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October 11, 1974
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Kings Still Looking But Rookies Impress
LOS ANGELES— After spending last season in New York trying to straighten out his troubled Tele Prompter operation. Jack Kent Cooke is home minding the store at his suburban Forum and has the helm in his hands again. However, those troubles are not going away and friends fear for his health. He knows only one way to work. Cooke caught his first hockey contest in two years, the Kings’ “Blue-Gold” inter-squad spectacular, the first annual traditional night game preceeding the pre-season schedule, a formal affair which was poorly publicized and attracted only 1,824 fans. Despite an improving team, the club brass now only hopes to hit 5,000 season tickets sales from entertainment-saturated Los Angeles, which would be a large lift from last season’s 3,300 but not as much as expected. The good seats…
Blues Hoping Rash Of New Faces Will Turn Trick
ST. LOUIS— The St. Louis Blues this season will be trying to come back from the ignominy of missing the playoffs. And thanks to the benefits of realignment they’ll probably make it. For their first six years in the National Hockey League the Blues made the playoffs every year and in three of the six years went to the Stanley Cup finals. But last season the Blues feel to an embarrassing sixth in the Western Division. The sixth-place finish was a jolt to the Blues, and, as coach Lou Angotti said at training camp time, “When we finish sixth, we can’t hardly say our team is picked.” Indeed, the team made some off-season changes and acquired some new faces. Gary Sabourin, a rock of the franchise since the first season, is gone. So is…
Carleton Trade Makes Whalers Tough
HARTFORD— While the New England Whalers were conceded the team to beat in the World Hockey Association’s East Division. general manager Jack Kelley wasn’t satisfied. He considered his club vulnerable at center ice and tried most of the summer to land one more pivot to go with Larry Pleau and Terry Caffery. He finally succeeded when the Toronto Toros made big Wayne Carleton available and now the Whalers have perhaps the best troika of centers in the East Division, if not the entire league. And the price the Whalers had to pay for Carleton was cheap on the surface. Kelley parted with a second-round pick in next year’s amateur draft and future considerations. The future considerations appear to be the key in the deal, consummated on the eve of the opening of the Whalers’ training…
Washington, Kansas City Debut On Opening Night
MONTREAL— Look for the Washington Capitals and Kansas City Scouts to get their National Hockey League baptism early — in fact it’ll be on opening night of the 1974-75 schedule. The NHL’s 720-game schedule begins Oct. 9 with seven games and the newest expansion clubs are on the first night bill, although both will be playing on the road. The Capitals open in New York’s Madison Square Garden against the Rangers while Kansas City visits Toronto. The season, which encompasses 180 calendar days, concludes April 6 with eight games. During those 180 days, only 18 do not have any NHL games scheduled. There are 22 nights on which only one game is played: 14 dates with two games; 25 with three games; 21 with four games; 15 with five games; 26 with six…
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