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October 15, 1971

The Hockey News October 15, 1971

<div class="byline">BY NORMAN MacLEAN</div>NEW YORKPierre Jarry turned in his tracks and stuck out his stick. Suddenly he had the puck and was whirling it ahead to Bobby Rousseau. Rousseau gave a quick little shift and was around the defense and riding in on Detroit goalie Andy Brown. A dropped shoulder, a flick of the wrist and the New York Rangers were leading 1-0.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-011177/4912808-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="247" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pierre Jarry</figcaption></div>It was only a pre-season exhibition game, but this one second period play set the tone for the rest of the contest, eventually won by New York 4-0. Later, Jarry took a Rousseau pass, deked Brown and drilled home the puck. This made it 2-0 at the time and put the Rangers completely in charge.&ldquo;Heck, at Omaha, I got 46 goals and 46 assists to lead the Central League in scoring,&rdquo; grinned Jarry. &ldquo;Why shouldn&rsquo;t I split it right down the middle with a goal and an assist here at Madison Square Garden?&rdquo;Jarry, wearing number eight, Bob Nevin&rsquo;s old number, looked right at home, playing right wing-on a line with center Rousseau and left winger Jack Egers. This was the Rangers&rsquo; fourth combination and it poses a sticky, albeit, very nice wicket, for general manager-coach Emile &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Francis to solve.&ldquo;I can either carry six defensemen or play four forward lines and five defenseman,&rdquo; says Francis. &ldquo;I have not made up my mind and maybe I will not even do so when the season starts.&rdquo;Right now, Francis is working center Jean Ratelle with right wing Rod Gilbert and left wing Vic Hadfield. It was a Hadfield hat trick which led to a 6-5 Ranger win over the St. Louis Blues in earlier pre-season.The older combinations have the &ldquo;Bulldog Line&rdquo; of 1969-70 with center Walter Tkaczuk working with left winger Davey Balon and right sider Bill Fairbairn. Peter Stemkowski is the center of the third or checking line with Bruce MacGregor and Ted Irvine the wings. Mac is the right wing. When Bruce pulled a muscle in his elbow, 39-year-old Ron Stewart subbed for him and belied his age with his skating, puck savvy and general know how. This indicates that the reports of Stew&rsquo;s demise have been greatly exaggerated and the Ranger dressing room may still ring to his melodic chants of &ldquo;Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?&rdquo;If we forgot Glen &ldquo;Rocky&rdquo; Sather, the penalty killer and Ranger roustabout, please forgive us. This makes fourteen bodies as forwards, all with valid claims to a New York uniform. And the six defenders, listing Brad Park, Jim Neilson, Rod Seiling, Dale Rolfe, Ab De Marco and Andre Dupont all seemingly belong. Dupont, if anyone, might go, but this is speculation and since one of the Rangers few needs is sock, Andre has both this and youth on his side.Fourteen and six make twenty and NHL regulations state a team can only dress seventeen plus the two goalies, it would be our guess that the Rangers will have three &lsquo;black aces&rsquo;, as Eddie Shore would term them, when the season opens. This is depth, plus youth and then some. And it means that when a player gets the chance to play he had better make the most of it.BLUE CHIPS: The Rangers will carry a record number of games on both radio and TV this season. Marv Albert and Bill Chadwick will once again man the radio microphone with Tim Ryan and this reporter, handling both cable and commercial TV&hellip;Jack Egers&rsquo; ability to play both right and left wing is standing him in good stead in his battle to make the squad. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Rangers’ Roster Overstocked Nice Problem For ‘Cat’

MONTREAL&mdash;Guy Lafleur doesn&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;s another Jean Beliveau on the ice.So, he ended all rumors about donning Big Jean&rsquo;s famed No. 4 sweater, this season. He&rsquo;ll wear No. 10, instead. The last man to wear that number was Ted Harris. They&rsquo;ve already compared Lafleur to many things and many people, but not to Ted Harris. Ergo, Lafleur feels some of the pressure is off him.&ldquo;The truth is, I never wanted No. 4 sweater,&rdquo; says Guy. &ldquo;I have great respect for Jean Beliveau, and always admired him as a man and a player. But, we&rsquo;re different styles on the ice. I have tried to follow his example as an individual, but I do not try to copy him as a player.&rdquo;Lafleur, whose 130 goals with Quebec Remparts last season were scored off the right wing, will start his career with Canadiens as a center. He&rsquo;ll pivot Frank Mahovlich and Yvan Cournoyer. The line has been sizzling in exhibitions and Lafleur has impressed as both a playmaker and scorer.One reason for his playmaking ability is the fact that he uses a stick with a straight blade.&ldquo;I never went in for the curved blade,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t use it in junior and I don&rsquo;t want to use one, now. With a straight blade like this, you can make a good pass to either wing.&rdquo; &#9632;

Lafleur: He Never Wanted No. 4

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-011127/4912436-1-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

<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Fri. Oct. 8Toronto at VancouverAngeles at CaliforniaSat. Oct. 9New York at MontrealMinnesota at DetroitChicago at St. LouisPhiladelphia at PittsburghSun. Oct. 10Toronto at CaliforniaNew York at BostonDetroit at ChicagoPittsburgh at BuffaloAngeles at VancouverTues. Oct. 12Bufflo at St. louisPhiladelphia at VancouverWed. Oct. 13Detroit at TorontoBoston at New YorkLouis at ChicagoPhiladelphia at CaliforniaPittsburgh at Los AngelesThurs. Oct. 14Montreal at MinnesotaFri. Oct. 15Vancouver at CaliforniaBuffalo at Boston &#9632;

WHERE THEY PLAY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01797/4914245-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL ESPOSITO Can He Have Another Fabulous NHL Season? (Hockey News Photo by Clifton Boutelle)</figcaption></div>BRUINS, HAWKS TEAMS TO BEAT&mdash;PAGE 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02492/4914238-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="560" height="1441"><figcaption class="caption-body">TONY ESPOSITO Man On The Spot In Chicago Goal</figcaption></div>DEREK SANDERSON A NEW APPROCH TO HOCKEY&mdash;PAGE 2MONTREAL TO ADOPT 3-GOALER SYSTEM&mdash;PAGE 10<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-03220/4914231-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="557" height="712"></div> &#9632;

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HOCKEY NEWS POLL

Mr. Gerard Tousignant, 10160 Laurentide Street, Apt. 4, Montreal North, Que., is the September winner of the Gruen Precision Watch contest. &#9632;

WINS GRUEN WATCH

<div class="byline">BY BOBSMIZIK</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-011208/4912069-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="565" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRIAN McKENZIE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02994/4912062-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="565" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">RENE ROBERT</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03736/4912055-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="560" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE BURROWS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04508/4912048-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="559" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body">DARRYL EDESTRAND</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05377/4912041-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="578" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body">SHELDON KANNEGIESSER</figcaption></div>PITTSBURGH&mdash;A hockey camp without optimism is like a politician without speeches. There just isn&rsquo;t such a thing.So it&rsquo;s not surprising that just about everyone here at the Penguins&rsquo; Brantford pre-season camp was expounding optimism of the highest degree. Despite a sixth-place finish last year, the Penguins are talking about much higher places this season.And, of course, in a training camp that kind of talk is not unusual. But perhaps there is some justification for the high degree of hope the Penguins hold for the coming season.Anyone familiar with Red Kelly, the Penguins&rsquo; coach and general manager, knows that he is not an easily excitable man. But even the Hall-of-Famer, now beginning his third season with the team, is showing signs of high optimism.Most of the hope for a better season is on defense where the Penguins will be almost entirely revamped. There will be one new goalie on the team and four and possibly five of the defensemen will be fresh faces.In the Penguins&rsquo; first seven exhibition games, no team scored more than two goals against them and they were particularly toughest against the more difficult foes&mdash;holding New york to one goal and shutting out St. Louis.Roy Edwards is the new goalie and he&rsquo;ll share duties this season with Les Binkley. Edwards was downright sensational in training camp and appears to be completely over the fractured skull he suffered last season while playing with Detroit, from who the Penguins purchased him.The injury was part of the reason Edwards announced his retirement at the end of last season, but Kelly talked him out of that and he couldn&rsquo;t be happier about it.In Edwards&rsquo; first 110 minutes on the ice this season he gave up only one goal. He had shutout periods against California. New York and St. Louis and a period and one half against Rochester. The only goal he allowed was against Buffalo on a power play.Edwards. teaming with Binkley, gives Kelly what he believes to be some first-rate goal-tending.Defense is where the real turnover has occurred. Despite the return of six veterans from last year&rsquo;s team, newcomers Dave Burrows. Darryl Edestrand and Sheldon Kannegiesser are almost assured of jobs, while-Joe Noris, up from the amateur ranks, is still fighting for one of the spots.Another newcomer to the Penguins, but not to Pittsburgh or the NHL. is Tim Horton, who the Penguins drafted from the Rangers.&ldquo;He can mean so much to a team,&rdquo; said Kelly of the 40-year-old yet with whom the coach played at Toronto when they won four Stanley Cup championships. &ldquo;He can play with my young guys. He can take a guy out with authority. He makes the big play at the blueline when you need it.&rdquo;Kelly cites last what perhaps is the most important reason he wants Horton on the roster. &ldquo;He helps put heart in the team,&rdquo; said Red.Edestrand. up from Hershey, is a rushing type defenseman, which the Penguins have sorely lacked in recent years. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ll have to team me with someone steady,&rdquo; said the 25-year-old Edstrand. &ldquo;because I like to gamble.&rdquo;Edestrand has been working with Noris, only 19, and whom Kelly calls, &ldquo;The surprise of the camp.&rdquo; A right winger until late last season when the Toronto Marlboros switched him to the backline, the American-born Noris was given a shot early in camp by Kelly and has stayed in the lineup. &ldquo;If I didn&rsquo;t like what I was seeing, he wouldn&rsquo;t be playing.&rdquo; said Kelly.Noris appears to be in a fight for the third right defense spot with veteran Bob Woytowich. Horton and Bryan Watson have the other two spots nailed down.On the left it looks like Burrows, drafted from Chicago, Kannegiesser, a strong 6-0, 190 pounder who finished last season with the Penguins, and Edestrand.That could leave veterans like Dunc McCallum, Duane Rupp and even Woytowich playing elsewhere this season, though Kelly still may go to them if his young guys cool off.But the coach isn&rsquo;t expecting that. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve never been this tough in our own end,&rdquo; is the way Kelly sums up his new defense.Center Bob Leiter, the seventh leading scorer in the American Hockey League with Hershey last season, has been the offensive sensation of the camp. Leiter scored six goals in the team&rsquo;s first seven games, including two against the Rangers.Leiter and rookie Rene Robert have looked strong enough at center to make job security for veterans Wally Boyer and Bryan Hextall, last year&rsquo;s leading scorer, rather shaky. Syl Apps and Ron Schock have the other two center spots nailed down.At right wing the Penguins remain almost intact from last season with Jean Pronovost, Ken Schinkel and Nick Harbaruk returning. Bill Hicke, acquired from California just before the start of training camp, will be the other right winger. Kelly had Hicke working on a line with Apps and Greg Polis, the team&rsquo;s leading goal scorer as a rookie last year until struck down with mononucleosis late in the season.Joining Polis on the left side will be Keith McCreary and the veteran Val Fonteyne, with the fourth spot still a fight between Brian McKenzie, up from the amateurs, and veteran Dean Prentice, who scored 21 goals last year<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06276/4912034-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="277" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roy Edwards</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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New Fates, New Hopes Theme Of Penguins’ Training Camp

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div>BOSTON&mdash;If there is to be a new look to the Bruins this year attribute it to an old lace&mdash;that of self-styled modernist Derek Michael Sanderson.Derek Michael now is about to start his fourth season with the B&rsquo;s and to the 25-year-old blithe spirit from Niagara Falls everything right now is sweetness and light.After a summer of golf and a month of communication with nature in wilderness and solitude, that was broken only by a challenge of minds on contract matters. Derek reported to the Bruins training camp with a new philosophy for this season.&ldquo;There will be no popping off from this kid, he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy with my contract and I have no beefs about management.&ldquo;I just want to play hockey this year.&rdquo;Although he carried contract negotiations down to the arbitration deadline, Derek still insists there was no great argument over details.&ldquo;Just small things,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The Bruins&rsquo; management always has been fair to me and we never have had any serious disagreements.&rdquo;In fairness to Sanderson this must be admitted.There might have been, at times, a strained relationship on some of his habits of dress and an occasional remark. But the fact is that Derek turned his hand to the job on the ice with proficiency enough to win the Calder Trophy in his rookie year of 1967-68 and has scored 24, 26 and 29 goals in his three years with the B&rsquo;s.Now he is looking to improve on that and if he can produce a personal aim of 40 goals for the season, who will complain at the length of his hair or the moustache he sports?And with the full application of his talent for hockey, who is to deny that he will not bag as many as 40 goals for the season?At the outset, it appears Sanderson may be working with Reggie Leach on right wing instead of Eddie Westfall.This will be a big switch from the last two seasons.But on left wing Mike Walton figures to be his regular mate. I his will be the first time since he joined the Bruins that Sandy has had a permenant left wing.&ldquo;I think I have had a total of 14 left wings in the last three years,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;It may be a little strange having Shaky out there all the time but I know we can adjust to each other.&rdquo;On missing Westfall Sandy reports, &ldquo;Eddie is a great hockey player, He&rsquo;s one of the best defensive players in the business. In fact, he is underrated.&rdquo;But line changes are not for him to decide any more than it is his decision on who Will be the penalty killers and who will work on power plays.&ldquo;In the past.&rdquo; he says,&rdquo; my job has been to be a checker on penalties&rdquo;.And I think I did pretty well at it.&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s natural for everyone to want to work on power plays. You have that little extra edge when it comes to scoring. But we proved we had one of the best penalty killing units in the league last year.&ldquo;We scored goals as well as keeping the other guys off the board.&ldquo;You know.&rdquo; he says.&rdquo; you can get an awful lot of satisfaction from doing things two ways.&rdquo;It would be unwise for the opposition to judge from this that Sanderson has gone all soft, however.&ldquo;I intend to play the game just as hard and as tough as I always have.&rdquo; he insists. &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t be going out looking for trouble but I won&rsquo;t be backing away from it either.&ldquo;All I want to do this season is just concentrate on playing good hockey.&rdquo;And good hockey from Sanderson over the course of the season will be tough for anyone in the league to surpass. &#9632;

Sanderson’s New Approach To Include No Popping Off, Bid At 40-Goal Year

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-011227/4912155-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY ORR&hellip;The Leader Of The Bruins</figcaption></div>MONTREAL&mdash;There&rsquo;s no doubt in the minds of the hockey experts what teams will dominate the National Hockey League&rsquo;s divisional races this season.A total of 16 hockey selectors picked Boston to flex its muscles again in the East and Chicago to do likewise in the West in the annual poll conducted by THE HOCKEY NEWS.The Bruins, ignited by Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito, and the Hawks, led by the irrepressible Bobby Hull, were the undisputed odds-on favorites to repeat their 1970-71 performances and top their respective divisions.Boston, which finished first last year but lost the cup to Montreal Canadiens, were named to place on top again on 14 of the 16 ballots for 109 points out of a possible 112. The Hawks were even more convincing in the West Division picks as the hockey experts unanimously named them 16 times to outrun all six of their Western rivals for first place.Here&rsquo;s how the selectors figured the NHL races to finish: In the East. Boston, first, Montreal, second. New York, third. Toronto. fourth, Buffalo, fifth. Detroit, sixth and Vancouver, last. Out West, it was Chicago for first, Minnesota second. St. Louis for third, Philadelphia, fourth, Pittsburgh, fifth. Los Angeles, sixth, and California a near unanimous, seventh.There were few surprises in the Eastern balloting although Montreal being picked to finish ahead of the Rangers probably evoked some eyebrow raising. Buffalo. Detroit and Vancouver were overlooked in the balloting for the first East playoff spots.In the West. Minnesota was a solid second-place choice over St. Louis. The Blues actually received one sixth-place finish. The experts didn&rsquo;t give California much of a chance to improve. The Seals received four sixth place ballots but generally won the nod for the cellar where they finished up last season.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-021013/4912148-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1172" height="1376"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY HULL&hellip;Man Who Makes The Hawks Go (Hockey News Photos by Stephen Newman)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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BOSTON, CHICAGO EASY CHOICES TO DOMINATE DIVISIONAL RACES

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03667/4912305-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"></div><h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><h2>WEST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04385/4912298-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1183" height="341"></div><h2>BOB VERDI</h2><h3>Chicago Tribune</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-05218/4912291-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="545" height="323"></div><h2>KEITH JACKSON</h2><h3>Hockey World</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-06142/4912284-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="540" height="319"></div><h2>JIM PROUDFOOT</h2><h3>Toronto Star</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0792/4912277-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="537" height="321"></div><h2>JIM VIPOND</h2><h3>Toronto Globe & Mail</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0862/4912270-1-eng-US/f0003-082.jpg" title="f0003-08" width="540" height="314"></div><h2>DAN PROUDFOOT</h2><h3>Toronto Globe & Mail</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0942/4912263-1-eng-US/f0003-092.jpg" title="f0003-09" width="540" height="298"></div><h2>TOM MONAHAN</h2><h3>Boston Traveller</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-1032/4912256-1-eng-US/f0003-102.jpg" title="f0003-10" width="541" height="300"></div><h2>GREG FARLEY</h2><h3>Hockey News</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-1123/4912249-1-eng-US/f0003-112.jpg" title="f0003-11" width="545" height="298"></div><h2>GIL SMITH</h2><h3>Hockey News</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-1220/4912242-1-eng-US/f0003-122.jpg" title="f0003-12" width="540" height="298"></div><h2>DWAYNE NETLAND</h2><h3>Minneapolis Tribune</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-1314/4912235-1-eng-US/f0003-132.jpg" title="f0003-13" width="538" height="294"></div><h2>BILL LIBBY</h2><h3>Hockey News</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-149/4912228-1-eng-US/f0003-142.jpg" title="f0003-14" width="539" height="295"></div><h2>CHARLEY BARTON</h2><h3>Buffalo Courier-Express</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-155/4912221-1-eng-US/f0003-152.jpg" title="f0003-15" width="546" height="297"></div><h2>JIM FAGAN</h2><h3>Hockey Pictorial</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-163/4912214-1-eng-US/f0003-162.jpg" title="f0003-16" width="540" height="294"></div><h2>DONALD BERNS</h2><h3>Hockey News</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-172/4912207-1-eng-US/f0003-172.jpg" title="f0003-17" width="540" height="295"></div><h2>JACK BERRY</h2><h3>Detroit News</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-182/4912200-1-eng-US/f0003-182.jpg" title="f0003-18" width="542" height="296"></div><h2>ED CONRAD</h2><h3>Philadelphia Daily News</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-192/4912193-1-eng-US/f0003-192.jpg" title="f0003-19" width="540" height="293"></div><h2>HAL SIGURDSON</h2><h3>Vancouver Sun</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-203/4912186-1-eng-US/f0003-202.jpg" title="f0003-20" width="537" height="299"></div> &#9632;

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HOW SELECTORS PICKED THEM TO FINISH

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-011262/4912357-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="525" height="528"></div>&bull; ALEX DELVECCHIO is furious because the Detroit Red Wings plan to use him as an extra man this season and not on a regular shift. The 21-year NHL veteran, angered by his demotion from a full-time role, said: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the only way I&rsquo;ll stay on this team. I&rsquo;ve always been a regular and I want to stay that way until I retire&rdquo;&hellip;Coach Doug Barkley of the Wings has other plans for the Detroit captain, however. &ldquo;Alex can play any of the forward positions, but he&rsquo;s 39 years old and just can&rsquo;t keep up with a 78-game schedule. We plan to use him as an extra man and he&rsquo;ll work on the power play and penalty killing team&rdquo;&hellip;Los Angeles Kings have been talking to Bert Olmstead about a coaching job. Larry Regan, as of now, is both general manager and coach&hellip;Montreal Canadiens will retire Jean Beliveau&rsquo;s No. 4 jersey. Big Jean and Aurel Joliat, who previously wore No. 4 for the Canadiens for 16 seasons, will take part in a pre-game ceremony marking the official retirement of the number&hellip;Close to 11,000 fans, paying $7.50 for top seats, took in a Flyers-Canadiens exhibition game at the Philadelphia Spectrum the other night&hellip;Philly fans look for big things from their favorites this season&hellip;Billy Harris, Len Lunde, Jack Bownass and Chuck Holmes are all coaching in Europe this winter. These former well-known professionals are an advance guard of-more and more ex-pros who will coach in Europe when their playing days in North America are finished&hellip;Harris is coaching Sweden&rsquo;s National team. Lunde is playing-coach of one of Finland&rsquo;s best teams, Bownass is doing the same thing with one of the leading teams in Sweden while Holmes is with the Swiss Nationals&hellip;Boston&rsquo;s Phil Esposito made a quick recovery from a preseason rib injury&hellip;The American Hockey League Booster Clubs held their annual convention last month at Alexandria Bav, N.Y. Guest speakers were Jack Butterfield, president, and Gordie Anziano, secretary of the American Hockey League&hellip;It was the seventh convention held by these rabid hockey followers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-021178/4912350-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="276" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Delvecchio</figcaption></div>&bull; WITH GORDIE HOWE and Jean Beliveau deciding to call it quits, it looks as if the 1971-72 season could be remembered as &ldquo;the year of the retirements&rdquo;. Word from Toronto is that another grand old veteran. 41-year-old George Armstrong, may have finally reached the end of the line. The &lsquo;Chief&rsquo;, as he is popularly known, has retired four times but on each occasion has changed his mind. This time, however, the guessing is that it was not his decision but rather an edict from the Leaf management who want to make room for some of the promising youngsters in the Toronto system. &ldquo;They (the management) will call the play,&rdquo; says Armstrong. &ldquo;It they think I can help. I&rsquo;ll be in uniform.&rdquo;&hellip;The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association has lifted the ban on teams making exhibition tours of Europe and as many as eight will go overseas this season. The first to announce they will take advantage of the change in regulations was a team in the large Toronto minor league system, the Aurora Toyotas Midgets, who will tour Sweden Nov. 5-15&hellip;Officials of the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior A League indicate that the present outlook appears to suggest that they&rsquo;ll be in for an even bigger year than last season when total receipts were approximately $1,500,000. Reason for the optimism is evidence that 197172 will produce the best club balance in the league in many years. Toronto Marlboros and Ottawa 67s are the teams favoured for top spot in the early ratings&hellip;The United States Nationals could be in for their best year ever with nine veterans returning from last season. The Nats sent four of their players to NHL training camps and all are coming back after impressing big league Clubs. Kevin Ahearn came from Montreal&rsquo;s camp. Craig Patrick from California, Henry Boucha from Detroit and Tim Sheehy from Boston. The Canadiens attempted to persuade the 22-year-old Ahearn, a real speedster from Milton, Mass., to turn pro. All four Nationals went back because this is an Olympic year and the U.S. expects to ice a contending team with the help of these four stars&hellip;Former Montreal and Detroit player Bert Hirschfeld has made it big in the fire department in Halifax. Hirschfeld has been made a captain&hellip;One-time Montreal Royals&rsquo; defenseman Douglas (Dugger) MacNeil is back in hockey as a coach. He&rsquo;s handling the Halifax Blazers of the Nova Scotia Junior League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-031013/4912343-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="275" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Armstrong</figcaption></div>&bull; ALL THE PUBLICITY and attention accorded Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; sensational rookie Guy Lafleur has tended to obscure the fact that speedy right winger Rejean Houle has had an impressive exhibition campaign with the defending Stanley Cup champions. Houle was the one who did such an effective job of shadowing Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull in the final cup series last spring&hellip;The National Hockey League Board of Governors have selected Homosassa, Florida, as the site of their next meeting. They&rsquo;ll convene there on October 25&hellip;The San Diego Gulls and their popular Booster Club will pay tribute to a player who has contributed much to the club over the years. Ed Ehrenverth retired this season and the Gulls will honor him October 22&hellip;Virginia hockey people are really excited about their two new cities in the American Hockey League, Richmond and Tidewater. Both are having league openers this week and a special good luck is extended to the men behind the clubs for a successful first year of operation&hellip;Opinions have varied widely on what the effect will be of the new hockey scholarship ban by the governing body of the U.S. colleges (the NCAA) on Tier 1 Canadian Junior A players. Some feel that it will hurt the caliber of play in the American collegiate circuit while others think it will make little difference. Dick Bertrand, the man who succeeded Ned Harkness as coach of Cornell, says that many good Canadians will bypass Major &bull;Junior A to attend U.S. schools. He adds that the present-Junior A schedule is just too long to enable a boy to combine both school and hockey&hellip;When it comes to financial remuneration, it appears that the Boston Bruins rank record-smashing center Phil Esposito almost on a par with super boy Bobby Orr&hellip;Fred Shart. Espo&rsquo;s business advisor, said in a recent interview that Esposito signed a contract with the Boston club that classes him as one of the top money-makers in all sport. It is believed that Esposito, who notched 76 goals last season, inked a four-year pact calculated to bring him $175,000 a year, while teammate Orr is reported to have received an unprecedented $l-million arrangement &ldquo;Espo&rsquo;s contract is so substantial,&rdquo; says his lawyer Arnold Bloom, &ldquo;that Phil and his wife Linda and his children will never have to worry about money as long as they live.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04895/4912336-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="273" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Esposito</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

Published weekly except monthly June through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd. 1434 St. Catherine Street West Montreal 107, Canada.U.S. Office: 16 Maple Street, Rouses Point, N.Y. 12979Kenneth William McKenzie President and PublisherCharlie Halpin Editorial DirectorYearly SUBSCRIPTION Rates: $6.00 in Canada $7.00 in the U.S.A. and $9.00 in Foreign Countries.Postpage paid, at Rouses Point, N.Y. 12979. Send address to 1434 St. Catherine Street West, Suite 212, Montreal, 107, P.Q.Second class mail&mdash;Registration No. 1327 Printed in CanadaVol. 25 MONTREAL, OCTOBER 15, 1971 No.2 &#9632;

The Hockey News OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY Founded October 1st, 1947

<h2>Let&rsquo;s Hope Exhibitions Won&rsquo;t Deceive NHL Fans</h2>I like the way the so-called new teams handled themselves in the NHL exhibition season. But what does it mean? Have the old line teams been spending too much time experimenting and not enough time trying to win? I sincerely hope not because the NHL could be back in the same old rut this year&mdash;the established clubs winning it all again.Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Vancouver and Buffalo did fairly well. Let&rsquo;s hope they can keep it up through the next eight months of the schedule.PETER KORMAN, Harrisburg, Pa.<h2>Maybe All the Changes Will Make Wings Better</h2>I am really looking forward to the upcoming NHL season and I am hoping that my favorite team, the Detroit Red Wings, can improve on their NHL record this new season after their poor 70-71 season. With the changes they made this past summer and last year too, they should be able to get back on the winning track. They surely will miss the great number 9 Gordie Howe but I guess they will have to get used to not having him around.To end my letter I would like to mention that I have a great assortment of hockey photos for sale in excellent condition, some colored and some not.KEN MINNE, Coulter, Man. &#9632;

Fan Forum

<div class="byline">BY CHARLIE HALPIN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-011307/4912474-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="741" height="538"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02954/4912467-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="1004" height="559"></div><h2>Hockey Negotiators</h2>&bull; The name Robert Woolf may not ring a bell with the average hockey fan but to more than 300 professional sports performers, it represents a fair deal.Woolf is a pleasant and knowledgeable native of New England who has become something of a hockey nut in the last two years. He likes to talk about expansion and he likes to think that Derek Sanderson could be the next big league super star.He dislikes being called an agent because in reality he is a sports attorney and he dislikes players who try to exploit their employers because of one big season.Woolf is a dynamic individual who is moving into the hockey field alongside such notable negotiators as R. Alan Eagleson and Gerry Patterson. He&rsquo;s new at the game of hockey and quickly admits it but he nevertheless is rapidly becoming more in demand because of his association with Sanderson, whom he advises and manages both.He never solicits business, a practice of which he is particularly proud. Woolf believes good negotiations with hockey players will help spread his name just as it has in football and basketball. When Chuck Lefley and goaler Ray Martynuik were drafted by Montreal Canadiens last season, both players engaged Woolf to handle their contracts. Word got back to the West where both players hailed from about the deals they received through proper legal handlings.This season Chuck Arnason, the hot scoring No. 2 draft choice of the Canadiens from Flin Flon, selected Woolf to do his contract negotiating on the recommendation of Lefley and Martynuik.The 43-year-old Woolf, who is married and the father of three children, maintains his office in Boston although he originally hails from Portland, Me. He heads up a law firm and has nine lawyers working for him in all apsects of business enterprise. But sports are No. 1 with Woolf and little wonder. He negotiates better than 300 contracts for pro athletes each year.<h2>$100,000 Contracts</h2>&bull; Woolf thinks big time hockey is going to spread in the very near future. He said he believes it is quite conceivable the NHL will become a 28-team league within five years and will consist of four divisions of seven teams, possibly along the same alignment as the National Football League.It&rsquo;s got to come claims Woolf because of the demand for major league hockey everywhere. He also thinks that more expansion will mean bigger contracts for the players and it will also mean more television revenue. He says hockey is the last pro sport to get up into the big money bracket but sees the possibility of doubling the number of $100,000 players in the game with more NHL teams.Basketball has 35 players earning $100,000 or more and baseball has 16 compared to hockey which had only five&mdash;Bobby Hull, Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr. If Sanderson were to attain his projected 40-goal season this year, he could reach the six-figure salary plateau by 1972-73.The energetic Boston attorney has spread his contacts. He is adviser-manager for more than 100 athletes, represents players on 12 NFL teams, 14 NBA squads, nine major league baseball clubs and now a handful of NHL skaters.<h2>Sanderson No. 1</h2>&bull; Woolf said most performers do not ask him to negotiate for more than the player deserves. He himself knows the market value of each of his clients and never over-negotiates a case. Players need sports attorneys says Woolf. Some don&rsquo;t know how to approach a team about a contract. He knows for a fact the great NFL linebacker Sam Huff earned only $11,000 at the outset of his career simply because he, like many pro athletes, was misinformed and didn&rsquo;t know what was best for himself.Woolf says he started negotiating for hockey players when Glen Sather, then with the Bruins, approached him. Sather in turn introduced Sanderson to Woolf and it was the beginning of a beautiful and fruitful friendship. Today Woolf thinks Sanderson is a colorful young man who is headed for even bigger things because of his great ability and desire to play the game of hockey.Sports people have come to accept the sports attorney today. But it wasn&rsquo;t always that way. Red Auerbach, the famed Boston Celtics&rsquo; coach and later general manager, steadfastly had refused to talk to players&rsquo; rep-resentatives until Woolf came along. Now he represents all of the Celtics. It was the same with Sam Pollock of the Canadiens. who once said he wouldn&rsquo;t talk to Woolf about players&rsquo;s salaries.Today, Woolf works hand in hand with management, with men like Auerbach and Pollock. He&rsquo;s doing a job for pro athletes and refuses to disrupt relationships between teams and players.He just wants to be sure his salaried clients get the right deal&mdash;no more and no less. &#9632;

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INSIDE HOCKEY

<div class="byline">BY DAN PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO&mdash;John Grisdale, the outstanding rookie of Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; training camp, was just another college kid playing in another world of rah-rah one year ago.In short, the Leafs didn&rsquo;t know who he was. He had never been scouted. He wasn&rsquo;t discovered, in fact, until chief scout Bob Davidson stopped at the Detroit Olympia between Christmas and New Year&rsquo;s in 1970 to see a college tournament.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03628/4912505-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="271" height="478"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Davidson</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t go to see anyone in particular but this big defenseman with Michigan Tech caught my eye,&rdquo; Davidson recalls. &ldquo;He scored two goals in the game I saw.&rdquo;Davidson quickly placed Grisdale on Leafs&rsquo; list. The defenseman, now 23, had passed through the draft unnoticed and consequently was a free agrent. Soon after Davidson notified the league that Leafs had placed Grisdale on their list, John O&rsquo;Flaherty of Vancouver Canucks attempted adding him to that team&rsquo;s list. The long-ignored Grisdale had suddenly been discovered.His case proves, more than anything, that college hockey is becoming a rich source of prospects for professional hockey. In recent years such players as Tony Esposito, Cliff Koroll, Keith Magnuson and, from an earlier stage of development, Red Berenson, have deflated the well-established belief among pro executives that college hockey ruins good prospects.But the Leaf camp provided overwhelming evidence that the college game is a satisfactory route to the National Hockey League. Beside Grisdale, the out standing rookies included Murray Heatley, University of Wisconsin, and Brian St. John, University of Toronto, Grisdale was still up as the opener approached, but Heatley and St. John were sent to Tulsa for seasoning.Grisdale singlehandedly tore apart one of the favorite pro prejudices&mdash;that college hockey takes rugged players and turns them into polite little gentlemen who are totally unsuited for the NHL.In a scrimmage, he decisioned rugged Brian Spencer. In an exhibition game, he handled Brent Hughes of Philadelphia Flyers. At every opportunity, he decked opponents with body checks.&ldquo;The thing I missed most at Michigan Tech was hitting,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always liked hitting.&rdquo;However, the point remained that Michigan Tech didn&rsquo;t reduce him to serving tea for invading forwards. He survived.And, people like Jim Gregory, general manager of the Leafs, and Davidson, the team&rsquo;s director of personnel and scouting, agree that colleges are producing more and more good prospects.&ldquo;One thing,&rdquo; cautioned Gregory, &ldquo;remember that this year we didn&rsquo;t have a first-round draft choice.&ldquo;And the guys we did draft, from junior hockey, Rick Kehoe and Dave Fortier, are doing well, too. Something else to remember is that the college players are 23-year-olds, whereas the juniors coming to camp are 20-year-olds.&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t get me wrong, I&rsquo;m not knocking the colleges. But I don&rsquo;t think things are changing in terms of getting better pro prospects from the colleges, not in comparison to a couple of years ago.&rdquo;The difference, however, Davidson and Gregory agree, is that more Canadian junior prospects are attending colleges on scholarships. A NCAA ruling outlaws players with junior A experience, but the effect is that swarms of excellent junior Bs leave before NHL scouts have adequate lines on them.Grisdale, for example, played in the Toronto area for the Dixie junior B team. He left for Michigan and an engineering degree.The numbers leaving Canada are not known, but an extensively-researched story by Gord Walker in the Toronto Globe and Mail suggested last season that at least 35 from the Metro Toronto Junior B League would join U.S. colleges this year.&ldquo;I think Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., has put 50 into U.S. college.&rdquo; said Davidson. &ldquo;That gives you an idea.&rdquo;There are many differences between the college approach to the game and that of the juniors, with their near-NHL-length seasons. The college hockey players seldom have more than a 28-game schedule, supplemented by tournaments.&ldquo;But they get lots of ice,&rdquo; said Davidson. &ldquo;They practice every day. often for two hours. They get more practice than the juniors.&rdquo;&ldquo;My big beef.&rdquo; said Gregory, &ldquo;would be with the rules, which are so different from ours. I know representations have been made (including those from NHL President Clarence Campbell) to the college officials asking them to change and make their rules in line with ours. But they won&rsquo;t.&rdquo;Basically, the college rules encourage less hitting and longer passes. &ldquo;As soon as you get beyond your own blueline, you can shoot into the other end.&rdquo; said Gregory. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen Grisdale try it here and get called for it.&rdquo;Davidson noted that the effect of the lengthy passes is that there aren&rsquo;t as many good plays and that the forwards don&rsquo;t come back as fast on checking assignments. However, it&rsquo;s difficult to question the success of the college game.&ldquo;I went to a game at Ann Arbor with Lou Passador (or New York Rangers) and we couldn&rsquo;t get in.&rdquo; said Gregory, &ldquo;the place was that full.&rdquo;Gregory and Passador talked their way in, however, and chances are the scene was indicative of the future. More and more, NHL scouts will be squeezing into college crowds to look for prospects.LEAF NOTES&mdash;Guy Trottier, hard-luck scoring specialist, was knocked off skates for six weeks when he suffered injured ligaments in his left knee in an exhibition game &#9632;

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Maple Leafs Discover U.S. College Hockey Source Of Top Talent

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT&mdash;Bobby Gentry had a hit song awhile back about &ldquo;A Brand New Me&rdquo; and the Red Wings might adopt that as their theme this year.No team in the National Hockey League has made more changes than the Red Wings and nowhere have the Wings made more changes than they have in goal where General Manager Ned Harkness has insalled a completely new set of netminders.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-011165/4912536-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="260" height="474"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Smith</figcaption></div>And, based on exhibition showings, the incoming netminders should make the Red Wings respectable this season&mdash;no more boxcar figures&mdash;and perhaps a challenger for the fourth playoff spot in the East Division.Joe Daley, Al Smith and Andy Brown comprise the Wing goaltending and Harkness and Coach Doug Barkley have indicated they just might keep the three up with the big club all season even though a team is permitted to dress only two per game.The work of Daley, Smith and Brown was the talk of the Wings&rsquo; camp and exhibition games with the club racking up shutouts over St. Louis in its first two games&mdash;last season the Wings had just one whitewash in 78 games.The Detroit goaltending couldn&rsquo;t be blamed for all the Red Wing problems last season but it certainly contributed.Roger Crozier and Roy Edwards meshed nicely the previous season when the Wings finished third and were in the race for first up to the final week of the season.Neither was strong enough to carry the load by himself but splitting the work they performed exceptionally well.Sid Abel, then Detroit general manager, figured Gordie Howe would be retiring shortly so he traded Crozier to Buffalo which drafted right wing Tom Webster from Boston.Webster scored goals as expected&mdash;he led the Wings with 30 goals and 67 points&mdash;but the Wings suffered defensively with Crozier gone.Jim Rutherford and Don McLeod, both rookies, were handed the chance to win the relief role with the Wings and neither had the experience to do it. Then Edwards suffered a skull fracture in early December and the Wings&rsquo; goalkeeping was shot.The club eventually yelded a club record 310 goals. Only the California Golden Seals allowed more.Edwards decided he wasn&rsquo;t feeling well enough to return and announced his retirement prior to the draft so Harkness dealt Mike Robitaille and Don Luce, both acquired during the season from New York, to Buffalo for Daley.Daley, 28, started out in the Detroit system and was lost to Pittsburgh in the original expansion draft and then Buffalo drafted Daley from the Penguins.Harkness then picked up Smith and Brown in the draft, Smith from Pittsburgh and Brown from Baltimore where he backstopped the Clippers to the American League&rsquo;s West Division championship.There was talk that Smith would run into trouble with the Wings because he wore his hair long. You&rsquo;ll perhaps remember that Harkness&rsquo; difficulty with the team began last year in camp when he requested that his players have their hair cut and Garry Unger didn&rsquo;t take kindly to it. From there everything got worse.Smith didn&rsquo;t have any problem, though. He reported with a neat, reasonably short haircut and then began to impress everyone with his goaltending instead of his grooming.The 26-year-old Toronto native blanked the Blues, 2-0, in Detroit&rsquo;s first exhibition game and through 6 1/2 periods halfway through the Detroit pre-season schedule&mdash;he&rsquo;d allowed only two goals.Brown, Smith and Daley have one thing in common that the Wings were determined they&rsquo;d get in goal this season&mdash;size. Brown is six feet, Smith is 6-1 and Daley is 5-10. The more successful goalkeepers in the NHL are big men as goalies go&hellip;Tony Esposito, Ken Dryden, Bernie Parent, Cesare Maniago and so on.Red Wing management felt Rutherford, listed at 5-8 and 160, and Edwards, also 5-8 and only a few pounds heavier, were just too small, weren&rsquo;t blocking enough of the net and were being moved out of the crease too easily.They figure that won&rsquo;t happen with their new men, especially the combative Smith and Brown. Time will tell. &#9632;

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New Goaling Trio Turning Wings On

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-011248/4912574-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="280" height="361"></div><h2>Gordie Left His Mark</h2>GORDIE HOWE PLAYED 25 YEARS in the National Hockey League. That is more seasons than any other player in history. He also played more games, 1,687; scored more goals, 786; assisted on more, 1,023, and totalled more points, 1,809, in regular-season play than any player ever. He also was tops, counting playoff totals, with 1,841 games, 853 goals, 1,114 assists and 1,967 total points.These are the mathematics of his major league career and they are monumental. There are other significant statistics. He led the league in goals five times and in points five times. He had more 20-goal season than any player ever&mdash;22&mdash;and all were consecutive through the end of his career. He had more 30-goal seasons, 14. He also had five 40-goals seasons.Howe was 12 times a first All Star and six times his league&rsquo;s most valuable player. Perhaps most significantly, he led all playoff scorers in goals three times and points six times, and carried his team to nine pennants, including a record-setting seven in a row, and four Stanley Cup playoff triumphs.There were other great Red Wings, including Terry Sawchuk, Red Kelly and Ted Lindsay, but everyone agrees Gordie was the big man who bore the brunt of the burden on his broad back.Such statistics as we have recited have been published many times since he announced his retirement, but they merit being put down one more time because they represent the greatest clean-sweep of major records any performer ever achieved in any sport.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-021069/4912567-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="771" height="1074"><figcaption class="caption-body">It is truly ironic that two of the NHL&rsquo;s greatest all-time stars, Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau, should retire at the same time. Howe, shown receiving painting from Beliveau to commemorate his 545th goal, played 25 years. Beliveau toiled 18.</figcaption></div>But there is much that is behind the statistics. Howe was the greatest all-around player of all-time. He was the meanest, the strongest, the toughest player we ever saw. Not all that he did on ice with a hockey stick and with his muscle was nice, but this is a rugged game and he played it as hockey people feel it should be played.He nearly died from a fractured skull early in his career, but he came back to ask no quarter and give none. He was not as spectacular as Rocket Richard, Bobby Hull and Bobby Orr, but he was almost effortlessly efficient, always in the right place at the right time, stunningly unselfish.He says he is retiring at the age of 45 because he no longer could play well enough to go on and no longer had the desire. Perhaps the madness that is the Red Wings&rsquo; management contributed to this which is unfortunate. In any event, he scored 39 goals at the age of 40, 44 at 41, 31 at 42 and 23 last year at 45, which is incredible.<h2>Jean Peerless Leader</h2>JEAN BELIVEAU PLAYED 18 YEARS in the NHL. He ranks fourth in all-time in games played, 1,135; fourth in goals, 507; third in assists, 712, and second in points, 1,219, for regular-season play. Until last season, he had the all-time record for goals scored in a single season, including playoffs, with 59. He was six times a first All Star and twice most valuable player. He led his Montreal Canadiens to 11 pennants and 10 Stanley Cups, including five in a row of each.There have been many great Canadiens in Beliveau&rsquo;s time, but in recent years he has been the inspirational leader of this glamorous organization. As with Howe, there is much that does not show in the statistics. He also was an almost effortless performer sometimes seemingly overshadowed by flashier fellows. It is incredible to realize that he was last picked as a first All Star ten years ago. He has been taken for granted.But Beliveau has been brilliance. If Howe was thunder, Beliveau was lightning. Between them they lit up the sporting skies and stormed through their profession with consistently tremendous performances. Beliveau says he is retired at 40 because his time had come, but he scored 25 goals last season and was a star as Canadiens won yet another cup, this one in a great upset.He has been the classic center as Howe has been the classic right winger. There could be no finer models from which to mould the perfect players. Nor really could there be finer models from which to sculpt people. These two showed no temperment. They were unspoiled and unselfish. They treated their teammates, foes, coaches and managers, the writers and the fans with incredible patience and pleasantness. I hesitate to get maudlin about athletes, but these two are class and deserve tributes as few others do.We have been fortunate to have seen such all-time All Stars still in action in recent years, especially the new fans in the new cities. I wonder if we appreciate this as we should. Shedding a tear or two would not be out of order. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div>CHICAGO&mdash;It&rsquo;s hard to fathom at first glance, but the Black Hawks have problems. The same Black Hawks who waltzed home by 20 points last year in the Western Division and figure to do so just about the same thing this winter.But no less an authority than Coach Billy Reay pondered the situation during training camp and announced, by gosh, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got problems.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03890/4912605-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="277" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny O&rsquo;Shea</figcaption></div>The first area of concern for Reay was left wing, and there again one might first blink a bit, Bobby Hull scored 44 goals last year and Dennis Hull 40. Those represent the top scoring figures on the club, and both are left wings.&ldquo;But we are looking for a left winger,&rdquo; Reay said. &ldquo;There are none available for trade, though, so if we make a deal, it will probably be for a center.&rdquo;Center is another issue, but first left wing. A leading candidate for the No. 3 portside slot is Dan Maloney, who exhibited good aggressiveness as a rookie last season and stuck with the big club all year. He was the Hawks&rsquo; No. 1 amateur pick, tallied 10 goals, and showed plenty of fight (174 penalty minutes). If Maloney lacked total finesse last winter, he appears improved this time around.Another left wing hopeful was rugged Bill Pettinger, who came to the Hawk camp right out of Denver University. He had had injury problems his last two college seasons, but the reports were good. Reay gave him an extended look during camp, then shipped him out to the Guelph, Ont., outpost of the Dallas Hawks. That didn&rsquo;t necessarily mean he would stay there for the remainder of the year. A year ago, Reay sent Maloney down during the middle of camp, but recalled him for good a week later.A third left wing prospect was burly Jerry Korab, who is also a very rugged defenseman. Reay gave him a few spins at wing during camp workouts and exhibition games, and the coach seemed pleased that he was adapting fairly well.Still another capable man for the job is Danny O&rsquo;Shea, the former North Star. When he came to the Hawks last year, Reay played him a lot on left wing, although O&rsquo;Shea is by nature a center. Reay figured that left wing might be his home.But as this camp progressed, Reay seemed to change his mind and O&rsquo;Shea was playing a lot in the pivot. Again versatility doesn&rsquo;t hurt, but O&rsquo;Shea&rsquo;s ability at winning faceoffs may find him at center more often than not.The other top men in the middle are Stan Mikita and Pit Martin, both polished reliables. In fact Mikita was having one of his friskiest camps ever as a long-sought solution to his chronic backache ailment was apparently taking hold.Still Reay was in search of center reinforcements, adding all along that if Bryan Campbell could produce a good, full season, that the problem might be solved.While on one hand Reay seemed a little short of talent, on the other he seemed a little overloaded. After two weeks in camp, he had 23 players around. Of those, only Eric Nesterenko, Lou Angotti, Gilles Meloche and Maloney were unprotected last June.This meant Reay could not cut any protected player without first subjecting him to waivers from the rest of the circuit. He did not want to shed any talent by that cheap ($30,000 per man) route, but neither did he want to keep players hanging around and not dressing for games when the limit of 17 skaters and 2 goals appeared at season&rsquo;s start.Those, then, were some of the problems Reay faced this training camp. How many coaches can you think of who&rsquo;d love to have such woes?HAWK-EY TALK: Experiment with Darryl Maggs working at right wing was going very smoothly. He, as Korab, is a converted rearguard&hellip;First Hawk trims, one week after camp commenced, were: Dan Spring (last year&rsquo;s No. 1 amateur draftee). Dave Kryskow (No. 2). J.P. Bordeleau. Len Frig. Mike Baumgartner. Clyde Simon, and Ron Pepler&hellip;Hawks went through first four exhibition games with two losses and two ties. One of the setbacks was a 7-3 bout with Dal-las. the other was a 10-2 rout at hards of Canadiens&hellip;Hawks&rsquo; GM Tommy Ivan and entire family are anxious to hear President Clarence Campbell&rsquo;s verdict on the California Golden Seals&rsquo; appeal of the Sept. 9 swap with the Chicagoans which brought goalie Gary Smith to Windy City. Gerry Desjardins was having trouble with his left forearm which he broke while playing for Hawks last March. Thus the request by California to have the trade nullified. &#9632;

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Even Mighty Hawks Encounter Problems With Wing, Center

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;Punch Imlach hoped to repair two major soft spots when he brought the Buffalo Sabres to their St. Catharines, Ont., training base, and had reason to believe he had the job half-done midway through the pre-season exercises.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-011234/4912643-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="271" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rod Zaine</figcaption></div>The Sabres needed help at left wing and on the defense, and the leftwing situation appeared to be righted as Richard Martin, Rod Zaine and Danny Lawson took dead aim on regular employment.Martin, an alumus of the Montreal Junior Canadiens, was the club&rsquo;s No. 1 amateur draft choice, and was scoring at a goal-a-game clip in the exhibition schedule. A big shooter and an excellent skater, he figured to step right into the NHL.Zaine and Lawson, a righthand shooter, were acquired in the intra-league draft. Zaine came from the Pittsburgh Penguins and Lawson from the Minnesota North Stars.Craig Ramsey, the No. 2 amateur pick, and holdovers Reg Fleming, Dick Duff and Paul Andrea were in the midst of the battle for jobs, and Imlach was confident one soft spot had hardened.However, the defense, with eight men seeking five jobs, was giving the Buffalo leader some sleepless nights. The holdovers at the blueline included Al Hamilton, Doug Barrie, Tracy Pratt and Jim Watson, and the newcomers were Ray McKay, Larry Mavety, Mike Robitaille and Ken Murray.McKay and Murray were acquired in the intra-league draft, McKay from the Chicago Black Hawks and Murray from the Toronto Maple Leafs.Mavety was purchased last winter from Denver of the Western League for delivery this fall, and Robitaille and center Don Luce were obtained from Detroit for goalie Joe Daley.&ldquo;It certainly looks like we&rsquo;ll be all right on left wing, and it appears we&rsquo;ll be making some changes there from a year ago,&rdquo; Imlach said.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s early, I know, but Martin, Zaine and Lawson are making strong bids for jobs.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the defense that bothers me. We&rsquo;ve been far too loose in our own end, and we simply have to get our mistakes cut back to a minimum.&ldquo;With any kind of improvement on the defense, this club can make the playoffs. There just isn&rsquo;t any doubt about it.&rdquo;ALONG THE BOARDS:&mdash;The Sabres are attracting sellout crowds to their pre-season games in St. Catharines. The first two games, against Philadelphia and California, both did sellout business, and the Pittsburgh Penguins were expected to help the Sabres fill the 3,500 seat building in the third and last game&hellip;Scout Al Millar, recuperating in a Montreal hospital following an automobile mishap, gets daily reports from the Sabres&rsquo; camp from Imlach, John Andersen, the director of scouting, and members of the scouting staff. Millar is showing marked improvement.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02933/4912636-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="1165" height="1296"><figcaption class="caption-body">Typical of the new, young Sabres in camp this season is rookie CRAIG RAMSEY, shown harassing Philadelphia defenseman ED VAN IMPE during exhibition clash. Ramsey is in thick of battle to win regular berth with club. (Hockey News Photo by Robert Shaver)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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New Sabres Fight For Jobs But Defense Dismays Punch

<div class="byline">&#x2014;BARTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;Center Phil Goyette was a week late joining the Buffalo Sabres at their St. Catharines, Ont., training base, then suffered a broken knuckle during his fifth or sixth day on skates.Goyette wasn&rsquo;t certain how, or when, it happened.He awoke with a badly swollen right hand, and X-rays revealed he had broken the knuckle in the little finger.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how it happened, and I don&rsquo;t remember getting hit or falling on the hand,&rdquo; said the 37-year-old old smothie. &ldquo;I woke up, and there it was.&rdquo;Goyette was expected to miss two weeks or five weeks, depending on whose version you were taking.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be back in two weeks,&rdquo; Goyette said, after a cast had been fitted to the hand.&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll be out five weeks,&rdquo; said a local doctor.Punch Imlach, whose doctorate is in coaching and not in medicine, said, &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll be back in two weeks.&rdquo;What else would you expect from Imlach? &#9632;

Goyette Back In Two Weeks, Take It From ‘Dr. Imlach’

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL&mdash;The three-goalie system has officially arrived in Montreal.Scotty Bowman, thinking back to the success he had in St. Louis with the tandem of Jacques Plante, Glenn Hall and Ernie Wakely, figures to repeat the act with Canadiens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-011286/4912729-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="263" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rogatien Vachon</figcaption></div>Ken Dryden, sensation of the playoffs last spring, will have to contend with the challenge of both Roggie Vachon and Phil Myre as Habs swing into the new season.None of the goalies are overjoyed with the new development.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not a good situation for young goalies like ourselves,&rdquo; says the 24-year-old Dryden. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re all physically capable of playing more than a third of the season, which is what it could amount to if all three were rotated evenly. Besides, a fellow could go from No. 1 to No. 3 and then out, quite easily. He wouldn&rsquo;t get a chance to get back into action after one bad game if the other two got hot and stayed hot.&rdquo;Vachon, the eldest at 26 and Myre, the youngest at 22, felt the same way about it as Dryden.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to spend most of the season sitting on the bench,&rdquo; said Vachon. &ldquo;And, with three guys for one job, somebody is liable to do a lot of sitting.&rdquo;Myre, generally believed to be excess baggage until his excellent play in exhibitions gave people second thoughts, says what applied to goalies in St. Louis doesn&rsquo;t apply to Montreal.&ldquo;You have to remember that guys like Hall and Jacques Plante are a bit advanced in age,&rdquo; says Phil. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re happy to play in 25 games a season, and they did a great job under those conditions. But, we&rsquo;re all young guys. We need work. I missed a clutch of games last season and it ruined my timing and confidence. I don&rsquo;t want that to happen again this year.&rdquo;Bowman, who may have stirred up a hornet&rsquo;s nest in announcing his intentions, moved quickly to restore calm.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just temporary, for Pete&rsquo;s sake,&rdquo; said Scotty. &ldquo;And, anyway, once the season gets going some of the other teams are liable to find out that they&rsquo;re not too strong in goal. If that happens, they&rsquo;ll come to us. We&rsquo;ll be able to make a very good deal.&rdquo;Scotty&rsquo;s problem is one that most coaches would envy: an abundance of talent. And, not only in goal. He&rsquo;s liable to find himself trying to choose between six defensemen in the not too distant future. Serge Savard will be trying hard to get back into the lineup, once the doctors give him the green light to start scrimmaging. He could be back sooner than expected, perhaps as early as mid-October. Bowman would then have J.C. Tremblay, Terry Harper. Jacques Laperriere, Guy Lapointe, Pierre Bouchard and Savard as a blueline brigade.Add to that the fact that, up front, there are three men now fighting for a spot at right wing on the third line. Veteran Claude Larose, sophomore Phil Roberto and newcomer Chuck Arnason are all hoping to make it on a line with Jacques Lemaire and Pete Mahovlich.Looks like a loaded squad.Parity, anyone?HAB-BITS: Canadiens are looking for more early foot against Rangers, this season. They lost their first three games against New York, last year, and failed to post a win over Emile Francis&rsquo; club until February. Habs open against Rangers in the Forum Oct. 9&hellip;The Hab brass has discovered that charity begins at home. They&rsquo;ve made 250 pairs of season tickets available to hometown fans on a first-come first-served basis. The ducats were formerly reserved for out-of towners&hellip;Giant Pete Mahovlich celebrates birthday No. 25 on Oct 10, the day after Habs&rsquo; season-opener. Pete&rsquo;s 35 goals last year were second-highest on the club (after Cournoyer) and Habs are hoping fervently for a repeat performance. He had 12 power play markers, plus five game-winners and three shorthanded goals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02997/4912722-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="548" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEN DRYDEN&hellip;Against Plan</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bowman Forced To Introduce 3-Goaler System With Habs

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>VANCOUVER&mdash;Bob Blackburn, defenseman, purchased outright from Pittsburgh and assigned to Rochester of AHL. Andre Hinse, forward, traded to Toronto in exchange for Doug Brindley, forward. Hinse assigned to Phoenix of WHL and Brindley to Rochester. Serge Aubry and Lynn Zimmerman, goalkeepers, Ken Block, Gregg Boddy, Dave Dunn, Jim Har-greaves Dennis Kearns, and John Schella, defensemen, Keke Mortson, Ralph Stewart Bobby Walton, Jim Wiste, Ed Hatoum, Richard Lemieux, Brent Taylor, John Cunniff Jack Stanfield Duke Harris and Don Westbrooke, forwards, assigned to Rochester.Dave Poile, Bob Cook and Gerry Sillers, forwards, assigned to Seattle of WHL.MONTREAL&mdash;Ray Martynuik, goalkeeper, recalled from Nova Scotia Voyageurs of AHL and sent to California Seals on loan. Lyle Carter and Wayne Thomas, goalkeepers, Michel Poirier, Bob Murdoch, Kerry Ketter, Terry French, Larry Robinson, and Bob Murray, defensemen, Rey Comeau, Ron Busniuk, Germain Gagnon, Bernie Blanchette, Don Grierson, Ross Butler, Yvon Lambert, Lynn Powis, Murray Wilson, forwards, assigned to Nova Scotia of AHL.Kevin Ahearne, forward, returned to U.S. National team.BOSTON&mdash;Bill Speer, Ron Jones, Nick Beverley, Ray Fortin and Paul Hurley, defensemen, Art Quoquochi, Terry O&rsquo;Reilly, Fred O&rsquo;Donnell, Don Tannahill, Ray Brownlee and Ron Boehm, forwards and Danny Bouchard, goalkeeper, assigned to Boston Braves of AHL.TORONTO&mdash;Ron Low and Gordon McRae, goalkeepers, Jan Popiel and Dave Fortier, defensemen, Gerry O&rsquo;Flaherty, Steve King, Gavin Kirk, Brian St. John, Murray Heatley and Rick Kehoe, forwards, assigned to Tulsa of CHL. Gordie Nelson and Randy Murray, defensmen, Bob Liddington, forward, assigned to Phoenix of WHL. Doug Acomb, forward, placed on voluntary retired list to return to college.LOS ANGELES&mdash;Randy Miller and Gary Marsh, forwards, assigned to Seattle of WHL. Ray Woit, forward, sent to New Haven of EHL. Bill Smith and Bob Vroman, goalkeepers, Noel Price, Wayne Lachance, Steve Seacrist, Brian Gibbons, Jack Kell and Neil Komadoski, defensemen, Camille Lapierre, Phil Hoene Wayne Chernecki, Mike Boland, Wayne Rivers, Norm Park, Brian Carlin, Jim Stanfield, John Healey and Ed Hoekstra, assigned to Springfield of AHL. &bull;NEW YORK&mdash;Andre Peloffy, forward and Dick Cloutier, defenseman, assigned to New Haven of EHL. Pierre Leblanc, and Pierre Brind&rsquo;amour forwards, and Dave Hainsworth, goalkeeper, returned to New Haven. Rick Charron, and George Surmay, goalkeepers, Rick Newell, Randy Legge, Bob Ash and Mike McMahon, defensemen. Don Blackburn, Billy Knibbs, Morris Stefaniw, Bert Wilson, Steve Andrascik, forwards, assigned to Providence of AHL. Wayne wood and Wayne Bell, goalkeepers, Steve Durbano, Gerry Lecompte, Bryan Lefley, Fraser Robertson, Larry O&rsquo;Connor, Claude Houde, and Bill Forrest, defensemen, Jerry Butler, Mike Murphy, Steve Vickers, Bill Hogaboam, Norm Gratton, Gary Coalter, Larry McKillop, Doug Keeler, Tommy Williams, Wendell Bennett and Terry West, forwards, assigned to Omaha of CHL.CALIFORNIA&mdash;Neil Nicholson, defenseman, Randy Rota and Pete Laframboise, forwards, assigned to Baltimore of AHL. Richard Leduc, forward, sent to Cleveland of AHL.PITTSBURGH&mdash;Cam Newton, Paul Hoganson and Bob Galloway, goalkeepers, Len Cunning, Bobby Heaney, Yvon Labre, Jean-Guy Lagace. Jim Pearson, and Larry Bignell, defensemen. Steve Cardwell, Connie Forey, Gerry Methe, John Stewart, Ron Snell, Robin Burns, Bob Birdsell, and Garry Swain, forwards, assigned to Hershey of AHL.CHICAGO&mdash;Dan Lodboa, Don Gordon, Bill Young, Ron Dussiaume, Larry Roman-chych, Mike Archambault and J.P. Leblanc, forwards, and Bill Pettinger, and John Marks, defensemen, assigned to Dallas of CHL.ST. LOUIS&mdash;Craig Cameron and Fran Huck, forwards, placed on waivers. Cameron claimed by Minnesota. Jacques Caron and Grant Cole, goalkeepers, Bob McCord, Mike DeMarco, Jim Graham, Ray Larose, Roger Lafreniere, Gordon Kannegiesser, and Dave Pulkinen, defensemen, Don Borgeson, Jerry DeMarco, Brian Glenwright, Claude Laforge, Bob Roselle, Garry Veneruzzo, Ron Buchanan, Brian Lavender, and Milan Marcetta, forwards, assigned to Denver of WHL.DETROIT&mdash;Bob Sneddon and John Voss, goalkeepers, Larry Johnston, Bob Falken-berg, Serge Lajeunesse and Dick Paradise, defensemen, Rick McCann, Ron Walters, Rene Leclerc, Irv Spencer, Bob Dillabough, Billy Dea, Craig Reichmuth, Dick Sentes, Randy Manery and Dave Ferguson, forwards, assigned to Tidewater of AHL. Bob Johnson, goalkeeper. Assigned to Denver of WHL. Gerry Gray, goalkeeper. Tom Gilmore, forward, and Joe Zanussi, defenseman. assigned to Fort Worth of CHL. Gordie Howe and Mike Lowe, forwards, placed on voluntary retired list.BUFFALO&mdash;Dennis Kassian, forward, and Paul Terbenche, defenseman, assigned to Salt Lake of WHL. Ray Reeson, Rocky Farr and Joe Junkin, goalkeepers, Chris Evans, Billy Orr, Steve Cuddie, Terry Ball, and Mike Keeler, defensemen, Hugh Harris, Butch Deadmarsh, Randy Wyrozub, Joe Robertson, Doug Rombough, Jack Rathwell and John Gould, forwards, sent to Cincinnati of AHL.MINNESOTA&mdash;Fern Rivard and Cal Hammond, goalkeepers, Gary Geldart, Roger Cote, Dennis Patterson, Wayne Muloin, Bob Paradise, Ron Wilson, Henry Levhonen, defensemen, Bill Heindl, Gary Gambucci, Gord Labossiere, Terry Caffery, Grant Erickson, Terry Holbrook, ike Chernoff, Dennis Gianini, forwards, assigned to Cleveland of AHL.PHILADELPHIA Bob Taylor and Michel Belhumeur, goalkeepers. Dave Schultz, Rene Drolet and Tom Treve-lyan, forwards, and Jim Mair, defenseman. assigned to Richmond of AHL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>HERSHEY Michel Harvey, forward, placed on voluntary retired list. Ken Tucker, forward, failed to report from Pittsburgh declaring he was returning to college. Bob Gallo-way, goalkeeper. Len Cunningand Larry Gibbons, defensemen. Paul Kett, Ron Fair brother, Michel Letourneau Bob Miller, and Doug Kacarevich, forwards, cut from roster. Bobby Heaney, defenseman, and Ed Patenaude, forward, released outright.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>DENVER&mdash;Bill Dineen, forward, placed on voluntary retired list to take up coaching Penticton Broncos of B.C. Jun or League.SAN DIEGO&mdash;John MacMillan, forward, placed on voluntary retired list. Howie Young, defenseman, failed to report to training camp.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>MUSKEGON&mdash;Bobby Guindon, forward, secured from Detroit of NHL.FLINT&mdash;Cliff Pennington, forward, traded to Jacksonville of EHL in exchange for Pierre Farmer, defenseman.<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2>NEW HAVEN&mdash;Mike Hornby, forward, placed on voluntary retired list.JERSEY&mdash;Wayne Kitchen, defenseman. refused to report to Jacksonville of EHL after being traded and announced his retirement.SALEM&mdash;Claude Piche, forward, returned by Phoenix of WHL. &#9632;

Movements of Players

NEW YORK&mdash;For the sixth consecutive year a National Hockey League game will be broadcast on the CBS television network each Sunday afternoon, starting in January 1972 and continuing to the end of the NHL season.The network plans to broadcast a game Sunday, Jan. 9, and following the Super Bowl weekend of January 16, will present a game every Sunday afternoon from January 23 through the conclusion of the Stanley Cup playoffs in early May. In all, 12 regular season games will be broadcast through April 2, with television coverage of the playoffs starting Sunday, April 9, and running through May 7 or 14, depending on the number of games.The format for the playoffs has been changed for the 1971-72 season. In the quarter-finals in each division, the first place team will meet the fourth place team, and the second place finisher will meet the team in third place. In the semi-finals, the winners between the first and fourth place finishers in each division will meet the winners of the second and third place finishers of the other division. The two surviving teams then meet in the Stanley Cup finals. All series will be the best four-of-seven in games.Each of the 14 NHL teams will play 78 regular season games. Every club will play three games at home and three games away with every other team in the league. &#9632;

CBS Plans Sixth NHL TV Season

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;For a team which since its inception in 1967 has insisted it wanted to build with youth, the players considered the key to the Los Angeles Kings this year by manager and coach Larry Regan are a startling group. There are four of them and between them they have a collective age of close to 150 and major league experience of around 65 years.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-011259/4912863-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="240" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Hillman</figcaption></div>They are defensemen Harry Howell, 39, and Larry Hillman, 34, and forwards Ralph Backstrom, 33 and Bob Pulford, 35. Howell was born in 1932, Backstrom in 1937, Pulford in 1936 and Hillman in 1937.Howell turned pro in 1952 and has 19 years in the NHL. Backstrom turned pro in 1956 and has 13 years in the majors. Pulford turned pro in 1956 and has 14 years in the big time. Hillman turned pro in 1954 and has 17 years up and down.Regan says, &ldquo;We still believe in youth, but in the past we have found we lacked leadership on ice. A team has to have experienced players to rally around. We feel we have four of the finest veterans in the game. All are smart and steady and have made the most of themselves.&ldquo;We had Pulford at the start last season, but then he was hurt and we missed his leadership. Later we acquired Howell and Backstrom and they helped enormously. I only wish we&rsquo;d had them all the way. This season we have added Hillman to give us even more of a steadying influence.&rdquo;Regan admitted. &ldquo;Sometimes when you pick up a player who is older, who has been around awhile, his legs are gone or his desire is dead. This is a risk you take. Dick Duff tried, but couldn&rsquo;t do a job for us, for example. We acquired Claude Provost this year. He tried, too, but retired claiming he found it too difficult getting back into playing condition after missing one full NHL season. But we have been fortunate with the others.Switching from icy Canada to sunny southern California, from one life-style to an entirely different one. from family and friends to strangers, from top teams or established teams to a struggling expansionist was traumatic tor some of these.Pulford and Backstrom are from Ontario. Pulford had played his entire 13-year NHL career in Toronto and was proud of being considered the most-underrated player on a number of Stanley Cup champions. Backstrom. 12 years with Montreal, had taken up roots in Quebec.Hillman and Howell also are from Ontario. Howell played in New York most of his career. However, he was 17 years with Rangers before finding himself with Oakland on the West Coast of the U.S. Then, midway in his second season there, he came to L.A. last year. Hillman has been bounced from team to team. It is worse for those who are moved around often, their families unsettled, but there are special depressions for players who spend many years in one organization. then in the twilight of their careers are sent packing.Still, players last longer now since expansion than they did before and some of these might have been out of hockey if it was not for a new franchise in Los Angeles. And most of them have shown they still have a lot of major league play in them.Howell says. &ldquo;It upsets you at first, but if you feel you still have years left in you. you go on.&rdquo; Pulford says, &ldquo;It hurt to be traded. but I feel loyalty for my new owners because they wanted me.&rdquo; Backstrom says. &ldquo;I was in a rut. I wanted a change. Here I&rsquo;m more important than I was there.&rdquo;Regan says, &ldquo;we haven&rsquo;t discarded our original theory, only adjusted it. These players steady our team down and help our young players progress. Howell does remarkably well with a bad back.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Kings Expecting Old Pros To Give Team Leadership

<div class="byline">BY DWAYNE NETLAND</div>TWIN CITIES&mdash;The year 1971 was a significant and a productive one for the Minnesota North Stars in many ways, but it was also conspicuous for its lean pickings at the junior amateur draft.Compared to the excellent crop the North Stars have harvested at other June talent lotteries, the 1971 draft yielded a preciously thin list of young prospects to be groomed for future competition in the National Hockey League.In 1969 the North Stars grabbed goalie Gilles Gilbert and defenseman Dennis O&rsquo;Brien, who have and will continue to contribute major league talent. Last year they took Buster Harvey and Fred Barrett in the first two rounds, and both of them earned regular positions with the NHL club.The North Stars, however, had traded away their first round choice in 1971 to Montreal. General manager Wren Blair considered it a wise deal, since it enabled him to complete the complicated transactions with Montreal that landed veteran defenseman Ted Harris and Jude Drouin, the gifted young center who finished runnerup to Buffalo&rsquo;s Gil Perreault in the balloting for the Calder Trophy.It was no secret among NHL people that the quality of available junior prospects in 1971 was unusually thin. There were the budding super-stars like Guy Lafleur, Marcel Dionne and Jocelyn Guevremont, but the dropoff after that was sharp and nobody realized it better than the Minnesota management.&ldquo;After the first 14 or 15 picks,&rdquo; observed Ted O&rsquo;Connor, chief scout for the North Stars, &ldquo;there really wasn&rsquo;t much. We didn&rsquo;t get to draft until the 21st choice.&rdquo;And so the North Stars on their first three cracks at what was available, took Rod Norrish, a winger from the Regina Pats; Ron Wilson, a defenseman from Flin Flon; and Mike Legge, a defenseman from Winnipeg.It became evident early in training camp at Winnipeg that none of them were ready this year. Norrish appeared to be giving more thought to his upcoming marriage, scheduled Oct. 9&mdash;the same the date the North Stars were to open their NHL season&mdash;and was a total disappointment. The youth further antagonized Blair by obtaining a Boston lawyer to negotiate his contract.After 10 days of camp, Norrish was sent home without ever signing a pro contract. &ldquo;It wouldn&rsquo;t even have been fair for us to offer him a contract based on what he showed,&rdquo; said Blair. &ldquo;We know he&rsquo;s a better hockey player than that. He got 41 goals last season.&rdquo;Wilson, who really didn&rsquo;t look too bad, refused Blair&rsquo;s initial offer to turn pro and was told, after a meeting consuming about 30 seconds, to go home. Later that day he reconsidered, approached Blair and signed.Legge suffered a gaping leg wound while sliding down a flag pole last summer, requiring 100 stitches and some skin grafting. He was never able to take part in training camp workouts.&ldquo;Some years you come up hot at the junior draft and some years you come up cold,&rdquo; analyzed Blair. &ldquo;We saw this coming, and made some other adjustrments.&rdquo;Among these, the wily Blair obtained the pro rights from Montreal for Gary Gambucci, a 25-year-old left winger who had earned All-American honors at the University of Minnesota and later spent three winters with the U.S. National and Olympic teams. Gambucci has a bright future in professional hockey, and so has another Minnesota native, defenseman Bob Paradise of St. Paul, who was acquired in a cash deal over the summer from Montreal. If they don&rsquo;t make the North Stars this season, they&rsquo;ll play with Cleveland in the American Hockey League.Blair had further protected the future of the North Stars by obtaining, over the summer, veteran players like Bob Nevin from New York and Dennis Hextall from California. They&rsquo;ll be around for several more years while the North Stars await future junior drafts.NORTH STAR NOTES:&mdash;Minnesota drew 12,175 in its home exhibition opener with Toronto and another 7,882 into the Winnipeg Arena for their second pre-season start&hellip;Doug Mohns has been switching between left wing and defense in the Minnesota training camp, but it wouldn&rsquo;t be surprising if he were to open the season on defense, where he helped the club so much last season&hellip;The North Stars were impressed by the Toronto goaltending of Murray McLachlan, who was an All-American goaler at the University of Minnesot-a&hellip;Coach Jack Gordon is attempting to discover a workable power play unit, a problem which plagued him at times last season. &#9632;

Lean Year For North Stars As Draft Picks Fizzle

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-011187/4912918-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">RICHARD MARTIN&hellip;Buffalo Sabres (Hockey News photo by Robert Shaver)</figcaption></div>The Buffalo Sabres feel they have another young NHL star in the making in young Richard Martin. The rookie left winger has seen extremely impressive during his first big league training camp this year, which prompted manager-coach Punch Imlach to declare that Martin &ldquo;is a better pro prospect than Guy Lafleur.&rdquo; Martin scored 71 goals last season to wind up a brilliant junior career with Montreal Canadiens. The Sabres drafted Martin No. 1 luring the off-season. &#9632;

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MEET THE ROOKIES

TWIN CITIES&mdash;&ldquo;It took a visit to hospital for X-rays to convince Bill Goldsworthy of the Minnesota North Stars he had better get his protective helmet back on his head.Goldsworthy, who took the headpiece off late last season, collided with teammate Doug Mohns during training camp at Winnipeg but suffered nothing more than a sore head. He returned to the ice sessions wearing his helmet.The North Stars&rsquo; right wing is another in the growing number of players showing with helmets. Eddie Joyal of the Los Angeles Kings is experimenting with one and may start the season with it after sustaining several injuries. Joyal will also beging the 1971-72 year at a new position. He shifted from center to left wing. &#9632;

Goldsworthy, Joyal Join Swing To Hockey Helmets

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Sid Abel is back in the coaching business.Abel had coached 13 1/2 years in the National Hockey League when he turned the job with the Detroit Red wings over to Ned Harkness before the beginning of last season. Abel kept the post as Detroit general manager until a running feud with Harkness became so bad that Abel quit the Red Wings&rsquo; organization in January.Abel outside of hockey was a ridiculous situation, and the St. Louis Blues have put him back into the tough job of coaching.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always liked coaching,&rdquo; Abel says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had my bad moments, but I&rsquo;m ready to meet the challenge again.&rdquo;Abel is happy with the treatment he has received from the Blues&rsquo; organization and he is satisfied with the caliber of the personnel he has inherited from Scotty Bowman.&ldquo;The Blues have been a well operated club, &ldquo;he says,&rdquo; and theyre used to winning. Coaching is a lot easier if you&rsquo;re winning.&rdquo;Abel added, &ldquo;The job for me with the Blues is so much easier than in Detroit because I&rsquo;m just coaching the club. For so many years in Detroit I was also worried about plane schedules and immigration papers. I&rsquo;m a firm believer that the two jobs of coach and general manager are too big for one man.&rdquo;Lynn Patrick is the Blues&rsquo; general manager, so Abel will be able to concentrate on the job started by Bowman last year&mdash;meshing many new players into the lineup of the team that has dominated the NHL&rsquo;s expansion clubs.Abel has been reunited with three players acquired by Bowman from the Red Wings last season&mdash;Garry Unger, Wayne Connelly and Carl Brewer. Abel has a high opinion of each of them and says of Unger, &ldquo;If there is such a thing as another Bobby Orr or Bobby Hull or Gordie Howe, it could be Garry Unger.&rdquo;Abel admitted that after reporting for work with the Blues&rsquo; organization this summer, the most immediate task was to &ldquo;get to know the personnel.&rdquo; Although the coach had seen most of the players on the ice, he did not know many of them personally. A few of the newer players he had seen only a few times.<h2>Blues&rsquo; Duo On Waivers</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03693/4912980-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="516" height="582"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04492/4912973-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="518" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body">The St. Louis Blues placed both FRAN HUCK, top, and CRAIG CAMERON on waivers this past week. Cameron was claimed by Minnesota.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Abel Ready For Coaching Challenge Again

<h2>In The East</h2>Coaches don&rsquo;t place too much emphasis on preseason games because they know most teams are experimenting. But Boston coach Tom Johnson can&rsquo;t help but get excited over the training camp scoring feats of rugged little John McKenzie.The scrappy right winger of the Bruins was a one-man show on the final weekend of training camp as he sparked Boston to a 3-3 tie and a 5-3 decision over the Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens.McKenzie was a regular thorn in the sides of the cup winners scoring twice in the deadlocked game and them coming back to register a hat trick in the second meeting of the teams. It was a five-goal performance for McKenzie and if it&rsquo;s any indication of things to come, then the B&rsquo;s can expect a big year out of the one-time bronco buster.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-011238/4913018-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="546" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN McKENZIE&hellip;Boston Bruins</figcaption></div><h2>In The West</h2>You may have to strain a little to remember the last time you saw the name Bobby Leiter in a National Hockey League summary but chances are you could see a lot more of Leiter with the coming of the 1971-72 season.Leiter has been the scoring sensation of the Pittsburgh Penguins&rsquo; training camp sessions, a fact that won him a center ice spot with the West Division club over such established Pens&rsquo; pivots as Bryan Hextall and Wally Boyer.Leiter, who was the seventh leading scorer in the American Hockey League with Hershey last year, came on strong for the Penguins once the club headed into exhibition play. In the Pens&rsquo; first seven games, Leiter pumped in six goals, including a game winner, to provide the offensive spark at training camp.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02984/4913011-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="546" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY LEITER&hellip;Pittsburgh Penguins</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Players of the week

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-011170/4913070-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02858/4913063-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1158" height="1146"></div><h2>THE EAST</h2>MONTREAL&mdash;Goal, Rogatien Vachon, Phil Myre, Ken Dryden; defense, Pierre Bouchard, Jacques Laperriere, Terry Harper, J.C. Tremblay, Bob Murray, Serge Savard, Guy Lapointe; centers, Henri Richard, Guy Lafleur, Pete Mahovlich, Larry Pleau, Chuck Lefley; right wings, Yvan Cournoyer, Claude Larose, Rejean Houle, Phil Roberto, Chuck Arnason; left wings, Jacques Lemaire, Marc Tardif, Frank Mahovlich, Murray Wilson.BOSTON&mdash;Goal, Gerry Cheevers, Ed Johnston, Danny Bouchard; defense, Bobby Orr, Ted Green, Don Awrey, Rick Smith, Dallas Smith, Bob Stewart; centers, Phil Esposito, Fred Stanfield, Derek Sanderson, Ivan Boldirev; right wings, John McKenzie, Ken Hodge, Wayne Cashman, Ed Westfall, Reg Leach; left wings, John Bucyk, Garnet Bailey, Don Marcotte, Mike Walton.VANCOUVER&mdash;Goal, Dunc Wilson, George Gardner; defense, Gary Doak, Pat Quinn, Jocelyn Guevremont, Dale Tallon, Barry Wilkins; centers, Orland Kurtenbach, Andre Boudrias, Bobby Lalonde, Danny Johnson, Fred Speck, Ron Ward; right wings, Murray Hall, Rosaire Paiement, Bobby Schmautz; left wings, Wayne Maki, Poul Popiel, Mike Corrigan, Ted Taylor, Danny Seguin.NEW YORK&mdash;Goal, Ed Giacomin, Gilles Villemure; defense, Brad Park, Jim Neilson, Rod Seiling, Dale Rolfe, Ab DeMarco, Andre Dupont; centers, Jean Ratelle, Walt Tkaczuk, Pete Stemkowski; right wings, Jack Egers, Bill Fairbairn, Rod Gilbert, Bob Rousseau, Ron Stewart, Bruce MacGregor, Pierre Jarry; left wings, Dave Balon, Vic Hadfield, Ted Irvine, Glen Sather.BUFFALO&mdash;Goal, Roger Crozier. Dave Dryden; defense, Al Hamilton, Ken Murray, Doug Barrie, Mike Robitaille; Larry Mavety, Jim Watson, Tracy Pratt, Ray McKay; centers, Phil Goyette, Gilbert Perreault, Skip Krake, Craig Ramsey, Don Luce; right wings, Ron Anderson, Steve Atkinson, Paul Andrea, Tom Miller, Kevin O&rsquo;Shea, Eddie Shack, Brian Smith; left wings, Danny Lawson, Larry Keenan, Gerry Meehan, Richard Martin, Dick Duff, Reg Fleming, Rod Zaine.DETROIT&mdash;Andy Brown, Joe Daley, Al Smith; defense. Gary Bergman, Jim Niekamp, Bob Wall, Ron Harris, Gerry Hart, Arnie Brown; centers, Alex Delvecchio, Al Karlander, Red Berenson, Guy Charron, Marcel Dionne; right wings, Bill Collins, Doug Volmar, Tim Ecclestone, Mickey Redmond, Leon Rochefort, Tom Webster; left wings, Brian Conacher, Nick Libett. Ab McDonald.TORONTO&mdash;Goal, Jacques Plante, Bernie Parent, Murray McLachlan; defense, Mike Pelyk, Bob Baun, Brad Seiwood, Brian Glennie, Ricky Ley, Jim Dorey, Jim McKenny, John Grisdale; centers, Norm Ullman, Dave Keon, Jim Harrison, Darryl Sittler; right wings, Ron Ellis, Brian Marchinko, Guy Trottier, Brian Spencer; left wings, Paul Henderson, Denis Dupere, Billy MacMillan, Don Marshall, Darryl Sittler.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03654/4913056-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="334" height="1927"></div><h2>THE WEST</h2>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Goal, Ernie Wakely, Jimmy McLeod, Pete McDuffe, Chris Worthy; defense, John Arbour, Carl Brewer, Noel Picard, Bob Plager, Barclay Plager, Jim Roberts; centers, Chris Bordeleau, Garry Unger, Terry Crisp, Fran Huck, Gene Carr; right wings, Craig Cameron, Gary Sabourin, Frank St. Marseille, Bill Sutherland; left wings, Jim Lorentz, George Morrison, Brit Selby, Mike Parizeau, Jim&rsquo;Shires.CHICAGO&mdash;Goal, Tony Esposito, Garry Smith, Gilles Meloche; defense, Pat Stapleton. Bill White, Doug Jarrett, Rick Foley, Jerry Korab, Keith Magnuson, Paul Shmyr; centers, Stan Mikita, Lou Angotti. Bryan Campbell, Pit Martin, Danny O&rsquo;Shea; right wings, Cliff Koroll, Chico Maki, Eric Nesterenko, Jim Pappin, Darryl Maggs; left wings, Bobby Hull, Dennis Hull, Danny Maloney.MINNESOTA&mdash;Goal, Gil Gilbert, Cesare Maniago, Lorne Worsley; defense, Fred Barrett, Tom Reid, Ted Harris, Doug Mohns, Barry Gibbs. Dennis O&rsquo;Brien; centers, Jude Drouin, Ted Hampson, Dennis Hextall; right wings, Bill Goldsworthy, Buster Harvey, Lou Nanne, Bob Nevin; left wings, Charlie Burns, Danny Grant, Jean-Paul Parise.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Doug Favell, Bruce Gamble; defense, Barry Ashbee, Larry Brown, Tom Hale, Wayne Hillman, Brent Hughes, Ed Van Impe, Joe Watson; centers, Serge Bernier, Bob Clarke, Jimmy Johnson, Andre Lacroix, Larry Wright; right wings, Gary Dornhoefer, Larry Mickey, Lew Morrison, Simon Nolet; left wings, Jean-Guy Gendron, Bob Kelly, Bill Lesuk, Rick MacLeish, Dan Schock.LOS ANGELES&mdash;Goal, Denis DeJordy, Gary Edwards, Bruce Landon; defense, Paul Curtis, Larry Hillman, Dale Hoganson, Harry Howell, Gilles Marotte, Matt Ravlich; centers, Ralph Backstrom, Butch Goring, Bob Pulford, Juha Widing; right wings, Mike Byers, Bill Flett, Lucien Grenier, Al McDonough; left wings, Eddie Joyal, Bob Berry, Ross Lonsberry, Doug Robinson, Bill Orban, Real Lemieux. &lsquo;CALIFORNIA&mdash;Goal, Gerry Desjardins, Gary Kurt, Ray Martynuik; defense, Bert Marshall, Marshall Johnston, Dick Redmond, Ron Stacknouse, Carol Vadnais, Neil Nicholson; centers, Wayne Carleton, Joe Hardy, Joey Johnston, Walt McKechnie. Bobby Sheehan; right wings, Tony Featherstone, Norm Ferguson, Don O&rsquo;Donoghue, Tommy Williams; left wings, Gary Croteau, Stan Gilbertson, Ernie Hicke, Gerry Pinder, Gary Jarrett.PITTSBURGH&mdash;Goal, Les Binkley, Jim Rutherford, Roy Edwards; defense, Tim Horton, Darryl Edestrand, Dave Burrows, Joe-Noris, Bryan Watson, Sheldon Kannegiesser, Bob Woytowich; centers, Syl Apps, Ron Schock, Wally Boyer, Bryan Hextall, Bob Leiter, Rene Robert; right wings, Nick Harbaruk, Billy Hicke, Jean Pronovost, Ken Schinkel; left wings, Keith McCreary, Val Fonteyne, Greg Polis, Dean Prentice, Brian McKenzie.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04489/4913049-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="320" height="1960"></div> &#9632;

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Probable Starting Lineups For NHL Teams

MONTREAL: Jean Beliveau and John Ferguson retired.BOSTON: All regulars back.VANCOUVER: Marc Reaume, Darryl Sly, Ray Cullen and Andy Bathgate have dropped from the NHL scene. Reaume and Cullen retired. Sly has returned to amateur hockey with Barrie of the Ontario Senior League where he will take up a teaching position. Bathgate is attempting to get his amateur card back to play and coach in Europe.NEW YORK: All regulars back.BUFFALO: Jean-Guy Talbot retired.DETROIT: Gordie Howe, Larry Jeffrey and Hank Monteith are missing from last year&rsquo;s opening game roster. Howe quit recently after 25 glorious years to become an executive vice-president with the wings. Injuries forced Jeffrey to retire early last season and he is now a Detroit scout. Monteith has retired for the purpose of returning to college.TORONTO: George Armstrong is still with the Leafs but isn&rsquo;t expected to sign in which event he will announce his retirement for the fourth or is it the fifth time?ST. LOUIS: Glenn Hall, Bill McCreary and Terry Gray have all left the Blues since last year&rsquo;s opener. Hall has retired to become a full time barn painter, McCreary and Gray have gone into coaching, McCreary at Denver and Gray at Columbus of the IHL.CHICAGO: All regulars back.MINNESOTA: Leo Boivin was in the Stars&rsquo; opening-game lineup last season but retired during the 1970-71 campaign to become a club scout.PHILADELPHIA: All regulars back.LOS ANGELES: Gary Dineen and Jimmy Peters are missing from the Kings. Dineen has become the manager coach of the club&rsquo;s Springfield farm club in the AHL and Peters has decided to quit hockey, get married and enter the ministry.CALIFORNIA: Earl Ingarfield has retired.PITTSBURGH: All regulars are back.On the coaching level, Al MacNeil has left the Canadiens as coach and has been replaced by Scotty Bowman. Al Arbour. Ned Harkness and Vic Stasiuk, who started the &lsquo;70-&rsquo;71 season as NHL coaches are longer at their jobs. Arbour has become assistant to the general manager. Harkness gave up coaching the Wings to become the team GM and Stasiuk is scouting for the Philadelphia organization. Doug Barkley replaced Harkness and Fred Shero took over from Stasiuk at Philadelphia. &#9632;

WHO’S MISSING……FROM LAST YEAR?

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div>VANCOUVER&mdash;A smile creased coach Hal Laycoe&rsquo;s weathered countenance when the little buzz-saw. Andre Boudrias, popped a tying goal behind Minnesota netman Cesare Maniago.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s 11 power play goals in six games,&rdquo; the scholarly Vancouver coach mused to himself as his Canucks kept an unbeaten pre-season string intact with a 4-4 split with the Stars on the Minnesotans&rsquo; Winnipeg Arena training ice.&ldquo;But that isn&rsquo;t the point,&rdquo; Laycoe was to say later. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s power play goals against us that we&rsquo;re working on.&rdquo;Penalty killing, to put it the other way.The Canucks had 296 goals scored against them in last season&rsquo;s campaign and that&rsquo;s too many. Only Detroit in last place in the Eastern Division suffered a worse fate in being dented 308 times.Two performers&mdash;one new, one old&mdash;are being featured prominently this fall as Laycoe attempts to plug the dike with a reliable penalty killing alignment. They are Ron Ward, up from the American League from Rochester, and Poul Popiel, the old hand who can hack it either on the defense or at left wing. Ward, a solid five-ten and 180 pounds, also has that necessary versatility for specialized duties, being at home at either center ice or on right wing.On an overall basis, the Vancouver club appears to be making headway in building a better defensive unit. First draft choice Jocelyn Guevremont, the rangy (6-2) 190-pounder out of Montreal Junior Canadiens, has to be considered as the prime addition&mdash;at least in potential.And last season&rsquo;s first draft pick&mdash;Dale Tallon&mdash;with few peers offensively in his rookie campaign, is now sprucing up his game going the other way. He&rsquo;s blocking shots adeptly these days and generally looks improved defensively.An improvement has also been noted by Laycoe and his railbirds in the play of scrappy Barry Wilkins. Considering the Canucks went three wins-three ties in their first six exhibition encounters, something must be fitting together properly. They handled the North Stars too, in the first three of four successive meetings, without the services of seasoned Gary Doak, the ex-Bruin who put in 77 games of valiant service on the blueline last season.Doak cracked a bone in the instep of his left foot when he got in the way of a shot from Ross Lonsberry in a game Sept. 22 against Los Angeles Kings.That unpretentious fellow Lonsberry, by the way, loomed somewhat as a nemesis for the Canucks in their pre-season scuffles with the Kings. Apart from dinging Doak, the one-time Estevan junior ace caught Vancouver&rsquo;s prize lightweight rookie, Bobby Lalonde, zigging when he should have been zagging. Result: Lalonde, the 155-pound parcel of potential from the Montreal junior gold mine, was shelved with a stretched ligament in the knee.Laycoe has high hopes for the diminutive Lalonde, who dazzled OHA observers last year with 59 goals in 61 games.&ldquo;I won&rsquo;t say when, or for how long,&rdquo; advises the coach, &ldquo;but there&rsquo;s no doubt this guy will play in the NHL.&rdquo;Of course Hal has a thing about compact hockey players. He had Arnie Schmautz in Portland for 12 years in the Western League. The little guy from Saskatoon&mdash;same as Laycoe&mdash;weighed 139 pounds and as Hal has said: &ldquo;As long as I&rsquo;m in the business, he&rsquo;ll always be one of my favorites. It isn&rsquo;t the size of a hockey player&rsquo;s body, it&rsquo;s the size of his heart.&rdquo; &#9632;

Ward, Popiel Give Canucks New Penalty Killing Look

TORONTO&mdash;Hockey Night In Canada is back at the same old spot on millions of television sets across the nation.Entering its 41st consecutive year of NHL coverage, and still dominating the ratings as Canada&rsquo;s number one television show over the past 19 years. Hockey Night In Canada will again present both national and regional English TV coverage from Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, on the CBC network on Saturdays, and the CTV network on Wednesdays.The Quebec CBC French network will again carry Montreal mid-week and Saturday telecasts.Opening national telecast of the new season is Saturday, Oct. 9 with the defending Stanley Cup champion Canadiens hosting the New York Rangers in Montreal. First Toronto telecast will follow four days later, Wednesday the 13th on CTV, when the Detroit Red Wings visit the Leafs at Maple Leaf Gardens.In all, 81 regular season games (including the All Star Classic from Minnesota) will be telecast by Hockey Night In Canada.Ward Cornell&rsquo;s recent decision to reduce his involvement as a member of the Toronto telecast crew, may require some shuffling of personnel according to executive producer Ralph Mellanby.While Cornell will be seen only occasionally this season, the rest of the Hockey Night in Canada regulars will be back. Danny Gallivan. Bill Hewitt and Jim Robson will again handle play-byplay from Montreal. Toronto and Vancouver, respectively. Dick Irvin, Brian McFarlane. Bob Goldham. Jack Dennett. Foster Hewitt. Bill Good. Jr. Ted Reynolds and Babe Pratt will again be on hand. Indications are that Cornell&rsquo;s spot will be handled by members of this group until a permanent replacement is named. &#9632;

Hockey Night Opening 41st TV Campaign

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;If Fred Shero were granted one wish on the eve of his National Hockey League coaching debut, it would be for an offensive defenseman.After observing the play of his Flyers during training camp, Shero has come to realize the importance of a defenseman who really can handle the puck and bring it down ice in a hurry.Fred doesn&rsquo;t mean to put the knock on any current members of his team, but he knows this is one flagrant flaw in the Flyers game plan. The club isn&rsquo;t attacking the way it should because of a delay down ice.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to see us get a guy like that, even if it means giving up more than one player,&rdquo; said Shero. &ldquo;However, I know guys like Doug Harvey or Bobby Orr don&rsquo;t come along that often.&ldquo;But we&rsquo;d like to have somebody along those lines and realize what he can do for us, so we won&rsquo;t stop trying to get one (either by trade or through the amateur draft).&rdquo;Flyers&rsquo; General Manager Keith Allen even made contact with Garry Young, general manager of the California Golden Seals, exploring whether backliner Carol Vadnais might be available if the price were right. The Flyers believe Vadnais could be the answer, but the Seals are reluctant to give him up.The next best thing for Shero, then, is to try to get each of his defensemen more offensive-minded.This may not be that difficult because quite a few veterans&mdash;not only defensemen, but forwards as well&mdash;already have stated publicly that they have been impressed by Shero and have learned a number of things, previously ignored.The biggest impression is Fred&rsquo;s methodical method of position hockey.&ldquo;This eliminates so much needless skating,&rdquo; explained Shero. &ldquo;And I don&rsquo;t want my players to skate one inch out of their way.&ldquo;Still, I&rsquo;m not saying my system is the best. But I do feel that any system will help a team if it eliminates&mdash;or at least reduces wasted effort.&rdquo;Veteran center Andre Lacroix, a consistent 20-goal scorer who rode the bench quite often for former coach Vic Stasiuk last season, says it has made a big difference in both his play and that of his teammates.&ldquo;In the past we were never positive about where our teammates would be when we brought the puck out.&rdquo; remarked Andre. Now our forwards and defensemen are getting used to coming out together, so we know where the other guys are.&ldquo;This should result in fewer goals being scored against us and should help us score more goals than we have in the past.&rdquo; explained Lacroix. &#9632;

Shero Hopes To Avoid Trade By Developing A ‘Vadnais’

<div class="byline">CONRAD</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Jean-Guy Gendron, at 37 the Flyers&rsquo; oldest player, was a scoring dynamo in the club&rsquo;s first five (3-1-1) exhibition games. Guy had five goals and three assists. Bill Lesuk, with four goals and two assists, was runner-up&hellip;Goalie Don McLeod, acquired in last June&rsquo;s draft, had been quite impressive in the exhibition games. He had a 1.45 goals-against average in his first 165 minutes of action. Doug Favell had been 0.80 in 75 minutes while Bruce Gamble, who left training camp for several days due to the death of his mother, was 3.00 for 40 minutes of work&hellip;Sizeable crowds were in attendance at the University of Pennsylvania rink in Philadelphia where the Flyers practiced the final two weeks of training. Players were quartered in a large downtown hotel&hellip;Fred Shero had been experimenting with a line of center Larry Wright with wingers Pierre Plante and Rick MacLeish. Wright and Plante were first-round draft choices while MacLeish was a No. 1 pick of the Bruins last year but came to the Flyers in the Bernie Parent-Mike Walton, etc. three-team swap&hellip;Veteran defenseman Joe Watson had thoughts of retirement early in training camp but. after a phone call to Bobby Orr (who was best man at Joe&rsquo;s wedding). Watson decided to rejoin the club. &#9632;

Gendron Hot Camp Scorer

<h2>EAST</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01917/4913228-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="577" height="273"></div><h2>WEST</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02746/4913221-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="578" height="268"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri. Sept. 17Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 1Pittsburgh 3, California 2Boston 5, New York 3Sat. Sept. 18Detroit 2, St. Louis 0Montreal 7, Boston 4Philadelphia 2. Buffalo 2Toronto 4, Minnesota 4Sun. Sept. 19Detroit 3. St. Louts 0Buffalo 6, California 2Los Angeles 4, Vancouver 4Toronto 3, Minnesota 1Pittsburgh 3. New York IMon. Sept. 20Montreal 2. Boston 1Tues. Sept. 21Pittsburgh 4. California 2Vancouver 3. Los Angeles 1Philadelphia 9, Buffalo 1Wed Sept. 22Philadelphia 4, California IChicago 4, Toronto 4Buffalo 2, Pittsburgh 2New York 6. Boston 3Los Angeles 3, Vancouver 3Thurs. Sept. 23St. Louts 4, California 1Montreal 10, Chicago 2Detroit 6, Boston 3Fri. Sept. 24St. Louis 4, New York 3Toronto 3, Philadelphia 2Vancouver 3, Minnesota 1Sat. Sept. 25St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 0Buffalo 4, California 2Montreal 2, Toronto 2Vancouver 2, Minnesota 1Boston 4, Detroit 3Sun. Sept. 26New York 6, St. Louis 5Montreal 1. Chicago 1Vancouver 2, Minnesota 2Boston 1, California 1Pittsburgh 5, Rochester I AHL &gt; 2Mon. Sept. 27New York 4. Detroit 0Pittsburgh 2. Cleveland (AHL i 2Tues. Sept. 28Montreal 5, Toronto 3Minnesota 3, Vancouver 3Wed. Sept. 29California 5. Detroit 4New York 3. Montreal 3Chicago 2, Los Angeles 5Buffalo 4, Pittsburgh 4Thurs. Sept. 30Philadelphia 3, St. Louis IBuffalo 6. Pittsburgh 2Chicago 5, Vancouver 4Minnesota 1, Toronto IFri. Oct. 1Montreal 3, Boston 3Sal. Oct. 2St. Louis 3, Toronto 1Boston 5, Montreal 3Vancouver 8. Los Angeles 4Chicago 2, Minnesota 2Pittsburgh 2, Buffalo 2New York 3, Detroit 1Philadelphia 4, Hershey (AHL) 2Sun. Oct. 3Detroit 5, California 2Philadelphia 2, Montreal 1Toronto 2, Chicago 0Buffalo 5, Cincinnati (AHL) 4 &#9632;

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Exhibition Scoreboard

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;A fairly representative club has been named by the Los Angeles Kings to represent Springfield, Calder Cup champions last season, as they start their American Hockey League title defense under a new, young coach, Gary Dineen.It will also be a younger club than the one that took it all last spring in the cup finals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01940/4913266-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="259" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Noel Price</figcaption></div>Los Angeles manager-coach Larry Regan, who is responsible for putting the talent in here, was still carrying a 28-man roster with his NHL club and would likely dispatch another nine players to Springfield from among the likes of Larry McNabb, Matt Ravlich, Bill Orban, Bill Mikkelson, Real Lemieux, Al McDonough and Lucien Grenier once he completes his final cuts.The Springfield goal-tenders will be the sensational Billy Smith who had a great season here last winter and rookie Bob Vroman. Sometimes rookie sensations have a way of going sour here; we hope it does not happy to Billy, a real fine goaler. His backup is Vroman, an amateur who they say is also good. The Kings have always had good luck with rookie goalers. They&rsquo;ve had Bruce Landon, Smith&hellip;now maybe Vroman?Defense looks good with the veteran Noel Price coming back here. He played for Los Angeles last season. Joining him are returnees from last year, Wayne Lachance and Brian Gibbons.Jack Kell and Neil Komadenski, two amateurs, will also work on defense. The latter had a tremendous training camp.Center is a definite weak spot for the Kings with only Ed Hoekstra, the steady veteran from last season, back with the club. John Healey will also be aboard. He could be a sleeper, as he did not get the proper chance to play in 1970-71. Camille Lapierre, college star Bob Poffenroth and Wayne Chernecki, all amateurs, are also listed as centermen.Mike Boland, Wayne Rivers and Norm Park are one set of wings. Park is a rookie, Boland played well here most of last season and Rivers played with Baltimore and has been around the AHL, known as a good goal scorer.The other wingers are Jim Stanfield, Brian Carlin and Wayne Schultz. Stan played here last season, but had an off season. Carlin is a rookie. Schultz also appeared with the Kings last year, but there is some doubt when he will be ready to play since he suffered a serious nose fracture.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02714/4913259-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="1774" height="1347"><figcaption class="caption-body">The honor of scoring the first Tidewater goal on the club&rsquo;s entry into the American Hockey league this season belonged to veteran winger BILLY DEA, shown here slipping the puck past Denver net-minder GRANT COLE during Wings&rsquo; first exhibition start.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Springfield Opens Defense of Title

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Oct. 6Cleveland at Nova ScotiaFri. Oct 8Cleveland at BostonRochester at CincinnatiNova Scotia at SpringfieldRichmond at TidewaterSat. Oct 9Tidewater at BaltimoreRichmond at HersheyCleveland at SpringfieldSun. Oct. 10Hershey at ProvidenceNova Scotia at RochesterMon. Oct. 11Tidewater at CincinnatiTues. Oct. 12Springfield at BaltimoreHershey at BostonProvidence at RichmondWed. Oct. 13Cincinnati at ClevelandThurs. Oct. 14Tidewater at Nova ScotiaFri. Oct. 15Cleveland at CincinnatiTidewater at ProvidenceBaltimore at Rochester &#9632;

HOW THEY STAND

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03514/4913297-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="503" height="537"><figcaption class="caption-body">WILLIE MARSHALL&hellip;May Be Amerk</figcaption></div>ROCHESTER&mdash;Fred Glover, who has enough worries as coach of the California Golden Seals, will know soon whether the last two of his &ldquo;big four&rsquo;&rsquo; American Hockey League career records will be wiped out&hellip;or will stand forever.Because by then Willie Marshall&rsquo;s future in the AHL should have been determined.When the clever centerman finished last season as a member of the Baltimore Clippers, he had erased Glover&rsquo;s name at the head of the all-time lists for points (1.371) and assists (850).His 15 goals brought him to within one of Glover&rsquo;s record 522 goals. And his 64 games played raised his total to 1.195&mdash;six behind Glover&rsquo;s 1.201 regular season games.Despite his nearness to the two remaining marks, Marshall told Baltimore general manager-coach Terry Reardon last spring that he was retiring.&ldquo;Baltimore is just too far away from my wife and four children (ages 3 to 10) in Niagara Falls. Ont.,&rsquo; Willie said this fall in explaining his decision.Reardon eventually gave the veteran his outright release because at 39 (Willie will be 40 Dec. 1). he couldn&rsquo;t be expected to do a fulltime job too much longer: Also his salary had to be considered, and the fact that a new tie-up with California meant two or three good centers would be coming to the Clippers.So Willie Marshall sat in his Niagara Falls home, his hockey career at an end.But then came an unusual twist. The Rochester Americans. who were to have trained here in the War Memorial, found out a day before workouts were to start that their ice-making machinery wasn&rsquo;t working and that they&rsquo;d have to work out elsewhere.General manager coach Doug Adam finally arranged for ice time in&hellip;yes&hellip;Niagara Falls. Ont.The Amerks arrived and John Cunniff, acquired by Vancouver for Rochester in &bull;June, got on the telephone and called his linemate of last season. Cunniff played left wing on Marshall&rsquo;s line in Baltimore and scored 31 goals. Keke Mortson. another old buddy. also phoned.Willie wandered over and watched Rochester skate&hellip;and the urge to play came back quickly.The nearness of Rochester to Niagara Falls would make it perfect for him. As a free agent, he was allowed to practice with the Americans.Adam knows Marshall can make the plays, but Rochester is operating under development club rules and can carry only six players 26 and over. And the Amerks are not in bad shape at center ice with Jim Wiste. Dick Lemieux and Doug Brindley (acquired in a trade with Toronto for Andre Hinse) plus another duo expected from Vancouver.But Willie Marshall&rsquo;s hanging around and hoping.And he&rsquo;s got a lot of people hoping with him that he&rsquo;ll have the chance to set the records. Close only counts in horseshoes. &#9632;

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Marshall Pondering Ice Return

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01881/4913366-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="803" height="816"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02664/4913359-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="1273" height="801"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03469/4913352-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="779" height="807"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here are the hockey people who will put the show on the road this season for the new Richmond Robins of the AHL. At left is HILLMAN LYONS, general manager, and his assistant CHARLIE EVRANIAN, at right. In center photo is club president E. CLAIRBORNE ROBINS, standing, and flanked by club executives from the left H. CARLTON TOWNES, treasurer; HERNDON JEFFREYS, secretary; ROBERT J. HEBENICHT, vice-president; and STUART SANDERS, director.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Men Behind Richmond’s First Pro Hockey Club

<div class="byline">BY JERRY LINDQUIST</div>RICHMOND&mdash;He sits in the stands, watches every practice, every scrimmage, every pre-season game and takes notes, voluminous notes.Who scores? Who&rsquo;s directly responsible? The saves, the mistakes.It&rsquo;s all there. Alex Davidson knows hockey. He&rsquo;s been the Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; chief scout since the team&rsquo;s inception four years ago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05319/4913428-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="264" height="380"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Mair</figcaption></div>If general manager Keith Allen or coach Fred Shero wants an evaluation of a particular player, Alex will oblige. He&rsquo;ll have the figures to back it up, too.&ldquo;I like players who go in a straight line. Nothing fancy. That&rsquo;s the way hockey games are won. not by the &lsquo;circlers&rsquo;, always going around in circles. That isn&rsquo;t the way the game was meant to be played,&rdquo; Davidson says.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s why we should get rid of (so-and-so). He&rsquo;s a circler.&rdquo;Davidson obviously does not like circlers.What he does like are young, hungry, hard-hitting hockey players, and so it is not by accident that the vintage performer, the guy who has been ground more than a few years, is rapidly becoming extinct in the Philadelphia organization.From the outset, there was a dedication to youth.&ldquo;&hellip;and that&rsquo;s the only way to go,&rdquo; says Davidson. &ldquo;We decided our future was in the amateur draft. Other expansion teams took a different route.&rdquo;Elsewhere, the practice has been for a new team to trade away its top draft choice for older. more established players, and results have not been surprising either. The rich simply got richer.By contrast, the Flyers are committed in the opposite direction. &ldquo;We never gave up on our amateur choices, and now we have more playing in the NHL than any other expansion team. Davidson says.He can cite Serge Bernier. No. 1 in 1967, and Bobby Clarke. No. 2 in 1969, as prime examples for the defense. Clarke went straight from junior ranks to the NHL. &lsquo;This year&rsquo;s top two selections, Larry Wright and Pierre Plante, could make it, too.&ldquo;I believe this is a young man&rsquo;s game. Forty years old is too old. and I can remember when 30 was too old.&rdquo; Davidson says. &ldquo;At 40 you slow the game down to a walk.&rdquo;The Flyers&rsquo; phasing out process has been slow but effective. &ldquo;Last year we worked on left wing. We hope for right wing help next, ultimately defense. I can&rsquo;t say we gave ourselves five years. It may take seven. All depends on how we draft,&rsquo; he explains.The risks involved are obvious, and none was more calculated than what the Flyers tried last year in Quebec City, with their American Hockey League farm club. It was packed with first-year pros, in a league comprised primarily of veterans.For a while, the inexperience showed, too. The Aces got off to a miserable start. Then, they came on and led their division most of the year. The risk paid off. &ldquo;Now they&rsquo;re all going that route, with player development teams in the AHL,&rdquo; Davidson says.ROBIN NOTES: Robins swept three-game exhibition series with Nova Scotia Voyageurs. winning 4-2. 4-1, and 62&hellip;Especially outstanding were defenseman Jimmy Mair, goaltenders Michel Belhumeur and Bob Taylor, and centers Rene Drolet and Tom Trevelyan&hellip;Training camp site shifted from Ottawa to University of Pennsylvania rink for final two weeks&hellip;Season ticket sales soared over 1.300 mark. &#9632;

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New Robins Will Benefit From Philly Youth Movement

<div class="byline">BY GREG FARLEY</div>BOSTON&mdash;It came as no surprise to Bep Guidolin when Bruins&rsquo; coach Tom Johnson decided to use goalie Dan Bouchard against the Detroit Red Wings in an exhibition game last week.Bouchard sported a goals against average of less than two in five previous pre-season tilts against AHL opposition while Bruins&rsquo; netminders Ed Johnston and Gerry Cheevers were being shellacked by NHL foes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04385/4913397-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="264" height="365"><figcaption class="caption-body">Garry Peters</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I wanted to see what Danny could do against the big boys before we broke camp.&rdquo; explained Johnson.&rdquo; and I wasn&rsquo;t surprised by his performance. New we know what he can do and we won&rsquo;t hesitate to call on him if the situation warrants it.&rdquo;Bouchard&rsquo;s spectacular play in a 4-3 win over the Wings enabled the Bruins to snap a four-game losing streak. The following night he returned to Braves&rsquo; spangles and held the California Golden Seals scoreless until the final minute in a 1-1 standoff.Braves&rsquo; fans needn&rsquo;t worry about losing Bouchard to the parent club&mdash;at least not for the moment. Dannv will be holding down the net on Friday night. Oct. 8. when the Braves entertain the Cleveland Barons in the team&rsquo;s home opener.After three weeks of practices and a half dozen exhibition tilts. Guidolin finally announced his 20-man squad.The six defensemen are Bill Speer. Nick Beverley. Ray Fortin. Paul Hurley. Bob Stewart and Ron Jones. Speer, with several AHL seasons under his belt, is expected to lead the corps. Billy&rsquo;s preseason play indicates that he is more than ready to do the job.Up front, starting with the center slot, the Braves will feature Steve Stirling, last years Boston University captain, along with Garry Peters, a proven NHL and AHL vet who showed well in pre-season, and Barry Merrell, formerly of the Dayton Gems. Art Quoquochi, an ex-Hershey Bear, will also see some pivot action.On the right side. Terry O&rsquo;Reilly, the Bruins&rsquo; second choice in the amateur draft, figures to give the club some added muscle and fire-power. The Irishman clobbered Canadiens Claude Larose in exhibition fisticuffs as a Bruin and figures to be a real crowd-pleaser.Others are Fred O&rsquo;Donnell, up from Oke City; Doug Roberts, who has been reconverted from defense; and Mike Hyndman, another B.U. star, who was with the Voyageurs last year.Left wingers include Don Tannahill. Ray Brownlee. Ron Boehm, and Neal Murphy. &#9632;

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New Brave Netminder Impresses

<div class="byline">BY BOB BROWN</div>CLEVELAND&mdash;The Cleveland Barons, buoyed by the addition of four new players, played the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 2-2 tie in their first Cleveland Arena appearance of the season. The contest was the first half of Barons&rsquo; owner Nick Mileti&rsquo;s annual hockey-baskatball doubleheader.Shortly before the Monday night contest, Barons&rsquo; General Manager & Coach John Muckier received Gary Gambucci and Gordon Labossiere from the Minnesota North Stars and Richard Leduc from Oakland to greatly help the front line situation. The Cleveland icers had dropped 5-3 and 6-2 decisions to the U.S. Olympic team while playing with only seven forwards.Also assigned to the Barons at the same time was winger Billy Heindl who was unable to play because of an injury as was fellow winger Barrie Meissner, out with a leg injury. Returnees on the club&rsquo;s front line include Grant Erickson. Norm Beaudin, MikeChernoff and the addition of Dennis Giannini, with Quebec last year.Fern Rivard, minus 25 pounds from last season, was in the nets for the entire Penguins&rsquo; contest and posted an outstanding performance. On the back line Muckier has returnees Dennis Patterson, Gary Geldart and Roger Cote along with newcomers Wayne Muloin, Bob Paradise and rookie Ron Wilson.The Barons open the regular season at Nova Scotia on October 6 and travel to Boston and Springfield before returning to Cleveland for the home opener against the Cincinnati Swords on Wednesday, October 13.BLUELINERS: Veteran Norm Beaudin, the Barons&rsquo; top scorer the last two years, has totaled more goals in the last two campaigns than any other AHL player&hellip;Goaltender Fern Rivard, now tabbed the &ldquo;Thin Man&rdquo;, has looked much quicker in early season workouts. &#9632;

Barons Take Shape As Four New Skaters Arrive

<div class="byline">BY PAT CONNOLLY</div>HALIFAX&mdash;The Nova Scotia Voyageurs were still carrying 28 candidates for positions when they moved into their Halifax training base to complete the fall training program and await the arrival of the Cleveland Barons for the American Hockey League opener Oct. 6.The Vees worked for a week with the parent Canadiens at Montreal and new General Manager and coach Al MacNeil auditioned 40 players in three pre-season outings against the new Richmond Robins. Defeat in a I three didn&rsquo;t dampen MacNeil&rsquo;s enthusiasm for the future. &ldquo;I suppose it&rsquo;s nice to win&rdquo;, he said, &ldquo;but after all, the real purpose of these games is to find out what you have and to make sure that everybody gets a fair chance&rdquo;.Needless to say. 12 aspirants played themselves off the squad in the three game series against the Robins. Two of these, goaler Ray Martynuik and defenseman Murray Flegel were optioned to the Baltimore Clippers, with whom Canadiens have a partial working arrangement. Martynuik&rsquo;s place was taken by Lyle (The Cat) Carter, most valuable player in the International League last season where he posted six shutouts and a 2.44 goals against average with the Muskegon Mohawks.MacNeil&rsquo;s off season promise of a &lsquo;new look&rsquo; Vovageur club was beginning to stand up with ten days of training remaining on the calender. The only 1970-71 Vees in contention were goalies Wayne Thomas, defensemen Mike Poirier and Bob Murdoch and forwards Rev Comeau. Ron Busniuk. Germain Gagnon, and Bernie Blanchette. The latter is coming off an illness-plagued season in which he only appeared in 32 of the club&rsquo;s games. And Busniuk suffered a slight shoulder separation, in a pre-season game against Richmond when he was checked by old foe Dave Schultz of the Robins and was! expected to be lost to the team for several weeks. That was enough to give right winger Don Grierson a chance to stick. The big shooter from North Bay, Ont was a MacNeil protege three years ago with Houston Apollos of the Central Pro League, but has been battling a weight problem this fall. Grierson spent last sea-son with Port Huron Flags, IHL champions, and obviously wants back in with the pros.MacNeil has reason to be sent Murray and Wilson out to the Voyageurs before the season opened. Arnason. Canadiens&rsquo; second round draft pick, scored 163 points for the Flin Flon Bombers last season, including 79 goals. He also picked up 152 minutes in penalties as a Western junior indicating he also has some muscle to offer. He is given a good chance of sticking on top.VEES VIGNETTES: Little winger Ross Butler, drafted following an 80-point season in the WCHL with Winnipeg Jets, is making a determined bid to make a place for himself. The same could be said about big centre Yvon Lambert whom Muskegon&rsquo;s Jerry Delise says was a major factor in Port Huron&rsquo;s charge to the IHL title last spring. Defenseman Kerry Ketter, obtained from Baltimore in an off-season deal, suffered a 20-stitch cut above the lip in the second pre-season game against Richmond. Antigonish native Archie MacDonald, a 40-goal scorer with Johnstown of the E.H.L. two years ago. is auditioning at the Vovageur camp. He was out of the game last season attending university. Newfoundland native Terry French, drafted from Ottawa 67&rsquo;s and towering Larry Robinson, plucked from the Kitchener Rangers, are defense candidates with a future. Lyle Carter&rsquo;s plans to attend university here ended abruptly when he agreed to terms. Carter was recently selected as the most valuable player in the Canadian senior men&rsquo;s softball championships in Halifax after sparkling at third base and coming out with a .600 batting average. Coach MacNeil expects he&rsquo;ll field pucks with equal dexterity. Dartmouth radio station CFDR will again be the voice of the Voyageurs throughout American League rinks, with this writer. Arnie Patterson and Ron Reid airing the action.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01737/4913483-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="552" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">DON GRIERSON&hellip;gets his chance</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Late Montreal Cuts Help Strengthen MacNeil’s Nova Scotia Vees

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY&mdash;Veteran center Michel Harvey, a prolific scorer in his 11-year stand in the American League, stunned the Hershey Bears brass by announcing his retirement from professional ranks.&ldquo;It came sort of unexpected,&rdquo; said Bears general manager coach Frank Mathers. &ldquo;We placed him on waivers and he wasn&rsquo;t claimed, so he can now be reinstated as an amateur.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02501/4913514-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="260" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Michel Harvey</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Mike was a fine player for us through the years. Evidently, Mike felt his age was against him.&rdquo;The 34-year-old winger, a first team AHL choice two years ago. played seven seasons with the Bears, aiding the club to a Calder Cup title in 1968-69. In his career, Mike skated in 726 games, scoring 238 goals and 362 assists for an even 600 points.Last year he was the team&rsquo;s second leading pointman with 64 points on 24 goals and 40 assists.Mathers opened a three-week training camp with 25 players with only nine returning from last season&rsquo;s outfit which closed third in the Western Division.The only new player failing to show was winger Ken Tucker, who skated for Michigan Tech last year. He decided to return to college for further degree work.The Pittsburgh Penguins, new National League parent team of Hershey, shipped in some 14 players and before the season opens Oct. 9, it&rsquo;s expected 20 more will check in here.When camp opened Mathers had two goalies, veteran Andre Gill and Bob Galloway, product of the University of Alberta. Then the Penguins sent two goalers&mdash;Paul Hoganson and Cam Newton&mdash;among a batch of 15 players.Mathers, along with club president Lloyd Blinco, visited the Penguins camp at Brantford, Ont. before launching drills here.&ldquo;I was impressed with Steve Cardwell and Robin Burns,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;They are rough kids for forwards and probably will stir things up. I think we&rsquo;ll have a fine defense once we get all the pieces together because Pitts-burgh has some excellent looking prospects.&rdquo;Once he makes the final cuts, Mathers plans to carry only 20 players and he says &ldquo;every job is open.&rdquo;&ldquo;The exhibition games will be important to every player,&rdquo; said Mathers, &ldquo;as this is a transitional season for us.&rdquo;In the first of two exhibition games against the Baltimore Clippers, the Bears played to a 44 standoff in the first and then dropped a 5-1 decision the following night. &#9632;

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Goalers Among Pens’ Cuts Sent To Hershey

<div class="byline">BY ALICE HANDELMAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0021-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01543/4913545-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Seven-year-old CURT MOSSINGHOFF of St. Louis beams with pride as he holds trophy as most improved player at Blues&rsquo; hockey school but it&rsquo;s nothing compared to having his picture taken with his favorite NHL player-goaler ERNIE WAKELY. Little Curt recently underwent open heart surgery.</figcaption></div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;The pride in Jim Mossinghoffs heart shone on his face as he walked up to St. Louis Blues&rsquo; players Barclay Plager, Ernie Wakely and Noel Picard. &ldquo;Thank you for what you did for my boy,&rdquo; Mossinghoff told the players who had worked as instructors at the St. Louis Blues&rsquo; Winterland Hockey School. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a plumber. If there is anything I can ever do for you, please call me. Call me any time.&rdquo;And, he meant it.For, only moments earlier, the coaches had awarded Mossinghoffs son, Curt, the &ldquo;most improved player&rdquo; award of his hockey session. Pint-size Curt was standing behind his father in his Blues&rsquo; jersey that hung to his knees like a nightshirt. The smile on Curt&rsquo;s face reflected the happiness and excitement in his heart as he clung to his tall silver trophy.Curt Mossinghoff, Winterland&rsquo;s smallest hockey player, carried that trophy to Cardinal Glennon Hospital on September 14, where he underwent open-heart surgery to mend a hole in his heart.For a little fellow, who was born two months premature with a hole in the bottom two chambers of his heart. Curt is leading as normal a life today as possible. &ldquo;We weren&rsquo;t allowed to take him out of the house or even let him cry for the first seven months after we brought him home from the hospital,&rdquo; said Mrs. Mossinghoff.When he was five months old Curt had a banding put on the outside of his heart to equalize the flow of blood. Last January he underwent surgery to correct an entangled hernia and in June had cardiac catherization tests in preparation for open heart surgery.&ldquo;Now we let him lead a normal life. His only handicap in playing hockey is that he tires earlier than the other boys. But, he has the sense to know when he is tired and skate off the ice,&rdquo; she said.&ldquo;He can stretch out just so much and does fine if the doesn&rsquo;t have to go up and down the ice too many times,&rdquo; said his father. Listening to Jim Mossinghoff cheer for Curt during a game affirms the fact that he isn&rsquo;t pampered because of his heart condition. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s get in there babe.&rdquo;And&hellip;Curt goes. The aggressive winger isn&rsquo;t afraid of anything or anybody. He holds his hockey stick easily and dives on the puck to freeze it. Wearing number 16 for the Blues, he scored an assist during a Winterland playoff game. And, after the game, as he clutched his trophy, he told his parents that he really thought fellow player Keith Johnson should have won the trophy, &ldquo;because he is a better player that I am.&rdquo;&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know he had this much sportsmanship,&rdquo; said his mother. &ldquo;I am really proud of my boy.&rdquo;Seven-year-old Curt began skating a little over a year ago and played spring hockey in the Whitworth-Olson hockey program and winter hockey with the Florissant Valley Hockey Club at Winterland. Weighing only 34 pounds, Curt was always a good skater. At 3 feet 6 inches he &ldquo;didn&rsquo;t have the normal fear of falling because he really didn&rsquo;t have that far to fall.&rdquo; kidded his mother.When Curt Mossinghoffs open heart surgery is far behind him and he &ldquo;grows up&rdquo; he would like to be a professional hockey player and play in goal just like his idol, Ernie Wakely. Asked why he played right wing at Winterland this summer and not goaltender, Curt smiled and said&hellip;&ldquo;Right now I&rsquo;m too small to play goalie. None of the equipment will fit me. But. some day&hellip; &#9632;

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Open Heart Surgery No Deterrent To Pint-Size St. Louis Youngster

<div class="byline">BY ALEX HARDY</div>EDMONTON&mdash;Fans have been turning out in record numbers for early games in the Western Canada Hockey League, but what they have been watching resembles war more than hockey.Violence has never been more a part of Western junior hockey than it is this season. The preseason schedule was chock full examples:&bull; In Edmonton, the defending league champion Oil Kings were tied 1-1 with New Westminster Bruins after one period. Then the Oil Kings began to run at the Bruins, a course of action that culminated in Bruin defenseman Barry Smith being taken to hospital with a concussion after being driven to the ice by Oil Kings forward Randy Smith in the third period. The Edmonton player didn&rsquo;t even receive a penalty because the referee was busy picking up a broken stick and didn&rsquo;t see the check. Oil Kings won 6-3.&ldquo;We would have gone after them from the start,&rdquo; said ultra aggressive new Edmonton coach Brian Shaw, explaining the cleanly-played first period, &ldquo;except it was our first game, our guvs were nervous, and I didn&rsquo;t want to get us in too much of a hole through penalties.&rdquo;Shaw openly admits his team will try to intimidate opponents this year because he considers it the surest way to win.&bull; In Winnipeg, the home-town Jets beat New Westminster 5-4 and 4-2 but still came out on the short end when Bruins&rsquo; rookie Bob Craig almost drove Winnipeg&rsquo;s Jeff Hunt through a pane of the protective plexiglass. Hunt wobbled around with cuts and a severe headache for several days after.&bull; In another game involving New Westminster, the Bruins&rsquo; Bob Stumpf was caught spearing a Calgary player and received a game misconduct. Bruins&rsquo; coach Ernie (Punch) McLean was so angered by the call, he refused to let his team continue and referee Woody Swallow had to call the game with nearly three minutes left.&bull; Flin Flon Bombers lost 9-3 to Brandon Wheat Kings in a game that saw 34 penalties, including two game misconducts. The night before. Bombers edged Winnipeg in a game that had 44 penalties. They were routine contests for Flin Flon, the roughest team in the league.Violence rears its head every-where in the WCHL, but never more than in Flin Flon-Winnipeg games. Winnipeg fans dislike Bomber coach Pat Ginnell and pelt him with an assortment of missiles when the lights are dimmed in Winnipeg Arena for the pre-game national anthem.The only reason Ginnell isn&rsquo;t bombarded during the game is because of the mass of policemen who patrol the aisles.When Flin Flon and Winnipeg meet, elbows become pointed weapons at the drop of the puck. Sticks are carried throat high and hips are thrown with reckless abandon.Things generally come to a head when two hotheads decide to settle their differences with a fist fight. After that the game settles down.The situation has become so bad that smelling salts, gauze, an assortment of wet and dry towels, and various types of bandages, are a standard sight on any team&rsquo;s bench. Sometimes there are even needles of novocaine.ICE CHIPS: The WCHL plans to stage its 1971-72 All Star game at Vancouver&rsquo;s Pacific Coliseum. It will pit the Eastern Division against the West Jan. 19. The All Star banquet will be the previous night&hellip;Edmonton coach Brian Shaw expects his club will start slowly in the regular schedule &ldquo;we have too many inexperienced players. There is virtually no experience at center and very little on left wing. We&rsquo;re also going with very young goaltending (Larry Hendrick is 16). But we should have a heck of a club when we get well into the season.&rdquo;WCHL grad Reg Leach is on a new line with Boston Bruins. He&rsquo;s at right wing on a unit with Mike Walton and Derek Sanderson. Leach could probably have made the Bruins last year as a rookie, but spent much of the year at Oklahoma City at his own request. He realized he wasn&rsquo;t going to get much ice time with the big club so asked to be shipped down.Ron Jones, ex-Edmonton Oil King, went first class at the Boston training camp. Jones was paired with Bobby Orr. which was in keeping with coach Tom Johnson&rsquo;s system of matching up rookies and vets for early scrim-mages. Jones will play for Boston&rsquo;s new AHL club, the Braves. &#9632;

Violence Mars Pre-Season WCHL Action

<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div>PHOENIX&mdash;A month ago the outlook was overcast for the Phonix Roadrunners. Today the sun is shining brightly in the Valley of the Sun.The Roadrunners need only to fill their third line center slot to have a stronger club than the one which drove from the basement at Christmas to finish second last reason.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01623/4913607-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="288" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Liddington</figcaption></div>There are seven pro defensemen battling for five jobs. Marv Edwards and Don Caley give the club solid goaltending.The left wing is so loaded that coach Aut Erickson shifted Bob Barlow, recently purchased from Minnesota, and Bob Liddington, from Tulsa, to right wing where there is plenty of competition for jobs.Andre Hinse&rsquo;s return from Vancouver has been the highlight of the pre-season. Hinse, who was runnerup in the Western Hockey League scoring race last season with 93 points, including a team record 44 goals, had been traded to Vancouver last summer but didn&rsquo;t report until this season&rsquo;s training camp.The Toronto Maple Leafs traded centerman Doug Brindley to Vancouver for Hinse and assigned the 26-year-old left winger to Phoenix as part of their player obligation. Hinse becomes Phoenix property.John Gofton, drafted from Minnesota, was leading scorer in training camp scrimmages. Bob Charlebois, another left wing, has apparently recovered fully from off season shoulder surgery and has had a good training camp.Liddington, who scored 40 goals in two seasons at Tulsa, is rated by Erickson as &ldquo;a good two-way hockey player.&rdquo;He reacted to his switch from the left to the right side by scoring a pair of goals in his first scrimmage, despite being off the ice for a week between leaving the Toronto camp and reporting to the Roadrunners&rsquo; quarters at Nelson, B.C.Others bidding for a right wing job include Bob Whitlock who carries a cannon and shoots from the left side. He scored 19 goals at Cleveland last year.Wayne Hicks is a right wing returnee, his leg appearing stronger than last season when he scored 30 goals to prove he had recovered from a serious leg fracture.Dick Meissner, another rightwinger who had two knee operations in the past year, weighed in at 218, has played at over 210 for several years but wants to trim to about 200.Fighting it out at defense are Sandy Hucul, Gerry Odrowski, Harry Shaw and Jim Murray from last year, joined by Gord Nelson and Randy Murray from Tulsa and Adam Keller from Providence.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-02444/4913600-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="1176" height="1428"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Phoenix Roadrunners spread the welcome mat for high-scoring ANDRE HINSE, who came back to the WHL club after a trade involving Toronto and Vancouver. Hinse scored 44 goals and had 93 points, a factor which prompted the NHL Canucks to purchase his contract.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Runner’s’ Stock Up As Hinse Returns In Lute NHL Trade

PORTLAND&mdash;&ldquo;The entire Western Hockey League definitely will be tougher, predicts Portlands Buckaroos&rsquo; Coach Gord Fashoway, as he prepares his club&rsquo;s bid for a ninth first place finish in 12 seasons.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-03348/4913638-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="271" height="509"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barry Long</figcaption></div>&ldquo;San Diego has a powerhouse. Seattle already has improved. Salt Lake City has to be better. Phoenix will be just as good if not better. The Road-runners already have seven seasoned pros at defense. It&rsquo;s hard to tell about Denver until you see what kind of help the Spurs will get from St. Louis.&rdquo;Fashoway, however, is confident that his own club can repeat not only its first place finish but its Patrick Cup playoff victory. That is despite such key losses as All Star defenseman Rick Foley, the league&rsquo;s leading goaltender, Jim McLeod, and Norm Johnson, who centered the WHL&rsquo;s highest-scoring line last season.&ldquo;My biggest concern is my defense,&rdquo; said Fashoway. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m really banking on John Barber and Barry Long. These two guys can make things easy or real tough.&ldquo;If they, along with John Van Horlick, play the style I want them to play, I think we&rsquo;ll eventually have just as good a defense as last year. I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s necessary to break any penalty records, but 1 want them to play the body, to be rough in the corners and in front of the nets.&rdquo;Returning defensemen, besides Barber, are Mike Donaldson, Barry Cummins, a rookie last season, and veteran Connie Madigan.Madigan, under a 30-day suspension, was barred, by WHL rules, from training camp. &#9632;

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Fashoway Confident Bucks Can Go All The Way Again But Expects Tough Season

DENVER&mdash;Veteran defenseman Bob McCord became the first player the St. Louis Blues assigned to the Denver Spurs for the Western Hockey League season.McCord, beginning his 19th season as a pro, was purchased by the Spurs from Minnesota at last season&rsquo;s outset and the Spurs were purchased at season&rsquo;s end by the Blues.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a steady, smart hockey player,&rdquo; said Spurs&rsquo; general manager and coach Bill McCreary. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re delighted to have him back.&rdquo;McCord, 6-1 and 205 pounds, is 37 years olds. He scored seven goals and 38 assists for 45 points last season, the second highest total of his career. He had 48 points for Springfield in 1960-61 when he was named to the American League&rsquo;s All Star team and won his first of two outstanding AHL defenseman awards. &#9632;

Veteran McCord First Player St. Louis Optioned To Denver

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-04258/4913693-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="374" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACQUES PLANTE</figcaption></div>Since 1955 I have been working to find a mask that could combine: protection, good visibility and lightness. I was never completely satisfied until I found the &lsquo;&lsquo;FUTURAMIC&rdquo; model last year&hellip;with the stream lines to deflect pucks easier.I am now offering you this same &lsquo;&lsquo;FUTURAMIC&rsquo;&rsquo; mask that I, and many of the best goalies in the world use.I have so much confidence in them, that I will replace each one that might break under normal use. Furthermore, an insurance company has insured each mask for ONE MILLION dollars, against bodily damages. No company would have done so, if they didn&rsquo;t have faith in my mask.You should find them in your local sport stores. If not, write me at: 1259 Didace street, Magog, P.Q., Canda and I will gladly send you some literature. The masks sell from $12.00 to $22.50 in Canada. (Two dollars more in the United States and Europe).FIBROSPORT INC.JACQUES PLANTEPRESIDENT &#9632;

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MILLION DOLLAR MASK

<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0023-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01565/4913731-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GUYLE FIELDER&hellip;Nearing Howe&rsquo;s Point Record</figcaption></div>SALT LAKE&mdash;Guyle Fielder is Old Man River. He just keeps rolling along.The 41-year-old center, in spite of his record, surprised both the Salt Lake Golden Eagles&rsquo; new manager-coach Al Rollins, and Punch Imlach, manager coach, of the Buffalo Sabres in training camp.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-02394/4913724-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="268" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Terbenche</figcaption></div>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s as good now as he ever was,&rdquo; declared Imlach, amazed. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s absolutely unreal.&rdquo;The Golden Eagles spent the early part of their training camp with the Sabres at St. Catharines, Ont., before setting up shop for themselves in Kimberly, B.C.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s been the best hockey player on the ice,&rdquo; declared Rollins, &ldquo;and that goes for anyone on the Buffalo roster as well. He&rsquo;s just taken over as the leader out there.&rdquo;The all-time Western Hockey League points and assists leader has amassed 1,795 points in 20 years as a pro, including one in the American League. He&rsquo;s within 14 points of the all-time pro record set by Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; recently retired super star, Gordie Howe.Assessing the early form of goaltenders Wayne Rutledge, Don Wallis and Jim Armstrong. Rollins anticipates no weakness in that department.The Golden Eagles look strong on the left side with Buffalo assigning Dennis Kassian to join Bob Ellett and Bob Jones. Kassian scored 35 goals for Salt Lake City last year, both a personal and team record.&ldquo;They give us not only experience but versatility as well,&rdquo; said Rollins. &ldquo;Jones can play center if needed and has a great shot from the point. Ellett can swing over to right wing if necessary and is a fine penalty-killer.&rdquo;Defenseman Paul Terbenche was also returned to the Golden Eagles. Although he missed 13 games with a muscle pull and later was hampered by a broken nose, Terbenche was voted the Eagles&rsquo; most valuable defenseman last season. He scored a personal high of 24 points on four goals and 20 assists in 51 games.Rollins is also pleased with the performance of veteran rearguard Dave Amadio and rookie defenseman Larry Palanio. whom he brought with him from Spokane of the Western International Hockey League. &#9632;

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Fielder Better Than Ever At 41

<div class="byline">&#x2014;MCCONNELL</div>SAN DIEGO&mdash;Johnny MacMillan, captain of the San Diego Gulls for the past three years, has retired.The popular 35-year-old right winger who scored 12 goals and 23 assists last season, has moved his family to Memphis and intends to enter law school. He is a graduate engineer from Denver University.Howie Young, the unpredictable, 34-year-old defenseman the Gulls drafted from the Vancouver Canucks, predictably didn&rsquo;t report for the opening of training camp.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-04217/4913762-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="264" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Howie Young</figcaption></div>Disappointed that he couldn&rsquo;t return to Phoenix where he was voted the Roadrunners&rsquo; most popular player season. Young has said he intends to stay in Chicago where he drove a cement truck in the off season.Manager-coach Max McNab anticipates help from the Philadelphia Flyers and has no particular holes to fill.&ldquo;We can adjust to a degree,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;so I&rsquo;d like to just take the best players available. The rookie situation does enter into it. though. I could use a rookie centerman and a defenseman.&rdquo;The Western Hockey League retained its rule requiring all clubs to carry two rookies although rosters have to be pared to 17 players by Nov. 1. Last year each club carried 18 players.Bruce Cowick, a 20-year-old left winger from Victoria of the British Columbia Junior Hockey League, might fill one rookie spot.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been pleasantly surprised by him. coming out of that league, said McNab. &ldquo;They don&rsquo;t draft too many from there.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Gulls’ MacMillan Quits To Return To College

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-03287/4913793-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="499" height="579"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB COOK&hellip; Ex-AHL Sharpshooter</figcaption></div>SEATTLE&mdash;The Vancouver Canucks assigned three more players to the Seattle Totems and the Los Angeles Kings turned over two.Vancouver general manager Bud Poile signed his son. David, to a pro contract and assigned him to Seattle along with Bob Cook and Gerry Sillers.Randy Miller and Gary Marsh came from the Kings.Cook, a 6-0, 190-pound right winger, scored 48 goals in the last two seasons at Rochester in the American League.Sillers, another right winger, is a sturdy 5-8 and 170. He scored 17 goals for Rochester two years ago and sat out most of last season, working on his education. He played seven games with Portland and one with Rochester.Miller, 6-0 and 184, is a strong skating left wing who played for Denver last season and in 1968-69. He contributed 14 goals and 11 assists in 43 games for the Spurs last year.Marsh, a 25-year-old left wing, split last season between Springfield in the AHL and Kansas City in the Central League, scoring just 16 points in 45 games. &#9632;

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Poile’s Son On Option To Totems

<div class="byline">BY HARRY GAGE</div>DALLAS&mdash;When, and if, 21-year-old lookie goaltender Gilles Meloche comes down from Chicago to mind the nets for Dallas, coach Bobby Kromm figures his bid for a second Central Hockey League championship in five seasons will be greatly enhanced.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01600/4913824-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="268" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dan Lodboa</figcaption></div>&ldquo;From the way it looks as we go into the final stages of our pre-season training, this club will have experience, and depth and much skate power up front.&rdquo; said Kromm as he sped his charges through extensive sessions stressing fundamentals at Guelph. Ontario.Meloche is the key to the goaltending. This kid, who was with Dallas for the last five games of the championship series with Omaha last Sprirtg, has drawn raves with his cool play during early workouts with the big club. To a man. the Chicago brass rates Meloche as a big league star in the immediate future.Now, if Meloche is retained at Chicago, and there is a good chance he will be after Hawks&rsquo; No. 2 goaler. Garry Smith, suffered a broken finger, Kromm will have to go with veteran Ken Brown, a brash but confident 22-year-old blonde who understudied Jim Shaw last season after playing No. 2 the previous year. Brown was bench insurance for the parent club in the 1970-71 playoffs, but Kromm still isn&rsquo;t satisfied with his performance in pre-season work.Kromm is reluctant to say Brown will be No. 1. The club has several likely rookies on hand, including Mike Dumas, a two-year star at Dayton of the International League. Another prospect could be Jim Shaw, who tooled Dallas into the CHL playoffs last season, if he fails to cut it with Portland. Shaw moved ahead of Brown early in the 197071 campaign and worked all five of the playoff games. Brown was in the net for the opener win against Fort Worth.The Dallas club definitely will be a power this campaign if Chicago channels replacements for four defensemen who were taken from last year&rsquo;s runner-up aggregation. Only big John Marks remains of the stickout corps of Dennis Kearns. Dave Burrows, both drafted, and Barry Long, shipped to Portland, and Darryl Maggs, a rangy 210-pound youngster who apparently has made it at Chicago as a wing.Maggs, Kromm insisted all along, was capable of playing in the National Hockey League he has a powerful shot, skates well, and isn&rsquo;t afraid of the corners.What to do about these vacancies is Kromm&rsquo;s concern as the season approaches. Marks is a potential major leaguer and it isr&rsquo;t definite he&rsquo;ll stick all season in Dallas.Tommy Serviss is back from Rochester where he was on loan in a deal that brought crafty Keke Mortson to the Black Hawks as the playmaker in a drive that carried the club from grave&rsquo;s edge into a CHL playoff berth. Serviss is a willing, strong, eager veteran.Among the rookies Eastern Leaguer Roger Wilson from Greensboro is the most talented. Len Frig is a stocky scrapper who shows promise, as is Ron Anderson, another Greensboro performer whose 195 pounds on a stocky frame attracts attention. Then Mike Baumgartner, a University of North Dakota star, stands in good stead because of his aggressive style.However. Kromm is keeping his fingers crossed Chicago will send down Jerry Korab, who split time between Portland and Chicago last year, and popular Paul Shmyr, a two-year big leaguer who played at Dallas three seasons back. These two. along with Kearns and Marks, would solve Kromm&rsquo;s problem.Kromm&rsquo;s headache at the front line is making the right decision when the time comes to parcel out his rookies.Back from last year&rsquo;s club are ace goal shooter Dan Lodboa, who came into the Guelph camp overweight despite Kromm&rsquo;s insistence his players be in shape early; Don Gordon, one of the strongest shooters in CHL whose weakness is a lack of willingness to fire his big gun; Bill Young, husky Ron Dussiaume. J.P. Bordeleau, Larry Romanchych, Milt Black, Michel Archambault and crowd-pleaser J.P. Leblanc constitute an experienced corps.Dan Spring, No. 1 draft choice of Chicago, should earn a berth, along with No. 2 pick Dave Kryskow and possibly No. 3 selection Ron Peppier. If either of these guys fail to make the cut, Kromm likely will have them on hand at various times for five-day look-see. They&rsquo;re all great future stars.&ldquo;This should be our year. If we get our goal-tending, we could go all the way,&rdquo; Kromm chirps. &#9632;

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Kromm’s New Dallas Hawks Boast Power But Arrival Of Meloche Vital To Club

TULSA&mdash;A four-goal blast in an exhibition game against the Montreal Junior Canadiens earned winger Gerry O&rsquo;Flaherty another look from the parent Toronto Maple Leafs.O&rsquo;Flaherty started the training camp grind with the Leafs and then was sent to the CHL team for seasoning among a group of early cuts. Then came O&rsquo;Flaherty&rsquo;s big chance. The Oilers creamed the Canadiens 11-4 in a camp exhibition and the young Toronto chattel rammed in four goals along with teammate Cal Swenson, who duplicated O&rsquo;Flaherty&rsquo;s feat.The Leafs decided to send ex-Wisconsin star Murray Heatley down to Tulsa and bring O&rsquo;Flaherty back for a second trial.Swenson was the hot man for the CHL Oilers with nine goals and six assists in the club&rsquo;s first five games. Jan Popiel had six goals and four assists, O&rsquo;Flaherty was seven and three and Jean Payette two and eight.Among the Leaf cuts to Tulsa were Heatley, Popiel, Dave Fortier, Steve King, Gavin Kirk. Rick Kehoe and two goalers, Ron Low and Gordon McRae. Doug Acomb won&rsquo;t be back with the Oilers. He asked the Leafs to put him on the retired list to enable him to return to college. He plans to play for Barrie Flyers of the Ontario Senior League this season. &#9632;

Leafs Give O ’Flaherty Second Look

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01529/4913893-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="558" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDRE PELOFFY&hellip;A New Blade</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-02360/4913886-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="561" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLIFF PENNINGTON&hellip;Back In EHL</figcaption></div>NEW HAVEN&mdash;There&rsquo;s an air of optimism about coach Don Perry as he checks over the material he will have at his disposal this season in the defense of the Eastern Hockey League&rsquo;s Northern Division crown.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-03240/4913879-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="272" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Perry</figcaption></div>The club won&rsquo;t be intact for sure since Mike Hornby, who centered the club&rsquo;s No. 1 line last year, and Kevin Morrison, the club&rsquo;s policeman, will be among the missing. But Perry hasn&rsquo;t been idle in the offseason and he&rsquo;s come up with some men who could fill many of the vacancies on the team.For instance, he has two juniors who look promising. One is Andre Peloffy who had 118 points in 60 games last season at Rosemount with 49 goals and 69 assists. Two years ago he was a teammate of Pierre Brind&rsquo;amour who had such a great campaign last year. Hornby, now retired, teamed with Brind&rsquo;amour and Pierre LeBlanc last season, and Peloffy could be his fill-in. The fact that he already is familiar with Brind&rsquo;amour may make it easier for him to make the club.Pierre Pronoveau, a 21-year-old skater from Montreal, was spotted by vice prexy-Joe Car-lone and is a neighbor of Brind&rsquo;Amour. Dave Hrechkosy also has potential, according to Perry.Goalie Dave Hainsworth, Brind&rsquo;Amour and LeBlanc all were at the New York Rangers&rsquo; camp, but fortunately for Perry, the parent club decided to send all three back for more seasoning.Morrison has turned pro and likely will be with Fort Worth in the Central League. So Perry is looking for a guy of his ilk and defenseman Dick Cloutier, former Clinton Comet, could be his man. He had his share of tiffs with Morrison while in Clinton regalia. Cloutier was sent to the Blades by the Rangers from their training camp.Perry realizes as defending divisional champion that his Blades will be a target this year just as Clinton was for the other teams in past seasons. Don thinks he may be forced to make some deals to get the proper personnel on his squad, but he&rsquo;ll check over what he has before making any transactions.This could be the last season for the Blades since next year the New Haven Nighthawks will operate here in the American League and the status of the Blades&rsquo; franchise is currently up in the air as far as the 1972-73 season is concerned.SYRACUSE: The Blazers will play the U.S. Olympic team Dec. 11. Club got boost with news that Paul LaRose, last year&rsquo;s top goal getter, will be back and not play in the Central League. Mike Morton expected back from Buffalo camp. Coach Ron Ingram and GM Bill Charles visited Detroit&rsquo;s camp to get some help. A roster of 35 is due at club&rsquo;s Barrie, Ont., camp.JACKSONVILLE: The Rockets have acquired Cliff Pennington from the IHL. Cliff previously had played in the EHL with Nashville among others. New skipper Blake Ball promises a physical team this year, and the fact that he has averaged over 3(X) minutes in penalties the last six seasons indicates he&rsquo;ll show his men how to intimidate the opposition. Ken Turlik worked all summer with the pee wee hockey program here and Ball intends to use him on defense this year.JOHNSTOWN: Jets will train at Niagara Falls, Ont., where new coach Eddie Kachur will look over his prospects including defensemen Willie Terry secured in the deal for Ball. GM John Mitchell has lined up some new faces to go with such vets like Dick Roberge who has stepped down as a playing coach.JERSEY: Ex-skipper Wayne Kitchen decided to retire as a player and that voided the deal by which he was to go to Jacksonville for Wayne Horne. Kitchen will go into officiating and worked out at the EHL officials camp in Salem. All road games will be broadcast on radio with-John McAdams at the mike. Third periods of home game also will be aired.SALEM: August George was sold to Jersey as Colin Kilburn believes he has stronger men for his front line. Kilburn&rsquo;s son is a star linebacker on local high school football team. Rebels expect help from Philly Flyers. Drfenseman Norm Bean unexpectedly has returned. Kilburn was still trying to get Ray Woit out of New Haven&rsquo;s hands and Bobby Guindon from Muskegon. Claude Piche tried out with Phoenix.LONG ISLAND: Reports say John Brophy was offered job as coach of-Jacksonville, but he rejected the bid on the premise that he would rather play in this area. &#9632;

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Don Perry Hoping New Fates To Make Blades Flag Threat

GREENSBORO&mdash;The Greensboro Generals of the Eastern Hockey League are feeling a little more secure after signing a player development affiliation with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.The pact is a first for the Gens with an NHL club. For the past two years, Greensboro was unofficially linked with the Chicago Black Hawks. However, the deal with the Hawks was with General Manager Tommy Ivan, not the Chicago team.The announcement was made by General Manager Jim Gregory of Toronto and Norman Curtis, the Generals&rsquo; director of player personnel.Carl Scheer, president and general manager of the Generals, said of the new agreement: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re delighted to be associated with one of the most respected and most solid franchises in the NHL. Being affiliated with the Maple Leafs gives us great stability and a great opportunity to take advantage of their contacts and scouting system.&ldquo;It appears this will be a very long and prosperous relationship, one which I feel certainly will help improve the quality of hockey in Greensboro.&rdquo;Curtis pointed out that Toronto looked at several minor league teams before deciding to go with the Generals, one of the EHL&rsquo;s dominant teams since it joined the league in 1959.The Generals are the second EHL team to arrange a new agreement with an NHL club since last season. The champion Charlotte Checkers have hooked up with the Buffalo Sabres.GENERAL NOTES: Coach Ron Spong, preparing for his 12th year at the Generals&rsquo; helm, was in Toronto, lining up prospects for the upcoming season&hellip;The Generals opened training camp October 3 at Niagara Falls, Ontario&hellip;They launch the season October 13 at St. Petersburg and their first home game in the Greensboro Coliseum is October 16 against the rival Salem Rebels. &#9632;

Greensboro Signs Pact To Develop Young Leafs

ELINT&mdash;The International Hockey League has set the stage for a player contribution plan with the National Hockey League that will assure the IHL of some solid young skaters for the future.The two leagues announced a joint agreement whereby the NHL will loan a maximum of four young players to each IHL club commencing this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01552/4913955-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="273" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Beagan</figcaption></div>Commissioner Bill Beagan, a former NHL linesman, was instrumental in bringing about the new deal for the IHL. &ldquo;All our clubs have working agreements with National League clubs and this new plan will definitely benefit both the teams and our league. I hope that within the next three years that each IHL team will be allowed to play 10 young players from NHL clubs in our league,&rdquo; added Beagan.The Fort Wayne Komets recently inked a working agreement with the Pittsburgh Penguins to complete NHL affiliation with IHL teams.The Komets are playing their 20th year in the league. They open the 1971-72 season Oct. 15 in Muskegon and return home Sat. Oct. 16 for their opener against Flint Generals. Fort Wayne Coach Marc Boileau greeted approximatly 30 players at the Memorial Coliseum for the opening of training camp.The Flint Generals had some 35 players for the start of their camp in Flint.The Generals management is especially optimistic for the coming season. Returning from last season&rsquo;s fourth place club will be such outstanding players as Corky Agar (35-goals-79 points); Dave Gorman (36 goals 64 points); Ron Rincler (27 goals, 64 points) Wayne Zuk (24 goals, 37 points) Sandy Snow (30 points in 26 games); Duane Wyllie (15 goals. 41 points). The Generals also expect the return of their entire defense; Gary Gilbert, Jack Turner, Jim Young, Bill Horton. All Star goalie Bob Perani will also return. Apparently lost to the Chicago organization is goalkeeper Gilles Meloche. However, three goalies are expected to battle for his position.The Generals also welcomed several newcomers to training camp, some of which promise to push the veterans for positions on the sixteen-man roster. High hopes are being held for Leigh Bannister (center). He played last season for the Saskatoon Quakers where he scored 39 goals and had 45 assists in 40 games. Leigh (pronounced Lee) who is 6&rsquo;, 190 lbs will give the Generals much needed muscle in the front line.Bannister&rsquo;s two line-mates on the Saskatoon club are also expected to report to the Generals training camp, although neither has been confirmed.Some other players expected to report include. Billy Morris, 6&rsquo;, 190 lbs right winger. He was the policeman on the Edmonton Monarchs senior team last season. Barry Graham, 20-year-old defenseman, played with Ottawa of the OHA last year. Dennis Gidluck, 21-year-old left winger, stands 5&rsquo;11&rdquo;, weighs 195 lbs. He could become Flint&rsquo;s tough guy this season as Brian Shaw and Ken Hodge are very high on his ability. The Generals are also expecting some last minute cuts from some of the procamps.The Generals have traded Cliff Pennington to Jacksonville of the Eastern Hockey League for defenseman, Pierre Farmer. Pennington was suspended by the Generals near the end of last season. The much-traveled center will be returning to Jacksonville where he played previously.Farmer is expected to report to the Generals training camp. Pierre has pro experience with Providence of the American Hockey League. He could also provide some muscle to the Generals defense corps this winter.Doug Rombough became the first Flint Generals player to ink a professional contract when he signed with Cincinnati of the AHL. Doug, who had a great finish last season, was the first player to sign for the new Cincinnati franchise. The Swords are affiliated with the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL.Meloche also is expected to sign a professional contract with the Chicago organization and will probably play at Dallas of the Central League.The Generals will be playing all their Sunday games at 7:00 p.m. at the IMA Sports Arena. In prior years the Generals played some afternoon games. Wednesday games have also been moved back to 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday to 8:(X) p.m.Flint Generals fans got a taste of National Hockey League action as the St. Louis Blues made the IMA Sports Arena their training headquarters. More than 10,000 fans turned out to watch the Blues play Philadelphia, Detroit and New York. The largest attraction was Detroit which drew more than 4.100.Blues&rsquo; management had nothing but praise for the fantastic facilities and lots of locker room space gave the Blues and their minor league teams. Kansas City and Denver, adequate facilities.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02391/4913948-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="555" height="531"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE GORMAN&hellip;Back With Flint</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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NHL Teams To Provide Young Players After Signing New Agreement With IHL

<div class="byline">BY JHON ARNOLD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03328/4913986-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="832" height="1111"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN OCTOBER 22 ISSUE</h2>1&mdash;Pictured player.5&mdash;One of the Penguins answers to this.7&mdash;1966-67 Conn Smythe Trophy winner.10&mdash;Initials of defenseman Cahan.11&mdash;First name of one of the Bruins.13&mdash;A two-minute penalty will be given for this.14&mdash;Everyone reading this paper is one.15&mdash;Initials of one of the Red Wings.16&mdash;Guy Lafleur&rsquo;s number.17&mdash;Number worn by Keith Magnuson. (Rom Num.)19&mdash;Total goals scored by Harper last season.20&mdash;Initials of one of the Leafs.21&mdash;14th and 7th letters of the alphabet.22&mdash;A former NHL goaltender.26&mdash;This NHL forward recently injured his groin.27&mdash;An NHL city, (abbr.)28&mdash;Initials of a U.S. State.30&mdash;An NHL center.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Former Montreal and New York forward.2&mdash;A Bruin right winger.3&mdash;Ex-defenseman Boivin answers to this.4&mdash;A former Chicago captain.6&mdash;1959-60 Lady Byng Trophy winner.8&mdash;One of the Sabres.9&mdash;New Hampshire, (abbr.)12&mdash;Initals of a Buffalo forward.16&mdash;A New Penguin.18&mdash;Former NHL defenseman.20&mdash;Nickname of AHL team.22&mdash;Same as 10 across.23&mdash;21st and 8th letters of the alphbet.24&mdash;Chico and Wayne.25&mdash;One of the new Red Wings.29&mdash;Initials of 6 down.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1. HOWE3. R.A.6. DOREY.8. ROSS11. STAN12. TOTEMS13. G.G.14. O.L.15. A.A.16. DEA19. EEL21. ORR.22. A.S.23. DRAW.24. VI.25. SLY26. TKACZUK29 SEIKE30 ICE<h3>DOWN</h3>1. HART2. WESTFAIL3. ROSS4. ART.5. BYNG.7. EAGLE.9. O.O.10. S.E.14. ODROWSKI.17 AWREY18. HEARTS20. E.S.23. DICK24. VAL.27. R.E.28. ZE. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

BLOOMINGTON&mdash;A nucleus of nine veterans from last year&rsquo;s National sextet are among the 26 candidates coach Murray Williamson brought together for the 1972 United States Olympic hockey team&rsquo;s fall training camp.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01525/4914017-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="273" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Henry Boucha</figcaption></div>The camp opened September 15 at Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, Minn., before shifting to Bemidji, Minn., September 18.It appears this will be a young U.S. team, for the 26 training camp participants average 22 years of age. But it was young players such as Henry Boucha, Jim McElmury and Tom Mellor&mdash;all returning this year&mdash;who turned in the strongest performances for the U.S. in the 1971 World Championships.Others with National team experience include Keith Christiansen, Craig Patrick, Tim Sheehy, Kevin Ahearn and Pete Fichuk. Ahearn attended the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; training camp. Boucha was at Detroit&rsquo;s and Patrick tried out with California Seals. All three are expected back with the Nats.Recent college graduates and other newcomers joining the nine veterans at the training camp are: goaltenders: Kim Newman of Eveleth, Minn., and Air Force Academy; Pete Sears of Lake Placid. N.Y., and Oswego College; Dave Reece of Troy, N.Y., and the University of Vermont; Blane Comstock of Roseau. Minn., and Bemidji State; defensemen: Wally Olds of Baudette, Minn.; Frank Sanders of North St. Paul; Bruce McIntosh of Edina, Minn.; Pat Westrum of Minneapolis; Steve Ross of International Falls&mdash;all former University of Minnesota players; wings: Herb Price of Farmington, Mich., and Michigan State University; Larry Bader of Hopkins, Minn., and the University of Pennsylvania; Bruce LaHue of St. Paul and Colorado College; Craig Samer of North St. Paul and the University of Minnesota; Stu Irving of Boston; Bob Fowler of Robbinsdale, Minn, and centers: Rob Ftorek of Needham, Mass, and Bob Olein of St. Paul.Fowler and Olein both played junior hockey last year in Canada, while Ftorek played in the Boston area and Irving was in the Army. Olds, Sanders, McIntosh and Samer all played for Minnesota&rsquo;s 1971 NCAA finalists.Williamson and Manager Hal Trumble have lined up a formidable schedule against college, professional, top-flight amateur and international competition, including a two-city Christmas holiday tournament which will include teams from Russia and Czechoslovakia, 1-2 finishers in the &lsquo;71 World Championships. Games will be played at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs and Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, Minn.With a 40-game schedule behind them, the young U.S. skaters hopefully will have come of age by the time of the 1972 Winter Olympics February 3-13 in Sapporo, Japan. &#9632;

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U.S. Nats Get Nine Vets Back

OSHAWA&mdash;The Oshawa Generals have fallen on lean years since the incomparable Bobby Orr left in 1966 to become a National Hockey League super star.But all that could change this year because of a hot young skater, Bill Lochead, and an inspirational coach named Gus Bodnar.Lochead provided the offensive spark on the opening weekend of the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior League schedule as the Generals skated roughshod over the highly-touted Ottawa 67s and came away with a pair of victories in a home-and-home series.Lochead, the Gens&rsquo; No. 1 pick in last summer&rsquo;s midget draft, pumped in four goals in the twin killing of the Ottawans. His three goals in the first game between the clubs came on Ottawa ice and stamned him as a definite top junior prospect for the new season.Lochead may not make the Oshawa fans forget all about Orr but he is like a breath of spring to long-suffering Generals&rsquo; supporters. The return of Bodnar to the OHA as manager-coach of the team is another plus for the Generals. He has won the Memorial Cup with the Toronto Marlboros in past years and Oshawa fans are hoping he can turn the trick once more with the Generals.In other opening OHA action, the Peterborough Petes got off on the right foot with a pair of wins over Hamilton and St. Catharines. The Hawks were the big disappointments of the league start by dropping three straight games to London, Peterborough and Ottawa. The Montreal Canadiens, who have undergone a considerable rebuilding program, found the going rough against Niagara Falls and came away empty handed with a 5-0 loss.Team captain Don Lever scored twice to spark the Flyers over the Canadiens. It was sweet revenge for the winners, who finished the 1970-71 season in last place with many of their problems stemming from their meetings with the then powerful Canucks. &#9632;

Lochead Leads Oshawa To Double

<h2>ONTARIO MAJOR JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Tues. Oct. 5)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-02341/4914072-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="579" height="367"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Thurs. Sept. 31Peterborough 6 at St. Catharines 4Fri. Oct. 1St. Catharine 1 at Ottawa 5Montreal 0 at Niagara Falls 5Hamilton 2 at Kitchener 8Sat Oct. 2Ottawa 2 at Oshawa 7Sun. Oct. 3Oshawa 9 at Ottawa 5London 5 at St. Catharines 2Peterborough 6 at Hamilton 1 &#9632;

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<h2>SEPTEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-03223/4914145-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="464" height="26"></div><h2>OCTOBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-04156/4914138-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="541" height="1430"></div><h2>NOVEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-05110/4914131-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="540" height="1253"></div><h2>December</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0690/4914124-1-eng-US/f0027-062.jpg" title="f0027-06" width="528" height="1131"></div><h2>January</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0775/4914117-1-eng-US/f0027-072.jpg" title="f0027-07" width="530" height="1377"></div><h2>February</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0870/4914110-1-eng-US/f0027-082.jpg" title="f0027-08" width="543" height="1377"></div><h2>MARCH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0969/4914103-1-eng-US/f0027-092.jpg" title="f0027-09" width="531" height="1148"></div> &#9632;

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ONTARIO MAJOR JUNIOR 1971-72 Schedule

HAMILTON: Weekdays 7:30 p.m. Sunday 2:00 p.m.OSHAWA: Weekdays 7:30 p.m.OTTAWA: Tuesday 8:00 p.m. Fridays 8:00 p.m. Sunday 7:30 p.m.TORONTO: Fridays 8:00 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays 2:00 p.m.NIAGARA FALLS: All games 8:00 p.m.KITCHENER: Tuesdays & Fridays 8:00 p.m. Sundays 2:00 p.m. or 7: 30 p.m.ST. CATHARINES: Sundays: 7:15 p.m. Weeknights 8:00 p.m.LONDON: Sundays 7:00 p.m. All others 8:00 p.m.PETERBORO: All games: 8:00 p.m.MONTREAL: Sundays 7:30 p.m. Saturdays: 2:00 p.m. Weeknights 8:00 p.m. &#9632;

GAME STARTING TIMES

<div class="image-hero"><img title="C4-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01227/4914200-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg"></div>He should. He broke nine records last season, including high point and high goal scoring.Phil helps to design much of the gear he recommends, and he only puts his name on it if he feels it&rsquo;s right for you. If Phil doesn&rsquo;t know good equipment, who does?Look for Phil&rsquo;s signature on these brands.ABC CONVERSE RUBBER DAOUST D & R EXETER GUELPH ELASTIC MYLEC PENDER VICTORIAVILLE &#9632;

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October 15, 1971

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