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April 20, 1973
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Voyageurs, Swords Dominate Selections
HARRISBURG— The talent-laden divisional champion Nova Scotia Voyageurs and Cincinnati Swords dominated team selections and individual awards in the 21st annual American Hockey League coaches’ All Star balloting for THE HOCKEY NEWS and Harrisburg, Pa. Sunday Patriot News. Don Cherry, of Rochester, former Hershey defensive star was named coach-of-the-year, winning by a single vote over Cincinnati—s Floyd Smith, another one-time Bears standout winger. “It’s the only individual award I’ve ever won in my entire hockey career.” said Cherry, who several years ago captained and played for three Rochester Calder Cup championship teams. “To be voted the top coach by your fellow coaches has to be the greatest honor I’ve ever received.” Cherry started out the season in training camp without enough players to form a squad. He went on a beg, borrow or steal…
Reds Pin Hopes On Goater; Hoene Tops For Lowly Kings
PROVIDENCE— Despite a strong showing (3-3-2) in their season series, the Reds entered their quarter-final showdown with the relentless Nova Scotia Voyageurs as decided underdogs. More than any other area, the Reds appeared to be hopelessly outclassed in experience, but as Rangers’ foreman Emile Francis remarked following Providence ’ s torrid March clip, “the Reds got hot at the right time, just before the playoffs, and such momentum could carry them a long way in the Calder Cup playoffs.” Throwing out a 12-2 drubbing inflicted by the Swords in Cincinnati (extending Providence’s winless skein against the Ohioans to two years), the rampaging Reds posted a 9-2-1 slate in the season’s final month, surrendering a paltry 20 goals during that stretch. Most significant were a 3-1 win and a 0-0 stalemate in two Civic Center…
Blazers Bounce Back To Overpower Roanoke Valley
SYRACUSE— The Roanoke Valley Rebels had the Syracuse Blazers in their sights but they couldn’t close in for I the kill. Stunned by the Rebs 5-4 in the overtime opener, the powerful Blazers came back with a vengeance to lower the boom on Roanoke by a resounding 17-1 in game two and a 7-4 romp when the series swung down south to the Rebels’ home ice for the third and fourth games of the best-of-seven Walker Cup finals. Despite the Blazers’ easy handling of the Rebs in games two and three, Eastern Hockey League fans were still buzzing over Roanoke’s series-opening win. Wayne Horne, given up on by Bill Charles at the start of the season, scored three goals and added an assist on the winning marker to lead Roanoke to its overtime victory…
Hockey Ad Lib
The Best This Season Montreal veteran Henri Richard was talking to Mark Mulvoy of Sports Illustrated Magazine: “How many games have we lost this year? And each loss, it has been disaster. All the time it has been pressure. And now there will be even more pressure. If you finish first and do not win the Stanley Cup, these people, they forget you finished first. Remember, when you are the Canadiens, you cannot make mistakes.” Well, it is that time to try to imprint on the minds of readers the sort of long season the Canadiens enjoyed. winning their first pennant in four years, but their l5th in 30 years, before they try to add a record 17th to their history of Stanley Cup playoff victories. The Canadiens won 52 games, tied 16…
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