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February 4, 1972
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Labossiere Aiming To Overtake Mates
CLEVELAND— Gordon Labossiere, who missed 10 late December-early January contests while on emergency recall with the Minnesota North Stars, is still making his presence felt in the race for the John B. Sollenberger Trophy as the American Hockey League’s highest scorer for the season. Ironically enough the two players he is taking aim at now are Baron teammates Buster Harvey and Terry Caffery. The veteran Cleveland center, in his first campaign with the club has picked up nine points in the five games since his return to the AHL Inclued in that total are four goals and three assists in the first three games of a lengthy Barons road trip. Even though Labossiere has appeared in only 31 contests he leads the Cleveland club in goals with 24 and has added 23 assists…
Guidolin Fined $300 By AHL
WEST SPRINGFIELD— Coach Bep Guidolin of the Boston Braves was fined $300 for “abuse of the officials and conduct prejudicial to the welfare of the league.” Jack Butterfield, president of the American Hockey League, set the fine on charges stemming from an incident on New Year’s Day in a game involving Boston at the Springfield Kings. During the game Guidolin was ejected for obscene gestures after protesting a two-minute minor pelanty called by official Alf LeJeune against the Boston goalie for firing the puck out of the rink.…
Canadiens’ Road Play Turns Sour
MONTREAL— The way things have been going with Canadiens recently, they’re beginning to look like a Broadway stage production. Broadway shows are taken on the for tryouts. That’s when the scenery falls down, and actors forget their lines. The gimmicks are worked out eventually, however, and when the show comes to Broadway it’s a Socko Success! Montreal Canadiens have been touring on the road lately, and their record for mishap is formidable. In a stretch that extended for a month after last December 17th and involved eight games, they failed to post a single win away from the friendly Montreal Forum. They had one tie and seven losses during that stretch on the road. At home they remained undefeated since the start of the present season. Teams that are no threat to Canadiens in the…
Expansion Suns Jinx Leading Charlotte; Adduono Running Away With Scoring Title
CHARLOTTE— If you were going to pick a bugaboo for the Charlotte Checkers, it’s a good bet that you wouldn’t select the expansion Sun Coast Suns’franchise in Eastern Hockey League action. But the EHL is the league of the unexpected and the Suns are prime exponents that nothing is sacred in the circuit. For the second time this season the Suns scuttled a Charlotte winning streak to infuriate coach Fred Creighton. Earlier in the season, the Checkers had a 31-game home winning streak that went through all of 1971 including the tailend of last season and the early stages of the current campaign. Well that streak went up in smoke by a 5-1 count with the Suns the villains. Then just a few weeks ago, the Checkers approached the league standard of 21 games…
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