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October 13, 1972
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USHL Warriors Use Hawks’lce
CHICAGO— 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. “We will have a chance to bring hockey to the youngsters at popular prices.” 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.…
QUIZ CORNER
“TWO MINUTE HOCKEY QUIZ” 1—Gordie Howe assisted on Andy Bathgate’s 300th goal. TRUE □ FALSE □ 2—Jean Beliveau scored 3 more total playoff goals than Rocket Ri-chard. TRUE □ FALSE □ 3—Gordie Howe scored his 1st NHL goal against Toronto. TRUE □ FALSE □ 4—Phil Esposito had 7 hat tricks in the 1970-71 season. TRUE □ FALSE□ 5—Sid Abel played his whole career with the Detroit Red Wings. TRUE □ FALSE□ 6—Barry, Brian and Ray Cullen are brothers. TRUE □ FALSE □ 7—Terry Sawchuk in his 20th season played for the New York Rangers. TRUE □ FALSE □ 8—Lorne Davis played only 95 games in the NHL but nevertheless played on 4 NHL teams. TRUE □ FALSE □ 9—Gerry Pinder’s last amateur club was the Canadian National Team. TRUE □ FALSE □ 10—Bobby Orr won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1970-71. TRUE □ FALSE □ LAST WEEK’S QUIZ CORNER ANSWERS MYSTERY EYES: 1.…
Sabres To Introduce Half Dozen New Faces To NHL
BUFFALO— As many as half a dozen new faces are expected in the Buffalo Sabres’ 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. 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’ American League farm club in Cincinnati. John Gould, Hugh Harris,…
Olympic Coach Joins Stars
TWIN CITIES— 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.…
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