vic Stasiuk quite naturally, noticed that Dornhoefer was having problems.</p><p>&ldquo;It was obvious to me because he wasn&rsquo;t moving out there like I know he can move,&rdquo; said Vic. &ldquo;You could see the knee was really bothering him. and I just hope he&rsquo;ll be all right when he rejoins us, we can use him.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s for sure, since the Flyers are always in need of offensive punch and Dornhoefer has turned out to be one of the primary contributors.</p><p>This season the 27-year-old winger was playing on a line with center Bob Clarke and left wing Bob Kelly, and they appeared to be meshing well together. Last season Dornie played on a line with center Jimmy Johnson and left wing Bill Sutherland, but that line was broken up by Sutherland&rsquo;s recent acquisition by St. Louis and also by Johnson&rsquo;s chest injury to start the season. Jimmy has just rejoined the Flyers after playing a few games for the farm club Quebec Aces in order to get into condition.</p><p>For Dornhoefer. this latest period of confinement is nothing new. His NHL career has been loaded with periods of recuperation and the accompanying frustration.</p><p>Broken bones and assorted ailments are nothing new. since he never sees a season go by without missing quite a few games from the schedule.</p><p>Last year he was out 11 games due to injuries but that didn&rsquo;t stop him from having his best professional season. His 26 goals established a new Flyers&rsquo; team record, and 43 of his 55 points were considered &ldquo;important&rdquo;.</p><p>Dornhoefer&rsquo;s emergence as a goal-scorer was welcomed by the Flyers who have constantly been crying for more scoring punch. They least expected if from Dornie, though, who had been generally regarded as a defensive specialist.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Dornhoefer Wonders If It’ll Ever End After Latest Injury

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;</p><p>There is no question that Bob Pulford has been one of the fine, honest hockey players. The question on Pulford following the Kings&rsquo; off-season acquisition of the veteran forward was how much he had left to give the Los Angeles club. He is 34 and has played pro 13 previous seasons, all in the NHL with Toronto. The first signs are favorable. This is a much-improved club and he is one of the reasons.</p><p>From the day he decided to report, Pulford has given the Kings&rsquo; quiet leadership. He is no rah-rah guy, but he sets a good example with his steady, hard work all over the ice. Owner Jack Kent Cooke and manager-coach Larry Regan have been outspoken in saying he is the veteran leader the team has needed and, while he denies it, he is inspirational. He has been made captain.</p><p>Primarily a defensive specialist, Pulford makes few mistakes. He scored a goal in a loss to Boston and the winner in a victory over Pittsburgh. And he scored his third and fourth goals in the Kings&rsquo; 10th game, a 3-2 victory over Toronto that was settled by Doug Robinson&rsquo;s deflected score. Both of Pulford&rsquo;s goals came on power plays. The Kings analyzed and worked on this weakest aspect of their game and for the first time it showed signs of strength.</p><p>Afterwards, the 5-11, 190-pounder sat in the locker room surrounded by reporters who wanted to know how it felt to top his long-time team. &ldquo;It meant a lot to me,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just elated. It may have proved I still have a lot of hockey in me and gave me a lot of satisfaction.&rdquo; He seemed tired, but not exhausted. His legs still seem strong.</p><p>Outside, his wife, Roz, waited to greet old friends on the Leafs with smiling consolation. She admitted she went into the stands with mixed emotions, for this was the first time she had rooted against Leafs in 20 years. However, she and Bob have three children, the youngest born just this past summer, and the bread is being put on the table in L.A. these days and paid fox by the Kings now, so it didn&rsquo;t take her long to warm up to her new duties.</p><p><b>KINGS THINGS&mdash;</b>Leafs are not among the powers of the NHL any longer, but they came in on a hot streak, hustling hard and it took hard play by the Kings to come from behind to beat them&hellip;The Kings also played hard against a much better team in their next game and were in the game most of the way, but made mistakes and sagged at the finish to lose to New York, 6-2. This ended a streak of five consecutive victories at home, a new club record.</p><p>Attendance has been poor with four of the first seven games at home in the 6,000 range. The Kings won all of these and also won from St. Louis before 10,742, but lost before their biggest crowds, 11,584 for Boston and 10,742 for New York. The fans acted like a home hockey crowd for the first time in a long time in that last one and management was especially disappointed they could not be rewarded with the sort of upset victory which would ignite hockey enthusiasm in southern California. However. New York, Boston and Chicago are the three NHL teams which are clearly superior. The Kings may be able to hold their own against the best if they can find their way on the road.</p><p>Pulford was obtained in exchange for young Garry Monahan, who is playing regularly and fairly well for Leafs, but is no Pulford. Mike Byers, who was obtained from Philadelphia in exchange for Brent Hughes, is playing well, while Hughes has been sent to the minors. Eddie Shack and Eddie Joyal have been used only sparingly so far. but the Kings have not found a deal for either they liked.</p><p>The fans chant their desire to see Shack, but few other teams want him. Joyal is a scorer and so a valuable property, but Regan feels Eddie&rsquo;s money problems with the Kings have not destroyed his desire and he may yet be valuable to the team for whom he has been MVP in the past. Young Red Hoganson and Paul Curtis are seeing more and more action, but the Kings could use one more solid defenseman more than anything else.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01963/3706489-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="545" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE JOYAL&hellip;Could Aid Kings</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>HOW THEY STAND</b></h2><h3><b>NEW YORK COLLEGE</b></h3><p><b>(Standing On Wed. Nov. 4) EAST DIVISION</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03633/3706482-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="570" height="268"></div><h3><b>WEST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04509/3706475-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="569" height="304"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05392/3706468-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="571" height="327"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Pulford Gives Kings New Ice Leadership

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02849/3706520-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PIERRE BOUCHARD&hellip;Montreal Canadiens</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>ig league hockey fans who remember the great Emile &lsquo;Butch&rsquo; Bouchard are certain to start comparing his talented son to the one time defense idol of the Canadiens who thrilled NHL crowds for 15 seasons from 1940 to 1956. Young Butch&rsquo; answers to the name of Pierre and he bears a striking ice resemblance to his illustrious father. Pierre is one of a handful of rookies making their mark with the Canadiens this season. He&rsquo;s a throwback to his famous pop at 6&rsquo;2&rdquo; and 195 pounds. Last season he played with the Montreal Voyageurs and the previous year with Cleveland Barons. Now he&rsquo;s ready to make his NHL bid with Montreal and appears to have all the necessary equipment to grab a regular spot in the near future.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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MEET THE ROOKIES

<div class="byline">BY SPENCE CONLEY</div><p>OAKLAND&mdash;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01985/3706582-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="266" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Torrey</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he patient is well on the road to recovery, but the doctors aren&rsquo;t going to give the California Golden Seals a clean bill of health until after Nov. 22.</p><p>After a start which gave indications the Seals were sickly indeed, the club&rsquo;s medical crew&mdash;chief surgeon Fred Glover and his two aides Bill Torrey and Frank Selke&mdash;swung into action.</p><p>It was a sputtering patchjob, but then things began to take hold. The Seals had lost their first five games. Then they entered a period of transition, they tied two of the next four, and still hadn&rsquo;t won a game after nine starts. But then it all came together.</p><p>By Nov. 10, the Seals had won their last three games&mdash;toppling Buffalo, New York, and Toronto in succession&mdash;and were getting ready for Montreal.</p><p>The club outscored its opponents by a whopping 17 goals to six, in those three games.</p><p>But none of the Seal managers is willing&mdash;just yet&mdash;to accept the explosion as a sign of good health.</p><p>They will have a much better idea after &ldquo;The Road Trip.&rdquo;</p><p>Starting on Friday the 13th, of all days, they set out on a swing through the East for seven games in 10 days, an arduous trip by anybody&rsquo;s standards.</p><p>When they left Oakland, they were just four points out of the race&mdash;not bad considering the terrible start.</p><p>&ldquo;You know,&rdquo; reflected Torrey, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s no way that our club is as bad as our start would indicate and in many ways there&rsquo;s no way we&rsquo;re as good right now as we ought to be.</p><p>&ldquo;Right now all of our forwards are playing well. We&rsquo;ve only got 10 forwards, too, two below what we&rsquo;d like to have and we&rsquo;re two below the new league roster limit of 18. We may have to pick up another forward from Providence before the road trip is over. But that remains to be seen.&rdquo;</p><p>Right now, the Seals are still without the services of Mike Laughton (knee), Norm Ferguson (shoulder) and Bert Marshall (wrist).</p><p>But there&rsquo;s a chance that Marshall may be back soon to help the defense.</p><p>&ldquo;Bert has had his wrist in a cast for five months,&rdquo; said Torrey. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been skating every day and is in good physical shape, but when he gets the OK to play, it will take a while to get his wrist strength back. He&rsquo;ll have to wear a brace&hellip;</p><p>&ldquo;We could really use Bert,&rdquo; added Torrey, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been a real factor in our defense for the past couple of years and we need his experience.&rdquo;</p><p>Torrey explained that the Seals defense hasn&rsquo;t played too badly although &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had our moments,&rdquo; adding that the blueliners are getting lots of help these days from the backchecking forwards.</p><p>One of the most important aspects of the club&rsquo;s improvement has been the development of good team spirit. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a good feeling in the dressing room. Everybody wants to play. They all like one another,&rdquo; pointed out Torrey.</p><p>Another important factor has been the play of goalkeeper Gary Smith.</p><p>Big Smitty had some problems early in the season, but seems to have solved most of them and there seems to be little doubt that as Gary Smith goes, so go the Seals.</p><p>&ldquo;The most important thing as far as Smitty is concerned,&rdquo; said Torrey, &ldquo;is his mental alertness. Those times he is alert, things go well. When he isn&rsquo;t, then he gets scored on.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;But no doubt about it, Smitty has been doing the job and when he&rsquo;s right, there isn&rsquo;t a goalie in the National Hockey League whos any better,&rdquo; believes Torrey.</p><p>&ldquo;All he needs to understand is just how important he is to us, to understand what his share of the responsibility is in regard to the total team objectives.&rdquo;</p><p>If the Seals are to gain valuable ground&mdash;and they&rsquo;ve got to do it where it&rsquo;s toughest on the road&mdash;then they&rsquo;ll need the total effort.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to win three or even four games on the road trip to stay close,&rdquo; declared Torrey. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to be tough, but you know, I think we can do it.&rdquo;</p><p><b>SEAL NOTES&mdash;</b>Gary Croteau leads all Seal scorers with 12 points&hellip;He leads in total assists with eight&hellip;Dennis Hextall is the top goal-scorer with five&hellip;Ernie Hicke, although playing extremely well, hasn&rsquo;t scored as yet&hellip;Carol Vadnais leads in penalties with 29&hellip;</p><p>&hellip;Bill Hicke is playing his best hockey in a long time&hellip;Tony Featherstone is doing a fine job replacing Norm Ferguson on the Croteau-Hextall line&hellip;Earl Ingarfield, cut for 22 stitches in the New York road game, was cut for six more in the mouth against Toronto&hellip;Earl has been alternating as left and right wings and center with E. Hicke and Joe Hardy and Gerry Ehman, as well as killing penalties&hellip;The old &ldquo;Assembly Line&rdquo;&mdash;Gary Jarrett-Ted Hampson&mdash;Bill Hicke&mdash;has been together for some time and appears to have regained the unity which once enabled them to turn goals out with the precision of an assembly line.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02811/3706575-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="565" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GARY SMITH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Aroused Seals Roll In High Gear

<p>BOSTON&mdash;</p><p>If you think owner Charles 0. Finley doesn&rsquo;t appreciate his employees, consider this for a minute.</p><p>After his California Golden Seals upset the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins 2-1 here, the controversial hockey owner made a surprise appearance in his team&rsquo;s dressing room to congratulate his players for a job well done.</p><p>Before he left, Finley had given each of his players $200 to buy themselves a new suit and tossed in an extra $25 spending money while they were in town.</p><p>After beating the Bruins, it was on to Montreal for the Seals to face the Canadiens. Maybe Fred Glover and his players will go on a shopping spree when they hit the city&mdash;courtesy of owner Charles O. Finley.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Finley Rewards Seals For Upsetting Bruins

<p>Following are the latest player movements in hockey:</p><h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><p>TORONTO&mdash;<b>Brit Selby</b>, forward, traded to St. Louis of NHL in exchange for <b>Bob Baun</b>, defenseman. <b>Murray McLachlan</b> goalkeeper, recalled from Tulsa of CHL as backup replacement for injured Jacques Plante. <b>Bob Liddington</b>, forward, assigned to Tulsa.</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;<b>John Ferguson</b>, forward, rejoined team off inactive list. <b>German Gagnon</b>, forward, purchased from Vancouver of NHL and assigned to Montreal Voyageurs of AHL. <b>Phil Roberto, Leon Rochefort</b> and <b>Chuck Lefley</b>, forwards, re-called from Voyageurs. Lefly then returned.</p><p>DETROIT&mdash;<b>Serge Lajeuness</b>, defenseman, recalled from Fort Worth of CHL.</p><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;<b>Garth Rizzuto</b>, forward, assigned to Rochester of AHL. <b>Howie Young</b>, defenseman, sent to Phoenix of WHL on one month loan trial. <b>Marc Reaume</b> and <b>Darryl Sly</b> defensemen, returned to active roster and waivers recalled.</p><p>MINNESOTA&mdash;<b>John Gofton</b>, forward, assigned to Cleveland of AHL.</p><p>BUFFALO&mdash;<b>Don Marshall</b>, and <b>Phil Goyette</b>, forwards, rejoined team off inactive list.</p><p>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;<b>Jim Johnson</b>, forward, recalled from Quebec of AHL.</p><h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2><p>QUEBEC&mdash;<b>Guy Desaulniers</b>, goalkeeper, given five-game prol tryout.</p><h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2><p>SALT LAKE&mdash;<b>Roger DeJordy</b>, forward, dropped from active roster. <b>Jim Paterson</b>, forward, returned to Phoenix of, WHL.</p><p>DENVER&mdash;<b>Bill Dineen</b> relieved of coaching duties and activated as player. <b>Rudy Pilous</b>, general manager, reassumed coaching role.</p><h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2><p>OKLAHOMA CITY&mdash;<b>Ted Hargreaves</b>, forward, placed on disabled list for six weeks with broken ankle. <b>Jean Payette</b>, forward, also on disabled list with arm injury.</p><h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><p>PORT HURON&mdash;<b>John Roy</b>, defenseman, signed from Thompson, Man., senior team.</p><p>DES MOINES&mdash;<b>Don Clovechok</b> and <b>Bob Neufeld</b>, forwards, placed on waivers.</p><p>FORT WAYNE&mdash;<b>Danny Stephens</b>, goalkeeper, secured from Springfield of AHL.</p><p>MUSKEGON&mdash;<b>Bob Guindon</b>, forward, assigned to Salem of, EHL. Rick Thompson and Richard David, forwards, released.</p><h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2><p>SALEM&mdash;<b>Ray Woit</b>, forward, secured from Long Island of EHL on loan. <b>Merv Haney</b> and <b>Bobby Lamoureux</b>, forwards, released. <b>Dave Schultz</b>, defenseman, secured from Quebec of AHL.</p><p>JOHNSTOWN&mdash;<b>Paul McKibbin</b>, and <b>Paul Pipon</b>, forwards, released.</p><p>CLINTON&mdash;<b>Hank Lehvonen</b>, defenseman, quit team and returned home.</p><p>NEW HAVEN&mdash;<b>&lsquo;Doc&rsquo; Walker</b>, forward, returned from disa bled list. <b>Georges Guilbault</b>, for ward, secured from Denver of WHL.</p><p>GREENSBORO&mdash;<b>Dom DiBerardino</b>, forward, released, <b>Sandy Kurceba</b>, forward, added to roster. <b>Guy Parent</b>, defenseman, secured from New Jersey of EHL.</p><p>CHARLOTTE&mdash;<b>Gord McRae</b>, goalkeeper, secured from Toronto of NHL.</p><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;<b>Ray Adduono</b>, forward, rejoined team from inactive list. <b>Jean Lapointe</b>, defense man, secured from Hershey of AHL. <b>Gref Wright</b>, defenseman, secured from Dayton of IHL. <b>Guy Allen</b>, forward, secured from Toledo of IHL. Tim McCormack, forward, secured from Charlotte of EHL. <b>Bill McLeod</b>, defenseman dropped from roster.</p><p>LONG ISLAND&mdash;<b>Paul Sinclair</b>, forward, claimed on waivers from New Haven of EHL.</p><p>JERSEY&mdash;<b>Eric Cameron</b>, forward, quit club and returned home. <b>Bob Furotte</b>, forward, secured from Nashville of EHL.</p><p>NASHVILLE&mdash;<b>Don Deeks</b>, forward, released. <b>Rick Lalonde</b>, forward, signed as free agent. <b>Dirk Wolterbreek. Paul Evoy, Ed Lawson</b> and <b>George Forgie</b>, forwards, released.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY DWAYNE NETLAND</div><p>TWIN CITIES&mdash;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01949/3706644-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="266" height="407"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Boivin</b></figcaption></div><p>One of the truly great careers in the National Hockey League came to an end recently when Leo Boivin announced his retirement from Minnesota to take a full-time scouting position with the North Stars.</p><p>The stocky 38-year-old defenseman had put 18 seasons into the NHL. playing 1,150 games which ranked him 10th on the all-time list.</p><p>The only active players who have participated in more NHL games are Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio of Detroit and Tim Horton and Ron Stewart of New York.</p><p>Leo decided to retire several weeks after the 1970-71 season opened, when it became clear that the North Stars were going with younger defensemen. He did not dress for the first five games, then met one day with general manager Wren Blair.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got a good job for you in our organization,&rdquo; Blair told him. &ldquo;It won&rsquo;t pay quite as much as you could make playing, but it will keep you in the game. We&rsquo;d like you to join our scouting staff on a full-time basis.&rdquo;</p><p>Boivin flew home to Prescott, Ont., the city of his birth, to think it over for a long weekend. He had received an offer to play from Punch Imlach at Buffalo, and he weighed that tempting bid for the security of the administrative job with Minnesota.</p><p>Blair, who places a more important premium upon scouting than some general managers, emphasized that he was not just putting an old warrior out to pasture. &bdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;At this moment Leo is not qualified to scout, the Minnesota GM declared. &ldquo;Some people think they can turn anyone loose and make him a scout. That&rsquo;s not true.</p><p>&ldquo;Leo will break in gradually, working with myself and our scouting staff. We think he has the potential to become a good one, and that&rsquo;s why we offered him the job.&rdquo;</p><p>Boivin will join Harold Cotton, director of field operations for the North Stars; chief scout Ted O&rsquo;Connor; Eastern Canadian scout Gerald Blair and John Mariucci, Blair&rsquo;s special assistant who will observe the colleges this season, in the vital area of procuring young talent.</p><p>He brings to the post a background of 19 years in pro hockey, starting with Pittsburgh of the American Hockey League back in 1951. He put in just over two years with Toronto, then spent 11 seasons with Boston.</p><p>Boivin had the satisfaction of helping the North Stars get into the playoffs last spring and participated in three games, giving him an even 100 games with Minnesota over 1&frac12; years.</p><p>At the twilight of his playing career, Leo was just about the last of the old-style body checkers, who struck their opponents low and knocked them off their feet.</p><p>Leo was well-built for that role. Packing 190 pounds on a 5-7 frame, he would cruise around his own zone like a relentless bird of prey, searching for an unwary enemy forward.</p><p>He numbered his own teammates among his casualties.</p><p>This past fall in training camp he checked Walt McKechnie so solidly that McKechnie incurred a knee injury. The two were good friends, but when McKechnie returned a short time later, he encountered Boivin again and this time suffered a pulled thigh muscle.</p><p><b>NORTH STAR NOTES:</b> Ironically, shortly after Boivin&rsquo;s retirement, two North Star defensemen were injured. Tom Reid discovered he had a stomach ulcer and Gi, bbs suffered a bone bruise in his hip&hellip;</p><p>Dick Redmond, another defenseman, was sent down to Cleveland of the AHL for more experience. The North Stars cleared waivers on winger John Gofton and also sent him to Cleveland&hellip;</p><h2><b>Bathgate, Talbot Latest To Play 1,000th NHL Game</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02824/3706637-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="1176" height="1468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Veteran ANDY BATHGATE of the Pittsburgh Penguins, above, realized another milestone in his long NHL career when he performed in his 1,000th league game, Jean-Guy Talbot also achieved the feat last week making Bathgate the 21st player and Talbot the 22nd in NHL history to have reached the plateau</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Hockey News Photo by Stephen Newman)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Boivin Waves Playing Offer To Become North Star Scout

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01957/3706731-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>TOP 25 SCORERS</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES OF SUN. NOV. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02818/3706724-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1802" height="918"></div><p><b>Key: GP&mdash;Games Played; G&mdash;Goals; A&mdash;Assists; PTS&mdash;Points; PIM&mdash;Penalties In Minutes; PPG&mdash;Power Play Goals; SHG&mdash;Shorthanded Goals; WG&mdash;Winning Goals; TG&mdash;Tieing Goals.</b></p><h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03639/3706717-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="888" height="773"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04429/3706710-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="901" height="2307"></div><h2><b>TEAM PANALTIES&mdash;POWER PLAY STATISTICS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-09161/3706703-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="844" height="512"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05315/3706696-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="874" height="753"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06259/3706689-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="291" height="3487"></div><h3>WEST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07225/3706682-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="889" height="3141"></div><h2><b>NHL SCOREBOARD</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08197/3706675-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="807" height="133"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL PLAYERS SCORING PENALTY RECORDS

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div><p>BOSTON&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s almost uncanny the knack the Bruins have of calming down their critics.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01928/3706762-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="268" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Johnston</b></figcaption></div><p>For example, after they had allowed 23 goals in their first seven games there was a murmur of unrest about both the defense and goaltending of the Stanley Cup defenders.</p><p>But in the succeeding five games both Eddie Johnston and Gerry Cheevers performed so remarkably on an alternating basis that the gentry has reason to believe that Bostonmay be blessed with the best 1-2 goaltending punch in the National Hockey League.</p><p>Through that stretch the pair have combined to held the opposition to a total of five tallies and one of those was into an empty net in the 2-0 loss to St. Louis that broke the B&rsquo;s string of undefeated games on home ice at 29.</p><p>Back to back shutouts of New York (6-0) and Minnesota (5-0) started the string. Then came the St. Louis defeat followed by a 2-2 tie with Pittsburgh and the wild 6-1 victory over Montreal on Nov. 7.</p><p>And while coach Tom Johnson professes that he is not a staunch advocate of swapping goalies game by game, he is not hesitant about continuing the practice.</p><p>&ldquo;All goalies have to work to be sharp,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;And there is no hard rule on how to handle the situation but when you have a couple of guys like Cheevers and Johnston around you don&rsquo;t have to worry too much about who is in the net.&rdquo;</p><p>Johnny McKenzie has the highest praise for the Bruins&rsquo; pair: &ldquo;They both are money players. When the chips are down they both are ready to grab &lsquo;em up.&rdquo;</p><p>The play of Johnston probably has been the most gratifying for all his teammates.</p><p>Approaching his 35th birthday on Nov. 24, Johnston is the fourth oldest of the Bruins from point of service.</p><p>He was preceeded to Boston only by John Bucyk, Eddie Westfall and Teddy Green.</p><p>When Cheevers was named the starting goaler at the opening of the current season, a good many fans were prone to believe that Eddie was being relegated to the rocking chair.</p><p>But Eddie has proved them so wrong it is laughable.</p><p>He is just as quick and alert as he ever was and figures every bit as important in the Bruins&rsquo; picture as he was a year ago when he stepped into the nets for the injured Cheevers last March.</p><p>In a stretch of nine games a year ago, he was beaten only twice and blanked Montreal and Chicago back-to-back in key games.</p><p>In his four starts to date, he has allowed only five goals for a 1.25 average and shows no signs of the wear and tear of the previous eight seasons in the NHL with the B&rsquo;s.</p><p>Most of those years tending the Boston net was hardly an enviable assignment, but Johnston took the bad in the same manner he now enjoys the fruit of having the highest scoring team in hockey in front of him.</p><p>&ldquo;And no one should be worried about our defense,&rdquo; he says.</p><p>&ldquo;The guys are checking all over the place. They are giving us good protection and I don&rsquo;t think any team in the league can match them in two-way play.&rdquo;</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:&mdash;</b>The Nov. 7 brawl with Montreal enriched the league office by some $3,000&hellip;The only player not involved in the melee was Montreal&rsquo;s Marc Tardif. He had suffered a concussion after a check by Don Awrey and was not on the bench at the time&hellip;Ken Hodge, Awrey and Wayne Cashman were hit with majors along with Canadiens&rsquo; Guy Lapointe, Claude Larose and Terry Harper&hellip;And no one had an explanation for the start of the festivities&hellip;What seemed a simple shoving match between Larose and Hodge suddenly erupted into a minor war&hellip;&ldquo;We were just playing our game,&rdquo; said Johnson; &ldquo;and all of a sudden everyone was swinging. It was amazing. It was quite a go for a while but I thought the way we played was even better. That I enjoyed immensely.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Johnston, Cheevers Silence Critics Of Bruins’ Goaling

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06427/3706852-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg"></div><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 17)</b></p><h2><b>EAST DIVISION</b></h2><h2><b>WEST DIVISION</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07394/3706845-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="1102" height="326"></div><h2><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h2><p><b>Tues. Nov. 10</b></p><p>Vancouver 3 at Boston 6</p><p>Los Angeles 5 at Pittsburgh 1</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 11</b></p><p>Montreal 0 at California 2</p><p>Vancouver 4 at Toronto 2</p><p>Pittsburgh 3 at New York 3</p><p>Philadelphia 1 at Chicago 7</p><p>Los Angeles 1 at Minnesota 3</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 12</b></p><p>Detroit 1 at St. Louis 2</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 13</b></p><p>California 2 at Buffalo 4</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 14</b></p><p>Montreal 1 at St. Louis 1</p><p>Boston 2 at Toronto 3</p><p>New York 1 at Chicago 2</p><p>Vancouver 3 at Minnesota 3</p><p>California 1 at Pittsburgh 6</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 15</b></p><p>Montreal 2 at Buffalo 2</p><p>Toronto 2 at New York 4</p><p>California 2 at Boston 1</p><p>Detroit 4 at Los Angeles 4</p><p>Vancouver 2 at Chicago 4</p><p>St. Louis 2 at Philadelphia 1</p><h2><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h2><p><b>Tues. Nov. 17</b></p><p>California at Montreal</p><p>Detroit at Vancouver</p><p>Minnesota at St. Louis</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 18</b></p><p>Buffalo at Toronto</p><p>New York at Los Angeles</p><p>Boston at Minnesota</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 19</b></p><p>Toronto at Montreal</p><p>California at Philadelphia</p><p>St. Louis at Pittsburgh</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Los Angeles at Vancouver</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>New York at Montreal</p><p>California at Toronto</p><p>Boston at Philadelphia (afternoon)</p><p>Detroit at Pittsburgh</p><p>Buffalo at Minnesota</p><p>Vancouver at Los Angeles</p><p>Chicago at St. Louis</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Minnesota at New York</p><p>Pittsburgh at Boston</p><p>Detroit at Philadelphia</p><p>California at Chicago</p><p><b>Tues. Nov. 24</b></p><p>Pittsburgh at Toronto</p><p>Boston at St. Louis</p><p>Minnesota at Vancouver</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 25</b></p><p>Montreal at Chicago</p><p>New York at Philadelphia</p><p>Buffalo at Pittsburgh</p><p>Los Angeles at California</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 26</b></p><p>Toronto at St. Louis</p><p>New York at Buffalo</p><p>Chicago at Boston</p><p>Vancouver at Detroit</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 27</b></p><p>Minnesota at California<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE NHL SCENE

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b> HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b> HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S and Canada</p><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;</p><p>What is the difference between a minor leaguer and a major leaguer?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01940/3706883-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="278" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Poul Popiel</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Sometimes,&rdquo; insists Vancouver Canucks&rsquo; coach Hal Laycoe, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s just the chance to play.&rdquo;</p><p>An over simplification perhaps, but as Laycoe&rsquo;s Canucks headed into the second month of their first National Hockey League season, they had already demonstrated his thesis has merit.</p><p>To the surprise of most hockey people and a computer who picked them to finish last, the Canucks were still in fourth place in the NHL&rsquo;s tough east Division. Furthermore, they kept offering evidence to suggest they belonged there.</p><p>The Canucks solidified their hold on fourth place with a 4-1 victory over the Sabres in Buffalo and a 3-2 decision over the Toronto Maple Leafs at home.</p><p>In both games, the key role was played by. men who might not have been around if things had gone according to plan in training camp.</p><p>In Buffalo, the Canucks came out of the first period trailing 1-0, then got two quick goals from Poul Popiel, a defenceman converted to left wing. In the Toronto game, right winger Murray Hall scored the winning goal midway through the third period.</p><p>Had it not been for Ted Taylor&rsquo;s contract dispute&mdash;he&rsquo;s still a holdout&mdash;Popiel would probably be occupying a seat at the end of the bench or perhaps performing for the Canucks&rsquo; farm team in Rochester. A shoulder separation suffered by Ed (Sock) Hatoum saved Hall from a similar fate.</p><p>Given the chance to play, both Popiel and Hall are making significant contributions.</p><p>Hall, working on a line with center Orland Kurtenbach and left winger Wayne Maki, formed one third of Vancouver&rsquo;s highest scoring unit. In fact, after 14 games, Hall shared the club scoring lead with Maki at 14 points, one ahead of Kurtenbach.</p><p>Popiel is playing with center Andre Boudrias and right winger Rosaire Paiement, a line that has drawn the assignment of checking the opposition&rsquo;s big guns.</p><p>How well has the trio performed?</p><p>&ldquo;Despite the number of goals we&rsquo;ve given up,&rdquo; says Laycoe, &ldquo;they all have a plus rating.&rdquo;</p><p>That means when they&rsquo;ve been on the ice, the Canucks have scored more goals than the opposition.</p><p>One of the big reasons for that has been the work of Boudrias. a scrappy little buzz-saw who frequently drives large, cumbersome defensemen to distraction. Boudrias is another guy who lends credence to Laycoe&rsquo;s &ldquo;a chance to play&rdquo; theory.</p><p>After languishing on the bench in Chicago and St. Louis the past two seasons, little Andre is a regular again and his non-stop skating has made him a favorite with crowds at Vancouver&rsquo;s Pacific Coliseum.</p><p>He&rsquo;s even surprised his bosses, Laycoe and general manager Bud Poile. At the start of training camp, Boudrias was being viewed as a fourth center and penalty-killer. Instead, he&rsquo;s challenging Kurtenbach as the top pivot on the club.</p><p>Dale Tallon, who scored on a solo dash against Toronto, is another favorite of the Vancouver crowd.</p><p>Tallon is in Vancouver because the spin of a wheel last June gave Buffalo first choice in the amateur draft and the right to grab Gil Perreault.</p><p>Perreault, a gifted athlete, shows every sign of becoming one of the game&rsquo;s super stars. But Tallon&rsquo;s work has made the disappointment of missing Perreault less acute.</p><p>&ldquo;When you&rsquo;re number two, you try harder,&rdquo; he grins.</p><p><b>CANUCK CAPERS:</b> Vancouver has assigned rookie defenseman Jim Hargreaves to Rochester on an immediate recall basis&hellip;When Laycoe cut down to two defense pairs instead of three, it became obvious Hargreaves wouldn&rsquo;t get the ice time he needs to develop into the star management expects him to become&hellip;Veteran Howie Young has been loaned to Phoenix of the Western League, also on an immediate recall basis&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Popiel, Hall Capitalize On Laycoe Play Theory

<h2><b>In The West</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Los Angeles Kings have been searching high and low for the kind of ice leader they needed to propel the team back into the thick of the NHL&rsquo;s West Division race. They&rsquo;ve obviously found him in veteran center Bob Pulford.</p><p>The Kings have come alive this season in the West. They&rsquo;ve already won half the number of games they managed to capture all last season and Pulford has played a major role. The Kings have thought so highly of him that they named him team captain.</p><p>Pulford has been maintaining the club&rsquo;s trust in him. Last week he scored three times, twice while they repelled Pittsburgh 5-1 and another as they tied Detroit 4-4.</p><p>THE HOCKEY NEWS has selected Pulford as the West Division Player whom we think belongs among the NHL&rsquo;s top Stars Of The Week.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02789/3706921-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="563" height="690"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB PULFORD&hellip;Los Angeles Kings</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>In The East</b></h2><p>The Buffalo Sabres have come to rely on veteran goalkeeper Roger Crozier to such an extent that they are practically non-competitive without him.</p><p>This came home to the Sabres in a recent weekend outing when they were clobbered 11-2 by Montreal. Crozier watched from the bench as he rested his shattered nerves. This past week, he was ready to go back into combat and the Sabres realized a victory and a tie in both starts he made in goal.</p><p>The diminutive but acrobatic Crozier handled a total of 71 shots in the two games as he came up with a sensational performance in both. As a result Buffalo cooled off California Seals 4-2 and followed up with a 2-2 tie against Montreal.</p><p>THE HOCKEY NEWS has selected Crozier as the East Division player whom we think belongs among the NHL&rsquo;s top Stars of The Week.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03600/3706914-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="551" height="646"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROGER CROZIER&hellip;Buffalo Sabres</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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STARS OF THE WEEK

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div><p>CHICAGO&mdash;</p><p>Unprotected last summer, Louis Frederick Angotti is proving invaluable to the Black Hawks this winter.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01907/3706952-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="529" height="720"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LOU ANGOTTI&hellip;A Top Hawk</b></figcaption></div><p>A diminutive, hard-skating center who has traveled about in the National Hockey League, Angotti was one of Chicago&rsquo;s top players during the first month of the season.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s been outstanding,&rdquo; remarked Coach Billy Reay. &ldquo;Angotti and (Eric) Nesterenko have done a terrific job of penaltykilling and I don&rsquo;t hesitate to let them take a turn here and there on the forward lines.&rdquo;</p><p>And to think Angotti was left up for grabs last June at the annual draft meeting in Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;I really wasn&rsquo;t surprised,&rdquo; claims Angotti. &ldquo;I realize I&rsquo;m 33 years old and there are a lot of good young hockey players in the Chicago organization. You have to protect what&rsquo;s best for the overall team.</p><p>&ldquo;It didn&rsquo;t upset me. Naturally, everybody likes to be protected. When I ended up with the Hawks after all. I was glad. Anyway, when training camp started, I came in a good frame of mind and ready to work and do whatever Billy had for me.&rdquo;</p><p>Angotti prefers the current spot duty rather than a regular&rsquo;s role.</p><p>&ldquo;I started out fairly well last year and was playing a lot.&rdquo; Angotti said. &ldquo;But as the season went on, I got tired and by the last third of the schedule. I was a bit burned out.</p><p>&ldquo;The ideal situation for me is the one I&rsquo;m in now. I kill penalties. take a few odd turns, and play about 15 minutes a game,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Billy and I talked before the season started, and we both figured that this is the best way to use me.&rdquo;</p><p>Does Angotti consider penaltykilling a thankless job?</p><p>&ldquo;Definitely not,&rdquo; says the popular veteran. &ldquo;Successful penalty killing can mean the difference between winning and losing a lot of hockey games. It&rsquo;s important and it can give the team a lift if you go out there and do a good job while the other side has a man advantage.</p><p>&ldquo;For me, it&rsquo;s good to be killing penalties because you do a lot of skating and that keeps you sharp. You&rsquo;re always on the go when you&rsquo;re a man down.</p><p>Goalie Tony Esposito had a couple of mediocre outings, but otherwise looked good. In a 2 to 1 loss at Minnesota Oct. 28, rookie Buster Harvey rammed a shot from deep right wing&mdash;an almost impossible scoring angle&mdash;and the puck hit Esposito&rsquo;s pads and went in for the winning tally.</p><p>Ten days later, Esposito made a couple of mistakes that resulted in goals when the North Stars tied the Hawks, 3-3, in Chicago.</p><p>&ldquo;Just an off night for Tony,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s still coming up with an awful lot of big saves.&rdquo;</p><p><b>HAWKEY TALK:</b> Through five home games, the Hawks were undefeated with three victories and two ties&hellip;When Goalie Gerry Desjardins tied Philadelphia, 1 to 1, in early November, he upped his unbeaten mark as a Hawk to 6-0-1&hellip;Right Wing Jim Pappin started skating and it was hoped that a return to regular action was in the near future. He&rsquo;d been sidelined by facial paralysis since training camp.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Angotti Enjoying Spot Duty Rote And Hawks Happy

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01747/3707151-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="443" height="285"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02641/3707144-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="491" height="282"></div><h2><b>Tues. Nov. 10 LOS ANGELES 5 at PITTSBURGH 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03511/3707137-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="585" height="601"></div><h2><b>VANCOUVER 3 at BOSTON 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04399/3707130-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="589" height="704"></div><h2><b>Wed. Nov. 11 MONTREAL 0 at CALIFORNIA 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05299/3707123-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="579" height="436"></div><h2><b>PHILADELPHIA 1 at CHICAGO 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06242/3707116-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="583" height="715"></div><h2><b>LOS ANGELES 1 at MINNESOTA 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07219/3707109-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="592" height="565"></div><h2><b>VANCOUVER 4 at TORONTO 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-08200/3707102-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="583" height="433"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-09178/3707095-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="575" height="157"></div><h2><b>PITTSBURGH 3 at NEW YORK 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-10156/3707088-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="580" height="566"></div><h2><b>Thurs. Nov. 12 DETROIT 1 AT ST. LOUIS 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-11142/3707081-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="579" height="375"></div><h2><b>Fri. Nov. 13 CALIFORNIA 2 at BUFFALO 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-12125/3707074-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="577" height="281"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-13114/3707067-1-eng-US/f0016-132.jpg" title="f0016-13" width="585" height="338"></div><h2><b>Sat. Nov. 14 MONTREAL 1 at ST. LOUIS 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-14107/3707060-1-eng-US/f0016-142.jpg" title="f0016-14" width="578" height="405"></div><h2><b>CALIFORNIA 1 at PITTSBURGH 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1597/3707053-1-eng-US/f0016-152.jpg" title="f0016-15" width="585" height="664"></div><h2><b>VANCOUVER 3 at MINNESOTA 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1694/3707046-1-eng-US/f0016-162.jpg" title="f0016-16" width="579" height="589"></div><h2><b>NEW YORK 1 at CHICAGO 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1786/3707039-1-eng-US/f0016-172.jpg" title="f0016-17" width="583" height="511"></div><h2><b>BOSTON 2 at TORONTO 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1879/3707032-1-eng-US/f0016-182.jpg" title="f0016-18" width="592" height="311"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1973/3707025-1-eng-US/f0016-192.jpg" title="f0016-19" width="579" height="264"></div><h2><b>Sun. Nov. 15 MONTREAL 2 at BUFFALO 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2058/3707018-1-eng-US/f0016-202.jpg" title="f0016-20" width="583" height="476"></div><h2><b>DETROIT 4 at LOS ANGELES 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2155/3707011-1-eng-US/f0016-212.jpg" title="f0016-21" width="584" height="638"></div><h2><b>TORONTO 2 at NEW YORK 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2253/3707004-1-eng-US/f0016-222.jpg" title="f0016-22" width="578" height="568"></div><h2><b>CALIFORNIA 2 at BOSTON 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2351/3706997-1-eng-US/f0016-232.jpg" title="f0016-23" width="579" height="422"></div><h2><b>VANCOUVER 2 at CHICAGO 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2449/3706990-1-eng-US/f0016-242.jpg" title="f0016-24" width="586" height="671"></div><h2><b>ST. LOUIS 2 at PHILADELPHIA 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2544/3706983-1-eng-US/f0016-252.jpg" title="f0016-25" width="581" height="452"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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National Hockey League SUMMARIES

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NHL Team Rosters

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>here were knowing grins and loud snickers when Punch Imlach predicted the Buffalo Sabres would earn a playoff berth in their first season in the National Hockey League.</p><p>There was more of the same when Imlach said Gilbert Perreault, the prize rookie and No. 1 choice in the amateur draft would prove the equal of any center in the league.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01642/3707213-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="265" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gilbert Perreault</b></figcaption></div><p>The Sabres were buried in last place in the East Division, and struggling under a seven-game losing streak.</p><p>But Perreault, who celebrated his 20th birthday Friday, Nov. 13 (of all days) was making Imlach looke like a soothsayer. He had scored seven of the Sabres&rsquo; 19 goals, with his first six coming on the road, in 14 games.</p><p>&ldquo;At this pace. Gilbert will finish with 39 goals and, if that doesn&rsquo;t make him the best center, I&rsquo;ll have to be shown,&rdquo; Imlach said. &ldquo;This kid excites the fans. When he makes a rush, he pulls them out of their seats like Maurice Richard did.&rdquo;</p><p>The Sabres&rsquo; offense was worrying Imlach, but it was the defense that was giving him sleepless nights. And, to make matters worse, three defensemen, Mike McMahon, Dough Barrie and Jean-Guy Talbot were idle with injuries.</p><p>Talbot, acquired along with forward Larry Keenan from St. Louis, sustained a bruised foot in his debut with the Sabres, and was on crutches a few hours after joining the club. Barrie and McMahon had leg ailments involving pulled muscles.</p><p>&ldquo;The one place we can&rsquo;t afford injuries is on defense, and that&rsquo;s where we are getting hurt,&rdquo; Imlach said. &ldquo;We must get healthy back there.&rdquo; -</p><p>Imlach took Bobby Baun on waivers from Detroit and traded him a few hours later to St. Louis for Keenan and Talbot. At the same time, he coaxed Don Marshall and Phil Goyette, the reluctant Sabres, who quit the club and returned to their Montreal homes during the training season, to sign contracts.</p><p>&ldquo;With Talbot, Keenan, Marshall and Goyette, we&rsquo;ll be 40 per cent stronger.&rdquo; Imlach said. &ldquo;These are proven NHL&rsquo;ers who will lend us a major league touch, a touch of class.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not scoring enough goals, but the defensive play of the club is even hurting us more. However, I&rsquo;m certain when we get the new guys worked into the lineup, we&rsquo;ll be all right.&rdquo;</p><p><b>ALONG THE BOARDS&mdash;</b>Imlach got permission from the Minnesota North Stars to talk to Leo Boivin, the veteran defenseman who had announced his retirement. Leo had accepted a scouting post with the North Stars when Imlach called him&hellip;Scouts All Millar and Bucky Kane conferred with Imlach and John Andersen, the director of scouting when the Sabres were in Montreal&hellip;The Sabres, who opened the season with a 2-1 win at Pittsburgh, then dropped seven straight road games, and three in a row at home as this was written.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Sabres’ Kid Star Glows; Marshall, Goyette Back

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ICE QUIPS…

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b> OCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b> HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>ROCHESTER&mdash;</p><p>The old saying &ldquo;youth will be served&rdquo; certainly is applicable to the Rochester Americans this American Hockey League season.</p><p>As the one and only farm club of the brand new NHL Vancou ver Canucks, the Amerks figured to have a lot of new faces this season, especially after two straight cellar finishes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01655/3707275-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="266" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ron Ward</b></figcaption></div><p>Now that the roster finally seems to be fairly straightened away (one more player probably will be forthcoming from Vancouver and two or three will depart from the scene here) only five of the 21-man roster skated here any length of time last season.</p><p>And the shift has been decidedly to younger players.</p><p>Of the five defensemen&mdash;one is 20, one 21, one 22 and two 25. Up front, there are two 20-year-olds, two at 21, one at 22, two at 23, one at 24, one at 26, one at 27, one at 28, two at 32 and one (Keke Mortson) at 36. Both goalkeepers are 28.</p><p>The five players who worked here last season are defenseman Ken Block and forwards Red Armstrong, Craig Beveridge, Bob Cooke and Jack Stanfield.</p><p>Latest additions to the Rochester roster are defenseman Jim Hargreaves and forward Garth Rizzuto, both cut the weekend of Nov. 7 by Vancouver.</p><p>Hargreaves is a fireplug of a defenseman who is listed at 5&rsquo;11&frac12;&rdquo; and 195 pounds, and has muscles on top of his muscles. But he&rsquo;s a real diamond-in-therough and needs a lot of polishing before he&rsquo;s ready for the National League.</p><p>A HOCKEY NEWS story last spring said Hargreaves &ldquo;is unrivaled in the Western Canada Junior Hockey League for sheer strength among defensemen, and has been compared to another former Winnipeg star, Ted Greene. Hargreaves boasts the advantage of a righthanded shot, rare among defensemen.&rdquo;</p><p>Jim was the 16th player picked during June&rsquo;s amateur draft in Montreal. He was Vancouver&rsquo;s second round selection.</p><p>Rizzuto is a 5-10, 185-pounder who normally plays center&hellip;but is being used on left wing by the Amerks. He was one of just nine players in the Central League to reach 30 goals two years ago when he was 30-29&mdash;59 in 69 games for Dallas. Last season he dipped to 20 goals with Dallas but raised his assists to 42 for 62 points, good for 12th in the CHL point race.</p><p>Hargreaves and forwards Dave Gilmour and Brent Taylor are the 20-year-olds, with Beveridge, Dave Dunn and Rob Walton at 21, John Schella, and Ralph Stewart 22, Jack Wells and Rizzuto 23, Cook 24, Doug Dunville and Block 25, Ron Ward 26, Stanfield 27, Duke Harris, Serge Aubry and Lynn Zimmerman 28, Don Blackburn and Armstrong 32 and Mortson 36.</p><p>The game of hockey has changed a lot in the last year, and so have the Rochester Americans.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-01

Americans Hope To Quit Cellar With ‘Kids’

<h2>Sun. Nov. 8 MONTREAL 1 al QUEBEC 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02527/3707376-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="588" height="438"></div><h2><b>SPRINGFIELD 1 at ROCHESTER 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03399/3707369-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="586" height="544"></div><h2><b>HERSHEY 3 AT PROVIDENCE 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04294/3707362-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="589" height="660"></div><h2><b>Tues. Nov. 10 SPRINGFIELD 4 AT BALTIMORE 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05221/3707355-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="567" height="172"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06181/3707348-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="583" height="532"></div><h2><b>ROCHESTER 3 AT PROVIDENCE 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-07156/3707341-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="591" height="527"></div><h2><b>Wed. Nov. 11 MONTREAL 3 at HERSHEY 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-08131/3707334-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="586" height="634"></div><h2><b>CLEVELAND 7 at SPRINGFIRLD 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-09112/3707327-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="582" height="165"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1099/3707320-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="588" height="590"></div><h2><b>Thurs. Nov. 12 CLEVELAND 4 at QUEBEC 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1195/3707313-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="580" height="653"></div><h2><b>Fri. Nov. 13 MONTREAL 1 at BALTIMORE 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1287/3707306-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="591" height="622"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-02

American League Summaries

<h2><b>AMERICAN LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 17)</b></p><h3><b>EAST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1375/3707421-1-eng-US/f0018-132.jpg" title="f0018-13" width="576" height="171"></div><h3><b>WEST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1469/3707414-1-eng-US/f0018-142.jpg" title="f0018-14" width="586" height="170"></div><p>(Affiliations: 1 Montreal. 2. Detroit. 3, Boston. 7, Los Angeles 9, California. 10, Philadelphia. 11, Minnesota. 13, Vancouver.)</p><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues. Nov. 10</b></p><p>Springfield 4 at Baltimore 6</p><p>Rochester 3 at Providence 3</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 11</b></p><p>Montreal 3 at Hershey 6</p><p>Cleveland 7 at Springfield 5</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 12</b></p><p>Cleveland 4 at Quebec 4</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 13</b></p><p>Montreal 1 at Baltimore 6</p><p>Providence 4 at Rochester 2</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 14</b></p><p>Baltimore 1 at Hershey 1</p><p>Quebec 2 at Springfield 4</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 15</b></p><p>Baltimore 2 at Providence 5</p><p>Springfield 3 at Quebec 3</p><p>Cleveland 3 at Rochester 4</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Tues. Nov. 17</b></p><p>Springfield vs Montreal (at Halifax)</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 18</b></p><p>Quebec at Hershey</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 19</b></p><p>Springfield vs Montreal (at Halifax)</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Quebec at Cleveland</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>Quebec at Baltimore</p><p>Montreal at Cleveland</p><p>Springfield at Hershey</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Quebec at Providence</p><p>Montreal at Rochester</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 25</b></p><p>Cleveland at Hershey</p><p><b>Turs. Nov. 26</b></p><p>Speingfield at Baltimore</p><p>Providence at Quebec</p><p>Cleveland at Rochester</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 27</b></p><p>Hershey at Baltimore</p><p>Providence at Montreal</p><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1566/3707407-1-eng-US/f0018-152.jpg" title="f0018-15" width="585" height="412"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-13

Looking At AHL Race

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>efore the 1970-71 American League season draws to a close the name of Mike Nykoluk will be found listed in the record book as the fourth greatest scorer in the Circuit&rsquo;s 34-year-old history.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01475/3707553-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="540" height="482"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MIKE NYKOLUK&hellip;Another Milestone</b></figcaption></div><p>The &ldquo;Big Bear&rdquo; is off to one of his finest starts in his 13 years with the Hershey Bears and on Nov. 7 reached the 800-point plateau.</p><p>The 35-year-old Nykoluk, a Toronto product, picked up a goal and two assists in Hershey&rsquo;s 9-2 shelling of the Eastern Division leading Providence Reds to attain the 800 mark.</p><p>When the goal light blinked behind netminder Marcel Paille, the popular Nykoluk was given the puck and a partisan crowd of 5700 gave him a standing ovation. something which has not happened at the Sports Arena since he captained Hershey&rsquo;s last Calder Cup championship team two years ago.</p><p>Nykoluk. a 15-year AHL performer. needed 944 games to hit the 800 standard. He achieved the mark with 171 goals and 629 assists.</p><p>Ironically, Hershey&rsquo;s publicity chief, Brent Hancock, had featured three pictures-including a cover shot&mdash;of Nykoluk on the program that night, never dreaming Mike would become only the seventh skater in league annals to hit the 800 point level that night.</p><p>When the crowd gave Nykoluk the tremendous ovation, his lovely wife, Dolly, was overcome with joy and cried in happiness for Mike&rsquo;s great effort.</p><p>Prior to the game, the Bears had been in a scoring slump. Coach Frank Mathers decided to revamp all three forward lines for the key game. The Bears had dropped two straight matches and were in need of a win to stay with the pacesetters in the tough Western Division race.</p><p>Mathers strategy paid off. By the nine minute mark of the second period, Hershey had scored five goals, more then it had in the previous 180 minutes of play.</p><p>The new line makeup and point breakdown for the memorable &ldquo;800 Game&rdquo; was Nykoluk and wingers, Michel Harvey and Frank Spring, 3-6-9; Bobby Leiter and wingers, Stan Gilbertson and Ted Snell, 2-2-4; Gil Gilbert and wingers, Larry McKillop and Bud Debrody, 4-3-7. The three lines combined totaled 20 points.</p><p>For Debrody it broke an 11-game goal scoring slump as the young forward popped in a pair.</p><p>Nykoluk has 60 games in which to tally only 30 points to pass Harry Pidhirny&rsquo;s fourth place mark of 829 points and move into a class with the league&rsquo;s all-time top point scorers, Fred Glover, Willie Marshall and Dick Gamble. Only Marshall, with the Baltimore Clippers, is still active.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0020-01

Nykoluk Counts 800th Scoring Point

<div class="byline">BY JOE CELDAK</div><p>QUEBEC CITY&mdash;</p><p>Rookie left winger Dennis Giannini has become the goal scorer the Quebec Aces knew he would be in the American Hockey League.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02351/3707584-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="258" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Clement</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s been scoring the goals,&rdquo; said Aces&rsquo; coach Eddie Bush. &ldquo;Dennis was one of the top amateur players in Canada last season while playing for the London Knights and St. Cathar ines Black Hawks of the Ontario Hockey Association.&rdquo;</p><p>Last season while splitting his time between the two clubs, Giannini netted 41 goals and assisted on 48 others in 53 games for 89 points.</p><p>There&rsquo;s no doubt that the 5-9, 184-pound forward is going to net a big share of the Aces&rsquo; goals this season.</p><p>The Aces need goal scorers and this season Bush will have them. In the 1969-70 season, Quebec scored a total of 221 goals to rank next to last in the AHL.</p><p>&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t get off to the greatest start this season,&rdquo; said Bush. &ldquo;But, I&rsquo;ll tell you once this club begins to jell, we&rsquo;ll be okay. I&rsquo;ve been working with young players ever since I started coaching and they are the greatest to watch as they progress.&rdquo;</p><p>Another rookie, center Bill Clement is coming along fine with four goals in his first nine games as a pro. Last season, Clement did his playing at Ottawa of the OHA.</p><p>He was the Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; first draft pick this year and is expected to do an outstanding job on both offense and defense.</p><p>&ldquo;Just give us time and we&rsquo;ll come along fine,&rdquo; said Bush.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0020-02

Kid Stars Give Aces New Zest

<div class="byline">BY JOHN ARNOLD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03290/3707615-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="792" height="1053"></div><h2><b>SOLUTION IN DEC. 4 ISSUE</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Pictured player.</p><p>6&mdash;Number worn by Vachon.</p><p>7&mdash;Esposito had 77 last season.</p><p>10&mdash;An NHL coach answers to this.</p><p>11&mdash;Preposition.</p><p>12&mdash;Verb.</p><p>13&mdash;9th and 18th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>14&mdash;Period of time.</p><p>15&mdash;Nickname of a former NHL coach.</p><p>16&mdash;A Boston rookie.</p><p>18&mdash;Former Toronto captain.</p><p>19&mdash;Initials of one of the Flyers.</p><p>20&mdash;Former NHL forward Sclisizzi.</p><p>21&mdash;An NHL right winger.</p><p>23&mdash;Boston general manager.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Registered 59 points for St. Louis last year.</p><p>2&mdash;Birthplace of pictured player.</p><p>3&mdash;Distress signal.</p><p>4&mdash;Native province of 21 across.</p><p>5&mdash;Recently started his 19th NHL season.</p><p>8&mdash;Compass point.</p><p>9&mdash;Senior, (abbr.)</p><p>15&mdash;Initials of a new North Star.</p><p>17&mdash;Finished 1st in the east last year (abbr).</p><p>18&mdash;Montreal and Detroit did this Oct. 25.</p><p>22&mdash;Initials of minor league defenseman Hunt.</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</b></h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1&mdash;HUH.</p><p>3&mdash;FAN.</p><p>5&mdash;E.O.</p><p>7&mdash;MCDONALD.</p><p>12&mdash;PRENTICE</p><p>13&mdash;SEA</p><p>14&mdash;OTT</p><p>I5&mdash;OIL.</p><p>16&mdash;N.R.</p><p>17&mdash;N.G.</p><p>18&mdash;SOS.</p><p>20&mdash;H.T.</p><p>22&mdash;11</p><p>23&mdash;T.R.</p><p>24&mdash;A.D.</p><p>26&mdash;T.N.</p><p>27&mdash;ROAD.</p><p>29&mdash;O.K.</p><p>30&mdash;ANDREA</p><p>31&mdash;B.E.</p><p>32&mdash;KEON</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1&mdash;HAMPSON</p><p>2&mdash;LEON</p><p>3&mdash;FALCONS</p><p>4&mdash;N.U.</p><p>6&mdash;ONT.</p><p>B&mdash;CREIGHTON</p><p>9&mdash;DEAL</p><p>10&mdash;A.I.</p><p>11&mdash;DETROIT</p><p>19&mdash;SINDEN</p><p>21&mdash;TRADE</p><p>25&mdash;DOAK</p><p>27&mdash;RAY</p><p>28&mdash;D.R.</p><p>31&mdash;B.O.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0020-03

HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">BY JOHN GILBERT</div><p>MINNEAPOLIS&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he United States Nationals hockey team has begun as energetic schedule of exhibition games to prepare itself for next spring&rsquo;s World Amateur tournament.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-1321/3707723-1-eng-US/f0021-132.jpg" title="f0021-13" width="251" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tim Sheehy</b></figcaption></div><p>The Nationals, based at Metropolitain Sports Center, home of the Minnesota North Stars, are coached by Murray Williamson. The team grouped Nov. 1, and after only five days of workouts, defeated a strong University of Minnesota-Duluth team 6-4 in its first game.</p><p>The U.S. team then defeated Waterloo, Iowa, of the United States Hockey League, 5-1 and 6-5.</p><p>Williamson, shaping his team on the group of players who easily romped through the Class B World Amateur tournament last year, has worked out over 40 games on a schedule he hopes will aim the team at a high finish in this season&rsquo;s Class A tournament, and prepare it for next season&rsquo;s Olympics.</p><p>Among the Nationals&rsquo; veterans are former National Hockey League goalie Carl Wetzel and defenseman George-Konik, Both are naturalized</p><p>American citizens, born in Canada. Both, however, are also ineligible for next year&rsquo;s Olympics.</p><p>Herb Brooks and Don Ross, two veteran defensemen, also help solidify Williamson&rsquo;s predominate youth movement on the forward lines.</p><p>Among the younger forwards is Henry Boucha, a 19-year-old who went from Warroad, Minn., High School to the Winnipeg Jets Junior A club for a year&rsquo;s experience prior to joining last year&rsquo;s Nationals&rsquo;</p><p>Boucha scored two goals in each of the Waterloo Blackhawks games playing at center. Other centers are Tim Sheehy, Boston College All-American, Keith Christiansen, Minnesota-Duluth All-American and Peter Fichuk from the University of Minnesota. Sheehy, Christiansen and Fichuk, who also plays wing, are all from International Falls, Minn., as is goalie Mike Curran.</p><p>Top wingers include Minnesota All-American Gary Gambucci, Denver University&rsquo;s Craig Patrick, Kevin Ahearn of Boston College, Joe Norris of Denver and Craig Falkman, another Minnesota All American.</p><p>Despite their strong start, Williamson doesn&rsquo;t expect the U.S. skaters to get their timing perfected and hit stride for several weeks.</p><p>But the team is a far cry from the disinterested approach for merly taken by the U.S. in World hockey circles, when a team would be bunched together a week or so before the tournament, or an amateur team would be sent intact to try to compete with international powers.</p><h2><b>HOW THEY STAND</b></h2><h3><b>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Fri. Nov. 13)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01318/3707716-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="564" height="303"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-02220/3707709-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="569" height="578"></div><h2><b>NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Nov. 11)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-03145/3707702-1-eng-US/f0021-032.jpg" title="f0021-03" width="561" height="208"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-04112/3707695-1-eng-US/f0021-042.jpg" title="f0021-04" width="572" height="497"></div><h2><b>NEW YORK METRO JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 10)</b></p><h3><b>EASTERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0595/3707688-1-eng-US/f0021-052.jpg" title="f0021-05" width="559" height="170"></div><h3><b>WESTERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0680/3707681-1-eng-US/f0021-062.jpg" title="f0021-06" width="563" height="164"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0864/3707674-1-eng-US/f0021-082.jpg" title="f0021-08" width="569" height="367"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 16)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0953/3707667-1-eng-US/f0021-092.jpg" title="f0021-09" width="584" height="371"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-1043/3707660-1-eng-US/f0021-102.jpg" title="f0021-10" width="568" height="315"></div><h2><b>BOSTON JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-1133/3707653-1-eng-US/f0021-112.jpg" title="f0021-11" width="562" height="170"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-1223/3707646-1-eng-US/f0021-122.jpg" title="f0021-12" width="561" height="226"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0021-13

Americans Put Teeth In World Team

<div class="byline">BY JOHN WHITE</div><p>PORTLAND&mdash;</p><p>Coach Gordon Fashoway of the Portland Buckaroos vehemently denies the &ldquo;charges.&rdquo;</p><p>The charges?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01345/3707754-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="282" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Mike Donaldson</b></figcaption></div><p>That the Buckaroos are going to run away with the Western Hockey League championship this season.</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ll win it by 20 points,&rdquo; one seasoned observer told Fashoway, after catching the act of the entire league in the first five weeks of the season.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you ever believe it,&rdquo; snarled back the second-season coach.</p><p>&ldquo;This is a tough league,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and any night we aren&rsquo;t really up for a game, we are going to lose.&rdquo;</p><p>Regardless of Fashoway&rsquo;s feelings, however, the Buckaroos skated off to the fastest start in the club&rsquo;s 11-year history.</p><p>They opened with three straight victories, were held to a 3-3 tie by Denver on their home ice and then were shut out in Seattle, 3-0.</p><p>Then they skated to seven straight victories going into the second week of November action.</p><p>And it adds to 10 victories, one tie and one loss in the first 12 games&mdash;best start ever for a hockey club which already has finished first seven times in the last 10 seasons.</p><p>The Buckaroos also won four of their first five games on the road&mdash;the best five-game road start of all time for the veterans from Oregon.</p><p>What was doing it for the Buckaroos?</p><p>Well, for one thing, the defensemen were going wild&mdash;on offense,</p><p>Take big (6-2, 218) Rick Foley&mdash;and some National League club eventually will do just that.</p><p>Foley missed two of Portland&rsquo;s first 12 games with injuries and still was tied for third in scoring on the club with 14 points on a pair of goals and 12 assists.</p><p>That was exactly Foley&rsquo;s record last year after he had played his 34th game as a rookie for the Buckaroos. And last year he was the third-highest scoring defenseman in the league.</p><p>Mike Donaldson, playing his 11th professional season, helped set up eight goals in his first 12 games. Those eight assists matched Donaldson&rsquo;s total for the entire last campaign.</p><p>Connie Madigan was off to his best play-making start since he joined the Buckaroos in the fall of 1964.</p><p>He picked up 11 assists in his first 12 games. He earned his 11th assist in his 28th game a year ago and in his 36th game two years ago.</p><p>The blueliners weren&rsquo;t alone in claiming early-season blastoffs.</p><p>Veteran winger Mel Pearson sniped six goals in 12 games. It took him twice as long&mdash;24 games&mdash;to pick up his first six goals a year ago. And he still scored a career high of 26 last time around.</p><p>Kenny Campbell earned 11 assists in 12 games. He picked up his 115th in his 32nd game last season.</p><p>New winger Oscar Gaudet from Dallas scored six goals in 11 games.</p><p>&ldquo;I had just four goals in December last season,&rdquo; he revealed.</p><p>The Buckaroo captain. Art Jones, scored 22 points in 12 games to exactly match his pace of last season when he scored an all-time Western Hockey League record of 127 points.</p><p>But he was ahead of his goalscoring pace&mdash;11 in 12 games this year compared with 11 in 19 games last year and 11 in 35 games two years ago.</p><p>With spurts such as these, it&rsquo;s little wonder the Buckaroos were blazing off in first place.</p><p>But it still will be a long and tough campaign for the Buckaroos.</p><p>At least don&rsquo;t suggest anything else to Coach Fashoway. You&rsquo;ll get snorts and snarls in return.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0022-01

Fashoway Denies Bucks Running Away

<p>DENVER&mdash;</p><p>The Denver Spurs have undergone a change at the top.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-02263/3707785-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="503" height="599"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL DINEEN&hellip;Vet Reactivated</b></figcaption></div><p>Bench coach Bill Dineen has been activated as a player and returned to the fold in a bid to inspire the younger Spurs, who will revert to the coaching leadership of Rudy Pilous.</p><p>Spurs&rsquo; President Bennett King announced the change in command and said the move was made to instill some new drive and spirit into the club.</p><p>&ldquo;I feel that Bill&rsquo;s experience and leadership qualities on the ice will be a tremendous asset to our club,&rdquo; he added.</p><p>Pilous thus returns to the dual role of general manager and coach, the same status he held before he elevated the 38-year-old Dineen to the headcoaching job on Feb. 18, 1970 for the final 17 games of last season. His team finished with a record of 7-7-3.</p><p>Called &lsquo;Foxy&rsquo; by his ice mates. Dineen has returned to playing after coaching the club through the first 14 games this season. His team was fourth in the six-club league with a 4-5-5 record.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0022-02

Pilous Buck As Coach, Dineen Returns To Ice

<h2><b>Sat. Oct. 31 DENVER 3 AT SAN DIEGO 8</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-03230/3707886-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="573" height="794"></div><h2><b>Sun. Nov. 1 PHOENIX 0 AT PORTLAND 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-04184/3707879-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="580" height="432"></div><h2><b>DENVER 4 AT SAN DIEGO 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-05153/3707872-1-eng-US/f0022-052.jpg" title="f0022-05" width="580" height="256"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-06121/3707865-1-eng-US/f0022-062.jpg" title="f0022-06" width="578" height="444"></div><h2><b>SALT LAKE 4 AT SEATTLE 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-07108/3707858-1-eng-US/f0022-072.jpg" title="f0022-07" width="589" height="742"></div><h2><b>Wed. Nov. 4 SALT LAKE 4 at DENVER 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0898/3707851-1-eng-US/f0022-082.jpg" title="f0022-08" width="584" height="356"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0990/3707844-1-eng-US/f0022-092.jpg" title="f0022-09" width="581" height="175"></div><h2><b>PHOENIX 5 at PORTLAND 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1079/3707837-1-eng-US/f0022-102.jpg" title="f0022-10" width="572" height="835"></div><h2><b>Fri. Nov. 6 SEATTLE 1 at DENVER 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1174/3707830-1-eng-US/f0022-112.jpg" title="f0022-11" width="576" height="447"></div><h3><b>ALBERTA HOCKEY LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 9)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-04159/3707823-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="569" height="131"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-05133/3707816-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg" title="f0023-05" width="566" height="253"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0022-03

Western League Summaries

<h2><b>WESTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Nov. 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01325/3707931-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="561" height="230"></div><p>(Affiliations: 2. Detroit 4. New York 5. Chicago 6. Toronto. 9. Los Angeles. 14. Buffalo).</p><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Wed. Nov. 11</b></p><p>Portland 2 at Denver 7</p><p>Son Diego 4 at Salt Lake 1</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 12</b></p><p>Portland 4 at Phoenix 2</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 13</b></p><p>Son Diego 2 at Denver 2</p><p>Phoenix 4 at Salt Lake 2</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 14</b></p><p>Portland 1 at Salt Lake 3</p><p>Son Diego 3 at Phoenix 4</p><p>Denver 0 at Seattle 2</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 15</b></p><p>Denver 6 at Portland 1</p><p>Son Diego 7 at Seattle 2</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Wed. Nov. 18</b></p><p>Phoenix at Salt Lake</p><p>Denver at Seattle</p><p><b>Fri. Nov 20</b></p><p>Denver at Salt Lake</p><p>Phoenix at Seattle</p><p>San Diego at Portland</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>Salt Lake at Denver</p><p>Phoenix at Portland</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Salt Lake at San Diego</p><p>Phoenix at Seattle</p><p><b>Wod. Nov. 25</b></p><p>Denver at Phoenix</p><p>Salt Lake at San Diego</p><p>Portland at Seattle</p><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><p><b>(Including games of Sun. Nov. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-02258/3707924-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="568" height="564"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-03198/3707917-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="571" height="227"></div><p><b>Shutouts, Surmay, McLeod, Caley, Edwards, Farr, 1 each.</b></p><p><b>Most Penalty Minutes, Steve Cuddie, Salt Lake, 54.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0023-01

HOW THEY STAND

<p>SAN DIEGO&mdash;</p><p>When Max McNab bought Bob Courcy from the Philadelphia Flyers last summer, be was expecting a bundle of goals from the 34-year-old rightwinger.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1151/3707962-1-eng-US/f0023-112.jpg" title="f0023-11" width="269" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Courcy</b></figcaption></div><p>Why not? He had scored more than any other Western Hockey League player over the past two seasons getting 83 goals in the past two seasons for the Seattle Totems, who switched their ties to the New York Rangers.</p><p>Courcy hasn&rsquo;t disappointed. He is off to the fastest start of his 14-year professional career and he has made some fast starts.</p><p>In his second game with Seattle, mid way in the 1967-68 season, Courcy scored a &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; and scored seven goals and four assists in his first 12 games.</p><p>He fired nine goals and seven assists in the first dozen games of the 1968-69 season and improved it to 10 and 8 last year.</p><p>The San Diego sunshine seems to have further invigorated the 5ll, 170-pounder and in 12 games this season, he fired 13 goals and six assists.</p><p>A weekend doubleheader against his former Totem teammates followed and although Courcy was shut out in the goals column, he bagged four assists to remain a point ahead of defending points leader Art Jones of Portland. Courcy has 13-10&mdash;23 and Jones 11-11&mdash;22.</p><p>Gerry Goyer, purchased from Vancouver to center Courcy and Al Nicholson, is third in the points race with 18 and is tied with Nicholson and Denver defenseman Larry Mavety for the assists lead with 13.</p><p>Courcy won all-star honors in &lsquo;68-69 but last year lost the first team berth by three votes to Portland&rsquo;s Andy Hebenton.</p><p>Goyer has had no problem fitting in with Courcy. He&rsquo;ll find him right there at right wing which he patrols with uncommon perseverance.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0023-11

Goal Pace Old Stuff To Courcy

<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div><p>PHOENIX&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>eclaring, &ldquo;we can&rsquo;t win with the players we have,&rdquo; Phoenix Roadrunners&rsquo; coach Aut Erickson began changing personnel to improve on his club&rsquo;s record of two wins and a tie in the first 11 games.</p><p>He became reunited with Howie Young and made a scouting trip to watch the Tulsa Ooilers in the Central Hockey League. The parent Toronto Maple Leafs had promised Erickson help from Tulsa.</p><p>Young and Erickson were roommates with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1963-64 but had a violent meeting last season when Young was skating defense for Vancouver.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1242/3707993-1-eng-US/f0023-122.jpg" title="f0023-12" width="267" height="498"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Howie Young</b></figcaption></div><p>His blind-siding of his former roommate is generally believed to have retired the 32-year-old Erickson to the coaching ranks.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe Howie intended to hurt me,&rdquo; said Erickson, when he announced Young&rsquo;s acquisition on a month&rsquo;s trial from the Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>Erickson has been unhappy over his defense and hoped the addition of the 6-0, 190-pound Young would give it more muscle.</p><p>The Runners haven&rsquo;t given up goals in great bunches, but at costly moments. They&rsquo;ve only allowed 37 in 11 games. Don Caley owns a 2.79 goals against average and Marv Edwards a 3.49 mark.</p><p>It&rsquo;s up front that has been most disappointing and is the current cause for Erickson&rsquo;s search.</p><p>The Runners have only produced 30 goals in 11 games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0023-12

Erickson Forgets The Past In Hiring Young For Defense

<h2><b>Sat. Nov. 7 PHOENIX 1 at DENVER 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-06118/3708052-1-eng-US/f0023-062.jpg" title="f0023-06" width="574" height="427"></div><h2><b>SEATTLE 3 at SAN DIEGO 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-07104/3708045-1-eng-US/f0023-072.jpg" title="f0023-07" width="580" height="446"></div><h2><b>SALT LAKE 2 at PORTLAND 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0889/3708038-1-eng-US/f0023-082.jpg" title="f0023-08" width="568" height="126"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0975/3708031-1-eng-US/f0023-092.jpg" title="f0023-09" width="577" height="433"></div><h2><b>Sun. Nov. 8 SEATTLE 4 at SAN DIEGO 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1064/3708024-1-eng-US/f0023-102.jpg" title="f0023-10" width="574" height="647"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0023-06

WHL Summaries

<div class="byline">BY BOB LINDLEY</div><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b> HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street Wallaceberg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b> HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD. Amdd Street, Wallaceborf. Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>TULSA&mdash;</p><p>The Oilers, who started the 1970-71 season with so much optimism because of their strength down the center, suffered a severe gut shot when two of their playmakers were knocked out of action in one game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01333/3708097-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="266" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Hargreaves</b></figcaption></div><p>Ted Hargreaves, a 23-goal scorer in his rookie season last year, suffered a broken ankle when hit by an errant Oklahoma City stick during a 5-4 loss to the Blazers.</p><p>He&rsquo;ll be out for five or six weeks.</p><p>On the same night, veteran Jean Payette suffered a freak arm injury and it appeared he&rsquo;d be lost for about two weeks.</p><p>Payette, called in from Phoenix when the center ice corps with the exception of Rene Robert&mdash;failed to live up to expectations, tore his arm open on a metal post holding a side glass and the bone-deep wound required 16 stitches to close.</p><p>Although he finished the game and tallied a last-second goal, Payette is expected to miss action.</p><p>The Oilers also got a fright, in that same contest, when veteran goalie Ray Reeson took a wicked slapshot in the face and went down like a felled tree. At first it appeared he&rsquo;d suffered a jaw fracture, but further examination turned up only a severely bruised jaw.</p><p>&ldquo;It was a bad game for us,&rdquo; lamented general manager Ray Miron. &ldquo;And we&rsquo;ve got the toughest part of our schedule just coming up. We play five games in six nights and we need everyone healthy.&rdquo;</p><p>Miron and coach Marcel Pronovost also were sweating out a call from the parent Maple Leafs that could rob them of their fine rookie goalie Murray McLachlan, at least until Toronto&rsquo;s injury problems are solved.</p><p>&ldquo;With the Leafs having their troubles up there,&rdquo; Miron said, &ldquo;we&rsquo;re kind of sitting on edge down here waiting for them to start calling up our kids.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;And with our league so evenly balanced, winning a playoff spot could hinge on which club remains injury free and is left alone by their NHL teams.&rdquo;</p><p><b>DALLAS:</b> Black Hawks treated largest home opener crowd in team&rsquo;s history (6,010) to smashing 52 victory over archrival Fort Worth. Defense, led by veteran Barry Long, turned in best effort of season, according to coach Bobby Kromm. Rookies Darrall Maggs and John Marks both impressive. Rookie Dan Lodboa scored three goals in two-game span while veteran Don Gordon notched fifth in six outings. Goalie Ken Brown won back No. 1 starting berth, J.P. Bordeleau off injury list.</p><p><b>OMAHA:</b> Knights got Jim Kiulicki and Mike Robitaille from parent Rangers, reportedly for 28-day period for conditioning purposes. Robitaille was first team All Star last season with Knights and led blueline scorers in CHL with 58 points. Krulicki was here for playoffs, getting five goals, seven assists in 12 games as Knights won CHL crown. Addition to roster gives Omaha 23-man squad, which should create rugged competition for starting jobs.</p><p><b>AMARILLO:</b> Rookie goalies Cam Newton and Paul Hoganson remain bright spots in otherwise bleak outlook for young Wranglers. Rick Kessell and Robin Burns (each with three goals in first six games) led scorers. Coach Rudy Migay has two major problems to solve&mdash;cutting down on costly penalties and shoring up a weak offense, which had managed only 17 goals in the first seven games, six of them coming in one contest.</p><p><b>OKLAHOMA CITY:</b> Gregg Sheppard off to great start for Blazers with seven goals in first nine games. Veteran defenseman Dick Cherry (nine assists) among club point leaders. Blazers having third-period breakdowns, exactly half of the 32 goals scored against them coming in the final period. High draft choice Rick MacLeish was still looking for first pro goal after nine games.</p><p><b>KANSAS CITY:</b> Kansas Cityans rolled out the welcome mat for their wandering Blues, filling American-Royal Building beyond its capacity for the club&rsquo;s home opener after seven road games. Blues rewarded 6.296 fans with 4-2 win over Omaha. Rookie goalie Michel Plasse, pressed into service with the injury to veteran Gary Edwards, backstopped the victory. Ron Buchanan, veteran center, leads goal scorers with four in eight games.</p><p><b>FORT WORTH:</b> Goalie Gerry Gray, beaten in his first two starts&mdash;one was a 1-0 heart-breaker&mdash;bounced back with three straight wins and climbed to the top of the list with a 1.93 goals-against average. Rene LeClerc, with six goals, nine assists, led scoring through first 11 games. Wings&rsquo; amazing string of successfully killed penalties finally broken by Oklahoma City.</p><h2><b>HOW THEY STAND</b></h2><h3><b>CENTRAL LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 17)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1059/3708090-1-eng-US/f0024-102.jpg" title="f0024-10" width="567" height="263"></div><p>(Affiliations: 2. Detroit. 3. Boston. 4. New York. 5. Chicago. 6. Toronto. 8. Pittsburgh. 12. St. Louis)</p><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Nov. 10</b></p><p>Omaha 4 at Tulsa 3</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 11</b></p><p>Omaha 3 at Dallas 7</p><p>Tulsa 0 at Fort Woth 5</p><p>Oklahoma City 3 at Kansas City 1</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 13</b></p><p>Omaha 4 at Amarillo 4</p><p>Oklahoma City 5 at Fort Worth 2</p><p>Kansas City 4 at Tulsa 4</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 14</b></p><p>Omaha 6 at Amarillo 1</p><p>Oklahoma City 5 at Dallas 5</p><p>Tulsa 1 at Kansas City 5</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 15</b></p><p>Amarillo 3 at Omaha 8</p><p>Dallas 7 at Tulsa 8</p><p>Fort Worth 3 at Oklahoma City 5</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Tuest. Nov. 17</b></p><p>Tulsa at Dallas</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 18.</b></p><p>Amarillo at Kansas City</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Okla. City at Amarillo</p><p>Fort Worth at Dallas</p><p>Kansas City at Omaha</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>Amarillo at Okla. City</p><p>Dallas at Kansas City</p><p>Fort Worth at Tulsa</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Dallas at Okla.</p><p>City Tulsa at Omaha</p><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><p><b>(Including games of Sun. Nov. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1157/3708083-1-eng-US/f0024-112.jpg" title="f0024-11" width="577" height="526"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0024-01

Oilers Crippled As Centers Knocked Out

<h2><b>Wed. Nov 4 DALLAS 4 AT OKLAHOMA CITY 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02261/3708177-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="578" height="660"></div><h2><b>Fri. Nov. 6 FORT WORTH 2 AT DALLAS 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-03183/3708170-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="576" height="585"></div><h2><b>KANSAS CITY 1 AT OMAHA 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-04138/3708163-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="577" height="506"></div><h2><b>AMARILLO 2 AT TULSA 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-05106/3708156-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="581" height="304"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0691/3708149-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="580" height="334"></div><h2><b>Sat. Nov. 7 AMARILLO 1 AT FORT WORTH 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0777/3708142-1-eng-US/f0024-072.jpg" title="f0024-07" width="578" height="484"></div><h2><b>TULSA 4 AT OKLAHOMA CITY 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0872/3708135-1-eng-US/f0024-082.jpg" title="f0024-08" width="581" height="712"></div><h2><b>OMAHA 2 AT KANSAS CITY 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0966/3708128-1-eng-US/f0024-092.jpg" title="f0024-09" width="579" height="559"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0024-02

CHL Summaries

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><p>SALEM&mdash;</p><p>The Salem Rebels are hurting and coach Colin Kilburn has sent out an SOS for assistance for his Eastern Hockey League club.</p><p>Due to an unseemly number of injuries that have befallen his charges, Kilburn&rsquo;s club has been taking some bumps that they wouldn&rsquo;t with an able-bodied outfit. So Kilburn appealed to the Philadelphia Flyers for help and especially asked them &ldquo;to be on the lookout for a right handed shooter.&rdquo; Kilburn especially would like a hard-hitting forward and defenseman so that goalie Jim Letcher won&rsquo;t be subjected to such unmerciful poundings.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0859/3708257-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="270" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Davidson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0952/3708250-1-eng-US/f0025-092.jpg" title="f0025-09" width="554" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY ADDUONO&hellip;Back With Blazers</b></figcaption></div><p>Kilburn&rsquo;s scouring for material brought in forward Ray Woit from Long Island. He also added Bob Guindon on loan from Muskegon. To make room for the duo he dropped Merv Haney and Bobby Lamoureux.</p><p>Injuries to Claude Piche, Andre Bouchard, Jim Lorette, Jack Chipchase, Wayne Mosdell, Paul Grills, Jim Jago and Wayne Newell have wrecked any semblance of teamwork on the club. Some of the men have been injured by rough opponents, promoting Letcher to declare that the addition of two guys &ldquo;who love to drop the gloves and fight would put us on an even keel with the other teams.&rdquo; Dave Schultz, last year&rsquo;s top Rebels&rsquo; star and the league&rsquo;s No. 1 penalty leader, was the ilk that Letcher sought. He came by way of Philadelphia and that&rsquo;s why the request went to that NHL club.</p><p>Kilburn has been so upset by his team&rsquo;s ills that he&rsquo;s been banging the boards with his hands while directing operations. That&rsquo;s illegal this year under a rule which specifies that the boards can&rsquo;t be banged with any instrument. Kilburn claims the officials consider the hand an instrument.</p><p>Despite the problems, the Rebels still were ahead of their gait a year ago in many respects including goals scored and road points. Kilburn thinks a healthy club can cause trouble and he can&rsquo;t wait until all hands are hale and present.</p><p><b>SYRACUSE:</b> Blazers got big boost with signing of Ray Adduono, last year&rsquo;s EHL scoring leader. He had been with British Columbia team. Phil Watson also added Jean Lapointe, a defenseman from Hershey and Greg Wright, a young defenseman. Guy Allen from Toledo and Tim McCormack from Charlotte also shooting for berths. Defenseman Bill McLeod dropped. Paul LaRose had hat trick at Johnstown. Paul Lessard and Rich Cloutier have leg injuries.</p><p><b>LONG ISLAND:</b> Ducks have won only nine games in nine years on Johnstown ice. Guy Denoncourt saved game for Ducks when he halted New Haven penalty shot in final minutes. Gordon Bradley on disabled list with bruised ribs. Dan Creighton&rsquo;s knee bothering him. Club hopes to pick up many more road points this year compared to the seven they gathered all last year. Ducks picked up Paul Sinclair from New Haven.</p><p><b>JERSEY:</b> Jamie Kennedy leading Northern Division in scoring. Goalie Gilles Banville suffered cuts over eyes and nose despite his mask and game with Long Island had to be halted several times for repairs. Bobby Brown due back in action shortly. Brian Caley farmed out on 24-hour recall and Eric Cameron decided to go home. Bob Furotte from Nashville seeking berth. Gordie Stratton&rsquo;s broken nose healing.</p><p><b>NASHVILLE:</b> Jim McInally&rsquo;s slap shot goal with 39 seconds left tied Salem. It was second game in a week when pulling goalie paid off for coach Lloyd Hinchberger. Don Deeks purchased from Ft. Wayne and quickly released. Goalie Bill Yeo posted two straight shutouts. Dirk Wolterbeek, Paul Evoy, Ed Lawson, Warren Brown and George Forgie dropped. Flyers top league in penalties. Junior Rick Lalonde joined club. Flyers talking with Wayne Clairmont about returning.</p><p><b>JOHNSTOWN:</b> Blake Ball suspended briefly for his part in fight with Syracuse. Goalie Jim Coombs hospitalized and then sidelined with influenza attack that left him weak. Goalie Bob Vroman, former Wisconsin U. netminder, played his spot. Rookie Paul McKibbin released. So was Armand Pipon when Galen Head was activated. Gene Peacosh is early club leader in scoring.</p><p><b>CLINTON:</b> Borden&rsquo; Smith&rsquo;s nose broken and Pete Prevost&rsquo;s shoulder dislocated by New Haven&rsquo;s Kevin Morrison in separate tiffs. Dennis Patterson hobbled by injured knee. Coach Pat Kelly asked GM Wren Blair for some assistance but none was available. Don Davidson shifted to defense in emergency. Fan club conducted poster contest. Smith has two hat tricks. Dave Armstrong&rsquo;s late goal tied New Haven. Rookie Hank Lehvonen quit and went home. Len Speck officially has retired.</p><p><b>JACKSONVILLE:</b> Coach Red Bownass infuriated by a 12-1 loss to Greensboro and fined eight of his players for bad performances. A shutout loss at St. Petersburg didn&rsquo;t improve Red&rsquo;s disposition either. Billy Glashan and Gilles Leclerc scoring well. Rockets only had 19 shots on goal in one game. Bownass working on bolstering defense.</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN:</b> Blades trip to Russia okayed by State Department. Club will play in 5-day tourney. Doc Walker back in action after coming off disabled list. Paul Sinclair dropped. Georges Gilbeault, cut by Denver, joined Blades to fill Pierre LeBlanc&rsquo;s spot while latter is on disabled list with elbow injury. Goalie Dave Hainsworth&rsquo;s arm injury caused trainer Gunner Garrett to don a suit.</p><p><b>CHARLOTTE:</b> Goalie John Voss allowed two goals in four games. Mike Rouleau has been big help to Checkers, tieing one game on a breakaway goal and sparking another win over Greensboro. He also bloodied Barry Salovaara&rsquo;s face in a slugfest. Defenseman Mike Keeler on injured list with knee mishap. Rookie goalie Gordon McRae made EHL debut with easy win. Coach Fred Creighton concerned about club&rsquo;s missed shots.</p><h2><b>HOW THEY STAND</b></h2><h3><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 17)</b></p><h3><b>NORTHERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01280/3708243-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="565" height="237"></div><h3><b>SOUTHERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-02204/3708236-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="552" height="199"></div><p>(Affiliations: 2. Detroit 4. New York 5. Chicago 6. Toronto 10. Philadelphia 11. Minnesota x-independent).</p><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues, Nov. 10</b></p><p>Clinton 2 at Syracuse 4</p><p>Long Island 0 at Charlotte 4</p><p>Nashville 2 at Jacksonville 2</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 11</b></p><p>Long Island 3 at Greensboro 2</p><p>Johnstown at New Haven (postponed)</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 12</b></p><p>New Haven 2 at Syracuse 3</p><p>Long Island 6 at Salem 4</p><p>Jacksonville 3 at Greensboro 3</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 13</b></p><p>New Haven 3 at Clinton 2</p><p>Syracuse 4 at New Jersey 8</p><p>Long Island 1 at Johnstown 7</p><p>Greensboro 1 at Charlotte 11</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 14</b></p><p>Syracuse 1 at Clinton 6</p><p>New Haven 4 at Long Island 1</p><p>New Jersey 3 at Johnstown 7</p><p>Greensboro 3 at Nashville 1</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 15</b></p><p>Clinton 5 at New Jersey 9</p><p>Salem 2 at Greensboro 5</p><p>Charlotte 2 at Nashville 1</p><p>Syracuse at New Haven (postponed)</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Tues, Nov. 17</b></p><p>Long Island at Syracuse</p><p>Nashville at Charlotte</p><p>Salem at Jacksonville</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 18</b></p><p>New Jersey at New Haven</p><p>Nashville at Greensboro</p><p><b>Thur. Nov. 19</b></p><p>Clinton at Syracuse</p><p>Jacksonville at Salem</p><p>Nashville at Greensboro</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Johnstown at Clinton</p><p>Syracuse at Long Island</p><p>New Haven at New Jersey</p><p>Jacksonville at Charlotte</p><p>Salem at Nashville</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>Syracuse at Clinton</p><p>New Jersey at Long Island</p><p>New Haven at Johnstown</p><p>Salem at Greensboro</p><p>Charlotte at Jacksonville</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Clinton at New Haven</p><p>Long Island at Johnstown</p><p>Greensboro at Jacksonville</p><p>Charlotte at Nashville</p><p><b>Tues. Nov. 24</b></p><p>Nashville at Charlotte</p><p>Syracuse at Jacksonville</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 25</b></p><p>Long Island at New Hoven</p><p>Clinton at Johnstown</p><p>Salem at Jacksonville</p><p><b>Thur*. Nov. 26</b></p><p>Clinton at Long Island</p><p>New Jersey at Johnstown</p><p>Greensboro at Salem</p><p>Syracuse at Nashville</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 27</b></p><p>Long Island at Clinton</p><p>Johnstown at New Jersey</p><p>Nashville at Jacksonville (at St. Petersburgh)</p><p>Salem at Charlotte</p><p>Syracuse at Greensboro</p><h2><b>CENTRAL JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 10)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-03139/3708229-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="567" height="202"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0588/3708222-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="570" height="326"></div><h2><b>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Thurs. Nov. 12)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0671/3708215-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="566" height="197"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0767/3708208-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="569" height="419"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Injuries Crimp Kilburn’s Ice Hopes, Scoring Champ Adduono Returns

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><p>DES MOINES&mdash;</p><p>Only one team out of seven will miss the playoffs this season in the International Hockey League regular season play, it was decided at the league meeting held in this city.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01284/3708302-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="273" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Fizzell</b></figcaption></div><p>A rather complicated playoff was set up by the league&rsquo;s board of governors. It will open with three sevengame series, in which the regular season champions will meet the sixth place finishers; team No. 2 will meet team No. 5 and No. 3 will play No. 4.</p><p>In the semi-finals a round robin will be staged among the three survivors and the first team to lose twice will be eliminated. After that the two remaining teams will clash in a seven-game series for the Turner Cup.</p><p>It was felt that the arrangement pairing the first team with the sixth would give the champions a better break, enabling them to go farther in the playoffs after going through the entire season on top. Last year&rsquo;s playoff program paired the winners of the two divisions in the initial series, assuring that one would be eliminated early, whereas teams that finished lower in the two divisions had a better chance to advance. Muskegon&rsquo;s Northern Division champions were knocked off by Dayton in the first series while Port Huron&rsquo;s second placers went on to a narrow defeat by Dayton in the final series.</p><p>Another decision by the governors was to abandon the annual All Star game, at least for this season. The game has never proven a great financial success in any city in which it was held. It was abandoned altogether in 1969 but was staged last season in February at Toledo, largely through the desire of Andy Mulligan former league commissioner and manager of the Sports Arena in Toledo. The game drew 1,846, third largest crowd of the eight such &ldquo;classics.&rdquo; Gate receipts were $3,308, which after expenses left a small profit.</p><p><b>DES MOINES:</b> Bert Fizzell second highest scorer in the IHL last season, is now a member of the Oak Leafs. Fizzell was with Columbus last season but was not eligible in the draft when that team folded since he had signed a pro contract with Providence of the American League. At 29, Fizzell did not fit into the plans of the parent club, Oakland, and he was released. His presence with the Leafs along with Cliff Pennington, gave them what was considered the two best centers in the league&hellip;Don Clovechok and Bob Neufeld were put out on waivers and Terry Slater was attempting to make a deal sending defenseman John Ferguson to Port Huron.</p><p><b>FORT WAYNE:</b> After the Komets netted five goals in three games&mdash;one of them into an open net&mdash;Coach Ken Ullyot said &ldquo;We simply have to get more goals. You can&rsquo;t win with one&rdquo;&hellip;Goalie Jim Keough had 40 saves in a 2-1 loss to Des Moines&hellip;Rick Pagnutti, defenseman who was with Salt Lake City in the Western League and Springfield in the American, joined the Komets&hellip;Another new arrival was goalie Danny Stephens, who had a tryout with Springfield&hellip;Eric Sutcliffe was named team captain, with Cal Purinton and Jim Wilcox as alternates.</p><p><b>DAYTON:</b> The Gems bounced back with two wins and a tie, including a victory over leading Flint, after a scathing and threat of fines by Coach Gerry Moore&hellip;The Gems, overloaded with players, released defenseman Greg Wright&hellip;The Gems stood 42-33-1 in six years of play against Des Moines after their back-to-back split.</p><p><b>FLINT:</b> The Generals were averaging around 4,000 just under capacity for their first eight home games&hellip;Ron Racette was given his release and was seeking a job as coach in the Quebec Junior League&hellip;Flint defense improved 27.8 over last year in the first 10 games, in which opponents averaged 29.1 shots, compared to last year&rsquo;s 40.3.</p><p><b>TOLEDO:</b> The Hornets broke a long string of losses on the road when they got off with a 5-5 at Dayton in their seventh game away&hellip;It was the first time they had scored more than two goals away from home&hellip;Coach Bill Mitchell said he was fining every player $50 after a loss at Flint&hellip;Wayne Zuk, only player last year who did not miss a game, went out with abdominal pains.</p><p><b>MUSKEGON:</b> The Mohawks scored their second straight shutout at home when new goalkeeper Lyle Carter blanked Des Moines, 6-0&hellip;Moose Lallo was back on the coaching job after missing two games because of illness&hellip;Three rookies, Bob Guindon, Rick Thompson and Richard David were released.</p><p><b>PORT HURON:</b> Coach Ted Garvin fined all the Flags $25 each after a 5-1 loss to Des Moines at home&hellip;Goalie Ron Marlow was about ready to get back into action after an absence with a muscle strain&hellip;The Flags issued releases to Steve DeGurse and Dave Pulkkinen&hellip;</p><h2><b>HOW THEY STAND</b></h2><h3><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Nov. 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03192/3708295-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="572" height="268"></div><p>(Affiliations: 1. Montreal. 2. Detroit. 3. Boston. 5. Chicago. 8. Pittsburgh. 9. California, x-independent.)</p><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues. Nov. 10</b></p><p>Fort Wayne 5 at Des Moines 6</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 11</b></p><p>Fort Wayne 3 at Des Moines 5</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 13</b></p><p>Flint 0 at Port Huron 7</p><p>Muskegon 3 at Toledo 1</p><p>Des Moines 3 at Fort Wayne 3</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 14</b></p><p>Dayton 3 at Toledo 5</p><p>Des Moines 1 at Muskegon 6</p><p>Port Huron 1 at Fort Wayne 4</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 15</b></p><p>Toledo 2 at Port Huron 4</p><p>Des Moines 0 at Flint 3</p><p>Muskegon 2 at Dayton 3</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Wed. Nov. 18</b></p><p>Prt Huron at Toldeo</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Flint at Toledo</p><p>Dayton at Des Moines</p><p>Fort Woyne at Muskegon</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>Dayton at Des Moines</p><p>Flint at Muskegon</p><p>Port Huron at Fort Woyne</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Port Huron at Flint</p><p>Muskegon at Fort Wayne</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 25</b></p><p>Muskegon at Toledo</p><p>Fort Woyne at Flint</p><p>Des Moines at Dayton</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 26</b></p><p>Flint at Port Huron</p><p>Des Moines of Muskegon</p><p>Toledo at Fort Woyne</p><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><p><b>(Including games of Sun. Nov. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-04148/3708288-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="574" height="332"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IHL Adopts New Playoff System; Fizzell Returns With Des Moines

<p>FORT WAYNE&mdash;</p><p>Manager-coach Ken Ullyot of the Fort Wayne Komets is $1,000 lighter in the pocketbook after his staggering fine by International Hockey League Commissioner Bill Beagan.</p><p>The IHL chief executive doled out the surprise fine to Ullyot for allegedly attempt ing to strike a referee during a league encounter May 8 in Flint. Beagan also announced that Ullyot is also suspended from all his duties for a period of one month.</p><p>It was the stiffest fine ever handed out in the IHL and was another effort on the part of Beagan to enforce his &lsquo;hands off the referees&rsquo; policy to keep league games from becoming embroiled in rough-house hockey and fighting.</p><p>Beagan didn&rsquo;t limit his disciplining to Ullyot. He also took $200 away from Port Huron manager-coach Ted Garvin following a report to Beagan that the Flags&rsquo; coach attempted to barge into the referees&rsquo; locker room following a game to lodge a protest the way the contest had been handled.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02230/3708333-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="505" height="519"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN ULLYOT</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IHL Slaps Ullyot With $1,000 Fine

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>ST. CATHARINES&mdash;</p><p>One of the longest early-season undefeated streaks in recent history came to an end when Ottawa 67s defeated Peter-borough Petes 3-1.</p><p>Backed by superb goaltending from John Garrett, the Petes won 11 and tied one (with Oshawa) of their first 12 games and sprinted into a solid lead among the 10 Ontario Hockey Association major Junior A teams.</p><p>Generally considered to have some of the better talent in th league, the 67s played inconsistent hockey the first month of the schedule and 48 hours before defeating Peterborough had lost 5-4 to seventh place London Knights in the Ottawa Auditorium.</p><p>However they &ldquo;put it all together&rdquo; as the saying goes in sport, and their two-goal decision over Peterborough tightened up the race for the first four or five positions.</p><p>Strangely enough during their 12 game undefeated string, the Petes were outshot by the opposition in all but three games, often by decisive margins.</p><p>While the Petes were suffering their initial loss St. Catharines Black Hawks capitalized with backto-back victories over Oshawa Generals (6-3 in Oshawa, 8-1 in St. Catharines) and moved to within five points of the league-leaders.</p><p>The Hawks were handled by team president Fred Muller who took over for the suspended Frank Milne.</p><p>Milne&rsquo;s suspension was four games, the result of a fight in Toronto when the majority of the St. Catharines&rsquo; players left the bench.</p><p>Hamilton Red Wings, like the Ottawa club, have played like Memorial Cup contenders some nights while looking on other occasions as if they will have difficulty qualifying for the playoffs.</p><p>Within five days they trounced the rugged Toronto Marlboros 92, then promptly lost 7-6 in Niagara Falls and 4-1 in London.</p><p>The Flyers, still without Paulin Bordeleau and Larry Sacharuk who have refused to report and are sitting in their respective homes in Noranda and Saskatoon, improved their status with consecutive victories over Hamilton and Kitchener.</p><p>However the team that made the most progress was the Montreal Canadiens, Canadian junior champions the last two seasons.</p><p>Montreal got away to a slow start but won five in succession and are definite challengers for a third successive title.</p><p>Since losing 8-4 on home ice to Kitchener the Canadiens defeated Toronto Marlboros twice, Niagara Falls. Hamilton and Kitchener once.</p><p>In the individual scoring, 196970 points champion Marcel Dionne of St. Catharines continues to hold a fairly solid margin in his bid to become only the second player in history to win the title twice.</p><p>Dionne had 21 goals and 20 assists in the first 14 St. Catharines games for 41 points and poses a serious threat to the record 161 points set by 1953-54 St. Catharines Teepee captain Brian Cullen.</p><p>Cullen scored 68 goals and had 93 assists in 59 games that year.</p><h2><b>HOW THEY STAND</b></h2><h3><b>ONTARIO MAJOR JUNIOR</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 16)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01267/3708392-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="578" height="376"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Nov. 10</b></p><p>Peterborough 3 at Oshawa 2</p><p>Montreal 2 at Hamilton 4</p><p>London 4 at Kitchener 6</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 12</b></p><p>Toronto 1 at Peterborough 5</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 13</b></p><p>Oshawa 4 at Niagara Falls 4</p><p>Hamilton 0 at Kitchener 4</p><p>Ottawa 7 at Toronto 5</p><p>St. Catharines 5 at London 3</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 15</b></p><p>Kitchener 3 at St. Catharines 4</p><p>Niagara Falls 4 at Toronto 10</p><p>Ottawa 6 at Oshawa 2</p><p>Montreal 5 at London 4</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Mon. Nov. 16</b></p><p>St. Catharines at Montreal</p><p><b>Tues. Ntv. 17</b></p><p>London at Hamilton</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 19</b></p><p>Ottawa at Hamilton</p><p>St. Catharines at Peterborough</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Kitchener at Niagara Falls</p><p>Montreal at Toronto</p><p>Oshawa at London</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Peterborough at Montreal</p><p>Oshawa at Toronto</p><p>Loneon at St. Catharines</p><p>Hamilton at Ottawa</p><p>Niagara Falls at Kitchener</p><p><b>Tues. Nov. 24</b></p><p>Niagara Falls at London</p><p>Oshawa at Hamilton</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 26</b></p><p>Montreal at Peterborough</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 27</b></p><p>Montreal at Niagara Falls</p><p>Toronto at Kitchener</p><p>Loeon at Ottawa</p><h3><b>WESTERN CANADA LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 10)</b></p><h3><b>EASTERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-02212/3708385-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="570" height="197"></div><h3><b>WESTERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-03155/3708378-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="569" height="198"></div><h3><b>SOUTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Fri. Nov. 13)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-04122/3708371-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="569" height="228"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0595/3708364-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="575" height="301"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0027-01

Petes’ Ice Run Ended By 67s

<div class="byline">BY ALEX HARDY</div><p>FLIN FLON&mdash;</p><p>Teams in the Western Canada League are no longer scared over the prospect of travelling the highway to Flin Flon. The Bombers, who for two years intimidated opponents and were virtually unbeatable on home ice, have slipped to the point where even the lowly Saskatoon Blades were able to win a game in the northern Manitoba mining centre.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0676/3708423-1-eng-US/f0027-062.jpg" title="f0027-06" width="257" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pat Ginnell</b></figcaption></div><p>Coach Pat Ginnell&rsquo;s Bombers are still a legitimate contender for the Eastern division title. But they are winning with far less frequency than in the previous two seasons, when they used their home-ice superiority to win back-to-back league championships.</p><p>The biggest reason for the Flin Flon slump is the lack of an explosive leader like Bob Clarke, Reg Leach and Murray Anderson of previous teams. The closest to fitting the mold this year was defenseman Ron Wilson, but he broke his leg early in the season. The break was so severe that two pins had to be inserted in the ankle. Wilson may be finished for the season.</p><p>The lengthy suspension to rugged young Blaine Stoughton also hurt. Stoughton is easily one of the WCHL&rsquo;s toughest players and his loss was a blow to Bombers&rsquo; stiff-checking style.</p><p>The graduation of All Star goalie Ray Martynuik has been cited as another reason, but it is not a valid one. His replacement, Cal Hammond, gives Flin Flon better netminding than practically any other WCHL team. Hammond, who played back-up to Martynuik the last two seasons, has the same reputation as Martynuik of coming up with big games when needed.</p><p>The biggest hope for Bomber fans is Ginnell&rsquo;s ability to get his team at its peak for the playoffs. He is a proven master at teaching fundamentals and his teams always improve more than most others during the season.</p><p>Ginnell is also one of the best at getting his team &ldquo;up&rdquo; for key games. This year he has questionable player talent with which to work.</p><p>Bombers have always been a first period team. If a team can check and lay the body to them in the opening 29 minutes, they can be beaten. In the past Flin</p><p>Flon has always jumped on the opposition with tenacious checking and hitting in the early going. This year, however, the roles have often been reserved.</p><p>ICE CHIPS: Regina coach Bob Turner is a firebrand behind his bench. More than one WCHL referee has received an earful after making calls Turner didn&rsquo;t agree with.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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