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February 9, 1973

The Hockey News February 9, 1973

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01980/3641190-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="268" height="364"></div><h2>Islanders Not Bruins</h2>THEY COME OFF THE ICE after the game, tall on their skates, walking clumsily on the carpet that leads to the dressing room and their faces are drawn tight and nearly expressionless and they are not speaking, even to each other, and it is silent in the corridor there in the guts of the arena except for the clomping sound their metal skates make on the rug stretched over the concrete floor. They go into the dressing room and they sit on their stools in front of their open cubicles and they do not say anything for awhile. They sit in their sweat and their soggy uniforms and their disappointment and look at the floor instead of at one another and then after awhile they begin to undress and shower and put on their civvies so they can get out of there.It is this way night after night for the New York Islanders, who may be the worst team in the history of the National Hockey League. We do not say this to be cruel. They and Atlanta&rsquo;s Flames are the latest of the NHL&rsquo;s expansion teams and expansion within the league and with the formation of a new league spread the talent so thin these teams didn&rsquo;t get much to begin with and the Islanders lost a lot of their better players to the new league, which the Flames did not. They won only five games and lost 38 through their first 47 games this season and seem on their way to new modern records for fewest victories and most defeats in one season. Even their start-ling upset of Boston in mid-January did not improve their picture much.Ed Westfall was dressing. He is 32 and in his 12th year as a professional and he was dropped by the Bruins to the Islanders whom he now captains. &ldquo;I was disappointed to be let go by Boston, but not disappointed at going to Long Island&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;If I was not wanted there and was wanted here, well I&rsquo;m happy to be here and not there. I miss the players who were my teammates for so many years, but I don&rsquo;t miss the organization. They had gotten so big you were only a number there. Here, you are a human being. If you do a good job, they say hurray. At home, fan support has been tremendous, despite our record. That helps.&rdquo;The ruggedly handsome, husky veteran said, &ldquo;It had gotten easy in Boston. You knew even if you didn&rsquo;t play well, you had so much power you&rsquo;d probably win. Here, I have to psych myself up so I go to the games with hope. I don&rsquo;t ever want to reach the point where I dread leaving for the arena. So I say, if we&rsquo;re playing one of the good teams, maybe if we have a good night and they do not, if we play like sons of guns, maybe we can get a tie and if we&rsquo;re super lucky maybe even a win. You know it&rsquo;s a slim chance, but you hang on to it. I guess you play more not to lose than to win. I guess you could get to where you&rsquo;re playing just not to look bad. I&rsquo;d quit, then.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02880/3641183-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="529" height="905"><figcaption class="caption-body">ED WESTFALL&hellip; Another Challenge</figcaption></div>He sighed. &ldquo;For awhile there we were getting beat nine this and nine that. You not only lose games, you lose your pride. We had a team meeting. We called on all the cliches&mdash;you know, the other team dresses just like you, they can only put six men on the ice at a time, and so forth. The thing was never giving up in games no matter the score. Always give your best and at least you can leave with your head held high. If everyone prepares himself individually we&rsquo;d do better collectively. It worked. We&rsquo;re in most of our games to the finish now. We win one once in a while.&rdquo;But, usually they wind up back in the locker-room losers and we could not help contrasting this scene in which the players seemed hesitant even break a smile to the easygoing, loud-laughing profane-taIking hubub of Bruin dressing rooms after victories. &ldquo;I miss that, all right,&rdquo; Westfall admitted. &ldquo;I miss the rah-rah, the pride in performance, the boasting and laughing. Here it&rsquo;s as though someone died. No one likes to lose. But, remember, I was with Boston when it was losing, too. I&rsquo;ve been here before. Somehow, you endure. You have a life beyond the arena. Your friends are afraid to talk hockey to you, which hurts, but life goes on.&rdquo;<h2>You&rsquo;re Just A Number&hellip;</h2>HE AND HIS WIFE of 13 years, Joan-Anne, have four children&mdash;Barry, 12; Steve, 11, Kim, 9, and Sherry, 8. While their usual life continues without him in New Hampshire, he pursues his profession in New York. &ldquo;Depending on the schedule, I fly home about once a week,&rdquo; he says. He flies his own small plane. He is taking schooling to get deeper into the air business. He is a director of the Sadler Insurance Agency in Nashua and a public relations man for Carling Brewery. He is an outstanding golfer and all around athlete, as is his wife. But he takes time out for his fellow men. He is active in programs to combat drugs and encourage retarded children and in charitable fund-raising.As a performer he was just another player with the Bruins who was used as a defensive specialist and penalty-killer at forward. He shone shadowing Bobby Hull, Gordie Howe, Frank Mahovlich, Rod Gilbert and so forth. He says, &ldquo;It was a dirty job and I never liked it, but it was given to me to do and I&rsquo;m proud I got credit for doing it well. Here I&rsquo;m asked to be a leader and a scorer. It&rsquo;s not in my nature to stand up and talk out and be a cheerleader, buy I have to try. Outside of my family, I&rsquo;m a loner by personnality but, after seeing what a stable youngster our great rookie Billy Harris was in training camp, I rented a house with him in New York because I felt a veteran might ease him over the rough spots. You do what you can. If I can score here, maybe the roles will be reversed and I&rsquo;ll be the guy other teams have to assign a special shadow,&rdquo; he laughed. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s a joke. At least you see I can still smile,&rdquo; he said. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-01175/3643067-1-eng-US/f0039-012.jpg" title="f0039-01" width="261" height="401"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-02128/3643060-1-eng-US/f0039-022.jpg" title="f0039-02" width="1104" height="573"></div><h2>Goalie&rsquo;s Poke Check</h2>The poke check should be used only when an attacker is coming in on you from an angle. If he&rsquo;s coming right down the slot, he has more options than if coming in from the side, so the goalie shouldn&rsquo;t commit himself first. By deciding to poke check, you&rsquo;re gambling you can break up the attack, so make sure you have the odds with you.The timing is important. If you come out too early, you&rsquo;re extended like an octopus, with the whole top oft he net wide open. Be sure you poke the puck straight up the ice. not to a side where it could be picked off by another attacker coming in.As you come out of the crease, drop the knee of the back leg to help maintain balance and aid in a quick recovery.In all. the poke check is a dangerous move, only to be used by goalies who are very agile and can recover quickly. &#9632;

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HOCKEY… For Minors

(Including games of Sun. Dec. 17)<h2>ATLANTA Flames</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01731/3641752-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="304" height="256"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02627/3641745-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="775" height="577"></div><h2>BOSTON Bruins</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03500/3641738-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="329" height="297"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04389/3641731-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="778" height="571"></div><h2>BUFFALO Sabres</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05289/3641724-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="297" height="273"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06233/3641717-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="766" height="531"></div><h2>CALIFORNIA Seals</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07210/3641710-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="357" height="217"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-08191/3641703-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="777" height="541"></div><h2>CHICAGO Black Hawks</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-09169/3641696-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="289" height="301"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-10147/3641689-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="737" height="543"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-11133/3641682-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="1427" height="1013"></div><h2>DETROIT Red Wings</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-12116/3641675-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="296" height="209"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-13105/3641668-1-eng-US/f0016-132.jpg" title="f0016-13" width="771" height="592"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES Kings</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1498/3641661-1-eng-US/f0016-142.jpg" title="f0016-14" width="292" height="294"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1588/3641654-1-eng-US/f0016-152.jpg" title="f0016-15" width="780" height="565"></div><h2>MINNESOTA North Stars</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1685/3641647-1-eng-US/f0016-162.jpg" title="f0016-16" width="296" height="249"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1777/3641640-1-eng-US/f0016-172.jpg" title="f0016-17" width="744" height="529"></div><h2>MONTREAL Canadiens</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1870/3641633-1-eng-US/f0016-182.jpg" title="f0016-18" width="1447" height="489"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1965/3641626-1-eng-US/f0016-192.jpg" title="f0016-19" width="333" height="229"></div><h2>NEW YORK Islanders</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2050/3641619-1-eng-US/f0016-202.jpg" title="f0016-20" width="769" height="616"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2147/3641612-1-eng-US/f0016-212.jpg" title="f0016-21" width="271" height="277"></div><h2>NEW YORK Rangers</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2245/3641605-1-eng-US/f0016-222.jpg" title="f0016-22" width="772" height="580"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2343/3641598-1-eng-US/f0016-232.jpg" title="f0016-23" width="286" height="250"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2441/3641591-1-eng-US/f0016-242.jpg" title="f0016-24" width="745" height="556"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA Flyers</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2537/3641584-1-eng-US/f0016-252.jpg" title="f0016-25" width="306" height="283"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2635/3641577-1-eng-US/f0016-262.jpg" title="f0016-26" width="751" height="604"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH Penguins</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2730/3641570-1-eng-US/f0016-272.jpg" title="f0016-27" width="289" height="253"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2828/3641563-1-eng-US/f0016-282.jpg" title="f0016-28" width="773" height="513"></div><h2>ST. LOUIS Blues</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2921/3641556-1-eng-US/f0016-292.jpg" title="f0016-29" width="301" height="307"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3021/3641549-1-eng-US/f0016-302.jpg" title="f0016-30" width="785" height="609"></div><h2>TORONTO Maple Leafs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3121/3641542-1-eng-US/f0016-312.jpg" title="f0016-31" width="280" height="259"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3217/3641535-1-eng-US/f0016-322.jpg" title="f0016-32" width="757" height="589"></div><h2>VANCOUVER Canucks</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3317/3641528-1-eng-US/f0016-332.jpg" title="f0016-33" width="329" height="229"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3413/3641521-1-eng-US/f0016-342.jpg" title="f0016-34" width="733" height="601"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01959/3640997-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="287" height="353"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken McKenzie&rsquo;s</figcaption></div>&bull; BUFFALO FANS highly incensed, and rightly so, because Gil Perreault was left off the NHL Eastern Division All Stars. It was an insult to both Perreault, who ranks as one of the four or five best forwards in the league, and to the loyal fans of Buffalo. Several letters have reached us complaining about this gross injustice. Fans are unable to explain how Tom Johnson could have omitted a player of the calibre of Perreault&hellip; According to an article in the February issue of Sport Magazine, Gerry Cheevers has become hockey&rsquo;s trivia expert and is constantly testing his teammates. While a mem-ber of the Boston Bruins&rsquo; he once asked Phil Esposito, &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s the only guy to lead him and is rejecting all rumors&hellip; Bill Jennings, president of the New York Rangers and one of sport&rsquo;s busiest executives, drives a 1964 Caddie, with 125,000 miles registered. He says he plans to buy a new one when Rangers win the Stanley Cup&hellip; Philadelphia Blazers of the WHA are expected to be moving to an the NHL in scoring without ever having played a full season as an amateur?&rdquo;. &ldquo;Gee, 1 don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; replied Esposito. &ldquo;Phil, you dope&mdash;it&rsquo;s you,&rdquo; said Cheevers&hellip;The two top draft picks of the Philadelphia Flyers have been sensational to date and one of them, either Bill Barber or Tom Bladon, stands an excellent chance of winning the NHL&rsquo;s rookie award. Left wing Barber, who wears No. 7 and was selected No. 7 in the opening round of last year&rsquo;s NHL amateur draft, has been the leading scorer among the rookies for most of the season, and defenseman Bladon, who wears No. 23 and was selected No. 23 in the same 1972 draft, has been among the top scoring rookie defensemen all year. Barber appears a cinch to break the club record for most goals by a Flyer rookie. The mark is 24 and Barber had 14 at the mid-way point of the season&hellip; Of the top ten NHL rookies, three&mdash;Barber, Billy Harris and Bladon&mdash;are first-year professionals&hellip; Ed Snider and the Philadelphia management are ecstatic about the play of their rookies this season&hellip; The expanded 11-team Saskatchewan Junior A League held their first North Division vs. South Division All Star game last month and it proved a huge success&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02915/3640990-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="241" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Barber</figcaption></div>&bull; NOW THAT funds have been approved by the Kansas City council to build the arena for that city&rsquo;s new National Hockey League franchise, the NHL can continue making plans as before. It looked for awhile as though K.C. wouldn&rsquo;t get the civic backing for the building and that the franchise would be moved elsewhere&hellip; John McLellan, Toronto&rsquo;s likeable coach who does a fine job considering the talent he has to work with, tells friends he&rsquo;s heard the rumors already that the fired Red Kelly will be coming to Toronto as coach or in some executive capacity. Johnny, however, has made peace, with his ulcers, and promises not to let anything upset him and is rejecting all rumors Bill Jennings, president of the New York Rangers and one of sport&rsquo;s busiest executives, drives 1964 Caddie, with 125,000 miles registered. He says he plans to buy new one when Rangers win the Stanley Cup Philadelphia Blazers of the WHA are expected to be moving to an other city soon&hellip; Montreal&rsquo;s Jacques Lemaire, enjoying his finest season, has a special bonus clause in his contract this season which rewards him handsomely for any goals over 30&hellip; Wayne Thomas, rookie Montreal net-minder, is making a name for himself since filling in for the injured Ken Dryden. Thomas has goaled the Canadiens to six straight wins&hellip; That&rsquo;s the secret of Montreal&rsquo;s strength. They have plenty of depth and always have first-rate players to fill in for an injured regular&hellip; Minnesota North Stars didn&rsquo;t have a single player who had scored a hat trick this season after their first 46 games, which is a real oddity&hellip; John Mariucci, assistant to Wren Blair, Minnesota General Manager, is busily scouting the collegiate hockey program in the United States. Mariucci coached the University of Minnesota team for 14 years&hellip; Lorne Worsley has retired as goalie for the North Stars. So what else is new? This is the umpteenth time Gump&rsquo;s retired from the NHL and we&rsquo;d guess this time it will stick. After all, the 43-year-old veteran has to hang up the pads sometime. Worsley was in his 20th NHL season and played in 830 regular NHL games and 70 playoff contests&hellip; Boston&rsquo;s Bobby Orr uses less tape on his stick than any player in hockey&hellip; No NHL expansion team has had a more successful start, both on the ice and at the gate, than Atlanta Flames. President Bill Putnam has put together an outstanding organization, and Coach Boom Boom Geoffrion has done a masterful job of convincing his young players that they belong in the NHL. Two of hockey&rsquo;s super stars, Bobby Orr of Boston and Ken Dryden of Montreal, have their respective clubs extremely worried about their injuries. Orr&rsquo;s knee still isn&rsquo;t right and Dryden&rsquo;s back has been slow to mend<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03810/3640983-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="247" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lorne Worsley</figcaption></div>&bull; BILL CHARLES, owner-general manager of the Syracuse Blazers of the Eastern Hockey League, is striking a blow for higher education. Any player on the Blazers who wants to increase his schooling will be able to do so at Onondaga Community College during the Spring semester with the hockey club paying the tuition. Charles has done a phenomenal job in promoting hockey in Syracuse during the last few years. He&rsquo;ll be a member of the American Hockey League next season in all probability&hellip; Montreal&rsquo;s Sammy Pollock rates as the world&rsquo;s worst worrier. He never stops&hellip; Recently Murray Oliver of Minnesota had three point blank shots at Boston goalie Eddie Johnston, two of them in the third period. But Johnston saved them all. &ldquo;I guess he knows my moves,&rdquo; sighed Oliver, who was a Boston teammate of Eddie&rsquo;s for a number of years&hellip; Johnston, incidentally, owns a restaurant-night club at Rowley. Mass, called E.J.&rsquo;s&hellip; Milt Schmidt, whose career with the Boston Bruins as player and executive spans more than 35 years, will be tendered a testimonial dinner this Spring&hellip; When Jack Prince quit suddenly as general manager of the Virginia Red Wings Coach Doug Barkley assumed the role.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04708/3640976-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="245" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Charles</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

&mdash;Page 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01619/3643143-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="457" height="475"></div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYVol. 26&mdash;No. 19 FEBRUARY 9, 1973 Price: 35&#576;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02470/3643136-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="889" height="1461"><figcaption class="caption-body">WALTER TKACZUK New York Rangers Durable Center Star (Hockey News Photo by Robert Shaver)</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-03207/3643129-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="1182" height="1470"><figcaption class="caption-body">RICK MacLEISH Philadelphia Flyers Big Goal Blaster (Hockey News Photo by Frank Bryan)</figcaption></div><h2>BIGGER PLAYERS, BETTER SHOOTERS KEY TO NHL&rsquo;S INCREASED SCORING SAYS BILLY REAY</h2>&mdash;Page 10<h2>GILBERT ARRIVAL SEEN &ldquo;TIMELY&rdquo; FOR NORTH STARS</h2>&mdash;Page 12<h2>GOYETTE OUT INGARFIELD NEW ISLANDER COACH</h2>&mdash;Page 2<h2>WHA CLEVELAND CRUSADERS BECOMING TEAM TO BEAT IN EASTERN RACE</h2>&mdash;Page 25 &#9632;

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CUP CHAMPS LOSING EDGE IN RACE

<h2>NHL Teams</h2>Atlanta&hellip;&hellip; 22Boston&hellip;&hellip; 2Buffalo&hellip;&hellip; 7California&hellip;&hellip; 9Chicago&hellip;&hellip; 10Detroit&hellip;&hellip; 18Los Angeles&hellip;&hellip; 5Minnesota&hellip;&hellip; 12Montreal&hellip;&hellip; 8N.Y. Islanders&hellip;&hellip; 13N.Y. Rangers&hellip;&hellip; 20Philadelphia&hellip;&hellip; 17Pittsburgh&hellip;&hellip; 21St. Louis&hellip;&hellip; 11Toronto&hellip;&hellip; 14Vancouver&hellip;&hellip; 6<h2>Other Leagues</h2>World Hockey&hellip;&hellip; 24American&hellip;&hellip; 27Western&hellip;&hellip; 30Central&hellip;&hellip; 32Eastern&hellip;&hellip; 34International&hellip;&hellip; 35Colleges&hellip;&hellip; 36OHA Major&hellip;&hellip; 36WCHL&hellip;&hellip; 37<h2>Columnists</h2>Ken McKenzie&hellip;&hellip; 4Bill Libby&hellip;&hellip; 8<h2>Other Features</h2>Fan Forum&hellip;&hellip; 4Movements&hellip;&hellip; 12NHL Scoring&hellip;&hellip; 16NHL Summaries&hellip;&hellip; 19NHL Scoreboard&hellip;&hellip; 21WHA Scoreboard&hellip;&hellip; 25WHA Summaries&hellip;&hellip; 26Crossword&hellip;&hellip; 29Hockey Tips&hellip;&hellip; 39Jr. Jottings&hellip;&hellip; 39 &#9632;

WHERE YOU’LL FIND IT ALL

<div class="byline">BY JACK MCCARTHY</div>BOSTON&mdash;What the Bruins need, and are looking hard for, is a streak&mdash;a winning streak that will propel them back into the fight for first place in the NHL East and the battle for the Prince of Wales Trophy.Laying back in the vicinity of eight-nine points behind the front-running Canadiens at well past the halfay mark of the season, the defending Stanley Cup champs realize the task at hand. Said coach Tom Johnson. &ldquo;We just have to put a good string together. We can&rsquo;t do anything about Montreal until we play them. We have to just do our part. This club just seemed to go real stale (First place briefly by late January). If it had been one or two players, maybe we could have found somebody to put in there for a while.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01903/3640845-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="271" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ross Brooks</figcaption></div>&ldquo;But, with us, the whole club seemed to go stale. I&rsquo;ve never had this club go as flat as that. We had a bad two weeks&mdash;16 days really starting with the St. Louis game on Jan. 4.&rdquo;Over the stretch Johnson referred to, the Bruins won four, lost three and tied one, but they did not play well during the string, except for a 6-0 romp over Buffalo, which may have been a revenge job for the renting Boston absorbed in Buffalo earlier in the season.In that stretch was the 9-7 licking by the New York Islanders in Boston Garden, which had to be the low point of the whole Boston season up to then.Johnson shook up the team, and said that he would keep them in state of flux until Boston got moving again. He put Wayne Cashman and Ace Bailey as wings for Freddie Stanfield and moved Johnny Bucyk over with Phil Esposito and Ken Hodge. He left Gregg Sheppard, Terry O&rsquo;Reilly and Don Marcotte alone. Cashman responded with a hat trick but the rest of the Bruins appeared to tail off at the same time.Shifting on defense, the coach put Carol Vadnais with Dallas Smith instead of Don Awrey, and moved Awrey over to play with Bobby Orr.The goaltending remained constant, although Eddie Johnston played several games in a row, instead of alternating with John Adams. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll play that by ear,&rdquo; said Johnson.Ross Brooks, meanwhile, while-recovered from a broken collarbone, came down with the flu but managed to get over it in a hurry. Johnson threw him in against the Los Angeles Kings and he came through in a 6-5 win, the Bruins first victory of the week in four starts.Asked if the schedule the rest of the way was favorable or not, Johnson snorted: &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t care how it is. If your team is playing well, you&rsquo;ll do well. For me, there is no such thing as a tough or easy schedule.&rdquo;Veteran goaltender Johnston said, &ldquo;At this point we are nine points down with two games in hand. To catch Canadiens we have to go on another 10 or 12 game winning streak. We are beginning to run out of games. &#9632;

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Games Starting To Run Out As Bruins Suddenly Go Flat

LONG ISLAND&mdash;The New York Islanders, who have the National Hockey League&rsquo;s worst record this season, decided a coaching change might be the solution to their troubles.The Islanders announced that veteran Phil Goyette had been removed as coach of the new expansion club and replaced by Earl Ingarfield, a former New York Rangers&rsquo; star who steps up from the role of Western Canada scout to handle the last-place New Yorkers. He is 38 years old. Ingarfield was offered the job when the club was first organized but turned it down Goyette&rsquo;s Islanders have been floundering since the season began and are presently mired in the cellar of the East Division with only six victories in 50 games, by far the most inept record of any modern NHL club General manager Bill Torrey said he did not blame Goyette for t he plight of t he Islanders but rather felt that he had done the best job possible. However Torrey said he favored a coaching change in attempt to get the club out of the doldrums.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02828/3640876-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="513" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body">EARL INGARFIELD</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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N. Y. Islanders Oust Goyette, Name Ingarfield New Coach

MONTREAL&mdash;The three top positions on the National Hockey League&rsquo;s exclusive all-time goal-scoring plateau are secure for this year but the rest of the list is undergoing a considerable face lifting.Two of hockey&rsquo;s elder statesmen, Detroit&rsquo;s Alex Delvecchio and Toronto&rsquo;s Norm Ullman, recently approached the coveted 450-goal milestone in their illustrious big leaguecareers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01907/3640921-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="257" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mahovlich</figcaption></div>Another renowned veteran of the NHL, big Frank Mahovlich of Montreal Canadiens, is inching his way towards the league&rsquo;s top level of scorers&mdash;the 500-goal men.The Big M recently rapped in goal No. 489 leaving him only 11 short of his long-awaited objective and a chance to climb higher from the No. 5 spot among the all-time greatest shooters in NHL history to No. 4&mdash;currently held by Mahovlich&rsquo;s now retired teammate Jean Beliveau. The great Beliveau packed it up with a career high of 507 and Mahovlich is certain to go on and surpass the mark quite likely before the 1972-73 campaign runs out. If Frank stays around long enough he could even step up to displace another ex-Canadien, Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard, who is No. on the list with a total of 544.Ullman, the 18-year center who has divided his career between Detroit and Toronto, recently flicked in his 450th and stands No. 6 on the all-time list with 451, one ahead of Delvecchio. Ullman conceivably could reach 500 in time but not the silver-haired Delvecchio, who has already announced that this is his swan song in the NHL as a player after 22 seasons with the Red Wings.While Mahovlich, Ullman and Delvecchio advance up the all-time ladder, a menacing figure in 12th place is Boston&rsquo;s Phil Esposito, who has raised his career total to 373 goals in the short space of 10 years. At his present pace, the Boston scoring whiz could be among hockey&rsquo;s 400-goal men early in the next season.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02775/3640914-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1160" height="1461"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALEX DELVECCHIO&hellip; Milestone Before Retirement</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03519/3640907-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1168" height="1449"><figcaption class="caption-body">NORM ULLMAN&hellip; No. 6 On List And Still Climbing (Hockey New Photos by Robert Shaver)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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BIG M CHASING 500th GOAL DELVECCHIO, ULLMAN HIT 450

1&mdash;Gordie Howe&hellip;&hellip; 7862&mdash;Bobby Hull&hellip;&hellip; 6043&mdash;Maurice Richard&hellip;&hellip; 5444&mdash;Jean Beliveau&hellip;&hellip; 5075&mdash;Frank Mahovlich&hellip;&hellip; 4896&mdash;Norm Ullman&hellip;&hellip; 4517&mdash;Alex Delvecchio&hellip;&hellip; 4508&mdash;Stan Mikita&hellip;&hellip; 3969&mdash;Bernie Geoffrion&hellip;&hellip; 39310&mdash;Dean Prentice&hellip;&hellip; 38211&mdash;Ted Lindsay&hellip;&hellip; 37912&mdash;Phil Esposito&hellip;&hellip; 37313&mdash;Andy Bathgate&hellip;&hellip; 34914&mdash;Henri Richard&hellip;&hellip; 328(Statistics include Jan. 28) &#9632;

Top Scorers Of All Time

vol 26 No. 19FEBURUARY 9, 1973OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Published weekly except monthly June through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd. 1434 St. Catherine Street West, Montreal 107, Canada. U.S. Office: 16 Maple Street, Rouses Point, N.Y. 12979Charlie Halpin Kenneth William McKenzie Lyndon LittleEditorial Director President and Publisher Assistant To EditorUnited State* Advertising Representatives: Boston: Stephen Ganak, Mediarep Center Inc., 1425 Statler Office Bldg, Boston, Mass. 02116, telephone (617) 482-5233 New York: Raymond Ogren, Sports Communications Inc. 770 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 10021, telephone (212) HA 1-7800; Chicago: Hooper Jones & Associates, 3322 W. Peterson Ave., Chicago, III. 60645, telephone (312) 478-5544.Yearly SUBSCRIPTION Rates: $7.00 in Canada $8.00 in the U.S.A and $10.00 in Foreign Countries.Postpage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y. 12979. SEND ADDRESS CHANCES TO 1434 ST. CATHERINE STREET WEST. SUITE 212, MONTREAL 107, P.Q. Second class mail Registration No. 1327.Printed in Canada &#9632;

The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05576/3641052-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div>Plaudits Due BoomerFor Job With FlamesI want to compliment Boom Boom Geoffrion for doing a fantastic job with the expansionist Atlanta Flames. He built a playoff contender out of a team composed of inexperienced rookies and seasoned castoffs.I would also be pleased if you wrote something about Pat Quinn. He is not blessed with superior stickhandling or skating skills, but he still has valuable assets as a policeman and feared fighter, another important aspect of the game.STEVE EGGERT, Bellingham, Wash.Vancouver Fans LeaveSomething To Be DesiredBeing an ardent hockey fan, I had the good fortune recently to go to Vancouver and see three hockey games due to our hockey booster club in Edmonton. I enjoyed the games, but those Vancouver fans are something else. They are extremely rude, booing their own team and picking on certain players, really giving them a hard time. Wayne Maki was one of their victims, and I hope the fans feel ashamed of themselves after the news of Maki&rsquo;s recent surgery. Vancouver fans should take a trip to Montreal and Toronto and see how ardent hockey fans act. Now I know how Phil Esposito felt.MARGARET GRAY, Fort Sask, Alta.Mayhem By BruinsDisappoints FanI am a fan of Buffalo Sabres, and was very disappointed when I saw the Bruins-Sabres game Nov. 31 on television. Even a person unfamiliar with the game of hockey could see that Boston was getting away with murder. This was especially obvious when Larry Carriere and Gilbert Perreault were deliberately pushed and injured. If violence is the only way the Bruins can stop a play, they shouldn&rsquo;t call themselves hockey players. When Perreault was hurt, the Bruins&rsquo; fans seemed quite pleased. It was only fitting that, in retaliation, the Sabres gave the Bruins a warm welcome in their return engagement in Buffalo a couple of weeks later.ANN MARIE TYRPAK, Lackawanna, N.Y.Islanders, FlamesPicked Good NamesMr. Sidney Sato, whose letter concerning NHL nicknames appeared in the Dec. 15 Fan Forum, obviously had trouble with American geography and history in school. The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum is located on Long Island, hence the nickname Islanders. The nickname was indeed copied from the Hawaii baseball club, but then Mr. Sato suggested the Raiders do the same with the basketball Nets. With charging an offense in the NHL, a team called the New York Chargers might be on the wrong side of the officials. And what would the New York Avengers avenge&mdash;the folding of the old N.Y. Americans in 1942?As for the Atlanta Flames, Mr. Sato must remember that the Georgian metropolis was burned to the ground in the American Civil War. The NBA Hawks were born in Milwaukee and St. Louis, so their nickname has no connection with the city of Atlanta whatever. If one of Mr. Sato&rsquo;s suggestions had been accepted, the older players on the Atlanta team would have always been the butt of jokes as &ldquo;old Buzzards&rdquo;. Would an honest hockey player enjoy being referred to as a &ldquo;Vulture&rdquo;? Wouldn&rsquo;t Atlanta schoolteachers complain if &ldquo;Hell Divers&rdquo; was used?KEITH OLBERMANN, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.Bruins Still LackStaying PowerIn watching this year&rsquo;s edition of the Boston Bruins, one can&rsquo;t help make some comparisons between this team and previous Bruins&rsquo; squads. Speedy Terry O&rsquo;Reilly deals hard checks and gets embroiled into fights like Johnny McKenzie once did. Greg Sheppard controls the third line with the poise and fire of a Derek Sanderson. Nick Beverley is consistent on defense but goes relatively unnoticed a la Rick Smith and Ed Westfall. Finally, John Adams has been playing goal as well as Gerry Cheevers ever did. The only problem seems to be drive.JOE CALABRESE, Springfield, Mass.Canada UndisputedWorld Hockey CapitalA few weeks ago I read in Fan Forum where a reader said that Boston is the hockey capital of the world. Well, there is only one hockey capital of the world, and that is Canada. At least 93 per cent of all NHL players hail from Canada. That&rsquo;s where all the super stars were born. Furthermore, we showed that Canada is the hockey capital of the world in the Russia-Canada series. Some Boston hockey fans must think that Bobby Orr comes from Boston. Well, he is a Canadian from Parry Sound, Ont. Nobody can pinpoint one city like Boston, Montreal or New York as the hockey capital of the world. There is only one hockey capital, and that&rsquo;s Canada.RENARDO POMMELLS, Oromocto, N.B.Ratelie Doesn&rsquo;t OwnLongest Goal RecordI recently read an article which mentions that Jean Ratelle scored a goal from 150 feet out. The story infers that, although the NHL does not keep records of such occurrences, this might be the longest goal ever scored. Well, last year in Boston Bobby Orr retrieved the puck behind his own net with the opposing goalie pulled. He cleared the puck down the ice and found the net from 180 feet away. So Ratelie does not own the longest goal.EMILIO DI SPIRITE No. Smithfield, R.I. &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01854/3641083-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">JUHA WIDING&hellip; Coming On After Slow Start (Hockey News Photo by Peter Woolley)</figcaption></div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;Four Los Angeles Kings were elected to the mid-season All Star Game, but Juha Widing was not among them. Team MVP two seasons back and a close contender for the honor last season. Widing has been overshadowed this season, but his contributions have been considerable.The swift-skating center had scored only nine goals at midseason, which is not an All Star statistic, but he had helped his wingers Mike Corrigan and Bob Berry to 18 and 21 goals, respectively. At the halfway point, Widing led the club with 27 assists.Always a slow-starter, Widing at this writing was coming on in goals with five in his last 11 games, and was about to eclipse his own one-season club record of 40 assists. At 26, the 6-1, 185-pounder was maturing into a better all-around player.&ldquo;I felt I was lacking on defense. Concentrating on that may have taken away a little from my offense,&rdquo; Widing says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had an average number of chances but may not have been shooting enough. I feel I&rsquo;ve been making good plays and to me it doesn&rsquo;t matter which of us score as long as we score. However, I, myself, usually score most of my goals in the second half and I expect that will be the case this season, too.&rdquo;Four was perhaps a surprising number of stars for the Kings, but this has been a surprising team. Sportswriters vote the bulk of the team and in the six previous seasons in the Kings&rsquo; history, only Bill White in 1969-70 was so selected. This time the deserving defenseman Gilles Marotte and Terry Harper and goaler Rog Vachon made it.Since every team must be represented, Kings were added in other years. This time Berry was added, but since he led the division in goals at the time this was no token gesture. It was perhaps surprising he did not make it on the vote and Vachon did, but Rog is one of the best netminders in the circuit.The Kings figure to have been strengthened by the addition of Frank St. Marseille from St. Louis in exchange for Paul Curtis. The Blues needed a defenseman and Curtis is fearless and promising and at 26 is eight years younger than St. Marseille, but the Kings have six other defensemen and the play of Larry Brown since he was promoted when Curtis was injured made Curtis expendable. It does not pay to be injured.The Kings&rsquo; front line did benefit from the return of center Butch Goring, out 11 games with a badly lacerated knee.Before expansion, St. Marseille was buried in the low minors, but in six seasons with St. Louis he had become the Blues&rsquo; all-time points leader with 257. No big blaster, the 5-11, 170-pound &rsquo;forward who averages 15 to 20 goals a season, is a consistent, teady all-around player who formerly captained the Blues and should fit in fine up front with the Kings.As this is written, the Kings have become inconsistent and can use a steady player. A 4-0 victory in Vancouver, shutout by Gary Edwards, was their third road victory in. a rugged January schedule of road games. But they were not making the most of their few home games. They had the Rangers down 3-0 and 4-2 before being tied, 4-4, before more than 10,000 fans and were ripped by a tame Toronto team, 6-2, before a disappointed season-record turnout of 14,640.They played probably their finest first period against the Rangers, but were flat in the second period and scrambling in the third. They had not won in 17 straight games with Rangers and seemed to be waiting for the axe to fall at the finish, which it did with a goal with less than five minutes to go and another with less than two minutes to go.Vachon made some hard saves, but did not make three easier ones.Coach Bob Pulford tried to dismiss it, saying his players had played well enough to win, but they had not. Pully probably did not want another loss to the Rangers to be demoralizing, but the team seemed demoralized in the loss to Toronto. And their last game at home in January was against Minnesota, whom they had not beaten in 14 straight games.The club cannot afford to feel jinxed. It cannot be intimidated by players in Ranger or North Star uniforms. It does too well against teams as good or better for this. &#9632;

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Widing Not On NHL ‘Dream Team’ But Kings Are Glad He’s Around

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01991/3641114-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="559" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY SCHMAUTZ&hellip; Gifted Shooter</figcaption></div>VANCOUVER&mdash;Vancouver Canucks are destined to once more finish in the nether regions of the NHL East, but for Bobby Schmautz, their hard-shooting right winger, this has become a vintage season.As a team, Canucks were going through another of their standard one win, two loss weeks. Schmautz, on the other hand, was piling up three goals and four assists.The slim, wiry Saskatoon native heads into the final third of the schedule with 51 points, 26 goals and 25 assists. It&rsquo;s a pace that seems likely to leave him as the biggest goal scorer and biggest point producer in Vancouver&rsquo;s NHL history.His 26 goals leave him only eight short of th club high water mark of 34 established by rugged Rosie Paiement in the 1970-71 season, the club&rsquo;s first in the NHL.The 51 points he has totalled leave him just 15 short of the 66 Andre Boudrias recorded in the same 1970-71 season. At the same time he&rsquo;s found time to threaten the club record of 166 penalty minutes logged by defenseman John Schella last season. After 48 games, Schmautz has spent 89 minutes in the league&rsquo;s penalty boxes.Schmautz is inclined to credit Detroit defenseman Gary Bergman as at least part of the reason for his sudden scoring success.&ldquo;Bergy fingered me for using a stick with too big a hook last season,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;It cost me $200, but ever since I&rsquo;ve started using a legal blade the goals have been coming pretty good.&rdquo;They have, indeed. There were 12 games remaining in the schedule after the Bergman incident and Schmautz, now using an orthodox stick, scored seven goals.That was two more than he had managed in the previous 48 games he played for Vancouver last season.Vancouver acting general manager Hal Laycoe, a long-time Schmautz watcher, plays down the Bergman incident.&ldquo;Bobby is simply one of the most gifted shooters in the game,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Not only that, he works at it.&rdquo;Coach Vic Stasiuk says amen to that.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t recall another player who worked harder on his shooting,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;He just loves to shoot. He&rsquo;d stay out all day after practice if he could find a goaltender willing to stay out with him.&rdquo;As a matter of fact, he has. Rookie goaltender Bruce Bullock cheerfully stays out long enough to suit even Schmautz.Whatever the reason, Scha-mautz is now right up there with the top scoring right wingers in the league. Only Buffalo&rsquo;s remarkable Rene Robert and Detroit&rsquo;s Mickey Redmond have scored more goals. Established stars like Boston&rsquo;s Ken Hodge and New York&rsquo;s Rod Gilbert have scored less. At last count Schmautz and Montreal&rsquo;s Yvan Cournoyer were tied.If the five-foot-nine, 172-pound Schmautz can continue the same pace through the final third of the season, a projection of 40 goals and 80 points is not unreasonable.Schmautz himself is making no predictions, but his chances for a record-breaking season have to be enhanced by the fact his center, Andre Boudrias, is now on a scoring splurge of his own.Boudrias, who has led the club in scoring in each of its first two NHL seasons, has now regained his scoring touch after spending a lot of early season time on the bench.He scored three goals against the Toronto Maple Leafs to spark a comeback that saw the Canucks win 6-4 after falling behind 4-0. He scored two more in a 4-3 loss to the New York Rangers.Boudrias&rsquo; spurt gave him 16 goals for the season and left him in position to match his previous 25 and 27-goal seasons for Vancouver.With Boudrias and Schmautz both scoring well and defenseman Dale Tallon doing a fine job at center filling in for the ailing Orland Kurtenbach, coach Stasiuk is feeling more optimistic than he has in months.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s coming,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;The way our kids keep improving we&rsquo;re going to be okay. I just hope I can afford to wait that long.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Ban On Curved Blade Blessing To Schmautz

<div class="byline">BY DICK JOHNSTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;Sure, Buffalo Sabres are the sensations of the National Hockey League for 1972-73, or at least the co-sensations with Atlanta Flames.And sure, Joe Crozier has to be a top contender for coach-of-the-year honors.But that doesn&rsquo;t keep Crozier from worrying as he studies videotapes of his team&rsquo;s games over and over these mid-winter evenings.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01896/3641152-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="247" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gilbert Perreault</figcaption></div>All along he&rsquo;s been worrying about the sorry record of his club on the road. And suddenly his club is losing at home, twice in three games after going 21 without defeat.Besides which, his much-publicized French Connection Line has been in a slump.After 47 games, Crozier&rsquo;s Sabres had won only five times on the road. Three of the victories came in Madison Square Garden, against the New York Rangers. One came_against the hopless New York Islanders and the other against the St. Louis Blues.On three trips to Detroit, the Sabres lost three games to the Red Wings, their principal contenders for the fourth and final playoff berth in the East Division.The Sabres also had four ties on the road, for a total of 14 points out of the 55 they accumulated in the first 47 games.After the Rangers handed them their first home setback, the Sabres bounced back to trounce the Chicago Black Hawks, 5-1, but then lost next game in Memorial Auditorium to the Philadelphia Flyers, 4-3.The French Connection&mdash;Gil Perreault, Rick Martin and Rene Robert&mdash;skated in that Philadelphia loss as they had been through the early months of the season, picking up two goals and six points.But in other games since Christmas, Perreault and Company did not dominate as they were expected to. Robert continued to score&mdash;10 goals in 12 games&mdash;but several came on the power play. Martin got only five in 13 games before this was written and Perreault only one in 16.Perreault failed to make the East All Stars in the balloting by the Professional Hockey Writers Association but his wingers did. Gil didn&rsquo;t complain. How could the voters leave off Phil Esposito, the league&rsquo;s leading scorer, and Jacques Lemaire, the top goalgetter? he said. And that left no room for Gil Perreault.Coach Crozier did receive encouragement from a coe of sources. Roger Crozier, who hadn&rsquo;t played since Dec. 23 because of stomach trouble, returned to tend goal against the, Black Hawks Jan. 18 and the &rsquo; Sabres won the game, 5-1.While the French Line managed only one late goal, the line centered by Gerry Meehan came up with four goals and a total of 10 points.Meehan scored two goals and assisted on a third. Hugh Harris had a goal and three assists and Jim Lorentz had a goal and two assists.ICE CHIPS&mdash; In the loss to Philadelphia, the French Line put 20 shots on goal as the Sabres outshot the Flyers, 45-30, with a 20-9 margin in the final period. Martin and Robert each had a goal and an assist, Perreault two assists&hellip; Martin and Robert were the first Sabres ever chosen for the NHL All Star game in the writers&rsquo; poll. Martin and Perreault played in the 1972 game and Perreault in 1971 but they were picked by the East Coach after the balloting was done&hellip; John Gould, the American Hockey League&rsquo;s leading scorer, was called up by the Sabres and Butch Deadmarsh was sent down to the Cincinnati Swords. Both are left wingers but Gould also plays the right side. He had scored 24 goals and had 35 assists for Cincinnati when called up.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02759/3641145-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1160" height="957"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROGER CROZIER&hellip; Came Back To Play Goal (Hockey News Photo by Robert Shaver)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Buffalo Sabres Dull On Road, Crozier Has His Problems, Too

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL&mdash;Like an entertainer who specializes in impersonations, Rejean Houle is building a career as a substitute&mdash;and, a good one&mdash;for other people.His latest caper was as a stand-in for an injured Yvan Cournoyer, in a game against Pittsburgh, and he picked up his first NHL hat trick while giving a fine imitation of Cournoyer in front of the net. &ldquo;I just slapped them in,&rdquo; saidHoule, afterward. &ldquo;The puck just seemed to come to me everytime I got in position. That&rsquo;s the way I used to score them in Junior.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03738/3641221-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="265" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rejean Houle</figcaption></div>Houle&rsquo;s imitation of Cournoyer, come to think of it, is one of the better numbers in his repertoire of impersonations. He seems to shine every time he takes Yvan&rsquo;s place. As far back as two seasons ago, he was a standout at right wing while Cournover was out with a sore shoulder. Still remembered are his terrific performances in back-to-back games against New York and Chicago, that season, in which he was picked as the top star in 3-0 and 7-1 Hab victories. Cournoyer himself could hardly have done better.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great feeling when you have those big nights and are able to come through for the team,&rdquo; says the likeable Houle. &ldquo;I just wish I had more of them to my credit.&rdquo;Houle, as most everyone knows, jumped to the NHL from junior a few years ago with the reputation of being a hot goal scorer. Things didn&rsquo;t work out too well in the goal-getting department, and when playoff time rolled around, he found himself filling in for a retired checker&mdash;Claude Provost.That was in &lsquo;71, and Rejean did a great job of blanketing Boston&rsquo;s Johnny Bucyk and Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull, as Canadiens went all the way to a Cup victory.&ldquo;I really felt part of the team, that time,&rdquo; said Houle. &ldquo;I was making a contribution. And, playing on a Stanley Cup winner in your first season isn&rsquo;t bad, either.&rdquo;The funny thing about Houle is that once he gets permanently cast in a role, he starts to waver. After winning acceptance as &ldquo;another Claude Provost,&rdquo; he began to skid. Where his impersonation of Provost went wrong was in the scoring column. Provost was a checker who wound up with a career total of 254 goals. Houle, who was given Provost&rsquo;s sweater No. 14, checked well and created scoring opportunities as a result, but then blew them in front of the net.This season, with troubles brewing for Habs at center ice, Scotty Bowman gave Rejean a shot at impersonating a pivot. He did surprisingly well. At first.&ldquo;He looked good,&rdquo; said Bowman. &ldquo;Carried the puck well, Set-up his wingmen well. But&hellip;&rdquo;After 20 games, Houle had but one goal. And Bowman was miffed. And Houle was benched. But, even there things went wrong. Unhappy with lack of ice time, Rejean began talking about offers he&rsquo;d had from Nordiques of the WHA. And, rumors began circulating that he was going to be made part of a trade.Then came his chance to sub for Cournoyer, and his first hat trick. Maybe the only impersonation that Houle can&rsquo;t do is the one of a bench-warmer.HAB BITS: Canadiens&rsquo; depth has to rate as awesome. What other team could lose a Ken Dryden, a Guy Lapointe and a Cournoyer and go right on winning?&hellip; Rival coaches would do well to forget the &ldquo;yank-the-goalie&rdquo; gambit against Habs. Empty net goals are becoming a Montreal speciality&hellip; Scotty Bowman says the improvement in Canadiens&rsquo; road record this season could be the determining factor in a first-place finish. &#9632;

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Houle Filling Hat As Top ‘Stand In’ For Stars On Habs

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div>OAKLAND&mdash;When he was a right wing terror in the American Hockey League in the 1950&rsquo;s, Frederick Austin (No Kid) Glover set so many marks that the printer of the record book nearly ran out of asterisks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01949/3641252-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="255" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hilliard Graves</figcaption></div>This year with California Golden Seals, Glover should be a prime candidate for a Distinguished Service Cross.Last season he was fired as coach of the Seals after three games, then came bounding back this season as the club&rsquo;s executive vice-president. For this fire-eating veteran of the ice wars it was a typical Glover copyrighted comeback.As a player with the Cleveland Barons of the AHL, Glover was the breed who might be carried off with a painful wound in the first period and come limping back in the third to score a hattrick.When they made him playercoach at Cleveland he took the club to the playoffs five times in six seasons and twice went all the way to the big payoff.In his first NHL coaching job he guided the Seals to a second-place finish in 1968-69 after the club had finished dead last the previous season. For that bit of magic he won THE HOCKEY NEWS Coach of the Year award.Several weeks after this campaign got underway, Seals&rsquo; Boss Charley Finley brought Glover back as exec. VP. Then, in November, Garry Young quit in a flurry of confusion which has since become known as the &ldquo;Case Of The Million Dollar Deception.&rdquo;And as of Nov. 8, Glover found himself with the coaching job to go with his duties as GM and VP. He inherited a last-place club and one that was emotionally unstrung by the sudden departure of Young, who was fondly thought of by most of the Seals.At this point Glover was as close to being a one-man task force as anyone in the NHL. He probably went to bed at night wcndering if he was going to get back in the lineup as a player.There have been moments during the last few weeks when he could not be blamed for seriously considering it.The Seals have been ripped and riddled by injuries, the most recent being a broken jaw that sidelined Joey Johnston, the club&rsquo;s top scorer, and a painful leg injury to Gary Croteau, who replaced Johnston.Said Glover: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve only had a full squad for two games all season.&rdquo;But cutting through the gloom were some very bright flashes sparked by some of the Seals&rsquo; rookies.One, whose star was rising fast, was 22-year-old Hilliard Graves, who a year ago was not even at-tracting much attention in the minor league.After 41 games Graves had popped 16 goals. He had scored only a total of 17 in his first three; easons as a professional, three with Providence in 1970-71 and 14 with Baltimore last season.Graves, a right wing from Saint John, N.B., had logged 14 games with the Seals two seasons back and had not scored a single point in his short tour. He went to the Seals&rsquo; camp last September and impressed Garry Young so much that Young quoted early in the training period as declaring that &ldquo;Graves has already made the club.&rdquo;Playing the right flank on the rookie line with Stan Weir at center and Pete LaFramboise on the left side, Graves has become a lethal weapon. He has exceptional drive, checks with furious intensity and has a quick trigger finger. In one five-game stretch in mid-January he fired seven goals.His shooting skill has already buried some of the enemy and has earned him the nickname of &ldquo;Boot Hill&rdquo; Graves. &#9632;

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Rookies Provide Some Cheer In Glover’s Gloomy World

<div class="byline">&#x2014;Says Billy Reay </div><div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01970/3641290-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="251" height="457"></div>CHICAGO&mdash;William T. Reay, coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, should know something about the scoring of goals.Last winter, his franchise won the Vezina Trophy, emblematic of team stinginess.This season, there&rsquo;ll be no such silverware. Not unless the Montreal Cana-diens and New York Rangers yank their goalies for a sixth skater during the last two months of the campaign. Not by way of excuse, but rather in an analytical vein, Reay, the dean of National Hockey League active bench directors, was noticing recently that this is the year of the big score in shinny.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02802/3641283-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="535" height="475"><figcaption class="caption-body">Moe L&rsquo;Abbe</figcaption></div>&ldquo;The game is just becoming so fast now,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;The way these players throw the puck around now is something, and most of them have really learned how to shoot.&ldquo;The players seem to be doing a lot more free-wheeling. Not only the forwards, but the defensemen, too. And, of course, they&rsquo;re a lot stronger than they&rsquo;ve ever been.&rdquo;The facts bear Reay out. After 374 NHL games this season, there were 2,430 goals scored. That&rsquo;s 199 more than after the same number of games last year, according to the league office.The average goals per game has thus jumped about a half a puck to 6.5 per outing.Reay, a positive thinker, naturally believes that the booming offenses have resulted from better athletes doing more things better.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t buy that talk about dilution of talent,&rdquo; said Reay, realizing that the Atlanta Flames and New York Islanders have brought 78 more games and 38 more players to the NHL.Nor is Reay especially ecstatic about the burgeoning batting averages.&ldquo;I suppose that the fans may enjoy more scoring,&rdquo; said Reay, who was a spunky center with the Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Canadiens during the late 1940s and early 1950s.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no way I could judge how the fans react, but I know nothing gives me greater satisfaction than our team winning by a shutout. That to me means that everybody is playing well. Those 6-6 games&hellip; ail they do is make me sick.&rdquo;Any undue turbulence in Reay&rsquo;s stomach may have been attributed to his Hawks&rsquo; 1972-73 defensive record. With 31 games left on the Chicagoans had already yielded 142 goals, or only 24, fewer than the team surrendered all last winter. Burp.Fortunately for Reay&rsquo;s peace of mind Hawks were abiding by the trend and themselves scoring at a more prolific clip. But this climate of increased productivity combined with increased generosity made the Chicago Six constently inconsistend, predict ably unprectable.The only sane way for Hawks fans to observe them was to sit back well on the edge of their chairs, inhale and await the next crisis.The Hawks played a typically chaotic game in Detroit Jan. 17, the opening of a difficult three-stop road spin. They started off by skating with abandon and a two-goal lead. Them they faltered, lost their lead, and fell behind by two.Presto, they revived, tied the game, then won going away 6-4. With such excellent momentum, they then journeyed to Buffalo, only to get dismantled 5-1.Then it was off to Minnesota for an important West Division affair. The Hawks played well enough to register a 3-3 triumph. Just when it figured they might be tired, the Chicagoans returned home for their fourth game in five nights and destroyed the normally-organized Pittsburgh Penguins 9-3 with a season-high ballistics display of 51 shots.So how do you figure these Black Hawks? You don&rsquo;t. You just sit back well onto the edge of your chair&hellip;HAWK-EY TALK: Hawks brought up Maurice (Moe) L&rsquo;Abbe (pronounced Labbey) from their Dallas farm team in the Central League. L&rsquo;Abbe, 25, can play either wing, though he performed mostly on the right side with Dallas. He collected 14 goals and 21 assists in 37 CHL games this seasons. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s definitely an NHL skater,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;This will give us a good chance to look at him.&rdquo; L&rsquo;Abbe is 5-9, 170 pounds&hellip; After 47 games, the line of Pit Martin-Dennis Hull-Jim Pappin had amassed 66 goals&hellip; Hawks haven&rsquo;t lost to the Wings since April, 1970. Since then, Chicago is 13-0-1&hellip; In two outings at Buffalo this year, the Chicago Six was out-scored 13-3. &#9632;

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STRONGER PLAYERS, BETTER SHOOTERS CONTRIBUTE TO HIGH SCORING IN NHL

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Steve Durbano came back from his two-month illness with a loud crash.When Durbano was forced to the sidelines with mononucleosis in November, he led the National Hockey League in penalty minutes with 79. He also led the league for about the next three weeks with 79 until other players passed his early-season total.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01937/3641321-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="241" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body">Steve Durbano</figcaption></div>Mononucleosis is a disease which leaves its victims lacking in strength and stamina, and a recuperation period of about four months is common. But Durbano was back one day short of two months and definitely was not lacking in strength and stamina.In his first game back in the lineup Durbano tied his own St. Louis team record of 24 penalty minutes in one game and triggered a bench-clearing brawl against the Atlanta Flames at the Omni.In the third period, as Mike Murphy was taking a shot for St. Louis, Durbano skated into the crease and dislodged Atlanta goalie Phil Myre, who retaliated by whacking Durbano across the back of the head with his stick and opening a small cut.Myre said, &ldquo;Durbano pushed me out of the crease while a shot was taken and I had to show him he couldn&rsquo;t get away with that.&rdquo;Durbano said, &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t come in to take him out, but I banged into him. He must have been off balance when he hit me because he didn&rsquo;t do much damage. But I was really angry because he clubbed me. You just don&rsquo;t do that&mdash;hit a guy in the head from behind with your stick.&rdquo;Durbano charged Myre, but Atlanta defenseman Bob Paradise intervened and managed to hold Durbano, now bleeding from the head. Durbano started to head off the ice with St. Louis tn iner Tommy Woodcock.&ldquo;Tommy told me it was just a couple of stitches,&rdquo; Durbano said, &ldquo;so I told him he could take care of it after the game and I headed over to the penalty box. Myre was standing all alone at his net, and I figured I may as well get him now because I might not get another chance.&rdquo;Durbano attacked Myre, and both benches then emptied for the wild brawl. Play resumed about 30 minutes later, and Gary Sabourin scored with less than two minutes remaining in the game to give the Blues a 2-1 win.&ldquo;I think I&rsquo;ve got my strength back,&rdquo; Durbano said later. &ldquo;I worried about coming back, but after a solid game I felt a lot better.&ldquo;I think I was in pretty good shape when I got sick,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Once I got out of the hospital 1 thought about coming back as soon as I could. I had only four practices with the team before the first game, but they were tough practices.&rdquo;The spark contributed by Durbano could be a big help to the Blues, who had been in seventh place most of the season. The Blues have never missed the playoffs in their five previous seasons of existence, and the players this year believe they can again make it.The battle in Atlanta was being compared to the Blues&rsquo; brawl at about the same time last season in Philadelphia, when the Flyers&rsquo; fans and Philadelphia police also joined in the action. The Blues were in sixth place at the time of the Philadelphia game but immediately went on a five-game winning streak, the longest in their history, and eventually moved up to third place in a good second half of the season. &#9632;

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Illness Didn’t Stop ‘Fighting Spirit’ Of Blues’ Durbano

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>CHICAGO&mdash;Moe L&rsquo;Abbe, forward, recalled from Dallas of CHL.DETROIT&mdash;Bill Hoga-boam, forward, recalled from Virginia of AHL. Denis DeJor-dy, goalkeeper, recalled from Fort Worth of CHL.PITTSBURGH&mdash;Sheldon Kannegiesser, defenseman, recalled from Hershey of AHL. Jack Lynch, defenseman, and Steve Cardwell, forward, assigned to Hershey.ST. LOUIS&mdash;Joe Noris, defenseman. and Kevin O&rsquo;Shea, forward, sent to Denver of WHL.N.Y. ISLANDERS&mdash;Brian Marchinko, forward, sent to New Haven of AHL.BUFFALO&mdash;John Gould, forward, recalled from Cincinnati of AHL. Butch Deadmarsh, forward, assigned to Cincinnati as replacement.MONTREAL&mdash;Michel Larocque, goalkeeper, Bob Murray, defenseman, and Yvon Lambert, forward, returned to Nova Scotia of AHL.BOSTON&mdash;Ross Brooks, goalkeeper, recalled from Boston of AHL.<h2>WORLD HOCKEY ASSN.</h2>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Dave Hutchison, defenseman, recalled from Roanoke Valley of EHL. John Migneault, forward, recalled from Rhode Island of EHL. John Bennett, forward, returned to Rhode Island.OTTAWA&mdash;Ron Riley, forward, assigned to Clinton of EHL.LOS ANGELES&mdash;Bernie MacNeil, forward, recalled from Greensboro of EHL.NEW ENGLAND&mdash;Ric Jordan, defenseman, sent to Rhode Island of EHL on loan.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>BALTIMORE&mdash;Wally Chevrier, defenseman, released.BOSTON&mdash;Ken Davidson and Gerry Kemp, forwards, recalled from Dayton of IHL. Kemp on five-game pro trial, later returned to Dayon. Chris Hayes, forward, out for season with shoulder injury. NeU Clairmont, forward, out for season with broken leg. Dave Forbes, forward, recalled from Dayton and later signed to pro contract.RICHMOND&mdash;Bob Gerrard, and Wayne Hawrysh, forwards, recalled from New Jersey of EHL on five-game pro trials. Laurie Yaworski, forward, assigned to New Jersey. Larry Keenan, forward, placed on injury list for rest of season.VIRGINIA&mdash;Jim Higgs, forward, recalled from Port Huron of IHL.JACKSONVILLE&mdash;Dennis Patterson, defenseman, on injury list for rest of season with broken back.PROVIDENCE&mdash;Jerry Lecompte, defenseman, assigned to Toledo of IHL.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>OMAHA&mdash;Don McLaughlin, forward, recalled from Port Huron of IHL on pro trial. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUEFLINT&mdash;Jimmy Young, forward, left team to return to Univ, of Wisconsin.COLUMBUS&mdash;BUI Munroe and BUI Flynn, forwards, released.DES MOINES&mdash;Garry Haverty, forward, placed on waivers.<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2>ROANOKE VALLEY&mdash;Rick Hextali, forward, returned to Phoenix of WHL.CLINTON&mdash;Glen Mikkel-son, forward, released. Bob Foster, defenseman. added to roster.NEW JERSEY&mdash;Jim Park, goalkeeper, returned by Richmond of AHL. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY DWAYNE NETLAND</div>TWIN CITIES&mdash;The timing, from the Minnesota North Stars&rsquo; point of view, offered a curious blend of good fortune and irony. Gilles Gilbert was arriving as a front-rank National Hockey League goaltender just as Gump Worsley was retiring.Worsley&rsquo;s situation in recent weeks had been a tragic one, both for the North Stars and for the 43-year-old goaler. He had been off to such a brilliant start this season, one of the best of his long and distinguished career, with a 6-1-2 record and a 2.6 goals-against after his first nine games.Then suddenly, on Nov. 22 against Toronto at Metropolitan Sports Center, Worsley strained for a shot and pulled a hamstring muscle.He was out until Dec. 31, when he observed a rather unhappy New Year&rsquo;s Eve by allowing three goals in the first period of Minnesota&rsquo;s 4-4 tie at Detroit. That was followed by another layoff, until Jan. 18 at Philadelphia.Gump had always played well in the Spectrum. He was confident that night, too, until an attempted clearing pass by teammate Charlie Burns struck the thigh of Dennis O&rsquo;Brien and caromed in past the startled Worsley at 1:17 of the first period. Gump gave up three more goals in the period, and then was replaced by Cesare Maniago.Worsley took a few days off, to think over his future and to confer with Wren Blair, the Minnesota general manager. Then Gump made his decision to have, the game.Weaving Gilbert&rsquo;s recent success in with Worsley&rsquo;s problem seems cruel, and it is done most reluctantly. There is nothing more reprehensible in sports than the &ldquo;Out with the old, in with the new&rdquo; routine, and those of us who have watched and admired Worsley for years grieved over his demise.&ldquo;I just feel lost out there,&rdquo; the Gumper said. &ldquo;The timing is gone&hellip; that layoff killed me.&rdquo;Gilbert, however, did provide some truly first class goaltending.He began his string with a 1-1 tie at Boston, then participated in an 8-1 win over the New York Islanders, shut the Islanders out 1-0 at Long Island and played a strong game in a 3-3 home ice tie with the Chicago Black Hawks.Despite two bad games earlier in which he allowed a total of 15 goals, Gilbert has his goals against record down to 2.58.&ldquo;It looks to me like he&rsquo;s learned a lot from Worsley,&rdquo; noted Bill Torrey, the Islander general manager. &ldquo;The kid is a stand-up goalie, like Gump. He controls the rebounds, and doesn&rsquo;t give up the bad goal&rdquo;.The only goal of that game, incidentally, was scored by Minnesota&rsquo;s Jude Drouin in the second period with an illegal stick. New York coach Phil Goyette was sure Drouin&rsquo;s blade curve violated the half-inch maximum, but he waited until there were only 1:55 left in the game to have the stick checked. &ldquo;I thought it was the right time,&rdquo; said Goyette, who pulled his goalie to create a six-to-four skating advantage. The tactic didn&rsquo;t work.The North Stars, meanwhile, were remaining stubbornly on the trail of the first-place Black Hawks. They picked up five out of a possible eight points during one recent week, including a 5-3 win at Detroit over national television. That game was played at noon, Detroit time, which didn&rsquo;t give the North Stars much sleep following their home game the night before and the flight out.NORTH STAR NOTES: The Stars were victimized at Detroit by a goal scored by Marcel Dionne as he was standing in the cr ease. The replay over TV showed the violation clearly, and the North Stars beefed loudly, but referee Dave Newell allowed the goal. Jack Gordon has plenty of company among his coaching colleagues in criticism of the officiating this season. The rap against the refs from all sources throughout the NHL sounds like an anvil chorus&hellip; Dean Prentice scored his 380th career goal, breaking a tie with Ted Lindsay for 11th place on the all-time NHL list.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01941/3641376-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="552" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body">GILLES GILBERT&hellip; Time To Shine</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Gilbert’s ‘Arrival’ Timely As Worsley Hangs Up Skates

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02782/3641459-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg"></div>Our files show that thousands of readers like yourself want to build bulging muscles and achieve real physical power like their favorite athletic champions. How to go about it? We decided to ask an expert, Dave Prowse, 3-times British Weightlifting champion and leading fitness expert. Here are his answers.Q.&nbsp;What does it take to build muscles?A. Basically, it takes exercise.Almost any exercise will help to develop at least some of your muscles if you keep at it long enough and hard enough.Q.&nbsp;Isn&rsquo;t there an easier way?A. Yes. There is one outstandingly effective training method that is also fast and easy&mdash;the one I use and recommend&mdash;the new Bullworker system.Q.&nbsp;What&rsquo;s that?A. The Bullworker is a revolu-tionary new muscle-building exerciser based on Isometrics, the science that increases strength up to four times faster than conventional methods. In my opinion, it&rsquo;s the most advanced training system in the world today. Many leading athletes use it: World-famous Heavyweight Boxer Muhammad Ali, World Heavyweight Judo Champion Wim Ruska, and Cycling Champion Eddy Merckx, to name only a few.Q.&nbsp;How long does Bullworker training take?A. Bullworker provides absolute-ly the fastest kind of exercise possible. In fact, an introduction training program takes only 70 seconds a day. No other system&mdash;weightlifting, pulleys, or strenuous calisthenics&mdash;can give you results so quickly and easily. On the contrary, many old-fashioned methods take hours of sweaty, boring work each day&hellip; and it&rsquo;s often months before you begin to see improvements. Busy professional athletes and champions don&rsquo;t have time for that. Nobody does.Q.&nbsp;How long does it take before you begin getting results?A. With the Bullworker, you can actually begin to see and measure the positive results right from the very first day! Thanks to a built-in measuring device called the Powermeter. After every exercise you just check the reading to see exactly how much your strength has increased from the day before. There&rsquo;s no guesswork involved. Isometric Bullworker training can increase your power at the amazing rate of up to 4% per week! That means a 50% increase in strength in the first three months alone. And I&rsquo;ve known many young men who have gone on to double and even triple their strength.Q.&nbsp;What do those figures mean in visual terms?<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03692/3641452-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="1096" height="1133"></div>A. They mean that in as little as 14 days you can actually begin to see muscle growth in a minor and verify it with a tape measure. Every week thereafter brings ever faster growth.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04615/3641445-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="619" height="562"></div>Q.&nbsp;But to get such impressive results, don&rsquo;t you have to work very hard?A. Absolutely not. That&rsquo;s the outstanding advantage of Isometric training&hellip; it&rsquo;s so amazingly easy! Each &ldquo;Static-power&rdquo; Isometric exercise takes only 7 seconds, and you barely have to move. It&rsquo;s not even necessary to disrobe. The Bullworker is so light and compact, it can be used at home, in the office, anywhere&hellip; even while watching TV! It&rsquo;s a great improvement over bulky, expensive weights, bicycle machines, pulleys, etc.Q.&nbsp;Can Bullworker training even develop bodies which are weak and skinny, or fat and flabby?A. Definitely! It&rsquo;s been proven by thousands of men of every shape, size and age all over the world. Bullworker training helps transform weak, thin arms into rippling, muscular pillars of strength, build broad, powerful shoulders, turn flat, shallow chests into deep, manly ones, forge loose stomach flab into steel-hard, well-defined muscle&hellip; build that &ldquo;V&rdquo; shape of a real athlete, develop sturdy, contoured thighs and calves&hellip;. And all this in record time!What&rsquo;s more, I&rsquo;ve known skinny, shy fellows who, after just a few short weeks with Bullworker, turned into real go-getters&hellip; every inch a man&hellip; bowling girls over with their dynamism, confidence, and new found power! You really have to see the remarkable effects of Bullworker for yourself to believe them!Q.&nbsp;How can our readers find out more about the Bullworker, perhaps actually try it for themselves?A. I understand that the Bull-worker distributor in the USA is now making it available&mdash;free&mdash;on a two week home-trial basis in order to introduce it to the general public. If your readers are interested in developing their bodies, in building muscles and strength faster than ever before possible, I suggest that they contact the US distributor for full details.BULLWORKER SERVICE, 94 Crockford Blvd., Scarborough, Ont.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05504/3641438-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="1210" height="751"></div> &#9632;

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AN EXPERT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT MUSCLES

<div class="byline">BY HARRY KLAFF</div>LONG ISLAND&mdash;For one day the New York Islanders were the Toast of the Town.Wherever you went on Friday. Jan. 19, the Islanders were the prime subject of conversation. &ldquo;Hey, did you see the Islanders on TV last night!&rdquo; was a typical greeting in a mid-town cab, and secretaries who previously couldn&rsquo;t differentiate a puck from a bagel were talking about Gotham&rsquo;s newest darlings.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01914/3641407-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="262" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tom Miller</figcaption></div>The reason for the strange wave of events of course, was the Islanders&rsquo; incredible 9-7 win over the Stanley. Cup champion Bruins in the invincible fortress known as Boston Garden. Beating the B&rsquo;s at home is shocking enough, but the Islanders&mdash;who had scored but five goals in their three previous starts&mdash;hitting the net 9 times was straight out of Mother Goose.Back in 1964, another young club called the New York Mets invaded Wrigley Field in Chicago and plastered the Cubs (who are also fittingly known as the Bruins) 19-1. When a local chap called a newspaper that day for the score and was informed that the Mets had scored 19 runs, his only response was to blink for a second and then ask, &ldquo;Did they win?&rdquo;There were no such phone alls in the Islanders&rsquo; case, but the question would have been more apropos. The New Yorkers did, in fact, come perilously close to blowing the game. Had it not been for some clutch goaltending by Billy Smith and some sharpshooting by Tom Miller and Billy Harris in the third period, the Islanders&rsquo; greatest effort to date might have been wasted.The first period was simply beyond belief. Don Blackburn&rsquo;s fifth goal of the season gave the Islanders a 1-0 advantage before many in the crowd of 15,300 had a chance to settle in their seats. Little did they know that the worst was yet to come. Before the green light went on for the first time, tallies by Billy Harris, Lome Henning, Ed Westfall, and Blackburn again had given the underdogs a four-goal cushion, offset only by Johnny Bucyk&rsquo;s first of four goals that evening.&ldquo;We just caught them flat-footed,&rdquo; explained a rather happy Phil Goyette following the game. &ldquo;We got one, two, three goals, and we just kept on coming. We charged at them from the start. That&rsquo;s what they usually do.&rdquo;Despite the early score, Ed Westfall, the Islanders&rsquo; only true veteran and a former Bruin himself, had not penciled in the two points for the win. &ldquo;I saw how they could turn it around when I was with them,&rdquo; said the captain. &ldquo;I knew they would come back. With all that firepower, once they get rolling, they&rsquo;re awfully hard to stop.&rdquo;To see the Islanders carry on in the dreswing room following the conquest was reminiscent of watching a team celebrate on the night they win the Stanley Cup. But the happiest of all was Westfall, who has seen it all from both sides.&ldquo;I sure am enjoying this,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This will probably be the last time for us in Boston this year unless we meet them in the playoffs. I&rsquo;ll tell you one thing. This will be a surprise when it goes up on the boards in the other rinks in the league.&rdquo;Like Cinderella, everything had to come to an end. The carriage turned back into a pumpkin two nights later when the Islanders went to the St. Louis Arena and were trounced by the Blues, 5-1.ISLAND SOUNDS: Islanders completed a major deal with Detroit last week when they sent defenseman Ken Murray and winger Brian Lavender to the Wings for center Ralph Stewart and right wing Bob Cook. Cook got two points and Stewart one in the Boston bombing&hellip; After going five games with Gerry Desjardins in goal, Goyette turned it around and has used Smith exclusively as of late&hellip; Bryan Le-fley was ordered to start skating or ship out. He started skating&hellip; After missing a month because of a cracked ankle, left wing Germain Gagnon has returned to the lineup. &#9632;

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Islanders King For A Day After Pasting Bruins

<div class="byline">BY DAN PROUDFOOT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01924/3641490-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">DENIS DUPERE&hellip; Wanted To Get Away From It All</figcaption></div>TORONTO&mdash;Denis Dupere, the mystery man, became even more mysterious early in January when he disappeared from Toronto Maple Leafs for more than a week.While playing with the team, he adds a quality to the play of linemates Darryl Sit-tler and Rick Kehoe that is difficult to describe. His intelligent playmaking somehow sparks the line, while at the same time leaving coach John McLellan wondering how much more effective he could be if only his competitive fires burned hotter.But Dupere truly left management, reporters and fans wondering when he quit the team Jan. 17 before a game at Oakland. He said only that he was having problems and had to have some time to himself.General manager Jim Gregory suspended Dupere, not as punishment but because it&rsquo;s established National Hockey League procedure in such a case. He tried convincing Dupere not to leave in the first place, going so far as to board the airplane to reason with the player, but he had no success.Dupere returned Jan. 26, but because he didn&rsquo;t want to discuss the situation with anyone, the only clues which revealed themselves were granted by Gregory.The 24-year-old left wing, whose sense of humour apparently covers up severe intensity, had scored 11 goals and 18 assists in 36 games, while missing 11 with injuries, before leaving. His return was welcomed both by McLellan and Gregory.&ldquo;Dupere was very downhearted and depressed and was particularly unhappy with the team&rsquo;s showing. He also was upset with his own play and this resulted in him feeling he just had to get away from the rigors of hockey for a few days.&ldquo;But he made it clear that he didn&rsquo;t intend to cause any problems or any big deals in the press. It&rsquo;s like a guy in almost any line of business taking a few days off when he isn&rsquo;t feeling well or something is wrong with him.&ldquo;Unfortunately Dupere is a hockey player and I had to explain to him that it is a &lsquo;big deal&rsquo; in Toronto. The way he feels is that he&rsquo;d prefer not to talk about the incident.&ldquo;There is nothing more to it than that. He was just upset and we would like to feel this incident is closed.&rdquo;The Dupere incident was especially mystifying because he apparently didn&rsquo;t seek advice from many good friends who were worried about him. Bernie Parent, the ex-goalie of the Leafs who now is with Philadelphia Blazers of the World Hockey Association, was shocked.&ldquo;Denis worries more than he lets on,&rdquo; said Parent, &ldquo;and I only hope he&rsquo;s okay. I would hope that he would phone me if he wants to talk to someone.&rdquo; Cam Crosby, a former teammate from junior hockey days and an old friend, felt, felt the same way.But, Dupere sorted out his own problems, and Leafs could only hope he had done an efficient job. &#9632;

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Mysterious Walkout Remains Just That—A Mystery

<div class="byline">BY ED CONRAD</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01628/3641797-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"></div><h2>TOP NHL SCORERS</h2><h2>Looking At NHL Goalers</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02542/3641790-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="1171" height="2562"></div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Pardon the cliche about the handwriting on the wall, but Ed Van Impe&rsquo;s days as a Flyer seem numbered.It appears the veteran defenseman, who has worn jersey No. 2 since the team&rsquo;s very first game as an expansion infant six years ago, will be traded or sold in the very near futre.It is 50-50 that he will finish out the season, and the odds are a lot shorter about him remaining a Flyer when the 1973-74 season rolls around.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03441/3641783-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="245" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Van Impe</figcaption></div>The amazing thing, Van Impe is still a helluva hockey playe-r&hellip; a guy who gives his all, a team player, an asset to the game. He is only 32 and he has not yet begun the backslide to oblivion.For sure, he is going to be playing hockey&mdash;and helping some team&mdash;for quite a few years into the future. However, it apparently won&rsquo;t be the Flyers.Van Impe&rsquo;s impending departure&mdash;if it happens, because things could change&mdash;evidently will be triggered by, of all things, his association with former Flyer Andre Lacroix, now a Philadelphia Blazer in the rival WHA.Van Impe and Lacroix, you see, are partners in a new, elaborate hockey facility in Brookhaven, Pa., located in the southeast Philadelphia suburbs.Van Impe and Lacroix had been planning this rink for a long time ever since they were both Flyers. They agreed that a hockey rink&mdash;which they now call Skateland&mdash;would be an excellent investment for their future security.Well, Lacroix, now a 30-goal plus scorer for the Blazers, was traded away to Chicago for a minor league defenseman two &rsquo; years ago. He eventually wound up in the WHA.Van Impe had committed himself to a partnership in this investment so, of course, there was no backing away. He and Lacroix&mdash;cross-town rivals in feuding leagues&mdash;remained partners and friends.The first real indication that the Flyers&rsquo; brass was annoyed came when Skateland placed an identical advertisement in the Flyers&rsquo; and Blazers&rsquo; programs to herald the rink&rsquo;s opening. Both photos&mdash;even Van Impe&rsquo;s of the rival NHL&mdash;appeared in the Blazers&rsquo; program. Lacroix&rsquo;s photo, however, was removed from the Flyers&rsquo; program.It wasn&rsquo;t too long ago that Van Impe, team captain ever since Lou Angotti was traded away after the first season, had to give up his &ldquo;C.&rdquo; The press was informed that coach Fred Shero didn&rsquo;t want to have one player carry that responsibility. He&rsquo;d rather have alternate captains, one of which Van Impe became.Weeks later Bobby Clarke, the so-called innocent middle-man, was elevated to captain. The press was informed that Clarke would be an asset in that capacity.Soon afterward, Van Impe was no longer even an alternate. Ed apparently was paying the price of his association with Lacroix. There were even whispers that he&rsquo;d soon leave town.It&rsquo;s hard to visualize the Flyers could let something like this hurt their hockey team, which it will do if they no longer have Van Impe. He is a seasoned pro, a guy with guts, class, moxey and experience.It hurts to think of the hundreds of times Van Impe dropped himself in front of an opponent&rsquo;s hard slapshot year after year, threatining himself with a serious or permanent unjury.A few years ago Ed stopped a shot with his face in an incident worth remembering. He broke his cheekbone, lost several teeth, cut his tongue so badly that it had to be sewn together&hellip; to mention just a few of his facial injuries on that particular occasion. Everyone who saw him led from the ice won&rsquo;t forget.Yet, not long afterward, Ed was back out there on the ice. And he continued to drop in front of opponent&rsquo;s booming shots. No fear. Just blood and guts.It is a wonderful&mdash;although unpleasant&mdash;memory of an athlete whose devotion to his team and to duty has hardly been exceeded by any professional sports figure to represent the city of Philadelphia&mdash;and perhaps even the NHL.Van Impe, if he goes, will not be forgotten. Instead, he will be fondly remembered. &#9632;

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Van Impe, Flyers To Part?

<h2>In The East</h2>The Boston Bruins may have lost their touch of late in the exciting East Division race in the National Hockey League but it hasn&rsquo;t affected Wayne Cashman in the least.The hard-nosed left winger of the Bruins has become the hottest point man in the NHL in the past two weeks but inspite of it all Boston has not been winning. In fact, the Bruins managed one win in four starts this past week and in the previous week, it was one win and two losses for a grand total of two victories in their last seven games.But Cashman has been turning it on in his last dozen games coming up with two hat tricks on successive Sunday nights.All together the hard-checking Bruin counted nine goals and added four assists for 13 points in the last seven games, truly a sterling performance.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02515/3641866-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="520" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body">WAYNE CASHMAN&hellip; Boston Bruins</figcaption></div><h2>In The West</h2>When the Atlanta Flames were looking around for an ice leader for their new expansion team they tossed the responsibility at Keith McCreary.The methodical left winger came to Atlanta from the Pittsburgh Penguins where he saw limited service because of injuries. But this season it has become a whole new ball game for the soft-spoken veteran and he is finally responding to the challenge.The Flames have been burning up the West Division and McCreary is playing his part like this past week when he rolled in five goals and helped set up a sixth as Atlanta stayed in the thick of the race. McCreary had his best night with a hat trick as the Flames upset Buffalo Sabres 8-5. His three goals let the Flames hang in for Reynaid Comeau to pump home the two game-deciding goals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03386/3641859-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="510" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEITH MCCREARY&hellip; Atanta Flames</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 CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U S and CanadaDETROIT&mdash;The Red Wing season has been a lot like the donkey and the carrot on a stick.Fourth place is right there, just ahead, like the carrot on the stick, but no matter what the Red Wings do, they just don&rsquo;t seem to get any closer.A nine game unbeaten string, then, two games later a 4-2 victory over the fourth place Buffalo Sabres, put them tantalizingly close to the Sabres but just as they seemed about to close the gap to almost nothing, it widened again. &ldquo;It seems that when we get close, we always fall down,&rdquo; said Coach Johnny Wilson, baffled over it.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01639/3641828-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="256" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roy Edwards</figcaption></div>In this instance, because the Wings had played the Sabres Saturday night and had to bounce back and face the Minnesota North Stars at noon Sunday for the NHL and NBC, Wilson decided to start Andy Brown in goal. Roy Edwards has carried the bulk of the load and carried it exceptionally well and another tough stretch of four games in six days was ahead including games against the 1-2-3 teams in the East.So Wilson decided to rest Edwards and start Brown, a battler but not an Edwards whose fine record seems to be going unnoticed around the rest of the NHL.And Andy let in two soft goals, one by Bill Goldsworthy just 37 seconds into the game and another by Dean Prentice less than four minutes later.Wilson had to call on Edwards again and with him in goal, the Wings rallied to a 3-3 tie but lost it in the final period on Buster Harvey&rsquo;s goal, finishing a nice piece of work by Ted Harris and J.P. Parise. Charlie Burns clinched it with an empty-netter.While the defeat left the Wings crestfallen again, they have improved considerably in the last month to six weeks and at one point cut in half what once was a 13-point gap between themselves and the Sabres.Offensively, Mickey Redmond and Marcel Dionne lit the fuse. Redmond, who scored a career high 42 goals last season, banged in 11 goals in eight games, 18 in 18 and became the second player in the league to crack the 30-goal mark. Jacques Lemaire got there just ahead of him.Like Edwards, Redmond&rsquo;s excellence has gone almost unnoted around the league and he didn&rsquo;t make either of the first two East Division All Star squads on right wing. Montreal&rsquo;s Yvan Cournoyer and Buffalo&rsquo;s Rene Robert finished 1-2.Redmond has thrived on the power play with seven goals and he&rsquo;s had hockey&rsquo;s all-time No. 2 point man, Alex Delvecchio, as his center. The line gained more stability when Wilson put Al Karlander, not a fancy skater but a relentless digger, on left wing and kept him there.Just as the power play has been getting better for Detroit&mdash;31 goals in 46 games&mdash;the penalty killing has improved with the teamming of Henry Boucha and Billy Collins.Boucha, sent to the minors to get some scoring confidence, did that and he left his helmet behind. When he returned to Detroit he started playing more aggressively and in successive games he and Collins scored short-handed goals.Boucha, who still qualifies as a rookie since he appeared in only 16 games with Detroit last season, is catching on more with the Wings&rsquo; young fans since he discarded his helmet.Henry is a Chippewa Indian and he looks it and he&rsquo;s proud of it and he wears a head band, not so much to increase his Indian image as to keep his long hair and perspiration out of his eyes&mdash;he wears contact lenses and perspiration irritates them.The head band&mdash;&ldquo;I used to wear it under my helmet but no one saw it then&rdquo;&mdash;plus his improved play is lifting his popularity rapidly and inspiring Indian-motif signs around Olympia.Boucha also is growing a mustache and on a club where long hair once was taboo&mdash;that started Garry Unger&rsquo;s problems a couple years ago&mdash;foliage is sprouting faster than dandelions in spring.Delvecchio, the 41-year-old club captain, started growing a mustache and the other players adopted a wait-and-see attitude. Now Redmond and Boucha have them and even Vice President Gordie Howe has one although that&rsquo;s in connection with a Red Wing Old-Timers game.Howe, who is sparse on top, said his moustache &ldquo;is my greenhouse&hellip; for transplants.&rdquo;Times certainly change.RED WING NOTES: Brian Lavender, acquired from the Islanders along with Ken Murray to put some muscle in the Wings, got a goal in his second Red Wing game and also separated his shoulder and will be out a week to 10 days.After Andy Brown let in two soft goals to start a 5-3 loss to Minnesota, Wilson said Denis DeJordy would return from the minors and that the Wings may carry three goaltenders the remainder of the season.Brown had a 2-1-2 record as a starter while DeJordy was 2-6-0 with a 5.19 goals against average before being sent to the farms.The Wings have done quite well against teams in their own division, a 14-6-2 mark through Jan. 22, but were 8-12-4 against the West Division. The Wings won all three Olympia games against Buffalo this season, pushing the Sabres&rsquo; Olympia record to 0-8-1 for their three years in the league.One of the more frequently-heard criticisms of the NHL is the way goals and assists are credited and the changes made after the fact&hellip; and after everyone has left the rink.Rule 40 (c) states that no requests for changes in point awards shall be considered unless they are made before the conclusion of play but a hotly-disputed Detroit goal, initially credited to Mickey Redmond, was changed to Nick Libett after a call from the Detroit dressing room to Official Scorer Bob Blow in the Olympia press box well after the game.Referee Art Skov ruled Redmond&rsquo;s mid-second period high shot defelcted in off a Buffalo player or high Buffalo stick while Buffalo argued it was a high Detroit stick&hellip; Libett&rsquo;s. Wing captain Alex Delvecchio telephoned Blow after the game that the goal should go to Libett and Blow, when he delivered the game summary to Skov, told him he had made the change.Skov, understandably, was very unhappy and said it made him look less than good. Frank Udvari, an NHL supervisor, was steamed when he heard of it the next day and a Red Wing videotape supposedly showed Libett didn&rsquo;t touch the puck&hellip; and the goal was re-awarded to Redmond. &#9632;

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Fourth Place So Near Yet So Far For Surging Wings

C-CaptainA-Alternate CaptainMONTREALGOALWayne ThomasMichel PlatseDEFENSEGuy LapointeSerge SavardLarry RobinsonDale HogansonBob MurdochJacques Laperriere ACENTERPete MahovlichHenri Richard CJacques LemaireDave GardnerR WINGRejean HouleClaude LaroseJimmy RobertsGuy LafleurChuck ArnasonYvan Cournoyer AL WINGFrank Mahovlich AMarc TardifChuck LefleyMurray WilsonSteve ShuttINJUREDPierre BouchardKen DrydenBOSTONGOALEd JohnstonJohn AdamsRoss BrooksDEFENSEDallas Smith ADon Awrey ACarol VadnaisNick BeverleyBobby OrrCENTERPhil Esposito AFred StanfieldRich LeducGregg SheppardR WINGKen HodgeFred O&rsquo;DonnellDoug RobertsTerry O&rsquo;ReillyL WINGJohn Bucyk ADon MarcotteGarnet BaileyWayne CashmaiINJUREDMike WaltonDETROITGOALRoy EdwardsAndy BrownDenis DeJordyDEFENSERon StackhouseLorry JohnstonGary DoakThommie BergmanKen MurrayGary Bergman ACENTERRed Berenson AMarcel DionneAlex Delvecchio CHenry BouchaR. WINGMickey RedmondBill CollinsBrian LavenderL WINGNicklibett TimEcclestone GuyCharron AlKarlander BillHog a boa mINJUREDNone.TORNTOGOALRon LowJacques PlanteDEFENSEMike PelykJim McKennylarry McIntyreTerry ClancyJoe LundriganJohn GrisdaleCENTERDave Keon CGeorge FergusonDarryl SittierNorm UllmanR. WINGRon Ellis ARick KehoePierre JarryRandy OsburnL WINGPaul HendersonGarry MonahanErrol ThompsonDenis DupereINJUREDBrian GlennieRANGERSGOALEd GiacominGilles VillemurePeter McDuffeDEFENSERod SeilingAb DeMarcoRon HarrisDale RolfeBrad Park AJim Neilson ACENTERJean RatelieWalt TkaczukPete StemkowskiBob RousseauR WINGRod Gilbert ABill FairbairnBruce MacGregorL WINGGlen SatherVic Hadfield CSteve Vickerslorn WilliamsINJUREDGene CarrTed IrvineBUFFALOGOALDave DrydenRoger CrozieiDEFENSELarry HillmanMike RobitailleTracy Pratt APaul TerbencheTim Horton AJim SchoenfeldCENTERGilbert Perreault AGerry Meehan CJim LorentzDon LuceR WINGRene RobertSteve AtkinsonLarry MickeyCraig RamsayL WINGRick MartinJohn GouldRandy WyrozubHugh HarrisINJUREDNoneVANCOUVERGOALBruce BullockDune WilsonDEFENSElocelyn Guevremont ADale Tallon AJim HargreavesGreaa BoddyBarry Wilkins ACENTERAndre Boudrias ARichard LemieuxJohn WrightR WINGBob SchmautzBobby LalondeGerry O&rsquo;FlahertyBryan McSheffreyBarry WilcoxL WINGDon TnnnahillDon LeverDave BatonINJUREDWayne MakiOrland Kurtenbach CISLANDERSGOALGerry DesjardinsBilly SmithDEFENSEArnie BrownBill MikkelsonJim MairBrian LefleyGerry HartCENTERDave HudsonTom MillerLome HenningRalph StewartR WINGBilly HarrisCraig CameronEddie Weftfall CBob CookL WINGRichard GrenierBrian SpencerDon BlackDu rn GermainGagnon AINJUREDRon StewartTerry Crisp ACHICAGOGOALTony EspositoGary SmithDEFENSEBill White AKeith MognusonPhil RussellJohn MarksPot StapletonCENTERStan Mikita APit MartinLou AngottiChico MakiR WINGCliff KorollJim PappinJ.P. BordeleauMoe L&rsquo;AbbeL WINGDennis HullDan MaloneyJerry KorabDick RedmondINJUREDDoug Jarrett A:ST. LOUISGOALJacques CaronWayne StephensonBob JohnsonDEFENSEBob Ploger ABarclay Plager CJean HamelBob McCordChris EvansPaul CortisCENTERGary UngerFran HuckWayne MerrickMike LampmanR WINGMike MurphyGary SabourinPhil RobertoPierre PlanteL WINGJack EgersFloyd ThomsonDanny O&rsquo;SheaINJUREDBrent HughesCALIFORNIAGOALGilles MelocheMarv EdwardsDEFENSERick Smith ABert Marshall CMarshall JohnstonTed McAneeleyBobby StewartCENTERWalt McKechnieStan WeirIvan Boldirev AR WINGReggie LeachHilhord GravesCraig PatrickDarryl MaggsL WINGStan GilbertsonGary CroteauPete LaframboiseINJUREDJoey JohnstonPHILADELPHIAGOALDoug FavellMichel BelhumeurBob TaylorDEFENSE Bar&rsquo;yAshbee AndreDupontWayne HillmanJoe WatsonTom B&rsquo;adonEd Van ImpeCENTERBobby Clarke CBill ClementRick MocLeishR WINGGary Dornhoefer ADon SaleskiSimon NoletJean PotvinBill FlettL WINGBob KellyRoss LonsberryDave SchultzBill BarberINJUREDNonePITTISBURGHGOALJim RutherfordCam NewtonDEFENSEDave BurrowsDarryl EdestrandDuane Rupp ASheldon KanneqiesserJean-Guy LagaceCENTERSyl Apps ABryan Hextail ARon SchockRick KessellR WINGNick HarbarukAl McDonoughJean PronovostL&rsquo;WINGEddie ShackGreg PolrsLowell MacDonaldJim ShiresINJUREDBryan WatsonLOS ANGELESGOALRogatien VochonGary EdwardsDEFENSETerry HamerGilles Marotte AHarry Howell ABarry LongNeil KomadoskiLarry BrownCENTERJuha WidingJim PetersVic VenaskyLrank St. MarseilleButch GoringR WINGDoug VolmarMike CorriganBill LesukSerge BernierL WINGBob BerryReal LemieuxDon KozakRalph Backs! rom AINJUREDNoneMINNESOTAGOALCesare ManiagoGilles GilbertDEFENSETed Harris CBarry Gibbs ATom ReidDennis O&rsquo;BrienFred BarrettCENTERJude DrouinDennis HextailMurray OliverCharlie BurnsR WINGBob NevinBill GoldsworthyBuster HarveyLou NanneL WINGDanny GrantJean-Paul Parise ADean PrenticeINJUREDNone.ATLANTAGOALDan BouchardPhil MyreDEFENSEPat Quinn ABill PlagerRandy ManeryKerry KetterNoel PicardBob ParadiseCENTERBobby LeiterRey ComeauCurt BennettR WINGNorm Grattonlew MorrisonLarry RomanchychLeon RochefortL WINGErnie HickeKeith McCreary CBilly MacMillanJohn StewartINJUREDLucien GrenierNoel Price A &#9632;

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National Hockey League SUMMARIES

<div class="byline">BY NORM MacLEAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;Gilles Villemure played his first game after watching Eddie Giacomin from the sidelines for eight straight&mdash;and shutout the California Golden Seals 6-0, Jan 19. Villemure was called upon to make only 14 saves, but held the team up in the first period when it was still close.&ldquo;I had to stop a couple of tough ones on Hilliard Graves and Walt McKechnie,&rdquo; said Gil. &ldquo;On Graves I cut the angle down. But after that the guys kept the puck up the other end so much I had to concentrate extra hard just to keep warm.&rdquo;It was Villemure&rsquo;s first shutout of the season and Rangers fourth, all in the last 10 games, during which Ed Giacomin was red hot.Emile Francis, general manager-coach of New York, returned Giacomin to action the next afternoon (Jan. 20) versus the homestanding Vancouver Canucks and Ed was the difference in a 4-3 win.&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t want to be in Francis&rsquo; shoes picking between Gil and me all the time,&rdquo; said Eddie. &ldquo;After Villemure stopped those first couple of shots last night you could see his confidence return.&rdquo;Gilles even came out of the net 40 feet and beat Craig Patrick to a loose puck.With wins over California and Vancouver, the only blemsh on New York&rsquo;s six-game road trip was the Jan. 17 4-4 tie with Los Angeles, in which Rangers rallied from a 3-0 deficit.Giacomin, who worked much harder in the Canuck game than did Villemure in the California contest, stopped 20 Vancouver shots. Noticing Tony Esposito&rsquo;s selection to the All Star squads at mid-season he asked: &ldquo;Shouldn&rsquo;t All Star teams and goalies&rsquo; awards be made based upon the percentage of shots handled?&rdquo;Giac thought a bit more and challenged, &ldquo;In fact, I think they should only count the shots from the blueline in. That would be a fair test.&rdquo;Francis was happy with 11 out of a possible 12 points on the road, but said, &ldquo;I expected all 12. You have to look at it that way.&rdquo;Steve Vickers, with a couple of goals in the Seal game and one in Vancouver now has 18 goals. He shoots a heavy puck and ripped a 40-footer through Bruce Bullock in Vancouver.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not surprised at scoring this much,&rdquo; says Steve. &ldquo;If I hadn&rsquo;t hurt my knee I would have 20 goals already.&rdquo;Vickers was out from mid November to Christmas with a strained knee, but bounced back to top form in about two weeks.&ldquo;It was a bit strange at first, but I&rsquo;m passing the puck better now. Also, I&rsquo;m getting used to playing with Walter (Tkaczuk) and Bill (Fairbairn) again.&rdquo;Steve had started the season on the bench then worked in with the Tkaczuk line, but was shifted to the Jean Ratelle trio for a short period when Francis went through operation shakewell.The Cat has been developing Tkaczuk as a point man on power plays, even with the return of Brad Park. This means that Bobby Rousseau is getting less and less ice time, although he sometimes centers a fourth line with Tom Williams and Ron Harris, who is normally a defenseman.The GAG Line was in rare form in Oakland, causing Francis to comment, &ldquo;It was our finest game of the year. We were pinpointing our passes. And all three lines were skating very well.&rdquo;The Seals and Canucks didn&rsquo;t hit the GAGsters and Ratty and Company put on a show, passing almost at will.With Brad Park rounding into form, Vickers a genuine scoring machine and the expected return of left winger Ted Irvine shortly, the Rangers&rsquo; depth is starting to show. Irvine will compete with Slats Sather for the left side spot on the Pete Stemkowski-Bruce MacGregor line. Waiting in the wings is speedy Gene Carr, who has just begun to skate gain after suffering a broken collarbone dec 20.Summing up, the Rangers have rode out the injury seige, hit it big on the road and played themselves back into serious pennant contention.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01460/3641959-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="541" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body">STEVE VICKERS&hellip; Provides Scoring Punch</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Superb Goaling Keeps Road Trip Winging

PITTSBURGH&mdash;Pittsburgh Penguins were in the thick of the playoff battle in the exciting West Division of the NHL after the All Star break, but time and games were running out on coach K en Schinkel&rsquo;s crew.The Penguins found themselves in seventh place with 46 points as of the All Star break in the regular schedule but, rather thankfully, only one point behind St. Louis, three behind Los Angeles and five back of the amazing Atlanta Flames.One aspect that was not in favor of the Penguins as they headed into the final third of the season was games. The Pens had played 51 games, the same as the Kings, but that represented two more games played than the Blues, who were on a seven-game unbeaten streak at All Star time.In order for the Penguins to assure themselves of a spot in the post-season action, they certainly would have to put some kind of unbeaten streak together.Should the Blues, Kings and Flames&rsquo;continue to perform with the same consistency they have shown so far this season, they may be hard to catch when it comes down to the tough part of the year in March.The work of Syl Apps, Lowell MacDonald and Al McDonough has been tremendous for the Penguins this season.Apps, named as an alternate to the West Division All Star team by Chicago coach Billy Reay, is the Pittsburgh scoring leader. He has 22 goals and 57 points this year. He injured an arm, had to be replaced by MacDonald for the game.MacDonald is next among Pittsburgh snipers with 22 goals and 29 assists. McDonough has 25 goals and an equal number of assists.A total of 13,100 Pittsburgh fans were treated to a bruising battle with State rival Philadelphia Flyers prior to the All Star game.The fisticuffs started with the game less than 90 seconds old when Bryan Hextail tangled with Flyers&rsquo; Don Saleski. When it looked like they had quietened down, Penguins&rsquo; Jean-Guy Lagace and Philadelphia&rsquo;s newly-acquired Andre Dupont traded punches.Referee Bryan Lewis felt the sting too. After handing Flyers&rsquo; Barry Ashbee a 10-minute misconduct, the Philadelphia player punched Lewis in the nose. The Penguins lost the game, which could have been considered a key one, 5-3.The Penguins made a couple of player changes last week. Steve Cardwell, who had been unproductive lately, and defenseman Jack Lynch were sent to the Hershey Bears, Pittsburgh&rsquo;s AHL farm club.Brought up from Hershey was defenseman Sheldon Kannegiesser. &#9632;

Penguins Need Win Streak To Land Spot In Playoffs

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01303/3642014-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="600" height="809"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDTues. Jan. 23California 1 at N.Y. Islanders 8Detroit 4 at Philadelphia 4Los Angeles 5 at Minnesota 5Wed. Jan. 24N.Y. Islanders 1 at Montreal 6Boston 2 at N.Y. Rangers 4Vancouver 3 at Chicago 3California 5 at Atlanta 2St. Louis 7 at Los Angeles 5Thur. Jan. 25Detroit 4 at Boston 2Minnesota 2 at Buffalo 5Pittsburgh 3 at Philadelphia 6Fri. Jan. 26N.Y. Islanders 1 at Vancouver 5Los Angeles 3 at Atlanta 3St. Louis 1 at California ISat. Jan. 27Toronto 2 at Montreal 4N.Y. Rangers 6 at Detroit 3Chicago 4 at Boston 2St. Louis 3 at Vancouver 1Philadelphia 5 at Pittsburgh 3Sun. Jan. 28Detroit 4 at Montreal 2Toronto 2 at N.Y. Rangers 5Los Angeles 5 at Boston 6Atlanta 8 at Buffalo 5Minnesota 1 at Chicago 5California 3 at Philadelphia 4GAMES TO COMETues. Jan. 30All Star at New YorkWed. Jan. 31N.Y. Islanders at Toronto Ca ifornia at N.Y. RangersLos Angeles at PittsburghThur. Feb. 1Montreal at St. LouisToronto at BostonChicago at N.Y. IslandersCalifornia at Detroit Los Angeles at BuffaloVancouver at Philadelphia Minnesota at AtlantaSat. Feb. 3Montreal at Los AngelesVancouver at TorontoN.Y. Rangers at Boston Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders Atlanta at Detroit Chicago at Philadelphia Minnesota at Pittsburgh California at St. LouisSun. Feb. 4Montreal at CaliforniaAtlanta at N.Y. RangersN.Y. Islanders at Buffalo Philadelphia at Boston Vancouver at Detroit St. Louis at Chicago Pittsburgh at MinnesotaTue. Feb. 6Toronto at N.Y. Islanders Vancouver at St. LouisWed. Feb. 7Pittsburgh at Montreal California at TorontoN.Y. Islanders at N.Y. RangersBoston at MinnesotaDetroit at AtlantaBuffalo at ChicagoPhiladelphia at Los AngelesThur. Feb. 8California at BuffaloMinnesota at St. LouisFri. Feb. 9Philadelphia at VancouverChicago at Atlanta &#9632;

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NHL SCOREBOARD

<div class="byline">BY JIM HUBER</div>ATLANTA&mdash;This city was given its proper induction into the seamier side of hockey one Friday night not long ago and it couldn&rsquo;t have come at a more appropriate moment.More than 15,000 jammed the polished new Omni to watch their Atlanta Flames meet the St. Louis Blues, a nemisis to the Flames all season long.There were banners. &ldquo;A plague on Barc and Bob&rdquo; and &ldquo;Give the Blues back to St. Louis.&rdquo;Suddenly, in the third period, Blues&rsquo; defensemen Steve Durbano skated through the Atlanta crease and pulled goalie Phil Mvre out. As Myre was going down, he reached out and walloped Durbano in the neck with his huge goaler stick.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01329/3642045-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="271" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">phil Myre</figcaption></div>The youngster went down in a heap. He didn&rsquo;t move until the short fight was broken up. When he saw his opening, he scrambed to his feet and charged at Myre. Within moments, he was wrestled to the ice and subdued.Given a two-minute for interference and a 10-minute misconduct, Durbano was sent to the locker room to have his wound attended to. The arena returned to order.But then, as everyone was quietly going about his job in other sections of the ice, Durbano returned from the locker room and attacked Myre from behind. Both benches emptied and the bloodiest brawl in Atlanta sports history took place.It took nearly a half hour to clear it up. Just as one fight was broken up, another broke out somewhere else. Backup goalies Dan Bouchard and Bob Johnson were at each other. Then Billy MacMillan, the Flames winger, took on Johnson and sent him packing with a bloody face.How did the socially-conscious Atlanta crowd take it? Did they cover thir eyes in horror and stalk out in disgust? Did they summon the police, order the game outlawed?Hardly.Within moments, there were 15,078 screaming people on their feet, pushing so close to the fight that they had to be warned not to lean on the glass, screaming their lungs out, throwing beer, pretzels, programs and anything that wasn&rsquo;t screwed down.They loved it, as most hockey crowds so.If you live in Boston or Vancouver or Philly or any other older hockey town, you must excuse the vivacious young Atlantans. They had never seen such a thing before. Oh, a few times the Falcons had tugged at each other on the football field but they were all well padded and helmeted and didn&rsquo;t have sticks to swing.There had been a few near-brawls in earlier Flame days. Nothing serious. Broken up quickly and quietly. Penalties given. Nobody was particularly happy about it but that was it.&ldquo;How&rsquo;d you like the fights?&rdquo; laughed young Larry Romanchych to a Flame fan.&ldquo;I thought it was scrarey,&rdquo; the fan answered.&ldquo;I just hope you all don&rsquo;t expect this every game.&rdquo;Apparently, the Flame fans did. For they turned out again the following night in record numbers, most to see the Canadiens, but a good portion to see this brawling bunch who keep winning.Flame officials privately saw the brawl not as a half-hour interruption of an excellant hockey game but as money in the bank. They began predicting sellouts for the remainder of the season and the way the fans attacked the ticket agencies the next morning, their predictions appear to be coming true.You can mark it down in your book: Atlanta became a hockey town of the first order on Jan. 19, 1973. &#9632;

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Atlanta’s First Blood Battle Wins Favor With Southern Fans

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-03171/3642083-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="613" height="421"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-04126/3642076-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="619" height="418"></div> &#9632;

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WHA Leaders

<div class="byline">BY ALEX HARDY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01317/3642121-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="265" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>CHICAGO&mdash;Whatever the final fate of the WHA&rsquo;s Chicago Cougars this season, coach Marcel Pronovost makes it abundantly clear he is going after young blood next year.&ldquo;You build with kids, and that&rsquo;s what the trend is going to be throughout the WHA,&rdquo; says Pronovost. This season the new league went for older &ldquo;name&rdquo; players to build an image.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0596/3642114-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="538" height="595"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM BENZELOCK &hellip; Getting His Chance</figcaption></div>Cougars are last in the WHA West, although they managed to end a seven-game January losing streak with a come-from-behind win over Alberta. Jim Benzelock, recently obtained from Alberta where he had scored only one goal all season, played a key role in that one with a tying goal.Benzelock doubled his Alberta goal output in one week with his new team, then declared &ldquo;Chicago is the place for me. I&rsquo;m finally getting a chance to show what I can do.&rdquo;After falling on their faces following the All Star game break, Cougars face an uphill battle trying to grab a playoff berth in the schedule&rsquo;s final two months. Much of the trouble was caused by hot goaltender Jimmy McLeod getting sick. Cougars lack adequate back-up netmin-ding.Pronovost frankly admits Cougars have a crying need for another center and a defenseman. Cougars changed ownership before the season started and Pronovost maintains this was a big reason for their poor showing through the first four months.&ldquo;Our general manager (Ed Short) and I had no choice of who to pick in the draft. If there had been qualified personnel running the club before us, we would have gotten a better club. Now we have to do with what we&rsquo;ve got,&rdquo; says Pronovost.Fortunately, Cougars&rsquo; present owners are wealthy and can afford to suffer awhile. There is also a new arena in the future which should improve the financial picture.WINNIPEG: Jets maintained their winning ways, and at week&rsquo;s end had put together a six-game winning streak to hold down first place.Goalie Ernie Wakely was the WHA&rsquo;s steadiest and led the league in victories with 21. Jets are the most efficient club in the West at Killing penalties (26 goals allowed in 147 penalty situations for an 82.3 per cent efficiency). Bobby Hull scored his 22nd goal and continued to set up his former Chicago Black Hawk teammate Chris Borde-leau, who upped his goal total to 34.MINNESOTA:Fighting Saints recorded the biggest attendance upsurge in the league in the past month, thanks in part to their new 16,180-seat arena. Saints averaged 4,294 in the old St. Paul Auditorium and are now drawing 7,789 per outing in the new Civic Center. On the ice, Saints were rebounding after a slump. Mike Antonovich continued his resurgence following a shoulder separation by scoring four goals against Quebec.HOUSTON: Aeros keep on winning and now appear to be solid contenders in the West. They survived a huge second-period brawl to beat Philadelphia after bombing Chicago, leading one observer to comment that &ldquo;their old pros are getting tougher to beat every day.&rdquo; Aeros have the WHA&rsquo;s most productive power play, scoring on 31 of 104 opportunities. This means Aeros get a goal every 3.35 times they&rsquo;re a man up.LOS ANGELES: Sharks are proving to be a scrappy team of young pros but unfortunately can&rsquo;t win a home. That situation isn&rsquo;t helping in the battle with the NHL Kings over fan support in southern California. However, Sharks are the only WHA team with a winning record on the road (13-11-2). Gary Veneruzzo continues as Sharks&rsquo; leading scorer with nearly a point a game. He is sixth in the WHA in goals.ALBERTA: Oilers ended the week by maintaining their pattern of mental lapses in which they give the puck away for easy opposition scores. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re too cautious. We&rsquo;re trying to deke the other goalie instead of shooting the puck,&rdquo; says coach Ray Kinasewich. Two exceptions were Rusty Patenaude and Ross Perkins, linemates who skated and checked impressively. &#9632;

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Lowly Cougars To Rebuild With Youth Next Season

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02247/3642152-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="637" height="634"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDMon. Jan. 22Minnesota 3 at New York 2Chicago 1 at Alberta 6Tues. Jan. 23Ottawa 3 at Houston 11Quebec 1 at Chicago 7Winnipeg 4 at Cleveland 5Wed. Jan. 24Philadelphia 6 at Quebec 4Winnipeg 1 at New England 6Thur. Jan. 25Philadelphia 7 at Cleveland 4New York 2 at Chicago 9New England 4 at Ottawa 2Houston 5 at Minnesota 2Fri. Jan. 26Ottawa 2 at Minnesota 4Winnipeg 2 at Quebec 2New York 5 at Los Angeles 4Sat. Jan. 27Philadelphia 1 at Alberta 0Quebec 3 at New England 1Cleveland 2 at Chicago 1Sun. Jan. 28Philadelphia 2 at Alberta 4New York 2 at Los Angeles 9Chicago 3 at Houston 4Winnipeg at Ottawo 4GAMES TO COMEMon. Jan. 29New England at ClevelandTues. Jan. 30Philadelphia at OttawoCleveland at New England (Boston Gardens)Minnesota at ChicagoNew York at AlbertaLos Angeles at HoustonThur. Feb. 1Minnesota at QuebecOttowa at ClevelandNew England at HoustonNew York at AlbertaFri Feb 2Philadelphia at ClevelandAlberta at WinnipegOttawo at ChicagoNew England at Los AngelesSat. Feb. 3New York at ChicagoMinnesota at HoustonSun. Feb. 4New England at Los AngelesWinnipeg at AlbertaCleveland at OttowaQuebec at New YorkMon. Feb. 5Chicago at ClevelandTue. Feb. 6Philadelphia at OttawaNew England at AlbertaNew York at MinnesotaWed Feb. 7New Englond at AlbertaWinnipeg at HoustonPhiladelphia at Quebec &#9632;

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WHA SCOREBOARD

<div class="byline">BY WALT BURROWS</div>CLEVELAND&mdash;Cleveland Crusaders look very much like the team to beat for the World Hockey Association&rsquo;s Eastern Division championship.Watching the Crusaders play methodical hockey, with the accent on defense, leaves no doubt in the mind of the fan the Clevelanders are coached by someone who realizes the value of pressure.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01264/3642190-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="259" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Shmyr</figcaption></div>Bill Need-ham is the man who is guiding owner Nick Mileti&rsquo;s skaters and those who know Needham&rsquo;s background can stop wondering why the Crusaders have yielded the fewest goals in the WHA. A veteran of 16 years as a defenseman with Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League Needham began his career with the Crusaders as a scout, but organized the club so well, he was appointed coach Oct. 5.And Cleveland has been competitive from the beginning with super star goalie Gerry Cheevers as the nucleus of a strong defense.&ldquo;The big thing with our guys is they don&rsquo;t care how much money the&rsquo;re making,&rdquo; Needham said. &ldquo;They go out and bust their tails every game&rdquo;.The busting part is particularly noticeable in the opponent&rsquo;s end of the ice when they&rsquo;re trying to clear the puck out of their own end.&ldquo;Sure, we like to keep the pressure on in the team&rsquo;s end,&rdquo; Needham admitted. &ldquo;Half of our goals have been scored by converting pressure-created mistakes into points.While Needham&rsquo;s pressure tactics have accounted for its share of Cleveland goals, the Crusaders&rsquo; defensive corps has played steadily from the outset.Veteran John Hanna and Paul Shmyr are rated as Cleveland&rsquo;s top duo, although Needham hesitates about giving anyone a No. 1 status, which is another point that has made the Crusaders tough.&ldquo;We think of ourselves as a complete team,&rdquo; Needham said, &ldquo;no big stars, just a group that thrives on playing good hockev.&rdquo;Cheevers has already posted five shutouts, but is quick to give credit to others for his success. He tended goal for 22 of the team&rsquo;s wins.&ldquo;Our defense is a good as any in the league,&rdquo; Gerry said. &ldquo;It might even be the best.&rdquo;Needham can&rsquo;t praise Cheevers enough. &ldquo;Gerry is a great team man,&rdquo; the coach said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s earning every penny he&rsquo;s getting.&rdquo;NEW ENGLAND: Whalers scored four goals in less than eight minutes to beat New York, 4-3 in their first game after the All Star break. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s been our trouble,&rdquo; said coach Jack Kelley. &ldquo;We play in spurts and lately our spurts have been a little too infrequent.&rdquo;NEW YORK: Schedule woes are starting to dampen the Raiders&rsquo; playoff hopes. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to win our home games and a share on the road,&rdquo; said Raiders&rsquo; coach Camille Henry. &ldquo;We play our final six games on the road which makes it difficult.&rdquo; Ron Ward kept up his torrid scoring pace with a goal against the Whalers and appears a shoo-in for a 50-goal season.QUEBEC: Nordiques continued to climb closer to third place New York. J.C. Tremblay was still leading the division in assists. Team continues its pattern of winning at home (15-5-1) and losing on the road (5-16-0). Raiders stunned Nordiques on own ice, though, tying them 4-4, in the battle for third place. Nordiques dropped road game and fisticuffs in Philadelphia, 9-4.OTTAWA: Sub-goalie Gilles Gratton has kept the Nationals going since the injury to Les Binkley. &ldquo;Gratton has done a super job for us,&rdquo; said coach Billy Harris. &ldquo;You could never associate his inexperience with his performance.&rdquo;Nationals traded victories with Fighting Saints, losing on road, 3-2, and winning at home 6-3.. &ldquo;As long as we keep winning at home I think we&rsquo;ll make the playoffs,&rdquo; said Harris. &ldquo;We have a favorable schedule down the home stretch, playing 17 of our final 29 games at home.&rdquo;PHILADELPHIA:The Danny Lawson-Andre Lacroix-Don Harriman line has been going like gangbusters, both Lawson and Lacroix moving up into the top five scorers. Lawson scored seven points in a 9-4 win over Quebec. Lacroix scored four goals in the same game. Defense continues to pose problem in Blazers&rsquo; bid for playoff berth and coach Phil Watson keeps juggling personnel trying to find right combination.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-02190/3642183-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="525" height="633"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY CHEEVERS&hellip;Worth Every Penny</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Cleveland Seen Team To Beat As Defense Comes Up Strong

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World Hockey Assocation Summaries

LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U S and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U S and Canada<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01252/3642266-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="631" height="539"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDTues. Jan. 23Rochester 5 at Baltimore 3Providence 1 at Boston 2Springfield 4 at Jacksonville 6Wed. Jan, 24Springfield 4 at Cincinnati 10Rochester 3 at Hershey 3Virginia 3 at New Haven 6Thur. Jan. 25Baltimore 4 at Richmond 2Fri. Jan. 26Hershey 15 at Baltimore 2Rochester 1 at Cincinnati 5Nova Scotia 3 at New Haven 1Richmond 6 at Providence 4Virginia 3 at Springfield 3Sat. Jan. 27Richmond 1 at Boston 3Cincinnati 3 at Hershey 1Nova Scotia 7 at Springfield 5Rochester at Jacksonville (postponed)Sun. Jan. 28New Haven 4 at Baltimore 4Hershey 8 at Jacksonville 2Springfield 0 at Novo Scotia 5Virginia 4 at Providence 1Cincinnati 2 at Richmond 2Boston 3 at Rochester 3GAMES TO COMEMon. Jan. 29Virginia at BostonTues. Jan. 30Providence at JacksonvilleWed. Jan. 31Jacksonvile at BaltimoreProvidence at HersheySpringfield at Nova ScotiaCincinnati at Virginia (Hampton Roads)Thur. Feb. 1Baltimore at CincinnatiFri. Feb. 2Richmond at RochesterJacksonville at SpringfieldSat. Feb. 3New Haven at Boston (afternoon)Richmond at CincinnatiBaltimore vs Jacksonville (at Cleveland)Virginia at HersheyRochester at SpringfieldSun. Feb. 4Cincinnati at Baltimore (afternoon)Richmond vs Jacksonville (at Cleveland)Boston at New HavenProvidence at Nova ScotiaHershey at RochesterSpringfield at Virginia (Norfolk Scope)Tue. Feb. 6Hershey at BaltimoreSpringfield at BostonProvidence at Nova ScotiaVirginia at RichmondCincinnati at JacksonvilleWed. Feb. 7Jacksonvile at Rochester<h2>Looking At AHL Leaders</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-02200/3642259-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="617" height="841"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-03147/3642252-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="609" height="845"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY&mdash;From all indications, Hershey Bears are headed for another heart-stopping race to the finish wire in the Western Division.This time Mathers&rsquo; Bears are trying to overhaul the Division leading Cincinnati Swords. Last season Hershey was involved in the closest finish the division had ever witnessed.Bears lost the title to Balti more, which showed one more victory on the season&rsquo;s final day.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-04114/3642304-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="241" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Art Stratton</figcaption></div>Mathers has made believers out of his &ldquo;Kiddie Korps,&rdquo; who didn&rsquo;t get untracked until early December. But since Dec. 3, the Bears have been nearly unstoppable, losing only three of 21 games.The club won 14, tied four and lost three in that span for 32 of a possible 42 points to remain within striking distance of Cincinnati.As of Jan. 20, Cincinnati was first with 68 points, while Bears held second with 55. However, Hershey had played four less games, an eight point potential.&ldquo;We figured January as a key month to try and gain on Cincinnati,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;We have the long road trip in February when we play eight games away.&rdquo;In its first 10 games in January, Hershey posted a 7-2-1 record. The club&rsquo;s road record is one of the league&rsquo;s best with a 9-8-6 standard.Despite injuries to key players and recalls by the parent Pittsburgh Penguins, Hershey continues to roll. Mathers has even used defensemen Gerry Methe and Larry Bignell as wingers with Jay Babcock and Hank Nowak sidelined with broken bones of the hand.When Cam Newton was recalled, Penguins sent down 20-year-old Denis Herron. The kid came through brilliantly in his first three starts, allowing only five goals to win two and tie another.While the club&rsquo;s leading scorer Gil Gilbert was on the shelf with an eye injury, Mathers juggled lines and received a tremendous effort from the entire club.Captain Ralph Keller, one of the league&rsquo;s finest defensemen, helped lead the charge. He also found himself reaching a career scoring mark of 400. He counted his 100% a league record for defensemen, and has 300 assists.BALTIMORE: Clippers were still trying to get untracked from a long losing slump. In a five-game road swing, playing coach Jim Morrison&rsquo;s team dropped five straight, including a pair of one goal heartbreaking decisions in Boston and Providence. &ldquo;We played better in our last two games (Boston and Providence). We keep saying that things have to break our way sometime. They haven&rsquo;t. Now we&rsquo;re going to have to go out and make our own breaks.&rdquo; Both Morrison and Marc Dufour, the club&rsquo;s top scorer, were injured on the road trip. Dufour reinjured a hip and will be lost for at least a week. Morrison has a bruised chest cartilage.VIRGINIA: After having held control of second place in the West for most of January, Red Wings finally lost the spot to the pressing Hershey Bears on Jan. had 59 points in 45 games and was among the AHL&rsquo;s top five scorers.RICHMOND: Coach Larry Wilson&rsquo;s Robins are beginning to make their run at clinching a Calder Cup playoff spot as the club went through its first eight games in January with a 4-1-3 record. This was one of its best stretches of the campaign, giving the Robins 11 of a possible 16 points. Goalie Jim Park was returned to Jersey Devils of the Eastern League. Rene Drolet and Orest Kindrachuk continue to pace the club scorers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0589/3642297-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="525" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">RALPH KELLER&hellip; Another Milestone</figcaption></div>19. Hershey shelled Jacksonville, nee Cleveland, 6-1, while the Wings were dropping a 5-2 decision to powerful Cincinnati. Ageless Art Stratton continued to pace the Wings&rsquo; scoring derby, while goalie Doug Grant turned in his third shutout as coach Doug Barkley&rsquo;s club continued to impress with fine hockey. In one stretch, the Wings were unbeaten in seven of eight games. Stratton &#9632;

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Swords, Bears Ready For Battle To Wire In West

JACKSONVILLE&mdash;How times have changed for the beleaguered Barons of the American Hockey League.Attendance for their opener since moving from Cleveland to Jacksonville was surprisingly good. Police reported they had to turn away an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 fans for the club&rsquo;s home start Jan. 19 as an overflow crowd of 9,189 paid their way in to watch Hershey Bears whip the transplanted Barons 6-1. But they weren&rsquo;t too discouraged. Another 3,049 came back two nights later for game two and were rewarded with a win.Both crowds were a far cry from the final game the Barons played in Cleveland on Jan. 7&mdash;when only 412 showed to say farewell to the team.Both AHL President Jack Butterfield and Barons&rsquo; owner Nick Mileti were on hand for the Jacksonville opener. Butterfield was especially ecstatic over the crowd since it helped the AHL draw a total of 78,711 for 13 weekend games scheduled Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The average per game was better than 6,000 fans. &#9632;

Barons Attract Overflow 9,189 For First Jacksonville Game

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>CINCINNATI&mdash;The Swords are only in their second season of American Hockey League play, but they re poised to wipe out a few all-time records.Finishing a seven-game road trip with three victories in as many nights in as many different cities ran Cincinnati&rsquo;s foreign ice record to 17 wins, nine defeats and two ties.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01239/3642363-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="247" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Muckier</figcaption></div>The 17 triumphs are only three off the league record of 20 set by Rochester in 1964-65. but even if the Swords win more than that this season, they may not hold the record by the time the schedule runs its course.Western Division rival Virginia also is faring quite well on the road with 12 victories, five defeats and two ties in its first 19 tries.In piling up the 17 wins, Cincinnati scored 122 goals. 1 hat s 32 short of the record for goals on the road set by the Providence club way back in 1948-49. And the Reds did it in only 34 games. The Swords, who play 38 on the road, have 10 left at this writing in which to collect the needed 33 goals.Also within reach of the Swords are the records for most points in the standings away (Buffalo set it in 1968-69 with 46 points&hellip; the Swords have 36), most points in the standings for the season (Cleveland in 1949-50 and Montreal in 1969-70 had 100&hellip; Cincinnati has 72), and most victories in a season (Springfield in 1960-61 won 49&hellip; the Swords have 35 with 28 games remaining).Probably the most surprising thing about Cincinnati&rsquo;s play away from home this season are the scoring outbursts. Coach Floyd Smith&rsquo;s skaters have hit nine goals once, eight twice, seven once arid six six times.&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t alter our game for anyone or when we go on the road.&rdquo; Smith explains. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re a close checking team and that produces a lot of goals for us. It also could cost us some, but so far we&rsquo;ve been coming out the better with that style and as long as we don&rsquo;t have to change, we won&rsquo;t.&rdquo;The Swords put themselves into the record book with 18 ties last season the most in AHL history. For the first 50 games this season, they had only two. by far the fewest in the league.&ldquo;Joe Crozier, who coached here most of last season, played a little dif ferent st vie. He was more conservative, I guess. I want a win or a loss, I don&rsquo;t want a tie,&rdquo; Smith says. &ldquo;I believe in a wide-open style all the way, and that doesn&rsquo;t result in many ties.&rdquo;John Gould, one of the league&rsquo;s leading point scorers, was called up by the parent Buffalo Sabres. In his last game before leaving, Gould scored only 21 seconds after the opening faceoff to start a 5-2 romp in Virginia Jan. 19.Butch Deadmarsh, a 35-goal scorer for Cincinnati last season, came down from the Sabres when Gould left and promptly scored three goals in his first game Jan. 20 in Baltimore.ROCHESTER: Bob (Battleship) Kelly is establishing himself as a leading contender for league most valuable player honors. The rugged Amerk left wing, noted for his fistic prowess in the past, is making a name for himself as a goal scorer, too, this season.In addition to intimidating many opposing players, Kelly&rsquo;s latest heroics for Rochester included the following in one week: two goals including the tying one late in the game in a comeback 4-4 tie with Springfield here; a steal and unassisted goal to start a Rochester rally which resulted in a 5-3 victory in Boston; a steal and unassisted goal with just six seconds remaining for a 3-2 triumph in New Haven, and a late goal that gave the Amerks a 3-2 decision over Nova Scotia here. That was his 21st goal of t he season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-02170/3642356-1-eng-US/f0028-022.jpg" title="f0028-02" width="533" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN GOULD&hellip;Left His Mark</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-03127/3642349-1-eng-US/f0028-032.jpg" title="f0028-03" width="517" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">BUTCH DEADMARSH&hellip;Hat Trick Debut</figcaption></div>Attendance for the Jan. 19 triumph over the Voyageurs was 7,813&mdash;803 over the seating capacity. It was the largest crowd here since 7,902 for a playoff game in the spring of 1968. All-time record turnout was 8,224 Nov. 25, 1965.Early-season sensation Herman Karp and Lorne Rombough will be left with Toledo of the International League for the rest of the season, with Jeff Hunt, New York Ranger property, earning the right to stay with Rochester after coming up from toledo for a trial.JACKSONVILLE:JohnMuckier&rsquo;s days as coach of the Barons may be drawing short. Rumors are that Muckier, who is under a personal contract to owner Nick Mileti, may give up the coaching part of his job to concentrate on his role as general manager and promote hockey in Jacksonville, the Barons&rsquo; home the rest of this season and possible next. Minnesota owns all the players and may send either Murray Williamson, the U.S. Olympic coach, or Johnny Mar-iucci, a scout, in to run the Barons if Muckier decides to step down. Muckier&rsquo;s only comment: &ldquo;No comment.&rdquo;Defenseman Dennis Patterson has been lost for the rest of the season with a broken back suffered when he was tumbled into the boards in Richmond Jan. 16&hellip; Goalie Ted Ouimet certainly was part of the game in the Jan. 20 triumph in Hershey. He got two roughing penalties nine seconds apart in the first period.NOVA SCOTIA: Voyageurs were sailing along with an 11-game undefeated streak&mdash;seven victories and four ties&mdash;when they suddenly hit the skids. They lost a 3-2 decision in Rochester Jan. 19&mdash;their third defeat in Rochester this season. The following night they were blanked 5-0 in Boston and then the Vees returned home to bow to Virginia, 2-1, on the 21st.The first standing-room-only crowd of the season&mdash;5,312&mdash;filled the 5,206-seat Halifax Forum to see Nova Scotia whip Cincinnati, 4-1, in a battle of league leaders Jan. 16. Record for the VcJyageurs in the Forum is 6,123, set Jan. 30, 1972.<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-03100/3642342-1-eng-US/f0039-032.jpg" title="f0039-03" width="615" height="505"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDTues. Jan. 23Regino 5 at Medicine Hat 5Victoria 2 at Saskatoon 6Winnipeg 4 of Edmonton 8New Westminster 9 at Vancouver 3Wed. Jan. 24Victoria 2 at Swift Current 4Winnipeg 2 at Calgary 8Saskatoon 5 at 8randon 3Thur. Jan. 25Winnipeg 6 at Vancouver 2Saskatoon 2 at Brandon 2Fri. Jan. 26Victorio 4 at Regina 8Vancouver 2 at Edmonton 9Medicine Hat 8 at Swift Current 5Sat. Jan. 27Vancouver 3 at Medicine Hot 9Brandon 6 at Flin Flon 5Sun. Jan. 28Winnipeg 5 at New Westminster 3Vancouver 2 at Calgary 5Brondon I at Flin Flon 7Saskatoon 1 at Regina 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0483/3642335-1-eng-US/f0039-042.jpg" title="f0039-04" width="598" height="775"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDMon. Jan. 22Shawinigan 5 at Laval 4Tues. Jan. 23Sorel 6 at Trois-Rivieres 4Montreal 1 at Quebec 9Thur. Jan. 25Quebec 3 at Cornwall 4Fri. Jan 26Laval 3 at Drummondville 4Sherbrooke 2 at Shawinigan 5Trois-Rivieres 4 at Sorel 7Cornwall 4 at Montreal 6Sun. Jnn. 28Cornwall 5 at Drummondville 6Shawinigan 3 at Quebec 6Laval 8 at Trois-Rivieres 7Sorel 3 at Montreal 2 &#9632;

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Swords Closing In On All-Time Marks

<div class="byline">BY GREG FARLEY</div>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;Al Beaule makes it sound so simple.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve definitely got one of the most balanced clubs in our division,&rdquo; explained the Kings&rsquo; captain and number one defenseman, &ldquo;and that alone should be enough to carry us through the stretch and into the playoffs.&rdquo;The Kings, a lacklustre lot mired in fifth place since the opening weeks of the campaign, would seemingly be better preoccupied with fending off the resurgent New Haven Nighthawks, season-long cellar dwellers suddenly turned giant-killer.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01205/3642418-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="256" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Beaule</figcaption></div>Beaule, however, maintains, that the revamped Kings, one of the youngest teams in the league, are capable of overhauling Rochester, Providence or Boston, and insists their ace-in-the-hole is&mdash;of all things&mdash;experience.&ldquo;Ture, we&rsquo;re a young team,&rdquo; he conceded, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;ll bet that there&rsquo;s more experience on this team than the others.&ldquo;If I had to pick one, I&rsquo;d say Boston comes closest to rivalling us in experience, and look how much they&rsquo;ve lost from last year. Providence is composed almost entirely of first and second year pros who weren&rsquo;t there last year, and Rochester is almost like an expansion team.&ldquo;Besides myself, we&rsquo;ve got about six or seven holdovers from last year&rsquo;s squad which finished third and lost to Nova Scotia in the quarter finals, and that experience is bound to help us in the stretch.&rdquo;Beaule, who joined the Kings from Oklahoma City (CHL&mdash;now defunct) at mid-season last year in a deal between the parent Kings and Bruins, was both surprised and flattered when Springfield GM-coach Jerry Toppazzini bestowed the team captaincy on him at the season&rsquo;s outset, and is determined to prove he can handle the role which, he admits, has its drawbacks.&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t just play the role.&rdquo; Al related, &ldquo;you&rsquo;ve got to mean it. I&rsquo;m aware of the responsibility it carries and I try to conduct myself accordingly, but some nights it does present problems.&ldquo;Every player has off-nights when he&rsquo;s just not &ldquo;up&rdquo; for a particular game, and the team captain is no exception. But how can he expect to get the team &ldquo;up&rdquo; when he can&rsquo;t even prepare himself properly?&ldquo;You run into snags like that every so often, but it&rsquo;s my duty to overcome them. Basically, I enjoy being captain, because of the challenges and rewards that accompany the position.&rdquo;PROVIDENCE&mdash; Rookie right wing Gerry Butler is threatening Bob LePage&rsquo;s bid to become the first Reds&rsquo; defenseman in history to lead the club in scoring&hellip; The Reds have received unexpected firepower in recent weeks from left wing Bert Wilson, known more as a checker than scorer.NEW HAVEN- Kerry Bond, an early season bust in Beantown exiled to te Nighthawks only weeks into the campaign, has blossomed into the Hawks&rsquo; most versatile player, and is gaining rapidly on team scoring leaders. Bond admists he started slowly with the Braves, but feels the Hub club soured on him much too quickly.BOSTON&mdash; Captain Ron Boehm returned to the ice wars with a specially designed protective knee brace. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s both flexible and comfortable,&rdquo; Boehm reported,&rdquo; and it doesn&rsquo;t restrict my movement on the ice. I&rsquo;ll use it until the doctors feel the knee has strenghthened sufficiently to go without it.&rdquo; Boehm is the Braves&rsquo; sparkplug, and his presence in the lineup has a noticeable effect on the team&rsquo;s play.The Braves received a setback when the club doctor relayed the news both Chris Hayes and Neil Clairmont will be out of action for the rest of the season with injuries. Hayes is through with a badly separated shoulder while Clairmont suffered a broken leg. &#9632;

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Beaule Sees Kings’Balance Swinging AHL Playoff Berth

<div class="byline">BY JOHN ARNOLD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-02169/3642449-1-eng-US/f0029-022.jpg" title="f0029-02" width="792" height="1029"></div>SOLUTION IN FEBRUARY 16 ISSUE<h2>Across</h2>1&mdash;Pictured player.6&mdash;An NH1. general manager answers to this.8&mdash;A former New York defenseman.11&mdash;Former NHL forward.12&mdash;A Red Wing forward answers to this.14&mdash;NHL goaltender, (init.)15&mdash;Diego.18&mdash;15th and I2th letters of the alphabet.19&mdash;Last seasons scoring Champ, (init.)20&mdash;Senior baseball circuit.22&mdash;Before this season this St. Louis forward played 333 NHL games.28&mdash;A leading scorer in the AHL.29&mdash;First name of a Chicago veteran.30&mdash;Initials of White in WHA.31&mdash;Minnesota defenseman now in 20th season in NHL.10&mdash;Each, (abbr.)13&mdash;Same as 14 across.16&mdash;Rene Robert was recently picked as one.17&mdash;1966-67 Conn Smythe Trophy winner.21&mdash;New York Islanders defenseman.23&mdash;First name of 28 across.24&mdash;A Univ. Degree, (init.)25&mdash;Initials of former Bruin Tessier.26&mdash;A U.S. State.27&mdash;Preposition.28&mdash;NHL general manager, (init.)<h2>Down</h2>1&mdash;NHL center.2&mdash;leaf center led the NHL in goals in 1964-65.3&mdash;This will ruin a natural ice surface.4&mdash;Former NHL referee.5&mdash;18th and 9th letters of the alphabet.7&mdash;Vancouver rookie forward answers to this.9&mdash;Initials of a Portland forward.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>Across</h3>1&mdash;RUTLEDGE.7&mdash;L.A.8&mdash;EAST.10&mdash;C.H.12&mdash;SEA.14&mdash;P.E.15&mdash;HORTON17&mdash;O.D.18&mdash;ART.19&mdash;R.V.20&mdash;TIM.21&mdash;DAN.23&mdash;O.T.24&mdash;T.O.25&mdash;MOE.27&mdash;HENRY.31&mdash;AVE.32&mdash;D.R.34&mdash;ONE.35&mdash;J.N36&mdash;HODGSON<h3>Down</h3>1&mdash;RICHARD.2&mdash;T.L.3&mdash;LAST.4&mdash;DEAN.5&mdash;G.A.6&mdash;ESPOSITO9&mdash;TED.11&mdash;HORVATH13&mdash;E.O.16&mdash;R.T.20&mdash;TOM.22&mdash;NOEL.26&mdash;EGAN28&mdash;RANG.29&mdash;YVES.30&mdash;ED.33&mdash;R.H.34&mdash;O.D.35&mdash;J.N.36&mdash; &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-02181/3642487-1-eng-US/f0030-022.jpg" title="f0030-02" width="595" height="298"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDWed. Jan. 24Denver 2 at Portland 2San Diego 2 at Phoenix 8Seattle 4 at Salt Lake 4Thur. Jan. 25Denver 1 at San Diego 2Fri. Jan. 26Seattle 2 at Phoenix 5Portland 4 at Salt Lake 4Sat. Jan. 27Seattle 3 at San Diego 4Salt Lake 4 at Denver 1Sun. Jan. 28Seattle 4 at Portland 3Phoenix 6 at Denver 6GAMES TO COMEWed. Jan. 31Salt Loke at PortlandOmaha at PhoenixThur. Feb. 1Tulsa at San DiegoOmaha at Salt LakeFri Feb. 2Tulsa at PhoenixOmaho at DenverSat. Feb. 3Denver at Salt LakeSun. Feb. 4Seattle at PortlandPhoenix at San DiegoTulsa at DenverWed. Feb. 7Dallas at PortlandSeattle at PhoenixFort Worth at Salt LokeThur. Feb. 8Dallas at SeattleDenver at San Diego<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-03135/3642480-1-eng-US/f0030-032.jpg" title="f0030-03" width="615" height="409"></div> &#9632;

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HOW THEY STAND

<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S and CanadaMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S and Canada<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01236/3642525-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg" title="f0030-01" width="529" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY GOYER</figcaption></div>SAN DIEGO&mdash;Gerry Goyer scored his 300th Western Hockey League goal by completing a hat trick in an 8-3 trouncing of the Tulsa Oilers.It was an odd milestone marker for the 36-year-old center from Belleville, Ont. It was only his seventh hat trick in pro hockey.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s easy for me to remember,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t had that many, just seven. I remember my last one.It was on my birthday, Oct. 20, 1971, at Portland.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-04102/3642518-1-eng-US/f0030-042.jpg" title="f0030-04" width="262" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Murray Heatley</figcaption></div>&ldquo;The funny thing about it is that I played six seasons for Port land and never scored a hat trick for them.&rdquo;He had two in the part of the 1969-70 season he played with the Vancouver Canucks, their farewell (and championship) season in the WHL.The other three were back in the 1961-62 season with the Los Angeles Blades, then also in the WHL.&ldquo;They all came in a span of about three weeks,&rdquo; said Goyer, &ldquo;Then I didn&rsquo;t have another"for about eight years&mdash;until I went to Vancouver.&rdquo;Goyer is now a year-around resident of San Diego, hoping to find work in sales, as he did during his six seasons in Portland, but last summer he worked in construction.&ldquo;I think it helped me get off to a good start physically,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and helped me overcome a poor finish last season.&rdquo;His poor finish, he says, accounts for trade rumors in preseason. The Gulls were short of defensemen and Phoenix Roadrunners were shy on centers.The management of both clubs denied any trade was in the works.&ldquo;I had a good traning camp and a good early season and that sort of changed my status in San Diego.&rdquo;That might seem like a strange assessment since Goyer&rsquo;s early season point production was well below the 36-year-old veteran&rsquo;s usual standard.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I scored a goal in the first 12 games,&rdquo; he recalls, &ldquo;but I thought I was playing well and I felt I had a good camp.&rdquo;He&rsquo;s scoring now, though. So are his wingers, Bob Courcy and Howie Hughes.They&rsquo;ve accounted for 29 goals and 70 points in the 21 games they&rsquo;ve been together.The whole line has a plus of 18. That means they have been on the ice for 18 more goals for the Gulls than against. Goyer&rsquo;s individual plus is 16, Courcy&rsquo;s 21.Meanwhile, Phoenix ace Murray Heatley scored 10 points in two games, widened his lead in the WHL&rsquo;s individual scoring race and was named player of the week.The 23-year-old rookie right winger has 28 goals, also a league high, and 62 points.Salt Lake&rsquo;s Lyle Bradley is second, nine points back.Heatley lost his centerman, Bob Barlow, to a back injury, nine games ago, which slowed his production slightly but reunited with his boyhood friend, Jim Boyd, has accelerated his pace lately.Boyd, also 23, grew up in Calgary, Alberta, with Heatley and they played together at the University of Wisconsin.Heatley turned pro with Tulsa last season where he scored 20 goals and 30 assists, both totals he has surpassed this season.Andy Hinse has taken up residence on Boyd&rsquo;s left wing and is renewing his claim on the WHL All Star berth he has held the last two years.The 27-year-old Hinse scored his season&rsquo;s first hat trick in an 8-4 victory over the Denver Spurs while Heatley collected a goal and three assists.Andy has a string of six goals in four games, pushing his season&rsquo;s total to 19 after he went scoreless in the first seven games this season. He is tied for seventh in the scoring race with Salt Lake&rsquo;s Ron Huston at 43 points apiece.Boyd is sixth with 45 points.Heatley put together a six point game&mdash;two goals and four assists&mdash;in a 9-5 rout of the Tulsa Oilers.That was the same game that Howie Young scored his first hat trick in 16 seasons of pro hockey. &ldquo;My first since minor bantam,&rdquo; said the colorful veteran who has switched from defense to right wing. &#9632;

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Goyer Fires 300th WHL Goal; Runners’ Heatley On Hot Run

SALT LAKE CITY&mdash;Salt Lake Golden Eagles&rsquo; home-ice victory string was snapped at eight games by Cliff Schmautz and the Portland Buckaroos but their Salt Palace unbeaten record remains intact at 19 games.The Western Hockey League record for consecutive unbeaten games at home is 23, set by the Vancouver Canucks in 1969-70.Schmautz scored two goals 51 seconds apart, the first with only 1:16 on the clock, to earn Buckaroos a 3-3 tie. The pair gave Schmautz 14 goals in his last 14 games and 21 for the season.The Eagles, who are six points ahead of the second place Phoenix Roadrunners in the WHL race, previously had a best undefeated home-ice streak of 10.The Eagles, who set a team record with a recent 13-1 whipping of Seattle, hit double figures again against the Tulsa Oilers in an interlocking schedule game with the Central Hockey League club.Lyle Bradley and Dave Gilmour struck for a hat trick apiece in the 10-6 rout of the Oilers.Bradley now has 15 goals for the season and his 51 points are second high in the WHL individual scoring race. He leads in assists with 36.Gilmour, who was sidelined for three weeks with a chipped bone in his wrist, more than doubled his season&rsquo;s production, in two games. &#9632;

Schmautz, Buckaroos Snap Eagles’ Victory String

<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div>DENVER&mdash;Joe Noris has became the first player in Western Hockey League history to play for his hometown in the U.S.The 21-year-old defenseman was sent to Denver Spurs two weeks after being obtained in a trade from Pittsburgh Penguins. He had played with San Diego Gulls of the WHL earlier, on loan.Last season was divided between Pittsburgh in the National League and Hershey in the American League.Noris, now 6-0 and 190, was born and raised in Denver.He served as the Denver University stickboy and played in the Denver minor program but felt he needed a higher calibre of competition if he was going to improve to his satisfaction.The parents of DU star Tom Miller, now with the New York Islanders, visited their son in Denver, learned of Noris&rsquo; wishes and contacted Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey Association junior A league.Noris, then 15, was offered a tryout if he paid his own fare to camp. If he made the club, his fare would be returned.The fare was returned, although Noris didn&rsquo;t stay in the Twin cities that season.&ldquo;They wanted me to play Junior B for a year but then I would have been eligible for the 16-year-old draft,&rdquo; said Norris, &ldquo;so I went back home for a year.&rdquo;Because he had played in a juvenile league which folded after one season, Noris was not eligible to go back to the midget bracket and the only hockey available to him was on a team of mostly ex-DU players living in the Denver area, playing a pickup schedule, and as an added starter on the DU freshman team.&ldquo;If I hadn&rsquo;t been able to play and work out with the DU team,&rdquo; said Noris, &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t have gotten anywhere. They had quite a few good players there, then. There was Cliff Koroll, Keith Magnuson, Tom Gilmore and Miller.&rdquo;Noris played the next two seasons for the Kitchener Rangers, followed by a half season (a couple of months) with the U.S. National team in the 1970-71. He was traded to the Toronto Marl-boros by the Rangers and was converted to a defenseman when the Marlboros found a shortage of blue line practicioners.Part of his contract with the Marlboros was a paid-for college education, but Noris has only taken advantage of it to attend one semester at DU.&ldquo;I started a business in Denver with my brother-in-law,&rdquo; explains Noris, &ldquo;And it&rsquo;s been working out real well. We buy older properties, fix up and rent them. Some day we hope to get our own apartment building.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-01216/3642587-1-eng-US/f0031-012.jpg" title="f0031-01" width="604" height="463"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-02172/3642580-1-eng-US/f0031-022.jpg" title="f0031-02" width="1152" height="1149"><figcaption class="caption-body">New Denver defenseman JOE NORIS gets in an elbow check on Phoenix Roadrunners&rsquo; DON LIESEMER in his debut with the Spurs in WHL. Noris was born in Denver and attended univeristy there. (Phoenix Gazette Photo)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hometown Boy Noris Comes Home To Perform With Denver Spurs

SEATTLEThe Seattle Booster Club may not be placed off limits for members of the Seattle Totems hockey team but serious thoughts will be given before team management requests the players attend a booster club function.Mrs. Senie-Jacobs, treasurer of the booster club, stirred up a tempest in Seattle hockey circles in an interview with-Joe Mooney of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The story was carried by the wire services across the country.&ldquo;They are just plain slobs,&rdquo; she charged the Totems following a post-game dinner party, held by the booster club. &ldquo;Their conduct was atrocious.&rdquo;One of the lowlights, said Mrs. Jacobs, came when one of the Totems was caught offside with his hand in the fruit salad.&ldquo;They had brought out the salads to the buffet table before the hot things because the program was not over&mdash;in fact we never did get to complete the program,&rdquo; said Mrs. Jacobs. &ldquo;They were over there and one Totem was dipping his hands in the fruit salad. I walked over to him and said &lsquo;will you please get your hands out of the food; the buffet is going to be served shortly.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-03145/3642618-1-eng-US/f0031-032.jpg" title="f0031-03" width="268" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Homenuke</figcaption></div>&ldquo;And he stood there and reached his hand back down in the fruit salad, pulled it back and had a piece of pineapple. And he stuck it out under my nose and said, &lsquo;Look! Pineapple.&rsquo; Just like that.&ldquo;Oh, they were just terrible. We had a centerpiece in the buffet that was made out of fresh fruits. They took the bananas and ate them. They also ground bananas into the floor there at the Moose Club.&rdquo;The players were mystified at the story as were other members of the booster club, as expressed in the P-I&rsquo;s letters to the editor.Ron Homenuke identified himself as the player accused of dipping into the fruit bowl. He said he was about fourth in line for the buffet and since no utensils were provided to dish out the salad, he plucked a couple of pieces of pineapple from the bowl, placed them on his plate and moved on.Mrs. Marge Farnam was the author of one of the letters, which read:&ldquo;I read in disbelief your article in this morning&rsquo;s paper regarding Seat tle Totems and what the booster club thinks of them. 1 was at that party and saw nothing of what you describe. In fact, I was selling the tickets for the drinks so they had to come to me before going to the bar. I noticed no one being drunk as stated in your paper. Just how drunk can one get in one hour on beer?&rdquo;The party was held following a 4-0 Seattle loss to Portland.Bob Hitter, president of the booster club, was quoted in the original P-I article.&ldquo;I think Mrs. Jacobs was a little bit upset because a couple of her center pieces were taken from her. I disagree with her as far as it being that much out of hand and everything else.&ldquo;I thought the players conducted themselves pretty good. They sat through the floor show which wasn&rsquo;t that great. I don&rsquo;t blame anybody for not liking the floor show. I didn&rsquo;t like it myself to be truthful about it, but I wasn&rsquo;t the one who lined up the entertainment.&rdquo;Asked who did line up the entertainment, he chuckled: &ldquo;Mrs. Jacobs.&rdquo;The P-I article reported that Totem coach Phil Maloney had attended the party. Maloney denied being in attendance. He said he left immediately after the game for Vancouver to visit his wife and children who maintain residence there. &#9632;

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Totems Hit Off ice Storm, Charged With Losing Dignity

LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U S and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U S and Canada<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-02158/3642656-1-eng-US/f0032-022.jpg" title="f0032-02" width="649" height="358"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDWed. Jan. 24Omaho 7 at Tulsa 5Thur. Jan. 25Dallas 3 at Fort Worth 3Fri Jan. 26Tulsa 0 at Dallas 2Fort Worth 4 at Omaha 4Sat. Jan. 27Dallas 3 at Tulsa 6Omaha 3 at Fort Worth 3Sun. Jan. 28Tulsa 2 at Omaha 4GAMES TO COMEWed. Jan 31Omaha at PhoenixThur. Feb. 1Omaha at Salt LakeTulsa at San DiegoFri Feb. 2Forth Worth at DallasOmaha at DenverTulsa at PhoenixSat. Feb. 3Dallas at Fort WorthSun. Feb. 4Dallas at OmahaTulsa at DenverWed. Feb. 7Dallas at PortlandFort Worth at Salt LakeThur. Feb. 8Dallas at SeattleFri Feb. 9Dallas at Salt LakeOmaha at Tulsa<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-03103/3642649-1-eng-US/f0032-032.jpg" title="f0032-03" width="605" height="750"></div> &#9632;

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY TOM LOBAUGH</div>OMAHA&mdash;Three games in three nights brought two victories, one on the road, for Omaha Knights the third week in January, and the last-place Nebraskans proved they weren&rsquo;t out of the Central League race.Coach Fred Creighton&rsquo;s skaters went into Fort Worth, Jan. 18, rallied with three goals in the middle period, and broke a three-game winless string with a 5-4 verdict.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01215/3642694-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg" title="f0032-01" width="283" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Schaab</figcaption></div>The next night in Dallas Knights fell victim to Dave Krys-kow&rsquo;s one-man assault. The Black Hawk left wing scored four goals, three of them shorthanded, to pace a 5-1 triumph. That broke an unbeaten string of four straight road games for Omaha.Kryskow&rsquo;s three shorthanded goals constituted a new professional scoring record. He scored twice in the first period and added another in the second against Omaha.But the Knights had revenge when the series shifted to their own Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum Saturday night. Before the season&rsquo;s largest crowd&mdash;5,027, Knights tumbled the league leaders, 6-3. They shelled league-leading goalie Mike Veisor with a three-goal burst in the first, and then tallied three more against Michel Dumas in the second.The successful week left Knights only two points out of second place, shared by Fort Worth and Tulsa, and 10 behind first-place Dallas. Knights had a game in hand on the Hawks, and three on the Oilers and Wings.Creighton gave credit to shifty center Wayne Schaab as the most improved rookie on the squad. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s not exceptionally fast, but he&rsquo;s clever, and he can make the big plays.&rdquo;Schaab, a native of Penticton, B.C., is no stranger to Creighton. Freddy had him the past two seasons while coaching at Charlotte in the Eastern League.With two goals in the three outings, Schaab clung to the club scoring lead on 38 points and held to fifth place in the CHL race. Lynn Powis was tied for sixth with 36, and Alan Young shared ninth place at 34.Knights lost center John Martin on loan to Baltimore in the American League for two weeks, but the parent Atlanta Flames sent down left wing Norm Gratton, a third-year pro who spent two previous seasons at Omaha under New York Ranger sponsorship. The 22-year-old Gratton went to Atlanta in the expansion draft last June.Gratton made his presence felt with two goals in the victory at Fort Worth, and also collected two assists for the week. The Knights&rsquo; big pointmaker, however, was Brian McKenzie. Skating alongside Gratton, McKenzie had three assists in Fort Worth, then notched a pair of goals at home against Dallas.After Danny Gruen opened the scoring for Fort Worth in the Jan. 18 game, Allie Sutherland tied it for Omaha. Michel Cormier put the Wings in front at the start of the second period, but Gratton scored two power goals, and Dwight Bialowas made it 4-2. Young added another power goal in the third. Fort Worth got goals from Larry Giroux and Jim Paterson, but the rally fell short.Schaab had the only Knight goal in Dallas the following night. Omaha didn&rsquo;t score on Hawk goalie Michel Dumas until after 14 minutes of the second period, by which time Kryskow had already built up a 3-0 Dallas lead.Schaab&rsquo;s power goal put the Knights in charge early in the home rematch with the Hawks. Marty Gateman and McKenzie also scored in the first period, around a pair of Hawk power goals by Don Gordon.With 40 power play goals in 38 games, Creighton was more than pleased with his team. Knights have yielded only four short-handed goals, all to Kryskow. He had a previous tally while penalty-killing in a 3-3 tie at Omaha, Oct. 29.FORT WORTH: Coach Bob Lemieux continued to lose players, and Wings began to have trouble putting a full team on the ice. A week that started auspiciously with a 5-3 victory at home, Jan. 14, against Denver Spurs (and former Wing coach Johnny Choyce) ended with a 5-4 loss at home to Omaha, and a 3-2 loss to Tulsa Oilers, playing at Oklahoma City&rsquo;s Fairgrounds Arena.The big loss, was center Ralph Stewart, the CHL&rsquo;s top scorer, who was traded by the parent Detroit Red Wings to the New York Islanders, Jan. 16. Defenseman Gordie Redden, the league&rsquo;s leading penalty-sitter, injured a shoulder against Omaha, and was expected to miss at least three weeks.With right wing Gordie Brooks expected to be out another month, and defenseman Dave Smith lost until late March at the least, Lemieux was down to four defensemen and nine forwards, including right wing Don McLaughlin, up for a pro trial from Port Huron in the International League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0466/3642687-1-eng-US/f0032-042.jpg" title="f0032-04" width="535" height="1038"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE KRYSKOW&hellip; One-Man Assault</figcaption></div>That thin squad was further depleted in Oklahoma City when defenseman Larry Giroux drew a game misconduct for being the third man in a fight, center Alan Genovy received a second-period misconduct, and left wing Danny Gruen spent most of the second period in the penalty box, as a result of two fights with Oiler right wing Mike Sauter.Stewart picked up two assists in the Sunday victory over Denver, and ended his CHL stay with 29 goals and 65 points. That gave him a 17-point bulge over runnerup Reg Bechtold of Tulsa. Ralph will probably continue to be the absentee CHL scoring leader until late February.Gruen had two goals and two assists for the week, and ranked fourth in the league on 46 points, behind Bechtold&rsquo;s 48 and 47 by Lyle Moffat, another Oiler. Bob Collyard had 36 points to share sixth place in the league scoring race.The victory over Denver ended a three-game losing streak, and gave Wings the season series against former coach Choyc, 3-1. But the home loss to Omaha had the Wings&rsquo; fans screaming at Lemieux, almost as much as he was screaming at the officials.Bernie Gagnon, acquired from Denver in a trade earlier in January, had four assists against his former mates, and collected five for the week.TULSA: Oilers gave up goals in wholesale fashion to wind up their Western swing. It was a 9-5 shellacking in Phoenix, Jan. 17, followed by a 10-6 licking in Salt Lake City the next night.But the defense, although shaky, held off a late challenge, and Gordie McRae&rsquo;s sharp goaltending preserved a 3-2 victory over Fort Worth in Oklahoma City&rsquo;s Fairgrounds Arena, Jan. 20, one of six &ldquo;home games&rdquo; the Oilers are playing in OC this season.The defense was almost nonexistent on the Western swing&mdash;giving up eight, nine and 10 goals in successive games. But the Oilers&rsquo; attack, impotent at the start of the season, had improved tremendously. The previous week they had scored 7-5 and 6-5 victories in Portland and Seattle, respectively, before a 12-game unbeaten streak came to an end in an 8-3 setback at San Diego.The victory over Fort Worth ran the Oilers&rsquo; home winning string to six games, and left those two clubs tied for second place, two points ahead of Omaha, and eight back of Dallas.Center Bob Roselle, on loan from Seattle, ran his points streak to 12 straight games, and was within one of the club record, set by Tom (The Bomb) McCarthy in 1964-65. He had two goals and four assists for theThe Oilers&rsquo; &ldquo;hot line&rdquo; of Bechtold, Lyle Moffat and Bob Duncan was blanked in the Oklahoma City game for the first time since Dec. 30. Bechtold had two goals and an assist for the week, running his points total to 48. Moffat had a goal and two assists for 47 points. They were the heirs apparent to the CHL scoring leadership, held by Ralph Stewart, who was traded off the Fort Worth club. But Stewart had 65 points before he left, and it was going to take several weeks to catch that figure. Duncan, with 36 points, moved into a sixthplace tie in the league scoring race.Rookie Sauter, involved in two fierce fights with Fort Worth&rsquo;s Gruen, had collected points in all 10 games he had played for Tulsa, since coming up from Dayton of the International League on trial Jan. 2.The Oiler losses in Phoenix and Salt Lake enabled the Western League to pull&rsquo; ahead, 29-28-4, in interlocking games with the Central League.Rookie left wing Dave Shar-dlow suffered a cut eyeball when hit by a stick in the Salt Lake game. On his return to Tulsa, Jan. 19, doctors ordered him to bed for complete rest, and were hopeful of quick healing.DALLAS: Kryskow&rsquo;s record three short handed goals were the talk of the Dallas camp.The Black Hawk left wing, now 21, came from the Edmonton Oil Kings to win a regular job at Dallas last season. He started his rampage at 4:56 of the first period, while killing an interference penalty on Yvon Bilodeau. Hawk Roger Wilson got five minutes for spearing at 6.34, but Kryskow stole the puck for another short-handed goal at 6:56.The teams were at even strength when Kryskow made it a personal 3-0 lead at 6:32 of the second. Schaab scored on an Omaha power play at 14:00, the only goal yielded by goalie Michel Dumas. But Kryskow made it 4-0 at 18:55, again short-handed, while Len Frig was serving a minor penalty that was stretched into a misconduct.After that the Knights were out of it.But disaster struck the next night in Omaha, when neither Mike Veisor nor Dumas could hold off the Knights in a 6-3 game. It was the fifth straight road loss for the first-place Hawks since a Dec. 8 victory in Tulsa. &#9632;

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Kryskow Scores 3 Shorthanded Goals; Double Win Puts Knights Back In Race

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-01194/3642732-1-eng-US/f0033-012.jpg" title="f0033-01" width="602" height="361"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDTues. Jan. 16Calumet 2 at Thunder Bay 16Fri. Jan. 19Sioux City 2 at Thunder Bay 18Calumet 2 at Sault 7Sat. Jan. 20Chicago 2 at Green Bay 6Waterloo 2 at Marquette 8Sault 8 at Calumet 7Sun. Jan. 21Sault 1 at Chicago 8Waterloo 4 at Calumet 3Green Bay 5 at Sioux City 0Marquette 1 at Thunder Bay 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-02146/3642725-1-eng-US/f0033-022.jpg" title="f0033-02" width="605" height="403"></div>USHL AU STARS(For First Half Of Seaton)NORTHERN DIVISIONFirst TeamBill White, Sault, GoalJack Owchar, Thunder Bay, DefenseMerv Haney, Sault, DefenseJack Byerley, Thunder Bay, CenterBarry Hogan, Thunder Bay, R. WingChuck Kelner, Thunder Bay L WingSecond TeamDoug Long, Thunder Bay GoalDale Beerman, Marquette DefenseJohn Ferguson, Thunder Bay DefenseDon Grosso, Sault, CenterOzzie O&rsquo;Neill, Marquette, R. WingDan Tremblay, Sault, L WingSOUTHERN DIVISIONFirst TeamKeith Hall, Sioux, GoalAl McKenzie, Chicago, DefenseBruce Riutta, Green Bay, DefenseMark Weinstein, Waterloo, CenterRon Byrne, Chicago, R. WingEd Chestolowski, Gr. Bay, L WingSecond TeamRichard Dumas, Chicogo, GoalCarl Lockey, Green Bay, DefenseGeorge Towers, Chicago, DefenseCliff Purpur, Green Bay, CenterHd Murphy, Waterloo, R. Wing Jerry Fortier, Chiago, L Wing &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY FRANK BROWN</div><h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01210/3642777-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="647" height="3277"></div>NEW YORK&mdash;The Eastern Hockey League Board of Governors spent the Jan. 29-30 in meetings at New York&rsquo;s Belmont Plaza Hotel pondering re-alignment in 197374, a discussion of the playoff situation and other technical arrangements regarding hockey&rsquo;s two major leagues&mdash;the NHL and WHA.Atop the docket for the assemblage was the consideration of applications for franchises from Binghamton, N.Y. and Lewiston, Me. for the coming season. A third application, by a group from Winston-Salem, N.C. was rumored to be in the offing. Binghamton and Lewiston had been mentioned as possible locations for possible transfer of the New England Blades (before their demise), and Cleveland sports czar Nick Mileti had applied for transfer of his beleaguered Cleveland Barons to either city. As a result, neither area is a stranger to the possibilities of Eastern League hockey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-02157/3642770-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="255" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Darrell Knibbs</figcaption></div>The death of the Blades in late November brought about an imbalance in the playoff situation, thus causing some friction regarding the &ldquo;wild card&rdquo; position among the owners. EHL rules specify that the top two teams in each division make the playoffs automatically, with two third place teams gaining the &ldquo;wild card&rdquo; spots with the best record.Also before the Governors was a total clarification of the Eastern League&rsquo;s position regarding the NHL and WHA. Certain teams have been caught in the crossfire between the battling pro factions. Jersey Devils this year, for example, were threatened with the loss of their working agreement with the NHL&rsquo;s Philadelphia Flyers if they handled players for the WHA Blazers.SYRACUSE: You know a team&rsquo;s hot when it wins its 15th game in a row, scores 12 goals and the coach still manages to find something wrong with the performance. &ldquo;I told them they weren&rsquo;t playing as a unit,&rdquo; said Blazers&rsquo; coach Ron Ingram of the game&rsquo;s first two periods, &ldquo;It must have done some good.&rdquo; It sure did. The Blazers, leading &ldquo;only&rdquo; 6-2 after two sessions, scored six in the third. Al Rycroft finished the night with four goals. A 4-2 victory over Long island gave Syracuse its 39th win of the season. The club won only 38 all of last year. There are still 27 games to go! Leading EHL scorer Ray Adduono is up to 113 points on 36-77-113.LONG ISLAND: Attendance is still 40-50 per cent below normal, although nearly 2,000 fans watched Ducks&rsquo; 4-1 victory over Cape Cod. According to a point where they can&rsquo;t be recovered without a substantial upgrade in attendance. Meanwhile, the team struggles to stay in playoff contention in the tightly packed Central Division. Wayne Maxner&rsquo;s play has been an inspiration to the team. He&rsquo;s skating with Dwight Winters and Jean-Marie Nicol, who is the club&rsquo;s leading goal-getter with 29.GREENSBORO: Just a few weeks ago, the Generals were ecstatic about the return of Howie Heggedal from L.A. Sharks of the WHA. The smiles have vanished, as the 34-goal scorer has suffered a broken ankle, and the club will be forced to hold off Roanoke Valley without him. Coach Don Carter hospitalized for at least a month, failed to place Mike Self on the suspended list for a game with Charlotte Jan. 16 and has incurred a violation the commissioner&rsquo;s office is looking into.SUNCOAST: Dale Lewis was the star of Suncoast&rsquo;s week, scoring a hat trick in a 7-4 loss to Roanoke Valley and another in a 5-2 win over Rhode Island. Although Suns dropped a 4-3 decision to Jersey, the loss seems excusable as only 10 Suncoast players could dress. Aside from injuries to Jack Kell (shoulder), Cliff Pennington (broken wrist), and Marc Brunet (knee), defenseman Peter Ford was called to Baltimore of the American League just before the game. The Suns made a game of it though, and lost on a goal that was kicked into their own net.CAPE COD: Cubs and their fans were saddened by the death of General Manager Jack Crawford, a former All Star with the Boston Bruins. Crawford collapsed during the festivities at a Cubs&rsquo; game and passed on two days later. HOCKEY NEWS publisher Ken McKenzie and Team Canada coach Harry Sin-den were special guests of the Cubs on recent HOCKEY NEWS night. Cubs have been slumping, but the way the Central Division is jammed, they lost only a little ground to the Eagles, Ducks, and Devils. A 9-2 shellacking by Eagles didn&rsquo;t help.RHODE ISLAND: Eagles, floundering at the gate, pushed back the starting time of their Jan. 14 game to 8 p.m. The fans, they thought, could watch the Super Bowl, have a leisurely supper, then come to Brother Adelard Arena and watch the game. Well, the promotion backfired. Eagles lost 5-2 and only 827 people showed up. That isn&rsquo;t exactly the crowd Rhode Island needs to keep its hockey club alive. Center Darrel Knibbs and defenseman Dick McGlynn have impressed recently. Coach Larry Kish sees them as a definite boon to the club&rsquo;s playoff pretensions. Rhode Island picked up defenseman Ric Jordan on loan from the New England Whalers for rest of the season.CHARLOTTE: Addition of Bob Shupe and defenseman Jack Taggart (from Cincinnati of the AHL) has helped Checkers get more shots from the point. Charlotte and Roanoke Valley coach Gregg Pilling are carrying on their own little cold war after some nasty remarks by the latter about the Checkers&rsquo; hitting. Jack Wells hung up his padded suit for a while and coached from the bench. He found it much easier that way.CLINTON: Comets are running out of time if they want that &ldquo;wild card&rdquo; playoff spot. They need a big win streak in order to sneak past the other contenders. Despite the slim hope still remaining, coach Pat Kelly has been dismayed over lack of hustle by some of his players. A few fines are in order, according to the coach, but even fines may not do the trick. The slight consolation is that 16 of the club&rsquo;s final 27 games are at home, where the Comets have held their own.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-03116/3642763-1-eng-US/f0034-032.jpg" title="f0034-03" width="514" height="658"><figcaption class="caption-body">HOWIE HEGGEDAL&hellip; Breaks Ankle</figcaption></div>ROANOKE VALLEY: For some reason, Rebs can&rsquo;t win in Charlotte. Only once in six years has Roanoke come away with two points. Rebs missed a good chance to overtake Greensboro for first place in the South, but lost four straight games that had been games in hand. &ldquo;We let them off the hook again,&rdquo; said outspoken coach Gregg Pilling. February will be a rough month for the valley-dwellers, who have only five games at home out of 15. Things are looking up in the manpower department: &ldquo;The Saint&rdquo; is back, with Denis Melo-che ready to return from his shoulder injury, and Rick Hextail picked up on loan from Phoenix in the WHL.NEW JERSEY: When Devils scrambled to 1-0 victory over Roanke Valley, it was their first regular season victory ever over Rebs. Ray Boutin turned aside 31 Rebel shots in tying a club record with his second shutout of the season. In fact, Boutin has been so good on this recent hot streak that coach Red Hay has been in the enviable position of having to bench his No. 2 man Jim Park. Newcomer Archie MacDonald has been flying with Terry Moran and Ian MacKinnon.JOHNSTOWN: Jets won two out of three games, the big one being a 10-1 pounding of Clinton. Jets and Syracuse Blazers continued their gang war-type play in recent 4-2 Blazers&rsquo; win. After two fights had disrupted the game, the third one, at 9:48 of the third period, cleared the benches. In that set-to, defenseman Gary Wood was knocked unconscious by a Blake Ball right hand. Both starting goalies had been ejected earlier in that game for leaving their creases to join a fight. &#9632;

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EHL Governors Air Problem Of Allegiance To NHL or WHA

<div class="byline">BY JOHN GUGGER</div><h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01199/3642815-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="655" height="2619"></div>COLUMBUS&mdash;There won&rsquo;t be much lingering around town when the International League season ends for Columbus Seals. And it&rsquo;ll end, for sure, on March 18.That date is the final day of regular-season play. The Seals haven&rsquo;t qualified for anything more challenging.But while the Seals are the worst team in the International League, worst in just about anything you care to name, they have the opportunity become spoilers. On home ice, at least, they&rsquo;ve been doing just that.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-02165/3642808-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="241" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marty Reynolds</figcaption></div>Within a span of 10 days, they cut down Toledo, Saginaw, Port Huron, and Flint at home. Those four victories, in a five-game spell, nearly equalled their previous total of five wins in their first 45 games. On the season, Columbus had nine wins, 41 losses, one tie.&ldquo;Believe me, we&rsquo;re not as bad a team as our record shows,&rdquo; Columbus general manager Don Scott said. &ldquo;But we got down and everything started to go wrong. We just couldn&rsquo;t reverse the trend. It was kind of a snowball thing.&rdquo;Scott and coach Moe Bartoli made a trade with Port Huron that rocked the IHL in December. In the three-for-two deal, one of the players the Seals obtained was Marty Reynolds, who has been the architect behind most of Columbus&rsquo; meager success.Shortly after the trade, Reynolds scored an overtime goal to beat his ex-mates. In Columbus&rsquo; recent surge, Reynolds scored another winner against his exmates with four minutes to play and had a three-goal hat trick against Saginaw. He scored twice in the win over Flint.&ldquo;Marty Reynolds is the best center in the league,&rdquo; Scott said. &ldquo;I know he&rsquo;s the best because every team in the league has offered me two and three players for him.&rdquo;Ed James, who had just six goals in 39 previous games, erupted for four to lead the Seals to the first of their four victories, 4-1. over Toledo. The win snapped a 16-game Columbus losing streak at home.DES MOINES: Danny Gloor boosted team-leading goal total to 29 with hat trick against Fort Wayne&hellip; Gary Haverty was placed on waivers&hellip; Caps, second-worst in league in goals against, had cut down average yield by two per game since addition of rookie goalie Ted Lenssen&hellip; Crowds continued poor with high of 1,690&hellip; Average attendance was 1,225 per game on total of 26,455 for 22 home dates&hellip;FORT WAYNE: No. 2 scorer Brian Walker was sidelined by hip injury and was to miss at least three weeks&hellip; Dean Sher-emeta had seven game-winning goals, four off league record&hellip; Largest crowd of season, 6,857 watched K&rsquo;s suffer shutout at hands of Muskegon&hellip; Robbie Irons was seeing bulk of duty in goal as coach Marc Boileau abandoned alternating system&hellip; D&rsquo;Arcy Keating broke in with two goals and a fight in first games&hellip;DAYTON: Gordie Malinoski, who had never scored more than one goal in 238 previous games with Gems, fired two in 3-1 victory over Toledo&hellip; Malinoski&rsquo;s penalty total reached 278 minutes, a team record and the league high&hellip; Dave Forbes was called up permanently to Boston of AHL&hellip; Forbes was team&rsquo;s second leading scorer&hellip; Laurie Yaworski was obtained from San Diego of Western League&hellip; GM Lefty McFadden had throat surgery and couldn&rsquo;t yell at officials&hellip;TOLEDO: All except two Toledo players were robbed of $500 plus watch and two rings at Flint&hellip; Rookie Dean Jeffrey got third start of season when Glenn Ramsay was sidelined by lower abdomen injury&hellip; Doug Moyes had gone 13 games without a goal&hellip; Jerry Lecompte was sent down from Providence and coach Skip Burchell planned to use the 21-year-old on right wing&hellip; After eight-game unbeaten string, Hornets managed just one win, one tie in next eight games&hellip;FLINT: Generals were lifted of $275 and top coat at IMA arena by same thief that invaded Toledo dressing room&hellip; Jim Young, only General with a hat trick this season, quit club and will return to University of Wisconsin to complete degree&hellip; League scoring leader Wayne Zuk tallied 80th point, breaking Generals&rsquo; all-time sccring mark&hellip; String of 17 consecutive sellouts ended with crowd of 3,-731, just 291 short of capacity&hellip;MUSKEGON: Mike Randolph was playing with broken nose&hellip; Bryan Mclay was sidelined for six weeks after knee operation&hellip; Lynn Margarit had unusual game, being on ice for four Hawks&rsquo; goals and six Flint goals in 7-4 loss&hellip; Dave Hain-sworth registered back-to-back shutouts over Toledo and Fort Wayne, boosting his season total to three, two of them on the road&hellip; Coach-GM Moose Lallo wanted club to be more physical&hellip;PORT HURON: Wings held Muskegon scoreless for 23 minutes and pulled out 2-1 win de-splite playing last period&mdash;plus with just 11 skaters&hellip; Jim Higgs, leading goal scorer with 23, was called up to Virginia of AHL for tryout along with Don McLaughlin&hellip; Close-checking road style paid off with 3-2 and 2-1 victories in Toledo and Muskegon&hellip; Bill McKenzie blanked Flint to lower goals againsLaverage to 2.59&hellip; Larry Klewchuk&rsquo;s goal with 58 seconds left beat Flint&hellip;SAGINAW: Denis Desrosiers boosted league-leading goal total to 41 in 50 games&hellip; Gears passed 100,000 mark in attendance after 25th home date&hellip; Murray McNeil fired hat trick&mdash;all the goals in the third period&mdash;to key win over Toledo&hellip; Ray Belanger had 47 saves in 3-3 tie at Toledo&hellip; &#9632;

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Lowly Columbus Seals Turning ‘Spoilers’

<div class="byline">BY TOM BURKE</div>BOSTON&mdash;Eastern College Division One took a breather in the third week of January before plunging into frenetic February&rsquo;s playoff chase. Let us take a respite also, and ponder some of the developments of the season&rsquo;s half.The shop-worn cliches about &ldquo;this year being the tightest, most unpredictable yet, etc.&rdquo; seem to ring true. The upper rung teams are hardly secure, as we can see from a trio of upsets in the light week schedule, namely Colgate ambushing Clarkson, 5-4, Northeastern nosing RPI 4-3, and Dartmouth dumping Penn, 5-3. Clarkson blew a 4-0 lead over the Red Raiders, and Dan Desmond tallied the winner. Freshman Bill Southern was the Northeastern hero, scoring two goals against the Engineers after being called up from the JV&rsquo;s. And Bill Berry&rsquo;s two goals lifted Dartmouth over the.500 mark, divisionally speaking, while dropping Penn perilously close to the break-even point as the Quakers were absorbing their second loss of the week. Cornell topped then 4-1 in Philadelphia earlier.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0397/3642846-1-eng-US/f0036-032.jpg" title="f0036-03" width="268" height="472"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Berry</figcaption></div>There&rsquo;s no reason to believe the trend won&rsquo;t continue. In fact, the home ice advantage didn&rsquo;t show up well, as every team but Boston College had lost a game at home by mid-January. I&rsquo;d hate to be on the playoff seeding committee. The race should be so close that maybe the ECAC should resolve, beforehand, to select playoff participants strictly on the basis of divisional won-lost percentage. If they weigh such factors as strength of schedule in smoke-filled rooms, wanna bet that some claims of personal favoritism emerge this season?Ah, personalities. They&rsquo;re unavoidable. But I feel that if I were on a selection committee, and if two teams were literally deadlocked in the playoff race, I&rsquo;d probably cast by vote for the coach I like better. It&rsquo;s happened before, with deserving teams getting jobbed (i.e. Colgate in 1970, Clarkson in 1971.). Wouldn&rsquo;t the best thing be to ward off a potential political situation before it happens?More in this vein, another reason for the stickiness in selecting playoff participants is the irregularity existing between individual teams&rsquo; schedules. Ideally, each team in the Division should play every other team at least once. In no case does it happen. Sometimes, mutual antagonisms play a part in X College dropping Y University from its season slate. Other times, finances and travel enter in and make an annual or bi-annual junket unfeasible. But I think that every team should make an effort to play as many Divisional foes as possible to even out schedule discrepancies and make playoff selection easier. Maybe if more than three Division One opponents were missing from a club&rsquo;s schedule in a given year, then the league could pass a rule which would penalize that team in the playoff considerations. How about a hypothetical &ldquo;loss&rdquo; to be added in for every loop team beyond three not scheduled by old Curmudgeon U.?The offensive zone checking rule hasn&rsquo;t spawned a race of Luca Brasi&rsquo;s in college hockey, as some, including yours truly, feared. But let&rsquo;s not be in any hurry to imitate the pro game any more, folks. The attitude that college hockey as a sport is somehow inferior to pro shinny is the real devil to be exorcised.My apologies to Pennsylvania goalie Tim McQuiston. He&rsquo;d been labeled in this column as an inconsistent sort, but he was playing with broken ribs in a couple of games lost big by the Quakers. Nobody told me &lsquo;til later. Tim.One of the reasons for topsyturviness in the East this year is the wider use of freshmen on most varsities. I&rsquo;ll still reserve judgment on fresh eligibility, however. Three years of varsity hockey should be enough for any student athlete. The problem of senior-itis in former sophomore stars is bad enough already, as any coach will tell you. I&rsquo;d like to cross section today&rsquo;s &ldquo;instant star&rdquo; freshmen four years hence, just to see if the motivational zing is as strong as ever. I bet &lsquo;t ain&rsquo;t so.Not only are playoffs fast approaching. but the annual reputation balloting namely the nomination of All-East and All America players, will soon be here. Too often, I think, the selections are based on word of mouth and prior achevement. So. here&rsquo;s my &ldquo;All-Anonymous Team&rdquo;, players who don&rsquo;t get much ballyhoo but who&rsquo;ll give any squad of All-Americans a tussle: Goal: Chris Grigg, (Colgate). Defense: Chuck lambert, (BC), Mike Marvell, (Provid ence), and Keith Smith, (Brown) Forwards: Gary Webb, (St. Lawrence), Pete (Clarkson) Gary (Providence), Steve Dolloff (BU), and Randy Roth (Harvard). These puck chasers are either overshadowed by &ldquo;name&rdquo; team mates or don&rsquo;t get enough exposure due to geographical location or so-so records of their teams. &#9632;

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Clarkson, RPI, Penn Take It On Chin

<div class="byline">By Steve Klein</div>For almost 44 years, hockey hadn&rsquo;t changed much in Houghton, Mich., home of the Michigan Tech Huskies. And then progress set in.From 1928 until 1972, Tech played in Dee Stadium&mdash;oldtimers around the Copper Country still refer to it by its former name, the Amphidrome&mdash;where the Huskies terrorized opponents on the somewhat smaller ice surface with a devastating forecheck. But a little more than a year ago, Tech left friendly Dee Stadium for the new Student Ice Arena, with its superior facilities&mdash;and larger 200x85 ice surface&mdash;and things just haven&rsquo;t been the same.&ldquo;In Dee Stadium,&rdquo; remembers Darwin Mott, Tech&rsquo;s senior captain, &ldquo;a defenseman behind the net found himself cut off with nowhere else to go. Our whole game was our forechecking, and it could be devastating. But it&rsquo;s impossible to do this with all the room in the new rink. We just can&rsquo;t play the same forechecking game.&rdquo;Even Tech coach John Maclnnes talks about the new facility in terms of pluses and minuses. &ldquo;It has to help our recruiting,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;It was built for both the players and the fans. But it takes you away from the game, even though more people can watch college hockey (the Student Ice Arena presently seats 3,623 as compared to 1,696 in Dee Stadium). We have 18 rows on either side now as compared to five before, and there&rsquo;s glass rather than the screens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01178/3642884-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="277" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Darwin Mott</figcaption></div>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s just a different interaction between the players and the fans,&rdquo; Maclnnes, in the middle of his 17th season at Tech, concludes. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a little more of a social event now rather than an athletic event.&rdquo;Maclnnes agrees with Mott on the effect the new ice surface has had on the Huskies. &ldquo;We adapted our style to our building,&rdquo; Maclnnes admits, &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t think you can do that on a larger ice surface. So we&rsquo;re in a period of adjustment with our new rink, being able to use freshmen, no junior varsity program. It&rsquo;s like a new birth.&rdquo;Maclnnes&rsquo; capable assistant, Dan Farrell, is also considering a new birth of his own&mdash;a move up to head coaching.&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t be honest if I didn&rsquo;t say I wasn&rsquo;t looking for a head coaching job,&rdquo; admits Farrell, who played for Maclnnes from 1957 until 1960 and has been an assistant at Tech since 1968.Farrell is one of the most eminently qualified assistants in the WCHA and has earned the respect of fellow coaches for his recruiting abilities. &ldquo;East or West wouldn&rsquo;t make much difference to me, although I&rsquo;d like to stay in the WCHA,&rdquo; Farrell explains. &ldquo;Recruiting is the same wherever you go it&rsquo;s half the job. The other half is dealing with the kids.&rdquo;Mott is one of &ldquo;the kids&rdquo; both Farrell and Maclnnes are especially proud of. In his nearly four seasons at Tech, Darwin has scored 132 career points to tie him with Lou Angotti in fourth place on the all-time Tech list. Only Jack McManus (160 points), Jerry Sullivan (142) and Paul Coppo (134) have scored more for the Huskies.&ldquo;Darwin was one of the last of the unknowns in recruiting circles that became known in college,&rdquo; Maclnnes says. &ldquo;Players like Darwin and Al McLeod and Al Karlander found their way to Tech when nobody else wanted them.&rdquo;Mott scored a hat trick during the first night of Tech&rsquo;s Jan. 19-20 home series with Notre Dame and Bob D&rsquo;Alvise added three goals too, all on breakaways (the third was a penalty shot) as the Huskies turned around a 3-1 Notre Dame lead for an 8-5 victory.The second game was all Notre Dame and Ian Williams, however. The big junior wing from Toronto scored a hat trick and added two assists to support Mark Kronholm&rsquo;s 37-save goaltending in a 6-1 Irish victory that kept the Irish in fifth place in the Western Collegiate Hockey Assn, and dropped the Huskies to seventh.Freshman Pat Novitzki was an unlikely hero in the game, using his body to block a half-dozen Tech shots on one penalty to demoralize the Huskies and give the Irish a much-needed third period lift. Eddie Bumbacco scored six points and took over the WCHA scoring lead, and senior center John Noble added six points to give him a amazing career total of 196.In Minnesota, the surprising Gophers stretched Colorado College&rsquo;s WCHA losing streak to 14 with 3-2 and 5-2 victories. About the only thing the Gophers lost was defenseman Bill Butters, the WCHA&rsquo;s penalty leader, who got involved with the Tiger&rsquo;s Doug Palazzari Saturday night. The CC All-American, just back after a leg injury, received a double minor, but Butters received a fighting major, which carries an automatic one-game suspension.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-02130/3642877-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="280" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ian Williams</figcaption></div>Obviously still angry as he left the ice, Butters suddenly bolted towards a crowd of Tiger players and started flailing at goalie Ed Mio. When Butters was surrounded by CC players, the Gopher bench emptied, and referee Red Wilkie nearly called the game with 6:51 remaining. &#9632;

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Hockey Unchanged At Michigan Tech

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0464/3642922-1-eng-US/f0036-042.jpg" title="f0036-04" width="631" height="601"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDDIVISION I GAMESHorvord 8, Northeatern 1Colgate 5, Clarkson 4Boston University 9, Northeastern 4Cornell 4, Pennsylvania 1St. Lawrence 9, Providence 7Dartmouth 5, Pennsylvania 3Northeastern 4, RPI 3DIVISION II GAMESAIC 7, New Haven 5St. Anselm&rsquo;s 7, Buffdo 4Framingham St. 15, Assumption 1Holy Cross 8, Amherst 6Bowdoin 13, Colby 3Boston State 5, Lowell Tech 3William 12, Connecticut 1Vermont 7, Middlebury 0Lowell Tech 5, Holy Cross 3Babson 6, MIT 1Norwich 4, Williams 2Babson 7, Wesleyan 4Oswego 9, Buffalo 6Bentley 10, Assumption 7Hamilton 5, Amherst 4Connecticut 6, Holy Cross 4AIC 3, Colby 2Lowell Tech 3, Norwich 3NON-DIVISIONAL GAMESDartmouth 8. Norwich 2St. Lawrence 8, Middlebury 1Cornell 8, Toronto 2Providence 4, Merrimack 2Boston University 7, Vermont 2Colgate 5, Massachusetts 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0539/3642915-1-eng-US/f0036-052.jpg" title="f0036-05" width="600" height="348"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDWisconsin 4, Michigan State 3Michigan State 7, Wisconsin 5Michigan 6, Denver 4Denver 8, Michigan 5Minn-Duluth 4, Michigan Tech 2Minn-Duluth 7, Michigan Tech 6North Dakota 6, Minnesota 3North Dakota 2, Minnesota 2Notre Dame 8, Colorado College 3Notre Dame 8, Colorado College 6Michigan State 5, Michigan 2Denver 10, North Dakota 5Denver 5, North Dakota 3Michigan Tech 8, Notre Dame 5Notre Dame 6, Michigan Tech 1Minnesota 3, Colorado College 2Minnesota 5, Colorado College 2NON-CONFERENCE GAMESWisconsin 5, Clarkson 4Wisconsin 8, Clarkson 3Michigan State 10, Air Force 1Michigan State 1 1, Air Force 5 &#9632;

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COLLEGE RACES

<div class="byline">BY STEVE KLEIN</div>CHICAGO&mdash;The Central Collegiate Hockey Association could expand from five to as many as 12 teams next season with a new organization structure and a commissioner as its top administrator.Athletic directors and faculty representatives from more than 10 schools met in Chicago during the mid-January NCAA convention to establish the CCHA as a conference governed by faculty representatives from each school and a commissioner. The conference, currently consisting of defending champion Ohio State, Bowling Green, St. Louis, Ohio University and this year&rsquo;s newcomer and leader, Lake Superior State, will eventually request the right to have its post-season tournament champion receive automatic qualification in the NCAA hockey tournament.The present NCAA tournament format consists of two teams from both the Western Collegiate Hockey Assn, and ECAC Division 1. In 25 years, no team outside those leagues has received a berth in the tournament.&ldquo;From our discussions in Chicago,&rdquo; explained Dick Young, Bowling Green athletic director, &ldquo;it was decided that the CCHA would be a conference of schools with compatible interests who do not aspire to rival the high-powered hockey programs at some of the schools in the WCHA and the top division of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference.&ldquo;It was the belief of those present that the CCHA should seek a level of competition comparable to the one that the Mid-American Conference enjoys when compared to the Big Ten. This does not mean that any of the current hockey programs among our CCHA members would be curtailed in any degree from the level at which they are now operating.&rdquo;Young indicated that the conference structure next year would feature two divisions and be dependent upon the caliber of hockey played at the competition schools.The first division would be for schools that currently fund their hockey programs with 16 or more scholarships with a maximum of 20 full scholarships over four years as the only limiting factor. The WCHA permits 24 full scholarships over four years, but the NCAA recently ruled that the total be lowered to 23 in another year.Based on the informa meeting, Young said that Bowling Green, St. Louis, Lake Superior State and possibly Ohio State would be teams competing in Division One during the 1973-74 season.Schools definitely interested in forming Division Two include Buffalo, Northern Illinois, Western Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Illinois-Chicago Circle, Ohio University, Iowa State and the Air Force Academy.The WCHA currently consists of 10 teams-Den ver, Michigan Tech, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Minnesota-Duluth and Colorado College. The WCHA voted at its last meeting in April, 1972, to freeze further league expansion. Bowling Green had applied for membership and both Lake Superior State and St. Louis had shown interest. &#9632;

CCHA May Jump To 12 Teams With Eye On NCAA Playdowns

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-02126/3642984-1-eng-US/f0037-022.jpg" title="f0037-02" width="601" height="345"></div>LONDON&mdash;Few people envied Bill Long when he was transferred from Ottawa 67s to London Knights of the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior A League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-01164/3642991-1-eng-US/f0037-012.jpg" title="f0037-01" width="232" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Long</figcaption></div>Long, an associate and coach with Hap Emms in Barrie and Niagara Falls, left the Flyers in 1967 to put together Ottawa&rsquo;s first Major Junior A team in-several years when the new 9,500-seat Audotorium was built.He started out with nothing but by last season had built them into contenders around Ottawa native defenseman Denis Potvin.Then just as the grey-haired manager-coach had a shot at the provincial championship he had the rug pulled out from under him when Howard Darwin, who had interests in both the Ottawa and London clubs, moved him to the Knights, where the situation was critical.Former National Hockey League defenseman Leo Boivin replaced Long in Ottawa with a ready-made club.Long took the shift in his stride and merely said he&rsquo;d do his best.The Knights, who just squeezed into the playoffs a year ago in eighth position, didn&rsquo;t set the league afire the first half of the 1972-73 schedule but under Long&rsquo;s patience and discipline they appear to be making their move at the right time.Embroiled in a fourth place battle with St. Catharines Black Hawks and Oshawa Generals, Knights trimmed the Hawks 9-1 on the latter&rsquo;s home ice, took Kitchener Rangers apart 12-1 then capped their efforts by beating Long&rsquo;s former club, the 67s, by a 6-4 score right in Ottawa.It was an especially rewarding evening for Long as the second place 67s had not lost on home ice in their previous 19 games&mdash;dating back to Oct. 10&mdash;and more than 8,500 were in the stands for the &ldquo;homecoming.&rdquo;TORONTO: Marlboros were held to a 5-5 tie in Sudbury but are still not seriously threatened in their bid for a second straight pennant&hellip; The Wolves were behind 5-2 at one stage but cut the score back to 5-4 then tied it late in the game on a goal by 15-year-old center Dale McCourt, who is the nephew of Marlboro coach George Armstrong&hellip; Husky 6-3 defenseman Bob Dailey getting rave notices from NHL scouts.OTTAWA: Attendance still shattering all records in Ottawa, seldom dipping below 8,000 mark&hellip; Loss to London was serious blow to hopes of catching Marlboros in regular schedule but good balance will give them honest chance at winning playoff title and entering Memorial Cup series&hellip; Blake Dunlop, Derek Smith, Jim Cowell and David Lee most prolific scorers while Denis Potvin is leading points-scorer among defensemen in 10-team league.PETERBOROUGH:Petes continue scramble for second place with Ottawa thanks to 6-4 win over London on Doug Gibson&rsquo;s goal early in third period&hellip; As usual Petes playing steady but unspectacular hockey and have one of most robust defensemen in league in person of Bob Neely with capable help on rearguard from Jim Turkiewicz&hellip; Coach Roger Neilson insists on positional play, which should prepare the defending OHA Major Junior A champions for the playoffs in late March&hellip; Gibson among top seven points scorers but other points well-distributed among personnel&hellip; Jim Johnston had first three-goal night in 7-2 victory over Kitchener.OSHAWA: Generals gave up late goals in Hamilton and at home to St. Catharines and had to settle for pair of ties 6-6 and 4-4&hellip; Bill Lochead had two goals against Hawks and is second in team scoring to linemate Rick Middleton&hellip; Guido Tenesi, Nels Pyatt, Pete Vandermark and Scott Mabley all missed games through injury but coach Gus Bodnar fortunate in having fine Oshawa Junior team to draw talent and inserted Jim Duigan, Vic Sirko and Joe Greentree, who all played well&hellip; Immediate aim is climb from fifth to fourth place.ST. CATHARINES: Hawks&rsquo; leading scorers Dave Gorman and Rick Adduono still mired in slump but Captain Jeff Jacques has played much improved hockey and had two goals in tie in Oshawa&hellip; Sixteen-year-old defenseman Rick Hampton showing great potential but coach Frank Milne displeased with efforts veterans&hellip; Jim Brian Cousineau tending duties. Salvian had first in 5-4 win over Oshawa in St. Catharines giving Hawks three of possible four points in weekend games with Generals.SUDBURY: Wolves continue nip and tuck struggle for seventh place with Hamilton Red Wings&hellip; Tie with Marlboros helped cause&hellip; Sudbury packed three goals into 47 seconds against Toronto and had five goals on only 12 shots while Marlboros had 36&hellip; Morris Titanic. Tom Colley and Eric Vail, with Niagara Falls before franchise was transferred to Sudbury, carrying majority of scoring load&hellip; Rookie defenseman Greg Neeld coming along well after slow start&hellip;HAMILTON:Attendance lowest in league with only 772 watching Pat Hickey score in last seven minutes to give Red Wings tie with Oshawa&hellip; Steve Mis-kiewicz and Mike Kasmetis (acquired from Peterborough) give Red Wings excellent goaltending but defense suspect and too few consistent scorers giving coach Dave Draper difficulty in fashioning contender&hellip;However Wings should make playoffs with little problem, which should attract more attention from apathetic Hamilton fans.KITCHENER: Press and radio criticial of Rangers&rsquo; efforts in 12-1 defeat to London and 7-2 to Peterborough&hellip; However fans haven&rsquo;t given up with average still above 3,000&hellip; Rangers&rsquo; fate would seem to be ninth place, one position out of playoffs&hellip; Some claim large executive handicap in Kitchener rather than permitting manager Punch Scherer&rdquo; and coach Eddie Bush to run the show&hellip;SAULT STE. MARIE: Grey hounds still getting their lumps regularly which is to be expected of first year in higher competition&hellip; Fortunately some good young players such as 15-year-old Cary Farelli give promise of better years ahead&hellip; Bruce O&rsquo;Grady, Dan Hinton and Paul Woods playing reasonably well but in late January team had won only six of 38 games.<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2>GAMES COMPLETEDTues. Jan. 22Sault 6 at Hamilton 4Thur. Jan 24Kitchener 1 at Peterborough 1 1Fri Jan. 25Hamilton 2 at Ottawa 12St. Catharines 4 at Kitchener 2Sudbury 2 at London 7Oshawa 6 at Sault 6Sat. Jan. 27Peterborough 11 at Sudbury 2Sun. Jan. 28Toronto 5 at St. Catharines 8Ottawa 7 at Kitchener 5Oshawa 3 at Sudbury 7Peterborough 5 at Sault 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0395/3642977-1-eng-US/f0037-032.jpg" title="f0037-03" width="599" height="732"></div> &#9632;

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London Knights Make Move At Right Time

<div class="byline">BY BOB STRUMM</div>MEDICINE HAT&mdash;Next to the names of Howe and Bordeleau, Lysiak doesn&rsquo;t strike a familiar nerve in the octopus which is National Hockey League history.Paulin Bordeleau and the Howe brothers are pro prospects in Toronto Marlboro uniforms, and their families have already etched the names into the NHL record book. But just the same, Tom Lysiak of the Medicine Hat Tigers has an asterisk beside his tag on every scout&rsquo;s list in the country.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-01192/3643029-1-eng-US/f0038-012.jpg" title="f0038-01" width="244" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vic Mercredi</figcaption></div>The asterisk stands for top priority, and you know what that means&hellip; sticks and stones will break my bones but it never hurts to write down a name. Lysiak along with teammate Lanny McDonald are among the prize prospects in the Western Canada Hockey League.Lysiak is threatening to become the first WCHL performer to win the individual scoring race two seasons in a row since Bobby Clarke accomplished the feat for the Flin Flon Bombers back in 1967-68 and 1968-69. And you know what Clarke has done for the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL since that time.Lysiak scored 46 goals and added 97 assists as an 18 year old last season, outlegging teammate Stan Weir for the scoring crown by 10 points. Weir is now a regular with California Golden Seals of the NHL.That put a certain amount of pressure on Lysiak to produce the same this season. And the added weight bothered him for a while.Still, he has led all scorers for much of the schedule and is fast closing in on the century mark with 94 points on 34 goals and 60 assists.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think there was going to be any more Dressure until the season started,&rdquo; said Lysiak.&ldquo;Then I began having trouble scoring. I think it was because I just expected to skate out on the ice and the points would come.&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t working at it. Now I seem to be back on track and I&rsquo;m going to stay there for the rest of the year,&rdquo; added Lysiak.Lysiak indicates that Weir&rsquo;s success in the NHL has added tremendous incentive to his own hopes of playing in the big time. There&rsquo;s nothing quite like having a friend to tell you all about it.&ldquo;Stan and I write postcards back and forth all the time,&rdquo; offered the flashy Tiger centre. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s nice to know a buddy is at the top and playing regularly.&rdquo;There is some question in many scouts&rsquo; minds as to whether Lysiak or linemate Lanny McDonald is the number one choice in the WCHL. McDonald, a talented 19 year old right winger, has chased Lysiak all season in the battle for the scoring crown.&ldquo;There is no friction between Lanny and I. We&rsquo;re great friends,&rdquo; answered Lysiak to the obvious question. &ldquo;You might say we have a friendly rivalry. But I know that he can score the goals so I give him the puck and take the assists.&rdquo;McDonald at the moment is fifth in the league in goals with 43 and almost certain to surpass last season&rsquo;s total of 50. His honest style&hellip; an aggressive, positional type of play&hellip;is perfectly suited to the pro game.Remember the names Lysiak and McDonald. You never know&hellip; some day they may push the Howes and BordeleausEDMONTON: Oil Kings have been clinging doggedly to first place despite injuries to their two key forwards&hellip; Captain John Robers has been playing well in spite of a rib injury and high scorer Darcy Rota has fallen into a slump since cracking his cheek-borffe a month ago&hellip; Rogers scored twice in a 4-2 victory over Saskatoon&hellip; It was the second game in a row he had fired the winner against the Blades. Rota is still third in the league in goals with 47.NEW WESTMINSTER: Mercredi scored his second trick of the season in a 7-2 over Vancouver&hellip; Bruins unbeaten in their last 10 games and pressing Edmonton for top spot in the Western Division&hellip; Bob Stumpf had success scoring despite a stick problem, as he added two goals in the win against the Nats&rsquo;&hellip; In an earlier contest against Edmonton, Stumpf received a two-minute penalty for using an illegal stick which had too much curvature&hellip; When Stumpf went to get a replacement, the referee also confiscated that stick because it was illegal as well&hellip; So Stumpf settled for a borrowed piece of lumber.CALGARY: Struggling Cents have won only one out of their last nine games&hellip; The slump does include three ties though&hellip; The latest deadlock was courtesy of goaltender John Davidson who made 52 saves, 26 in final period, in a 4-4 stalemate with Edmonton&hellip; Danny Gare fired his second hat-trick of the year.VICTORIA: Also battling the cobwebs of a losing streak, Cougars have lost nine in a row&hellip; During that time, Cougar shooters have been shutout twice&hellip; One zero job represented the worst defeat in Victoria&rsquo;s two-year WCHL history&hellip; Winnipeg Jets bombed West Coasters 16-0&hellip; Dale Cook and Dave Faulkner continue to be Cougars&rsquo; most consistent offensive perform-ersVANCOUVER: Nats have lost another five straight and have won only once in their last 14 outings&hellip; John Senkpiel continues to look like a bona-fide draft prospect&hellip; He scored twice in Nats&rsquo; 5-4 loss to Swift Current and then counted both goals in the club&rsquo;s 7-2 loss to New Westminster.SASKATOON&mdash; Blades put together a six-game unbeaten string before losing in Edmonton&hellip; But Jack McLeod&rsquo;s charges came back with 6-5 victory in Swift Current&hellip; Garth Dietrick, 18-year-old center, was hero of the win, scoring twice and adding one assist&hellip; Saskatoon now has 13 triumphs on the road, more than any other team in the circuit.FLIN FLON: Bombers&rsquo; first-place hopes in East jolted considerably when starry center Alan Hillier broke his leg in an exhibition game against Dauphin Kings of Manitoba Junior League&hellip; Hillier was leading Flin Flon in scoring at the time with 23 goals and 60 assists&hellip; Patty Ginnell&rsquo;s proteges still managed to win their first two games without Hillier though, stopping Victoria 9-1 and 3-2&hellip;BRANDON: Wheat Kings have also been having injury problems and they once again involve high-scoring centerman Ron Chipperfield&hellip; The league&rsquo;s leading goal scorer with 53, Chipperfield has been suffering from a neck ailment which has curtailed his production considerably&hellip; Ed Tkachyk, rookie pivot, picked up slack somewhat, scoring a pair of goals in consecutive games.REGINA: The whole story out of Regina was 18-year-old center Dennis Sobchuk, who scored six goals and added four assists in 11-3 win over Brandon&hellip; Sobchuk&rsquo;s goal total tied league record set by Dan Spring, then of Edmonton and now with Richmond of American League&hellip; Rick Uhrich fired his first hate trick of season in 5-4 win over Brandon.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-02144/3643022-1-eng-US/f0038-022.jpg" title="f0038-02" width="549" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM LYSIAK&hellip; Under Pressure</figcaption></div>SWIFT CURRENT: Broncos enjoyed their most pleasant visit to West Coast, winning two of three.. &rsquo; Brent Leavins scored winner on a power-play goal in 5-4 triumph over Vancouver&hellip; David George continues to blow hot since coming from Edmonton, and has contributed five goals to Bronco cause in seven games.WINNIPEG: Smarting from a comment from team owner Ben Hatskin which labelled them born losers, Jets swamped Victoria 16-0&hellip; Brian Derksen led assault with three goals and five assists&hellip; Derek Tallon also had hate trick&hellip; Reg Malinoski added two goals and four assists&hellip; Frank Turnbull made 31 saves for the shutout. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">&#x2014;BY HERB MYERS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0567/3643098-1-eng-US/f0039-052.jpg" title="f0039-05" width="243" height="431"></div>Southern Ontario JuniorDefending Centennial Cup Champion Guelph Biltmores have topped the league all season but may have a late-season battle with the steadily climbing Niagara Falls Flyers for the league crown. Chatham and Windsor are locked up tight in a third place scrap, but the faltering Welland Spitfires, with only one win in their last ten games, may still pose a playoff threat. Detroit and St. Thomas have improved but seem too far off the pace to contend for a playoff spot. The scoring race has narrowed to a two way duel between Guelph&rsquo;s Doug Risebrough and Dino Serra of Niagara Falls, while Guelph&rsquo;s fine goalie. Dennis Kemp, leads the netminders with a three goal per game average. Niagara Falls&rsquo; Mark Dumensnil led Flyers to a 5-3 win at Welland with two third period goals, while Geoff Marvell and Pete Sturgeon each scored twice as Chatham upset Guelph 6-4. 1,700 Detroit fans cheered rookie Al Menzies, up from Ecorse, Mich. Jr B, as he scored three goals and added five assists to spark the Jr Red Wings 10-5 over cross-river rival Windsor. At Guelph, the Bilts edged Weiland 5-4 as referee Blair Graham handed out 182 penalty minutes when a brawl broke out in the final two minutes. Veteran George Ripley, obtained from Niagara Falls, scored twice for Guelph while Dan Lutes had a pair for the Sabres. St. Thomas goalie Jim Brown was spectacular as he kicked out 68 shots in a 3-2 loss to Windsor. In exhibition play. Chatham hung two defeats on The Bothwell Senior Barons 61 and 8-5. while 4.125 Windsor fans saw the Prague, Czech., Selects (including 12 members of the Czech National Team) blast the Jr Spitfires 14-1.British Columbia JuniorThe improving Kelowna Buckaroos picked up an important pair of wins downing division leading Penticton Broncos 6-3 and Vernon Essos 8-5. The home win over Brones was highlighted by a four-goal outburst from Ken Weninger as Biair Chapman and Brad Owens got the others. Ed Dempsey had two and Dan Ashman added one for the Broncos. At Vernon, Ken Leohndorf was top Kelowna marksman with three goals while Barry Dye led the defending champion Essos with two.Saskatchewan JuniorEstevan and Weyburn continue deadlocked for the Southern Division lead. Moose-Jaw and the Regina Pat Blues are in a tight struggle for third while Notre Dame and Regina Silver Foxes are both trying to escape the cellar. Defending champion Humboldt and Prince Albert are battling to top the Northern Division with Melville close behind and youthful Saskatoon manages to stay ahead of last place Yorkton. Reg Duncombe&rsquo;s last period goal gave Estevan a big 5-4 win over the Melville Millionaires to stay in contention as Regina Pat Blues, with two third period goals nosed out Humboldt 2-1. Tom Gehlen, Humboldt captain, and Prince Albert&rsquo;s Mike Kindrachuk are all tied up to lead the scoring race hut are being pressed by Weyburn veteran Ken Woodkey, Prince Albert&rsquo;s Ron Boskill is way out in front in the goals scored with 31 in the first 28 games.Ontario Provincial JuniorPlayer selections for the All Star benefit game at Toronto included four each from league-leading Richmond Hill and fifth place Weston. For the East All Stars from Richmond Hill are goalie Garry Carr, rear guard Tony Bellavance and forwards Alex Pirus and Dave Dunkley; Wexford&rsquo;s defencemen Greg Natale and Mike McEwan and goalie Steve Tobias; Ajax forwards John Fielding and Bernie Johnston; Seneca forwards Harry Roback and Frank Neal; North Bay&rsquo;s blueliner Mike Penasse. For the West All stars ftom Weston are defenseman Rick Garcia and forwards Tim Ampleford, Norm Metcalfe and Fred Prosser; Aurora&rsquo;s goalie Gord Woolnough, defenders Ron Philips and Mike Kitchen; Dixie&rsquo;s center Dave Large and goalie Mike Luit; Downsview wingers Paul Tantardini and Randy Ciotti; Vaughan Nats defenseman John Cowan. George Storey of Vaughan is coach of the West against the East, coached by Carl Brimblecombe, of Richmond Hill. More than four hours of penalties were assessed when benches emptied to join a first-period battle as Seneca defeated Dixie 7-5 in Toronto. Dave Cobban led the Seneca scorers with two goals and Mike Kaszychi counted three times for Dixie. Weston lost their fifth game in six starts as Alex Pirus and Dave Lumley scored for Richmond Hill to defeat the Dodgers 2-1. Only Tim Ampleford hit the net for Weston. In coaching changes. Manager Bob Tindall took over temporily for North York following release of Jim Ross and North Bay&rsquo;s GM Lou Farelli has turned over the coaching reins to Dr. Murray Mitchell for the balance of the season. Aurora&rsquo;s Brad Rhiness tallied four times but Tigers dropped an 8-7 decision at Kingston.Manitoba JuniorPortage la Prairie Terriers, with a veteran lineup, have dominated, Northern Division play all season and should win easily while the Selkirk Steelers manage to stay a step ahead of Kenora and Dauphin, as they struggle lor a third place finish. In the wide open Southern Division, St. James and West Kildonan have a slight edge over Winnipeg and St. Boniface, but any of the four teams could grab the crown. Ken-ora&rsquo;s t8 year old goalie John Memryk holds a slight edge over St. James netminding duo of 15 year old Murray Bannerman and veteran Bob Hiley. Portage romped over Winnipeg 10-4 led by Capt. Grant Farncombe&rsquo;s 3-goal outing. Capt. Ken Buchy scored five times as his defending champion Dauphin Kings thrashed Kenora 5-2 and 12-4 in a weekend series. West Kildonan&rsquo;s Mark Izzard turned in a three goal performance as the North Stars knocked off Winnipeg 4-2. Billy Bright scored twice as St. Boniface edged Selkirk 5-3 helped by goalie Gerry Akerstream&rsquo;s 34 stops in the Saints net.SLAP-SHOTS: Petrolia&rsquo;s Barry Edgar moved ahead of defending champ Rick Fifield of St. Mary&rsquo;s in West Ontario Jr B scoring race&hellip; Alberta Univ. Coach Clare Drake thinks his line of Dave Couves, Rick Wyrozub andJerry LeGrandeur have set a league record, when the trio combined for 8 goals and 11 assists as Alberta trounced the Univ, of Victoria 15-2&hellip; 1,250 Tilbury watched the Jr. B. Bluebirds 3-2 win over touring Swedish Juvenile team in the Swedes final contest of their 8-game tour of Southern Ontario&hellip; IHI, Junior Columbus, Ohio Lakers had hat tricks from Derek Johnson in 6-1 win at Indianapolis and Craig Copper in 3-2 win over the Dayton Jr Gems. &#9632;

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