Search for your favorite player or team
© The Hockey News. All rights reserved. Any and all material on this website cannot be used, reproduced, or distributed without prior written permission from Roustan Media Ltd. For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
June 1, 1974
The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.
New Coach, Goaler Head Up Expected Changes In Sabres
BUFFALO— Fans of the Buffalo Sabres expect some changes before next hockey season rolls around and they are likely to get them. One that is sure, of course, is that a new coach will be in charge. With Joe Crozier gone to Vancouver to become general manager of the World Hockey Association Blazers, the Sabres were coachless during most of May. Floyd Smith was the man expected to take over after general manager Punch Imlach returned from his post-season vacation and before the amateur draft came up. Smitty is a longtime imlach protege. Punch got him in a trade soon after the Sabres came into being in 1970 and the former Toronto and Detroit winger handled practices when Imlach then coach as well as GM, was ailing during the 1971-72 campaign. When Punch suffered a…
Hornets Transferred To Lansing As 11th IHL Team
DETROIT — Permission to move the Toledo Hornets to Lansing has assured the International Hockey League of having record 11 teams for the 1974-75 season. Toledo will remain in the HL as the result of a new group taking over the city’s hockey representation. Paul Bright, who operated the Toledo franchise for three seasons, previously had announced he would not operate in Toledo next season. He thought about selling to a Toledo group, transferring to another city or placing the franchise in mothballs until he decided the future. An earlier bid by a Toledo group to buy the franchise fell through when the prospective owners apparently decided that Bright’s asking price was too high for a franchise which had lost more than $100,000, according to Bright, in three seasons. Then a Lansing group became interested…
Muckler Praises Reds’ Efforts But Admits Bears Better On Road
PROVIDENCE — “It was one heckuva series.” observed losing coach John Muckler following the Reds’ 4-1 Calder Cup final disappointment to those relentless Hershey Bears, “but I guess what it really boiled down to was that they were the better road team.” After dropping games one and two — both by one goal margins — in chocolate town, the Reds returned to their Civic Center home with expectations of evening the series, but the Bears had other ideas. Jim Wiley’s goal 1:40 into overtime in game three gave the Bears an insurmountable 3-0 bulge, and the Reds required overtime heroics by Rick Middleton in game four to avoid being swept out in four straight. The Reds, back in Hershey for the fifth and final contest, gave it the good fight, succumbing 4-3 despite being…
Kings May Trade To Shape Draft List
LOS ANGELES — As the 1974 National Hockey League playoffs wound down, the Los Angeles Kings must evaluate their situation prior to the draft meetings. Their seventh season was their best yet and by season’s end they looked like coming contenders so one would think they would not make lot of moves, but this is a franchise with a a history of making moves. The owner Jack Kent Cooke, spent their entire season in New York, straightening out the tangled affairs of his massive investment in TelePrompTer. the largest cable television firm in the country. Jake Milford did a marvellous job as early-season managerial replacement for Larry Regan and Cooke on his return to L.A. must settle the managerial role for next season. Jack says he expects no trouble signing his coach to…
Made possible with the support of
