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December 4, 1970

The Hockey News December 4, 1970

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01762/3771029-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="436" height="291"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02654/3771022-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="487" height="286"></div><h2>Tues. Nov. 17 CALIFORNIA 1 AT MONTREAL 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03524/3771015-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="579" height="601"></div><h2>MINNESOTA 5 AT ST LOUIS 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04408/3771008-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="581" height="623"></div><h2>DETROIT 5 AT VANCOUVER 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05306/3771001-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="578" height="629"></div><h2>Wed. Nov. 18 BUFFALO 7 AT TORONTO 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06248/3770994-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="579" height="675"></div><h2>BOSTON 8 at MINNESOTA 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07224/3770987-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="588" height="942"></div><h2>NEW YORK 5 at LOS ANGELES 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-08204/3770980-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="573" height="173"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-09182/3770973-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="586" height="395"></div><h2>Thurs. Nov. 19 CALIFORNIA 2 AT PHILADELPHIA 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-10160/3770966-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="581" height="653"></div><h2>TORONTO 1 AT MONTREAL 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-11146/3770959-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="589" height="507"></div><h2>ST. LOUIS 1 AT PITTSBURGH 0</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-12129/3770952-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="575" height="351"></div><h2>Fri. Nov. 20 LOS ANGELES 1 at VANCOUVER 7</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-13117/3770945-1-eng-US/f0016-132.jpg" title="f0016-13" width="581" height="651"></div><h2>Sat. Nov. 21 NEW YORK 5 at MONTREAL 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-14110/3770938-1-eng-US/f0016-142.jpg" title="f0016-14" width="583" height="432"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-15100/3770931-1-eng-US/f0016-152.jpg" title="f0016-15" width="580" height="305"></div><h2>BOSTON 5 at PHILADELPHIA 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1696/3770924-1-eng-US/f0016-162.jpg" title="f0016-16" width="580" height="623"></div><h2>CALIFORNIA 3 at TORONTO 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1788/3770917-1-eng-US/f0016-172.jpg" title="f0016-17" width="582" height="603"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1881/3770910-1-eng-US/f0016-182.jpg" title="f0016-18" width="563" height="126"></div><h2>DETROIT 1 at PITTSBURGH 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1975/3770903-1-eng-US/f0016-192.jpg" title="f0016-19" width="579" height="650"></div><h2>BUFFALO 0 at MINNESOTA 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2060/3770896-1-eng-US/f0016-202.jpg" title="f0016-20" width="573" height="403"></div><h2>VANCOUVER 3 at LOS ANGELES 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2157/3770889-1-eng-US/f0016-212.jpg" title="f0016-21" width="577" height="521"></div><h2>CHICAGO 3 at ST. LOUIS 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2255/3770882-1-eng-US/f0016-222.jpg" title="f0016-22" width="576" height="574"></div><h2>Sun. Nov. 22 MINNESOTA 0 at NEW YORK 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2353/3770875-1-eng-US/f0016-232.jpg" title="f0016-23" width="576" height="376"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH 2 at BOSTON 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2451/3770868-1-eng-US/f0016-242.jpg" title="f0016-24" width="577" height="572"></div><h2>DETROIT 4 at PHILADELPHIA 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2546/3770861-1-eng-US/f0016-252.jpg" title="f0016-25" width="583" height="343"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0285/3770854-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="580" height="251"></div><h2>CALIFORNIA 0 al CHICAGO 9</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0349/3770847-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="590" height="724"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

National Hockey League SUMMARIES

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NHL Team Rosters

<div class="byline">BY JOE CELDAK</div><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Stroot, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Stroot, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>QUEBEC CITY&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;You can call him the Derek Sanderson of the American Hockey League.&rdquo;</p><p>Marcel Pelletier, director of player personnal for the Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; organization, likes the way Quebec Aces&rsquo; rookie Dave Schultz is progressing and likens his playing to that of Boston&rsquo;s Derek Sanderson.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not that he looks like Sand his play. He&rsquo;s not afraid of anyone. Schultz is the best looking and most eligible bachelor in the league. He&rsquo;s a clean cut kid. And he is one of our best prospects.&rdquo;</p><p>Schultz was drafted by the Flyers in 1969 and played his first season with the Salem Rebels of the Eastern Hockey League. While there, Dave picked up 32 goals and 37 assists.</p><p>But that wasn&rsquo;t all. He was assessed 356 minutes in penalty minutes.</p><p>He&rsquo;s a tough kid,&rdquo; said Pelletier. &ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t say much but if you look at him wrong, he&rsquo;ll drive you&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Earlier this season, Schultz had three scraps against this kid from the Montreal Vovageurs and won all of them.&rdquo;</p><p>The 6-1, 185-pounder plays left wing on a line with center Andre Gaudette and Don Saleski.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s getting better all the time&hellip;he&rsquo;s still a kid and if he continues the way he going,&rdquo; said Pelletier, &ldquo;Schultz will be a National Leaguer, and soon.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01670/3771122-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="557" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DAVE SCHULTZ&hellip;Rough, Tough, Kid</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Aces’ Hard Nosed Rookie Prospect For NHL

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Looking At NHL Goalers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01637/3772300-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>BOBBY HULL EYES RECORD</b></p><p><b>DENNIS HEXTALL</b></p> <span class="photo-credit">(Hockey News Photo by Kichard Pellegrini)</span></figcaption></div><p><b>&mdash;Page 3</b></p><p><b>WHERE TO FIND NHL HOCKEY ON RADIO AND TV</b></p><p>&mdash;Page 6</p><p><b>RANGERS AIM AT GARDEN SHOWDOWN WITH BRUINS</b></p><p>&mdash;Page 2</p><p><b>SEMS GLOW BRANDISHES NEW MUSCLE</b></p><p>&mdash;Page 7<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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VANCOUVER ARRIVES IN NHL PLAY

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MACLEAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01934/3770043-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="556" height="593"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED IRVINE&hellip;Getting His Chance</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;I like the way we bounced back after losing when we played well,&rdquo; said Emile Francis, the Rangers&rsquo; general manager-coach.</p><p>The Cat was talking about a week in which New York showed defensive shortcomings in allowing the Pittsburgh Penguins to rally for two goals and a 3-3 tie with a third period letdown. He specifically meant the loss to Chicago on Saturday November 14, in which everyone including goalie Gilles Villemure played well, but the Hawks won 2-1. The key to the &ldquo;character&rdquo; of the Ranger team, was the November 15 game with Toronto, one night after the tough loss to Chicago.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02851/3770036-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="258" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Nevin</b></figcaption></div><p>Final Score: New York 4 Toronto 2, but it wasn&rsquo;t that easy. It took superlative work by Bobby Nevin, who was named the number one star of the night, to turn the tide. Nevvy notched a goal and an assist and played his best game of the season.</p><p>&ldquo;Brownie (Arnie) threw me the puck and I had only Jim Dorey to beat,&rdquo; said Bob, talking about his key second period goal, &ldquo;I faked to my right and Dorey went for it. So I cut to my left and backhanded it past (Bruce) Gamble.&rdquo;</p><p>This goal tied the count at one all, just when Toronto seemed to be taking charge. Again, in the last minute of play, with the score 3-2 and the Leafs playing six men up while pressing for the tying marker, Nevin stole the puck and hit Ted Irvine with a center ice pass. Irvine popped the disc into the empty net and the game was over.</p><p>It was in this same Toronto contest, that New York temporarily lost the services of Peter Stemkowski, the center man who just recently came over from the Detroit Red Wings. Stemkowski, hit hard by Rick Ley of the Leafs in the first period, has a badly bruised shoulder. His place was taken by Syl Apps Jr., late in the third period.</p><p>With Stemkowski centering for Irvine and Nevin, New York was congratulating itself on having the largest line in Ranger history. This trio will be reunited when Stemmer is back in perfect shape.</p><p>Irvine, the six foot two inch, 200 pound left wing the Rangers traded Juha Widing and Real Lemieux to the Los Angeles Kings for last February, is overjoyed at the recent turn of events.</p><p>&ldquo;I am getting regular ice now. I&rsquo;ve gotten four goals now after going 25 games last season without scoring. There is nothing like ice time to restore confidence. In Los Angeles last year nothing went right and it was tough fitting into the New York system when I reported,&rdquo; said Irvine.</p><p>Ted has been given orders to hit a bit and he showed a complete willingness to carry out these dictates. With Stemkowski back in shape at six foot and 200 pounds and Nevin carrying a listing of six foot and 195, the Rangers may have come up with the beef needed to contain the big bad Bruins.</p><p>New York is playing the games one at a time, but most think they are looking forward to the November 28 afternoon clash with Boston at Madison Square Garden. With expansion having changed the number of times each team meets an opponent from 14 to 6, it behooves a challenger not to let the champion get too far ahead, via head to head beatings. Boston trounced New York 6-0 in their first meeting of the young campaign, in a contest in Beantown.</p><p>Although Villemure lost for the first time in Chicago and now stands at 4-1 to Eddie Giacomin&rsquo;s 5-3-2, the goaling situation never was better. For the first time. New York has a class A number one second goalie, one whom many NHL teams would like as a regular.</p><p>&ldquo;I feel I can do the job any time Emile asks me,&rdquo; says Gilles.</p><p>The Ranger fans feel likewise and no longer buzz when Villemure is assigned to the goal. So far. he has drawn three Saturday night television specials, which may have given him more exposure than he got in all of his previous stints in a New York uniform.</p><p>Rangerville, which was attempting to boo Bob Nevin out of a New York uniform early in the season, has gradually swung back to the smooth skating, long striding master of the poke check. Nevvy, doing his best on the third or checking trio, and always ready to drop into either the Ratelle or Tkaczuk lines, has never been more valuable to the team.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rebounding Rangers Take Aim At MSG Showdown With Bruins

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01939/3770088-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ORLAND KURTENBACH&hellip;Real Ice Leader</b></figcaption></div><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>efore the season opened, a speculator could have received some pretty enticing odds if he had chosen to wager a line composed of Orland Kurtenbach, Wayne Maki and Murray Hall would be one of the most productive in the NHL.</p><p>Yet, as the Vancouver Canucks neared the quarter pole in their first-ever NHL campaign, each member of this unit was up there among the league&rsquo;s leading scorers.</p><p>After 18 games, the intensely competitive Maki was leading the charge with a point-a-game clip on nine goals and nine assists. Kurtenbach with six goals and 10 assists and Hall with five goals and 11 assists were right behind.</p><p>That&rsquo;s a total of 50 scoring points, a pace that put the Vancouver trio on equal footing with established scoring frims like Esposito-Cashman-Hodge, Stanfield-Bucyk-McKenzie and Delvecchio-Mahovlich-Howe.</p><p>It&rsquo;s turn of events that has to rank as one of the most surprising developments in a season that&rsquo;s been full of pleasant surprises for the first&gt;year Canucks.</p><p>Of the three, only Kurtenbach, the Canucks&rsquo; team captain, rates as an established major leaguer and even big Kurt has never been noted as a prolific scorer. And he was made available to Vancouver because his former employers, the New York Rangers, felt his back was still suspect after a spinal fusion two years ago.</p><p>Maki had scored only seven goals in three earlier NHL trials and after several unsuccessful attempts to make it as a regular, Hall had been written off by the hockey establishment as a career minor leaguer.</p><p>An unlikely group to be cast in the role of heroes, perhaps, but if they can. continue their fast starts, Maki will top the 35-goal plateau and Kurtenbach and Hall will both better the 20-goal mark.</p><p>This trio may be leading the way, but the Canucks aren&rsquo;t operating on any one-lunged attack. Their current rate of production would result in 20-goal seasons for both Mike Corrigan and Andre Boudrias. With Ray Cullen showing signs of regaining his old scoring touch, the Canucks could conceivably finish the season with six players scoring 20 goals or more, a feat that would have to rank as a first for any ex-pansion team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02805/3770081-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="526" height="698"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WAYNE MAKI&hellip;Could Hit 35</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03538/3770074-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="531" height="737"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MURRAY HAU&hellip;Top Playmaker</b></figcaption></div><p>Thus, after a three-week stay in the NHL&rsquo;s eastern division, people are beginning to suspect it may not be a fluke after all. The Canucks? They don&rsquo;t suspect they belong, they&rsquo;re convinced of it.</p><p>A lot of them are inclined to allocate a substantial share of the credit to their coach. Hal Laycoe. the man relieved of duty after only 24 games at the helm of the Los Angeles Kings last season.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s given us a system for bringing the puck out or our own end.&rdquo; says rookie defenseman Dale Tallon. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s something some of the clubs we&rsquo;ve played don&rsquo;t seem to have&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s instilled a lot of spirit into this team,&rdquo; says Mike Corrigan, a guy who played for him briefly last season in Los Angeles.</p><p>Spirit and a steadily improving defense are certainly major reasons for the Canucks&rsquo; remarkable showing.</p><p>On defense Gary Doak is developing into the kind of player the Detroit Red Wings thought he would be when they turned him pro as a 19-year-old five seasons ago. Pat Quinn, his defense partner, has also shown steady improvement. Tallon, dubbed &ldquo;Superbov&rdquo; by his teammates, and Barry Wilkins are getting better defensively and pose a real threat offensively.</p><p>In goal, rookie Dune Wilson and George Gardner have been both hot and cold, but Charlie Hodge, the little veteran, has compiled a 2.77 average and has been consistently tough in the clutch. He was in goal for five of the Canucks&rsquo; first six wins and two of their three ties. He&rsquo;s been beaten only by the Boston Bruins (5-3) and Montreal Canadiens (6-3). In no other game has Charlie allowed the opposition more than three goals.</p><p>This, incidentally, is the guy the Oakland Seals figured was all through at the age of 37.</p><p>&ldquo;I choose to think that was only one opinion.&rdquo; says Charlie, &ldquo;and not necessarily the right one.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hot Line Leads Way In Surprising Debut

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01991/3770140-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="363" height="441"></div><p>&bull; <b>BRAD PARK</b> is the best defensive defenseman in the National Hockey League right now. He handed out more good bodychecks against Canadiens recently in Montreal as the Rangers downed the Habs, 5-4, than you see in a season. Some of his upending checks were reminiscent of the days of Bucko McDonald. Brad is also a polished rusher and excellent on the power play. With the exception of the incomparable Bobby Orr he rates as the best defenseman in the game today&hellip;Biggest hockey fan among the basketball players may be Jerry West of the LA Lakers. He seldom misses a game&hellip;Guy Lafleur of the Quebec Remparts is considered the best amateur player in Canada and will no doubt be the first amateur draft choice next June. Jean Beliveau may have built the Quebec Coli see but it&rsquo;s Lafleur who is filling it today. The tall right winger scored a record 103 goals in the Quebec Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League last season and had 33 after 18 games this season. The scouts say he is the best at everything: skating, shooting, stickhandling, scoring&hellip;Garry Young, 35-year-old chief scout of the Boston Bruins, travels more than 175,000 miles each winter in search of young talent. Garry is one of the most important members of the Boston Bruins&rsquo; organization and is recognized as one of the top judges of hockey talent in the business&hellip;One of hockey&rsquo;s alltime greats, Newsy Lalonde, passed away in Montreal on Nov. 21 at the age of 83. He was a member of both the Hockey and Lacrosse Hall of Fames and was the highest paid hockey player of his day.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02947/3770133-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="265" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Garry Young</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; MONTREAL&rsquo;S HENRI RICHARD</b> is playing his best hockey in years&hellip;Charlie 0. Finley, owner of the California Golden Seals, is full of excellent promotional ideas and will prove to be one of the best things that ever happened to the National Hockey League&hellip;Johnny (The Chief) Bucyk is rated the strongest left winger around today when it comes to going into the corners&hellip;Not one NHL player wears the No. 13 on his jersey. Most pro football clubs have a number 13 on their roster&hellip;Despite the fire he has been under of late. Ned Harkness will remain as coach of the Detroit Red Wings. In a meeting before the Wings went on a recent road trip owner Bruce Norris let the players know that Harkness is the coach and will remain as such&hellip;Since the NHL expanded their player rosters from 18, to 20 they are having a problem accommodate ing the extra players on the players bench. In most arenas the benches will handle only 19 players&hellip;There are some great hockey posters available these days. See ads in this issue&hellip;Paul Winnell has published a splendid hockey program for the Toronto National Junior B team&hellip;Coach Fred Glover of the Seals was moaning about the terrible schedule involving his team. The Seals played four games on the road in five nights recently, and before their road trip ended they had played eight games in 12 nights in eight different cities&hellip;&ldquo;Even the stewardesses are not permitted to fly 68 hours in a month,&rdquo; cracked Glover&hellip;Guy Lapointe, Montreal&rsquo;s fine young rookie defenseman, applied to the Montreal Police Dept, for a job. He changed his mind, however, after he was offered a professional contract by the Canadiens. His father is a fireman in Montreal and his brother is on the police force&hellip;Talk about newspaper miscues. Speaking about Montreal injuries, a St. Louis paper referred to Larry Pleau (torn knee ligaments) as Larry Cellarsville&hellip;Gump Worsley&rsquo;s fear of flying is legend. Yet the veteran Minnesota netminder has a son in the Canadian Air Force.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03842/3770126-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="263" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stu Nahan</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&bull; THERE ARE</b> 11 first-year pros with the Providence Reds, the No. 1 farm team of the California Golden Seals&hellip;The Reds are away up in first place in the AHL East Division standings and have the best team in years&hellip;The Seals feel as if they&rsquo;re just two or three years away from a top team in the National League&hellip;There is only one American boy on Cornell&rsquo;s hockey Team. The other 22 are Canadians and 14 of these are from the Metro Toronto area&hellip;Five amateur hockey doubleheaders involving junior, collegiate and club teams will be played on Sunday afternoons at Madison Square Garden this season&hellip;After making 54 saves on 59 Boston shots the other evening, Minnesota&rsquo;s Cesare Maniago was ready to clobber a TV commentator after this remark: &ldquo;Too bad they didn&rsquo;t get one more shot to make it an even 60. That would have been a great story.&rdquo;&hellip;Vancouver Canucks have averaged 14,842 for their first eight games at home. The December 18 game against Canadiens has already been sold out. Seating capacity in the Pacific Coliseum is now 15,569&hellip;Stu Nahan is televising or broadcasting all Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; road games this season, and broadcasts all San Diego Chargers&rsquo; football games home and away, along with his regular chores as ABC-TV sports director on the twice-nightly news shows in Los Angeles. He has an awesome travel schedule and may fly more than any man in the business. The football games are mostly on Sundays. He needs subs for only a few hockey games and 14 nights of newcasting. He does not believe in vacations and does not always recognize his wife on meeting her&hellip;One of the all-time great jazz drummers. Shelly Manne, has season tickets and seldom misses a Los Angeles Kings&rsquo; home game. Although he is in demand for as much major studio work as any musician in the business, he will not accept assignments on game nights&hellip;LA manager-coach Larry Regan has been bothered by a slipped disc in his back&hellip;Ex-New York Rangers&rsquo; ace Murray Murdoch, hockey&rsquo;s original &ldquo;Iron Man&rdquo;, dropped the puck to officially open the Bridgeport Home Oilers home season the other night. Coach Pete Corrently of Bridgeport has lined up his strongest squad in years&hellip;Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Greg Polis has been one of the best rookies to perform in the NHL this year&hellip;Minnesota North Stars were honored recently at the annual dinner party given them by the Minikahda Club, one of the oldest and most respected golf clubs in the midwest.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04740/3770119-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="254" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Greg Poiis</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<h2><b>Imlach&rsquo;s Predictions Puzzling To Ice Fans</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>unch Imlach is inconsistent to say the least. He went and made a bunch of wild predictions before the season started. First of all he said that Buffalo would make the playoffs this season, but he is going to have a lot of trouble avoiding coming in last place. He then stated that Buffalo would be the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup. More likely the last. He claimed he was very satisfied in the June draft because he got &ldquo;the best hockey player in the world.&rdquo; Bobby Orr is with Boston still. He meant Gilbert Perreault, but I don&rsquo;t think he is quite the best. At the time of this letter Buffalo is in last place in the whole league, far from the cup and the playoffs.</p><p>TED EAST<br>Midhurst. Ont.</p><h2><b>Rangers&rsquo; Ice Captain Deserves Better Fate</b></h2><p>During the past few copies of THE HOCKEY NEWS, I have seen the attacks which New York fans have levelled on Ranger captain, Bob Nevin.</p><p>Being from New York, and also being an avid Ranger fan, I know that the problem has existed since last year. There is a particular spot in the Garden where all the men who think they know hockey sit and criticize players. Well, last year, when things were going bad for the New Yorkers, they all decided it was Nevin&rsquo;s fault Their harrassment was endless.</p><p>Ed Giacomin says Bob is the best defensive player in the business. So does Emile Francis There are a lot of coaches in the NHL who wouldn&rsquo;t mind having Bob Nevin on their team. If you want to criticize, go to Boston.</p><p>JOHN FINERAN<br>Notre Dame, Ind</p><h2><b>Lauds Bathgate Article As Poignant Vignette</b></h2><p>Bill Libby&rsquo;s article about Andy Bathgate in the November 20th issue was a brilliant and poignant vignette of a one-time outstanding hockey player.</p><p>Having followed the Rangers closely during the lean years of the fifties and early sixties, there is no question in my mind that Andy Bathgate was a superstar of the highest magnitude. His skating and shooting ability were unparalled and his consistent succes. with the Rangers was even more significant because the Ranger teams were so poor during those years</p><p>Mr. Libby recalled a particular goal that Bathgate scored against one of the great Canadien teams. There were many outstanding scoring plays but perhaps his greatest moment in New York came the night of March 14, 1962 when he faked Red Wing goalie Hank Bassen almost into the balcony of the old Madison Square Garden to score a third period penalty shot for a 3-2 Ranger win which was the turning point in the Rangers&rsquo; drive for the playoffs that year, an achievement they had not accomplished during the preceding three seasons and were not destined to repeat for another five years.</p><p>ALAN GREENBERG<br>Forest Hills, N.Y.</p><p><b>Hawks&rsquo; Move To West For Hull&rsquo;s Sake Silly</b></p><p>Ridiculous! I am referring to the letter in the Fan Forum of the Nov. 21 issue by Frank McDermott of Trenton N.J. He stated that the only reason the Black Hawks were moved to the West was to insure Bobby Hull a spot in the Cup Playoffs. Who is he kidding? With the team the Hawks have, they are good enough to make the playoffs in the East or West. A statement like that is only knocking down Hull and the Black Hawks. This person doesn&rsquo;t know what he is talking about.</p><p>LEON DOBROWOLSKI<br>Buffalo N.Y.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fan Forum

<p>Founded October 1st, 1947</p><p><b>Published weekly except monthly June through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd. 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 TED EAST Midhurst, Ont. Printed in Canada</p><p><b>Vol. 24 MONTREAL, DECEMBER 4, 1970 No. 9</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

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Where To Find NHL Hockey On Radio, TV

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div><p>CHICAGO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>ould it be stretching things to note that the word &ldquo;desjardins&rdquo; means &ldquo;of the gardens&rdquo; in French, and that Charlie Gardiner was one of the all-time great goalies for the Chicago Black Hawks?</p><p>Maybe it would be, but the performance of Goane Gerry Desjardins thus far makes him look as lucky for the Hawks as a four-leaf clover.</p><p>Thru mid-November. Desjardins was undefeated as a Chicago netminder. Acquired in February of last season from Los Angeles, he reeled off four victories in as many outings.</p><p>This year, more of the same: four wins and a tie in five games.</p><p>During the late stages of the 1969-70 campaign, Desjardins was strictly a fill-in for red-hot Tony Esposito, the rookie sensation who snagged 15 shutouts and the Vezina Trophy.</p><p>All four of Desjardins&rsquo; starts were against West Division teams.</p><p>This season Coach Billy Reay pledged to use Desjardins more and has held to it.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a very good goalie, and we were delighted to get him in the trade.&rdquo; Reay said. &ldquo;But Esposito was going so well last year, it was hard to find spots for Gerry.&rdquo;</p><p>Desjardins started the Hawks&rsquo; third game of this current season in Detroit and responded with a fine effort and a 2 to 1 victory. Then came a 5 to 3 triumph at Pittsburgh and a 1 to 1 tie in Philadelphia.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01918/3770257-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="260" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry Desjardins</b></figcaption></div><p>In his ensuing two outings, a 7-1 victory against the Flyers and a 2-1 decision over New York, both in the Stadium&mdash;Desjardins was excellent.</p><p>Despite the lopsided score. Desjardins was an important figure in the 7-1 game. The Flyers pressured early in the contest, and Desjardins was forced to make several tough saves before the Hawks found their skates and shooting eyes and pulled away.</p><p>In the Ranger game. Desjardins again was tested time and again&mdash;on this occasion, mostly late in the game.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad to be getting the work,&rdquo; claims Gerry. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mind being considered the backup man for Tony, but I do want to prove that I can do the job. When I came here from the Kings, it was like starting all over again.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to play well at home, too. When you don&rsquo;t play too much, and then get a starting assignment before the home crowd, you want to be sharp. The home fans expect it. On the road it&rsquo;s a little bit different.&rdquo;</p><p>The night after the Ranger game. Vancouver moved into the Stadium. Desjardins was rested, but when his ex-Kings&rsquo; coach, Hal Lavcoe. heard he was playing well, it was no surprise.</p><p>&ldquo;Desjardins has the potential to be one of the great goalies.&rdquo; Laycoe said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;d have done without him while I was coaching the Kings.&rdquo;</p><p>While Desjardins sported spiffv 1.20 goals-against average, the two other ex-Kings acquired in the deal were sailing along well, too. Bryan Campbell led the team in goals with seven and was centering for Bobby Hull. On defense. Bill White was nearly flawless. In addition to playing a stellar game on the blue line. White had two goals and nine assists.</p><p>&ldquo;When White came to the Hawks, they were in fifth place,&rdquo; Laycoe noted. &ldquo;At the end of the season, they were first. He must have helped quite a bit. And Campbell will be a good one.&rdquo;</p><p>Reay couldn&rsquo;t agree more.</p><p><b>HAWK-EY TALK:</b> The Hawks reached the limit of players by sending down two men within a week. First, they shipped Rookie Center Larry Romanchych to Dallas of the Central League. Then. Ray McKay was off to Portland of the Western League. Romanchych had a fairly good training camp and had eyes on the Hawks&rsquo; third center job. &ldquo;He lost it to Campbell,&rdquo; Reay said. &ldquo;But I still like his potential.&rdquo; McKay played only two games for the Hawks this reason. He was one of seven defensemen being carried, and Doug Mohns, a veteran rearguard. was due back after being sidelined a month with a fractured wrist.&hellip;In Hawks&rsquo; Nov. 15 triumph over the Canucks at the Stadium, fisticuffs raged between Wayne Maki and Dan Maloney of Chicago, and Vancouver&rsquo;s Orland Kurtenbach and Keith Magnuson. After Maki took a bad beating, and Magnuson more than held his own, both bouts quited, then renewed into rematches with similar results. All told, the puching matches were worth 100 minutes and game misconducts to Maloney and Maki. The Hawks and Canucks roughed it up during the exhibition season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Unbeaten Desjardins Superb As Hawks Play Goaler More

<div class="byline">BY JOHN PORTER</div><p>OAKLAND&mdash;</p><p>Some people are claiming they have seen traces of a smile beginnint to appear on Fred Glover&rsquo;s countenance.</p><p>Maybe not, but there is no question a biology graduate from the University of North Dakota has the California Golden Seals coach grinning on the inside.</p><p>Rejected by New York. Los Angeles and Montreal, the Seals picked up Dennis Hextall&rsquo;s contract from the Canadiens during the summer and the red-headed center scrapped his way to a fulltime job in the big league.</p><p>Where once he played hockey and dissected frogs in the laboratory for the Fightin&rsquo; Sioux in Grand Forks, now he skates and takes apart anything in an enemy sweater for the Seals.</p><p>&ldquo;Dennis is a better puckhandler right now and a better skater,&rdquo; Glover affirms. &ldquo;He knows what his limitations are and he works on them. By a wide margin, he&rsquo;s more explosive.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a physical player,&rdquo; the coach adds with strong emphasis. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a natural instinct with him and he knows the way he has to play in order to be effective and he&rsquo;ll use it.&rdquo;</p><p>Hex, as his teammates call him. is centering a line with Gary Croteau on the left and Tony Featherstone on the right. Featherstone replaced Norm Ferguson, who injured a shoulder in a game with the Kings Oct. 17.</p><p>&ldquo;At the first part of the season, who was scoring other than that line?&rdquo; Glover wanted to know.</p><p>He answered his own question: &ldquo;We were getting scoring from only one area and that was Hextall&rsquo;s line.&rdquo;</p><p>Through 17 games. Hextall led the Seals with six goals, Croteau was next with five and Featherstone had three.</p><p>Hex said the decision to hit the books before trying the pros was dictated by the slim chance of breaking into the then six-team NHL.</p><p>&ldquo;I had a choice to go to pro camp (Rangers) or take a scholarship,&rdquo; the 27-year-old said. &ldquo;At the time there were only six clubs. I knew some of the guys who had tried before me, and they were just bouncing around in the minors. I didn&rsquo;t think I had the ability to crack a major league team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02768/3770288-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="544" height="513"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DENNIS HEXTALL&hellip;Plays It Tough</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Hockey in college is more wide open,&rdquo; Hex continued. &ldquo;The big thing is the hitting and body contact&mdash;they just don&rsquo;t have it.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;The way I play&rdquo;, saysHex, &ldquo;is to take the body all the time and try to check my man. I play a little chippy, and as a result, fights start.&rdquo;</p><p>Hextall is six-feet, but at 175 pounds, he&rsquo;s not exactly a heavyweight. Still, he&rsquo;s been embroiled in six fist battles without losing.</p><p>Twice he has paired off with Montreal&rsquo;s Serge Savard (6-3, 200). In Oakland, it was Hextall by a knockdown. At Montreal, it was a draw.</p><p>To have another package of dynamite cruising around the ice in a Seals&rsquo; uniform makes a big difference, as far as Glover is concerned.</p><p>&ldquo;It means the other teams have to be looking for more than one man.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It used to be a little bit of a problem if there were fisticuffs on the ice.</p><p>&ldquo;It was usually Carol Vadnais (the Seals&rsquo; top scorer last year) they were looking for and they even tried to goad him into it,&rdquo; Glover asserted.</p><p>&ldquo;It was not fair to Carol. It cut down on his effectiveness and hurt the club. Under the old rule if he got two majors, you lost him for an automatic misconduct. The rule is not such now. but it was then and you&rsquo;d lose your best man, contactwise.&rdquo;</p><p>Hextall and Vadnais aren&rsquo;t carrying the physical load alone. Ernie Hicke and Ron Stackhouse. both rookies, are hitting well and Glover says &ldquo;it&rsquo;s rubbed off on a lot of our guys.&rdquo;</p><p>Coming from a well-known hockey clan&mdash;his older brother Bryan is with Pittsburgh, his father is an NHL Hall of Famer&mdash;Dennis says there, was no pressure to don skates.</p><p>&ldquo;I did it for my own personal satisfaction,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I thought I&rsquo;d see how far I could go.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Seals Clow As Hextall Flexes Muscles

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-011012/3770326-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="304" height="376"></div><h2><b><i>A Moment Of Glory</i></b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ETROIT TRAILED LOS ANGELES,</b> 4-3, with 15 seconds to play when Wings rushed. Defenseman Gary Bergman passed off the puck, then pointed for the net. Alex Delvecchio got it to Frank Mahovlich behind the net, who slid it to Bergman, who banged it home with five seconds to play. The tie achieved so dramatically exulted the troubled Detroiters, who went to embrace Bergman, only to find him writhing on the ice in pain.</p><p>Los Angeles defenseman Gilles Marotte had reached Bergman a split-second too late to prevent his shot, but barged into him, twisting Gary&rsquo;s knee unnaturally. &ldquo;When it happened, and I heard a pop and I felt that first stab of pain, I thought, &lsquo;Oh, jeez, not a knee,&rsquo;&rdquo; Gary said later. &ldquo;I think an athlete always worries about his knees especially.&rdquo;</p><p>He sat now in the Detroit dressing room, his knee wrapped in an ice pack and he smiled with relief. &ldquo;Doc says it&rsquo;s only twisted. Maybe a sprain. But nothing torn. It hurts, hut I&rsquo;m sure glad it&rsquo;s not worse and hone it doesn&rsquo;t turn out to be worse.&rdquo; he said. He and another injured Wing, and trainer Lefty Wilson were the only ones left in the room. The others had showered and dressed and departed, whooping and hollering. A tie feels as good as a victory when it is pulled out at the finish.</p><p>&ldquo;Ohhhhhhh,&rdquo; Bergman groaned as he tried to straighten his leg.</p><p>&ldquo;What an actor,&rdquo; Wilson said. &ldquo;You&rsquo;d think you&rsquo;d been shot. You gave some kind of performance lying in front of that net. Scoring the goal wasn&rsquo;t good enough for you. You had to dress it up. You had to milk the crowd.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Aw, shut up,&rdquo; Bergman laughed. &ldquo;How about putting a bandage on this thing so I can get out of here?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You sure you don&rsquo;t want us to carry you out on a stretcher? How about a wheel chair?&rdquo; Wilson asked, bending over and beginning to wrap an elastic cloth bandage around the knee.</p><p>&ldquo;Ohhhhhh. Ahhhhh,&rdquo; Bergman said, wincing and sweating and laughing at Wilson and at himself.</p><p>He is a fine defenseman, one of the best in hockey. He is 32 years old and has been a professional 12 seasons. He spent five full seasons in the minors and Montreal and Chicago let him to before he was brought up to the majors by Detroit seven seasons back. He never has been voted to the first or second All Star teams, although he has been one of the steadiest defenders in the game. He came close in 1968 when he scored 13 goals. He usually scores five or six or seven goals a season.</p><p>This writer had picked the stars of this particular game and had Bergman as number one star for Detroit on his defensive play before the end of the game, although by the time he was announced, he had scored the tying goal and everyone assumed he had been honored for that goal.&hellip;</p><p>Long before he scored, he earned honors with his defense. He was in position all night long and broke up the opposition&rsquo;s offensive plays repeatedly. He did not do a whole lot of hitting; but he used his stick expertly.</p><p>&ldquo;I feel I played well tonight,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Staying in the proper position is the key, but there are nights you&rsquo;re in position and the puck doesn&rsquo;t bounce for you. Other nights, I&rsquo;ve played badly, but made a big play and people congratulated me. When teams only come into a town a few times a season, people remember those who made the big plays. Consistency is seldom noticed. Unless you have a big reputation.</p><p>&ldquo;It makes me upset sometimes when I&rsquo;m overlooked, but I figure I&rsquo;m paid well for my play. When people are picking All Star teams, the easiest way to pick defensemen is to go down the scoring list. A lot of good defensive players don&rsquo;t get noticed until they have a year when they score big. Maybe then, people notice their defensive play, too. I&rsquo;ll admit I think offense as much as defense. I&rsquo;m always looking for the hole for a break. But I&rsquo;m always aware my first job is defense, too, so I resist taking chances.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve scored a few big goals in my career, but none ever as late in a game as this one,&rdquo; he smiled.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02908/3770319-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="549" height="880"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GARY BERGMAN&hellip;Thinks Offense, Too</b></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>A Fellow Plays It Big</i></b></h2><p><b>AT 5-11 AND 185 POUNDS,</b> Bergman is bigger than he looks, but he is not as big as some defensemen. He said, &ldquo;The players are getting bigger all the time. Guys like me have to work harder in the corners, but otherwise size isn&rsquo;t much of a problem. I don&rsquo;t try to bodycheck too much. The other players always seem to have their heads up and I don&rsquo;t want to have them avoid me and go in alone. In think the players are getting smarter. They&rsquo;re not as reckless as they used to be and they avoid punishment.&rdquo;</p><p>Gary and his wife, Jane, have two sons, Blake and Gary Jr. Blake was named for Ted Lindsay. Of course. Ted&rsquo;s real name is Robert Blake. Gary&rsquo;s middle name is Gunnar. The Bergmans have settled in Detroit, though Gary admits he misses the fishing in his home Lake of the Woods. Although overshadowed by the Howes and Delvecchios, he has had a good career.</p><p>Some think he has slipped since this 13-goal year, but he says he has only slipped in goals. &ldquo;I think I had my best season last year and I have been playing the best of my career this season,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They say you mature around 30, so that&rsquo;s me.</p><p>The team is troubled internally, but Bergman goes on doing his job. He played 280 games in a row before he missed one with a muscle injury last season. &ldquo;The only serious injury I&rsquo;ve had was a broken jaw in 1964,&rdquo; he said, fingering a scar on his cheek, which is a souvenir of that incident. &ldquo;Oh, I&rsquo;ve had broken bones in my hands and feet, but that&rsquo;s all. I felt the best physically I&rsquo;ve ever felt until this.&rdquo; He tried to stand up. &ldquo;Ahhhhhh,&rdquo; he winced.</p><p>&ldquo;Some actor,&rdquo; the trainer said.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">By ED CONRAD</div><p>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>ow that Barry Ashbee seems sure to stay in the NHL, you won&rsquo;t hear him complaining that he should&rsquo;ve been playing in the big time many years before.</p><p>He could do that with complete justification because for years he was buried in the AHL even though he always looked like big-league material.</p><p>&ldquo;I really can&rsquo;t look at it that way.&rdquo; said Ashbee, the Flyers&rsquo; 31-year-old defenseman. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got to look another way&hellip;thinking of all the other hockey players who never even got a chance in the NHL.</p><p>I&rsquo;m happy I&rsquo;m now getting that chance.&rdquo;</p><p>Ashbee. who is now in his 11th season of pro hockey, had been a member of the Hershey Bears since the 1962-63 season, except for the 14 games he played with the Boston Bruins in 1965-66.</p><p>This past summer Barry was acquired from the Bears in a trade for winger Larry McKillop and defenseman Darryl Edestrand. both of whom had been playing for the Flyers&rsquo; Quebec Aces&rsquo; farm club.</p><p>When the Flyers got him. Bears&rsquo; GM Frank Barry Ashbee Mathers uttered a few kind words. &ldquo;Ashbee belongs in the NHL because he&rsquo;s a lot better than some of the players in the league who are veterans,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll be a big help to the Flyers.&rdquo;</p><p>Ashbee certainly has lived up to Mathers&rsquo; prediction, not only on defense but also making a contribution offensively, especially as the point man on the power play. Barry has already scored goals in back to back games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03763/3770357-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="256" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Barry Ashbee</b></figcaption></div><p>Ashbee&rsquo;s emergence as a regular with the Fivers, who had started the season with seven veteran rearguards, has a lot to do with the fact that he&rsquo;s a right-hander. The trade of Terry Ball to Pittsburgh for George Swarbrick last summer had removed the lone Flyer righthanded defenseman.</p><p>The values of a righthander are many, and one of them is the haste with which this type of player can get off a shot when the puck comes out to him along the right boards. He simply bangs away, wasting little time to shift the puck to the left side for the shot.</p><p>&ldquo;Just don&rsquo;t think of me as a goal scorer just because I got a couple goals,&rdquo; said Barry. &ldquo;I think I&rsquo;ve scored only 10 goals in 10 years in the minor leagues.&rdquo;</p><p>Actually, he has scored 30 in that time but all have been widely spaced.</p><p>Besides his offensive contribution, the 5-11 195-pounder is making his presence felt on defense. He has been seeing regular duty while the Flyers have been using three defensive shifts for the most part.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Late NHL Arrival, Ashbee Making Up For Lost Ice Time

<div class="byline">BY PAT CURRAN</div><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>t 39, Jean Beliveau has slowed down some from the center who set records, won the scoring championship, twice took the Hart Trophy, won the Conn Smythe Tronhy and was 10 times an All Star in 17 previous seasons. But the elegant captain of the Canadiens is showing the determination of a rookie to lead the team out of the doldrums since Montreal missed the playoffs for the first time in 22 years last spring.</p><p>Surprisingly, despite all their problems injurywise and otherwise. the new look Canadiens are battling for the leadership of the East Division.</p><p>Of course, Yvan Cournoyer has had something to do with the early success on 10 goals in nine games before he suffered a fractured foot. Guy Lapointe, the rookie with the booming shot, has helped and lately Mickey Redmond has been scoring. Defenseman Jean Claude Tremblay has been coming on strong from a poor showing last season and you can&rsquo;t discount the scoring production of Henri Richard and Peter Mahovlich.</p><p>Now John Ferguson has come out of retirement&mdash;to a standing ovation although he played less than three minutes of his first game&mdash;and things are looking up for the Habs.</p><p>But for the sparkplug, there has been one consistent performer through the young season&mdash;old Jean Beliveau in an old familiar role as leading point getter of the Canadiens. After 16 games, he had scored only three goals but showed he could still set them up with 15 assists.</p><p>With results from young linemates. Big Jean might have twice as many assists.</p><p>&ldquo;Some of the kids are shovelling the puck instead of blasting it and the goaltenders have had time to get back into position,&rdquo; says Jean. &ldquo;The thing that made The Rocket (Maurice Richard) great was that he always tried to drive the puck right through the net even if it was empty.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01978/3770388-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="251" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><p>Beliveau says his determination was sparked by the thought that Canadiens are rebuilding.</p><p>&ldquo;I figured my experience would help until some of the younger players got going. Now I guess I&rsquo;m trying to show that an old man of 39 can still keep up with the kids.&rdquo;</p><p>However his determination also may be due partly to suggestions last June when news broke that he would return to the Canadiens for his 18th NHL season. Insinuations were that Beliveau wanted to remain in the sports limelight a little longer for business reasons. He was under contract to do several commercials for American Motors, Pur-Pak, Sun Life and others in addition to his interest in a restaurant chain.</p><p>Big Jean was deeply disturbed by the story.</p><p>&ldquo;The only reason I have decided to play again is that I feel good and I think I can help the team,&rdquo; emphasized Beliveau, stunned to have missed the playoffs for the first time in his career.</p><p>&ldquo;Business interests have nothing to do with it and I am surprised anyone would think of me using hockey for anything than the game itself.&rdquo;</p><p>Thus when Beliveau reported to training camp, he was in shape and eager to get started.</p><p>A few days ago, after his determined effort set up the goal that gave Montreal a last-minute tie at St. Louis, Jean talked about his work so far.</p><p>&ldquo;I made up my mind to be ready for every shift, every game and every practice. At my age, I knew there would be games when I might have trouble going every shift but so far I haven&rsquo;t missed too many. Nights when I feel tired, I tell the other centres to be ready to take my place before the end of the shift.&rdquo;</p><p>Jean played a lot of hockey right from the start of the schedule and more after the loss of Larry Pleau left the Habs with only Beliveau and Richard as regular centres. He has played regular shifts, worked powerplays and taken extra faceoffs countless times in the Montreal zone.</p><p>No matter what happens the rest of the season Beliveau has proven his point.</p><p>&ldquo;You know,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;I have a great feeling for this team.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Beliveau Shows Why He’s Habs’ ‘Leader’

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;</p><p>The Kings seldom have played as traumatic a game as they did in their 14th game of the current season. Hosting Detroit they came From behind three times, climaxed by goals by Bob Pulford and Ross Lonsberry in the17th and l8th minutes of the final period to pull ahead, 4-3, with 2:17 to play. The crowd of 8.642 was roaring and team officials were ecstatic at one of the most dramatic and important triumphs of this young team&rsquo;s erratic history.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02859/3770419-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="260" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Denis DeJordy</b></figcaption></div><p>With 15 seconds to play. Wings pulled a penalty. Shorthanded, they pulled their goalie. Wings rushed and Kings were caught out of position. With five seconds to play, Gary Bergman banged the puck past Kings&rsquo; goaltender Denis DeJordy to produce a final 4-4 tie. Despite having nearly blown a game they had won in the late stages. Detroit players rejoiced in their dressing room, having salvaged a tie and regarding it as a moral victory.</p><p>In the L.A. quarters, the gallant fight they&rsquo;d waged was forgotten and they settled for the tie as if it was defeat. Coach Larry Regan paced back and forth, bitterly disappointed. Bill Flett, Eddie Joyal and several other players sat in their uniforms for a half-hour, sadly without the desire to undress, shower, go on their way.</p><p>Among those who&rsquo;d played well in the game was DeJordy. who had given up four goals, but no bad ones. He&rsquo;d had little chance on the last one. yet was depressed by it. &ldquo;There are not many shots goalers have no chance on,&rdquo; he sighed. &ldquo;If we&rsquo;re going to be a big team, I&rsquo;m going to have to make the big saves. If I make the last one. we win the game.&rdquo;</p><p>The chunky veteran is an honest fellow who does not make excuses. He is a good goaltender and he is on the spot. Goaltending is critical to any hockey team&rsquo;s chances. The Kings traded away a spectacular young goaltender, Gerry Desjardins, for DeJordy in the last half of last season.</p><p>It looked like a bad thing for DeJordy, but maybe not. He went from first to last place, but this is not a last-place team now. he is playing regularly and has a chance to establish himself. With Hawks DeJordy shared the Vezina Trophy with Glenn Hall in the 1966-67 season, but in 11 years as a pro. he was yanked up from and sent down to the minors so often he felt like a vovo, and spent only two full seasons in Chicago.</p><p>He was 32 years old on Nov. 12. Goaltenders mature late and Denis may just be reaching his prime. He is not as quick or as spectacular as Desjardins, who could shut out the top clubs and keep Kings alive in games in which they might be slaughtered, but the Kings&rsquo; brass reasoned he would be more consistent and more of a steadying influence.</p><p>The 5-9. 185 pounder may not score many shutouts, he can be beaten by good plays and good shots, but he is good game after game. He probably will play most of the games. He played 10 of the first 14. as backup man Jack Norris, an eight-year pro at the age of 28. performed well in four.</p><p>&ldquo;I feel I can do a job up here.&rdquo; DeJordy says.&rdquo; I moved around so much and sat around so much the last few years. I got a little mixed up and lost a little confidence. but I had some outstanding years in the minors and one outstanding year in the majors and feel I only need to play regularly to prove myself.</p><p>&ldquo;This is a new team with many new players, many like myself who have waited a long time for a real chance. We are off to a fair start and I think we will get better as the season goes on. I know much depends on me. I have to play well and 1 have to make the big saves. It is a lot of pressure, but that is goaltending and I am used to it and like it.&rdquo;</p><p>He is a quiet, calm individual who seems less jingly than most netminders. His wife just gave birth to their third daughter. She had a hard time, but is fine. The DeJordy family is settled in southern California for the time being and hopes to spend many winters here, though Quebec remains home.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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DeJordy Key King With Steady Net Play

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT</p><p>There is a strong tendency among some elements in Detroit to file the 1970-71 season under &ldquo;D&rdquo;&hellip;for Disaster.</p><p>If you&rsquo;ve followed the club even casually you know most of it&mdash;the retirement of All Star Carl Brewer, training camp eve injury of Garry Unger, first game injury of policeman-defenseman Ron Harris, second game injury of Frank Mahovlich, tough opening schedule, team unrest with new coach Ned Harkness and some bad press.</p><p>All of this occurred before the season was six weeks old. Together it contributed to the Red Wings&rsquo; terrible start in the National Hockey League&rsquo;s East Division.</p><p>But before burying the club and writing the season off as a disaster, it should be pointed out that thanks to the playoff system, the Red Wings hardly are out of the picture.</p><p>And not only the Red Wings are having trouble with expansion teams. True the Wings played miserably against the Buffalo Sabres in their first meeting, blew a 3-1 lead and lost, 4-3. But how about that recent weekend when the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins, with the best talent in the game, lost 3-2, at Toronto and then 2-1 on their own ice to the Oakland Bay Area California Golden Seals?</p><p>This is not a defense of the Red Wings&hellip;but it should be noted this is developing into a very wacky season.</p><p>Who figured the Vancouver Canucks, loaded with relics and rookies, would knock Toronto off, three straight? Who figured the Los Angeles Kings, laughing stock of the league last season, would play so well this season?</p><p>And what about the St. Louis Blues? They lost Al Arbour, their best defenseman, and Jacques Plante who was their No. 1 goalie last season, and they&rsquo;ve continued to be fantastic defensively. In one stretch the Blues yielded just four goals in six games, hanging up back-to-back shutouts and then allowing just one goal in each of the next four games. One of the shutouts was in Boston Garden. Another shutout over Montreal was missed in the final minute of play.</p><p>Yet the Blues&rsquo; worst defeat of the season was a 7-3 loss to Toronto which hasn&rsquo;t really been overwhelming offensively this season.</p><p>As Red Buttons used to say, &ldquo;strange things are happening.&rdquo;</p><p>Thanks to some of the strange happenings, the Red Wings certainly figure in the East Division playoff picture, not any higher than fourth place right now but few people expected them to go higher.</p><p>Still a major problem for the Red Wings is the offense or lack of it and the failure to hold leads. They haven&rsquo;t exactly been world beaters in one-goal decisions, either.</p><p>Starting with offense, the two old pros, Alex Delvecchio and Gordie Howe, are doing their share and then some. Neither is noted for quick getaways and yet both are off to fine starts. Delvecchio never has had a better one.</p><p>Bruce MacGregor, not depended on as a regular scorer, and rookie Tom Webster have been doing quite well.</p><p>But Garry Unger, Wayne Connelly and Nick Libett all have been very deficient around the net.</p><p>Only twice through the first six weeks did the Red Wings score five goals in a game and they won the two. They scored four goals only twice in a game, lost one of them and tied the other. That&rsquo;s not much offense.</p><p>One goal games? Seven of them in the first 16 games and Detroit lost six of them.</p><p>Leads? In 12 of those games Detroit scored the first goal&hellip;and won only two of them. Three times the Red Wings had two goal leads in a game&hellip;and lost the game. Another time they blew a two goal lead and were tied.</p><p>All that and they&rsquo;re still in the picture. It&rsquo;s strange season, indeed, and it&rsquo;s hardly started.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Limited Offense Hurts Wings

<p><b>NATIONAL LEAGUE</b></p><p>NEW YORK&mdash;<b>Don Blackburn,</b> forward, recalled from Rochester of AHL.</p><p>MINNESOTA&mdash;<b>Dennis O&rsquo;Brien,</b> defenseman. recalled from Cleveland of AHL.</p><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;<b>Rod Zaine,</b> forward, assigned to Amarillo of C<b>HL.</b></p><p>TORONTO&mdash;<b>George Armstrong,</b> forward, returned to active roster rom retired list.</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;<b>Fran Huck, Chuck Lefley, Phil Roberto</b> and <b>Guy Charron,</b> forwards, returned to Montreal Voyageurs of AHL.</p><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;<b>Bob Dillaitough,</b> forward, recalled from Rochester of AHL and sold out-right to Phoenix of WHL. <b>Ted Taylor,</b> forward, signed contract and placed on active roster.</p><p>DETROIT&mdash;<b>Bob Falkenberg,</b> defenseman, and <b>Hank Monteith,</b> forward, assigned to Fort Worth of DHL.</p><p>ST-LOUIS&mdash;<b>Ted Ouimet,</b> goalkeeper, assigned to Kansas City of CHL as replacement for <b>Gary Edwards,</b> goalkeeper, who went an injured list for month with shoulder injury.</p><p>BUFFALO&mdash;<b>Brian McDonald,</b> forward, and <b>Hap Myers,</b> defenseman, assigned to Salt Lake of WHL. <b>Randy Wyrozub,</b> forward, placed on disabled list for month with broken collarbone.</p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;<b>Ray McKay,</b> defenseman, assigned to Portland of WHL. <b>Larry Romanchych,</b> forward, assigned to Dallas of CHL.</p><p><b>AMERICAN LEAGUE</b></p><p>ROCHESTER&mdash;<b>Milt Hokol,</b> forward, sent to Flint of IHL.</p><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;<b>Bob Heaney,</b> defenseman, signed as free agent.</p><p><b>WESTERN LEAGUE</b></p><p>SAN DIEGO&mdash;<b>Jim Eagle,</b> defenseman, and <b>Warren Hynes,</b> forward, dropped from active roster. <b>Dick Proceviat,</b> defenseman, secured from Kansas City of CHL on loan.</p><p>PHOENIX&mdash;<b>Milan Marcette</b> and <b>Pat Hannigan,</b> forwards placed on waivers.</p><p><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></p><p>FORT WAYNE&mdash;<b>Bob Channell</b> forward, placed on disabled list for six weeks with broken ankle <b>Roy Boyko,</b> forward, signed as free agent.</p><p>DAYTON&mdash;<b>Brian Vescio,</b> forward, placed on waivers.</p><p>TOLEDO&mdash;<b>Bert DeHate,</b> forward, sent to Greensboro of EHL <b>Dave Pulkkinen,</b> defenseman picked up from Port Huron of IHI on waivers. <b>Gary Wood,</b> defense man, placed on waivers.</p><p>DES MOINES&mdash;<b>John Ferguson</b> forward, returned to active roster to replace <b>Luc Tessier,</b> forward who was placed on disabled list with broken finger.</p><p>EASTERN LEAGUE</p><p>CLINTON&mdash;<b>Dick Scammel</b> forward, returned to active roster to replace <b>Pete Prevost,</b> forward who went on disabled list with injury.</p><p>&bull;JERSEY&mdash;<b>Wayne Kitchen</b> player-coach, returned to active roster from disabled list. <b>Jin Langlois,</b> defenseman, quit team and returned home.</p><p>NEW HAVEN&mdash;<b>Bill Orr,</b> defenseman. secured from Rocheste of AHL.</p><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;Clement <b>Boudreau,</b> forward, sent to Jacksonville of EHL on loan in exchange for negotiation rights to <b>Wayne Horne,</b> forward, who is a holdout <b>Rich Cloutier,</b> forward, dropped from roster.</p><p>NASHVILLE&mdash;<b>Dom Di Berardino,</b> forward, signed as free agent. <b>Pat O&rsquo;Bannion,</b> forward dropped from roster.</p><p>LONG ISLAND&mdash;<b>Lars Hansen</b> defenseman, sent to New Jersey of EHL on loan. <b>Pierre Farmer,</b> defenseman, reported on assignment from Providence of AHL.</p><p>JACKSONVILLE&mdash;<b>Allan Young,</b> defenseman, secured from Tulsa of CHL. <b>Brian Crowder</b> and <b>Jim Norman,</b> forwards placed on waivers. <b>Gary Brown</b> forward, assigned by Tulsa. <b>Yvon Bouchard,</b> forward, signed to five-game tryout from LaTuque Que., senior club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Movements of Players

<p>DETROIT&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>ithout a sprig of heather or a good luck charm from Miss America, Alex Delvecchio is off to one of the fastest starts in his 20-season National Hockey League career.</p><p>Delveccnio didn&rsquo;t score a goal last season until New Year&rsquo;s Eve when he finally managed to get two past Boston Bruin goalkeeper Ed Johnston. Up until Nov. 21 this year, he had eight.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-011000/3770474-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="270" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alex Delvecchio</b></figcaption></div><p>Last year&rsquo;s start, the worst of his career, was totally unexpected. The graying Red Wing captain was Detroit&rsquo;s top goal-getter in the exhibition season and was coming off a 25-goal season in which he and linemates Frank Mahovlich and Gordie Howe set a record for goals by a line&mdash;114.</p><p>But Delvecchio didn&rsquo;t score in the first 10 games and then in the 11th, on Nov. 6, Al Arbour of the St. Louis Blues caught Delvecchio with a check and upended him&mdash;a rare position for Delvecchio.</p><p>&ldquo;I landed on my shoulder,&rdquo; Delvecchio said, &ldquo;And it wasn&rsquo;t right the rest of the season. I even felt twinges playing golf during the summer before it finally worked itself out.&rdquo;</p><p>Delvecchio missed only three games after the injury but as he said, it still affected him the rest of the campaign.</p><p>As game added to game and Delvecchio still couldn&rsquo;t get a goal, fans and friends began sending him good luck charms&mdash;medals, bits of this and bits of that. General manager Sid Abel spit on his stick for luck. Delvecchio tried different sticks.</p><p>The mother of a close friend gave him a sprig of Scottish heather to put in his skate boot and then, right around Christmas the reigning Miss America. Pam Eldred, who lives in the same Detroit suburb as Delvecchio and occasionally dates Garry Unger, gave Delvecchio little gold crown she was wearing the night she was chosen Miss America.</p><p>Then, at 4:40 of the first period on New Year&rsquo;s Eve against the Bruins, Delvecchio broke his drouth. The Bruins claimed he kicked it in but there was no quarrel with his second one, a shot in the second period.</p><p>And then, to make up for the long frustrating nights, he rammed in three goals in his next same against Philadelphia and finished the season with 21, the ninth time in 10 years he hit 20 or better and he&rsquo;s done it 11 times in his 20 seasons and was on the doorstep&mdash;19&mdash;two other times.</p><p>The way Delvecchio has started. he certainly should score 20-plus again this season&mdash;he was 25 games ahead of last year&rsquo;s pace when he scored his sixth goal this season in a 3-1 victory over the Flyers, a quick blast of a Howe passout.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe I had all my bad luck last year.&rdquo; Delvecchio said hopefully. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m doing anything differently&mdash;it&rsquo;s just that this year they&rsquo;re going in and last year they didn&rsquo;t.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t remember ever having a better start. Usually I&rsquo;ve got three goals after 10 or 15 games. I&rsquo;m not too much of a fast starter.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Unlike Wings, Vet Delvecchio Off To One Of Fastest Starts

<div class="byline">BY BYRON YAKE</div><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Penguins have been having more trouble against their own West Division opponents than the East, but the California Golden Seals proved a fine tonic.</p><p>Putting together one of their finer offensive performances of the season, the Pens blistered the Seals 6-1 after gaining three ties with East teams within a week.</p><p>Charlie Finley&rsquo;s band of Seals had been going hot and they continued that way&mdash;after they left Pittsburgh, defeating the Boston Bruins 2-1 in Boston.</p><p>But at the Civic Arena, they ran into trouble.</p><p>Six players scored for the Pens and a power play that has had trouble becoming powerful, suddenly became awesome.</p><p>They scored their first two goals when the Seals were shorthanded and later added another. Bob Woytowich drove home Duane Rupp&rsquo;s rebound with just five seconds remaining in the first period.</p><p>Then, in the second period, the Pens drove Gary Smith, the Seals goalie, out of the nets, pounding in four goals.</p><p>Greg Polis, Ken Schinkel, Keith McCreary and Dean Prentice each added goals before Bob Sneddon replaced Smith.</p><p>Another thing was good about the Pens&rsquo; performance. It came before 11,075 fans.</p><p>The Steel City, troubled with a lack of fans for three years at hockey games, is making a fine recovery.</p><p>Chuck Wheeler, director of marketing for the Penguins, predicts the club will average more than 10,000 for its 39 home games this season.</p><p>After seven games the Pens had attracted an average of 8,314 increasing their box office receipts 60 per cent over a similar time last season.</p><p>What they mean in terms of dollars and cents is that the Penguins may show a profit for the first time this season&mdash;in spite of the financial problems of owner Don Parsons who is still trying to sell the club.</p><p>A midweek crowd of 8,089 recently watched the Pens and the Los Angeles Kings. And the Pens probably played their worst game in two years. But the next game, against Oakland, with the attraction of a hockey stick night, the crowd was near capacity.</p><p>The Pens have sold 2,934 season tickets, a club high, including 800 20-game plans, Wheeler said.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll keep selling the 20-game plan until there are only 20 games left on the schedule. We expect to sell from 500 to 1,000 more,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>Wheeler&rsquo;s plan has been to get people to attend games period, thus he has used promotions for several games.</p><p>&ldquo;After the first 19 games, I don&rsquo;t think it will be necessary to have promotions,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>&ldquo;Everything we&rsquo;ve done is based on getting a person to attend two or three Penguin games. If we succeed, we know we have a loyal fan and we can reach the level of 11&rsquo; other NHL cities which have complete sellouts.&rdquo;</p><p><b>PEN SCRIBBLINGS&mdash;</b> Keith McCreary missed seven games due to the illness and death of his father&hellip;Rod Zaine, who scored one goal in four games, was assigned to Amarillo the Penguins&rsquo; farm club in the Central League&hellip;The Press Box at the Civic Arena was placed in the end zone instead of the &ldquo;50-yard line&rdquo; this year, providing a much better view of the play&hellip;the Press Room is no longer used.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01962/3770536-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="256" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Woytowich</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>ICE QUIPS&hellip;&hellip;By MAKI</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02831/3770529-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="976" height="637"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;Since It&rsquo;s MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN RECEIVE, I Assume Your Boys Wish To Lead The More Blessed Life!&rdquo;</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Pens’ Zingy Ice Play Revives Box Office

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01973/3770623-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>TOP 25 SCORERS</b></h2><p><b>(Includina Games of Sun. Nov. 22)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02831/3770616-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1787" height="1012"></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><h3><b>EAST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03646/3770609-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="873" height="632"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06261/3770602-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="875" height="2130"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05317/3770595-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="857" height="750"></div><h3><b>WEST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08199/3770588-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="892" height="3133"></div><h3>TEAM PENALTIES&mdash;POWER PLAY&mdash;STATISTICS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04431/3770581-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="835" height="499"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07227/3770574-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="298" height="3486"></div><h2><b>NHL SCOREBOARD</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-09163/3770567-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="797" height="116"></div><p><b>(Including Games Of Sun. Nov. 22)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NHL PLAYERS SCORING PENALTY RECORDS

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO&mdash;</p><p>It was the &lsquo;Week That Was&rsquo; for the Buffalo Sabres.</p><p>In the beginning, Punch Imlach, the Sabres&rsquo; general manager and coach, picked up defenseman Bob Baun from the Detroit Red Wings on waivers.</p><p>Less than two hours later, Imlach traded Baun to the St. Louis Blues for forward Larry Keenan and defenseman Jean-Guy Talbot.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01941/3770654-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="271" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Randy Wyrozub</b></figcaption></div><p>Keenan and Talbot balked briefly at moving from a division champion to a last-place, first-year club. They joined the Sabres for an 11-2 thrashing at Montreal, and Talbot, hit by a shot fired by Jean Beliveau, limped off with a broken bone in his right foot.</p><p>The Sabres were bolstered again when center Phil Goyette and left-winger Don Marshall agreed to report after leaving the club during the training period. Goyette and Marshall, off skates for almost six weeks, missed the first 16 games of the season.</p><p>Mired under a seven-game losing streak, and with Goyette and Marshall watching from the press box, the Sabres dealt the California Golden Seals a 4-2 setback, ending the Seals&rsquo; four-game winning streak started at the Sabres&rsquo; expense two weeks earlier in Oakland.</p><p>Roger Crozier&rsquo;s brilliant goaltending and the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; inability to find the net enabled the Sabres to earn a 2-2 tie with the Flying Frenchmen.</p><p>In that one, Randy Wyrozub, the Edmonton Oil Kings&rsquo; alumnus and the Sabres&rsquo; fourth choice in the amateur draft, went off with a broken collarbone. He fell into the boards early in the first period after being checked by Guy Lapointe.</p><p>Wyrozub, heralded as the Sabres&rsquo; training-camp bonus by Imlach, was expected to be out of action for six to eight weeks. It was a hard blow to a club already reeling under an extraordinary lengthy list of injuries.</p><p>Imlach was juggling his forwards, and was planning a crash training program for Marshall, 38, and Goyette, 37.</p><p>&ldquo;These guys will lend us the touch of class we need,&rdquo; Imlach said. &ldquo;You have to have a certain amount of experience, and these fellows have the know-how to get a club out of trouble.</p><p>&ldquo;Losing Wyrozub is tough, but I&rsquo;ve made it a practice never to cry over injuries. It doesn&rsquo;t do any good, or make anybody healthy. We&rsquo;ll just have to carry on.&rdquo;</p><p><b>ALONG THE BOARDS&mdash;</b> The Sabres, with three sellouts in the first eight home games, sold out twice with Montreal and once with Chicago. In a 10,331-seat house, they were averaging 8,974 with 71,796 for eight games&hellip;The Sabres sent forwards Hap Myers and Brian McDonald to Salt Lake City.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Imlach Still Juggling Sabres

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;</p><p>The two goalies who share the lead in the competition for the Vezina Trophy are an old newcomer and a youthful veteran.</p><p>The old newcomer is Ernie Wakely, the talented goaler who was buried in the Montreal farm system for 10 years of his life before he received a chance in the National Hockey League last season. He has made the most of his late chance and now at age 30 is in his sophomore season in the NHL.</p><p>The youthful veteran is none other than Glenn Hall, now in his 16th season in the NHL and scrambling in front of the net with a friskiness belying his 39 years. Hall very definitely has not lost the quick reflexes which helped to make him Mr. Goalie. And he has accumulated enough hockey wisdom to carry him in the big league well beyond the time in some future season when his physical abilities have begun to wane.</p><p>The pair of Hall and Wakely gives the St. Louis Blues the kind of solid goaltending that the team needs for its season-long battle with the Chicago Black Hawks for supremacy in the Western Division.</p><p>Hall and Wakely rose to the top in the League&rsquo;s goals-against averages in the first month of the season. The feat took them that long only because of a poor showing in a 7-3 loss to Toronto in the first week of the season. Without that seven-goal game the St. Louis pair would by now have opened an even wider gap between themselves and their goaltending colleagues on other teams.</p><p>St. Louis coach Al Arbour says of Hall and Wakely, &ldquo;I knew they were the best in the league before they reached the top in the standings.&rdquo;</p><p>Billy McCreary of the Blues exclaimed after one recent St. Louis victory, &ldquo;Goalkeeping&mdash;that was the difference. We&rsquo;ve been getting unbelievable goalkeeping.&rdquo;</p><p>Hall, in turn, compliments tenacious forwards, like McCreary. who make a goalie&rsquo;s job easier.</p><p>Hall says, &ldquo;We have a good defense in front of us and defensive-minded forwards in front of the defense.&rdquo;</p><p>Joking about his age. Hall says, &ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;m still warm.&rdquo;</p><p>More seriously he acknowledges that he and Wakely have had &ldquo;good consistency with only that one bad game against Toronto.&rdquo;</p><p>Hall already has his name on the Vezina Trophy three times, but a fourth such honor, of course, would be welcome. Wakely has yet to taste that kind of a triumph and he is well aware that it is based on the achievement of a long season, not a month when the team is on a winning streak.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s something nice to have, but I can&rsquo;t worry about it, because we&rsquo;ve got 60 games to go,&rdquo; Wakely said. &ldquo;When we&rsquo;ve got 70. games in, then I&rsquo;ll worry about it.&rdquo;</p><p>Wakely said, &ldquo;It really helps when the whole team is playing strong hockey. And right now everybody on our team is playing strong.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re playing up and down the ice. and that&rsquo;s the only way to play hockey, if you want to win,&rdquo; Wakely said. &ldquo;If you don&rsquo;t play that way, you&rsquo;re in a lot of trouble.&rdquo;</p><p>A team can also be in trouble if it has porous goaltending. The Blues don&rsquo;t have that problem.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hall, Wakely Hot As Blues’ Goalers Make ‘Vezina’ Bid

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Stroot, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Stroot, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>TORONTO&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s pretty grim, all right, Bobby Baun was saying, &ldquo;but really not much worse than the way things were when I first broke in here, 14 years ago.&rdquo;</p><p>Baun was referring to the unhappy plight of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the team he rejoined early this month after a three-year absence.</p><p>The Boomer had been a rookie with the 1957-58 Leafs who finished absolutely last in the National Hockey League. The 1970-71 Leafs were in precisely the same position, at the very bottom of the NHL&rsquo;s Eastern Division, when Baun returned to the Gardens Nov. 13.</p><p>&ldquo;Things weren&rsquo;t very much different in 1957,&rdquo; Baun said. &ldquo;We were a young club, on the way up, just like the present Leafs. This club now has a lot of great kids, the same as we did then. We made the &lsquo;59 playoffs and won the Stanley Cup three years later.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01956/3770740-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="261" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Brit Selby</b></figcaption></div><p>Now a 34-year-old veteran, Baun was the experienced hand Leafs felt would steady down their inexperienced, error-prone defense corps. They&rsquo;d been trying to get him since Detroit Red Wings indicated he&rsquo;d be made available following a 5-4 loss to Leafs Nov. 1.</p><p>However, when his name was placed on waivers. Punch Imlach exercised his prior claim on behalf of Buffalo Sabres.</p><p>Imlach subsequently traded Baun to St. Louis Blues for defenceman Jean-Guy Talbot and winger Larry Keenan. He was unable to agree on satisfactory financial terms with St. Louis, though, and was dealt to Leafs for a surplus left-winger. Brit Selby.</p><p>It was Imlach who decided the Toronto team couldn&rsquo;t use Baun any more. That was in 1967, just after Leafs&rsquo; fourth Stanley Cup victory in six years, and Baun was not on the list of players withheld at the expansion draft in June. Oakland Seals took him.</p><p>After just that one winter in Oakland, Baun was swapped to Detroit, with Ron Harris, for Gary Jarrett, Doug Roberts, Howie Young and Chris Worthy.</p><p>Baun&rsquo;s greatest successes with Wings were achieved last season when he was reunited with his old Toronto defense partner. Carl Brewer.</p><p>Together, they revived memories of the glory days when they&rsquo;d formed a superb blueline twosome for the good Leaf teams of the 1960s. Baun was the heavy duty belter and the cleanup man in his own zone. Brewer was the swift. slick puck-carrier who&rsquo;d zoom up the ice and direct the offense. It was the ideal combination.</p><p>Leafs don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s too late to bring back those days, at least temporarily, maybe just to bridge the gap while those green rear guards were developing. They also were negotiating for Brewer&rsquo;s re-acquisition. He had retired from hockey and still belonged to Detroit, technically, but Wings gave Leafs permission to discuss the situation with him. Presumably, a deal would be arranged if Brewer were interested in resuming his career with Leafs.</p><p>Baun was picked as the No. 1 star in his first game back with Leafs, an impressive 3-2 win over Boston Bruins.</p><p>He had just the effect Leafs had been hoping he would have, providing new solidity where it had been lacking back of the Toronto blueline. Leafs were defeated the following evening, 4-2, in New York, but played well again and Baun was outstanding.</p><p>&ldquo;I liked Detroit,&rdquo; he said, trying to figure why Wings had decided to let him go. &ldquo;I knew something was wrong all season, even though I thought I was playing as well as I ever had at this stage.&rdquo;</p><p>One of the problems might have concerned Baun&rsquo;s salary. which he had succeeded in raising into the $50,000-a-year neighbourhood. That would be a major reason why Imlach never intended to keep him when he took him on waivers.</p><p>To Leafs, though, he was well worth the price. They felt one dependable defenseman might be enough to make them a playoff club. And Selby was a player they hadn&rsquo;t been using, anyway.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Leafs Figure Baun Steadying Force They Needed

<h2><b>In The West</b></h2><p><b>The Chicago Black Hawks are flying in their invasion of the NHL&rsquo;s West Division and so is their ace scorer Bobby Hull.</b></p><p><b>The blond bomber has scored 11 times in 19 games and is off and running in his bid to become the league&rsquo;s first 60-goal marksman. Hull must score in bunches&mdash;three or four-goal games&mdash;if he is to achieve the highest NHL scoring pinnacle and he gave some indication last weekend that he might be ready to make his move.</b></p><p><b>Hull turned in the three-goal hat trick, the 25th of his brilliant career as the Hawks buried the California Seals 9-0. It was Bobby&rsquo;s first &lsquo;hat&rsquo; of the season but it put him within one of the record of 26 three-goal-or-more games held by the retired Maurice Richard.</b></p><p><b>THE HOCKEY NEWS has selected Bobby Hull as the West Division player whom we think belongs among the NHL&rsquo;s top Stars Of The Week.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02800/3770778-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="546" height="680"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOBBY HULL&hellip;Chicago Black Hawks</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>In The East</b></h2><p><b>After a somewhat slow start, veteran Dave Balon is starting to come on strong for the New York Rangers. If the hard-skating left winger keeps up his pace of last week, he&rsquo;ll be in the NHL&rsquo;s top 10 in no time at all. Balon pumped in five goals in Rangers&rsquo; three wins but what made his feat all the more significant was that two of the goals were game winners and helped the New Yorkers back into a first place tie with Boston.</b></p><p><b>A 33-goal scorer last season, Balon already has tallied nine and appears on the way to another big year. His two winners came against Montreal in a 5-4 decision and the following night he sniped the leadoff goal and it stood up in a 2-0 win over Minnesota.</b></p><p><b>THE HOCKEY NEWS has selected Balon as the East Division player whom we think belongs among the NHL&rsquo;s top Stars Of The Week.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03607/3770771-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="543" height="640"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DAVE BALON&hellip;New York Rangers</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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STARS OF THE WEEK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01922/3770816-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 24)</b></p><h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><h2>WEST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02763/3770809-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1095" height="323"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><p><b>Tues. Nov. 17</b></p><p>California 1 at Montreal 5</p><p>Detroit 5 at Vancouver 1</p><p>Minnesota 5 at St. Louis 3</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 18</b></p><p>Buffalo 7 at Toronto 2</p><p>New York 5 at Los Angeles 3</p><p>Boston 8 at Minnesota 4</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 19</b></p><p>Toronto 1 at Montreal 5</p><p>California 2 at Philadelphia 6</p><p>St. Louis 1 at Pittsburgh 0</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Los Angeles 1 at Vancouver 7</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>New York 5 at Montreal 4</p><p>California 3 at Toronto 5</p><p>Boston 5 at Philadelphia 2</p><p>Detroit 1 at Pittsburgh 6</p><p>Buffalo 0 at Minnesota 3</p><p>Vancouver 3 at Los Angeles 1</p><p>Chicago 3 at St. Louis 3</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Minnesota 0 at New York 2</p><p>Pittsburgh 2 at Boston 4</p><p>Detroit 4 at Philadelphia 2</p><p>California 0 at Chicago 9</p><h2>GAMES TO COME</h2><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</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 28</b></p><p>Pittsburgh at Montreal</p><p>Detroit at Toronto</p><p>Boston at New York (Afternoon)</p><p>Vancouver at St. Louis</p><p>Philadelphia at Chicago</p><p>Minnesota at Los Angeles</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 29</b></p><p>Montreal at Detroit</p><p>Toronto at Boston</p><p>Pittsburgh at New York</p><p>California at Buffalo</p><p>Vancouver at Philadelphia</p><p>Los Angeles at Chicago</p><p><b>Tues. Dec. 1</b></p><p>Philadelphia at Vancouver</p><p><b>Wed. Dec. 2</b></p><p>Montreal at Pittsburgh</p><p>Los Angeles at Toronto</p><p>St. Louis at New York</p><p>Boston at Chicago</p><p>California at Minnesota</p><p><b>Thurs. Dec. 3</b></p><p>St. Louis at Montreal</p><p>Boston at Buffalo</p><p>Los Angeles at Detroit</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 4</b></p><p>Philadelphia at California<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE NHL SCENE

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div><p>BOSTON&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen it comes to naming the unsung hero of the National Hockey League, the Bruins&rsquo; Don Marcotte should be right up at the head of the list.</p><p>Surrounded by superstars like Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito and a batch of talent represented by Johnny Bucyk, Johnny McKenzie, Ken Hodge, Fred Stanfield, Derek Sanderson and Eddie Westfall, the 23-Year-old Marcotte seldom gets mentioned.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01655/3771091-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="263" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Marcotte</b></figcaption></div><p>But the 23-year-old 185-pounder from Niagara Falls is a very valuable cog in the Bruins&rsquo; machine.</p><p>Weaned by the B&rsquo;s through the Niagara Falls Juniors, Oklahoma City and Hershey, Marcotte has been slow to get general attention by the nature of his assignment.</p><p>He is carried as a spare left wing on the roster and his only chance to play as a starter is when one of the regulars is injured.</p><p>But while waiting patiently in the wings, Marcotte has made himself a respectable reputation as a penalty killer and a man who is ready to play at a moments notice.</p><p>If the fans are quick to brush off his presence, general manager Milt Schmidt is very conscious of the young muscle that is available.</p><p>&ldquo;There is no doubt about it,&rdquo; says Schmidt. &ldquo;Marcotte has been a very valuable addition to the team since we brought him up from Hershey late last January.&rdquo;</p><p>Marcotte had been with the B&rsquo;s on a couple of previous occasions but only on an emergency basis and had onlY eight NHL games behind him when he was sprung from Hershey last year.</p><p>With two men on the injured list he got a chance to play on a more regular basis and immediately impressed the brass with his strong skating two-way play.</p><p>Tried as a penalty killer, he displayed a natural talent for the job.</p><p>&ldquo;Don has that ability to sit on the bench for two periods and then go out and get the job done,&rdquo; says Schmidt. &ldquo;There are few players who can do that. Most of them have to be warmed up before they get the feel of things but Marcotte starts cold in high gear.</p><p>&ldquo;He skates both ways and you always find him coming back to do the job defensively.</p><p>&ldquo;When he is on penalty killing duty, he&rsquo;s always on the move and he&rsquo;s a tough man to beat.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a good scorer too.&rdquo;</p><p>That really doesn&rsquo;t show in the. records for he scored only nine goals and had three assists in 35 games last year.</p><p>But his first two seasons with Hershey he totaled 66 goals and 43 assists and before joining the B&rsquo;s last season he had 28 goals and 15 assists in 35 games.</p><p>With all the fire-power around him, however, his scoring ability really isn&rsquo;t required.</p><p>&ldquo;The way he forechecks and backchecks is a valuable asset alone,&rdquo; says Schmidt. &ldquo;We are lucky to have a kid like him around.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bruins High On ‘Handy Man’ Winger

<h2>Fri. Nov. 13 PROVIDENCE 4 at ROCHESTER 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02538/3771237-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="579" height="488"></div><h2>Sat. Nov. 14 QUEBEC 2 at SPRINGFIELD 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03407/3771230-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="583" height="500"></div><h2>BALTIMORE 1 at HERSHEY 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04300/3771223-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="575" height="424"></div><h2>SUN. NOV. 15 CLEVELAND 3 at ROCHESTER 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05226/3771216-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="578" height="499"></div><h2>SPRINGFIELD 3 at QUEBEC 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06186/3771209-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="578" height="476"></div><h2>BALTIMORE 2 at PROVIDENCE 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-07161/3771202-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="574" height="176"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-08136/3771195-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="581" height="477"></div><h2>Tues. Nov. 17 SPRINGFIELD 3 at MONTREAL 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-09117/3771188-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="582" height="401"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-10104/3771181-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="444" height="83"></div><h2>Wed. Nov. 18 QUEBEC 5 at HERSHEY 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-11100/3771174-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="582" height="627"></div><h2>Thurs. Nov. 19 SPRINGFIELD 1 at MONTREAL 7</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1291/3771167-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="578" height="74"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1379/3771160-1-eng-US/f0018-132.jpg" title="f0018-13" width="582" height="661"></div><h2>Fri. Nov. 20 QUEBEC 1 at CLEVELAND 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1473/3771153-1-eng-US/f0018-142.jpg" title="f0018-14" width="582" height="613"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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American Hockey League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><p>ROCHESTER&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ick Gamble, with two last place finishes in as many attempts as coach of the Rochester Americans plus some training camp and early 1970-71 season problems, figured to be skating on thin ice as Amerk leader.</p><p>But did Vancouver general manager Bud Poile give him only the usual &ldquo;vote of confidence&rdquo; which usually is followed in two weeks or so by a firing?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01641/3771268-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="246" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Gamble</b></figcaption></div><p>He did not.</p><p>Poile went right to Medicor people who own Vancouver and Rochester and to the Amerks&rsquo; local board of directors and proposed that Dick Gamble be given the added job of general manager.</p><p>Now if you&rsquo;re about to fire a man for doing a bad job, you don&rsquo;t normally go around building him up and giving him more responsibility. Oh, there have been sports people &ldquo;kicked upstairs&rdquo; to be sure, but Poile has come on as an honest gentleman in his dealings here since assuming the Vancouver position last spring.</p><p>Here for a few days to watch the Canucks&rsquo; AHL chattels in a couple of games, Poile was asked whether Gamble&rsquo;s coaching career in the organization might be termed &ldquo;shaky&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;Dick Gamble is not in any danger of losing his job as coach. I wasn&rsquo;t thinking about it before and I&rsquo;m not thinking about it now,&rdquo; Poile said.</p><p>Lyman Walters, Medicor official and president of the Rochester Americans, made the announcement of Gamble&rsquo;s appointment as general managercoach.</p><p>&ldquo;I appreciate the confidence they (Walters and Poile) have placed in me,&rdquo; Gamble commented when told by Poile. &ldquo;My best possible hockey to the Rochester fans and to make Rochester the best minor league operation in hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>Said Poile: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve given Dick Gamble complete control of the hockey club on a day-to-day basis. Obviously he&rsquo;s not going to make a large deal or buy or sell a player for a lot of money without talking to me&hellip;just as I&rsquo;m not going to do anything along those lines without talking to the owners.</p><p>&ldquo;But he&rsquo;ll handle player discipline, use the players he wants to use without any interference from us, make minor trades, loans and recalls and things like that.</p><p>&ldquo;As long as I feel that the hockey club is a playoff club, then that club should be in the playoffs if Dick&rsquo;s a good coach. I happen to think he is a good coach. I&rsquo;ve never told him that if the Amerks don&rsquo;t make the playoffs he&rsquo;s out&hellip;but I think Dick Gamble is enough of a man that if he has a decent club and doesn&rsquo;t make it, he wouldn&rsquo;t want to come back.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Gamble Given Added GM Role In Vote Of Confidence Move

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Nov. 25)</b></p><h3>EAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02530/3771320-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="566" height="169"></div><h3>WEST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03416/3771313-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="569" height="168"></div><p>Affiliations: 1. Montreal. 2. Detroit. 3. Boston. 7. Los Angeles 9. Californio. 10. Philadelphia. 11. Minnesota. 13. Vancouver).</p><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues. Nov. 17</b></p><p>Springfield 3 at Montreal 1</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 18</b></p><p>Quebec 5 of Hershey 3</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 19</b></p><p>Springfield 1 at Montreal 7</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Quebec 1 at Cleveland 5</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>Quebec 2 at Baltimore 2</p><p>Montreal 0 at Cleveland 4</p><p>Springfield 2 at Hershey 6</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Quebec 2 at Providence 8</p><p>Montreal 4 at Rochester 4</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Wed. Nov. 25</b></p><p>Cleveland at Hershey</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 26</b></p><p>Springfield 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><p><b>Sat. Nov. 28</b></p><p>Springfield at Cleveland</p><p>Rochester at Hershey</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 29</b></p><p>Hershey at Cleveland</p><p>Montreal at Providence</p><p>Baltimore at Quebec</p><p>Springfield at Rochester</p><p><b>Mon. Nov. 30</b></p><p>Baltimore vs Montreal</p><p>(At Halifax)</p><p><b>Wed. Dec. 2</b></p><p>Quebec at Cleveland</p><p>Baltimore vs Montreal</p><p>(At Halifax)</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 4</b></p><p>Rochester at Montreal</p><p>Cleveland at Providence</p><p>Hershey at Quebec</p><p>Baltimore at Springfield</p><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><p><b>(Including games of Sun. Nov. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04355/3771306-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="575" height="603"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05292/3771299-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="568" height="452"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Looking At AHL Race

<div class="byline">BY BOB ELMER</div><p>BALTIMORE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>O</span>ne of the more interesting aspects of this year&rsquo;s Baltimore Clippers hockey club is the presence of two American born youths on the squad. That would be left winger John Cunniff and defenseman Jim Niekamp.</p><p>Both of these boys played with the Cleveland Barons last winter and enjoyed highly successful campaigns. The Boston-born Cunniff was one of the Barons&rsquo; top point producers with a 26-17&mdash;43 log, while lanky Jim Niekamp, who came out of the midwestern section of the USA, proved a tower of strength on the Cleveland defense after missing a good part of the early going with a leg injury.</p><p>A third American-born Clipper stalwart is learning the ropes in the amateur ranks. Pete Christian, 20-year-old left wing prospect out of Boston is spending the season with the Long Island Ducks.</p><p>Players and fans alike are high on both Cunniff and Niekamp. They still belong to the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; organization (which sent them to Cleveland last year, and to Baltimore this winter), and must be rated as prime prospects off their early season showing.</p><p>Currently sidelined with an injured back, Cunniff, a quiet, spoken Irishman with a big wide Hibernian smile, is the club&rsquo;s third leading scorer. Prior to his injury in Montreal two weeks ago, Cunniff was setting a fast offensive pace on the port side of center Fred Speck and right winger Wayne Rivers.</p><p>Niekamp is one of those rare American athletes who was a good football prospect but liked hockey better. He was a linebacker at Henry Ford High in Detroit, but always considered himself as being too light, and besides, he preferred the flashing skates to the frozen football cleats.</p><p>Niekamp turned pro with Fort Worth in the Central League having signed with the Red Wings. He played two years under Ferny Flaman and then last winter with Jack Gordon at Cleveland.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

American Stars Aid Clippers

<div class="byline">BY JOHN ARNOLD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01488/3771375-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="796" height="1062"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN DEC. 11 ISSUE</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1&mdash;Pictured player.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of one of the North Stars.</p><p>7&mdash;1956-57 Lady Byng trophy winner.</p><p>11&mdash;A San Diego forward.</p><p>12&mdash;Broken bones do this.</p><p>14&mdash;First name of Fonteyne.</p><p>15&mdash;Body of water.</p><p>16&mdash;Skating requisite.</p><p>19&mdash;A Philadelphia center answers to this.</p><p>21&mdash;Billiard requisite.</p><p>22&mdash;Negative reply.</p><p>23&mdash;Initials of an NHL center.</p><p>24&mdash;A former NHL defenseman.</p><p>25&mdash;Initials of one of the Hawks.</p><p>26&mdash;This Ranger hails front Montreal.</p><p>31&mdash;One of the Portland Buckaroos.</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1&mdash;1957-58 Calder trophy winner.</p><p>2&mdash;A WHL veteran.</p><p>3&mdash;No. (fr.)</p><p>4&mdash;A Kansas City goaltender.</p><p>5&mdash;One of the Blues answers to this.</p><p>8&mdash;Period of time.</p><p>9&mdash;Initials of a San Diego forward.</p><p>10&mdash;former Leaf captain.</p><p>13&mdash;A recent Buffalo addition.</p><p>17&mdash;A Montreal farmhand.</p><p>18&mdash;Sam as 9 down.</p><p>20&mdash;Boutin answers to this.</p><p>24&mdash;A Rochester forward.</p><p>25&mdash;Ronson of San Diego answers to this.</p><p>27&mdash;An NHL city, (abbr.)</p><p>28&mdash;2nd and 21st letters of the alphabet.</p><p>29&mdash;Initials of one of the Blues.</p><p>30&mdash;One of the Kings.</p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1&mdash;SANDERSON</p><p>6&mdash;ONE.</p><p>7&mdash;ASSISTS.</p><p>10&mdash;ALGER</p><p>11&mdash;AT.</p><p>12&mdash;ARE.</p><p>13&mdash;I.R.</p><p>14&mdash;ERA.</p><p>15&mdash;TOE.</p><p>16&mdash;LEACH.</p><p>16&mdash;T.K.</p><p>19&mdash;LH.</p><p>20&mdash;ENIO.</p><p>21&mdash;ELLIS.</p><p>23&mdash;SCHMIDT.</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1&mdash;ST. MARSEILLE.</p><p>2&mdash;NIAGARA FALLS.</p><p>3&mdash;SOS.</p><p>4&mdash;ONTARIO</p><p>5&mdash;NESTERENKO.</p><p>8&mdash;S.E.</p><p>9&mdash;S.R.</p><p>15&mdash;T.H.</p><p>17&mdash;CHIC.</p><p>IS&mdash;TIED.</p><p>22&mdash;S.H.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div><p>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Kings will have to win some on the road and throw their weight around if they hope to make any headway in the American Hockey League race this season. The club did not get off as fast this term as last season and it could hurt.</p><p>No one knows about these faults better than Coach John Wilson, who was a rough and rugged body-checker in his playing days. He is working, prodding and coaxing his men to be tough on the ice. The club needs added muscle on defense if it is going to go anywhere.</p><p>&ldquo;We have to get some hitting out there,&rdquo; Wilson stated, &ldquo;if we are going to win some games. This is especially true on the road. A club has to win away from home to take the pressure off the team at home. No team can win all its games on home ice.&rdquo;</p><p>Some teams rarely win away from home. Strangely the high riding Boston Bruins are no bargain on the road in their own division against established clubs The Providence Reds used to have a horrible away record. It has improved.</p><p>&ldquo;We have some good sized boys on the squad,&rdquo; Wilson went on, &ldquo;so there is no reason why some of them can&rsquo;t throw their weight around. Many are newcomers to pro ranks. It&rsquo;s going to take time. But meanwhile, lack of hitting is costing us some wins.&rdquo;</p><p>Dunc Rousseau came to Springfield from Dayton of the International League with a fine reputation as a hard checker and tough guy. He has done his job along with John Healey, another rugged kid who is not afraid to mix it up. Defenseman Ray Fortin also deals out solid checks on defense but has been injured.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02361/3771406-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="555" height="762"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>REAL LEMIEUX&hellip;Leads Offense</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to see some of the other players get a little more aggressive on defense,&rdquo; Wilson stated. &ldquo;Guys like Jim Stanfield, Wayne Lachance, Al McDonough and Jim Mikkelson have to check more consistently if we are going to make any headway with this team.&rdquo;</p><p>The club has been getting good scoring efforts from ex-NHL star Real Lemieux who leads the club in this department. Rousseau and McDonough also pot their share of goals. In fact, that has been the best part of the team. They can score goals. Now if they can toughen up on defense and &ldquo;psyche up&rdquo; on the road and win a few, the Kings will be trouble in the AHL.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Wilson Wants Kings To Show More Muscle In Road Play

<h2>MANITOBA JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Fri. Nov. 20)</b></p><h3>SOUTH DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01330/3771507-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="579" height="169"></div><h3>NORTH DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-02225/3771500-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="569" height="174"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-03148/3771493-1-eng-US/f0021-032.jpg" title="f0021-03" width="577" height="427"></div><h2>NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Fri. Nov. 13)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-04114/3771486-1-eng-US/f0021-042.jpg" title="f0021-04" width="572" height="236"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0682/3771479-1-eng-US/f0021-062.jpg" title="f0021-06" width="570" height="276"></div><h2>MICHIGAN JUNIOR LEAGUE</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/f0021-0770/3771472-1-eng-US/f0021-072.jpg" title="f0021-07" width="565" height="243"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0866/3771465-1-eng-US/f0021-082.jpg" title="f0021-08" width="571" height="251"></div><h2>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 17)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0955/3771458-1-eng-US/f0021-092.jpg" title="f0021-09" width="569" height="203"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-1045/3771451-1-eng-US/f0021-102.jpg" title="f0021-10" width="571" height="355"></div><h2>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Fri. Nov. 20)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-1135/3771444-1-eng-US/f0021-112.jpg" title="f0021-11" width="572" height="298"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><p><b>(Including games of Tues. Nov. 10)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-1225/3771437-1-eng-US/f0021-122.jpg" title="f0021-12" width="569" height="574"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOW THEY STAND

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>oach Frank Mathers decided to shake up the troops in early November. It turned out to be a good move. The Hershey Bears began winning some battles.</p><p>On Nov. 7 Mathers juggled all three forward lines in an effort to get new scoring punch. In the previous nine AHL games before the drastic moves, the Bears.were playing in and out hockey, showing a 44-1 record with only 19 goals for and 24 against.</p><p>Four games after the switch, Hershey found itself tied for second place with Cleveland in the tough West Division race, seven points behind coach Terry Reardon&rsquo;s high-flying Baltimore Clippers.</p><p>What was more important, however, the Bears looked like a different outfit.</p><p>In the short four game span with the &ldquo;new look&rsquo;&rsquo; arrangement, Hershey&rsquo;s forwards had drilled in 19 goals&mdash;the same amount it had taken them the nine previous games to muster. With a 2-1-1 record in the four games, Hershey had allowed the opposition only 11 goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-1323/3771538-1-eng-US/f0021-132.jpg" title="f0021-13" width="239" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Art Quoquochi</b></figcaption></div><p>Mathers stationed wingers Michel Harvey and rookie Frank spring withBears captain and center Mike Nykoluk. The line delivered seven goals, 12 assists for 19 points in 240 minutes.</p><p>Bobby Leiter, one of the AHL&rsquo;s sharp veteran centers, had Stan Gilbertson and Ted Snell as his wingmen. This trio clicked for five goals and six assists.</p><p>For 2-1/3 games until Gil Gilbert was injured, his line of Larry McKillop and Bud Debrody produced five goals and a like number of assists. Then rookie Art Quoquochi stepped in to Gilbert&rsquo;s spot in the first period of a Nov. 11 game against Montreal and the line clicked for eight points. Quoquochi drilled in a pair of third period goals against the Voyageurs to break up a close match and give Hershey a 6-3 victory.</p><p>Gilbert hurt his neck muscles when he took a header into the boards in the Montreal game. He&rsquo;s not expected to be sidelined too long. Ross Webley is still hampered with an ankle injury, but should be ready to return to action soon.</p><p>Goal Andre Gill backstopped the club to wins over Providence and Montreal before rookie Dan Bouchard came on to give Gill a rest for a key match against Baltimore Nov. 14 when a standing room crowd of 7,586 jammed the Sports Arena.</p><p>It was a rugged, bruising contest which wound up in a 1-1 stard-off and Bouchard, who turned in 44 stops, saved the issue in the waning seconds, fending off Marc Dufour&rsquo;s shot on a breakaway.</p><p>Nvkoluk picked up an assist in the game to jack his career point total to 804, deadlocking him with Bill Sweeney, ex-Springfield star, as the AHL&rsquo;s sixth all-time high scorer. Nykoluk needs only 26 more points to move past Harry Pidhirny, another former Springfield skater. yvho closed out his career with 829 points, fourth highest of alltime.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bears Roll With Mathers’ ‘New Look’

<div class="byline">BY DOUG McCONNELL</div><p>SAN DIEGO&mdash;</p><p>Nothing is certain except death and taxes and Al Nicholson scoring 20 goals in a Western Hockey League season.</p><p>Big Nick has topped the 20-goal mark for nine straight seasons. Although he scored 25, 28, 22 and 28 in his four years with the San Diego Gulls, he has usually been a member of the third line.</p><p>Gull watchers wondered what the 34-year-old veteran leftwin ger would do if he was ever given an opportunity to skate with the big line.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-03238/3771569-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="262" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Nicholson</b></figcaption></div><p>They&rsquo;re getting their answer.</p><p>Nicholson, Bob Courcy and Gerry Goyer are making an early season shambles of the WHL scoring race, holding down first, second and fourth places.</p><p>Courcy leads in goals, with 16, and points, with 29. Goyer has a 7-18-25 mark and Nicholson, who fired four goals and two assists in the last four games, has 7-15&mdash;22.</p><p>Nicholson and Goyer are both 6-1 and 195 and since both adopted protective helmets this season, they are hard to tell apart. It doesn&rsquo;t matter. Both are dangerous.</p><p>The Nicholsons live year around in El Cajon, a San Diego suburb, and Al worked last summer for the club in program advertising sales.</p><p>Dick Proceviat, on a two-week emergency loan from St. Louis Blues farm club at Kansas City, has impressed everyone, including coach Max McNabb, with his work at defense.</p><p>The emergency developed when defenseman Jim Eagle was put on waivers, along with center Warren Hynes, and Irv Spencer&rsquo;s return to the lineup was delayed a couple of weeks.</p><p>Spencer separated his shoulder in training camp and also chipped the bone and tore ligaments and muscle.</p><p>Meanwhile, the Phoenix Roadrunners braked to a halt on a six-game losing streak with back-to-back victories in successive nights over the Golden Eagles in Salt Lake City and the San Diego Gulls in Phoenix.</p><p>Still attempting to overcome a slow start and an overly light pre-season schedule, the Roadrunners still have just one permanent forward unit&mdash;Larry Lund&rsquo;s Go Go Line with Frank Hughes and Andy Hinse, which has been together since early last season.</p><p>Nine of the 21 players currently on the Roadrunner roster were not with the club at training camp. Most notable additions have been defensemen Gerry Odrowski, purchased from the California Golden Seals, Howie Young, on loan from the Vancouver Canucks, and rookie Al Beaule on loan from the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Beaule, an all-star at Dayton of the International HockeyLeague the past two seasons, scored his first two goals in pro hockey in the victory over San Diego.</p><p>Adding speed and aggressiveness to the forward lines are Bob Dillabough, bought from Vancouver. and Wayne Hicks, gained in a trade with Salt Lake City for goalie Rick Charron.</p><p>A pair of 34-year-old veterans, who had been counted on heavily, Milan Marcetta and Pat Hannigan, were placed on waivers.</p><p>Marcetta. who scored 34 goals for Phoenix last season, had only two goals and four assists in 12 games and declared his legs were gone.</p><p>Hannigan, who had one goal and two assists in 11 games, was hampered by a shoulder injury from last season and further slowed by a broken toe in training camp and a back injury in one of the early games.</p><p>In spite of their dismal record of just two wins in their first 12 games, the Roadrunners have averaged 5,223 for the first seven home games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Gulls’ New Hot Line Dominates Scoring

<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Nov. 25)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01360/3771607-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="576" height="174"></div><p><b>(Affiliations: 2. Detroit 4. New York 5. Chicago 6. Toronto 9. Los Angeles. 14. Buffalo)</b></p><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Wed. Nov. 18</b></p><p>Phoenix 2 at Salt Lake 4</p><p>Denver 1 at Seattle 7</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Denver 1 at Salt Lake 1</p><p>Phoenix 3 at Seattle 8</p><p>San Diego 3 at Portland 6</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>Salt Lake 4 at Denver 4</p><p>Phoenix 4 at Portland 4</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Salt Lake 3 at Son Diego 4</p><p>Phoenix 2 at Seattle 4</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Wed. Nov. 25</b></p><p>Denver at Phoenix</p><p>Salt Lake at San Diego</p><p>Portland at Seattle</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 27</b></p><p>Portland at Cenver</p><p>San Diego at Phoenix</p><p><b>Sat. Nov 28</b></p><p>Portland at Cenver</p><p>Phoenix at Son Diego</p><p>Salt Lake at Seattle</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 29</b></p><p>Portland at Phoenix</p><p><b>Wed. Dec. 2</b></p><p>San Diego at Cenver</p><p>Salt Lake at Portland</p><p><b>Thurs. Dec. 3</b></p><p>San Diego at Salt Lake</p><p>Seattle at Phoenix</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 4</b></p><p>Seattle at Denver</p><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><p><b>(Including games of Sun. Nov. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-02275/3771600-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="577" height="446"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Looking At NHL Race

<h2>Wed. Nov. 11 PORTLAND 2 at DENVER 7</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01339/3771701-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="587" height="657"></div><h2>SAN DIEGO 4 at SALT LAKE 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-02266/3771694-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="575" height="524"></div><h2>Thurs. Nov. 12 PORTLAND 4 at PHOENIX 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-03204/3771687-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="573" height="502"></div><h2>Fri. Nov. 13 SAN DIEGO 2 at DENVER 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-04162/3771680-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="578" height="430"></div><h2>PHOENIX 4 at SALT LAKE 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-05136/3771673-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg" title="f0023-05" width="578" height="502"></div><h2>Sat. Nov. 14 PORTLAND 1 at SALT LAKE 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-06121/3771666-1-eng-US/f0023-062.jpg" title="f0023-06" width="578" height="422"></div><h2>SAN DIEGO 3 at PHOENIX 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-07106/3771659-1-eng-US/f0023-072.jpg" title="f0023-07" width="576" height="573"></div><h2>DENVER 0 at SEATTLE 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0891/3771652-1-eng-US/f0023-082.jpg" title="f0023-08" width="585" height="367"></div><h2>Sun. Nov. 15 DENVER 6 at PORTLAND 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0976/3771645-1-eng-US/f0023-092.jpg" title="f0023-09" width="581" height="607"></div><h2>SAN DIEGO 7 at SEATTLE 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1065/3771638-1-eng-US/f0023-102.jpg" title="f0023-10" width="575" height="697"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WHL Summaries

<h2>NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2><p><b>(Standings on Thurs. Nov 19)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1152/3771767-1-eng-US/f0023-112.jpg" title="f0023-11" width="572" height="201"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1243/3771760-1-eng-US/f0023-122.jpg" title="f0023-12" width="571" height="426"></div><h2>ALBERTA HOCKEY LEAGUE</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/f0023-1337/3771753-1-eng-US/f0023-132.jpg" title="f0023-13" width="572" height="136"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1435/3771746-1-eng-US/f0023-142.jpg" title="f0023-14" width="571" height="279"></div><h2>SOUTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2><p><b>(Strandings on Fri. Nov. 20)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1527/3771739-1-eng-US/f0023-152.jpg" title="f0023-15" width="582" height="232"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1624/3771732-1-eng-US/f0023-162.jpg" title="f0023-16" width="570" height="280"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">BY JOHN WHITE</div><p>DENVER&mdash;</p><p>Well, it was a short coaching career&mdash;at least this time around&mdash;for Bill Dineen of the Denver Spurs.</p><p>After 10 games as skipper of the Rocky Mountain club, Dineen was replaced by veteran Coach Rudy Pilous</p><p>And it was back into uniform as an active player for Dineen.</p><p>Bennett King, president of the Spurs, made the announcement with the statement that, &ldquo;1 feel that Bill&rsquo;s experience and leadership qualities on the ice will be a tremendous asset to our club.&rdquo;</p><p>Dineen, at the time he was replaced, had piloted Denver to a 4-5-5 record and was coming off victories over Seattle and Phoenix by identical 3-1 scores.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1718/3771798-1-eng-US/f0023-172.jpg" title="f0023-17" width="266" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wayne Rutledge</b></figcaption></div><p>For Pilous, it simply was a question of returning to leadership at ice level. He already was general manager of the Spurs.</p><p>Whether because of the change or in spite of it, the Spurs promptly won two lost a 2-0 shutout in Seattle and tied one in their first four games under Pilous.</p><p>And the suspicion continues that Denver could prove the surprise club of the Western Hockey League.</p><p>Two victories in four games may not sound too impressive. But both triumphs&mdash;and that&rsquo;s what they were&mdash;were over the Portland Buckaroos.</p><p>The first, by a whopping 7-2 margin in Denver, snapped a Portland winning streak at seven in a row and handed the Buckaroos only their second loss in the first 12 games of the season.</p><p>Well, maybe the powerful Buckaroos had an off night.</p><p>So the teams clashed four nights later in Portland&rsquo;s Memorial Coliseum.</p><p>The largest crowd of the season was on hand to cheer the Buckaroos.</p><p>Final score: Denver 6, Portland 1.</p><p>And just one other little note.</p><p>In those 7-2 and 6-1 victories, the Spurs ac tually sniped 13 consecutive unanswered goals, against the Buckaroos.</p><p>No other team in history ever did that to a</p><p>Portland hockey club.</p><p>Getting the idea? That the Spurs could be a title contender the rest of the way?</p><p>So what was doing it?</p><p>For one thing, Denver&rsquo;s defense suddenly tightened up unbelievably.</p><p>In their first 12 games, the Spurs gave up 45 goals&mdash;an average of 3.75 a contest. That&rsquo;s not horrendous by any means, but it&rsquo;s seldom going to win you any championship.</p><p>In their next six games&mdash;which produced four victories, a tie and only one loss&mdash;the Spurs gave up only nine goals.</p><p>That&rsquo;s an average of 1.50 a game. And that kind of defensive play is going to win titles.</p><p>Goaltender Wayne Rutledge, for example, owned a goals-against average after seven games of 3.80.</p><p>Then he returned to his form of two years back with the Los Angeles Kings. And after 12 games he was down to 2.83 in the nets to rank with the Western League leaders.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Spurs React To New Coaching Toppling Mighty Bucks Twice

<div class="byline">BY BOB LINDLEY</div><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Stroot, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Stroot, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>OMAHA&mdash;</p><p>Jake Milford, Knights&rsquo; general manager, is going to trade his crystal ball in on a newer model. The old one finally gave him a bad scoop.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not going to be as strong offensively,&rdquo; Milford said before the season&rsquo;s first puck was dropped. &ldquo;We just don&rsquo;t have the goal-scoring potential we had last season.&rdquo;</p><p>So what happens? The Knights blast off offensively at such a hot pace that they could conceivably surpass the CHL record of 311 set by the 1963-64 Omaha club. In their first 14 contests the Knights were averaging 4.5 goals per outing.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01348/3771829-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="265" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hank Monteith</b></figcaption></div><p>Ringleaders are veterans Pierre Jarry, Tom Miller, Gerry Ouellette and Mike Parizeau, who between them accounted for 34 of the club&rsquo;s first 61 goals. Jarry, whom Milford predicted would get more than 40 goals this season, was well on his way with 12 in 14 games. Parizeau and Miller each had eight and Ouellette six. Ouellette also had a dozen assists and was the CHL scoring leader.</p><p>Milford credits coach Freddie Shero for making his crystal ball obsolete.</p><p>&ldquo;Shero is one of the best coaches in hockey,&rdquo; Milford said. &ldquo;Look at his record. He&rsquo;s molded winners everywhere he&rsquo;s coached. He knows how to get the most out of his players.&rdquo;</p><p>Shero modestly denies he&rsquo;s responsible for all of it.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m just a spectator,&rdquo; he says.</p><p>The Knights were in first place after 14 games despite playing 10 of them on the road, and the prospect of Omaha having a schedule advantage from here on out has other coaches flinching.</p><p>And that&rsquo;s what enemy goalies are doing a lot of&mdash;flinching.</p><p><b>FORT WORTH:&mdash;</b> Addition of veteran left winger Hank Monteith gave the Wings a tremendous offensive shot in the arm. Coach Doug Barkley put him on line with center Ron Walters and right winger Tom Martin and goal production of both suddenly picked up, Martin getting six in first seven games, with Monteith and Walters adding four in same span. Wings&rsquo; great penalty killing streak finally broken by Oklahoma City. Wings had gone seven games and two periods without allowing power play goal, stretch that included successfully killing 36 consecutive penalties.</p><p><b>DALLAS:&mdash;</b> Hawks got talented center Larry Romanchych from Chicago and he immediately scored goals in the first three games he played. But shaky goaltending and ragged defense left Hawks with only one win despite the barrage. Don Gordon continues to set goal scoring pace with nine in first nine games. Dan Lodboa, who didn&rsquo;t get initial goal until fourth game of season, knocked home six in next five contests. Center J.P. Bordeleau back off injury list and playing extremely well. Rookie Dave Hudson also impressive.</p><p><b>TULSA:</b>&mdash;Bob Liddington returned and coach Marcel Pronovost hopes his presence will turn things around for the struggling Oilers. If results of his first game are an indication, Tulsa may be on its way out of mysterious slump. In Liddington&rsquo;s initial contest, Oilers erupted for five goals in final period to down Dallas 8-7 in free-wheeling game. Rene Robert, who at one stage led the CHL in goals with six, broke out of slump and shows eight in 11 tilts. Doug Brindley had six for same span. Ron Lowe on loan from Jacksonville of EHL to fill in for departed goalie Murray McLachlan who was on call to Toronto.</p><p><b>KANSAS CITY:</b>&mdash;Tom Earl, rookie winger from Colgate University, became first &ldquo;hat tricker&rdquo; in CHL with three-goal burs in middle period of Nov. 14 gar against Tulsa. Tom also got and assist as Blues won 5-1. Goalie Ted Ouimet sent down from St. Louis to replace injured Gary Edwards, who&rsquo;ll be out for at least a month with shoulder injury. St. Louis probably will call up Robbie Irons from Kaycee, leaving coach Camille Henry with Ouimet and rookie Michel Plasse. Earl&rsquo;s hat trick tied him with veteran center Ron Buchanan for goal-scoring lead on Blues with five in 11 games. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re hurting offensively,&rdquo; Henry lamented. &ldquo;I need a right winger who can score goals&hellip;and a left winger&hellip;and a center.&rdquo; Promising rookie Curt Bennett bothered by sore back and ailing knees.</p><p><b>AMARILLO:&mdash;</b> Inexperience taking its toll with young Wranglers, who won only one of first 10 games, getting two ties and seven setbacks to fall into CHL cellar. Coach Rudy Migay hoping one of his rookies will blossom into offensive leader, but no one stepping forward to take charge. Rick Kessell and Steve Cardwell managed four goals each in 10 games. Pittsburgh helped Wranglers by sending Rod Zaine down to the CHL on option.</p><p><b>OKLAHOMA CITY:&mdash;</b> Veteran center-defenseman Dick Cherry lit a fuse to the Blazers&rsquo; dynamite offense and team exploded for 20 goals in four-game span, getting five in each. Cherry notched five in three-game stretch, mostly on power plays, and he and veteran Brian Bradley combine to give Blazers awesome power play. Gregg Sheppard led club with eight goals in first 13 games, but Don Tannahill (six goals) catching up in a hurry.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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New Knights Already Blasting Ice Rivals; Monteith, Romanchych Return To CHL Clubs

<h2>Sun. Nov. 8 OKLAHOMA CITY 2 AT FORT WORTH 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02273/3771909-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="576" height="640"></div><h2>Tues. Nov. 10 OMAHA 4 at TULJA 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-03192/3771902-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="580" height="599"></div><h2>Wed., Nov. 11 OMAHA 3 at DALLAS 7</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-04146/3771895-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="579" height="701"></div><h2>TULSA 0 at FORT WORTH 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-05113/3771888-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="581" height="224"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0698/3771881-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="574" height="277"></div><h2>Fri. Nov. 13 OMAHA 4 at AMARILLO 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0783/3771874-1-eng-US/f0024-072.jpg" title="f0024-07" width="584" height="713"></div><h2>KANSAS CITY 4 at TULSA 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1064/3771867-1-eng-US/f0024-102.jpg" title="f0024-10" width="588" height="702"></div><h2>OKLAHOMA CITY 5 at FORT WORTH 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0878/3771860-1-eng-US/f0024-082.jpg" title="f0024-08" width="576" height="576"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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CHL Summaries

<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Nov. 25</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0971/3771947-1-eng-US/f0024-092.jpg" title="f0024-09" width="589" height="273"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Tues. Nov. 17</b></p><p>Tulsa 5 at Dallas 6</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 18</b></p><p>Amarillo 2 at Kansas City 4</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Oklahoma City 5 at Amarillo 6</p><p>Fort Worth 2 at Dallas 4</p><p>Kansas City 3 at Omaha 6</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>Amarillo 2 at Oklahoma City 9</p><p>Dallas 2 at Kansas City 4</p><p>Fort Worth 4 at Tulsa 2</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Dallas 5 at Oklahoma City 6</p><p>Tulsa 7 at Omaha 4</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Wed. Nov. 25</b></p><p>Amarillo at Dallas</p><p>Fort Worth at Omaha</p><p>Oklahoma City at Kansas City</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 26</b></p><p>Oklahoma City at Tulsa</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 27</b></p><p>Dallas at Amarillo</p><p>Fort Worth at Kansas City</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 28</b></p><p>Kansas City at Amarillo</p><p>Fort Worth at Omaha</p><p>Tulsa at Oklahoma City</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 29</b></p><p>Kansas City at Oklahoma City</p><p>Omaha at Tulsa</p><p><b>Tues. Dec. 1</b></p><p>Amarillo at Fort Worth</p><p>Tulsa at Dallas</p><p>Omaha at Oklahoma City</p><p><b>Wed. Dec. 2</b></p><p>Oklahoma City at Kansas City</p><p><b>Thurs. Dec. 3</b></p><p>Omaha at Fort Worth</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 4</b></p><p>Oklahoma City at Amarillo</p><p>Fort Worth at Tulsa</p><p>Omaha at Kansas City</p><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1162/3771940-1-eng-US/f0024-112.jpg" title="f0024-11" width="574" height="372"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><p>GREENSBORO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>f the Greensboro Generals are going to show improvement in their current gait, it has to be from its third or rookie line in their inaugural Eastern Hockey League season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0866/3771978-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="266" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gary Brown</b></figcaption></div><p>Charlottes great-start has been helped by the outstanding play of its rookie line, and Green boro skipper, Ron Spong would like to emulate that success with his own trio of youngsters. So far his trio of Jeff Nicholson, Brian Randall and John Cowley has shown the potential but has yet to hit the heights of Charlotte&rsquo;s threesome.</p><p>Spong in his pre-season forecast figured that his rookies would have to come through due to the loss of some key operatives from last season. He has been working with the youngsters and has seen some daylight in their recent performances and figures that they will be improving throughout the campaign.</p><p>Meantime the mistakes they make will hurt the club but Spong hopes they won&rsquo;t be frequent and that the veterans can atone for the errors. The kids themselves believe they will improve as soon as they instinctively know each other&rsquo;s moves.</p><p>Nicholson says he and his cohorts were somewhat cautious in the early going, not knowing what to expect from EHL foes. They also weren&rsquo;t certain they were going to stick, so their main thrusts were on defense instead of thinking offensively.</p><p>&ldquo;We were working more on not allowing breakaway goals than on scoring ourselves,&rdquo; said Nicholson.</p><p>Spong is confident the trio will help the club and be effective in the latter stages of the southern race.</p><p><b>SALEM:</b> Roof of Civic Center leaked here to provide bad ice for game with Long Island. Paul Grills suspended when he refused to join another team and decided to stay here. Ray Schultz on injured list with bad ankle. Rebels will play Russians here Dec. 22 and at Hampton, Va. Dec. 24. Don Rozich new father of son. Colin Kilburn blasted Charlotte&rsquo;s John Van Horlick and Bob Shupe for their rough tactics.</p><p><b>LONG ISLAND:</b> John Brophy had his first brawl of the season when he tossed his stick at an official in Charlotte. Wayne Maxner&rsquo;s two goals gave Ducks first win at Greensboro in five years and second time in 12 years. Ducks sent Lars Hansen to Jersey when Pierre Farmer officially became available. Dan Creighton&rsquo;s back bothering him. Butch Morris posted hat trick at Jersey.</p><p><b>JACKSONVILLE:</b> New defenseman Al Young from Tulsa has joined Rockets. Gerald Paquette ott disabled list. Red Bownass also acquired Gary Brown from Tulsa. Roger Bamburak&rsquo;s goal nipped New Haven. Rockets have had tendency to suffer letdowns that enabled foes to post prolific scoring periods. Bownass infuriated over Nashville&rsquo;s rough play.</p><p><b>CLINTON:</b> Ted Tucker&rsquo;s first shutout over Johnstown came on the heels of a bad game against the same club. Don Davidson doing well since being shifted to defense. Dick Scammel activated to replace injured Pete Prevost. Pat Kelly would like to land a policeman-defenseman. Borden Smith has taken over club scoring lead. Kelly bothered by club&rsquo;s slow start and blames lack of desire for defeats.</p><p><b>CHARLOTTE:</b> Johnny Morrison&rsquo;s cracked ribs sidelined him. John Voss&rsquo; third shutout came against Long Island. Linesman Deryck Clark had to ref a game when official failed to show. Checkers loaned Tim McCormack to Syracuse for season. Checkers had 10-game non-losing streak. Cal Booth moved onto rookie line. Fred Creighton unhappy with team&rsquo;s goals compared to shots on goal.</p><p><b>JERSEY:</b> Devils&rsquo; third periods on WCAM radio with assistant GM John McAdams and Gene Hart spieling. GM Ross Turnbull read riot act to Devils before last period in game with Syracuse and club responded with four goals to win game. Wayne Kitchen off disabled list. Lars Hansen on loan from New Haven at defense. Ron McPherson, David Lee and Larry O&rsquo;Connor doing fine penalty killing job.</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN:</b> Kevin Morrison suspended for three games for his brawl at Clinton and fined $130. Norm Schmitz hobbled by kneee injury. Game postponed here due to ice problems. Blades had disastrous southern trip, getting one tie in five games. Billy Orr available after cut by Rochester, but Don Perry, heavy in defensemen, wanted to use him at forward. Rhubarb here over what will happen to Blades when AHL team comes here in two seasons.</p><p><b>SYRACUSE:</b> GM Bill Charles says Blazers could double last year&rsquo;s 83,000 attendance. Clem Boudreau loaned to Jacksonville for the negotiation rights to Wayne Horne who balked at Rockets salary offer. Rich Cloutier dropped. Brian Elwell tops club in scoring. Paul Lessard on injured list. Ray Adduono has ignited club&rsquo;s attack. Mike Pepin shifted to defense.</p><p><b>JOHNSTOWN: GM</b> John Mitchell ordered Reg Kent and Galen Head to lose weight. Goalie Bob Vroman pulled hamstring muscle while subbing for ill Jim Coombs. Gene Peacosh leading club scoring. Mitchell upset over Phil Watson&rsquo;s report to league on Blake Ball and ripped apart the Syracuse coach. Rick Loe&rsquo;s late goal tied Jersey. Dick Roberge shuffled lines to get some scoring punch.</p><p><b>NASHVILLE:</b> Dixie Flyers opposing Jacksonville in rights to Gary Brown. Club decided not to sign Wayne Clairmont unless he could be a fulltime player. Wally Sprange&rsquo;s hat trick topped New Haven. Flyers signed Dom Di-Berardino after he originally asked Salem for tryout following his release from Greensboro. Club picking up many more penalty minutes on road than at home. Pat O&rsquo;Bannion dropped. Junior Rick Lalonde added.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rookies Key For Greensboro; Salem Fates Russians Twite

<h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 24)</b></p><h3><b>NORTHERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01294/3772051-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="572" height="243"></div><h3><b>SOUTHERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-02216/3772044-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="560" height="202"></div><p><b>(Affiliations: 2. Detroit. 4. New York. 5. Chicago. 6. Toronto. 10. Philadelphia. 11. Minnesota x-independent.)</b></p><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Nov. 17</b></p><p>Long Island 1 at Syracuse 10</p><p>Salem 2 at Jacksonville 2</p><p>Nashville at Charlotte (postponed)</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 18</b></p><p>New Jersey 3 at New Haven 7</p><p>Nashville 3 at Greensboro 7</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 19</b></p><p>Clinton 2 at Syracuse 1</p><p>Jacksonville 4 at Salem 6</p><p>Nashville at Greensboro (postponed)</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Johnstown 1 at Clinton 1</p><p>Syracuse 8 at Long Island 3</p><p>New Haven 4 at New Jersey 4</p><p>Jacksonville 2 at Charlotte 1</p><p>Salem at Nashville (postponed)</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>Syracuse 1 at Clinton 3</p><p>New Jersey 3 at Long Island 8</p><p>New Haven 5 at Johnstown 5</p><p>Salem 6 at Greensboro 8</p><p>Chorlotte 7 at Jacksonville 2</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Clinton 0 at New Haven 6</p><p>Long Island 3 at Johnstown 3</p><p>Greensboro 6 at Jacksonville 3</p><p>Charlotte at Nashville (postponed)</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Tues. Nov. 24</b></p><p>Nashville at Charlotte Syracuse at Jacksonville</p><p><b>Wed. Nov. 25</b></p><p>Long Island at New Haven Clinton at Johnstown</p><p>Salem at Jacksonville</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 26</b></p><p>Clinton at Long Island New Jersey at Johnstown</p><p>Greensboro at Salem 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</p><p>(At St. Petersburg)</p><p>Salem at Charlotte</p><p>Syracuse at Greensboro</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 28</b></p><p>Johnstown at Clinton</p><p>New Haven at Long</p><p>Island Jacksonville at Nashville</p><p>Charlotte at Greensboro</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 29</b></p><p>Clinton at New Faven</p><p>Long Island at Johnstown</p><p>Syracuse at Salem</p><p>Greensboro at Nashville</p><p><b>Tues. Dec. 1</b></p><p>Syracuse at Charlotte</p><p>Jacksonville at Nashville</p><p><b>Wed. Dec. 2</b></p><p>New Hoven at New</p><p>Jersey Nashville at Greensboro</p><p><b>Thurs. Dec. 3</b></p><p>Jacksonville at Salem Nashville at Greensboro</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 4</b></p><p>Clinton at Syracuse</p><p>Johnstown at Long</p><p>Island New Haven at New Jersey</p><p>Jacksonville at Charlotte</p><p>Salem at Nashville</p><h2><b>NEW YORK METRO 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/f0025-03148/3772037-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="573" height="170"></div><h3><b>EASTERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-04115/3772030-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="563" height="170"></div><h3><b>WESTERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0596/3772023-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="568" height="305"></div><h2><b>CENTRAL JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>Standings on Thurs. Nov. 19)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0678/3772016-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="566" height="189"></div><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0774/3772009-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="585" height="263"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01299/3772096-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="526" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL HEADLEY&hellip;First Shutout</b></figcaption></div><p>FLINT&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>lint&rsquo;s stonewall defense, which is given credit for vaulting the Generals to the top of the International Hockey League, caved in temporarily when they met their arch rivals at Port Huron and lost by a whopping 7-0.</p><p>However, Flint&rsquo;s closest pursuers, the Muskegon Mohawks and Des Moines Oak Leafs, failed to take the opportunity to close in on the IHL leaders, who after the Port Huron debacle and ensuing games, were still leading the league race.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02243/3772089-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="270" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marc Boileau</b></figcaption></div><p>Muskegon had pulled up only one point behind and the Oak Leafs were trailing by two. But the Generals regrouped their forces and held off the Leafs by trouncing them, 7-0, while the Mohawks were suffering a narrow defeat at Dayton, 3-2.</p><p>Flint&rsquo;s one-sided defeat by Port Huron Flags was one of the surprises of the early season, in view of the tight defense habitually thrown out by the Generals. They are by far the outstanding defensive club in the league, with a goals-against total of 37 for an average of 2.4. And that includes the seven goals given up to the Flags. Muskegon&rsquo;s goals-against total of 43 was nearest to the Generals.</p><p>It was the Generals&rsquo; worst performance of the season and rivalled anything last year when</p><p>they occupied the IHL cellar. Except for a 12-3 defeat by Columbus last Dec. 28, the seven-goal margin was the most one-sided setback ever suffered by the Gens in two campaigns. It was likewise their first shutout in 33 games, dating back to last Feb. 7, when Gleen Ramsay of Toledo blanked them, 3-0.</p><p>In analyzing his team&rsquo;s play, Coach Ken Hodge said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a firm believer in playing defense and letting your scoring chances take care of themselves. I think eventually the other team&rsquo;s going to make a mistake that will allow you to score. At least, that kind of style has paid off for-us.&rdquo;</p><p>Flint&rsquo;s lead was a precarious one and the league continued to look like anyone&rsquo;s in the weeks to come. The Des Moines Oak Leafs, who appeared to have the top personnel, at least on paper, were playing inconsistently. They improved their position with three straight wins over Fort Wayne, all by one goal, then were tied by the Komets and flattened by Flint. Muskegon&rsquo;s Mohawks, like all IHL clubs, were having trouble winning on the road. Fort Wayne&rsquo;s Komets following a winless streak of four games in which they were outscored by a total of three goals, broke the slump by trimming Port Huron, 4-1.</p><p><b>FORT WAYNE:&mdash;</b> Veteran Marc Boileau was named interim coach of the Komets while Ken Ullyot was sitting out a 30-day suspension, plus a $1,000 fine&hellip;Bob Channell, left wing, was lost for at least six weeks with a broken ankle&hellip;Defenseman Terry Pembroke was sitting out with a groin injury&hellip;The K&rsquo;s took on a new forward, Ray Boyko, from the Western League, recommended by Ray Brunel&hellip;The Komets drew 9,658 for their first back-to-back games Friday and Saturday and 8,010 for the following set.</p><p><b>PORT HURON:&mdash;</b> Bob Howard, former defenseman turned right winger, scored four goals in a 9-2 defeat of Muskegon&hellip;Coach Ted Garvin, fined $200 for entering the referees&rsquo; dressing room to protest, had a rubber band attached to his towel to bring it back off the ice&hellip;John Roy, touted as a hard-hitting defenseman, came in from the Thompson, Man., senior team, recommended by the Detroit Red Wings&hellip;Goalie Phil Headley posted his first regular-season shutout in three years in blanking Flint, 7-0&hellip;Dave Gorman, last year&rsquo;s leading Flag scorer, left the team for home and a week to decide his future.</p><p><b>DAYTON:&mdash;</b> The Gems were seeking to make a deal with Amarillo of the Central League to get Dave Simpson, who played here last-season at defense and left wing&hellip;Lome Weighill, out with a series of injuries, was slated to play his first game of the season&hellip;Brian Vescio was placed on waivers and passed up by the other six teams&hellip;Dayton attendance for the first seven home games was 26,689 for an average of 3,812.</p><p><b>TOLEDO:&mdash;</b> HalWhite, who had a five-goal game earlier in the season, had a hat trick against Dayton, then was</p><p>stopped without a point by Muskegon after scoring in six straight games&hellip;The Hornets broke a five-game streak without a victory by beating Dayton, 53&hellip;The Hornets won an exhibition game from Port Huron, 9-4, played at Columbus before 3,765&hellip;Bert DeHate, rookie center from the University of Wisconsin, was placed on waivers&hellip;When the Hornets lost to Muskegon it marked the ninth time they have failed to beat the Hawks in a regular-season game.</p><p><b>MUSKEGON:-</b> Andre Pronovost returned to action for the first time since his injury in Fort Wayne Oct. 30&hellip;Lyle Carter, who had shutout against Des Moines, had a scoreless string of 94 minutes, 27 seconds snapped by Len Fontaine of Port Huron&hellip;Bob Tombari was the Mohawks leading scorer, with Bob Smith close behind.</p><p><b>DES MOINES:&mdash;</b> The Oak Leafs captured five of their first six games at home&hellip;Jean Losier, who once played for Fort Wayne, had a hat trick to beat the Komets, 6-5&hellip;Luc Tessier was out with a broken finger and John Ferguson was brought back with the Leafs&hellip;Nelson LeClair was under orders from Terry Slater to shed 13 pounds in two weeks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03203/3772082-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="538" height="862"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB HOWARD&hellip;On Scoring Spree</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Flint Defense Slips But Gens Keep Lead

<h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed. Nov. 25)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-04156/3772148-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="575" height="269"></div><p><b>(Affiliations: 1. Montreal. 2. Detroit. 3. Boston. 5. Chicago. 9. Callifornia-x-independent.)</b></p><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p>Wed Nov. 18</p><p>Port Huron 4 at Toledo 6</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Flint 5 at Toledo 2</p><p>Dayton 7 at Des Moines 2</p><p>Fort Wayne 1 at Muskegon 2</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 21</b></p><p>Dayton 2 at Des Moines 7</p><p>Port Huron 2 at Fort Wayne 5</p><p>Flint 3 at Muskegon 4</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 22</b></p><p>Muskegon 6 at Fort Wayne 1</p><p>Port Huron 1 at Flint 3</p><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3><p><b>Wed. Nov. 25</b></p><p>Muskegon at Toledo</p><p>Fort Wayne at Flint</p><p>Des Moines at Dayton</p><p>Thurs. Nov. 26</p><p>Flint at Port Huron</p><p>Des Moines at Muskegon</p><p>Toledo at Fort Wayne</p><p><b>Sat. Nov. 28</b></p><p>Flint at Toledo</p><p>Dayton at Fort Wayne</p><p>Port Huron at Muskegon</p><p><b>Sun. Nov. 29</b></p><p>Fort Wayne at Dayton</p><p>Toledo at Flint</p><p>Muskegon at Port Huron</p><p><b>Tues. Dec. 1</b></p><p>Fort Wayne at Des Moines</p><p><b>Wed. Dec. 2</b></p><p>Fort Wayne at Des Moines Flint at Dayton</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 4</b></p><p>Des Moines at Port</p><p>Huron Muskegon at Toledo</p><h2><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun. Nov. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-05124/3772141-1-eng-US/f0026-052.jpg" title="f0026-05" width="578" height="705"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 23)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0695/3772134-1-eng-US/f0026-062.jpg" title="f0026-06" width="572" height="370"></div><h2><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun. Nov. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0784/3772127-1-eng-US/f0026-072.jpg" title="f0026-07" width="571" height="599"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>ST. CATHARINES&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s 14 months before the National Hockey League teams get together in Montreal for their annual meeting.</p><p>One of the most important items, as usual will be the draf or over-age junior players.</p><p>Already scouts are beginning to list the 19-year-old lads in order of merit.</p><p>Although only one-quarter of the vartious junior schedules have been completed there seems little doubt that, among the forwards at least, the choice will be between Marcel Dionne of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A St. Catharines Black Hawks and Guy Lafleur of the Quebec Junior League Quebec Ramparts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01279/3772200-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="258" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fred Muller</b></figcaption></div><p>Dionne scored 100 points in his rookie season three years ago, led the league in points with 132 on 55 goals and 77 assists last season and scored 26 goals in the first 17 games this year.</p><p>Lafleur scored a record 10 goals with Quebec in 1969-70 and already has 37 this season.</p><p>However the Quebec League is generally considered not quite as strong as the OHA even though both are classed in Tier One by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.</p><p>For this reason alone most NHL teams have drafted liberally from the OHA and last season Buffalo selected Gil Perreault no. 1 from Montreal (an OHA team) while Vancouver, which had the second selection, took Dale Tallon from Toronto Marlboros (also an OHA club).</p><p>Lafleur has told newsmen that it is his ambition to become the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft next summer and the youngster is taking dead aim at upsetting the draft addition&mdash;of picking the top man from the Ontario League.</p><p>There is little doubt that both Dionne and Lafleur will move directly into the NHL, especially as they will be drafted by the NHL teams crying for talent of their calibre.</p><p>Two other highly-ranked players in the graduating class are Bobby Lalonde and Richard Martin, both members of the Montreal Canadiens. Martin leads the Canadiens in scoring with 16 goals.</p><p>Defensively the choice seems to be between Jocelyn Guevremont of Montreal and Rick Cunningham who heads the strong, first place Peterborough defense corps.</p><p>Al Millar, who played briefly in the National Hockey League with Boston but spent most of his goaltending career in the minors, is now scouting for Buffalo Sabres and ranks John Garrett of Peterborough, George Hulme of St. Catharines and Michel Larocque as the top netminders in Eastern Canada.</p><p>&ldquo;Hulme and Larocque have excellent reflexes but Garrett plays the angles better,&rdquo; said Millar in a recent interview.</p><p>Unfortunately for budding goaltenders most NHL teams are well-staffed in the nets and despite the brilliance shown by the three mentioned by Millar they may finish well down the list in the draft as the NHL teams try to plug their weaknesses.</p><p>While Dionne streaked towards what could be his second successive points championship, St. Catharines gained little ground on first place Peterborough.</p><p>The Hawks put together a four-game win streak during the absence, through suspension of coach Frank Milne, then made it five in a row with a 4-3 win over Kitchener Rangers.</p><p>However their string of successes was halted in the Montreal Forum when they were beaten 65 on a late goal by Andre St. Laurent with less than four minutes to play.</p><p>The Hawks have had a singular lack of success in the Forum and have only one tie to show there in their last 19 league and playoff-games-stretching back to the 1967-68 season.</p><p>After having their 12-game undefeated streak ended by Ottawa, the Petes bounced back with wins over Oshawa (3-2) and Toronto (5-1) to protect their comfortable lead</p><p>Meanwhile Fred Muller and Fred Litzen are almost certainly the only two coaches in Canadian Junior A hockey who are undefeated and untied.</p><p>Barring another suspension to Milne they&rsquo;re going to keep their record intact.</p><p>Milne was set down four games after his players left the bench to join in a fight With Toronto Marlboros at Maple Leaf Gardens two weeks ago.</p><p>The Marlboros won that game 9-5 but with Muller behind the bench the last 24 minutes the Hawks outscored the Marlies 3-2.</p><p>Fred Litzen, the Hawks&rsquo; chief scout, handled the team in a 5-3 win over Kitchener Rangers but was unable to continue in that capacity as he had already scheduled a scouting trip to dig up new players.</p><p>Into the breach stepped Muller, a St. Catharines Junior A executive member of 11 years and club president the past five years and he proved to be even more successful.</p><p>Although his hockey background is limited, to put it mildly (he played one season of high school hockey in Grimsby, Ont.) Muller has been most successful in recruiting players for the Hawks.</p><p>On his own initiative he brought in players such as Bob Sheehan from Halifax, now playing with Montreal Voyageurs of the American Hockey League; Marcel Dionne from Drummondville. the 1969-70 Junior A points champion the leader again this year; Pierre Guite, a promising forward from Montreal; Mike Bloom from North Bay; Bob MacMillan from Prince Edward Island.</p><p>In Muller&rsquo;s first full game as coach the Hawks defeated the Generals 6-3 in Oshawa, followed that up 24 hours later with an 8-1 win in St. Catharines against Oshawa, then completed his brief coaching career with a 5-3 decision in London against the Knights.</p><p>Although obviously happy to have the opportunity of coaching so many of the players he had brought in, Muller was not reluctant when it came to turning the club back to Milne.</p><p>&ldquo;I never realized the pressure a coach is under,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Now I can appreciate their problems.&rdquo;</p><p>There&rsquo;s another angle too.</p><p>With a perfect record of three games and a total of 10 periods of winning hockey he&rsquo;s not about to tempt fate by carrying on.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be quite happy to go back to my regular seat in the stands,&rdquo; said the man who brought Junior A hockey back in a large way after assuming control of the team in 1966.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-02223/3772193-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="557" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUY LAFLEUR&hellip;Aiming High</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-03163/3772186-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="553" height="572"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MARCEL DIONNE&hellip;Inside Track</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-04126/3772179-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="553" height="572"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RICHARD MARTIN&hellip;Outside Hope</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0027-01

Dionne, Quebec’s Scoring Ace Lafleur Duelling For No. 1 NHL Draft Honor

<h2><b>ONTARIO MAJOR JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues. Nov. 24)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0598/3772238-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="568" height="362"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Mon. Nov. 16</b></p><p>St Catharines 5 af Montreal 6</p><p><b>Tues. Nov. 17</b></p><p>London 7 at Hamilton 5</p><p><b>Thurs. Nov. 19</b></p><p>Ottawa 7 at Hamilton 7</p><p>St. Catharines 2 at Peterborough 2</p><p><b>Fri. Nov. 20</b></p><p>Kitchener 4 at Niagara Falls 2</p><p>Montreal 4 at Toronto 3</p><p>Oshawa 2 at London 5</p><p><b>Sun Nov 22</b></p><p>Peterbough 1 at Montreal 4</p><p>Oshawa 5 at Toronto 7</p><p>London 9 at St. Catharines 3</p><p>Hamilton 5 at Ottawa 3</p><p>Niagara Falls 1 at Kitchener 4</p><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><p><b>(Including Games of Tues. Nov. 10)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0679/3772231-1-eng-US/f0027-062.jpg" title="f0027-06" width="568" height="378"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">BY DWAYNE NETLAND</div><p>TWIN CITIES&mdash;</p><p>So much was expected of him this season by the Minnesota fans and management, but for Bobby Rousseau, it has been an autumn of despair and disappointment.</p><p>Rousseau was obtained by the North Stars last summer from Montreal in the trade for Claude Larose, a deal that aroused as much dismay in &lsquo;Montreal as excitement in the Twin Cities.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-01122/3772269-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="259" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bobby Rousseau</b></figcaption></div><p>After all, Bobby has scored an even 200 goals in 10 seasons with the Canadiens. plus another 16 in playoff competition. He had won the Calder Trophy in 1961-62, his first full season, as the National Hockey League&rsquo;s Rookie of the Year.</p><p>Wren Blair, the Minnesota general manager, was referring last summer to Rousseau as Minnesota&rsquo;s first superstar Bobby already had a job at right point on the power play, along with a regular forward spot, before the first puck was dropped.</p><p>In the second period of Minnesota&rsquo;s NHL opener at Philadelphia, Rousseau drew a quick bead on an open net. He missed the shot, by inches, and 14 games later he still had not scored a goal.</p><p>He had contributed eight assists, but the North Stars got him to score goals, too. He was on the power play, taken off it and finally returned as coach Jack Gordon sought to give him every way to break the ice.</p><p>Finally, in a 3-3 tie game with Vancouver at home, Rousseau was benched in the second period and replaced for the remainder of the evening by Danny Lawson.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t do it to discipline him,&rdquo; explained Gordon. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been fighting the slump, and he feels a lot of pressure. I just wanted to give him something to think about.&rdquo;</p><p>Gordon&rsquo;s action was prompted when Bobby, who had been committing some uncharacteristic mistakes recently, shot from the blue line on a 3-on-1 break.</p><p>&ldquo;When have I ever seen you do that before?&rdquo;. Gordon told him on the bench. Bobby sat out the next 30 minutes.</p><p>Rousseau admits he is both disappointed and puzzled by his poor start.</p><p>&ldquo;I know the fans and the hockey club expected a lot more from me,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It seems that I can&rsquo;t get that first goal. In the early games I had a lot of chances, but lately I&rsquo;ve just been sort of tied up.&rdquo;</p><p>Bobby was used at center ice during the training camp games, but was moved over to right</p><p>wing, his normal position, once the NHL season started. Through most of the early going he has been teamed on a line with Danny Grant, who had seven goals in the first 14 games, and Jude Drouin, who had five.</p><p>His passing could never be faulted, but there were times when Rousseau was not skating with his old drive, and he often seemed detached, as though lost in his new Minnesota environment.</p><p>&ldquo;I like it very much in Minnesota,&rdquo; he claimed. &ldquo;We have a nice place to live, my kids are going to an English-speaking school for the first time and the fans have been great. I certainly can&rsquo;t blame anything along that line for my start.&rdquo;</p><p>Still only 30, Rousseau feels he has a lot of hockey ahead of him and the Minnesota management agrees.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve even thought ahead to the day when my hockey career is over,&rdquo; Bobby told a dinner group one night, &ldquo;and I think I&rsquo;d like to remain in Minnesota.&rdquo;</p><p>An outstanding golfer, Rousseau has played several of the lush Minneapolis private clubs. flirting with par each time. He turned pro last summer, and could wind up in the off-season with an assistant pro job in Minneapolis.</p><p>But first there is the matter of scoring goals, and nobody is feeling worse over it than Rousseau.</p><p><b>NORTH STAR NOTES&mdash;Defenseman Barry Gibbs, who has been playing superbly, was sidelined with a deep bone bruise in his thigh. The North Stars called up Dennis O&rsquo;Brien from Cleveland as a replacement. O&rsquo;Brien, in his first 15 seconds on the ice, got into a fight.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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