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January 12, 1973
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MacDonald, McDonough Steal Penguins’ Spotlight
PITTSBURGH— The Penguins’ scoring attack used to be like the hockey team’s namesake on dry land. The Penguins used to waddle and perhaps get there, but many times too late. This year the Penguins are scoring like they never had before. The Penguin has slipped into its natural habitat—water—and is zipping along. Many times, Syl Apps is given almost sole credit for the Penguins’ transformation and it is true the center’s slick playmaking has helped the team’s increased scoring. But Apps belongs to a well-balanced line and he was on the team last year, too. “This year,” Apps said, “I know when I can hold onto the puck. Before I had a tendency to pass it off a little too early. Each game I learn a little more about how long to hold onto…
McRae Shutout Starts Reversal Of Fortunes For Tulsa
TULSA— It was a long time between victories for the Tulsa Oilers. It was a long time between shutouts for goalkeeper Gordon McRae. As a matter of fact, that’s saying the same thing. Gordie blanked the Central League-leading Dallas Black Hawks, 5-0, Thanksgiving night in Tulsa’s Assembly Center. And the Oilers didn’t win again until Dec. 16, when McRae shut out the San Diego Gulls of the Western League, 7-0, also at home. In between McRae’s only professional shutouts were eight straight losses, tying a club record, but falling one short of a league mark. (St. Louis and Memphis each lost nine straight games in 1963-64). Left wing Lyle Moffat, a sec-ond-year pro from Calgary by way of Michigan Tech, sparked the reversal of Oiler fortunes with a hat trick, only the third of the…
Leafs Lose Gamble On Plante As McLellan Goes With Best
TORONTO— The move was a gamble, no doubt about it, and when it was clearly lost Maple Leaf coach John McLellan was ready to admit it. Jacques Plante, who celebrates his 44th birthday Jan. 17, started in goal in five consecutive games during a stretch in which he played seven of eight. Now Plante’s role as a fine jewel, a thoroughbred, in the Leaf lineup has been clear during two previous seasons. McLellan has employed him carefully, always aware that overwork could remove the fine edge of timing that makes Plante, at his best, among the very best goalies in the National Hockey League. But suddenly in December McLellan made Plante his work-horse. For three consecutive weekends, Plante played both Saturday and Sunday nights, something the goalie insisted from the start he could only…
Surprising Yale Jumps Off To Fast Start
NEW HAVEN— “Yale 9, at Penn 7,” read the linescore, and suddenly all ears in Eastern college hockey pricked up and heard the rumbling deep in the belly of the Yale Whale. Paul Lufkin, the new head man in leviathan-like Ingalls Rink, has the Elis 3-0 in collegiate competition as of this writing, and suddenly it looks as though Yale hockey is well on the road to recovery after five straight losing seasons. “I’m very enthused about our progress thus far,” he hollered over the phone above the buzz of the team members, over to his home en masse for dinner with Paul and his wife Liz. “But the better part of our schedule is yet to come, and we’ll just have to keep improving. Our first line has done a lot of scoring…
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