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February 1, 1974
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HOCKEY … For Minors
The Backhand Shot Backhand shots are usually opportunity moves; quick shots front a teammate’s pass or a loose puck picked up from a broken play. The illustration shows the correct position of your body. legs and the puck on the stick. Your weight should shift to the front leg. the stick well back of the front leg to let you put body weight into the shot. And the puck should be on the heel of the blade so you get the weight of the stick and your arms into the drive. Note that the front skate is square to the play so you won’t slide with the weight shift from back leg to front.…
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…
McDonough Big Catch For Flames
ATLANTA— An acute shortage of scoring punch has been the biggest thing lacking in the Atlanta Flames’ repertoire ever since they came into being. Bobby Leiter led the team with 26 goals last season and Rey Comeau and Keith McCreary each hit the 20-mark. but there wasn’t a real gunner in the bunch. So, acting in a cool moment of opportunity last week, the Flames snatched Al McDonough from the Pittsburgh Penguins for two players who hadn’t been spending much time on the ice, right wing Chuck Arnason and defenseman Bob Paradise. “Immensely pleased,” was the way Flames’ ganeral manager Cliff Fletcher assessed his reaction to the trade. “We had made an offer previously for McDonough, but the Penguins wanted Butch Deadmarsh and Bob Murray. When I refused that, they asked for Deadmarsh…
Denver, Michigan Tech Again Dominating Early WCHA Race
SOUTH BEND — The fractured puzzle called “college hockey in the West” that stretches from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Missouri and the Rocky Mountains to Ohio is finally starting to present a picture — and it should be a familiar one. Michigan Tech and Denver, two teams that have represented the West 17 times in the 26 NCAA championships and won 10 of 21 Western Collegiate Hockey Association championships are dominating the West again. Denver has been to the NCAA championships five of the last six years and finished either first or second in the WCHA the last seven years. Denver’s Western partner these four years has been Wisconsin — the Badgers have participated in three of the last four NCAA tournaments and finished no lower than fourth since entering the WCHA…
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