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September 1, 1971
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PASSING THE PUCK
• TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS are going to experiment with a computer in an attempt to modernize and perhaps improve their scouting system. Leafs will collaborate with Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blues in working with a California firm which now analyzes information fed into its computer by scouts for many National Football League teams… Jim Piggott of Saskatoon, former owner of the Los Angeles Blades of the WHL, is the new president of the Western Canada Hockey League succeeding Ron Butlin who resigned… Marty Howe, 17-year-old defenseman son of Detroit’s Gordie Howe, will play for Toronto Marlboros Juniors in the OHA Junior A Series this season… Harold Wright, president of the Canadian Olympic Association, has received a Japanese invitation for Canada to fill the vacancy in the 1972 Olympic hockey…
Sabres Fye 15,000 Seats For Opener With Detroit
BUFFALO— A lengthy ready-mix cement irivers’ strike threatened comjletion of work to convert Memo•ial Auditorium into a 15,000jlus seat arena, but officials of he Buffalo Sabres were confident the building would be ready. The prime contractor started m-the-site cement mixing before the strike ended, and it appeared the new 5,000-seat balcony would ae ready for the Oct. 6 pre-season game here with the Detroit Red Wings. The Sabres, who opened their initial National Hockey League •eason with just under 4.000 season ticket holders a year ago and finished with some 7,200, will have 13,000 season subscribers when the schedule gets underway. Only a policy to withhold 2,500 seats for each game for mail and window sales kept the club from selling out the revamped arena on a season basis. A year ago, with 10.000-plus…
Szura, Mattiussi, Menard Among Quintet Assigned To Baltimore Club By NHL Seals
BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Clippers are already beginning to benefit from their new tie-up with the California Golden Seals of the National Hockey League. The first five players were assigned to the AHL club for the start of training camp. Joe Szura, the AHL’S fifth leading scorer last year and a veteran of eight outstanding campaigns with the Cleveland Barons, Buffalo Bisons and Providence Reds, heads a quintet of players sent by the Seals for the upcoming 197172 season. The lanky, 33-year old Szura led the Providence Reds in scoring the past two seasons and proved a nemesis to the Clippers in last winter’s Calder Cup playoffs, when the Reds eliminated Baltimore in the best four-ofseven series. Szura tied rookie Joey Johnston for fifth place in the AHL scoring with 21 goals and…
Regan Optimistic Kings Will Move Up
LOS ANGELES— Admitting that his most pressing problems have not been solved, General Manager-Coach Larry Regan of the L.A. Kings still speaks optimistically of the coming season and said he “couldn’t wait” for camp to open as the pre-season period neared. He will greet 29 players at a rookie camp slated to start Sept. 5, then the regulars from Sept. 11 on at Victoria. Although more games are permitted, the Kings planned only six exhibition contests, none in L.A. They open the regular season in Oakland Oct. 8 and at home against Pittsburgh Oct. 13. The team’s greatest needs following last season appeared to be a top-level goaltender and one more defenseman. During the off-season, they acquired netminder Gary Edwards, a fourth-year pro at the age of 23, and defenseman Larry Hillman, a…
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