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January 29, 1971

The Hockey News January 29, 1971

<h2>WESTERN CANADA LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Thurs. Jan. 14)<h3>EASTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0639/2829945-1-eng-US/f0023-062.jpg" title="f0023-06" width="594" height="203"></div><h3>WESTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0735/2829938-1-eng-US/f0023-072.jpg" title="f0023-07" width="579" height="205"></div><h2>CENTRAL JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Jan. 12)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0829/2829931-1-eng-US/f0023-082.jpg" title="f0023-08" width="582" height="205"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0922/2829924-1-eng-US/f0023-092.jpg" title="f0023-09" width="582" height="255"></div><h2>SOUTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Fri. Jan. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1017/2829917-1-eng-US/f0023-102.jpg" title="f0023-10" width="580" height="243"></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

HOW THEY STAND

<div class="byline">BY BYRON YAKE</div>PITTSBURGH &mdash;Maybe Red Kelly will turn to an Irish green coat. It worked wonders in Philadelphia for Flyers&rsquo; Coach Vic Stasiuk. And look where the Flyers went in one week flying right by the Penguins.At the beginning of the week the Pens were two points ahead of the Flyers, seemingly lodged in fourth place and just warming up for the same kind of surge that took them to the playoffs last season.It was a four-point game, one both clubs needed, one the Flyers took, setting the stage for their almost perfect week. They gained seven out of a possible eight points to sink the Pens five points back in fifth place.The Flyers didn&rsquo;t change colors for the game from their flashy orange and black but Stasiuk did.The green jacket replaced the customary orange one in one of a nu mber of moves aimed at shaking Flyers&rsquo; 11-game non winning streak.&ldquo;I wore the green to the Quebec Aces, games where I used to have a little luck,&rdquo; said Stasiuk after the victory over the Pens.Stasiuk said he noticed the coat hanging in his closet and figured it wouldn&rsquo;t hurt to put in on for a little luck.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think it (the coat) had anything to do with our winning, but it didn&rsquo;t hurt.&rdquo; Stasiuk said. Philadelphia had lost nine games and tied two since Dec. 9.In addition to wearing the green coat, Stasiuk held a team meeting to talk over problems that caused a long losing streak. Later, Flyers&rsquo; captain Ed Van Impe conducted a private team meeting.Philadelphia scored three goals in the first period against the Pens and Bobby Clarke, who scored the winning goal after the Pens tied the game, admitted they helped restore the Flyers&rsquo; confidence.The winning goal came when a Pittsburgh pass by Jim Morrison missed its mark and hit Clarke. Clarke skated in unassisted on Penguins&rsquo; goalie Al Smith. Smith came out of the net and actually checked Clarke as the Flyers wing slammed the puck into the goal.From that game, the rest of the week was disasterous to the Pens.They lost again to Toronto 5-2, while Philadelphia tied Los Angeles 5-5 and defeated California 5-3 and Montreal 3-2 in a nationally televisied contest.Smitty continues to play well in the nets but injuries and general mistakes on defense have been hurting the club.Smith remains philosphical about the whole thing, a different attitude than he carried last year.No longer is he anxious to be the hero. And he figures the surest way to become a hero is to try not to be one.&ldquo;I finally realized that this is just a job.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I finally realized that I&rsquo;m no hero, that I&rsquo;m not going to be a hero, and that I&rsquo;m gonna do a job and if doesn&rsquo;t go well, there&rsquo;s nothing I can do.&rdquo;&ldquo;I used to get all wired up. excited, psyched. You can&rsquo;t play well that way. It&rsquo;s a game, not the end of the world.&rdquo;In December Smith had a 2.09 goals against average for 11 games, proof enough that his philosophy is working. &#9632;

Injuries, Mistakes Help Put Penguins On Skids In West

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MacLEAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;It has been chronicled often enough to become boring this campaign that the most salient feature of the first half of the New York Rangers season was the emergence of Gilles Villemure as a National Hockey League East Division goalie of full stature. Villemure added to that esteem by being named the second team All Star netminder for the All Star game on January 19. Since &ldquo;regular&rdquo; goalie Eddie Giacomin nailed down the firts team spot, the Rangers domination of NHL East goaling was complete and almost unbelievable.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01678/2828146-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="276" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rod Seiling</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Villemure or Giacomin are better than anyone else in the NHL,&rdquo; says Emile Francis, New York&rsquo;s General Manager Coach. &ldquo;Remember the Vezina Trophy is a team trophy, but still the goalies involved get an awful lot of the credit. Tony Esposito and Gerry Desjardins are good netminders for Chicago, but I&rsquo;ll take Gilles and Eddie. Also, the St. Louis Blues, who are in contention for the Vezina, play such a tight checking game that their&rsquo; goalies have an advantage in the competition.&rdquo;Villemure recorded his third shutout of the season to give New York a league leading total of seven, when he whitewashed Minnesota 1-0 on January 10. He has become a superb student of the angles and a real cool cat under fire. Giacomin, with more rest now seems shaper than ever and both men should be ready for the playoffs when Cup time rolls around.Early in the season there was speculation that Eddie might be a bit unhappy with less activity, but this has not dulled his game. There was a time when the Rangers bolstered Giacomin&rsquo;s confidence by carrying second net-minders who were not really a challenge to him. but this season Francis changed his tact and, everyone is winding up happy.&ldquo;I keep getting congratulations for making the first team,&rdquo; laughed Eddie &ldquo;But Gilles and our defense are doing some job tooAt first, I wished I was playing a bit more, but this is working so well that Emile must have known something.&rdquo;Emile knew during the formative years of this present Ranger contender that the only way to play hockey in the present fire wagon end to end style was to load up on mobile fast skating defensemen who often could attack as skillfully as most forwards. His present crew speaks this philosphy out loud. Brad Park nailed down a spot on the first team East All Stars and only finished 8 points short of the unaimous total recorded by Bobby Orr of Boston. Jim Neilson landed a second team spot, Arnie Brown has two game winning goals and Rod Seiling was the big hero against Minnesota with his blue line blast past Gump Worsley, which won it all for New York.&ldquo;Sod (Rods nickname amongst the players) is very underrated,&rdquo; says Jim Neilson, his defense partner. &ldquo;I rush quite a lot, but he usually picks me up if I get in trouble. Also, Francis plays him up front and on the point every once in a while. He shoots low and on the net and I think is one of the most valuable players on this team. It was his injury in the playoffs last season against Boston, which finally wore us down.&rdquo;Seiling is now 26 and just approaching real maturity. He under went two knee operations in the offseason prior to the 1969-70 season but bounced back with five goals and 21 assiss for 26 points, his career high. Rod was the key player in the big Andy Bathgate trade in February of 1964, in which Andy and Don McKenney went to Toronto for Seiling, Brown, Billy Collins now with Detroit and Bob Nevin. Dick Duff was also part of this package. The Duffer has moved on to Montreal. Los Angeles and now Buffalo. Seiling himself left the Rangers as part of the 196768 expansion draft which stocked the new teams, but it was only a paper transaction. Francis immediately shipped Bob Plager and Tim Ecclestone to St. Louis for Rod and he never even talked to the Blues.&ldquo;Sometimes the fans in Madison Square Garden get on Seiling because he is not a bashing type of defenseman,&rdquo; notes Bill Chadwick, the former NHL/Referee and member of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame. &ldquo;They don&rsquo;t realize that most of those big hitters are usually out of position or drawing penalties in desperation. Rod plays a solid positional game and is truly an old reliable out there. He made a fantastic play catching St. Louis&rsquo; Frank St. Marseille from the rear in the Rangers 4-2 win on January 10.&rdquo;Seiling is one of the first names asked for when rivals talk trade with the Rangers, but Francis is so high on Rod that a transfer is almost beyond the realm of possibility.&ldquo;I really never worried about what the fans thought, just so long as I pleased the boss,&rdquo; reveals Rod. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s nice to get a game winner in a 1-0 game, but the team more is what counts.&rdquo;Seiling may prove of even more value to New York now that fourth line center Syl Apps has been dispatched to Omaha of the Central League. The Rangers fourth line probably will consist of Ron Stewart and Jim Krulicki, the two penalty killers with Jean Ratelle taking the odd turn in the pivot spot. Should anyone need relief Seiling can do a job up front.&ldquo;Rod seems to get close in chances when we spot him up front, notes Francis. &ldquo;Maybe it is because he knows his way around in the corners and in front of the net.&rdquo;Apps was sent down because of the return to action of left winger Vic Hadfield. Vic took over for Jack Egers on the Ratelle &mdash; Rod Gilbert line when Egers came up with a charley horse versus Minnesota. Hadfield, out of action since Dec. 6, when he broke his right hand on Rosaire Paiement&rsquo;s head, took three shots on the net. His first was a bit weak, but then he put the mustard on the next two.BLUE CHIPS: Gilles Villemure was 12-1-3 with Eddie Giacomin logged at 16-6-3 after 41 games. New York notched 62 points in the first 41 games and should pass the century mark for the first time in club history&hellip; Syl Apps had a goal and two assists in 8 games before going down. He did yoemen work before the advent of Peter Stemkowski&hellip; New York has swept four straight from Minnesota with Villemure playing all of them&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02560/2828139-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1181" height="1288"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goaler Ed Giacomin Made First All Star Team. (Hockey News Photo by Stephen Newman.)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Six All Star Selections Show Calibre Of Rangers

<div class="byline">BY JOHN GILBERT</div>Michigan Tech got an unlikely assist from defending champion Minnesota, and soared away to a commanding lead in the tough Western Collegiate Hockey Association.While resurgent Minnesota ripped second-place Minnesota Duluth twice, Tech hammered out two 6-2 victories over North Dakota following a mid-week 8-2 romp over Colorado College.That left Tech 8-1 atop the WCHA while Duluth fell to 7-5. It appears the WCHA is a break-even race except for Tech, although the Huskies then had to take to the road.Michigan Tech has some freshmen in key spots, most notably Mike Usitalo up front and Jim Nahrgang at defense. Those two, plus the young goalie tandem of Bob Lee and Morris Trewin have been keys for the Huskies success.But Tech is always potent at Dee Stadium, the tiny arena in Houghton. Mich. Tech&rsquo;s only loss in nine games was during a split with Michigan State. Victories included sweeps over Wisconsin, Denver and Dakota. Dee Stadium&rsquo;s ice surface is slightly smaller than most WCHA rinks, and is ideally suited for Tech&rsquo;s stout defense-opportunist offense plan.But at 8-1, the Huskies had to head for Minnesota and then Duluth where UMD rapped them 6-1 during a Thanksgiving tournament.Usitalo. from Calumet. Mich, scored a hat trick in three straight Tech games &mdash; the Great Lakes Tournament finals, the 8-2 win over Colorado and the first win over the Sioux. Tech outshot North Dakota 44-30 the first night and 50-31 the second. The Darwin Mott-Al McLeod-Ed Chestolowski line got three goals in the second game, as Tech took a 4-0 lead by 5:13 of the second period.NORTH DAKOTA: The Sioux dropped to 6-6 with the two losses at Tech. The Jimmy Cahoon line was the only bright spot for Dakota both nights, as Cahoon got both goals in the second game after his wing, Bob Duncan, put in both tallies in the first. Goalie Dave Murphy made 38 saves in one game and Jim Nelson 44 in the second.MINNESOTA: The Gophers rose up from a 1-5 WCHA slate prior to the holidays by stopping Minnesota-Duluth 5-1 and 3-1. Freshman goalie Brad Shelstad became the man of the hour for Minnesota, as the Gophers flashed the inspired form that led them to the title a year ago. The first game drew a standing-room crowd of 7,925 to Williams Arena, and the second was close behind at 7,542.DULUTH: UMD had trouble coming up with consistent play in the two games at Minnesota. Goalie Glenn Resch was solid, but the Bulldog defense let him down several times and the forwards seemed to lack fire. Still playing without All-American Murray Keogan, UMD&rsquo;s only potent line was centered by Phil Hoene with freshman Pat Boutette on one wing and Alan Young on the other. But Boutette end Young spent considerable time in the penalty box, nullifying that line.MICHIGAN STATE: The Spartans swept a home-and-home series with the University of Michigan, taking 5-4 and 6-5 decisions to pull ahead of the Wolverines and also allow Minnesota to sneak out of the cellar. The three Big Ten teams in the WCHA are behind the six non-Big Ten teams and are scrapping to avoid the ninth spot &mdash; the only position which does not make the playoffs.DENVER: The young Pioneers are apparently ready for their annual midseason run for the top of the WCHA, as they ended the United States Nationals&rsquo; domination of college teams with a 6-2 victory before playing them to a 3-3 standoff. Five different scorers led Denver to a 5-0 lead before Keith Christiansen put the Nationals on the board late in the second period in the first game. Brian Morenz had a goal each night, and gained the tie with his tally in the third period the second night. Rob Palmer and Vic Venasky got the other Denver goals in the tie after a scoreless first period. Kevin Ahearn scored twice and Craig Patrick once, as Henry Boucha&rsquo;s two wingers made that line the only effective one for the U.S. Tim Sheehy, another top U.S. center, missed the series and was hospitalized with a ruptured appendix. &#9632;

WESTERN WAY

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYVol. 24 &mdash; No. 17 MONTREAL, JANUARY 29, 1971 Price: 35c<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01502/2830878-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="334" height="448"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02376/2830871-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="240" height="274"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0454/2830864-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="Cover-04" width="1554" height="1921"></div> &#9632;

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ESPO ON RECORD SCORING COURSE

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01676/2828108-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"></div>DETROIT &mdash;It was the wildest week in Red Wing history and that covers 44 years.Start with the 13-0 clubbing in Toronto, worst in Detroit history, and end with the appointment of Doug Barkley as coach.In between sprinkle Sid Abel&rsquo;s resignation after three decades of association with the Red Wings, accompanied by fire and brimstone blasts and then coach Ned Harkness and executive director Jim Bishop.Add Harkness&rsquo; surprise appointment as general manager and a complete reversal of team attitude and performance.That was the week that was.It was a hectic one, one that saw the Red Wings on the top of the sports pages and opening of the radio-TV sportscasts every day.A calmness and order&mdash;or maybe it was just exhaustion &mdash; broadsides.At 34 Barkley is the youngest coach in the National Hockey League but he has uncommon poise, one he showed in his rookie year with the Wings. You&rsquo;d have thought then he was a 10-vear veteran.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got new life,&rdquo; mod center Garry Unger said after Barkley took over. &ldquo;Nobody is telling us what to do.&rdquo;Nick Libett said the reason for the improved play was obvious. &ldquo;We look more like a National Hockey League team now &hellip; the fans deserve better than we&rsquo;d been giving them.&rdquo;Barkley gave a hort talk before his NHL coaching debut, pointing out that to win, you&rsquo;ve got to play the man and you&rsquo;ve got to have meanness. He noted the Wings were the second least penalized team in the league and said you don&rsquo;t win that way.The Wings stormed out like angry young men and the transformation was amazing. Even when the Wings lost to red-hot Toronto, 3-2, the fans went home cheering. Why the usually placid Frank Mahovlich got in fights in two straight games.The Harkness-Abel showdown was inevitable. They&rsquo;re of different temperaments and had different ideas about how the club should be run. Abel didn&rsquo;t like the wav Harkness coached but. according to the people who attended various meetings, didn&rsquo;t speak up when asked if he thought Harkness should go.Abel, in his news conference after his resignation, said he asked club attorney John Ziegler if he had the power to fire Harkness and the answer was evasive, not straight &ldquo;yes&rdquo; or &ldquo;no.&rdquo; From that, Abel figured he didn&rsquo;t have the power.Abel also had lost strength in Olympia where some influential persons felt he hadn&rsquo;t worked hard enough as general manager and that the Red Wings reacted to personnel situations instead of planning ahead.It often seemed a case of applying another patch when some position went sour and finally all the patches popped.Although Abel denied it was the straw that broke the camel&rsquo;s back, it appears a quote Harkness attributed to Norris triggered the explosion.Harkness said Norris told him &ldquo;you&rsquo;re the victim of us not doing our homework the last 10 years.&rdquo;Abel went to Chicago for a meeting with Norris and said he couldn&rsquo;t live with Harkness as coach. Norris said he was going to stick with Harkness, the man he appointed last spring after an immensely successful college coaching career.Norris left the door open for Abel to stay on but Abel said he just couldn&rsquo;t do it and thus resigned.But Abel admitted that Norm Ullman was the last star quality player brought up by the Detroit farm system &hellip; and Ullman made it to the NHL in 1955, during Jack Adams&rsquo; regime.Abel also admitted that the decision to put tough veteran defenseman Bob Baun on waivers was his but said he traded Pete Stemkowski at the insistence of Harkness.Harkness declined to join the name-calling&mdash;he had plenty of problems behind the bench and the day after Abel resigned, the Wings took another walloping, 74, in Buffalo.It was obvious then the crowd at the Saturday rematch in Detroit would be in an ugly mood and it was obvious the players just weren&rsquo;t playing for Harkness.Norris moved swiftly then. First came an announcement of Harkness being boosted to general manager, a kick upstairs maneuver, and the next sentence said Barkley would be interim coach &ldquo;while other candidates are being considered.&rdquo;Actually, Harkness called Barkley in the afternoon and told him to come up and handle the team. At that time Harkness hadn&rsquo;t officially been named general manager.And the &ldquo;interim&rdquo; tag on Barkley lasted just one game. The club played so well for him. obviously relaxed, that Norris made him fulltime coach the next day.Harkness said he was disappointed the team didn&rsquo;t play better for him. disappointed that his NHL coaching had been a failure, really, although he wouldn&rsquo;t use that word. Coaching was his profession for 21 years and it hurt.&ldquo;But let&rsquo;s clear the air,&rdquo; Harkness said. &ldquo;The players were victim of circumstance and so I was. They were caught in the crossfire. They can&rsquo;t be totally faulted nor can I.&rdquo;<h2>CBS Game Of Week In 5th NHL Season</h2>Following is the 1971 Game Of The Week schedule for the CBS Television Network series involving National Hockey League teams for a fifth straight season:* Optional date in the event of a longd series. &#9632;

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Barkley May Restore Spark In Red Wings

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01740/2828198-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="360" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken McKenzie&rsquo;s</figcaption></div>&#9679;EMILE FRANCIS thinks Dave Balon, New York&rsquo;s star left winger, has a magic stick in front of the net. With 25 goals Balon is far ahead of last year&rsquo;s mark when he finished with 33. He could conceivably hit the 40 mark. The all-time Rangers&rsquo; mark is 40 and was set by Andy Bathgate in 1958-59. &ldquo;Whenever I see Balon get the puck in front of the goal I have the utmost confidence it will find its way into the net&rdquo;, Francis remarked&hellip;Paul Wieland, director of public relations for the Buffalo Sabres, advises that the Buffalo Sabres play both the Canadian and U.S. national anthems before each game in Memorial Auditorium. Organist Norm Wullens and tenor Joe Byron a longtime member of the singing Buffalo Bills of &ldquo;Music Man&rdquo; fame have the fans in attendance singing both anthems with some real spirit. One third of the Sabres&rsquo; home attendance is composed of fans from nearby Canada &hellip; Ray Miron, general manager of the Tulsa Oilers and one of hockey&rsquo;s better operators, informs us that his club played to their largest audience in history recently in Tulsa when 6,352 were on hand. The Oilers are starting to move now in the Central League standings &hellip; Doug Barkley&rsquo;s advancement from Fort Worth to Detroit as coach brings to four the former CHL coaches now in the NHL. Besides Barkley there&rsquo;s John McLellan with Toronto, Vic Stasiuk with Philadelphia and Al MacNeil with Montreal &hellip; The Central League has sent players, coaches and trainers to the National Hockey League but thus far no general managers &hellip; When Boston Bruins play their games on the West Coast in February, Channel 38, WSBK-TV, will telecast the games live back to Boston. It&rsquo;s the first time any team on the East Coast has done this. Don Earle and Johnny Peirson are doing an outstanding job for the hockey televiewers in the New England area &hellip; Barry McKenzie, former star defenseman of Canada&rsquo;s National Team, is doing a fine job coaching Sudbury the Northern Ontario Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League and his team will be tough to beat for first place honors. There&rsquo;s a strong possibility that Thunder Bay will ice a club in the NOHA soon &hellip; Metropolitan Sports Center, home of the Minnesota North Stars, was the site of the recent inaugural ball for Minnesota governor Wendell Anderson &hellip; Incidentally, three of the last four home games of the North Stars drew crowds of over 15,000.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02691/2828191-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="265" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Balon</figcaption></div>&#9679; BRIAN SPENCER continues to play sensational hockey for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He scored his first hat trick recently against Pittsburgh &hellip; Since Orland Kurtenbach was injured the Vancouver Canucks are so desperate for help up front that they&rsquo;ve decided to try Dale Tallon at center &hellip; Toronto has cooled on the idea of bringing Carl Brewer back. Since Bobby Baun rejoined the team most of their defensive problems have been solved &hellip; The Leafs would like to obtain Bernie Parent as a backup goalie in a trade with Philadelphia &hellip; After Philadelphia swamped 9-1 by Toronto recently, a 15-year-old Toronto youth accostedParent in the corridor. &ldquo;Remember me,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I was at the Haliburton Hockey Haven last summer where you were a teacher.&rdquo; &ldquo;Yeah&rdquo;, said Parent. &ldquo;I remember you, and I think after this game I&rsquo;d better go back &hellip; as a student&rdquo;&hellip;Ed Conrad our Philadelphia correspondent, is writing a book on Reggie Fleming, one of the NHL&rsquo;s all-time penalty leaders. He hasn&rsquo;t come up with a title yet, and welcomes all suggestions from fans. Fleming is loved as &ldquo;Sir Reginald&rdquo; at home and as &ldquo;Cement Head&rdquo; on the road. Send your suggestions to this corner&hellip;This is the year of the rookie in the National Hockey League. Never has there been a freshman crop to match this season&rsquo;s &hellip; An interested observer in Montreal Sunday afternoon the Flyers downed the Canadiens&rsquo; 3-2, was Leon Rochefort of the Canadiens who sat out the game. Leon had scored a hat trick for Philadelphia in their very first game in Montreal three-and-a-half years ago, which had been the Flyers only win in Montreal until now &hellip; Doug Favell&rsquo;s great goalkeeping for Philadelphia was the difference &hellip; The Flyers may have had trouble winning of late but it hasn&rsquo;t affected their home attendances. Despite Philadelphia&rsquo;s first bad snowstorm of the season, the Flyers had back-to-back weekend sellout crowds of 14,620 against Chicago and Boston, which hiked the home attendance average over 14,000 &hellip; Polar Ice Paint, a quality product of The Reardon Company Ltd. is used by most of the arenas in hockev for painting the red and blue lines. The red circles over snow white &ldquo;Polar Ice Paint&rdquo; on hockey rinks produce maximum vision for players and spectators alike. For complete particulars on the uses Of Polar Ice Paint write to The Reardon Company Ltd, 8855 Crescent Two, Ville D&rsquo;Anjou, Montreal 438, Canada.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03593/2828184-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="272" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dale Tallon</figcaption></div>&#9679; SIDNEY SALOMON JR., president of the St. Louis Blues, and his son, Sid Solomon III, executive vice-president, have a private telephone line, which they call the hockey &lsquo;hot line&rsquo;, between their two houses. When one of the hockey executives has an idea, he can discuss it instantly with the team&rsquo;s other top executive by picking up the phone and pressing a button. Sid the Ill&rsquo;s wife, Carol, says, &ldquo;Some of their best ideas are discussed at two in the morning&rdquo;&hellip;Two ex-NHL stars met in a hockey game recently, but neither was in uniform. Both were coaching teams in the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior Series. Billy Harris was piloting the Hamilton Red Wings and Ron Murphy was coaching the Kitchener Rangers. A Kitchener victory marked a winning debut for Murphy as a coach, and it was the first defeat for Harris after two consecutive wins since he took over the reins of the Wings &hellip; Dartmouth has been added to the 1971 Great Lakes Invitational Hockey Tournament to be held at the Detroit Olympia, completing a field which Lincoln Cavalieri, of Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia Stadium, believes will be the best ever. Host Michigan Tech, along with Michigan State University and Notre Dame will be playing in the tournament&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04517/2828177-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="268" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Salomon III</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Published weekly except monthly June through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 St. Catherine Street West Montreal 107, Canada.Kenneth William McKenziePresident and PublisherCharlie HalpinEditorial DirectorYearly SUBSCRIPTION Rates: $6 00 in Canada $7.00 in the U.S.A, and $9.00 in Foreign Countries.Postage paid at Rouses Point. N.Y Second class mail&mdash;Registration No. 1327Printed in CanadaVol. 24 MONTREAL, JANUARY 29, 1971 No. 17<h2>CBS Should Expand TV Hockey Coverage</h2>I feel that the coverage given to NHL hockey by CBS is disgracefully meagre. First of all, it doesn&rsquo;t even start until mid-January. To take a look at our NBA rivals, they receive at least some coverage, with a game in October and another around Thanksgiving. Yet the people at CBS do not cover the NHL similarly.Then there are the playoffs; important games, even on week days, should be televised. If St. Louis had won that fourth game in Boston and the Bruins won in St. Louis, we would never have seen it out here, not to mention the sixth game of the Boston New York and Pittsburgh-St. Louis series.I suggest that CBS televise a Sunday night game or even a Saturday afternoon or Sunday night one. This way, we the viewers, would be able to see a wide range of teams from the beginning of the season. CBS could also intensify its coverage of the playoffs. I would gladly receive any letters on this topic.BEN O&rsquo;NEIL 1210 Fitch Way, Sacramento, Calif.<h2>St. Catharines Proud Of Its Hockey Record</h2>We here in St. Catharines are mighty proud of our Junior Black Hawks and former Teepee&rsquo;s, as we are known as the developers of Super Stars, and we have the figures to prove it. Over the last 11 years our graduates have won eight Art Ross Trophies, five Harts, three Byngs, one Vezina, one Calder, three James Norris awards, one Smythe, and one Lester Patrick, and well over 30 of our players have been chosen on the All-Star teams in the last nine years.Such established stars as Pierre Pilote, Elmer Vasko. Pat Stapleton, the Hulls, Stan Mikta. Roger Crozier, Ken Hodge. Phil Esposito. John McKenzie and Denis DeJordy all played their junior hockey in the Garden City Arena, home of the Black Hawks. We are currently developing another budding star in Marcel Dionne, who was the leading scorer in the 0HA before he broke his collarbone recently. He holds just about every league scoring record, beating out Gil Perreault last year for the title.DONALD MACLEAN Thorold South, Ont.<h2>Feels Walton Could Give Philly A Lift</h2>I noticed a Toronto gentleman suggested that Mike Walton should be traded, but hopefully to an expansion team. This brought to mind a trade I dreamed up when he was first suspended. This was Walton for Ed Van Impe, possibly with a couple more thrown in. I feel that Walton would definitely give Philadelphia its much needed scorer.The last thing that I would like to mention is J.C. Tremblay and Guy Lapointe. I think Guy is a definite Calder Trophy winner &mdash; rather, candidate, &mdash; and how about that J.C. Seems to me he&rsquo;s not getting enough recognition for what would be a fantastic start before the advent of superrover Orr. Admittedly, I&rsquo;m prejudiced since J.C. is my favorite player but that&rsquo;s how I feel. By the way. did you notice that J.C. is second only to Orr in scoring and that he and Lapointe are second only to Orr and quite a bit ahead of any other defense pair.Hopefully some of this was interesting &mdash; if that-trade ever came about. I&rsquo;d likely think it was my idea.RODNEY LEIGHTON Summerside, P.E.I. &#9632;

Fan Forum

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01693/2828253-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"></div>The members of the Adirondack-Sherwood Professional Advisory Staff enjoy an occasional meeting. It gives them a chance to performance-test our sticks, compare notes, and make suggestions. They&rsquo;re always on the lookout for ways to improve Sherwood hockey sticks. Many of the top pros belong to our Advisory Staff. Their professional opinions and recommendations help us produce sticks that live up to the pace and stress of professional hockey. Their advice helps Sherwood make the best stick on ice &hellip; pro to peewee.Our advisors meet all season long. &#9632;

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Board Meeting

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-03166/2828291-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="712" height="1405"></div>MONTREAL&mdash;Frank Mahovlich hasn&rsquo;t exactly been out of place in his new environment as a member of the Montreal Canadiens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01769/2828284-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="547" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRANK MAHOVLICH &hellip;Fitted In Well</figcaption></div>In fact the Big M has played so well you would suspect he&rsquo;s been here all along and not a member of the Detroit Red Wings, who turned him loose this past week in one of those three-for-one swaps that is inevitably accompanied by the old bromide, &ldquo;we hated to give him up, but&hellip;&rdquo;Mahovlich, one of hockeys elite 400-goal scorers, was sent to the Canadiens in return for right wingers Mickey Redmond and Bill Collins and a rookie portsider Guy Charron.The Wings reportedly begrudged giving up Mahovlich but they decided they were gaining in years of hockey potential in unloading the 33-vear-old Mahovlich. who just this season scored his 400th NHL career goal. Charron, who was with the MontrealVovageurs at the time of the multiple swap, was the key man as far as the Wings were concerned. They promptly dumped Charron into the Big M&rsquo;s left wing spot with Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio.If the Wings felt Mahovlich was expendable in their rebuilding program the Canadiens were only too pleased to get the big winger. The feeling was mutual as far as Frank was concerned. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m pleased to be with the Canadiens,&rdquo; he said after the trade. Besides he was getting to play on the same team with his younger brother. Pete, again.At any rate, Mahovlich wasted little time establishing himself with the Canadiens. In his very first game, he scored the first Montreal goal playing on a line with Jean Beliveau and Yvan Cournoyer. He added another later in the week and chipped in with a pair of assists, which all added up to a most favorable debut for the hard-shooting Mahovlich, who has spent 15 years in the NHL &mdash; 12 of them with the Leafs and the last three with Detroit. &#9632;

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Big M Instant Hit As New Canadien Star

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Al Arbour knows he can contribute only so much to his hockey team&rsquo;s momentum. He can try to build confidence and increase motivation, but one bad game can really hamper those efforts.For most teams momentum is nice to have. For the St. Louis Blues, trying desperately to catch the Chicago Black Hawks in the West Division of the National Hockey League. it is an absolute necessity.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03472/2828322-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="261" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Arbour</figcaption></div>Over the first half of this season the Blues have played good hockey. In fact, at the midway point of the season they were slightly ahead of their pace of last year, when they were so far in front of the rest of the West Division teams that the race was pretty well decided by Christmas. The Black Hawks&rsquo; entry into the division this season has changed that pattern and put terrific pressure on. the Blues, unaccustomed to their new role as a second-place team.At one point when the Blues had not won in four games Arbour was delighted with his team&rsquo;s spirit in a head-bashing 44 tie with the New York Rangers in Madison Square Garden. The Blues trailed 3-0 and 4-1 but fought the Rangers brutally and still had enough time to score three more goals to produce the tie. Newcomer John Arbour led the fighting for St. Louis and thereby established himself in the eves of the St. Louis fans as a true-blue member of the Blues.&ldquo;That game really brought us to life, said coach Arbour, who is no realtion to his newest battling defenseman. &ldquo;The fighting didn&rsquo;t hurt. It was one of those games that&rsquo;s good for a hockey team once in a while. It gave the club lots of spark and fire.&rdquo;The spark and fire generated by that game Tarried with the Blues for the next three games before it burned out. First they thrashed the Philadelphia Flyers. 5-2, to reverse the score of a previous embarrassment at the St. Louis Arena. Then they went on a road trip to the West Coast and beat the Vancouver Canucks and the Los Angeles Kings with a couple of their best efforts of the season.Arbour said after the win over the Kings. &ldquo;We seemed to snap out of it against New York, and we&rsquo;ve been gaining momentum ever since.&rdquo;Frank St. Marseille said. &ldquo;We feel we&rsquo;re beginning to roll, and we want to keep going.&rdquo;But the Blues rolled to a halt in a visit to Oakland and lost to the California Golden Seals. 6-3. Trying to dismiss the loss as a single bad game in a hot streak, they played the Canucks in the next game after returning home. The Blues won the fighting in the game but were held to a 2-2 tie despite outshooting Vancouver. &#9632;

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Blues’ New Spirit Enhances Hope Of Catching Hawks

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02628/2828353-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="975" height="793"><figcaption class="caption-body">MEETING A CHECK</figcaption></div>The puck carrier (in white) is about to be body checked. And about to be knocked loose from his boots. He&rsquo;s watching the puck, not his check.The forward should begin to crouch over the puck as he comes up to what he knows will be body contact &hellip; a contact he couldn&rsquo;t avoid. Too, he should plan to hit the defenceman with his back leg well braced and thrusting.He wants to be low and pushing forward, hoping to get under the check&rsquo;s chest area.copyright Toronto Star Syndicate &#9632;

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Hockey for Kids

Last year the Henri Richard Hockey School moved to larger premises in order to meet the great demand for space at the school. But even with the spacious quarters at the Laval Sports Center we had to turn down many boys. We feel that classes must not be too large &mdash; if they are too large, both teaching and learning are impossible. This year, in order to accomodate more students, the school will run for 5 weeks instead of 3.For their sessions on and off the ice the boys are assigned to groups. This year the groups will each have a full-time counsellor, a college student hired by the school, who will supervise the group off the ice, and be available at all times for any boy who might have a problem. All teaching sessions will be handled by the pros.Make sure of your spot by writing early. Hoping to see you at my school this summer,Henri Richard<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01721/2828447-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="870" height="638"><figcaption class="caption-body">A view of the training rink</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02643/2828440-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="856" height="648"><figcaption class="caption-body">Supervised swimming pool</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03498/2828433-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="419" height="569"><figcaption class="caption-body">YVAN COURNOYER Montreal Canadiens</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04363/2828426-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="409" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body">CAROL VADNAIS California Golden Seals</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05259/2828419-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="414" height="569"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOCELYN GUEVREMONT Junior Canadiens</figcaption></div>Returning for his 4th year as an instructor. Already this season Yvan&rsquo;s quickness and hard shot have accounted for 21 goals in 28 games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-06193/2828412-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="420" height="575"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROGATIEN VACHON Montreal Canadiens</figcaption></div>Canadiens&rsquo; steady veteran defenseman was just named to the 2nd All Star team. J.C.&rsquo;s accurate passes set up goals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-07146/2828405-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="414" height="574"><figcaption class="caption-body">J.C. TREMBLAY Montreal Canadiens</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-08116/2828398-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="417" height="572"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY LALONDE Junior Canadiens O.H.A. Leading Scorer</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0988/2828391-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="419" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body">GUY CHARRON Detroit Red Wings</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1068/2828384-1-eng-US/f0007-102.jpg" title="f0007-10" width="1732" height="1257"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here&rsquo;s Henri Richard with a group of happy youngsters who attended last year&rsquo;s summer hockey school sessions.</figcaption></div>For Information and Brochures WriteHENRI RICHARD HOCKEY SCHOOLP.O. BOX 657, MONTREAL 101, P.Q. CANADA &#9632;

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HENRI RICHARD HOCKEY SCHOOL

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01755/2828485-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="297" height="375"></div><h2>The Longest Month&hellip;</h2>MOST OF LAST SEASON, Vic Stasiuk&rsquo;s Philadelphia Flyers were fighting for first place in the West Division. It began the last full month of the season with three consecutive ties. Then they lost two straight, won one, lost another. In New York, they played their 24th tie, a new National Hockey League record. The Flyers were not winning many games, but the ties, each worth a point, seemed sufficient to assure them of respectability.&ldquo;We were better defensively than offensively. We simply didn&rsquo;t score enough to win much. We played tough, however and everyone was trying so I couldn&rsquo;t bawl anyone out,&rdquo; Stasiuk recalls. &ldquo;As we faded from the fight for first, I was disappointed, but I had no idea at that time we were fighting for our lives. It wouldn&rsquo;t have mattered. I was doing everything I could think of doing. I was trying to keep the guys&rsquo; spirits up.&ldquo;They were getting tired. I could see that. They didn&rsquo;t score enough to win any games easy. Every game was close, every game tough. Those 24 ties took a lot out of us, to say nothing of the one-goal games we won or lost. We played the last few minutes of every game under terrible pressure. We got to the point where we were spent emotionally. We weren&rsquo;t trying to save anything for the playoffs. We were just trying to get through the season, which seemed to last an eternity.&rdquo;This was Stasiuk&rsquo;s first season as coach in the NHL, where he had carved a long and distinguished playing career for himself more on desire and determination than on natural skills. He took his team into Montreal, where it lost, 2-0, then returned home to beat Oakland, 3-2. This was the team&rsquo;s 17th victory against 29 defeats. He did not know it then, but it was to be the club&rsquo;s last victory of the season, though six games remained.In Oakland, the Flyers lost, 3-2. In Los Angeles, they lost, 3-2. Returning home, they played Pittsburgh and lost, 2-1. They went into Pittsburgh where they led, 2-0, before losing, 4-2. &ldquo;That was when it occured to me that we were in serious trouble,&rdquo; Stasiuk recalls. &ldquo;Suddenly, I saw by the standings that Minnesota and Oakland had closed in on us. Suddenly, I realized we were fighting not for first place, but for fourth, for a place in the playoffs.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02666/2828478-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="583" height="858"><figcaption class="caption-body">VIC STASIUK &hellip; Pressure Was Terrible</figcaption></div>Regardless of the won, lost and tied record of a team, a place in the playoffs, among the first four teams at the finish, is considered respectable. It is not right, but that is the way it is in hockey. The Flyers had this wrapped up in their grips all season, but suddenly it was getting away from them, though somehow few realized it. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t want to panic the players,&rdquo; Stasiuk said, &ldquo;but I realized what was happening even though I couldn&rsquo;t really believe it and few were talking about it.&rdquo;His is the worst profession, full of unrelenting pressure and insecurity. &ldquo;I kept trying to think of something I could do. I carried it around with me, day and night. I wasn&rsquo;t eating good. I was having trouble sleeping. I was distracted from my family. As a player I had been conditioned to ups and downs. I was used to it. But I had such high hopes in my first year as coach I couldn&rsquo;t believe my world was falling apart all around me,&rdquo; Stasiuk sighs. &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t thinking of being fired. I had a job to do and I wasn&rsquo;t doing it. I was just thinking of winning.&rdquo;They had their last two games at home. They lost to St. Louis, 1-0. &ldquo;We were playing well, but we weren&rsquo;t scoring and we were losing. I couldn&rsquo;t criticize them. They were playing their guts out. We still had a chance. The way it worked out. all we had to do was tie our last game and we&rsquo;d make the playoffs. Just tie. That was what we&rsquo;d been doing all season. Heck, was that too much to ask? We had a day to wait for the last game. It seemed like a years.&rdquo;<h2>Couldn&rsquo;t Get It Back</h2>THEY HAD A SCORELESS TIE going with Minnesota throughout most of their finale. Then a Minnesota defenseman, Barry Gibbs, flipped the puck from the blueline and it skipped past the Philadelphia goaltender, Bernie Parent, into the net. &ldquo;My first thought was &lsquo;My God&rsquo;,&rdquo; Stasiuk recalls. &ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t believe it had gone in. But he could have shot it from Montreal and it would have gone in. Parent, who had been playing his heart out for us, simply never saw it.&ldquo;All I could think of after that was get it back, get it back, get it back. We had to get it back. I sent guys out. Get the puck and get it back. I sent other guys out. Get the puek and get it back. I walked back and forth behind the bench. The last five minutes lasted an eternity. Then the buzzer. It was all over. And we hadn&rsquo;t gotten it back. We had lost. We were out of the playoffs.&rdquo;The scores were 3-2, 3-2, 2-1, 4-2, 1-0 and 1-0, six straight narrow losses and the Flyers were finished. &ldquo;I went into the dressing room and all I could say to the players was, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m sorry it had to happen.&rsquo; and then I walked away,&rdquo; Stasiuk recalls.&ldquo;I walked around the building eight times. I sat in the seats. The arena was empty by then, except for the workmen changing it over for basketball. I was trying to figure out how it had happened. Did it happen in January? When did it happen? I replayed all the games, every close one we lost or tied. All we&rsquo;d needed was one more point, one more goal.&rdquo;He went up to the office where his wife waited. She greeted him with a smile. &ldquo;She always smiles,&rdquo; Stasiuk said. &ldquo;She smiles so much she has wrinkles in her face from smiling. This time her smile was a little less than usual. We went home and there was a letter from a friend who&rsquo;d been out of the country. &lsquo;I&rsquo;ll be back for the playoffs.&rsquo; he said. &ldquo;1&rsquo;11 see you then. &lsquo;Congratulations&rsquo; he wrote.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO &mdash;The Sabres reached the midway point of their first season with a record of eight wins, 24 defeats and seven ties, something less than hoped for but with ample signs of better things to come.Punch Imlach, the general manager and coach, could point to at least a half-dozen games the Sabres should have won and didn&rsquo;t, and could also point to an incredible list of injuries.Each one of the eight wins pleased him and the club&rsquo;s ever-growing lot of ardent supporters on both sides of the border, but the losses were the main topics of conversation.&ldquo;We had every right in the world to beat Boston here the first time the Bruins came in, and we had to settle for a tie,&rdquo; Imlach said. &ldquo;And we should have won the two games we lost in Detroit. We outplayed the Red Wings from here to Timbuctoo in the first one, and got beat by unbelievable goaltending. And the guy who did it. Don McLeod, is back in the minors.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have to be reminded injuries are part of the game. I&rsquo;ve been around the league a few years, but I can&rsquo;t remember one club having five guys in the hospital at the same time.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03549/2828516-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="271" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Daley</figcaption></div>Capt, Floyd Smith sees signs of better days in the dressing room.&ldquo;This club is coming together as a unit, and that takes time,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Remember, any expansion team is made up of players from a dozen different clubs.&ldquo;It takes time to build togetherness, and I can see where we will win a lot more games in the second half. And I&rsquo;d like to think we&rsquo;ll be a healthier club, too.&rdquo;The Sabres&rsquo; sweep of all three games from Detroit here delighted local fans, who didn&rsquo;t expect them to do that to one of the old clubs. And the play against Boston and New York here, also was greeted warmly.Imlach was giving Joe Daley a lot of work as Roger Crozier, the No. 1 goaltender, recuperated from a seventh attack of pancreatitis.Daley was little short of sensational, and as a result Dave Dryden, the club&rsquo;s third backstop, was getting no work in regular competition. &#9632;

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4Despite Injuries, Sweep Over Wings Gives Sabres Lift

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div>CHICAGO &mdash;Ever since Keith Magnuson first laced his skates in Saskatoon, Sask., one of his main goals &mdash; besides, of course, making the National Hockey League itself &mdash; was making the NHL All Star team.And yet, when the honor was bestowed upon him in early January, the young Black Hawks&rsquo; defenseman was in a dour mood.&ldquo;I heard about it the day after we had lost our first game of the season at home (to Los Angeles)&rdquo; Magnuson recalled. &ldquo;And I guess I wasn&rsquo;t in that good a frame of mind. It&rsquo;s something I always dreamed of, vet when it happened it didn&rsquo;t mean that much at the moment. We played so badly against Los Angeles, and the Bruins were coming in next. All I could think about was Boston, Boston.&rdquo;And when Boston came to town, Magnuson was brilliant. He took his regular turns on defense and acrobatically broke up a 2-on-l breakaway by Derek Sanderson and Ken Hodge in the second period. He killed penalties, keeping the slot clear of such muscular fellows as Phil Esposito and Hodge.Then, midway in the second period, Magnuson took a pass from Bryan Campbell and slammed a 25-foot dart past Goalie Gerry Cheevers to tie the score, 3 to 3, and the Hawks owned the momentum. Five minutes later Bobby Hull notched the winner.The praise for Magnuson came from all over.&ldquo;He has great ability,&rdquo; noted Boston Coach Tom Johnson. &ldquo;Frankly I&rsquo;d like to have him on my team.&rdquo;The goal was only the second in 105 regular season games for Magnuson. He didn&rsquo;t get any in his rookie campaign (although he tallied once in the playoffs), and he recorded his first regular season goal two months ago against Philadelphia. It was a game winner.With all the bouquets tossed his wav, however, Magnuson never seems quite satisfied. Not only did he think his goal against Boston belonged to someone else &mdash; &ldquo;I honestly feel that Bobby (Hull) deflected it in&rdquo; &mdash; But Magnuson, the people&rsquo;s choice, took apart his game as though he were anything but an All Star.&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t been totally happy with the way I&rsquo;ve been playing,&rdquo; he said sternly. &ldquo;I have to work on some things.&rdquo;Doesn&rsquo;t sound like much selfadulation for the man who out-polled all other defenseman in the West Division All Star balloting, does it?But that, in essence, is why Magnuson is Magnuson. Success must not be rested upon, but improved upon.&ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t know how to stop working hard,&rdquo; Reay remarked. &ldquo;You could see that quality in him from the first day he showed up at training camp.&rdquo;&ldquo;My goal now,&rdquo; Magnuson said. &ldquo;Is the Stanley Cup. That&rsquo;s all that really matters&rdquo;.As for his &ldquo;faults&rdquo;:&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not passing the puck fast enough.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I hold it too long waiting for the big play, to spring someone loose, rather than getting rid of it quickly. Instead of passing through instinct. I&rsquo;m thinking a bit too much and hesitating.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01734/2828547-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="549" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEITH MAGNUSON &hellip;Attains NHL Goal</figcaption></div>&ldquo;And I&rsquo;m not shooting well enough. I don&rsquo;t worry about scoring, but when you&rsquo;re shooting the puck in from the point, it&rsquo;s good to get it in low and reasonably accurate. I haven&rsquo;t been doing that &hellip; they&rsquo;ve been getting a little high and wide lately.&rdquo;Magnuson talks candidly about his image as an accomplished &ldquo;tough guy.&rdquo;&ldquo;The business about my taking karate and boxing lessons has been blown up a little more than I care to see,&rdquo; he emphasized. &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t back down from anyone and I&rsquo;ll go with anyone &mdash; that&rsquo;s the wav you have to be. But I care a lot about kids, the young hockey fans. And I don&rsquo;t think they should get the impression that hockey is all fights, or the impression that you have to be more of fighter than a player.&rdquo;HAWK-EY TALK: Chicago&rsquo;s team record 18-game unbeaten and 13-game victory strings at home were terminated by the Kings&rsquo; and Goalie Denis Dejordy, an ex-Hawk &hellip; Then after an outstanding victory in the Stadium against the Bruins, the Hawks yielded three powerplay goals the next night and fell to the Minnesota North Stars, 3 to 2. In that outing the Hawks were minus right wings Cliff Koroll and Eric Nesterenko through injuries, and another right wing. Chico Maki, was used only on powerplays because of a groin pull. &#9632;

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All Star Magnuson Hopes For Cup Win

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div>Philadelphia&mdash;If you&rsquo;re hoping to get a lesson in French, you certainly won&rsquo;t get it hanging around the Flyers&rsquo; dressing room these days.At least you won&rsquo;t hear the language spoken between the five French-Canadians on the team because Coach Vic Stasiuk has placed a financial taboo on such conversation.He has instructed his French players&mdash;goalie Bernie Parent, wingers Jean-Guy Gendron and Simon Nolet, and centers Andre Lacroix and Serge Bernier&mdash;that they&rsquo;ll be fined if he hears them speaking hockey business in their native tongue.Stasiuk believes only one language should be spoken, so that every member of the club knows exactly what&rsquo;s on the other guy&rsquo;s mind.&ldquo;The players have to talk to each other because it&rsquo;s the only way they can communicate,&rdquo; reasoned Stasiuk. &ldquo;Hell, in the Boston game a few weeks ago, I noticed some of the French fellows were discussing plays and telling each other to watch certain things.&ldquo;However, one of the French players didn&rsquo;t warn one of the four English players and it resulted in a goal for the Bruins. I don&rsquo;t want to see this happen.That&rsquo;s why Vic put an edict on his players speaking only English whenever they gather as a team&mdash;on the ice. in the dressing room, on planes, buses or in hotels.All of the players naturally feel bad about the ruling because, after all, they&rsquo;re being told they can&rsquo;t speak their native language.&ldquo;It is hard to accept,&rdquo; said Bernier. &ldquo;But, if it is best for the team, then we must accept it. On the ice everyone must understand (each other).&rdquo;Marcel Pelletier, the Flyers&rsquo; director of personnel, said it&rsquo;s not a real big thing and was strictly a club matter.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t see why anybody&rsquo;s getting excited about it.&rdquo; he said. &#9632;

English Working Language Sfates Flyers’Stasiuk

OKLAHOMA CITY FAIRGROUNDS ARENA3 &mdash; SEPARATE SESSIONS &mdash; ONE WEEK EACH JULY 12TH THROUGH JULY 30TH&#9679;Age limit 7 to 19&#9679;3 hours ice time and plenty of public skating&#9679;Supervised swimming pool for students&#9679;Physical fitness instruction by Phys. Ed. Instructor&#9679;Blackboard instruction and hockey films&#9679;Crests and trophies given to students&#9679;All meals carefully prepared by Dietician&#9679;Accident Insurance coverage&#9679;Free admission to baseball games and auto races&#9679;Day rates available&ldquo;OPEN TO BEGINNERS&rdquo; WITH SPECIAL CLASSESEHROLL NOW LIMITED REGISTRATIONFOR INFORMATION AND BROCHURES WRITE &mdash; NORTH AMERICAN HOCKEY SCHOOL, 1708 N. VERMONT, OKLA. CITY, OKLA. 73107, PHONE A.C. 405-942-6708CHANCE OF A LIFETIME FOR AMERICAN BOYS TO BE SEEN AND SCOUTED<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02676/2828686-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="258" height="332"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM WEBSTER Detroit Red Wings</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03563/2828679-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="257" height="330"><figcaption class="caption-body">MURRAY DAVISON Program Director</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04474/2828672-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="256" height="335"><figcaption class="caption-body">HARRY SINDEN Consultant-To Pres.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05370/2828665-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="255" height="337"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRASER GLEESON President-Gen. Mgr.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06316/2828658-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="251" height="338"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK CHERRY Program Consultant</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07280/2828651-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="260" height="333"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY CHEEVERS Public Relations Dir.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08259/2828644-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="254" height="337"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRIAN BRADLEY Asst. Chief Instructor</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09251/2828637-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="220" height="328"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARRY YOUNG Chief Boston Scout</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10231/2828630-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="259" height="306"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROSS LONSBERRY Asst. To Gen. Mgr.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11200/2828623-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="260" height="308"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG FAVELL Philadelphia Flyers</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-12162/2828616-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="721" height="266"><figcaption class="caption-body">FAIRGROUNDS ARENA</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-13145/2828609-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="262" height="329"><figcaption class="caption-body">STEVE ATKINSON Buffalo Sabres</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-14119/2828602-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="264" height="337"><figcaption class="caption-body">DON TANNAHIU Boston Prospect</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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NORTH AMERICAN HOCKEY SCHOOL

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>MONTREAL &mdash; Mickey Redmond, Guy Charron and Bill Collins, forwards, traded to Detroit in exchange for Frank Mahovlich, forward. Phil Roberto, forward, recalled from Montreal Voyageurs of AHL.DETROIT &mdash; Mickey Redmond, forward, placed on disabled list indefinitely after suffering severe ankle sprain. Don McLeod, goalkeeper, returned to Fort Worth of CHL.PITTSBURGH &mdash; Yvon Labre, defenseman. recalled from Amarillo of CHL as replacement for Bryan Watson, defenseman. placed on disabled list for rest of season after breaking leg. Ken Schinkel, forward, placed on disabled list for two months following operation for shoulder separation.LOS ANGELES&mdash;Jean Potvin, defensemen, returned to Springfield of AHL. Mike McMahon, defenseman. removed from suspended list and assigned to Springfield. Real Lemieux, forward, recalled from Springfield, Mike Byers, forward, placed on disabled list with torn ligaments in his thumb.VANCOUVER&mdash;Ron Dunn, defenseman, and Ralph Stewart, forward, returned to Rochester of AHL.MINNESOTA &mdash; Walt Mc Kechnie and Danny Lawson, forwards, sent to Cleveland of AHL. Dennis O&rsquo;Brien, defenseman. recalled form Cleveland.CALIFORNIA&mdash;Bob Sneddon, goalkeeper, assigned to Providence of AHL. Earl Ingarfield, forward, placed on disabled list after suffering broken knee cap.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>PROVIDENCE &mdash; Jack Gilroy, goalkeeper, returned to Edmonton Senior amateur club after one game pro tryout.MONTREAL&mdash;Fran Huck, forward, placed on suspended list.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>PHOENIX&mdash;Ron Low, goalkeeper. returned to Jacksonville of EHL. Andre Hinse, forward, on disabled list with torn wrist and elbow muscles. Bob Dillabough, forward, on disabled list with pinched nerve in neck. Don Caley, goalkeeper, returned to disabled list after reinjuring leg in first game back. Sandy Hucul, defenseman, placed on disabled list with kidney ailment.SAN DIEGO &mdash; Gary Edwards, goalkeeper, secured from St. Louis of NHL. Fred Hilts, forward, returned to active roster from disabled list for first time this season after spinal surgerv.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>AMARILLO&mdash;Larry Billows, forward, placed on voluntary retired list.KANSAS CITY &mdash; Jack Taggart, defenseman. placed on disabled list indefinitely after suffering head injuries and broken jaw in auto crash.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>FORT WAYNE&mdash;Craig Beveridge, forward, secured from Rochester of AHL. Tom lannone, forward, released.<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2>NEW&rsquo; JERSEY &mdash; Ray Schultz, defenseman. secured from Salem of EHL on loan. Jim Mclnally, defenseman, and Dom DiBerardino, forward, picked up from Nashville on waivers. Gord Stratton, forward, and Ron MacPherson, defenseman. placed on 21-day disabled list with injuries.JOHNSTOWN&mdash;Gary Brown, forward, picked on waivers from Nashville of EHL.NEW HAVEN&mdash;Norm Guimond, forward, sent to Long Island of EHL. Norm Schmitz, defenseman. placed on active roster. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY DAN PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO&mdash;Jacques Plante who was 42 years old on Jan. 17. has surprised no one more than himself with his sensational goal-tending performances for Toronto Maple Leafs.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m playing the best goal of my life,&rdquo; he said after a 2-0 win in Bloomington. his third shutout of the season. &ldquo;I can hardly believe it &mdash; I honestly feel I couldn&rsquo;t have played better than this in my years in Montreal.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01752/2828741-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="276" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Plante</figcaption></div>Standing immediately behind Plante as the second-most pleasantly surprised individual was John McLellan, the Leaf coach. &ldquo;You never realize how good a guy is,&rdquo; he commented, &ldquo;until he&rsquo;s playing for you and you see him game-in and game-out. It gives you an entirely different perspective than if you play against him and only see him two or three times a year. Then you think he&rsquo;s lucky when you see him.&rdquo;Leafs acquired Plante in a complex, three-way deal which saw Tim Horton dispatched from Toronto to New York Rangers. In return. Leafs got Guy Trottier and Denis Dupere from Rangers&rsquo; system and Plante, who came from St. Louis Blues. Rangers and Blues exchanged favors to finish the deal.Horton went to New York late last season, you&rsquo;ll recall, but Leafs couldn&rsquo;t announce who they were getting in return. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll see. it&rsquo;s a heck of a deal.&rdquo; insisted Jim Gregory, the Leaf general manager.As it has worked out. Gregory was absolutely correct. He intimated before this season that Leafs hoped improved goaltending would account for at least five more wins than Leafs achieved last year.&ldquo;Five more?&rdquo; echoed Claude Ruel, the Montreal scout and excoach. during a recent game. &ldquo;It&rsquo;ll be far more than that. After all, this man was once the best, eh. along with I&rsquo;errv Sawchuck.&ldquo;I told Jimmy Gregory when he made the deal that he had really done something good for himself.&rdquo; Ruel remembers Plante from his days of glory with Montreal Canadiens 1953-63.McLellan claims Plante is still the best, when properly rested. The only restriction McLellan must adhere to with his veteran puck stopper is that he cannot be played in games on consecutive days. The one time Plante feels his a ire is after a game.But as the New &lsquo;tear passed Plante had started 23 of 39 Leal games and was considered one of the chief reasons for the team&rsquo;s success. He had remained optimistic as Leafs bounced about the cellar with Punch Imlach&rsquo;s Sabres through the first quarter of the schedule, always predicting the team would come around.Plante credits the addition of defenseman. Bob Baun. 34. acquired from St. Louis, and George Armstrong. 40. who ended his third retirement as major reasons for his successful predictions. &ldquo;They talk to the young guys, they&rsquo;ve got the experience. They give us a good mix.&ldquo;The other thing is McLellan, who had fantastic patience with this team. When he changed the system (of forechecking) in November, he took us back to basic hockey, and it paid off.&rdquo;Plante also was enthusiastic about the addition of Brian Spencer, the rookie from Tulsa who made an immediate impact with his intense drive and fighting instincts. His arrival Dec. 9 coincided with the start of the streak that showed no signs of slowing down after 15 games, in which Leafs collected 27 of 3(1 possible points.But the importance Plante played in that streak was best indicated, perhaps, by McLellan&rsquo;s reactions to the selection of the All-Star team. He couldn&rsquo;t believe Plante wasn&rsquo;t selected by the writers in East Division cities.Nevertheless, recent NHL statistics indicated better than any All-Star vote how Plante stands among both division&rsquo;s goaltenders. His average, after appearances in 23 games, was 1.9S. Only Villemure was better, with 1.64 after 17 appearances. At the same time. Giacomin&rsquo;s average was 2.29 and Tony Esposito&rsquo;s stood at 2.24. while St. Louis goaltenders Ernie Wakely and Glenn Hall had respective marks of 2.43 and 2.61.LEAF NOTES: &mdash; Plante has a sheet of 15 tips which he sends out to goaltenders who write to him &hellip; He has been getting more than 100 letters a day recently &hellip; Brian Spencer shot three goals in Leafs&rsquo; 5-2 win over Pittsburgh, overshadowing Dave Keons short-handed goal that tied Gerry Toppazini&rsquo;s season record of seven penaly-killing surprises. &#9632;

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Surprised Plante Admits He’s Never Played Better

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div>VANCOUVER&mdash;Though they still hadn&rsquo;t won a game in 1971. there were signs the Vancouver Canucks were getting ready to break out of a slump that started back in December after a knee injury to Orland Kurtenbach.This re-grouping process was being led by a scrappy young French Canadian from Haileybury, Ont named Rosaire Paiement.In Kurtenbach, the Canucks lost not only their leading scorer and team leader, but also a leading contender for the heavyweight championship of the National Hockey League. Even with Kurt sitting on the bench, the Canucks were a team that commanded a certain amount of respect.With their big center out, the Canucks floundered. General manager Bud Poile tried unsuccessfully to make a trade. Then he turned to Rochester, the Canucks&rsquo; American Hockey League farm club, and brought up five players. Coach Hal Lavcoe shook up the lines.But despite all those efforts, both Poile and Lavcoe were agreed that any new leadership would have to come from within the club itself.Paiement has been trying manfully to provide it.When it comes to throwing down the gloves. Paiement is as willing a battler as Kurtenbach, but where Kurt weighs in at 195 pounds. Rosie is a mere 175.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01743/2828772-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="554" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROSAIRE PAIEMENT &hellip;Lays On Muscle</figcaption></div>And as he readily admits. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve alwavs had trouble scoring goals in the NHL&rdquo;The scrappy right winger is not gifted as a skater or stickhandler, but when it comes to being a competitor. Paiement tips his hat to no man.Thus it was that when the Canucks were struggling most, it was Paiement who came up biggest, scoring four goals in five games. One, scored against the Blues in St. Louis, helped end the Canucks&rsquo; three-game losing streak as Vancouver held on for a 2-2 tie.A tie may not be much to get excited about, but in Vancouver&rsquo;s case it came just two davs after a scrappy performance against the Boston Bruins, the eastern division leaders.The Bruins won 6-4, their third straight win over the expansion Canucks, but Vancouver led three times during the course of the game, a clear indication the club is ready to start battling again after a two-week period of feeling sorry for itself over the loss of Kurtenbach.Paiement&rsquo;s burst brought his seasonal total to a modest nine, but his aggressive play has provided a lift for the entire team.Even more significant as far as the Canucks are concerned was their unstated declaration they no longer intend to be pushed around.In Montreal, Corrigan traded punches with John Ferguson and Paiement took on king-sized rookie Pierre Bouchard. In Boston Paiement battled Don Awrey and at home be tackled Bob Plager of the Blues. In St. Louis. John Schella a defenceman called up from Rochester, took on Terry Crisp of the Blues, while goaltender Dune Wilson made it a tag-team by squaring off with John Arbour, a former teammate.It&rsquo;s Paiement who has be to credited with the rebirth of the Canucks&rsquo; battling attitude.As he so aptly puts it: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t look for trouble, but if it comes 1 got to take it. I think I could take good care of me.&rdquo;He can.GOAL DUST: The Canucks have returned three of the five players thev called up to Rochester &hellip; Back to complete another year of apprenticeship in the AHL are centre Ralph Stewart. winger Bob Cook and defenseman Dave Dunn&hellip;However,&rdquo; Schella and forward Garth Rizzuto are still with the parent club, probably to stay. &#9632;

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Paiement Snelling Kurt As Canuck ‘Leader’

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01721/2828964-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08173/2828957-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="250" height="245"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-09142/2828950-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="271" height="228"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-10127/2828943-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="295" height="160"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-11118/2828936-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="230" height="237"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-12101/2828929-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="236" height="261"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1390/2828922-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="293" height="201"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1483/2828915-1-eng-US/f0012-142.jpg" title="f0012-14" width="237" height="237"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1577/2828908-1-eng-US/f0012-152.jpg" title="f0012-15" width="275" height="235"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1668/2828901-1-eng-US/f0012-162.jpg" title="f0012-16" width="253" height="234"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1754/2828894-1-eng-US/f0012-172.jpg" title="f0012-17" width="274" height="179"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1847/2828887-1-eng-US/f0012-182.jpg" title="f0012-18" width="251" height="224"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1941/2828880-1-eng-US/f0012-192.jpg" title="f0012-19" width="242" height="248"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2036/2828873-1-eng-US/f0012-202.jpg" title="f0012-20" width="257" height="240"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2128/2828866-1-eng-US/f0012-212.jpg" title="f0012-21" width="238" height="269"></div><h2>TOP 20 SCORERS</h2>(Including Games of Sun. Jan. 17)<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02624/2828859-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1813" height="970"></div>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.<h3>EAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03494/2828852-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="887" height="1801"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04365/2828845-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="890" height="1354"></div><h3>NHL SCOREBOARD</h3>(Including Games of Sun. Jan. 17)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05273/2828838-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="786" height="157"></div><h2>Looking At NHL Goalers</h2>THE TOP 10 NETMINDERS(Including Games of Sun. Jan. 17)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06226/2828831-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="869" height="418"></div><h3>WEST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07198/2828824-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="888" height="3447"></div><h2>THE NHL SCENE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01710/2828817-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="207" height="212"></div>(Standings on Wed. Jan. 20)<h3>EAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02663/2828810-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="1105" height="334"></div><h3>WEST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03616/2828803-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="1124" height="338"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues. Jan. 12New York 4 at Vancouver 2California 2 at St. Louis 8Wed. Jan. 13California 1 at Toronto 1Buffalo 2 at Chicago 4Los Angeles 2 at Pittsburgh 4Thurs. Jan. 14Montreal 4 at Minnesota 4Toronto 0 at Philadelphia 3Los Angeles 5 at Boston 9Pittsburgh 2 at Detroit 2St. Louis 1 at Buffalo 2Fri. Jan. 15New York 1 at California 3Sat. Jan. 16Boston 2 at Montreal 4Los Angeles 1 at Toronto 8Philadelphia 4 at Detroit 2Buffalo 4 at Minnesota 3Pittsburgh 4 at Vancouver 3Chicago 2 at St. Louis 3Sun. Jan. 17Montreal 4 at Buffalo 4Toronto 1 at Boston 9New York 3 at Chicago 4Minnesota 2 at Detroit 0Vancouver 3 at California 1Los Angeles 4 at Philadelphia 1<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tues. Jan. 19All Star Game at BostonWed. Jan. 20Toronto at VancouverPhiladelphia at New YorkPittsburgh at CaliforniaThurs. Jan 21Montreal at PhiladelphiaNew York at BuffaloDetroit at ChicagoPittsburgh at Los AngelesSt. Louis at MinnesotaFri. Jan. 22Toronto at CaliforniaSat. Jan. 23Detroit at MontrealToronto at Los AngelesChicago at BostonBuffalo at St. LouisVancouver at PittsburghPhiladelphia at MinnesotaSun. Jan. 24Montreal at BostonMinnesota at New YorkVancouver at DetroitPhiladelphia at BuffaloCalifornia at ChicagoTues. Jan. 26Chicago at VancouverWed. Jan. 27St. Louis at MontrealToronto at PittsburghBoston at New YorkBuffalo at Los AngelesMinnesota at California &#9632;

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NHL PLAYERS SCORING PENALTY RECORDS

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES &mdash;Although the Los Angeles Kings have, as this is written, just completed one of the worst quarters in their 3 &frac12;-year existence and a disappointing first half at this season, the form they were flashing at the finish renewed the promise shown at the beginning that this was a contender for third place in the NHL&rsquo;s West Division and at worst had a good chance to gain a postseason playoff berth.King hopes were as low as they ever have been when they took off on an eight-game road-trip near the end of the first week in January, but a fine showing inthe first half of this trip, which brought them to the end of the first half of the campaign, was a startling turn about from their recent form.Led by two goals by slumping Ross Lonsberry and a winning goal by resurgent Doug Robinson, the Kings won in Chicago. 4-2. where the Hawks had been unbeaten in 18 previous games this season. Then with ailing Eddie Joyal scoring two and Bill Flett the tying marker, the Kings came from 4-1 and 5-4 deficits to tie in Philadelphia. 5-5.The Kings made a magnificent stand in Montreal before succumbing on a goal with less than three minutes to play tolose. 1-0. Finally, they bounced back in Buffalo to tie the Sabres, 2-2, on a goal by Joyal and the first of the season by Butch Goring, sick early and recently recalled from the minors.The key figure in this stretch was Denis DeJordy. the goaltender. Recently criticized. DeJordy seemed to snap out of a slump with several excellent showings, especially one in Montreal. The Kings were outshot in every one of these four games, but outscored in only one. a reversal of past form this season.Owner Jack Kent Cooke said. &ldquo;I have felt from the first that we had excellent material on this team and none of our problems made me feel any different. I feel we suffered a severe psychological setback when tied by Detroit at home with five seconds left in mid-November and have been almost two months regaining our confidence. I feel we may have gotten the psychological lift we needed with our recent road victory in Chicago. If we play with confidence I think we can playwell with anyone.&rdquo;During their severe slump, the Kings went 11 games without a victory, twice lost four in a row and won only once in a stretch of 17 contests. They concluded the second quarter with a 3-10-7 record and the three victories is as few as they ever have won in any of the 14 quarters of their existence. Their first quarter this season was 8-10-1, third best in their history, and they finished the half at 11-20-8, which is all right when you consider that they had done decreasingly worse in every half of their existence until this one.Here is their history of half seasons:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04565/2828995-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="432" height="149"></div>Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Minnesota, teams ahead of them at the halfway point, and California, the one club behind them, all have been playing so poorly the Kings were within six points of third place.The Kings were the highest-scoring of all expansion teams, old and new, and second highest in the Western Division in the first half with 115 goals. &#9632;

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Kings Renew Hopes Of High HHL Finish

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div>BOSTON&mdash;When you are playing on the same line with a pair of individuals like Phil Esposito and Ken Hodge it is easy to go unnoticed. But Wayne Cashman finally is making his presence felt in the Bruins&rsquo; bid to. repeat as Stanley Cup champions.The 25-year-old Cashman was the subject of some early season comment as he tangled with several opponents and to their dismay discover that while he is a right hand shot and playing left wing for the Bruins he definitely is left handed when it comes to throwing punches.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03461/2829026-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="261" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Cashman</figcaption></div>But lately he has been more conspicious for his skating and scoing ability.At last count he ranked ninth in the NHL scoring race with 11 goals and 33 assists for 44 points and alreadv has surpassed his 1969-70 totals of 9-26-35.Ironically, while he has been fattening his scoring percentage, he also is concerned about his girth.Normally a 190-pounder. Cashman has a tendency to add weight at this point of the season for some stranee reason.&ldquo;It must be the holidays,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I work just as hard in practice and during the games but I guess I have a tendency to eat more.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got to start watching my diet or I&rsquo;ll be buying a new wardrobe he says with a grin.As far as his scoring, however, the Bruins are rooting for him to balloon to All Star proportions.&ldquo;He could do it very easily, you know,&rdquo; says coach Tom oJohnson. I&rsquo;m not surprised with the wav he has been playing from the start of the season.&ldquo;Cash is a hard worker and he is getting more clever handling the puck.Playing the off-wing he had to make adjustments and that delayed his progress some but he is one of those individuals who is able to adjust.&ldquo;And the chance to play regularly has given him a big boost.&rdquo;Both Hodge and Esposito have a hatful of praise of their young linemate.In my opinion, says Hodge. &ldquo;Cash was the surprise of training camp. The way he played was overshadowed somewhat because of the return of Teddy Green. But he certainly showed at London that he belonged as a regular on this team.&ldquo;If he has any fault right now it is the fact that he doesn&rsquo;t shoot enough.&ldquo;Both Phil and I have been telling him to shoot more but Cash is very unselfish and he is always looking to pass off.&ldquo;I suppose that&rsquo;s natural with a guy like Phil&rsquo;s ability to put the puck in the net and Cash is a big tough kid with a lot of playmaking ability.&ldquo;He was up and down for a couple of years because he was shifting around in position and didn&rsquo;t have the chance to develop confidence. But he&rsquo;s got it now and he is making the most of it.&rsquo;&ldquo;To me.&rdquo; said Esposito, the more you play the better you get and Cash is playing more and getting better all the time.&rdquo;Actually Cashmans emergence as a potentially hot score dates back to the playoffs of last year.He was one of the Bruins most consistent performers on their way to regaining the Cup, scoring five goals in 14 games.&ldquo;I had been playing regularly then.&rdquo; he says &ldquo;and had a pretty good idea of what I was supposed to do.&ldquo;Ice time means a lot.&rdquo; he continues. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a little surprised with my totals in the first 38 games. I mean passing last year&rsquo;s figures so early in the season. But when you play with two great hockey players like Espo and Hodge, you can&rsquo;t help but improve.&ldquo;1 just want to continue improving and I&rsquo;ll keep working to get better every game.&rdquo;ICE CHIPS &mdash; With 179 goals in 38 games the Bruins passed the halfway mark in the season at a record pace&hellip;A year ago they had 146 points at the same stage and their own record is 303&hellip;And projecting their 27 victories through the second half of the season they would finish with 54 to wipe out Montreal&rsquo;s record of 46 in the 1968-69 season. &#9632;

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Johnson Not Surprised As Cashman Delivers

<h2>In The East</h2>Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins is enjoying a fabulous season in the NHL. In fact every time he touches the puck these days he either breaks or is approaching another record.Espo turned in another productive week with four goals and four assists &mdash; including his fifth three-goal hat trick of the season for a new NHL record. Two more and he&rsquo;ll tie the all-time mark of seven set by Joe Malone in a 44-game season in 1917-18.The rangy Boston center now has 42 goals and 87 points in 44 games and if he scores eight more goals in the Bruins&rsquo; next six games, he will break his own record for most goals in a season by a center (49) and equal Maurice Richard&rsquo;s feat of 50 goals in 50 games.THE HOCKEY NEWS has selected Esposito as the East Division player whom we think belongs among the NHL&rsquo;s Stars Of The Week.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04335/2829064-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="534" height="640"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL ESPOSITO &hellip; Boston Bruins</figcaption></div><h2>In The West</h2>Gary Sabourin has been slow warming up to his past NHL performances but there is every indication the rugged right winger of the St. Louis Blues has broken out of his shell and could be on his way to another fine campaign.Sabourin stole the West Division scoring spotlight last week with three goals and two assists for the Blues raising his season total to 13 goals and 15 assists for 28 points. Last year he collected 28 goals and 42 points so he still has plenty of time to pick up where he left off in 1969-70.The Blues&rsquo; solid winger shot one goal to help down California 8-2 and then provided the big offensive punch with two goals as St. Louis toppled Chicago 3-2.THE HOCKEY NEWS has selected Sabourin as the West Division player whom we think belongs among the NHL&rsquo;s Stars Of The Week.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05253/2829057-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="559" height="654"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY SABOURIN &hellip; St. Louis Blues</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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STARS OF THE WEEK

(Standings on Thurs. Jan. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01709/2829109-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="584" height="211"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02599/2829102-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="589" height="377"></div><h2>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Fri. Jan. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0293/2829095-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="573" height="302"></div> &#9632;

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NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR

<div class="byline">BY JOHN PORTER</div>OAKLAND&mdash;Opponents have been cleaning up on California when the Golden Seals hit the road.In 24 games on enemv rinks, the Seals had three wins and a single tie. The worst outing to date was a five-game trip over the New &lsquo;tear&rsquo;s holidays that turned out to be a clean sweep for I he home clubs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01530/2829140-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="555" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON STACKHOUSE&hellip;Freshman Impressive</figcaption></div>Still. Fred Glover had a ready answer when asked if he could point to one of his players and say. There&rsquo;s the guy who hasn&rsquo;t let me down this season.&rsquo;Glover&rsquo;s choice is 6-foot-2. 180 pounds. He&rsquo;s a rookie blueliner whose style of play may lull you to drowsiness, but you&rsquo;d better stay awake. His stick doubles as a broom with unbelievable sweep checks.Give up?He&rsquo;s Ron Stackhouse.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been in Detroit twice.&rdquo; said the Seals&rsquo; caoch. &ldquo;We won 7-3. then lost 3-2. but you know what those Detroit writers wanted to talk about?&ldquo;Ron Stackhouse, that&rsquo;s who.&rdquo; he continued, answering the question. &ldquo;They couldn&rsquo;t get over some of the things he does. Half the time he looks asleep out there, then that big stick comes out to break up a rush.&rdquo;Stack has played regularly since the beginning of the season, but was involved in little of the Seals&rsquo; scoring and usually went unnoticed.In 30 games he had only three assists. Then in the subsequent 10 games. Stack scored three goals and added four assists with his booming slap shot from the point.There even was a sign hanging in the Oakland Arena for a game with St. Louis (Jan. 6) that read. &ldquo;Ron Stackhouse Fan Club.&rdquo;The 21-year-old bachelor broke into a big grin when he saw the placard, but it wasn&rsquo;t too long ago when the home crowd booed the very sight of him.&ldquo;Fans hated me last year in Providence.&rdquo; the Haliburton. Ont., native recalled with a grin. &ldquo;It was the most brutal year of my life: I never want to go back there.&rdquo;It got so bad the Reds&rsquo; coach played Stack only on the road, benching him for home games. Right now. Glover wouldn&rsquo;t think of doing that.Stackhouse said he was an impressionable kid in his boyhood. the kind who collected hockey player trading cards. &ldquo;I thought of the Howes and Beliveaus as gods.&rdquo; he said.Deity turned mortal in his first shift on the ice as an NHL defenseman. He caught the butt end of Howe&rsquo;s stick in the ribs.Incidentally, the Seals really crunched St. Louis for two periods in that Jan. 6 game. California eventually won. 6-3. and Dennis Hextall scored twice and Norm Ferguson had a goal and a picture assist.So who played the best game for the Golden Ones?&ldquo;Ron Stackhouse.&rdquo; responded Glover.SEALS SHOTS: Two Seals ended personal scoring slumps in the second week of-January&hellip;Left wing Gary Croteau turned the red light on in Philadelphia (Jan. 9) after going 24 scoreless games&hellip;Gary Jarrett hit the next night in Boston to end a 15-game whitewash&hellip;Backup goalie Bob Sneddon was dispatched to Providence where he&rsquo;ll get a chance to play more&hellip;Chris Worthy, who hasn&rsquo;t played a minute this season up to Jan. 11. will be Gary Smith&rsquo;s relief&hellip;Earl Ingarfield has a broken knee cap and is in a hiplength cast. &#9632;

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Stackhouse Wins Ice Raves

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NED SINGER

<div class="byline">BY DWAYNE NETLAND</div>TWIN CITIES &mdash;The &ldquo;Beantown Express&rdquo; is back in business again, and the Minnesota North Stars are hoping it runs on schedule for the rest of the season.For lack of greater creativity, a Minnesota writer christened that name last year on the line of J.P. Parise, Tommy Williams and Bill Goldsworthy, explaining apologetically that all three of them had once been with the Boston organization.The line had originally been assembled by Wren Blair, the Minnesota general manager who was also coaching the team then. It was Nov. 5. 1969, in a 2-2 tie at Montreal, that Williams was first employed at center between Parise and Goldsworthy.The threesome went on to enjoy a most productive season. They combined for a total of 204 points and became the second-highest scoring line in the National Hockey League in 1969-70.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01444/2829209-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="281" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Williams</figcaption></div>Through the first half of this season, however, the former Bostonians had more problems than most of today&rsquo;s real-life railroads.Williams missed the first eight games with an ailing back. No sooner had he returned to active duty than his 28-year-old wife. Emmie, died, leaving Tommy with their five children.He underwent an understandable depression, appearing for a time to lose interest in hockey. Blair suggested he start working out twice a day to get back in shape. Williams has never been too enthusiastic about practicing, but he did follow his general manager&rsquo;s advice and now seems to have regained his old edge.Returned to his old linemates, Williams responded by scoring two goals in a game at Los Angeles and two more five days later in a game at Toronto.Parise has missed five games, two with a bursitis condition in his shoulder and three more with a mysterious back ailment which hospitalized him for a week.As a result. Goldsworthy has been forced to work with a variety of linemates over the first half of the season, and the shifting did not appear to stimulate his play.The truth is that the North Stars were a feeble team offensively through their first 39 games. They scored only 85 goals to rank 1.3th in the NHL.Primary responsibility for their goal-scoring problems rested on the Beantown line. Consider these figures:Last season Parise accumulated 72 points. Through the halfway point of this season he had 18 points, or exactly 25 per cent.Williams had 67 points last season and 14 through the first half of 1969-70. Goldsworthy was was somewhat behind schedule, too. He had 26 points at the 39-point mark (enough to lead the team), compared to 65 for last season.No wonder the North Stars have encountered some lean nights offensively.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t want to use Tommy until he was mentally and physically ready to play.&rdquo; said Jack Gordon, the Minnesota coach. &ldquo;It took him a long time to round into shape. but he&rsquo;s going well now and it&rsquo;s made quite a difference in the line.NORTH STAR NOTES: New York goalie Gilles Villemure has beaten Minnesota four straight times this seasons, twice with shutouts&hellip;Minnesota sent center Walt McKechnie down to Cleveland. McKechnie had three goals for the North Stars this season, all of them in one game, last Oct. 15 against Pittsburgh&hellip;Ted Harris, the Minnesota captain, got a misconduct penalty from referee John Ashley for suggesting that Toronto receive a minor for knocking over its own cage while the North Stars were bustling around the net&hellip; &#9632;

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North Stars Eye Second Half Hoping ‘Express’ Line Rolls

<h2>POINTS OF INTEREST</h2>SKATING&mdash;is in a brand new regulation size rink.ICE TIME&mdash;three hours daily.PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION&mdash;there are two or more professional coaches on the ice at all times.NUMBER OF BOYS ON ICE&mdash;there are no more than 30 skaters on the ice at one time so each boy may get &ldquo;individual&rdquo; instruction.PRO COACHES AND THEIR FAMILIES &mdash; live right at camp and are closely associated with the boys.THE BEEHIVE HOCKEY CAMP &mdash; has two hundred acres with a picturesque nine hole go lf course for the use of campers, interesting woods to explore, and wonderful fresh country air.COTTAGES &mdash; the boys live in modern two or three bedroom cedar log construction cottages.SHOOTING PRACTICE RANGE &mdash; goal nets, for shooting practice, are available at camp.RENTAL GOLF CLUBS &mdash; are available to the boys for S5.00 per week.RENTAL FISHING RODS AND REELS &mdash; are available to the boys for S5.00 per week.AT THE BEEHIVE HOCKEY CAMP &mdash; the boys will be able to enjoy water sports &hellip; water-skiing, canoeing, fishing and swimming.FOOD &mdash; at the Beehive Hockey Camp is &ldquo;GREAT&rdquo;IMPROVEMENTS &mdash; in a two week period, your boy will show improvement in every part of his game.SCOUT REPORTS &mdash; will be made on each boy and personal notes from the coaches will be mailed to the parents.COACHES &mdash; boys receive training from professional N.H.L. players such as Allan Stanley, Tim Horton, Gerry Desjardins, John Miszuk, Marv Edwards, Don Luce and other &ldquo;guest&rdquo; coaches.THE BEEHIVE HOCKEY CAMP &mdash; is geared for the complete hockey holiday &hellip; on ice instruction, lectures, films, and shooting ranges &hellip; plus the thrill of a summer camp vacation with professional hockey coaches.Write for full color picture brochure and application formBEEHIVE HOCKEY CAMPSUMMER: Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada Telephone (705 738-2343WINTER:(Nov. 1 June 1)3000 Dufferin St., Ste. 904, Toronto 19, Ontario Canada Telephone (416) 782-0909.<h2>GUEST COACHES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03323/2829268-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="248" height="316"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY DESJARDINSGcalkeepct Chicago Block Hawks</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05207/2829261-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="258" height="325"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARY EDWARDSGoalkeeper Phoenix Roadrunners Of WHL</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02392/2829254-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="248" height="316"><figcaption class="caption-body">TIM HORTONDefenseman New York Rangers</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04253/2829247-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="267" height="325"><figcaption class="caption-body">DON LUCECenter Detroit Red Wings</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-06172/2829240-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="261" height="326"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN MISZUKDefenseman San Diego Golfs Of WHL</figcaption></div>CAMP DATES JUNE 27-SEPTEMBER 4 &#9632;

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PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY INSTRUCTION plus

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER &mdash;The Rochester Americans swung into the second of their 1970-71 American Hockey League schedule bolstered by the addition of some familiar faces.Darryl Sly, a member of all three Amerk Calder Cup championship teams, and Marc Reaume, who played on the last one in 1968, were sent to Rochester by the parent Vancouver Canucks as part of a shuffle between the clubs.First, Vancouver called up Ralph Stewart, Garth Rizzuto, Bob Cook, Dave Dunn and John Schella for games in Montreal and Boston at a time when the Americans weren&rsquo;t playing.Then the Canucks waived Reaume, Sly and forward Jim Wiste out of the NHL and sent them to the Amerks. Cook and Dunn rejoined Rochester without missing a game and Stewart stayed up with Vancouver for one more, missing two Amerk contests before coming back.So the balance sheet for the week showed Rizzuto and Schella gone, with Wiste, Sly and Reaume added. Not a bad week&rsquo;s work.Sly, who&rsquo;ll be 32 in April, had played 477 regular season games with the Amerks before returning this season. Except for two brief stints with Toronto, he was a regular here from 1961-62 through 1967-68.Rochester won division and playoff championships in 196465, 1965-66 and 1967-68 and were losing finalists in &rsquo;66-67. Darryl was drafted by Minnesota in the inter-league draft in June of &rsquo;69 and spent last season with Minnesota and Iowa.Reaume, the Western League&rsquo;s leading defenseman award winner last season with Vancouver, also won that honor in the AHL while with Hershey in 1962-63. He was a mainstay of the 1967-68 Amerks and was voted to the second all-star team. He&rsquo;ll be 37 next month.Wiste comes to the Amerks with some pretty fair credentials. He&rsquo;s a University of Denver graduate in his third year of pro hockey. He scored 32 goals and assisted on 44 others for Dallas of the Central League two years ago, then added seven goals and six assists in 10 playoff outings. Last season he was 0-8-8 in 26 games for the Chicago Black Hawks and 6-9&mdash;15 in 11 games for Dallas.None had seen much ice time for the Canucks this season, so Amerk fans will have to be a bit patient until they regain playing form.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01450/2829351-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="434" height="529"><figcaption class="caption-body">DARRYL SLY&hellip;Top Rearguard Back</figcaption></div>ICICLES: The Amerks reached the halfway mark in their schedule with 14 wins, 16 defeats and six ties. Last season&rsquo;s cellar-dwelling Americans won only 18 games all season. Rochester had played 20 of its first 36 games on home ice, meaning the second half will have 16 here and 20 on the road. &#9632;

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Amerks Gain In Exchange

<h2>American League Summaries</h2><h2>Sat. Jan. 9PROVIDENCE 2 at CLEVELAND 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties: Dufour, 3:02; Schultz, 5:06; Nicholson, 11:07; Menard, 12:07; Comeau, 12:07; Menard, 14:20.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Providence, Rota (Clearwater)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:352&mdash;Providence, McAneeley (Dufour, Clearwater)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:57Penalties: O&rsquo;Brien, 0:26; Redmond, 3:54; O&rsquo;Brien, Laframboise, 4:03; Needham, 5:25; Erickson, 11:35; White, 15:05.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Cleveland, Whitlock (M. Johnston, Comeau)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:20Penalties: Dufour, 18:13; Providence bench (served by Laframboise) 19:56.Shots on goal: Providence: 35; Cleveland: 23Attendance: 5,525<h2>ROCHESTER 6 at BALTIMORE 8</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Baltimore, Marshall (Niekamp, Cunniff)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:072&mdash;Baltimore, Marshall (Dufour, Cunniff)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:073&mdash;Rochester, Ward (Walton, Stanfield)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:304&mdash;Rochester, Armstrong (Cook, Taylor)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:22Penalties: Douglas, Mortson, 6:43; Blackburn, 9:23; Niekamp, 15:56; Rivers, 19:30.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Rochester, Blackburn (Cook, Harris)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:056&mdash;Baltimore, Dufour (Marshall, Cunniff)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:447&mdash;Rochester, Cook (Dunn, Stanfield)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:20Penalties: Swarbrick 0:44, Ward, 9:09.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>8&mdash;Baltimore, Marshall&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;0:199&mdash;Rochester, Cook (Armstrong)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:3010&mdash;Baltimore, Douglas (Ferguson, McCann)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:4211&mdash;Baltimore, Dufour (Douglas, Niekamp)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:1112&mdash;Baltimore, Marshall (Dufour, Cunniff)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:4913&mdash;Rochester, Sly (Mortson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:3914&mdash;Baltimore, Rivers (Rivard, Speck)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:59Penalties: Walton, 3:09; Swarbrick, 5:36; Ferguson, Aubry, 7:42; Rivord, 11:20; Ferguson, Wiste (minor, major), 13:04.Shots on goal: Rochester: 36; Baltimore: 30Attendance: 6,145<h2>QUEBEC 1 at SPRINGFIELD 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Springfield, McDonough (Hoekstra, Fortin)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:33Penalties: Schultz (minor, major) 7:38; Lochance (major) 7:38; Mair, 16:51; Brossart, 19:01.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties: Murphy, 7:14; Schultz (minor, major) 10:23; Gibbons (major) 10:23; Gaudette, 15:54.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Quebec. Gaudette (Cunningham)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:52Penalties: Cote, 11:17; Smith, 16:04.Shots on goal: Quebec: 27; Springfield: 39Attendance: 5,808<h2>MONTREAL 4 at HERSHEY 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Hershey, Edestrand (Nykoluk, Gratton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:35Penalties: Gauthier, 3:00; Mahoney, 11:09.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Montreal, Sheehan (Charron, Paradise)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;0:493&mdash;Montreal, Gray (Gagnon)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1:324&mdash;Montreal, Charron (Roberto)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:585&mdash;Montreal, Gray (Lefley, Gagnon)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:01Penalties: Webley, 3:34; Roberto, 4:15.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalty: Clancy, 8:20.Shots on goal: Montreal: 39; Hershey: 40Attendance: 6,888.<h2>Sun. Jan. 10SPRINGFIELD 4 at PROVIDENCE 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Providence, McAneeley (Szura, Dufour)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:482&mdash;Springfield, Boland (Murphy)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:33Penalties: Holbrook, 6:29; McDonough, 7:51; Nicholson, 15:26; Fortin. 19:29.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Providence, Leduc (Szura, Dufour)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:524&mdash;Springfield, McMahon (Hoekstra, March)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:145&mdash;Providence, Roto (Laframboise, Menard)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:57Penalties: Oddliefson, 7:53.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Providence, Garwasiuk (White)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:097&mdash;Springfield, Volmor (Healey)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:268&mdash;Springfield, McMahon&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:22Penalties: McMahon, Dufour, 9:53; Leduc, 12:22.Shots on goal. Springfield: 31; Providence: 39Attendance: 5,015<h2>BALTIMORE 4 at ROCHESTER 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Baltimore, Cunniff&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;0:33Penalties: Johnston, 1:31; Ketter, Armstrong, 15:14.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Rochester, Harris&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:123&mdash;Baltimore, Speck (Johnston, Rivers)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:53Penalties: Chevrier, 1:37; Speck, 12:09.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Baltimore, McCann (Niekamp)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:205&mdash;Baltimore, Bartlett (Speck, Rivers)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:37Penalties; Whidden, 3:29; Johnston, Wiste (majors) 7:41.Shots on goal. Baltimore: 37, Rochester: 19Attendance: 4,545<h2>MONTREAL 0 at QUEBEC 5</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties: Schultz, 3:34; 18:09; Roberto, 9.05; Gaudette, 10:59; Baddy, MacSweyn, 12:54; Murdoch, 16:19.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Quebec, Schultz (Currier, MacSweyn)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:262&mdash;Quebec, Gaudette (Drolet, MacSweyn)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:073&mdash;Quebec, Clement (Giannini)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:414&mdash;Quebec, Hurlburt (Drolet)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:52Penalties: Paradise, 0:33; Pelletier, 7:56.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Quebec, Clement (MacSweyn, Taylor)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:55Penalties: Nowak, 0:39; Montreal bench (served by Poirier) 2:05; Hurlburt, 6:10, Schultz (misconduct), 15:49. Saves, Thomas (Montreal) 28; Taylor (Quebec) 21. Attendance: 5,281<h2>Thurs. Jan. 14ROCHESTER 1 at QUEBEC 2</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties: Dunn 2:54, Saleski, Stanfield 4:41, Sly, Schultz 5:14, Wiste, Schultz 12:56, Harris 13:14, Mortson, Brossart 17:31.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Quebec, Mair (Wright, Nowak)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:402&mdash;Rochester: Blackburn (Dunville)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:20Penalties: Schultz (double minor) Aubry (served by Blackburn) 9:56, Wiste 11:02, Wiste, Brossart (minors,?majors) 13:13, Dunn 16:31.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Quebec, Saleski (Hurlburt, Drolet)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:00Penalties: Block 2:21, Cunningham 6:54.Saves, Aubry (Rochester) 41, Taylor (Quebec) 20.Attendance: 2,755.<h2>Fri. Jan. 15CLEVELAND 5 at MONTREAL 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Montreal, Sheehan&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:32Penalties &mdash; Blanchette 9:23, Paradise, Redmond 10:54, Lavender 16:16.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Cleveland, Lawson (Polanic, McKechnie)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2.163&mdash;Cleveland, Lawson, (McKechnie, Chernoff)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:214&mdash;Cleveland, Chernoff (Redmond, M. Johnston)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:395&mdash;Cleveland, Heindi (M. Johnston, J. Johnston)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:06Penalties &mdash; Paradise 3:42, Gauthier 4:23, J. Johnston, Gauthier 10:29, Polanic 12.14, Lawson, Byrnes, Montreal bench (served by Poirier) 15:59.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Cleveland, Gfton (Erickson, Redmond)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:18Penalties &mdash; Montreal team penalty (served by Clancy) 12:45, Gagnon 19:50.Saves, Dryden (Montreal) 48; Kurt (Cleveland) 25Attendance: 1,482.<h2>QUEBEC 1 at ROCHESTER 8</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Rochester, Ward (Armstrong, Sly)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:312&mdash;Rochester, Stock (Ward, Armstrong)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:08Penalties &mdash; Brossart, Mortson 1:00 (majors) Pelletier, Dunn 1:00, Dunville 1:46, Currier, Armstrong 4:37, Clement, Harris 6:29, Brossart 8:11, Pelletier 9:56, Sly 13:22.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Rochester, Harris (Wiste)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1:234&mdash;Rochester, Harris (Block, Wiste)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:505&mdash;Rochester, Mortson (Reaume, Wiste)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:156&mdash;Rochester. Mortson (Cook, Harris)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:22Penalties &mdash; Schultz 6:08, Saleski 12:00, Dunn 15:15, 17:43, Mortson 20:00.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>7&mdash;Rochester, Dunville (Stewart, Cook)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:378&mdash;Quebec, Currier (Gaudette)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:489&mdash;Rochester, Harris (Wiste, Wells)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:39Penalties &mdash; Schultz 3:27, Brossart 4:44, Dunville 12:31, Schultz (major) 15:29, Dunn (minor, major) 15:29.Shots on goals: Quebec 23; Rochester 47.Attendance: 4,845.<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Jan. 19)<h3>EAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04262/2829320-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="575" height="169"></div><h3>WEST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05218/2829313-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="579" height="160"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Affiliations: 1 Montreal; 2 Detroit; 3 Boston; 7. Los Angeles; 9. California, 10. Philadelphia, 11. Minnesota, 13. Vancouver).</figcaption></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Thurs. Jan 14Rochester 1 at Quebec 2Fri. Jan, 15Cleveland 5 at Montreal 1Quebec 1 at Rochester 8Sat. Jan. 16Baltimore 4 at Hershey 3Providence 3 at Springfield 3Sun. Jan. 17Baltimore 5 at Providence 3Cleveland 6 at Quebec 0Montreal 2 at Rochester 2<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tues. Jan. 19Providence at BaltimoreWed. Jan. 20Cleveland at HersheyRochester at ProvidenceFri. Jan. 22Cleveland at BaltimoreRochester at MontrealProvidence at QuebecHershey at SpringfieldSat. Jan. 23Rochester at HersheyCleveland at SpringfieldSun. Jan. 24Cleveland at ProvidenceMontreal at QuebecBaltimore at Rochester<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2>(Including games of Sun. Jan. 10)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06170/2829306-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="578" height="350"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-07147/2829299-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="580" height="557"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY GEORGE DUFFY</div>PROVIDENCE &mdash;Alton White, the first Negro ever to play here with the Reds and the only one in the American League is, in the words of Coach Larry Wilson &ldquo;playing sensational hockey.&rdquo;This 25-year-old right winger came to the Reds three years ago from Columbus of the International Hockey League on a &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s take a look at him&rdquo; basis and now White looms as a possible prospect for the National Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01428/2829389-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="271" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Sneddon</figcaption></div>He has played in all of the first 37 games for the Reds this season, tallying at an almost a point per game average with 15-20-35 totals.A year ago in his sophomore year with the Reds, Al finished very strong and showed 24-24-48 totals for a Providence team which missed the Eastern Division playoffs by a single point.White seems certain of doing better this time around. Wilson thinks Al can score 30 goals. White has set that plateau as his mark for the 1970-71 season.Only 5-8 and just 160 pounds. White is finding some success now but it has not been easy. Being the onlv Negro in the league and only one of two in all pro hockey has caused this terrific young man to suffer somewhat but nobody ever hears him complain.He&rsquo;s heard the taunts of players in some of the other cities about his race when those players should have known better. But when a hockey game starts, Alton James White, who was born on May 31. 1945, in Amherst, N.S., dedicates himself only to playing the game.Gifted with boundless energy. Al has been playing on the Reds&rsquo; top line with Joe Szura at center and Randy &ldquo;The Rocket&rdquo; Rota on the left wing. Szura has the team lead in scoring with 36 points and Rota has 32. It would appear White, among other things, is helping things happen for Joe and Randy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02375/2829382-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="526" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALTON WHITE&hellip;Wants 30 goals</figcaption></div>While the Reds were losing 10 games in a row, White just kept on skating, digging in the corners and in general playing hangup hockey. Wilson says: &ldquo;If a coach had a few more guys like White the other team would not get hold of the puck very much. Al is aggressive and he is quick around the net. Don&rsquo;t count him out as an NHL prospect.&rdquo;Meanwhile, Bob Sneddon, the rangy backup goaltender of the California Golden Seals has been loaned to the Reds.He came into the Seals&rsquo; organization at the June draft meetings in Montreal and has been playing in the NHL behind Gary Smith, Cals No. 1 backstopper. &#9632;

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Reds’ Negro Star Eyeing NHL

CLEVELAND &mdash;The Cleveland Barons take to the road for six games before returning to the Cleveland Arena to host the Springfield Kings on January 29.The Barons&rsquo; roster was reduced by one with the recall of defenseman Dennis O&rsquo;Brien by the Minnesota North Stars of the NHL. He had totaled a goal and six assists in 25 games with the Barons. The recall brings the Cleveland roster to 20 players which is closer to 19 that Baron General Manager John Muckier had hoped to carry this season.Center Bill Orban and winger Barrie Meissner will travel with the team although neither is expected to see much action. Orban is coming off an injured leg while Meissner has just been released from the hospital after recovering from the mumps.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03305/2829420-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="260" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marshall Johnston</figcaption></div>In a battle of the two top teams in the AHL&rsquo;s Western Division last week, the second-place Barons could not match three second period goals by Baltimore and were defeated by the Clippers 4-3. The Providence Reds followed Baltimore into town and defeated Cleveland 2-1 in a Saturday night game.Rey Comeau and Joey and Marshall Johnston continue to lead the Barons in scoring. Comeau tops the squad with 41 points including 17 goals while Joey has 36 points this season. Marshall remained the top scoring defenseman in the AHL with 34 points including 26 assists. The Barons were also the top scoring team in the AHL with 335 points on 132 goals and 203 assists. &#9632;

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Barons Hit Road For Six; O’Brien Recalled To NHL

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ANATOMY OF A SCORING CHAMPION

MONTREAL&rsquo;The Montreal Voyageurs may have grown disenchanted with Eran Huck&rsquo;s attitude but they couldn&rsquo;t be happier with Bobby Sheehan&rsquo;s outlook.Huck, the one-time Canadian Olympic and World hockey team star, has decided he wants a change ol scenery and would like to be traded to some other club but on the National Hockey League level. Hi&rsquo; has not participated in Voyageurs&rsquo; practices of late and has not dressed for any team games despite the tact he was on hand in the rink.The club and general manager Floyd Cutty have apparently washed their hands of Huck and will say only that they hope to complete a trade soon to move the Winnipeg born center to another NHL organization. Huck has insisted he is capable of playing regularly with a present NHL club.Recently Sheenan banged in five goals on one weekend including lour in one game. He has been as hot as a pistol in recent outings forming one of the most productive lines in the AHL with Phil Roberto and Guy Charron.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01272/2829482-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="514" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY SHEEHAN&hellip;Four-Goal Game</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02197/2829475-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="508" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRAN HUCK&hellip;Wants to Be Traded</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Sheehan Hot, Huck Cool To Voyageurs

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY&mdash;If there&rsquo;s anything in which the Hershey Bears have been consistent this season, it&rsquo;s their inconsistency.Unless the club does a miraculous tournabout in the second half race, the players will be departing for their Canadian homes early this spring, leaving the Calder Cup playoff loot for others to scrap over when the post-season action commences.What&rsquo;s worse, however, is mid-state hockey fans, who have loyally supported the American League club, have become disenchanted with the play of coach-general manager Frank Mathers&rsquo; charges of late. In two of the club&rsquo;s last three home games, it skated off the ice to the accompaniment of boos from the partisan crowd, something which hasn&rsquo;t occurred here in 16 years when the Bears iced their worst team in league annals. In 195556. Hershey won 19 games, its poorest mark ever.Among other problems, the Bears have simply been unable to win on home ice. Through the first 19 games, the club showed a 7-8-4 mark at the Sports Arena &mdash; 18 of a possible 38 points. Since Nov. 21. the club won only one of nine games.Actually, what has kept the outfit mired in the Western Division cellar is its lack of firepower. In 37 games the Bears tallied only 108 goals and showed only four skaters. Michel Harvey. Stan Gilbertson. Bob Leiter and rookie Frank Spring with ten or more goals.Mathers figured it would take about half the season for the club to jell. The Bears have made the turn into the campaign&rsquo;s second half and still have vet to mold themselves into a balanced AHL-type squad.Through the first half. Mathers alternated his goalies, veteran Andre Gill and rookie Dan Bouchard. But since Dec. 27 the 20-year-old Bouchard has moved into the starter&rsquo;s role, though Gill boasted the league&rsquo;s best average a 2.64 mark after 20 games.Bouchard, considered a fine prospect, was the stronger of the two on the road, while on home ice he went through five losses and tie before finally winning his first game here, a 5-1 decision. &#9632;

Catcalls Up Bears Down In AHL Race

<h2>ECAC CONFERENCE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Jan. 11)<h3>DIVISION I</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03165/2829610-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="590" height="597"></div><h3>DIVISION II</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-04124/2829603-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="584" height="973"></div><h3>WCHA CONFERENCE</h3>(Standings on Mon. Jan. 4)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0563/2829596-1-eng-US/f0020-052.jpg" title="f0020-05" width="585" height="329"></div><h2>NEW YORK COLLEGE LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Jan. 11)<h3>EAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0647/2829589-1-eng-US/f0020-062.jpg" title="f0020-06" width="573" height="270"></div><h3>WEST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0739/2829582-1-eng-US/f0020-072.jpg" title="f0020-07" width="586" height="307"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0832/2829575-1-eng-US/f0020-082.jpg" title="f0020-08" width="579" height="307"></div><h2>ONTARIO-QUEBEC COLLEGE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Jan. 13)<h3>WESTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0921/2829568-1-eng-US/f0020-092.jpg" title="f0020-09" width="590" height="235"></div><h3>EASTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-1017/2829561-1-eng-US/f0020-102.jpg" title="f0020-10" width="582" height="231"></div> &#9632;

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COLLEGE RACES

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div>SPRINGFIELD &mdash;Just when the situation looked darkest for the Springfield Kings, the picture improved almost overnight.The parent Los Angeles Kings helped ease the American League club&rsquo;s woes by returning defenseman Jean Potvin and sending veteran rearguard Mike McMahon down for a stretch. McMahon had been on the L.A. suspended list for failing to report following his trade from Buffalo.Both players were welcomed by Kings&rsquo; coach John Wilson with open arms. Wilson was beginning to wonder what could possibly happen next to his club &mdash; notably the defense crew.Tragedy struck for defenseman Ray Fortin, who had to rush home to Drummondville. Quebec. His wife&rsquo;s mother and grand-mother were both killed in an automobile accident and he was forced to leave the club.The Kings&rsquo; defense was also hit an earlier blow when Potvin was recalled by the parent club. His loss really hurt since there was no adequate replacement. Since then. Roger Cote had been under the weather. He has a lower abdomen condition which kicks up when he plays too many games in a rowCote was hit with the same ailment last winter while with the Buffalo Bisons on loan from the Kings. He was examined locally but latest report is that he might have to go to one of the special clinics in Boston if the condition does not improve. It causes him grave pain.Dune Rousseau was knocked cold in a game with Hershey and no one knows how long he will be out. The tough, former International Leaguer skater smashed into the goal post and had to be carried out of the game on a stretcher. This further weakened the team.Los Angeles was also in a bad way for players and that meant the Kings here were also in trouble. They lost two good players, both top performers when winger Real Lemieux and center Butch Goring were recalled.No adequate replacements were sent at the time for the simple reason the big Kings just ded not have any. They have not dressed the full 20 men in most of their games. They have many injuries. In addition, with the age limitations and the Springfield club a development team, therfore just so many players of a certain age they can send here.The arrival of McMahon and Potvin in Springfield was timely to say the least. &#9632;

Arrival Of MtMahon, Potvin Eases Player Woes For Kings

<div class="byline">BY TOM BURKE</div>The game of the year, or one of &lsquo;em anyway, took place in Ithaca January 9. Once-beaten (in Div. I) Harvard invaded the Lynah Rink and gave Cornell their best tussle ever, according to Ithaca Journal writer Dan Connolly.Oh. yes. Cornell pulled it out 5-4 in overtime. With typical Cornell clutch, to boot. Harvard led 4-3 for most of the third period, causing the Big Red to pull Brian Cropper with a 1:10 to go. Ron Simpson let go a slap shot from the point that Kevin Pettit steered into the cords with just 15 seconds to go. The crowd went absolutely wild.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01136/2829669-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="273" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kevin Pettit</figcaption></div>But the extra period was even wilder. The Crimson thought they had a goal at 0:14 as someone jostled a partially-frozen puck into the net. No dice, said the refs, the play was dead.Then came a penalty to Red defender Bill Perras. Pettit poke checked the rubber away from the enemy at center ice and started back one-on-two. Down the left boards he ragged with Dave Hynes and Bob Muse keeping an eve on him. No half decent shot on net presented itself.To kill a little more time, the senior winger heaved the puck across ice to the right, knowing at least that no Harvard players were in the vicinity.None were. But Jim Higgs. Cornells junior defenseman was there, trailing the play. He blazed a slap shot past surprised Bruce Durno at 4:25 for the storybook finish.The game couldn&rsquo;t have been more even. Each club had 35 shots on net. The breaks didn&rsquo;t favor either side. It was a true classic.&ldquo;I feel very lucky to win this game.&rdquo; said Dick Bertrand afterward.Big Red had held leads of 1-0. 2-1. and 3-2. The Crimson rallied each time and went ahead early in the third period on Dan DeMichele&rsquo;s second goal. They came frustratingly close to their first win at Ithaca since 1964. but the game was 15 seconds too long.Joe Cavanagh scored once for the Crimson and was generally acclaimed as the game&rsquo;s tower of strength. Hynes netted one. while Pettit and Simpson each notched two for Cornell, whose overall record going into exam break was 9-2.BOSTON COLLEGE: The rebuilding Eagles; who barring a miraculous resurgence are headed for their first losing season in 13 years, received more bad news over the new vear. Big sophomore center Ed Kenty chipped the end of his collarbone and developed an arthritic condition from it making his return indefinite. He was BC&rsquo;s leading scorer through 12 games with 12-11-23. BC was 5-10 overall and 3-7 in Div. I following a tough 8-3 loss to mighty Boston University, who didn&rsquo;t put the game away until the final three minutes when they scored three quick goals. &ldquo;That effort against BU showed the team that they&rsquo;re capable of playing with the best of them,&rdquo; commented coach Snooks Kelly. &ldquo;As I said at the beginning of the year, we&rsquo;ll take our lumps but we&rsquo;ll win our share too.&rdquo; BC depends largely on sophomores, with only Captain John Powers and center Don Callow scheduled to graduate in June.COLGATE: Despite so-so defense, the Red Raiders stayed undefeated in Division One until the new year. Bombed 11-6 in the first round of the Great Lakes Invitational Tournament by Michigan Tech, they bounced back to nip Brown A3. Then came the first two games of the new year both losses, which dropped Colgate&rsquo;s Division One mark to 3-2. The first, a tight 2-0 game with St. Lawrence in Hamilton, saw second line center and second leading scorer Dave Desmond ejected for lighting. Junior goalie Geoff McMullen had 37 saves against SLU and came up with an astounding 67 against RPI three nights later at Troy. The Engineers still mananged 10 goals to Colgate&rsquo;s two. Left wing Rick Rowell was injured in the first period against RPI and his absence along with Desmond&rsquo;s hurt the strong skating Raiders.BROWN: Though they bumped along in the early part of the schedule except for a big 1-2 win over Cornell, the young and aggressive Bruins must be rated a sleeper for the second half of the year with the easier part of the schedule vet to come. Under the first year coaching of Allan Soares. Brown evened its Division One record at 3-3 with a 6-3 ain over Boston College Jan. 6. In the Great Lakes invitational over the holidays. Brown lost Al to Michigan and A3 to Colgate, but outshot both teams. Captain Connie Schmidt and Irwin Goldstein are the only senior skaters of note, so Brown may be a power in the near future. Schmidt, a center and the son of Boston Bruins&rsquo; GM Milt Schmidt, led the scorers through nine games with 3-9-12. The return of Dick Ferriter plagued by back and groin injuries ince pre-season, will help the forward lines depth in the stretch drive.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-02101/2829662-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="278" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rick Rowell</figcaption></div>DIVISION TWO NOTES: Congratulations to Boston State&rsquo;s Eddie Barry for his KXIth victory, an 8-6 win over American International college in Jan. at Boston Arena &hellip; January 6 was a day of contrast or a couple of Div. II teams playing against the big boys &hellip; Colby absorbed a painful 17-2 loss at New Hampshire, while Vermont. the only Div. II club on Harvard&rsquo;s schedule, astonished the Crimson 3-2 at Watson Rink. Harvard was looking past the Catamount to a game with Cornell, and Vermont goalie Dave Reece did * he rest. He had 42 saves while Bruce Durno only had to make 13 topes. Sophomores Pat Wright and Fred Hunt tallied the tying and a inning goals within 12 seconds of each other in the final period.<h2>NEW YORK METRO LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Jan. 6)<h3>EASTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0456/2829655-1-eng-US/f0021-042.jpg" title="f0021-04" width="592" height="166"></div><h3>WESTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0549/2829648-1-eng-US/f0021-052.jpg" title="f0021-05" width="575" height="139"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0642/2829641-1-eng-US/f0021-062.jpg" title="f0021-06" width="584" height="431"></div> &#9632;

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DOWN EAST

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0021-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0366/2829700-1-eng-US/f0021-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Boston College goaler NEIL HIGGINS stops a shot from the stick of JIM BOYD of Wisconsin during recent college clash of two teams. Badgers won 7-2. (Hockey News Photo by Richard Pellegrini)</figcaption></div>DETROIT&mdash;Michigan Tech, the school that sent Tony Esposito to the National Hockey League, is working on another powerhouse.The small university located in the copper country of Michigan&rsquo;s I&rsquo;pper Peninsula, on the shores of Lake Superior, won the record-breaking sixth annual Great Lakes Invitational at Olympia Stadium and had the pro scouts writing in their books.Mike Usitalo, 18-year-old freshman left wing from the tiny U.P. town of Laurium, was voted the tourney&rsquo;s most valuable player after a three-goal performance against the University of Michigan in the championship game.The 5-foot-10. 180-pounder scored two goals while killing penalties and slapped home the other on a power play as Tech whipped Michigan 7-2 after thumping Colgate 11-6. in the first round.Usitalo was a unanimous all-tournament team pick and was joined by Tech defense partners Rob Murray, a 6-1. 185-pound senior from Burlington. Ont., and John Grisdale.Claude Ruel, former Montreal Canadiens coach who now heads the Habs&rsquo; scouting, was pleased with Murray&rsquo;s play&mdash;Ruel has had a string on Murray since he was 16 years old and he is Montreal property. The Canadiens, you may recall, also had Esposito initially.Ruel was one of a large number of NHL scouts among the 17,045 that turned out for the two night holiday tournament, a record for, the event.Olympia Stadium chief executive Lincoln Cavalieri was delighted with the tourney and predicted that next year&rsquo;s &ldquo;will be bigger and better.&rdquo;Cavalieri revealed that Notre Dame, a rising hockey power, will make its first Great Lakes start, joining traditional host Michigan Tech. Michigan State University and an eastern school, &ldquo;hopefully Dartmouth or Yale.&rdquo;Completing the all-tournament team were Bernie Gagnon, a quick forward from Montreal who is on the St. Louis Blues&rsquo; list, goalie Geoff McMullen and right wing Dave Desmond. Gagnon plays at Michigan, the school that sent Blues&rsquo; star Red Berenson to the NHL. and McMullen and Desmond attend Colgate. &#9632;

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Michigan Tech On Rise After Tournament Win

<div class="byline">By DOUG McCONNELL</div>SAN DIEGO&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01153/2829793-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="270" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Len Ronson</figcaption></div>The fastest shot in the West, Len Ronson, got straight-shooting Bob Courcy back on target.Courcy had gone five games without a point and eight games without a goal. The 34-vear-old right winger&rsquo;s Western League scoring lead, which once looked like a runaway, was in jeopardy.Coach Max McNab stepped in, broke up the line, replacing Al Nicholson with Ronson.Gerry Goyer remained at center.The move met instant success.Courcy snapped the slump and although he lost his lead for a few days to Phoenix&rsquo;s Andy Hinse, he regained it with a four point night, including two goals. He has scored five goals and three assists in the six games since the realignment.Ronson has benefited most, counting three goals and six assists. Goyer chipped in with one goal but added seven assists.&ldquo;Ronson makes that hard pass,&rdquo; said McNab. &ldquo;It seems to fit Goyer and Courcy&rsquo;s style of play.&rdquo;Ronson, who led the WHL with 51 goals last season, had been off to a slow start. It was partly blamed on the new straight stick. Ronson&rsquo;s teammates said the Brantford, Ontario, native was &ldquo;psyched out&rdquo; by loss of his &ldquo;banana&rdquo; blade.He was also having difficulty adjusting to the style of his center Billy McNeill, acquired in early season from Salk Lake City.Johnny MacMillan and Willie O&rsquo;Ree had no trouble fitting in as McNeill&rsquo;s new wingers. They make up the fastest line in the league.And thanks to O&rsquo;Ree finding the range, it&rsquo;s one of the hottest. Willie has scored five goals and two assists in the last five games.GULL NOTES: Fred Hilts made his seasonal debut in the recent weekend series and saw some action on the power play &hellip; Hilts is coming back from spinal surgery &hellip; 19,905 for two games with Seattle, making the seasonal total 155,750, an average of 8,197 per game &hellip; Goaltender Gary Edwards was in the nets for both games, and ran his record with the Gulls to 4-0-1. Edwards was sent to the Gulls by the St. Louis organization and arrived just in time for the series. He was unbeaten in three games with the Gulls last season. &#9632;

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Gulls’ Move To Unite Scoring Aces Paying Off

<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Jan. 19)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01133/2829762-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="577" height="235"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Affiliations: 2. Detroit. 4. New York, 5. Chicago. 6. Toronto. 7. Los Angeles. 14. Buffalo.)</figcaption></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Wed. Jan. 13Salt Lake 4 at Phoenix 6Thurs. Jan. 14Portland 4 at Denver 4Salt Lake 5 at San DiegoFri. Jan. 15San Diego 1 at Phoenix 4Sat. Jan. 16Portland 7 at Salt Loke 4Pheonix 2 at San Diego 4<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tues. Jan. 19Seottle at PhoenixWed. Jan. 20Denver at Salt LakeThurs. Jan. 21Seattle at PhoenixFri. Jan. 22Portland at Denver (at Denver Univ.)Son Diego at Salt LakeSat. Jan. 23Portland at Salt LakeDenver at PhoenixSon Diego at SeattleWed Jan. 27San Diego at PortlandFri. Jan. 29Salt Loke at DenverSan Diego at PhoenixPortland at Seattle<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2>(Including Games of Sun. Jan. 10)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0296/2829755-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="600" height="299"></div><h2>Western League Summaries</h2><h2>Wed. Dec. 23SAN DIEGO 2 at PHOENIX 5</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Phoenix, Hughes (Hinse, Lund)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:46Penalties: Lund 7.52<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Phoenix, Young (Beaule, Paterson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:203&mdash;Phoenix, McCaskill (Hughes, Shaw)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:554&mdash;Phoenix, Young (Hughes, Lund)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:57Penalties: Cardiff:39, Hicks 11:11 Ronson 12:44, Charlebois, Cardiff 16:35, Evons 19:10<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;San Dieao, Caron (MacMillan, Fitzpatrick)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:106&mdash;Phoenix, Wilcox (Dillabough, Shaw)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:067&mdash;San Diego, Fitzpatrick (MacMillan, Caron)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:39Penalties: Hinse 15:32, McCaskill 18:31, Saves, McCarton (Son Diego) 29, Edwards (Phoenix)17 Attendance, 5,190<h2>Fri. Dec. 25DENVER 3 at PORTLAND 5</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Denver, Miller (Peters)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:352&mdash;Portland, Saunders (Hebenton, Johnson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:473&mdash;Denver, Dineen (McCord, Hughes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:04Penalties: Madigan 1:43, Leach 2:08, Foley 3:49<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Portland, Jones&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;0:195&mdash;Portland, Gaudet (McKay)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:226&mdash;Portland, Jones (Van Impe)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:15Penalties, Lafreniere 6:26; Foley 8:37, Graham 11:19, Miller 12:03, Foley 15:02.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>7&mdash;Portland, Jones (Hebenton, Madigan)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:318&mdash;Denver, Hughes (Hynes, Dineen)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:359&mdash;Denver, Hughes&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:39Penalties, Cummins 3:55, McKay 7:14 Leach 8:15; McLeod (misconduct) 8:39 Saves, Caron (Denver), 26, McLeod&mdash;Kelly (Portland)31. Attendance; 7,192<h2>PHOENIX 3 at SEATTLE 7</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Phoenix, Barlow (Odrowski, Paterson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:432&mdash;Seattle, Jones (Schmautz, Honna)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:113&mdash;Seattle, Stratton (Me Vie)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8.234&mdash;Phoenix, Hinse (Lund, Hughes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:345&mdash;Seattle, Veneruzzo (Perry, Boehm)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:31Penalties: Michie 3:02; Lund, Boehm 5:48, Shaw 9:46, Schmautz 12:01<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Seattle, Knibbs (Schmautz, Paradise)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;047&mdash;Phoenix, Lund&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1:31Penalties: Shaw, Hughes (misconduct) 8:22 Shaw 13:04.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>8&mdash;Seattle, Michie (Leagge, Stratton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:019&mdash;Seattle, Stratton (Legge, McVie)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:0510&mdash;Seattle, Schmautz (Knibbs, Paradise)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:33Penalties: Honna 10:16, Young 15:56, Saves, Edwards (Phoenix) 21, Surmav (Seattle) 22.<h2>Sat. Dec. 26PHOENIX 4 at SALT LAKE 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Phoenix, Hinse (Young, Hughes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:192&mdash;Phoenix, Hinse (Paterson, Odrowski)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:323&mdash;Salt Lake, Kassian (Fielder, Terbenche)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:48Penalties: Young 2:44, Cuddie 9:46, Lacombe 10:15, Young 17:14<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Salt Lake, Kuntz (Lacombe, Robertson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:135&mdash;Salt Lake, Ellett (Terbenche. Mazur)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:016&mdash;Salt Lake, McDonald (Fielder, Lagace)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:46Penalties: Murray 0:41, Young 2:10, Fielder 2:40, Lund 5:16, Kuntz 11:55, Cuddie (minor, misconduct) 16:13<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>7&mdash;Phoenix, Hinse (Lund, Hughes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:258&mdash;Phoenix, Hughes (Lund, Beaule)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:16Penalties: Hinse 10:58, Lagace 15:38, Cuddie 16:08, McDonald 17:09, Barlow 18:39.Saves: Edwards (Phoenix) 26, Charron (Salt Lake) 32.Attendance: 10117<h2>PORTLAND 5 at SAN DIEGO 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Portland, Campbell (Pearson, Bellerive)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:382&mdash;Portland, Johnson (Saunders, Hebenton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:10Penalties: Foley 2:00, Cardiff 3:56, Lebrun 5:09, Cardiff, Sounders 10:35, McKay 13:54, Evans 17:47.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Portland, Sounders (Hebenton, Madigan)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:134&mdash;Son Diego. Caron (Fitzpatrick, Miszuk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:365&mdash;Portland, Van Impe (Foley, Gaudet)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:12Penalties: Cardiff 6:58, Nicholson 10:07, Foley 17:09.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Portland, Leacn (Pearson. Madigan)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:56Penalties: Caron, Madigan 7:09, Donaldson 7:31, McKay 18:34.Saves: McLeod (Portland) 25, McCarton (Son Dego) 21.Attendance: 9,226.<h2>Sun. Dec. 27PORTLAND 2 at PHOENIX 2</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoringPenalties: MCKay 2:39, Young, Foley 3:31, Lund, Donaldson 3:53, Young 4:52, Foley 11:36, Madigan, Paterson 15:59<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Portland. Hebenton (Saunders)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:402&mdash;Phoenix, Barlow&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:26Penalty: McCaskill 3:05.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Portland, Johnson (Saunders)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:234&mdash;Phoenix, Hicks (Young, Paterson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:21Penalties: McKoy, Paterson 7:56, Foley 11:56 Donaldson, Barlow 12:04.Saves, Kelly (Portland) 24, Edwards (Phoenix) 17.Attendance: 5,238.<h2>SALT LAKE 2 at DENVER 7</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Denver, Sentes (Graham. Bradlev)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:21Penalties: Martin 0:15, LaFreniere 18:29.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Salt Lake, Kassian (Logace, Fielder)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:283&mdash;Salt Lake, Lacombe (Kassian, Lagace)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:574&mdash;Denver, Dineen (Hughes, Lafreniere)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:27Penalties: Mavety 2.16, Graham 10:47, Ellett 16:17.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Denver, Sentes (Laforge, Miller)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:086&mdash;Denver, Sentes (Mavety, Larose)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:247&mdash;Denver, Sentes (Bradley, McCord)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:348&mdash;Denver, Mavety (Hynes, Dineen)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:059&mdash;Denver, Hughes (Lafreniere, Hynes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:23Penalties: McDonald 2:36, Sentes 3:4, McCord 5,00, Graham, McNabb 5.09; Sentes 6:52, Bradley 12:25, Robertson 16:25.Saves, Wallis (Salt Lake) 32, Rutledge (Denver) 15.Attendance: 3,000<h2>Tues. Dec. 29SALT LAKE 3 at PHOENIX 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Soh Lake, Rothwell (Robertson, Kuntz)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:532&mdash;Phoenix, Hughes (Hinse, Murray)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:283&mdash;Salt Lake, Rothwell (Kuntz)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:06Penalties: Lagoce 3:54, McCaskill 11:04, Beaule 19:15, Lacombe, Wilcox 19:24.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Phoenix, Hicks (Murray, Paterson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:135&mdash;Salt Lake, Kuntz (Katnweii, Robertson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:066&mdash;Phoenix, Hughes (Beaule, Lund)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:35Penalties: None.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>7&mdash;Phoenix, Lund (Young, Hinse)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:14Penalties: None.Saves, Edwards (Phoenix) 16, Farr (Salt Lake) 43.<h2>Wed. Dec. 30SALT LAKE 2 at SAN DIEGO 5</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Salt Lake, Lacombe (Mazur)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:122&mdash;Son Diego, Courcy (Ronson, Goyer)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:09Penalties &mdash; Lacombe:58, Kassian 4:14, Cardiff 4:14, Fitzpatrick 10:50, Kassian 12:18, Lagace 17:06, Miszuk 17:42.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;San Diego, Caron (Miszuk, Simmons)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:534&mdash;San Diego, Courcy (Ronson, Goyer)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:085&mdash;San Diego, Schraefel (Miszuk, Ehrenverth)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:366&mdash;San Diego, McNeill (MacMillan, Spencer)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:22Penalties &mdash; Fitzpatrick 1:29, Ellett, Ronson 10:46, McNabb (double minors) 12:45, Cardiff (double minors) 14:45, Evans 18:10.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>7&mdash;Salt Lake, Watson&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;:51Penalties &mdash; Lacombe:34, Ronson 3:52, Lebrun 6:10, McNabb 9:02, Lagace (minor and major) McNeill (major) 9:36, Goyer 9:40.Saves, Charron-Wallis (Salt Lake) 30, Simmons (San Diego)20<h2>Thurs. Dec. 31DENVER 4 at PHOENIX 6</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Phoenix, Charlebois (McCaskill, Dillabough)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:282&mdash;Phoenix, Dillabough (McCaskill, Charlebois)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:253&mdash;Denver, Powis (Hughes, Hynes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:59Penalties &mdash; Hicks 7:28, Mavety 11:43, Sentes 13:51, Mavety 14:28.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Phoenix, Hinse, (Hughes, Odrowski)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;0:435&mdash;Phoenix, Beaule (McCaskill, Dillabough)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:096&mdash;Denver, Martin (Mavety)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:307&mdash;Denver, Mavety (Laforge, Sentes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:518&mdash;Phoenix, Charlebois (McCaskill, Dillabough)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:34Penalties &mdash; Young 8:30, Edwards 12:20.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>9&mdash;Phoenix, McCaskill, (Beaule, Young)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:3510&mdash;Denver. Hynes (Larose. Powis)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:26Penalties &mdash; Edwards 2:08, Laforge 9:15, Powis (minor and major), Lund (major) 11:22, Bradley 14:56.Saves Rutledge (Denver) 30, Edwards (Phoenix) 16.<h2>PORTLAND 4 at SEATTLE 2</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Portland. Johnson (Hebenton, McKay) 4:35Penalties: Foley 1:25, Boehm 5:20, McKay 4:35 (minor and major), Schmautz (minor and major) 11:03, Legge 12:46.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Seattle, B. Jones (Knibbs, Schmautz)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;0:473&mdash;Portland, Gaudet (A. Jones, Von Impe)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:29Penalties: McKay, Legge 1:27, Bellerive, McVie 8:06.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Portland, Hebenton (Saunders, McKay)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:265&mdash;Portland, Foley (Van Impe, A. Jones)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:336&mdash;Seattle, Perry (Boehm, B. Jones)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:01Penalties: McKay 14:28, Ash 18:54.Saves, Kelly (Portland) 15, Surmay (Seattle) 27. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY DOUG McCONNELL</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0373/2829831-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="269" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Kelly</figcaption></div>PORTLAND &mdash;Dave Kelly was bombarded in the Portland Buckaroos&rsquo; nets in the first period of a game in Phoenix. A gasp went up from the crowd when the shots on goal were announced-six.Jim McLeod Kelly&rsquo;s netminding partner, skated over to the official scorer to question the announcement. &ldquo;Better add at least 10 to that.&rdquo;McLeod wanted to see his teammate get proper credit.There&rsquo;s little doubt McLeod and Kelly are a team. There&rsquo;s even less doubt that McLeod is the senior partner and not only in age.McLeod, 33 has played in 29 of Portland&rsquo;s first 38 games, and leads the league with a 2.56 goals against average.Kelly, 27, is second with a 2.94 mark. Seattle&rsquo;s Don Head is at 3.10 and teammate George Surmay is tied with Denver&rsquo;s Wayne Rutledge at 3.21.McLeod, who set a WHL record with a 2.39 goals against average in the 1968-69 season, also leads the league in shutouts with four.He had a recent shutout string ended at 172 minutes and 38 seconds by Phoenix&rsquo;s Bob Charlebois. It extended through four games, including back-to-back goose-eggs. He had allowed just one goal through three games for a 0.33 average over the stretch.The league record of three shutouts as well as the longest shutout sequence of 235 minutes and 22 seconds was set by Kelly in his rookie season with Portland. 1963-64.McLeod has only been beaten 16 times in his last nine games for a 1.6 goal against average as the Buckaroos opened up a 15 point lead over second place San Diego.McLeod&rsquo;s performance earned him WHL Player of the Week honors.The Portland veteran is one net minder who doesn&rsquo;t panic when his stick is knocked away in a scramble.He often, during warmup and in practice sessions, will set his big blade atop the goal and face the shots with just his gloves.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s got a great glove hand.&rdquo; testified Phoenix&rsquo;s Andy Hinse one of the league&rsquo;s top marksmen. &ldquo;If you want to score on him. you got to keep it low where there might be a chance of a rebound. If you get it high, he&rsquo;s got it in his glove and the play is over.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0460/2829824-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="550" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM McLEOD &hellip; WHl&rsquo;s Mr. Zero</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Mcleod-Kelly Coaling Team Proving Tough Duo To Bent

<div class="byline">&#x2014;McCONNELL</div>PHOENIX&mdash;Gary Galaspie and Bopnie Houston will have plenty of ice at their wedding. That&rsquo;s ice, not rice, 18,000 square feet of it.They have announced plans to wed between periods of a Feb. 5 Western Hockey League game between the Phoenix Roadrunners and the Salt Lake City Golden Eagles in the Veterans Memorial Coliseum here.Galaspie operates the Zamboni ice resurfacing machine and Bonnie is a relief switchboard operator, both at the coliseum.Charles Oliver, supervisor of Coliseum maintenance, is also an ordained Baptist minister and will perform the ceremony.After the wedding, the newlyweds will leave on the cumbersome Zamboni machine for the first few hundred yards of their honeymoon trip. Naturally shoes and tin cans will be tied to the back, along with a &ldquo;Just Married&rdquo; sign.I&rsquo;he big event will take place just before the final period so Galaspie can finish his duties for the evening.Galaspie urges spectators not to throw rice on the pointing out it could be dangerous for the players.Besides, he doesn&rsquo;t want to work late. &#9632;

Ice Wedding For Culls’ Zamboni Man

PHOENIX &mdash;Aut Erickson is no junkie but the Phoenix Roadrunners coach was looking for a quick fix&mdash;for his injury-riddled lineup.The Runners&rsquo; six-game win streak and eight game unbeaten run came to a halt in that old jinx-laden Glass Palace in Portland. The Runners haven&rsquo;t won there since Feb. 28. 1968. Only Denver has beaten the Buckaroos in Portland this season.It was only turnabout, fair play and a shorthanded club.The unbeaten string had tied the longest streak by a Western Hockey League team this season. The Buckaroos went unbeaten in eight straight and Phoenix had put an end to that streak.The Runners had Andy Hinse knocked out for a week. Bob Dillabough for 10 days or more. Don Caley for at least a week and defenseman Sandy Hucul was already on the sidelines.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0545/2829886-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg" title="f0023-05" width="265" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Dillabough</figcaption></div>Hinse, who briefly took the WHL points lead away from San Diego&rsquo;s Bob Courcy, tore muscles in his right wrist and elbow when ridden into the boards at Salt Lake City.Dillabough pinched a nerve in his neck when he collided with teammate Howie Young.Caley. who missed 12 games with a pulled hamstring muscle reinjured his leg in his first game back.Hucul missed 11 games with a spinal bruise, returned for a game and went back on sick call with a kidney ailment.The Runners&rsquo; surge from last place carried them to a tie for second with San Diego in two weeks but they slipped to third as they lost to Portland while the Gulls were taking a two-game series from Seattle. &#9632;

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Injuries Help End Runners’ Ice Streak

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1111/2830025-1-eng-US/f0023-112.jpg" title="f0023-11" width="307" height="312"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM JOHNSON Philadelphia Flyers</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-129/2830018-1-eng-US/f0023-122.jpg" title="f0023-12" width="307" height="317"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL SUTHERLAND St. Louis Blues</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-136/2830011-1-eng-US/f0023-132.jpg" title="f0023-13" width="302" height="307"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB CLARKE Philadelphia Flyers</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-145/2830004-1-eng-US/f0023-142.jpg" title="f0023-14" width="303" height="311"><figcaption class="caption-body">PETE STEMKOWSKI New York Rangers</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-155/2829997-1-eng-US/f0023-152.jpg" title="f0023-15" width="298" height="321"><figcaption class="caption-body">REG LEACH Oklahoma City</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-164/2829990-1-eng-US/f0023-162.jpg" title="f0023-16" width="310" height="306"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY HART Detroit Red Wings</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-174/2829983-1-eng-US/f0023-172.jpg" title="f0023-17" width="312" height="307"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDY BAKOGEORGE Univ. Manitoba</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-183/2829976-1-eng-US/f0023-182.jpg" title="f0023-18" width="303" height="298"><figcaption class="caption-body">AL SPARKS Canadian Champion</figcaption></div>At Gimli, Manitoba &mdash; Sports Capital Of The NorthSign With The Pros For 1 to 8 Weeks. SessionsJULY 4 to AUCUST 28&#9679; Hockey Instruction Under The Direction Of NHL Stars&#9679; Physical Fitness Program Under Direction of Andy Bakogeorge, School Of Physical Fitness Univ. Of Manitoba And Al Sparks, Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion Of Canada.&#9679; 4 Hours Per Day Hockey Instruction&#9679; 4 Hours Physical Education&#9679; For Boys Aged 7 to 20.&#9679; Learn To Play The Canadian WayFor Information Write:CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY SCHOOLS LTD.,World&rsquo;s Largest Travelling Hockey School,1195 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg 19, Manitoba, Canada &#9632;

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Attend The CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY SCHOOLS

<h2>Looking At CHL Race</h2>(Standings on Tues. Jan. 19)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01144/2830063-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="564" height="269"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Affiliations. 2. Detroit. 3. Boston. 4. New York. 5. Chicago. 6. Toronto 8. Pittsburgh. 12. St. Louis).</figcaption></div><h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tues. Jan. 19Amarillo at Dallas Omaha at Oklahoma CityWed. Jan. 20Amarillo at Fort WorthThurs. Jan. 21Omoha at AmrilloFri. Jan. 22Omaha at Dallas Fort Worth at Oklahoma City Tulsa at Kansas CitySat. Jan. 23Fort Worth at DallasKansas City at OmahaTulsa at Oklahoma CitySun. Jan. 24Tulsa at Amonllo (afternoon Fort Worth at Kansas City)<h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues. Jan. 12Amarillo 4 at Dallas 7Omaha 3 at Tulsa 1Wed. Jan. 13Dallas 4 at Oklahoma City 7Fort Worth 5 at Kansas City 2Thurs. Jan. 14Amarillo 4 at Fort Worth 6Fri. Jan. 15Amarillo 5 at Tulsa 5Kansas City 2 at Omaha 3Oklah6mo City 3 at Dallas 7Sat. Jan. 16Dallas 1 at Oklahoma City 8Tulsa 2 at Fort Worth 3Omaha 6 at Kansas City 2Sun. Jan. 17Amarillo 5 at Oklahoma City 1Dallas 1 at Omaha 3<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0296/2830056-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="579" height="508"></div><h2>Central League Summaries</h2><h2>Wed. Dec. 30OKLAHOMA CITY 4 at DALLAS 3</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Oklahoma City, O&rsquo;Donnell (Boldirev)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:002&mdash;Dallas, Romanchych (L&rsquo;Abbe, Maggs)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:22Penalties: Young 1:18: Sheppard 12:22; Plumb 16:16.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties; Adair 6:58; Bradley 13:57; Kearns 14:55; Block 17:51.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Dallas, Archambault (Lodboa)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:174&mdash;Oklahoma City, Bradley (Boldirey, Cherry)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:235&mdash;Oklahoma City, Tannahill (Plumb)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:416&mdash;Oklahoma City, Adair (MocLeish, Cherry)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:187&mdash;Dallas, Lodboa (Long, Romanchych)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:24Penalties: None.Shots on goal: Oklahoma City 28, Dallas 21.Attendance: 3,270.<h2>TULSA 3 at FORT WORTH 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Tulsa, Popeil (Robert)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1:222&mdash;Tulsa, Robert (Swenso)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:333&mdash;Fort Worth, Walters (Martin, Shires)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:27Penalties: Carpenter, 3:30; R. Murray (double minor) 9:16, Karlander (double minor) 9:16; Moser, Gilmore double minor) 14:03; Reeson 17:41<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>No scoringPenalties: R. Murray (major) 2:12; Gilmore (major) 2:12; Zanussi 3:07; Carpenter 9:04; Morchinko 10:58; Bredin 13:27<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Tulsa, Thompson (Morchinko, Robert)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:29Penalties: R. Murray 0:52, Reichmuth 2:19. Bredin 5:30; Swenson 15:03Shots on goal: Tulsa 35, Fort Worth 31.Attendance: 3,862<h2>Thurs. Dec. 31KANSAS CITY 2 at OKLAHOMA 7</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1 &mdash; Kansas City, Glenwright (Bennett, Proceviat)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:572&mdash;Kansas City, Thompson (Crashley, Taggart)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:543&mdash;Oklahoma City, Adair (MocLeish, Klatt)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:414&mdash;Oklahoma City, Leach (Jones, Sheppard)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:135&mdash;Oklahoma City, Leach (Tannahill, Sheppard)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:41Penalties &mdash; Bennett 1:46, Bradley 1:46, Harvey 11:58, Stewart 14:1 6.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Oklahoma City, Jacobsen (Brownlee, Harvey)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1:137&mdash;Oklahoma City, Leach (Plumb, Sheppard)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1:398&mdash;Oklahoma City, Klatt (Adair)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:00Penalties &mdash; Harvey 6:04, Evans 9:41.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>9&mdash;Oklahoma City, Leach Sheppard, (Adair)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:09Penalties &mdash; Harvey 3:11, Cherry 5:41, Brooks 10:18, Bennett 1 7.31, MocLeish 17:31.Shots on goals by: Oklahoma City 27; Kansas City 17Attendance; 3,096.<h2>AMARILLO 2 at OMAHA 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Amarillo, Stewart (Lomheim)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:18Penalties: Parizeou 5:22; Stewart 8:16; Coolter 10:52, Cardwell 13:57; Dupont 14:51; Lomheim 19:23<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Omaha, Parizeou (DeMarco)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:453&mdash;Omaha, Coalter (Wilson, Jarry)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:494&mdash;Amarillo, Burns (Snell, Labre)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:16Penalties: Kannegiesser 6:50, Pearson 9:38, Lomheim 12:52; Dupont 15:04; Hogonson 18:02<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Omaha, Hogaboam (Miller, Gratton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:196&mdash;Omaha, Andrascik&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:39Penalties: Dupont 1:31; Lomheim 6:17; Lomheim, Stew art, Jarry, Dupont, Murphy, Labre, Hoganson, Paten eude, Kannegiesser, Bell, Coalter 7:51; Heaney 8:40.Saves: Hoganson (Amarillo) 26, McDuff (Omaha) 13.Attendance: 5,227<h2>Sat. Jan. 2TULSA 2 at OKLAHOMA CITY 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Oklahoma City, Cherry (MocLeish)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:31Penalties: Desjorine 4:03, Nelson, Popiel, O&rsquo;Donnell Plub 9 46; Stewart 10:38, Moser 14.19. MocLeish 18:07.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Tulsa, Morchinko (Nelson, Swenson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:523&mdash;Oklahoma City, Boldirev (Cherry)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1:204&mdash;Oklahoma City, Tannahill (Leach, Sheppard)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:36Penalties: O&rsquo;Donnell 9:21, Liddington 10:47, Nelson 14:55<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Oklahoma City, Bradley (O&rsquo;Donnell, Boldirev)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:576&mdash;Tulsa, Popiel (Dupere, R. Murray)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:23Penalty: NoneSaves: McLachlan (Tulsa) 29, Adams (Oklahoma City) 34Attendance: 5,656<h2>AMARILLO 7 at KANSAS CITY 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Amarillo, Kessell (Cardwell, Birdsell)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:332&mdash;Amarillo, Birdsell, (Kessell, Cardwell)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:22Penalties: W. Bennett 6:00, Flegel 8:13, Evans 9:03, Snell 10:33.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Kansas City. Proceviat (Dennis)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:044&mdash;Amarillo, Cordwell, (Labre, Kessell)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:275&mdash;Amarillo, Burns 9:426&mdash;Kansas City, Proceviat, (Dennis)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:057&mdash;Kansas City, Lowe (Dennis)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:278&mdash;Amarillo, Birdsell, (Heaney, Cardwell)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:24Penalties: Patenaude 6:46, Swain 12:34, Heaney 12:41.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>9&mdash;Kansas City, Brooks (Earl)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:5410&mdash;Amarillo, Stewart&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:3211&mdash;Amarillo, Kessell (Ball)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:30Penalties: Evans 7:50, Labre 1 1:40, Proceviat 11:40.Shots on goal: Amarillo 32, Kansas City 28.Attendance: 4,485. &#9632;

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

Experience counts &hellip; former U.S. Olympic stars Billy and Roger Christian, assisted by NHL players, know the technique of producing hockey sticks with proper balance, feel and durability. It&rsquo;s a great stick&hellip;Use it!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0542/2830153-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="277" height="328"><figcaption class="caption-body">Louis Nanne</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0636/2830146-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="280" height="338"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Christian</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0731/2830139-1-eng-US/f0024-072.jpg" title="f0024-07" width="275" height="333"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roger Christian</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0827/2830132-1-eng-US/f0024-082.jpg" title="f0024-08" width="283" height="340"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Goldsworthy</figcaption></div>See Your Local Dealer or Write for LiteratureCHRISTIAN BROS., INC.Warroad, Minn. 56763 (218) 386-1111 &#9632;

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Hockey Sticks by Hockey Players

<div class="byline">BY BOB LINDLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0368/2830101-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="269" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Lemieux</figcaption></div>KANSAS CITY &mdash;Two major coaching changes were made at midseason in the Central League with both the Fort Worth Wings and the Kansas City Blues doing the switching.At Kansas City, Camille Henry, the former star for the New York Rangers, was replaced behind the bench by John Choyce.In Fort Worth, former defensive star Doug Barkley was promoted to the head coaching post with the Detroit Red Wings and his spot was filled &mdash; on a temporary basis, at least &mdash; by team business manager Bob Lemieux, also a former defenseman.In addition to Henry&rsquo;s release from coaching duty with the Blues, Kaycee general manager Fred Hucul lost his job to Cliff Fletcher, who had been assistant general manager at St. Louis.Choyce was a scout for the St. Louis Blues and formerly was a member of the Chicago Black Hawk organization. Henry accepted the position as scout for the Blues in the Quebec City area and will work directly under chief scout Frank Mario.Lemieux, who played last year at Vancouver in the WHL, said he would prefer to remain as Fort Worth&rsquo;s business manager, but the parent Red Wings asked him to be interim coach while a search went on for a permanent replacement.Henry took over as Blues&rsquo; coach in November of 1969, replacing Hucul, who had been handling both the coaching and managing posts.OKLAHOMA CITY: Reg Leach. No. 2 choice in the June National Hockey League drafts, became the first player in the CHL this season to record a second hat trick, getting three against Amarillo to boost his season total to 23. This tied him with Omaha&rsquo;s Pierre Jarry for the league lead in goals scored. Bill Klatt (19 goals) and Gregg Sheppard (31 assists) were tied for the runner-up spot in the league point race, each with 42. Sheppard&rsquo;s assist total led the league. Dick Cherry. Ivan Boldirev and Leach also represent the Blazers in the top ten scoring list.DALLAS: Injuries continue to plague Hawks, who had no less than six skaters in the stands during recent two-game series with league leading Knights. Joining J.P. Bordeleau, J.P. LeBlanc. Terry Caffery and Bob Sicinski on the injury list were defenseman Dennis Kearns and leading scorer Dan Lodboa. Lodboa with 20 goals, suffered a mild back injury and missed only two games. Don Gordon (18 goals) and Ron Dussiaume (13 goals) were heading up Black Hawk offense.OMAHA: Pierre Jarry and rookie Mike Murphy waging nip-and-tuck battle for CHL scoring championship, both with 44 points through Knights&rsquo; first 36 games. Jarry had 23 goals, Murphy had 15, including three in hat trick against Fort Worth. Both were injured in Jan. 11 game against Fort Worth and were expected to be out at least a week, Jarry with twisted ankle and Murphy with severe charlie horse. Mike Parizeau (17 goals, 22 assists), Tom Miller (14 goals, 25 assists) and Gerry Ouellette (nine goals, 26 assists) join Jarry and Murphy in top ten scoring for CHL. Syl Apps sent to Knights indefinitely by parent New York Rangers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0454/2830094-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="566" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLIFF FLETCHER &hellip; Becomes Blues&rsquo; GM</figcaption></div>TULSA: Oilers apparently snapping out of slump and making run for playoff country. With Rene Robert (18 goals), Dennis Dupere (15 goals) and Cal Swenson (16 goals) leading the charge, Oilers won four straight and lost only one of seven in jumping from deep in sixth place to fifth place and challenging for fourth. Both goalers Murray McLachlan and Ray Reeson cutting down on goals allowed and Oilers playing tight defense with Gord Nelson, Randy Murray and Ken Murray doing well. Rookies Gerry O-Flaherty, Errol Thompson and Jan Popeil key figures in Tulsa surge.AMARILLO: Veteran winger Larry Billows asked to be put on voluntary retired list. Rod Zaine called up by Pittsburgh Penguins and Rick Kessell returned to Wranglers. Wranglers put together best seven-day record of season, beating Kanssas City (74), Fort Worth (3-1) and Oklahoma City (6-4) for longest win streak of year. Kessell major factor in upswing. Veteran defenseman Terry Ball only Wrangler to crack CHL&rsquo;s top 20 scoring chart with four goals and 22 assists. &#9632;

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KC Blues Fire Henry, Hucul; Lemieux, Choyce Hew Couches

<h2>HOW THEY STANDEASTERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Jan. 19)<h3>NORTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01122/2830205-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="568" height="236"></div><h3>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0281/2830198-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="557" height="197"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Affiliations: 2&mdash;Detroit. 4&mdash;New York. 5&mdash;Chicago. 6&mdash;Toronto 10&mdash;Philadelphia. 11&mdash;Minnesota x &mdash; independent)</figcaption></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues. Jan. 12Salem 3 at Charlotte 5Long Island 3 at Jacksonville 5Wed. Jan. 13Clinton 1 at New Haven 6Johnstown 3 at New Jersey 2Greensboro 4 at Salem 2Thurs. Jan. 14Syracuse 2 at Clinton 8Charlotte 4 at Greensboro 2Long Island at Nashville (postphoned)Fri. Jan. 15Syracuse 4 at New Jersey 3New Haven 5 at Johnstown 4Jacksonville 5 at Salem 8Nashville 1 at Charlotte 4Sat. Jan. 16New Jersey 1 at Clinton 9Syracuse 1 at Long Island 7Salem 1 al Johnstown 6Sun. Jan. 17New Jersey 1 at New Haven 5Clinton 2 at Long Island 3Johnstown 5 at Salem 5Charlotte 5 at Jacksonville 1 Greensboro 1 at Nashville 4<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tues. Jan. 19New Jersey at Charlotte1Nashville at JacksonvilleWed. Jan. 20Johnston at Clintonlong Island at New HavenThurs. Jan. 21Johnstown at SyracuseNew Jersey at GreensboroFri. Jan. 22New Haven at SyracuseClinton at JohnstownSalem at GreensboroJacksonville at CharlotteNew Jersey at NashvilleSat. Jan. 23New Haven at ClintonLong Island at JohnstownGreensboro of SalemNew Jersey at JacksonvilleCharlotte at Nashville<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2>Including Games Of Sun. Jun. 10<h3>NORTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0357/2830191-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="573" height="254"></div><h3>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0446/2830184-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="570" height="258"></div> &#9632;

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EASTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0543/2830236-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="268" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Lee</figcaption></div>CHERRY HILL &mdash;Though the Jersey Devils have been hovering around the bottom of the Eastern Hockey League&rsquo;s Northern Division all year, president Jerry Burg has been quietly confident of his team&rsquo;s ultimate finish in the race.&ldquo;Once we catch up to our rivals in games played, there&rsquo;ll be a new look to the standings,&rdquo; said Burg.It is true that the Devils have games in hand over all their northern foes, but two recent home ties didn&rsquo;t help their hopes of a rise in the standings. The Devils are locked in a three-way fight with Johnstown and Long Island for the fourth playoff berth. Though Clinton has been shaky all year, the Comets seemed to have grabbed some new life lately, and chances for the Devils to catch the Comets, Syracuse or New Haven appear remote though possible.So the aim is to get substantially ahead of Johnstown and Long Island first and then worry about further moves upward. Burg with his GM Ross Turnbull is constantly looking for ways to strengthen his team. So when three southern players became available recently, he grabbed all of them.The trio included Ray Schultz of Salem, who has been out of action most of the year, and defenseman Jim Mclnally and Dom DiBerardino, Nashville players who got into the club doghouse.Kitchen says his team can&rsquo;t make progress if it &ldquo;makes mistakes and gets stupid penalties.&rdquo; Such errors have helped the opposition score and either win or tie games that should have gone into Jersey&rsquo;s win column.The absence of Gordie Stratton with a groin injury also has been upsetting to Kitchen as he realizes this veteran could be very helpful. Dave Lee, who is engaged in a fight with New Haven&rsquo;s Pierre Brind&rsquo;Amour for the northern scoring title, has been the most consistent of the Devils all year, leading the team in goals, assists and points at last count.LONG ISLAND: Guy DeNoncourt&rsquo;s shoulder injured by flying puck. Coach Ed Stankiewicz annoyed over club&rsquo;s poor performance versus New Haven. Club is looking for forwards who can score and get the club more than 18 or 20 shots a game.SALEM: Rebels loaned Ray Schultz to Jersey for season. Rebels beat Greensboro for first time in four years on Gens ice to end 13-game unbeaten streak. Pete Shearer and Jim Jago bothered by leg ailments. Bobby Guindon&rsquo;s hat trick helped beat Nashville. Attendance up but team was a shade behind 1969-70 record at season&rsquo;s halfway point.NEW HAVEN: Smith had four-goaler against Jacksonville. Leading Blades had 19-0-1 record at home. Dave Hainsworth had two shutouts in last four games. Gordie Smith played game for Rochester. Norm Guimond sold to Long Island. Norm Schmitz activated.GREENSBORO: After 13-game non-losing streak, Gens lost three straight to cut hold on first place,. Some 118 minutes in penalties called in game with Charlotte. Gens won seven straight on road &hellip; Paul Cates&rsquo; knee and Jeff Nicholson&rsquo;s elbow are injury problems. Gens had 17-1-2 record in one stretch.CHARLOTTE: Checkers have 7 games in hand on Greensboro. Wayne Schaab&rsquo;s scoring has slowed but he still tops club. John Voss&rsquo; sixth shutout came versus Nashville. In first 21 home games, Voss allowed opposition 26 goals.JACKSONVILLE: Break down of team bus hasn&rsquo;t helped morale here. Red Bownass bothered by lack of practice. Rockets northern trip was a bomb &hellip; Bob Sabourin&rsquo;s new group met to get more financial support. Rockets took wrong turn en route to Clinton and game had to be delayed.CLINTON: Pat Kelly supposed to have expressed interest in New Haven AHL coaching job and chatted with new owners. Ed Stanley stymied in his trade talks with other club. Comets scored big shutout win over New Haven. Rookie Dennis Desrosiers had two straight game-winning goals.JOHNSTOWN: Coach Dick Roberge posted hat trick against New Haven in win over division leaders. Rick Loe is latest to tangle with Blades&rsquo; Kevin Morrison. Jets let Gary Brown skate himself into shape before using him. Loe called up for national guard duty but Jets were trying to get his callup delayed until end of season.SYRACUSE: Paul LaRose&rsquo;s power play goal earned Blazers tie with Johnstown in start of long road jaunt. Phil Watson refused to start game at Johnstown with a linesman as the ref until president Tom Lockhart told him by phone Jets could use the linesman as long as scheduled ref hadn&rsquo;t arrived. &#9632;

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Devils In 3-Way Fight For Last Playoff; New Haven Rolling With 19-0-1 Home Log

NEW HAVEN &mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0632/2830267-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="254" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Guilbault</figcaption></div>A benefit night for George Guilbault will be held on Thursday January 28.While playing in a league game for New Haven Blades on Sunday December 27 he suffered an unfortunate accident in which he lost an eye after being struck by the puck.Mildred E. Fresenius, President of the Fund for George Guilbault stated, &ldquo;Nothing we can do will ever replace George&rsquo;s eye, but through donations to our fund we will be able to help start George in a future endeavor.&rdquo;Any contributions or pledges which you might consider would be greatly appreciated and should be mailed to the Fund for George Guilbault, P.O. Box 273, Fair Haven, Connecticut 06513. &#9632;

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New Haven Plans Night For Stricken Ice Star

<h2>Featuring First Class NHL Instructors</h2>Small On-The-lce Sessions Limited Enrolment Be Sure To Apply Early<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0730/2830340-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="293" height="367"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON ELLIS Star Winger Toronto Maple Leafs</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-118/2830333-1-eng-US/f0025-112.jpg" title="f0025-11" width="342" height="370"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM WATSON Rugged Defenseman Buffalo Sabres</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0827/2830326-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="298" height="368"><figcaption class="caption-body">PETER MAHOVLICH Left Winger Montreal Canadiens</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0921/2830319-1-eng-US/f0025-092.jpg" title="f0025-09" width="273" height="368"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAULHENDERSON Left Winger Toronto Maple Leafs</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1010/2830312-1-eng-US/f0025-102.jpg" title="f0025-10" width="349" height="359"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROD SEILING Defenseman New York Rangers</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-127/2830305-1-eng-US/f0025-122.jpg" title="f0025-12" width="361" height="373"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM LORENTZ Classy Center St Louis Blue&rsquo;</figcaption></div>&#9679;Three Hours Ice Time Daily&#9679;Supervised Recreation Facilities&#9679;Complete Camping ProgramBoating &#9679; Water skiing &#9679; Horseback Riding &#9679; Fishing &#9679; Golf &#9679; Shuffleboard &#9679; SwimmingEIGHT WEEKLY SESSIONS JULY 4 &mdash; AUGUST 29<h2>ASSISTANT INSTRUCTORS</h2>Ken Murray &mdash; Toronto Maple Leafs/Tulsa OilersDon Liesemer &mdash; Montreal VoyageursDoug Brindley &mdash; Tulsa OilersRon Ingram &mdash; former New York RangersPat Tims &mdash; Toronto MarlborosSheldon Kannegiesser &mdash; Omaha KnightsJohn Dolby &mdash; Long Island Ducks<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-134/2830298-1-eng-US/f0025-132.jpg" title="f0025-13" width="943" height="514"></div> &#9632;

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SUNDRIDGE HOCKEY CAMP

<h2>HOW THEY STAHD</h2><h3>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h3>(Standings on Tues. Jan. 19)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01130/2830378-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="588" height="285"><figcaption class="caption-body">Affiliations: 1 Montreal 2. Detroit 3. Boston 5. Chicago 8. Pittsburgh 9. Californio x-independant).</figcaption></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues. Jan. 12Des Moines 3 at Dayton 4Wed. Jan. 13Port Huron 3 at Flint 1Fri. Jan. 15Flint 2 at Toledo 3Fort Wayne 2 at Des Moines 4Port Huron 2 at Muskegon 5Sat. Jan. 16Fort Wayne 2 at Des Moines 6Dayton 1 of Port Huron 3Flint 5 at Muskegon 3Sun. Jan. 17Toledo 3 at Port Huron 6Muskegon 2 at Fort Wayne 5Flint 1 at Dayton 5<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tues. Jan. 19Des Moines at DaytonWed. Jan. 20Dayton at ToledoMuskegon at Fort Wayne Des Moines at FlintFri. Jan. 22Des Moines at ToledoFlint at Port HuronFort Wayne at MuskegonSat. Jan. 23Port Huron at ToledoFlint at Fort WayneDoyton at MuskegonSun. Jan. 24Des Moines at Port HuronFort Wayne at DaytonToledo at FlintWed. Jan. 27Port Huron at DaytonFri. Jan. 29Toledo at Des MoinesMuskegon at Flint<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3>(Including Games of Sun. Jan. 10)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0283/2830371-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="599" height="683"></div> &#9632;

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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0365/2830416-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="273" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Keough</figcaption></div>FORT WAYNE &mdash;At 5-8 and 160 pounds, Jimmy Keough is one of the smallest goaltenders in the International Hockey League, his only rival in the &ldquo;midget&rdquo; class, in fact, being his own teammate and fellow goalie on the Komets, new comer Robbie Irons, who is also listed at 58 but 10 pounds lighter.Keough and Irons are big men for Fort Wayne and Keough has been the &ldquo;iron&rdquo; man. He has played more minutes by far than any other goaler in the IHL. In fact, until just recently the Komets had no other experienced goalkeeper on the roster. Keough started the first 30 games and had only token relief in a couple of these. Then Irons came along via the St. Louis Blues of the National League to help out.Keough promptly showed his appreciation for the rest by scoring a shutout, the Komets&rsquo; first of the season and his first in two seasons here. Now Jimmy is after his second to match his pair of twins, Tim and John, who arrived shortly before he reported to training camp. They also have a daughter, Lori, who is nearly two and it is barely possible the little Komet netminder will contrive a third shutout to dedicate to her as well as to the twins.The International Hockey League teams adopted a policy of practically dividing the work of their two goalers. But it wasn&rsquo;t so with the little Komet goaler. He donned the pads night after night for 30 straight games.How did he like the routine &ldquo;At first I liked all the work, but it got to be pretty much of a strain,&rdquo; said Keough. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad Robbie&rsquo;s here &mdash; for two reasons. We can spell each other and I can learn a lot from him. He has the experience I don&rsquo;t have.&rdquo;Keough is a product of the University of Michigan, where he played varsity goal for three years and led the Wolverines to two Big Ten titles. Two of his teammates were fellow Komets&rsquo; Bob Baird and Ron Ullyot. At one time he was in the Chicago Black Hawks chain but came to Fort Wayne as a free agent.TOLEDO: Coach Bill Mitchell and General Manager Jerry Nuerge of the Hornets threatened a major shakeup of the club after a 3-3 tie with Des Moines. Said Mitchell, &ldquo;There isn&rsquo;t one man on the club whose job is safe. By the end of the week we may have five or six new faces in our lineup&rdquo;. Defenseman Mickey Goulet, who was slated to go Syracuse of the Eastern League, was retained at the last minute &hellip; Hornets victory over Port Huron was their first in 18 games when the opposition scored first &hellip; Moe Morissette broke a 10-game scoring slump.FORT WAYNE: The Komets secured Craig Beveridge from Rochester of the American League and released Tom Ian none, who was bought from Dayton &hellip; Goalie Jim Keough was voted most valuable player for the first half&hellip; A crowd of 2,442 was smallest of the season but it followed one of 6,162 the previous night &hellip; Defenseman Cal Purinton had his fifth goal of the season &hellip; The K&rsquo;s drew up to an even split with Dayton in eight meetings.DAYTON: Cliff Bristow got into action for the first time in an exhibition game with Toledo at Indianapolis and scored a goal &hellip; Bob Roselle had a hat trick and three assists. The game drew 4,424 &hellip; The Gems drew 5,111 fans for a game with the Komets that was filled with fights &hellip; Coach Gerry Moore said the Gems should do more shooting and less passing from around 15 to 25 feet &hellip; Veteran John Brenneman celebrated his 28th birthday.MUSKEGON: The Mohawks whooped their lead up to 10 points over Dayton, the largest margin of the season in the IHL &hellip; The Hawks were averaging 4.03 goals a game and holding the opposition to 2.86 &hellip; A 9-2 win over Dayton evened the series between them at 3-3&hellip; Goalie Lyle Carter lowered his goals-against average to 2.42, by far the best in the league &hellip; Bryan McLay was back after missing five games &hellip; Seven Hawks were in double figures in goal scoring.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0447/2830409-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="570" height="535"><figcaption class="caption-body">CORKY AGAR &hellip; Hot Scoring Rookie</figcaption></div>FLINT: Goalie Bob Perani was the first to get two shutouts on the road &hellip; Corky Agar&rsquo;s 23rd and 24th goals decided a 2-0 victory at Des Moines &hellip; The Generals&rsquo; 17th victory put them eight weeks ahead of last season &hellip; Cliff Pennington scored his fourth goal and Dave Gorman his fifth since joining Flint.PORT HURON: The Flags had only one win and four ties in 18 road games &hellip; Coach Ted Garvin said, &ldquo;We are not getting consistent play from some of our veterans&rdquo;&hellip; Marty Reynolds had a hat trick, all the scoring in a 31 victory over Muskegon &hellip; Goalie Ted Ouimet was within six seconds of a shutout &hellip; General Manager Morris Snider was hoping to continue relations with the Red Wings, including Port Huron as a training base, after the departure of Sid Abel from the Detroit team &hellip; Coach Garvin was back after missing six games with the flu.DES MOINES: The Oak Leafs had eight tie games, more than any other team in the league &hellip; Defenseman John Ferguson, who had only two minor penalties in 27 games, drew a misconduct and game misconduct for arguing with Referee Howie Halter &hellip; Leaf officials complained of the schedule, with only 17 weekend dates in 36 homes games &hellip; Larry Klewchuk and Claude Cardin were left at home when the Leafs started a four-game road trip. &#9632;

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Komets’ Goaler Proves Iron Man’ Toledo Threatens Major Shakeup

<h2>ONTARIO MAJOR JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Tues. Jan. 19)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01114/2830461-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="572" height="371"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDTues. Jan. 12London 5 at Oshawa 4Kitchener 7 at Hamilton 5Thurs. Jan. 14Montreal 3 at Peterborough 4Fri. Jan. 15London 5 at Niagara Falls 3Ottawa 4 at Toronto 7Hamilton 5 at Kitchener 3Sat. Jan. 16St. Catharines 9 at Oshawa 3Sun. Jan. 17Peterborough 3 at St. Catharines 3Niagara Falls 2 at Montreal 2Toronto 1 at Ottawa 5Oshawa 2 at Kitchener 8Hamilton 4 at London 1<h3>QUEBEC JUNIOR LEAGUE</h3>(Standings on Mon. Jan. 18)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0283/2830454-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="571" height="363"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0359/2830447-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="573" height="254"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0454/2830492-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="272" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Murphy</figcaption></div>KITCHENER&mdash;Coaching changes in the Ontario Major Junior League continue at a fast and furious pace. Ron Murphy who performed with four National Hockey League teams during an extensive playing career, was named coach of the Kitchener Rangers. His appointment follows on the heels of Billy Harris&rsquo; hiring as pilot of the Hamilton Red Wings last week.Murphy succeeds Jerry Forler who resigned earlier.Murphy retired at the outset of last season from the Boston Bruins because of a bad shoulder injury. During his NHL career he scored 205 goals and assisted on 274 others for 479 points. Previous to playing for the Bruins he performed for New York, Chicago, and Detroit.Hamilton Red Wings, who seem to have finally got their house in order after going through three coaches including owner Nick Durbano, won their first two games under newest pilot Billy Harris.With Durbano at the controls the Wings lost seven straight games including humiliating defeats to Ottawa (18-2) and St. Catharines (13-2).However, Harris has apparently brought order out of chaos and as soon as he took over the Wings ended their seven-game losing streak with wins over Montreal (5-1) and Niagara Falls (3-2).The four points ended the Hamilton slide towards the bottom and gave them a fairly solid grip on a playoff position.Meanwhile, Peterborough, Ottawa, St. Catharines and Montreal continue their season-long battle for the top four positions with only a half dozen points separating them.However there were rumblings from the lower depths of the 10-team group as Niagara Falls Flyers, mired deep in the basement since the first couple of weeks of the schedule suddenly showed signs of revival.After failing to win a game in almost two months the Flyers defeated Kitchener 4-2 before their own fans, dropped a close 32 decision to Hamilton then bounced back to defeat London Knights in London by a 6-4 score &mdash; their first road victory of the 1970-71 schedule.The four points in three games renewed the Flyers&rsquo; hopes of catching one of the eight playoff berths, moving them to within seven points of Oshawa and 10 behind eighth place Kitchener.The Flyers were strengthened with a complicated deal in which they received goaltender Keith Pallett and defenseman Don McCulloch from St. Catharines.The Hawks in turn got goalie Peter Crosbie from Burlington Junior B Mohawks while the Burlington team picked up Hamilton goaltender Bill Evans.The Flyers are obligated to send a player or cash to Hamilton and gave up their fourth round midget draft choice to St. Catharines.In an effort to strengthen their goaltending which has been suspect all season the Marlboros, in fifth place, obtained Ted McComb from Oshawa Generals. &#9632;

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Ex-Bruin Murphy New Kitchener Coach

<div class="byline">BY JOHN ARNOLD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0542/2830530-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="832" height="1105"><figcaption class="caption-body">SOLUTION IN FEB. 5 ISSUE</figcaption></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Pictured player.6&mdash;Initials of one of the Sabres.7&mdash;Every team would like to &mdash; first.9&mdash;Initials of a US State.11&mdash;A former NHL defenseman.13&mdash;One of the Red Wings.15&mdash;Initials of Kachur.16&mdash;With San Diego Gulls.17&mdash;To make mistakes.18&mdash;Native Province of 1 down, (abbr.)19&mdash;The Esposito brothers hail from here.20&mdash;Boivin answers to this.22&mdash;First name of an NHL referee.23&mdash;A Minnesota forward.26&mdash;Maloney played in this League last season.28&mdash;1962-63 Calder Trophy winner.32&mdash;First name of an NHL rookie.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Registered 20 goals for Toronto last year.2&mdash;Initials of Fortin of Springfield.3&mdash;Pictured player answers to this.4&mdash;Number&rsquo; of times Phil Esposito has won scoring championship.5&mdash;One of the Penguins answers to this.6&mdash;A San Diego forward.8&mdash;Esposito had 15 of these last year, (abbr.)10&mdash;Pronoun.12&mdash;Finished 3rd in the East last year, (abbr.)14&mdash;An NHL coach.20&mdash;Traded to Montreal by Minnesota last season.21&mdash;Initials of former Bruin Tessier.24&mdash;Played 61 games for Philadelphia last year.25&mdash;Denotes scoreless tie.27&mdash;Same as 22 across.28&mdash;Initials of one of the Kings.29&mdash;21st and 7th letters of the alphabet.30&mdash;Initials of an NHL coach.31&mdash;One of the Blues answers to this.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0636/2830523-1-eng-US/f0027-062.jpg" title="f0027-06" width="466" height="549"></div> &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

MONTREAL&mdash;The single season scoring high was established last week in the Ontario Hockey Association Major league when Richard Martin of Montreal tallied six times in the Canadiens 10-3 romp over Oshawa.Lalonde has now registered five three-goal hat tricks this season for Montreal. In the same game, league leading scorer Bobby Lalonde counted three times, including his 100th goal of his three-year junior career. Lalonde had a five-goal game earlier this season. &#9632;

Habs’ Martin Nets 6 Goals

SUITE 4, LAKEHOME BLDG. HALIBURTON, ONTARIO, CANADABOYS&rsquo; CAMP &ldquo;Located On Beautiful Koshlong Lake, Haliburton, Ont.&rdquo;Look at our line-up of more than 30 Professional Hockey Instructors!AnnouncingLook at our line-up of more than 30 Professional Hockey Instructors!The largest N.H.L. coaching staff of any hockey camp in the world, which includes N.H.L. players, coaches and executives.We are proud to present our 1971 star-studded line up&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-01196/2830833-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="275" height="273"><figcaption class="caption-body">WREN BLAIR General Manager MINNESOTA NORTH STARS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-02179/2830826-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="274" height="281"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM GREGORY General Manager TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-03163/2830819-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="280" height="279"><figcaption class="caption-body">EMILE FRANCIS General Manager & Coach NEW YORK RANGERS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-04123/2830812-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="278" height="275"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHNNY McLELLAN Coach TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0557/2830805-1-eng-US/f00c4-052.jpg" title="f00C4-05" width="274" height="269"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERALD BLAIR Camp Director</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0632/2830798-1-eng-US/f00c4-062.jpg" title="f00C4-06" width="271" height="272"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAT FLANNERY Chief Hockey Instructor</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0718/2830791-1-eng-US/f00c4-072.jpg" title="f00C4-07" width="268" height="267"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAT KELLY Ass&rsquo;t Camp Director</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0810/2830784-1-eng-US/f00c4-082.jpg" title="f00C4-08" width="269" height="273"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK GORDON Coach MINNESOTA NORTH STARS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-098/2830777-1-eng-US/f00c4-092.jpg" title="f00C4-09" width="273" height="274"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al MacNEIL Coach MONTREAL CANADIENS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-107/2830770-1-eng-US/f00c4-102.jpg" title="f00C4-10" width="268" height="271"><figcaption class="caption-body">GUMP WORSLEY Goaltender MINNESOTA NORTH STARS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-116/2830763-1-eng-US/f00c4-112.jpg" title="f00C4-11" width="270" height="273"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK EGERS Left Wing NEW YORK RANGERS&rsquo;</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-125/2830756-1-eng-US/f00c4-122.jpg" title="f00C4-12" width="274" height="280"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOEY JOHNSTON Center Prospector MINNESOTA NORTH STARS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-135/2830749-1-eng-US/f00c4-132.jpg" title="f00C4-13" width="276" height="273"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED OUIMET Goaltender St. LOUIS BLUES</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-145/2830742-1-eng-US/f00c4-142.jpg" title="f00C4-14" width="271" height="265"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM WEBSTER Right Wing DETROIT RED WINGS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-154/2830735-1-eng-US/f00c4-152.jpg" title="f00C4-15" width="271" height="271"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNIE PARENT Goaltender PHILADELPHIA FLYERS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-164/2830728-1-eng-US/f00c4-162.jpg" title="f00C4-16" width="283" height="268"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRIT SELBY Left wing ST LOUIS LUES</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-174/2830721-1-eng-US/f00c4-172.jpg" title="f00C4-17" width="268" height="275"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON ELLIS Right Wing TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-182/2830714-1-eng-US/f00c4-182.jpg" title="f00C4-18" width="276" height="271"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM DOREY Defense TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-192/2830707-1-eng-US/f00c4-192.jpg" title="f00C4-19" width="277" height="275"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHNNY BOWER Scout TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-202/2830700-1-eng-US/f00c4-202.jpg" title="f00C4-20" width="275" height="273"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK REDMOND Defense Prospect MINNESOTA NORTH STARS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-212/2830693-1-eng-US/f00c4-212.jpg" title="f00C4-21" width="278" height="279"><figcaption class="caption-body">WALT McKECHNIE Center MINNESOTA NORTH STARS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-222/2830686-1-eng-US/f00c4-222.jpg" title="f00C4-22" width="272" height="269"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARRY UNGER Center DETROIT RED WINGS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-232/2830679-1-eng-US/f00c4-232.jpg" title="f00C4-23" width="278" height="271"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL GOLDSWORTHY Right Wing MINNESOTA NORTH STARS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-242/2830672-1-eng-US/f00c4-242.jpg" title="f00C4-24" width="272" height="273"><figcaption class="caption-body">MIKE ROBITAILLE Defense Prospect NEW YORK RANGERS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-252/2830665-1-eng-US/f00c4-252.jpg" title="f00C4-25" width="271" height="275"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON STACKHOUSE Defense CALIFORNIA SEALS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-262/2830658-1-eng-US/f00c4-262.jpg" title="f00C4-26" width="269" height="273"><figcaption class="caption-body">DARRYL SITTLER Center TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-272/2830651-1-eng-US/f00c4-272.jpg" title="f00C4-27" width="272" height="277"><figcaption class="caption-body">NICK BEVERLEY Defense Prospect BOSTON BRUINS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-282/2830644-1-eng-US/f00c4-282.jpg" title="f00C4-28" width="276" height="267"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL MYRE Goaltender MONTREAL CANADIENS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-292/2830637-1-eng-US/f00c4-292.jpg" title="f00C4-29" width="272" height="281"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRYAN WATSON Defense PITTSBURGH PENGUINS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-302/2830630-1-eng-US/f00c4-302.jpg" title="f00C4-30" width="269" height="270"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROY EDWARDS Goaltender DETROIT RED WINGS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-312/2830623-1-eng-US/f00c4-312.jpg" title="f00C4-31" width="267" height="271"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE DRYDEN Goaltender BUFFALO SABRES</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-322/2830616-1-eng-US/f00c4-322.jpg" title="f00C4-32" width="274" height="275"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRED BARRETT Defense MINNESOTA NORTH STARS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-332/2830609-1-eng-US/f00c4-332.jpg" title="f00C4-33" width="270" height="273"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRIAN GLENNIE Defense TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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