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May 5, 1972
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Player’s of the week
In The East The Boston Bruins are making a shambles of the Stanley Cup semi-final series with the St. Louis Blues and one player who has been thriving on the Bruins’ overwhelming offensive play is veteran left wing John Bucyk. The Chief has jumped to the front in the individual playoff scoring race on the strength of his scoring output alone against the Blues in their current one-sided series. Bucyk has racked up 10 points in the three games with St. Louis to lead all Stanley Cup playoff scorers with 15 points. The high point for the Bruins’ prolific winger came in the 10-2 rout of the Blues. Bucyk fired three goals. In the series opener, which the Bruins won in a breeze 6-1, Bucyk figured in four of the goals. In The West Even…
NHL Players, U.S. Team Owners Seen Split Over Proposed Russian-Canada Ice Series
TORONTO— A major clash appears to be looming between National Hockey League players and the owners of the American-based clubs over the right to play for Canada in the special eight-game series against Russia set for this fall. The advent of the series, announced jointly April 20 by officials of the Canadian Amateur’ Hockey Association and Hockey Canada, will thrust the nine-time world amateur champion Russian national team against a top Canadian team—with NHL pros of Canadian citizenship elegible for inclusion. Four games will be played in Canada between Sept. 1-8 with another four scheduled for Moscow Sept. 22-28. The three Canadian-based NHL clubs—Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver—had, through their representation on Hockey Canada, already pledged their support to the venture. However, reaction from the American team managements, who had little or no knowledge of…
Denver Sweeps Gulls Out Of WHL Playoffs
DENVER— The Denver Spurs turned bad luck into a sweep of their best of-seven Western Hockey League Patrick Cup semi-finals. Shut out of their own building for the first two games, even though they earned the opening dates by virtue of their first place finish, they went into San Diego and swept the pair 2-0 and 4-2. The Spurs moved back to Denver where they wrapped up the series with 4-3 and 3-1 victories. The wins were the 30th and 31st on home ice for Denver this season—a record for the WHL. Peter McDuffe provided shutout goaltending in the opening 2-0 victory and part way through the second period of the next game. Fran Huck and Ron Buchanan did the Denver scoring in the opener. Huck’s was the game winner. Bob McCord scored the winning goal…
Portland Subdues Phoenix In Six Games To Win Cup Final Berth Against Denver
PORTLAND— The Portland Buckaroos spotted the Phoenix Roadrunners a 2-1 series lead and then roared back to score three straight victories—two of them on home ice—to wrap up their semi-final series and advance to the Western Hockey League finals against the Denver Spurs. The Bucks took the best-of-seven series 4-2 in games winning 4-3, 3-2 and 6-2 in succession after the Runners had broken on top in the series with a two-games-to-one lead. By virtue of their win, the Buckaroos get another chance to defend the Patrick Cup they won last season by facing up to the powerful and undoubtedly favorite Denver Spurs. The Spurs hardly worked up a sweat in disposing of San Diego Gulls in four straight in the other WHL semi-final series. The Buckaroos won the series opener 3-1 and the…
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