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April 14, 1972
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NHL Raises Playoff Money But Players Reject Boost
MONTREAL— Professional hockey took a large step towards increasing its status in the North American pro sports rankings with the announcement by National Hockey League officials that each member of this year’s Stanley Cup championship team will receive playoff bonuses amounting to $15,000 per man. This is an increase of $7,500 from last year’s scale. Members of the losing team will collect $7,500, up $1,500 from last year. By comparison, members of the winning team in pro football’s Super Bowl are rewarded with $25,000 each, while each member of the Pittsburgh Pirates received an estimated $20,000 for their 1971 World Series victory. Despite the healthy boosting of the post-season financial rewards, the National Hockey League players—through their association president Alan Eagleson,—made it known that they were far from satisfied with the amount of the…
Linemates Harris, Gardner Share Scoring Title; Two Of Hawks’ Netminders Back In Camp
ST. CATHARINES— Eight OHA Major Junior A teams headed into the first round of the playoffs with the competition so close that none of them—not even the powerful first-place Toronto Marlboros—could afford to be complacent about their quarter-final opponents. While it was decided several weeks ago that the Hamilton Red Wings (10th place finishers) and the Montreal Junior Canadiens (9th place finishers) would be the two teams to miss out on postseason action, the jockeying for favorable positions behind Toronto went right down to the final weekend of the regular schedule. The hottest battle was waged between the Ottawa 67s and the Kitchener Rangers with the loser drawing a fifth-place finish and an opening matchup with the powerful Marlies. Ron Murphy’s Kitchener crew did their best by knocking off the same Marlies 64…
Richard Links Habs To Past Cup Glories
MONTREAL— He’s the sole survivor of the great Canadiens teams of the 1950’s, the ones that won five straight Stanley Cups for a record that may never be broken, but Henri Richard believes in looking ahead rather than backward. “I’m looking forward to this year’s playoffs,” says the 36-year-old veteran of 17 NHL campaigns. “I just hope I can help the club win another Stanley Cup.” Richard scored the Cup-winning goal for Canadiens last spring, when he beat Chicago goalie Tony Esposito early in the first overtime period to give the Habs a 3-2 win in the seventh game of the series. He also won them a Cup in 1966, again early in overtime, when the puck caromed into the Detroit Red Wings net off his knee as he fell in front of the…
Reds Beat Out Amerks As AHL Cup Play Opens
ROCHESTER— The Calder Cup playoffs are underway in the American Hockey League and for the Rochester Americans it was a bitter pill to swallow. The Americans missed the money round by a mere one point in a stretch showdown with the Providence Reds, who outlasted them in a stirring run to the wire which saw the Reds finish with 67 points, one more than the Americans. But the Americans need not hang their heads the way they handled the opposition in the closing week. They cuffed everybody who stepped in their path to the fourth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Division except the front-running Boston Braves, who wrapped up first place by virtue of a better won-and-lost record against the Nova Scotia Voyageurs. Both teams ended tied with 96 points. The Americans…
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