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May 10, 1974
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Bradley Doubles Up On Awards, Named MVP, First All Star Center
SEATTLE— Lyle Bradley, to no one’s surprise, topped the balloting for the Western Hockey League All Star team. The slight, 30-year-old playmaker of the Salt Lake Golden Eagles drew 392 of a possible 475 votes. Bradley was also named the winner of the Leader Cup as the WHL’s most valuable player and was the first recipient of the Guyle Fielder Award as the scoring champion. He set a career and Salt Lake team record of 115 points. He was also runner-up to Portland’s Andy Hebenton for the Fred A. Hume Cup as the most gentlemanly player. Rick Charron of the Portland Buckaroos polled the second most votes, 332, in nailing down the goal position on the first team, but oddly. San Diego’s John Adams drew the third highest vote total. 320. in being named…
Dallas Upsets Pennant-Winning Blazers To Take Cup
DALLAS— It isn’t every day a third-place hockey club makes it all the way to the league championship but the Dallas Black Hawks did in a Cinderella playoff performance. The Hawks captured the Central Hockey League playoff title and the Adams Cup by disposing of the favored Oklahoma City Blazers in a five-game final that had to rank as the surprise of the 1973-74 CHL campaign. The Blazers won the regular season pennant. Bobby Kromm, the Hawks’ coach, was high in his praise of the Dallas club. “We had to win two games on their ice and we did. That was the difference in this series.” said Kromm, who had predicted after the fourth game that his club would go all the way because the Hawks had the momentum and the Blazers didn’t. In…
Rangers Locked In Bitter Battle With Broad Street Bullies
NEW YORK— After the euphoria of winning three straight from Montreal and capturing the quarter-final series, four games to two. New York’s latest Cinderella team, the Rangers, found themselves locked in a bitter blood bath with the Broad Street Bullies, better known as the Philadelphia Flyers. Game one saw the Rangers turn up flat and not ready to play after the tremendous exertion of the Montreal series. As a result Bernie Parent shut them out 4-0. Game two saw the Rangers shackled by referee Dave Newell, as three fluke goals did them in 5-2. Brad Park commented, “He didn’t want the game to get out of control, but instead he got out of control.” In game one. Flyers forechecked and bodied the Rangers passing patterns to distraction. In game two, there were’ so…
Boston ‘Checking Line’ Holding Own In Playoffs
BOSTON — While the Bruins’ big line was having its troubles in the early going of the Stanley Cup playoffs against the Chicago Black Hawks, not too much attention was being paid to a checking line that has been a Boston bulwark all season. Coach Bep Guidolin had put together a tenacious outfit consisting of Terry O’Reilly, Don Marcotte and rookie Andre Savard, and it has been doing a fine job all season long without much fanfare. It was given the task of holding down the top lines of every opposition team, including the French Connection of the Buffalo Sabres. Boston writers were searching for a way to get a Gallic tinge to Terrance O’Reilly, but there was no way, and that would have been heresy in Irish Boston, anyway. While Boston relies on…