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February 1, 1974
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Penguin Shuffling Sees 10 Players Change Teams
PITTSBURGH— When Jack Button replaced Jack Riley as general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins, he brought with him a new broom and immediately began making sweeping changes. An omen of things to come occurred when Riley shipped the team’s leading scorer. Al McDonough, to Atlanta for Chuck Arnason and Bob Paradise. Veteran center Bryan Hextall was waived through the league the next day and claimed by Atlanta. But that was nothing compared to the shuffle of players that has taken place since Button was moved up to GM. Within a week the Penguins sent four players and received four in return in two separate trades. In a move to shore up the Pens’ weak defense Button ticketed high-scoring left winger Greg Polis and hard-hitting defenseman Bryan Watson to the St. Louis Blues for left winger…
Stasiuk Replaces McCord As GM-Coach With Denver
DENVER — Vic Stasiuk, formerly assistant coach with the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, has been appointed coach and general manager of the Denver Spurs. Stasiuk replaces Bob McCord who coached the team since the beginning of the season. McCord will remain as a player and assistant’ coach. Stasiuk was coach of the Philadelphia Flyers from 1969 to 1971 and coach of the California Seals in 1972 and coach of the Vancouver Canucks last year. McCord had piloted the Spurs to last place in the WHL this year.…
Will All Those Tie Games Strangle The Hawks?
CHICAGO— There are ties and there are ties. Some wear well, others tend to strangle. It was the latter type of no-decision that was vexing fans of the Chicago Black Hawks as the current National Hockey League campaign reached its midpoint in early January. Through 39 games, the Chicago Six had tied exactly one-third or 13. That was well ahead of the record pace established by the 1969-70 Philadelphia Flyers, who played 24 no-decisions and — by the way — finished fifth. What disturbed Hawk fans was not so much the knots, but how they were tied. Coach Billy Reay repeated, often and loudly, that those ties could have been losses so let us not complain. But the records bore out a different fact, the fact that in 10 of those 13 contests, the Chicagoans…
Hockey Ad Lib
Hockey Pressure Mounts… PASSING MID-SEASON, the pressure was passing the limits of endurance in hockey. It may be a game to those in the stands, but it is a business on the ice, on the bench, in the dressing room, in the front office, in the lonely hours of the night for the men who make their living in this sport. In New York, the Rangers, who were supposed to contend for the championship, were struggling to stay in a playoff position and general manager Emile Francis, who has replaced two previous coaches, Red Sullivan and Bernie Geoffrion, who said he absolutely would not replace a third, Larry Popein, replaced him. Of course, Emile does not make such moves alone. He has reasonable authority, but he also has bosses and is…
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