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July 1, 1972
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Rangers’ Draft Losses Light As ‘Cat’ Picks Off 10 Amateurs
NEW YORK— The New York Rangers escaped the draft at the National Hockey League’s annual June clambake, with the ease of-Jean Ratelle winning a faceoff. Under the canny direction of general manager-coach Emile Francis, the Broadway Blueshirts lost only minor leaguers Norm Gratton, Bryan Lefley and Morris Stefaniw in the expansion phase of the selections. Prior to the draft meetings, Francis and an old trading pal, Ned Harkness, the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings made a deal. Gary Doak, the Rangers fifth defenseman and Jim Neilson’s replacement in the playoffs, when the Chief was hurt, was traded to Detroit for Joe Zanussi, a minor league blueliner with the Wings’ Fort Worth affiliation. The New Yorkers also sent farmhand defenseman Rick Newell to Detroit in the transaction. “Once and for all I am…
Tulsa’s First Ice Product, Miron Drafted By Toronto
TULSA— The first product of Tulsa’s junior hockey program to be drafted by a professional club is Monte Miron, 20-year-old son of Ray Miron, general manager of the Tulsa Oilers. Young Miron, 6-2 and 190, played right defense and right wing as a sophomore for Clarkson College in upstate New York last winter. He was the seventh choice of the Toronto Maple Leafs (the Oilers’ parent club) in the June 9 amateur draft at Montreal. Although born in Cornwall, Ont., young Miron has lived in the U.S. for the last 12 years, and has been a Tulsa resident since the fall of 1964. A l0th-round Leaf choice was Boston-born Gary Schofield, who played for the Clarkson Frosh last season. Both Clarkson players will complete their college careers before considering pro contacts, the elder Miron…
FINAL CHL STATISTICS
INDIVIDUAL SCORING AND PENALTY RECORDS COMPLETE GOALKEEPING RECORDS…
Torrey Exulted Over Youth, Speed
LONG ISLAND— “We have youth, speed and are very solid in goal with Gerry Desjardins and Denis DeJordy,” declared an ecstatic Bill Torrey, the general manager of the newly minted New York Islanders, at the conlusion of the annual June meetings of the NHL. Neither Desjardins nor DeJordy played much this past season. Gerry, still recovering from a broken arm suffered in March of 1971, was the cause celebre in the Chicago-California trade in which Gilles Meloche finally was substituted for Gerry. His arm is alright new, although Gerry himself says, “it will get stronger as time goes on.” Once rated the fastest glove hand in the NHL West, when the West was only an expansion division, Gerry has played for both Los Angeles and Chicago. He played six games with the Hawks…
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