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January 4, 1974
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Sabre Defense Corps Happy With Shuffle From Right To Left
BUFFALO— When the Buffalo Sabres were on their plane to New York for a game against the Rangers, their coach. Joe Crozier, as always, was poring over his numerous statistics charts. As he kept pulling chart after chart out of his dispatch case, a curious onlooker (this was a commercial flight) sitting in a nearby seat, said, “How much stuff does he have in there, anyway? It’s like the little car in the circus that the clowns keep coming out of.” Joe has plenty of statistics. Everything about his club is charted. He knows pretty much how each set of them is going. But on this occasion he was surprised. “Hey,” exclaimed the Crow, “can this be right?” Our goals against mark is only four above the total for this time last season? That’s…
Nordiques Lose Goaler As Injuries Strike
LEWISTON.— Injuries to the parent Quebec Nordiques have hampered the Lewiston club. The WHA Nordiques are hurting with an injury list that numbers more than five. Latest Quebec recall has young netmihder Richard Brodeur heading upwards to the WHA in place of the injured Serge Aubry. Aubry has reportedly encountered some problems with his vision. With Brodeur gone the top spot in goal now belongs to Jacques Lemelin. Lemelin and Brodeur had alternated goaltending cheres until the callup. Rock Martin, who started out the year with Maine, has returned as the club’s backup goaltender. Nordiques are findingout that Lewisten residents are pretty well acquainted with hockey. The Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens both broadcast most of their games into the Maine region. The Maine club reports that rugged defenseman Al Globensky will be out…
National Hockey League SUMMARIES
Sun. Dec. 16 ST. LOUIS 5 at BUFFALO 2 FIRST PERIOD No scoring. Penalties Thomson 10 09 Wright 13:16 SECOND PERIOD 1—St. Louis. Angotti (Harbaruk) … 5:22 2—St. Louis. Angotti (Thomson) … 14:36 3—St. Louis. Sather (Plante. Giroux) … 17 43 4—St. Louis. Evans (Kelly. Collyard) … 17:55 Penalties Robert 16 49: Durbano 19 04 THIRD PERIOD 5—St. Louis. Giroux (Unger, Sather) … 211 6—Buffalo. Atkinson … 7:32 7—Buffalo. Lorentz (McNab) … 15:54 Penalties: None. Shots against Attendance 15,858 PITTSBURGH 2 at ATLANTA 1 FIRST PERIOD 1—Pittsburgh. McDonough … 0:41 2—Atlanta. Stewart (Bennett. Arnason) … 18 23 Penalties: Watson 2 43 Wiley 13:48. Watson 17:22. SECOND PERIOD No scoring. Penalties Romanchych 0:43. Price 14:00. THIRD PERIOD 3—Pittsburgh. McDonough (MacDonald. Aops) … 14 14 Shots against: Attendance 12.510 Tue. Dec. 18 CALIFORNIA 1 at MONTREAL 4 FIRST PERIOD 1—Montreal. Larose (Laperriere) … 10:49 2—Montreal. F. Mahovlich (Richard, Larocque) … 19:22 Penalties: Mott 4:19. Wilson 11:10, Larose 16:23. SECOND PERIOD 3—Montreal. Savard (Lemaire, Lapointe) … 17:23 4—Montreal, Robinson…
Islanders Raving Over Stewart’s Scoring, Checking
LONG ISLAND.— Last season at this time, center Ralph Stewart was skating with the Fort Worth Wings of the CHL, wondering if he would ever get his chance with the parent Detroit club. This year he’s found himself on his way to first his 20-goal season in the NHL. The 25-year-old native of Fort William. Ontario has not had an easy lot during his five professional campaigns. In fact, his itinerary reads like a page out of Rand-McNally. In those five seasons he has woin the colors pf eight different teams. Ralph’s odyssey finally came to an end last January, when he and right wing Bob Cook were dealt to the Islanders by Detroit in exchange for Brian Lavender and defenseman Ken Murray. In his first game he played a major role in…
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