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October 6, 1972

The Hockey News October 6, 1972

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IN THIS ISSUE

Starting Times Of Games

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>CLEVELAND&mdash;Fans who want to watch only the Cleveland Barons play here this American Hockey League season certainly won&rsquo;t lose any sleep.The 1972-73 AHL schedule shows the Barons playing just four night games all season! Honest&hellip; four night games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01179/3185939-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="267" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rocky Farr</figcaption></div>Nick Mileti, owner of the Barons, also owns the Cleveland Crusaders of the World Hockey Association and the Cleveland Cava liers of the National Basketball Association. Since they&rsquo;ll be using the same building, Mileti is moving his Barons to afternoon and early evening games, most of which will be played as first games of doubleheaders with the Crusaders.The Barons will play 16 Saturday afternoons and 10 Sunday afternoons starting at 2, and will start at 5 p.m. on their lone Tuesday and Wednesday and their six Friday dates.As for players, the Minnesota North Stars will supply the talent as per a long-term agreement which ends with this season.With WHA defections plus an opening or two with the parent North Stars, the Barons still have two goalies and five defensemen returning from last season, but just four forwards.Fern Rivard and Gilles Gilbert are again expected to share the netminding. Fred Barrett, if he doesn&rsquo;t stay with Minnesota, along with Gary Geldart, Dennis Patterson. Jim McElmury and Ron Wilson are coming back on defense.But up front it is a different story, Buster Harvey probably will remain with the North Stars and Terry Caffery, Gordon Labossiere. Norm Beaudin, Fred Speck and Grant Erickson have jumped to the WHA and Billy Heindl was drafted by Atlanta, then traded to the New York Rangers.That leaves only Dennis Giannini (28 goals) as a holdover with any sewing punch last season. He&rsquo;s a Lit wing, along with Gary Gambucci (10 goals) and Mike Chernoff (8 goals). Terry Holbrook (7 goals) is the lone right wing and there are no centermen.CINCINNATI: Coach Floyd Smith has enough goaltenders and forwards returning, but is short on the blueline where Terry Ball, Steve Cuddie and Frank Lacombe have gone to the WHA and Ken Murray was drafted by the Islanders.Returning are goalies Rocky Farr and Ray Reeson, although Gary Bromley (3 games) may shove Reeson out of a job. Hap Myers and Jack Taggart are the lone defensemen back, but Buffalo, the Swords&rsquo; parent club, isn&rsquo;t stocking Salt Lake City this year, so some talent should be available from there.Top point-getters Paul Andrea and Keke Mortson have gone to the WHA, but back are Butch Deadmarsh (who may stay in the NHL), Doug Rombough, Jim Nichols, Hugh Harris, John Gould, Rick Dudley, Jake Rath-well and Joe Robertson.ROCHESTER: With no NHL tie-up and trying to start an independent operation at a time of short supply, the makeup of the Americans won&rsquo;t be known until the season opens.Coach Don Cherry has promises of help from the Rangers, Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabres, but all have other farm clubs in the AHL so Cherry doesn&rsquo;t know what he&rsquo;ll get.Of the 26 players invited to the opening of training camp here, only five had more than a few games of pro experience. They were goalie Lynn Zimmerman, defensemen Bob Blackburn and Jack Chipchase and forwards Bob Ellett and Gerry Sillers. &#9632;

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Mileti Plans To Stage Hockey Twinbills, Barons Look For Help From North Stars

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div>VANCOUVER&mdash;Drained by expansion and riddled by raids from the World Hockey Association, the Vancouver Canucks opened training camp Sept. 11 at Calgary as a team liberally sprinkled with question marks.&bull; Is Dunc Wilson finally ready to live up to his potential as a major league goaltender?&bull; Has general manager Bud Poile found competent replacements for right wingers Rosie Paiement and Wayne Connelly who jumped to the WHA?&bull; Can that young, inexperienced defense mature quickly enough to compensate for the loss of John Schella and Pat Quinn in expansion and the trade that dealt away Gary Doak last season?&bull; Can Vic Stasiuk, who has replaced Hal Laycoe as coach, restore the pride the Canucks had in year one, but appeared to lose somewhere in year two?If the answer to all those questions is yes, the Canucks&mdash;entering only their third season of operation&mdash;could conceivably challenge Detroit and Toronto for the fourth playoff berth in their tough eastern division.If the answers to all are no, then the Canucks may have their hands full finishing ahead of the New York Islanders, the latest expansion entry in their division.Goaltending is undoubtedly the major question. Brilliant goaltending, the kind Roger Crozier usually provides Buffalo, can cover up for a multitude of sins.Poile remains convinced Wilson can do just that.&ldquo;To an extent I&rsquo;m staking my job on it,&rdquo; he says. Poile is in the final year of a three-year contract.Stasiuk. who coached Wilson for a season with the American Hockey League Quebec Aces, is another believer. Like Poile, he figures Wilson has the talent to rank right up there with the best.&ldquo;But it&rsquo;s getting to be a pretty exclusive club,&rdquo; grins Poile. &ldquo;About now the only people convinced Wilson can make it are me, Vic and Wilson.&rdquo;For his part, Wilson reported to training camp in good condition and sporting, he says, a brand new attitude.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t ever remember looking forward to a new season more,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;and part of the reason is Stasiuk. We had our differences in Quebec City, but we understand one another. Hal (Layooe) and I just couldn&rsquo;t seem to communicate. I just couldn&rsquo;t play for the man.&rdquo;With George Gardner, Wilson&rsquo;s goaltending partner most of last season, gone to the WHA, Dunc will have to carry most of the goaltending load, probably a minimum of 50 games.His probable partner will be second-year pro Ed Dyck, though Bruce Bullock is another possibility.But even if Wilson comes through big, the Canucks still have plenty to worry about. Right wing, for instance.They drafted Gerry O&rsquo;Flaherty, a third year pro, from the Toronto organization lastJune. At the same time they acquired Brian McSheffrey and Ron Homenuke in the amateur draft.McSheffrey, their second choice, scored 52 goals for Ottawa last season, but to this point he&rsquo;s been overshadowed by Homenuke, picked in the fourth round.In fact, early in camp, the Canucks&rsquo; most dazzling forward has been Richard Lemieux at left wing, Bobby Lalonde at centre and Homenuke at right wing.But if that trio is still intact when the season opens Oct. 7, it will be perhaps the smallest line ever to play in the NHL.Lalonde is 5-5 and 153 pounds, Lemieux 5-8 and 160 pounds and Homenuke, the heavyweight, 510 and 178 pounds.With Dale Tallon and Jocelyn Guevremont off in Europe playing with Team Canada, it&rsquo;s been virtually impossible to judge the Canucks&rsquo; young defense. Those figure prominently along with Greg Boddy, Barry Wilkins and Dennis Kearns. Dave Dunn and Jim Hargreaves, the Winnipeg strong boy, are battling for the sixth spot.Otherwise, Don Lever, the Canucks&rsquo; first amateur choice, and Don Tannahill, their first grab in the intra-league draft, are almost certain to win places on the forward lines.And in the category of most pleasant surprises mark down the name John Wright, fresh out of the University of Toronto.For a man who has spent the last four seasons playing an abbreviated college schedule, Wright has shown remarkable poise and a deft scoring touch.The 5-10, 180-pound center might just make the rare jump from college ranks to the NHL.As for pride, if hard work is the answer, that shouldn&rsquo;t be a problem. The Canucks used to think Hal Laycoe ran a tough training camp. That was until Stasiuk came along. &#9632;

Wilson Holds Key If Canucks To Fly Or Flop

<h2>EAST DIVISION</h2>1&mdash;Nova Scotia2&mdash;Providence3&mdash;Boston4&mdash;New Haven5&mdash;Springfield6&mdash;Rochester<h2>WEST DIVISION</h2>1&mdash;Cincinnati2&mdash;Hershey3&mdash;Richmond4&mdash;Baltimore5&mdash;Virginia6&mdash;Cleveland &#9632;

How They’ll Finish Race

&mdash;Pages 2-12-13<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01556/3186912-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="553" height="2104"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02424/3186905-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1773" height="1171"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leafs shelled out to keep Dave Keon from jumping to WHA. With new $135,000 contract, he faces challenge to put team in playoff race</figcaption></div>HOCKEY NEWS NHL PREVIEW&mdash;A LOOK AT NHL&rsquo;S EAST, WEST DIVISIONSPages 20-21SCHEDULES ON INSIDE NHL&mdash;WHA AHL&mdash;WHLCOACHING TURNOVER CONTINUES&mdash;Page 23PRO HOCKEY SPREADING TO EUROPE&mdash;Page 2CAN TEAM CANADA BOUNCE BACK?&mdash;Page 2 &#9632;

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RUSSIANS JOLT NHL WITH ICE STRENGTH

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01781/3184378-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="564" height="660"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRUCE NORRIS&hellip; More Expansion</figcaption></div>DETROIT&mdash;For a league that was so heavily criticized less than 10 years ago because of its insularity, the National Hockey League has become the most open of all professional sports leagues.First it was expansion, from six teams to 12, then 14, now 16, soon 18 and the end isn&rsquo;t in sight. Then a team of NHL stars break tradition and play the National teams of Russia and Sweden and now Detroit Red Wing club owner Bruce Norris has come up with a five-team, possibly six, European professional league which eventually will play the NHL champion for the Stanley Cup.The Wings&rsquo; multi-millionnaire owner made the announcement of the new league in London, the same day the Red Wings were opening training camp nearly 4,000 miles away in Port Huron, Mich.Norris said the European league, which will begin play in October, 1973, with a 60-game schedule, has &ldquo;an agreement in principle&rdquo; with the NHL to contend for the Stanley Cup.Norris and Red Wing aides John Ziegler, the club attorney; Lincoln Cavalieri, general manager of Olympia; and Red Wing executive vice president Jim Bishop made a 22-city tour of Europe last October and November to explore the possibilities of setting up a European professional league.Along with Mort Weiner, a Norris financial expert, and business associate Joseph Besch, the group awarded franchises to local owners in West Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Finland and Norris will operate the United Kingdom team. He currently is negotiating for land to build an 18,000 to 20,000-seat arena in London.The franchises cost $500,000 each and Ziegler said the Norris group isn&rsquo;t taking any money out of the kitty&mdash;&ldquo;As a finder&rsquo;s fee&rsquo; of sorts, we are taking the United Kingdom franchise.&rdquo;Ziegler said he expects the bulk of the players to be Europeans who now are playing senior hockey and that at first they probably will be mostly nationals of the country they&rsquo;re playing in but that eventually there would be a mix of nationalities.Ziegler envisions the new league giving financial support to the various national amateur hockey federations, much as the NHL does to the Canadian and American Amateur Hockey Associations.He also said it is hoped Russia and Czechoslovakia and East Germany would join a post-season playoff with the pro league teams with that winner facing the NHL champion for the Stanley Cup.Ziegler added that there probably will be some North American players in the league but that the league has an agreement with the NHL to respect each other&rsquo;s contracts. &ldquo;Teams from the two leagues would be able to buy or trade players,&rdquo; he said.Ziegler said the league won&rsquo;t be a &ldquo;development league for the NHL but would stand on its own. &#9632;

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Norris Sets Up European League As Future Rival For NHL

<div class="byline">BY KEN MCKENZIE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02726/3184409-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Team Canada had more than its share of problems solving the goalkeeping heroics of Russia&rsquo;s VLADISLAV TRETIAK, who was superb in frustrating NHL All Star team during games in Canada. (Hockey News Photo by Robert Shaver)</figcaption></div>MOSCOW&mdash;After a heart-breaking 5-4 loss in Game Five, a confidence-restoring 3-2 victory here in Game Six of the celebrated Russia-Canada hockey series lifted the spirits of Team Canada. But whatever the outcome of this history-setting event, enough has already transpired to perhaps permanently upset the North American hockey applecart.Canada&rsquo;s national ego&mdash;pinned closely to our expected superiority in hockey&mdash;has suffered a stiff jolt by the surprising strength of the Soviet national team over Team Canada. However, after the initial shock of Russian mastery of the game Canadians claimed as our own, had diminished, hockey fans everywhere turned to more positive thoughts about the exciting days ahead the continued international competition seems to offer.With the conclusion of the Canadian segment of the eightgame exhibition series between our best pros and the cream of the Soviet crop, many North American fans were distraught at what damage they felt the Russians&rsquo; astonishing two-win, one-loss, one-tie record would have on NHL prestige.Whatever the eventual reaction, it is safe to say that hockey in Canada may never be quite, the same again after the stunning upsets which the Soviet team brought about in the four games in Canada. Given virtually no chance by the North American sports media of making any type of showing against the handpicked NHL All Star squad, Bobrov and his boys won the opening game Sept. 2 at the Montreal Forum 7-3, suffered a 4-1 setback in Toronto two nights later, then rebounded for a 4-4 tie in Winnipeg and a 5-3 win in Vancouver.Seventeen goals in four games against the greatest individual stars in the game! Hockey &lsquo;experts&rsquo; from Gander. Newfoundland to Victoria British Columbia were left shaking their heads trying to figure out just what went wrong. Most of them pointed to the Russians&rsquo; superior conditioning which was clearly evident from the drop of the opening puck in Montreal.Those searching for convenient scape-goats singled out the Hockey Canada and Canadian Amateur Hockey Association negotiators for special attention. All of a sudden people began to wonder how anybody could have agreed to the early September dates for this important series.Other people blamed overly-optimistic media buildups and faulty scouting reports on the Russian team for the upset. Team Canada players were treated to a barrage of advance publicity that proclaimed their superiority and probably contributed to a bad case of over-contidence. The situation was not helped when Team Canada scouts returned from Moscow to report that possibly one&mdash;at the most&mdash;of the Russian players could make the Canadian team and that Team Soviet suffered from a terminal case of weak goaltending.It seems nothing was farther from the truth. &#9632;

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Russions Jolt NHL Ice Image

<div class="byline">BY JACK MCCARTHY</div>BOSTON&mdash;As the defending champions, the Boston Bruins have begun the sorting-out process at their London, Ont., training camp and already they are beset by some obvious problems some of them quite serious.Number one is a tossup as to its severity. There is the defection of Gerry Cheevers to Cleveland of the World Hockey Association, and the other is the condition of Bobby Orr&rsquo;s knee.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03447/3184485-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="290" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Orr</figcaption></div>The cases of Cheevers and Derek Sanderson (to the Philly Blazers) were aired in the U.S. District Court in Boston, where, after hearing testimony from both sides, Chief Justice Andrew A. Caffrey took the case under advisement.Last month, in a Federal Court hearing, it was agreed that both Sanderson and Cheevers would not leave the Bruins pending a decision by the circuit court. But after the District Court hearing, it was indicated that, no matter what Judge Caffrey decides, the case may wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court.With Orr&rsquo;s knee a doubtful proposition; Sanderson and Cheevers in court; John McKenzie also gone to the Blazers, Eddie Westfall to Long Island (he&rsquo;s signed), Dan Bouchard to Atlanta, etc., the Bruins would hardly appear to be odds-on favorites for the title.But Coach Tom Johnson is not easily rattled. Given the above background, most coaches would be at the Wailing Wall, begging for mercy. Not Johnson.Asked point blank if he was going into training camp with the idea of winning it all again, he replied quickly, &ldquo;Oh, definitely. I don&rsquo;t see any reason why we shouldn&rsquo;t repeat last year.&rdquo; Bang!He went on, &ldquo;Defending could be tougher than last. season, but we could get a few surprises in training camp. Each year is a new season, and last year&rsquo;s championship doesn&rsquo;t mean much now. But we have a lot of good players.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m planning that maybe some of these players won&rsquo;t be with us. I have to look at it that way in camp. We don&rsquo;t like to lose anybody, but if its meant to be, it&rsquo;s meant to be.&ldquo;Sure, we&rsquo;re concerned, because we know what we had in Cheevers. Eddie Johnston won&rsquo;t be in camp, because he&rsquo;ll be in Russia with team Canada. Maybe he won&rsquo;t join us until we get back to Boston. But he and the rest of them&mdash;Phil Esposito, Orr, Don Awrey, Wavne Cashman&mdash;should be in top condition. The games should definitely help them. I&rsquo;m not concerned about them.&ldquo;Orr? That is strictly between Bobby and the doctor. But I&rsquo;m very optimistic that the knee will be close to 100% by the opening of the season.&rdquo; That would be Sunday, Oct. 8, at Boston Garden against the L.A. Kings.However, it appeared that Dr. Carter Rowe, the Boston surgeon who performed surgery on Orr&rsquo;s knee, was not optimistic that Orr could even scrimmage until early October.Back at camp, Coach Johnson said that how much his veteran goaltender, Johnston, who will be 37 soon, will play depends on the performance the second goal-tender allows.&rdquo; In other words, E.J. is No. 1, right now, and has to be scheduled for heavy duty, but could be rested more often if a solid man appears out of training camp to back him up.Says Johnson, &ldquo;We know John Adams is a great prospect. How ready he is will be one of things we&rsquo;ll find out at training camp. You can&rsquo;t discount Curt Ridley, either, and Ross Brooks is a good goaltender.&rdquo;Adams is a stand-up goaler, who was the All Star playoff pick last year playing with Oklahoma City in the Central League. Brooks, 35, played for the Braves last season, and Ridley is a 21-year-old second-year pro who was a high draft pick a year ago. He spent last season with Oklahoma City.Of course, the loss of Bouchard to the Atlanta Flames makes the Boston position all the more in doubt. Says Johnson,&rdquo; With Johnston away, at least we&rsquo;ll be able to give the others a good look in the exhibition games.&rdquo;Aside from all this, the Bruins are no longer the &ldquo;set&rdquo; team going into camp that they have been over the past couple of seasons. Their No. 1 line, and possibly the best line in the NHL, is Esposito, with the new, slim Ken Hodge and the tough Cashman on the wings. At No. 2 will be Fred Stanfield at center and &bull;Johnny Bucyk at left wing. With McKenzie gone from this unit, Johnson will try Fred O&rsquo;Donnell (a McKenzie type), Doug Roberts, and tough Terry O&rsquo;Reilly in his place.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04260/3184478-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1111" height="1051"><figcaption class="caption-body">Two new goaling hopes for Bruins are rookies JOHN ADAMS, shown above in action, and Curt Ridley, both of whom will strive to make it as backup to Ed Johnston.</figcaption></div>Says Johnson,&rdquo; On the third line. I&rsquo;ll try Ace Bailey and Mike Walton at center or left wing, with Don Marcotte on right wing. Defense? Carol Vadnais will be back paired with Awrey, and Dallas Smith will play with Orr again. Nick Beverly and Matt Ravlich will be ready.&rdquo;A serious loss in tactical strength came when Sanderson and Westfall left together. They were the top penalty-killers, and were apt to score on a short-handed turn more often than not. Johnson plans on using Marcotte and Bailey for openers, with Hodge, Cashman and Esposito as possibles. &ldquo;We could get a few surprises in camp&rdquo;, he adds. &#9632;

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Bruins’ Johnson Optimistic, “Why Shouldn’t We Repeat?”

<div class="byline">BY CHARLIE HALPIN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01786/3184447-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="554" height="440"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02661/3184440-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="562" height="1266"><figcaption class="caption-body">STEVE SHUTT&hellip;May Make Habs</figcaption></div>MONTREAL&mdash;On the eve of the opening of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s 56th consecutive campaign, the big question in the minds of hockey people everywhere was, how would the NHL justify the loss of 67 players from last season?It was an exasperating situation for the NHL clubs who have had their rosters raided repeatedly since the 1971-72 season closed last spring. The rival World Hockey Association has been sniping steadily at the established NHL clubs and their farm clubs rosters and the result has put over 300 players on the opposite side of the fence.Money and multi-year contracts have been the big lure for the defecting players and the NHL&rsquo;s chances of reclaiming their lost hirelings may rest in the courts where judges have been most favorable in rendering their decisions in favor of the NHL.The Philadelphia Flyers were successful in restraining Bill Flett from going over to the New York Raiders. Gerry Cheevers, Derek Sanderson and Bobby Hull have been temporarily restrained from exercising their support of the WHA publicly until October 1 but beyond that no one knows what to expect. Court cases are pending all over the country and if the NHL is to keep the new league from getting off the ground with its players in tow, then injunctions to halt NHL players from stepping on the ice with WHA teams will have to be forthcoming in a hurry.Meanwhile, business goes on as usual around the NHL and all 16 teams, including the new New York Islanders and Atlanta Flames, are feeling the pinch of lost talent. The Islanders particularly are incensed with the situation since they shelled out a cool $6,000,000 for 20 players, five of whom have defected to WHA clubs.The hardest hit of the NHL teams appeared to be the California Golden Seals, who lost eight players and with them a promising future to become a contender. Five of their young players have left and it has created another frustrating rebuilding job for hard-working manager-coach Garry Young.The raiding WHA has dealt the Boston Bruins a severe blow and their ebullience could conceivably cost the B&rsquo;s a Stanley Cup victory next spring. The Bruins have lost Cheevers, Sanderson, John McKenzie, Ted Green, Don O&rsquo;Donoghue and rookie Ron Plumb to the WHA as well as Ed Westfall and minor league goaling hope Dan Bouchard to NHL expansion teams.Bruins&rsquo; coach Tom Johnson thinks the team still has enough left to put it all together again but it may be a more difficult task than a wily Johnson anticipates, especially if ailing Bobby Orr doesn&rsquo;t get back to the ice lanes after his summer surgery. Orr has missed the entire Russia-Team Canada series because his knee has not mended sufficiently to test it under game conditions. Estimates are Orr may not be ready to play until late November.Most NHL teams will be compelled to dip into their farm systems to come up with the replacements for the 67 defecting players and just how effective the young newcomers will be can only be answered by time. Certainly the NHL can expect to give more of the leading 20 amateur draft picks more of a look than at any time since the drafting of the country&rsquo;s overaged junior stars began five ago.It appears a pretty safe bet that most of the top 10 draft picks, headed by Steve Shutt, Dave Gardner, Don Lever, Billy Harris and Jacques Richard, will make it into starting day lineups, which is a pretty good indication of what the new league has achieved in raiding NHL clubs.Montreal and New York Rangers are virtually untouched in the East and should dominate the divisional race even to the point of heading off the talent-thinned Bruins. In the West, Minnesota North Stars, who lost no one of any significance, could be ready to make their big bid for the title while they engage Chicago and St. Louis in a three-team dogfight for first place. The North Stars will be skating on aging legs and this could prove detrimental through a gruelling 78-game schedule. The Hawks, who have lost Bobby Hull to the Winnipeg Jets, appear to have enough depth to carry on but there is no question Chicago will miss the dynamic Golden Jet.<div class="sidebar">For a complete breakdown on the 67 players who have Jeff the NHL since last season see list on page 15. &#9632;</div>

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What Effect Will It Have On The Race?

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01844/3184537-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="322" height="370"></div>&bull; MOSCOW: Hockey interest was at its highest peak here following the Russian successes against Team Canada. Veteran observers were claiming more satisfaction from the Soviet victories over the NHL selects than any of the gold medals the Russians won in international hockey competition&hellip; The establishment of a European pro hockey league by Detroit owner Bruce Norris was hailed in all the big European cities and was greeted by lavish headlines in the daily newspapers everywhere. The Russians were not included in the new plan set up by Norris and his Detroit colleagues but the people here are confident Russia will eventually be in thescheme&hellip; Norris and his group have been studying the plan for 10 months and are satisfied that it will get off the ground in October of 1973 with teams in Sweden, Findland, Switzerland, West Germany and Great Britain. The idea is to bring the Stanley Cup champions of the NHL together with the European title winner in a true World Series of hockey&hellip; NHL clubs, notably the Minnesota North Stars, were attempting to get some of the Russian hockey stars on their negotiation list but were meeting with no success although the Chicago Black Hawks already have one of the Soviet stars, Valary Kharlamov, on their NHL list since last June&hellip; The big question here among hockey people is whether the NHL and Russians will do it again next year. Opinion is divided that it will happen, some saying it is a definite thing and others skeptical that the NHL will allow itself to get involved in another high-pressured and time-consuming series. One thing is certain. There&rsquo;s no way the NHL will consent to another series in September. It would have to be a later date&hellip; Team Canada players were individually impressed with the tremendous support they received from the 3,000 odd Canadians who came over here for the four-game series. Together they made more noise and created more tumult than 12,000 Russians, who appear more subdued than Canadians in displaying their enthusiasm for the game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02796/3184530-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="271" height="404"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Ellis</figcaption></div>&bull; MANY OF the NHL players are frankly amazed at the pressure they&rsquo;ve had to undergo in the current Russia-Canada series. One, Ron Ellis, said he didn&rsquo;t realize what international hockey players went through until he had a chance to sample it himself. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s sure different. I find myself doing things I&rsquo;ve never done before.&rdquo;&hellip; Players and officials alike are adamant when they say the one person who has done more to psych the Canadian team on the ice is Phil Esposito. The Bruins&rsquo; star center has been playing sparkling hockey and will no doubt return to Boston in fine condition for another big NHL year. 1&rsquo;he most outstanding player consistently throughout the series has been Toronto&rsquo;s speedy Paul Henderson, who has skated miles to thwart the Russians&hellip; Hockey railbirds noted that Ulf Sterner has become more aggressive than when he tried out with the Rangers a few years back in the U.S.A, and failed in his bid. Sterner was highly critical of the Canadians&rsquo; rough play in the two games the Swedes played against the NHL Stars. Sterner, who has flown to Chicago to join the WHA Cougars, did a little undue roughing of his own in the games&hellip; Dale Tallon said he wants to play defense only when he heads back to the Vancouver Canucks after the Russian games&hellip; All the players will be ready and in good shape for the NHL openers. They have begun to hit their stride and their collective play has improved 100 per cent since the night they stepped on the Montreal Forum ice Sept. 2 in the illfated Game One of the series&hellip; Walter Bush, the president of the North Stars, went to Europe with a mitt full of money in the hope of luring some of the top European stars to come to North America. Bush has a good reason to want the players. His North Star commitments include sending players to the new AHL franchise at New Haven as well as Cleveland Barons not to mention Saginaw Gears, the newest entry in the International Hockey League. Stars will allow New York Islanders to supply most of the talent for New Haven this season then will assume the responsibility themselves next year&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03692/3184523-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="276" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Esposito</figcaption></div>&bull; THE NHL has contributed $100,000 to the new United States Hall of Fame building which is being constructed in Eveleth. Minn. Hall President Donald Clark said the grant clearly demonstrates the NHL&rsquo;s faith in the future of hockey in the United States&hellip; Misfortune befell two members of the hockey fraternity during the 1971-72 season. Doug Robinson, the former Los Angeles Kings&rsquo; forward, lost the sight of his eye when he was struck by a stick during an AHL game last season. And Bruce Gamble suffered a severe heart attack that has restricted his movements today. Both players are going to stay with the game they love as scouts. Robinson with Canadiens and Gamble as the Toronto-area scout for Philadelphia Flyers&hellip; And speaking of the Flyers, Joe Kadlec reports the club&rsquo;s film library now consists of eight films with the addition of the 1972 Stanley Cup flicker. Kadlec wants Philly area fans to know they can reserve any film by calling the club office in Philadelphia at 215 465-4500&hellip; Remember Hon Cantara. the former Detroit Red Wings, publicist? Well Ron will do the play-by-play of a weekly college TV hockey game in the Boston area Saturday afternoons throughout the coming season. Cantara is also Bruins&rsquo; color man&hellip; The NHL has five new coaches but they are not alone in this department. The major ECAC Conference will have seven new head coaches among its 17-member teams this campaign&hellip; Danny O&rsquo;Shea balked at returning to Chicago after the trade to St. Louis became void by Chris Bordeleau&rsquo;s defection to the WHA. The Hawks wanted O&rsquo;Shea back because the trade stipulated Bordeleau had to stay with Chicago through this season as well. The Blues sent a fine promising young goaler John Garrett to the Hawks to compensate for Bordeleau&rsquo;s loss.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04593/3184516-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="274" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny O&rsquo;Shea</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

VOL. 26 No. 1 OCTOBER 6, 1972OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Published 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. 12979Charlie HalpinEditorial DirectorKenneth William McKenziePresident and PublisherLyndon LittleAssistant To EditorUnited States Advertising Representatives: Boston: Stephen Ganak, Mediarep Center Inc., 1425 Statler Office Bldg., Boston, Mass. 02116, telephone (617) 482-5233; New York: Raymond Ogren, Sports Communications Inc, 770 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 10021, telephone (212) HA 1-7800.Yearly SUBSCRIPTION Rates: $7.00 in Canada $8.00 in the U.S.A. and $10.00 in Foreign Countries.Postpage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y. 12979. Send address changes to 1434 St. Catherine Street West, Suite 212, Montreal. 107, P.Q. Second class mail&mdash;Registration No. 1327Printed in Canada &#9632;

The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05472/3184592-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div><h2>NHL Should Consider Two-Referee System</h2>May I add my voice to the undoubted many who were amused to read that most of the NHL &lsquo;experts&rsquo; predicted a Team Canada sweep of the Canada-Russia series.The series, however, has offered some of the finest hockey I have seen in a long time. I like two things especially that the NHL should consider: two referees to spot infractions at all times, and the rule of an automatic 10-minute &lsquo;major&rsquo; for fighting. Both would, I think, improve both the calibre and speed of NHL hockey.DAVID N. PARKER, Florissant, Mo.<h2>Team Canada Needs Permanent Mentor</h2>Have Team Canada select a permanent top-notch coach at good salary, and give this coach the power to select three players of his choice from every NHL team. If these men want to play for Team Canada permanently, award them a suitable salary and a year-round job for one purpose only&mdash;international play at the top level.I think the NHL teams can spare the players, and Canada and the fans would surely emerge the winners.ALBERT PAYNE,&nbsp; Richford, Vt.<h2>How Come Sinden Didn&rsquo;t Pick Baun?</h2>Why didn&rsquo;t Harry Sinden insert Pit Martin, Bobby Baun and Gilles Villemure into the Canadian lineup? In my opinion, this trio would have been most valuable on Team Canada.I would also like to condemn the senseless booing and jeering to which Team Canada was subjected in its own rinks.JOEY BROZA,&nbsp; Nakina, Ont.<h2>NHL Should Adopt International Schedule</h2>I would like to see regular interlocking games between the Russians, Czechs and Swedes with every team in the NHL. If the league wants to retain its prestige it has no choice but to play against these three countries.JAMES C. DEW,&nbsp; Vancouver, B.C.<h2>Same Series Outcome If Hull Had Played</h2>There will inevitably be people who will now criticize Clarence Campbell because Bobby Hull, Derek Sanderson. J.C. Tremblay and Gerry Cheevers were prevented from playing for Team Canada. But I happen to think that even their presence in the series wouldn&rsquo;t have made one bit of difference.JIM JOHNSON,&nbsp; Middleton, N.S.<h2>Canada&rsquo;s Poor Showing Not Players&rsquo; Fault</h2>It is not the fault of the players on Team Canada that they haven&rsquo;t been more successful against the Russians. They have done their best. The blame has to lie with (a) Hockey Canada, which bungled its job right from the start. Mainly, the bad timing of the series, and allowing the NHL to run the whole show; (b) The NHL, for not allowing the best available players on the team. Who can deny that Hull, Tremblay, etc. were sorely-missed? (c) Alan Eagleson, who supposedly represents the players, but who went along with the NHL instead of looking after the players&rsquo; interests, and (d) Harry Sinden, for having far too many players on the team. Just as some were getting used to the Russians&rsquo; style, Sinden would send in substitutes. Frank Mahovlich and Yvan Cournoyer, for instance, never knew from one minute to the next who their center would be.I don&rsquo;t believe people were blaming the players by booing. They were merely showing their disgust with the organizers, who let both Canada and the players downB. HARRISON,&nbsp; Ottawa, Ont.<h2>Good Hockey Action Appreciated By Fans</h2>While checking through the November issue of your HOCKEY PICTORIAL magazine I noticed several outstanding hockey action photos, notably the full-length center fold of Bobby Orr, credited to one Robert Shaver. I&rsquo;m a fan of the Buffalo Sabres and I was wondering if the photographer is the same Robert Shaver who is listed in the Buffalo yearbook. Could you tell me if I am right because my son is interested in finding out as he is a hockey picture collector.JAMES DUNNSTON, N.&nbsp; Tonawanda, N.Y.(Editor&rsquo;s note: Yes Robert Shauer is the official photographer of the Buffalo Sabres and his excellent hockey action photos appear on the pages of our magazines and THE HOCKEY NEWS regularly. If you wish to contact him. write Robert Sharer, 149 Maycville Are., Kenmore, N.Y. 14217.)<h2>If You Got $2 Million, You&rsquo;d Take It, Too</h2>Being an avid Ranger fan and a season ticket-holder, I suppose I am essentially anti-WHA. However, when considering the &lsquo;jumpers&rsquo;, one must he reasonable. Since one can only play hockey until a certain age, and then must call it quits, the player should try to make as much money as possible while he still can. And if someone is willing to pay him the salary, he must be worth it. Come on, fans, who are you kidding? If you were paid $2 million, you&rsquo;d play in Alaska!WALTER S. KOWAL JR., Newark, N.J. &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">BY JIM HUBER</div>ATLANTA&mdash;Boom Boom Geoffrion stood naked in a large dark room deep within the bowels of the Drummondville Civic Centre and waved a dirty sock at his visitors.&ldquo;I do not experiment,&rdquo; shouted&rsquo; the one-time Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; star. &ldquo;We want to win. I don&rsquo;t take exhibition games lightly.&rdquo;It was at that precise moment that Atlantans got their first exposure to the psyche of the coach they had hired to guide their Flames through Season One.He wants to win. And his players are beginning to notice.The two-a-day workouts during the first week of training at their Quebec-based camp have been gruelling. Geoffrion has not allowed a moment for frivolity or a second for breath. Often, by the time his skaters have hit their beds at night, they have been on the ice more than five hours. Most of that will have been full speed.In the first scrimmage of the camp, two days after it opened, Geoffrion had his club working 1 1/2 minute stretches for the first half-hour, then upped that to two minutes and finally, for the final 20 minutes, the Flames worked at 2 1/2 minutes.&ldquo;Rough, especally for this early in camp,&rdquo; groaned defenseman Pat Quinn, whom the Flames picked up from Vancouver. He was not breathing easily.Nearby, Geoffrion smiled in silent approval.&ldquo;For the first workout, I was very pleased,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Nobody dogged it, everybody worked very hard. I was mainly concerned with their skating. That&rsquo;s what I wanted them to get used to. I liked what I saw.&rdquo;The Flames opened their exhibition season against the New York Islanders seven days after they hit camp. For Geoffrion, it was not a typical pre-season fun fest.&ldquo;We play New York three times in exhibitions,&rdquo;he growled. &ldquo;Then we open the regular season against them. I want to beat them all three so that when we go into New York for the opener, my boys will have the confidence that they can walk all over that team.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll hit hard, too. I will tell my boys to go out and, ah, have a little fun with them, eh?&rdquo;As it stands now, the Flames have five lines to work with. That of course will change before the season begins. It appears the best defensive line will be Bobby Leiter, Lew Morrison and Lucien Grenier, all veterans.Another will be made up of No. 1 amateur pick Jacques Richard, second-year man Norm Gratton and veteran Keith McCreary. Geoffrion thinks his best offensive line will probably be made up of Rey Comeau, Ernie Hicke and Billy MacMillan.There will be a kid line of sorts with John Stewart Larry Roman-chych and Bill Hogaboam. Thus far, Romanchych, who played with Dallas last year and was drafted from Chicago has been extremely impressive in drills.Nobody is expecting a Stanley Cup from this band of renegades but Geoffrion is demanding something more than what is normally expected of an expansion club. &#9632;

Boomer Driving New Flames To Ignite Winning Ice Spirit

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01816/3184647-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="528" height="930"></div>CHICAGO&mdash;Sporting, courting fans, mark down Sept. 28 on your calendar.That&rsquo;s presumably when the sparks will start to spurt in the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; efforts to prevent Robert Marvin Hull from scoring any goals or signing any autographs in behalf of the Winnipeg Jets or any team other than the Black Hawks.On that date, in Circuit Court of Cook County (Chicago), a hearing will commence on a preliminary injunction for the 33-year-old left wing who signed a contract with the World Hockey Association Jets last June 27, thus incurring the wrath of his former Chicago employers.Attorneys for both sides admit that the healthy wardrobe of suits tossed back and forth thus far amount to little more than gibberish.&ldquo;So far all we&rsquo;ve had is minor skirmishes,&rdquo; explained Seymour Schriar, one of the Hawks&rsquo; legal brains.&ldquo;The hearing on a preliminary injunction is important,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;because if the court feels that we have some possibility of a victory in the ultimate case, they can issue it (the injunction) and it will be in effect for the duration of litigation which includes the trial itself. Of course, if we are victorious in the trial, then the injunction is extended.&rdquo;The Black Hawks claimed triumph in minor episodes leading up to the Circuit Court hearing. On Sept. 11, a Federal Court judge tossed not only the Hawks&rsquo; suit against Hull for breach of contract, but Hull&rsquo;s counterclaim of anti-trust, out of his domain and back to the Circuit or local state court.Judge Williams J. Lynch said the whole brouhaha was none of his business, which is exactly the contention held by the Hawks.Meanwhile Jerome Torshen, perhaps cognizant that the Chicago club stands to get a better shake in a more local court, commented: &ldquo;This is clearly an incident of Anti-Trust, which is a Federal issue. Judge Lynch&rsquo;s decision marks the first time since the Sherman-Clayton Act (anti-trust) of 1890 that a Federal court has stated it has no jurisdiction over something which it clearly does.&rdquo;Another fellow in Hull&rsquo;s entourage took the decision with dismay, but added, &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t matter&hellip; it&rsquo;s not going to end up in a court in the heart of Chicago anyway.&rdquo;The inference, obviously, is that the Hull debate likely could become a landmark case to be mulled in higher places. &#9632;

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Huil-Hawks’ Fireworks About To Explode

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div>CHICAGO&mdash;No sooner did the Black Hawks commence training camp residency at Chicago Stadium than an informal sign was posted for immediate help, please, at left wing and center.Center has been the Hawks&rsquo; problem, it seems, since Lord Stanley first brought out his jug many faceoffs ago. Left wings, or lack of them, have caused Coach Billy Reay to scratch his hat since June 27, when Robert M. Hull bolted the squad followed by an armoured truck.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02709/3184678-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="274" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Darryl Maggs</figcaption></div>Now for the reconstruction of the team which has made puck soup of the West Division for the past two winters.&ldquo;Why, yes, we have some openings on left wing and center,&rdquo; announced Reay. &ldquo;But we feel we have some people capable of filling them.&rdquo;One of the very important athletes among the 38 who reported to Chicago&rsquo;s camp was Darryl Maggs, a young, aggressive, willing and brawny chap who has played some defense and some right wing. Where would he be tried? Center.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s got the size and he likes the puck,&rdquo; said Reay, who watched three of his pivots vanish along with Hull to the other network. Andre Lacroix went for twice the money, as did Bryan Campbell and Chris Bordeleau.If Maggs does not pan out at center, it&rsquo;s a good wager that Chico Maki, Hull&rsquo;s longtime right wing, will be moved over to become the club&rsquo;s third regular center besides Stan Mikita and Pit Martin. Then there is Lou Angotti, whose best role is that of a part-timer.As for left wing, Dennis Hull is the only proven commodity there after Bobby&rsquo;s exit. But Reay is optimistic that husky Dan Maloney and huskier Jerry Korab will not only adapt to the portside with some aplomb, but maybe even rattle some bones en route.The Hawk camp is providing Reay with an in-depth look at the top two choices in last June&rsquo;s amateur draft. Brian Ogilvie, a 5-11 center, scored 34 goals and 49 assists for the Edmonton Oil Kings last winter, and if he&rsquo;s capable, that vacancy sign is still out.Phil Russell, the Chicagoans&rsquo; No. 1 selection, is a defenseman, also from Edmonton. Despite spending 339 minutes in the penalty box last year, he managed to score 14 goals and distinguish himself. The preliminary report on him is that he likes to rush, and can thus be caught out of position. That is not Reay&rsquo;s type of rearguard.HAWK-EY TALK: Both Ogilvie and Russell signed three-year, no-cut contracts with the Hawks&hellip; In a letter to season ticket holders, team President Bill Wirtz said that the Hawks could not have matched Winnipeg&rsquo;s offer to Bobby Hull because it would have created a dangerous precedent for the team and the NHL. &ldquo;If we pay that kind of money ($2.75 million) to Hull,&rsquo;&rsquo; reasoned Wirtz, &ldquo;what do we pay Stan Mikita and what does Boston pay Bobby Orr and what does Buffalo pay Gil Perreault?&rdquo;&hellip; Keith Magnuson has a book coming out soon called &ldquo;None Against.&rdquo; It includes several chapters on fighting, natch. &#9632;

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Black Hawks Hanging Out Vacancy Sign

<div class="byline">By BiIl Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01861/3184716-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="289" height="369"></div><h2>Upset Of Upsets&hellip;</h2>THE RUSSIANS PLAY better hockey than the Canadians. They proved this on Canadian ice. It is unlikely the tide will turn on Russian ice, though it is not impossible. This comes as a surprise to almost everyone, including, probably, the Russians themselves, though we cannot be sure of this since they have wanted this confrontation for some time.All of us connected in one way or another with the National Hockey League have always ridiculed the Russian challenge. Especially after the Russians lost the last Winter Olympics crown to Czechoslovakia. Well, maybe the Czechs thus deserve to be rated the best. But the Russians now must come next best.In the September issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, 19 experts were polled and only one, Lynn Patrick, saw the Russians taking two games. The rest foresaw a clean sweep of all eight games. If we had polled 100, I&rsquo;m sure 98 or 99 would have foreseen a sweep. We did, too. We&rsquo;re not condemning anyone. We&rsquo;re just pointing out how wrong we all were.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02763/3184709-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="570" height="922"><figcaption class="caption-body">LYNN PATRICK&hellip; Saw Russian Wins</figcaption></div>The usual thing has been to say this Russian player or that Russian player could make the NHL, possibly with special training. Well, they all could make the NHL. The Team Canada All-Star team consisted of most of the best players in professional hockey in Canada and the U.S., and the Russians skated faster and more relentlessly, controlled the puck better and were better disciplined during the first four games played in Canada in this eight game series which winds up in Russia.Some of their players were simply marvellous and we admired them as we admire anyone who plays this difficult game well, whether he be Canadian, Russian, Czech or from our own U.S.A. We have had it up to here with the super-patriots and apologists of the U.S.A. who were upset when we did not dominate the Summer Olympics as we usually do, who protest and complain and criticize whenever athletes from other countries come out ahead of us in basketball, gymnastics, platform diving, polevaulting, sprinting, boxing or anything else.It is considered a crime when a &ldquo;foreign&rdquo; athlete dethrones us in an event we have dominated for years and a worse crime that one of our athletes allows himself to be beaten. Well, we have no God-given right to be better than anyone else. We got some bad breaks, but so did athletes from other countries. We got good breaks, too. Whoever wins deserves to win because he has done what had to be done to win and we applaud him. We treasure visions of the best in their specialties, no matter where he or she comes from.Accordingly, we hope Canadians will not make too many excuses about the surprising turn of events in their hockey series with Russia. Sure there is something to be said for their excuses. Bobby Orr and Bobby Hull, two of the three or four best players in Canada, were absent. The NHL put together an All Star team instead of selecting a set team which might have pulled together better. It played the series after the summer-long layoff and before even pre-season practice had begun instead of taking a time when our players would be at top shape and at their peaks. But when the NHL made its decisions and accepted the conditions governing play, it put itself in the position of having to accept the results.It simply underestimated the Russians, but now it cannot cop out on the consequences. All right, it&rsquo;s no tragedy. We&rsquo;re proud of our players and our level of play and disappointed by these results and maybe we can reverse them in Russia this year or somewhere another year, maybe by using a Bobby Hull, even if in another league, or by some other switch in tactics, but let us show some sportsmanship and accept the results as they are recorded now and from now on. We thought we would sweep them and now we&rsquo;re struggling to catch them.<h2>May Never Catch Up&hellip;</h2>CHARLES MAHER of the Los Angeles Times points out that hockey now is second only to soccer in popularity among team sports in Russia and with a population of 240,000,000 from which to draw players compared to Canada&rsquo;s 22,000,000 it may be impossible for Canada to keep up, much less catch up. Other countries are moving up, too.One hopes this stirring series continues, perhaps yearly, with other top hockey cities&mdash;New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit and so forth, getting to host contests. Eventually, ideally, something similar to soccer&rsquo;s World Cup can be set up with the hockey-playing nations of the world vieing every four years in Montreal one time, in Moscow another time, in Prague, in New York and so forth for supremacy.What a show that would be!As the rest of the world appears to have caught up to the U.S.A. in track and field, so the Russians appear to have caught up to Canada in ice hockey. It&rsquo;s hard to believe, but there it is. If they have a victory ceremony, let&rsquo;s hope Canada shows up, even if only to accept second-place awards, unlike the U.S.A., which, beaten in basketball, if in the worst-officiated ending ever, passed on the silver medals and did not show up for the coronation of their conquerors.The U.S. team in basketball is not representative of the best in basketball in the U.S. The best amateurs aren&rsquo;t interested in taking part, while the best players, the pros, aren&rsquo;t eligible. All right, so we can follow the lead of Canada in Olympic hockey. Beaten with less than its best players, Canada chose to withdraw from the Olympics. Now it is clear Canada would have been no cinch to win even with its best.This is surprising. Even after what has happened it is hard to believe and harder to accept. But there it is. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;The Los Angeles Kings of recent seasons have lacked defense more than anything else so it must appear they have improved themselves enormously for the upcoming season with the acquisition of Terry Harper, a solid defensive defenseman and a veteran, from the Montreal Canadiens without the loss of a single regular.This is a deal which has given even an old pessimist new hope.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03634/3184747-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="264" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Brown</figcaption></div>The cost came high. This writer makes no secret of the fact he regrets the trading for veterans of high amateur draft choices from which a future can be formed and the Kings refused to reveal the exact level of picks passed on, nor the &ldquo;other considerations,&rdquo; so one assumes these were considerable.However, Kings&rsquo; owner Jack Kent Cooke and manager Larry Regan cannot continue in the cellar any longer without doing whatever they can to improve their product and they appear to have done so in adding Harper to the backline to go along with a matured muscle-man Giles Marotte, last season&rsquo;s team MVP, tough young Paul Curtis, big draftee Barry Long, newcomer Larry Brown, and veteran Harry Howell.The tall, slender Brown was acquired in a trade last season but was sidelined for the season with mononucleosis. He is only 25 and had been considered a prize prospect in the past.Harper is 32. As a boy he was burned over two-thirds of his body in a fire which hospitalized him for years. He guttily did not give up and made the NHL with Montreal in 1963. Ironically, he missed 26 games last season when Marotte checked him into the boards. His hand broke the plexiglass barrier and his forearm was severely slashed in an L.A. game.After 10 seasons in the NHL, he may have passed his peak. Some of the starry veterans acquired by the Kings in recent seasons including their new coach, Bob Pulford, were only shadows of their former selves. You do not win with reputations. And Harper always was slow and awkward, even at his peak. Yet, some regarded him as the best defensive defenseman in the NHL in recent years.Larry Regan said, &ldquo;Harper&rsquo;s not a smoothie, but he will excite the fans. He&rsquo;s the last of the oldtime tough guys in hockey. When be belts a guy he takes some of the daring out of him. Of all the players we have ever gotten, I believe Harper will be the most valuable ever to our team.&rdquo;Harper, reportedly unhappy in Montreal, has said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy with the switch.&rdquo;If he still has his stuff, all L.A. will be happy.A rough, tough Harper joining an equally tough Marotte could make the King defense respectable. Having Rog Vachon healthy and on hand for a full season in goal to go with backup Gary Edwards gives the Kings at least major league level strength behind the defense.Now Pulford has to get the forwards to play some defense, too. Some do, but not enough of them. This remains critical.Fortunately, the Kings play fewer exhibition games, six, than any other NHL team. Harper, who hates to practice, doesn&rsquo;t always put his best show on in games that don&rsquo;t count in the standings. He may not shine in camp at Victoria. But he could be the key King on the circuit once the real shooting starts. &#9632;

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Kings Hope Harper Will Lift Defense To New Ice Heights

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;It&rsquo;ll be up to Mike Nykoluk to sweeten up the Flyers&rsquo; sour offense this season.The longtime Hershey Bear right wing has been appointed assistant coach of the Flyers and currently is working under head coach Fred Shero at training camp in an effort to improve the club&rsquo;s goal scoring and offensive attack.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01838/3184785-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="266" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mike Nykoluk</figcaption></div>Nykoluk, thereby, becomes the first assistant coachin the NHL, a historic breakthrough.&ldquo;The Flyers got the right guy,&rdquo; commented Frank Mathers, Nykoluk&rsquo;s coach-general manager at Hershey over the years. &ldquo;Mike is bound to be a definite asset to Philadelphia.&rdquo;Nykoluk, 37, should form a successful parlay with Shero who has a reputation as a master of positional defensive hockey. They should complement each other.Nykoluk&rsquo;s strong suit is moving the puck, setting up the right man to take the right shot. This is borne out by his own consistent assist records down through the years, the last 13 with the Bears, where he had a reputation as one of the best playmakers in the American Hockey League. This is borne out by his total of more than 700 assists in 17 pro seasons.Nykoluk, a Toronto native, is spending a considerable amount of time working with the Flyer forwards. His objective is to turn on the red light with more regularity, making the goals stand up behind Shero&rsquo;s defensive-minded play. Mike is trying to eliminate much of the wasted motion and fruitless endeavor.As the Flyers slowly round into shape for the coming season, it appears they&rsquo;d better keep their fingers crossed that Bobby Clarke, their star center, stays healthy all year. He is the player who holds the key to respectibility&mdash;perhaps the last playoff spot&mdash;and a complete fadeout.Clarke isn&rsquo;t in camp yet, since he&rsquo;s seeing considerable action in the international series against Russia&rsquo;s National team. He was expected to make it to camp some time early in October.Nykoluk need not worry about Clarke, however, in his efforts to get the Flyers moving the puck much better and setting up the good shots. He need worry about almost everybody else, though.Last season the Flyers were constantly guilty of failing to make the right pass or, just as bad. attempting to pass off when they had the good shot.This is something Nykoluk is attempting to straighten out. He can assist greatly in this respect due to his vast experience in the game, as a winner even though not in the NHL (he played one season with Toronto years ago).The Flyers were still wondering whether Bill Flett, Dave Schultz or Bob Kelly would be able to join them at the start of the season. They had signed with World Hockey Association teams and there was a chance that the courts, where the cases are being tested, would rule that they must sit out a season or&mdash;even worse for the Flyers&mdash;be obligated to the pacts they signed with the rival league.&ldquo;We felt our wing situation is better than it was a year ago at this time,&rdquo; said GM Keith Allen. We have Ross Lonsberry and Flett to start the season (following their mid-season trade from Los Angeles a year ago).&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02752/3184778-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="1186" height="1192"><figcaption class="caption-body">The chore of putting it all together for training camp was a big job for Philadelphia club but Flyers were in capable hands with trainer FRANK LEWIS, right, and his assistant, DAVE LEWIS, packing the equipement</figcaption></div>The other party in the trade, Eddie (The Jet) Joyal, has been lost to the WHA&hellip; as have a number of others including Mike Parizeau, Larry Hale, Ralph MacSweyn. Then, also, Jim Mair was lost in the NHL draft and Jean-Guy Gendron retired (before signing with Quebec in the WHA).The goaltending problem is compounded by Bruce Gamble&rsquo;s forced retirement due to his heart attack in a game last season. So either Bobby Taylor or Michel Belhumeur will back up Doug Favell. &#9632;

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How To Make Flyers Score Unenvied Job For Nykoluk

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01851/3184837-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="758" height="886"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02729/3184830-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="725" height="886"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03592/3184823-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="761" height="889"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04455/3184816-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="715" height="861"></div>MONTREAL&mdash;Serge Savard, whose legs seem to have generated more publicity than anyone&rsquo;s since Betty Grable, is hoping he can stand up to the rigors of a new NHL season.&ldquo;The last couple of years have been pretty tough and discouraging,&rdquo; says Serge, in reference to successive leg breaks which shelved him for long periods, &ldquo;but, maybe the law of averages will start working for me and keep me healthy for a full campaign.&rdquo;The way things look on the right side of the Canadiens&rsquo; defense, Savard could be the Moses in the Montreal wilderness if he can avoid injury. With J.C. Tremblay lost to the WHA and Terry Harper to the L.A. Kings, Savard is virtually the only one with experience on the right side of the blueline.&ldquo;We have some good young prospects on the team,&rdquo; said a Canadiens&rsquo; spokesman, &ldquo;and more coming up from the minors and juniors. But, Savard has the experience and could be a defensive leader.&rdquo;The Hab brass got some kind of jolt when Savard limped home from the first part of the Russia-Canada series with what was thought to be a fractured ankle. The fear was that he&rsquo;d be sidelined again for a lengthy period and probably wouldn&rsquo;t be able to start the regular NHL season.&ldquo;I took a shot on the ankle in practice when I was in front of the net,&rdquo; Savard said. &ldquo;Lucky for me, it turned out to be just a slight crack and not a fracture.&rdquo;Tabbed for stardom with Habs since he was a junior, Savard showed plenty of natural ability and hit an early peak with the big team in 1968-69. One of the most mobile defensemen in the NHL, he also proved to be an excellent penalty-killer and puck-ragger who drove the opposition up the wall with a variety of moves.In the 1969 playoffs, when Habs won the Stanley Cup, he was the leading scorer among defensemen with 10 points (4-6) in 14 games, and became the first rearguard to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player in the post-season rounds. But, the next season his troubles began. He crashed into a goalpost in the Montreal Forum in a game against the Rangers, and sustained his first leg fracture. That injury occurred near the end of a campaign, causing him to miss just six regular season games. Habs, as a team, missed the playoffs.Then, in 1970-71, he smashed the leg again when taking a clean but terrific check from Toronto&rsquo;s Bob Baun. That one caused him to be out of action for over a year. He came back in February of last season and admitting to having a tough time regaining his old form.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s tough playing back-to-back games, or games that come just a day or two apart, even when you&rsquo;re in top shape,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But, I&rsquo;ll get there.&rdquo;Savard was flying in the early part of the recent Canada-Russia series, and was handing out some of the most devastating checks of anyone on the team. If he flashes that kind of form for Habs this season, he&rsquo;ll quickly assume the mantle of leadership among the defense corps, if not of the club itself.HAB BITS: The Canadiens can&rsquo;t be accused of picking their spots in pre-season camp play. They have 10 games scheduled, four with the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins, two with Chicago Black Hawks and one against Rangers&hellip; Training camps have an aging effect on Scotty Bowman. He turned 39 four days after the camp started at Kentville, N.S&hellip; Michel Plasse, who will likely back up Ken Dryden in goal, this season, is the only pro netminder with a goal to his credit. He scored against Oklahoma City on Feb. 21, 1971, by shooting the puck down ice into an empty net with 44 seconds to go in a Central Hockey League game.Plasse played for Kansas City at the time. &#9632;

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Savard Could Fill Big Hole In Habs’ Defense

<div class="byline">&#x2014;SMITH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05346/3184868-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Former NHL veteran CAL GARDNER, left, has good reason to smile along with Canadiens&rsquo; vice-president JEAN BELIVEAU, right. The Habs signed Cal&rsquo;s son, DAVE, to an NHL contract after drafting him from the Toronto junior Marlboros. Like his father, Dave is a center. (Hockey News Photo by Lyndon Little)</figcaption></div>MONTREAL&mdash;The Gardner family have done a heads-up job of bridging the &lsquo;Generation Gap.&rsquo;Father Cal Gardner, a former center with New York, Toronto, Chicago and Boston of the NHL, and son Dave, the young pivot prospect with Canadiens, have kept the lines of communication open since the kid was playing juvenile hockey.&ldquo;My message to him was always the same,&rdquo; said Cal. &ldquo;I told him to keep his head up and I showed him how to go about it.&rdquo;Cal, now 48 and not all that much over his playing weight of 175 pounds, broke in with the old New York Rangers in 1945-46. The late Lester Patrick was managing the Rangers then and he had a favorite way of making his players skate with their heads held erect. Patrick used to have his charges skate around the practice rink with a hockey glove in their mouths. To see where he was going, a player had to look up and beyond the length of the gauntlet; and those oldtime Ranger teams became famous for their heads-up, razzle-dazzle brand of hockey.&ldquo;I used a modified version of Lester Patrick&rsquo;s old trick on Dave,&rdquo; said Cal Gardner. &ldquo;I had him hold a cigarette package in his mouth when he was smaller, and he learned to skate straight ahead with his eyes on a spot on the ice well ahead of him. He never looked down at his feet, because he wouldn&rsquo;t have been able to see anything.&ldquo;As for controlling the puck on the blade of his stick while looking up and ahead,&rdquo; Cal continued, &ldquo;I had him practise at first in an unusual way. I&rsquo;d put the puck on the end of his stick and tell him to close his eyes. Then, I&rsquo;d have him stickhandle just around the area where he happened to be at the time. If he lost the puck, I let him open his eyes and retrieve it. Then, we went back to practising the stickhandling with his eyes shut. Soon, he had the &lsquo;feel&rsquo; of the puck on the end of his stick. He never had to look at it. He still doesn&rsquo;t.&rdquo;Dave&rsquo;s heads-up hockey accounted for 129 points in Junior, last year. His ability to spot openings and lay down an accurate pass to teammates in the clear, could make him the ideal center for fastbreaking types like Yvan Cournoyer and Frank Mahovlich. &#9632;

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Keep Head Up Cal’s Advice To Rookie Son

<div class="byline">BY EATON HOWITT</div>TORONTO&mdash;Toronto Maple Leafs got a much-needed injection during training camp, but it may not be enough to keep the patient alive and well during the coming National Hockey League season.After months of talking, haggling and dickering, captain and center Dave Keon signed a contract which makes him the highest-paid Leaf in history.Though neither general manager Jim Gregory nor Keon himself, would reveal the amount, it is a multi-year deal at an estimated $315,000 per year.Without Keon, Leafs would have been in a rather sorry state of affairs with vacancies caused by defections to the World Hockey Association.They still have a tremendously difficult hole to fill and that&rsquo;s the one left when Bernie Parent decided to cast his lot with the Philadelphia Blazers.Up until recent weeks, Leafs&rsquo; vice-president King Clancy thought Parent was going to return to Toronto.&ldquo;We were all set to have a press conference to announce his return when I read in the paper that his man (lawyer Howard Casper) declared Bernie would not play in Toronto. I&rsquo;ll tell you I was a surprised person,&rdquo; Clancy said.Leafs have six goalies in camp. Leading the list, of course is veteran Jacques Plante, who is still agile but also 43 years old.Former goalie Johnny Bower, now eastern scout for the club, is high on young Ron Low, a net-minder out of Birtle, Manitoba, via Jacksonville and Tulsa.Bower spotted Low when he was playing for the now-defunct Jacksonville team in the Eastern League.&ldquo;I remember the late Stafford Smythe telling me to scout the bush-league teams, the last-place ones, very carefully because the kids there were trying harder. Low&rsquo;s goal average was over 5, yet he was the league&rsquo;s most valuable player,&rdquo; Bower recalled.Leafs should be strong on defense, despite the fact Rick Ley and Brad Selwood have joined the New England Whalers. Bob Baun, Brian Glennie, Jim McKenny and Mike Pelyk are back and Ray Miron has brought along a couple of good prospects from Tulsa. John Grisdale of Geraldton, Ont., Dave Fortier from Sudbury, and Joe Lundrigan of Cornerbrook. Nfld., are all rated highly. Miron, Tulsa GM, said especially, &ldquo;that boy Lundrigan will surprise a lot of people.&rdquo;George Ferguson, from last year&rsquo;s OHA Junior A Marlboro club, has reported in good shape and should provide Leafs with some of the muscle up front that they lacked last year. Ferguson boosted his stock when he bagged the winning goal as the Leafs edged Philadelphia 2-1 in Toronto&rsquo;s first taste of training camp exhibition play.Another rookie who might be a sleeper, like Rick Kehoe was last year for Leafs, is Randy Osburn, who played for London Knights in the junior series last year. He was Toronto&rsquo;s second choice in the June draft.There seems little doubt that the Leafs will once more be fighting hard for that final playoff spot.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01841/3184899-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="496" height="634"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE KEON&hellip; Money Talks</figcaption></div>Coach John McLellan, recovered from his ulcer attack that sidelined him for the latter part of last season, has high hopes of making the grade but he admits it won&rsquo;t be easy. &#9632;

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Keon Gets Top $$$ But What About Goal?

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01823/3184930-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Play of the Russian team caught everyone by surprise including the hand-picked Team Canada All Stars Players like VLADIMIR PETROV (16), at left, and EUGENI MISHAKOV (12) proved hard to stop because of their superb conditioning. Russians were highly underestimated and showed North American hockey fans they could shoot, skate and check with the best. (Hockey News Photo by Robert Shaver)</figcaption></div>MONTREAL&mdash;The Russia-Canada series has caused some NHL teams to sharpen some of their training methods, and while that&rsquo;s encouraging in itself, it may amount to little more than tokenism in the long run.It&rsquo;s going to take more than a bit of jogging or sporadic workouts on a stationary bicycle to overcome the lack of conditioning so prevalent among hockey players in North America today. And entirely new program of year-round conditioning needs to be devised and adhered to, but don&rsquo;t bet on it happening&mdash;at least not in any serious or sustained manner.By the admission of some prominent names in hockey, the discipline required to get into top physical shape and stay in it, may be just too much to expect.&ldquo;I frankly don&rsquo;t think we could do it,&rdquo; said Bobby Hull. &ldquo;Our way or life has made us too spoiled.&rdquo;Harry Sinden, coach of Team Canada in the series, was also dubious about an all-out effort to achieve top form.&ldquo;I wonder whether the spartan system of training the Russians have would work here,&rdquo; Sinden has said. &ldquo;I question whether the athletes can accept the sacrifices that would have to be made. Remember, too, that we play 90 games in a season. That&rsquo;s about triple what they play.&rdquo;Sinden has a good point. The NHL schedule is much too long to expect players to prepare for it in advance, then go through it at top speed. Most players come to training camp in poor shape and simply play their way into condition as the season grinds along. A lot of them are only rounding into good playing form by the time the season has entered its second half. And, as if 78 games of a regular schedule weren&rsquo;t enough, there are 10 or more exhibitions and, of course, playoffs, which for some amount to another 21 games.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s way too long,&rdquo; says defenseman Terry Harper of the NHL schedule. &ldquo;It should be cut back to 70 games. That was the perfect number. Don&rsquo;t forget, there&rsquo;s a lot of extra travelling involved now with the various expansions, and that tires players out.&rdquo;Marc Tardif, the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; forward who&rsquo;s often accused of not going full out in games, is another advocate of a 70-game season.&ldquo;The limit should be 70 games,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;And, exhibitions should be eliminated. And, training camp should last two weeks, never more.&rdquo;Players have been saying these things for years, for five years to be exact, which is when the schedule was increased from 70 games. But, does anyone seriously believe that the owners are going to cut back the schedule and thus incur a substantial reduction in revenue? Not likely.There was one small ray of hope about the conditioning aspect of hockey, offered by John Ferguson, in comments made after the Canadian end of the series against Russia had been completed.&ldquo;Expansion teams could be where the hope lies,&rdquo; said Fergie. &ldquo;You&rsquo;d never change the old clubs&rsquo; system of doing things, but a new team might see the light and start off differently.&rdquo;They might indeed, and the memory of a perfectly-conditioned squad of Russians who&rsquo;d never faced NHL competition plastering Team Canada by scores as high as 7-3, overcoming three-goal deficits, and scoring shorthanded goals in the process, should be enough to inspire even the most downtrodden teams in the business. Though much has been made of the excellent goaltending the Russians got from Vladislav Tretiak, and he surely was a standout, it was a combination of things that enabled the Russians to do as well as they did. Skating, passing, checking, timing and playing as a unit, rather than too individually, contributed much of the Russian&rsquo;s showing. These things can be taught. If they&rsquo;re put into practise, they can result in victories&mdash;big ones! It&rsquo;s something for every new or recent team in what constitutes this NHL today to think about.Hopefully, some of the old, established teams will think about it, too, and the most likely candidate that comes to mind is the Detroit Red Wings.The Wings began to come on strong last season, after tough Johnny Wilson took over the coaching reins. A former NHL &ldquo;Ironman&rdquo; who went a record 580 games in succession during his own NHL career, Wilson knows the value of determination and hard work. He made the Wings fly, and part of his system was the introduction of practices that lasted up to two hours. People thought that the Wings would collapse in a collective heap under that kind of driving, but instead they flourished. Had Wilson and his ways arrived earlier in the season, Detroit would&rsquo;ve almost certainly made the playoffs. As it was, they just missed by four points. You can bet the Wings will be in shape this year, too, if Wilson has his way.&ldquo;Sometimes,&rdquo; muses Wilson, &ldquo;I ask the team to turn out for a light skate. What do I mean by a light skate? Oh, about forty minutes of sustained effort and probably some stops and starts.&rdquo;In a way it&rsquo;s amazing that it would take the Russians to teach the NHL the value of hard work and conditioning. It&rsquo;s something every NHL team should&rsquo;ve learned long ago and, in fact, the Toronto Maple Leafs proved the value of it when Punch Imlach was at the helm. He, too, ran practices like gang wars, and worked the Leafs&mdash;some of whom were ancients&mdash;like they&rsquo;d never been worked before. Everyone remembers the result. Four Stanley Cups in six years.But, that was in the days of a six-team league, back in the early sixties. If players didn&rsquo;t fit in and produce, they were promptly shipped to the minors. You can&rsquo;t do that today, and even Imlach has fallen victim to the changing times. Perhaps, after seeing how the Russians clicked as a unit, Imlach and others will be inspired to re-introduce the team system to the NHL; or, at least as far as it&rsquo;s possible to introduce it under today&rsquo;s conditions.Sinden, who appeared to be in a state of near-shock after the Russians had won two and tied one of the four games on this side of the pond, had some interesting comments to make about the difference in style between the Russian and Canadian teams.&ldquo;In the NHL today the shot is the big thing.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Plavers are told to dump the puck into the corners, work it out for the shot. That&rsquo;s got to change. We&rsquo;ve been shown we need a complete game to win on the international level. We&rsquo;ve got to go back to the fundamentals.&rdquo;And, soon! According to knowledgeable hockey men, we are about to see the formation of a professional European hockey league that will challenge for the Stanley Cup. In any event, we&rsquo;re certainly going to see more confrontations between European and NHL teams in the future, and the results will be little short of traumatic to North American fans if we don&rsquo;t take steps to improve our game, now.How do we do it? Well, as Sinden says, we get back to the fundamentals and, in fact, what we have to do is recapture some of the precision passing and skating skills that used to make the NHL game such an outstanding spectacle. The modern generation won&rsquo;t remember the famed N.Y. Rangers&rsquo; line of the Cooks and Boucher that flourished in the &lsquo;Thirties, nor even the Razzle Dazzle line that used to weave patterns on ice for the Canadiens of a later day. Some may recall having seen Max Bentley, when his beautiful stick-handling and puck control used to bring crowds surging to thier feet in sheer admiration. That was the type of game that used to be played in the NHL. Hopefully, we may see it again. Surely, we have learned from the Russians that hockey players are made, not born, and that the basics of the game which the USSR team used to such advantage can be taught to willing pupils by competent coaches and instructors. &#9632;

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Long Schedule, Desire May Deter NHL From Changing

MOSCOW&mdash;Team Canada faced a difficult enough assignment trying to overcome the Russian national team in the Moscow Ice Palace without the defection of four players from the 31-man squad coach Harry Sinden took overseas.Trailing the Russians 2-1 with one tie as the Soviet segment of the eight game exhibition tourney was set to open Sept. 22, the Canadian squad was jolted when forwards Vic Hadfield of the New York Rangers, Rick Martin of the Buffalo Sabres and defenseman Jocelyn Guevremont of the Vancouver Canucks informed Sinden on the eve of the opening game in Moscow that they were returning home to join their respective NHL clubs already in the throes of the exhibition schedule.This trio was joined after the opening Moscow game (a 5-4 Soviet victory) by Buffalo star center Gilbert Perreault.Neither Martin. Hadfield nor Guevremont dressed for the first game here and this seems to have been the root of their discontent. &ldquo;Ah. I&rsquo;m better than Parise(Team Canada regular left winger Jean Paul Parise),&rdquo; Hadfield told reporters. As for Martin and Guevremont they felt their chances of getting into any of the four Moscow games were slim and were apparently not prepared to stay around as backup insurance in case of injury.Reaction from Sinden was predicable. &ldquo;If they don&rsquo;t want to help, I&rsquo;m not going to stop them from quitting. I didn&rsquo;t talk anyone into playing and I&rsquo;m not going to talk anyone out of leaving.&rdquo;Perreault&rsquo;s case is a little more difficult to understand. Unlike the first trio, the Sabre standout played in the first game here and set up the first Team Canada goal by Parise. Perreault voiced the opinion that he wasn&rsquo;t in proper shape and expressed a desire to join the Sabres immediately so he would be in condition for the NHL opener. &#9632;

Gil Perreault 4th Star To Jump Team Canada

<h2>Sat. Sept 2RUSSIA 7 at CANADA 3 Game One</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01807/3185020-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="592" height="773"></div><h2>Mon. Sept 4 RUSSIA 1 at CANADA 4 Game Two</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02731/3185013-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="595" height="585"></div><h2>Wed. Sept. 6 RUSSIA 4 at CANADA 4 Game Three</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03667/3185006-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="617" height="727"></div><h2>Fri. Sept 8 RUSSIA 5 at CANADA 3 Game Four</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04599/3184999-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="595" height="632"></div><h2>Fri. Sept. 22 CANADA 4 at RUSSIA 5 Game Five</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05491/3184992-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="610" height="485"></div><h2>Sun. Sept. 24 CANADA 3 at RUSSIA 2 Game Six</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06419/3184985-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="591" height="570"></div> &#9632;

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Russia-Canada Game Summaries

<div class="byline">BY HARRY KLAFF</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01807/3185051-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goaler GERRY DESJARDINS holds up new jersey Islanders will wear in their first NHL season. Base colors will be blue and orange, a popular combination with New York&rsquo;s pro sports teams. (Hockey News Photo by Harry Klaff)</figcaption></div>LONG ISLAND&mdash;Islander General Manager Bill Torrey knew the pickings would be slim in the goal-scoring department when he set out to build his new club at the NHL draft meetings last June. Consequently, he realized that if the expansion six was to be representative this season, he would have to concentrate on the defensive end of the game.As a result, when his number one pick in the expansion round came up, he used it to obtain goaltender Gerry Desjardins from the Chicago Black Hawks. Desjardins had long been recognized as a top net minder, but one whose health was questioned.A knee injury back in 1966-67 kept him on the Houston Apollos&rsquo; (CHL) bench for part of the season, but did not prevent him from finally reaching the National League with the Los Angeles Kings two years later. Although bombarded with regularity, Gerry&rsquo;s quick reflexes earned the title as &ldquo;Fastest Glove in the NHL West.&rdquo;A late season trade in 1970 sent Desjardins to the Chicago Black Hawks. He posted a 2.00 goals-against average the rest of the way as his new teammate Tony Esposito captured the Vezina Trophy.Gerry&rsquo;s blossoming career came to a screeching halt late the following season when he suffered the broken arm that was to bother him throughout most of last year. He got into only six games with the Hawks in &lsquo;71-&rsquo;72, giving up 21 goals.There is no doubt that Desjardins has the equipment to star in the NHL. The only question is his arm.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure my arm is almost as good as new,&rdquo; reports Desjardins. &ldquo;Maybe I&rsquo;m not quite as fast as I was when I was with the Kings, but with the new, lighter glove I&rsquo;m using, you probably won&rsquo;t notice a difference,&rdquo; he adds with a wink.Gerry&rsquo;s partner will be veteran Denis DeJordy, who is the only man on the Islanders&rsquo; roster to have won a major award. He captured the Vezina Trophy with the Chicago Black Hawks back in 1966-67 when he appeared in 44 games.In 1970-71 he played 60 games for the Los Angeles Kings with one of the weakest defenses in the league in front of him. The very fact that he survived is a tribute to his durability.Last year was a personal disappointment for the St. Hyacinthe, Que., native. He appeared in only five games for the Kings before being traded to the Montreal Canadiens in mid-season. With big Ken Dryden around, Denis did little but sit.Just the same, the Islanders were delighted to land him in a postdraft deal. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m elated to get DeJordy,&rdquo; said Torrey at the time. &ldquo;He should just be reaching his peak as a goaltender and his seven years experience is a big plus.&rdquo;DeJordy was excited at the prospect of joining the Islanders. &ldquo;Maybe we can be like the Mets,&rdquo; he said at training camp. &ldquo;If the fans can take to us like they did with the Mets, that would be something.&rdquo; Hopefully, he didn&rsquo;t mean the 1962 Mets.ISLAND BRIEFS: The Islanders unveiled their new uniforms last month. Base colors will be blue and orange&hellip; The club did its preliminary calisthenics on the infield of the Kawartha Downs harness track near Peterborough, Ont., under the direction of trainer Nick Garen. Evidently he felt a change in scenery would help&hellip; Billy Harris did not travel with Team Canada to Sweden, much to the joy of coach Phil Goyette&hellip; Harris and second amateur pick Lorne Henning have looked extremely sharp&hellip; The Islanders play their first seven games at home before hitting the road for two and a half weeks. &#9632;

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Desjardins, DeJordy Facing Challenge

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02695/3185082-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="558" height="554"></div>Bob Elson, a long-time radio voice of the baseball Chicago White Sox, will join the Black Hawks&rsquo; broadcasts this season on WMAQ. He&rsquo;ll handle the color with popular play-by-play man Lloyd Pettit. All Chicago home games will be aired live and in full, a first while WGN-TV will televise all road games live.The Montreal Canadiens are going to telecast 42 of their games this season, including six from United States&rsquo; cities on Wednesday nights. Molson&rsquo;s Brewery is picking up the tab.KDKA&mdash;radio (1020) will carry all Pittsburgh Penguin games again, with Jim Forney doing the play-by-play&hellip; WIIC-TV 11 will carry 13 live games this year, with Sam Nover and Terry Schiffauer calling the shots.Hockey announcers cover a lot of ground in the course of these expanded seasons, but Bob Wilson of WBZ in Boston must rank one-two with anybody in the business after last season&rsquo;s travels.Wilson did the 78 regular-season games of the Bruins on radio, plus seven exhibition games. Flying between assignments, he also broadcast 20 games of the AHL Boston Braves.He did four college games in the Boston Garden collegiate Beanpot Tournament, and finished up by taking the Bruins through the Stanley Cup playoffs.The total for hockey was 130 games. He also does some Boston Patriots NFL football games, and has a post-Red Sox baseball television show. Anyone for tennis?The Buffalo Sabres announced broadcasts of the Sabres&rsquo; schedule will be carried exclusively on WGR for the third consecutive year.WGR will also carry three exhibition game broadcasts, plus any playoff games if the Sabres make the Stanley Cup round.The voice of the Sabres. Ted Darling, will handle the bulk of the play-by-play duties, with color man Rick Jeanneret. On occasion Rick will fill in on play-by-play.The Philadelphia Flyers wil televise 35 games this season over WTAF-TV. Channel 29, including two West Coast games for the first time, it was announced by vice president Lou Scheinfeld.Don Earle and Gene Hart will do both TV play-by-play and all 78 home and away games on WCAU Radio.Scheinfeld said the TV schedule includes 33 away games and two home games.In addition to the 35 Flyers games, the club will televise on Channel 29 the NHL All Star game from New York Tuesday. Jan 30.For the first time, two games will be televised live from the West Coast, Los Angeles Dec. 30 and California Feb. 25. Also, two Spectrum games are scheduled for T.V., Boston Dec. 17 and Pittsburgh March 11.KYW-TV, Channel 3 will carry the 15-game NHL Game of the Week telecasts beginning this season the last Sunday of December. &#9632;

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RADIO TV HAPPENINGS

MONTREAL&mdash;The National Hockey League will embark on its new season without the services of 67 regulars who performed in the league last year.All have defected to the rival World Hockey Association and some have reportedly signed with both the NHL and WHA.Here is a breakdown of the players who have left the NHL.ATLANTA&mdash;Larry Hale, d&eacute;fense; Rod Zaine, forward.BOSTON&mdash;Gery Cheevers, goal; Ted Green, defense; Derek Sanderson, John McKenzie, Don O&rsquo;Donoghue, Tommy Williams, forwards.BUFFALO&mdash;Al Hamilton, Jim Watson, Mike Robitaille, defense; Ron Anderson, Danny Lawson, Mike Byers, George Morrison, forwards.CALIFORNIA&mdash;Gary Kurt, goal; Paul Shmyr, Ken Baird, defense; Tom Wesbster, Bobby Sheehan, Gary Jarrett, Gerry Pinder, Wayne Carleton, forwards.CHICAGO&mdash;Bobby Hull, Chris Bordeleau, Brian Campbell, Andr&eacute; Lacroix, forwards.DETROIT&mdash;Al Smith, Joe Daley, goal; Bob Wall, defense; Ab McDonald, Danny Johnson, Billy Hicke, forwards.LOS ANGELES&mdash;Bob Woytowich, Doug Barrie, defense; Jimmy Johnson, forwards.MINNESOTA&mdash;None.MONTREAL&mdash;J.-C. Tremblay, defense; Larry Pleau, forward.NEW YORK ISLANDERS&mdash;Larry Hornung, John Schella, defense; Norm Ferguson, Ted Hampson, Ted Taylor, forwards.NEW YORK RANGERS&mdash;Jim Dorey, defense.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Don McLeod, goal; Ed Joyal, Mike Parizeau, Guy Gendron, forwards.PITTSBURGH&mdash;Les Binkley, goal, Val Fonteyne, Wally Boyer, forwards.ST-LOUIS&mdash;Ernie Wakely, Jim McLeod, goal; John Arbour, Gordon Kannegiesser, defense; Jerry Odrowski, forwards.TORONTO&mdash;Bernie Parent, goal; Rick Ley, Brad Selwood, defense; Jim Harrison, Guy Trottier, forwards.VANCOUVER&mdash;George Gardner, goal; Ron Ward, defense; Rosaire Paiement, Wayne Connelly, Murray Hall, Fred Speck, forwards. &#9632;

NHL Loses 67 Players From Last Year’s Teams

<div class="byline">BY DICK JOHNSTON</div>BUFFALOThe Buffalo Sabres are counting on a 42-year-old hockey player to remedy their big weakness of last season&mdash;defense.The elderly athlete is, of course, Punch Imlach&rsquo;s old friend of Toronto days, Tim Horton. Tim neither looks nor plays like a guy old enough to be the father of the defenseman he was teamed with in the early days of training camp in St. Catharines, Ont., Jim Schoenfeld.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01783/3185137-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="272" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tim Horton</figcaption></div>Coach Joe Crozier, in pairing a veteran with a youngster in each of the defense duos, put Horton with Schoenfeld, the club&rsquo;s No. 1 choice in the amateur draft. Schoenfeld just turned 20 the week before camp began. Horton was playing in the National Hockey League before Schoenfeld was born. He&rsquo;s 42.In announcing the signing of Horton, obtained from Pittsburgh in the intra-league draft after Tim said he was retiring from hockey, Imlach said:&ldquo;We expect Tim will help our young defensemen develop. It takes longer for a youngster to become an NHL defenseman than it does to become a forward. There&rsquo;s more to learn.&ldquo;And we know that Horton, himself, gives us a solid man on the right side. No big forwards are going to push him around in front of the net and when Horton goes into the corner with an opponent, the opponent doesn&rsquo;t come out with the puck.&rdquo;Joe Crozier will need help in rebuilding his defense, which gave up more goals than any NHL club except Vancouver and Los Angeles. Two regulars, Al Hamilton and Jim Watson, jumped to the World Hockey Association.Crozier doesn&rsquo;t have a single defenseman who played through the season with the Sabres. Tracy Pratt, Mike Robitaille and Ray McKay all missed large portions of the campaign because of injuries. Larry Hillman, Horton&rsquo;s teammate on four Stanley Cup clubs in Toronto, was acquired about mid-season from Los Angeles.In early workouts, Crozier had four rookies working with his varsity. Besides Schoenfeld, he used Larry Carriere, the Sabres&rsquo; second choice in the amateur draft; Bill Hajt, third draft choice in 1971, who passed up hockey last season to return to school, and Jack Taggart, a former Denver University and Canadian National player, who made a comeback with Cincinnati in 1971-72 after suffering severe head and jaw injuries in an auto accident.Crozier&rsquo;s forwards all are young. Gerry Meehan, at 26, is the oldest of any who played more than a couple of games with the Sabres. Larry Mickey, 28, who saw a little action for Buffalo after being obtained from Philadelphia and then was farmed to Salt Lake City, had a good early camp and appears to have a chance of making it.Rene Robert and Steve Atkinson are the returnees at that spot and three youngsters up from Cincinnati&mdash;Rick Dudley, Jim Nichols and John Gould&mdash;are giving it a good try.Crozier switched Jim Lorentz from left wing to center at the start of camp, moving Randy Wyrozub to the left side. With center Gil Perreault and left winger Rick Martin missing most of camp because they were with Team Canada, the coach had these returning regulars at their positions&mdash;Gerry Meehan, Lorentz and Don Luce at center; Craig Ramsay and Wyrozub at left wing, with Butch Deadmarsh, who scored 35 goals for Cincinnati, a top contender. &#9632;

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Sabres Expert Horton To Lift Saggy Defense

<div class="byline">BY NORM MacLEAN</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaNEW YORK&mdash;Ab DeMarco was the only regular defenseman in the Rangers training camp during the first week. He sat on his stool in the dressing room of the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium and pondered his future.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s funny. Two years ago I figured I had it made. I had been called up in the 1970 playoffs and did a pretty good job when Jim Neilson was playing hurt and Rod Seiling and Arnie Brown were out. I think Brad Park was playing hurt, too. Suddenly, Emile Francis sent me back to Omaha. I was shocked, but he said I didn&rsquo;t have that good a camp&mdash;go and get more experience and I would be back.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01613/3185168-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="278" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ab DeMarco</figcaption></div>DeMarco played well at Omaha and was set to return when he broke an ankle for the 1970-71 edition of the Knights. He finally dressed for two games with the Rangers and dressed, but didn&rsquo;t play, in one playoff game.Last year Ab made the squad, but with the fine play of Dale Rolfe, who paired with Park and with Seiling and Neilson continuing as the other team, Ab was the fifth defenseman. That is, until Francis traded winger Davey Balon for Vancouver&rsquo;s Gary Doak, a hard hitting type of rearguard. Suddenly Ab was the sixth defenseman. He got a little ice, but not much, when Rolfe missed two five game periods with injuries. Then it happened. In a game against Buffalo on January 26, both Seiling and Park missed a night&rsquo;s sleep because of transportation trouble from Minnesota where they had performed in the annual NHL All-Star game. DeMarco got some ice. playing on power plays at the point instead of the dead-tired Park. Then in the third period it happened. He tripped in the corner and bang&mdash;another ankle break.When he returned. Francis was slow in putting him back into the starting lineup, giving him extra games off. After all, New York had obtained the rugged young defenseman, Jim Dorey, from Toronto, in exchange for Pierre Jarry. This made seven defensemen. Dorey separated his shoulder in his first game with the Rangers on February 22, but even then DeMarco sat for more &ldquo;rest.&rdquo;&ldquo;I was discouraged. Then came that thing in the playoffs. Francis decided to use me in the fourth game in New York. I was fighting for the puck with Ace Bailey along the boards deep in our zone. I got ahead of him and was skating away with it, when I felt it. A sharp pain in my leg and then I just collapsed. I knew it was bad the second it hit.&rdquo;Bailey&rsquo;s skate swung back and almost cut DeMarco&rsquo;s leg in two. It took a four-hour operation to sew him up again and a couple of months of rehabilitation.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m OK now and looking forward to proving something in the NHL with the Rangers. I just want to play this game,&rdquo; says Ab.Ab is now 23. He is a slender six-footer weighing 170, much like his father Ab, Senior. The older DeMarco played for the Rangers and Boston Bruins in the mid-and late forties and campaigned in the American Hockey League after that. Born in Cleveland, young DeMarco lives in the offseason at his parent&rsquo;s home in North Bay, Ontario.&ldquo;He got down a couple of times last year when he wasn&rsquo;t playing,&rdquo; said Ab, Sr. &ldquo;And I felt bad that he got hurt. I just wanted him to play hockey.&rdquo;Ab is a stylish puck handler, perhaps the best on the Rangers with apologies to Park and Jean Ratelle. He was orginally a forward but was switched back to defense while recuperating from an injury.&ldquo;I like to play defense. You get more ice time that way,&rdquo; says DeMarco, &ldquo;That is when you are playing.&rdquo;The Rangers had numerous offers for DeMarco, but resisted all temptations. And Ab signed with them without too much fuss. He could have gone WHA, but wants to prove his NHL capabilities.During the first week when only the rookies were in camp, DeMarco was there because his injured leg needed additional work.&ldquo;De Marco is a very skilled player. He will get lots of work this year. I like his shot from the point. He is almost always on the net with a low drive. And the more ice he gets the better his savvy on defense will become. He is a big part of the Rangers&rsquo; future,&rdquo; says Francis.BLUE CHIPS: Steve Andrascik, a hard hitter from Providence might make the New York squad this year. Francis like his desire and willingness to thump. Ron Stewart, 40 years young, is back for his 21st NHL season&hellip;The Rangers organization for 1972-73 lists Francis as GM, Steve Brklacich as Director of Player Personnel, Dennis Ball as Director of the Farm System with John Halligan as the Publicity Director&hellip; Scouts include Jeep George in Western Canada along with Jake Milford, Alex Barilko is working out of Montreal, Bruce Cheatley in Winnipeg, Johnny Gagnon in Providence, Toom Hookway in Victoria, B.C., Michael Penny in Toronto and Johnny Walker in Saskatoon. Ken Williamson of Bloomington, Minn, keeps an eye on America Collegiate play&hellip; &#9632;

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‘Waiting’ Over For Rangers’ DeMarco

<h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Sun. Sept. 17St Louis 3, Detroit 1Atlanta 4. N.Y. Islanders 1Vancouver 10, Seattle (WHL) 1Mon. Sept. 18Atlanta 3, N.Y. Islanders 3Tue. Sept. 19Minnesota 6, N.Y. Islanders 3Montreal 3, Chicago 2Boston 4, Detroit 2Pittsburgh 3, California 2Toronto 2, Philadelphia 1Wed. Sept. 20Chicago 5, Toronto 3Minnesota 3, Californio 3Pittsburgh 4. Philadelphia 1Vancouver 3, Los Angeles 2Thur. Sept. 21Montreal 4, Boston 2Detroit 4. Philadelphia 3N.Y Rangers 6, St. Louis 2Buffalo 3, Californio 2Atlanta 2, Minnesota 1Fri. Sept. 22Boston 3, Chicago 3St. Louis 8, N.Y. Rangers 6N.Y. Islanders 2, Buffalo 1Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia 3Vancouver 6, Los Angeles 1Sat. Sept. 23Toronto 5, Montreal 0Detroit 8, Boston 4St. Louis 2, Minnesoto 2Atlanta 4. N.Y. Islanders 3Philadelphia 9 California 1Chicago 2, Dallas (CHL) 2Vancouver 6, Los Angeles 2Sun. Sept. 24Chicago 6, Montreal 2Detroit 4, Toronto 0Buffalo 3, Pittsburgh 1California 4, Philadelphia 2<h2>STANDINGS</h2>(Minor league games included)<h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02533/3185206-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="584" height="227"></div><h2>WEST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03427/3185199-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="588" height="229"></div> &#9632;

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Exhibition Scoreboard

NEW YORK&mdash;For the first time in their history, the New York Rangers will stage the National Hockey League&rsquo;s All Star game.The 26th annual NHL classic will be held Tuesday, Jan. 30 at Madison Square Garden with the best players from the East Division opposing the West. Last season, the East edged the West 3-2 at Bloomington, Minn. &#9632;

New York Rangers To Stage First All Star Game Jan. 30

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01528/3185310-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"></div><h2>EAST</h2>Boston Bruins Buffalo Sabres Detroit Red Wings Montreal Canadiens New York Rangers New York Islanders Toronto Maple Leafs Vancouver Canucks<h2>WEST</h2>Atlanta Flames California Golden Seals Chicago Black Hawks Los Angeles Kings Minnesota North Stars Philadelphia Flyers Pittsburgh Penguins St. Louis Blues<h2>OCTOBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02430/3185303-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="622" height="2733"></div><h2>NOVEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03325/3185296-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="627" height="3574"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04250/3185289-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="605" height="3695"></div><h2>JANUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05191/3185282-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="610" height="3530"></div><h2>FEBRUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01508/3185275-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="612" height="3460"></div><h2>MARCH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02437/3185268-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="585" height="3700"></div><h2>APRIL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03351/3185261-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="594" height="264"></div> &#9632;

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NHL 1972-73 SCHEDULE

How would you like to be able to settle your own hockey arguments on what happened last year in the National Hockey League by carrying around a handy pocket booklet containing complete statistics as well as the 1972-73 NHL schedule?The booklet is yours for the asking. All you have to do is print your name and address on the back of a postcard and mail your request to:NHL Publicity Dept., 920 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal 110, Que. &#9632;

WANT YOUR OWN NHL SCHEDULE AND STATISTICS?

<div class="byline">BY DAN DONOVAN</div>PITTSBURGH&mdash;The hockey boom has clipped the left wing of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Unlike several National Hockey League clubs, the Pens weren&rsquo;t seriously hurt by the expansion draft and raiding by the World Hockey Association&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04300/3185389-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="262" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roy Edwards</figcaption></div>But almost all the damage done was to the left wing.The drafting of Keith McCreary and John Stewart by the Atlanta Flames coupled with the signingof Val Fonteyne by the WHA leaves the Penguins with only one solid left wing, Greg Polis.Penguin coach Red Kelly will do a little bit of shuffling, hoping a youngster and a veteran will patch up the portside position.Last year Steve Cardwell came up from Hershey midway through the season and finished strong. Veteran Eddie Shack, a lefthanded shot, will be moved from the right side.&ldquo;When we put Shack over there,&rdquo; Kelly said, &ldquo;then we won&rsquo;t be so weak, but that still puts a lot of pressure on Cardwell.&rdquo;If the pressure is too much, or the Shack switch doesn&rsquo;t work out, or maybe just for the sake of a little more depth, the Penguins may be scouring the trade market.The Penguins may have a valuable commodity to peddle&mdash;a goalie. Even though they lost Les Binkley to the WHA, the reappearance of Roy Edwards gives them three goaltenders a bonus they hardly expected.Jim Rutherford was exceptional the tail end of last year, but Edwards was the Pens&rsquo; best goalie until he decided travelling was not for him half way through. the season.If Edwards&rsquo; return is permanent, young Cam Newton could be expendable and several NHL teams are hungry for a backup goalie.The Pens other hole, at right defense, will probably be filled by youth. The loss of Tim Horton leaves only Bryan Watson at right defense.Kelly likes the way Americanborn Joe Noris, who played at Hershey last year, is coming on. and he should be the prime contender for Horton&rsquo;s job. Top draft choice Jack Lynch and rookie Jean-Guy Legace will be his prime challengers.The Pens seem to be pretty well set at center with Bryan Hextall, Syl Apps and Ron Shock all back, but Kelly said he wants a fourth man. Rookie Rick Kessell is the top hope there.Competition should be hot at left defense and right wing. Dave Burrows, Darryl Edestrand, Duane Rupp and Sheldon Kannegiesser are all back on defense and rookie Larry Bignell may have a shot at making the squad.On the right wing, Nick Harbaruk. Jean Pronovost, Ken Schinkel, Brian McKenzie and Al McDonough will be competing, along with Lowell McDonald, back after the injury that sidelined him all of last season.&ldquo;We do have a little bit of depth there,&rdquo; Kelly said.Enough depth that a trade for a left winger may come from there, too. &#9632;

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Penguins Hail Return Of Edwards As Bonus

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05249/3185420-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg"></div>(All times are local) &#9632;

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NHL STARTING TIMES (All times are local)

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PRE-SEASON LOOK AT THE NHL TEAMS

<div class="byline">BY DWAYNE NETLAND</div>TWIN CITIES&mdash;The Minnesota North Stars are a veteran team, one of the most experienced in the National Hockey League. They know all the angles of survival in the NHL. including the fact that points earned in the early season count every bit as much as those ground out in the playoff races during March.In other words, the North Stars are desirous of getting off to as explosive a start in 1972 as they did last season, when they were 18-4-3 after the first 25 games of 1971.That type of getaway not only had them leading the West Division for the first several weeks, but it locked away a second-place finish and made the final months merely a matter of playing out the schedule.By sprinting out of the blocks last October and November, the Stars put a lot of daylight between them and the other contending West Division teams, excluding Chicago, of course. Pittsburgh made a brief threat, but the Stars whipped the Penguins in a pair of back-to-back games in November and never heard from them again.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if we can quite duplicate what we did in the first two months last year.&rdquo; said Jack Cordon, the Minnesota coach. &ldquo;But we&rsquo;re definitely shooting for a fast start. The players all realize that points are harder to come by the longer the season runs.&rdquo;As the North Stars opened their training camp right at home on the Metropolitan Sports Center ice, for the first time, they had only two real positions on the team open.The vacancies resulted from the loss in the expansion draft last June of utility forwards Ted Hampson and Craig Cameron. Hampson was drafted by the New York Islanders, but opted instead to sign with the Minnesota Fighting Saints of the World Hockey Association. Cameron was taken by the Atlanta Flames.Both were good men, and will be missed. Ask the New York Rangers about that. Gordon put together a checking line last season of Hampson, Cameron and Charlie Burns against the Ranger power line of Jean Ratelie, Vic Hadfield and Rod Gilbert. The North Stars compiled a remarkable record of 3-1-2 against the Rangers.Chances are that those two spots will be filled by Buster Harvey and Fred Barrett, who both made the Minnesota roster as rookies in 1970-71 and then spent last season with Cleveland in the American Hockey League. Harvey scored 95 points for the Barons, finishing second to Don Blackburn in the AHL scoring race.Blackburn, ironically, turned up as a North Star in the June draft, too, and reported to camp as a 34-year-old veteran trying to make the team. He has a chance, and so does Jerry Byers, a 20-year-old winger who was Minne-sota&rsquo;s first pick in the junior amateur draft.&ldquo;We seem to be pretty well set,&rdquo; said Wren Blair, the Minnesota general manager. &ldquo;I hope this is a plus and not a minus for us. What with the multiple-year contracts and all, Jack and I were a little concerned over some possible complacency. But the fellows have all worked hard and we have had an excellent camp.&rdquo; Nobody has enjoyed it more than Blair, who had no contract headaches to worry about at camp for the first time in his NHL career. Blair did his homework last spring and summer, signing every member of his team before they reported to camp.NORTH STAR NOTES:&hellip; Jude Drouin has looked sharp in North Star training camp sessions&hellip; The North Stars were delighted with the results of training in their home Metropolitan Sports Center this fall. Facilities were excellent and the players living in the Twin Cities had the opportunity of having dinner at home with their families&hellip; Blair is very optimistic over his new IHL franchise at Saginaw, Mich&hellip; Harold Cotton, past 70 and still active, is anchoring the Minnesota scouting staff again&hellip; Only Minnesota defectors to the WHA were minor league players Terry Cattery and Fred Speck and goalie Joe Daley. &#9632;

North Stars Hoping For Another Explosive ‘Getaway’

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT&mdash;The Red Wings got together for training camp in Port Huron in hopes of getting back into the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in three seasons and the second time in seven years. The Stanley Cup is something else&mdash;the Wings haven&rsquo;t won it in 17 years.But, characteristically, optimism ran high.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01229/3185625-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="264" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Doak</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We want the best skating. best conditioned and best forechecking team.&rdquo; General Manager Ned Harkness said, &ldquo;and Johnny Wilson is doing a tremendous job of accomplishing that.&rdquo;Wilson is perhaps the biggest reason for the optimism. He didn&rsquo;t take over the team until the 12th game last season and then it took him better than a month to get it turned around and playing his style with his brand of conditioning.The Wings played very well the second half of the season, had excellent scoring, surprisingly good blueline play at times but were deficient in goal and couldn&rsquo;t catch Toronto for fourth place. With the Leafs decimated defensively by World Hockey Association raiders, the Wings are more hopeful this season.They got one jolt right off the bat, though, when defenseman Gary Doak broke his right leg when he crashed into the goal post in the Wings&rsquo; opening exhibition game against St. Louis. He will be out six to eight weeks.The Wings were also getting their lumps in the exhibition circuit dropping their first two starts to St. Louis and Boston before rebounding to bounce Bruins 8-4 and blank Leafs 4-0.Wilson greeted approximately 72 players at Port Huron, including veteran Alex Delvecchio who is back for his 22nd year.It appeared there would be few changes in the club over the one that came on strong at the finish. The Wings&rsquo; trouble spot is still in goal where both Al Smith and done last season.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-02161/3185618-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="1806" height="1195"><figcaption class="caption-body">NHL scoring champion PHIL ESPOSITO of Boston accepts Northland&rsquo;s Silver Stick Award for his outstanding scoring achievements of the past three years. Making presentation to the Bruins&rsquo; star center is KEN WHARRAM, left, CHUCK GREENIDGE, general manager of recreation division of Larson Industries Inc., which produces the Northland hockey sticks, and big ELMER &lsquo;MOOSE&rsquo; VASKO, right. Wharram and Vasko, both former NHL stars, are members of Northland&rsquo;s Mobile Pattern Shop unit.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Gary Doak’s Broken Leg Jolts Wings

MONTREAL&mdash;The big turnover in hockey coaches continued throughout the off-season with both the National Hockey League and the American Hockey League helping contribute to the changes.Both leagues will have six men at the helm of their clubs who weren&rsquo;t there at the start of last season. It&rsquo;s a major changeover but apparently quiet common in hockey from the NHL right down to the junior leagues.With the help of two new franchises, the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League actually led the way with seven new coaches slated to head up OHA clubs for the start of the 1972-73 campaign.Here is a complete breakdown of the coaching changes since last season:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>California &mdash;Garry Young replaced Vic Stasiuk as coach.Young also serves as GM.Vancouver&mdash;Vic Stasiuk replaced Hal Laycoe as coach. Laycoe named vice-president in charge of player development.Los Angeles&mdash;Bob Pulford replaced Fred Glover as coach.Buffalo&mdash;Joe Crozier replaced Punch Imlach as coach. Imlach remains as GM.Atlanta&mdash;Bernard Geoffrion named coach of new team.N.Y. Islanders&mdash;Phil Goyette named coach of new team.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>Richmond &mdash;Larry Wilson replaced Eddie Bush as coach.Providence&mdash;Larry Popein replaced Larry Wilson as coach.Springfield&mdash;Jerry Toppazzini replaced Gary Dineen as general manager and coach.Rochester&mdash;Don Cherry replaced Doug Adam as general manager and coach.Cincinnati &mdash;Floyd Smith replaced Joe Crozier as general manager and coach.New Haven&mdash;Parker MacDonald named general manager and coach of new team.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>Phoenix&mdash;Sandy Hucul replaced Aut Erickson as general manager and coach.Seattle&mdash;Phil Maloney replaced Chuck Holmes as general manager and coach.San Diego&mdash;Jack Evans replaced Max McNab as coach. McNab remains as GM and also named executive vice-president.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>Fort Worth&mdash;John Choyce replaced Bob Lemieux as coach. Lemieux remains as GM.Omaha&mdash;Fred Creighton replaced Larry Popein as coach and Jake Milford as general manager.Tulsa&mdash;Gerry Moore replaced Marcel Pronovost as coach.<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2>Charlotte&mdash;Jack Wells replaces Fred Creighton as coach.Roanoke Valley&mdash;Gregg Pilling replaced Colin Kilburn as coach. Kilburn remains as GM.Cape Cod&mdash;Bronco Horvath named coach of new team.Rhode Island&mdash;Larry Kish named coach of new team.New England&mdash;Rich Green named coach of new team.Johnstown&mdash;Tommy McVie replaced Eddie Kachur as coach.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>Columbus&mdash;Moe Bartoli replaced Terry Gray as coach.Toledo&mdash;Fred &lsquo;Skip&rsquo; Burchell replaced Bill Needham as coach.Dayton&mdash;Jimmy Anderson replaced Gerry Moore as coach.Des Moines&mdash;Danny Belisle replaced Terry Slater as coach. Ken Wilson replaced Slater as GM.Muskegon&mdash;Bryan McLay replaced Moose Lallo as coach. Lallo replaced Jerry DeLise as GM.Saginaw&mdash;Don Perry named coach of new team.<h2>OHA MAJOR</h2>Kitchener&mdash;Eddie Bush replaced Ron Murphy as coach.Toronto&mdash;George Armstrong replaced Frank Bonello as coach. Bonello replaced Tommy Smythe as GM.London&mdash;Bill Long replaced Bronco Horvath as coach. Also named general manager.Hamilton&mdash;Dave Draper replaced Harry Neale as coach.Ottawa&mdash;Leo Boivin replaced Bill Long as coach. Ross Tyrell replaced Long as GM.Sudbury&mdash;Barry MacKenzie named coach of new team.Sault Ste. Marie &mdash;Abby Caricattonamed coach of new team.<h2>WCHL</h2>Regina&mdash;Bob Turner replaced Earl Ingarfield as coach.<h2>QUEBEC MAJOR LEAGUE</h2>Quebec&mdash;Orval Tessier replaced Maurice Filion as general manager and coach.Cornwall&mdash;Ron Racette replaced Orval Tessier as coach.Sherbrooke&mdash;Jean Therrien replaced Ron Racette as coach.Sorel&mdash;Yvan Gingras replaced Ghislain Delage as coach.Montreal&mdash;Koger Bedard named general manager and coach of new team.<h2>OTHER CHANGES</h2>Ottawa Rangers&mdash;Derek Holmes named coach of Central Junior League team.Oakville Oaks&mdash;Les Duff named coach of Ontario Senior League team. &#9632;

NHL, AHL Teams Contribute To Huge Coaching Turnover

<div class="byline">BY JOHN ARNOLD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01206/3185680-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="818" height="1088"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN OCTOBER 13 ISSUE</h2><h3>Across</h3>1&mdash;Pictured Player.7&mdash;Initials of 1962-63 Calder Trophy winner.8&mdash;Former Vancouver forward.10&mdash;Laugh.11&mdash;A former Black Hawk, (init).12&mdash;Type of tree.13&mdash;Skating requisite.15&mdash;Often called during baseball games.16&mdash;8 across played in this league last season.18&mdash;Former high scoring Bruin Line.19&mdash;One of the Penguins answers to this.21&mdash;Initials of a former California forward.22&mdash;10th and 22nd letters of the alphabet.23&mdash;One of the Hawks answers to this.26&mdash;First name of a Philadelphia defenseman.27&mdash;Former St. Louis defenseman.29&mdash;One of the Habs. (nit.)30&mdash;A Minnesota veteran.<h3>Down</h3>1&mdash;An NHL forward.2&mdash;The Rocket is one.3&mdash;Initials of this newspaper.4&mdash;Number worn by 23 across.5&mdash;Part of a dollar.6&mdash;11th and 12th letters of the alphabet.7&mdash;An ex-New York defenseman.9&mdash;L.A. forward.14&mdash;Team Canada right winger.17&mdash;An ex-Bruin goaltender. .20&mdash;Former NHL forward.21&mdash;Short for first name of 21 across.22&mdash;Ferguson answers to this.23&mdash;Louis Blues.24&mdash;9th and 12th letters of the alphabet.25&mdash;Initials of a former NHL coach.28&mdash;Preposition. &lsquo;<h2>LAST MONTH&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>Across</h3>1&mdash;RICHARD.7&mdash;CARON.8&mdash;CULLEN.10&mdash;GUS.11&mdash;SLY.13&mdash;ERA15&mdash;T.l.16&mdash;TOR.17&mdash;LN.18&mdash;U.Y.19&mdash;A.D.20&mdash;M.S.21&mdash;U.S.A.23&mdash;OSLO.26&mdash;GRAY.27&mdash;HENRI.28&mdash;EYE.29&mdash;N.A.30&mdash;R.N.31&mdash;SUPERSTAR.<h3>Down</h3>1&mdash;ROCKET.2&mdash;CALGARY.3&mdash;ACES.4&mdash;RAN.5&mdash;D.R.6&mdash;ANDY.9&mdash;L.U.11&mdash;ST. LAURENT.12&mdash;LINDSAY.14&mdash;ROUSSEAU.20&mdash;MOHNS.22&mdash;AYE.24&mdash;LN.25&mdash;OREE.30&mdash;R.S. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

OTTAWA&mdash;The big day is fast approaching for the World Hockey Association.Tuesday, Oct. 11 is the date that pucks will be dropped for the first time in official WHA league games. Openers that night will see Alberta Oilers at Ottawa Civic Center and Quebec Nordiques play at Cleveland.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01213/3185718-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="264" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Harris</figcaption></div>Pending the outcome of various court cases, a total of 63players who jumped from the rival NHL will make their debut in WHA uniforms. Although it&rsquo;s virtually impossible to keep an exact count on player signings, the WHA has surpassed its objective of 300 players under contract.The four latest NHL defectors to come to terms with WHA clubs were veterans Jean-Guy Gendron and Brit Selby with Quebec Nordiques; Val Fonteyne, with Alberta Oilers and goalie Les Binkley, with Ottawa. The Nationals also hit the headlines when they signed former NHLer Billy Harris as their coach for the initial WHA campaign, but the team failed in its bid to get Dave Keon&rsquo;s name on the dotted line. Instead, Keon rejoined Toronto Maple Leafs.Harris, also a Toronto product, spent last winter coaching the Swedish National team in Stockholm. A great believer in European conditioning methods of the type demonstrated by the Soviets in the Russia-Canada series, Harris is expected, to implement these measures as Ottawa mentor. He is a recognized winner, having played on a Memorial Cup championship team with Toronto Marlboros in 1955, two Calder Cup winners with Rochester Americans (1965) and Pittsburgh Hornets (1967), and three consecutive Stanley Cup champs with the Leafs (1962-64). Prior to accepting the coaching position in Sweden, he piloted Canada&rsquo;s National team in 1969.Harris&rsquo;s signing leaves only Cleveland without a coach as the zero hour approaches. Other helmsmen include Maurice (Rocket) Richard, Quebec Nordiques; Bobby Hull, Winnipeg Jets; Marcel Pronovost, Chicago Cougars; Ray Kinasewich, Alberta Oilers; Camille Henry, New York Raiders; Bill Dineen, Houston Aeros; Glen Sonmor, Minnesota Fighting Saints; Terry Slater, Los Angeles Sharks; Jack Kelley, New England Whalers, and Johnny Mc-Kenzie, Philadelphia Blazers.Meanwhile, the 12 WHA teams have headed to training camps in anticipation of their first season and an impending 37-game exhibition schedule.Here is the breakdown of the WHA exhibition games to be played:Sunday, Oct. 1&mdash;Philadelphia vs. Ottawa at Ottawa; Winnipeg vs. Minnesota at Duluth, Minn.Monday, Oct. 2&mdash;Houston vs. Minnesota at Duluth, Minn.Tuesday, Oct. 3&mdash;Los Angeles vs. Alberta at Edmonton; Chicago vs. Houston at Virginia, Minn.; Minnesota vs. Winnipeg at Winnipeg; Philadelphia vs. Quebec at Quebec.Wednesday, Oct. 4&mdash;Minnesota vs. Chicago at Hibbing, Minn.; Ottawa vs. New England at Walpole, Mass.; Winnipeg vs. Alberta at Edmonton.Thursday, Oct. 5&mdash;Winnipeg vs. Los Angeles at Regina, Sask.; Ottawa vs. Philadelphia at Sherbrooke, Quebec; Houston vs. Chicago at Hibbing, Minn.Friday, Oct. 6&mdash;Los Angeles vs. Winnipeg at Winnipeg; Minnesota vs. Houston at Virginia, Minn.; New England vs. Ottawa at Hull, Quebec.Saturday, Oct. 7&mdash;New York vs. Long island Ducks at Commack, N.Y.; Minnesota vs. Chicago at Hibbing, Minn.; Philadelphia vs. New England at Springfield, Mass.; Alberta vs. Los Angeles at Saskatoon, Sask.Sunday, Oct. 8&mdash;Minnesota vs. Houston at Virginia, Minn.; Los Angeles vs. Winnipeg at Winnipeg; New England vs. New York at West Orange, N.J.Monday, Oct. 9&mdash;Alberta vs. Los Angeles at Regina, Sask.; Minnesota vs. Chicago at Duluth, Minn.; Winnipeg vs. Ottawa at Ottawa; Quebec vs. Philadelphia at Sherbrooke, Quebec.Tuesday, Oct. 10&mdash;New York vs. New England at Boston.In other developments, three more NHL officials have been added to the World Hockey Association staff for 1972-73.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02157/3185711-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="1195" height="1337"><figcaption class="caption-body">Opposing WHA forwards had better take heed this season. Philadelphia Blazers&rsquo; goaler BERNIE PARENT picked up a few boxing tips from world heavyweight champion JOE FRAZIER, left, when two met recently during a baseball game in Philadelphia.</figcaption></div>Referee-In-Chief Vern Buffey said he has hired Bob Sloan, Brent Casselman and Ron Ego.Previously, Buffey had announced the signing of veteran NHL referee Bill Friday. Friday will have the distinction of wearing No. 1 on his sweater.Buffey also named Pierre Belanger of Concord, N.H., as one of the WHA&rsquo;s development referees. Belanger will be a linesman.A training clinic for all WHA officials has been scheduled in Duluth, Minn., Sept. 29 through Oct. 3. &#9632;

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WHA Awaits Opener With 300 Signings

OTTAWA&mdash;Now that the World Hockey Association has succeeded in luring 63 players away from the rival NHL, the WHA is beginning to make inroads into the world of television as well.As many as six league games involving Canadian-based teams, including the official opener Oct. 11 involving Alberta Oilers at Ottawa Nationals, will be telecast by the English network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.If the CBC decides to fully exercise its option to carry all six proposed matches, the WHA will receive an estimated $19,000 per game ($115,000 total).While the opener will be held on a Wednesday night in direct conflict with Hockey Night in Canada&rsquo;s Toronto-Montreal telecast on the CTV network, succeeding contests are scheduled for Sunday afternoons. &#9632;

CBC-TV To Air WHA Games

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How World Hotkey Association Teams Are Shaping Up

<h2>OCTOBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01172/3185846-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="609" height="1960"></div><h2>NOVEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-02117/3185839-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="618" height="2774"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0385/3185832-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="618" height="3134"></div><h2>JANUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0464/3185825-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="618" height="2375"></div><h2>FEBUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0557/3185818-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="614" height="2478"></div><h2>MARCH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0644/3185811-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="625" height="2852"></div><h2>APRIL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0741/3185804-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="611" height="274"></div> &#9632;

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WORLD HOCKEY ASSOCIATION 1972-73 SCHEDULE

NEW YORK&mdash;World Hockey Association teams will experiment with a shootout to break ties if regulation 60-minute play and a 10-minute overtime period fail to produce a winner in pre-season games.&ldquo;The experiment will be only for exhibition games,&rdquo; emphasized James W.Browitt. executive vice-president and administrator of the WHA.Here&rsquo;s how it will work:If the score is tied after completion of the third period, the two-teams will enter a sudden death overtime period. But it neither team has scored after 10 minutes of play, they 11 line up for the shootout.Each coach will designate a shooting order and the teams will alternate moving in on the opposing goaltender one-on-one. similar to penalty shot situations.The visiting team will test the home team goalie first, then the home team will get its chance against the visiting team goalie.If either scores, the game will be over. If both score or if neither score second man in the shooting order for each team will get his opportunity.The WHA rules commitice and Board of Trustees will evaluate the experiment following the preseason schedule to determine if the shootout should become a regular part of league play.The WHA plans sevet other rules changes designed speed up the game by keeping the action moving.Basically, there will be three changes:&bull; Liberalizing the rules regarding offside passes.&bull; Toughening of the icing rule for short-handed teams.&bull; A more realistic interpretation of the third-man fight rule. &#9632;

WHA To Experiment With Tie-Breaking Shootout

<div class="byline">BY GREG FARLEY</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaBOSTON&mdash;Like many of their NHL counterparts, most American Hockey League teams were decimated by the expansion draft and WHA player raids during the summer.One notable exception is the defending Calder Cup champion Nova Scotia Voyageurs, and this&mdash;complemented by another impressive amateur draft by the parent Canadiens&mdash;is the reason the Voyageurs are favorites to capture their first divisional championship since the 1969-70 campaign.Elsewhere, one envisions the Providence Reds&mdash;with a big assist from Emile Francis&mdash;emerging as a solid pennant contender, while last year&rsquo;s eastern titlist Boston Braves and the Springfield Kings&mdash;both considerably weakened by key player losses to the WHA&mdash;will slip down a few notches in this year&rsquo;s race.And look for a surprisingly strong New Haven club to snare a playoff berth in its very first AHL season, and another woeful finish for the Rochester Amerks, perennial division cellar-dwellers.The Vees&rsquo; biggest task is filling the skates of left wing Germain Gagnon, dispatched to the expansionist New York Islanders along with Tony Featherstone and Murray Anderson by Sam Pollock for &ldquo;considerations.&rdquo; Also missing from last year&rsquo;s roster is pivot Joe Hardy, who defected to the L.A. Sharks.Vees&rsquo; are strong again up front with sharpshooters Randy Rota. Chuck Arnason. Yvon Lambert and Chuck Lefley all returning. Gone, however, are Reynald Comeau to Atlanta Flames and Mike Laughton to New York Raiders, of the WHA. Lefley and, Arnason will compete with top draftees Steve Shutt and Dave Gardner for varsity berths, but the Voyageurs will benefit no matter who they wind up with. Murray Anderson and Kerry Ketter are absent from the defensive corps, but suitable replacements are waiting in the wings.Goal is the Vees&rsquo; strong point. Michel Plasse, a one-man show in last year&rsquo;s playoffs, is vying with top draft choice Michel &ldquo;Bunny&rdquo; Larocque (Ottawa 67s) for the job of No. 2 man behind Ken Dryden, and the Vees are assured of having one of the two. Reliable Wayne Thomas is back from last year, along with highly-touted Michel Deguise, who played with Guy Lafleur at Quebec two years ago. Add Cornell&rsquo;s Dave Ellenbaas to the list, and you have the most glittering array of netminders anywhere.PROVIDENCE: A lot of old faces&mdash;Don Blackburn, Alton White, Bill Speer, Neil Nicholson, Brien Perry, Bob Leduc and Ray Clearwater among others&mdash;are gone, but Rangers&rsquo; boss Francis has pledged a shipment of younger and better replacements to new Reds&rsquo; coach Larry Popein, promising to convert the Reds &ldquo;from a playoff contender to a pennant contender?&hellip;&rdquo; Via a new agreement, the Reds will serve as the Rangers&rsquo; prime development club,. replacing Omaha of the Central League. And with very few openings on the Ranger roster, the Reds will be rewarded with prime pickings&hellip; Left winger Bert Wilson reneged on a promise to the L.A. Sharks and is back in the Reds&rsquo; fold. Bill Heindl, a 22-goal scorer with Cleveland last year, has also been recruited. Other Reds back for another stint include Bob Kelly, Steve Andrascik, Ron Stewart, Bill Knibbs, Ron Garwasiuk, Claude Houde, Randy Legge, Rick Charron, Wayne Wood, Dave Hrechkosy and Andre Peloffy, Peloffy, who joined the Reds late last season, has looked good in recent workouts, and is determined to nail down a center berth.BOSTON: The Braves, devastated by the draft and defections of Garry Peters, Don Tannahill, Dan Bouchard, Tom Williams, Paul Hurley, Mike Hyndman and Don O&rsquo;Donohue, face additional losses to the Bruins, who covet forwards Doug Roberts and Fred O&rsquo;Donnell, defensemen Matt Ravlich and Ron Jones, along with netminder Ross Brooks&hellip; Returning are Terry O&rsquo;Reilly, Rich Leduc, Ron Boehm and Steve Stirling up front, and steady Nick Beverly and Ray Fortin on the bluelines&hellip; Craig Sarner (U.S. Olympics, Kerry Bond (Phoenix), and Claude Piche (Roanoke) should contribute to the offense along with candidates Greg Sheppard, Chris Oddliefson, Chris Hayes and Murray Wing, all from Oke City&hellip; The Braves are hurting in goal with the loss of Bouchard. John Adams and Curt Ridley are unproven, so perhaps Milt Schmidt will swing a deal with the Canadiens&rsquo; Sam Pollock, who is shoulder-deep in net talent&hellip; A lot of question marks here. The Braves should grab third spot but could finish lower.NEW HAVEN: Just a hunch that the Nighthawks will benefit from the parent N.Y. Islanders, who drafted some top-flight AHL talent, and ice a surprisingly strong team, good enough to capture a playoff berth in its initial season&hellip; Some of the AHL draftees who may be available to New Haven include Featherstone. Gagnon, Con Forey, Tom Miller, Murray Anderson, Gerry Hart, Bill Mikkelson, Jim Mair, Ken Murray and Neil Nicholson&hellip; AHL stalwarts Gordie Labossiere and Peters would also have been welcome additions, but both are reportedly favoring WHA offers&hellip; With Denis DeJordy and Gerry Desjardins handling goal for the Islanders, the Nighthawks are blessed with young Billy Smith, a good one, who was plucked from the LA organization&hellip; His backup could be Glenn Resch, formerly of Muskegon.SPRINGFIELD: The Kings could well be the divisional &ldquo;sleeper&rdquo; but will have to prove themselves first after losing vets Wayne Rivers, Ed Hoekstra, Brian Carlin, Bruce Landon and others from last year&rsquo;s roster&hellip; Jerry Toppazzini replaced Gary Dineen just prior to training camp, and the new Kings&rsquo; coach was impressed with the amount of new young talent on the roster&hellip; Back from last year are forwards Mike Boland, Bud DeBrody. John Healey, Norman Park, Bob Poffenroth and Wayne Schultz, and defensemen Larry McNabb, Mike Keeler and Jack Kell.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02131/3185908-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="560" height="649"><figcaption class="caption-body">BUNNY LAROCQUE&hellip;Eyed By Vees</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03104/3185901-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="569" height="641"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERT WILSON&hellip;Jumped Back From WHA</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Draft Makes Vees Top Power; Rangers Put New Life In Reds

<div class="byline">BY JOE MINSTER</div>CINCINNATI&mdash;National League hockey definitely is coming to Cincinnati.&ldquo;Sure, we were disappointed at not getting an NHL franchise in the 1974 expansion (when Kansas City and Washington, D.C. were selected), but that only made us more determined,&rdquo; said Brian Heekin, President, and William 0. DeWitt, Jr., Executive Vice President of the Cincinnati Hockey Club Corp.Heekin and DeWitt, along with Wallace M. Power, Cincinnati&rsquo;s Director of Public Utilities, attended the Board of Governors meeting of the National Hockey League on August 24 in Toronto. At that time, they were assured that Cincinnati definitely would get an NHL franchise in the next expansion draft after 1974.&ldquo;Our understanding was that the NHL would expand to 18 teams with the addition of K.C. and Washington in &lsquo;74, and then would further expand to 24 clubs by 1980,&rdquo; Heekin stated.Their hopes buoyed by the results of that Aug. 24 conclave, Heekin and DeWitt have been negotiating with the City of Cincinnati for a lease of the property directly east of Riverfront Stadium, which houses the Cincinnati Reds of the National Baseball League and the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League.A resolution recently passed by Cincinnati&rsquo;s City Council was contingent on the city being awarded an NHL franchise in hockey, &ldquo;and since we got that in Toronto, we re ready to roll, said DeWitt.&ldquo;The arena we are planning, which will be connected to Riverfront Stadium by a network of overhead walkways, will be designed primarily for ice hockey and will have a capacity of 18,000,&rsquo;&rsquo; Heekin explained. &ldquo;But it will be a multi-purpose structure, too, easily utilized for basketball, tennis, track, ice shows, concerts, circuses, and other events.&rdquo;The proposed hockey arena will be another part of an extensive program to develop Cincinnati&rsquo;s riverfront on the Ohio River. Riverfront Stadium has proved to be a boon to the city and already a public park is under construction.In this capacity, Heekin, an attorney, and DeWitt, a stockbroker, played kev roles in &ldquo;We&rsquo;re Ready for the NHL Night, when the Swords closed out their regular &lsquo;71-/2 campaign against Tidewater. On this occasion, a capacity crowd of 10,054, second largest in history, jammed Cincinnati Gardens. &ldquo;This was ample proof to us of the increasing interest in ice hockey in Cincinnati, which we consider to be a major league city in sports,&rsquo;&rsquo;they pointed out. &#9632;

Cincinnati Gets Green Light For Next NHL Expansion

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY&mdash;Two new coaches and switch of another mentor highlight a few changes in the expanded American League for the 1972-73 season. one which is unpredictable as tomorrow&rsquo;s weather.Like the National League, it is difficult to forecast what will transpire in the AHL with the emergence on the scene of the new World Hockey Association. A host of former AHL players have defected to the WHA circuit.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01153/3186018-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="266" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mike Mahoney</figcaption></div>The Springfield Kings of the Eastern Division will be coached by Jerry Toppazzini, former Boston Bruins star, who takes over for Gary Dineen; Larry Popien, ex-Rangers ace is at the helm of the Providence Reds. He succeeds Larry Wilson, who will pilot the Richmond team, a Western entry.Entering the circuit this campaign is New Haven, coached by Parker MacDonald. Only two years ago he was at the helm of the Cleveland Barons. The addition of New Haven gives the AHL 12 teams, six in each division.Nick Mileti, Cleveland owner, will introduce doubleheaders at the Arena since he controls the new WHA Cleveland Crusaders.&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s face it,&rdquo; said one veteran AHL observer, &ldquo;the future of pro hockey is a big question mark. The WHA, if it gets off the ground, could dilute the product in both the National and American leagues. No one can determine which way things will go.&rdquo;HERSHEY&mdash;Coach Frank Mathers opened training camp with only five regular skaters on hand, namely defenseman Ralph Keller and forwards, Gil Gilbert, Hank Nowak, Hugh Harvey and Ted Snell. Three other Hershey-owned skaters, goalie Andre Gill and defenseman Bob Barber defected to the WHA Chicago entry, while Jean Gratton inked a Winnipeg contract. Meanwhile, Hershey&rsquo;s parent NHL club, the Pittsburgh Penguins had some 61 skaters on hand at Brantford, Ont.BALTIMORE&mdash;Coach Terry Reardon, whose Clippers won the AHL Western Division last season, is training at Hershey. He has only five holdovers from the 1971-72 club, forwards Bob Rivard, Brian Murphy, Red Armstrong and Jim Bartlett. Like the rest of the AHL clubs, Reardon is searching for bodies after being hit hard by defections to the WHA.He hoped for 18 to report to camp. He is giving tryouts to Mike Mahoney, who left the Hershey Bears last year after ten seasons; Pete Ford, former Hershey and Baltimore defenseman, and center Gary Swain.VIRGINIA&mdash;Last year the club was known as Tidewater. This season it&rsquo;s the Virginia Red Wings. Last season one of the club&rsquo;s headaches was lack of a practice site. The Wings this year will have more ice time at the Scope and Hampton Coliseum. Jack Prince, the Wings&rsquo; new vice-president, worked out the plans with directors of both buildings. Prince said it is &ldquo;still our plan to pursue building an auxiliary rink.&rdquo; He hopes to get the issue off the ground by the first of the year.RICHMOND: The Robins will start with a new coach Larry Wilson, who replaced Eddie Bush. Wilson won&rsquo;t know which players he&rsquo;ll have until the parent Philadelphia Flyers cut down but indications are the Robins will be a contender and could end up as high as third, which would be a big improvement over last year&rsquo;s fifth-place finish&hellip; Robins have seven exhibition games on tap, two with Omaha of the CHL, two with Salt Lake of the WHL and two with Cincinnati, one of which will be played in the Philly Spectrum Oct. 1 as part of a hockey doubleheader which will include a Philadelphia&mdash;Buffalo nightcap&hellip; Flyers will come to Richmond Oct. 3 for a game before season home opener Oct. 6 against Virginia. &#9632;

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Bears, Clippers Eye Help as Defections Hit Hard

<h2>EAST DIVISION</h2>Boston BravesNew Haven NighthawksNova Scotia VoyageursProvidence RedsRochester AmericansSpringfield Kings<h2>WEST DIVISION</h2>Baltimore ClippersCincinnati SwordsCleveland BaronsHershey BearsRichmond RobinsVirginia Wings<h2>OCTOBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01121/3186091-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="592" height="2060"></div><h2>NOVEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0296/3186084-1-eng-US/f0029-022.jpg" title="f0029-02" width="595" height="2508"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0365/3186077-1-eng-US/f0029-032.jpg" title="f0029-03" width="568" height="2639"></div><h2>JANUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0451/3186070-1-eng-US/f0029-042.jpg" title="f0029-04" width="580" height="2931"></div><h2>FEBUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0547/3186063-1-eng-US/f0029-052.jpg" title="f0029-05" width="586" height="2321"></div><h2>MARCH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0636/3186056-1-eng-US/f0029-062.jpg" title="f0029-06" width="588" height="2688"></div><h2>APRIL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0728/3186049-1-eng-US/f0029-072.jpg" title="f0029-07" width="599" height="235"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE 1972-73 SCHEDULE

SEATTLE&mdash;The Seattle Totems have applied for a National Hockey League franchise and the club&rsquo;s vice-president, Vincent Abbey, calls Seattle &ldquo;the leading candidate.&rdquo;In the Totems&rsquo; application, accompanied by the $25,000 application fee, Abbey stressed that the planned seating expansion of the Seattle Center Coliseum brings the building up to NHL standards for seating capacity.&ldquo;The city&rsquo;s decision to expand the seating in the Coliseum was very important,&rdquo; says Abbey. &ldquo;In the past the National League has had a policy of not going into a city unless it has a building that seats 15,000 or close to it.&ldquo;The NHL is committed to taking three Western League teams in its future expansions and I think we&rsquo;re the leading candidate. This town has a great record of hockey attendance over the years and it was on the increase every year until last season.&ldquo;Seattle is the oldest team in the WHL, it&rsquo;s the best market and it&rsquo;s well-situated geographically.&ldquo;The reception that NBA basketball has had here proves that Seattle is a big-league city. It will do just as well or better in hockey and I think our prospects for getting a National Hockey League team are very good.&rdquo;Abbey made no predictions as to the NHL expansion timetable.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s now in the hands of Mr. Jennings (William Jennings, chairman of the NHL expansion committee) and his committee, but I would hope that they would accelerate their expansion plans and include us in them.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re following our own timetable very closely. After reorganizing the Totems earlier this year we programmed ourselves to be ready to approach the National Hockey League for a franchise within six months and now we&rsquo;ve done so, right on schedule.&rdquo;The Vancouver Canucks took over the struggling Totems&rsquo; Western Hockey League operation earlier this year but with the understanding that when and if Seattle is ready for an NHL franchise, the Canucks will step out. &#9632;

Totems Claim Seattle No. 1 For NHL Spot

<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div>DENVER&mdash;The owner of the Denver Spurs of the Western Hockey League predicted the city would receive a National Hockey League franchise within a year.Ivan Mullenix, a St.Louis real estate developer, who bought the WHL team this summer, said approval of a bond issue to fund a new $10,000,000 sports arena in Denver virtually assured NHL approval.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01145/3186201-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg" title="f0030-01" width="272" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob McCord</figcaption></div>&ldquo;The people of Denver have done their part.&rdquo; said Mullenix. &ldquo;Now we&rsquo;ll be at NHL doorsteps to ask for an expansion franchise.&rdquo;Mullenix purchased the Spurs from the St. Louis Blues as the first step toward bringing a franchise to the Mile High City. NHL rules prohibit one group from owning two major league franchises.Mullenix said an application for a major league franchise would be made within the next few months.Of more immediate concern is putting the WHL champion Spurs on a money-making basis. The Spurs averaged only 4,082 per game in the 8,900-seat Denver Coliseum.&ldquo;I intend to sell hockey in Denver,&rdquo; vows Mullenix. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m aiming for 6,000 (average) this year&mdash;and capacity by the time we get an NHL franchise.&rdquo;Bob Nuell continues as the club&rsquo;s executive director but several other front office changes have taken place.Billye Tellinger was promoted from press secretary to publicity director.&ldquo;We realize we are setting a precedent in naming a woman to this position.&rdquo; said Mullenix, &ldquo;but we feel Billye has the knowledge and ability to do a fine job in this area.&rdquo;The move frees Norm Anderson, who handled the dual role of publicity and promotions director to devote more time to the business end. Anderson has had charge of the program, radio, publicity, promotions, group and season ticket sales.&ldquo;We felt this was quite a work lead for one person,&rdquo; Mullenix noted. &ldquo;We need not only his knowledge in these fields, we have to give him the time he needs to utilize that knowledge and talent.&rdquo;Mrs. Tellinger was instrumental in saving the club from folding in 1970-71. She quit her job with the club and went to work on a voluntary basis. Then, she helped raise some $40,000 in contributions to keep the club rolling until it was bought by the Salomons of St. Louis.The Spurs still rate as the club to beat in the WHL. They&rsquo;ve lost the WHL&rsquo;s most valuable player, Fran Huck, to a two-year contract with the parent club, and apparently All Star right wing Gary Veneruzzo and high-scoring center Ron Buchanan are among the jumpers to the World Hockey Association.But, without having to supply players for a Kansas City entry in the Central Hockey League, the Blues will be able to give more attention to the Denver player needs.Returning from last year&rsquo;s championship Denver club are captain and All Star defenseman Bob McCord, Ray Larose, Roger Lafreniere, Glenn Patrick and Jim Graham; wingers Chuck Hamilton, Claude Laforge, Jim Shires, Don Borgerson, Doug Smith, Floyd Thomson and goaltender Bob Johnson.McCord&rsquo;s official signing was employed as a ruse to announce the sale of the club by the Salomons to Mullenix. However, prior to the press conference announcing the sale, McCord, St. Louis vice-president Lynn Patrick and manager-coach Jean Guy Talbot slipped into Talbot&rsquo;s office to sign the defenseman&rsquo;s 1972-73 contract.The press conference was delayed slightly when Talbot&rsquo;s car ran out of gas on the freeway. Anderson. McCord and trainer Toby Wilson happened along and rescued them. &#9632;

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Denver Expetting NHL Nod; Spurs Team To Beat Again

PHOENIX&mdash;The Phoenix Roadrunners became the first minor league team to recover a player from the World Hockey Association.They signed Western Hockey League All Star left winger Andre Hinse to a three-year contract the day before he was to leave for training camp with the Houston entry in the WHA.Hinse reportedly signed a four-year contract for $140,000 with Houston.No details of his contract with the Roadrunners were given.&ldquo;What I&rsquo;m getting is not that close to what Houston offered,&rdquo; said Hinse, &ldquo;but it&rsquo;s enough to make me happy. It&rsquo;s a big salary in the WHL. That&rsquo;s for sure.&rdquo;The 27-year-old winger, who has scored 109 goals and 237 points in three seasons for Phoenix with a team record 44 goals in 1970-71, owns a home in Phoenix and was reluctant to leave the Valley of the Sun. He operates profitable summer hockey schools in Phoenix and Tucson and in Albuquerque, N.M.Roadrunner club president Jim Wells said he had not violated his own rule against multi-year contracts. Hinse&rsquo;s salary is not set for the second and third year, but has to be negotiated.&ldquo;What we&rsquo;ve done is guarantee Andy some security,&rdquo; said Wells. &ldquo;He can&rsquo;t be traded, sold or placed on waivers.&rdquo;&ldquo;My wife&rsquo;s really happy about it,&rdquo; said Hinse. &ldquo;She thinks it&rsquo;s, the greatest thing. So do I. I&rsquo;ll be with my family all year.&rdquo;Wells, announcing the recovery of the high-scoring winger, expressed hope he could lure back some others who have gone to the WHA.Forwards Ted McCaskill, Bob Charlebois and Bernie Blanchette and defenseman Hal Willis are the only other Phoenix-owned players who have defected to the new league. Blanchette and Willis were obtained in the summer draft.The Roadrunners also announced the signing of goaltender Gary Simmons, who played for San Diego in 1970-71 but was reinstated as an amateur last season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0299/3186232-1-eng-US/f0030-022.jpg" title="f0030-02" width="568" height="820"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDRE HINSE&hellip;Jumped Back</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Phoenix Grabs Hinse Out Of WHA Clutches

LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U. S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U. S. and Canada<h2>How They&rsquo;ll Finish Race</h2>1&mdash;Denver2&mdash;Portland3&mdash;Phoenix4&mdash;San Diego5&mdash;Salt Lake6&mdash;Seattle &#9632;

WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">&#x2014;McCONNELL</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-01128/3186263-1-eng-US/f0031-012.jpg" title="f0031-01" width="554" height="662"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARV EDWARDS&hellip; May Be An Eagle</figcaption></div>SALT LAKE CITY&mdash;The pre-season game in the Salt Lake City Salt Palace with the parent California Golden Seals on Oct. 4 will be the first time the Salt Lake Golden Eagles have faced a National Hockey League team.The game is one of seven pre-season tests scheduled by general manager and coach Al Rollins to shake down his lineup for its Western Hockey League opener Oct. 11 in the Salt Palace against the Portland Buckaroos.All games in Salt Lake City this season will begin at 7:30 p.m., instead of 8.Besides the promising young players expected from the Seals, the Eagles have a nucleus of veterans.Back from last year and under contract are center Lyle Bradley, left wingers Fred Hilts and Roger Bellerive and defenseman Dave Amadio. Other possibilities are second-year defenseman Larry Palanio and young rearguards Jim Jones and Dan Helm. Either Lyle Carter, who saw action for the Eagles last season, or Marv Edwards, who played the last two seasons for Phoenix, is expected to be in goal if he doesn&rsquo;t make the NHL club as backup to Gilles Meloche.Rollins is high on a forward he signed off the Spokane club of the Western International League. He&rsquo;s Ron Huston, one of the highest-scoring players from the Canadian senior amateur ranks.The Eagles&rsquo; boss is quite familiar with the 27-year-old center and right wing from the 1971-72 Allan Cup champion Spokane Jets. Rollins was general manager and coach of the Jets until he took the Salt Lake job last year.Huston tied for the WIHL scoring leadership with 39 goals and 47 assists for 86 points. The 5-9, 180-pounder added another 19 goals and 28 assists for 47 points in 26 playoff games.In six seasons in the WIHL, Huston was voted most valuable player tour times, including last season. Among his regular season statistics were fice game-winning goals, three hat-tricks, six two-goal games, seven power-play goals and nine shorthanded goals. He scored six more power-play goals and three shorthanded goals during the playoffs.Don Scott, the personable assistant general manager and business manager of the Eagles the past three years, has been appointed general manager of the Columbus Golden Seals of the International Hockey League. The appointment was announced by Charles 0. Finley, owner of both clubs. &#9632;

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Eagles Tuning Up For First Test With NHL Club

PORTLAND&mdash;Old Lean and Mean. Larry Leach, is back at the age of 36 for his 17th season in professional hockey.It&rsquo;s his 10th with the Portland Buckaroos.Only three players have played more games than Leach&rsquo;s 569 in a Portland uniform. They are Art Jones, Bill Saunders and Mike Donaldson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-02101/3186294-1-eng-US/f0031-022.jpg" title="f0031-02" width="265" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Leach</figcaption></div>Leach has drawn more minor penalties. 175, than any other Portland forward. He has 12 major penalties, trailing only Connie Madigan, Donaldson and Cliff Schmautz.Leach is one of the WHL&rsquo;s finest defensive forwards and penalty killers.The past season was his finest on offense in four years&mdash;15 goals and a total of 36 points. His 21 assists were his highest total in six seasons.In his best scoring season, he collected 24 goals and a total of 46 points in 52 games with Providence in the American League in 1963.In five consecutive playoff seasons, covering 37 games from 1966 through 1970. Leach scored only once&mdash;but he made it count. His goal beat the San Diego Gulls in overtime of the seventh and deciding game of the 1968 semi-finals.Leach is closing in on several milestones as a professional. He needs five games to hit 1.000, six goals for his 200th and 10 points for 500. &#9632;

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Leach Set For 17th WHL Year

<div class="byline">BY DOUG McCONNELL</div>SAN DIEGO&mdash;The Western Hockey League writers received great news recently when Ed Ehrenverth announced he was ending his retirement and attempting a comeback.Ehrenverth made more good copy than he did goals but that was okay. His value in his five seasons with the San Diego Gulls was as a penalty killer.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0384/3186325-1-eng-US/f0031-032.jpg" title="f0031-03" width="257" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Ehrenverth</figcaption></div>Ehrenverth earned the nickname &ldquo;Mr. Zero&rdquo; when he went 51 games in his last season. 1970-71. without scoring a goal. He finished the season with two.&ldquo;Mv lifetime goal was to some day have a 50-goal season. Ehrenverth explained on his retirement. &ldquo;Well. I&rsquo;m getting close to a no-goal season so I&rsquo;d better get out now and salvage some of my pride.&rdquo;His return to the game at a still young 32 might salvage the Gulls some pride in penalty killing.The Gulls led the Western Hockey League with fewest power play goals surrendered in Ehrenverth&rsquo;s last season and his fifth with the Gulls&mdash;38. Portland. the regular season and playoff champion, was second with 44.Last season, the Gulls gave up 65 power play goals, not as many as the woeful last-place Seattle Totems, who allowed 67, but well behind the leader, the champion Denver Spurs who surrendered 38.Ehrenverth&rsquo;s real reason for retiring was that he was bothered through his last two seasons by a knee injury. The doctors, however. sav his knee is back to normal.A favorite of San Diego fans, as well as the press all over the WHL. Ed was a two-time winner of the Sandy Award as the player. in the eyes of the fans, who &ldquo;best exemplifies the spirit, determination and the hustle of the San Diego Gulls.&rdquo;The Gulls, who reported to training camp at Trail. B.C.. Sept. 19. had a new coach in Jack &ldquo;Tex&rdquo; Evans. Max McNab surrendered the coaching duties he held since the Gulls entered the WHL in 1966-67 and will devote full time to his chores as general manager.Evans, who retired as an active player at age 44. expressed eagerness for camp to begin. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll have a chance to practice my theories of the game and how it should be played.&rdquo; he said.Along with 13 veterans. McNab and Evans lined up several rookies and free agents who will get a good long look at camp.The rookies include goalie Dave Fisher, a graduate of the University of British Columbia and a native of Trail: defenseman Lorne Heron, from the Saskatoon Quakers; Murray Kennett, from Victoria; and forwards Larry Scott, from the Kelowna Junior Buckaroos, and Dave Farrow of Regina, recommended by former Gull Gord Wilkie.Defenseman Dave Woodley, who tried out with the club last season, will get another try to make the Gulls. Bob Champoux who played 97 games for the Gulls, brings out his goaltending equipment to end a brief retirement at age 29.Bob McKinstry, who signed a two-year contract with the Gulls, becomes the first San Diego-born player to sign a pro hockey contract.McKinstry, who turned 20 Sept. 19, the day the Gulls opened camp, played in the minor ranks in San Diego, beginning at age 12. and moved to Western Canada for junior competition the last two years.McKinstry, a rightwinger, is 63 and 210 pounds. He counted 34 points last season and 210 penalty minutes. &#9632;

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Penalty Killing In Good Hands, Ehrenverth Returns To Gulls

TULSA&mdash;The Tulsa Oilers reached down into the International Hockey League to hire a successor to Marcel Pronovost. The man selected by the parent Toronto Maple Leafs is Gerry Moore, a 40-year-old former player and coach of the Dayton Gems.Moore takes over from Pronovost, who defected to the World Hockey Association to coach the Chicago Cougars.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0286/3186387-1-eng-US/f0032-022.jpg" title="f0032-02" width="265" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Moore</figcaption></div>The decision to hire Moore was made after the start of the Oilers&rsquo; training camp in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens. Former Leafs&rsquo; goaler Johnny Bower ran the club workouts until the announcement that Moore would step in as Pronovost&rsquo;s successor.The new Tulsa coach played all of his minor league hockey in the IHL with Toledo, Port Huron and Dayton. After a nine-year career, he retired in 1970 to become the coach of the Gems. Last season his Dayton club walked away with the Southern Division title but was unsuccessful in the playoffs.Moore&rsquo;s contract with Dayton was not renewed this season after the Gems arranged a more intense working agreement with Boston by which the Bruins were to supply the IHL club with their top amateur talent. The Gems figured to land 10 players in the deal, which also called for Boston to supply the team with a coach to direct the development of its young players. The Bruins chose Jim Anderson, who last year coached Oklahoma City in the CHL, for the Dayton position. &#9632;

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Ex-Dayton Coach Moore To Guide Tulsa Oilers

<div class="byline">BY TOM LOBAUGH</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Madein Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U. S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Madein Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U. S. and CanadaFORT WORTH&mdash;It&rsquo;s a cinch bet there will be more rookies than experienced players in the Central Hockey League this season&mdash;and most of the experienced hands will have had only one season of professional play. When the lineups are finally set, you can probably count on your fingers those with more than a year of pro seasoning&mdash;maybe on the fingers of one hand!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01133/3186356-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg" title="f0032-01" width="267" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wendell Bennett</figcaption></div>All four surviving teams in the shrinking CHL must wait for their parent clubs to decide on their personnel before the farm teams can set their lineups.This process will take a little longer than usual this season, and there will be fewer experienced players left over for the CHL farms. The new World Hockey Association has attracted many standouts from recent CHL seasons, and the threat of WHA raiding has forced the parent clubs to offer no-cut contracts to some others who have been around for a few years.In the case of the top amateur draft choices, or last year&rsquo;s rookies who showed enough promise to move upstairs, the parent clubs often hang on to these until after the National League season starts, even though the players are destined for a year in the minors.Some of these players may be kept a little longer this fall. Because so many key NHL players are with Team Canada on its invasion of Russia (and Sweden and Czechoslovakia), there are gaping holes in the lineups of several parent clubs. Fringe players are needed to have the proper number of bodies for training camp scrimmages and exhibition games.Genial Johnny Choyce, getting set to start his first season as coach of the Fort Worth Wings, has twice the problems of other CHL mentors. While they sit and wait for one parent club to make up its mind, Johnny has to mark time for two&mdash;the St. Louis Blues and the Detroit Red Wings.After the NHL clubs are set, the Wings will stock their No. 1 farm at Virginia in the American League, and the Blues will pick players for their top farm at Denver in the Western League. Then Choyce will find out who he can have for Fort Worth.Johnny was scheduled to see a lot of the state of Michigan before he brings his team into Fort Worth around Oct. 4. He started with a rookie camp in Detroit, Sept. 8, and a week later he began commuting between the Red Wings&rsquo; camp in Port Huron and the Blues&rsquo; training base in Flint. September would be almost over before he would assemble his own squad at Port Huron.Until a lot of high-level decisions were made, Choyce could only guess as to the makeup of his CHL club. But for Fort Worth fans in mid-August he was speculating:The defense could come from Dave Smith and Wayne Gibbs (who played briefly for Kansas City last year); Doug Hinton, Gordie Redden, Al McLeod and Charlie Shaw (all with Fort Worth at one time or another last season); Dave Roberts of Michigan State, and Jerry McDonald from Johnstown.Possible Fort Worth forwards are Bobby Collyard, Gordie Brooks, Mickey Oja and Normie Dennis (all with KC last year). Possible netminders would be Chris Worthy (a veteran at KC), and George Hulme (rookie from Port Huron who looked sharp in a brief spring trial at Fort Worth)Most of these have only a year (or much less) of professional experience. The &ldquo;old men&rdquo; of those mentioned are Dennis, who&rsquo;ll be 30 in December, and will be playing his 11th pro season; and Worthy, 25, who has had four pro years, parts of three of them in the NHL.TULSA: While the Oilers were waiting for their new coach, veteran goalkeeper Johnny Bower handled the early training camp drills for the squad called the &lsquo;Oilers&rsquo; in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens. However, most of the second-year pros and rookies expected to play for Tulsa this season were on the &ldquo;Leafs&rdquo; squad, working under Toronto coach John McLellan.The lads who came to Tulsa as rookies a year ago are now expected to be the most experienced on the 1972-73 Oilers, thanks to WHA raids and promotions to the parent Leafs.At last Tulsa General Manager Ray Miron had one reason to be thankful. For the first time in many years all the Oiler prospects came through the physical exams with flying colors. In previous years there was at least one casualty, ranging from unsuspected illnesses to bone fractures or knees damaged in freak accidents as camp opened.The Oilers (through Toronto) have severed the working agreement with Greensboro in the Eastern League, and are now working with Saginaw in the International League. This means the CHL now has no Eastern League affiliations, since Dallas is working with Flint, Fort Worth with Port Huron, and Omaha with Des Moines, all in the International League.Meanwhile on the home front, Oiler season ticket sales were running about 100 ahead of last season, when the club sold a record 930. Miron and his helpers were working toward a goal of 1,200.For the second straight year, mayor Robert LaFortune was honorary chairman of the season ticket committee, and addressed that group at its Sept. 6 press conference. Bill McLaughlin heads the 11-man committee, a cross-section of the city&rsquo;s civic and professional leaders, including a minister and the chief of police.OMAHA: Training camp opened in Drummondville, Que. for the Knights and their parent Atlanta Flames. Since the Flames will be making their debut in the NHL, it may take longer than usual to get their lineup set, composed of players taken in last June&rsquo;s expansion and amateur drafts.Coach Fred Creighton, starting his first CHL season after a long tenure at Charlotte in the Eastern League, couldn&rsquo;t pinpoint any players as sure to be at Omaha.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll get what Atlanta doesn&rsquo;t need,&rdquo; he kept saying. &ldquo;And that could include most of the amateur draftees they&rsquo;ve signed. The New York Rangers have promised to help us fill our roster, but I don&rsquo;t know just who they have in mind.&rdquo; He didn&rsquo;t mention the Rangers are first committed to stocking their Providence farm in the NHL.At least one group of Omaha fandom is hoping big right wing Wendell Bennett is among those sent by the Rangers to the Knights. Wendell married an Omaha girl during the summer. The 22-year-old forward from Loon Lake, Sask., spent the last two years with Kansas City, but was traded this summer from St. Louis to the Rangers.The Knights&rsquo; front office reported season ticket sales at mid-September were about even with a year ago at the same time.DALIAS: Training camp was in two stages for the Black Hawks, defending regular-season and playoff champions of the CHL. All prospects reported to Chicago, Sept. 14, and worked out for 10 days with the parent Hawks, then the Dallas squad was to move on to its own camp in Guelph, Ont.Coach Bobby Kromm made a flying trip into Big D. Sept. 1112, before reporting to Chicago. The dean of CHL coaches was still hoping he could get 28-year-old left wing Bill Orban as a steadying influence for his young club. Orban has been at Springfield in the AHL the past two seasons, but was acquired by Chicago from the Los Angeles Kings during the summer.Starting his eighth professional season, Orban has seen a year and a half of NHL service with Chicago, and half a season with Minnesota. He spent the 1969-70 campaign with Minnesota&rsquo;s CHL farm club at Waterloo, Iowa.If Chicago decides to keep Orban, the most experienced man at Dallas will be right wing Don Gordon, 24, a third-year pro.Public relations director Frank Filesi has announced the Dallas Hawks will televise seven of their regular-season road games, beginning Oct. 22 at Denver. Two playoff games are also being planned for the TV package.Three of the four CHL teams will get into the post-season play. A best-of-five series will match the second and third-place finishers, while the first-place finishers will draw a bye into the best-of-seven finals. Plans were abandoned for a. playoff series against the Western League champions, principally because none of the CHL rinks will be available by the time the WHL finishes its playoffs.<h2>How They&rsquo;ll Finish Race</h2>1&mdash;Dallas2&mdash;Tulsa3&mdash;Fort Worth4&mdash;Omaha &#9632;

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CHL Teams Playing ‘Waiting Came’

<h2>OCTOBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-01114/3186460-1-eng-US/f0033-012.jpg" title="f0033-01" width="586" height="874"></div><h2>NOVEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0284/3186453-1-eng-US/f0033-022.jpg" title="f0033-02" width="590" height="1544"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0361/3186446-1-eng-US/f0033-032.jpg" title="f0033-03" width="628" height="1651"></div><h2>JANUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0447/3186439-1-eng-US/f0033-042.jpg" title="f0033-04" width="650" height="1319"></div><h2>FEBRUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0540/3186432-1-eng-US/f0033-052.jpg" title="f0033-05" width="603" height="1444"></div><h2>MARCH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0631/3186425-1-eng-US/f0033-062.jpg" title="f0033-06" width="597" height="1660"></div><h2>APRIL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0728/3186418-1-eng-US/f0033-072.jpg" title="f0033-07" width="578" height="366"></div><h2>Starting Times Of WHL Games</h2>DENVER: Week nights 7:30 p.m. Sundays & Holidays 7:00 p.m.PHOENIX: Week nights 8:00 p.m. Sundays & Holidays 7:00 p.m.PORTLAND: Week nights 8:00 p.m. Sundays & Holidays 7:00 p.m.SALT LAKE: All games 7:30 p.m.SAN DIEGO: Monday through Thursdays: 7:30 pm. Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 p.m. Sundays 7:00 p.m.SEATTLE: Week nights 8:00 p.m. Sundays & Holidays 7:30 p.m. &#9632;

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE 1972-73 SCHEDULE

<h2>OCTOBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0826/3186533-1-eng-US/f0033-082.jpg" title="f0033-08" width="583" height="666"></div><h2>NOVEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0922/3186526-1-eng-US/f0033-092.jpg" title="f0033-09" width="595" height="1106"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1020/3186519-1-eng-US/f0033-102.jpg" title="f0033-10" width="616" height="1101"></div><h2>JANUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1119/3186512-1-eng-US/f0033-112.jpg" title="f0033-11" width="618" height="1116"></div><h2>FEBRUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1218/3186505-1-eng-US/f0033-122.jpg" title="f0033-12" width="589" height="1108"></div><h2>MARCH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1312/3186498-1-eng-US/f0033-132.jpg" title="f0033-13" width="598" height="1137"></div><h2>APRIL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1410/3186491-1-eng-US/f0033-142.jpg" title="f0033-14" width="587" height="493"></div><h2>Starting Times of Games</h2>DALLAS: Week nights 8:00 p.m. Sundays 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.FORT WORTH: Week nights 8:00 p.m. Sundays 7:00 p.m.OMAHA: Week nights 8:00 p.m. Sundays 7:00 p.m.TULSA: Week nights 8:00 p.m. Sundays 7:00 p.m. &#9632;

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CENTRAL HOCKEY LEAGUE 1972-73 SCHEDULE

<div class="byline">BY BILL PHELAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;The Eastern Hockey League, born under the aegis of Tom Lockhart in 1933 as the Tri-State Hockey League, will operate in 1972-73 as a 12-team circuit with three divisions.Cape Cod and Rhode Island both have moved into the league as expansion teams and New Haven has shifted to Springfield, operating under the banner of the New England Blades.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01127/3186564-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="272" height="504"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy McVie</figcaption></div>In other summertime EHL developments, Lockhart was named honorary president with Norman MacLean, a long-time correspondent for THE HOCKEY NEWS appointed EHL commissioner. Mac Lean will set up a league office in New York.&ldquo;The EHL is one of the finest circuits in the game today. Its list of graduates to the National Hockey League is long and meritorious. In the past the EHL has become known for violence and hooliganism. This may attract some fans, but it will not be tolerated by the new regime. Those players who don&rsquo;t respect officials will be suspended for lengthy periods of time. We have a good product and we are going to make it better,&rdquo; said MacLean.The new commissioner spent a major portion of the summer coping with the problems of EHL clubs and the new World Hockey Association. He was able to hold almost all of his referees and add at least three newcomers to the staff. Also, after much negotiation, by each individual club, the EHL can announce that all franchises have agreements, seven with WHA teams and five with NHL clubs.&ldquo;These agreements will guarantee our fans seeing a very high brand of hockey this winter,&rdquo; said MacLean.SUN COAST: Walter Brock, the effervescent general manager of the Suns welcomed Commissioner MacLean to St. Petersburg and Tampa on September 11 for a quick inspection of the facilities in Florida. MacLean declared the Bay Front Center, &ldquo;one of the finest of its size&rdquo; he had ever seen&hellip; Sun Coast has agreed to work once more with Larry Regan and the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL. They are counting upon the return of goalie Billie Yeo to bulwark their defense. Yeo will train with the Kings. Lloyd Hinchberger, the Suns&rsquo; coach and Brock will journey to the Kings&rsquo; minor camp at Fitchburg, Mass, to look for likely Suns&hellip; Cliff Pennington, bald and bombastic, is expected back to provide more scoring fireworks for Sun Coast fans.GREENSBORO: Norman Curtis, the Generals&rsquo; Governor is looking forward to the new season. Coach Don Carter counted 1971-72 as a building year, but hopes a new agreement with the Los Angeles Sharks of the WHA will pay off. The Generals previously worked with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL, but this arrangement was terminated this season. With the largest arena and greatest number of seats in the EHL, general manager Curtis wants to close the gap on rival Charlotte. Curtis has replaced Ron Spong as club GM.CHARLOTTE: Al Manch, the Checkers&rsquo; president, is confident that new playing coach Jack Wells can repeat. The Checkers are working with Punch Imlach and the Buffalo Sabres. Frank Golembrosky and Mike Rouleau are in the Philadelphia Blazers&rsquo; WHA training camp, but Manch hopes to get them back&hellip; In another player squabble, Greg Pilling, last year on loan to Sun Coast from Charlotte, has been named the Roanoke Valley coach&mdash;and the Suns want Charlotte to compensate them for the loss of Pilling, who logged 24-28-52 for the Suns.ROANOKE VALLEY: Pilling is looking forward to coaching and playing for the Rebels. Gene Hawthorne is the Roanoke Valley governor with Colin Kilburn the general manager. The Philadelphia Blazers of the WHA are working with the Rebels and are training in Roanoke. This should give Kilburn an edge in looking over what is available from the WHA team when it makes its first cuts.CAPE COD: The Cubs are awaiting the opening of their new arena Oct 13 when they play the New England Blades. A capacity crowd is anticipated for this gala opener. Bronco Horvath, the Cubs&rsquo; new coach is expecting much player help from both the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers, last year&rsquo;s Stanley Cup finalists. Richard J. Terrio is the Cubs&rsquo; governor, with Jack Crawford the general manager. The Cubs hosted the EHL meeting at Yarmouth on Sept. 21 and 22.JERSEY: Carlee L. Smith has re-named Ross Turnbull as the general manager of the Devils. Jim Hay returns as coach. The Devils are working with Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL and are anxiously awaiting word from the training camp of the New York Raiders of the WHA where several of last year&rsquo;s standout players of the genre of Jamie Kennedy, Claude Chartre and Ted Sharf are working out.LONG ISLAND: Al Baron, as governor, Jim Skidmore and coach Ed Stankiewicz make up the Ducks front office team this season. It will be a testing year for the Ducks, who now have big league competition in the form of the New York Islanders of the NHL at the new Nassau Coliseum. The Ducks will host the New York Raiders of the WHA in a pre-season game October 7 at the Long Island Arena.RHODE ISLAND: Jack Sheehan has selected Larry Kish, a highly successful area coach to man the bench for the Eagles who will play in the Rhode Island. Auditorium, long the home of the Providence Reds of the AHL. The Eagles are working with the Chicago Cougars of the WHA and may also accept a player or two from the WHA Winnipeg Jets.CLINTON: Ed Stanley, who has done yeoman service as the acting treasurer of the EHL this summer met with Commissioner MacLean and his aide Dave Fortgang on a recent inspection of the Clinton arena. Pat Kelly once more is returning to Clinton as coach and general manager, but the long-time working agreement with the Minnesota North Stars and Wren Blair has been terminated. Stanley is negotiating with a Canadian-based WHA team, but hadn&rsquo;t quite closed the deal at press time.JOHNSTOWN: Tom McVie is the new player-coach of the Jets, replacing Ed Kachur, whose various injuries made him unable to compete this season. General manager John Mitchell an-nounced the completion of a working agreement with the St. Louis Blues after a fruitful trip to the Mound City.NEW ENGLAND: The Blades have transferred their playing site to the famous Eastern States Coliseum in West Springfield, long the home of the Springfield Indians and Kings in the AHL. With the Kings in a new arena in Springfield, the battle for Western Massachusetts fans should be keen. Nate Podoloff, still steaming over the defection of coach Don Perry, who had a 10-year contract with only four years served, has made a solid working agreement with the New England Whalers of the WHA&hellip; Rich Green, a former All-American defenseman with Boston University and more recently coach of Colby College, is the new head coach of the Blades.SYRACUSE: President and general manager Bill Charles has rehired Ron Ingram as non-playing coach. Ingram did a fantastic job last year in steering the Blazers to the finals. Charles, THE HOCKEY NEWS minor league executive of the year last season, revealed a greater proportion of dates in February than last season. This is good news for Syracuse fans&hellip; &#9632;

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Big League Agreements For All 12 Teams To Help Raise Calibre Of Expanded EHL

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0282/3186602-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="506" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body">The EHL destinies will be guided by newly-appointed commissioner, NORMAN MacLEAN of New York, this season. MacLean, who is a long-time correspondent of THE HOCKEY NEWS, succeeds aging Tom Lockhart at the helm of the EHL.</figcaption></div><h2>New Look Of EHL</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0363/3186595-1-eng-US/f0034-032.jpg" title="f0034-03" width="1186" height="198"></div> &#9632;

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EHL’s New Commissioner

TOLEDO&mdash;Among the many letters owner Paul Bright of Toledo received from aspiring hockey players seeking places on his IHL club&rsquo;s roster was this one from a young goaler in Canada, who wrote:&ldquo;If at all possible, I would desire to know if I could attend your hockey club&rsquo;s training camp and vie for a position on your team&rsquo;s roster.&ldquo;This past season I tended nets for two teams. I played the complete season with the University of Detroit varsity.The other team was the Kentucky Fried Chicken of the Civic League.&rdquo; &#9632;

Finger Licking Good!

<div class="byline">BY JOHN GUGGER</div>TOLEDO&mdash;Hornets&rsquo; owner Paul Bright found himself confronted with an unusual situation on the eve of the International Hockey League season.He received 22 letters from goaltenders hopeful of a tryout with the Hornets for the 1972-73 campaign.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01114/3186664-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="259" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Moe Bartoli</figcaption></div>Bright is plunging headlong into his second season as the owner of the Toledo team which last year lost nearly $100,000 of his money, but he said that in making the rounds he has been encouraged by a rising interest in hockey in this town.A phone call came from Philadelphia, where the Flyers had two extra goalies in their training camp. Bright was asked if he could use the pair.&ldquo;Not really,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I know where I can get 22 of them.&rdquo;Bright already had his two goalies of last year, Glenn Ramsay and Dean Jeffrey, returning for the opening of the Hornets&rsquo; training camp. But an elation engulfs Bright when an unknown player asks for a tryout with the team.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been in hockey for 20 years and I&rsquo;ve never heard of anything like this,&rdquo; Bright said. &ldquo;The formation of the World Hockey Association lit up a lot of eyes.&ldquo;Maybe not one of those goaltenders can come close to making the team, but that one good player could get away.&rdquo;The list of goalies contained names from Canadian cities like Toronto and Montreal and from such U.S. locales as Chicago and Kent, Ohio. The ages ranged from 20 to 26 and some of the players even had one or two years of professional experience.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a healthy situation to know that this many players are interested,&rdquo; Bright said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure a number of them have applied to several teams, but the enthusiasm is still there.&rdquo;Meanwhile, the Hornets are going to training camp with a brand new coach. He&rsquo;s Fred &lsquo;Skip&rsquo; Burchell of Montreal, who performed in the minor leagues for 10 years before retiring. Burchell takes over the reins of the club from veteran defenseman Bill Needham, who has hung up his skates to become a scout with the Cleveland Crusaders of the WHA.DAYTON: Jim Anderson, a 41-year-old veteran of professional hockey, has been named coach of the Gems for the 1972-73 season. He is a native of Pembroke, Ont. and coached last season at Oklahoma City of the Central League. Anderson replaces Gerry Moore, whose contract was not renewed.COLUMBUS: IHL veteran Moe Bartoli has been hired to replace Jerry Gray as coach of the Seals&hellip; The Golden Seals open their home season against the defending Turner Memorial Cup champion, Port Huron&hellip; Season&rsquo;s schedule emphasizes weekend games, including 15 Sunday dates.SAGINAW: Because of a new IHL ruling, the Gears will be playing 37 home games at the Saginaw Civic Center instead of 36&hellip; Ken (Gunner) Garrett will be the trainer for the Gears this season. Garrett comes from New Haven, where he worked as a trainer in the Eastern Hockey League for five years.FORT WAYNE: Managercoach Marc Boileau expected most of last year&rsquo;s club to report for training camp along with an impressive crop of rookies&hellip; Bob Chase has been appointed public relations director of the Komets. He was associated with the club as a radio play-by-play announcer for the past 19 years;FLINT: Generals doubled their pre-season schedule to four games to allow more time for evaluating players&hellip; Team played an intra-squad game for the benefit of the United Fund&hellip; Generals play majority of home games on Sunday nights, 17 in all.DES MOINES: Capitols acquired amateur rights to 11 players, including Bob and Doug Menard, younger brothers of former Des Moines coach Minnie Menard&hellip; Caps played two pre-season games against Omaha of the Central Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0290/3186657-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="546" height="846"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM ANDERSON&hellip; To Guide Dayton</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Anderson, Bartoli Newest Coaches

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>MONTREAL&mdash;Mickey Oja, forward, purchased from St. Louis for undisclosed amount of cash and player to be named later.ST. LOUIS&mdash;John Garrett, goalkeeper, sent to Chicago to complete Danny O&rsquo;Shea for Chris Bordeleau trade. Brian Lavender, forward, and Dave Pulkkinen, defenseman, sold to N.Y. Islanders in straight cash deal.PITTSBURGH&mdash;Denis Herron, goalkeeper, Jack Lynch defenseman, Bernie Lukowich, Ron Lalonde and Brian Walker, forwards, assigned to Hershey of AHL.NEW YORK&mdash;Wayne Wood and Rick Charron, goalkeepers, Gerry Lecompte, Claude Houde, Marty Gateman, Fraser Robertson, Guy Provost and Bob Lepage, defensemen, Bill Heindl, Rene Villemure, Gary Coalter, Gerry Butler, Bob Thomson, Doug Keeler, Billy Knibbs, Andre Peloffy, Gerry Teeple, Doug Horbul, Bert Wilson and Ron Garwasiuk, forwards, assigned to Providence of AHL.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>PHOENIX&mdash;Howie Young, defenseman, purchased from San Diego of WHL in straight cash deal. Garry Simmons, goalkeeper, signed as free agent after being reinstated as amateur. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES&mdash;The season of the big change&mdash;that&rsquo;s how people are describing the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior A League in 197273.After having the same 10 teams for a decade the Ontario group will present a new batting order this year.Returning from last season are the pennant-winning Toronto Marlboros, Peterborough Petes who won the playoff championship then lost to Cornwall in the Memorial Cup finals, Hamilton Red Wings, London Knights, St. Catharines Black Hawks, Kitchener Rangers, Oshawa Generals and Ottawa 67s. Peterborough looms as the early team to beat since its player losses are nowhere near those of the Marlboros.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0195/3186726-1-eng-US/f0037-012.jpg" title="f0037-01" width="274" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Boivin</figcaption></div>Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; franchise was transferred to Sault Ste. Marie while Hap Emms sold Niagara Falls Flyers to Sudbury interests, then promptly purchased the neighboring St. Catharines club from owner Fred Muller.This marks the first time in the more than half century of junior A hockey in Ontario that northern teams have been included.There are other changes too, like seven new coaches.The only men to retain their coaching positions are Roger Neilson in Peterborough, Gus Bodnar in Oshawa and Frank Milne in St. Catharines.The new include Dave Draper replacing Harry Neale as coach in Hamilton, Eddie Bush taking over from Ron Murphy in Kitchener, Bill Long leaving Ottawa to succeed Bronco Horvath in London, Leo Boivin moving in to coach the 67s, George Armstrong making his coaching debut with Toronto Malrboros, while excoach Frank Bonello moves up as general-manager replacing Tommy Smythe.Barry McKenzie will coach the new Sudbury Wolves&rsquo; entry, Abby Caricatto will be in charge of the Sault Greyhounds.There will be no difference in the number of games played.After three weeks of training camp and approximately 40 exhibition games all teams will be in action 63 times during the schedule which opens the last week of September and closes in late March.The geographical and personnel changes combined with a large group of graduating juniors from 1971-72 make predictions almost impossible.The first place Marlboros lost only six players but they include their top line of Dave Gardner, Bill Harris (No. 1 amateur draft choice by the NHL) and Steve Shutt plus highly-regarded George Ferguson.The Marlies, however, re-united the Howe brothers, sons of Detroit super-star Gordie Howe.Defenseman Marty Howe played with the Marlboros last year and they acquired centre Mark from London through a trade. Mark had been drafted from Detroit of the Southern Ontario Junior A League (Tier Two) by the Knights but expressed a desire to play with his older brother.Mark is generally considered one of the most promising 17-year-olds in Canadian and American hockey and the combination plus returning teen-agers such as Paulin Bordeleau, Glen Goldup and Ron Bobette will give the Dukes another strong contender.Kitchener lost nine players through the age limit, Hamilton, London, Toronto and Oshawa six each, Peterborough and St. Catharines five, Ottawa four.The Ottawa 67s picked up a couple of off-season bonuses they didn&rsquo;t quite expect. Two members of the disbanded Montreal Canadiens&mdash;Ian Turnbull and Bogden Podwysocki&mdash;are on the Ottawa roster. General Manager Ross Tyrell announced he had traded Rick Adduono, the 67s No. 1 choice in last spring&rsquo;s midget draft, the No. 2 pick of the 1973 draft and two other players to be delivered later to the new Sudbury club in return for the services of both Turnbull and Podwysocki, both of whom expressed a desire not to play in Northern Ontario.The only drawback to the deal is that the OHA must rule on Podwysocki&rsquo;s signing by the 67s and the Ottawa club apparently still had to secure Turnbull&rsquo;s release from the Quebec branch, which wasn&rsquo;t readily forthcoming it seems.The new Montreal Red, White and Blues&mdash;nee the Montreal Canadiens&mdash;were anxious to retain Turnbull for their entry into the Quebec Major Hockey League and were reportedly reluctant to give the offensive-minded All-Star defenseman his release to join Ottawa.Only a half dozen of the Niagara Falls players are still eligible which means Sudbury will practically start from scratch and Sault Ste. Marie will rely mainly on Northern Ontario players.For most teams it will be a rebuilding season as they rely mostly on younger players plus a few veterans.It all adds up to a well-balanced league and one of the most interesting seasons in many years of Ontario junior A hockey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0271/3186719-1-eng-US/f0037-022.jpg" title="f0037-02" width="546" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body">IAN TURNBULL&hellip;Landed By 67s</figcaption></div><h2>How They&rsquo;ll Finish Race</h2>1&mdash;Peterborough2&mdash;Toronto3&mdash;Oshawa4&mdash;St. Catharines5&mdash;Ottawa6&mdash;London7&mdash;Sudbury8&mdash;Hamilton9&mdash;Kitchener10&mdash;Sault Ste. Marie &#9632;

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Peterborough Top Title Threat As OHA Fans Await ‘New Look’

TORONTO&mdash;Canadian Major Junior hockey will switch to National Hockey League rules this season&mdash;with a few exceptions.Ontario Hockey Association, Quebec Amateur Hockey Association and Western Canada Hockey League Junior A leaders met in Calgary recently to set up procedures for the 1972-73 season.They have agreed to retain the three-team round-robin format for the Memorial Cup, which achieved a successful inauguration last spring in Ottawa. They agreed on the Stanley Cup format of 20-minute, sudden-death overtime periods.Exceptions to NHL rules, include:Where the NHL rule book refers to specific fines, such cases will be referred to the player&rsquo;s league president for discipline. Helmets will continue to be compulsory player apparel.The NHL crease will be official. In rinks where other CAHA games are played, both creases will be used. The same will apply to faceoff spots.Use of illegal sticks in the NHL calls for a fine, but no penalty. The juniors have also wiped out the penalty, but the amount of the fine will be set by each league president. &#9632;

Major Juniors Move Closer To NHL Rules

MONTREAL&mdash;The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, which over the past two seasons has produced the Nos. 1 and 2 draft choices for the National Hockey League in the persons of Guy Lafleur last season and Jacques Richard this campaign, will commence its 1972-73 schedule Oct. 1 on four fronts.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-01116/3186781-1-eng-US/f0038-012.jpg" title="f0038-01" width="280" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Orval Tessier</figcaption></div>The league&rsquo;s newest entry&mdash;which goes by the rather bulky name of &ldquo;Montreal Red, White and Blue Junior&rdquo;&mdash;opens in Shawinigan against the Bruins. The defending Memorial Cup champion Cornwall Royals, meanwhile, kick off their season in Drummondville against the Rangers, while Sherbrooke Beavers play at Quebec Remparts and Trois-Rivieres Ducs are at Sorel Black Hawks.Only four coaches in the nine-team set-up can be accurately termed &ldquo;holdovers&rdquo;. They are Camille Bedard at Trois-Rivieres; Claude Dolbec at Shawinigan; Johnny Rougeau, of pro wrestling fame, at Laval National, and ex-New York Ranger and Valleyfield Brave Gordie Haworth, at Drummondville. The latter also fills the function of general manager.Two pilots have shifted teams, with Ronnie Racette moving from Sherbrooke to Cornwall replacing Orval Tessier who left the Canadian Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; champs to take over the dual role of GMcoach of the Remparts. Rookie mentors are Jean Therrien at Sherbrooke and Yvan Gingras, who succeeds departed Ghislain Delage at the helm of Sorel.In a category by himself is Montreal GM-coach Roger Bedard, who, although new to the league, is no stranger to the players on his team. He handled most of them last year when they competed under the OHA Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; banner as Montreal Junior Canadiens.When the Montreal crew replaced the now-disbanded Verdun Maple Leafs in president Bob Lebel&rsquo;s Quebec Major circuit, Bedard voiced the hope that all eligible Baby Habs&rsquo; players would stick with him rather than desert the ship. It hasn&rsquo;t exactly worked out that way, due to the defections of defense stalwart Ian Turnbull and scoring star Bogdan Podwysocki to Ottawa 67s of the OHA Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; loop, but Bedard is nevertheless optimistic of his squad&rsquo;s title chances.The Montreal team is probably the only one in junior hockey to flaunt two professional baseball players in its training camp. Both are chattels of Montreal Expos: defenseman-pitcher Blair Mackasey and goalie-catcher Michel Dion. Technically, Dion will be listed on the roster of Montreal&rsquo;s Junior &lsquo;B&rsquo; farm club, St. Victor Canadiens. He quit hockey altogether last year, and for this reason Bedard does not wish to unjustly rush him back into the breach over incumbent netminder Nick Sanza. However, Dion will linger nearby down on the farm for quick recall when needed.Solid returnees to the Montreal club are rearguards Michel Latreille and Bob Fee, along with forwards Allan Pike, Firmin Royer, David Logan, Jean Tetreault, Gaetan Potvin and Andre St. Laurent. The last-named is a nephew of former NHL defenseman Dollard St. Laurent.Two other easily-recognizable names will be performing in the league this year. Laval has Renald Tremblay, kid brother of Quebec Nordiques&rsquo; flashy J.C., and Montreal will align Glenn Grigg, son of one-time journeyman winger Reggie Grigg.Laval, only team inactive on opening night, will make its debut Oct. 2 at home against Drummondville. &#9632;

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Coaching Changes, New Team Highlight Quebec Major Loop Start

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;The 1972-73 season undoubtedly will be less tumultuous than last season for the St. Louis Blues.Last year there was a parade of 41 players, three coaches and two general managers. The most secure employe in the organization was Norm Kramer, the organist at the St. Louis Arena.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0199/3186819-1-eng-US/f0039-012.jpg" title="f0039-01" width="514" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL ROBERTO</figcaption></div>But this season the Blues promise to show more stability, and with the increased stability should come better performance on the ice.The changes of last year were not always pleasant top ics of conversation for those caught in them. There was not unanimous support for every trade, and at times the whirlwind pace of player moves was highly disturbing for the other players. Bill McCreary followed Sid Abel, and Al Arbour followed McCreary in the changing of coaching command, and Abel replaced Lynn Patrick as general manager, as Patrick again became vice president.Changes for the improvement of a hockey team are inevitable during a season, but the psychological effect can be devastating. The real achievement of the Blues last season was that they performed well despite the convulsive changes. By the end of the season they were good enough to oust the Minnesota North Stars in the Stanley Cup playoffs before running afoul of the Boston Bruins.The best result of the changes is that the Blues now are a young team. And the young players are an exciting lot. Players like Phil Roberto, who sizzled in last spring&rsquo;s playoffs, Andre Dupont, Mike Murphy and Jack Egers are showing in their first real chances in the National Hockey League that they are better than most.For the first time in their history the Blues had two established lines at the beginning of training camp. Arbour indicated he would stay with Garry Unger as center between Murphy and Roberto and Frank St. Marseille between Egers and Gary Sabourin. Those lines must shoulder the burden of the Blues&rsquo; scoring. If either of them fails to surpass 60 goals this season, the Blues will be in trouble.The Blues&rsquo; defense is questionable in the respect that two of its stalwarts are recovering from serious operations. Noel Picard&rsquo;s foot, badly mangled in a horsebackriding mishap last November, must be thoroughly tested in NHL competition. Bob Plager underwent surgery for removal of a calcium deposit from his thigh. Plager&rsquo;s main problem might be a possible reforming of the deposit, although that situation would not be expected to develop immediately.The Blues, of course, have Barclay Plager, a player of All-Star caliber and undoubtedly once again the backbone of the St. Louis defense. Dupont is probably a future AllStar, and the Blues can make good use of his improving play now. TheBlues have also acquired Chris Evans and Steve Durbano.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0270/3186812-1-eng-US/f0039-022.jpg" title="f0039-02" width="520" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDRE DUPONT</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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NHL Blues Hope To Swing With Stability, Youth

<div class="byline">BY GEOFFREY FISHER</div>OAKLAND&mdash;If optimism was the key to victory, the California Golden Seals would have to be rated a strong contender to demolish the opposition in the National Hockey League this season.unfortunately for the Seals, it will be essential to back up the optimism with some solid hockey fundementals. The optimist in the igloo of the Seals is Garry Young who this year joins New York Rangers&rsquo; Emile Francis in the exclusive NHL fraternity of individuals who are both general manager and coach.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0352/3186850-1-eng-US/f0039-032.jpg" title="f0039-03" width="262" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rick Smith</figcaption></div>It may be that Young has some Don Quixote blood in his veins that leads him to make such bold declarations.His troops are very young, spirited and endowed with the kind of reckless courage so often characteristic of youthful warriors who have not yet discovered the prudency of caution or deliberation.But about that optimism.Young says that the Seals&rsquo; 22-year-old sophomore netminder, Gilles Meloche, is a star on the rise.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the greatest goalie prospect I have seen since Terry Sawchuk broke in,&rdquo; he&rsquo;ll tell you.He claims that his burly, 24-year-old backliner, Rick Smith, &ldquo;is the closest thing to Bobby Orr I have seen in this league.&rdquo;And the Young optimism rolls on.The Seals&rsquo; centermen, he declares, are as good as any in the Western Division of the NHL and he cites the likes of Ivan Boldirev, the 23-year-old Yugoslavian, Craig Patrick, son of onetime Boston Bruins great Lynn Patrick; Joey Johnston and Walt McKechnie.In his second campaign as general, manager of the Seals, and his first as coach. Young this season will send a club to the hockey wars that averages under 24 years of age and is both tall and hefty.They mostly represent Young&rsquo;s own shrewd talent in recognizing hockey ability, a skill he developed into a fine science during some 20 years of combing the woods for the Boston Bruins. His competent judgment of hockey players has earned him high marks in the business. Much of the credit for building the Bruins into an ice juggernaut is reserved for Young.When he accepted Charley Finley&rsquo;s offer to join the Seals at the outset of the 1971-72 season, after five seasons as chief scout for the Bruins. Young quickly initiated a rebuilding program. He changed players so fast that the program printer never did catch up.This season the changes continued in wholesale lots. Faced with the same chaotic conditions that afflicted other NHL teams whose players bolted to the WHA the Seals lost nine regulars, Young managed to hold on to most the veterans he coveted. He then proceeded to sweeten the pack with a galaxy of sparkling youngsters. &#9632;

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Young’s Seals Will Fool Lot Of People

TORONTO&mdash;Minor hockey coaching clinics will again be presented across Ontario this year with Molson&rsquo;s Brewery (Ontario) sponsoring the events.A total of 20 clinics are on the program stretching from September through to December in 15 Ontario areas.The clinic program, now in its second year of operation, has so far played host to over 1,200 minor hockey coaches.George Pimm, area project manager for Molson&rsquo;s stated, &ldquo;we are happy to be associated with the program again this winter. Although we don&rsquo;t feel that our program will cure all of our hockey ills, we still hope that our contribution will benefit the minor hockey coaches in this province&rdquo;.The clinic takes the form of a one-day program that includes three hours ice time encompassing conditioning, power skating and fundamentals in skating, passing, shooting, checking and goaltending; the afternoon lecture program goes into coaching responsibilities, how to hold practise sessions, officiating and rules interpretation, the prevention and care of injuries, education through hockey, and a general seminar on the problems of minor hockey.&ldquo;The response has been terrific and we hope to complete at least 20 clinics this winter&rdquo; said Pimm.The clinic team will be headed by Bill Hayward, conditioning specialist for the Armed Forces and Toronto Maple Leafs, and Paul Roach, Director of Cooper Sport Camps and a long-time scout in international hockey and the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL.Following the opening clinic Sept. 23 at Timmins, the Molson program will visit Fort Erie Sept. 30, Welland Oct. 1, Rexdale Oct. 8, Burlington Oct. 14 and 15, Brock-ville Oct. 21 and 22, Prescott Oct. 28 and 29, Keswick Nov. 4, Schomberg Nov. 5, Orillia Nov. 11 and 12, Dryden Nov. 18, Thunder Bay Nov. 19, Sault Ste. Marie Nov. 25, Sudbury Nov. 26 and finally Preston Dec. 2 and 3. &#9632;

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