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February 23, 1973
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WHA Rosters
NEW ENGLAND GOAL: Al Smith, Bruce Landon. DEFENSE: Jim Dorey, Ted Green, Paul Hurley, Rick Ley, Brad Seiwood. CENTER: Terry Caffery, John Danby, John French, Larry Reau. R. WING: Tom Earl, Mike Hyndman, Tim Sheehy, Tommy Williams. L. WING: Kevin Ahearn, John Cunniff, Tom Webster, Brit Selby QUEBEC GOAL: Serge Aubry, Jacques Lemelin, Richard Brodeur. DEFENSE: Jacques Blain, Ken Desjardine, Frank Locombe, J.C Tremblay, Pierre Roy. CENTER: Michel Harvey, Jean Payette, Andre Gaudette. R. WING: Yves Bergeron, Alain Caron, Rejean Giroux, Paul Larose, Renald Leclerc, Frank Golembrosky. L. WING: Mike Archambault, Jean-Guy Gendron, Bob Guindon, Pierre Guite, Michel Parizeau. NEW YORK GOAL: Gary Kurt, Peter Donnelly, Ian Wilkie. DEFENSE: Kent Douglas, Jean Gauthier, Wally Olds, Ken Block, Bill Speer, Hal Willis, Bob Winograd, Bob Brown. CENTER: Norm Ferguson, Mike Laughton, Gene Peacosh, Garry Peters, Bob Sheehan, Ron Ward, Brian Perry. R. WING: Jamie Kennedy, Wayne Rivers,…


NATIONAL LEAGUE
LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S and Canada LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S and Canada Player’s of the week In The East The Boston Bruins went into a slump recently, leaving hockey fans everywhere a little shocked at seeing the powerhouse NHL club fade slowly away from the East Division pennant picture. There were a few excuses offered for the plight of the Bruins and a coaching change was made. The fact that Mike Walton was out of the lineup recuperating for a nasty injury that required 100 stitches didn’t help either. But Walton returned to the club on a full-time basis last week and helped pick the Bruins up out of the doldrums and put them back on…


St. Louis Keeps Hopes Alive With Sweep
LAKE SUPERIOR— Lake Superior had a golden opportunity to wrap up the Central Collegiate Hockey Association championship singlehandedly but blew it. The Lakers missed the chance to clinch it all by themselves when they dropped a weekend series in St. Louis 5-3 and 9-3. Lake Superior has 26 points based on a 9-3 CCHA record, but is now fin-Jim Peck ished with regular season play and must depend upon St. Louis to lose or tie one of their remaining six games. John Flesch scored a goal at the 21 second mark of the second period on Friday to tie the score at 1-1, but that was as close as Lake Superior came to the Bills all weekend. St. Louis scored four in a row before Ian Ward’s power play goal at 18:20 of…


HOCKEY CROSSWORD
SOLUTION IN MARCH 2 ISSUE ACROSS 1—Former Minnesota forward. 5—An NHL defenseman. (init.) 7—Initials of 29 across. 8—Selby answers to this. 10—One of the Portland Buckaroos. 13—Estimated time of arrival. (abbr.) 14—Former Philadelphia defenseman. 15—NHL referee in chief answers to this. 16—Initials of Lacombe of Quebec. 17—Before. 18—First name of a Toronto defenseman. 19—Initials of Drolet of Richmond. 20—Native Province of pictured player. (abbr.) 21—15th and 5th letters of the alphabelt. 23—Preposition. 24—One of the Cleveland Crusaders. 27—Initials of a former Hawk. 28—Ditto. (abbr.) 29—An NHL assistant coach. 31—Initials of former forward Kachur. 32—Plays forward for New Haven. DOWN 1—Pictured player. 2—Former Boston and Detroit forward. 3—Every team likes an early one. 4—Canadian Province. (abbr.) 5—One of the Hawks answers to this. 6—Wears No. 12 for Chicago. 9—One of the Leafs. (int.) 11—Former Montreal defenseman. 12—Compass point. 16—Plays left wing for Alberta. 18—10th and 15th letters of the alphabet. 22—One of the Islanders answers to this. 24—NHL General Manager. 25—14 across used to be known as this. 26—Too. 30—Either. LAST…