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May 17, 1974
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Salming Hits Jackpot As Best Three-Star Leaf Over Season
TORONTO — One of the reasons Toronto Maple Leaf defenseman Borje Salming gave for signing with the National Hockey League chib instead of remaining in Sweden was money. Pay for hockey players is so low in Sweden ‘that players have to have outside jobs to support themselves. The Leals’ top rookie-of-the-year candi date learned a little more about the financial rewards of playing in the NHL when he was presented with a check for $3,500 as the winner of the Toronto segment of the Molson Cup — the trophy awarded to the Toronto and Montreal players receiving the most three-star selections daring the season. Salming. 23. completed a rookie sweep of the Molson Cup this year. Rookie netminder Wayne Thomas won the Montreal segment. Leading the Leafs’ competition with 76 points. Salming was 14 ahead…
Phoenix First WHL Team To Repeat Cup Double
PHOENIX— When the Portland Buekaroos couldn’t heat Phoenix goaltender Gary Simmons, they began beating him up. When that didn’t work, the Buckaroos had lost the best-of-seven finals in five games. The Roadrunners. who had repeated as Coleman L. Hall Cup winners over the regular season’s 78-game route, also repeated as Lester Pgrick Cup champions at the expense of the Bucks. It was the first time in the 27-year history of the Western Hockey League that a team has repeated as both regular season and playoff victors. Only three teams have ever repeated as Patrick Cup winners, the San rancisco Seals in 1963 and 1964. the Seattle Totems in 1967 and 1968 and the Vancouver Canucks in 1969 and 1970. Only three teams have repeated as regular season champions, the New Westminster Royals in 1949 and…
Kromm Scoffs At All Star Picks As Hawks’ ‘Dream Team’ Wins It All
DALLAS— Phooey on All Star teams. The Dallas Black Hawks have found something better. The rest of the Central Hockey League turned deaf ears at the season’s end when the Hawks’ teapot-sized coach Bobby Kromm kicked up a furious tempest over the league’s official All Star team, a merry crew which included two players each from Omaha. Oklahoma City and Forth Worth but nary a one from Big D. Then the CHL writers’ All Star team was released and it was no better, as far as the Black Hawks went. That singed Kromm’s fur just a tad more. Dallas papers started referring to his crew as the “no-stars” Hawks, the only team in the CHI. playoffs without a bonafide All Star. But when playoff time rolled around the Hawks did a little voting of…
Big M, Dryden Head Habs’ List Of Questionables
MONTREAL— The Montreal Canadiens are certainly not doing their part in the battle against hypertension and anxiety. In fact, if you visited the Canadiens’ headquarters these days you’d see more looks of anxiety and concern than in psychiatrist’s office. The reason? Questions — a multitude of questions that are plaguing both executives and players alike. Questions about the upcoming expansion draft, questions about unsigned players, questions about the amateur draft. Questions, questions, questions… Query number one centers around veteran left winger Frank Mahovlich. The man they call The Big is in the superstar class, a player with 533 career goals. But Frank is 36 years old and although he led the Habs in scoring this season, he did not have one of his better years. At this point he has to start worrying about…
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