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October 6, 1972
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Finger Licking Good!
TOLEDO— Among the many letters owner Paul Bright of Toledo received from aspiring hockey players seeking places on his IHL club’s roster was this one from a young goaler in Canada, who wrote: “If at all possible, I would desire to know if I could attend your hockey club’s training camp and vie for a position on your team’s roster. “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.”…
Wilson Holds Key If Canucks To Fly Or Flop
VANCOUVER— 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. • Is Dunc Wilson finally ready to live up to his potential as a major league goaltender? • Has general manager Bud Poile found competent replacements for right wingers Rosie Paiement and Wayne Connelly who jumped to the WHA? • 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? • 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…
Keon Gets Top $$$ But What About Goal?
TORONTO— 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’s the one left when Bernie Parent decided to cast his lot with the Philadelphia Blazers. Up until recent weeks, Leafs’ vice-president King Clancy thought…
Huil-Hawks’ Fireworks About To Explode
CHICAGO— Sporting, courting fans, mark down Sept. 28 on your calendar. That’s presumably when the sparks will start to spurt in the Chicago Black Hawks’ 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. “So far all we’ve had is minor skirmishes,” explained Seymour Schriar, one of the…