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October 13, 1972

The Hockey News October 13, 1972

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01516/3214283-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">One of Canada&rsquo;s more aggressive performers against the Russians was little BOBBY CLARKE, shown wheeling in the Soviet end of the rink with the puck during Canadian segment of Russia-Canada international series which ended in victory for Team Canada. (Hockey News Photo by Robert Shaver)</figcaption></div>MONTREAL&mdash;Paul Henderson, whose three game-winning goals provided Team Canada with a dramatic victory in the Moscow half of the series against Russia, has long been regarded as one of hockey&rsquo;s deadliest snipers.&ldquo;He can really thread the needle with the puck.&rdquo; says Toronto coach, Johnny McLellan. &ldquo;Gets his shot away with no waste motion, whatever.&rdquo;Henderson, who fired seven goals plus two assists in the eight-game battle against the Soviets, achieved dramatic heights by counting the winners three times in succession in Games No. 6, 7 and 8 in Moscow. Not surprisingly, the likeable Leaf regarded his performance as the absolute peak of his hockey career.&ldquo;After I scored the winner in the seventh game to tieup the series, I figured I&rsquo;d had the biggest moment of my hockey life,&rdquo; Henderson said, recalling his goal at 17:54 of the third period of Game No. 7 which gave Team Canada a 4-3 win and evened the series at three wins apiece and a tie. &ldquo;But, when I got the winner in the eighth game, too, I just couldn&rsquo;t believe it. It was the thrill of a lifetime.&rdquo;Henderson&rsquo;s series-winner in the eighth and deciding contest against Russia came with 34 seconds left, and prompted veteran broadcaster Foster Hewitt to say: &ldquo;Had someone been writing the script for this with the idea of providing the maximum in thrills, they couldn&rsquo;t possibly have improved on that finish.&rdquo;But Henderson, 29, who hails from outside Kincardine, Ontario, near Georgian Bay, has always specialized in putting the puck in the net and many of his markers have been game-winners. As a kid, he once scored an amazing 18 goals in a single game and, while a junior with the Hamilton Red Wings, he fired a record 49 goals in 48 games one season.That was when he was on the way up to the NHL in the Detroit Red Wing chain and, because he played right wing at the time, some enthusiasts even began to see in him the makings of another Gordie Howe.&ldquo;He certainly can score,&rdquo; said Sid Abel, who was coaching the Wings in the mid-Sixties when Henderson made the team, &ldquo;and, he has to rate as one of the fastest skaters in the NHL, too. But, he has trouble stickhandling.&rdquo;Henderson agreed.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t really know what to do with the puck when I got it.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I just look off. relying on my speed to overcome other deficiencies. Sometimes, I&rsquo;d overskate the puck and wouldn&rsquo;t have it by the time I got past centerice.&rdquo;In an effort to get him untracked, Abel switched Paul from right to left wing in time for the 1965-66 season. The moved paid off. Henderson scored 12 goals in the first half of the season, of which six were game-winners. His batting average in winning goals at that point was even better than that of Bobby Hull&rsquo;s. There was a weekend, just after mid-season, when he scored back-to-back game&mdash;winning goals against Montreal Canadians and New York Rangers. He finished that season with 22 goals. He&rsquo;d scored eight the season before.&ldquo;I played with some pretty good linemates,&rdquo; said Henderson, who goes out of his way to give credit to others. &ldquo;Bruce MacGregor was a hard-skating, hard-checking wingman. Norm Ullman, our center, was so good with the puck that all you had to do was race for the net and you knew he was going to center it for you.&rdquo;By 1967, Henderson had become the most accurate scorer in the NHL, connecting on better than 24 percent of his shots through the &lsquo;66-67 season. He also had a four-goal game against Rangers that season, but his troubles began when he caught a cold and aggravated it at a practice in Howe&rsquo;s Hockeyland. An inflamation of the windpipe developed, and Paul had to be sent to Arizona to recuperate. When he came back he ran into injuries which shelved him again. All told he missed 24 games, but still wound up with 21 goals. But, the Wings missed the playoffs and trouble was brewing.Toward the end of the next season, the &lsquo;67-68 campaign, Detroit suddenly traded Henderson, along with Ullman and Floyd Smith, to Toronto. Leafs, in return, gave up Frank Mahovlich, Pete Stemkowski, Garry Unger and the rights to the retired Carl Brewer.&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t a bit surprised at being traded,&rdquo; Henderson said. &ldquo;Wings had missed the playoffs and it&rsquo;s a real failure for a team when that happens. They can&rsquo;t just sit still, they have to do something. Only, I expected to go to Montreal, not Toronto.&rdquo;The fact that an entire unit&mdash;Smith had replaced MacGregor at right wing on the Ullman, Henderson line&mdash;had been traded, made it easier for them to adjust to new surroundings. Paul, who continues to play with Ullman at center, while Ron Ellis patrols right wing in place of Smith, has done well with Leafs. He&rsquo;s had seasons of 27-20-30 and, last year, 38 goals for the Toronto club. He was. in fact, the club&rsquo;s leading scorer last season as far as goals were concerned, but second to Ullman in the matter of total points.&ldquo;He had 12 powerplay goals last year,&rdquo; says Johnny McLellan. &ldquo;And, that was the highest on the club. He also had five game-winning goals and on five other occasions his goals tied a game. He&rsquo;s sharp.&rdquo;He&rsquo;s also smart&mdash;smart enough to wear a helmet while playing. He was one of only two Team Canada players to wear one. Stan Mikita was the other. The helmet saved Paul from serious injury in the fifth game against Russia, when he crashed into the boards after scoring a goal. Henderson first donned the headgear after a close call a few years ago, while he was playing for Detroit.&ldquo;I skated out of our end with my head turned waiting for a pass,&rdquo; Paul recalled. &ldquo;The puck went to Gary Bergman, but he fired it off the glass in attempting to clear it. It rebounded and hit me on the head on my blind side and I went out like the proverbial light.&ldquo;At first they thought the injury was really serious&mdash;like a fractured skull,&rdquo; Henderson recounts. &ldquo;Uuckily for me, it wasn&rsquo;t that serious. But, it was a warning. Guys are shooting pucks around with curved sticks, now, and the puck is liable to go anywhere. It&rsquo;s foolish not to protect yourself.&ldquo;People ask me if the helmet isn&rsquo;t hot. Of course it is. But, so&rsquo;s the rest of our equipment. Gloves are hot. Can you see guys leaving them off for that reason? It just doesn&rsquo;t make sense for a hockey player to protect other parts of the body and leave the head uncovered and open to the most serious kind of injury.&rdquo; he said.Henderson, who&rsquo;s played eight and a half seasons in the NHL, will be looking for career goal No. 200 in this campaign. He needed 23 to reach that plateau. And, while his biggest thrills must now be behind him after his sensational Team Canada efforts, there are other marks to shoot at. He&rsquo;s never been an All-Star, never been on a Cup-winning team, only once been on a first-place squad.So, despite his very considerable feats to date, Paul still has a lot to look forward to.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02445/3214276-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="536" height="554"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAUL HENDERSON&hellip;Three Game Winners</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Leaf Star ‘Deadly’ In Moscow

BOSTON&mdash;The World Hockey Association appeared to have won its first decision over their National Hockey League rivals when a U.S. Federal Court judge refused to prohibit Gerry Cheevers and Derek Sanderson from jumping to the WHA.The judge&rsquo;s decision, which rejected the Boston Bruins&rsquo; request for a preliminary injunction to re-strain the two former Bruin stars from play ing with WHA teams, was heralded as a major breakthrough for the new league.The rejection of the Bruins&rsquo; case enabled Cheevers and Sanderson to practise with their WHA teams. In another ruling, a Chicago court judge issued a restraining order against Winnipeg&rsquo;s Bobby Hull but ruled the former Black Hawks&rsquo; star scorer could drill with the WHA Jets pending outcome of an Oct. 8 hearing in Chicago by which the Chicago Hawks are taking legal action against Hull and the Jets.Meanwhile, the WHA was steaming ahead in its efforts to get the NHL into a court showdown over the latter&rsquo;s reserve clause, which binds players to contracts until they obtain their release from NHL teams.The WHA and five former National Hockey League players have filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board based upon violations of the labor management relations act bv the NHL Players&rsquo; Association, the NHL and its affiliated clubs.Gary L. Davidson, president of the WHA. said the five players are Hull, Cheevers. Norm Ferguson and Garry Peters, both of the New York Raiders, and Ted Hampson of the Minnesota Fighting Saints.Last season. Hull played for the Chicago Black Hawks, Cheevers and Peters were with the Boston Bruins. Ferguson was with the California Golden Seals and Hampson was with the Minnesota North Stars.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02161/3214763-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="279" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Davidson</figcaption></div>&ldquo;The essence of the charges,&rdquo; Davidson said, &ldquo;is wrongful domination and interference with the NHL Players&rsquo; Association which claims to be a labor organization.&rdquo;In addition. Davidson said the WHA and the five players filed suit in U.S. District Court, Central California, in Los Angeles against the NHL, its affiliated clubs and against the NHL Players&rsquo; Association and its executive director, R. Alan Eagleson, for &ldquo;declaratory and injunctive relief to establish the invalidity of the upon violation of labor statutes and principles.&rdquo;The suit was filed by A. Patrick Nagel and Steven C. Drummy for the WHA and the five players.The WHA maintains a conflict of interest existed when Eagleson served as executive director of the NHL Players&rsquo; Association, served as bargaining agent in contract negotiations for some players who are members of the association, served as a director of Hockey Canada which sponsored the Team Canada-Russia series, was a principal in a firm which bought television rights for the Team Canada-Russia series. &#9632;

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Cheevers, Sanderson Get Green Light From Judge

<h2>SEPTEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0532/3215772-1-eng-US/f0037-052.jpg" title="f0037-05" width="518" height="123"></div><h2>OCTOBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0628/3215765-1-eng-US/f0037-062.jpg" title="f0037-06" width="565" height="1427"></div><h2>NOVEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0724/3215758-1-eng-US/f0037-072.jpg" title="f0037-07" width="556" height="1323"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0821/3215751-1-eng-US/f0037-082.jpg" title="f0037-08" width="550" height="1299"></div><h2>JANUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0918/3215744-1-eng-US/f0037-092.jpg" title="f0037-09" width="589" height="1258"></div><h2>FEBRUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-1015/3215737-1-eng-US/f0037-102.jpg" title="f0037-10" width="562" height="1235"></div><h2>MARCH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-1110/3215730-1-eng-US/f0037-112.jpg" title="f0037-11" width="546" height="1300"></div> &#9632;

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Ontario Major Hotkey League Schedule

<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div>PHOENIX&mdash;When Leo Thiffault decided in May on a pro hockey comeback, the first thing he had to do was streamline his 5-football frame.In his three-year layoff, since leaving the Phoenix Roadrunners&rsquo; training camp, he had ballooned to 205 pounds.When he reported to the Runners training camp at Tucson, Arizona, this fall, he weighed in at 173 pounds. That&rsquo;s 12 pounds lighter than his last pro season, 1968-69, and a few pounds under his playing weight as a teenager with the Montreal Junior Canadiens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-01131/3215242-1-eng-US/f0031-012.jpg" title="f0031-01" width="258" height="392"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Lund</figcaption></div>There&rsquo;s nothing complicated about Leo&rsquo;s diet. &ldquo;I quit drinking,&rdquo; he says.Personal pressures were responsible for Thiffault&rsquo;s erratic play and eventual walkout.A new wife and several months of daily three-hour sessions on the paddleball courts sent Leo to training camp ready to make the club.The 27-year-old centerman&rsquo;s only contact with the game in his three-year exile was a 15-game stint in the New England Hockey League.&ldquo;It was enough to show me I still have the ability to play the game,&rdquo; said Thiffault, now a resident of Springfield, Mass.Coach Sandy Hucul is on Leo&rsquo;s side. If he comes through, that means one less hole the rookie coach will have to fill.The Roadrunners are the hardest hit by players jumping to the World Hockey Association.They lost all three centermen, Larry Lund, Bob Whitlock and captain Ted McCaskill, to the WHA, as well as right wing. Frank Hughes and leftwinger Bob Liddington. Even the two players the Runners claimed in the draft, defenseman Hal Willis and winger Bernie Blanchette, went to the WHA.Whitlock appeared to waver and almost followed Andy Hinse&rsquo;s example by jumping back to the Runners. He was at camp for the first two days, then left for the Chicago Cougars.In addition, goaltender Marv Edwards was drafted by the California Golden Seals.Wayne Hicks is the only returning right winger but that no longer seems as much a trouble spot as center-ice. Bob Mowat, from two years in the Eastern Hockey League, and Wayne Clairmont, a lefthanded shot who ran up several 40-50 goal seasons for Nashville in the EHL, appeared early in camp to be capable of filling the vacancies.The defense seems solid with Howie Young-back, after a one season absence, Adam Keller, Jim Murray, Gord Nelson and Harry Shaw with Gary Braun from Toledo of the International League, were impressive in early camp workouts.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-02104/3215235-1-eng-US/f0031-022.jpg" title="f0031-02" width="522" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body">ADAM KELLER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0386/3215228-1-eng-US/f0031-032.jpg" title="f0031-03" width="528" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body">WAYNE HICKS</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Roadrunners Rebuilding With New Faces

RUSSIANS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01562/3215993-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="557" height="1108"><figcaption class="caption-body">HENDERSON TURNS IT AROUND FOR TEAM CANADA TO VANQUISH</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02430/3215986-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="996" height="1478"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACQUES RICHARD LEARNING HARD WAY</figcaption></div>STARTING LINEUPS FOR NHLHOCKEY NEWS POll !RANGERS, HAWKS PICKED TO DOMINATE NHL RACES &#9632;

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CANADA DOES IT!

<div class="byline">BY KEN MCKENZIE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01789/3213144-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">He didn&rsquo;t score the winning goal but he did everything else in leading Team Canada in its dramatic come-from-behind series victory over the Russians. Center PHIL ESPOSITO, shown with his netminding brother TONY, was outstanding on offense for Canada and provided the inspiration and leadership to lift the NHL All Stars off the floor and win three straight game to take the eight-same series in Moscow from the well-conditioned Russians (Hockey News Photo by Robert Shaver)</figcaption></div>MOSCOW&mdash;Some reporters derisively referred to them as &lsquo;Cream Canada&rsquo; after their humiliating performance in the first hall of this historic Russia-Canada hockey series, but &lsquo;Dream Canada might be a more apt title after the hand-picked NHL selects accomplished what seemed to be the impossible by sweeping the last three games to take the series four games to three with one tie.In the process of sweeping the final three matches here on the Russians&rsquo; home ice, Team Canada won their way into the hearts of millions of Canadian supports by simply refusing to quit when time and time again the cause looked hopeless.When the swift-skating Soviets jolted Team Canada with a third-period rally for a 5-4 victory in Game Five here, it looked as if there was no human way Harry Sinden&rsquo;s troops could pick themselves up off the floor and win the whole thing. However, team leader Phil Esposito found reason for optimism even in the 5-4 loss saying: &ldquo;Now at least we know who the better team is.&rdquo; While is was difficult to find backers for Espo&rsquo;s feelings at that point, he turned out he knew what he was talking about.The closing&rsquo; three Canadian triumphs over the Russians followed a script that obververs claimed would have been rejected by any Hollywood producer as too fantastic to be creditable. Who would dare cast a steady player like Paul Henderson in a role that would call for Him to score the winning goal in each of the three closing victories, the final two coming in the last few minutes of the contest!It wasn&rsquo;t simply real!And what about Phil Esposito? Maligned before the series opened for a supposed lack of enthusiasm for the Team Canada crusade to restore hockey preeminence to the country which founded the game, the rangy Boston center proved to the team sparkplug throughout the entire eight games, and in the process earned himself a reputation for total effort that will guarantee him new respect in every NHL rink. Formerly known as a scoring specialist who only waited in the slot to be set up be his Bruin wingers. Esposito not only won the series scoring title with a six-goal, seven-assist series total, but skated miles in diligently carrying out his defensive responsibilities.For sheer drama and tension, it must be impossible to imagine anything that could come close to equaling the eighth-game confrontation that was set up when Team Canada bounced back for: L2 and 5-4 victories in games Six and Seven to deadlock the series at three wins each with one tie. Most of the 3,000 rabid Canadian supporters here tabled the final eighth game as the most important match in the history of hockey and acted that way. When Henderson scored the winning goal with only 34 seconds remaining to play, it is almost impossible to describe the emotion that gripped the Moscow Sport Palace. While the players surged onto the ice to mob Henderson the fans repeated the scene in the stands, embracing each other in a mass of frenzy.How much did the fantastic support by the Canadian fans who travelled to Moscow mean to the players&rsquo; morale? It is indicative of the lift which the incessant cheers gave the Team Canada players that virtually every one of them made it a point to give the loyal contingent of fans full credit for keeping their spirits high when the situation looked the darkest.Of course, the big question that remains now is whether the thrilling hockey that millions of fans were treated to in the eight games in to be just a one shot affair or whether something can be arranged between the Soviets and our pro hockey people that will provide for regular helpings of this kind of hockey with an international flair. Several tentative proposals have been discussed by NHL officials meeting with their Soviet counterparts here, but nothing definite has yet been concluded. The biggest debate centers around whether further competition with the European hockey powers take place with individual NHL clubs or whether the Team Canada concept of an All Star squad will be retained. &#9632;

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Henderson Made It All Come True

<div class="byline">BY CHARLIE HALPIN</div>MONTREAL&mdash;If the experts are right on this season, you can start reserving now for a New York-Chicago Stanley Cup showdown next spring. However, it won&rsquo;t be any cake walk for either the Rangers or the Black Hawks.In fact the National Hockey League could easily be headed for its most competitive race at the top since the breath-taking windup to the 1969-70 race when five of the six Eastern teams charged down the home stretch three points apart and finished with Boston and Chicago deadlocked with 99 points, Detroit with 95 and Montreal and New York even at 92 with Rangers getting the fourth and final playoff spot by the narrowest margin of having outscored Canadiens 246-244 on the season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02669/3213182-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="276" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Esposito</figcaption></div>Rangers won&rsquo;t have to scramble for their lives this season or settle for any fourth-place finish. In the opinion of the 16 hockey selectors polled by I THE HOCKEY NEWS to determine the finish of the two eight-team races, the New Yorkers emerged as No. 1.Rangers were not the unanimous choice of the experts to finish on top put they did collect a convincing 11 of 16 votes, a factor that was undoubtedly influenced by the New Yorkers&rsquo; solid player strength.The Rangers were virtually untouched by both the draft and the raiding World Hockey Association giving them a big power edge over the defending Stanley Cup champion Bruins for the start of the 1972-73 campaign. The Bruins on the other hand lost heavily both in the expansion draft and defections to the WHA.In the final pool Rangers gained 123 points to top the East with the Bruins running second with 110 and Montreal a close third with 103. Detroit was picked to nudge Toronto out of the fourth playoff berth with Buffalo. Vancouver and the New York Islanders bringing up the rear in that Order. It appears to be a bleak outlook for the new Islanders, who don&rsquo;t expect to offer much opposition to the established clubs in the eyes of the experts. The New Yorkers received 14 out of 16 votes to end up last.There were little or no surprises in the West Division voting. The pollster went, right along with the Chicago Black Hawks as the class of the West even without their ace scorer Bobby Hull, who has jumped to the Winnipeg Jets of the WHA.The Hawks are not expected to breeze to the West pennant as they did last year by 10 points and in 1970-71 by 20 points. It could really develop into a three-team dogfight in the West Division with Minnesota North Stars and St. Louis Blues determined to make a battle of it for first place.Chicago received 10 first-place votes and five for second out of the 16 ballots for a total of 121 points. Minnesota garnered 117 points and St. Louis placed third with 92 points. Pittsburgh Penguins were conceded only an outside chance of crashing the &lsquo;big three&rsquo; with 76 points and Philadelphia followed with 68. After that the gap widened with Los Angeles selected for sixth place. California for seventh and the new Atlanta Flames for eighth.Tom Johnson, the Bruins&rsquo; coach has issued a word of caution to those who are intent on writing the Bs off as a Cup threat.In fact Johnson insists the Bruins are going to win it-all again but admits it won&rsquo;t be easy. &ldquo;Defending the Cup could be tougher than last season.&rdquo; said Johnson. &ldquo;We could get a few surprises at training camp and we still have a lot of good players.&rdquo; added Johnson.The Bruins still have hockey&rsquo;s most potent and dominating two-man punch in the NHL in Esposito and Bobby Orr. Espo&rsquo;s inspiring play in the recent Team Canada-Russia hockey series should assure the Bruins of a quick start in the NHL schedule. Orr of course is something else. His injured knee has not responded as quickly as he expected and there is speculation the Bruins will have to get along without him for the-first month of the new season.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01794/3213175-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="1028" height="1150"><figcaption class="caption-body">WALTER TKACZUK&hellip;Driving Force For Rangers</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Ranger Depth fatter In Nod Over Bruins; Chicago Pick of West

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03453/3213227-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"></div><h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><h2>WEST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04263/3213220-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1116" height="400"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-05153/3213213-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="2420" height="1736"></div> &#9632;

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HOW SELECTORS PICKED THEM TO FINISH

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01852/3213279-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="326" height="371"></div>&bull; MOSCOW: All&rsquo;s well that ends well and there isn&rsquo;t much doubt the scintillating finish by Team Canada to pull out its eight-game series with the Russians was nothing short of sensational&hellip;Hockey buffs here could hardly believe their eyes when the NHL All Stars came up off the floor and beat the Soviets out in the last minute of the last game. It was the kind of finish that just had to send hearts fluttering and if you happen to suffer from a bum ticker, then the huge Moscow Sports Palace was no place to be&hellip;The 3.000 Canadian fans who came over for the games were hysterical at the finish and they never let the Russians forget for a minute that they had won it all with a pulsating third-period goal by Paul Henderson, whom home-bound Canadians dubbed &lsquo;Mr. Wonderful&rsquo;. Henderson fired three game-winning goals and even veteran hockey people couldn&rsquo;t recall a performance to match it or the Canadians&rsquo; play in modern day hockey history&hellip;Rod Gilbert, who brought some respectability back to the Ranger performers on the team along with Brad Park in the latter games, turned out to be a top prognosticator. Gilbert confided to us after the Russians won the fifth game 5-4 that the NHLers would come back and win three straight&hellip;The likelihood of further games with NHL teams is somewhat remote this season but there is a good possibility the Russians will come over in 1973 and oppose two, three and even four reinforced NHL clubs midway in the next hockey season&hellip;Two reports that Harry Sinden would take over the GM job with the Bruins and that Pat Stapleton was going to retire to a business position on his return from Russia, lacked credibility when the games ended. One thing was firm in everyone&rsquo;s mind both here and throughout the hockey world when it was all over. The Canadians&rsquo; conquest restored people&rsquo;s faith in the NHL that they are still the best players in the game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02803/3213272-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="263" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rod Gilbert</figcaption></div>&bull; NORTH STAR teammates of goaler Gump Worsley are astounded at his endless energy. The 43-year-old (Jumper was as nimble and as sharp as ever and looks as though he can go on playing for many more years. He certainly has struck a blow for the Old Guard of professional athletics with his great performance in training camp and exhibition appearances The Russians showing on their tour through Canada has boosted the significance and value of Walter Bush&rsquo;s annual World Cup tournament. Bush and Thayer Tutt of the Broadmoor Corp, are co-sponsors of the holiday season event in which the Russians participated last year along with the Czechs and Americans&hellip;Two well-known office figures have left the Western Hockey League scene rather abruptly. Ron Oakes, long the radio voice of Bob Breitbard&rsquo;s San Diego Gulls, has quit the organization. Norm Anderson. director of promotions and public relations with the Denver spurs, resigned from club&rsquo;s executive&hellip;If Lowell MacDonald makes it back with the Pittsburgh Penguins this season, he has to rate some kind of an accolade for his effort. MacDonald has been hockey&rsquo;s hard-luck player having spent two seasons away from the game undergoing four knee operations&hellip;And speaking of comebacks. trainer Stan Waylett is back behind the Minnesota bench despite suffering two coronary attacks in the last two years&hellip;Add the North Stars to the growing lists of NHL teams satisfied with training at home. The Stars had their most satisfying camp with top facilities&hellip;and right in their own rink&hellip;The NHL commences its 56th season this week with a 624-game schedule&mdash;largest in league history. The 25-week schedule includes 315 weekend encounters, 168 planned for Saturdays and 147 on Sundays&hellip;New York will stage the NHL&rsquo;s 26th annual All Star game this season and John Halligan and his staff are already getting ready for the extravaganza, the first ever in Madison Square Garden.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03699/3213265-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="263" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gump Worsley</figcaption></div>&bull; BOSTON BRUINS are probably the hardest hit team in the NHL from detections to the WHA. the expansion draft and now a wave of injuries. Ken Hodge has been on the limp and saw little action in training camp games. Bobby Orr won&rsquo;t be able to start playing for weeks with his tender knee and Doug Roberts, the player the B&rsquo;s figured to take John McKenzie&rsquo;s right wing spot, broke his leg in exhibition play and is out for two months. It appears all things considered, it is going to be extremely tough for the Bruins to repeat their exciting. Cup win of last season&hellip;With player rosters depleted, you can expect to see more new laces in the NHL this season than at any time in history. Only Montreal. Chicago. Minnesota and New York have managed to keep their rosters intact even though the Hawks lost the big apple. Bobby Hull, to the WHA. An example of the new lace of the NHL lies in goalkeepers where last year&rsquo;s 14 league teams will show off 10 new netminders&hellip;NHL President Clarence Campbell told a nationwide TV audience that we can no longer ignore the Russians. He is of the opinion that the Czechs and Russians will be playing in some sort of an international world championship within two to three years but not for the Stanley Cup. That still remains the cherished property of the NHL. Campbell added he doesn&rsquo;t think the NHL teams will be too quick to pattern their style of play after the Russians. It wouldn&rsquo;t sell tickets explains Campbell who thinks NHL audiences prefer the more rugged NHL style of hockey to the European brand. Campbell feels we could adopt some of their skills but definitely not all. The NHL&rsquo;s chief etecutive doesn&rsquo;t think there is too much violence at all in the NHL game. And he doesn&rsquo;t foresee any decline in league crowds because the Team Canada-Russia action that was witnessed by more than 250.000.000 fans around the world on television. He predicts NHL crowds will come in greater numbers than ever because they want slam-bang action instead of the continuous action style of play the Russians turn out&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04600/3213258-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="262" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Roberts</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05478/3213310-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div><h2>Fans Inconsiderate For Booing Canada</h2>After watching the fourth game in the Canada-Russia series from Vancouver, I am in total agreement with Phil Esposito&rsquo;s postgame remarks. The fans who attended the game were very inconsiderate to boo the players who were trying their best to win. Fans should by now realize that the Canadian players lacked conditioning and, above all, team play because of the constant switching of personnel.The players don&rsquo;t have a say as to who goes on the ice. Also, some fans seem to think that a group of very talented individuals should suddenly become an unbeatable unit after only three weeks of training. I believe that any Stanley Cup champion, after the playoffs, would win the majority of the games against the Russians.WAYNE BACK, Raymore, Sask.<h2>NHL Should Realign Into Three Divisions</h2>The NHL divisions should be realigned into three sections: An Eastern Division consisting of Boston, Montreal, Rangers, Toronto, Buffalo and Philadelphia; a Central Division with Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh. Atlanta and N.Y. Islanders, and a Western Division with Minnesota, St. Louis, California, Vancouver and Los Angeles. This would increase interest, as each division would have two or three competitive teams.Also, why are most hockey writers living in the past? Instead of reading about how great hockey once was, I prefer to hear more about today&rsquo;s rising young players such as Greg Polis, Gilles Meloche, Syl Apps Jr., Jack Egers, Stan Gilbertson, Mike Murphy, Nick Libett, Jim Rutherford. etc.GEORGE ROOD, Binghamton, N. Y.<h2>Esposito&rsquo;s Criticism Totally Unjustified</h2>Phil Esposito&rsquo;s recent criticism of the fans for booing Team Canada&rsquo;s play was unjustified. The main reason for the fans&rsquo; discontent was not that they felt the players weren&rsquo;t giving 100 per cent effort, but that they were ashamed with Team Canada&rsquo;s display of poor sportsmanship and chippy style of play. Examples include Esposito taking a run at a Soviet player waiting for a faceoff; Frank Mahovlich forcibly preventing the Soviet goalie from regaining his position in the net, or witnessing a Team Canada player going into the corner with his stick in a Soviet player&rsquo;s face. Leaving the ice after the first game without shaking hands with the Soviet team didn&rsquo;t enhance their image either.It is time hockey made a distinction between rough, hardhitting play and the outright dirty, chippy style of play so prevalent today. It was extremely sad to watch some of the &lsquo;rugged&rsquo; NHL players resort to clutch-and-grab. slashing tactics against the smaller Russians&mdash;especially when one feels that &lsquo;our&rsquo; guys are good enough so as not to have to lower themselves to that type of play.JAMES R. McKOWNE JR., Buffalo, N. Y.<h2>New Loop Offers Competitive Hockey</h2>I am a WHA ticket-holder with the Raiders in New York. Why? Well, it&rsquo;s almost impossible to get a Ranger ticket, except from a scalper for $35. But with the WHA I get an excellent seat. What&rsquo;s more, I get competitive hockey. If anyone can claim the NHL is competitive, I strongly doubt his reasoning power.Also. I don&rsquo;t believe the players owe any allegiance to anyone. Hockey, as any other professional sport, is a business. The players are entitled to get the most they can, while they can. The owners do. And then they dump the player, one way or another.DENNIS FONTANA, Yonkers, N.Y.<h2>NHL Under-rated Conditioning need</h2>The NHL found that conditio ning, team cooperation and lack of the pace-slowing red-line can mean the difference between victory and abject defeat. As one fan who always found that U.S. college and international rules made for a far better game. I confess to feeling just a bit happy for Father Bauer and All the former college coaches like Ned Harkness, who, up to now have been more voices in the wilderness. This, incidentally, is not a lack of patriotism. I also feel that Team Canada should have been correctly named Team NHL in view of the fact that some of Canada&rsquo;s top players were ignored for defecting to the WHA. Anyway, this awakening is the best thing that could have happened to the NHL!LOIS CADIEUX, Fort Frances, Ont.<h2>WHA Out Of Line With High Salaries</h2>I don&rsquo;t believe the WHA will stay solid for very long. They are badly over-rating some players who have jumped to their league. For example. Los Angeles Sharks offered Dan Maloney $60,000 a year for his services. I agree Maloney is a valuable asset in some wavs, but in no way is he worth $60,000. Derek Sanderson signed for at least $175,000 a year and Bobby Hull for $275,000 a year, which is almost twice the amount he received in Chicago. Pretty soon the WHA will be caught up in an ocean of debts if they don&rsquo;t watch out.NIGEL SALTS, Pleasantville, N.Y.THE HOCKEY NEWS plans a more lengthy Fan Forum column this season and wishes to take this opportunity to invite all hockey fans who have an opinion about the game to send in their letters. Write: FAN FORUM, THE HOCKEY NEWS, 1434 St. Catherine Street, West, Montreal 107, Canada. &#9632;

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The Hockey News OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

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Cooper improves the mouth guard by developing a totally new protective concept.

<div class="byline">BY DWAYNE NETLAND</div>TWIN CITIES&mdash;The rumor was spawned on the last leg of the Canadian segment of the Team Canada-Russian hockey series, in the lobby of the Vancouver Hotel, and since it had come on the heels of a similar offer by Harold Ballard of the Toronto Maple Leafs, nobody really paid much attention to it.Would the Minnesota North Stars actually pay $1 million for the rights to Valery Kharlamov, the sensational Soviet forward who had stood the National Hockey League defensemen on their ears throughout the series?Walter Bush, president of the North Stars, smiled indulgently at the time and mentioned something about the story being enlarged out of focus, that too many problems would be involved in prying one player out of Russia and placing him in a totally strange society.Now it turns out that there was some foundation to the story, after all. Walter Bush locked up his office at Metropolitan Sports Center recently and flew off to Russia, ostensibly to observe the four-game series in Moscow and also to attend a meeting of international amateur hockey people in Vienna.But Bush, a shrewd hockey man with a legal background, confided that he would indeed approach the Soviet government about the rights to the brilliant 24-year-old winger.&ldquo;The only possible way to do it would be through the Russian government,&rdquo; Bush explained. &ldquo;Kharlamov, as a hockey player, technically belongs to the government. I&rsquo;m going to talk to those people and see what can be done.&rdquo;Would the North Stars, a profitable franchise, actually offer $1 million for Kharlamov?&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think the price would be anywhere near that high,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But we&rsquo;ll wait and see. The main thing I want to stress is that we&rsquo;re after the best hockey players in. the world, wherever they happen to be. Hockey has become an international game.&ldquo;Nobody who saw Kharlamov play against the Canadian pros would ever have any doubt about his ability to play in the NHL, on an extremely high level.&rdquo;Meanwhile, the North Stars were off to an impressive start in their training camp&mdash;at home for the first time&mdash;and in their early exhibitions. After two exhibition games, they had doubled their victory total in the 1971 exhibitions, which was one.The team had to function without regular wingers Bill Goldsworthy and J.P. Parise, who were in Europe with Team Canada. This afforded coach Jack Gordon an opportunity to experiment with other candidates and the results have been beneficial.Don Blackburn, a 34-year-old left winger who has bounced around between the NHL and the minor leagues, returned to his home town, of Kingston and scored two goals while the North Stars were beating the California Seals 3-2. Blackburn won the American Hockey League scoring championship last season with Providence. The AHL scoring runner-up. Buster Harvey, is also vying for a berth with the North Stars.Three rookies have looked good&mdash;wingers Jerry Byers and Terry Holbrook and defenseman Jim McElmury, a Minnesota native. Byers was Minnesota&rsquo;s No. 1 pick in the junior draft last June. McElmury signed with the Stars after returning home last winter from the Olympic Games at Sapporo, Japan.NORTH STAR NOTES: Defenseman Fred Barrett, plagued by broken bones throughout his brief pro hockey career, suffered a fractured right hand in a camp practice which will put him out for several weeks. Barrett broke his leg in 1971 and his collarbone last year&hellip;Minnesota&rsquo;s only defections to the World Hockey Association were minor league chattels Terry Caffery and Fred Speck&hellip;Goalie Fern Rivard has looked sharp in training camp workouts&hellip;Charlie Burns suffered a slight shoulder separation which kept him out of a few exhibitions&hellip; &#9632;

North Stars Hot In Pursuit Of Kharlamov For NHL Play

<div class="byline">by Fred Lamer</div><h2>&ldquo;TWO MINUTE HOCKEY QUIZ&rdquo;</h2>1&mdash;Gordie Howe assisted on Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s 300th goal.TRUE &#9633; FALSE &#9633;2&mdash;Jean Beliveau scored 3 more total playoff goals than Rocket Ri-chard.TRUE &#9633; FALSE &#9633;3&mdash;Gordie Howe scored his 1st NHL goal against Toronto.TRUE &#9633; FALSE &#9633;4&mdash;Phil Esposito had 7 hat tricks in the 1970-71 season.TRUE &#9633; FALSE&#9633;5&mdash;Sid Abel played his whole career with the Detroit Red Wings.TRUE &#9633; FALSE&#9633;6&mdash;Barry, Brian and Ray Cullen are brothers.TRUE &#9633; FALSE &#9633;7&mdash;Terry Sawchuk in his 20th season played for the New York Rangers.TRUE &#9633; FALSE &#9633;8&mdash;Lorne Davis played only 95 games in the NHL but nevertheless played on 4 NHL teams.TRUE &#9633; FALSE &#9633;9&mdash;Gerry Pinder&rsquo;s last amateur club was the Canadian National Team.TRUE &#9633; FALSE &#9633;10&mdash;Bobby Orr won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1970-71.TRUE &#9633; FALSE &#9633;<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S QUIZ CORNER ANSWERS</h2>MYSTERY EYES:1. Claude Larose2. Jean Ratelie3. Serge SavardMYSTERY GUEST:Fleming MackellMATCH UP:1-7 2-2 3-8 4-5 5-46-3 7-1 8-9 9-10 10-6TWO MINUTE QUIZ:1. True.2. False. Only the Ross.3. True.4. True.5. False. Five times.6. True.7. True.8. True.9. False. Philadelphia did.10. True. &#9632;

QUIZ CORNER

<div class="byline">BY DICK JOHNSTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;As many as half a dozen new faces are expected in the Buffalo Sabres&rsquo; lineup when the National Hockey League season begins, according to coach Joe Crozier.Crozier, who took over as coach last season when Punch Imlach suffered a heart attack and was named to the job officially during the summer, said he expects newcomers on both wings and at defense.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01824/3213451-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="264" height="486"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Lorentz</figcaption></div>Two jobs were open on each side to forwards, the coach figured, and one or two newcomers could move in at defense, in addition to Tim Horton, the sixtime NHL All Star who was obtained from Pittsburgh in the Intra-league draft.Practically all the wingers in contention for jobs played for Crozier when he started last season as coach of the Sabres&rsquo; American League farm club in Cincinnati.John Gould, Hugh Harris, Butch Deadmarsh and Randy Wyrozub were fighting for jobs on the left side, where 44-goal scorer Rick Martin and Craig Ramsay returned. Deadmarsh, who played a few games for Buffalo in each of the last two seasons, was Cincinnati&rsquo;s top goal scorer in 1971-72 with 35, and Gould scored 27 for the Swords. Wyrozub divided last season between Buffalo and Cincinnati mostly as a center.He was switched to the left side when Jim Lorentz moved to center. Lorentz, a winger in his NHL stints with Boston, New York and St. Louis, always was a center until he hit the big league and Crozier likes Jim&rsquo;s play at his old position with Lorentz at center, Crozier had three returnees at that spot through the exhibition schedule, when Gil Perreault, co-leader in scoring with Martin, was in Russia with Team Canada. Gerry Meehan and Don Luce held down their old positions and Doug Rombough, leading centerman up from the minors, appeared to have a tough job trying to dislodge any of the pivotmen.On the right side, two of Crozier&rsquo;s forwards from the Swords, Rick Dudley and Jim Nichols, were battling Larry Mickey, a veteran National Leaguer who finished 1971-72 with Salt Lake in the Western League, and Ron Busniuk, from Nova Scotia in the American League, for the jobs left open when Danny Lawson and Mike Byers jumped to the World Hockey Association.Rene Robert and Steve Atkinson returned at right wing and both looked as though they could hold their jobs in the early exhibition going.The departure of Al Hamilton and Jim Watson to the WHA left Crozier with two returning regulars&mdash;Larry Hillman and Tracy Pratt&mdash;at defense, along with Ray McKay, Mike Robitaille and Paul Terbenche, all of whom played some games for Buffalo last season.Jim Schoenfeld, the Sabres&rsquo; No. I draft choice, from the Niagara Falls Flyers, looked in early games as though he would be able to move into NHL competition without minor league seasoning. Two other rookies, Larry Carriere and Bill Hajt. also were making a bid for a job.Roger Crozier looked as good as ever in goal and said he is ready to play as many games as Joe Crozier wants him to. Rocky Farr, up from Cincinnati, was making a determined bid to take the backup job away from veteran Dave Dryden.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02715/3213444-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1181" height="748"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM SCHOENFELD&hellip;May Step Right Into NHL</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Sabres To Introduce Half Dozen New Faces To NHL

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01869/3213489-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="289" height="365"></div><h2>New Season A Challenge&hellip;</h2>ANY NEW YEAR in each sport is like being reborn. The world of hockey looks forward to this new season with worry. The National Hockey League has been joined in battle by a new circuit, the World Hockey Association, which has labelled itself major league and has taken some major leaguers from the old league in an attempt to prove it. The WHA has some great major leaguers such as Bobby Hull, but on balance it remains less than a major league as we have known it. However, it is has made the NHL a little less a major league than it has been.The WHA can survive and endure. It is not clear that it will. The owners of the new teams will have to be wealthy enough to sustain some severe lesses. It is not clear they all are. And they will have to be tough enough to accept these losses without panic and push on. They say they&rsquo;re tough. These people always do. And some prove they are. But others prove they are not. They have put together strange teams in a strong selection of cities. The teams do not have balance&mdash;it does not appear the league will. Some teams have operated more aggressively and efficiently then others. This is always the case. New leagues promise competitive balance old leagues don&rsquo;t have but swiftly some teams rise to the top and others fall to the bottom.For the time being, the WHA has drawn the NHL into a lot of court battles which are messy and distract from the pure sport, but this is the inevitability of big business which big league sports, with fat television contracts supporting them, have become. The WHA does not have a lucrative television contract, but it is gambling that it can gain enough ground to gain one eventually. One suspects pro leagues all are trusting too much to their television futures as they spread out.The new season in the NHL comes with WHA raids having reduced the NHL&rsquo;s greatest team, the Boston Bruins, to the level of its pursuers. This could be a blessing for the others and unquestionably a headache or two for Tom Johnson, who won it all last year with a great galaxy of stars. The New York Rangers enter the new season favored to win their first pennant and playoff in over 30 years. But no one believes Boston can be beaten out easily. And many feel Montreal can move back to the top and make it a three-team race for top honors. It looms as a marvellously exciting battle for the major laurels in the NHL. Toronto and Detroit appear about even in the race for the fourth and final playoff spot, which could produce further fireworks. Buffalo and Vancouver may be growing up enough to trouble the better teams at times. The newborn Long Island team may have to settle for the joy of just being there.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02769/3213482-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="582" height="918"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM JOHNSON&hellip;What Lies Ahead?</figcaption></div><h2>Hawks Still Best In West&hellip;</h2>THE DEFECTION OF BOBBY HULL may have brought the Chicago Black Hawks back to the better teams in the West Division, which wouldn&rsquo;t be the worst thing that ever happened to hockey since seeing one team coast to the crown for years can be deadly. Chances are Chicago is still the best, but Minnesota has been moving up while St. Louis has slipped down some. The race for the playoffs with Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and possibly Los Angeles in it promises some excitement. The unsettled California Seals were riddled by raids and the situation in Oakland must be watched as the struggle for survival goes on. The newborn in this division, the Atlanta Flames, have the edge on Long Island by being in the softer circuit, but the situation here, too, will be watched as the NHL moves into the deep south for the first time.The new season starts in the NHL on the heels of an exhibition series with Russia which stripped the NHL of its notions of supremacy as the home of by far the best hockey in the world. It does not figure to be fatal. No one has any God-given right to be the best at anything. Many great players played a lot of great hockey for the NHL in that series and they have nothing about which they have to be ashamed. Canada still produces most of the greatest hockey players in the world and the NHL still has many of the greatest hockey teams and despite the players lost in raids the NHL still holds out the promise of intense competition and enormous excitement in its new season.How can it miss with what it has to offer? Bobby Orr bringing the puck up ice with that swift skill and those magnificent moves that make a man marvel&hellip;Phil Esposito forcing himself into the slot and firing those awesomely accurate shots&hellip;Jean Ratelle gliding over that white surface, placing passes with the puck that are perfect&hellip;Stan Mikita shifting fluidly&hellip;Brad Park, boyish and bullish, driving at the opposition&hellip;Yvan Cournoyer flying on flashing skates and firing bullets&hellip;Big Frank Mahovlich like a moving mountain&hellip;Tony Esposito splitting to make a save&hellip;Tall Ken Dryden thrusting his chest against a high, hard one&hellip;Old Gump Worsley sprawling and shoving aside a shot&hellip;Rod Gilbert, Hollywood handsome, slipping past a defender&hellip;Red Berenson digging and driving&hellip;Norm Ullman acting unlike his age&hellip;Garry Unger growing up great&hellip;Gil Perreault approaching a peak&hellip;Bobby Clarke coming into class&hellip;Gary Bergman belting away&hellip;Terry Harper tangling with a tough foe&hellip;Keith Magnuson challenging a rival to clash&hellip;Rick Martin ripping the puck&hellip;Bill Goldsworthy sizzling on a streak&hellip;Ed Giacomin, grey and gallant&hellip;Gilles Villemure skating daringly from his net&hellip;Doug Favell doing acrobatics&hellip; &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY HARRY KLAFF</div>LONG ISLAND&mdash;Normally there aren&rsquo;t many smiles around a team that can only muster one victory in its first five starts, as Harry Sinden and Team Canada can quickly attest. But despite a similar fate, the expansionist Islanders feel they have some reason for optimism.&ldquo;Our biggest problem when we opened camp was that no one knew one another,&rdquo; says coach Phil Goyette. &ldquo;Now that we&rsquo;reworking together, I feel we&rsquo;re getting better every game, despite what the record shows.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03638/3213520-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="269" height="485"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Hudson</figcaption></div>Two of the Islanders losses came at the hands of the Atlanta Flames, who like the Long Island club, are a little more than a couple of weeks old. The Flames took the pre-season opener for both teams on Sept. 17 by a score of 4-1, and continued their early domination on Sept. 23 to the tune of 4-3.&ldquo;That first game really didn&rsquo;t mean anything because Atlanta played only two amateurs and I played eight,&rdquo; explained Goyette, &ldquo;I wanted to see as many of my players as possible in those games. How else will I know what they can do or not do?&rdquo;The highlight of the Islanders&rsquo; training period came on Sept. 22 at Peterborough when they topped the Buffalo Sabres 2-1 for their first victory ever. It is true that the Sabres played without Gilbert Perreault and Rick Martin (who were still with Team Canada) and that two Buffalo &ldquo;goals&rdquo; were disallowed in the closing minute, but it was a victory none the less.&ldquo;We played the type of game we&rsquo;ll be playing when the season starts,&rdquo; said the coach following the game. &ldquo;We are a defensive club and everybody did his job, especially goaltenders Gerry Desjardins and Billy Smith.&rdquo;Smith has been most impressive as of late, and might displace Denis DeJordy as Desjardins&rsquo; back-up man. DeJordy did not look sharp in the Islanders&rsquo; 63 loss against Minnesota on Sept. 19.To date the most pleasant surprise has been the play at Long Island&rsquo;s top combo of Billy Harris at right wing. Dave Hudson at center, and Germain Gagnon on the left flank. Although no one has applied a nickname to the threesome as yet, they have been scoring better than a goal a game.&ldquo;So far Harris is everything that we expected&mdash;and more,&rdquo; says General Manager Bill Torrey. The club&rsquo;s number one draft pick worked out with Team Canada and is in the peak of condition. Hudson, the big, young center from the Chicago organization, scored two late goals to knot Atlanta at 3-3 on Sept. 18. Gagnon&rsquo;s power-play marker was the winning goal over Buffalo.Although the Islanders are going with youth (the average age is 23 and a fraction), a couple of veterans represent an integral part of the club&rsquo;s plans. Eddie Westfall, the old Bruin, and Terry Crisp, the former St. Louis Blue, have emerged as the club&rsquo;s leaders in the early going. Westfall, incidentally, is toying with the idea of commuting from his home in New England to the Island in a private plane.As the exhibition schedule drew past the mid-way point, coach Goyette felt he has a better idea of what his squad will look like on opening night at the Nassau Coliseum. &ldquo;Right now I would say we&rsquo;ll go with 11 forwards, six defensemen, and two goaltenders,&rdquo; says Phil. &ldquo;There are only a few guys who are assured of making the club. Everything else is up for grabs.&rdquo;Another amateur who could make it with the Islanders is Ron Smith, a defenseman the club drafted from Cornwall of the Quebec Major Hockey League, Smith has impressed Goyette.That home opener at the Coliseum is Oct. 7 against the Atlanta Flames. The only difference is this time it&rsquo;s for keeps. &#9632;

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Islanders Optimistic Despite Horrendous Exhibition Record

<div class="byline">&#x2014;NETLAND</div>TWIN CITIES&mdash;Murray Williamson, who coached the U.S. Olympic hockey team to a silver medal last winter at Sapporo, Japan, has accepted a fulltime job with the Minnesota North Stars as director of special projects.Williamson, a 38-year-old Winnipeg native who obtained his degree from the University of Minnesota, will work under president Walter Bush in areas of international and junior hockey.He had been for the past four years a broker in a Minneapolis investment firm, and has been coaching the U.S. National and Olympic teams for the past five years.Williamson, who played hockey at the University of Minnesota, is a close friend of Anatoli Tarasov, the former Russian coach. He traveled to Russia 18 months ago to observe the Soviet team in its conditioning program. &#9632;

Olympic Coach Joins Stars

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01845/3213575-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bruins have played in old Boston Garden since 1928.</figcaption></div>BOSTON&mdash;President Weston Adams. Jr. has announced that the Bruins are seriously considering moving to a new building in Boston for 1975. The proposed building would seat 18,000 for hockey and 20.000 for other events.Although no site was announced, there have been borings taken in the area of South Station, the big railroad facility which is infrequently used now. Thus Bruins would be moving from North Station to South Station.Said Adams: &ldquo;The Garden and the Bruins have been tenants in the North Station area since 1928. The Garden management, has. since my association with them, been looking forward to the erection of a new facility which will house more people in a new, air-conditioned building. while still retaining the fine sight lines that have made our present building one of the best in the world in which to watch hockey.&ldquo;We have had many preliminary problems. There are more problems yet to face. But I believe I can safely say. however, that our plans have reached the stage where, with the co-operation of our present landlord, the combined efforts of Linnell and Company as a developer, the Garden will produce the type of building to which we have all been looking forward.&rdquo;The Garden has engaged the services of McNulty Co. of Minneapolis, which was in charge of the design and construction of ihe Metropolitan Sports Center of Bloomington. Minn., which houses the North Stars, and is generally considered to be one of the finest buildings of its type in sports&hellip; &#9632;

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Bruins Ponder Quitting Old Garden For New Site In ‘75

<div class="byline">BY JACK MCCARTHY</div>BOSTON&mdash;When the Bruins began training camp in London, Ont., there were three spots that had to be filled. The most important, of course, was the backup goalkeeper, behind Eddie Johnston. Next was right defense, in the spot usually held down by Bobby Orr, hobbled by knee surgery. The other was right wing on Fred Stanfield&rsquo;s line.Coach Tom Johnson, with Gerry Cheevers gone to Cleveland, and Eddie Johnston playing with Team Canada, used three goalkeepers during camp&mdash;John Adams. Ross Brooks, and Curt Ridley.It would seem that Adams has won the nod. Said Johnson. &ldquo;He is the top candidate. He came to camp in the best shape ever.&rdquo; When it was noted that Adams is known as a stand-up goaltender. Johnson quipped, &ldquo;Well, I guess so. But the main idea is to stop it.&rdquo;Adams, of course, has been stopping them enough to let Johnson give him the backup shot behind the veteran Eddie J. Young Curt Ridley has already gone to the AHL Boston Braves.Next in order of priority would be the defenseman who could take up the slack left by the departure of Ted Green to the WHA Whalers, and the fact that Orr is still not right.One of the prime contenders has been Nick Beverly, the tall, dark-haired, 25-year-old who is a Toronto native.Beverly is listed at 185 pounds and is six feet, two inches tall. He has been known predominantly as a poke-checker and a good position man. He is no slam-bang body-checker, preferring to &ldquo;ride off&rdquo; his man. But the coach says, &ldquo;He seems to be very strong this year for some reason. But. he does just about everything pretty well.&rdquo;Beverly played at Oshawa with Orr in Junior: spent three years at Oke City; was at Hershey in 1970-71 although he was called up for several games with the Bruins, and last year he played steadily with the Boston Braves.He scored nine goals and had 31 assists for an even 40 points. Beverly is clever with the stick, and he commits few mistakes. He can make the lead pass out of the zone. In short, he will not hurt you out there. Look for him to stick.It would appear that Fred O&rsquo;Donnell, the compact skater from Kingston, Ont., may stick as the right wing with Stanfield and Johnny &ldquo;Chief&rdquo; Bucyk. While not as flamboyant as John McKenzie, he likes to hit, and last year, until he got hurt, scored 16 goals for the Braves.Bucyk, meanwhile, did not play the early exhibitions with Boston, making his own pace and his own conditioning routine, which is what he did last season. Chief, at 37, paces himself pretty well.The Boston third line looks like Ace Bailev and/or Mike Walton at center and left wing, with Don Marcotte on the right side. Johnson says that Bailey and Marcotte are just about set as his penalty-killers, replacing Eddie Westfall (drafted by Long Island) and Turk Sanderson (jumped to Philadelphia Blazers of WHA).Johnson professes no worries about the players with Team Canada. &ldquo;That is not going to hurt us,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;our guys know who they will be playing with when they get back. I don&rsquo;t think they&rsquo;ll have any trouble adjusting.&rdquo; Phil Esposito plays with Ken Hodge and Wayne Cashman. Don Awrey pairs with Carol Vadnais, and Orr skates with Dallas Smith.Hodge was sent home from New York on Sept. 24 for an examination of an apparently strained knee. He missed the first exhibition against the Rangers in Madison Square Garden.Hodge was injured in training camp last year when he pulled a bicep muscle, and was lost for a long spell during the season with a broken bone in his ankle. &#9632;

Bruins To Plug Three Holes In Cup Squad

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JON ROYAL SUPER STAR……Bob Deaton

MONTREALJacques Lemaire, whose devastating shot has been good for more than 28 goals a season since 1966-67. is willing to sacrifice home of the firepower to gain steady employment at center ice.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been moving back and forth between left wing and center.&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;but. I prefer to play center. It means less goals, because you have to be concerned about setting up the wingmen. But. as a center. I usually wind up with more points.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05347/3213713-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="266" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Lemaire</figcaption></div>Lemaire, a disappointment in training camp this year, can only hope he&rsquo;ll round into the form he showed last season when he came up with the best scoring effort he&rsquo;d had since breaking into the NHL. He notched 32 goals and 81 points, third-highest on a team which set a club record for scoring.He also came within a whisker of making the top ten scorers in the league for the first time, actually tying Philadelphia&rsquo;s Bobby Clarke, the No. 10 man in points, but ranking behind him due to a three-goal deficit.&ldquo;Last year I started at center on a line with Frank Mahovlich and Yvan Cournoyer.&rdquo; Lemaire recalls. &ldquo;I had ten points in the first ten games, but only one goal.&rdquo;Scotty Bowman, openly disappointed with Lemaire and a few others during the training and exhibition grinds in September, may not be sure where to start Jacques off in the coming campaign.During the playoffs last spring, we put together a line of Marc Tardif. Lemaire and Guy Lafleur. Bowman said. &ldquo;They were strong offensively for us. This same line was formed again in training camp, but after a good start they went flat.&rdquo;Most of the trouble showed up in the exhibition games. Tardif appeared to be loafing. Lemaire had trouble shedding six pounds of avoirdupois, and Lafleur was biting himself be moved off the puck too easily.Hopefully. things will improve quickly once the season gets underway. &#9632;

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Lemaire Prefers Center

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06267/3213682-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">HENRI RICHARD&hellip;Showing training camp hustle</figcaption></div>MONITREAL&mdash;Scotty Bowman may have to count on the stars to guide him in determining who plays with whom this season.Specifically. Bowman will be looking closely at Canadiens opener against the Minnesota North Stars on Oct. 7. to see just what kind of a team he has going into the present campaign.As is the case with several other NHL coaches this season. Bowman will be evaluating his complete team perhaps for the first time when they hit the ice in the first scheduled game.Throughout the training and exhibition grinds. Scotty has been watching a mixture of Hah holdovers from last season. Voyageur stars, and a clutch of graduating juniors.Six of the biggest names on Canadiens, Frank and Peter Mahovlich. Yvan Cournoyer. Serge Savard. Guy Lapointe and Ken Dryden have been toiling for Team Canada.During the training period. -Bowman tried any number of line combinations in the hope of getting some scoring punch coupled with a bit of defensive skill.&ldquo;One of the better lines had Henri Richard centering Claude Larose and Marc Tardif.&rdquo; Scotty said. &ldquo;They showed some hustle in some of the exhibition games.&rdquo;Bowman has been concerned with a general lack of hustle on the part of the team, at times.&ldquo;They haven&rsquo;t, been moving the puck fast enough.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Taking too long to make their plays. Another thing that&rsquo;s concerned me is the casual way some of them get on and off the ice. They really take their time about it. especially some of the kids who should be able to move a lot faster.&rdquo;Bowman literally blew up at rookie Steve Shutt during a Montreal practice, when the exjunior star skated off the ice with play in the Canadiens&rsquo; zone. But. Scotty was even more worried about the length of time it took some players to get from the bench to the ice.&ldquo;People don&rsquo;t realize it. but we defend the goal that&rsquo;s farthest away from our bench.&rdquo; Bowman said, referring to the fact that Habs guard the north-end goal during two of three periods. &ldquo;If a defenseman is coming off. it can lake quite awhile before his replacement is out there in position. We got caught that wav a couple of times in the playoffs against the Rangers.&rdquo;The Hab coach has also been drilling his charges in shooting from closer in. a la the Russians, rather than constantly slapping the puck from 40 feet. At one point, he brought a horn to a practice and blew it when he wanted a shot on goal.&ldquo;They need to sharpen up on their passes and learn to move the puck around with some authority in the other team&rsquo;s end.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Too many guys are just blasting shots from far out.&rdquo;In addition to trying to get the team to finish off plays and generally improve their game in front of the net. Bowman had to be concerned about the defense.Dale Hoganson appeared to be the best of a generally bad lot in training and exhibition games. Despite the obvious openings on the blueline this season, especially the right side, few seemed to be going all out in an effort to nail down a job. Larry Robinson, the highly-touted Vovageur. was doing well for awhile but ran into an injury that slowed him considerably. &#9632;

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Bowman May Use Stars To Fix Lineup

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Having Bob Plager with the St. Louis Blues for the 1972-73 season seems very normal. But the big defenseman&rsquo;s sixth season in the National Hockey League was not a certainty until after a risky operation this summer.Plager played last season with a calcium deposit on the inside of his thigh. The pain at times was nearly unbearable, but Plager played with the pain. Coach Al Arbour sometimes just shook his head. He hated to see Plager in such pain, but Plager wanted to play, and the Blues were frequently short of defensemen.The doctors told Plager the calcium deposit would have to be removed. And then they added the bad news&mdash;the deposit was apparently lying directly under the main leg muscle. The muscle would have to be cut, and the chances of its healing enough for skating were questionable.&ldquo;They told me there was a 50-percent chance I&rsquo;d never play again,&rdquo; Plager said. &ldquo;I would have liked to avoid the operationin any way possible, but the pain was getting so bad I could hardly get out of bed. The operation had to be.&rdquo;A team of doctors led by Dr. Jerry Gilden, an expert surgeon, and Dr. J.G. Probstein. the Blues&rsquo; team physician, reassured Plager as best they could and scheduled a day for the operation.After the deep incision had been made on the inside of Plager&rsquo;s thigh, the doctors found something different than they expected. The large leg muscle, instead of lying across the cal cium deposit, had been stretched to the side. Incredibly Plager&rsquo;s playing on the leg had stretched the muscle around the deposit which was giving him pain. By playing in pain he had saved his career!&ldquo;They told me the calcium deposit popped right out,&rdquo; Plager said. &ldquo;It was about two inches thick and shaped like a shark&rsquo;s fin. The doctors chiseled it loose, and it came right out. It was about one-tenth as bad as they figured.&rdquo;&ldquo;We were very fortunate,&rdquo; Probstein said. &ldquo;We really didn&rsquo;t know how bad it was going to be until we got in there.&rdquo;&ldquo;It was an unprecedented operation, &ldquo;Plager chortled during his recuperation. &ldquo;These things have never been removed from the inside of a person&rsquo;s leg. They even took films and slides of it.&rdquo;&ldquo;Well, we do have a picture of the thing we removed. Probstein said. &ldquo;Medically speaking it is not a rare operation, but it&rsquo;s also not very common.&rdquo;Whether the surgery was rare or common is really a moot point now. What is important is that the career of a popular NHL player was saved&mdash;by whatever means&mdash;and he is skating as well as ever.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing wrong with my leg, and I feel like I never had the operation,&rdquo; Plager said. &ldquo;I played tennis two weeks after the operation, and the first time I put my skates on I skated without any pain: it was the first time in a long time I had been ale to do that.&rdquo;You can bet that Plager will be playing hard this season. Sometimes a man appreciates something more after he has come close to losing it.And there&rsquo;s one other reason to play hard.&ldquo;Just before I went into the operation, Sid Salomon III talked to me,&rdquo; Plager said. &ldquo;He told me,&lsquo;Bob, we don&rsquo;t know how this is going to turn out, but, if you&rsquo;re worried about your career, we can sign a five-year contract right now.&rdquo;Plager politely rejected his boss&rsquo;soffer because he wouldn&rsquo;t have wanted to be on the payroll without earning his money. But the rugged player appreciated the thought, and the generous offer from the executive vice-president of the Blues undoubtedly is added incentive for the hockey season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01848/3213744-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="560" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB PLAGER&hellip;Leg Good As New</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Blues’ Hard Rock Beats Knife

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:LOS ANGELES&mdash;Bob Vroman, goalkeeper, Wayne Lachance and Byron Baltimore, defensemen, Phil Hoene, Normand Dube and Ross Webley, forwards, assigned to Springfield of AHL.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;George Swarbrick and Tom Trevelyan, forwards, sent to San Diego of WHL. DON McCULLOCH, defenseman, assigned to Richmond of AHL.CHICAGO&mdash;Randy Murray, defenseman, signed as free agent and assigned to Dallas of CHL, John Garrett, Mike Veisor, Mike Dumas and Merlin Jenner, goalkeepers, Mike Baumgartner and Len Frig, defensemen Danny Spring, Bill Orban, Don Gordon, Dave Kryskow, Bill Pettinger, Bob Peppier Clyde Simon, Tom Peluso, Duane Wylie and Terry Smith, forwards, assigned to Dallas.TORONTO&mdash;Bill Holden and Grant Cole, goal-keepers, Mike Ruest, Brian Bowles and Denis Deslauriers, defensemen, Scott Garland, John Gray, Bob Duncan, Lyle Moffat, Dale Smedsmo, Cam Fryer and Peter Williams, forwards, assigned to Tulsa of CHL. Murray Heatley and Jim Boyd, forwards, sent to Phoenix of WHL.MONTREAL&mdash;Dave Gardner, forward and John Van Boxmeer, defenseman, assigned to Nova Scotia of AHL.CALIFORNIA&mdash;Gerry Mazur, forward, returned to Davton of IHL.NEW YORK&mdash;Ron Stewart and Dave Hrechkosy, forwards, sent to Providence of AHL. Larry Mo Killop and Bob Kelly, forwards. sold to Rochester of AHL in straight cash deal.BOSTON&mdash;Barry Merrell. forward, sent to Rochester of AHL on loan for season. Curt Ridley, goalkeeper. assigned to Boston Braves of AHL.ATLANTA&mdash;Guy Burrowes, forward, released and signed on with Rochester of AHL. Ted Lenssen, goalkeeper. Jean Lemieux and John Martin, forwards, assigned to Omaha of CHL.<h2>WORLD HOCKEY</h2>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Ken Miller, Bobby Guindon and Ron Rozich, forwards. released.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>ROCHESTER&mdash;Bob Blackburn, defenseman, placed on voluntary retired list. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY NORM MacLEAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;Gene Carr stuck out his hand and said hello. It was the young centerman&rsquo;s first training camp as a New York Ranger and he was perspiring heavily after coming off the ice from an Emile Francis work-out.This could be a big season for the 21-year-old Nanaimo, B.C. native whom the Rangers obtained in a trade with the St. Louis Blues last November. Our opening paragraph indicated that Carr is a center. Sometimes, that is. but it was as a left wing that he performed most ably for the Rangers in the playoff last Spring. It was Gene&rsquo;s speed which kept Yvan Cournoyer at bay in the opening series.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01831/3213799-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="280" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gene Carr</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Emile told me to skate hard and stay with him.&rdquo; remembered the blonde whippet. &ldquo;Cournoyer is tough but I held him pretty good.&rdquo;Carr wants to play center, but above every thing else he wants to play.&ldquo;I still wander a bit too much on the wing, but I just want to take my turn.&rdquo; says Gene.His natural speed and great scoring record with the Flin Flon Bombers seemingly make him the heir apparent to the third center spot on the Rangers behind Jean Ratelle and Walter Tkaczuk. Only trouble is a large sized fellow named Peter Stemkowski. who is very good with clutch goals, can hit when in the mood and checks in approved Toronto Maple Leaf style. And the Stemmer is only 29, hardly in his dotage.With Ratelle set between Vic Hadfield and Rod Gilbert. Walter Tkaczuk paired with Billy Fairbairn, Carr has an opening of sorts at left wing on the Tkaczuk line. But he is in competition with Steve Vickers. Tommy Williams and maybe even Stemkowski. if Pete moved to that spot.The Rangers pattern of depth and Francis&rsquo; belief in interchangeability of players, makes Carr also a candidate for the third line, currently centered by Stemkowski with right wing Bruce MacGregor and left wing Ted Irvine. So far. in pre-season he has played both center and wing.There is no doubt that Carr has made the squad, but what he needs for full development is ice time&mdash;ala Bobby Clarke and the Philadelphia Flyers. With a full shift. Gene could make the odd error and profit from his mistakes.Gene is a stocky five eleven and 185 pounds, just the right size for a swift skater with a low center of gravity. He will make it in time, the question for 1972-73 is where does he fit in right now?&ldquo;Carr works hard.&rdquo; says Francis. &ldquo;I never worry about him not putting out. He makes the odd mistake, but when he gets confidence and savvy in front of the net he will score a heck of a lot more than last year.&rdquo;Carr logged 11 goals and 10 assists for 21 points last season, and got on big goal in the playoffs. He forced numerous other close-in chances, but was off on his shooting.In the New Yorkers first preseason game at Madison Square Garden, the Blueshirts gave considerable ice to Vickers, Williams. Curt Bennett. Lawrence Sacharuk and Randy Legge. The last three played the blueline. Probably only Williams will make the team. When Team Canada returns. Ratelle. Gilbert. Hadfield, plus defensemen Brad Park and Rod Seiling will force squad cuts. But the fellows showed what they could do and had a taste of New York in the process.In the Garden game. Gilles Villemure played the first half and looked sharp. Eddie Giacomin did not do that well in his half giving up four goals, although his protection wasn&rsquo;t top grade. His knee, hurt in the playoffs last season is sound once more.BLUE CHIPS: Vic Hadfield&rsquo;s defection from Team Canada was a matter of pride. Harry Sinden low rated Hadfield and surprisingly broke up the Ratelle. Gilbert. Hadfield line after one game. Cohesive team play makes more sense than All Star team&mdash;and Hadfield did get fifty goals last year and is tough in the corners, something not too may on Team Canada could claim&hellip;First pre-season game in MSG drew 15,888, which isn&rsquo;t bad at all. Rangers will be sold out completely bv Christmas time with tickets at a premium. Capacity is 17,250&hellip;Walter Tkaczuk has bonus clause involving 30 goals in his $150,000 contract. &#9632;

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Carr In Ranger Spotlight, But Where To Play Him!

<div class="byline">BY DAN PROUDFOOT</div>Toronto Globe & MarTORONTO&mdash;Maple Leaf president Harold Ballard says he is prepared to renegotiate the two-year contract he concluded with Paul Henderson last summer to reward him for his spectacular contributions to Teams Canada&rsquo;s victory over the Soviet Union Nationals in the first World Series of hockey.It is understood Ballard has authorized a $25,000 raise for Henderson.&ldquo;Without Henderson, the whole thing would have gone down the drain,&rdquo; said Ballard.Henderson shot the winning goal on each occasion as the Canadians swept their last three matches in Moscow to produce an over-all series edge of four victories to three, with one game tied.&ldquo;The guy is a national hero&rdquo;, said Ballard.Ballard said he also plans to work out special financial benefits for Ron Ellis, who skated with Henderson on a line with Bobby Clarke of Philadelphia Flyers, for reserve defenseman Brian Glennie and for three Leaf employees who toiled on the Team Canada staff&mdash;trainer Joe Sgro, physiotherapist Karl Elieff and equipment man Tommy Nayler.&ldquo;This is the greatest thing that ever happened in hockey,&rdquo; Ballard stated, &ldquo;and all those people did tremendous work. After we won in Moscow Thursday night, Sgro and Nayler were at the rink until five in the morning, while everybody else was out celebrating, so we would be ready to catch an early morning plane.&rdquo;Ellis and Henderson signed up for two years in July. Their attorney, Al Eagleson said they would seek longer tenure in place of large salary boosts, if it&rsquo;s all the same to Ballard.&ldquo;I would think they would be looking for three to five years if Mr. Ballard does want to reopen negotiations.&rdquo; Eagleson said.&ldquo;He isn&rsquo;t required to. of course. The deals do exist. But I think it&rsquo;s a heck of a gesture on his part. These guys do seem to have something coming to them on the basis of what they&rsquo;ve done.&rdquo;Henderson counted seven goals during the eight games against the Soviets to tie the Soviets&rsquo; Alexander Yakushev for the overall leadership in that department.Eagleson brought up the matter of new contracts recently. Henderson had been playing superbly and Ellis, while not producing much in the way of points, was doing a thorough defensive job against the Soviets&rsquo; main offensive threat, Valery Kharlamov.At that time. Ballard declined. But he said he had been moved to reconsider in the enthusiasm and excitement of the heart-stopping finale when Team Canada counted three times in the third period to wipe out a 5-3 Soviet advantage and fashion a 6-5 win on Henderson&rsquo;s third game-winning goal against the Soviets. &#9632;

Leafs’ Owner To Offer Henderson $25,000 Raise

CHICAGO&mdash;Tommy Ivan, General Manager of the Black Hawks, representing the Chicago Stadium and Emil Greco, president of the Chicago Warriors of the United States Hockey League, have announced that the Warriors will play their entire 21-game home schedule in Chicago Stadium during the 1972-73 season.The first game of the season will be Saturday, Nov. 4 with 7,000 seats at $2.00, 7,600 at $3.00 and 3,000 seats at $4.00. Children will be half price in all price ranges.&ldquo;We will have a chance to bring hockey to the youngsters at popular prices.&rdquo;This is the second year of competition for the Warriors who are coached by former Black Hawk Gene Ubriaco. Another ExHawk, Moose Vasko, is their player personnel director and chief scout. &#9632;

USHL Warriors Use Hawks’lce

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01815/3213909-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACQUES RICHARD&hellip;Atlanta Flames</figcaption></div>The expansionsist Atlanta Flames may not have too much going for them in their first season but they do have young Jacques Richard. The 5&rsquo;11&rdquo;, 180-pound rookie could be one of the top young stars in the NHL this season after winding up a fabulous junior hockey career with the Quebec Remparts in the Quebec Major Hockey League where he scored over 300 goals in four years of play. Richard is a center with a great shot. He is also an excellent skater and at age 21, he has a long hockey life ahead of him. The Flames drafted him No. 1 this year from the amateurs. &#9632;

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MEET THE ROOKIES

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03549/3213954-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="559" height="556"></div>There&rsquo;s nothing like keeping it in the family with the Albert family of New York. Marv Albert, who is 31, is the voice of the Rangers and one of hockey&rsquo;s top sportscasters. Now his brother, Al, who is 26, is coming into the hockey picture, too, as the mike man on radio for the New York Islanders. Al has been doing the ABA Nets&rsquo; basketball games.For the sixth straight year WTCN-TV (Channel 11) will televise a 3()-game schedule of Minnesota North Stars&rsquo; games.The 1972-73 schedule will include 27 games on the road and three from Metropolitan Sports Center.New York&rsquo;s Rangers, 1972 finalists in the Stanley Cup playoffs, will make the most appearances of any team on the viewing schedule. The Rangers will appear four times.The television schedule will open Saturday, Oct. 7 in Montreal where the North Stars will start the 1972-73 NHL season. Twelve games will be televised on Sundays, seven on Thursdays, five on Wednesdays, three on Saturdays, and one each on Monday, Tuesday and Friday.Hal Kelly and Joe Boyle, who have made up the play-by-play team on Channel 11 for the past two seasons, will return this year. Boyle also will handle between-periods commentary over the season.A 23 game television regularseason schedule for the New York Rangers will begin on Oct. 7 with the National Hockey League game matching the Rangers against the Detroit Red Wings at Detroit.Telecasts will be carried live and in color over WOR-TV (Channel 9) in New York. A total of 23 games will be shown during the course of the regular season, concluding with the Ranger game at Montreal on March 31. There will be 13 Saturday night Ranger games.Broadcast commentary for all televised Ranger games will be handled by veteran sportscaster Sal Marchiano with color comment by Bill Chadwick, a former NHL referee who served the same role on radio for the past three seasons.Marchiano, beginning his first season with the Rangers, has served as a sports reporter and commentator for several major television outlets in recent years. Most recently, he has been the sports member of the WABC-TV Eyewitness News team.Thomas Sundstrom of Willing-boro, N.J., is a rabid hockey fan with a bobby for listening to distant radio stations on the standard AM broadcast band that carries NHL games.Sundstrom says most of the stations he has listed below for the benefit of our readers are clear channel, i.e. they have no other stations on their frequency at night and make good listening. Here is Sundstrom&rsquo;s list:<h2>NHL EAST</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04400/3213947-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="538" height="240"></div><h2>NHL WEST</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05288/3213940-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="538" height="248"></div> &#9632;

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RADIO TV HAPPEHINCS

<div class="byline">BY JIM HUBER</div>ATLANTA&mdash;The scrimmage had no sooner started when Jacques Richard turned to take a pass at center ice, taking his eyes off the defense for only a split moment&hellip;Just a split moment too long.The collision bounced off the walls of the empty arena, sending young Richard gasping to the ice, clutching his chest in pain. Big defenseman Bob Paradise picked himself up, a tiny smile splitting his face, and skated off.On the bench, Atlanta captain Keith McCreary watched the wreck in silence, then covered his eyes. &ldquo;1 knew that was coming, I&rsquo;ve been expecting it all week,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve told him and told him not to come up ice that way. He&rsquo;s wide open for the blindside&hellip;but he&rsquo;s gotta do it his way.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02702/3213878-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="272" height="480"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Hogaboam</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Yeach,&rdquo; said a bystander, &ldquo;but isn&rsquo;t that the way you learn, by making mistakes?&rdquo;&ldquo;Sure,&rdquo; answered McCreary, &ldquo;but you can get killed learning.&rdquo;Richard lay on the ice for at least five minutes, trainers, coaches and teammates surrounding him in fear. Finally, they helped him to his feet and he skated away, his breath sufficiently returned.There is absolutely no doubt in anyone&rsquo;s mind here in the Flame training camp that Richard will become a genuine NHL superstar.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s only been here a week,&rdquo; says general manager Cliff Fletcher, &ldquo;and already he&rsquo;s far and away the best skater in camp. I was a little worried the first few days but I&rsquo;m sure not now.&rdquo;The pressure on the handsome No. 1 amateur draft choice has been great in the first couple weeks. Since his hometown is only a few miles away and since he was such a well-publicized junior skater in this league, everyone around here expected him to unveil as an immediate NHL giant.The opposite happened.The 20-year-old center showed absolutely none of his vaunted blazing speed the first couple days (he blamed that on new skates), was turned around in circles on the ice by the veterans. And although they let up on him, the older skaters still taught him a few lessons.&ldquo;There were times, many times,&rdquo; says McCreary, &ldquo;when several of our guys could have really clobbered the kid, really hurt him. Not because they wanted to but because of the way he&rsquo;d come up ice, If a guy&rsquo;s got his head down, you blast him. That&rsquo;s just the way the game&rsquo;s played.&ldquo;But I told the guys to lay off him at first, let him get a feel of things. He&rsquo;ll get better, I promise you that.&rdquo;In the first two exhibition games against the New York Islanders, fans got a chance to compare last spring&rsquo;s two top amateur draftees, Richard and New York&rsquo;s sensational Billy Harris.&ldquo;No question now,&rdquo; said Fletcher after the second game, &ldquo;Richard was by far the better player. Harris hasn&rsquo;t shown me much at all. Richard, however, did some good things.&rdquo;And yet, productively, Harris was head and shoulders above Richard. While Richard went scoreless those two games, Harris picked up a goal and two assists.&ldquo;The production will come,&rdquo; says Atlanta coach Bernie Geoffrion. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been nervous, tight. But let him get his first goal and he&rsquo;ll fill the nets.&rdquo;No sooner said than done. It was against Minnesota in a 2-1 victory, Richard picked up one goal on a deflection and an assist. In the third exhibition against the Islanders, a 4-3 win for Atlanta, Richard scored his second goal on a beautiful fake in front of the net and got a second assist.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve just been disappointed in coming here,&rdquo; said Richard, having to speak through an interpreter. &ldquo;Especially, I&rsquo;ve learned to keep my head up.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve just been disappointed in myself because I know I can do better than what I&rsquo;ve done. I just need to get confidence in myself.&rdquo;The same holds true for his language problems. He speaks no English and, according to his bilingual teammates, is too shy to start.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s afraid somebody will make fun of him,&rdquo; says goalie Phil Myre. &ldquo;He knows a little English but he&rsquo;s too bashful to speak it.&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll learn, though, especially when he gets to Atlanta and is hungry. That&rsquo;s when we all learn.&rdquo; Right now, however, the language is hockey and Jacques Richard, though far, from superstar status at the moment, is learning more every day.ICE SPARKS: Young center Bill Hogaboam, who played for Omaha last season, and third-round draft choice Jean Lemieux are both out of the Atlanta picture for at least three weeks with knee ligament problems. Hoga-boam&rsquo;s knee is in a cast and he&rsquo;ll be out eight weeks, Lemieux is on crutches, gone for three weeks&hellip;Ernie Hicke hasn&rsquo;t been able to give up the California colors yet. He still wears a bright green blazer and carries his clothes in a green and yellow suitcase&hellip;THEY&rsquo;re predicting the goalie of the future to be Ted Lenssen, a free agent from Guelph, who will be Omaha&rsquo;s No. 1 man in the nets&hellip;Geoffrion missed the third exhibition game with New York because of a bad cold. Fletcher coached the team, won, and immediately retired underfeatedd. &#9632;

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Flames’ Top Rookie Richard Making It—But The Hard Way

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;The Los Angeles Kings are in the midst of opening their sixth season as an NHL franchise. They debut with six straight games on the road. This is usual and it puts them at a tremendous disadvantage. They seldom return for their home opener in good standing.The Kings must play at Pittsburgh, Boston, Buffalo, Long Island. Toronto and Detroit, six games in nine days, before opening an eight-game home stand, their longest of the season, on Oct. 18 with Philadelphia.It is a tough road trip because it is a long one with a lot of games crowded into a short space of time, but the opposition isn&rsquo;t the toughest they will meet in similar stretches through the season and the Kings could win a couple of games and pick up four or five points.If they do not. they will know they will have another slow start to contend with in the early season. They have started slow before. And they have become the first expansion team to miss the playoffs three straight seasons. They appear to have come up enough while their opposition has gone back enough to have a shot at the playoffs this season, however.Owner Jack Kent Cooke and manager Larry Regan return and have commanded some changes and observed others. Fred Glover was fired as coach and Bob Pulford has retired as a player to take over as the team&rsquo;s sixth coach in six seasons. The club has been sagging since the first season and the coaches have been blamed.Pulford ran a rugged camp, complete with mechanical training aids other King coaches did not use. He was a veteran player, but he is a rookie coach and he is coaching players he has been playing with. He is introverted and reserved of speech. But he knows his hockey, is dedicated to coaching and has the respect of the players.Aside from himself, he has lost from last year&rsquo;s roster forwards Lucien Grenier and Jim Johnson, defensemen Doug Barrie and Boh Woytowich and spare goaler Billy Smith.Until the final cuts, it could not be determined if they have added more than they lost but it certainly appears so. Aside from drafted forward Doug Volmar and defenseman Barry Long, they have picked up veteran defenseman Terry Harper and have goaler Rog Vachon back, who played with them only a part of last season before being injured.Vachon appears to have regained his mobility from his knee operation. Harper should have a lot left. If so. these two. Starting fresh from the start of the season with this team should improve the squad tremendously.The last two team MVPs, center Juha Widing and defenseman Gilles Marotte. wingers Serge Bernier and Bob Berry, center Ralph Backstrom and backup goaler Gary Edwards head the rest of the roster. As with every team a new season holds out high hope for improvement and there appears real reason for such hope here. &#9632;

Kings Face Usual Rough Start—First Six On Road

<h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01621/3214114-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="249" height="246"></div>BOSTON&mdash;Goal, Ed Johnston, John Adams, Ross Brooks; defense, Don Awrey, Bobby Orr, Dallas Smith, Carol Vadnais, Ron Jones, Nick Beverley, Matt Ravlich; centers, Phil Esposito, Fred Stanfield, Ace Bailey, Greg Sheppard, Chris Hayes; right wings, Ken Hodge, Wayne Cashman, Terry O&rsquo;Reilly. Doug Roberts, Fred O&rsquo;Donnell; left wings, John Bucyk, Mike Walton. Don Marcotte.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02540/3214107-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="227" height="230"></div>BUFFALO&mdash;Goal, Roger Crozier, Dave Dryden; defense, Larry Hillman, Tim Horton, Tracy Pratt, Ray McKay, Mike Robitaille, Paul Terbenche; centers, Jim Lorentz. Don Luce, Gerry Meehan, Gilbert Perreault, Doug Rombough; right wings, Rene Robert, Steve Atkinson, Larry Mickey, Rick Dudley, Jim Nichols, Ron Busniuk; left wings, Rick Martin, Craig Ramsay, Butch Deadmarsh, Randy Wyrozub, Hugh Harris, John Gould.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03434/3214100-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="288" height="151"></div>DETROIT&mdash;Goal, Andry Brown, Gerry Gray; defense, Gary Bergman, Arnie Brown, Larry Johnston, Ron Stackhouse, Rick Newell, Gary Doak; centers, Red Berenson, Marcel Dionne, Alex Delvecchio, Henry Boucha, right wings, Mickey Redmond, Bill Collins, Leon Rochefort, Len Fontaine; left wings, Nick Libett, Tim Ecclestone, Guy Charron, Al Karlander.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04333/3214093-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="263" height="210"></div>MONTREAL&mdash;Goal, Ken Dryden, Michel PlasSe, Wayne Thomas; defense, Pierre Bouchard, Dale Hoganson, Jacques Laperriere, Guy Lapointe, Bob Murdoch, Serge Savard, Larry Robinson; centers; Dave Gardner, Henri Richard, Jacques Lemaire, Pete Mahovlich, Chuck Lefley; right wings, Chuck Arnason, Yvan Cournoyer, Rejean Houle, Guy Lafleur, Claude Larose, Jim Roberts; left wings, Frank Mahovlich, Steve Shutt, Marc Tardif, Murray Wilson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05246/3214086-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="253" height="253"></div>N.Y. ISLANDERS&mdash;Goal Gerry Desjardins, Denis DeJordy, Billy Smith; defense, Gerry Hart, Larry Hornung, John Schella, Bart Crashley, Bill Mikkelson, Jim Mair, Ron Smith; centers, Dave Hudson, Terry Crisp, Richard Grenier, Ted Hampson; right wings, Billy Harris, Craig Cameron, Ed Westfall, Tony Featherstone; left wings, Germain Gagnon, Gord Labossiere. Brian Spencer. Lorne Henning, Don Blackburn.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06198/3214079-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="230" height="236"></div>N. Y. RANGERS&mdash;Goal, Ed Giacomin, Gilles Villemure; defense, Brad Park, Dale Rolfe, Jim Nelson, Rod Seiling, Ab DeMarco, Larry Sacharuk; centers, Walter Tkaczuk, Jean Ratelle, Pete Stemkowski, Gene Carr, Curt Bennett; right wings, Steve Andrascik, Bobby Rousseau, Bill Fairbairn, Rod Gilbert, Bruce MacGregor, Steve Vickers, Tom Williams; left wings, Vic Hadfield, Ted Irvine, Glen Sather.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07181/3214072-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="232" height="258"></div>TORONTO&mdash;Goal. Jacques Plante, Ron Low, Gordon McRae; defense, Bob Baun, Brien Glennie, Rick Ley, Jim McKenny, Mike Pelyk, Joe Lundrigan; centers, Dave Keon, Norm Ullman, George Ferguson, Brian St. John; right wings, Ron Ellis, Pierre Jarry. Randy Osburn. Rich Kehoe, left wings, Denis Dupere, Paul Henderson, Garry Monahan, Darryl Sittier, Errol Thompson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-08165/3214065-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="287" height="197"></div>VANCOUVER&mdash;Goal, Dunc Wilson, Ed Dyck, Bruce Bullock; defense, Dale Tallon, Josh Guevremeont, Gregg Boddy. Jim Hargreaves. Larry Bolonchuk. Dennis Kearns. Dave Dunn, Barry Wilkins; centers, Andre Boudrais, Orland Kurtenbach, Bobby Lalonde, Richard Lemieux, Don Lever, right wings. Ron Homenuke, Bobby Schmautz. John Wright; left wings. Dave Baton. Wayne Maki. Jerry O&rsquo;Flaherty. Dan Tanna hill.<h2>WEST DIVISON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-09143/3214058-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="246" height="221"></div>ATLANTA&mdash;Goal. Dan Bouchard, Phil Myre; defense, Larry Hale. Ron Harris, Randy Manery, Bill Plager, Noel Price, Pat Quinn; centers, Rey Comeau, Bob Leiter, Jacques Richard, Larry Romanchych; right wings, Norm Gratton, Billy MacMillan. Lew Morrison; left wings, Lucien Grenier, Ernie Hicke, Keith McCreary, John Stewart.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-10121/3214051-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="252" height="231"></div>CHICAGO&mdash;Goal, Tony Esposito, Gary Smith; defense, Doug Jarrett, Keith Magnuson, Pat Stapleton, Bill White, John Marks; centers, Pit Martin, Stan Mikita, Lou Angotti, Brian Ogilvie; right wings, J.P. Bordeleau, Chico Maki, Cliff Koroll, Jim Pappin; left wings, Dennis Hull, Danny Maloney, Jerry Korab, Darryl Maggs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-11107/3214044-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="265" height="115"></div>CALIFORNIA&mdash;Goal, Gilles Meloche, Marv Edwards, Lyle Carter; defense. Marshall Johnston. Bert Marshall, Dick Redmond, Rick Smith, Bob Stewart; centers, Ivan Boldirev, Walt McKechnie; right wings, Reg Leach, Craig Patrick; left wings, Gary Croteau, Stan Gilbertson. Joey Johnston, Pete Laframboise.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1291/3214037-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="220" height="264"></div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;Goal, Rogatien Vachon, Gary Edwards; defense, Larry Brown, Paul Curtis, Terry Harper, Harry Howell, Barry Long, Gilles Marotte; centers, Ralph Backstrom, Butch Goring Juha W&rsquo;iding; right wings, Serge Bernier, Mike Corrigan. Doug Volmar; left wings, Bob Berry, Real Lemieux, Bill Lesuk.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1380/3214030-1-eng-US/f0016-132.jpg" title="f0016-13" width="248" height="225"></div>MINNESOTA&mdash;Goal, Cesare Maniago, Lorne Worsley; defense, Barry Gibbs, Fred Barrett, Ted Harris, Doug Mohns, Dennis O&rsquo;Brien, Jim McElmury, Lou Nanne, Tom Reid; centers, Jude Drouin, Dennis Hextall, Murray Oliver; right wings. Bill Goldsworthy, Fred Harvey, Bob Nevin; left wings, Jerry Byers, Danny Grant, Jean-Paul Parise, Dean Prentice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1474/3214023-1-eng-US/f0016-142.jpg" title="f0016-14" width="276" height="181"></div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Goal, Doug Favell, Michel Belhumeur, Bob Taylor; defense, Barry Ashbee, Rick Foley, Wayne Hillman, Brent Hughes, Jean Potvin, Ed Van Impe, Joe Watson; centers; Bobby Clarke, Bill Clement, Larry Wright; right wings, Gary Dornhoefer, Don Saleski, Bill Flett, Simon Nolet, Pierre Plante; left wings, Bill Barber, Larry Keenan, Bob Kelly, Ross Lonsberry, Rick MacLeish, Dan Schock.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1564/3214016-1-eng-US/f0016-152.jpg" title="f0016-15" width="267" height="219"></div>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Goal, Roy Edwards, Jim Rutherford; defense. Dave Burrows, Darryl Edestrand, Sheldon Kannegiesser. Jack Lynch. -Joe Noris. Duane Rupp. Bryan Watson; centers, Syl Apps, Bryan Hextall, Rick Kessell, Ron Lalonde, Ron Schock; right wings, Nick Harbaruk, Lowell MacDonald, Al McDonough, Brian McKenzie; left wings, Eddie Shack, Steve Cardwell, Greg Polis, Ken Schinkel.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1661/3214009-1-eng-US/f0016-162.jpg" title="f0016-16" width="275" height="243"></div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Goal, Jacques Caron, Wayne Stephenson; defense, Andre Dupont, Steve Durbano, Chris Evans, Noel Picard, Barclay Plager, Bob Plager, centers, Fran Huck, Wayne Merrick, Danny O&rsquo;Shea. Frank St. Marseille, Gary Unger; right wings. Mike Murphy, Kevin O&rsquo;Shea, Gary Sabourin; left wings, Jack Egers, Phil Roberto, Jim Shires, Floyd Thomson. &#9632;

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Probable Starting Lineups For NHL Teams

MONTREAL&mdash;The National Hockey League&rsquo;s 56th season officially gets under way Saturday. Oct. 7. with seven games scheduled that night. The 624-game schedule&mdash;the largest in NHL history&mdash;contains 78 games more than last season&rsquo;s schedule due to the addition of Atlanta Flames and New York Islanders to the League.The schedule is 25 weeks in. duration, includes 26 weekends and finishes Sunday. April 1. with six games. As in the past, over half the schedule is composed of weekend games with 168 planned for Saturdays and 147 scheduled for Sundays. The next most active night is Wednesday when 144 games will be played, followed by Thursday with 70 games. There will be 54 Tuesday. 39 Friday and two Monday games.Due to the fact that there are now two Divisions of eight teams each (Islanders were added to the East Division and Atlanta to the West), in order for each club to play 78 games, the schedule is an unbalanced one. Each team will play four games (two at home and two away) with each other team in the League, plus one additional game with each other team. These latter 15 games will be alternated home and away this coming season and in 197374. In addition, each club will play another three games against teams in its own Division. No team shall play any other team more than three times at home in either of these two seasons.As a result, some teams could face an opponent five times over the season while playing six times against another team. The allotment of these extra games was determined by a lottery which consisted of selecting teams at random by Division and matching them to other teams of that Division.Opening night will see Minnesota playing at Montreal, Chicago at Toronto, New York Rangers at Detroit, Atlanta at New York Islanders, California at Vancouver, Philadelphia at St. Louis and Los Angeles at Pittsburgh. The only teams not playing the first night of the schedule are Boston and Buffalo. They play the following night, Oct. 8, so that after the first weekend&rsquo;s action every team will have played at least one game.The 26th Annual NHL AllStar Game, in which the East Division All-Stars meet those of the West Division, is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 30, at Madison Square Garden in New York. &#9632;

NHL Opens 56th Season With Longest Schedule

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01531/3214169-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"></div>You&rsquo;ve probably been dreaming for years about your first pair of Tacks&mdash;right? But what about that $90 price tag.* Before you decide to wait till next year, take a long, hard look at the Hyde Registered Blue Liner. It&rsquo;s right up there with the Tack&mdash;and for $30 less. Features include: an all-kangaroo boot, triple box toe, padded tongue and ankle, long left and right heel counters, nylon mesh for that extra measure of support and protection, and an oil-treated leather outer-sole for moisture resistance and longer life.But the real clincher is the blade. Our new M K Sabre blade is so revolutionary that many of its features&mdash;the blade support anvils, the wrap-around cup jaws and the domed tube&mdash;are patented. This means that when you skate on an M K Sabre blade you are skating on the toughest, finest professional hockey blade in the business.Are they rugged? The new Hyde Registered Blue Liner has the longest written guarantee on ice&mdash;2 years. So this season wear Blue Liners. With the money you save you might want to pick up a couple of sticks, a pair of elbow pads and that new helmet you need.If you would like a 4 color poster of the Blue Liner, send 250 and your name and address to Hyde Registered Blue Liners, 432 Columbia Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02141. &#9632;

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THE ONLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NEW HYDE REGISTERED BLUE LINER AND A PAIR OF “TACKS” IS$30.00

<h2>In The East</h2>Mike Walton could be headed for his finest season in the National Hockey League if training camp performances mean anything.The speedy left winger turned in a hightly productive week in the NHL&rsquo;s Grapefruit League action starting off with a hat trick as the Bruins beat their archrivals the New York Rangers 4-2. The next night out, Walton shot the winning goal as the Bruins rode over the Chicago Balck Hawks 5-3.That represented pretty fair production for the one-time Leaf but Walton wasn&rsquo;t finished. He helped set up a pair of goals in Boston&rsquo;s 3-2 win against Montreal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02438/3214245-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="557" height="608"><figcaption class="caption-body">MIKE WALTON&hellip;Boston Bruins</figcaption></div><h2>In The West</h2>The California Seals hope young Ivan Boldirev can pick up some of the slack caused bu the loss of nine players to the rival World Hockey Association. If Boldirev produces in the same manner he started out the exhibition season, then the Seals have found an unexpected bonus.Boldirev, who missed the final month of the 197172 NHL season with a severe case of mononucelosis, appears to be well on the way to a complete recovery. He sparked the Seals to their first pre-season victory setting up the insurance goal and adding one of his own as California downed Philadelphia 4-2.In the Seals&rsquo; next encounter, Boldirev splurged for a pair of goals as California continued their winning ways by trouncing Atlanta Flames 7-5.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03333/3214238-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="560" height="618"><figcaption class="caption-body">IVAN BOLDIREV&hellip;California Seals</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Players of the week

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaDETROIT&mdash;Despite the lumps that Team Canada took from Russia, the series was a blessing in disguise for many National Hockey League coaches including the Red Wings&rsquo; Johnny Wilson.With many of the stars gone it gave the coaches an opportunity to appraise the rest of the material on hand and Wilson liked what he saw in the Detroit camp.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01536/3214207-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="244" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Henry Boucha</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been able to look over our younger players and I feel we&rsquo;ve got a lot more depth than we did last year.&rdquo; Wilson said as the Wings broke camp at Port Huron and moved into the Olympia for the final stage of training.&ldquo;Our young people are coming on strong. Rick Newell, who we obtained from the Rangers with Gary Doak for our first draft choice, has impressed us and he can play either left wing or left defense.&ldquo;Henry Boucha has had an outstanding camp. We plan to carry four centers and Henry will be the fourth.&rdquo; Wilson said.Since two of Detroit&rsquo;s centers&mdash;Red Berenson and Marcel Dionne&mdash;were with Team Canada. Boucha had plenty of work.Henry played with the United States Olympic team last winter that won the silver medal&mdash;second place&mdash;at Sapporo. Japan, and the NHL has a little more respect for the Olympians since the Russian-Team Canada series opened its eves (and then blackened them) to the caliber of international hockey.Boucha is being groomed to replace Alex Delvecchio who enters his 22nd NHL season as the greatest living set-up man currently playing in the league with 768 career assists.The 21-year-old Boucha. from Warroad. Minn., was used sparingly in 16 games with Detroit last season and scored one goal, that one in his first game.In addition to Boucha and Newell, who bounced around between Phoenix. Providence and Omaha last season. Wilson complimented 24-year-old Len Fontaine, star of the Port Huron Wings&rsquo; International League Turner Cup champions: Thommie Bergman, a defenseman from the Swedish National Team, and goalie Gerry Gray who spent last season on the Detroit farms.&ldquo;Fontaine isn&rsquo;t very big (only 5-7) but he&rsquo;s got a heart as big as Olympia and he goes into the corners.&rdquo; Wilson said. The Quebec City native scored 41 goals in 70 games on right wing for Port Huron.Bergman is four inches taller than Red Wing veteran Gary Bergman and he speaks Swedish while Gary doesn&rsquo;t. He also has considerably more hair.And. Wilson likes the way he&rsquo;s been playing.&ldquo;He continually impresses us.&rdquo; Wilson said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got an excel-hint chance of sticking with us. He&rsquo;s tall (6-3). he skates extremely well, he&rsquo;s got a good shot and he&rsquo;s aggressive.&rdquo;Gray, who figures to be No. 2 man to Andy Brown in the Detroit goal this season, picked up points while blanking Toronto. 40. in Maple Leaf Gardens during the exhibition campaign for Detroit&rsquo;s third straight victory (the others were over Philadelphia and Boston) after opening losses to St. Louis and the Bruins.&ldquo;Sure. Toronto didn&rsquo;t, have Paul Henderson and Ron Ellis.&rdquo; Wilson said, &ldquo;but we didn&rsquo;t have Dionne and Redmond and Berenson and Bergman so I&rsquo;d say we were missing a lot more than they were.&rdquo;In a move toward more specialized coaching. Wilson has had Baz Bastien, the old American League goalie, long-time American League executive and now assistant GM of the Wings, working with Brown and Gray.&ldquo;Our training camp objective has been to attain superior conditioning.&rdquo; Wilson said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not up to it vet but I feel we&rsquo;re getting there.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m also happy with the depth we&rsquo;ve been able to develop&mdash;last year our bench strength was Bob Wall, Doug Volmar and Danny Johnson. I feel we&rsquo;ve improved there.&rdquo;Wilson envisions going into the season with Dionne. Delvecchio. Berenson and Boucha in the slot; Nick Libett and Tim Ecclestone on left wing and Redmond, Bill Collins and Leon Rochefort on the right side.That leaves some places to fill and Guy Charron and Al Karlander are fighting it out on left wing and Fontaine and Bob Cook, up from the Wing Farms, are looking for a spot on the right side.Defensively the regulars will be Gary Bergman, who has proven during the Russian series that he&rsquo;s a pretty fair defenseman while generally being overlooked by NHL fans; Larry Johnston, last year&rsquo;s &ldquo;find&rdquo; for the Wings; Ron Stackhouse, of whom Wilson said &ldquo;He&rsquo;s matured&mdash;I don&rsquo;t see why he can&rsquo;t catch an All Star berth&rdquo;; Arnie Brown, returning from knee surgery; and rookies Newell and Thommie Bergman.Wilson said he liked what he saw of Gary Doak, acquired from the Rangers along with Newell and originally a Red Wing, before he broke his leg in Detroit&rsquo;s initial exhibition game.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m pleased with what I&rsquo;ve seen,&rdquo; Wilson said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve taken everything we&rsquo;ve given them.&rdquo;And Wilson is a firm believer in giving them a full load.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-01116/3214200-1-eng-US/f0033-012.jpg" title="f0033-01" width="1176" height="1713"><figcaption class="caption-body">The first major casualty of the NHL season turned out to be LU-CIEN GRENIER of the Atlanta Flames, who broke his leg in an exhibition garre and will be lost to the club indefinitely. Grenier had been drafted by the Flames from Los Angeles.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Detroit Newcomers Impress While Stars Away

<h2>OVERALL PICTURE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03355/3214349-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="586" height="139"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Sat. Sept. 2Russia 7 at Canada 3Mor. ! pt. 4Russia 1 at Canada 4Wed. Sept. 6Russia 4 at Canada 4Fri. Sept. 8Russia 5 at Canada 3Fri. Sept. 22Canada 4 at Russia 5Sun. Sept. 24Canada 3 at Russia 2Tue. Sept. 26Canada 4 at Russia 3Thur. Sept. 28Canada 6 at Russia 5<h2>CANADA TEAM SCORING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04303/3214342-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="597" height="782"></div><h2>RUSSIA TEAM SCORING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05252/3214335-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="603" height="606"></div><h3>Period-by-period scores;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06199/3214328-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="590" height="110"></div><h3>Shorthanded Goals</h3>Russia 3 (Petrov 2, Kharlamov 1)Canada 2 (P. Mahovlich, Esposito 1 each)<h3>Power play goals</h3>Russia 9 (Yakushev 4, Mikhailov 2, Petrov 1, Vasiliev 1, Lutchenko 1)Canada 0.<h3>Garre winning goals</h3>Canada 4 (Henderson 3, Cournoyer 1)Russia 3 (Vikulov 2, Kharlamov 1)<h3>Total penalties</h3>Canada 136 minutes43 minors, 3 majors, 3 misconducts.Russia 82 minutes31 minors, 2 majors, 1 misconduct.<h3>Total attendance: 120,673</h3>Four games in Canada: 60,673Four games in Moscow: 60,000(*&mdash;Parise&rsquo;s game misconduct not included in totals)<h2>Tue. Sept. 26 CANADA 4 at RUSSIA 3 GAME SEVEN</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-07173/3214321-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="608" height="644"></div><h2>Thur. Sept. 28 CANADA 6 at RUSSIA 5 GAME EIGHT</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-08157/3214314-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="592" height="763"></div> &#9632;

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Statistical Story Of Canada’s Win

NEW YORK&mdash;Training camp games are taking their toll among National Hockey League teams.Detroit&rsquo;s new defense acquisition. Gary Doak, sustained a broken leg when he crashed into the boards in a game against St. Louis. Doak will be out about eight weeks.Philadelphia defenseman Ed Van Impe stopped a puck with his face and picked up a possible fractured cheekbone. A few days later Minnesota rookie defenseman Fred Barrett broke a bone in his hand and will be in a cast for from six to eight weeks. Then came Jim Neilson of the Rangers, who stepped in front of one of Mike Walton&rsquo;s blistering shots in a game with Boston and received a broken bone in his foot for his efforts. He&rsquo;s expected to be sidelined at least six weeks. Throw in Charlie Burns of the North Stars with a shoulder separation and it is amounting to a pretty rough training camp period. &#9632;

Neilson, Barrett, Doak Suffer Camp Fractures

<h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Sun. Sept. 17St. louts 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, Californio 2Toronto 2, Philadelphia 1Wed. Sept. 20Chicago 5, Toronto 3Minnesota 3. Californio 3Pittsburgh 4, Philadelphia 1Vancouver 3, Los ^Angeles 2Thur. Sep;. 21Montreal 4, Boston 2Detroit 4. Philadelphia 3N.Y. Rangers 6. St. Louis 2Buffalo 3, California 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, Minnesota 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 1Californio 4, Philadelphia 2Mon. Sept. 25Boston 4. N.Y Rangers 2Tue. Sept. 26Buffalo 3, California 3Boston 5, Chicago 3Montreal 10, Toronto 1Minnesota 2, Vancouver 1Pittsburgh 1, Atlanta 0Wed. Sept. 27Buffalo 1, Chicago 0Montreal 6, Boston 3St. Louis 5, Detroit 3N.Y. Rangers 6. N.Y.Islanders 5 Atlanta 4, Pittsburgh 3Minnesota 1, New Haven (AHL) 1Thur. Sept. 28St. louis 3, Philadelphia 3Vancouver 6, Toronto 5Fri. Sept. 29Buffalo 2, Pittsburgh 2Montreal 4, Boston 2Minnesota 4, Vancouver 0Sat. Sept. 30Philadelphia 1, Buffalo 0Boston 3, Montreal 2Detroit 5, Toronto 3N.Y. Rangers 5, St. Louis 4N.Y. Islanders 9, Pittsburgh 2Minnesota 2, Los Angeles 1Californio 7, Atlanta 5Sun. Oct. 1Buffalo 5, Philadelphia 3N.Y. Rangers 2, Detroit 2Minnesota 2, Vancouver 2<h2>STANDINGS</h2>(Minor league games included)<h3>EAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02272/3214442-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="588" height="227"></div><h3>WEST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03227/3214435-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="592" height="231"></div> &#9632;

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Exhibition Scoreboard

<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>Sat. Oct. 7Minnesota atMontrealChicago at TorontoN.Y. Rangers atDetroitAtlanta at N. Y. IslandersCalifornia at VancouverPhiladelphia at St. LouisLos Angeles at PittsburghSun. Oct. 8N.Y. Rangers at ChicagoLos Angeles atBostonAtlanta at BuffaloWed. Oct. 11Montreal at TorontoVancouver at N. Y. RangersBoston at DetroitLos Angeles at BuffaloAtlanta at ChicagoPittsburgh atSt. LouisCaliforniaat MinnesotaThurs. Oct. 12Atlanta atMontrealLos Angeles at N.Y. IslandersVancouver at PhiladelphiaSat. Oct. 14N.Y. Rangers at Montreal*Los Angeles at TorontoBoston at N.Y. IslandersPhiladelphia at DetroitBuffalo at AtlantaVancouver at MinnesotaChicago atSt. LouisCalifornia at PittsburghSun. Oct. 15Toronto at BuffaloMinnesota at N.Y. RangersPittsburgh at BostonLos Angeles at DetroitSt. Louis at ChicagoCalifornia at Philadelphia<h2>WORLD HOCKEY ASSN.</h2>Wed. Oct. 11Alberta at OttawaQuebec at ClevelandThur. Oct. 12Winnipeg at New YorkChicago at HoustonPhiladelphia at New England(at Boston Garden)Fri. Oct. 12New England at PhiladelphiaHouston at Los AngelesWinnipeg at MinnesotaAlberta at QubecSat. Oct. 14Alberta at ClevelandOttawa at New YorkSun. Oct. 15Philadelphia at New YorkAlberta at WinnipegCleveland at OttawaLos Angeles at HoustonChicago a tMinnesota<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>Wed. Oct 4Springfield at New HavenCleveland at Nova ScotiaFri. Oct. 6Cleveland at BostonVirginia at RichmondProvidence at RochesterBaltimore at SpringfieldSat. Oct. 7Virginia at HersheyCleveland at SpringfieldSun. Oct. 8Providence at CincinnatiBaltimore at New HavenBoston at RichmondCleveland at RochesterHershey at Virginia(at Norfolk Scope)Tue. Oct. 10Hershey at BostonBaltimore at Nova ScotioWed. Oct. 11Providence at ClevelandNew Hoven at RichmondFri. Oct. 13Providence at RichmondNova Scotia at RochesterBoston at SpringfieldNew Haven at Virginia(at Norfolk Scope)Sat. Oct. 14Virginia at BaltimoreRochester at BostonCincinnati atCleveland (afternoon)New Haven at HersheyNova Scotia at SpringfieldCleveland at CincinnatiBoston at RochesterProvidence atVirginia(at Norfolk Scope)<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>Wed. Oct. 11Poland at Salt LakeSur. Oct. 12Portland at PhoenixFri. Oct. 13Dallas at Salt LakeDenver at Fort WorthSat. Oct. 14Dallas at San DiegoSalt Lake at PhoenixDenver at TulsaSun. Oct. 15Seattle at Portland<h2>CENTRAL LEAUGE</h2>Fri. Oct. 13Omaha at TulsaDallas at Salt LakeDenver at Fort WorthSat. Oct. 14Omaha at Fort WorthDallas at San DiegoDenver at Tulsa &#9632;

Pro Games Comino Up

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div>VANCOUVER&mdash;With the first stage of their training camp over, the Vancouver Canucks have vet to have a look under game conditions at the man who may be the key to their immediate the NHL future.Goaltender Dunc Wilson who may well he required to hold coach Vic Stasiuk&rsquo;s rookie-studded lineup together, got off to an unfortunate beginning.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01361/3214380-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="248" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Dyck</figcaption></div>With the team scheduled to play its first exhibition game the next night in Victoria, management set down an 11 p.m. curfew.Wilson returned at 1 a.m. somewhat worse for the wear. There to meet him the hotel lobby was Stasiuk.The result was a suspension that lasted three days before it was lifted. And it was lifted only after consultation with Wilson&rsquo;s lawyer. Michael Jeffrey, and a leng discussion between Wilson. Stasiuk and general manager Bud Poile.When Poile removed the suspension. he said Wilson had told him he wanted to publicly apologize to his teammates, the coach and staff of the Vancouver organization.When he first reported to camp. Wilson said he had never looked forward to a season more than this one. He said he felt he had matured to the point where he was ready to prove himself as a major league goaltender.At any rate, after the suspension Wilson went back to work in camp drills and impressed everyone with his dedication to duty.Meanwhile, the goaltending in the first three exhibition games was left to sophomores Ed Dyck and Bruce Bullock and rookie Dan Brady, fresh off the campus of Boston University.Stasiuk couldn&rsquo;t be unhappy with the results. After each of the three had played 60 minutes&mdash;all against the Los Angeles Kings. Dyck had allowed only three goals. Bullock and Brady just one each.Not only that, the Canucks scored 3-2. 6-1 and 6-2 victories.The work of his three young netminders moved Poile to say: &ldquo;We still expect Wilson to be our No. 1 goaltender, but even if he isn&rsquo;t we&rsquo;re prepared to go into the season with Dyck. Bullock and Brady. We&rsquo;re not in the market for another goaltender at this time.&rdquo;While Wilson&rsquo;s temporary absence gave Bullock and Brady more time to show their stuff, so did the absence of Josh Guevremont and Dale Tallon benefit the other defensemen in camp.With Guevremont and Tallon off in Europe with Team Canada, the others got more work and many took advantage of the opportunity to impress the brass.Greg Boddy. who played the second half of last season with Vancouver, won Poile&rsquo;s endorsement as &ldquo;the most improved player in camp.&rdquo;Meanwhile Jim Hargreaves, who has spent the last two seasons in the minors, became the apple of coach Stasiuk&rsquo;s eye.Stasiuk likes his players rough and ready. Hargreaves fills the bill. He&rsquo;s been lough in the corners and in front of the net and backed it up with a one-punch victory over Los Angeles forward Serge Bernier.Larry Bolonchuk, fresh out of junior hockey with Winnipeg Jets, also has been impressive. Bolonchuk will probably spend the season with Seattle of the Western League, but what he&rsquo;s shown to date indicates it may not be long before he muscles his way into the Vancouver lineup.Three rookies. No. 1 amateur draft choice Don Lever, Don Tannahill and Gerry O&rsquo;Flahertv, were expected to make the Canucks&rsquo; lineup. They probably will. However, two others who weren&rsquo;t expected to make it, are likely to join them.They are John Wright, fresh off the campus of the University of Toronto, and Ron Homenuke, the club&rsquo;s fourth amateur pick.Wright and Homenuke have easily been the most pleasant surprises of a camp deeper in young talent than any in the Canucks&rsquo; three-year history.Wright was a center in college hockey. Homenuke a right winger. but chances are both will make it on right wing with Vancouver. &#9632;

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Kid Coalers Sparkle As Wilson’s Fill-Ins

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div>CHICAGO&mdash;Okay, as long as you haven&rsquo;t asked, the Black Hawks will win the West Division for the third straight season.But, because Bobby Hull now banks in Winnipeg, the Black Hawks will not have it so easy in the West for the first time in three seasons. They will not win it by 21 points like last year, and not by 20 points like her year before. Maybe 10.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01215/3214504-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="262" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dennis Hull</figcaption></div>Strike Bobby Hull&rsquo;s 50 goals a season, plus leadership, plus his overall electric presence, and what you have is a hockey team that must make a considerable adjustment. For 15 years, they&rsquo;ve developed this habitual twitch of looking to the left when the going got difficult. This winter, if they look, Bobby won&rsquo;t be there.&ldquo;But I still feel we have the best club,&rdquo; says brother Dennis, who will be there on the left and now assumes the role as the Hawks&rsquo; No. 1 shooter. &ldquo;I think there will be a question of pride on our team. We&rsquo;ll all miss Bobby, of course, but we&rsquo;ll all be trying just that much harder to prove to everybody we can win without him.&rdquo;The suggestion here is that they can and will win. Not the Stanley Cup by any means, but the West. The team&rsquo;s backbone of strong defense and goaltending remains intact. With Bobby Hull absent, Chicago&rsquo;s accent may be all the more emphatic on keeping the puck out of its net.To accomplish that, Tony Esposito and Gary Smith return to try and retain their Vezina Trophy honors. In front of them remains a polished defensive cordon: Pat Stapleton with Bill White, Keith Magnuson and Doug Jarrett. As training camp moved into the homestretch, a couple of quality candidates emerged for the role as fifth defenseman.Up front, the greatest vacuum, of course, is the one left by Bobby Hull. Left wing. Besides Dennis, young and strong Dan Maloney and Jerry Korab will attempt to: a) score some goals while checking Chicago-style; b) exert some muscle which was dearly lacking last year from the Hawks; c) try to, either collectively or individually, partly compensate for the exit of Bobby Hull. The latter seems to be an unfair request&mdash;no one can replace him&mdash;but if they can put a few pucks in the net and jostle a few foes&rsquo; bones in the corners, left wing won&rsquo;t appear to be as great a wasteland as it did when Bobby bolted town last June.Besides Stan Mikita and Pit Martin, center is also a variable. Darryl Maggs, big and strong, exhibited considerable poise there during camp, but there is more to a season than camp.Brian Ogilvie, the team&rsquo;s No. 2 amateur draft choice, can scoot. And if all else fails, there is always Chico Maki available to shift over from right wing. Martin had a stellar season in 197172; Mikita was, for him, mediocre.Right wing offers balanced scoring possibilities in Jim Pappin, Cliff Koroll, Maki and J.P. Bordeleau, a fleet bombardier from the Dallas farm club. If Coach Billy Reay seems ready to promote anyone to the varsity, it is Bordeleau, a wiry, deceptively strong chap with a missile shot.How, you ask, can a club subtract Bobby Hull&rsquo;s 50 goals and not court disaster? Well, maybe it can&rsquo;t. But as Jack Gordon, coach of the bridesmaid Minnesota North Stars, points out, &ldquo;Chicago&rsquo;s still got the strong defense. And there&rsquo;s no way of telling how much Hull&rsquo;s loss will mean to them. Is he worth all of the 21 points they beat us by or half or more?&rdquo;Al Arbour, coach of the St. Louis Blues, who finished third last year, calls the Hawks &ldquo;still the class club of the West.&rdquo;For sure, if the North Stars or Blues aspire to the throne this year, they&rsquo;ll need to find the knack of whipping Chicago. Last year the Hawks were 6-0 versus St. Louis and 5-1 against Minnesota.HAWK-EY TALK: With only 10 faces remaining from last year&rsquo;s team (not counting the five who were playing on Team Canada), the Hawk camp was very intriguing. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got some youngsters worth looking at, and this gives them a chance,&rdquo; said Reay, who admitted there were also a few more jobs open this, year then in the immediate past&hellip;Goalie Gary Smith became a father for the first time when wife Vicki gave birth to a hoy, Marshall&hellip;To nobody&rsquo;s surprise, Chico Maki was one of the first to admit he&rsquo;ll really miss Bobby Hull. Maki was Hull&rsquo;s erstwhile linemate and a frequent companion off the ice.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-02158/3214497-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="1169" height="1225"><figcaption class="caption-body">TONY ESPOSITO&hellip;Hawks Will Need His Goaling</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hawks Still Have Enough Without Hull To Ton West

<h2>HOW THEY FINISHED</h2><h3>EAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-03115/3214577-1-eng-US/f0021-032.jpg" title="f0021-03" width="520" height="214"></div><h3>WEST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0495/3214570-1-eng-US/f0021-042.jpg" title="f0021-04" width="518" height="207"></div><h2>TOP 25 SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0580/3214563-1-eng-US/f0021-052.jpg" title="f0021-05" width="514" height="661"></div><h2>NHL AU STARS</h2><h3>First Team</h3>Goal&mdash;Tony Esposito, ChicagoDef&mdash;Bobby Orr. BostonDef&mdash;Brad Park, New YorkCenter&mdash;Phil Esposito, BostonR. Wing&mdash;Rod Gilbert, New YorkL. Wing&mdash;Bobby Hull, Chicago<h3>Second Team</h3>Goal&mdash;Ken Dryden, MontrealDef&mdash;Bill White. ChicagoDef&mdash;Pat Stapleton. ChicagoCenter&mdash;Jean Ratelie, New YorkR. Wing&mdash;Yvan Cournoyer. MontrealL. Wing&mdash;Vic Hadfield. New York<h3>AWARDS WINNERS</h3>Hart Trophy&mdash;Bobby OrrNorris Trophy&mdash;Bobby OrrByng Trophy&mdash;Jean RatelieCalder Trophy&mdash;Ken DrydenRoss Trophy&mdash;Phil EspositoVezina Trophy&mdash;Tony Esposito, GarySmith, Gerry Desjardins (Chicago)Smythe Trophy&mdash;Bobby OrrMasterton Trophy&mdash;Bobby ClarkePatrick Trophy&mdash;Clarence CampbellPrince of Wales Trophy&mdash;BostonCampbell Bowl&mdash;ChicagoStanley Cup&mdash;Boston<h2>NHL PLAYOFFS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0670/3214556-1-eng-US/f0021-062.jpg" title="f0021-06" width="517" height="104"></div><h3>SEMI-FINALS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0761/3214549-1-eng-US/f0021-072.jpg" title="f0021-07" width="514" height="210"></div><h2>QUARTER-FINALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0855/3214542-1-eng-US/f0021-082.jpg" title="f0021-08" width="516" height="413"></div><h2>TOP PLAYOFF SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0948/3214535-1-eng-US/f0021-092.jpg" title="f0021-09" width="513" height="401"></div> &#9632;

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Looking Back On Last Year

CHICAGO&mdash;The Black Hawks, already well-fortified in the nets, have acquired another goaltender in the person of John Garrett, a 21-year-old who played for Kansas City in the Central League last season.If it sounds simple, it isn&rsquo;t.Garrett joined the Hawks from St. Louis only because Danny O&rsquo;Shea refused to. And O&rsquo;Shea was placed in that position only because Chris Bordeleau jumped the Hawks for the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association, Savvy?To start at the beginning. O&rsquo;Shea was traded by the Hawks to the Blues for Bordeleau last February. O&rsquo;Shea&rsquo;s contract at the time carried through the 1972-73 campaign, while Bordeleau&rsquo;s was to expire with last season. So. Chicago General Manager Tommy Ivan stipulated that the trade stand only if Bordeleau signed another pact with the Hawks. If he didn&rsquo;t, O&rsquo;Shea was to be returned to Chicago or, if not O&rsquo;Shea, another player agreed to by the Hawks.Now then. Bordeleau did what Ivan prepared for&mdash;he jumped leagues. Thus O&rsquo;Shea comes back to Chicago right? Wrong.&ldquo;I won&rsquo;t go back.&rdquo; he said. &lsquo;&lsquo;Last year in Chicago was the most miserable of my hockey career. I didn&rsquo;t like the city, and I&rsquo;m not a yo-yo. I honored mv trade to St. Louis as a professional and I consider myself property of the Blues.&rdquo;O&rsquo;Shea said part of his dilemma in Chicago was being switched from his normal position, center, to left wing. He admitted playing poorly.&ldquo;But I&rsquo;ll sit out a year before I go back to Chicago.&rdquo; he maintained.And so the clubs agreed on Garrett, who played 35 games for Kansas City and logged a 3.55 goals against mark.Furthermore, Garrett said he&rsquo;d report to the Hawks. &#9632;

O’Shea Balks At Return, Chicago Picks Up Goaler

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;The Fivers have gone to college and Coach Fred Shero hopes they learn how to get into shape.This has been the Flyers&rsquo; glaring problem, unable to go all out of three full periods, which has plagued them to a dismal record of only one victory in six exhibition games while the club was quartered in Canada.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01236/3214632-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="248" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Taylor</figcaption></div>The scene shifted to the University of Pennsylvania rink here, and Shero and assistant coach Mike Nykoluk want proof of better conditioning. They want no lack of pep in the late going.&ldquo;I just don&rsquo;t feel our team is in shape as yet,&rdquo; explained Shero. &ldquo;You can tell by the scores of our games thus far. Of the live games we&rsquo;ve lost, all of the serious damage has taken place in the third period. That&rsquo;s a sign that a lot of our guys just aren&rsquo;t in shape.&rdquo;Actually, however. Shero and Nykoluk were pleased with the progress of many of the Flyers and appeared especially high on rookie defenseman Tom Bladon.Bladon. who came to the Flyers from the Edmonton Juniors on the second round of last June&rsquo;s amateur draft, is proving that he indeed is an offensive-minded rearguard. Tom scored goals in the two back-to-back games in which he has played, both against the California Golden Seals. On each occasion, he waffled the puck from the blueline and put it in the net.It is debatable, though, whether Bladon will be in an orange and black Flyers&rsquo; uniform for the start of the regular season, due to the team&rsquo;s seasoned corps of defensemen.Shero and GM Keith Allen, along with Nykoluk (the NHL&rsquo;s first assistant coach! have been satisfied with the Flyers&rsquo; defensive play in general.&ldquo;Our defense has been a little faulty in the third period.&rdquo; commented Allen. &ldquo;But I don&rsquo;t feel we&rsquo;ll have a problem there.&rdquo;After six pre-season games, the Flyers were giving up 3.16 goals per game and scoring at the same rate&mdash;19 goals each wav during the exhibition stretch.Young goaltender Michel Belhumeur was the hardest hit of the three net minders the Flyers have been employing, and it appears that the veteran Doug Favell and Bobby Taylor would probably start the season with Philly.Belhumeur gave up two goals in the final period of a 4-2 loss to California, after Favell and Taylor played rather well&mdash;and appeared to he quite unsteady the entire camp. But Shero said he hasn&rsquo;t yet knocked Belhumeur out of the race for a Flyer berth come Oct. 13.&ldquo;As of now, Favell and Taylor have the jobs in Philadelphia,&rdquo; said Shero as the Flyers moved their gear into their University of Pennsylvania location. &ldquo;But don&rsquo;t count out Belhumeur yet. He&rsquo;s competitive and he could bounce back.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Flyers’ Problem: No Legs for Windup

PHILADELPHIA&mdash;There will be plenty of major league hockey played in Philadelphia the night of Nov. 22, and on six other dates later on this season.That&rsquo;s the first of seven head-to-head confrontations between the established Flyers of the NHL and the new Blazers of the WHA. Both will be playing a home game that particular evening.On Nov. 2. the Flyers will entertain the New York Islanders at the recently-enlarged Spectrum.The Blazers, who will play all 39 games at the Civic Center, open their home season against the New England Whalers on Friday night, Oct. 13.&ldquo;We have turned Philadelphia around with our hockey team,&rdquo; commented Blazers&rsquo; GM Dave Creighton. &ldquo;We have turned around the NHL with our league, and now we&rsquo;re set to turn around all those superstitions which surround Friday the 13th.&rdquo; &#9632;

Flyers, Blazers To ‘Clash’

<div class="byline">BY DAN DONOVAN</div>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Penguin Coach Red Kelly thinks he may have come up with at least one goodie in the annual grab bag called the amateur draft&mdash;goalie Denis Herron.In the opening exhibition game against California, Cam Newton was injured and suddenly Herron was in the net. In 30 minutes he made 15 saves, shutting out the Golden Seals with some fine goaltending.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01213/3214687-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="250" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Lynch</figcaption></div>Ever since then, he has amazed Kelly.&ldquo;He has a great glove,&rdquo; Kelly said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a great catcher. And his reflexes are good and he stands up well. He knows how to stop the puck.&rdquo;The 5-10-155-pounder played for Trois-Rivieres in the Quebec Major Hockey League last year, averaging 4.00 goals against for a seventh-place team.Now he is working on his goaltending and his English. Despite the fact they can&rsquo;t talk to him, Kelly thinks the Pittsburgh farts will enjoy a French goalie.&ldquo;French players are natural showmen,&rdquo; Kelly said, &ldquo;and Herron is no exception&rdquo;.Another prime nugget found among the amateurs may be defenseman Jack Lynch.&ldquo;Lynch has a good shot and he makes good plays,&rdquo; Kelly said. &ldquo;He has the inborn quickness that all the great players have.&ldquo;You see a man open and you think &lsquo;pass the puck&rsquo;, but he&rsquo;s already doing it.&rdquo;Lynch is a talkative, tall and trim defenseman who openly admits he is offense-minded.&ldquo;I like to shoot,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I hope to play with someone who is good on defense.&rdquo;Lynch, like Herron, is entertaining. With Oshawa of the Ontario Major Hockey Association he was nicknamed &ldquo;Jumping Jack&rdquo; because he hopped up and down on his skates when he scored a goal.Another rookie who may be a comer is center Ron Lalonde.&ldquo;He reminds me a lot of Ron Schock,&rdquo; Kelly said. &ldquo;He is a continual worker, has good hockey sense and handles the puck well.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Penguins Uncover Ice Gems

<h2>EAST DIVISION</h2>1&mdash;New England2&mdash;Philadelphia3&mdash;New York4&mdash;Cleveland5&mdash;Quebec6&mdash;Ottawa<h2>WEST DIVISION</h2>1&mdash;Minnesota2&mdash;Alberta3&mdash;Winnipeg4&mdash;Los Angeles5&mdash;Chicago6&mdash;Houston &#9632;

How They’ll Finish Race

BOSTON&mdash;Despite the shadow of untold court cases hanging over them, the new World Hockey Association, is about to launch its first season of operation amid overflowing optimism that they are going to make it after all.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01217/3214732-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="267" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kevin Ahearn</figcaption></div>After listening to months of skepticism the show would never get off the ground, the WHA is ready to go with 12 teams when most were predicting they&rsquo;d be lucky to get to the starting line with six or eight clubs.With a lineup of more than 340 amateur and professionals, including nearly 70 National Leaguers already signed to start them off, the WHA will present 936 games as part of its regular schedule with four Canadian and eight American cities waiting anxiously for the Oct. 11 openers.The WHA will function as a two-division league, East and West. In the East, New York Raiders, New England Whalers, Philadelphia Blazers, Cleveland Crusaders, Quebec Nordiques and Ottawa Nationals will comprise one division. In the West, it will be Minnesota Fighting Saints, Los Angeles Sharks, Chicago Cougars, Houston Aeros. Winnipeg Jets and Alberta Oilers.Alberta will visit Ottawa and Quebec will play at Cleveland in the dual WHA openers.Meanwhile, the dozen WHA clubs are busily putting the finishing touches to their training camp sessions and exhibition games before kicking off their 78-game schedules.Teams dropped the puck for th&egrave; first time in rookie games at Roanoke, Va., and at Hibbing and Duluth, Minn.New England&rsquo;s Whalers edged the Philadelphia Blazers 5-3 at Roanoke Sept. 23 and Minnesota&rsquo;s Fighting Saints won a pair of games from the Chicago Cougars, 10-7 at Hibbing Sept. 23 and 5-2 at Duluth Sept. 24.U.S. Olympians Tim Sheehy and Kevin Ahearn were joined by former Boston University All-American John Danby on a New England line that produced three goals and three assists for the Whalers.Sheehy, who captained the U.S. team to an Olympic silver medal at Sapporo last winter, scored once and Ahearn twice. Danby had three assists.Swedish amateur standout Ulf Sterner scored three goals and also had a pair of assists for Chicago, but it wasn&rsquo;t enough as the Cougars bowed to Minnesota at Hibbing. Another U.S. Olympian, defenseman Frank Sanders, had three goals for the Fighting Saints.At Duluth, tiny Mike Antonovich, a five-foot-eight, 160-pound center from Calumet, Minn., scored two goals and assisted on another to spark the Saint victory. Antonovich&rsquo;s final goal came in the last minute of play as he lobbed the puck from outside the blue line over a retreating Chicago defenseman&rsquo;s head and into the open net.The Minnesota Saints have announced a major radio and television package.A Midwest savings and loan company has purchased broadcast rights to Fighting Saints games, including radio of all 78 regular season games and playoffs, and an as yet unspecified number of telecasts.The Saints also announced that Frank Buetel, a 19-year vetr eran of the Minnesota sports broadcasting scene, would be the play-by-play announcer. Buetel does Twins baseball telecasts and was the original television voice of the North Stars.Buetel has the distinction of being at the microphone when both the Twins and North Stars played their first games. Now, he will add the Fighting Saints to that elite history.CAMP NOTES: The last two teams to join the WHA, the Cleveland Crusaders and Philadelphia Blazers, were the first to announce roster cuts after fall workouts began&hellip;Jim Pritchard, 24, who was the first junior ever drafted by the Montreal Canadiens four seasons back, is at the Winnipeg Jets camp in Kenora, Ontario, attempting to make his hometown team as a defenseman&hellip;Last year, he played for Clinton in the Eastern Hockey League.Cleveland&rsquo;s Crusaders have a 32-man squad undergoing two-a-day workouts at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio&hellip;The Ottawa Nationals and new Coach Billy Harris opened camp for first-year pros and amateurs in Hull, Quebec&hellip;When the veterans reported October 1, the Nats had 44 players in camp&hellip;Harris has introduced a full program of office isometrics to augment conditioning.Houston&rsquo;s Aeros announced the signings of defenseman Paul Popiel and left wing Jack Stanfield September 22, bringing their roster to 18&hellip;Popiel was with the Vancouver Canucks last season and Stanfield, an eightyear pro, has spent the last three years with Rochester of the American Hockey League&hellip;The Aeros are training in Virginia, Minn.Terry Ryan of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, scored four goals and picked up an assist in one of the Minnesota Fighting Saints&rsquo; intra-squad games at Duluth&hellip;The curly-haired center was the second-round draft choice of the Minnesota North Stars&hellip;Minnesota also signed center Bobby MacMillan, a first-round draft choice of the New York Rangers&hellip;Ryan led Hamilton of the strong Ontario Hockey Association in scoring and MacMillan was a standout for St. Catharines of the same league.PHILADELPHIA: The Blazers signed goaltender Marcel Paille, 40, to share the netminding duties with Bernie Parent. Paille, who has 100 NHL games under his belt, was last affiliated with the Providence Reds (AHL) under coach-GM Dave Creighton, who is now Blazers&rsquo; GM. &ldquo;Paille is as good a backup goaltender as there is in the WHA,&rdquo; said Creighton. The GM noted that he would take 15 players from his rookie camp in Roanoke, Va., to the Blazers&rsquo; pro camp in Sherbrooke, Que. They will be joined by 12 professionals, including Derek Sanderson. One pleasant surprise in the Blazers&rsquo; rookie camp has been Denis Meloche, brother of California Seals&rsquo; goalie Gilles Meloche. Denis is a center and is extremely aggressive.OTTAWA: The Nationals have signed a coach and also inked a veteran goaltender. Billy Harris, a longtime hockey veteran who played on three Stanley Cup champions (Toronto 1962, &lsquo;63, &lsquo;64), will direct the Nats. Les Binkley, formerly a veteran net-minder with the Pittsburgh Penguins, also came to terms. Harris was player-coach of Canada&rsquo;s National Team in 1969 and also coached Sweden&rsquo;s National team this past season. Binkley&rsquo;s signing gave the Nationals three National Leaguers. The others are Wayne Carleton and Guy Trottier.CLEVELAND: Chuck Catto, director of player personnel, and Bill Needham, chief scout, have been directing the Crusader workouts until a coach is named. Owner Nick Mileti was biding his time, despite the pressure of the season inaugural, so that he&rsquo;d make sure he came up with the right man for the job. Incidentally, the Crusaders could have a brother combination this season. One of the 35 players in Cleveland&rsquo;s rookie camp at Bowling Green, Ohio, is Tom Pinder, who scored 63 points in 48 games with Saskatoon of the Western Canada Junior Hockey League a year ago. Tom&rsquo;s older brother. Gerry, formerly of the California Golden Seals and Chicago Black Hawks, is with the Crusaders. Catto has been impressed with Jim McMasters, the big kid defenseman from Medicine Hat of the WCHL and a top NHL draft pick. &ldquo;He reminds me of Bobby Orr when he first came up with the Bruins, &ldquo;said Catto, who was formerly a scout with the NHL club. &ldquo;He handles the puck extremely well and is mature beyond his age.&rdquo; Catto has also been high on goaler Yves Belanger of the Sherbrooke junior club, who has been the most eye-catching of all four Cleveland netminders.QUEBEC: The Nordiques invited 45 amateur players to a rookie training camp directed by Maurice Filion, the team&rsquo;s chief scout. Filion filled in for Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard, the Nordiques&rsquo; new coach who went to Russia for the Team Canada-Russia hockey series. Richard will have approximately 30 pros to work with on his return along with the best of the amateur camp. Brit Selby, the ex-National Leaguer, is the latest big name to sign a team contract. Richard will have four former NHL players on hand including J.C. Tremblay, JeanGuy Gendron, Mike Parizeau and Selby.CHICAGO: Coach Marcel Pronovost will have over 40 players present at the club&rsquo;s Hibbing, Minn., training camp. Pronovost will look at some 36 amateurs before deciding which ones to bring along to the big camp. Rosaire Paiement, who was grabbed from Vancouver Canucks, has reportedly been renegotiating with the NHL club and could be lost to the Cougars before the league opener. The club also has a problem with Bob Kelly, the muscular left winger who signed with both the WHA team and the Philadelphia Flyers. Among the Cougar amateur hopefuls are American college stars Larry Jakinovich from Michigan State and Jeff Rotsch of Wisconsin. The Cougars have a large collection of USHL products seeking berths on the club. They include Ozzie O&rsquo;Neill, Wayne McCuaig, and Steve Ross.LOS ANGELES: The Sharks are taking a long, hard look at three top European players in training camp. Joseph Antone Gale of Yugoslavia has been acclaimed as one of Europe&rsquo;s finest goaltenders. Rudi Hitti, who is also a Yugoslav, is a dazzling skater who plays left wing and Zoltan Horvath, a Czech who came out from behind the Iron Curtain to play for the Budapest team in Hungary, is seeking a spot at center&hellip;the Sharks have four ex-National Leaguers from last year: Gerry Odrowski, Jim Watson, Mike Byers and goaler George Gardner. Manager-coach Terry Slater took 40 players to camp including such minor league pros as Bob Perreault, Russ Gillow, J.P. Leblanc, Joe Szura, Bart Crashley, Ralph MacSweyn, Larry Mavety, Jim Niekamp, Earl Heiskala, Gary Veneruzzo, Tom Gilmore, Bob Jones, Bill Young and Ted McCaskill.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-03113/3214725-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="556" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARCEL PAILLE&hellip;Backup for Parent</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0488/3214718-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="554" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAUL POPIEL&hellip;Jumped NHL Club</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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WHA Confidently Looks To Dual Openers While Court Cases Rage All Around Them

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0025-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01175/3214818-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Blazers&rsquo; center ANDRE LACROIX peers out from behind bars after being locked up for a day and a half as part of a recent promotional stunt for the Southwest National Bank of Trooper, Pa. For every hour Lacroix was confined in the bank vault, which was outfitted with color TV, bed and telephone, bank paid $25 to United Fund. Bank turned over $1,000 to fund.</figcaption></div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;&ldquo;The Shootout&rdquo;&hellip;a big hit or a sure miss?This is what World Hockey Association officials will have to seriously weigh at some time in the future, concerning the new league&rsquo;s experimental attempt at breaking ties. It was to be used during the first week of exhibition games.&ldquo;The Shootout&rdquo; was to go into effect if 60 minutes of regulation distance and 10 minutes of sud-den-death overtime fail to produce a winner.The technique is rather simple: After the 10-minute overtime, rival coaches give the referee a &ldquo;batting order&rdquo; in which his players shoot an open shot at the opposing net. It is typical of the penalty shot which has been seen so infrequently in the National Hockey League in recent years.If the first shooter scores a goal, the other team&rsquo;s leadoff hitter gets a chance to tie the score. If he ties it, the next two shooters gets a chance. Or, if both of the first-round shooters fail to put the puck in the net, the next two shooters get their opportunity. It could go right on down the line until the tie is broken.Without any doubt, every fan in the arena will be on his feet during &ldquo;The Shootout&rdquo;. The outcome of the game rests on the success or failure of one. shot. Therefore, for exciting endings, it can hardly be topped.WHA owners, understanably, are very high on the idea because it is a gate attraction, it is reported. But general managers, coaches and the players don&rsquo;t particularly care for it. They feel it is not proper that the outcome of the game should be decided in such fashion. It&rsquo;s fine for the winner, they say, but grossly unfair for the loser.The pressure on the rival goalies would be tremendous, for sure. The individual shooters would be on the spot, true, but not as much as the goalies who might have to face any number of consecutive one-on-one confrontations.Philadelphia Blazers&rsquo; veteran goaltender Bernie Parent, the first big-name player to jump from the NHL to the WHA, disagrees. He says &ldquo;The Shootout&rdquo; actually may be tougher on the individual shooters.&ldquo;Scoring a goal on a penalty shot isn&rsquo;t as easy as some people seem to think,&rdquo; says Parent. &ldquo;The goaltender has certain advantages that people sometimes overlook.&ldquo;For example, there are no distractions for the goalie. He has no one to screen him on the play. He is able to concentrate completely on the one man who is skating toward him. So it&rsquo;s just as hard for the shooter as it is on the goalie.Parent personally has mixed opinions about &ldquo;The Shootout&rdquo;. Bernie feels it could be demoralizing to a team to play 70 minutes of hockey, then wind up the loser in what actually turns out to be a contest between individuals and not teams.Another thing, Parent feels that the team with the much better goalie&mdash;particularly a guy who has seen a lot of action in pressure games over the years like, say, Jacques Plante&mdash;would have an advantage of sorts over less-experienced netminder.It is obvious, though, that the fans would be getting a special bonus in &ldquo;The Shootout&rdquo;. This itself might be well worth the price of admission, if the outcome is pleasant.Afterwards, fans would leave the rink praising the idea to the high heavens&mdash;if their team won. However, on the other hand, they would leave bemoaning the idea as a complete farce&mdash;if their team lost.At least the WHA is trying to make its games as interesting as possible as it struggles for survival on a highly competitive battleground.&ldquo;The shootout&rdquo; follows much the same battle plan which other &ldquo;outlaw&rdquo; leagues have launched in their attempt to offer a better product than their rivals.After all, the American Football League instituted the concept of a two-point conversion and the American Basketball Association came up with the novel idea of a three-point field goal (for shots from far outside).Tennis also has had its new innovations, breaking precedent against the old establishment. That came via World Championship tennis, which approved colored uniforms in a game where white was the only thing players could wear. At one time.&ldquo;The Shootout&rdquo; has its faults, true. But it also has its merits. And it&rsquo;s certainly a courageous attempt in the right direction. &#9632;

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WHA Owners Favor Shootout But Purent Labels It Unfair

NEW YORK&mdash;The World Hockey Association has come up with a major television contract on the eve of the new league&rsquo;s first year of operation.The WHA signed a multiyear TV pact with Global Sports Enterprises Ltd., for approximately $3 million to televise games on a regular basis starting with the League&rsquo;s opening game Oct. 11.It was the second breakthrough in TV dealing for the new WHA. It was recently announced that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will carry six league games on their national TV network, including the opener Oct. 11 between Ottawa Nationals and Alberta Oilers in Ottawa. &#9632;

WHA Games Set On Global TV

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How World Hotkey Association Teams Are Shaping Up

CINCINNATI&mdash;It&rsquo;s likely the Cincinnati Swords will have a brother act this season.Swords coach Floyd Smith has announced the signing of forwards Frank and Steve Richardson to contracts with the Buffalo Sabres organization with the intention of assigning them to play with the Swords.&ldquo;They both are good-sized kids whom we feel will be an asset to Cincinnati this year,&rdquo; Smith commented from the St. Catharines. Ont., training base of the Swords-Sabres. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re young, skate well and know how to put the puck into the net.&rdquo;The brothers played last year for the University of Calgary where they accumulated almost identical statistics. Frank, who is 6 feet. 180 pounds, scored 43 points on 19 goals and 24 assists. Steve. 6 feet. 190. popped in 18 goals and helped on 24 others for 42 points. &#9632;

Cincinnati To Have Brother Act

<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 CanadaPROVIDENCE&mdash;The over-abundance of topflight young talent on the Reds has rookie coach Larry Popein bubbling with enthusiasm.Popein, noting that two-thirds of this year&rsquo;s squad falls between the 2022 age bracket, expects to ice &ldquo;one of the fastest-skating, strongest checking teams in the league,&rdquo; and one that will &ldquo;pack the fans into the new Providence Civic Center game in and game out.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01182/3214911-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="279" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gaye Cooley</figcaption></div>With that in mind. Popein is concentrating on grooming a leader for his kiddie korps, and one of his top candidates is versatile defenseman Larry Sacharuk from Saskatoon, the Rangers&rsquo; third selection at the June draft meeting and the 21st pick overall.The only drawback to Popein&rsquo;s plans is getting the youngster into a Providence uniform. Rangers have decided to hold Sacharuk in their camp as insurance following Jim Neilson&rsquo;s broken ankle which will keep the veteran New York defenseman out of the lineup from four to six weeks.Though only recently turned 20, Sacharuk possesses a wealth of leadership qualities, acquired primarily during the final year of his WCHL apprenticeship with Saskatoon.Overshadowed during the early stages of last season by teammates Pat Price, Ralph Klassen and Russ Walker, Larry shook the Blades out of their early-season doldrums and carried them to a solid second-place finish behind Regina in the league&rsquo;s eastern division.&ldquo;Larry&rsquo;s got all the tools,&rdquo; insisted Blades&rsquo; manager-coach Jack McLeod at the draft sessions, &ldquo;and he&rsquo;s probably one of the best defensemen to come out of this league in the past 10 years.&rdquo;Larry spent a limited amount of time as a forward last year, and was called upon by his coach to take all-important faceoffs at either end of the rink.Ever-mindful of his defensive duties, Larry is not afraid to carry or shoot the puck&mdash;his 50 goals and 36 assists last year, a team high, attest to that.Sacharuk, boasting a 6&rsquo;, 200-pound frame and reputation as one of the hardest checkers in the league, extended his value to the Blades by garnering only 57 penalty minutes all season, despite his tremendous amount of ice time.Impressive from the opening day of training camp, Larry made firm believers of Popein and Ranger boss Emile Francis, along with a number of coaches and bird dogs from other clubs.&ldquo;He seems to have made the adjustment from the amateurs to the pros quite easily,&rdquo; remarked Francis,&rdquo; and he owns one of the hardest shots I&rsquo;ve ever seen.&rdquo;Local fans can get a glimpse of the new Reds in the team&rsquo;s windup exhibition game against Boston at Brown University&rsquo;s Meehan Auditorium on Wednesday, Oct. 4, its final Rhode Island appearance until the Reds return home from their brutal opening nine-game road trip to host Virginia on Friday, Nov 3.Among the new Reds just assigned by the Rangers were first-year pros Andre Peloffy, Dave Hrechkosy, Marty Gateman, Guy Provost, Rene Villemure, Bob Lepage, Bob Thomson, Gerry Teeple, Doug Horbul and Doug Keeler. Other Reds sent down were Wayne Wood and Rick Charron, goalers, Gerry Lecompte, Claude Houde, Fraser Robertson, Bill Heindl. Ron Stewart, Gary Coalter, Gerry Butler, Billy Knibbs, Bert Wilson and Ron Garwasiuk.BOSTON:&mdash;Center Chris Oddliefson was a standout in pre-season, and promises to be a welcome addition to the Braves&hellip;Defenseman Wayne Morusyk, up from Oke City, suffered a badly-bruised shoulder in a board encounter during a wild 4-4 exhibition tie with the Virginia Wings&hellip;Doug Roberts appears to have gained one of the two vacant right wing berths on the varsity, leaving Terry O&rsquo;Reilly and Fred O&rsquo;Donnell to battle it out for the one remaining opening&hellip;O&rsquo;Reilly looked particularly sharp in pre-season play&hellip;Newcomer Kerry Bond was by far the most impressive Brave in exhibition games&hellip;Gaye Cooley, up from Charlotte of the Eastern League, thrust himself into the goaltending picture by making a strong bid for a job with the Braves. Cooley recorded a dozen shutouts last year&hellip;Cooley will have to battle holdover veteran Ross Brooks and rookie Curt Ridley up from Oke City for the No. 1 netminding job. Both Brooks and Ridley were with the Bruins bidding for the backup job to Ed Johnston, but it appears both have lost out to John Adams, who shared the goaling chores with Ridley last year in the CHL. Ridley is a product of Western Canada Junior hockey ranks and is considered a fine future prospect.SPRINGFIELD:&mdash;As expected, ticket demands for the Kings&rsquo; first few home games, featuring Baltimore, Boston and Nova Scotia, have been overwhelming&hellip;The Kings kick off the season Wednesday, Oct. 4 at New Haven, then return home on Friday the 6th to inaugurate the spacious new Civic Center and an eight-game home stand opening against Baltimore&hellip;Following the Clippers into town are Cleveland, Boston. Nova Scotia. Richmond, New Haven. Rochester and Hershey&hellip;The Kings then hit the road for four games in five nights beginning Nov. 4 at Cincinnati and continuing through Cleveland, Baltimore and Virginia&hellip;Coach Jerry Toppazzini has been impressed with the play of defenseman Mike Keeler, obtained early last year from Cincinnati, and left winger Ron Dussiaume, drafted from the Chicago organization.NEW HAVEN:&mdash;The Nighthawks&rsquo; charity exhibition game here against the North Stars on Sept. 27 was well-received, and is expected to become an annual affair&hellip;The new Veterans&rsquo; Memorial Coliseum is most attractive and is already being touted as the classiest rink in the circuit by many, except those in Springfield and Providence who are justifiably plugging their own new structures&hellip;After hosting ! the Kings and Clippers, the. Nighthawks swing into the I southlands for visits to Richmond and Virginia. A brief stop at Hershey precedes the Hawks&rsquo; return home engagement vs the Boston Braves on Wednesday, Oct. 18&hellip;Then it&rsquo;s back on the trail again to Halifax and Cleveland&hellip;Manager-coach Parker MacDonald is cautiously optimistic, but concedes that a bad start could be fatal to his skaters. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s essential that we start off on the right foot, and it&rsquo;s not going to be easy with that schedule we&rsquo;ve got.&rdquo; admitted Parker. &ldquo;One reason the Boston club did so well last year was because it got off to such a fantastic start.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02134/3214904-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="1186" height="1477"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rookie netminder CURT RIDLEY is very much in the running for the No. 1 goaling job with Boston&rsquo;s Braves. Ridley attended the Bruins&rsquo; training camp.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Popein High On Reds’ ‘Kiddie Korps’

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>HALIFAX&mdash;Three of first eight picks and four of first 14 in June&rsquo;s amateur draft probably will he playing with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs before the season is a month old.Steve Shutt (63 goals and 49 assists in 58 games with Toronto Marlboros) was Montreal&rsquo;s first selection in the draft and fourth player to be selected. Bunny Larocque (3.45 goals-against average in 54 games for Ottawa Juniors) was sixth player chosen in draft; Dave Gardner (53 goals and 76 assists in 57 games for Marlies) was eighth, and defenseman John Van Boxmeer (Guelph Juniors) was No. 14. All but Shutt will end up with the Vees.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01165/3214973-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="270" height="354"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jerry Byers</figcaption></div>Other new faces will come from among defensemen Richard Wilson. a 1970 draft choice who played for North Dakota University last season, and Gregg Hubik. a collegian from Duluth, Minn., and forwards Gary Ford. International League scoring champion with 36 goals, 73 assists for Muskegon. Larry Fullan from Cornell University, Eddie Gilbert, who scored 33 goals for Hamilton Juniors. Mickey Oja with Kansas City of Central League and Peter Sullivan, who was out of hockey last year.CLEVELAND: Jerry Byers, who notched 41 goals and 60 assists for Kitchener Juniors was Minnesota&rsquo;s, top draft pick and 12th player taken overall in June. He&rsquo;s likely be with the Barons.Others youngsters in the running are American-born defenseman Chris Ahrens, also of Kitchener and forwards Steve West. 30 goals. 43 assists for Oshawa. Stu Irving of U.S. Olympic team. Juri Kudrosov, another Kitchener player and Scott MacPhail. who had 25 goals for Montreal Junior Canadiens.CINCINNATI: A lot of new faces with Swords are liable to be collegians. Goaltender Tim Regan of Boston University is given a chance, as are forwards Jack Surbey. Loyola University, and brothers Frank and Steven Richardson, and defensemen John Kinsman, all from University of Calgary, and Ed Zuccato of York University. Other newcomers who may make grade include defenseman Don Brennan of Charlotte of Eastern League and forward Bob Richer, who had 44 goals, 31 assists for Charlotte.And coach Floyd Smith may get defenseman Larry Carriere. Buffalo&rsquo;s second draft choice. He&rsquo;s another collegian&mdash;from Lcvola University in Montreal.ROCHESTER: Retirement of veteran defenseman Bob Blackburn just before opening of training camp hurt, but managercoach Don Cherry&rsquo;s visits to National League training camps paid off with purchase of two players and loan of nine others from New York Rangers and loan of seven from Boston Bruins.Purchased were 26-year-old forwards Larry McKillop and Bob (Battleship) Kelly. McKillop. never much of a scorer, spent four full seasons in AHL with Quebec and Hershey before going to Omaha of Central League last season. Kelly, who holds International League record for penalty minutes in a game with 42, was with Providence in AHL in 1969-70 and for a while in &lsquo;70-71, but didn&rsquo;t see a lot of action.Among players loaned by Bruins was Barry Merrell, who played all last season with AHL Eastern Division champion Boston Braves. He saw mostly spot duty and had 4 goals and 7 assists in 69 games. Guy Burrowes, who asked to come to Amerk camp after being cut from Atlanta Flames&rsquo; squad, impressed Cherry so much he signed him to a contract after only four days of practice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-02127/3214966-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="556" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY CARRIERE&hellip;Eyed By Swords</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Voyageurs Awaiting Top NHL Draft Picks; Cincinnati Swords Loaded With Collegians

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0028-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0370/3215042-1-eng-US/f0028-032.jpg"></div>If your son skates on to the ice wearing CCM equipment, he&rsquo;s carrying the ideas and concern of our Athletic Advisory Board.All of our equipment has been thoroughly examined by each player to meet his standards. But more importantly, we asked them to think that each piece of CCM equipment would be worn by a son of his own. So if they&rsquo;re considering things like that, your son will be well looked after with CCM.With these players on his side, your boy will have a lot going for him. And so will you.Bobby Hull.Frank Mahovlich Darryl Sittier.Paul Henderson.Dale Tallon.Marcel Dionne.Gary Smith.The CCM Athletic Advisory Board.We use more than their names.We use their ideas. &#9632;

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HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE THESE SEVEN PLAYERS WATCHING OUT FOR YOUR SON?

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>BALTIMORE&mdash;Coach Terry Reardon, who is training his Clippers at Hershey, had only one goalie, Ken Lockett, in camp for the first week. Lockett, a 25-year-old Toronto native, was at camp last year with the Clippers and it&rsquo;s expected he will turn pro. Reardon disclosed he has been trying to secure right winger Bob Cook from the Detroit organization.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01156/3215011-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="280" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Rivard</figcaption></div>With only 17 skaters on hand, Reardon said he&rsquo;s &ldquo;looking everywhere for help right now, but everyone is hanging tight.&rdquo; Reardon is in quest of more experienced skaters.Returning from last year&rsquo;s Clader Cup finalists will be forwards Jim Bartlett, Bob Rivard, Brian Murphy and Red Armstrong and defenseman Wally Chevrier. The first three have already signed their contracts for the coming season as has Gary Swain, a center who played with the Clippers in the 1969-70 campaign.Other experienced pros invited to the Clipper camp are defensemen Mike Mahoney, with Hershey for the past ten years, Pete Ford, another veteran who spent last winter with Columbus of the IHL, and Tony Goegan, a member of the Clippers&rsquo; Western Division titleholders of two years ago.Nine amateurs complete the current roster headed by defenseman Blaine Rydman, the 6 foot 2, 200 pounder and &ldquo;bad boy&rdquo; of the Eastern League last winter with 333 penalty minutes while performing for Charlotte&rsquo;s Champion Checkers and New Haven.Veteran Marc Dufour, a high-scoring right winger for the Clippers, returned to the Baltimore club after &ldquo;jumping&rdquo; to the New York Raiders of the newly-formed World Hockey Association.HERSHEY&mdash;With exhibition games coming up before the season starts, coach Frank Mathers said he expected the parent Pittsburgh Penguins to ship in about a dozen or so players by the second week of camp. Hersehy only had a half-dozen players in camp the first week. They included goalie Bob Lecoco, who played for Niagara Falls juniors, a few years ago. Defenseman Ralph Keller was the lone blueliner on hand, while the forwards were Ted Snell, Gil Gilbert, Hugh Harvey and Hank Nowak, the latter drafted from Richmond.Mathers and President Lloyd Blinco returned from the Pens&rsquo; training camp highly impressed with the crop of rookies many of whom will be assigned to the Bears&rsquo; roster. These men were acquired by Pittsburgh in the amateur draft and signed multiyear contracts on June 22nd.Defenseman Jack Lynch, who comes from Oshawa of the Ontario Hockey Association, was the second defenseman picked in the draft from the OHA. Another second round pick, Bernie Lukowich, a right winger, is from New Westminster of the Western Canada Hockey League. Two years ago he played on the same line with current star Greg Polis in Estevan.Pittsburgh&rsquo;s third round draft choice was goalie Denis Herron of Three Rivers of the Quebec Hockey League. Center Ron Lalonde was one of the spark plugs for the Peterborough team that won the OHA playoff championship. Lalonde scored 26 goals and 37 assists for 63 points in 58 games. He was captain of the Petes and one of the outstanding players in the Memorial Cup playoffs. Forward Brian Walker was with Calgary of the WCHL and the second highest scorer for the league-leading Calgary team; finished with 40 goals and 35 assists for 75 points in 64 games.Nothing would please Mathers more than to have any or all of these fine young kids in uniform with Hershey this season.RICHMOND&mdash;The play of defenseman Don McCulloch at the Robins&rsquo; camp in Ottawa has been impressive. He was drafted on the fifth round in the 1971 amateur lottery. Last year he played in 61 games for the Robins. The 6-2, 190-pound blueliner scored five goals and assisted on 18. There are some of an opinion that even though McCulloch opens the season with Richmond he may find himself recalled by the parent Philadelphie Flyers before season&rsquo;s end. He has poise and is rated as a fine puck carrier<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0298/3215004-1-eng-US/f0028-022.jpg" title="f0028-02" width="554" height="619"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARC DUFOUR&hellip;Bolted WHA</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Reardon Hunts Seasoned Skaters To Stock Cliooers

OAKLAND&mdash;The California Golden Seals were one of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s hardest-hit teams after defections to the World Hockey Association and the expansion teams had finished tapping their resources.When the Seals opened the 1972 exhibition grind by losing their first four starts the experts who picked the Californians for the West Division cellar had a field day. We told you so, they said.Well in the Seals&rsquo; next three starts the experts were sent running for cover and rightly so. The Golden Ones had finally found their skating legs, improved their shooting eyes and were able to put it all together in a somewhat impressive manner.The Seals snapped back from their 0-4 start to dump the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2, tie the Buffalo Sabres 3-3 and go on to pound the new Atlanta Flames 75 for a three-game unbeaten run as the club completed the &lsquo;NHL end of its schedule and headed for the West Coast to wrap up the preseason schedule with outings against Phoenix and Salt Lake City, two entries in the Western Hockey League.If the Seals follow form, they should finish up with a 4-4-1 log and that will be all right with general-manager and coach Garry Young. The new Seals&rsquo; mentor has taken full advantage of the exhibition season to test his young skaters under fire and he isn&rsquo;t the least disappointed with the results.One newcomer who should find his way onto the Seals&rsquo; roster this season after two frustrating years of trying is rugged Pete Laframboise, who has been finding the range in the pre-season games.Laframboise checked in with a pair of goals as the Seals crushed the Atlanta Flames. It was the kind of performance that assured the rookie left winger of a chance to make the NHL club at left wing, a sore spot with the club after the raiding WHA got through picking off the club&rsquo;s portsiders.Laframboise. who has always been a prolific scorer in the minors but never able to turn it on in the big time, has finally arrived and appears certain to be in the California starting lineup for the NHL opener.Young has also been heartened by the goal-scoring exploits of Ivan Boldirev, who clicked for a pair of goals in the same game against Atlanta. The Seals have managed 21 goals in seven exhibition starts, which is comparable with most of the other NHL clubs.The Seals are showing that they put the puck in the net&mdash;all they&rsquo;ll have to do is to concentrate on keeping the other team off the scoresheet to become a contender in the early NHL going.With an outstanding young goaler like Gilles Meloche. the Seals might be able to do it as&rsquo; long as fellows like Boldirev and Laframboise can continue to provide the firepower.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01124/3215073-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="514" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body">PETE LAFRAMBOISE&hellip;Ready For Big Time</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rookie Laframboise Hit In Camp Attion

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0368/3215104-1-eng-US/f0029-032.jpg" title="f0029-03" width="603" height="1170"></div> &#9632;

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HOCKEY’S ALL-TIME GOAL SCORING LEADERS

<div class="byline">BY JOHN ARNOLD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0299/3215135-1-eng-US/f0029-022.jpg" title="f0029-02" width="794" height="1066"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN OCTOBER 20 ISSUE</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Pictured player.3&mdash;Native country of Larry Pleau.6&mdash;Each, (ahbr.)7&mdash;A minor league defenseman.8&mdash;Gary Smith was born here.11&mdash;A former Ranger defenseman. (init.)12&mdash;A Vancouver left winger.13&mdash;NHL teams travel this way.14&mdash;Initials of one of the Flames15&mdash;Nickname of one of the Hawks.17&mdash;That is.18&mdash;Former Hawk Fogolin answers to this.20&mdash;Beverage.21&mdash;Scored 23 goals for Philly last season.24&mdash;One&rsquo; of the Red Wings, (init.)25&mdash;18th and 21st letters of the alphabet.26&mdash;Most goaltenders wear this number.29&mdash;First name of 4 down.31&mdash;A San Diego veteran.33&mdash;One of the Hawks answers to this.34&mdash;Initials of one of the North Stars.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;An NHL coach.2&mdash;A member of Team Canada.3&mdash;21st and 15th letters of the alphabet.4&mdash;Finished 4th in the Bruins scoring last season.5&mdash;Initials of a WHL coach.7&mdash;Former NHLer Gardner answers to this.9&mdash;McDonald.10&mdash;Initials of former NHL linesman Atanas.15&mdash;Drafted by Atlanta.16&mdash;Golf ball stand.19&mdash;15 down used to play for this team.22&mdash;NHL&rsquo;s top scorer in 1969-70.23&mdash;Preposition.27&mdash;No. (fr.).28&mdash;Number worn by Lafleur of Montreal.29&mdash;Initials of one of the Habs.30&mdash;A Boston forward in AHL.32&mdash;Initials of a firmer Hawk.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>Across</h3>1&mdash;SCHOCK.7&mdash;K.D.8&mdash;CONNELLY10&mdash;HA11&mdash;E.N.12&mdash;ELM13&mdash;ICE.15&mdash;TIME.16&mdash;NHL.18&mdash;UKE.19&mdash;LES.21&mdash;T.W.22&mdash;J.V.23&mdash;SMITH.26&mdash;HOE27&mdash;TALBOT.29&mdash;H.R30&mdash;MOHNS.<h3>Down</h3>1&mdash;SCHINKEL2&mdash;COACH3&mdash;H.N.4&mdash;ONE.5&mdash;CENT.6&mdash;K.L7&mdash;KYLE.9&mdash;LEMIEUX.14&mdash;ELLIS.17&mdash;CHEEVERS.20&mdash;EHMAN.21&mdash;THOM.22&mdash;JOHN.23&mdash;ST.24&mdash;I.L.25&mdash;T.B.28&mdash;TO. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaPORTLAND&mdash;The Portland Buckaroos had the smallest turnover of any club in the Western Hockey League.Fourteen holdovers from last year&rsquo;s club reported to training camp at Spokane. Wash. Ten had signed their 1972-73 contracts.The offense should be as explosive as ever&mdash;and that means records could be set. Toughness, so important in hockey doesn&rsquo;t appear to be a problem. Defense definitely could be one.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01148/3215173-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg" title="f0030-01" width="266" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gord Fashoway</figcaption></div>And that&rsquo;s the capsule outlook for the Buckaroos as they prepare for their 13th season in the WHL.This is a hockey era. obviously, of uncertainty, with courtrooms becoming almost as important as a solid power play. But the Buckaroos. who in the last 12 years have won more games than any other professional team in the world, appear to have the solid foundation of a title contender.This will be Gordon Fashowav&rsquo;s fourth season as Buckaroo coach and he can look back on a record of 128 victories. 71 defeats and 17 ties&mdash;best of any single coach in WHL history.When he took over the Bucks. Fashoway promised a wide-open game and a rugged brand of play. These promises he has kept.The Bucks led the league in goals last season with 301. They scored 306 in 1970-71 and 322 in 1969-70.No other team in Western League history ever has scored 300 or more goals for three consecutive seasons. The total is 929 goals in 214 games for an average of 4.3 a game. Even 4.0 net minding makes you a winner.Returning to the Buckaroos are 234 of those 301 goals.Toughness?The Buckaroos. in the last three seasons, have drawn 3.236 minutes in penalties&mdash;an average of 1,079 a campaign. That&rsquo;s an all-time record pace.The three most-penalized players of last season all are returning&mdash;John Van Horlick with 184 minutes. Connie-Madigan with 170 and Mike Donaldson with 114.It&rsquo;s doubtful that the Buckaroos will be pushed around.Defense?The Buckaroos last season gave up 271 goals&mdash;highest total in history for a Portland hockey club and the second-highest total in the league.In fact, the Bucks have given up 722 goals in the last three seasons. In the three previous campaigns they yielded 478.The defense&mdash;and that includes the forwards&mdash;needs some tightening. And it won&rsquo;t be easy with All Star contender Jimmy McLeod, who jumped to the WHA.Among amateurs trying out for a spot with the Buckapoos were. two players from last season&rsquo;s amateur program in Portland.They are goaltender Mike Schmitz, voted the outstanding young amateur net minder in the U.S. last year, and defenseman Jack Stewart, who played last season with the Portland Royals and is a former football player at St. Martin&rsquo;s in Olympia, Wash.Some of the others being given a pro tryout by the Buckaroos include: defenseman Gary Davidson, 6-1. 180-pound nephew of former Buckaroo great Bill Davidson: Garry Gilbert, who piled up 213 penalty minutes for Flint in the International Hockey League last season: center Louis Frigon who played with Muskegon in the IHL before being sidelined with a broken leg and Brian Dickie, who played senior hockey in Calgary and was in the Bucks&rsquo; camp two years ago.The holes the Buckaroos have to fill are left by defenseman Barry Long. McLeod and left winger Mel Pearson.Long, who set a couple of scoring records for defensemen in his rookie season, was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings. McLeod and Pearson have jumped to the World Hockey Association.The Buckaroos still have Dave Kelly in goal. Their defense looks solid with the return of Madigan. Donaldson. John Barber and Van Horlick.Art Jones. Guyle Fielder and Bob Jones give the Bucks the important strength up the middle.Ken Campbell. Bill Saunders and Dick Van Impe are solid at left wing and of the right side&rsquo; there&rsquo;s Andy Hebenton. Larry Leach and Cliff Schmautz.Hebenton will be 43 this season but still has to show signs of slowing down. He scored 30 goals list season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-02101/3215166-1-eng-US/f0030-022.jpg" title="f0030-02" width="572" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE KELLY Could Be No. 1&hellip;</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bucks’ Firepower Still Intact, Portland Gets Ice Hopes Up

SEATTLE&mdash;This is the first season the Seattle Totems have trained with a National Hockey League team.They shared quarters with the parent Vancouver Canucks at Calgary. Alberta, with 55 players reporting to the two-team camp.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been working their tails off.&rdquo; says Totem coach Phil Maloney. &ldquo;This club of ours is going to be young and big and 1 think that&rsquo;s good. They are hustlers and nobody is going to beat them on skating or conditioning.&rdquo;The camp was split into two groups with Maloney taking one and Canucks&rsquo; coach Vic Stasiuk the other.Several of the Canucks&rsquo; first year men are expected to be with the Totems this season and there is a good selection. Of the 55 players reporting to camp. 20 are amateurs and include all nine of the Vancouver draft choices, which the Canucks claim to be their best draft ever.Not only are Maloney and Stasiuk sharing on-ice duties but they roomed together and co-ordinated their coaching systems.&ldquo;Vic and I are going to be teaching exactly the same system of play.&rdquo; said Maloney, &ldquo;so that it will be uniform throughout the organization. That way. if somebody gets called up or sent down during the year, he&rsquo;ll fit right in without any problems.To help keep the Seattle press informed of the doings at the Calgary camp, the Totems set up a &ldquo;Hockey Hotline.&rdquo;Totems&rsquo; broadcaster Joe Daggett filed daily reports, starting the second week of training camp. Writers and broadcasters were invited to tape the 2&frac12; minute reports and employ them any way they wished.Included were capsule interviews with the Totems&rsquo; rookie coach. Maloney, and the players. &#9632;

Maloney Expecting Totems To Be Young But Big Team

SAN DIEGO&mdash;The first two arrivals from the Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; training camp turned out to be a couple of old San Diego hands&mdash;Tom Trevelyan and George Swarbrick.Last season Swarbrick played a total of 53 games for San Diego and scored 44 points with 25 goals and 19 assists. Hampered last season with injuries. a healthy Swarbrick will be a welcome addition to the Gulls forward line.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0469/3215273-1-eng-US/f0031-042.jpg" title="f0031-04" width="262" height="394"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Swarbrick</figcaption></div>Trevelyan. 23. spent most of the 1971-72 season with the Seattle Totems. The young center played in 59 games last year. 12 of those with San Diego before his move to Seattle. Tom scored 13 goals and totaled 16 assists for the season.The duo joins three other well-known pros who have signed contracts with the Gulls. The latest is Jim Schraefel. The others are defenseman Al Lebrun and newly-acquired right winger Howie Hughes.Schraefel. a 24-year-old center, is a veteran of two years in professional hockey. He began his career with the Gulls in 1970-71. List year he spent most of the season with Ft. Worth of the Central League. Jim is an excellant penalty killer and will provide needed depth for San Diego in that department.The signings brought to 11 the number of players under contract for the 1972-73 season. Included are goalie Ken Broderick, center Gerry Goyer and wings Bob Courcy. Len Ronson. Willie 0&mdash;Ree. Bruce Cowick and Bob McKinstry. LeBrun and John Miszuk make up the defensemen under contract for next season.LeBrun. 31, is entering his fourth full year with the Gulls. Playing in every game last season, Al had 19 points with two goals and 17 assists. His 67 minutes spent in the penalty box was a personal career high for the hard-hitting defenseman.&ldquo;Al is not a colorful player that stands out,&rdquo; commented coach Jack Evans. &ldquo;But he always plays a consistent game.&rdquo;&ldquo;He is tough in the corners and can overpower any man in the league in the corners,&rdquo; said Evans.One of the strongest men in hockey. Al began his pro career with the Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers of the Eastern Professional Hockey League in 1961. Since that time he has made stops in New York with the Rangers. St. Paul. Minneapolis. Vancouver. Pittsburgh. Los Angeles. Dallas. Memphis and San Diego. Al joined the Gulls for part of the 1968-69 season and joined the club to stay in 1969.Hughes, a 33-year-old veteran who can play left wing along with his regular right wing position is one of the top penalty killers in the WHL. He was chosen from the Los Angeles Kings in the June reverse draft. Last season. Howie saw action with the Seattle Totems and scored 46 points with 17 goals and 29 assists. The totals placed him second on the Totems in overall scoring.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m pleased that Howie is coming with the Gulls because I have admired his style of play, stated Coach Evans.&ldquo;He wants to play hockey, continued Jack.&rdquo;He is a good checker and scorer and a successful penalty killer which is an asset to any team.&rdquo;A veteran at eight seasons in the WHL. Howie also spent over two seasons with the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League.Meanwhile, everything is in readiness for the pre-season game against the Los Angeles Kings. The game will be played in the Sports Arena on Thursday October 5. The contest will be the first time an NHL team has played in San Diego and the first time the Gulls have played a club from the National Hockey League.The game with the Kings marks the first 7:30 start in San Diego history. Weekday games for 1972-73 will begin at 7:30. Friday and Saturday faceoffs are set for 8:00 and Sunday will have the usual 7:00 starting time&hellip;Los Angeles is now training in Victoria, B.C. and reports are good on former Gull goalie Gary Edwards. A favorite of local fans, Gary had a perfect record in his brief stay with the Gulls (6-0-1) and is scheduled to start in the nets in the Oct. 5 game here.San Diegan Bob McKinstry recently inked a contract with the Gulls and is participating in his first professional training camp. On the other hand, wing Al Nicholson takes the seniority position away from coach Jack Evans. Nick is at his 18th training camp. If Evans were playing this season, he would be starting his 25th. &#9632;

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Trevelyan, Swarbrick First Arrivals In San Diego Camp From NHL Flyers

<div class="byline">BY TOM LOBAUGH</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaDALLAS&mdash;The Dallas Black Hawks, defending kings of the Central Hockey League, added size and experience to their blueline corps, before they ever opened their own training camp at Guelph. Ont. Dallas hopes were further bolstered with the prospects of adding strength in the goalkeeping department.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01135/3215311-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg" title="f0032-01" width="248" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Russell</figcaption></div>Randy Murray, 27-year-old defenseman who spent four seasons with Tulsa in the CHL, was picked up by the parent Black Hawks as a free agent. Then Chicago acquired Johnny Garrett, who had a standout season as a rookie goalie for Kansas City last winter.The 6-1, 195-pound Murray was whiting for coach Bobby Kromm when the Dallas hopefuls completed their workouts in Chicago and reported to Guelph.Murray had a key role in Tulsa, and was Oiler captain in 1970-71. He became disenchanted when Toronto assigned him to Phoenix in the Western League last fall, and went home to Canada.Garrett, at the age of 20, broke into the pro ranks last season after graduating from the junior Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey Association. He had a 3.55 goals-against average for the cellar Kansas city crew, but posted three shuouts, tying for the league lead with Dallas&rsquo; Michel Dumas.Dumas, who had the best average (3.08) among the regular CHL goalies last season, has been counted on to guard the Dallas cage again. Until Garrett was acquired, it seemed the No. 2 goalie job at Dallas would go to Mike Veisor, the Black Hawks&rsquo; No. 3 amateur draft choice last June (another Peterborough product).The acquisition of Murray came after it was learned that John Marks, of last year&rsquo;s Dallas defense, would probably stick with the parent club. That appeared to leave Kromm with only four capable blueliners&mdash;Roger Wilson, Len Frig and Mike Baumgartner from last year&rsquo;s champs, and Phil Russell, the Hawks&rsquo; No. 1 draft choice from the Edmonton Oil Kings.Garrett came from St. Louis to complete the Danny O&rsquo;Shea-Chris Bordeleau trade of last February. It had appeared the trade would be nullified, when Chris jumped to the World Hockey Association.Up front the Dallas picture still had a few question marks, as the Hawks set up camp in Guelph. At center Kromm was counting on Dan Spring from last year&rsquo;s club: veteran Bill Orban, acquired from the LA Kings in the off-season; and draftees Brian Ogilvie and Terry Smith, both from Edmonton.On the wings the CHL Hawks appeared to have Don Gordon and Dave Kryskow from last season&rsquo;s club; Bill Pettinger from Flint in the International League; Bob Peppier from Syracuse and Clyde Simon from Greensboro in the Eastern League; and Tom Peluso, draftee from Denver University.TULSA: New Oiler coach Gerry Moore opened his exhibition season with untried rookies, while all of the players with CHL experience were still on the squad of the parent Toronto Maple Leafs.&lsquo;There were two surprise additions to the rookie crop. Ed Philpott, a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman stationed at the Toronto airport, got a six-day leave and tried out for a center job. Ernie Hines, a big left winger from Newfoundland, was another walk-on who impressed in the early workouts.Hines was recruited by defenseman Joe Lundrigan. who became the first &ldquo;Newfie&rdquo; to play for Tulsa last season. Joe. who might move up to the parent Leafs, missed his chance to play in Toronto&rsquo;s early exhibition games, when he suffered a badly-sprained wrist.With returnees Ron Low and Gordie McRae tending the Toronto nets, the Oilers had Grant Cole and Bill Holden guarding their cage. Cole played senior amateur hockey for the Orillia Terriers last year, while Holden was at York University. One Oiler goalkeeping job appears to be open, since either Low or McRae will probably be kept at Toronto.FORT WORTH: While the Wings were to be the last of the CHL squads assembled, they were also planning to be the first to practice on home ice. General manager Bob Lemieux has announced a workout at Will Rogers Coliseum, Oct. 9, open to the public.Since their squad was drawn from both the Detroit and St. Louis training camps, the Fort Worth candidates didn&rsquo;t get together at Port Huron. Mich., until the second week of fall training.Coach Johnny Choyce visited the Blues&rsquo; rookie camp in St. Louis, and was impressed with wingers Dave Roberts and Dave Johnson and defenseman Larry Giroux. Roberts, from Michigan State, is the brother of former Fort Worth player Doug Roberts, now with the Boston Braves of the American League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0288/3215304-1-eng-US/f0032-022.jpg" title="f0032-02" width="568" height="626"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN GARRETT&hellip;Strength In Goal</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Dallas Might Showing Again As Hawks Turn Over Ton Kids

<div class="byline">BY BILL PHELAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;Picking the final winners of the 1971-72 Eastern Hockey League season is even more fraught with peril than usual. With seven teams working with the World Hockey Association and five with the National Hockey League, training camp cuts will have much to say about the final standings.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01129/3215349-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="256" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Miller</figcaption></div>Nonetheless, here goes with a plunge into the EHL, 1972-73 version.Roanoke Valley Rebels have fallen into a good working agreement with the Philadelphia Blazers. The Blazer camp right in Roanoke has over 50 players not counting professionals who will join Philadelphia after October 1. It says here that some of the 1971-72 Rebels won&rsquo;t even make the team. Already cut by the Blazers were Ken Miller. Bobby Guindon and Don Rozich. New coach Gregg Pilling, last year the Sun Coast Suns&rsquo; MVP. is happy as a lark with the thought of picking from the surplus. Pilling indicated he wants a team that can hit and he doesn&rsquo;t &ldquo;mean check baggage.&rdquo; Steve Davies, a 5-7. 150-pounder may be the Rebels goalie or he may make it with the Blazers. He has impressed prior to getting in an EHL All Stars-Philadelphia Blazers rookie pre-season game. Roanoke to lead the Southern Division.GREENSBORO: Picking against the Generals is always dangerous. Don Carter has been in the Los Angeles Sharks&rsquo; camp and also has toured Canada looking for players. Don Burgess doesn&rsquo;t figure to be back having signed a no-cut WHA contract with the Blazers. But don&rsquo;t count the Generals out. They 11 finish second in the South. Norman Curtis is working on it and will come up with the bodies needed.CHARLOTTE: Al Manch and Paul Buck represented the Checkers at the EHL meetings in Cape Cod Sept 20-21. They are hoping to get 28-year-old Mike Rouleau back from the Blazers, but Rouleau has done well so far. He led a group ol Southern Division EHL All Stars to a (&gt;2 win over the Blazer rookies in a preseason game. Erank Golembrosky is also working out with the Blazers. The greatness of last season&rsquo;s Checkers was emphasized by the work of their goalie. Gaye Cooley who has done well in the Boston Bruins training camp. The Checkers for third in the South.SUN COAST: Picking against the Suns and hard-working GM Walter Brock is also dangerous. Brock has the old man of the EHL. Cliff Pennington fired up and ready to go. If Pennington hadn&rsquo;t gotten hurt in the playoffs last season Sun Coast might have upended Charlotte. Coach Lloyd Hinchberger commented, &ldquo;I like to be an underdog. Gives the guys something to work on.&rdquo; The Suns for fourth place.SYRACUSE: With GM Bill Charles and coach Ron Ingram working in tandem the Blazers have to be the pick again to win the North. High-scoring Ray Adduono is getting a chance with the Cleveland Crusaders and Charles has his fingers crossed about Ray&rsquo;s return. The Blazers have signed contracts with goalie Pierre Sigman, forwards Mike Morton, Paul Larose, and Rick Molinaro and defenseman Billy Orr. Charles is also hopeful of retaining the veteran basher Blake Ball, a hitter par excellence. Blazers&rsquo; captain Brian Elwell, 29, has retired due to a bad knee.NEW ENGLAND: Picking the Blades for second in the North is dangerous but it is based on the hope that the former New Haven six can get help from the New England Whalers of the WHA. The Whalers are loaded with extra defensemen and conceivably a couple of them could wind up with New England.CLINTON: Ed Stanley and Pat Kelly are starting over without the aid of the Minnesota North Stars. Kelly has made arrangements to secure some players from the Philadelphia Blazers and will probably work with the Ottawa Nationals of the WHA. The Comets should finish third in the Northern Division.JOHNSTOWN: Dick Roberge is back with Tommie McVie as the Jets&rsquo; new player coach. Roberge, the all time scorer in EHL history, can still do the job at 38. I&rsquo;he Jets expect some good young players from the St. Louis Blues but will have to settle for fourth in the North.NEW JERSEY: The Devils will have to fight the Blazers for fans in the Philadelphia area, but they expect help from the Philadelphia Flyers in this respect and should top the Central Division. And the WHA N.Y. Raiders are trying out Claude Chartre, goalie Pete Donnelly, center Jamie Kennedy and hardhitting Ted Scharf. If these boys don&rsquo;t make the big club they will be offered back to the Devils.LONG ISLAND: Ed Stan kiewicz&rsquo;s club should benefit from the extra bodies available to them from the N.Y. Raiders with whom they are working. Al Baron is playing three pre-season games at the Long Island Arena on October 6-7-8 and expects bumper crowds. The Ducks for second place in the Central Division.CAPE COD: The Cubs, a Central Division third spot pick, proudly showed off the new Cape Cod Coliseum on Sept. 21. GM Jack Crawford, coach Bronco Horvath and president Richard Terrio all took turns showing the other EHL owners their beautiful new building. The Cubs have made a deal with Radio Station WCOD FM to air all home games plus a good selection of road contests. Jon Metterlow-of Manchester. Mass, will be the play-by-play man.RHODE ISLAND: Jack Sheehan visited the Blazer camps in Roanoke Valley and will get some good talent from the Philadelphia overflow. Coach Larry Kish believes the WHA influx into the EHL will make the league stronger because the WHA will use their farms as player development teams. The Eagles will have to settle for fourth in the Central Division.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0284/3215342-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="569" height="634"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLIFF PENNINGTON&hellip;Old Pro Ready To Go</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Syracuse, Roanoke, Jersey Devils Rated Teams To Beat In EHL’s Divisional Races

<h2>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h2>1&mdash;Roanoke Valley2&mdash;Greensboro3&mdash;Charlotte4&mdash;Sun Coast<h2>CENTRAL DIVISION</h2>1&mdash;New Jersey2&mdash;Long Island3&mdash;Cape Cod4&mdash;Rhode Island<h2>NORTHERN DIVISION</h2>1&mdash;Syracuse2&mdash;New England3&mdash;Clinton4&mdash;Johnstown &#9632;

How They’ll Finish Races

<h2>OCTOBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01116/3215439-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="559" height="1506"></div><h2>NOVEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0292/3215432-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="561" height="2289"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0366/3215425-1-eng-US/f0035-032.jpg" title="f0035-03" width="583" height="2467"></div><h2>JANUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0458/3215418-1-eng-US/f0035-042.jpg" title="f0035-04" width="581" height="2401"></div><h2>FEBRUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0549/3215411-1-eng-US/f0035-052.jpg" title="f0035-05" width="560" height="2307"></div><h2>MARCH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0638/3215404-1-eng-US/f0035-062.jpg" title="f0035-06" width="556" height="387"></div><h2>NORTHERN DIVISION</h2>Clinton CometsJohnstown JetsNew England BladesSyracuse Blazers<h2>CENTRAL DIVISION</h2>Cape Cod CubsLong Island DucksNew Jersey DevilsRhode Island Eagles<h2>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h2>Charlotte CheckersGreensboro GeneralsRoanoke Valley RebelsSun Coast Suns &#9632;

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Eastern Hockey League schedule

<h2>NORTHERN DIVISION</h2>1&mdash;Muskegon2&mdash;Flint3&mdash;Port Huron4&mdash;Toledo5&mdash;Saginaw<h2>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h2>1&mdash;Dayton2&mdash;Fort Wayne3&mdash;Des Moines4&mdash;Columbus &#9632;

<h2>OCTOBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0266/3215623-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="520" height="962"></div><h2>NOVEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0351/3215616-1-eng-US/f0036-032.jpg" title="f0036-03" width="522" height="1697"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0435/3215609-1-eng-US/f0036-042.jpg" title="f0036-04" width="544" height="1713"></div><h2>JANUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0526/3215602-1-eng-US/f0036-052.jpg" title="f0036-05" width="549" height="1712"></div><h2>FEBRUARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0619/3215595-1-eng-US/f0036-062.jpg" title="f0036-06" width="541" height="1348"></div><h2>MARCH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0717/3215588-1-eng-US/f0036-072.jpg" title="f0036-07" width="538" height="1045"></div><h2>STARTING TIMES FORT WAYNE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0812/3215581-1-eng-US/f0036-082.jpg" title="f0036-08" width="532" height="76"></div><h3>MUSKEGON</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0913/3215574-1-eng-US/f0036-092.jpg" title="f0036-09" width="528" height="51"></div><h3>PORT HURON</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1011/3215567-1-eng-US/f0036-102.jpg" title="f0036-10" width="532" height="29"></div><h3>DES MOINES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1111/3215560-1-eng-US/f0036-112.jpg" title="f0036-11" width="527" height="75"></div><h3>TOLEDO</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1210/3215553-1-eng-US/f0036-122.jpg" title="f0036-12" width="535" height="50"></div><h3>DAYTON</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-138/3215546-1-eng-US/f0036-132.jpg" title="f0036-13" width="534" height="128"></div><h3>FLINT</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-146/3215539-1-eng-US/f0036-142.jpg" title="f0036-14" width="530" height="48"></div><h3>COLUMBUS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-156/3215532-1-eng-US/f0036-152.jpg" title="f0036-15" width="533" height="52"></div><h3>SAGINAW</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-165/3215525-1-eng-US/f0036-162.jpg" title="f0036-16" width="530" height="101"></div> &#9632;

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International Hockey League Schedule

<div class="byline">BY JOHN GUGGER</div>MUSKEGON&mdash;There is a look about the International Hockey League that is becoming permanent. It&rsquo;s a photo of a horse named &lsquo;Muskie&rsquo; moving to the wire in front of the trailing &lsquo;Gem Dandy.&rsquo; The rest of the field isn&rsquo;t even in the picture.Sometimes, they flip the negative and the picture comes out with &lsquo;Muskie&rsquo; trailing &lsquo;Gem Dandy&rsquo;. Not very often, though.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01105/3215470-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="273" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Gratton</figcaption></div>Not since 1965 has a team other than the Muskegon Mohawks or Davton Gems won the IHL&rsquo;s regular-season Huber Trophy. The Mohawks have done it five times since then. Dayton twice. Two other times the Gems ran second to the Hawks.Unless there are large-scale surprises, the Mohawks and Gems are worth a $2 bet to take the IHL&rsquo;s North and South Division titles, respectively, again this season, a year to be punctuated by the biggest playerchanges in league history.Muskegon is entered in a division which includes Port Huron. Flint, expansionist Saginaw, and Toledo. All but Toledo are located in Michigan, and the Toledo city limits on the north touch the Michigan state line.Dayton. Fort Wayne, Des Moines, and Columbus comprise the South Division.The Hawks could lose All Star goalie and rookie of the year Glenn Resch. IHL leading scorer Gary Ford, and Alex Campbell to the pros, plus Dick Pumple and Darrell Knibbs to WHA&hellip;But a strong crop of Montreal youngsters will again be provided by Canadiens&hellip;Bryan McLay will be the new coach with Bob Tombari. a solid IHL vet, the new captain&hellip;Watch for team to start slow, in typical fashion, then begin to move by mid-November.FLINT: The Generals may have the best chance at unseating the Mohawks&hellip;Always tough at home, the Gens must improve a three-year road record that has been pathetic&hellip;If Bob Kelly, obtained in a trade with Des Moines, reports, the Gens will have a sorely?needed tough guy to back smaller players&hellip;Flint has always been stingy on defense, but must boost its offense to contend&hellip;When twoway standout Duane Wylie, scoring threat Dave Gorman, and No. ! goalie Bob Perani return, peg Generals for second place.PORT HURON: Wings&rsquo; potential depends heavily on caliber of players parent Detroit club supplies&hellip;Many of Turner Cup heroes are gone, including Len Fontaine, IHL&rsquo;s MVP, and possibly goalie Brian Cropper, who may turn pro&hellip;Rough-neck Steve Sutherland and Don Grierson are with WHA&hellip;Status of vets like Bob Brinkworth. Bill LeC&rsquo;aine, and Bob McCammon not clear&hellip;Always tough at home, coach Ted Garvin has made club formidable on road in recent years&hellip;Third-place finish likely.TOLEDO: Club will be built around aging veterans like goalie Glenn Ramsay, 37, Greg Jablonski, 37, Dino Mascotto, 40, Hal White, 32, and possibly new coach Skip Burchell, 42&hellip;Return of leading scorer Jim Paterson is doubtful&hellip;Top defenseman John Gravel now with WHA&hellip;Hornets must do a lot of rebuilding&hellip;Owner Paul Bright has been promised help from four NHL teams&hellip;Fourth place unless youth pulls big load.SAGINAW: Bringing an expansion team into the IHL is like going to war with blanks in (he guns&hellip;The last three first-year teams in the IHL have won just 59 of 214 regular-season games&hellip;Wren Blair. Gears&rsquo; owner and GM. will put an exciting, young team on the ice and it will improve&hellip;Gears will get good offensive from Mike Hornby, who once scored 129 points in a season in EHL&hellip;Coach Don Perry must settle for fifth place.DAYTON: Top goal-scorer Jim Benzelock, top pointmaker Reg Bechtold, and steady Jack Borotsik are gone&hellip;So is goalie Pat Rupp, who retired&hellip;But since parent Boston club no longer has farm in Oklahoma City, Gems are now second on Bruins&rsquo; list after AHL Boston Braves&hellip;Bruins are expected to send more players than ever, and have moved their own man, Jim Anderson, in as coach&hellip;Gerry Mazur, Lorne Weighill, Gordie Malinoski, Jim Bannatyne, Dave Simpson, Chick Baion, and Mike Sauter among returnees&hellip;Ken Tarnow and Dave Forbes, who scored at rapid pace before being called to Oke City last season, may be back&hellip;Gems will take first place in the South, and may even capture the all-points trophy from Muskegon&hellip;FORT WAYNE: Komets lost scrappy winger Rusty Patenaude and Al Rycroft to WHA&hellip;Player-coach Marc Boileau will greet at least half of 1971-72 team, which finished with burst&hellip;No. 1 goalie Paul Hoganson has good chance to turn pro&hellip;Ditto defenseman Jim Pearson&hellip;Boileau has steadily improved club since being named player-coach in 1970&hellip;Providing K&rsquo;s can fill netminding position if Hoganson moves up, second place finish&hellip;DES MOINES: Capitols have new coach, Danny Belisle, new general manager, Ken Wilson, and an old problem: The worst traveling schedule of any team in the league&hellip;Those 1,200-mile round trips to eastern IHL points become a grind by mid-season and usually cost the team points&hellip;The Caps will rebuild almost entirely as Terry Slater, now with Los Angeles of the WHA, took several players and dealt off two others when he departed&hellip;Leafs must find a suitable replacement in goal for reliable Bob Perreault&hellip;If people like Bob Lepage, Luc Tessier, and Duke Asmundson return, situation won&rsquo;t be so dark. Ken Grat-Jon has signed&hellip;Wilson has been signing several collegians he feels can help club&hellip;Third place at best.COLUMBUS: Seals&rsquo; coach Moe Bartoli plans to have more vets in lineup than last season&rsquo;s nearly all-rookie club&hellip;Bartoli is a Columbus favorite and his presence should help at gate, where club did poorly last season&hellip;Don Scott, formerly at Salt ! Lake City, is new GM&hellip;Club i had several promising youngsters last season, but the best are likely to be turned pro&hellip;Angus Beck, top scorer last season, will definitely move up&hellip;A fourth I place finish &#9632;

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Muskegon, Dayton To Dominole Races

ST. CATHARINES&mdash;The defending regular season champion Toronto Marlboros and the Ottawa 67s served notice that they would be forces to contend with this season as the two clubs emerged from the opening weekend of the 1972-73 OHA schedule with unblemished 2-0 records.The Marlies, who ran away with the league championship last season only to be upset by the third-place Peterborough Petes in the semi-finals, headed north to open the season with back-to-back games Saturday and Sunday in Ste. Sault Marie and Sudbury. The Marlies introduced the Sault into the OHA Major circuit with a 7-3 victory which also marked former Toronto Maple Leaf star George Armstrong&rsquo;s debut behind the Toronto juniors&rsquo; bench. Marlies moved on to Sudbury the next night to hand the Sudbury Wolves a 6-1 setback.For the 67s and new coach Leo Bovin the opening weekend was just as pleasant. Fourth place finishers last season, the 67s kicked off their campaign with a 6-3 victory in Sudbury then moved on to the Sault for a narrow 4-3 triumph.Ottawa winger Paul Sheard was the hero of the 6-3 win over the Wolves with a pair of goals, his first scores in a goal-scoring famine which included the last 32 games of the &lsquo;71-72 season.All in all, it made for a rough entry in the Major Junior loop for the two new northern Ontario entries as the Wolves and Greyhounds dropped all four games before home crowds to the southern invaders.Meanwhile, the busiest team on the opening weekend was the St. Catharines Black Hawks who played three games in four nights and emerged with a two-win, one-loss record.The Black Hawks, playoff champions two seasons ago and seventh-place finishers last season, opened their season with by dropping a 6-1 decision in Peterborough but bounced back for home-ice wins over the Petes and London Knights by 7-3 and 3-1 scores. It made for a successful start for Black Hawks&rsquo; new owner Hap Emms who took over the franchise from Fred Muller after selling his Niagara Falls holdings to the new Sudbury group.Sophomore goalie Brian Cousineau, who saw little action last year, paced the Hawks to their win over the Knights with superb netminding.Another club which started the new season on the right foot was the Hamilton Red Wings who won only 11 games in the 63-games regular schedule last season while finishing in 10th spot. The Wings gave former Loyola College mentor Dave Draper a 42 victory over Kitchener Rangers as his initiation present to OHA coaching ranks. Jim Moxie, Mike Chickello, Jim Coleff and defenseman Willy Wing tallied for the Wings while rookie Dave Stassen scored both Kitchener goals.As for the defending champion Petes, they started well with the opening 6-1 triumph over the Black Hawks at home but then dropped the return match in St. Catharines. High-scoring center Doug Gibson and Jim Jones each scored twice with Rick Chinnick and Jim Johnston getting singles for the Petes who are widely accepted as the team with best chance of replacing the Marlies as regular season champions. Coach Roger Neilson&rsquo;s Petes traditionally play a tight-checking close-to-the-vest style and are invariably at their best in the playoffs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0197/3215661-1-eng-US/f0037-012.jpg" title="f0037-01" width="558" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body">GEORGE ARMSTRONG&hellip;Winning Debut</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0273/3215654-1-eng-US/f0037-022.jpg" title="f0037-02" width="547" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE DRAPER</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Marlboros, Ottawa 67s Fly In Openers As New Northern Clubs Take It On Chin

<h2>ONTARIO MAJOR LEAGUE (Standings on Tue. Oct. 3)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0349/3215699-1-eng-US/f0037-032.jpg" title="f0037-03" width="596" height="284"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Thur. Sept. 28St. Catharines 1 at Peterboro 6Fri. Sept. 29Ottawa 6 at Sudbury 3Hamilton 4 at Kitchener 2Peterboro 3 at St. Catharines 7Sat. Sept. 30Toronto 7 at Sault 3Sun. Oct. 1Ottawa 4 at Sault 3Toronto 6 at Sudbury 1London 1 at St. Catharines 3<h2>QUEBEC MAJOR LEAGUE (Standings on Tue. Oct. 3)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0440/3215692-1-eng-US/f0037-042.jpg" title="f0037-04" width="591" height="232"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Sun. Oct. 1Cornwall 7 at Drummondville 2Montreal 2 at Shawinigan 5Sherbrooke 2 at Quebec 7Trois-Rivieres 9 at Sorel 4 &#9632;

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