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July 1, 1971
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Bowman Steps In As Couth, Belivea, Ferguson Retire
MONTREAL— It was billed as the National Hockey League annual June meetings, but it might have been more appropriately labled: “The Montreal Canadiens Show”. Except for a brief period when Buffalo GM-coach Punch Imlach managed to steal the spotlight with his skillful and humerous manipulations in the intra-league draft, announcements of major changes in the organization of the new Stanley Cup champions dominated the entire four day period. The retirements of John Ferguson and Jean Béliveau, then the replacement of coach Al MacNeil with Scotty Bowman, to a great extent drew the attention of the press from the regular business at hand. Speculation over a possible change in the Montreal coaching situation had been widespread since the beginning of the playoffs. Fanned by public demonstrations of player dissatisfaction first by Ferguson and then by Henri…
Misconducts To Replace Fines As Bench Clearing Deterrent
MONTREAL — Beginning next season, National Hockey League players who wish to vacate their bench to provide aid for teammates embroiled in a brawl will face stiffer punishment according to new penal regulations passed at the June meetings. The new rule calls for an automatic game misconduct penalty for the first player leaving the bench to join the fracas, as well as a minor against his team. Other players who follow also face a game misconduct should they become involved in any of the fighting taking place on the ice. Scotty Morrison, NHL referee-in-chief, when announcing the new penalty regulations explained: “This is definitely a shift in emphasis away from fines. The onus now is going to be placed more on the clubs to discipline their players. If a player leads the charge off…
Defending Champs In American Airlines Golf
TORONTO — Frank Mahovlich and Gary Bergman are playing on separate National Hockey League teams now but they’ ll be reunited for the third annual American Airlines National Hockey League Players Association golf tournament June 24 through June 27. The two NHL stars will be paired as the defending champions at Toronto’ s Board of Trade Country Club course against a field of 14 teams of four players each representing the National Hockey Clubs in a 54-hole best ball event with full handicap. The Big M and Bergman were teammates last summer when they won the tournament at Woodbridge with a 54-hole score of 183. Mahovlich, now with the Montreal Canadiens, also won an automobile in 1970 as the player who came closest to a hole-in-one on the 16th hole. Tournament chairman Paddy Priestman,…
Rangers Land Rousseau, ‘Cat’ High On Ton Draft Pick
NEW YORK — “Our position going into the draft meeting was a holding one. Things have changed for the New York Rangers. We are now one of the have clubs and simply wanted to hold our position. For this reason we did not select anyone in the int er-lea gue draft. But we did very well getting Bobby Rousseau from Minnesota and we believe our No. 1 amateur pick Steve Vickers will be a future star, ” observed Emile Francis, the Rangers’ general manager-coach at the conclusion of the National Hockey League’s annual June meeting. The two month period following New York’ s elimination in the seventh game of the Stanley Cup semi finals was a hectic one. Team Captain and seven year star Bobby Nevin was dealt to Minnesota for Rousseau,…
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