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November 9, 1973

The Hockey News November 9, 1973

<div class="byline">BY TONY PETRELLA</div>ATLANTA&mdash;Lock the doors, pull down the blinds and get a tight grip on your senses, because this is a science fiction story of the first order.In fact, it&rsquo;s almost too implausable to put in print. The very idea of the Atlanta Flames, barely more than a year old, beating Boston and Montreal back-to-back is incredible. The Flames dumped the Bruins 4-3 as Chuck Arnason shot the winner and upset the Canadiens 4-2. The big scoring culprit was Leon Rochefort, who got three of the eight goals.Maybe all the unidentified Hying objects that hovered around Atlanta ail week had something to do with it. Why, on the very night the Flames unceremoniously dumped the Bruins an eerie orangish-whitish-silverish globe was hovering over the city not more than a mile from the Omni.Who&rsquo;s to say there weren&rsquo;t some hockey-loving creatures with a fondness for the underdog loitering 2,000 feet in the air?Of course, anyone with the intelligence to float around the cosmos in such fashion would have tele-viewers. Certainly, they would have seen the Flames &mdash; nervous in anticipation &mdash; waiting to play the Big Bad Bruins.Maybe, in a moment of impish kindness, these intra-terrestial beings imparted upon the Flames some mysterious power; some freakish inner strength which would give them the necessary power to beat the Bruins.After all, Atlanta roared off to a 2-0 lead and never did trail in the game.Similarly, there was the Flames&rsquo; performance in Montreal. Even the fiercely-patriotic people who regularly frequent The Forum were moved to applaude the Flames and cheer them mightily.Cheering someone other than the Canadiens? Pulling for the Habs&rsquo; opponent? Why. that&rsquo;s comparable to Pierre Elliott Trudeau running off with the cook; Richard Nixon sending his Watergate tapes to John Sirica Special Delivery with a note of apology for the delay; Pope Paul sitting in for a hand of poker with the Archbishop of Can terbury.&ldquo;They cheered for us because we outplayed the Canadiens.&rdquo; Flames&rsquo; coach Bernie Geoffrion said with a touch of pride. &ldquo;We skated, we checked and we shot the puck. My team worked like hell, and you see the result.&rdquo;Still, what manner of madness is this, where the Atlanta Flames can perform such feats in successive games? Geoffrion says it happened because his team believes in itself.Men like Noel Price, an 18-year transient in the NHL who starred in both of those games, frolicked like a youngster. Maybe his balding head and tired lines evoked a feeling of pity from those strange beings in the sky. Surely, after all those years of batting around in Springfield and Quebec and Rochester, he couldn&rsquo;t be performing like an honest-to-goodness first-line defenseman?&ldquo;This guy holds my defense together,&rdquo; Geoffrion said as the Flames started their West Coast swing. &ldquo;He makes the difference. I just hope he can stay healthy.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01906/3702650-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="561" height="1199"><figcaption class="caption-body">GILBERT PERREAULT &hellip; On The Shelf</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03604/3702643-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="578" height="653"><figcaption class="caption-body">LEON ROCHEFORT &hellip; Three Goals</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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NHL Teams

Flames’ Sizzling Run Not Science Fiction

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>BALTIMORE&mdash;It&rsquo;s fairly evident that general manager Terry Reardon&rsquo;s offseason efforts to bolster the Baltimore Clippers&rsquo; ranks have begun to pay dividends.After the initial week of play, the Clippers were camped in second place in American League&rsquo;s Southern Division, just two points behind Cincinnati Swords. The Swords, expected by many to win the Southern title, handed Baltimore its only defeat, 9-2, before a crowd of over 6.(MM) at the Clippers&rsquo; rink.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01251/3703763-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="275" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Richardson</figcaption></div>Jim Higgs and Brian Murphy were Baltimore&rsquo;s only scorers in the match, dominated by Cincinnati&rsquo;s power-laden lineup.Higgs is one of Baltimore&rsquo;s many new faces. Before the campaign started Reardon said he felt the club would do well, given a chance to get itself organized.He said he was encouraged by the team&rsquo;s play in the exhibition games, especially the effort shown in two winning encounters against Richmond.Players like Denis DeJordy. Barry Salovaara, Paul Granchukoff, Randy Sokoll, Dan McPherson, Brian Molvik, Bill Mikkelson and Dave Pulkinnen figure to eventually make the Clips a solid team.HERSHEY: Coach Chuck Hamilton said before the season started that goaltending would be a key to the Bears fortunes. In two games, both of which Hershey lost, the club&rsquo;s goalies. Bob Johnson and Gary Inness allowed 11 goals with Johnson giving up nine of them. Offensively, the Bears have been unable to muster any sort of sustained attack with only four goals in the first 120 minutes of action. Hamilton figures to juggle the lines until he can locate the right combinations.VIRGINIA: Len Fontaine and Dan Gruen were setting the scoring pace for the Red Wings after the first two games. Gruen was off to a brilliant start, hammering in four goals, the second best mark in the 12-team circuit. Terry Richardson tended the nets in the Wings opening games before being called up to the NHL by Detroit.RICHMOND: The Robins were still looking for their first win after four games. The opposition outscored the club, 25-7, in the short stretch. Coach Larry Wilson&rsquo;s charges showed flashes of sound play in the exhibition schedule and Wilson was pleased with the goaling of Rogers Kosar, but it was back to the drawing board and hard practise as the Robins prepared for their first home stand. The Robins returned from their disastrous road trip in which they were beaten 9-4 by Providence. 3-0by Nova Scotia, lost to New Haven 6-2 and were trounced by Springfield 7-1. Wilson is disturbed by the lack of scoring punch and also his team&rsquo;s lack of hitting in their own zone. Wilson did single out defenseman Don McCulloch as one of the few bright lights on the losing road trip. McCulloch was hitting with authority and blocked many a potential shot. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

New Look Clippers Off To Sizzling Start

<div class="byline">by Denny Boyd</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-02135/3704703-1-eng-US/f0039-022.jpg" title="f0039-02" width="605" height="309"></div>A controversial look at those amazing Canucks and their equally amazing owners, coaches, managers, fans and stars. Eight-page photo section. $6.95 &#9632;

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THE VANCOUVER CANUCKS STORY

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER&mdash;Despite playing against the final game of the World Series, a near sell out crowd of 6,531 watched the Amereks finally open their home season Oct. 21 with a 3-2 decision over Baltimore.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-04147/3703680-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="583" height="823"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN VAN BOXMEER&hellip;Timely Arrival</figcaption></div>Their scheduled home opener a week earlier was postponed because of the failure of the new ice-making equipment in the War Memorial to make ice.Playing Baltimore on opening nights at home has been enjoyable for the Americans. This year&rsquo;s triumph was the fourth in as many home openers against the Clippers. Rochester rolled to a 9-1 win in 963, 5-l in 1967 and 4-0 in 1971. The 1971 game, by the way, also was a delayed home opener because of no ice.In addition to the new ice-making equipment, the War Memorial finally has replaced the dangerous screens atop the boards around the rink with plexi-glass.Coach Don Cherry says his team still isn&rsquo;t sharp but he isn&rsquo;t complaining because the Amereks played their first three games on the road and came home with a win in Providence, a tie in Boston and a loss in Virginia.&ldquo;And we should have won all of them,&rdquo; Cherry said. &ldquo;We played much better than Boston and Virginia, but just couldn&rsquo;t put the puck in when we had the chances.&rdquo;The Rochester Americans Excecutive Fan Club has set up a &ldquo;Bill Givens Memorial Fund&rdquo; in memory of the former Amerk radio broadcaster who died suddenly Oct. 7. The fund will be used to provide college scholarships for Rochester area high school students who play hockey. Donations can be sent to the Executive Club at the War Memorial, I00 Exchange Street. Rochester, N.Y., 14614.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-05118/3703673-1-eng-US/f0026-052.jpg" title="f0026-05" width="1201" height="1117"><figcaption class="caption-body">Early season scoring leader for the Rochester Americans is MURRAY KUNTZ, who played as a member of the Calder Cup winning Cincinnati Swords last year. Kuntz had three goals in his first four games. (Hockey News Photo by Robert Shaver)</figcaption></div>CINCINNATI: Swords are off to a faster start than they were last season when they assaulted the American Hockey League record book by winning 54 games, tying five and losing only 17.Coach Floyd Smith&rsquo;s skaters won their first three games a year ago, then dropped their next four.But this year, the Swords won their first four and were still undefeated at this writing.While only one of the triumphs was a romp &mdash; 9-2 in Baltimore &mdash; Smith was happy that two of them came on the road.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s important to win on the road early in the season,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s good when you have a lot of young players, as we have this season, because it gives them confidence right away. They know they can do it then.&rdquo;Smith welcomed back goaltender Rocky Farr, who left the Buffalo-Cincinnati training camp because of a contract dispute. Farr got back into the lineup for the final 15 minutes against Baltimore on Oct. 20 and held the Clippers without a goal.NOVA SCOTIA: Coach Al MacNeil was keeping his fingers crossed about defenseman Gary Geldart, who suffered an eye injury during practice Oct. 20.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether it was a skate or a stick,&rdquo; MacNeil said, &ldquo;but he went down and was writhing on the ice. His eye was bloodshot right away, and we&rsquo;re just praying it&rsquo;s nothing serious.&rdquo;Defense was one position which the Voyageurs were short on until John Van Boxmeer arrived back from Montreal. Before that MacNeil had Geldart, Richard Wilson. Greg Hubick and Len Cunning.JACKSONVILLE: The Barons found out quickly that playing on the road wasn&rsquo;t nearly as much fun as at home.After roaring past Nova Scotia 6-3 in their home opener, the Barons went on the road for a five-game road trip, which was 3/5ths over at this writing.For those three games, coach John Hanna&rsquo;s skaters had yielded 20 goals while scoring eight as they skidded to three defeats. &#9632;

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Amerks Victimize Clippers Again

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYVol. 27 &mdash; No. 4 OCTOBER 26, 1973 14210 Price: 50c<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01631/3704820-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="583" height="490"><figcaption class="caption-body">27 YEARS COVERING HOCKEY</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Hockey News

MONTREAL&mdash;Sometime during the early part of this hockey season Frank Mahovlich will score his sixth goal of the year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01917/3702012-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="300" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Esposito</figcaption></div>During the Big M&rsquo;s 16 seasons in the NHL he&rsquo;s scored far more than six goals every year. But this sixth goal will be something special. It will be the 508th career goal by Mahovlich, placing him fourth on the all-time scoring list just behind Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull and Maurice Richard.Mahovlich currently has 503 goals, only four behind the retired Jean Beliveau. The Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; left winger needs 43 goals this year to move ahead of Richard and into third place on the all-time list. Richard finished his career with 544.The Big M won&rsquo;t be the only player heading for a milestone this year, though. Two players have already attained prominent figures.Boston&rsquo;s Phil Esposito scored his 400th NHL goal early in the year while Chicago&rsquo;s Pit Martin contributed his 200th in late October. Esposito is also aiming for his fourth straight scoring title which would tie the record set by Gordie Howe, who won the title from 1950-51 to 1953-54.Esposito will also be aiming for goal 450 this year and needs 102 points to reach the 1,000 point mark for his career.Teammate Johnny Bucyk needs 15 goals to hit the 450 mark. Detroit&rsquo;s Alex Delvecchio needs but 24 points to accumulate 1,300 for his career. That leaves him still 500 points behind Howe, who finished his NHL career with 1,809.Veteran Minnesota left winger Dean Prentice will reach the 400-goal mark when he scores his 11th goal this year.Prentice, who scored 26 last year at the age of 40, would move into 11th spot on the alltime list with his 400th goal.Toronto&rsquo;s Dave Keon will hit the 350-goal career mark upon scoring his 26th goal this season. Four players should hit the 300-goal mark this year. Montreal&rsquo;s Yvan Cournoyer and Jacques Lemaire needed 24 and 13 goals respectively to hit the 300 figure at the beginning of the season. Both are considerably closer now.New York Rangers&rsquo; Rod Gilbert and Jean Ratelle were only 31 and 33 goals from the 300 mark when the season started.Eight NHL players should also reach the 250-goal mark this year. Players and the number of goals they needed to reach 250 at the start of the year are: Ron Ellis(29), Vic Hadfield (15), Ken Hodge (43), Dennis Hull (40). Doug Mohns (4), Bob Nevin (7), Murray Oliver (12) and Eddie Shack (20).Boston&rsquo;s Bobby Orr needs just 19 goals, a modest figure for Orr. to reach the 200-goal career mark. New York&rsquo;s Bruce MacGregor will reach 200 with his fourth goal of the year and St. Louis&rsquo; Garry Unger will hit 200 with his 23rd goal.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02838/3702005-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1203" height="1126"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toronto Leafs&rsquo; captain DAVE KEON is pursuing an NHL milestone of his own this season. Keon hopes to score his 350th career goal before the year is completed. (Hockey News Photo by Robert Shaver)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03634/3701998-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="1817" height="1358"><figcaption class="caption-body">When FRANK MAHOVLICH scored his 500th NHL goal last season former Habs&rsquo; star JEAN BELIVEAU was on hand for the big occasion. Now Mahovlich is moving rapidly towards replacing Beliveau as the all-time No. 4 goal scorer in league history.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Big M Closing In On Beliveau’s Mark

<div class="byline">BY DICK JOHNSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01922/3702057-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">BUFFALO&rsquo;S VERSATILE GIANTJIM SCHOENFELD Sabres&rsquo; Defenseman Swings On, Off Ice (Hockey Hews Photo by Robort Shovor)</figcaption></div>BUFFALO&mdash;He stepped out on the stage, smiling widely, dressed in a bright yellow suit, his reddish hair cut Prince Valiant style.The teen-agers jamming Buffalo&rsquo;s Kleinhans Music Hall to capacity screamed and cheered in a way usually reserved for David Cassidy or the Osmond Brothers, as one reviewer put it.It was Jim Schoenfeld, the 21-year-old defenseman for the Buffalo Sabres.Jim wowed them with his guitar and singing of rock tunes. Just as he wowed the hockey fans in Buffalo&rsquo;s Memorial Auditorium during the preceding winter when he battled Wayne Cashman. Bobby Orr and Carol Vadnais, in order, during one home game against the big, bad Bruins of Boston.Impartial observers would have to say that Jim, then a rookie and only 20 years old, got none of the worse of it in any of the brawls.He&rsquo;s a complex character, this Schoenfeld, who likes to relax after games by sitting and listening to his four-speaker stereo.He&rsquo;s sometimes a very mean one to opponents on the ice. But to the youngsters who surround him for autographs after a game, Schoenie is a polite, friendly young man.That concert in Kleinhans Music Hall was a benefit affair, with the proceeds going to the Father John Fund for the mentally retarded at the West Seneca State School.Jim played the drums a little when he was a youngster and he &ldquo;liked to mess around a little with the piano.&rdquo; When he was in his late teens he was a rock singer in a group around his home town of Owen Sound, Ont.When he went to the Sabres&rsquo; training camp in St. Catharines, Ont., in September, 1972, as the club&rsquo;s first draft pick, he took his guitar with him.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02788/3702050-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="575" height="1955"></div>News of his musical ability got around and a Buffalo disc jockey called Jim. asking him to cut a record to see how it sounded.Jim went to the studio, played his guitar and sang a few songs. The result was his first album. &ldquo;Schony,&rdquo; (the music lovers spell his name differently from the hockey followers) which was sold out in Buffalo music houses almost as soon as it went on sale.The critics said Jim is a better hockey player than a musician but he nevertheless is making another record. The young rock fans of Buffalo love him.So do the children in Roswell Park Memorial Institute, one of the world&rsquo;s largest cancer research hospitals. Jim visited a youngster there one day, a boy who was a particular fan of his and was dying. After talking to the lad. Schoenie spent the rest of the afternoon walking through the hospital, joking with other patients, all children.But when he&rsquo;s on the ice, Schoenfeld is all hockey. &ldquo;I can become an animal if I get mad, I guess,&rdquo; he once said, &ldquo;but as soon as the game is over I forget any fights I&rsquo;ve had. Truthfully, I would like to have people come into the dressing room and say &lsquo;you played a good game&rsquo; instead of talking about what a great fight I was in.&rdquo;Once he leaves the rink, Jim tries to leave his job with its anxieties and tensions behind. &ldquo;Separating home and hockey is very important to me,&rdquo; he has said.And now home &mdash; which last season was a bachelor pad in a Fort Erie, Ont., motel &ldquo;penthouse,&rdquo; &mdash; is a bit different. Jim lives in a house on the Lake Erie shore now, with his bride of last summer, blonde Theresa Hunter, who was a bank teller in Freelton. near Hamilton, Ont.The marriage, which took place in Freelton. rated a page one picture in a Buffalo newspaper. The 6-2. 215-pound hockey player is a big man in Buffalo, in more ways than one.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04311/3702043-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1517" height="833"><figcaption class="caption-body">When defenseman JIM SCHOENFELD of the Buffalo Sabres sits down to play his guitar, everyone listens. The talented rearguard is also musically inclined and has cut several top-selling records in the Buffalo area. (Hockey News Photo by Robert Shaver)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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JIM SCHOENFELD SWINGS

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div>CHICAGO&mdash;Tony Esposito always wears a slightly pained expression during hockey season, simply because stopping pucks ain&rsquo;t much fun.Now then, if you want to extract just a little extra wince from him, bring up the autumn of 1972. Ouch. It was, you recall, just about a year ago when we were all writing about whatever happened to Tony Esposito? Why was Tony-O suddenly becoming Tony-Three and Tony-Four and not looking very major league in doing so?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03527/3702088-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="267" height="500"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tony Esposito</figcaption></div>&ldquo;It was a rough time,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;I had just come back with Team Canada from Russia and I was whipped, physically and mentally. I had been through pressure before in the Stanley Cup playoffs, but that series was worse than any Stanley Cup. As a result, when I came back. I wasn&rsquo;t alert and I just couldn&rsquo;t get up for the games.&rdquo;And for a month or so, Esposito was a mite jittery in the twine, fighting the puck, not authoring the big saves for which he had become known.The story had a happy ending for the Black Hawks, for whom Esposito is the key player. He quickly regained his miserly ways, and after drifting up into the 3.30 goals against neighborhood, Esposito kept slicing away and wound up with a rather spiffy 2.51 norm for 56 games.This year, a new season, and a new takeoff. Through five starts, including two shutouts, he yielded but eight goals and might have done even better with a little bit of help from his friends.&ldquo;I feel much more comfortable now than last year.&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Naturally, the summer was more relaxing. With Team Canada, we started practising in mid-August. By the time the NHL season started, you felt as if you first needed a rest.&rdquo;Esposito, of course, seldom requires or requests much rest. In four seasons with Chicago, he has performed in 63, 57, 48 and 56 games. He is immune to hypochondria, doesn&rsquo;t sluff off assignments, and disdains excuses.&ldquo;He is a real man about his responsibility,&rdquo; admires Coach Billy Reay. &ldquo;He plays if he&rsquo;s hurt, he never complains, and you&rsquo;ll never hear him criticize one of his teammates for a bad play in front of him.&rdquo;Because Esposito adheres to the work ethic, things are difficult for his backup man. Gerry Desjardins twiddled his mask, Gary Smith became so bored that he begged for a trade, and now rookie Mike Veisor has accepted the reality that, whereas he is playing in the big leagues at age 21, he&rsquo;s not going to play very much.It&rsquo;s logical to assume that, without a polished veteran to share the load, Esposito feels the finger of Chicago&rsquo;s fate all the more. Add to that the fact that the Hawks are carrying a carload of rookies and the absence of a splendid defenseman such as Pat Stapleton and what you have is more strain yet on Esposito. &#9632;

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Tony-0 Improves His Takeoff

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01974/3702140-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="452" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken McKenzie&rsquo;s</figcaption></div>&bull;BRUCE HOOD, one of the top NHL referees, may miss most of this season due to damaged knee cartilage &hellip; Best thing to happen to the World Hockey Association was moving the Philadelphia Blazers franchise to Vancouver. The Vancouver Blazers have been averaging over 10,000 a game in hockey-mad Vancouver &hellip; Bobby Hull&rsquo;s play for the Winnipeg Jets has been a big disappointment to Winnipeg supporters this year. He&rsquo;s a long way from the player he was with Chicago Black Hawks &hellip; Ken Dryden is coaching the University of Toronto Blues in his spare time as well as working out regularly with the team. He wants to keep in shape so that he&rsquo;ll be ready for next season when he will return to pro hockey &hellip; Eddie Lambton, a Montreal native, doing a fine job as color commentator on the Cape Cod Cubs broadcasts. Lambton works with Jon Wetterlow, the play-by-play man over radio station WOCB, AM and FM. which will broadcast all 74 of the Cub games, &hellip; Hockey&rsquo;s Greatest Players&rsquo;&rsquo; by Andy O&rsquo;Brien, journalist for the Weekend Magazine, is a must for every hockey fan young and old. O&rsquo;Brien features 19 of the greatest stars hockey has ever produced, a team every coach dreams of. &ldquo;Superstars&rdquo; gives an in depth account of the life and career of each player on the team, many of whom are still playing today. This book is the finest of O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s works to date&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02930/3702133-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="277" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>&bull;GARY DAVIDSON, president of the World Hockey Association, is expected &lsquo;to step down from that position soon and concentrate all his efforts in successfully launching his proposed new World Football League. Known as a master promoter, the youthful Davidson, who previously started the American Basketball Association. likes to form new sporting organizations. and once they appear to be running reasonably well moves on to something new. He will no doubt be succeeded as president of the WHA by Jim Browitt, executive administrator of the league &hellip; When Minnesota North Stars&rsquo; Buster Harvey missed a penalty shot against Chicago recently, it was the fifth regularseason failure in this area for the North Stars. The only Minnesota player to score a goal on a penalty shot was defenseman I&lsquo;om Reid, when he beat Montreal&rsquo;s Ken Dryden in 1971 &hellip; Incidentally. Minnesota North Stars are the only team in the NHL not to lose a player to the WHA in two years &hellip; Boston Bruins, the first NHL franchise granted in the United States, are celebrating their 50th anniversary this season &hellip; Bob Neely. Toronto&rsquo;s rookie defenseman. has made a very auspicious start with the Leafs. His second goal of the season with minutes remaining gave Toronto a 2-2 tie with the North Stars. The rugged play and all-around defensive savvy of the 20-year-old Peterborough Petes&rsquo; grad has been outstanding thus far &hellip; Red Kelly says he doesn&rsquo;t care if his players have long hair and big mustaches. &ldquo;Just as long as they play hockey,&rdquo; Kelly said. &ldquo;If they have a mustache and score goals, that&rsquo;s great&rdquo;,.. Jerry Korab, ex-Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; player is known as &lsquo;King Kong&rsquo; among his teammates. Korab has been great for the Canucks to date &hellip; Bob Murdoch is happy to be with Los Angeles and away from Montreal. &ldquo;I never felt as if I was given a chance to show what I could do with Canadiens,&rdquo; he stated. &ldquo;I also felt I was never given a fair opportunity to play.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03825/3702126-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="273" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jerry Korab</figcaption></div>&bull;THERE ARE eitht former players of Montreal Canadiens in the lineup of the surprising Atlanta Flames. They are: Noel Price, Bob Paradise. Keith McCreary. Leon Rochefort. Chuck Arnason. Rey Comeau, Bob Murray and Phil Myre. You could also add Cliff Fletcher, Atlanta general manager. Bernie Geoffrion, the coach and Bobby Stewart, assistant trainer &hellip; Sports cartoonist Cliff Wirth wherever you are &hellip; please contact us immediately. Important news &hellip; Cesare Maniago, Minnesota goalie, is going for his third straight season of 20 wins or more &hellip; Laura Stamm, a pretty professional figure skater, has been teaching power skating to the New York Golden Blades. Golden Blades&rsquo; coach Camille Henry benefitted from power skating instruction when he was with St. Louis Blues and claims &ldquo;I was a better skater when I was 34, after taking power skating, than I was at 20&rdquo; &hellip; Toronto&rsquo;s Ron Ellis is going back to wearing a helmet after years without one. Slowly but surely, more and more professional players are taking to wearing helmets &hellip; Kyle Prescott, former star defenseman of Middlebury College and still one of the best players on the ice in annual Oldboys games, tells us that Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont is located in Addison County, and that the students are calling their beautiful new athletic complex the &ldquo;Addison Square Garden&rdquo; &hellip; Johnny Esaw, sports director of Canada&rsquo;s CTV Televison Network and one of the best sportscasters in the business, is celebrating his 25th year as a sports announcer &hellip; Emile Francis, GM of the N.Y. Rangers said: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had 11 penalty shots called against us in 3&frac12; seasons and we haven&rsquo;t taken one yet&rdquo; &hellip; Charles C. Hay, first president of Hockey Canada and one of the chief negotiators in arranging the Team Canada-Russia series a year ago, died recently in Toronto at 71 &hellip; Boston&rsquo;s Bobby Orr is coaching a team of New England Juniors who will play Quebec Repentigny in a benefit game at the Boston Garden on Nov. 18. Proceeds will go to the Mas&rsquo; sachusetts Children&rsquo;s Lobby.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04723/3702119-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="268" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Esaw</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THS PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05588/3702171-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div>Ed.&rsquo;s Note: Yes, you are right. An NHL linesman can only report to the referee his version of an incident that involves major or match penalties as well as bench minor penalties. It is the referee&rsquo;s decision as to whether or not a penalty should be called.<h2>Boston World&rsquo;s Hockey Capital</h2>To those who contend that Boston is not the hockey capital of the world, I offer the following evidence that it is:Three pro hockey teams in the city (Bruins, Whalers and Braves), all of which are supported by fans plus two more teams within driving distance (Providence Reds and Springfield Kings).Four major college teams within the city (Harvard, Boston C., Boston U., and Northeastern U.) plus several more within driving distance (RPi, Brown etc.)Almost all city and suburban high schools have hockey teams. Also, at least two dozen indoor rinks and more coming.Scores of semi-pro hockey teams representing cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.Added to this is the fantastic media coverage afforded hockey.The most important element is that the people of Boston know their hockey and are keenly aware of all the teams, players and league standings.MICHAEL TULLY, White Plains, N.Y.<h2>Habs&rsquo; Cournoyer Gets Deserved Recognition</h2>I&rsquo;m glad to see that Yvan Cournoyer is finally receiving the type of recognition he&rsquo;s long deserved. He&rsquo;s been my favorite player for three or four years and I don&rsquo;t understand why no one has paid much attention to him until now.Yvan&rsquo;s had a 47-goal season, he had a great series with Team Canada and had a 40-goal season last year. But it took the winning of the Conn Smythe Trophy to make people stand up and take notice, and now I hope they&rsquo;ll fully realize the potential this man has.I had the pleasure of watching him in training camp in Kentville this year and if the beginning of this season is any indication of things to come, he&rsquo;ll have his best season yet in &lsquo;73-74.LAURIE ARMSTRONG, Anna. Co., N.S.<h2>Linesmen Can&rsquo;t Call Penalties</h2>Would you be kind enough to settle a wager between myself and a co-worker?I know that, according to CAHA rules, a linesman can report an incorrect number of players on the ice to the referee for a penalty. I also know that a linesman can report infractions such as major, match or bench minor penalties.But my co-worker things that, in the NHL, a linesman can call any type of minor penalty. I say he&rsquo;s wrong. Am I right?LES ROBINSON, Winnipeg, Man.<h2>Seattle Good Hockey City</h2>I was disappointed Seattle was not included in the next NHL expansion, but we should be in it for the &rsquo;76-77 season.Seattle, most easterners do not know, is an established hockey town. All we need here is a good hockey team. Our minor league Seattle Totems has been averaging 9,000 fans up to two seasons ago, occasional sell-out crowds of 13,000. Now a Vancouver owned Totems are still drawing big crowds. Totems vs Russia game here last Dec. 25 was a sell out. Not many know that Seattle Mets were the winner of Stanley Cup way back in 1917. I am willing to bet when Seattle joins NHL, it will outdraw Kansas City, Washington, Atlanta, and Los Angeles.SIDNEY SATO, Issaquah, Wash.<h2>Class Earns Flyers Respect Around NHL</h2>In answer to the letter from Michael Butler of Atlanta, Philadelphia fans have not forgotten Gerry Meehan&rsquo;s freak goal that bumped the Flyers out of a playoff berth. Obviously, the management hasn&rsquo;t forgotten Favell&rsquo;s inconsistent play ever since as they traded him for Bernie Parent in the off-season. Bernie promptly recorded two shutouts in his first two regular season appearances. Parent has class. Bobby Clarke and Rick MacLeish have class. (100-pt. scorers have to have something) Still have your doubts?Watch the Flyers in the playoffs this year when they win the Stanley Cup. Philly fans enthusiastically approve of the &ldquo;Broad St. Bullies&rsquo;&rsquo; and their style of play. Philadelphia is not an easy city to play in. However, the Flyers have fought their way into the hearts of their fans and into a respectable position in the league.PAUL CARINE, Woodbury, N.J.<h2>Kansas City Should Rival St. Louis</h2>I agree with Ron Parlow of Philadelphia except in the fact that Detroit and Kansas City should be switched. K.C. and St. Louis are from the same state and there is still a rivalry between Detroit and Chicago from the original six teams.ROB BAYLEY, Boston, Mass. &#9632;

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Other Features

FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">BY NORM MacLEAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;Nobody said too much about it, but the plain fact is the New York Rangers played their first six games without the services of center Jean Ratelle, their perennial leading scorer and playmaker deluxe. Although they are of different natures, that&rsquo;s like the Mets going without Tom Seaver or the New York Giants without Ron Johnson. Ratelle is more a team man than either of the above mentioned super stars. With Jean out, coach Larry Popein made varied use of his regular linemates, Vic Hadfield and Rod Gilbert. In a 3-2 loss to Montreal on October 21, Popein used Bobby Rousseau with Gilbert and Hadfield and also dropped Vic in with Pete Stemkowski and Bruce MacGregor. Other Ranger lines were the quietly efficent trio of Walter Tkaczuk, Billy Fairbairn and Ted Irvine and the Gene Carr. Tommy Williams. Mike Murphy trio. Rousseau also worked with Glen Sather and Gilbert. Carr got a third period shot at left wing when Yvan Cournoyer scored twice while being guarded by Tommy Williams.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-011005/3702226-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="269" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Ratelle</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Cournoyer&rsquo;s goals weren&rsquo;t Williams fault, although I want him to play Cournoyer closer. Remember Carr stopped Yvan cold in the playoffs two years ago. Cournoyer can score on anyone,&rdquo; said Popein.The Rangers dominated this first meeting with Montreal, yet came away on the short side. They outshot the Canadiens 41-19, but ran into a hot Wayne Thomas, who did everything Ken Dryden ever did.&ldquo;Thomas was terrific,&rdquo; said Pope. &ldquo;It was one of those nights when you do everything but put it into the net.&rdquo;New York is playing without defenseman Rod Seiling, still out with a sprained left knee. Larry Sacharuk was brought up for a short spell from Providence and Sheldon Kannegeisser dressed. The combinations were Brad Park and Dale Rolfe with Jim Neilson working with Ron Harris.Ed Giacomin scored the 44th shutout of his NHL career against St. Louis on October 17, then watched Gilles Villemure play tremendously. but lose to Toronto on October 20, 3-2. Giacomin played the Montreal game. Observations include the obvious that Toronto is much stronger with its youth movement, and that Montreal (also beaten twice in a row) will not run away and hide from the NHL East, this year.The Rod Gilbert furor is over and Rodrigue returned against St. Louis, scored the 271st goal of his career and was named one of the stars of the game. His one game &ldquo;benching&rdquo; was obviously disciplinary in nature and showed that Popein expects everyone to follow his rules. Gilbert missed a team meeting at 11 AM on October 14, thinking it was noontime as in the Emile Francis regime.&ldquo;It was a misunderstanding.&rdquo; said Rod.With Ratelle out Carr has been getting an opportunity to show his stuff and has done well. So far, Popein has stuck to his plan to work in the younger players, such as Murphy, Carr and Williams. With Ratelle coming back it will be interesting to see if Larry sets up three regular lines and goes with them. What happens with Stemkowski, MacGregor and Ted Irvine? Do they supplant the kids or does Larry go with four lines?BLUE CHIPS: The chart of penalty shots against Rangers since Bob Nevin scored on Terry Sawchuk in 1966-67 goes like this: 1966-67 John Bucyk scored on Ed Giacomin: Dallas Smith stopped by Giacomin: 1967-68 Ed Joyal stopped by Giacomin; 1968-69 Norm Ferguson scored on Giacomin; Charlie Burns stopped by Giacomin; 1969-70 Keith McCreary stopped by Giacomin; 1970-71 No penalty shots; 1971-72 Butch Goring scored on Gilles Villemure; Stan Mikita stopped by Giacomin; 1972-73 Ron Schock stopped by Giacomin; Jacques Lemaire scored on Giacomin. 1973-74 (Oct. 20) Paul Henderson stopped by Gilles Villemure&hellip; Steve Vickers received the Rangers&rsquo; achievement award at the annual soiree of the Professional Hockey Writers Assn&hellip; Bill Chadwick, the TV color man received the Al Laney award for service to hockey and Charles (Lamie) Crovat was posthumously presented with the Jerry Mitchell Memorial Award for service to New York hockey. Crovat, 76, a Garden minor official for 47 years, died Oct. 6. &#9632;

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Rangers Anxious For Ratelle’s Return, Carr Taking Advantage Of Playing Time

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02778/3702257-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Esposito of the Bruins has gotten off to his best start ever in the NHL. In his first nine games, he has scored 13 times.</figcaption></div><h2>ESPO ON RECORD COURSE</h2>BOSTON&mdash;It&rsquo;s far too early to be talking of records, but Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins is on his way to a record season. In the first nine games of the season. Esposito has scored 13 goals and that puts him well ahead of the pace he set in 1971-72 when he scored a record 76 goals. If Esposito maintains his current pace, he&rsquo;ll finish the season with II3 goals. That sounds a little hard to believe, but considering Esposito wasn&rsquo;t supposed to play until November because of off-season knee surgery, it appears that nothing is impossible for the Bruin super star.<h2>EGERS BACK IN N.Y.</h2>NEW YORK&mdash;Jack Egers is coming back to New York where he started his National Hockey League career. The Rangers swapped Glen Sather, a veteran left winger, to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for Egers, who plays right wing.The Rangers will send St. Louis another player at a later date to complete the trade. Rangers drafted Egers from Kitchener in 1968 but after one disappointing full season with the club, he was shipped to the Blues where he has performed regularly for the last two seasons.<h2>BRUINS STILL SWAPPING</h2>BOSTON&mdash;When the Boston Bruins traded veteran defenseman Don Awrey to St. Louis earlier this season general manager Harry Sinden said the main reason for the deal was the emergence of rookie defenseman Al Sims. Well, the Bruins are so impressed with Sims that less than a month after the Awrey deal, they&rsquo;re trading for more defensive help. The Bruins dealt 26-year-old defenseman Nick Beverly to Pittsburgh for 28-year-old defenseman Darryl Edestrand.<h2>SCHOCK PENS&rsquo; CAPTAIN</h2>PITTSBURGH&mdash;For the first time in five years, the Pittsburgh Penguins have named a captain. Veteran center Ron Schock, who has been with the Penguins since I969. becomes the third youngest captain in the NHL at the age of 29. Schock is the fifth-highest scorer in Penguin history and the first club captain since Ab McDonald in 1967-68. &#9632;

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ESPOSITO ON RECORD SCORING COURSE

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>MONTREAL: John Van Boxmeer, defenseman. assigned to Nova Scotia of AHL.ST. LOUIS: Mike Lampman, forward recalled from Denver of WHL. Bernie MacNeil, forward, assigned to Denver. Jack Egers, forward, traded to N.Y. Rangers in return for Glen Sather, forward, and a player to be named later.N.Y. RANGERS: Larry Sacharuk, defenseman, returned to Providence of AHL.N.Y. ISLANDERS: Andre St. Laurent, forward, recalled from Fort Worth of CHL.BOSTON: Nick Beverley, defenseman. traded to Pittsburgh in exchange for Darryl Edestrand, defenseman.LOS ANGELES: Doug Volmar, forward, assigned to Portland of WHL. Brian Bird, forward, recalled from Portland and assigned to Springfield of AHL.MINNESOTA: Gary Gambucci, forward, and Ron Wilson, defenseman. recalled from New Haven of AHL and assigned to Portland of WHL. Don Thompson, forward, sent to New Haven. Blake Dunlop, forward, recalled from New Haven.PHILADELPHIA: Bob Taylor, goalkeeper, assigned to Richmond of AHL.VANCOUVER: Larry Bolonchuk, defenseman, Dave McLelland, goalkeeper, Terry McDougall, Doug Buchanan and John Senkpiel, forwards recalled from Seattle of WHL and assigned to Des Moines of IHL.DETROIT: Terry Richardson, goalkeeper recalled from Virginia of AHL to replace Roy Edwards, who has been given leave of absence by the Detroit club. Jim Makey, goalkeeper, assigned to San Diego of WHL.<h2>WORLD HOCKEY ASSN.</h2>LOS ANGELES: George Gardner, goalkeeper, traded to Vancouver Blazers in return for Ron Ward, forward. Blazers also to receive unnamed player at later date. Mike Hyndman, forward, assigned to Greensboro of SHL.NEW YORK: Ted Scharf and Craig Reichmuth, forwards, recalled from Syracuse of NAHL.WINNIPEG: Milt Black, forward. assigned to Jacksonville of AHL.CHICAGO: Larry Cahan, defenseman, placed on voluntary retirement list to become full time scout with club.VANCOUVER: Jean Tetreault, forward, recalled from Roanoke Valley of SHL.HOUSTON: Ron Grahame, goalkeeper, assigned to Macon of SHL.EDMONTON: Ken Brown, goalkeeper, sent to Winston-Salem of SHL. Wayne Zuk, forward. returned to Flint of IHL.MINNESOTA: Darrel Knibbs, Dan Lodboa and Terry Ryan, forwards. assigned to Suncoast of SHL.QUEBEC: Dave Balon, forward, signed as free agent after release by Vancouver of NHL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>BOSTON: Don Craig, defenseman, completed 5-game pro trial and returned to Dayton of IHL. Roy Carmichael, defenseman. added to roster from Boston Bruins.CINCINNATI: Don Magash, goalkeeper, assigned to Dayton of IHL.NOVA SCOTIA: Mario Desjardins, forward, secured from Albuquerque of CHL.BALTIMORE: Bob McMahon, defenseman. assigned to Muskegon of IHL.RICHMOND: Jim Park, goalkeeper, sent to Des Moines of IHL.JACKSONVILLE: Darcy Walters, goalkeeper, signed to pro contract form Kingston of Ontario Senior League.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>SAN DIEGO: Jim Shires, forward, secured from Pittsburgh of NHL. Jim Graham, defenseman, and Jim Schraefel, and Ed Hatoum, forward, dropped from roster. Bob Champoux, goalkeeper, placed on waivers.PHOENIX: Dave Halme, goalkeeper, assigned to Dayton of IHL. Wayne Clairmont, Dave Bonter and Dale Yutsyk, forwards, dropped from roster.SALT LAKE: Jim Jones, defenseman, dropped from roster.PORTLAND: Wayne Schultz, forward, dropped from roster.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>DAYTON: Tom Pinder, forward, signed as free agent.SAGINAW: Randy Prior, forward, released.TOLEDO: Brian McDowell, defenseman, and Mike Root, forward. released. Greg Jablonski, forward, placed on voluntary retirement list.DES MOINES: Ken Gratton, forward, placed on waivers.FORT WAYNE: Wayne Ego, forward, returned to club after announcing retirement.<h2>SOUTHERN LEAGUE</h2>MACON: Bart Fahlgren and Don Giesebrecht, forwards, added to roster.BROOME: Claude Piche, forward, secured from Boston of AHL on loan. Bernie Reed, defenseman, returned to Flint of Flint of IHL. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01995/3702302-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="281" height="357"></div><h2>A Tale Of Two Bad Guys</h2>For the record, officials Frown on hockey&rsquo;s bad men. It is the only sport in which the boys who break the rules must sit in the corner for awhile. New rules prohibiting others from joining brawls have prevented riots. But most hockey men contend you need &ldquo;cops&rdquo; to police rivals. And. all admit most fans adore rough stuff. One agent got a bonus clause into his client&rsquo;s contract this season providing him more pay in proportion to the I average number of &ldquo;hits&rdquo; he gives out in games. The agent sought for another player bonuses for fighting penalties. but laughingly was rejected because &ldquo;it might look bad.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02895/3702295-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="346" height="492"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Schultz</figcaption></div>Gordie Howe, the greatest player the game has had, was the best fighter of his best days and is second all-time in penalty minutes. Only Ted Lindsay tops him and together they helped Detroit win seven straight pennants. Bostons &ldquo;Big Bad Bruins&rdquo; became a dominant team in recent years with near-record penalty totals. Last year, Philadelphia Flyers became a contender with almost 400 more minutes in penalties than any prior team even recorded. &ldquo;The Broad Street Bullies&rdquo; have some great players, including some great penalty-killers, but it was their tough players who earned them the respect of rivals and made great penalty-killers important.Coach Fred Shero says. &ldquo;We believe in an aggressive system. Hitting is part of hockey and rough play pays off. It helps us more than it hurts us. We don&rsquo;t play dirty, but we won&rsquo;t back off from a fight.&rdquo;Two years ago. Keith Magnuson of the Black Hawks set a new one-season record for penalty minutes with 291. Last year, Steve Durbano of the Blues broke in and might have broken it if he had played the full season. Dave Schultz of the Flyers came close with 259. I here are plenty of tough guys in hockey, but no teammates tougher than the Flyers&rsquo; Schultz. Bob Kelly. Don Saleski, Gary Dornhoefer, Ed Van Impe and Andre Dupont, who have approached or surpassed the penalty records for their positions. Magnuson has been slowed by injuries, a real risk for fighters, but Durbano, Schultz and the others still are going good. These guys have grown up getting good at this. Durbano topped 400 minutes in the minors one season. Schultz came close to this in the minors three seasons.&ldquo;Most of my minutes have come from majors from fighting and from misconducts, not from simple penalties like slashing or spearing,&rdquo; Dave &ldquo;The Hammer&rdquo; Schultz smiles. Oft&rsquo;the ice. he is a pleasant person. Many of these bad guys are. On the ice. he is a menace. &ldquo;I get psyched up too high. I guess, he says. &ldquo;I hit hard, which upsets the other guys. They take runs at me. I get upset. If they want to fight. I want to fight. I can&rsquo;t say? I don&rsquo;t enjoy a good fight. I&rsquo;ve lost, but I&rsquo;ve never: been embarrassed or hurt bad. I think it helps the team. It fires our guys up and slows down the other guys. Where I hurt the team is where I talk myself into 10-minute misconducts by complaining about two-minute or five-minute penalties. I&rsquo;m just too exciteable.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03751/3702288-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="326" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dan Maloney</figcaption></div>He is a good-looking lad with a lot of curly hair and a mod mustache. Ladies&rsquo; eyes light up when he fights. He has a wife who he says wishes he wouldn&rsquo;t fight so much, but figures he can take care of himself. When spunky little Bobby Schmautz of Vancouver came from a fight with Schultz last season saying his wife hit harder than The Hammer did, it sparked a series of fights which ran to the end of the season. The Hammer had such a good bout with big Pierre Bouchard of Montreal that a Canadian sportsman offered $25,000 for them to box for real in a ring, but they passed, saying they couldn&rsquo;t stand up without skates on.Schultz says, &ldquo;Fighting was fine when I wasn&rsquo;t playing a lot like last season, but this season when I&rsquo;m taking a regular turn I find the fights take too much out of me. I started fighting as a kid because I wasn&rsquo;t good enough as a player. If I hadn&rsquo;t been aggressive I&rsquo;d never have made the majors. Now I feel I can prove myself as a player but somehow I always wind up fighting their best fighter. I guess they&rsquo;re looking for me. I don&rsquo;t know how I missed Maloney in Los Angeles.&rdquo;In Los Angeles, where the Flyers lured the Kings into a brawl that produced the most minutes in penalties they&rsquo;d ever had in one of their games. Dangerous Dan Maloney decisioned the No. 2 contender, challenging and chopping down the Flyers&rsquo; Saleski. but he didn&rsquo;t get around to the No. 1 contender to his generally recognized crown as hockey&rsquo;s heaviest fighter. Schultz. Well, there will be other games. In one game late last season the Blues&rsquo; Durbano challenged Maloney and had to be helped off the ice with his face all mashed up. Maloney tuned up for the Flyers by badly bloodying Norm Ullman in Toronto, a journeyman who infrequently fights.<h2>Standup Puncher</h2>Maloney is a nice lad except in ice action. I have seen a lot of fighters in hockey over the years, but this is the best. He breaks bones when he hits. And he hits. He doesn&rsquo;t wrestle. He stands up and punches and he hurts people and sends them to the hospital. Frankly, he is frightening. And I am not trying to be funny when I say boxing men are missing a bet here. Someone should sneak him into a ring for a tryout against a professional fighter. &ldquo;Irish Dan&rdquo; could be a heavyweight champion and there&rsquo;s millions to be made. No one knows what makes one guy hit harder than the next, sometimes even a skinny guy. but this guy hits harder than the next guy in hockey or in boxing.Maloney is not skinny, although he has angular, gaunt features. He is a handsome blonde who stands 6-2 and weighs 185 pounds. Unlike Schultz, who says he never had a street fight in his life. Dan admits to some, but says he was no neighborhood bully and only began bashing foes in hockey. Like Schultz, Dan says he became extra aggressive to compensate for not having extra talent, but feels he has become a solid player, too. Like Schultz. Dan says his wife accepts it. Two months back, wife Suzanne presented him with a daughter, Shelley, so he is fighting for food for his family.&ldquo;You have to do what you do best.&rdquo; Dan notes. &ldquo;Fighting is one of the things I do best. I can do other things, but fighting is a necessary evil in this sport and my team looks to me to do what has to be done when it has to be done. I haven&rsquo;t won all my fights, but I don&rsquo;t recall losing any. Most hockey fights don&rsquo;t go to a decision. Mine usually do, yes. I don&rsquo;t want to hurt anyone, but I don&rsquo;t want to hold back, either. I know if I would lose it would really hurt me. Fighting does take a lot out of you and I do want to have enough left to prove myself as a player, rather than a fighter. No, I never thought of boxing professionally. I&rsquo;m happy playing hockey.&rdquo;I asked him if it worried him, getting known as &ldquo;the fastest gun in the west,&rdquo; the guy all the other tough guys will be going after. He smiled and shrugged. &ldquo;No.&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;The St. Louis Blues have made several points evident over the first handful of games in the young hockey season:&#9679;the Blues are tough &mdash; even tougher than they traditionally have been &mdash; and apparently will be able to outmuscle any opponent;&#9679;the Blues are going to have great difficulty in scoring on the power play;&#9679;the Blues have a real prize in rookie goalie John Davidson.The Blues always have been physically tough. Since the beginning of expansion hockey they&rsquo;ve had the battling Piaget brothers and over the years they&rsquo;ve had some rugged players such as big Noel Picard, now a member of the Blues&rsquo; broadcasting team with Dan Kelly.But this season Chuck Catto. the new general manager, has put extra emphasis on physical strength, and the results have been impressive.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04449/3702333-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="271" height="394"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Kelly</figcaption></div>Catto acquired Battleship Bob Kelly from the New York Rangers in exchange for Norm Dennis, who had been unable to make the team over the past five seasons. Kelly demolished Dave &ldquo;T he Hammer&rsquo; Schultz in the Blues&rsquo; final exhibition game and pounded big Pat Quinn into submission in the Blues&rsquo; home opener. Kelly gives the Blues some muscle on the wings. Montreal&rsquo;s John Ferguson proved a long time ago that a team needs physical strength on the wings, but not all hockey teams have agreed with the theory.Catto also acquired Nick Harbaruk from Pittsburgh after he saw Harbaruk pushing Fran Huck off the puck in an exhibition game. Huck a crafty center able to add scoring punch, was placed on waivers.&ldquo;When you see your guy being pushed off the puck by another guy,&rdquo; said Catto, &ldquo;you trade for the other guy and get rid of the guy being pushed around. It&rsquo;s as simple as that.&rdquo;In addition to the newly acquired wings the Blues still have Bob and Bare Plager and Steve Durbano. The team hasn&rsquo;t lost any muscle and has added quite a bit.The Blues&rsquo; big problem this season apparently will be scoring. They&rsquo;re missing 20-goal scorer Phil Roberto, out for several months with a severe cut on his arm from a freak accident with a garage door this summer. But even Roberto&rsquo;s presence would not transform the team.Judging a team&rsquo;s scoring ability so early in the season is perhaps unfair, but the Blues&rsquo; course is clear. Garry Unger. Jack Egers and Gary Sabourin must carry the bulk of the scoring load to make the team respectable. Then, if further prosperity is to come, second-year men Wayne Merrick. Pierre Plante and Floyd Thomson must establish themselves as goal scorers. &#9632;

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Blues Flex Muscles But Inept Offense Causing Headaches

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;At 35 and after an unproductive season last year, it was wondered how much Bob Nevin still had to contribute when the Kings purchased him during the off season. Well, early in the new season, he has contributed more than anyone else. Going in, goalkeeper Rogie Vachon said he was happy to have him because Nevin was an honest player, a forward who played defense, and goalkeepers always are happy to have this sort playing in front of them.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03632/3702364-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="283" height="493"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Nevin</figcaption></div>Because Nevin only scored five goals last season, it was pointed out a team of Nevins in front of Vachon might result in a season of scoreless ties. Vachon laughed and said. &ldquo;Well, at least we wouldn&rsquo;t be losing and my goals-against average would be 0.00.&rdquo;However, Nevin, playing on a line with Butch Goring and Dan Maloney, not only has been checking his men, but putting the puck in the net. He got a breakaway with five minutes to go and beat Ed Giacomin to tie his old team, the Rangers 1-1, in New York. He got a goal to put his side in front in the final peirod, 4-3, in Long Island, although the Islanders later tied it 4-4.And then, after two ties and three losses. Nevin led the Kings to their first triumph of the season with two goals shot past Bernie Parent as the Kings blanked visiting Philadelphia 3-0.The Kings usually get off to terrible starts, but this was the first time in their seven seasons they had not won even one of their first five games and manager Larry Regan was so displeased he went to a team meeting with coach Bob Pulford and warned the players the hew policy of keeping the club intact if possible would be impossible if they did not do better.&ldquo;If they like California so much, they better start showing it.&rdquo; he said.Philadelphia forced the Los Angeles team to put out. The Broad Street Bullies came out hitting and slashing and the Kings had to respond or be carried off in baskets. They fought back and beat the Flyers for the fifth straight time in a brawl in which records for most penalties by two teams in a Kings game were set for one period, the first. 88, and three. 132. The 11,734 fans went wild at the fight-filled action.It is funny how certain teams are consistently effective against certain other teams. The Kings have much more trouble with lesser teams than they do with the Flyers, who regularly beat better teams.Nevin has played pro 17 seasons now. He made the majors in I960, spent four seasons with Toronto, seven with the Rangers and two with the North Stars. He says coach Jackie Gordon used him mainly to kill penalties, then told him he wasn&rsquo;t dressing for a game two weeks from the end of last season and didn&rsquo;t dress him again. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not above being benched, but I have enough time in to merit being told why I&rsquo;m not being used,&rdquo; Nevin says. &ldquo;I was glad to get away and I&rsquo;m happy to be getting a chance to show I still have a lot left.&rdquo;Although the six-foot. 190-pound right-winger has a reputation for being more of a defensive specialist than a scorer, he points out he has topped 20 goals six seasons and 30 once and knows where the net is. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always tried to play both ends of the ice and I don&rsquo;t notice I&rsquo;ve slowed down much. Speed never was my main thing, anyway. But when I was asked to guard the Bobby Hulls it naturally reduced my scoring opportunies. I like the challenge of defense, but I like offense, too.&rdquo;He says he likes southern California, but likes the Kings more: &ldquo;I will continue to make my home in Toronto, but I will be happy to play wherever I can. Minnesota was a great place to play. but it wasn&rsquo;t so great when I wasn&rsquo;t playing. I&rsquo;m happy to be playing here. I&rsquo;ve played for both winners and losers. I&rsquo;ve been part of a loser becoming a winner before, it&rsquo;s very satisfying and I&rsquo;d like to be part of that here.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s become clear he can help. &#9632;

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Nevin Bounces Back To Help Lift Kings

<div class="byline">&#x2014;BY BILL MAKI</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01962/3702395-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;&hellip;And suppose we DON&rsquo;T win this one. Will the world be any better or worse off for it tomorrow?&rdquo;</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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CARTOON CORNER

<div class="byline">BY GEOFFREY FISHER</div>OAKLAND&mdash;Around the igloo of the California Golden Seals there has been a lot of talk about &ldquo;improved attitude&rdquo; and how it&rsquo;s going to make a difference this season.You will hear it from everyone from Ringmaster Fred Glover right down to the stickboy. They talk about it as though it was some magicelixir that will convert the Seals from being doormats to potential giant killers.But it could happen that the thing that turns the Seals from helpless ice performers into playoff contenders may be something that appeared in the Oct. 12, 1973 edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS.That was the edition that reported the pre-season selections of correspondents on how the NHL races would finish. All but five of the 18 writers put the Seals down for eighth and last in the Western Division. Four sympathetic selectors put them seventh and one optimistic soul gave them sixth.The ratings were viewed with the enthusiasm of a cholera plague by many of the Seals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02848/3702426-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="285" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Craig Patrick</figcaption></div>After racing off to opening victories against St. Louis and Chicago, it appeared that the predictions of NHL writers were indeed off beam. But then came successive losses to Pittsburgh. Philadelphia and Detroit, the last by a depressing 11-2 score, and the Seals appeared to be needing something more than &ldquo;improved attitude.&rdquo;One player who speaks of the wounded pride of the Seals is Craig Patrick, six-foot, 185-pound right wing on the Seals&rsquo; top line.&ldquo;I know a lot of us on this club want to prove that we&rsquo;re not the joke some people claim we were last season,&rdquo; says Patrick.Patrick said that the Seals improved attitude is very important to the club&rsquo;s chances this season, he said that the problems of the ownership of the Seals is something that does not concern him and that he does not see it as a factor that should hurt the team&rsquo;s efforts.&ldquo;We have our own job to do and we are anxious to show that we can skate with the best of the NHL clubs. Ownership is a matter for Mr. Finley. We have our pride to be concerned about.&rdquo;Patrick and linemates Walt McKechnie at center and Joey Johnston at left wing, got away to a fast start in the Seals early games, accounting for six of the Seals first nine goals of the season.Patrick, who had a 20-goal season last year, is quick to place the major credit on his two linemates.&ldquo;Walt and Joey have been going great but I have not gotten going as well as I would have like.&rdquo;Patrick was bothered for a good part of last season with a shoulder injury which he says is completely healed now.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not shooting enough,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;But the truth is that I would rather make the right move at the right time than to just get the shots.&rdquo;Craig&rsquo;s linemate, McKechnie, said recently that &ldquo;you don&rsquo;t win hockey games on attitude,&rdquo;Craig would probably agree that you don&rsquo;t win on &ldquo;pride&rdquo; either. &#9632;

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Seals Out To Prove They’re Not Joking

<div class="byline">BY TODD HILL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01984/3702457-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GREG POLIS &hellip; Improved Attitude This Year</figcaption></div>PITTSBURGH&mdash;It&rsquo;s a bit early to start picking players for the All Star game in Chicago in January, but last year&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player, Greg Polis wants to be sure he can return to the mid-season classic for the fourth straight time.Polis is off to the fastest start of his four-year career in the NHL and is starting to develop into one of the real on-ice leaders the Penguins will need to make the playoffs.Polis and Jean Pronovost became the first Penguins in history to reach to 30-goal plateau two years ago, but both slipped last season when Polis had 26 goals and Pronovost 21.True, center Syl Apps had taken on new wingers in Lowell MacDonald and Al McDonough and converted them into 30 plus goal-scorers, but a touch of animosity found its way between Polis and Pronovost.It seemed last year that when a player should be shooting he was passing to an unaware teammate and vice versa, Said Pronovost. &ldquo;Last year if the other guy did something you didn&rsquo;t like, you would get mad and say, &lsquo;the heck with him&rsquo;, but this year the communication is much better.&rdquo;The answer appears to be the new Greg Polis. Polis came to camp with a new attitude towards the game. Always accused by detractors that he played only offensively and didn&rsquo;t hit well, Polis has been out to change that pattern. His on ice checking has been something fans have waited for anxiously in Pittsburgh. His hard work in the corners is paying real dividends through the first five games. He had picked up a point in every game and led the club in scoring with three goals and five assists for eight points.Pronovost was right behind with three goals and three assists. Pronovost finding the goal range early was a good sign, as he is usually a very slow starter. Only once in the past five seasons has he been able to get three goals in less than 11 games.The play of Polis earned him first star award in back-to-back wins in Minnesota and at home against California. Polis is also a sluggish starter and had never had eight points before 13 games were played.Both players give plenty of credit to their fast start to center Bob McManama. The Harvard All American has been able to compliment both players style and get the puck to them for scoring chances. An added plus was the play of Bryan Hextall who steps in with Polis and Pronovost on the power play situations. Hextall picked up two goals on the power play to earn the early nickname of &ldquo;Designated Goal Scorer&rdquo;.Meanwhile, Polis continues to hit people, set up goals and play overall as the potential super star everyone expects him to be.IGLOO INK: Pens scored six power play goals in first 11 chances and all were on the road. Last year they needed 56 chances to record a half dozen PPG. Pens fired a record 24 shots in one period against California on October 20. Pens stopped nine game winless streak in Minnesota with 4-2 win on Oct. 17. Elmore Keener, one of the principal owners of the Penguins, passed away on Oct. 22. He was 37 years old and had been one of the four men who purchased the troubled franchise in 1971 from the league and helped save hockey in Pittsburgh. He was one of the co-winners of the James Balmer Award in 1971. &#9632;

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More Checking Plus Hitting Add Up To Points For Polis

<div class="byline">by JACK McCARTHY</div>BOSTON&mdash;When Bep Guidolin went into his first training camp as head coach of the Bruins, he said he was hoping for a few surprises. He got some, and one of them is Bobby Orr&rsquo;s new defense partner, a 20-year-old rookie out of Toronto, Al Sims.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01956/3702488-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="567" height="705"><figcaption class="caption-body">AL SIMS &hellip; Defensive Poise</figcaption></div>Says Bep, &ldquo;The kid has been great. A real surprise.&rdquo; As for Sims, he says, &ldquo;I was surprised to make the Bruins, yes. And even more surprised to be playing beside Bobby Orr. If you had asked me if I would have done this six months ago, I&rsquo;d have said you were crazy&hellip;&rdquo;And, still another surprise in this case. Says Bruins Managing Director Harry Sinden, &ldquo;We drafted Al in the third round of the amateur draft last May. We were surprised that he lasted that long.&rdquo;So, it&rsquo;s surprises all around with the six-foot, 185-pound Sims, who already has picked up his first goal in the NHL, and has played steady hockey under the pressure of playing with a contender, and playing with hockey&rsquo;s greatest star.His play in training camp was one of the reasons the Bruins surprised (that word again) everybody by trading Don Awrey to the St. Louis Blues a few weeks ago.Sims who played with the Cornwall, Ont., Royals in the Quebec Major Junior League, says, &ldquo;I played Junior &lsquo;B&rsquo; at Richmond Hill. None of the OHA teams drafted me, so I wound up in the Quebec League, playing for Orval Tessier, who once performed for Boston.&ldquo;I had two years at Cornwall, and we won the Memorial Cup one season.&rdquo; With Cornwall last year, he had 13 goals and 62 assists.Sinden says, &ldquo;He was the 47th player picked in the amateur draft and we were surprised he lasted that long. We had ranked him in the top twenties.&ldquo;The &lsquo;book&rsquo; on him was that he has poise. That&rsquo;s something you don&rsquo;t expect to find in a rookie defenseman. The other things come first &mdash; skating, shooting, passing. Then comes poise, but this kid has it already.&rdquo;It is safe to say that if Sims had not played so well in training camp that Awrey would still be a Bruin, or at least would have been a Bruin for a while longer.Awrey, was of course, a defensive defenseman, and he had played for years, off and on, alongside Orr, the rusher. Added Sinden, &ldquo;We told Al we wanted him to play defensively. After all when you play with No. 4 you can&rsquo;t be up the ice all the time.&rdquo;Sims says amen to that, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s right, and I don&rsquo;t mind one bit. I&rsquo;m just happy to be here, and when I got my first goal in Detroit, I was just walking on air.&rdquo;BRUIN BITS: Kenny Hodge is off to a great start this year, as, in fact, is the whole line of Hodge, Phil Esposito and Wayne Cashman. He jumped into the NHL scoring lead after three games, with 11 points, and also led the league in assists with seven and game-winning goals with two&hellip; In one game against Detroit in the Olympia, he had a stick in six of the nine Boston goals&hellip; Espo, of course, is off and winging, with eight goals and five assists for 13 points after five games, and Cashman is chipping in on the scoring also&hellip; Dallas Smith and Gregg Sheppard both missed several early games with injuries, but are back now&hellip; Derek Sanderson is still being treated for a disc problem in his back, and while it does not appear to be so serious as originally feared, it has kept him from skating and out of the lineup so far this season&hellip; When he is able to skate, it will take another week for him to get back in condition and then some time for game condition to develop&hellip; Dallas had a shoulder injury, while little Shep was run by Ace Bailey in Detroit and injured a knee&hellip; Chris Oddleifson played several games in place of Sheppard with Johnny Bucyk and Fred O&rsquo;Donnell in Shep&rsquo;s place. &#9632;

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Surprising Sims Now Orr’s Defense Mate

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02817/3702519-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB McMANAMA&hellip;Pittsburgh Penguins</figcaption></div>The Pittsburgh Penguins are not known for going after college hockey players but they have been bending backwards of late to snare one here and one there. Last season they sent their scouts around to Harvard University to take a look at a fellow named Bob McManama. They liked what they saw and the Pens offered him a pro contract with the idea of sending him to Hershey of the AHL for seasoning. It seems McManama had other ideas. The 6&rsquo;, 180-pound center from Belmont, Mass., an All-American last year, impressed the Penguins so much that he started the new season with them as a regular center. He scored 27 goals in 22 games for the Crimson in 1972-73. &#9632;

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MEET THE ROOKIES

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div>VANCOUVER&mdash;When Bill McCreary was hired as their coach, the Vancouver Canucks had already made their big trade. Dale Tallon had been dealt to the Chicago Black Hauks in exchange for goaltender Gary Smith and defenseman Jerry Korab. What did he think of it? McCreary voiced instant approval. &ldquo;I think Gary Smith is a fine goaltender.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;but I think he can become even better with Vancouver.&rdquo; It seems McCreary knew something. Through training camp and the opening games of the National Hockey League schedule. Smith has not only lived up to that optimistic forecast, he has exceeded it.Although the Canucks record after live games was a modest two wins and three losses they are being viewed as playoff contenders for the first time in their brief four-year history.That talk isn&rsquo;t just coming from the stands at the Pacific Coliseum, it is also being openly voiced in the Vancouver dressing room. For the first time the players actually believe they can make it.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01927/3702550-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="282" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jocelyn Guevremont</figcaption></div>They became believers during their demanding season-opening road trip that saw them begin their schedule with games in Boston. Montreal. Buffalo and Chicago. In case you&rsquo;ve forgotten, those teams would have occupied four of the first five positions if the league had been lumped into one division last season.The Canucks won only one of those games a 3-1 decision over Buffalo &mdash; but lost by only a single goal in Montreal and had a 4-4 tie going for them in Boston until the final 7S seconds.In Chicago, the last stop on their trip, they were bombed 5-0 and as an added twist saw Tallon emerge as one of the Black Hawks&rsquo; stars.&ldquo;But those first three games convinced us we can play with anybody in the league.&rdquo; insisted veteran defenseman Barry Wilkins.In their home opener, against the powerful Philadelphia flyers they convinced a lot of their fans. In a sensational goaltending duel between Smith and Bernie Parent of the Flyers. The Canucks came away with a 2-1 decision.Both teams played exceptionally well, but ultimately Smith was the difference. The big guy was also the difference in Buffalo where the Canucks weathered a blistering first period assault by the Sabres before gaining the win.&ldquo;Getting saves like that from your goaltender lifts the whole team.&rdquo; said defenseman Jocelyn Guevremont. who scored the winner against the Flyers.However. the Canucks improved prospects aren&rsquo;t based entirely on Smith&rsquo;s heroics in goal The new size they picked up in the off season has also been a key factor.&ldquo;The other teams can&rsquo;t just run at us any more.&rdquo; says high scoring right winger Bobby Schmautz. &ldquo;Now they have to concentrate on hockey.&rdquo;Korab the other halt of the Chicago package, has been a major factor in that department. The exHawk became an instant favorite at the Coliseum by scoring a decision over Philadelphia&rsquo;s rugged Dave Schultz.With rookies Dave Dunn. Bob Dailey and Dennis Ververgaert to go along with Korab and veterans Orland Kurtenbachami the scrappy Schmautz. The Canucks tire well stocked in the muscle department.Whether the early optimism can be sustained through the long season remains to be determined, so tar everyone likes what they&rsquo;ve seenThe Philadelphia game was the start of a seven-game homestand and if Vancouver can quickly establish superiority in its own building. The club may indeed become the playoff contender the optimists are claiming. &#9632;

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Canucks Believers After Performances By Newcomer Smith

<div class="byline">BY DAN PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO&mdash;Among the people wondering how long Maple Leaf coach Leonard Kelly&rsquo;s revolutionary three-goaltender rotation system would survive were, of all people, the three goaltenders involved. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see why it shouldn&rsquo;t work,&rdquo; Kelly replied to the question he kept hearing.&ldquo;Baseball teams have four pitchers in the starting rotation, what&rsquo;s wrong with three goalies in hockey?&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01939/3702581-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="289" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Johnston</figcaption></div>When Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens 5-3 at the Forum Oct. 17, and goalie Ed Johnston was the outstanding player of the game, coach Kelly was quick to crack, &ldquo;See how well that three-man system works?&rdquo;Johnston, whose family lives in Montreal, always plays well there against the Canadiens. Concidentally, it also was his turn in the rotation when Leafs visited Montreal. After the win he talked about how much he wanted to give good goaltending to the young team, &ldquo;This team is good now but it will be much better by Christmas,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If goaltending can be a plus now, so we get a good start, then I&rsquo;ll tell you right now we&rsquo;ll be in the playoffs and as high as second.&rdquo;About the three-goalie system, though, Johnston had little to say. &ldquo;As long as we&rsquo;re winning, that&rsquo;s the main thing.&rdquo;The fact Leafs won four of their first six games kept the system looking good. The rotation was, Johnston, Favell, Wilson, then repeat. And Leafs kept getting good goaltending.&ldquo;Having three goaltenders on a team usually causes problems&rdquo; said Wilson, who like Johnston and Favell has been on three-man staffs before and found reason to complain about layoffs.&ldquo;Here, though, it can work because all three of us are friends and we&rsquo;re happy if the team&rsquo;s winning. As long as I know ahead of time when I&rsquo;m playing. I&rsquo;m happy, and Red has been letting us know a day ahead.&rdquo;Wilson, at 25 the youngest of the three, has impressed from the first of training camp. When Sabres beat Leafs 4-3 in Buffalo, he kept the score close as his mates realized in the third period. His average, 3.5 after two starts, was identical to Johnston&rsquo;s, while Favell kept his average down to 2.00. The team figure was 3.00, not good by Vezina Trophy standards but fine for a team with a young defense.By playing all three goalies regularly, Kelly was able to keep each relatively fresh. And, of course, nobody could complain about not getting a chance. But most observers were waiting for one goalie to have a bad night, to see whether Kelly would stick with his system.Goalies, after all, don&rsquo;t require as much rest as pitchers. So goes conventional hockey thinking, at any rate, and it&rsquo;s true most goalies like to play 50 or more games. Kelly was talking about 26 apiece.Favell didn&rsquo;t feel good about the system, but, as he said, &ldquo;how can you complain when you&rsquo;re winning?&rdquo; &#9632;

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Three-Goaler System Working For Leafs

<div class="byline">BY DICK JOHNSTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;Gloom knows no bounds in this hockey city.Gilbert Perreault, the sharpest Sabre of them all, has been shunted to the sidelines with a broken leg suffered when he collided with teammate Mike Robitaille in an NHL game before the home fans Oct. 28. The loss couldn&rsquo;t have come at a more inopportune time for the Sabres.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02758/3702612-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="274" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Gratton</figcaption></div>Perreault had just begun to turn it on and as Coach Joe Crozier pointed out, it seems the Sabres only go when Gil&rsquo;s going.The team and Perreault just weren&rsquo;t rolling as Crozier had expected them to during a winless pre-season exhibition schedule and when they started the regular season dropping two of their first three starts, Crozier was convinced that the Sabres would roll once Perreault got untracked. Well, the flashy youngster, the team&rsquo;s leading scorer during their first three years of existence, finally started moving and so did the Sabres.Then misfortune struck. Perreault was carried from the ice on a stretcher with a shattered left leg and it appears he will be out of action until the end of the schedule.Crozier was crestfallen at the news Perreault had broken his leg.In the Sabres&rsquo; second home game, against the Los Angeles Kings, Gil was going and the entire team awoke. The Sabres won that game and the next two to move among the East Division leaders.In the home opener, a 3-1 loss to the Vancouver Canucks, Perreault was sub-par physically. He was sent home to recuperate when he reported for practice the next day.The next game was against the Kings. Perreault assisted on three goals as the Sabres won, 6-2. The French Connection accumulated nine points in the game, plus a goal Robert at right wing on one shift.Gratton&rsquo;s goal originally was credited to Perreault. It would have been Gil&rsquo;s first of the season and the capacity crowd of 15,858 cheered him to the echo.But after the game, Gil insisted Gratton had jammed the puck into the goal after a close-in shot by Perreault had been blocked. The official scorer, Dan Guynn, made the change after viewing the videotape of the goal.So Perreault had three assists, instead of a goal and two assists. Martin and Robert each had a goal and two assists. Jim Lorentz, however, put in what proved to be the winner when he scored the third of three Buffalo tallies in an interval of 5 minutes 28 second late in the second period.Perreault did get his first goal in the Sabres&rsquo; next home game. It was the winner as Buffalo overcame a two-goal deficit going into the final period and defeated Toronto 4-3, knocking the Maple Leafs out of first place in the East Division.The Sabres scored in bunches during that game, too. Perreault&rsquo;s goal was the third in a span of 3:57. Rick Martin tallied his sixth of the season to cut Toronto&rsquo;s margin to 3-2 at the 6:05 mark of the final period.Forty-one seconds later, Gratton deflected a shot by Larry Carriere past Toronto goalie Dune Wilson to tie the score. &#9632;

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Perreault Breaks Leg Jolting Sabres’ Hopes

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01746/3702933-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">PLAYERS SCORING PENALTY RECORDS</figcaption></div><h2>ATLANTA Flames</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02640/3702926-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="312" height="207"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03510/3702919-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="781" height="658"></div><h2>BOSTON Bruins</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04398/3702912-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="279" height="246"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05298/3702905-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="775" height="626"></div><h2>BUFFALO Sabres</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06241/3702898-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="240" height="236"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07218/3702891-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="766" height="606"></div><h2>CALIFORNIA Seals</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-08199/3702884-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="295" height="135"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-09177/3702877-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="774" height="575"></div><h2>CHICAGO Black Hawks</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-10155/3702870-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="262" height="245"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-11141/3702863-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="760" height="590"></div><h2>DETROIT Red Wings</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-12124/3702856-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="335" height="206"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-13113/3702849-1-eng-US/f0016-132.jpg" title="f0016-13" width="755" height="618"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES Kings</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-14106/3702842-1-eng-US/f0016-142.jpg" title="f0016-14" width="260" height="282"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1596/3702835-1-eng-US/f0016-152.jpg" title="f0016-15" width="761" height="597"></div><h2>MINNESOTA North Stars</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1693/3702828-1-eng-US/f0016-162.jpg" title="f0016-16" width="282" height="235"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1785/3702821-1-eng-US/f0016-172.jpg" title="f0016-17" width="775" height="508"></div><h2>MONTREAL Canadians</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1878/3702814-1-eng-US/f0016-182.jpg" title="f0016-18" width="326" height="237"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1972/3702807-1-eng-US/f0016-192.jpg" title="f0016-19" width="762" height="604"></div><h2>NEW YORK Islanders</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2057/3702800-1-eng-US/f0016-202.jpg" title="f0016-20" width="316" height="269"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2154/3702793-1-eng-US/f0016-212.jpg" title="f0016-21" width="752" height="563"></div><h2>NEW YORK Rangers</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2252/3702786-1-eng-US/f0016-222.jpg" title="f0016-22" width="268" height="258"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2350/3702779-1-eng-US/f0016-232.jpg" title="f0016-23" width="760" height="626"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA Flyers</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2448/3702772-1-eng-US/f0016-242.jpg" title="f0016-24" width="289" height="187"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2543/3702765-1-eng-US/f0016-252.jpg" title="f0016-25" width="755" height="594"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH Penguins</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2640/3702758-1-eng-US/f0016-262.jpg" title="f0016-26" width="294" height="240"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2735/3702751-1-eng-US/f0016-272.jpg" title="f0016-27" width="752" height="578"></div><h2>ST. LOUIS Blues</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2833/3702744-1-eng-US/f0016-282.jpg" title="f0016-28" width="311" height="241"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2926/3702737-1-eng-US/f0016-292.jpg" title="f0016-29" width="770" height="594"></div><h2>TORONTO Maple Leafs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3026/3702730-1-eng-US/f0016-302.jpg" title="f0016-30" width="279" height="245"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3126/3702723-1-eng-US/f0016-312.jpg" title="f0016-31" width="759" height="613"></div><h2>VANCOUVER Canucks</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3222/3702716-1-eng-US/f0016-322.jpg" title="f0016-32" width="312" height="217"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3322/3702709-1-eng-US/f0016-332.jpg" title="f0016-33" width="768" height="542"></div><h2>NHL&rsquo;S EAST-WEST SCOREBOARD</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3418/3702702-1-eng-US/f0016-342.jpg" title="f0016-34" width="1445" height="240"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Statistics include games of Sun. Oct. 28)</figcaption></div><h2>TOP NHL SCORERS</h2>(Including games of Sun. Oct. 28)<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01641/3702695-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="1242" height="973"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Scoring key: GP&mdash;Games played; A&mdash;assist; PTS&mdash;points; PIM&mdash;penalties in minutes; PPG&mdash;Power play goal; SHG&mdash;shorthanded goal: WG&mdash;winning goal; TG&mdash;tying goal.)</figcaption></div><h2>Looking At NHL Goalers</h2><h3>TOP 5 GOALING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02553/3702688-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="1144" height="277"></div><h2>COMPLETE GOALKEEPING RECORDS FOR ALL NHL TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03449/3702681-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="1160" height="1962"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY DWAYNE NETLAND</div>TWIN CITIES&mdash;That loud moan you hear reverberating throughout the NHL is emanating from Mepropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, headquarters of the beleaguered Minnesota North Stars. The North Stars, rated by everyone as a contender in the West Division this season, got off to their worst start in history by dropping three straight games at home and getting a pair of ties on the road for an 0-3-2 record, good for only two points out of 10.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04341/3702964-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="279" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Goldsworthy</figcaption></div>The source at trouble seemed to be everywhere &mdash; up front, on defense and even in goal, where the venerable Odd Couple of Cesare Maniago and Gump Worsley were busily trying to keep the puck out of the net.To compound the problem. North Stars were encountering most of their problems in the third period. Buffalo scored twice in the final session to overtake the Stars 4-3 at the Met. Chicago outshot them 13-6 during the third period of their l-l tie and Detroit got a pair of goals from Nick Libett in the last 11 minutes to salvage 4-4 tie.It was enough to frown the visages of both general manager Wren Blair and coach Jack Gordon, who had opened the season with every expectation the North Stars would battle Chicago and Philadelphia all the way lot first place in the West.&ldquo;We have been flat.&rdquo; declared Gordon. &ldquo;Hockey is a tough game to play when you&rsquo;re standing still. We&rsquo;ve hail the puck in our own end too much of the time, and it seemed like every time we made a mistake it wound up in out net.&rdquo;A perfect example occurred at Detroit, where the North Stars were nursing a 4-3 lead into the final 1:14. The Red Wings got a faceoff just to the right of the Minnesota goal, and Libett drove in the equalizer before the stunned Stars could set up their defense.Another sore spot has been lack of balance among the three lines. The lines of Dennis Hextail. J.P. Parise and Bill Goldsworthy had to carry the scoring burden through the first four games, with the other two units immobilized by tight checking. Goldy led the Stars with four goals.Blair has indicated the Stars might have been lured into a feeling of complacency by their long-term contracts, and he has pointedly tried to bring out the dangers of that trap. But the Minnesota G.M. really had no alternative, other than losing some valuable bodies to the WHA and besides, that problem is shared by nearly every other NHL team.The sting of those home ice losses cut deeply however. Last season the North Stars were an effective team at home, compiling a record of 26-8-5 for 57 points, second only in the West Division to Philadelphia&rsquo;s 58.&ldquo;Losing on the road is one thing.&rdquo; said Gordon, a troubled man during the first two weeks of the season. &ldquo;But losing al home is something no contending team can affort to do.&rdquo;The North Stars were hoping for a strong contribution from Fred Stanfield, but his total output in the first live games was just two assists.&lsquo;It&rsquo;s a long season.&rdquo; observed Gordon, &ldquo;and there&rsquo;s plenty of time to get going. But this has been the slowest start I&rsquo;ve ever been associated with. I just hope we can break out of it soon.&rdquo;NORTH STAR NOTES: Goldsworthy set a Minnesota record by scoring at 30 seconds of the first period against Pittsburgh, but the Penguins fought back for a 4-2 victory. It was Pittsburgh&rsquo;s first win in its last 10 appearances at the Met and the first at Minnesota over Gordon in his four years as coach&hellip;Worsley has decided to use his mask this season, leaving Detroit&rsquo;s Andy Brown as the only NHI goalie without one&hellip;North Stars were victimized at Detroit when referee Dave Newell nullified a goal by Murray Oliver with a quick whistle. Newell later admitting he had erred&hellip;Defenseman Tom Reid missed the Chicago-game with a bruised ankle&hellip;North Stars are carrying only 18 players, one under the maximum. &#9632;

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Complacency Has Stars Fading Early

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT&mdash;It took the Red Wings six games before they won their first victory of the season and they did it by almost scoring at will in a 11-2 win over California&rsquo;s Golden Seals. It marked rookie goalie Doug Grant&rsquo;s second big league start and Detroit&rsquo;s left wingers, pretty much a problem up to that time, scored seven of the goals, three of them by Guy Charron and two each by Nick Libett and Ace Bailey.Attendance has been off at Detroit home games to date. Season ticket holders stayed away in sizeable numbers during a three game home stand with two of the games, incredibly enough, scheduled opposite the World Series, which was free on home television. It was known, when the NHL schedule was drawn up, when the Series night games would be played and Detroit&rsquo;s other winter time pro sport, the basketball Pistons, purposely avoided scheduling home games those nights.The fans that did turn up for these games were quick to take out their frustrations on the players and the &ldquo;home ice advantage&rdquo; has proved to be anything but that so far this season at Olympia.&ldquo;We need the crowd behind us.&rdquo; said Libett who after a disappointing season last year is off to one of the best starts of his career this year, playing aggressively and scoring five goals in six games &mdash; last year he didn&rsquo;t get his fifth goal until the 21st game and finished with only 19.Libett scored a pair of third period goals to earn a 4-4 tie with Minnesota in a game that Detroit, which outshot the North Stars 4126, should have won.It was Roy Edwards&rsquo; last game in goal. Garvin replaced him in the second period after the troubled Edwards let a shot go through his mitt. Fortunately that one hit the goal post and stayed out of the net but three of the four Minnesota goals should have been stopped.Edwards has been brilliant at times in a nerve-wracking calling and helped keep the Wings in the race fora playoff position last year. He shared the NHL shutout lead with six and was voted the team&rsquo;s most valuable player.But he retired during his first time around with the team, did it again after he had been picked up by Pittsburgh and then he went home again after Grant backstopped the Wings&rsquo; initial victory last week.The Red Wings said the 36-year-old netminder had been granted &ldquo;a leave of absence&rdquo; and called up another rookie, Terry Richardson, from Virginia. Richardson, 20, was the Wings&rsquo; No. 1 draft choice last summer.Meanwhile scouts from other clubs hovered around the Wings, feeding the fires of trade talks, one of which had Marcel Dionne, off to a slow start, going to the Montreal Canadiens.It just happens that the Canadiens have a recalcitrant goalkeeper in Ken Dryden, the same Dryden who played for Red Wing General Manager Ned Harkness at Cornell University.Before Edwards went home the Wings were looking, as usual, for help on left wing and defense with Bailey in the doghouse and a defense corps of Gary and Thommie Bergman, Larry Johnston, Tom Mellor and Rick Foley unable to get the job done.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01654/3703002-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="293" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body">Nick Libett</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02526/3702995-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="574" height="686"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROY EDWARDS &hellip; May Retire</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Players Clamor For Fan Support After Slow Start

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY CHRIS ZELKOVICH</div>MONTREAL&mdash;Coach Scotty Bowman sat soberly on the edge of a training bench in a deserted section of the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room. Only minutes before, the final buzzer had put his team out of the misery of a 4-2 loss to the Atlanta Flames. &ldquo;They just aren&rsquo;t hustling.&rdquo; Bowman mumbled. The Montreal Canadiens not hustling? Say it isn&rsquo;t so Scott.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-1227/3703267-1-eng-US/f0020-122.jpg" title="f0020-12" width="270" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Steve Shutt</figcaption></div>Why that&rsquo;s like saying Dale Carnegie doesn&rsquo;t smile or Rodney Dangerfield isn&rsquo;t funny. If there&rsquo;s one thing the Habs have become known for, other than taking Mr. Stanley&rsquo;s trophy home almost every spring, it&rsquo;s a style of hockey that revolves around skating and hustling.So if the Canadiens aren&rsquo;t hustling they&rsquo;re not playing their style of hockey, and if they&rsquo;re not playing their style of hockey they must be playing someone else&rsquo;s style of hockey and if they&rsquo;re playing someone else&rsquo;s style of hockey they can&rsquo;t be winning with regularity.Atlanta defenseman Pat Quinn thinks. Les Habitans are playing like last year&rsquo;s version of the Flames.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen a Montreal team play like that before.&rdquo; Quinn said after the Flames had stunned the Canadiens with their second straight loss &mdash; the first time in two years Montreal had suffered back-to-back defeats. &ldquo;They were coming up the ice one at a time. Not like the Canadiens usually do. More like&hellip;well&hellip;us.&rdquo;The Canadiens have been far from impressive in any of their games this season, and their problem has thus far been a lack of defensive play and hustle.&ldquo;We were just plain outhus tied.&rdquo; Bowman said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not taking enough shots and there are just too many big guys not going.&rdquo;The only big guy who is producing so far is Yvan Cournoyer, who scored seven goals in his first five games. Chuck Lefley and Guy Lafleur are playing impressively but the list ends there. Henri Richard was playing well, but a stiff neck has kept him out of two games.The Habs&rsquo; remaining artillery. Frank and Pete Mahovlich and Jacques Lemaire, are not producing anywhere near capacity. And the rookies, Yvon Lambert. Dave Gardner and Bob Gainey, are tar from Calder trophy candidates.Lambert and Gardner have reserved seats on the bench. Gainey has been impressive in spots, but needs to be broken in gradually. But at least the aggressive left winger hustles.Steve Shutt, the Habs&rsquo; first draft pick of a year ago. is finally starting to show people why he was so highly regarded, and is one of the Habs&rsquo;brighter spots.Given a chance to perform on a regular shift in the Atlanta disaster. Shutt responded by setting up Montreal&rsquo;s second goal and turning in a generally strong performance.&ldquo;He hustled and that&rsquo;s more than I can say for some guys,&rdquo; Bowman said. &ldquo;Shutt had more shots than Frank (Mahovlich) and (Jacques) Lemaire and he played for only a few minutes.&rdquo; Steve will not spend so much time on the bench in the future.Bowman, and the Canadiens&rsquo; fans who booed them so loudly against Atlanta, want hustle and until they get it the Habs are destined for something considerably less than first place.HAB-BITS: Rookie defenseman John Van Boxmeer, who saw only one period of action, asked to be sent to Nova Scotia of the American Hockey League. He was granted his request&hellip;He figured to see little action with Pierre Bouchard back in the lineup&hellip;After surrendering what Bowman labelled as &ldquo;too many soft goals&rdquo;. Michel Larocque was replaced in the nets by Wayne Thomas. Thomas debuted by stopping 39 shots as the Habs nipped New York Rangers 3-2. The job belongs to Thomas until he loses it&hellip;Bowman is hinting that he may change his mind and stick with three goaltenders after all. Earlier he had stated that one netminder would depart&hellip; The only line that impressed Bowman was the Lefley-Lemaire-Cournoyer troika. But it was broken up the night following the Atlanta game when Lefeley was sidelined with in annkle injury&hellip;Jim Roberts has been used on defense with Bouchard and Larry Robinson recuperating from injuries. &#9632;

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Habs Struggle As Hustle Not In Evidence

<div class="byline">BY HARRY KLAFF</div>LONG ISLAND&mdash;All during the summer and throughout the month-long preseason schedule, the talk around the Islander camp was the tremendous improvement of last year&rsquo;s sieve-like defense &mdash; the one that allowed more goals in NHL history in 1972-73. But it was no coincidence that nobody mentioned the offense.After five games, the Islander record stood at no wins, three losses, and two ties, certainly no better than their slate at an equal point during their maiden campaign. Although there were still no wins on the plus-side of the ledger, it must be admitted that the prophecy of an improved defense was fulfilled. With the exception of a 6-0 rout at the hands of the Philadelphia Flyers in the Coliseum opener, goalies Gerry Desjardins and Billy Smith have compiled a neat 2.50 goals against average.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01317/3703298-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="277" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ralph Stewart</figcaption></div>But the offense. That&rsquo;s a different animal. In five games. Long Island marksmen had lodged but eight discs amidst the enemy cords, for a rather anemic 1.6 average.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been doing a lot of juggling, trying to find some consistency in scoring punch.&rdquo; was all coach Al Arbour could offer as an explantion for his club&rsquo;s lack of scoring punch in the early going. And juggle he has, with a number of forwards meeting a new set of linemates for each game.It&rsquo;s not that the Islanders haven&rsquo;t had their chances. They are skating infinitely better than a year ago, and consequently are getting more and better shots on goal. But that&rsquo;s where the improvement ends. NHL rules clearly state that in order for a goal to count, it must completely cross the goal line. And that&rsquo;s what the Islanders haven&rsquo;t been doing.Bad luck has also played a role, but as the adage states, good teams make their own luck. In a 3-2 loss to the Bruins at Boston Garden &mdash; and probably the club&rsquo;s best effort all year &mdash; Billy Harris hit the post three times. Denis Potvin has also found the pipe on a couple of occasions in his quest for his first NHL goal.The only line that has stuck together throughout has been the Ralph Stewart line with Brian Spencer on the left side and Craig Cameron on the right. By the second week of the season, the trio had accounted for almost half of the total Islander production.The key so far has been Stewart, who was a disappointment after coming over from the Detroit Red Wings organization last January. He was leading the Central Hockey League in scoring at the time of the deal, and the Islander management felt it had come up with a future star.But Stewart didn&rsquo;t excel, to say the least, in his three month trial last term. There was even some question that he could stick with the team this year. That was before camp opened.However the Ralph Stewart of &rsquo;73-74 bears no resemblance to the previous model. He has been skating, quarterbacking, checking, and most of all scoring. Against Los Angeles, he split the defense to score a picture goal near the end of the second period which was instrumental in knotting the Kings 4-4.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m in much better shape this year than last,&rdquo; said Stewart following the L.A. contest. &ldquo;The difference is that this time I&rsquo;ve been getting much more ice time. I was treated like a regular from the opening of training camp, and I think I&rsquo;ve produced.&rdquo;Despite the slow start. Arbour is far from throwing in the towel. &ldquo;What I&rsquo;m pleased with most on this club so far are various individuals who I can&rsquo;t name,&rdquo; reports the coach, &ldquo;on the other hand, there are a few things that must be improved. We have to tighten up our checking game, play more aggressive, and cut down on mistakes.&rdquo;Still, improvements mean little unless they are accompanied by a coincident rise in the standings. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no such thing as a &lsquo;good loss.&rsquo;,&rdquo; says captain Eddie West-After a successful exhibition schedule which saw them lose only one game, the Islanders have been hit with the reality of the championship NHL season. As Arbour sees it, the whole matter is confidence. If the Islanders lose it, then all the strides made during the off-season will be for nought. &#9632;

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Isles’ Defense Better But Attack Sputters

<div class="byline">BY WALT BURROWS</div>TORONTO&mdash;One of the Toronto Toros major problems last season, besides sagging gate figures which forced them to move from Ottawa to Toronto, was a lack of muscle. Toro forwards were pushed around by the opposition with regularity. But things are looking a little different this year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-02262/3703528-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="577" height="641"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY CAHAN&hellip;Now A Scout</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I told you we were going to be more physical,&rdquo; said Toro coach Billy Harris. &ldquo;Nobody will push as around like they did last year.&rdquo;Harris made the comment following the Toros first victory, a 3-0 win over the Los Angeles Sharks in LA. The game was marred by a free-for-all that enriched the WHA treasury by $3,500.The brief was started when Toronto&rsquo;s Carl Brewer and Sharks&rsquo; Gary Veneruzzo were sent off for roughing with just 1:41 left in the game.Veneruzzo, for some unknown reason, scaled the glass separating the two penalty boxes and attacked Brewer. Within seconds both teams had joined in the scuffle and eight game misconducts were handed out.WHA officials originally estimated that $4,500 would be taken from the players involved, but that figure was reduced by a $1,000.&ldquo;If that isn&rsquo;t the most this league has ever fined, it sure approaches it.&rdquo; a league official said.The brawl overshadowed a shutout posted by Les Binkley and Gilles Gratton.CLEVELAND: Crusaders&rsquo; balance has mystified the opposition. In three games. Cleveland registered 11 goals and they had been scored by nine different players.Ron Buchanan topped the Crusaders with four points, while goalie Bob Whidden sported the top average with 1.88 goals against. Whidden&rsquo;s mark was best in the WHA while teammate Gerry Cheevers had a 2.31. fifth in the league.&ldquo;We played a team brand of hockey,&rdquo; said coach Bill Needham of the Crusaders, who hadn&rsquo;t lost a game in three starts, although tied in one. &ldquo;Our defense kept the opposition at bay and we scored a few timely goals.&rdquo;Buchanan&rsquo;s overtime goal was the margin as the Crusaders edged Chicago 3-2. Skip Krake and Wayne Muloin scored the other goals for the well-balanced Clevelanders.CHICAGO: Cougars got their first dividend from veteran Eric Nesterenko when his two goals led mates over host Los Angeles. 7-2. Nesterenko got help from another former NHLer. Ralph Backstrom. who also scored twice, but it was Rosaire Paiement&rsquo;s goal that was the go-ahead tally.&ldquo;It was our best offensive game of the season.&rdquo; said coach Pat Stapleton. Our combinations were beginning to jell. I knew when that happened we&rsquo;d put a lot of points on the board.&rdquo;Veteran defenseman Larry Cahan, the current captain of the Cougars, has decided to retire to become a full time scout with the Chicagoclub. Cahan, a 21-year veteran of pro hockey, has been bothered by injuries in the last two seasons. The Cougars recently sent him down to Long Island of the NAHL and recalled him a week later.NEW ENGLAND: Defending champions had a 14-game home winning streak snapped by Winnipeg in a 3-1 decision, but otherwise the whalers trimmed Chicago and New York before being tied by Minnesota.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been pretty busy.&rdquo; explained coach Ron Ryan of the Whalers amertrous start. &ldquo;Four games in five nights can get quite hectic.&rdquo;Big goals were supplied by Tim Sheehy. Rick Ley, Tom Webster and Mike Byers as New England downed Chicago, 6-4, and Tom Williams overtime goal nosed out New York. 2-1, before Winnipeg clipped the winning streak. Wesbter had the lone Whaler goal against the Jets.&ldquo;Pleau has been a steadying factor for us.&rdquo; Ryan said. &ldquo;Larry is a low key individual until he hits the ice. Then he&rsquo;s something else.&rdquo;QUEBEC: Alain &ldquo;Boom Boom&rdquo; Carons goal in the closing minutes of the first period was decisive as the Nordiques beat Toronto for the second time. Guy Dufour and Bob Guindon scored for Quebec to offset tallies by Martin and Sentes in the first period, and Caron hit at the 17:22 mark to put his mates on the way to a 5-2 decision. Sergie Bernier scored his fourth goal of the season and Pierre Guite his first to add the icing. &#9632;

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Sharks-Toros’ Brawl Costs $3,500; Crusaders’ Balance Amazing Opposition

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Other Leagues

WORLD HOCKEY ASSOCIATION

<div class="byline">BY ALEX HARDY</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;One of the best moves the WHA has made is sudden death overtime. The fans love it, and it hasn&rsquo;t caused teams the anticipated difficulty of catching airline flights after games. &ldquo;Knowing there&rsquo;s going to be sudden-death overtime, teams don&rsquo;t play for a tie in the third period,&rdquo; says Minnesota Fighting Saints coach Harry Neale. &ldquo;It evens out for most clubs. You lose about as many as you win, so you wind up with the same number of points. But it&rsquo;s awfully pleasing for the spectators. You don&rsquo;t see them swarming out to the parking lot with 10 minutes to go.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-03197/3703559-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="258" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Connelly</figcaption></div>Last year 64 of the WHA&rsquo;s 468 regular season games went into overtime and 45 were settled. The NHL, meanwhile, carded 624 games and 87 failed to produce winners.Provision for overtime isn&rsquo;t the only WHA innovation. Another which results in consistently spectacular hockey is the rule allowing a player to pass from his own end to a man on the other side of center, as long as the puck precedes him across the red line. It produces a game that breaks very quickly. It also forces defensemen to hang back to protect themselves, reducing crowding in the offensive zone.Another good rule is the one that forces a team killing a penalty to get the puck over its own blueline before it can ice it. Otherwise it comes back for a faceoff. That means power plays are more sustained.WINNIPEG: &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to have two lines to make the playoffs,&rdquo; is Bobby Hull&rsquo;s explanation for the early season switch which saw him bump himself from Jets&rsquo; Luxury Line (Hull-Norm Beaudin-Chris Bordeleau). He moved down to a line with center Danny Spring and right winger Ron Snell. That line &mdash; and the entire team &mdash; perked up. Hull&rsquo;s replacement on the No. 1 unit. Dune Rousseau, cost them the benefit of Hull&rsquo;s speed, shot and attention, but it is still dangerous. Meanwhile, Fran Huck, recently signed after St. Louis Blues dropped him, has been a valuable addition. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re a skating, passing, shooting club because that&rsquo;s the way Hull plays the game,&rdquo; says Billy Robinson, Jets&rsquo; director of playing personnel. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s also Huck&rsquo;s game.&rdquo;VANCOUVER: Blazers have been accused of inflating their season ticket sales figures. They were supposed to have sold 8.600, but reportedly fewer than 5,000 were fully paid up at last word. Blazers draw well at home against clubs like Houston who have big names (more than 12,000) but not well against lesser teams, and they have been a poor road attraction.EDMONTON: After Oilers won their first eight exhibition and regular season games, rookie coach Brian Shaw gushed, &ldquo;This team has a better attitude than any junior team I&rsquo;ve coached.&rdquo; Shaw, whose previous experience was restricted to juniors, added, &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t have to tell the pros so often. They do it right the first time.&rdquo; Then Oilers lost a couple of games they should have won, and Shaw was singing a different tune. &ldquo;They played like a bench of complacent kids. They told me there&rsquo;d be nights like this.&rdquo;HOUSTON: Gordie Howe was amassing points at better than a one-a-game clip. Many observers feel that Howe is playing better than his last few years in the NHL. Howe credits his performance to the exhilaration of playing with his sons. Teammate Murray Hall says most Houston people claim they had heard of Gordie before he joined Aeros, but he expects Howe will have to build his name from scratch in the southern Texas metropolis.MINNESOTA: Fighting Saints are showing signs they are the most improved team in the WHA. The entire team has been playing well. In a two-game stretch Saints got 10 goals from nine different players. Coach Harry Neale says it has been hard to select his nine best forwards. He has been giving his fourth line a fair amount of ice time. Veteran Wayne Connelly has been an early sparkplug.LOS ANGELES: Sharks continued to have their problems, especially at home where the hot California sun seems to sap their strength. Celebrated winger Marc Tardif from Montreal has shown some considerable ability, but Sharks are going to have to scramble for victories on the Road. &#9632;

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WHA Rule Innovations Proving Popular; Breakup Of Luxury Line Benefits Jets

<div class="byline">BY NORM MacLEAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0858/3703597-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="288" height="337"></div><h2>Blades&rsquo; Plight Affects Team</h2>THERE IS NO WAY to avoid it &mdash; the financial plight of the New York Golden Blades is the big news in the World Hockey Association. Jim Browitt, the heir apparent to Gary Davidson as president of the WHA, flew to New York to do what he did last year &mdash; try and straighten out the tangled financial affairs of the team &mdash; which had a $250,000 check bounce. This resulted in the players missing their first pay day, until the League stepped in and made the payment.&ldquo;It has to be unsettling for them to miss their first pay period,&rdquo; said veteran defenseman Harry Howell. &ldquo;Jerry Delise (Blades managing director of Hockey) wanted to pay us out of his own funds, but we said no.&rdquo;The WHA had no choice but to step in and do its thing once more. By WHA by-laws the players now revert to the league and are owned by the WHA. This might be changed at a meeting of the Board of Trustees, if Ralf Brent and Lee Matison, the Blades&rsquo; new owners, come up with the financing. If it is maintained, it drastically handicaps coach Camille Henry and Delise. They will undoubtedly be unable to trade or make player changes during the season. This was a fact of Henry&rsquo;s life for about a month last year and it led to the Blades doing almost nothing in the off season until Delise stepped into the picture.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0951/3703590-1-eng-US/f0025-092.jpg" title="f0025-09" width="329" height="377"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED SCHARF&hellip;Ice Battler</figcaption></div>Davidson doesn&rsquo;t believe a solid New York franchise is a must for a league to be considered Major in status, but he is wrong. He organized the American Basketball Association and is in the process of giving football another pro circuit, but the ABA didn&rsquo;t really make it until the New York Nets&rsquo; franchise was solidified by Roy Boe, the owner of the Nets and now the owner of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League.The finances of the team have to affect the play of the Blades. They won their first game in seven starts, upsetting Quebec Nordiques 4-3, in the Garden, after the Quebec sextet had demolished them 8-1 the night before.&ldquo;There is no way we should lose to the Blades,&rdquo; said GM Jacques Plante afterwards. &ldquo;But it does show how the WHA is. Every team has young players who are developing and everyone started out even. On a given day anyone can beat anyone else.&rdquo;Norm Ferguson scored his first goal of the season, signalling he was starting to make progress in his comeback from a broken leg suffered last March.&ldquo;If I don&rsquo;t pot a few we were going to sink into the cellar so I figured it was time,&rdquo; said the Blades&rsquo; Captain.Plante was fuming over the tactics of Henry in sending his hatchetman, Ted Scharf, out to work over the Nordiques. Scharf, recalled from Syracuse of the NAHL the night before, had three fights, two with Serge Bernier and one with Dale Hoganson, He won all three, and defeated Hoganson while only using his left.&ldquo;I think I may have fractured a bone in my right hand hitting Bernier,&rdquo; revealed Scharf. &ldquo;I thought it was my job to stir things up and get us moving.&rdquo;Plante objected to Ted&rsquo;s method and claimed the Nordiques were not bothered, but this didn&rsquo;t seem to be true.Quebec has a class squad, led by J.C. Tremblay on defense and Rejean Houle up front. The lines are Mike Parizeau centering for Houle and Bobby Guindon, Bernier with veteran JeanGuy Gendron and Boom Boom Caron and Jeannot Gilbert and Andre Gaudette splitting the center job with Pierre Guite and Guy Dufour. Hoganson, who didn&rsquo;t get too much ice time in the NHL, is playing more than with Montreal, but still not quite a bonafide regular. Tremblay works with Norm Descouteaux, Francois Lacombe with Ken Desjardine and Hoganson with ex AHLer Alain Beaule. Not all will survive, when Plante shakes down his squad.Serge Aubry played the first five Quebec games, with Michel Deguise, late of the Nova Scotia Voyageurs debuting in New York. Some say Deguise would have had Ken Dryden&rsquo;s job if he had not jumped to the WHA in the summer.The Nordiques are deep and are doing it without right wing Renald Leclerc, out for two months with a broken ankle and center Jean Payette, who had an ankle sprain.Many felt the WHA should have more sock last season. It didn&rsquo;t have too many games in which hitting was the norm, especially early in the year when the NHL defectors were out of shape from reporting after Oct. 1. But Sharf stirred things up in New York and the Sharks and Toronto Toros turned the Sports Arena into a Roman Coliseum in Los Angeles. The benches cleared and at one time there were eight separate fights going on. Steve Sutherland, of Los Angeles, a good fighter, came out of the mele with a fat lip and 15 stitches.Referee Wayne Mundey made a special action report to president Davidson, who is expected to mete out as much as $4,500 in fines. Mundey tagged Los Angeles&rsquo; defenseman Ted McCaskill with leaving the bench first.McCaskill demurred saying. &ldquo;With my bald head and reputation I automatically get noticed first.&rdquo;Ted, 36, and the Los Angeles assistant coach, is mild mannered off the ice, but can go crazy at the first sign of trouble on it. The big surprise was little Gary Veneruzzo starting it with Carl Brewer. Brewer taunted Veneruzzo in the penalty box and they both went at it. Venuruzzo is quiet and friendly normally, and Brewer, once a truculent Maple Leaf, is now a mellowed type, who doesn&rsquo;t fight that much. Maybe Carl was trying to prove he really is interested this season. Incidentally, the Toros won the game 3-0.All WHA teams except Los Angeles will have some games televised this season. So far, CBS has not planned a WHA regular season game of the Week, although some playoff games will be put on. And some specials are in the works. Los Angeles, which was not wildly enthusiastic about the Kings in their first few seasons, is a crucial spot in the WHA &mdash; NHL battle. The new league doesn&rsquo;t to lose L.A., but this is the key season to tell if the Sharks will survive.Eric Nesterenko, the ancient veteran winger who played in Switzerland last year after nearly two decades in the NHL with Toronto and Chicago has solidified his roster spot with the Chicago Cougars. Elbows got two goals recently against Los Angeles and looks more important all the time to coach Pat Stapleton. Which puts Reggie Fleming in more danger as he fights for his job in Chicagoland.Hats off to Cleveland GM Jack Vivian for an excellent job in the off season. Any time a team changes horses they are in danger of getting off slowly the next year. Vivian took over for Chuck Catto, now the St. Louis Blues GM. So far they have won four and tied one at press time. This included two straight weekend sweeps against Quebec and Chicago and then Toronto and Houston. Gerry Cheevers is, well just plain Gerry Cheevers, the best goaler in the WHA. Coach Bill Needham is still using six defensemen which gives oldies Wayne and Larry Hillman breathing room. He is working left wing Bill Heindl in with the Jim Wiste &mdash; Gerry Pinder line in place of Rich Pumple, who works the point and is used as a spare forward. The talent rich Crusaders are splitting the center chore between Grant Erickson and rookie Bob Neale, both of whom work with wingers Russ Walker and Bill Young. Eighteen year old rookie defenseman Tom Edur, teaming with Wayne Muloin has played well, with few mistakes. Despite the furor over the signing of Edur, jumping straight from Junior to the WHA, he is tough. Jim McMasters, a junior whiz bang last year, is now in Jacksonville. &#9632;

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AROUND THE WHA

<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Oct. 30)<h3>NORTH DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01283/3703642-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="621" height="208"></div><h3>SOUTH DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02229/3703635-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="608" height="198"></div>(Affiliations 1&mdash;Montreal 2&mdash;Detroit 3&mdash;Boston. 4&mdash;N.Y Rangers. 7&mdash;Los Angeles 8&mdash;Pittsburgh. 9&mdash;California. 19&mdash;Philadelphia 11&mdash;Minnesota. 14&mdash;Buffalo 15&mdash;N.Y. Islanders 17&mdash;Cleveland (WHA). x&mdash;independent.)<h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Mon. Oct. 22Hershey 5 at Nova Scotia 0Tue. Oct. 23Baltimore 1 at Boston 2Wed. Oct. 24Boston 4 at New Haven 6Providence 10 at Springfield 6Thur. Oct 25Jacksonville 0 at Nova Scotia 5Fri. Oct 26Springfield 0 at Cincinnati 4Jacksonville 6 at New Haven 2Hershey 1 at Richmond 1Providence 9 at Rochester 4Sat. Oct. 27Springfield 4 at Baltimore 4Nova Scotia 4 at Boston 2Cincinnati 3 at Hershey 3Virginia 6 at Richmond 2Sun. Oct. 28Boston 3 at Cincinnati 6Nova Scotia 4 at New Haven 6Springfield 2 at Rochester 2<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tue. Oct. 30Hershey at BostonProvidence at JacksonvilleNew Haven at Nova ScotiaWed. Oct. 31Rochester at New HavenProvidence at VirginiaThu. Nov. 1Springfield at BostonRochester at Nova ScotiaFri. Nov. 2Jacksonville at BaltimoreProvidence at RichmondHershey at RochesterVirginia at SpringfieldSat. Nov. 3Nova Scotia at BaltimoreVirginia at BostonJacksonville at CincinnatiProvidence at HersheyNew Haven at SpringfieldSun. Nov. 4Virginia at New HavenNova Scotia at Richmond<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03191/3703628-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="602" height="331"></div><h2>AHL Rosters</h2><h3>BALTIMORE</h3>GOAL: Ken Lockett, Denis DeJordy.DEFENSE: Bill Mikkelson, Barry Salovaara, Brian Molvik, Mark Davis, Claude Houde, Kent Douglas.CENTER: Dave Gilmour, Dave Pulkkinen, Paul Granchukoff, Bob Rivard.R. WING: Yvan Rolando, Howie Menard, Marc Dufour, Jim Higgs, Jerry Kemp.L. WING: Randy Sokoll, Brian Murphy, Dan McPherson.<h3>BOSTON</h3>GOAL: Dave Reece, Peter Crosbie.DEFENSE: Roy Carmichael, Al Simmons, Matt Ravlich, J.P. Burgoyne, Pat Westrum.CENTER: Doug Gibson, Steve Stirling, Yvon Bouillon.R. WING: Ron Anderson, Craig Sarner, Walter Johnson. Bil Corkery.L. WING: Ron Boehm, Bob Gryp, Dave Hynes, Neil Clairmont, Neil Murphy.<h3>CINCINNATI</h3>GOAL: Tim Regan, Rocky Farr.DEFENSE: Bill Hajt, Jean Landry, Hap Myers, Ron Busniuk, Paul Curtis, Don BrennanCENTER: Billy Inglis, Joe Robertson, Peter McNabb, Jack SurbeyR. WING: Frank Richardson, Jim Nichols, Bob Smulders, Yvon Dupuis, Randy Wyrozub, Neil Korzack.L. WING: Bob Richer, Steve Richardson, Andre Deschamps, Morris Titanic, Fred Hunt, Jr.<h3>HERSHEY</h3>GOAL: Bob Johnson, Gary Inness.DEFENSE: Yvon Labre, Ralph Keller, Larry Bignell, Gerry Methe, Duane Rupp, Jim Pearson, Dennis Owchar.CENTER: Hugh Harvey, Jim Hrycuik, Jim Wiley.R. WING: Bernie Lukowich, Steve Andrascik.L. WING: Robin Burns, Terry Ewasiuk, Don Seiling, Wayne Bianchin, Dean Sherematta.<h3>JACKSONVILLE</h3>GOAL: Gerry Gray, Yves Belanger.DEFENSE: Billy Orr, Jim McMasters, Chris Meloff, Mike Keeler, Ric Jordan, Ralph Hopiavouri.CENTER: Doug Brindey, Guy Smith, Lou Nistico.R. WING: Jeff Jacques, Doug Keeler, Dick Sarrazin, Ted Hodgson.L. WING: Gord Titcomb, Brad Beutow, Kevil Ahearn.<h3>NEW HAVEN</h3>GOAL: Graham Parsons, Fern Rivard, Lyle Carter.DEFENSE: Billy Plager, Chris Ahrens, Dennis Patterson, Murray Anderson, Harry Shaw.CENTER: Charlie Burns, Steve West, Tom Colley, Don Thompson.R. WING: Dennis Desrosiers, Rick Chinnick, John Rogers, Terry Holbrook.L. WING: Jerry Byers, Rod Norrish, David Lee,<h3>NOVA SCOTIA</h3>GOAL: Peter Proulx, Jim Shaw, David Elenbaas.DEFENSE: Richard Wilson, Len Cunning, John Van Boxmeer. Greg Hubick, Gary Geldart, Guy Delparte.CENTER: Maurice Stefaniw, Ed Gilbert, Ron Andruff, Michel Belisle, Louis Chiasson, Jim Cahoon.R. WING: GlenGoldup, Sean Shanahan, Peter Sullivan, Mickey Oja.L. WING: Don Howse, Richard Latulippe, Ross Butler, Larry Fullan.<h3>PROVIDENCE</h3>GOAL: Peter McDuffe, Curt Ridley.DEFENSE: Randy Legge, Marty Gateman, Ron Fogal, Bobby Craig, John Bednarski, Larry Sacharuk.CENTER: Norm Dennis, Gerry Teeple, John Campbell, Andre Peloffy.R. WING: Jerry Butler, Rick Middleton, Al Blanchard, Pierre LaganiereL. WING: Don Borgeson, Bert Wilson, Alex Kogler, Doug Horbul.<h3>RICHMOND</h3>GOAL: Roger Kosar, Marcel Paille.DEFENSE: Roger Pelletier, Larry Goodenough, Serge Lajeunesse, Mark Bousquet, Frank Spring, Michel Latreille, Donald McCulloch, Doug Ferguson.CENTER: Larry Wright, Michael Clarke, Rene Drolet.R. WING: Garry Mac Millan, Tom Young, Robert Stumpf.L. WING: Dale Cook, Larry Keenan, Brent Leavins, Dan Schock, Bruce Cowick.<h3>ROCHESTER</h3>GOAL: Lynn Zimmerman, Bob Sneddon.DEFENSE: Jean Gauthier, Bob Malcolm, Dick Matiussi, Rick Pagnutti, Wayne Morusyk.CENTER: Art Stratton, Barry Merrell, Billy Knibbs.R. WING: Rod Graham, Doug Ferguson, Gary Bredin, Larry McKillop.L. WING: Murray Kuntz, Bob Ellett, Ron Dussiaume, John Wensink.<h3>SPRINGFIELD</h3>GOAL: Bernie Germain, Roily Kimble, Steve Rexe.DEFENSE: Byron Baltimore, John Van Horlick Gordie Dmith, Wayne Lachance, Brian Erickson, John Dobie.CENTER: Ross Webley, Wayne Chernecki, John Healey, Brian Bird, Bob Mac Guigan.R. WING: Reg Kinch, Scott Seagrist, Norm Park, Mark Heaslip.L. WING: Doug Buhr. Pete Harasym. Norm Dube.<h3>VIRGINIA</h3>GOAL: George Hulme, Terry Richardson.DEFENSE: Alan McLeod, Lee Carpenter, Glen Cickello, Ross Woodley, Ken Murray.CENTER: Blair Stewart, Bill Hogaboam, Ed Hayes, Pat Demarchi.R. WING: Meehan Bonnar, Herb Boxer, Len Fontaine.L. WING: Dan Gruen, Larry Klewchuk, Nelson Debenedet, Brian Lavender.<h2>American League Summaries</h2><h2>Sun. Oct 14</h2><h2>NOVA SCOTIA 2 at PROVIDENCE 6</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Providence, Laganiere (Middleton, Horbul)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:132&mdash;Providence, Dennis&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:503&mdash;Nova Scotia, Cunning (Stefaniw)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:554&mdash;Providence, Sacharuk (Gateman, Peloffy)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:48Penalties Peloffy 2:13; Laganiere 7:04. Legge Stefaniw 7.38: Cunning 13:42<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Providence, Peloffy (Sacharuk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:266&mdash;Providence, Butler (Borgeson, Fogal)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:13Penalties Bednarski 6:37; Geldart (minor, misconduct) 8:44; Gateman. B. Wilson. Shanahan 12:11, Bednarski (major), Goldup (major) 19:18<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>7&mdash;Providence, Middleton (Legge, Horbul)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:378&mdash;Nova Scotia, Oja (Cahoon, Delparte)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:46Penalties: Shanahan (major), Fogal (major), Proulx 7:49; Bednarski 16:45Saves: Elenbaas &mdash; Proulx (Nova Scotia) 40, McDuffe (Providence) 41.Attendance 4,572.<h2>Tue. Oct. 16</h2><h2>PROVIDENCE 0 at NOVA SCOTIA 2</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Nova Scotia, Gilbert (Cunning, Fullan)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12.13Penalties Fogal 5:30; Cunning 18:49<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Nova Scotia, Goldup&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:56Penalties Bednarski 13:07. Hubick 16:11<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>No scoringPenalties: NoneSaves: Elenbaas (Nova Scotia) 29, Ridley (Providence) 36Attendance: 3,047<h2>Fri. Oct. 19</h2><h2>JACKSONVILLE 2 at BALTIMORE 5</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Jacksonville. M. Keller&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:34Penalties: Hopiavori 5:50, Davis 10:48, Molvik 11:30, Douglas (misconduct) 12:24, Nistico 12:58, Jacques 16 25<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Baltimore, Menard (Murphy, Gilmour)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:063&mdash;Baltimore, Pulkinen&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:114&mdash;Baltimore, Rivard (Dufour, Sokoll)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:285&mdash;Baltimore, Sokoll (Dufour)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:44Penalties: Buetow 2:40. Jordan 5:08. Nistico 17:44<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Baltimore, McPherson&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:277&mdash;Jacksonville, Buetow (M. Keller. Jordan)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:37Penalties: Douglas 1:38, Molvik 2:52, Meloff 5:45, Molvik 10:57, Hodgson 17:27.Saves, Gray (Jacksonville) 31, DeJordy (Baltimore) 29Attendance: 3,281<h2>RICHMOND 2 at NEW HAVEN 6</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Richmond, Drolet (Goodenough, Stumpf)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:342&mdash;New Haven, Patterson (West, Plager)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:19Penalties: Cowick (major and minor), Ahrens (major and minor), Spring 1:54, Plager 6:12, Desoisiers 20:00.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;New Haven, Dunlop (Anderson, Lee)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:064&mdash;New Haven, Chinnick (Colley, Plager)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:25Penalties: Byers 1:54. Lajeunesse. Anderson 5:43. Plager 7:48. Lajeunesse 18:49<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Richmond, Leavins (Stumpf)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:096&mdash;New Haven, Chinnick (Plager, Norrish)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:217&mdash;New Haven, West&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:018&mdash;New Haven, Lee (Dunlop, Planger)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:52Penalties Anderson (misconduct) 7:37, Ahrens 11:07, MacMillan 14:43, Lajeunesse 16:20. Shaw 19:40.Saves. Kosar (Richmond) 28, Rivard (New Haven) 23.Attendance: 4.179.<h2>ROCHESTER 5 at PROVIDENCE 2</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Rochester, Kuntz (Bredin, Stratton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:542&mdash;Rochester, Merel (Malcolm, Pagnutti)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:463&mdash;Providence, Horbul (Laganiere, Middleton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:344&mdash;Providence, Middleton (Legge, Gateman)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:34Penalties Bednarski 4:08. Borgeson 6:16. Malcolm 11:57. Gateman 13:14<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Rochester, Merrell (Pagnutti)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:49Penalties: Gateman, Graham 4:10, Craig 8:24, Gauthier 11:14.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties: Bredin 1:04, Bednarski 4:57, Fogal 5:48, Legge 7:48, 10:15, Peloffy, Morusky 16:46.Saves, Zimmerman (Rochester) 28 McDuffe (Providence) 33Attendance 5,097<h2>Sat. Oct. 20</h2><h2>BALTIMORE 3 at CINCINNATI 5</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Cincinnati, Surbey (Inglis, S. Richardson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:562&mdash;Cincinnati, Wyrozub (Busniuk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:493&mdash;Cincinnati, Hobertson (S Richardson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:21Penalties: Douglas 3:53<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Cincinnati, Korzack (Robertson, Deschamps)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:305&mdash;Baltimore, Menard (Rivard, Dufour)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:586&mdash;Baltimore, Menard (Rivard Dufour)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:35Penalties: Davis 7:05, Curtis 11:29, Busniuk (minor and major), Pulkkinen 13:22 (minor and major) 13:22. Nichols 18:17<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>7&mdash;Baltimore, Menard (Murphy)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:378&mdash;Cincinnati, S. Richardson (Myers, McNab)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:35Penalties: Murphy 17:14Saves, Lockett (Baltimore), 23. Regan &mdash; Farr (Cincinnati) 25.Attendance: 3,499<h2>JACKSONVILLE 3 at HERSHEY 5</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Jacksonville, Buetow (Smith, Sarrazjn)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:142&mdash;Jacksonville, Orr (Black, M. Keeler)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:12Penaltie: M. Keeler 2:32, Labre 6:11, Buetow 12:30, Keller 17:27.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>No scoringPenalties: Owchar 3:24. Hopiavori 6:58. Meloff 11:18, Bianchin 17:27, Ahearn (major), Methe (major) 19:22.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Hershey, Andrascik (Bignell)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:384&mdash;Jacksonville, Hodgson (Ahearn, Brindley)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:585&mdash;Hershey, Pearson (Bianchin, Labre)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:226&mdash;Hershey, Hryciuk (Bignell, Burns)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:417&mdash;Hershey, Harvey (Bianchin, Owchar)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:358&mdash;Hershey, Hryciuk (Keller, Andrascik)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:40Penalties: NoneShots on goal, Hershey 53, Jacksonville 31.Attendance: 4,640<h2>RICHMOND 1 at SPRINGFIELD 7</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Springfield, Heaslip (MacGuigan, Buhr)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;0:522&mdash;Springfield, Dube (Chernecki, Park)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:143&mdash;Springfield, Van Horlick (Harasym, Lachance)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:084&mdash;Richmond, Leavms&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:035&mdash;Springfield, Erickson (Lachance, Healey)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:32Penalties: Lachance 8:34, Chernecki 11:14, Lajeunesse 11:56, Dobie 15:44, Paille 19:42<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>6&mdash;Springfield, Seagrist (Healey)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:42Penalties: Cook 6:11, Van Horlick 9:13, Richmond bench 16:56<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>7&mdash;Springfield, Park (Healey)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:018&mdash;Springfield, Healeyb (Erickson, Seagrist)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:08Penalties: Lajeunesse 12:25. Smith 18:25Saves, Paille (Richmond) 33, Germain (Springfield) 34.Attendance 4,631 &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY GREG FARLEY</div>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Billy Knibbs for Bob Kelly. The Reds&rsquo; third leading scorer in exchange for the Amerks&rsquo; second best point-getter. A mere transaction in most hockey cities, but a blockbuster by AHL standards. Providence fans were quietly gloating over over this one. At 31, Knibbs was a grandfather in a young man&rsquo;s league, while the younger, more muscular Kelly &mdash; a former Red &mdash; appeared to have his best years ahead. But only a few days after the trade, Emile Francis spoiled Kelly&rsquo;s welcome home reception by shipping the popular Irishman to St. Louis for a song and dance, or so it seemed at the time.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01266/3703732-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="269" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Steve West</figcaption></div>When 31-year-old center Norm Dennis, a Central and Western League warrior with little AHL experience, was announced as the Reds&rsquo; end of the deal, with left winger Don Borgeson, a third year pro at 28, added as a throw-in, Reds&rsquo; rooters groaned &ldquo;Why?&rdquo;.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got one of the youngest teams in Providence history,&rdquo; replied GM-Coach John Muckier. &ldquo;It won&rsquo;t hurt to have some experience on the club to help bring the kids along.&ldquo;But we feel that both Dennis and Borgeson, besides helping develop our youngsters, will make their presence felt in the league this year.&rdquo;Muckier underscored his confidence by teaming Dennis and Borgeson with shifty Jerry Butler on the Reds&rsquo; first line and. sure enough, it was love at first sight.In the Reds&rsquo; first five games, Butler chalked up three goals and three assists; Dennis three goals and one assist, while Borgeson chimed in with a single tally (a game-winner) and three assists triggering the fast start Muckier had hoped for.&ldquo;We could see back in training camp that Norm and Borgey were going to give our offense a big lift,&rdquo; Muckier admitted. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve both got good puck savvy, and they can put the puck in the net.&ldquo;More important, the kids are learning from them, and will make fewer and fewer mistakes with each game just by watching them.&rdquo;NEW HAVEN: To make room for Billy Plager and Fern Rivard, the Nighthawks loaned Ron Wilson and Gary Gambucci to Portland of the Western League. The transfer of Gambucci, a 26-goal man last year, was a mild surprise &hellip; Lyle Carter is expected back in goal soon following a viral infection &hellip; Sandwiched between Coliseum visits by Rochester and Virginia this week is a Saturday night clash at Springfield &hellip; Twenty-one year old pivot Steve West, a 27-goal man last year for the Barons, is scoring at a pace that would far exceed that figure this season &hellip; The Nighthawks are the big surprise of the young season. Last in the East Division last year they have regrouped and won three of their first starts this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-02211/3703725-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="583" height="982"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-03154/3703718-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="568" height="977"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-04121/3703711-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="567" height="988"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Providence Reds have put together a new scoring line that is the talk of the early AHL race. DON BORGESON, left, JERRY BUTLER, and NORM DENNIS, right, have clicked from the start and is one reason the Reds are on top in the Northern race. They had 14 scoring points in their first five games.</figcaption></div>SPRINGFIELD: Jerry Toppazzini will rotate Bernie Germain and Steve Rexe in the Kings&rsquo; nets as he sees fit. &ldquo;Rather than alternate them.&rdquo; he explained, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll play each against the teams he plays best against. Of course, we won&rsquo;t have that information until we&rsquo;ve made one swing around the league&rdquo; &hellip; Kings return from a four game road excursion for a pair of Civic Center engagements with Virginia and New Haven, then hit the highways for three more.BOSTON: Matt Ravlich has restrung two of his lines in hopes of increasing the Braves&rsquo; scoring production. One reunites former Harvard teammates Dave Hynes and Bill Corkery with Doug Gibson. The other joins Ron Anderson with Ron Boehm and Yvon Bouillon. The Steve Stirling-Bob Gryp-Craig Sarner unit remains intact&mdash;for now &hellip; Defenseman Roy Carmichael, shelved with a hepatitis attack during camp, has resumed skating and is expected back shourtly &hellip; Braves, in the midst of a four game homestand, host Springfield, Virginia and Nova Scotia. &#9632;

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New ‘Hot Line’ Makes Reds Fly; Nighthawks Take 3 Of First 4

<div class="byline">BY JOHN ARNOLD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-02180/3703794-1-eng-US/f0028-022.jpg" title="f0028-02" width="813" height="1079"></div><h2>SOLUTION IN NOVEMBER 16 ISSUE</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Pictured player.5&mdash;5th and 15th letters of the alphabet.6&mdash;Denotes number worn by Jean Paul Parise.7&mdash;Toronto right winger.11&mdash;An NHL goaltender.12&mdash;de Janiero.13&mdash;Affirmative.16&mdash;1st half All Stars are usually picked at this time of the season.18&mdash;One of the Bruins answers to this.19&mdash;Either.20&mdash;Initials of Venerus of San Diego.21&mdash;Played forward for Sait Lake City last year.24&mdash;Often called in baseball.26&mdash;First name of 17 down27&mdash;One of the North Stars.30&mdash;Negative reply.31&mdash;An NHL left winger.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Scored 16 goals for Vancouver last year.2&mdash;Veteran NHL linesman answers to this.3&mdash;A broken one will keep a player out for a few games.4&mdash;Former Bruin Walton answers to this.8&mdash;Fifty two. (Roni. Num.)9&mdash;First name of an NHL referee.10&mdash;An NHL captain.14&mdash;Twin vowels.15&mdash;A Rochester goaltender.17&mdash;One of the New York Rangers.21&mdash;Broken bones do this.22&mdash;Preposition.23&mdash;City in Nevada.25&mdash;A Canadian province, (abbr.)28&mdash;Compass point.29&mdash;Former Nill forward Reibel. (init)30&mdash;Opposite to 13 across.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1. KEON.4. AL.6. LORENTZ.9. REID.10. TO.11. BALON.14. ERE.16. ERA.17. NOR.18. TEN.19. B.B.20. IN.21. A.E.22. ALE.23. CRISP.26. HT.27. TERRY.30. WATER.32. SIGNED.33. ED.<h3>DOWN</h3>1. KURTENBACH.2. OLIVER3. NOD.4. AT.5. L.Z.7. E.T.A.8. NOLET.12. OREILLY.13. NANNE.15. ROBERT.24. STAN.25. PETE.28. RED.29. R.R.30. W.G.31. ED. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<h2>SWEDEN</h2><h2>NORTH GROUP</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01216/3703853-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="593" height="264"></div><h2>SOUTH GROUP</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-02178/3703846-1-eng-US/f0029-022.jpg" title="f0029-02" width="591" height="266"></div><h2>RUSSIA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-03121/3703839-1-eng-US/f0029-032.jpg" title="f0029-03" width="594" height="295"></div><h2>FINLAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0491/3703832-1-eng-US/f0029-042.jpg" title="f0029-04" width="593" height="315"></div><h2>CZECHOSLOVAKIA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0582/3703825-1-eng-US/f0029-052.jpg" title="f0029-05" width="595" height="381"></div> &#9632;

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HOW THEY STAND

<div class="byline">BY GORAN STUBB</div>HELSINKI&mdash;The bad news came from Detroit first. Tord Lundstrom had signed with the Red Wings of the National Hockey League. The Brynas star would not be back in Sweden this year. Then more bad news came as two more Brynas players, Inge Hammarstrom and Borje Salming, signed to play with the Toronto Maple Leafs. It looked like the Brynas squad was in trouble. But after five games this year. North Group opponents are wondering how powerful the Brynas squad would have been had the trio stayed in Sweden. Brynas has lost only one game and is tied with Bjorkloven for first place in the North.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0663/3703884-1-eng-US/f0029-062.jpg" title="f0029-06" width="288" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tord Lundstrom</figcaption></div>One of the reasons for the strength of the Brynas squad is the scoring power of Stefan Karlsson and Lars-Goran Nilsson. Karlsson is leading the league in scoring with eight goals and four assists for 12 points while Nilsson is 3-7-10.Other top scorers are Ake Soderberg of Timra (7-1-8), Per Backman of Farjestad (6-2-8); Folke Bengtsson of Djurgarden (6-2-8), Dan Landegren of Sodertalje (53-8), Leif Holmgren of AIK (4-4-8), and Mats Lind of Frolunda (1-7-8).Swedish champion Leksand is in first place in the South Group with an undefeated record after winning the pre-season tournament for the Scandinavian championship. Leksand won over the Finnish team, Jokerit. IFK Helsinki and Brynas of Sweden.In Sweden there are two groups of eight teams. After 14 games the top four teams in each group advance into a playoff league. The playoffs consists of 21 games.In the USSR, defending champion Red Army (ZSK A) fell to fourth place following a 5-1 loss to Krylja Sovetov (Soviet Wings). The top scorers list shows that many of the stars of last year&rsquo;s Canada &mdash; U.S.S.R. series are not off to good starts.Aleksander Yakushev of Spartak is one of the top scorers with 12 goals and seven assists while Viacheslav Anisin of Krylja Sovetov has seven goals and 12 assists. But Valeri Kharlamov, Vladimir Petrov, Boris Mikhailov and Anatoli Firsov are having trouble getting into shape and their absence is keeping ZSKA out of first place.Other top scorers are Aleksander Maltsev of Dynamo (12-6-18), Aleksander Bodunov of Krylja Sovetov (12-5-17), Vladimir Shadrih of Spartak (11-5-16), Vladimir Vikulov of ZSKA (6-8-14) and Martinjuk of Spartak (5-8)13).All but Martinjuk were on the Russian team that played Canada last year.Russian National coach Vsevolod Bobrov has chosen his team and for the first time in 11 year, defenseman Aleksander Ragulin is not included.Vladislay, Tretiak and, Aleksander Sidelnikov are the goaltenders while the defense consists of Lujenko, Aleksander Gusev, Gennadiy Tsigankov, Yuri Liapkin, Valery Vasiljev, Sjatalov and Kusnetsov.The forwards are: Boris Mikhailov, Vladimir Petrov, Valeri Kharlamov, Martinjuk, Vladimir Shadrin, Aleksander Yakushev, Klimov, Viacheslav Anisin, Aleksander Bodunov, Voljtkov, Aleksander Maltsev, Kapustin and Repnev.Half of the players on the Finnish National team are from the top two Finnish teams, Jokerit and IFK Helsinki. The Helsinki club had been among the three best in the league since Carl Brewer was playing coach in 1968-69.The top scorer in the league is IFK Helsinki defenseman Juha Rantasila. Rantasila, 28. is not only a top hockey player but is also a lawyer and president of the Finnish Players Association. His law work will keep him off the National team this year.Rantasila has scored three goals and assisted on six others for nine points. Other top scorers are: Heikki Riihiranta of IFK (3-5-8), Timo Sutinen of Jokerit (3-5-8). Henry Leppa (4-3-7). Jorma Peltonen of Ilves (2-5-7), Esa Peltonen of IFK (2-5-7), Juhani Tamminen of IFK (1-6)7) and Harry Linnonmaa of IFK (6-1-7).Riihiranta, a defenseman, is highly rated by NHL scouts and was approached by both Boston and the Toronto Toros of the WHA. But Riihiranta preferred to complete his studies and play with the National team this year.St. Louis Blues were also interested in Juhani Tamminen but he has to do his national service this year.In Czechoslovakia, Sparta Praha is dominating play after eight games with an unblemished 8-0 record.Among the top eight scorers in the country, only one, veteran Josef Cerny, is not playing with the National team this year. The top scorers so far are Kochta (Sparta), Novak (Kladno), Martinec (Pardubice), Stastny (Pardubice), Nedomansky (Bratislava). &#9632;

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Sweden’s Brynas Team Flying Despite Losses To NHL Clubs

<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 31)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01248/3703929-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg" title="f0030-01" width="603" height="207"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Affiliations: 6&mdash;Toronto, 7&mdash;Los Angeles, 9&mdash;California, 10&mdash;Philadelphia, 12&mdash;St Louis, 13&mdash;Vancouver.).</figcaption></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2><h2>Tues. Oct. 23</h2>Phoenix 5 at Seattle 3Wed. Oct. 24Phoenix 4 at Portland 2San Diego 2 at Salt Lake 3Thur. Oct. 25Portland 3 at Seattle 5Fri. Oct. 26Phoenix 6 at Salt Lake 9San Diego 2 at Denver 5Sat. Oct. 27Salt Lake 1 at Seattle 3Portland 2 at San Diego 3Phoenix 1 at Denver 3Sun. Oct. 28Salt Lake 3 at Portland 4<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Wed. Oct. 31Portland at DenverThu. Nov. 1Phoenix at San DiegoPortland at Salt LakeFri. Nov. 2Salt Lake at SeattlePhoenix at DenverSat. Nov. 3Portland at SeattleDenver at San DiegoPhoenix at Salt LakeSun. Nov. 4Denver at PortlandWed. Nov. 7Phoenix at PortlandSan Diego at DenverThu. Nov. 8Phoenix at Seattle<h2>Western Hockey League Summaries</h2><h2>Tue. Oct. 16</h2><h2>SALT LAKE 6 at SEATTLE 0</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Salt Lake, Meeke (Huston)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:182&mdash;Salt Lake, Coalter (Bellerive)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:533&mdash;Salt Lake, Moxey (Hrechkosy, Bradley)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:12Penalties: Coalter 6:45, McIntyre 10:36, Mair 11:06, Serafini 15:54. Amadio 17 46.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Salt Lake. Huston (Serafini, Cassidy)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:27Penalties: Salt Lake bench 3:50, Jacobs. McIntyre 10:30.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Salt Lake, Moxey (Shakes, Bradley)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;0:436&mdash;Salt Lake, Coalter (Vipond, Serafini)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:41Penalties Amadio 0:16, Sheard 11:26. Amadio 16:34.Saves: Headley (Salt Lake) 21. Brady (Seattle) 24.Attendance: 2,297<h2>Wed. Oct. 17</h2><h2>SALT LAKE 2 at PORTLAND 10</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Salt Lake. Meeke (Coalter, Huston)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:582&mdash;Portland, Hebenton (Hughes, Campbell)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:13Penalties: Atamanenko 2:05, Huston 6:39. Hughes 17:57<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Portland, Jones (Gianinni)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:024&mdash;Portland, Hebento (Campbell, Atamanenko)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:195&mdash;Portland, Giannini (Jones, Volmar)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:456&mdash;Portland, Campbell (Hughes, Jones)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:457&mdash;Portland, Hughes (Jones. Hebenton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:43Penalties: Moxey 8:46. Atamanenko 12:26. Serafini 14:53: Jacobs 17:39<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>8&mdash;oPortland, Giannini (Jones, Volmar)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;0:439&mdash;Salt Lake, Hrechkosy (Moxey, Meeke)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:3310&mdash;Portland, Giannini (Jones, Trachsel)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:2111&mdash;Portland, Jones (Giannini, Atamanenko)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:4612&mdash;Portland, Poffenroth (Haggarty, McNabb)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:34Penalties: McElmry 3:48. Coalter 10:15. Cummins (major, misconduct) 10:46. Haggarty 11:34, Moxey 14:55, Helm 15:20, Hebento 19:20Saves: Headley (Salt Lake) 19. Charron (Portland) 41.<h2>SEATTLE 4 at PHOENIX 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Phoenix, Barlow (Gofton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:49Penalties: Bond 4:38. McIntyre 8:30, Mair 9:53. Aubry 16:52, O&rsquo;Neil 20:00.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Seattle, Seguin (Westbrooke, Amadio)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:293&mdash;-Seattle. Westner (Folco, Sobchuk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:554&mdash;Phoenix, Barlow (Gofton, Willis)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:00Penalties: Willis 1:33. McIntyre 4:01. Aubry<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Seattle, Westbrooke (McCord)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1:166&mdash;Seattle, O&rsquo;Neil (Westner, Sobchuk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:507&mdash;Phoenix, Bond (Keogan, Hicks)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:378&mdash;Phoenix, Murray (Keogan, Keller)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:09Penalties: None.<h2>OVERTIME</h2>No scoring.Penalties: None.Shots on goal, Seattle 33. Phoenix 42.Attendance: 9,228<h2>Fri. Oct. 19</h2><h2>SEATTLE 3 at SAN DIEGO 0</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Seattle, Stone (Gould, Gloor)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;14:482&mdash;Seattle, Gould&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:20Penalties: Madigan 5:36, Folco. O&rsquo;Ree 8:20, Miszuk 12:03. 19:53.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties San Diego bench 6:05<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Seattle, Sobchuk (Westner, O&rsquo;Neil)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:22Penalties: Madigan 5:18, Gould 16:33Saves: Brady (Seattle) 24. Adams (San Diego) 31.Attendance: 8,170<h2>SALT LAKE 1 at PHOENIX 7</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Phoenix, Bond (Hicks, Barber)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:022&mdash;Phoenix, Liesemer (Mowat, Thiffault)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:53Penalties: Moxey 0:15. Helm (major), Bennett (major) 1:56. Willis 2:26. Shakes 4:04. Barber 9:08. Holt. Willis 11:19.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Phoenix, Hicks&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:514&mdash;Phoenix, Willis&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:36Penalties: Young 1:31, 5:44.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Salt Lake Holt (Patey)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:326&mdash;Phoenix, Young (Mowat, Thiffault)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:157&mdash;Phoenix, Gofton (Barlow, Murray)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:288&mdash;Phoenix, Hicks (Bond, Willis)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:00Penalties Barber 8:30. Murray 10:35. Keogan (major), Patey 11:26: Bradley 12:12, Murray 16:27.Saves: Tucker (Salt Lake) 27. Simmons (Phoenix) 20.<h2>PORTLAND 3 at DENVER 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Portland, Hughes (Atamanenko, Campbell)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:172&mdash;Portland, Hughes (Atamanenko, Jones)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:02Penalties: Donaldson 1:17, Gresdal 8:51. Patrick 12:16, Williams 15:45, Gresdal 16:40.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>No Scoring.Penalties: Schultz 5:14, McElmury 8:36. Brooks 12:35. Gassoff 16:59. Patrick. Giannini 19:20. Brooks. Trachsel 19:27, McNabb. Trachsel. Volmar, Giannini, Schultz, Brooks, Gassoff 20:00<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Denver, Collyard (Lampman, Brooks)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:364&mdash;Portland, Jones (Volmar, Giannini)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:26Penalties: Donaldson 9:24. Stevens 10:47 Trachsel 18:08.Saves: Charron (Portland) 33, Watt (Denver) 30<h2>Sat. Oct. 20</h2><h2>PORTLAND 0 at SEATTLE 2</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalkties: Donaldson 9:59<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties: Giannini 4:55, Mair 11:12, McNabb 16:38.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Seattle, O&rsquo;Neil (Sobchuk, Westner)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:522&mdash;Seattle, Sobchuk (Mair)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:27Penalties: Seguin 12:07. Donaldson 15:07.Saves: Kelly (Portland) 26. Bullock (Seattle) 22.Attendance 5,782<h2>Sun. Oct. 21</h2><h2>SAN DIEGO 1 at PORTLAND 4</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties: O&rsquo;Ree 2:00. 5:52.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;San Diego. Goyer (Miszuk)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:332&mdash;Portland, Giannini (Jones, Abgrall)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:323&mdash;Portland, Campbell (Hebenton Hughes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:06Penalties Trachsel 3:21. Campbell 9:12, McNabb 18:30.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Portland, Campbell (Hughes, Hebenton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;7:365&mdash;Portland, Hebenton (Hughes, Trachsel)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:34Penalties. Lebrun 12:26. Donaldson 15:42.Saves: Adams (San Diego) 25, Charron (Portland) 39.Attendance: 4,994<h2>SALT LAKE 6 at PHOENIX 2</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Salt Lake, Bradley (Moxey, Coalter)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:52Penalties: King 7:57, Gofton, Cummins 8:26.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Phoenix, Young (Hicks, Murray)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1:243&mdash;Salt Lake, Shakes (Cassidy, Hall)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:354&mdash;Phoenix, Gofton (Barlow, Willis)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:05Penalties: Hrechkosy 0:12. Young 6:05, Mowat<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Salt Lake, Hall (Jacobs, Cassidy) 1:l46&mdash;Salt Lake, Cassidy (Hall, King)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;1:427&mdash;Salt Lake, Bradley (Moxey)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:338&mdash;Salt Lake, Moxey (Bradley, Coalter)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:46Penalties: Shakes 3:09, Holt (minor, major). Willis (minor, major) 13:40.Saves: Hainworth (Phoenix) 18. Headley (Salt Lake) 29.Attendance: 7,595.<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-02191/3703922-1-eng-US/f0030-022.jpg" title="f0030-02" width="611" height="386"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-03145/3703915-1-eng-US/f0030-032.jpg" title="f0030-03" width="596" height="290"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY DOUG McCONNELL</div>SAN DIEGO&mdash;Jim Makey came west and his mask went east.Thus was delayed the young goaltender&rsquo;s debut with the San Diego Gulls of the Western Hockey League.&ldquo;He was practising with the team Detroit owner Bruce Norris was putting together for London. England.&rdquo; said San Diego general manager Max McNab, &ldquo;and his mask was shipped over there with his equipment.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-04111/3703960-1-eng-US/f0030-042.jpg" title="f0030-04" width="576" height="694"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM TREVELYAN &hellip; Returns To Wing</figcaption></div>Makey, who played for the 1973 NCAA champion University of Wisconsin the past three seasons &ldquo;has impressed us for the week he&rsquo;s been practising with us,&rdquo; said McNab.He&rsquo;s borrowed a mask from John Adams but it is ill fitting and impairs his vision.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no way we&rsquo;ll use him, except in an emergency, until he gets his own mask back,&rdquo; said McNab.Makey and Brian Dick, 20-year-old right wing from the Winnipeg Jets of the Western Canada Junior League, fill the WHL two-rookie requirement for the Gulls.When Makey arrived. Bob Champoux who was a standout in the playoffs for the Gulls last season, was put on waivers.McNab right now couldn&rsquo;t be happier about the off-season trade that brought Tom Trevelyan&rsquo;s rights to the Gulls.San Diego sent left wing Bruce Cowick to the Philadelphia Flyers for Trevelyan, who played on loan in San Diego last season, plus center Jim Stanfield, who started last season with the Gulls but was recalled and loaned to Portland, and right wing Bob Currrier and left wing Bob Hurlburt.&ldquo;Tommy fitted in pretty well for us last year at center with an assortment of wingers,&rdquo; said McNab, &ldquo;but this year, he&rsquo;s playing his more natural left wing and he seems much more effective there.&rdquo;The 24-year-old Toronto-born Trevelyan has been skating on a line with veterans Gerry Goyer and Bob Courcy. Instead of being overshadowed by the long-time high point producers, Trevelyan is leading the Gulls in scoring and is tied for third in the league with six goals and six assists in 12 games.He unloaded a hat trick in a span of 8:32 of the opening period to salt away a 4-2 victory over the Salt Lake Golden Eagles.&ldquo;He only had 25 goals the whole way last year,&rdquo; said McNab, &ldquo;and he&rsquo;s off to a great start.&rdquo;McNab had a explanation for Trevelyan&rsquo;s uncharacteristic quick start.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a very conscientious boy and he went to the gym all summer here and worked with the weights,&rdquo; said McNab. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s playing at 187 instead of around 180 like last year.&ldquo;His problem was stamina. He has an asthmatic problem occasionally and in a couple of training camps, he got off to a slow start.&ldquo;One thing he has got that a lot of players don&rsquo;t and it&rsquo;s especially helpful working with Goyer (not one of the fastest skaters) is a change of pace. He can hold back and then he&rsquo;s got a good burst of speed.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Extra Weight Starts Trevelyan Scoring

PORTLAND&mdash;Coach Ron Stewart put a lot of stress on skating drills in the Portland Buckaroos&rsquo; workouts two weeks into the Western Hockey League schedule.He excused Art Jones, Andy Hebenton, Ken Campbell, Mike Donaldson and Dave Kelly, the five holdovers from the 1972-73 Buckaroos, from the heavy skating. &ldquo;The veterans are getting too much work in the games now,&rdquo; said Stewart. &ldquo;It is the younger player that I&rsquo;m concerned about. The older players are carrying us right now.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0575/3703991-1-eng-US/f0030-052.jpg" title="f0030-05" width="282" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Art Jones</figcaption></div>As if to underscore Stewart&rsquo;s remarks, Jones immediately went on a 10-points scoring barrage to jump into a five-point lead in the WHL point scoring race.His outburst included a seven point performance &mdash; two goals and five assists &mdash; in a 10-2 whipping of the Salt Lake Golden Eagles.The 38-year-old center from Bangor, Sask., fell one short of the WHL&rsquo;s single game points record, shared by Phil Maloney (now coach of the Seattle Totems) and Jackie McLeod (former coach of the Canadian National team who is now directing the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Canada Junior Hockey League.) &#9632;

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Top Scorer In WHL? Who Else — Art Jones

<div class="byline">BY DOUG McCONNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0031-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-01227/3704022-1-eng-US/f0031-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phoenix veteran WAYNE HICKS scores one of two goals despite the hook check of Salt Lake&rsquo;s PAUL SHAKES (5). (Phoenix Gazette Photo)</figcaption></div>PHOENIX&mdash;The 30-goal target coach Sandy Hucul has set for Wayne Hicks this season might sound a little high for a 36-year-old right wing who managed just 17 goals each of the last two seasons.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think so,&rdquo; said the Phoenix Roadrunner coach. &ldquo;Wayne has been a 30-goal scorer six times in the past and scored 29 for the Roadrunners three years ago.&rdquo;Hicks is well on his way, scoring his fifth and sixth goals in the Roadrunners&rsquo; eighth game of the season as they blitzed the Salt Lake Golden Eagles 7-1.The victory extended the Roadrunners unbeaten string to seven games before it was broken two nights later by the same Golden Eagles, 5-2.The defending Western Hockey League champion Roadrunners managed to hold onto their league lead by a single point over the Seattle Totems as they embarked on a 10-game road trip, evicted from their home Coliseum for three weeks by the state fair.&ldquo;Confidence has a lot to do with scoring goals,&rdquo; said Hicks, who played briefly in the National Hockey League with Chicago, Montreal and Boston before expansion dilution and one year with Philadelphia and Pittsburgh after. &ldquo;When the puck starts going in for you. you just feel it&rsquo;s going to keep right on going in.&rdquo;It started going in for Hicks late last season after a slow point-wise start. He was the playoff scoring leader with 16 points, including four goals in 10 games.In addition, he continued to serve with center Jim Boyd on one of the WHL&rsquo;s best penalty killing teams.&ldquo;1&rsquo;ll have to take Hicks off the penalty killing team,&rdquo; said Hucul in pre-season, &lsquo;to leave him more energy for scoring.&rdquo;Hucul hasn&rsquo;t yet made the switch and Hicks turned one of his penalty killing assignments into a solo goal, stealing the puck in front of the Salt Lake net in that 7-1 blitz.Hicks is tied for second in team scoring with Bob Barlow, another youngster at age 38, who also has six goals. The team leader is John Gofton, who plays left wing on a line with Hicks and Murray Keogan. Gofton has 12 points, six on goals. Keogan has 10, including three goals.Hicks has lost half a step but is still one of the WHL&rsquo;s stronger skaters, which isn&rsquo;t bad for someone who was told he might never skate again.The 5-11, 185-pounder broke the bone in his thigh (femur) in 1968-69. He has a metal plate in the femur and a nail in his hip.&ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t bother me,&rdquo; said Hicks. &ldquo;My wife says if I just get a big magnet, I should be able to handle the leg okay.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hicks Off To Quick Start In Quest Of 30-Goal Year

SEATTLE&mdash;&ldquo;The trouble with a young team,&rdquo; Phil Maloney was saying, &ldquo;is that one night they&rsquo;re great and the next night they&rsquo;re terrible.&rdquo;The Seattle Totems were terrible in a 6-0 shutout by the Salt Lake Golden Eagles right in Seattle.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t sleep all night after that one.&rdquo; said Maloney. &ldquo;Boy did we stink the joint out.&rdquo;Maloney labelled the Totems&rsquo; performance the next night &ldquo;one of their great nights.&rdquo;The battled they battled the defending champion and Western Hockey League leading champion Phoenix Roadrunners to a 4-4 overtime tie right in Phoenix. It was the Roadrunners&rsquo; fourth overtime in seven games.&ldquo;Our defense is pretty solid,&rdquo; said Maloney, &ldquo;with Dave Amadio. Jim Mair. Larry McIntyre and a pretty good youngster in Peter Folco. Where we&rsquo;re lacking is in scoring and our goaltending is good although Dan Brady has had a shaky start.&rdquo;The Totems don&rsquo;t have a player among the WHL&rsquo;s top 10 scorers.Brady responded 24 hours later with his first shutout of the season, a 3-0 job in San Diego.Not to be outdone. Bruce Bullock came back the next night to whitewash the Portland Buckaroos 2-0 in Seattle.There have been three shutouts in WHL play this season and the young Totem tandem of goaltenders owns two of them. &#9632;

Feeble Offense Giving Totems Hot-Cold Image

<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h2>CENTRAL HOCKEY LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 31)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-02168/3704084-1-eng-US/f0032-022.jpg" title="f0032-02" width="595" height="198"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Affiliations: 5&mdash;Chicago, 6&mdash;Toronto, 15&mdash;N.Y. Islanders, 16&mdash;Atlanta, *&mdash;Independent. **&mdash;Kansas City (NHL).</figcaption></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Wed. Oct. 24Omaha 6 at Oklahoma City 3Thur. Oct 25Tulsa 3 at Fort Worth 4Fri. Oct. 26Albuquerque 3 at Tulsa 2Dallas 8 at Omaha 5Sat Oct. 27Albuquerque 2 at Fort Worth 3Omaha 3 at Dallas 2Tulsa 3 at Oklahoma City 2Sun. Oct 28Oklahoma City 4 at Omaha 3<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Wed. Oct. 31Oklahoma City at AlbuquerqueTulsa at DallasFri. Nov. 2Dallas at Fort WorthAlbuquerque at Oklahoma CityTulsa at OmahaSat Nov. 3Fort Worth at DallasOklahoma City at TulsaSun. Nov. 4Dallas at AlbuquerqueFort Worth at OmahaWed. Nov. 7Tulsa at AlbuquerqueOklahoma City at Fort WorthThu. Nov. 8Dallas at OmahaFri. Nov. 9Albuquerque at Fort WorthDallas at Tulsa<h2>CHL SUMMARIES</h2><h2>Thu., Oct. 18</h2><h2>OKLAHOMA 5 at FORT WORTH 3</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Fort Worth, Teal (Lefley, Kuntz)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;9:25Penalties: Fortier 2:11, Smith 14:36, Kuntz 16:44.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Oklahoma City, Sykes (Fryer)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;4:173&mdash;Oklahoma City, Boyd (Moffat, Boutette)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;5:454&mdash;Oklahoma City, J. Gray (Fortier)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:345&mdash;Fort Worth. Webster (Kennedy, St. Laurent)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:486&mdash;Oklahoma City, Garland (Fryer, Sykes)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;19:46Penalties: Dempster 5:22, Fryer 7:43, Fortier 16:54.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>7&mdash;Fort Worth, Teal (T, Gray)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;3:428&mdash;Oklahoma City, Osburn (Ferguson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:01Penalties: Butters (major). Dempster (major), Irwin (game misconduct) 11:44. Alexander 12:08.Saves, McRae (Oklahoma City) 24, Marlow (Fort Worth) 22.Attendance: 2,134.<h2>Fri., Oct. 19</h2><h2>DALLAS 4 at ALBUQUERQUE 2</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Albuquerque, Hayes (Hunt)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;8:292&mdash;Dallas. Smith (Christie, Ness)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;11:16Penalty: Wilson 12:45.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Dallas, Ness (Christie)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;13:27Penalty: O&rsquo;Connor 16:47.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>4&mdash;Albuquerque. LePage (Labrecque)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:025&mdash;Dallas, Hinton (Donaldson, Ogilvie)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;6:406&mdash;Dallas, Wylie (Peluso)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;12:29Penalties: Peluso, O&rsquo;Connor (majors, minors) 18:01, L&rsquo;Abbe, Elder 18:27.Saves. Dumas (Dallas) 22, Reeson (Albuquerque) 23.Attendance: 4,437.<h2>OKLAHOMA 2 at TULSA 1</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Tulsa, Duncan (Daigle, Pettinger)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:552&mdash;Oklahoma City, Osburn (Alexander, Boyd)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;17:23Penalties: Steinborn 0:23, Garland, Handrahan (double minor) 6:08, Sauter (double minor), Peppier 11:01, Moffat, Pettinger (double minors) 16:66, Butters (major), Grisdale (major, minor) 17:07.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>3&mdash;Oklahoma City. Moffat (Boutette, Boyd)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;15:31Penalties: Sauter 3:56, Moffat, Pettinger (double minors) 10:08. Fortier (minor, misconduct) 12:29.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties. Gray 1:45. Branston 5:06, Gray (major). Garland (major). Handrahan (major), Orban (major), Smedsmo (double minor, game misconduct) 8:03, Branston 12:14, Boyd (misconduct) 19:54.Saves, McRae (Oklahoma City) 30. Low (Tulsa) 30.Attendance: 3,873.<h2>Sat., Oct. 20</h2><h2>DALLAS 3 at TULSA 2</h2><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>1&mdash;Dallas, Blais (McKegney, Smith)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;16:44Penalties: Kerslake 1:50. Genovy 3:06. 10:59. Kerslake 12:57, Bowles 15:52. Tenesi 18:24. Kerslake 19:14.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>2&mdash;Dallas, Donaldson (Ledingham)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:073&mdash;Tulsa, Young (Genovy, Doug Hinton)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;10:264&mdash;Dallas, L&rsquo;Abbe (Ledingham, Holt)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;18:30Penalties: Ogilvie 10:10, Cormier 13:21, Grisdale 17:48.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>5&mdash;Tulsa, Peppier (Cormier)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;2:12Penalties: Peluso (double minor, misconduct), Handrahan (double minor) 3:02, Holt 7:50, Peppier 11:22.Saves. Dumas (Dallas) 23, Low (Tulsa) 21.Attendance: 2,656.<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01227/3704077-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg" title="f0032-01" width="607" height="324"></div> &#9632;

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY TOM LOBAUGH</div>DALLAS&mdash;Opening on the road for several games each fall seldom seems to handicap the Dallas Black Hawks. Forced out of their home rink by the State Fair of Texas each October, the Hawks usually prove they&rsquo;re one of the stronger teams in the Central League before they ever have a chance to perform for the home folks. This year is no exception. Coach Bobby Kromm&rsquo;s squad is unbeaten in their first four starts on the road (two victories, two ties) and zoomed into first place on the night of Oct. 20. That was the night they posted a 3-2 victory in Tulsa&rsquo;s Assembly Center, following on the heels of a 4-2 victory in Albuquerque&rsquo;s Tingley Coliseum. They faced one more road assignment, in Omaha, before their home opener against the Knights in State Fair Coliseum Oct. 27.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-03113/3704122-1-eng-US/f0032-032.jpg" title="f0032-03" width="280" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lyle Moffat</figcaption></div>Seven different Hawks scored goals in the back-to-back victories on the road. But Kromm was more concerned about the defensive mistakes that allowed the foes to score. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to work out some more things,&rdquo; he observed after the win in Tulsa.The Dallas coach praised the steady performance of goalie Michel Dumas, starting his third year with the club. Dumas had worked in all four games, giving up a pair of goals in each.Returning defensemen Mike Christie, lan McKegney and Roger Wilson also drew plaudits from the coach. They were providing a steadying influence for the blueline rookies &mdash; Randy Holt from Sudbury Wolves, Larry Gibbons from the Flint Generals, and Gene Strate from Edmonton Oil Kines.Three rookies counted Hawk goals at Albuquerque. Terry Smith (Flint) tied the score at l-l midway of the first period, Chuck Ness (University of Minnesota) had the only goal of the second period, and Dan Hinton (Sault Ste. Marie) got what proved to be the winning tally, after the Six Guns tied the game early in the third. Holdover center Duane Wylie scored to insurance marker.Dallas&rsquo; power play couldn&rsquo;t score in its only opportunity in that Friday night game. But the next night in Tulsa it was power play goals by rookies Dean Blais (University of Minnesota) and returnee Moe L&rsquo;Abbe that proved decisive. In between Gary Donaldson skated around behind the Oiler net and whipped the puck into an uprotected corner.OKLAHOMA CITY: Another Central League team that was winning on the road was Gerry Moore&rsquo;s Oklahoma City Blazers The unbeaten OC crew, in its first year under the Toronto banner, was only a point behind the first-place Dallas club, having played one game less.The Blazers went into Fort Worth and pulled out a 5-3 victory, Oct. 18, largely on the strength of a three-goal outburst in a span of 2:17 early in the middle period.The next night the Blazers drew first blood in the traditionally fierce turnpike rivalry, shading Tulsa Oilers, 2-1, in a brawling game at Tulsa. Lyle Moffat, last year&rsquo;s Oiler captain, got the winning Blazer goal late in the second period.Both sides wanted to win that showdown in Tulsa &mdash; the Blazers because they had lost a pair of exhibition games to the independent Oilers in Canada, and the Oilers because of some grudges that had come out of those clashes. Tulsa fans, too, wanted revenge on Toronto for moving the franchise to the state capital.The rough game produced 106 minutes in penalties 61 on the Blazers, 45 against the Oilers. Tulsa forward Dale Smedsmo was the first in the CHL to feel the brunt of the new penalty (double minor and game misconduct) for being the first to leave his bench to engage in an altercation.Goalie Gordie McRae, at Tulsa most of last season, was more than equal to the challenge. He was especially hot in Tulsa Friday night, making one magnificent save after another.Bob Duncan had put the Oilers in front at 15:55 of the first period, but Randy Osburn knotted the count on a power play at 17:23. Moffat&rsquo;s winning goal came at 15:31 of the second.The three-goal burst that turned the tide at Fort Worth was supplied by Bob Syes, Jim Boyd and John Gray, erasing and early Wings&rsquo; lead. Scott Garland and Randy Osburn scored late for OC.It was the first Blazer victory onTulsa ice since Jan. 11, 1969, a skein that included 21 losses and a tie. But Moore insisted previous Blazer records shouldn&rsquo;t be considered. Since those were establised by the Boston Bruins&rsquo; farmhands.&ldquo;It was a game that could have gone either way, and it was a big one for us to win,&rdquo; said the Blazer coach &ldquo;Hustle was the key to our success. We made some bad mistakes on defense, but fortunately McRae was hot.&rdquo;OMAHA: Center Jean Losier posted the first hat trick of the CHL campaign, as the Omaha Knights scored a 4-2 decision in Albuquerque. Oct. 14. The 25-year-old Losier played for Nova Scotia Voyageurs in the American League last year, after being out of pro hockey in 1971-72.It was the Knights&rsquo; second straight victory, both in New Mexico, but the string ended in Fort Worth, Oct. 20, when they bowed to the Wings, 4-1.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0473/3704115-1-eng-US/f0032-042.jpg" title="f0032-04" width="574" height="716"><figcaption class="caption-body">MICHEL DUMAS&hellip;Wins Praise</figcaption></div>FORT WORTH: Victor (Skeeter) Teal scored twice against Okalahoma City, Oct. 18, but the Wings came up on the short end of a 5-3 score. Rookie Jim Webster had the other Fort Worth tally.The parent New York Islanders sent down center-right wing Brian Marchinko, who spent three CHL seasons in Tulsa before being acquired from Toronto in the 1972 expansion draft. Now 25, Marchinko spent most of last season with the parent club, but was sidelined for a long time by an eye injury.TULSA: The CHL&rsquo;s early schedule favored the Oilers, who opened with four straight games at home. But their record fell to 1-2 after losses to Oklahoma City and Dallas on successive nights.&ldquo;We were up against two of the top teams in the league.&rdquo; commented general manager-coach Ray Miron. &ldquo;We played a great game against the Blazers, but they were in a little better condition than we were. Against Dallas, we just didn&rsquo;t play hard enough, long enough.&rdquo; There were fine individual performances in both games, but the independent Oilers, acquired from six different NHL clubs, still weren&rsquo;t jelled as a unit.ALBUQUERQUE: Three straight losses at home didn&rsquo;t shake coach Johnny Choyce. The young Six-Guns were gathered from a variety of sources, and had very little time to work together as a team before the season opened. &#9632;

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Dallas Retains Touch On Road; Oke City Ends Tulsa Ice Jinx

<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 31)<h3>NORTH DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01222/3704167-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="608" height="174"></div><h3>SOUTH DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-02169/3704160-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="612" height="147"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Affiliations: 2&mdash;Detroit. 3&mdash;Boston. 4&mdash;N.Y. Rangers. 5&mdash;Chicago 8&mdash;Pittsburgh. 11&mdash;Minnesota 12&mdash;St. Louis. 15&mdash;N.Y Islanders. *&mdash;Vancouver & Atlanta</figcaption></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Wed. Oct. 24Muskegon 2 at Port Huron 6Toledo 3 at Saginaw 7Fri. Oct. 26Saginaw 7 at Toledo 5Port Huron 3 at Flint 5Fort Wayne at Des Moines (postponed)Sat Oct. 27Saginaw 4 at Muskegon 6Toledo 2 at Port Huron 3Columbus 1 at Dayton 8Fort Wayne at Des Moines (postponed)Sun. Oct 28Muskegon 5 at Toledo 0Des Moines 6 at Flint 2Columbus 0 at Saginaw 7Port Huron 1 at Dayton 7<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Wed. Oct 31Des Moines at Fort WayneThu. Nov. 1Des Moines at ColumbusFri. Nov. 2Toledo at ColumbusFort Wayne at FlintSaginaw at DaytonSat. Nov. 3Dayton at ColumbusSaginaw at Fort WayneDes Moines at MuskegonFlint at Port HuronSun. Nov. 4Columbus at Port HuronMuskegon at DaytonToledo at FlintDes Moines at Saginaw<h2>LEADER SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-03128/3704153-1-eng-US/f0034-032.jpg" title="f0034-03" width="606" height="325"></div><h2>Starting IHL Rosters</h2><h3>COLUMBUS OWLS</h3>GOALTENDERS: Ray Martyniuk.DEFENSEMEN: Steve Lyon, Mike Legge, Gary Davidson, GeorgeTower.FORWARDS: Jerry DeMarco, Mike Kelly, John Heffern, Ed Kenty, Ken Richardson, Bill McEwan, Elgin McCann, Marty Reynolds, Ross Smith, Dave Smith, Randy Smith, Murray McNeil, Bill Bond.<h3>DES MOINES CAPITOLS</h3>GOALTENDERS: Dave McLelland.DEFENSEMEN: Ken Wright, Larry Bolonchuk, Yvon Bilodeau, Jack Mcllhargey.FORWARDS: Ian McKinnon, Pete Mara, Frank DeMarco, Harvey Bennett, Pat Russell, Bob Bilodeau, Doug Buchanan, Keith Kokkola, Terry McDougall, John Senkpiel.<h3>FORT WAYNE KOMETS</h3>GOALTENDERS: Robbie Irons, Don Atchison.DEFENSEMEN: D&rsquo;Arcy Keating, Terry Pembroke, Gord Lane, Randy Aimoe.FORWARDS: Chuck Blair. Bob Miller, Wayne Ego, Chuck Balon, Jeff Ablett, Ken Picklyk, Al Huppe, Pierre Duguay, Terry Thomson, Chuck Labelle, Ron Ullyot, Dale Power, Stu Davidson.<h3>DAYTON GEMS</h3>GOALTENDERS: Don Wallis, Jean-Louis LevasseurDEFENSEMEN: Herb Howdle, Dave Simpson, John Lee, Jim Bannatyne, Lome Weighill, Don Craig.FORWARDS: John Fraser, Brien Mason, Peter Gaw, Ken Tarnov, Len Chalmers, Les Jackson, Dana Johnson, Tommy McVie, Con Schmidt, Pete Fleming, Bob Leslie, Dan Sullivan, Bill Flynn, Tom Pinder.<h3>FLINT GENERALS</h3>GOALTENDERS: Bob Perani, Lowell Jackie.DEFENSEMEN: Doug Carpenter, Rod Collins, Gene Strate, Brian McBratney.FORWARDS: Brian Dickie, Doug Manchak, Ernie Moser, Bernie Reed, WayneZuk, Dave Gorman, Dick Mortenson, Colin Gordon, Frank Beaton, Gaston Boulanger, Ken Mann, Wayne Dye, Gary Dereksen, Gary Gilbert, Jim Johnston.<h3>MUSKEGON MOHAWKS</h3>GOALTENDERS: Bill Hughes, Steve Miskiewicz.DEFENSEMEN: Lynn Margarit. Bob McMahon, Bill Kestell, Dan Sharpe, Ed Sidebottom.FORWARDS: Louis Frigon, Bob Tombari, Bert Scott, Bob Olein, Ray Cournoyea, Brent Taylor, Alex Dampier, George Klasons, Jerry Trooien, Glenn Grigg.<h3>PORT HURON RED WINGS</h3>GOALTENDERS: Tom McQuiston, Kevin Neville.DEFENSEMEN: Mike Ford, Brian Skinner, Bill Miller, Dave Haley.FORWARDS: Dale Dolmage, Bill Watt, Bruce Meehan, Ray Germain, Bill Ciraulo, Red Malinoski, John Clayton, Gord Redden, Doug Wilson, Dan Newman, Mike Parrish.<h3>SAGINAW GEARS</h3>GOALTENDERS: Sam Clegg, Jim Armstrong.DEFENSEMEN: Al Langlais, Gord Malinoski, Tom Thomson, Lowell Ostlund,FORWARDS: Russ Friesen, Jim Johnston, Marcel Comeau, Dave Cressman, Mike Hornby, Jerome Engele, Juri Kudrasovs, Doug Marit, Jean Marie Nicol, Pierre Hervieux, Rejean Beaudoin, Stu Irving, Norm Cherrey, Pierre Leblanc.<h3>TOLEDO HORNETS</h3>GOALTENDERS: Glen Ramsay.DEFENSEMEN: John Gravel, Bob Borgeson, Guy Provost, Jerry Lecompte, Gerry Egers.FORWARDS: Ken Sutyla, Randy Penner, Jim Paterson, Hal White. Jim Collins, Billy Staub, Gary Johnson, John Vanderburg, Frank Hyndham, Al Houston, Moe Brunel, Ross Knight, Art Krucel. &#9632;

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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY LEN HOYES</div>MUSKEGON&mdash;Moose Lallo didn&rsquo;t smile much last season but the early-season success of his Muskegon Mohawks in the International Hockey League has him at least grinning a little. By beating Turner Cup champion Fort Wayne and North Division champion Flint (twice) on the opening weekend, the Mohawks became the first to win three games and were more than two months ahead&rsquo; of their I972-73 timetable.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0485/3704205-1-eng-US/f0034-042.jpg" title="f0034-04" width="281" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Zuk</figcaption></div>Last year the Mohawks were 08-1 before they won and they didn&rsquo;t get three victories until Nov. 23 when they stood 3-16-2. Even with that horrendous start, they missed the playoffs by only one game, losing on the final night to Toledo.&ldquo;I was afraid to show my face around town last year,&rdquo; admitted Lallo who is back doing what he likes best: coaching. A year ago at this time he was general manager, having relinquished coaching duties to Bryan McLay. When the latter was injured, Lallo resumed coaching. He&rsquo;s the only IHL general manager-coach.Lallo, a veteran player and coach in the IHL, dismissed his first-week success without any flourish. He said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been around too long to get excited about winning three games.Lallo may have no problems with his defense which appears to have come up with the missing link in Bob McMahon, who was acquired from the Baltimore (AHL) organization.Along with 1973 All Star Lynn Margarit, former All Star Dan Sharpe and veterans Bill Kestell and Ed Sidebottom, the Mohawks have a formidable quintet of blueliners. Equally impressive was the opening week end for goalie Bill Hughes, who played with the Houston Aeros last winter.Lallo&rsquo;s No. 1 line of center Louis Frigon, left winger Bob Tombari and right winger Bert Scott stacks up as good as anything the IHL can offer this winter. Frigon scored four goals, Tombari three and Scott two as the Mohawks piled up a 15-4 edge in three games.DAYTON: Gems&rsquo; first victory after two losses punctuated by brawl-filled game which accounted for 128 penalty minutes at Saginaw&hellip;All Star center Gerry Mazur attending school in Winnipeg but GM Lefty McFadden leaving door open for his return.PORT HURON: Wings signed Red Malinoski brother of record setting penalty man Gordon Malinoski of Saginaw&hellip;Coach Bobby McCammon having problems deciding which of eight defensemen to keep. First-year coach declared, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see any team we can&rsquo;t beat.&rdquo;SAGINAW: Journeyman Randy Prior dropped before opening game, trying to hook on with fifth IHL team&hellip;Gears&rsquo; season ticket sale at 1.301 &hellip; Rookie goalie Sam Clegg. 20, sharing netminding with veteran Jim Armstrong, 29 &hellip; Coach Don Perry unruffled by 0-2 start, tried to stimulate team by getting involved in scrap against Dayton. He was handed five-game suspension by IHL Commussioner Bill Began.DES MOINES: Caps have working agreements with Philadelphia, Vancouver and Atlanta, looking to youngsters for most of talent&hellip;Veteran winger Ken Gratton waived out of league, joined Caps&rsquo; teammate Neelie LeClair in North American&hellip;Goalie Jim Park, late-season arrival in I973. rejoined team from Philadelphia organization.FLINT: Generals buoyed by return of high-scoring Wayne Zuk from Edmonton (WHA)&hellip;Line of Brian Dickie, Ernie Moser and Doug Manchak impressive in first three games&hellip;Rookie goalie Lowell Jackie 8-6 winner in first start&hellip;Goalie Merlin Jenner out of action with bad cut near eye.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0556/3704198-1-eng-US/f0034-052.jpg" title="f0034-05" width="574" height="617"><figcaption class="caption-body">LOUIS FRIGON&hellip;Bursts Out</figcaption></div>FORT WAYNE: Scoring leader Wayne Ego ended retirement and rejoined Komets for opening game&hellip;Coach Marc Boileau figuring Ego. Jeff Ablett and Chick Balon to rank with IHL&rsquo;s best&hellip;Boileau planning quick changes after 1-2 record on first weekend. &#9632;

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Mohawks Make Distinctive Start

<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h2>SOUTHERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Oct 30)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01211/3704236-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="600" height="200"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Affiliations: 14&mdash;Buffalo. 21&mdash;Vancouver (WHA). 22&mdash;Los Angeles (WHA). 26&mdash;Edmonton (WHA).*&mdash;New England & Minnesota (WHA). **&mdash;Cleveland & Houston (WHA).</figcaption></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues. OcL 23Winston-Salem 3 at Charlotte 6Wed. Oct 24Winston-Salem 4 at Macon 10Thur. Oct 25Greensboro 4 at Macon 6Fri. Oct 26Macon 1 at Charlotte 4Greensboro 3 at Suncoast 7Roanoke 3 at Winston-Salem 4Sat Oct 27Charlotte 3 at Macon 3Winston-Salem 3 at Roanoke 5Greensboro 9 at Suncoast 6<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tue. Oct. 30Suncoast at Winston-SalemWed. Oct 31Macon at GreensboroThu. Nov. 1Macon at RoanokeFri. Nov. 2Winston-Salem at MaconSat Nov. 3Greensboro at RoanokeTue. Nov. 6Suncoast at CharlotteMacon at Winston-SalemWed. Nov. 7Roanoke at MaconThu. Nov. 8Roanoke at MaconFri. Nov. 9Roanoke at CharlotteSuncoast at GreensboroMacon at Winston-Salem &#9632;

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SOUTHERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY DAVID LAMM</div>ROANOKE&mdash;Hockey traditionally is a sport where you win at home and lose on the road. Championships, hockey experts say, are won by not losing on friendly ice and playing for ties in enemy territory. Just why this has always been the case is anyone&rsquo;s guess. Certainly the home crowd helps, but in many cases the win-at-home, lose-on-the-road game is the result of travelling teams playing poorly away from their arena.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-02175/3704274-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="260" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Adduono</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Dogging it&rdquo; is a term many critics use when discussing the subject.After the first complete week of the new Southern Hockey League season, however, tradition appears to have been laid to rest &mdash; and the fans are benefitting.In the first 17 games of the SHL season, the visiting team managed six victories. That&rsquo;s better than one out of three.&ldquo;The competition is too keen for teams to loaf on the road,&rdquo; says Norman Curtis, president and general manager of the Greensboro Generals. &ldquo;Although Roanoke Valley has gotten off to such a great start, everyone else is very close In talent. And I think the Rebels will cool off. A win away from home this early in the season may well be the deciding points when it comes time to crown a champion.&rdquo;Roanoke Valley, incidentally, got away to a 6-0-0 start which included three wins away from home.CHARLOTTE: General Manager-Coach Pat Kelly&rsquo;s team has been getting great goaltending from Gaye Gooley (2.83 goals allowed average), but the club lacks offensive punch. As a result. Kelly acquired the services of center Gary Swain, formerly with Baltimore of the AHL. &ldquo;I hadn&rsquo;t seen Swain play,&rdquo; noted Kelly, &ldquo;but he has been playing in the AHL and he was Pittsburgh&rsquo;s No. I draft pick a few years ago, so I figured he could help us.&rdquo;GREENSBORO: Coach Ted Lanyon went looking for defensive help and obtained Mike Hyndman from the Los Angeles Sharks, the Gens&rsquo; WHA affiliate, and Gary Braun from Phoenix of the Western League. And more help may be on the way, says the first-year Greensboro coach.The club found itself without its top playmaker when veteran center Wally Sprange was hospitalized because of chest pains. In the Generals&rsquo; first two games. Sprange scored one goal and set up seven others. &ldquo;The fans don&rsquo;t realize how much we need Wally until he&rsquo;s out,&rdquo; says GM Curtis.Howie Heggedal, last year&rsquo;s player of the year in the defunct Eastern League&rsquo;s Southern Division, is up to his old tricks. After five games he had five goals, three coming on power plays.MACON: Keke Mortson, the general manager &mdash; player-coach of the Whoopees, isn&rsquo;t sitting still. After splitting their first two games, Mortson went locking for help and obtained Don Geisebrecht, Bart Farlgren and goalie Ron Grahame, all experienced performers. Macon opened the season with nine players 22 or younger.&ldquo;We simply needed more experience,&rdquo; says Mortson.As everyone expected, the Whoopees are not lacking scoring punch with Ray Adduono, Ron Morgan and Norm Cournoyer. Each had eight points in the team&rsquo;s first four games. Wayne Horne has also gotten off to a good start with four goals in three games.ROANOKE VALLEY: The Rebels received some bad news when their WHA affiliate, Vancouver, called up rookie winger Jean Tetreault. Tetreault had five goals and four assists in the team&rsquo;s first six games and earned a trial with the big club. &ldquo;Vancouver will send us two players to replace Jean,&rdquo; said Coach Gregg Pilling, &ldquo;so we shouldn&rsquo;t lose on the deal. Tetreault, however, had established himself quickly as one of our top skaters.&rdquo;SUNCOAST: Coach Larry Kish entered the second week of the season still looking to get a set lineup. He acquired Darrel Knibbs, Dan Lodboa and Terry Ryan, a highly-regarded youngster from the Minnesota Fighting Saints.Andre Lajeunesse was waived and then reactivated. In his first game back the veteran winger tallied two goals, including the game winner in a 7-6 overtime win over Macon. &ldquo;Maybe being set down helped him,&rdquo; smiled General Manager Paul Caron.Veteran Billy Smith is off to a good start with six goals in five games. Defenseman Paul Brown took the early lead for the badman trophy, spending 45 minutes in the penalty box in just five games.WINSTON-SALEM: General Manager-Coach Don Carter watched his club lose four straight games &mdash; and most of the blame can be laid on injuries. The Polar Twins, top farm club of the Edmonton Oilers, lost Billy Morris and Dennis Kassian to knee injuries in exhibition games. Then center Bernie Blanchette pulled some ligaments in the club&rsquo;s third game and went to the sidelines. Kassian returned a game later but he still isn&rsquo;t I00 percent.&ldquo;When our hurt people are sound, we&rsquo;ll do all right,&rdquo; says Carter, who admits he&rsquo;s looking for some defensive help.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-03129/3704267-1-eng-US/f0035-032.jpg" title="f0035-03" width="560" height="699"><figcaption class="caption-body">HOWIE HEGGEDAL &hellip;Power Play Ace</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Roanoke Typical Of Visiting Teams As SHL Home Clubs Have It Rough

<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h2>NORTH AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Oct. 29)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01189/3704305-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="596" height="231"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Affiliations: 12&mdash;St. Louis. 19&mdash;New York (WHA). 20&mdash;Chicago (WHA). 23&mdash;Toronto (WHA). 24&mdash;Quebec (WHA). Independent New York & Boston (NHL).</figcaption></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Mon. Oct. 22Mohawk Valley 5 at Broome 3Tue. Oct. 23Long Island 2 at Syracuse 4Johnstown 5 at Cape Cod 10Wed. Oct 24Cape Cod 3 at Broome 8Syracuse 5 at Long Island 6Mohawk Valley 5 at Maine 4Fri. Oct 26Long Island 5 at Cape Cod 6Broome 3 at Syracuse 6Maine 10 at Mohawk Valley 7Sat. Oct 27Cape Cod 3 at Long Island 7Syracuse 4 at Maine 3Johnstown 4 at Mohawk Valley 3Sun. Oct 28Broome 5 at Maine 7<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Mon. Oct. 29Maine at BroomeTue. Oct 30Broome at Cape CodWed. Oct 31Syracuse at JohnstownMohawk Valley at Long IslandFri. Nov. 2Syracuse at Long IslandBroome at MaineCape Cod at Mohawk ValleySat. Nov. 3Maine at Cape CodLong Island at JohnstownSyracuse at Mohawk ValleyMon. Nov. 5Maine at Long islandWed. Nov. 7Cape Cod at SyracuseJohnstown at Mohawk Valley &#9632;

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NORTH AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY BOB PAINE</div>LEWISTON&mdash;The Maine Nordiques, first out of the box in the maiden season of the NAHL. received a stunning setback when three early season wins were removed by action of NAHL executive director Robert Dextraze. Nordiques grabbed five consecutive wins at the start of the season, but Dextraze&rsquo;s action removed triumphs over Cape Cod on October 13 and wins over the Broome Dusters on October 16 and 17. Nordiques were beaten on the ice for the first time by the Syracuse Blazers on October 21.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-02141/3704336-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="271" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Michel Harvey</figcaption></div>Maine was found in violation of the NAHL pro rule which allows each team to dress six pro players. The NAHL defines a pro as any player who played in 25 or more games last year in the National. American. Central. Western or World Hockey leagues.Nordiques said they were in compliance with the rule but a discrepancy in figures between the Quebec Nordiques and the World Hockey Association fingered Michel Harvey as an illegal pro player.Quebec figures showed Harvey as having played in 21 games last year but a check with WHA offices reversed the figure upwards to 31. The games played number refers to the number of games actually played by a player, not the number of games that the player dressed for.Other pro players on the game roster are Michel Archambault, Rejean Giroux, Yves Bergeron. Pierre Roy, Jacques Blain and Michel Rouleau.Despite the severe league action, Nordiques are still rated title material in the NAHL. The Maine entry has scored with better than five goals a game in posting five wins, before the league ruling in six games.Giroux was skating with Harvey and Mike Ortuso, before the veteran coach was forced to the bench by the pro ruling. Other attacking units include Mike Rouleau, centering for Paul Larose and Yves Bergeron and veteran Michel Archambault working with junior stars Denis Patry and Serge Martel.Nordiques were winning both with offense and defense, costing the Broome Dusters 9-7 and 8-7 (both games forfeited) and edging Cape Cod 3-2. Jacques Lemelin and Richard Brodeur, both of whom saw extensive action with the big Nordiques last year, are splitting the main goaltending behind the defense anchored by Jacques Blain.Nordiques were delighted with their first sell-out when they defeated the Syracuse Blazers 4-3. The crowd of 3,000 plus was the largest ever to watch a hockey game in the State of Maine.BROOME: Dusters rolled into gear after four straight losses, with road wins over Cape Cod and Mohawk Valley. Rod Bloomfield and Bob Channell are pacing the Broome attack, with Bloomfield the early NAHL scoring leader. Ed James, who scored only 12 goals last year at Columbus, is the top Duster marksman with eight goals.Dusters have formed an NAHL brother act with the acquisition of goaler Jean-Claude Brodeur. Brodeur is the brother of Richard Brodeur, goaltender for the Maine Nordiques.CAPE COD: Bronco Horvath continues to juggle personnel after the Cubs slow start in an effort to find a winning combination. New faces include Dan Cowley and John Raynak both of whom played with the Sun Coast Suns last year and high scoring rink pivot Wayne Hawrysh, late of the defunct Jersey Devils.Hawrysh was supposedly ticketed for Long Island by way of Sun Coast, but after playing three games for the Cougars he left the team and joined the Cubs.LONG ISLAND: Cougars absorbed first loss of the season,, dropping a 5-3 decision to the Johnstown lets, but surrounded that loss with home ice wins over Broome Dusters and Syracuse Blazers.Cougars have been hit hard by injuries, losing back up goaler Paul Menard with a broken collar bone and defenseman Ken Southwick is out for the year with a separated shoulder.Coach John Brophy and Syracuse Blazers&rsquo; pilot Ron Ingram each drew $250 fines from the league office for a tussle in the Cougars 4-3 win over the Blazers.SYRACUSE: Mike Morton, a 105-point producer last year, has jumped over to a quick start with four goals in four games. Morton is working with St. Lawrence University graduate Terry Moran and Bill Goldthorpe of Thunder Bay. Ont. Blazers set a record of some sort when former Boston University star Bob Brown joined the team. Brown is the fourth collegian on the Blazers (joining Moran, Dave Ferguson and Bob Winograd) and he and Winograd were the first team college All American defensemen two years ago. &#9632;

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New Nordiques Beaten In Committee Room

<h2>HOW THEY STAND</h2><h2>ONTARIO MAJOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 24)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-01174/3704409-1-eng-US/f0037-012.jpg" title="f0037-01" width="597" height="346"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Sat. Oct. 20Sault 2 at Oshawa 9Sun. Oct. 21Peterboro 4 at Kingston 3Oshawa 7 at Toronto 5London 2 at Hamilton 4Sault 2 at St. Catharines 11Ottawa 2 at Kitchener 4Tue. Oct. 23Toronto 8 at St. Catharines 11<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-02135/3704402-1-eng-US/f0037-022.jpg" title="f0037-02" width="603" height="501"></div><h2>QUEBEC MAJOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Oct. 30)<h3>EAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-03101/3704395-1-eng-US/f0037-032.jpg" title="f0037-03" width="597" height="210"></div><h3>WEST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0481/3704388-1-eng-US/f0037-042.jpg" title="f0037-04" width="589" height="202"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Mon. Oct. 22Sorel 10 at Laval 5Tue. Oct. 23Shawinigan 5 at Cornwall 7Drummondville 2 at Hull 3Sherbrooke 3 at Trois-Rivieres 5Thur. Oct. 25Cornwall 4 at Drummondville 0Hull 6 at Laval 9Frl. Oct. 26Trois Rivieres 3 at Chicoutimi 8Cornwall 5 at Hull 1Drummondville 5 at Quebec 14Sherbrooke 6 at Shawinigan 5Montreal 6 at Sorel 8Sun. Oct. 28Laval 4 at Cornwall 7Sorel 6 at Hull 4Drummondville 7 at Montreal 12Quebec 2 at Shawinigan 7Chicoutimi 8 at Sherbrooke 4<h2>MANITOBA JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Oct. 22)<h3>NORTH DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0565/3704381-1-eng-US/f0037-052.jpg" title="f0037-05" width="599" height="178"></div><h3>SOUTH DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0651/3704374-1-eng-US/f0037-062.jpg" title="f0037-06" width="590" height="148"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0737/3704367-1-eng-US/f0037-072.jpg" title="f0037-07" width="600" height="356"></div> &#9632;

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OHA MAJOR HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>KITCHENER&mdash;After winning only one of their first eight games and adding a couple of ties. Kitchener Rangers suddenly came alive much to the relief of coach Eddie Bush.The Rangers, with many of their outstanding players from last year returning, had been considered one of the teams to beat in the 1973-74 Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior A schedule; How ever they just Couldn&rsquo;t seem to get untracked. &ldquo;We weren&rsquo;t desperate&rdquo;, said Bush. &ldquo;But I have to admit we were a bit worried.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0833/3704440-1-eng-US/f0037-082.jpg" title="f0037-08" width="289" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Peter Lee</figcaption></div>Bush of course has been in the coaching business long enough to realize panic doesn&rsquo;t help the cause as much as a couple of victories. The former Guelph and Hamilton pilot got exactly that when the Rangers trounced Oshawa Generals I01, then edged Ottawa 67s 4-2.Rookie Dan Djaklovich provided the spark in the win over Oshawa with three goals while Doug Riseborough produced the game winner against Ottawa with the clincher coming from Tony White.Riseborough was the leading scorer last season in the Southern Ontario (Tier Two) Junior A League while with Guelph and has fitted in well with the Rangers in Major Junior A.PETERBORO: Petes went seven games without a defeat at the start of the season before St. Catharines dumped them 7-2 and since then have not found things quite&rsquo; as easy&hellip; However they are still clinging to first place thanks to a 3-3 tie with Ottawa and a hard-earned 4-3 decision in Kingston&hellip; The Petes came from behind with three goals in 65 seconds early in the third period, including a pair by Bill Evo, after trailing the Canadians&hellip; Rookie forward Red Laurence continues to impress.LONDON: The Knights, under coach Bill Long, played to a 5-5 tie at home with the Marlboros, then defeated Kingston 4-1 to move within a point of first place&hellip; However they were stymied 4-2 in Hamilton, dropping three back of the Petes&hellip; Dennis Maruk and Andy Spruce are the bread-and-butter guys for the Knights.SUDBURY: Wolves remained solid in the first division with 4-2 home victory over St. Catharines Black Hawks&hellip; Bill Best, who played with St. Catharines two years ago, then quit Junior A to go to school and play for Laurentian University having fine season in comeback and scored opening goal against his former teammates.OSHAWA: Generals bounced back from 10-1 pasting in Kitchener to trounce Sault 9-2 the following night&hellip; &ldquo;Sometimes nothing goes right, other times everything falls into place. But that&rsquo;s junior hockey for you&rdquo;, said coach Gus Bodnar&hellip; After getting back on the track Generals beat Toronto Marlboros 7-5 in third game in three days with Brian Kinsella scoring four times.SAULT: Greyhounds had rough schedule of four games in four nights and managed to pick up win and tie while losing two&hellip; They won at home 6-3 over St. Catharines but had little good luck on the road tying the Marlies 5-5, then being swamped 9-2 in Oshawa and&rsquo; 11-2 in St. Catharines.HAMILTON: Red Wings, coached by Dave Draper, put together first back-to-back wins of season and it could be a better year for Hamilton club after all&hellip; They crushed Ottawa 8-1 for the most decisive win by a Hamilton Junior A team in years then downed London 4-2.ST. CATHARINES: Hawks have lacked consistency despite having 11 players with previous Junior A experience in lineup&hellip; Injuries have contributed to slow start but they do have scoring power as evidenced by their first four wins &mdash; 11-2 over first place Peterboro&hellip; However they have won only once on the road which has kept them well down the list&hellip; Bill Cheropita back in nets for win over Sault during which Hawks picked up 29 scoring points&hellip; Court ruled that Hawks had to release Ric Garcia in what many considered a test case of legality of midget draft&hellip; Garcia was selected by Hawks but the 17-year-old Toronto defenseman wanted to play with Hull Festivals.OTTAWA: Coach Leo Boivin of Ottawa 67s can thank Peter Lee for salvaging 3-3 tie in Peterboro&hellip; The promising young forward scored all three goals including the tying one with only 28 seconds left&hellip; It was the first point given up by Peterborough on home ice and the final goal came with Ottawa goalie on bench.KINGSTON: Canadians started off reasonably well in their first Major Junior A season but lack of experience is starting to tell&hellip; The 4-3 loss to Peterboro was heartbreaker after John Bailif had given Canadians the lead with a pair of goals&hellip; Attendance continues to rise as junior brand of hockey has definitely caught on in a city which was formerly considered strictly senior-oriented.TORONTO: Marloboros picked up a point on 5-5 tie with Sault at Gardens and actually thought they&rsquo;d won when referee disallowed goal in last 10 seconds&hellip; Kevin Devine, one of few leftovers from team which won Canadian Junior championship last year, had three goals against Soo and is one of team leaders. &#9632;

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Favored Rangers Snap Out of Doldrums; Hawks Ordered To Release Ric Garcia

<div class="byline">BY JOHN HENDRY</div>This is the sixth in an 11-part series highlighting individual clubs in the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior A This week the Oshawa Generals.OSHAWA&mdash;Oshawa Generals were picked by most pre-season crystal ball gazers to end the 1973-74 season atop the OHA Major Junior A standings. After 10 regular season games the Generals are in fourth place on the strength of six wins and four losses. Although these statistics do not appear to be too far out of line, especially with the other 10 clubs not much better off there is much concern in coach and general manager Gus Bodnar&rsquo;s office.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0926/3704471-1-eng-US/f0037-092.jpg" title="f0037-09" width="273" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Brian Kinsella</figcaption></div>The concern is over the total lack of unity in the club, on or off the ice. The situation was brought to a head recently in Kitchener when the lack luster effort by the veterans contributed to one of the worst drubbings an Oshawa club has ever suffered as Kitchener won 101. To add insult to injury, one of the veterans engaged in verbal battle with the coach prior to getting on the bus.&ldquo;Some of our 19-year-old kids seem to think they only have to put in time until the end of the season when the June draft rolls around. It isn&rsquo;t fair to the younger kids to carry the load, or for some of the last year players to carry more thant their share either.&rdquo; Bodnar added &ldquo;They are only kids, it isn&rsquo;t easy to convince them that if they don&rsquo;t work hard now they won&rsquo;t go very high in the draft.&rdquo;Despite losing players the likes of Rick Middleton, Don Seiling, Walt Johnson, Nelson Pyatt and Guido Tenesi, Oshawa has some sound returnees who, when put on the positive track, will provide an awesome attack with plenty of scoring punch.Leading the list of returnees is 19-year-old Bill Lochead a fiery left winger who finished tenth in league scoring last season with 56 goals and 54 assist for 110 points. Lochead has tremendous speed, and plenty of talent in the puck handling department. He is virtually impossible to stop if he is given room. After the first 10 games Lochead is in tenth spot in the league scoring race with six goals and four assists for 10 points. (Do you suppose 10 is Bills&rsquo; magic number?)Brian Kinsella, 19 also off to an impressive start, figures fifth in league statistics with five goals and seven assits for 12 points. Kinsella is a shifty forward and a very capable offensive player.Although goals are what it is all about, the scouts are looking at Kinsella&rsquo;s ability to make plays and get things going, which Brian does quite handily. Last season Kinsella finished the season with 28 goals and 57 assists.Other 19-year-old with the Gens are Bob Ferguson, Pat Ribble and Rick Fraser. Ribble and Fraser have been contributing some sound defense and as the season wears on they should go a long way in settling down the rookies.In goal, veteran Rick St Croix is back after completing the previous campaign with a respectable 4.66 average last year. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re fixed in goal&rdquo; said Bodnar &ldquo;St. Croix has two years left counting this one, and young Pau) Harrison should pick up a little experience&rdquo;Bodnar is very pleased with this years crop of rookies, Oshawa B&rsquo;s and the Oshawa midgets have produced some real promising players. Center Tom Newton, the teams first draft last year and Joe Greentree are up from the B&rsquo;s, and center Brian Drumm and right winger Ken Morden have graduated from the midget ranks.Other promising talent in the rookie department are newcomers Dean Neuman, a winger from the Owen Sound Junior B&rsquo;s, Bud Stefanski, a right winger from South Porcupine juveniles and Greg Malone a center from Frederiction N.B.&ldquo;We have some great talent&rdquo; boasts Bodnar. &#9632;

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Internal Turmoil Hurting Generals’ Pennant Chances

<h2>Looking At The Races</h2><h2>WESTERN CANADA LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 24)<h3>EASTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-01203/3704586-1-eng-US/f0038-012.jpg" title="f0038-01" width="596" height="200"></div><h3>WESTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-02155/3704579-1-eng-US/f0038-022.jpg" title="f0038-02" width="604" height="210"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Sat. Oct. 20Victoria 4 at Medicine Hat 8Sun. Oct 21Regina 2 at Brandon 4Kamloops 4 at Flin Flon 4Victoria 1 at Swift Current 3New Westminster 2 at Medicine Hat 8Tues. Oct 23Kamloops 3 at Winnipeg 4Victoria 1 at Saskatoon 5<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-03116/3704572-1-eng-US/f0038-032.jpg" title="f0038-03" width="606" height="906"></div><h2>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Fri. Oct. 26)<h3>NORTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0478/3704565-1-eng-US/f0038-042.jpg" title="f0038-04" width="603" height="143"></div><h3>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0555/3704558-1-eng-US/f0038-052.jpg" title="f0038-05" width="595" height="173"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Sat. Oct. 13Green Bay 2 at Sioux City 7Calumet 3 at Marquette 5Sun. Oct 14Green Bay 2 at Sioux City 5Marquette 2 at Thunder Bay 10Tue. Oct. 16Calumet 0 at Thunder Bay 9Fri. Oct. 19Sioux City 4 at Madison 5Sat. Oct. 20Madison 8 at Calumet 6Chicago 4 at Green Bay 9Sioux City 1 at Marquette 2Sun. Oct. 21Sioux City 3 at Calumet 4<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0642/3704551-1-eng-US/f0038-062.jpg" title="f0038-06" width="591" height="440"></div><h2>ALBERTA JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 17)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0737/3704544-1-eng-US/f0038-072.jpg" title="f0038-07" width="598" height="205"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0825/3704537-1-eng-US/f0038-082.jpg" title="f0038-08" width="609" height="937"></div><h2>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Fri. Oct. 26)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0922/3704530-1-eng-US/f0038-092.jpg" title="f0038-09" width="608" height="210"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1019/3704523-1-eng-US/f0038-102.jpg" title="f0038-10" width="594" height="409"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1117/3704516-1-eng-US/f0038-112.jpg" title="f0038-11" width="599" height="236"></div><h2>SOUTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Tue. Oct. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1216/3704509-1-eng-US/f0038-122.jpg" title="f0038-12" width="605" height="265"></div><h2>PROVINCIAL JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Oct. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1311/3704502-1-eng-US/f0038-132.jpg" title="f0038-13" width="617" height="378"></div> &#9632;

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Western Canada Hockey League

<div class="byline">BY BOB STRUM</div>BRANDON&mdash;If hockey rinks were round, Brandon Wheat King ace Ron Chipperfield would undoubtedly lap his opposition.If the Western Canada Hockey League&rsquo;s individual scoring championship could be won by acclamation, it would have to go to the amazing Mr. Chipperfield.In the Wheat Kings, first eight games, the 19-year-old centreman scored 12 goals and added 16 assists for 28 points. What&rsquo;s more, Chipperfield missed one of those opening games due to a fractured cheekbone.&ldquo;The kid has been playing unbelievable hockey, even though he&rsquo;s wearing a bird cage on his head,&rdquo; said Brandon Coach Rudy Pilous, in reference to a helmet with special face protection which Chipperfield has been wearing since he was injured in the Wheaties&rsquo; third game of the season.It&rsquo;s certainly a little premature to be discussing scoring records, but Chipperfield&rsquo;s current average of four points-per-game would propel him far beyond the WCHL standards.There once was a young man named Bobby Clarke who skated figure-eights around his WCHL opponents while playing for the Flin Flon Bombers. In the 1967-68 season, Clarke earned 117 assits and 168 points, both of which are still records.The WCHL goal-scoring mark was also set that season by Clarke&rsquo;s Flin Flon teammate. Reg Leach. The big rightwinger fired 87 goals in a 59-game schedule.Should Chipperfield continue his present pace through the remainder of the Longest Season, he would finish with 115 goals and 153 assists for 268 points. Ridiculous? Maybe&hellip;but the Chipper appears headed for a record-breaking season of some sort, barring further injury.Pilous has special praise for his number one shooter, who was good for 72 goals last year as an 18-year old. Pilous formerly coached a number of superstars both in St. Catherines and Chicago and has some interesting comparisons to make.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve coached Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull, Chico Maki&hellip;I&rsquo;ve had some great ones, but Chipper is the best player, consistently the best, I&rsquo;ve ever had the pleasure of coaching,&rdquo; said Pilous.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the greatest junior I&rsquo;ve ever seen, game in and game out.&rdquo; added Pilous. &ldquo;He can score goals in so many different ways.&rdquo;Enough said for the moment. Chipperfield, after the first three weeks, was a runaway leader in the WCHL&rsquo;s scoring race. It&rsquo;s unlikely anyone wil catch him&hellip;because they&rsquo;ve retired Secretariat to stud.SASKATOON: Blades&rsquo; young defence of Glen Leggott, Marty Feschuk, Bob Hoffmeyer and Rob Chapman along with experienced Pat Price continued to amaze the experts&hellip;Blades gave up only 14 goals in their first eight games.FLIN FLON: Bombers made their second trade of the young season when they sent defenseman Duane Bray to Victoria for blueliner Kim Clackson&hellip;Bray subsequently left the Cougars though, and Clackson&rsquo;s status with the Bombers was unknown. Coach Patty Ginnell had earlier traded forward Russ Hall to Winnipeg for rearguard Mike Thompson.SWIFT CURRENT: Broncos bounced back with consecutive victories over New Westminster and Victoria&hellip;Two-goal performances by lan McPhee and Terry Rushowski led the respective wins&hellip;McPhee, the rookie from Edmonton, led the club in goals with seven in seven games while Ruskowski had 15 points.REGINA: Pats were in high gear with three triumphs in a row until they ran into the high-flying Wheaties&hellip;Brandon recorded a 53 win. but the game was encouraging just the same&hellip;Million-dollar centre Dennis Sobchuk turned in his finest performance of the season&hellip;Rightwinger Mike Wanchuk was scoring at better than a goal-per-game average with seven in the first six contests&hellip;He also led the league in power-play goals with six.WINNIPEG: The unsettled Clubs, already under new management, has hired a new coach&hellip;Gord Pennell, a former coach of the Winnipeg Rangers junior club, will assume the duties from Gerry Brisson&hellip;Brisson will remain as general manager and part-owner of the Clubs&hellip;Joey Girardin scored his first goal of the season to give Winnipeg a 4-3 win over Kamloops on the eve of the announcement.MEDICINE HAT: The Tigers are enjoying the lofty heights of first place, thanks to a talented combination of rookies and returnees&hellip;First-year forwards Greg Vaydik and Gary Vaughn went on a hot streak as the Tigers won three of four&hellip;Vaydik&rsquo;s 12 points was second among the league rookies&hellip;Experienced forwards Ken Gassoff, with 15 points, and Ed Johnstone, with 13, were still providing most of the Tiger punch, especially on power-plays.CALGARY: The Centennials enjoyed a rather slack week by whipping Medicine Hat 9-4&hellip;Nineteen-year old winger Jerry Holland exploded for four goals including three on the powerplay&hellip;Holland&rsquo;s early goal total of nine was second only to Chipperfield&hellip;Mike Rogers also lifted his team-leading point total to 13 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-149/3704617-1-eng-US/f0038-142.jpg" title="f0038-14" width="573" height="687"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON CHIPPERFIELD&hellip;Record Pace</figcaption></div>NEW WESTMINSTER: Bruins limped home after a demanding nine-game road trip which saw them win twice and lose seven times&hellip;Rookie Don Hay continued to be a pleasant surprise with a team leading 13 points&hellip;KAMLOOPS: The Chiefs earned a certain amount of satisfaction by tying the tough Flin Flon Bombers right in the mining centre&hellip;Chris McMaster tied the contest with his fourth goal of the season, late in the final period.EDMONTON: The Oil Kings sat idle for the week but coach Ken Hodge couldn&rsquo;t ignore commenting on his club&rsquo;s slow start&hellip;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a little concerned,&rdquo; Hodge was quoted in Edmonton. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;d get off to a great start but I thought we&rsquo;d start out better than this&rdquo;&hellip;&ldquo;I think a doubt exists in the minds of some of our players as to how good a team we have. There is no doubt in my mind.&rdquo;VICTORIA: The Cougars struggled through the first part of their eastern swing with four straight defeats&hellip;Rookie goaltender Glen Anweiler was outstanding in Swift Current but the Cougars still lost 3-1. &#9632;

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Chipperfield’s Fast Start Has Kings Thinking Pennant

<div class="byline">BY RICH BERCUSON</div>SOREL&mdash;The Black Hawks of Sorel are now making a move towards the seemingly invincible Quebec Remparts for first place in the East division of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.With every game classified as &ldquo;a big one&rdquo; if they hope to catch the powerful Quebec squad, the Black Hawks exploded last week with lopsided victories over Chicoutimi (11-3) and Laval (10-5).In the important Laval game, Sorel&rsquo;s line of Pierre Larouche. Jacques Cossette and Michel Deziel accounted for five goals with Larouche turning in a hat-trick performance.Although a satisfying outburst offensively, the game emphasized the one problem with which Sorel has to cope all season &mdash; a meek defense. They should not have allowed five goals to get by them, something that could prove to be dangerous if they find themselves closing in on Quebec and needing stalwart defensive efforts to keep within range.On the western side, what started out to be basically a two-team race with Cornwall and Montreal on top has now begun to show signs of becoming a three or even four team dogfight for the top positions.Both Sherbrooke and Laval, which is still smarting from the suspension of their coach Claude Labossiere by team management, are making noises that are being heard upstairs in Cornwall. Although Sherbrooke dropped two decisions last week, the Beavers are still within striking distance of Montreal. And Laval, one of the most improved clubs in the league in the last few weeks, also appears ready to move. In fact, it was the Nationals who stopped Quebec&rsquo;s 10 game win streak by tying the Remparts 5-5 in Quebec City.CORNWALL: The Royals continue to ride atop the west division backed by the fine goaltending of Mario Vien and the scoring feats of John Nazar whose three goals against Shawinigan led his squad to an important 7-5 win.MONTREAL: Just when it appears as though the Red, White and Blue are going to catch Cornwall, they fall back again. Even Nick Sanza&rsquo;s heroics in goal are not proving to be enough. And Mario Tremblay continues to produce goals and has attracted many scouts to the Montreal games even though he is but 17 years old.LAVAL: The Nationals suspended Labossiere, replaced him with Pierre Lacroix, lost the first game with the new coach, and have been hot since.SHERBROOKE: The Beavers are relying on Labrosse and Dubreuil far too much for their strength and although they are scoring, no one is keeping the pucks out.HULL: Holding games in hand on the three top teams in the division is only an advantage if the Festivals can win them. But don&rsquo;t count them out yet. With Marc Brazeau leading the scoring parade, there are still places to go.DRUMMONDVILLE: The Rangers are having a rough time of it though their scoring hotshot. Claude Larose, is doing what everyone hoped he would do.QUEBEC: The Remparts&rsquo; 10-game win streak was cut off by a 5-5 draw with Laval and a 6-5 loss to Cornwall. During that streak, the threesome of Real Cloutier, Guy Chouinard and Richard Nantais accounted for 103 points. 45 goals and 58 assists.SHAWINIGAN: The Bruins find themselves neither in the race for the top nor the race for the bottom. As &ldquo;middlemen&rdquo;, they are winning only every so often despite the superb goaltending of Paul Touzin who has given the team one of the best defensive records in the league. &#9632;

Hawks Challenge Remparts, Dogfight Shapes Up In West

<div class="byline">&#x2014;BY HERB MYERS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0488/3704672-1-eng-US/f0039-042.jpg" title="f0039-04" width="314" height="407"></div><h2>Ontario Provincial League</h2>Coach Jack Ferguson&rsquo;s league-leading Aurora Tigers, with five wins and a tie, were finally knocked off by the Wexford Raiders 5-2, but managed to hang on to a two point advantage over the Vaughan Nationals. Three other clubs, North York, Richmond Hill and Wexford were in third spot, just behind the Nats. The Richmond Hill Rams edged Wexford 5-4 as Ernie Takeuchi picked up a loose puck with one minute left and scored on a breakaway. Mike Hartman, Jim Casola, Al Potts and 16-year-old Dave Stuart scored the first four goals for the Rams while Bob Keller, Robbie Trimble, veterans Paul Demarco and Dan Tobias hit the net for Woxford. The Seneca Flyers moved into sixth place with a 4-1 win over Whitby, despite an outstanding goaltending performance by Mike Ryckman, who turned back 46 Flyer shots. Frank Neal, Seneca&rsquo;s top scorer last season, hit twice for the Flyers and Steve MacIntyre and Jim Cowley added singles while Bill Van Camp scored Whitby&rsquo;s lone goal.<h2>Midwest League</h2>The Thunder Bay Hurricanes trounced Coach Ken Wharram&rsquo;s Chicago Nordics 13-5 and 12-4 in weekend play in the Canadian city. Three goals by Frank Venasky and two more by Lynn Jorgenson paced the Herks in the finale as Thunder Bay outshot the Nordics 42-29. St. Paul Vulcans, opening at home, rapped the Fargo-Moorhead Sugar Kings twice 6-4 and 6-2 with John Shewchuk and Mike Haedrich leading the way as each scored two goals and two assists. Haedrich was the top prep school scorer in Minnesota at St. Paul Monroe H.S. last season. The Minnesota Junior Stars are scheduled to meet Kamloops (B.C.) Chiefs, a Western Canada Major club, at Metropolitan Stadium, home of the Minnesota NHL North Stars.<h2>Southern Ontario League</h2>Detroit Junior Red Wings, coached by former NHL player Billy Dea, notched five wins in six starts to pull within three points of the league leading Welland Sabres. The Guelph Biltmores shared second place with the Wings after a 4-3 victory over Niagara Falls Flyers as Mickey Hansen banged in the winning goal with only 34 seconds remaining. The Flyers led until early in the final period when veteran Joe Contini tied the score Tony Woitowicz and Tim Lutes had the other Bilts tallies while Rick Isherwood, Randy Spencer and league scoring leader John Flynn, with his 14th goal of the year, scored for the Flyers. Coach Wayne Campbell&rsquo;s Niagara Falls club had knocked off the Windsor Spitfires 8-3 before 1,987 Windsor fans as the 19-year-old Flynn and Cam Botting each had a pair of goals and rookie center Pete Aleo added a three-goal hat trick Dave Anderson, Hugh Mitchell and John Riley netted the Windsor tallies.<h2>U.S. Hockey League</h2>Fred Rossi, Irondequoit, N.Y. Town Justice, has been appointed Commissioner of the newly-formed, four team New York-Pennsylvania Junior A Hockey League. Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester and Erie, Pa. are the charter members in the league&rsquo;s first season. Buffalo opened play with a 4-2 win at Erie before a standing-room crowd in the Pennsylvania city. Home games of the Rochester Mustangs will be played on college ice at the Rochester Inst, of Technology. Al Grier will coach the Victoria (B.C.) Maple Leafs in the newly formed Pacific Coast International Junior A league, which is headed by Father David Bauer. The seven team loop consists of teams from Seattle, Wash., Portland. Ore., Victoria, B.C. and four teams from the Vancouver area. Led by Rich Burgess&rsquo; hat trick and two goals by Gary Whiteley, Seattle Totems crushed the Portland Buckaroos in the season opener. Two Massachusetts teams, West Springfield and Tyngsboro, won their first two games to take the lead in early play in the New England Jr A League.<h2>Toronto Metro League</h2>After five straight losses, the Oak Ridges Kings replaced Coach Lorne White with Dan Madaleno and promptly registered their first win 6-3 over previously unbeaten Belleville Bobcats. The Kings took an early 3-1 lead on goals by Val Steffan, Don MacPhee and Robbie Sackfield and then held off a late Bobcat drive to win. Terry Legge, Jeff Wood and Bill Guinane also hit for the Kings while Norm Jones, Paul King and Mark Coates had scores for the Cats. Coach Les Duff&rsquo;s St. Michaels Buzzers and Bill Purcell&rsquo;s Markham Royals are leading the 12-team league after the first month&rsquo;s play.SLAPSHOTS:&hellip; The Dorval Jets defeated Lachine 7-1 in a Montreal Metro Junior B game halted at 14:34 of final period after 369 minutes in penalties had been called. Jim Montgomery led Dorval with three goals and three assists&hellip; The new 10-team Central New York State High School League opens play on Dec. 15, with sectional finals to be played March 9th at the Utica Arena, home of the NAHL Mohawk Valley Comets&hellip; 142,000 players on 8,747 teams are enrolled in Ontario Minor Hockey Assn program. &#9632;

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JUNIOR OTTINGS

<div class="byline">by Andy O&#x2019;Brien</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-01184/3704734-1-eng-US/f0039-012.jpg" title="f0039-01" width="564" height="474"></div>Who are the greatest superstars that hockey has produced? O&rsquo;Brien gives us his selection of the game&rsquo;s 19 greatest players. They range from old timers like King Clancy to today&rsquo;s superhero Bobby Orr. See if his lineup matches yours. $6.95 &#9632;

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SUPERSTARS: Hockey’s Greatest Players

<div class="byline">by Ernie McCulloch</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-03105/3704765-1-eng-US/f0039-032.jpg" title="f0039-03" width="522" height="372"></div>A new and simplified technique from Ernie McCulloch, master of the slopes and director of Blue Mountain Ski School, Ontario. With sixty-four pages of sequence photos. $6.95McGRAW-HILL RYERSON330 Progress Ave. Scarborough, Ont. &#9632;

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SKI EASY … THE NEW TECHNIQUE: Alpine and Cross Country

<div class="byline">BY BILL FLEISCHMAN</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Key injuries, which the Philadelphia Flyers managed to spread out in their charge to the Stanley Cup semi-finals last season, are striking with alarming frequency.Veteran Gary Dornhoefer, a 30-goal scorer and regular right wing on Rick MacLeish&rsquo;s line, suffered a knee injury in an exhibition game and won&rsquo;t play for several more weeks. Ross Lonsberry, MacLeish&rsquo;s hard working left wing, missed the first three games with a strained shoulder muscle.Latest entry on the disabled list is Barry Ashbee. He slid into the Pacific Coliseum boards diving to stop a shot by Vancouver&rsquo;s Bobby Schmautz during the Flyers&rsquo; first loss and wound up with a partial shoulder separation. Recuperation period: at least three weeks.&ldquo;Water was still on the ice and I couldn&rsquo;t do anything to get my balance,&rdquo; said Ashbee.Ashbee&rsquo;s injury may be the most significant because it is on defense where the Flyers are least experienced. Only Ed Van lmpe and Joe Watson are solid NHL veterans. Andre (Moose) Dupont has just two NHL seasons behind him. Tom Bladon and Jimmy Watson. Joe&rsquo;s brother, are both talented but are only second-year pros.In the early outings, Bladon&rsquo;s play has been distressing. A 42-point scorer as a Flyer rookie who concentrated on offense. Bladon is now taking a regular shift and appears to be playing with little confidence. Coach Fred Shero will only say Bladon often has mental letdowns.Jimmy Watson has been impressive after an outstanding rookie-year at Richmond (AHL). Like Bladon he is big (6-0, 190), can move the puck and skates like a forward.At every other position the Flyers have more depth than ever, but seeking replacements for Ashbee is like searching for another sports team owner as controversial as Charles Finley. Serge Lajeunesse, the young Montreal native obtained from Detroit for Rick Foley, was the likeliest candidate, but he had been sent to Richmond after a lackluster training camp.After Lajeunesse, the pickings were slim. The best Richmond could offer were Don McCulloch, a 1971 draft pick who has developed slowly, Frank Spring, Boston&rsquo;s top 1969 amateur draft choice who was switched to defense last season, and Larry Goodenough, the Flyers&rsquo; first amateur pick last summer.Such inexperienced back-up help isn&rsquo;t ideal for a team interested in a first-place finish.That Ashbee would be sidelined is another of the cruel ironies that occur so often in sports. The Flyers&rsquo; senior citizen (34) has been playing the best hockey of his career. The streak began late last season following his eightgame suspension for punching referee Bryan Lewis and and a six-game siesta while knee ligaments healed.Just two days before he was injured. Ashbee was sitting next to the pool at the livers&rsquo; Oakland hotel and talking about his career.&ldquo;I feel stronger now than I did 10 years ago,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I lifted weights and walked a lot last summer so the knee feels fine. I really believe the guy who once said &lsquo;age is only frame of mind.&rdquo;Ashbee couldn&rsquo;t be blamed for being in a miserable frame of mind now. But the one-time lacrosse star who underwent spinal surgery while playing at Hershey (AHL) and missed out on the NHL&rsquo;s first expansion maintains a healthy if somewhat serious outlook.&ldquo;When I first started in hockey I did steel work up in the air during the summers.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I saw men 50 and 60 years old who had to do that for a living so 1 decided right there hockey had to be easier.&rdquo;Replacing Ashbee, even for a short spell, isn&rsquo;t easy for the Flyers.FLYER FILLERS: Ross Lonsberry scored goals in his first two games, including a short-handed breakaway against California&hellip; Bernie Parent&rsquo;s goaltending has been everything the Flyers expected. &#9632;

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