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June 1, 1974
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Leafs Expect To Lose Goaler But Little Open For Draft
TORONTO — Maple Leaf general manager Jim Gregory came close to doing a magician’s act in completely rebuilding the team last summer, and he will seem magicianlike again in surviving the expansion draft with minimal damage. A goalie is likely to disappear, unless Gregory becomes even more Houdini-like. Otherwise, Leafs will remain untouched. The key is in the number of rookies with the team in 1973-74. Players who have just completed their first year aren’t eligible for the draft, so Borje Salming, Ian Turnbull, Bob Neely, Inge Hammarstrom and Lanny McDonald don’t fill Leafs protected list at all. Leafs had extra players hanging around all year, but the number of kids means that by National Hockey League standards the team doesn’t qualify as having much excess to spare. Milt Schmidt and Sid Abel, of…
Walton Tops WHA In Four Departments
ST. PAUL— If Mike Walton can accomplish as much next season as he did in his first year in the World Hockey Association, there won’t be too many people questioning the $200,000 salary he’s ‘currently collecting from the Minnesota Fighting Saints. Walton led the league in four offensive categories during the [past season and set one WHA record by scoring an amazing nine shorthanded goals. The 29-year-old right winger Jed the WHA in points (117), goals (57), shorthanded goals ‘and tied for the lead in clutch goals (41). Andre Lacroix, who finished second to Walton in scoring, set a record by collecting 80 assists. Quebec Nordiques’ defenseman J.C. Tremblay held the old record with 75. Walton’s teammate, Wayne Connelly, led the league in powerplay goals with 14, edging out Houston’s Frank Hughes by one. Connelly,…
Philadelphia Flyers Topple Bruins To Become First NHL Expansion Team To Win Stanley Cup STANLEY CUP
PHILADELPHIA— The city of losers is a loser no more. Philadelphia, which has experienced only one professional championship during the last 14 years, received an overdue taste of victory when the Philadelphia Flyers won their first Stanley Cup by dominating the favored Boston Bruins in six games. The Flyers defeated the Bruins 1-0 in the final game of the cup finals in Philadelphia to become the first expansion team to win Lord Stanley’s trophy and Philadelphia’s first champion since the basketball Warriors won the NBA Championship in 1967. In the end, it was the teamwork of the journeymen Flyers that prevailed. “They had (Bobby) Orr and he can do an awful lot,” said an uncharacteristically excited Flyer coach Fred Shero. “But we’ve got 17 good hockey players and every one of them put out. It…
Hershey’s Ability To Come Back Won Calder Cup
HERSHEY — The age of miracles has not passed. The Hershey Bears pulled off one walk-on-water performance after another to capture the American League’s Calder Cup championship. the fifth in the club’s 36-year history in the loop. A record wall-to-wall crowd of 8.703 elbowed its way into the 7.200-seat Sports Arena to watch coach Chuck Hamilton’s “Comeback Kids’” defeat Providence Reds. 4-3. in the fifth and final game of the best-of-seven sereis. Hershey won the series. 4-1. in games. League president Jack Butterfield presented the Cup to retiring’ Bears’ captain Ralph Keller, saying. “You were No. 2 when you started, but now you’re No. 1” The exhuberant crowd roared its approval as the jubliant Hershey team crowded around Keller and Butterfield. The team lifted Keller to its shoulders. He clutched the cup with one…
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