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November 1, 1974

The Hockey News November 1, 1974

<div class="byline">&#x2014; BY BILLMAKI</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01905/3464268-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"></div>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re A Bit Disappointed With Me&hellip; I CAN SENSE IT!&rdquo; &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

CARTOON CORNER

<div class="byline">BY BUD KENNEDY</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaFORT WORTH&mdash;The Dallas Black Hawks were not due to play Fort Worth&rsquo;s Texans until Friday, Oct. 18. Until then, at least, Texan coach Ed Chadwick was reasonably satisfied with his hockey team.&ldquo;Sure, we lost that one up in Denver (3-2 in the opener) but then we came down here and picked up two good wins and I think that&rsquo;s got to help,&rdquo; said Chadwick.The Texans changed their name from Wings this year under a directive from former owners &mdash; the Detroit Red Wings &mdash; and thereby completed the switch that began last year when the New York Islanders took the team over and changed its colors to orange and blue from the previous red and white.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01173/3466573-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="275" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Hughes</figcaption></div>And the Texans, to twist a phrase, found home on the prairie much more inviting after their opening loss, bombing Oklahoma City 7-1 and then picking up a 4-2 win over Omaha to cap off the first weekend.Rookie pro Don Cutts worked the net in the final win after Bill Hughes, a former Houston Aero who worked at Muskegon of the International Hockey League last season, punched his time card for the first two. Cutts, a 6&rsquo;3&rdquo; goalie from Rensselear Poly (RPI). is a &ldquo;flopper&rdquo; &mdash; &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s not my style.&rdquo; said Chadwick, himself a former NHL goalie.&ldquo;I believe in standing up &mdash; he believes in flopping around, and that&rsquo;s all there is to it,&rdquo; said Chadwick. &ldquo;He feels like he can succeed playing that kind of a style and I can&rsquo;t make him change it, but I can try to show him a few things and help him.&rdquo;Leading scorer Skeeter Teal, last year the CHL&rsquo;s number two man behind Omaha&rsquo;s Wayne Schaab, picked up two goals in the first three games.DALLAS: The Black Hawks, as usual, opened the schedule in October and wished it were November.Dallas was on the road for six games and practicing in Fort Worth until the Dallas State Fair Coliseum ice was made ready for the Hawk&rsquo;s home opener Oct. 26 against Oklahoma CityBut the Hawks, who return with almost an all-veteran squad (two rookie defensemen show the only peach fuzz), split in their first two outings, winning 2-1 in Seattle and then dropping a 4-1 count to Denver. Hawk coach Bobby Kromm split the goaltending duties, using both Michel Dumas and Bernie Germain.TULSA: The Oilers received veteran goalie Wayne Wood from Vancouver Blazers, but Wood lost his first start to Denver 5-2 as Adam Kelier&rsquo;s crew opened with a pair of painful home losses.Wood, who has played in the CHL with both Omaha and Albuquerque, was not around for the first one, a 6-4 loss to Omaha with rookie Bruce Aberhart in the net.The Oilers were another CHL team fortunate in the scheduling as seven of the World Hockey Association farmhands&rsquo; first nine games were home affairs. But losing the first two didn&rsquo;t utilize the advantage too well.OKLAHOMA CITY: The Blazers, under nw coach Ray Miron, ran into an unexpected trouble spot in their two games on the first weekend of the season &mdash; goaltending. Veteran Gordie McRae, last year the backbone of the Blazers&rsquo; playoff semi-final win over Fort Worth, was in the nets for the Blazers&rsquo; 7-1 opener loss in Fort Worth and their 6-6 tie the next night at home against Omaha.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-02123/3466566-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="550" height="690"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDON McRAE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0394/3466559-1-eng-US/f0034-032.jpg" title="f0034-03" width="552" height="694"><figcaption class="caption-body">WAYNE WOOD</figcaption></div>The Blazers had a balanced schedule of home and road games for October but weren&rsquo;t getting an overage of attention, mainly due to the nation&rsquo;s number two college football team camped 25 miles down the road at Norman. &#9632;

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Forth Worth In Auspicious Start But Blazers, Oilers Fall Flat

<div class="byline">BY DEREK COOPER</div>OAKLAND&mdash;Six seconds. That&rsquo;s how long the 1973-74 season lasted for California Golden Seals&rsquo; defenseman Bob Stewart. It has to go down in the &ldquo;Brief Moments in Sports&rdquo; record book along with the second Clay-Liston fight. Evel Knievel&rsquo;s rocket ride and the rise and fall of TV commentator Fred &ldquo;The Hammer&rdquo; Williamson. Six seconds.Oh, for the record, Stewart did appear in 47 games last year, tallying two goals and five assists. But as far as Stewart and Bay Area hockey fans are concerned his season ended shortly after it began.Six seconds into the opening game of the 1973-74 season, Stewart started trading punches with the Blues&rsquo; Garry Unger. For the mild-mannered Seals it looked like a promise of things to come. But it wasn&rsquo;t, because following that altercation Stewart, California&rsquo;s chief hitter and enforcer, became a reluctant pacifist.No more dropping sitck and gloves, no more wrestling matches on the ice, no more punch-first-and-ask-questions-later exhibitions. Believe it or not, those same hands that brought you 270 penalty minutes in Oklahoma City, 102 with the Boston Braves and 181 with the 1972-73 Seals, would not be raised in anger again.Stewart, with the reputation as one of the top fighters in the league, finished with 69 minutes in penalties last season and the Seals finished in last place. Some people say the latter was a direct result of the former.&ldquo;It was without a doubt my most frustrating season,&rdquo; says Stewart, who shortly after the opening game fisticuffs was saddled with shoulder and groin injuries which plagued him the rest of the year and caused him to miss 32 games. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the most games I&rsquo;ve ever missed due to injury and when I came back I didn&rsquo;t want to miss any more time sitting in the penalty box.&rdquo;Injuries, however, constituted only part of the reason for Stewart&rsquo;s new-found turn-the-other-cheek disposition. &ldquo;Look,&rdquo; he admits, &ldquo;when I came back at the end of the year we were so far out of it and the attitude of the team was so bad I really didn&rsquo;t go out of my way to be physical.&rdquo;But Stewart is only happy when he&rsquo;s hitting and although the 24-year-old&rsquo;s fighting spirit may have been somewhat dampened by last year&rsquo;s nightmarish record, it was far from extinguished. The opening of the 1974-75 season found Stewart to be his old rambunctious self.In seven pre-season games the 205-pounder tabbed 38 minutes in penalties, and just to prove himself no flash in the pan. was involved in three fights in the first three regular-season games. Whether by coincidence or not, the Seals were 1-1-1 after those first three outings and Stewart was very, very happy.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s just no comparison between this year&rsquo;s team and last year&rsquo;s &mdash; both in attitude and ability,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Our game plan this year is geared towards heavy physical contact. The whole team has to be aggressive. The forwards as well as the defensemen have to hit, which is something we never stressed before.&rdquo;Another new-found quality among the 1974-75 Seals is the all-for-one spirit that has been so noticeably absent the last two seasons.&ldquo;This year,&rdquo; says Stewart, &ldquo;the players are backing each other on the ice, which makes me feel a lot better when I&rsquo;m in a fight.&rdquo;But Stewart, despite his return to the physical game, is not going out of his way to mix it up on the ice. &ldquo;Look,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;You can play aggressive hockey without ending up sitting in the penalty box. That defeats your purpose. People know what I can do and I don&rsquo;t expect to be tested often.&rdquo;And this season Stewart feels that the Seals will earn their own reputation as hitters. &ldquo;We won&rsquo;t be pushed around this year,&rdquo; he promises. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t expect anyone to outmuscle us.&rdquo;Stewart, who had a short, peace-loving season in 1973-74, will be back in the hockey wars this year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01872/3464485-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="545" height="671"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB STEWART &hellip;No More Brawling</figcaption></div>SEALS&rsquo; SLAPPERS: Seals&rsquo; 13-game winless streak that extended over two season ended with a 3-0 shutout over the Atlanta Flames &mdash; their first win ever over the Flames at home&hellip; Gary Simmons, the 30-year-old rookie, recorded the earliest Seals&rsquo; shutout ever in his first NHL game. His shutout equalled the Seals&rsquo; entire total for 1973-74&hellip; Simmons, after the opening game 4-4 tie with St. Louis, was optimistically quoted as saying: &ldquo;79 more like this and we&rsquo;ll make the playoffs.&rdquo;&hellip; Marshall Johnston has appointed three alternate captains &mdash; Stan Gilbertson, Len Frig and Jim Neilson &mdash; to servie under captain Joey Johnston, who is rapidly closing in on third place on the Seals&rsquo; all-time scoring list. He will soon pass Gerry Ehman, who finished his stint with the Seals at 155 points. &#9632;

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Stewart Reforms As Seals Show Contending Look

(Standings on Tue. Oct. 22)<h2>CANADIAN DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-192/3466179-1-eng-US/f0029-192.jpg" title="f0029-19" width="587" height="175"></div><h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-202/3466172-1-eng-US/f0029-202.jpg" title="f0029-20" width="584" height="146"></div><h2>WEST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-212/3466165-1-eng-US/f0029-212.jpg" title="f0029-21" width="583" height="179"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tue. Oct. 15Winnipeg 6 at Vancouver 2; New England 2 at Toronto 6.Wed. Oct. 16San Diego 2 at Phoenix 8; Houston 6 at Vancouver 0.Thur. Oct. 17Michigan 4 at Indianapolis 2.Fri. Oct. 18Houston 4 at Phoenix 6; Edmonton 0 at Winnipeg 4; Chicago 2 at Vancouver 1; Indianapolis 1 at Toronto 3.Sat. Oct 19Cleveland 3 at Minnesota 1; Michigan 1 at New England 2; Houston 2 at San Diego 6.Sun. Oct. 20Chicago 1 at Vancouver 3; Cleveland 4 at Phoenix 4; Michigan 3 at Toronto 4; Indianapolis 1 at Quebec 4.<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tue. Oct. 22Cleveland at San Diego; Chicago at Edmonton; Minnesota at Toronto; Houston at Quebec.Wed. Oct. 23Michigan at Quebec; Houston at New England; Cleveland at Vancouver.Thu. Oct. 24Phoenix at San Diego; Indianapolis at New England.Fri. Oct. 25Winnipeg at Toronto; Michigan at Edmonton.Sat Oct. 26Minnesota at Houston; Phoenix at Quebec; Indianapolis at New England.Sun. Oct. 27Toronto at Cleveland; Quebec at Indianapolis; Chicago at Minnesota; Michigan at Winnipeg; Vancouver at Edmonton.Mon. Oct. 28Phoenix at Toronto.Tue. Oct. 29Houston at Chicago; Minnesota at Michigan.Wed. Onct. 30Minnesota at Cleveland; Toronto at New England; Phoenix at Winnipeg; Chicago at Houston; Edmonton at Vancouver.Thu. Oct. 31Chicago at San Diego; New England at Indianapolis; Cleveland at Michigan.Fri. Nov. 1Toronto at Winnipeg.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-222/3466158-1-eng-US/f0029-222.jpg" title="f0029-22" width="253" height="289"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-232/3466151-1-eng-US/f0029-232.jpg" title="f0029-23" width="220" height="285"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-242/3466144-1-eng-US/f0029-242.jpg" title="f0029-24" width="248" height="247"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-252/3466137-1-eng-US/f0029-252.jpg" title="f0029-25" width="251" height="258"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-26/3466130-1-eng-US/f0029-262.jpg" title="f0029-26" width="245" height="248"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-27/3466123-1-eng-US/f0029-272.jpg" title="f0029-27" width="248" height="245"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-28/3466116-1-eng-US/f0029-282.jpg" title="f0029-28" width="317" height="319"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-29/3466109-1-eng-US/f0029-292.jpg" title="f0029-29" width="312" height="247"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-30/3466102-1-eng-US/f0029-302.jpg" title="f0029-30" width="326" height="241"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-31/3466095-1-eng-US/f0029-312.jpg" title="f0029-31" width="256" height="251"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-32/3466088-1-eng-US/f0029-322.jpg" title="f0029-32" width="263" height="245"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-33/3466081-1-eng-US/f0029-332.jpg" title="f0029-33" width="217" height="220"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-34/3466074-1-eng-US/f0029-342.jpg" title="f0029-34" width="281" height="213"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-35/3466067-1-eng-US/f0029-352.jpg" title="f0029-35" width="206" height="246"></div> &#9632;

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WHA Scoreboard

<div class="byline">BY DICK JOHNSTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;Rookie Danny Gare and the Buffalo Sabres as a team got off to a great start. But it didn&rsquo;t last long for either of them.Gare, a 20-year-old right winger from the Calgary Cen tennials, was in the starting lineup for the Sabres in their opener against the Boston Bruins. Eighteen seconds after the puck was dropped he scored a goal in his first shift as a National Hockey League player. That was the second fastest goal scored by a rookie in the NHL. On Oct. 30, 1943, Gus Bodnar, playing his first game for the Toronto Maple Leafs, scored at the 15-second mark in a 5-2 victory over the New York Rangers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02790/3463819-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="284" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Gare</figcaption></div>Gare played on the Sabres checking line, with Don Luce and Craig Ramsay, against the Bruins&rsquo; Phil Esposito, Wayne Cashman and Ken Hodge, the NHL&rsquo;s top scoring unit last season.The two goals the Esposito line scored against Buffalo that night both came on the power-play. The Sabres staged a tremendous offensive display in bombarding the Bruins 9-5.Gare played the entire game but he was noticeably slower after being checked hard late in the first period. After the game he admitted to coach Floyd Smith that a bruised left thigh that had kept him out of late pre-season games had been hit agin.The leg tightened up the next day and Gare sat out the Sabres&rsquo; next two games.The team&rsquo;s high spirits after their surprising exhibition against last season&rsquo;s East Division champions didn&rsquo;t last long either. They went into Philadelphia two days later and absorbed a 6-1 trouncing from the Flyers. The next night, at home, they lost to the Los Angeles Kings, 4-1.The French Connection &mdash; Buffalo&rsquo;s high-scoring line of Gil Perreault, Rick Martin and Rene Robert &mdash; had a wild night against Boston, collecting 10 points as Perreault scored three goals and assisted on two. Martin had two goals and an assist, Robert two assists.In the next two games, however, all the Connection could come up with was a goal by Robert against Philadelphia.Los Angeles sent out a line of Frank St. Marseille, Danny Maloney and Bob Nevin to check the Connection and not only did it hold Perreault and Company scoreless but it scored all four goals for the Kings. The 36-year-old Nevin got three.&ldquo;My goaltending was so-so, my defense was loose and my forwards never checked,&rdquo; said Smith after that game.The Luce-Ramsay-Gare line picked up a total of eight points in the Boston game but was scoreless in the next two. Rick Dudley replaced Gare against Philadelphia but when Jim Lorentz was hurt in that game, Dudley went with Gerry Meehan and Brian Spencer and Larry Mickey moved onto the Luce line.ICE CHIPS: Lorentz suffered a bruised left knee and was lost to the Sabres for 10 days&hellip; Smith used Gary Bromley in goal against Boston, Rocky Farr against Philadelphia and Bromley against Los Angeles&hellip; The Kings&rsquo; victory was only their second in Buffalo&rsquo;s Memorial Auditorium in 12 visits. The other came Nov. 11, 1971&hellip; Buffalo&rsquo;s Floyd Smith and Boston&rsquo;s Don Cherry, who began their NHL coaching careers in the season opener in Buffalo, coached against each other in the American League the last 2&frac12; seasons. Smith for Cincinnati and Cherry for Rochester. They were born in Ontario towns 50 miles apart, both turned pro with the Boston organization, played together in Hershey and Springfield. Smith actually had coached one NHL game before that one. He took over when Punch Imlach suffered a heart attack in January, 1972. Joe Crozier then moved up from Cincinnati to handle the Sabres and Smith went to Cincy. &#9632;

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Rookie Gare Makes Startling NHL Debut, But Like Sabres, He Cools Off Quickly

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01858/3463850-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">It isn&rsquo;t very often a team trades its captain but it happened to Buffalo&rsquo;s Gerry Meehan last week. For details see page 14.</figcaption></div><h2>DENVER WANTS SEALS</h2>DENVER &mdash;The Denver Spurs are already committed to enter the NHL in 1976 but they&rsquo;d like to get into the action sooner by moving the California Seals to their city.Ivan Mullenix, the man who presently owns the Denver franchise, has made a bid to the NHL to move the Seals to Denver. It was reported the offer was well in excess of the $6 million Denver would pay for 20 players acquired in the &lsquo;76 expansion draft.What does the NHL say about it all? The league is believed interested in the attractive bid because the NHL presently ownsand operates the Seals at a financial loss. However, there is one drawback to any deal. The original owner of the Seals, Barend Van Gerbig, has a lawsuit pending against the NHL and this could block the move. However, negotiations have been going on between Denver, Van Gerbig and the NHL and the move could come off in time for next season.<h2>SWEDES BAN PLAYERS</h2>STOCKHOLM &mdash;The Swedish Hockey Federation has reacted angrily to its top-line hockey stars bolting to North America. Six of their best players were given until Oct. 15 to compensate their Swedish teams to the tune of $15,000 per player and they failed to do so. All have been suspended for life from coaching and playing in Sweden.The six involved, who are with WHA teams, are Ulf Nilsson, Anders Hedberg, Lars-Erik Sojberg and Curt Larsson of Winnipeg Jets, and the twin brothers, Thommy and Christer Abrahamsson of New England Whalers.<h2>WHA KEEPS RED LINE</h2>LOS ANGELES &mdash;The WHA has decided not to remove the center red line from its games, for the 1974-75 season. The league had been experimenting without it in exhibition games.Bud Poile, the WHA&rsquo;s league director, said the rule was tested in pre-season play but failed to gain the approval of the various clubs. The proposal was unanimously rejected in a vote.Elimination of the red line tends to open a game up and allow passes from the defending zone to the attacking zone.<h2>COACH SUSPENDED</h2>SASKATOON &mdash;The Western Canada Hockey League doesn&rsquo;t take kindly to coaches who pull their teams off the ice in the course of a game. That&rsquo;s why Victoria general manager and coach Patty Ginnell has been suspended for six games after he removed the Victoria Generals from the ice in the second period of a WCHL game against Medicine Hat. &#9632;

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Deadline Stoppers

<h2>NHL TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03617/3463909-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="516" height="752"></div><h2>WHA TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04423/3463902-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="518" height="578"></div><h2>OTHER LEAGUES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05298/3463895-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="514" height="290"></div><h2>COLUMNISTS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06202/3463888-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="522" height="134"></div><h2>OTHER FEATURES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-07121/3463881-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="512" height="204"></div> &#9632;

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WHERE YOU’LL FIND IT ALL

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03494/3463992-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="547" height="676"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04291/3463985-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="559" height="673"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-05165/3463978-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="556" height="658"></div> &#9632;

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They’ve Already Made It To The NHL…

<div class="byline">BY FRANK ORR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01863/3463947-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div>COULD THEY EVENTUALLY CHANGE OUR GAME?TORONTO &mdash;The European invasion of North American major league hockey is going full blast.This season, 13 players, 11 from Sweden and two from Czechoslovakia, made the trans-Atlantic trek to try for jobs in the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League. Most should be first-stringers before the 1974-75 season has progressed too far.The most dramatic European acquisition was the WHA Toronto Toros&rsquo; signing of Czech national team stars Vaclav &ldquo;Big Ned&rdquo; Nedomansky and Richard Farda. During a summer vacation in Switzerland, they sought political asylum, applied for and were granted landed immigrant status in Canada in a cloak-and-dagger enterprise that rivalled the Iron Curtain breakthough of Soviet ballet star Rudolf Nureyev.The Detroit Red Wings made the first big European catch in 1972 when they signed defenseman Thommie Bergman from the National team of Sweden. He&rsquo;s been a spotty performer in his first two NHL seasons. Last year, the Wings added Swedish winger Tord Lundstrom, who spent most of the &lsquo;73-74 schedule with the barnstorming London Lions, and didn&rsquo;t return this year.The team which has had the greatest success with Swedish immigrants to date is the Toronto Maple Leafs. They acquired National team stars Borje Salming and Inge Hammarstrom for the &lsquo;73-74 season.The two players had a large role in the Leafs&rsquo; rebound to a playoff spot. Defenseman Salming was one of the NHL&rsquo;s best backliners while winger Hammarstrom scored 2C goals.This season, the Leafs took a long look at 19-year old Swedish center Per-Arne Alexandersson, whom they claimed in the NHL&rsquo;s amateur draft but he reported injured and was sent to the minors when the season began to play himself into condition.Two WHA teams have dipped heavily into the Swedish market for talent. The New England Whalers recruited a top brother act in defenseman Thommy Abrahamsson anc his goaltender brother Christer.The Winnipeg Jets landed four Swedish players &mdash; defenseman Lars-Erik Sjoberg, the most valuable blueliner in the &lsquo;74 world amateur tournament, plus forwards Curt Larsson, Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson.Rapid proliferation of major league hockey is the main inspiration for the sudden mining of the European player lode. Expansion of the NHL to 18 teams and the establishment of the 14-team WHA created a demand for raw material which the traditional source &mdash; the Canadian junior leagues &mdash; can&rsquo;t fill fill.The raids on European hockey don&rsquo;t come cheaply. The Leafs and Wings paid the Swedish hockey federation $50,000 each for the releases of Salming, Hammarstrom, Bergman and Lundstrom. The NHL has a firm agreement with the European governing bodies to pay for the players they secure.The WHA has discussed the matter with the European folks and reached a tentative agreement on payment for players. At one point, the matter threatened to cancel the Team Canada 74-Soviet Union National team series.Of course, the top European players, notably the Czechs and Russians, are unavailable to the NHL nad WHA teams, unless they follow the example of Nedomansky and Farda and defect to North America. Undoubtedly, the security arrangements for any teams which venture out of those two countries will be tightened in the future.One important Soviet star, the mighty winger Anatoli Firsov, came close to defecting to the Los Angeles Kings in a fine piece of espionage a few years ago. Firsov was at a Black Sea resort, supposedly on a holiday, and the plan was for him to break through the Iron Curtain and join the Kings. Apparently, someone in the Kremlin got wind of the plan, and Anatoli&rsquo;s &ldquo;vacation&rdquo; ended abruptly.The St. Louis Blues, working through official channels in the Czech government, brought winger Jaroslav Jirik to the U.S. for the 1969-70 season. He spent most of it with Kansas City of the Central League where his meagre 19-16-35 point total chilled the Blues&rsquo; interest. He returned home last year.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02734/3463940-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1198" height="1705"><figcaption class="caption-body">Two of the better Europeans to come to North American hockey this season are Swedish star Thommy Abrahamsson, shown at top leaping over an opposing player, and Vaclav Nedomasky, above, who signed with Toronto Toros after starring for the Czech National team for years. Abrahamsson is now with the New England Whalers.</figcaption></div>One NHL team owner made a serious pitch for Valery Kharlamov, the great little Soviet winger. The deal was this: the NHL team would pay $750,000 to the Soviets in exchange tor Kharlamovs services for two seasons plus a position as a coaching &ldquo;adviser&rdquo; for Anatoli Tarasov, the mastermind of the Soviet puck ascendancy. The Soviet officials listened politely, then said &ldquo;nyet&rdquo;.Nedomansky, who&rsquo;s 31, was coveted by NHL teams for several years. The New York Rangers, Buffalo Sabres and Atlanta Flames all had him on their negotiation list. The Flames made a big pitch for him this season but were out-bid by the Toros, who will pay the big, free-wheeling center at least $125,000 per season.Although the Swedish players have been accessible for many years, the prevalent NHL view was that they lacked the fortitude and aggressiveness required to play big league hockey. Salming and Hammarstrom heard assorted &ldquo;chicken Swede&rdquo; hecklers on rival teams and they faced servere intimidation tactics, especially early in their first pro season.&ldquo;In the NHL, it seems they test all rookies that way to see if they can handle it,&rdquo; Salming said. &ldquo;Why should it be any different for us? We had a fairly big adjustment to the body contact in the NHL. Don&rsquo;t forget that until very recently, bodycheking just wasn&rsquo;t a part of hockey in Sweden.&rdquo;One man who has high regard for the talents of the Swedes is Billy Harris, the coach of the Toronto Toros. He spent a season as coach of the Swedish national team.&ldquo;Salming is just an excellent player and Hammarstrom hasn&rsquo;t really showed his full talents,&rdquo; Harris said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a very exciting player with great skill but the NHL players made a target out of him in his rookie season.&ldquo;Anders Hedberg, who joined Winnipeg, is another exciting player, very fast and slick. Sjoberg is an excellent defenseman. In fact, we had him at training camp for Team Canada 74 to help our defensemen prepare for the Soviets.He&rsquo;s played them many times and understands their style.&ldquo;I think WHA fans are in for a big treat when they see Nedo-mansky. He&rsquo;s one of the best hockey &#9632;

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THE EUROPEAN INVASION OF THE NHL, WHA

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01915/3464044-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="442" height="442"></div>&bull; NEW YORK &mdash; Hardrock Ron Harris surprised everyone here the other day when he abruptly decided to retire from the Rangers. The reason he gave was that he hadn&rsquo;t been given enough ice time. &ldquo;Harris is no malcontent. When his two bad knees were not bothering him, he was the first man on the ice and the last one off at all practices. He was always in top physical condition.&rdquo; reported GM-coach Emile Francis&hellip; Harris&rsquo; teammates didn&rsquo;t take his retirement too seriously. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re going to see a lot of guys retire this year just for a day off,&rdquo; quipped Ed Giacomin. Harris came out of retirement the next day&hellip; Gary Sim mons, rookie goalie for the California Seals, is a colorful character. He painted a cobra on his goalie mask and has been nicknamed &ldquo;The Cobra&rdquo; by his teammates. He wears cowboy hats, boots and Indian jewelry wherever he goes. Gary shut out Atlanta 3-0 in his NHL debut&hellip; New York Islanders have looked very impressive winning three and tying one in their first five games. &ldquo;Are the Islanders for real?&rsquo; was a question we heard many times during our visit here. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a lot of pride and determination on the club this year. We believe in ourselves,&rdquo; Gerry Hart, valuable Islander defenseman, reported after his club had defeated Canadiens 6-3&hellip; Philadelphia Flyer fans showed their appreciation of Simon Nolet on his first visit to the Spectrum as captain of the Kansas City Scouts. The fans gave the popular Nolet a standing ovation prior to the game, then cheered his short handed goal against his former teammates. Nolet was a Flyer for six years and ranks as their third all-time scoring leader (93-108-201).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02871/3464037-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="259" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Harris</figcaption></div>&bull; THE COLISEUM, home of the Cleveland Crusaders of the World Hockey Association, has over 300 events scheduled for the coming season and will serve over five million people in &ldquo;Coliseum Country&rdquo; which is Northeast Ohio. Color will be plentiful in the Coliseum. Orange frames are part of the theatre-type seating in colors of gold, cinnamon, brown and burnt orange&hellip; Gump Worsley. nowscouting for the Minnesota North Stars, seems to be enjoying his retirement from goaltending. He&rsquo;s bought himself an organ and he&rsquo;s like a kid with a new toy&hellip; Ted Harris takes a regular shift with Philadelphia on defense and has boked good to date. The 38-year-old Harris was obtained prior to training camp from St. Louis where he didn&rsquo;t seem to fit in&hellip; Goalie Eddie Johnston of the St. Louis Blues was injured in his team&rsquo;s opening game, even though he wasn&rsquo;t playing. Johnston was sitting on the bench when he was hit by a puck, and the gash over the right eye required six stitches&hellip; Robert Reaume, 10-year-old son of former Maple Leaf and Red Wing defenseman Marc Reaume, died of head injuries sustained in a fall from a tree. Marc had high hockey hopes for the boy. Marc has four other children and resides in LaSalle. Ont., across the river from Detroit&hellip; Pete Mahovlich is showing signs of becoming the leader of Canadiens. Some say it&rsquo;s because he is no longer playing in the shadow of his brother. Frank, incidentally, was appointed captain of the Toronto Toros. The Big M was a unanimous choice of the Toros&rsquo; management as captain. Now they hope he can lead them to an Avco World Trophy&hellip; They say Montreal Canadiens are afraid to make a trade for Jacques Lemaire as they are striving to keep as many French Canadian players on the club as possible. The passing of Canadiens&rsquo; lock on Quebec-born players and the common draft has altered the team&rsquo;s ethnic makeup. The so-called Flying Frenchmen are now made up of Drydens, Robinsons, Wilsons, Mahovliches, etc&hellip; WHA teams are allowed to dress 19 players per game which will force certain teams such as Toronto Toros who are overstocked with players to make some trades&hellip; Minnesota sent Richard Nantais to their New Haven club of the AHL. Nantais was the Stars&rsquo; second choice in the NHL draft last spring&hellip; Don McLeod is off to a poor start with Vancouver Blazers. The highly-touted netminder allowed 12 goals in the Blazers&rsquo; first two games&hellip; Jack Egers scored the winner for Washington Capitals in their first NHL win, a 4-3 victory over Chicago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03766/3464030-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="253" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Egers</figcaption></div>&bull; THE 2-2 tie between Canadiens and the Flyers was the best game played in the NHL this season. The Flyers were impressed with Montreal&rsquo;s hitting and speed, and Ken Dryden, who played his best game of the year in the Canadiens&rsquo; goal, said he had a great deal of respect for the Flyers, a team he defeated two years ago in the Stanley Cup quarter-finals&hellip; Buffalo Sabres looking forward to having Roger Crozier back between the pipes soon. If all goes well, the veteran goalie who has been plagued with stomach trouble for years should aid the Sabres greatly&hellip; Toronto Leafs are counting on roo kie Dave Dunn, big (6&rsquo;3&rdquo;, 200 lbs) left winger to add some muscle to the club. In his years with Rochester, Seattle and Vancouver he acquired a reputation as never backing down from anyone&hellip; Houston Aeros were the oldest team in the WHA last season with an average age of 27 years. This year they&rsquo;ve dropped to 24, which makes them one of the youngest teams in the loop&hellip; Philadelphia Flyers have just released Stanley Cup calendars. They can be obtained by mailing $ 1.00 plus 50 cents for mailing and handling to the Flyers&rsquo; Novelty Dept, at the Spectrum&hellip; Frank Mahovlich went out and scored three goals in his first game after being named captain of the Toronto Toros.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04664/3464023-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="292" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mahovlich</figcaption></div>The Hockey NewsOFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Vol. 28 No. 4 NOVEMBER 1, 1974Published weekly except monthly June through September by W.C.C. Publishing Ltd., 1434 St. Catherine Street West, Montreal, Canada H3G 1R7. U.S. c/o W.C.C. Publishing, 150 E. 58th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022.Kenneth W. McKenzie President, Publisher and Advertising DirectorCharlie Halpin Editorial DirectorHans Hoenig Administration ManagerChris Zelkovich Asst. To EditorUnited Stated Advertising Representatives: Boston Steve Ganak. Ad, Reps, 479 Statler Office Bldg, Boston. Mass 02116, telephone (617) 524-6913: Chicago: Hooper Jones & Associates, 3322 W Peterson Ave,. Chicago. Ill 60659 telephone (312) 478-5544. New York: Bill Hitzig. National Sports Publishing Corp., 150 East 58th Street. New York. N.Y. 10022. Telephone (212) 593-2100.YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $9.50 in Canada $10.50 in the U.S.A, and $14.00 in Foreign Countries. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., 1001 and at additional mailing offices. SEND ADDRESS CHANGES T01434 ST. CATHERINE STREET WEST, SUITE 217, MONTREAL, CANADA, H3G 1R7. Second Class mail Registration No 1327. All Inquiries pertaining to subscriptions should be addressed to Subscription Dept. The Hockey News, 1434 St. Catherine St W. Montreal, Canada H3G 1R7 &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05538/3464075-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div><h2>Kings, Not Habs, Will Win Division</h2>There will be a big surprise for all the experts who predicted the Canadiens would run away from the pack in division II. That surprisewill be the L.A. Kings! Backed up by the best active goaltender in Stanley Cup play, Rogie Vachon, a solid defense, and a steady, tough, young forward wall, the Kings could very well draw that first round bye in the playoffs.JERRY DARLING, San Gabriel, Calif.<h2>Hopes Next Team Will Have Only Best</h2>I, for one, was very happy to see the Russians romp over Team Canada. I hope that this disgrace will finally prompt the powers that be to ice a hockey team that truly represents the hockey talent in Canada. Could you believe the Russians leaving players with the ability of Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Bobby Clarke or Stan Mikita off their team? Of course not!This year&rsquo;s Canadian contingent was no more &ldquo;Team Canada&rdquo; than was the 1972 squad. Then too, players were left off because they belonged to the wrong league. Heck, I thought this was a Canadian team, not a league team, facing the Russians.After the first two games, it was apparent that Team Canada lacked strength at center (Lacroix and Backstrom played well, but they weren&rsquo;t Esposito, Clarke or Mikita), defense and overall depth.Hopefully, the next Team Canada will be truly reflective of the great hockey talent available in Canada and if it is, I believe the results will be quite different.CLIFF KOBLAND, North Syracuse, N.Y.<h2>American Anthem Not Needed In Canada</h2>To set Georgette Canady of Union City, N.J. straight, and also the writer who was so concerned about playing the American anthem in Canadian cities: I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s necessary, because most fans are Canadian. I&rsquo;ve been a hockey fan for years. I&rsquo;ve followed American League hockey since its inception at the old Fort Erie Arena, and an a season ticket holder for the Sabres. Buffalo&rsquo;s arena is always filled to capacity because thousands of Canadians come across the Peace Bridge to watch their favorite game. There, both the Canadian and the American anthems are played at all games. If I&rsquo;m not mistaken, this is the only arena in the NHL where both are played.BOBERT COLLIER<h2>Seals Will Show New Ice Look</h2>The California Golden Seals are going to be a different and better team in the 1974-75 hockey season. They will be more physical, having picked up size and muscle in deals made during the off-season. The goals against will improve too. And the Seals&rsquo; defensive unit will be very solid, with Jim Neilson providing the leadership which has been lacking in this club. So NHLclubs beware &mdash; the Seals will be hard-hitting and tougher this year.TED MclNTOSH, Aldergrove, B.C.<h2>Deserving Salute For Howe, Hull</h2>So much has been written about the superior skating, passing, shooting and speed of the Soviet hockey players. But in the recent Team Canada-Russia contest, guess who were the two top scorers of either team. Bobby Hull topped them all, followed by Gordie Howe. So much for youth and speed. Let&rsquo;s give our &ldquo;old&rdquo; guys a cheer for a great job against tremendous odds.HELEN BEAUGRAND,Langley, B.C.<h2>NHL Showed Conceit In Conference Naming</h2>The way this year&rsquo;s NHL conferences and divisions were named is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen in sports. The NHL is letting its ego get out of hand. Who ever heard of naming a conference after a league president who is still in office? If Mr. Campbell is looking for publicity, I&rsquo;m sure he can find it in other ways. It is silly to name conferences and divisions after trophies (e.g. Norris, Smythe) already bearing the same names. There must be ways to find names that won&rsquo;t make the league look conceited.STEVE ROVNER, Snyder, N.Y.<h2>Flyers Won Cup On Ice, Not In Ring</h2>The Philadelphia Flyers didn&rsquo;t win the Stanley Cup in a boxing ring, they won it on a hockey rink. I resent people saying that the Flyers won the Cup solely on their fighting ability. Without players like Clarke, Ashbee and Parent, they would never have finished first in their division. Fighting in hockey is being criticized unfairly. If critics are worried about the players&rsquo; safety, I have a plan. Ban slap shots and play with a sponge puck. I like hockey the way it is.WARD WOOLMAN &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>VANCOUVER &mdash; Jocelyn Guevremont, defenseman, and Bryan McSheffrey, forward, traded to Buffalo in exchange for Mike Robitaille, defenseman, and Gerry Meehan, forward. Dave Dunn, forward, traded to Toronto in return for Gary Monahan, forward, and John Grisdale, defenseman.LOS ANGELES &mdash; Phil Hoene, forward, assigned to Springfield of AHL. Jimmy Peters, forward, recalled from Springfield.BOSTON &mdash; Dave Reece, goalkeeper, and Peter Sturgeon, forward, assigned to Rochester of AHL.BUFFALO &mdash; Joe Noris, forward, assigned to Syracuse of AHL.PITTSBURGH &mdash; Dennis Owchar and Colin Campbell, defensemen, recalled from Hershey of AHL and later returned.MINNESOTA &mdash; Richard Nantais, forward, assigned to New Haven of AHL.KANSAS CITY &mdash; Tom Peluso, forward, assigned to Port Huron of IHL. Hugh Harvey, forward, assigned to Baltimore of AHL.N.Y. RANGERS &mdash; John Memryk, goalkeeper, Alex Kogler and Russ Hall, forwards, assigned to Port Huron of IHL.MONTREAL &mdash; Bill Nyrop, defenseman, Mario Tremblay and Gord McTavish, forwards, assigned to Nova Scotia of AHL.TORONTO &mdash; Jack Valiquette, Per Arne Alexandersson and Dave Williams, forwards, sent to Oklahoma City of CHL.WASHINGTON &mdash; Guy Delparte, and Pete Sullivan, forwards, returned to Montreal and reassigned to Nova Scotia of AHL. Randy Wyrozub, forward, assigned to Richmond of AHL.DETROIT&mdash;Harry Shaw, defenseman, assigned to Virginia of AHL. Kevin Neville, goalkeeper, sent to Winston-Salem of SHL.PHILADELPHIA &mdash; George Pesut, defenseman, assigned to Richmond of AHL.<h2>WORLD HOCKEY ASSN.</h2>VANCOUVER &mdash; Mike Hobin, forward, assigned to Charlotte of SHL. Ed Humphreys, goalkeeper, recalled from Charlotte, Wayne Wood, goalkeeper, assigned to Tulsa of CHL.SAN DIEGO &mdash; Brian Perry, Brian Bradley and Lee Inglis, forwards, Dean Boylan and Reg Krezanski, defenseman, sent to Syracuse of NAHL. Bill Speer, defenseman, released outright.CLEVELAND &mdash; Bill Heindl, Ron Anderson, forwards, Ted Ouimet, and Harvey Stewart, goalkeepers, assigned to Cape Codders of NAHL. Paul Andrea, forward, released outright. Robbie Neale, forward, Paul Baxter, defenseman, sent to Cape Codders.INDIANAPOLIS &mdash; Michel Dion and Jim Park, goalkeepers. Ralph Hopiavouri, Bob Murray and Dick Spannbauer, defenseman. Rick Fraser, Doug Brindley, Ron Anderson John Sheridan and Ross Smith forwards, sent to Mohawk Valley of NAHL. Brian McKenzie, forward, placed on waivers.TORONTO &mdash; Chris Meloff, and Gerry Gibbons, defenseman, Jeff Jacques, and Gordie Titcomb, forwards, assigned to Mohawk Valley of NAHLCHICAGO &mdash; Keith Kokkola and Mark Lomenda, defensemen, Dave Walter and Brian Coates, forwards, assigned to Long Island of NAHL.PHOENIX &mdash; Dennis Olmstead, &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY JACK McCARTHY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01946/3464130-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Boston netminder Gilles Gilbert takes a breather from the action but if current reports are true, then the young Bruin goaler could be in for a forced sabbatical from the NHL wars. Gilbert has an injured hand that may require surgery and would put him out of the lineup for an undisclosed period.</figcaption></div>BOSTON &mdash;When the Bruins, reeling from a season&rsquo;s opening 9-5 defeat at the hands of the Buffalo Sabres in Buffalo, went to the post for the second time, they had a different goaltender. Ross Brooks was in the nets against the Leafs in the home opener in Boston Garden, and got a 2-2 standoff. This was not terribly significant, except for a revelation after the game by the number one man, Gilles Gilbert.Gilbert, who had played so well for Boston last year, had had a tough training camp. He was beset by a bad cold, then a bad knee; and then he was victimized in Buffalo for nine big ones. They were not all his fault as the Boston defense had played like Juniors, but coach Don Cherry chose to give Brooks a chance in the Boston opener.After the game, however, Gilbert revealed that he has been bothered by a severe pain at the base of the index finger on his catching hand. He was most apprehensive that it might require an operation.This, of course, would be a blow to Boston, which despite its wealth of talent, needs a first-class goalkeeper like any other team.Gilbert was due to be examined by hand specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital, where x-rays were also scheduled. And, while one doctor reserved any judgement until these examinations were completed, he did not rule out the possibility of surgery upon the hand in the future, if the condition persisted.In any event, the load of the early going would thus fall to Brooks, who had to wage a battle in training camp with Ken Broderick, who had been the Western League&rsquo;s MVP before joining the Bruins last year, and with young Dave Reece, up from the Boston Braves.So, as early as the second game, he would replace Gilbert, and although Cherry would be expected to use him in spots during the long season, it is possible that he would have to be real backstop in the first part of the season.The likeable Brooks, who was 35 on Oct. 17, had put together a string of 14 consecutive victories last season in relief of Gilbert, playing in sports. He tied the record for consecutive wins by a goaltender, which had been set by another Boston goalkeeper. Tiny Thompson, in 1929-30.With Gilbert&rsquo;s aching hand a cause for concern, Brooks is a major factor in Boston&rsquo;s early-season schedule.The Boston bombing by the Sabres in the opener recalled the first time that the Bruins were ever beaten by the Sabres, two years ago in Buffalo, by a score of 8-2. Eddie Johnston was the Boston netminder, and he did not get a great deal of support that night either.It was the biggest victory of the young Sabres&rsquo; young career although, if memory serves, those Bruins righted themselves and went on to win the Stanley Cup.The are favored to do that this year, also, despite the loss to Buffalo, but it will take two healthy goalkeepers to do it. &#9632;

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Bruins’ Net Woes Compounded As Gilbert May Need Surgery

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01935/3464168-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="271" height="361"></div><h2>The Russians Have Arrived&hellip;</h2>The game is the thing. It is ice hockey wherever it is played and if it is being played better year after year all over the world than it once once was, all who love the game should be happy for it. If it is being played as well in the Soviet Union or in Czechoslovakia as it is in Canada or by Canadians in the United States, well that is not so bad, really.It is being played as well in the Soviet Union as it is anywhere in the world, as we discovered to our shock the year before last when Team Canada had to win the last three games of the eight-game series to capture the contest, four victories to three with one tie, and as we had established beyond doubt this season when Team Canada lost to the Soviets, four victories to one, with three ties.The first team Canada really was the National Hockey League All Stars and the second really was the World Hockey Association All Stars, but there were enough of our better players on both clubs to win if we were as superior as we thought we were. We are not. Right now Russia rightfully can claim the crown in this sport. And the Czechs, who have defeated the Russians in some of the annual championship series and have defeated the Canadians too, are also right at the top. Other countries are closing in as well.The Soviet style differs from the Canadians&rsquo;. Russians stress team play, while the Canadians count on the solos of superstars a lot. Russians skate faster, pass faster, pass better and shoot off the pass better. It is a lovely game to see. The Canadians hit harder and play rougher and defensive play is tougher. It is an exciting game to watch.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02836/3464161-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="421" height="535"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>The Canadians are thunder, but the Russians are lightning.After the Canadians were extended by the Russians in that first series, they admitted they could learn from their foes and improve their passwork. But in winning the second series, the Russians showed they learned more and improved faster. The Russians found out you have to play rough to keep up with the Canadians and so they did that, which upset the Canadians. A nd Vladislav Tretiak, the star Russian goaltender, learned and improved his play in the nets.The Soviet All Stars play together all year round as a team. They were together and in shape for both series. After the first one, the NHL admitted it had been foolish to try to put together a team of stars in a few weeks before their regular season even had started and they had worked their way into shape. But the WHA fell into the same trap. Now both know that one top team playing at mid-season would be a better bet to beat the Russians.But Dennis Murphy, president of the WHA, admits that, &ldquo;At out best we would be only evenmoney against the Russians. We were not at our best. We put together a team of players who had not played together, and before they were in shape, and we had to play the final four games in the Soviet Union, where we were defeated by psychological warfare as much as by anything else.&rdquo;After the first few games, observers on this side of the ocean were surprisingly pleased by the WHA performance and expected them to win the series. Although the league played politics and left some of its top players off the select unit, aging Bobby Hull was brilliant and good old Gordie Howe was awesome. But it took a late goal by Hull in the first game and three by Hull in the fourth game just to tie the Soviet team and send the series to Russia all even. In Russia, the tide turned.Veteran hockey writer and current WHA publicist Walt Marlow returned to the league&rsquo;s southern California offices from the four games in Canada optimistic. Later results surprised him. He says, &ldquo;I thought we were going to win this series. We should have won three of the first four games. We let good chances get away from us. But I should have seen when we let a three-goal lead get away in the fourth game that we were going to let this series get away from us.&ldquo;I should have known it would be tougher for our Team Canada in Russia this time than it was for the other Team Canada in the first series. They lead a different life style than our players do. The Russian players play hockey 11 or 12 months a year and it is their whole lives. Our players play six or seven months a year and they have a lot of distractions in their lives. Hockey is more important to the Russian players.&rdquo;Dennis Murphy returned after the second game in Russia and the sixth of the series and says, &ldquo;Make no mistake about it, this was war. Maybe we expected to win these series, but we did not realize that they really expected to win, too. They were embarassed badly by the outcome of the first series and were not about to let something like that happen again. Not only were they ready physically, but they were ready psychologically.&ldquo;We treated them as honored guests in Canada, accomodated them in first-class style and entertained them lavishly. We were treated as enemies in Moscow, where they did everything they could to upset us. They gave us the worst hotel rooms and the worst food. If they treated us to the ballet, they provided 140 tickets for the 187 members of our party. Anything to create dissention. They didn&rsquo;t give us enough tickets to the games and they gave us the worst seats in the house. And they arranged for officiating that favored them.&ldquo;A lot of little things added up to frustrate us and distract us and throw us off our game. Our ambassadorial representatives agreed that this is a standard Soviet tactic and it, as much as anything, defeated us&ldquo;I was criticized for boycotting the sixth game and returning home after it, but I wasn&rsquo;t needed. I&rsquo;m not a hockey man and we had top hockey men operating our team. It was more important for me to protest by threatening to leave if conditions weren&rsquo;t improved and then proving we meant what we said by leaving when they weren&rsquo;t. I understand they did improve a little after I left.&rdquo;Murphy says, &ldquo;We can compete with the Soviet team or any other country&rsquo;s team if we prepare properly. We have to fight fire with fire. I don&rsquo;t mean we should treat them as badly as they treated us, but we have to be sure our accomodations off the ice and officiating and other conditions on the ice in Russia are acceptable. We can&rsquo;t load up our party with wives and friends and hangers-on. We have to concentrate on the hockey and we have to take our turn hosting the critical, concluding games. We have to use our best players, whether they are in the NHL or WHA, or we have to use a top team that has played together and been playing themselves into shape part of a season.&rdquo;Both Marlow and Murphy insist the WHA was not embarrassed by the outcome. Marlow says: &ldquo;Well, we won only one game, which can&rsquo;t be ignored, but by now everyone knows the Russians can beat anyone anytime, and anyone who studied the series saw that they had a lot of advantages. I think we did as well as the NHL would have done and raised our image.&rdquo; Murphy says, &ldquo;I was disappointed by the results, but not depressed by them. The credibility of our stature was enhanced.&rdquo;Maybe. But was Canadian hockey in general? By the last few games in Moscow the Canadians were brawling with and smearing blood on their rivals and their hosts were chanting for the visitors to &ldquo;go home.&rdquo; Instead of this being a good-will meeting between sportsmen. World War III almost was set off. We will be better off facing the fact that other people play this game as well as we do now and seeking ways in which we can compete with them on equal terms in series which boost our sport, not ones which batter it to death. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY BILL HEUFELDER</div>PITTSBURGH &mdash;Among his private thoughts, Pittsburgh coach Marc Boileau figured his goalies this season would be Bob Johnson and Denis Herron.In other words, Gary Inness wouldn&rsquo;t make the club. Boileau had made the assumption before training camp began. Once camp opened, he realized he&rsquo;d guessed wrong.&ldquo;Gary reported 14 pounds lighter than when he finished last season,&rdquo;Boileau said. &ldquo;He was really ready. If a guy is willing to work that hard during the off-season, you know he&rsquo;s not thinking of spending the year in the minors.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03698/3464199-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="272" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Inness</figcaption></div>A trim 184 pounds, Inness played impressively until he was stung for six goals in less than two periods in a West Coast exhibition against Vancouver.Boileau was not wrong in determining why Inness had faltered.&ldquo;I called off a practice that had been scheduled that morning,&rdquo; the coach explained. &ldquo;Right away, Gary started worrying about the game that night.&ldquo;In the warmups, he couldn&rsquo;t stop a football.&rdquo;Pulling Inness was an act of mercy, yet the following morning Boileau informed Inness that he would start the next exhibition game.The 24-year-old goaltender responded with a 2-0 shutout over the St. Louis Blues.His sharpness continuing, Inness received the assignment to start the regular-season opener at Minnesota. He was brilliant in stopping 41 shots and the Penguins won 4-2.In no mood to break up a winning combination, Boileau came back with Inness when the team returned home for game two against Detroit.The Penguins, after a scoreless first period, shelled the Red Wings&rsquo; net as Inness backstopped them to a 7-2 triumph.Sticking with Inness for back-to-back appearances reflects how Boileau intends to implement the two-goalie system this season. Rather than cling to a rigid plan of alternating the two netminders, the coach will lean toward performance as the determining factor.If Inness has laid his minorleague career to rest, it has closed with a mere 20 games played last season at Hershey, before he was promoted to the Penguins. He produced one shutout and an efficient 2.89 goals against average.A free agent with a college background. Inness reached the big club at about the time the Penguins brought Boileau from Fort Wayne as their coach. A mature, stylish goaltender far beyond his experience, Inness showed considerable promise in posting a 3.26 average.He is sharing the netminding Worth, Denver, Hershey and a 12-game stint with the St. Louis Blues two years ago.Appraising the work of his goalies in training camp, Boileau said, &ldquo;Inness and Johnson were about even and Herron was not that far behind.&rdquo;Inness happened to be only one of the surprises revealed at the outset of the regular campaign.When Bob McManama showed the effects of a pre-season bout with the flu, No. 1 draft choice Pierre Larouche stepped in to notch a goal in the opener and add an assist against Detroit.Dave Burrows (foot bruise) and Steve Durbano (suspension) were lost to the defense, but Boileau liked what he saw in the play of Colin Campbell, a World Hockey Association refugee.Scrappy Jean-Guy Lagace sustained a shoulder injury in the opener, so the Penguins uncovered another promising defenseman in Dennis Owchar, who registered a pair of assists in his National Hockey League debut against the Red Wings.Boileau even dared use Campbell and Owchar as partners late in the Detroit game with satisfying results.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s nice to see you&rsquo;ve got a coupe of kids who can come up here and do the job for us,&rdquo; Boileau said.Not to mention the work of a kid named Gary Inness.PENGUIN NOTES: Durbano was fined $300 by the league office for his involvement in a fracas during the second Penguins-Cleveland Crusaders inter-league exhibition game&hellip; Jack Button, the Pittsburgh GM, was unhappy about his team playing the Crusaders&hellip; &ldquo;Some of their players started taking shots at our players and the trouble spilled over into the second game,&rdquo; Button said. The Crusaders left the ice with four minutes left in the second game after a brawl erupted&hellip; Apps sparked his line to a fast start, scoring twice in the opener on assists from Jean Pronovost&hellip; Lowell MacDonald bagged two assists in the next game as the unit raised its point total to nine. &#9632;

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Inness’ Surprise Play Proved Boileau Wrong On Pens’ No. 1 Goaler

<div class="byline">BY DAN PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO &mdash;Maple Leaf Gardens, home of dull hockey, sour fans and ill-humored executives and players through most of the past seven years, couldn&rsquo;t be brighter with 2,000 gallons of fresh paint.Leafs opened with a rush, defeating Kansas City Scouts 6-2, New York Rangers 7-3 and tying the Bruins in Boston, 2-2. The impact was tremendous, largely because many fans simply hadn&rsquo;t been able to believe coach Red Kelly&rsquo;s confidence was justified through training camp. Suddenly, Toronto hockey fans find themselves with a team that ranks among the top in the National Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02804/3464237-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="277" height="522"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Dunn</figcaption></div>It wouldn&rsquo;t be wise to bet a small fortune, say as much as a first round draft choice&rsquo;s signing bonus, on Leafs winning the Stanley Cup this season. But they&rsquo;re not far off with the present personnel and at last Gardens&rsquo;patrons have more to look forward to than the prospect of a young, unexciting team maturing into an old, unexciting team.The next question is whether Leafs are worth $12 a game in owner Harold Ballard&rsquo;s new gold seats. Toronto opera seats went for $14 tops, so if David Keon in high gear is worth as much as a superb performance of Faust, and the rest of the Leafs follow Keon in pursuit of the Bruins in the NHL Adams Di vision&hellip; well, the Gardens may become known as Big Harold&rsquo;s House of Solid Value, if not exactly Pal Hal&rsquo;s Bargains.&ldquo;This is the best-skating team in the league,&rdquo; Inge Hammarstrom was saying, considering the promising start. &ldquo;We were very fast last year, but now we are faster.&ldquo;We have much more confidence now. So many of us last year did not know what to expect (five rookies). But now we have seen everything, there are no more surprises, and we know what we can do.&rdquo;Hammarstrom, Darryl Sittier and Ron Ellis form Leafs&rsquo; fastest line, but each unit has at least one speedster. Keon, performing with as much ease as in the past after having difficulties last year, worked with Bill Flett and rookie Lyle Moffat and the trio threw the puck around as though they had played together for years.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m confident this is going to be a fine season,&rdquo; Keon told Toronto reporters. &ldquo;This is the best squad I&rsquo;ve been associated with in several years. We have the potential to surprise a lot of people and go a long way in the race for the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;The trade of Garry Monahan, Keon&rsquo;s linemate most of the time since Monahan arrived from Los Angeles Kings in 1971, reveals how far Leafs have come. Monahan is a tireless skater and the quiet, constant type coaches enjoy, but Leaf manager Jim Gregory and Kelly were ready to pass him on to Vancouver along with John Grisdale, a defenseman who is similarly trouble-free, for 26-year-old Dave Dunn. More trades were likely because Leafs still had more players than they could use.Dunn was attractive to Leafs simply because he was one of the more effective left wings they faced last year. Despite the fact Canucks managed only one tie and four losses against Leafs, Dunn came up with four goals and two assists in the four games in which he played.&ldquo;Dunn has to help us&rdquo; said Gregory, &ldquo;simply because he can&rsquo;t hurt us any more. But more than that, he&rsquo;s a big, tough guy (6&rsquo;2&rdquo;, 215 pounds) who we think can help us.&rdquo;&ldquo;Dunn is still learning the wing position because he was a defenseman until last year,&rdquo; said Kelly. &ldquo;We have been experimenting to plug the hole on our left wing. I have been satisfied with the players we have there (Hammarstrom, Moffat, Errol Thompson and Gary Sabourin) but we feel that Dunn will give us size and strength at that position.&rdquo;Dunn, Leaf brass hopes, will be content in the hunting ground around opponents&rsquo; nets, as too few Leaf wingers have been in recent seasons.Dunn scored 19 goals and 56 assists in 63 games with Seattle of the Western League two seasons ago, winning the Hal Laycoe Cup as the league&rsquo;s top defenseman before Canucks tried converting him to an NHL wing.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03622/3464230-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="566" height="810"><figcaption class="caption-body">LYLE MOFFAT &hellip;Lone Rookie</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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New Edition Of Maple Leafs Exciting Hockey Club

TORONTO &mdash;Leafs&rsquo; Lyle Moffat, the only rookie to start the season with Toronto, scored the first goal in the opener&hellip;Red Kelly was delighted with the way scoring was distributed in the first three games &mdash; only Moffat and Ron Ellis had two each, while 11 others scored the rest&hellip;George Ferguson, 22-year-old center, earned praise after hearing nothing but criticism over his work for his first two years as a pro&hellip;Garry Monahan never missed a game as a Leaf until Kelly sat him out against Boston and New York. Does Monahan&rsquo;s departure ease the pressure on other wingers, like Errol Thompson? &ldquo;Not a bit,&rdquo; says Thompson. &ldquo;Look what position Dave Dunn plays.&rdquo; &#9632;

Leafs’ Rookie Steals Show

<div class="byline">BY CHRIS ZELKOVICH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01925/3464323-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">PETE MAHOVLICH&hellip; 240-goal Pace</figcaption></div>MONTREAL &mdash;Contrary to what you may have heard or read, Ken Dryden was not the only member of the Montreal Canadiens to return this season after sitting out a year. Although there has been little publicity, the other returnee has been absent from Montreal for two seasons, one more than Dryden.Maybe it was the way the returnee left; just disappeared quietly at the start of the 1972-73 season, sat out all of last year and all of the this season&rsquo;s training camp. But once the regular 1974-75 season started it was apparent that the other returnee was going to be a major part of the Canadiens this year.The other returnee&rsquo;s initials are P.P., and no it&rsquo;s not Peter Puck. It&rsquo;s the power-play, something that has been missing from the Canadiens since 1971-72, when the Habs scored 73 goals with a man advantage &mdash; second only to the Boston Bruins. Since then the Habs have averaged 20 power-play goals a season less than that and have fallen from the top of the heap to the middle, but things are looking up &mdash; way up.The power-play made a triumphant comeback in the opening game of the season as Peter Mahovlich scored three power-play goals in a 5-5 tie with the New York Islanders. The Canadiens scored two more in the second game, a 4-4 tie with the Los Angeles Kings, giving them five power-play goals in two games. Those five came on just 12 opportunities, too almost a .500 average.What is so surprising about the return of the power-play to Montreal is that last season it was about as effective as a wet firecracker. During this year&rsquo;s training camp it looked even worse. Then, for no apparent reason or change in personnel, the Habs&rsquo; dudly power-play turns into a deadly power-play.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been working the puck a lot better in their end,&rdquo; says Mahovlich, who scored all three power-play goals while playing right wing. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re getting the puck in and setting for the good shot. Last year we didn&rsquo;t do that.&rdquo;Mahovlich has been one of the key reasons for the resurgence of the power-play. In addition to his three goals in the opener, he was a standout on the power-play in the game with the Kings, but was repeatedly robbed by Los Angeles&rsquo; goaltender Gary Edwards.If The Little M can continue to play the way he&rsquo;s played in the first two games he&rsquo;ll easily break his career high of 36 goals. In fact, Mahovlich is aiming higher than that.&ldquo;If I keep this up,&rdquo; he said after the opener,&rdquo; I&rsquo;ll score 240 goals this year.The other partners in the revival of the power-play have been Guy Lafleur and Yvon Lambert&mdash;yes, Yvon Lambert.&ldquo;Lambert and Lafleur have made a big difference on the power-play,&rdquo; Bowman says. &ldquo;Lambert does a great job in the comers and when he sets in front of the net, nobody moves him out.&ldquo;This year we&rsquo;re trying to feed the point men and crowd the net. Most teams try to do it that way, but it doesn&rsquo;t always happen. (Jacques) Lemaire and (Guy) Lapointe have great point shots and we have to take advantage of them.&rdquo;So why, with the power-play back in good working order, were the Canadiens forced to come from behind to manage ties with the Islanders and Kings? Goaltending. Bad goaltending from Dryden.In the first two games the man who was supposed to be the Habs&rsquo; messiah allowed nine goals while facing only 40 shots. He was especially weak against the Kings, who managed only 15 shots on goal but scored four times.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think the 16 months I spent away from hockey was the reason,&rdquo; Dryden said. &ldquo;It was nothing but plain stupidity.&rdquo;The whole situation is rather ironic. Dryden, the man who returned to the tune of front page headlines, gets off to a bad start while the other returnee, who sneaked in totally unoticed, is the most encouraging sign in the first week of play.HAB-BITS: Bowman, always one to look on the brighter side, says he is encouraged by the fact that this year the Canadiens have looked strong in the third period. &ldquo;At this time last year we were losing games in the third,&rdquo; he says&hellip; Wayne Thomas&rsquo; wife, Barbara, gave birth to their first child, Gretchen Jane&hellip; Glen Sather sat out the first two games as did Jacques Laperriere, and Thomas. Everyone else has seen some action&hellip; Lambert had the honor of scoring the Habs&rsquo; first goal of the year, a year that&rsquo;s shaping up as a good one for him&hellip; What-else-is-new department: In the first two games Bowman used 12 different line combinations. &#9632;

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Montreal Power-Play Ends Two Year Sabbatical

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div>CHICAGO &mdash;Not to bore you with old news at this young stage in the season, but the Black Hawks are looking for a left wing.It&rsquo;s a totally ancient scoop, simply because the Black Hawks were looking for a left wing even when they had the best one ever. His initials are Bobby Hull.Anyway, talks of the new search festooned again no later than the opening game of 1974-75, when the Chicagoans skated into Detroit, skated not very well, and lost to the Red Wings 2-1.Puffing on the victory cigar afterward was Alex Devecchio, past star and future hope of the Red Wings. The coach-general manager and public relations genius quickly confirmed the worst kept secret since the Watergate break-in: the Black Hawks want Nick Libett very badly and would part with veteran defenseman Doug Jarrett, instantly if not sooner.&ldquo;Yes, we&rsquo;ve discussed some things,&rdquo; Alex revealed, &ldquo;Tommy Ivan (Hawks GM) and I have talked a little. But I&rsquo;m not going to give them an established star like Nick Libett for a guy who&rsquo;s on his way out like Doug Jarrett.&ldquo;Sure, we could use some help on defense, but left them make the package good. I don&rsquo;t necessarily want Bill White, but I&rsquo;ll take Phil Russell off their hands. Trouble is, they don&rsquo;t like it when you mention Russell. We might be interested in (John) Marks, too. But we&rsquo;ll have to get something good.&rdquo;The Hawks appear to be standing-room-only on the blueline for the time being at least. Coach Billy Reay opened the season with three pairs: Jarrett with Keith Magnuson, White with Dick Redmond and Russell with Dale Tallon. Marks, another defenseman, was playing left wing in lieu of ailing Darcy Rota.So, it was quite obvious that the material was there from which to deal. There was talk, too, of a swap with the Vancouver Canucks, but that may have cooled when the Canucks and Buffalo Sabres arranged a four-player transaction entering Week Two of the season.Whispers that he was on the block did not please Jarrett, but neither were they a surprise.&ldquo;Yes, it&rsquo;s a hot rumor,&rdquo; he chuckled, &ldquo;I skated by Detroit&rsquo;s bench in that first game, on the way to our bench, and a couple of their guys helled to me &lsquo;Hey, Dougie, you&rsquo;re going the wrong way.&rsquo;&rdquo;So, however, were all the Hawks in the first week of the campaign, which featured twoone-goal losses&mdash;that opener on the road to the Wings and a 4-3 home setback to the Atlanta Flames.The Chicago Stadium loss to Atlanta was most disheartening to Hawk freaks because goalie Tony Esposito, normally The Great Wall of China, fanned thrice on long shots, much to the vocal derision of about 16,000 fans.&ldquo;It was a tough game for Tony, maybe the toughest he&rsquo;s ever had at home,&rdquo; said coach Billy Reay. &ldquo;I was a little concerned about him because he didn&rsquo;t hava a good training camp. He just wasn&rsquo;t sharp. The only time he&rsquo;s had a slow start like that was when he came back from Russia.&rdquo;Atlanta&rsquo;s brilliant Tom Lysiak, who drilled a 30-footer through Esposito, took up a familiar chant following the game. That is, if the niggardly goalkeepr has a weakness, it is on the old high, hard one from a distance.&ldquo;I just don&rsquo;t think he can see those,&rdquo; said Lysiak. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a hell of a goalie, and he&rsquo;l probably call me a liar, but I just don&rsquo;t think he picks the puck up when it&rsquo;s shot from a ways out.&ldquo;You can see him leave his cage and come out so he can get the thing in focus. And you can see his head sort of bobbing up and down to get the shot in his vision.&rdquo;Tony-O, who wears contacts, listened attentively when recited the oft-told theory, then replied: &ldquo;If that&rsquo;s what he thinks, fine,&rdquo; said Esposito, &ldquo;Let &lsquo;em keep shooting from 50 feet out. I&rsquo;d rather have them come from there than have them on top of me.&rdquo;PARTING SHOTS: Libett said he would be disappointed with a trade to Chicago &ldquo;because I&rsquo;ve made a lot of friends in Detroit&hellip; but I certainly wouldn&rsquo;t balk at any deal.&rdquo; &hellip;Slammin&rsquo; Billy Reay notched a hole-in-one at Butler National Golf Course outside Chicago, one of the country&rsquo;s toughest. It was on the par-3, 173-yard 5th hole and he performed his magic with a 4-iron. Comedian Bob Hope had aced the same hole earlier in the year at the course, which was the home of the high-scoring Western Open last summer. &ldquo;I swear, when Billy got up there he said &lsquo;If Bob Hope can do it, I can do it,&rsquo; &ldquo;said trainer Lou Varga, who was Reay&rsquo;s partner and witness. &ldquo;When it went in the cup, I saw it and he didn&rsquo;t and he wouldn&rsquo;t believe it.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01898/3464354-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="557" height="1817"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL RUSSELL &hellip;An Untouchable</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Black Hawks Heavy On Defense, Eye Trades To Aid Left Wing

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01896/3464392-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><h2>Scouts Really Fit</h2>THE KANSAS CITY SCOUTS had finished their workout at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto where they had lost their National Hockey League debut a couple of nights earlier.A few Scouts lingered on the ice and, for heavens sakes, did pushups. It was a voluntary action, a surprise to a few onlookers but not to coach Bep Guidolin.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s how it&rsquo;s been from the start of our training camp,&rdquo; Guidolin said. &ldquo;These kids have really worked hard. Maybe we aren&rsquo;t much of a team yet but at least we&rsquo;ll be in good condition.&ldquo;Often after a workout a few of them stay on the ice and do some pushups or skate a few sprints. It doesn&rsquo;t happen often in big league hockey these days, does it?&rdquo;No, it doesn&rsquo;t happen often, at least not as often as teams like the Kansas City Scouts seem to pop into view in the NHL. They&rsquo;re one of this season&rsquo;s expansion teams, a collection of guys named Hudson and Powis and Crashley who barely make it as household names in their mothers&rsquo; kitchens.The expansion draft made available players about whom it can be said: &ldquo;They&rsquo;re small, but they&rsquo;re slow.&rdquo; The Scouts did pick a fine young prospect in amateur draft choice Wilf Paiement. But he&rsquo;s only 18 and despite his abundant muscles and potential, Paiement will require a season or two to learn the NHL skills.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02772/3464385-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="462" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wilf Paiement</figcaption></div>All sorts of fates worked against the team. Their home rink, the Crosby Kemper Memorial Arena in downtown K.C., won&rsquo;t be ready until Nov. 2. The Scouts play their first eight games on foreign ice. That includes trips into Boston Garden and the Philadelphia Spectrum, hardly spots for a struggling young team to gain confidence.<h2>Bep&rsquo;s Challenge</h2>THUS, ARMAND &ldquo;BEP&rdquo; GUIDOLIN finds himself in a slightly different position than he occupied a year ago when he coached the Boston Bruins. The change must be traumatic. Last term, he could holler &ldquo;Go get&rsquo;em, Orr and Esposito.&rdquo; Somehow, giving the same instructions to Dub&eacute; and Lemieux won&rsquo;t be quite the same.Not that such a transformation has daunted Guidolin in the least. After all, when his pro and amateur playing career ended, he worked in a gold mine (yep, down the shaft!) in northern Ontario to pay the bills.Now, when a man has done that, few jobs can offer much intimidation to him. Besides, experience with shafts is a useful background for an NHL coach.&ldquo;Talk about challenges! This has to be the biggest one of my life,&rdquo; Guidolin said, &ldquo;About all we had time to do through training camp and the exhibition games was to get an overall evaluation of the players we had. Hell, when the season started, I hardly knew which guys were capable of working as penalty-killers and who knew what to do on a power-play.&ldquo;It will take us until Christmas to learn to change lines properly. It&rsquo;s going to take time, much time, for us to blend into a hockey team or anything close to it.&rdquo;The most difficult feature for an expansion team to develop is togetherness, a feeling of trust in each other. The Scout players feel they&rsquo;ve made a good start in this direction.Guidolin claims he has a leader in Simon Nolet, the one Scout with even a modicum of NHL achievement behind him. Bep appointed Nolet, who was drafted from the Philadelphia Flyers, the Scouts&rsquo; first captain.<h2>Reassures Kids</h2>&ldquo;SIMON KEEPS TELLING our kids that the only way we&rsquo;ll win is by strong checking and working as a team,&rdquo; Guidolin said. &ldquo;He knows all about it because that was the Flyers&rsquo; strong point &mdash; their checking and team play. They had 18 guys working as a unit. I know all about that, too.&rdquo;Guidolin was referring to last spring&rsquo;s Stanley Cup final which the Bruins lost to the Flyers. Bep felt a few of his playres weren&rsquo;t operating flat-out while the Flyers had no passengers. Guidolin, always a frank, open man, didn&rsquo;t hesitate to voice his views on what he considered the lacklustre work of his troops.&ldquo;When one of your top players tells you that he can make more money out of endorsements and personal appearances than the money he&rsquo;d earn for winning the cup, it has to be a bad sign,&rdquo; Guidolin said.&ldquo;Of course, No. 4 (Bobby Orr) did everything possible but one guy couldn&rsquo;t carry the whole lead against a team where every guy was lugging a big share.&rdquo;Guidolin&rsquo;s season-and-a-half tenure as Bruin coach ended bitterly. He wanted a new contract which offered some security, say for the next three years. The Bruins&rsquo; managing-director Harry Sinden offered only a one-year deal or at least Guidolin thinks that&rsquo;s what it was.&ldquo;Harry mumbled something about a new contract,&rdquo; Guidolin said. &ldquo;But I didn&rsquo;t hear any mention of for how long or for how much. I felt I wanted some security in the job but it wasn&rsquo;t coming in Boston.&rdquo;Bep viewed Sinden&rsquo;s approach as somewhat ironic. Sinden had quit the Bruins coaching job in 1970 because the team offered only a piddling raise following a Stanley Cup win, then refused to grant any job security to &#9632;

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FRANK ORR SAYS:

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04419/3464454-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GLEN BURDON&hellip; Kansas City Scouts</figcaption></div>Everyone expected Glen Burdon to go high in the amateur draft and they weren&rsquo;t disappointed. The 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, 175-pound center from Regina Pats of the Western Canada Hockey League was chosen 20th in the summer NHL draft and became the second pick of the expansionist Kansas City Scouts. The 20-year-old Burdon, a lefthanded shot, was one of the big reasons Regina won the Memorial Cup last season as Canada&rsquo;s No. 1 junior hockey club. Burdon had only 19 goals but added 56 assists for a 75-point year, a far cry from the top hotshots in the WCHL. But Burdon had something else going for him. He is a good defensive player and the Scouts went high for him in the draft. Experience is all the youngster needs to make it big in the NHL. &#9632;

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MEET THE ROOKIES

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES &mdash;The results of exhibition games are meaningless.This was proven anew when the Los Angeles Kings, winless in seven pre-season games, defeated the defending Stanley Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers and the dangerous Buffalo Sabres and tied the mighty Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Leafs all on the road, in the first four games of their regular season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03605/3464423-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="264" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tom Williams</figcaption></div>This was the Kings&rsquo; first good start since their first season when they won three and tied two of their first five games in 1967. It was their best road start ever.The styles of the two teams might have had much to do with the outcome of the opening match. The roughhouse Broad Street Bullies hit the top by pushing foes around, but the Kings can&rsquo;t be pushed around. The Kings split last season&rsquo;s series with the Flyers and won both games they played in Philadelphia.The Flyers were the better team last season, but proved it only when they resorted to straight tactics. In the opener of this season they reverted to rough stuff and were defeated 5-3 in a tough, fast contest.Gary Edwards started in goal for the Kings instead of regular Rogie Vachon because Edwards was better in the pre-season and coach Bob Pulford wanted to prove to his players they have to hustle to hold their jobs, Edwards saved the victory in Philadelphia and the tie in Montreal.The Canadiens came from two goals behind to tie the Kings 4-4 and outplayed the Kings, but the Canadiens&rsquo; Ken Dryden was outplayed by Edwards in the duel of goaltenders. It was encouraging the way the Kings skated with the swift Canadiens and kept up with them.In Buffalo, PuIIy assigned Bob Nevin, Frank St. Marseille and Dan Maloney to check the Sabres&rsquo; high-scoring French Connection line of Gil Perreault, Rick Martin and Ren&eacute; Robert, which tallied five times in an opening 9-5 upset of Boston.The checkers not only shut out The French Connection, but scored all the Kings&rsquo; goals in a 4-1 win. The veteran Nevin tallied three times. In the team&rsquo;s third game in four night, Vachon tended the nets and was beaten only once, by Mac McNab&rsquo;s son, Peter.Nevin also had a goal in Montreal, while Tommy Williams had one there and two in Philadelphia.Pulford admitted just before season&rsquo;s start that he was disturbed by his players&rsquo; lack of desire in the games that do not count, but the conceded after the fast start that he was pleased they were able to turn on their talent when the games that counted came along.Nevertheless, manager Jake Milford was so disappointed by the pre-season results of their camp at home that he said he would suggest to owner Jack Kent Cooke that next season&rsquo;s training be returned to Canada.Cooke may not now agree. Anyway, it takes more than exhibition results to shake his endless optimism. In a pre-season telegram he told his players they could win Stanley Cup if they worked hard enough.It&rsquo;s one of the longest of longshots, but they did look like they can continue the improvement of last season and contend for a lot of laurels as this season started.KINGS THINGS: Dan Maloney remained undefeated, but suffered the second draw of his fistic career with the Kings when the long-awaited bout with Dave Schultz materialized in Philly. At long-range, Dan staggered Dave, but when Dave moved in close he punished Dan. Dan was better boxing, but when it became wrestling Dave was superior. Both were bruised. So were most of the Kings and several were cut by the Flyers&hellip; Pully opened up with veteran Larry Brown as his fourth defenseman instead of Neil Koma-doski or Dave Hutchison, who had been expected to fill the vacancy and Brown performed steadily&hellip; Phil Hoene was sent to Springfield and Jimmy Peters recalled for penalty-killing&hellip; Mike Murphy married Yvonne Horvat, sister of Vic Venasky&rsquo;s wife, Connie, this summer. And the opening week of the season Shelly Kennegiesser married Yvonne&rsquo;s friend Debbie Bigelow. All are L.A. girls&hellip; Publicist Mike Hope married Sharon Lee Carroll of Portland this summer&hellip; Defenseman Bob Murdoch&rsquo;s plush Palos Verdes home was burglarized twice during the offseason&hellip; Terry Harper, a pilot, purchased a Bonanza. For fast getaways?&hellip;&hellip;Former GM Larry Regan landed the coaching job with Montreal &lsquo;s amateur Junior Canadiens&hellip; Former coach Hal Laycoe is in Seattle helping plan for next season&rsquo;s new NHL entry&hellip; Ex-Kings Howie Hughes and Bill Lesuk are &#9632;

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Surprising Kings Hot On Road In Club’s Best NHL Start Ever

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div>VANCOUVER &mdash;The power-play and penalty killing. Those critical areas, any hockey coach will tell you, frequently determine a team&rsquo;s ultimate fate.As the Vancouver Canucks launched their fifth National Hockey League season, their elation over scoring three power-play goals in their first two games was dimmed somewhat by the fact they had surrendered five.The latter deficiency is the major reason why the Canucks left on their first road trip of the new season still seeking their initial victory.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01881/3464516-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="277" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Lever</figcaption></div>In their opener thay had to settle for a 3-3 tie with the Atlanta Flames primarily because the Flames got brilliant goaltending from Dan Bouchard, but also because they were out-scored 2-1 on the powerplay. Then they lost 5-3 to the St. Louis Blues with the Blues scoring three power-play goals &mdash; all by defenseman Larry Sacharuk &mdash; while the Canucks had to settle for two.Penalty killing has always been one of the Canucks&rsquo; major weaknesses. In three of their four previous NHL seasons they gave up more power-play goals than any other team in the league and in their first, 1970-71, they gave up 81, a total that still stands as the NHL record for futility in the penalty killing department.As the Canucks completed training camp this season, that was one problem general manager-coach Phil Maloney felt he had effectively patched if not totally cured.&ldquo;I feel I&rsquo;ve got two forwards on each line who can do a pretty good job of it,&rdquo; he said.That would be Don Lever and Andr&eacute; Boudrias, Gerry O&rsquo;Flaherty and Gregg Boddy and Chris Oddliefson and John Gould. Maloney said he planned on using the second two combinations more frequently to save Lever and Boudrias for offense.But in the Canucks&rsquo; first two games it was more a case of the system rather than individual players breaking down. The secret of good penalty killing is to retain your cool, play your position and resist the temptation to chase helter skelter after the puck.As a group, Vancouver&rsquo;s penalty killers flunked out in all three categories in the opening two games as they successfully weathered only two of seven shorthanded situations.Consequently, Maloney&rsquo;s recent practices have stressed the penalty killing department.However, on the plus side of the ledger is the fact the Canucks&rsquo; power-play has seldom looked better, particularly when Lever, Boudrias and Dennis Ververgaert were on the ice.Those three have figured in two of the Canucks&rsquo; three power-play goals and five of their six goals overall, amassing 11 scoring points in the two games.Lever had two goals and two assists, Ververgaert two goals and one assist and Boudrias, whose 59 assists ranked fifth in the league last season, was up to his old tricks with two helpers in each of the first two games.Their work through training camp and the start of the season indicates they will certainly be Vancouver&rsquo;s highest scoring forward combination and perhaps one of the most productive in the league.And their power-play efforts suggest the Canucks should erase the modest club record of 55 goals with a man advantage &egrave;stablished last season.CANUCK CAPERS: Left winger Dave Dunn missed the Canucks&rsquo; second game with a broken nose, a memento of his opening game altercation with Atlanta&rsquo;s Pat Quinn&hellip; Al least Dunn got it over with early this season&hellip; He&rsquo;s had his nose broken in each of his five seasons as a pro&hellip; Goaltender Ken Lockett drew the starting assign ment against St. Louis, his first ir the NHL&hellip; &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad that&rsquo;s over with,&rdquo; he said, admitting to a cast of opening night jitters. &ldquo;I hope play better from now on.<h2>SPORTS</h2>Guldes, Yearbooks, Programs, Photos, Tickets, etc. Largest Selection. Lowest Prices. Fastest Service.FOR NEW CATALOG SEND 25c TO:G.-S. GALLERY, Dept. HN-KI, P.O. Box 475, Allentown, Pa. 18105 &#9632;

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Canucks’ Penalty Killing Ineffective

VANCOUVER &mdash;Midway through the Vancouver Canucks&rsquo; training camp Phil Maloney, their coach and general manager, issued a warning that obviously the National Hockey League team should have taken more seriously.&ldquo;If this club requires major surgery,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;major surgery will be performed.&rdquo;On Oct. 14, after a tie and a loss in league play and an exhibition schedule of uneven virtues, Maloney put his team on the operating table and donned his surgical mask.When he was finished three players had been removed and four others grafted to the main body.He dealt defenseman Jocelyn Guevremont and right winger Bryan McSheffrey to the Buffalo Sabres for center Gerry Meehan and defenseman Mike Robitaille. Then, while the club was still under anesthetic, he dispatched left winger Dave Dunn to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for left winger Garry Mohahan and defenseman John Grisdale.Only time will tell whether the operation was a success, but Maloney has clearly demonstrated he doesn&rsquo;t intend to stand while his team sinks into oblivion with hardly a ripple. His predecessors in the job have gone that route without success.&ldquo;My goal is to finish second in our (Conn Smythe) division,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and I don&rsquo;t intend to settle for less. I know hockey players don&rsquo;t like to be traded, particularly after the season has started. They have homes and families just like everyone else. I would have preferred to make these moves during the summer, but it takes two to trade and last summer no one wanted to talk to me. The thing is we needed help right now and I&rsquo;m a very selfish guy. I want to win.&rdquo;Naturally Maloney feels he&rsquo;s improved the Canucks&rsquo; chances of winning with both deals or he wouldn&rsquo;t have made them.&ldquo;I think the reasons for the Buffalo trade are obvious,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;McSheffrey couldn&rsquo;t play on our team. Guevremont? I wish him well. I know he&rsquo;s a better hockey player than he&rsquo;s shown. Maybe the change of scenery will do him good.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02755/3464547-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="271" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Maloney</figcaption></div>Ever since they made him their first amateur draft choice in 1971, the Canucks have been waiting for Guevremont to start using his 6&rsquo;2&rdquo;, 195-pound frame to advantage. On Oct. 14 Maloney got tired of waiting.He believes Robitaille, 26 and Meehan, 28, will both prove useful additions.&ldquo;Robitaille is solid defensively,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and he can play to right point on the power play. He doesn&rsquo;t just put his head down and blast. Meehan is strictly a center, but you can never have two many centers. Two of the centers we have now, Gerry O&rsquo;Flaherty and Chris Oddliefson, can both play the wing if they have to. And Meehan is a proven NHL scorer.&rdquo;In his four seasons with Buffalo Meehan&rsquo;s goal totals have been 24, 19, 31 and 20.Turning to the Toronto trade, Maloney admitted he was &ldquo;very reluctant&rdquo; to let Dunn go. The big redhead is a good competitor and improving at left wing after making the transition from defense last season.&ldquo;But sometimes your moves are dictated by your immediate needs,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Grisdale is a right defenseman and we&rsquo;ve got Bob Dailey with his wrist in a cast and three big games in our own division &mdash; one with St. Louis and two with Minnesota &mdash; coming up. Monahan is a good checker and that&rsquo;s something we need.&rdquo;Monahan, 28, is also a penalty killer of established virtue and unquestionably the Canucks have.to improve their penalty killing performance. They were stung with two power-play goals in their league opener, forcing them to settle for a 3-3 tie with the Atlanta Flames. Then they gave up three more, all of them scored by defenseman Larry Sacharuk, in a 5-3 loss to the Blues. &#9632;

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Guevremont Swapped To Sabres As Canucks Swing Two Trades

<div class="byline">BY NORM MacLEAN</div>NEW YORK &mdash;After two games rookie right wing Rick Middleton had three goals and Emile Francis, the New York general manager-coach said, &ldquo;Middleton could be a new Andy Bathgate at right wing.&rdquo;Most likely this kind of praise was just wishful speculation. It is true that Middleton, the 20-year-old who prepped at Providence of the American League last season, has been impressive so far. But Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s name is a hallowed one in Ranger annals. Until Rod Gilbert broke his offensive records last year, it was Bathgate who held the Ranger marks for goals, assists and points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01855/3464578-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="258" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rick Middleton</figcaption></div>Middleton was drafted two summers ago. With most NHL teams he would have jumped straight to the varsity, but with New York having Gilbert, Bruce MacGregor and Billy Fairbairn on the right side, his way was blocked. When MacGregor jumped to Edmonton of the WHA, it opened the roster spot to Middleton.&ldquo;We think Middleton can do the job offensively,&rdquo; says Francis. &ldquo;His record with Providence indicates so.&rdquo;Middleton scored four game winners in the playoffs, including two in overtime. He must come back a bit more on defense and learn the tighter checking NHL way. Otherwise those AHL credentials of 36 goals and 48 assist won&rsquo;t help.&ldquo;I put Rick on the line with Walter Tkaczuk and Steve Vickers hoping to get more scoring there,&rdquo; said Francis.This put super checker Billy Fairbairn with Pete Stemkowski and Ted Irvine. So far Middleton has pulled his weight with his new mates. He scored twice against Washington in the 6-3 win marking the Caps debut in the NHL Oct. 9, and got one of the Rangers three goals in a bad 7-3 loss in Toronto Oct. 12.&ldquo;If Middleton makes it, it creates a terrific balance on three lines, said Ranger captain Brad Park. &ldquo;Greg Polis is in the right spot with Jean Ratelle and Rod Gilbert.&rdquo;Or it might be added in equally good shape if Derek Sanderson worked with Gilbert and Polis. A former Pittsburgh Penguin teammate of Polis once said. &ldquo;If Greg is with a center who gives him the puck, watch out, he&rsquo;s murder. He was fine here until they took him off the big line with Syl Apps and Jean Pronovost.&rdquo;Playing with Ratelle and Gilbert, Polis could challenge for the NHL All Star squad. If Middleton can come close to Steve Vickers&rsquo; 30 goal season as a rookie two years ago, it will take pressure of both Tkaczuk and Vickers in the scoring department. Tkacsuk, although a strong bear of a forechecker, has never had a really outstanding year as a scorer. But he made goal scorers of Dave Balon and Vickers, so Middleton has a golden opportunity.The Blueshirts had a bad night against Toronto, giving up three goals is as many minutes in the second period.&ldquo;We stopped playing for five minutes and it was all over,&rdquo; said Park, who was on the ice for four goals.Sanderson, upset over a 5-1 deficit at the end of two periods, failed to appear for a Hockey Night in Canada TV appearance.Meanwhile The Cat told Nick Beverley, the sixth defenseman, to get a Long Beach apartment. He sent John Bednarski, the rough, tough kid to Providence.Sanderson was playing with Jerry Butler, who scored the first goal of the game against Toronto and either Polis or Bobby Rousseau. Rousseau showed he still has his power-play magic late in the Toronto game.BLUE CHIPS: Bobby Zurfluh led the Washington Capitals brass to New York for the NHL debut of the Caps on October 9. Virginia Anderson, wife of Jimmy, the Caps&rsquo; coach, was also on hand to watch Jimmy&rsquo;s NHL coaching debut. Ditto GM Milt Schmidt, who with Anderson was happy at the showing of the expansion Caps&hellip; So far New York has played only Ed Giacomin in goal, without using Gilles Villemure. Giacomin&rsquo;s work is vital to the Rangers* chances of catching Philadelphia in the Lester Patrick Division&hellip; Rangers have relanced the rule about ties on the road. It was almost funny as Derek Sanderson wore a tie and most of the troops did not in Toronto Oct 12. The boys are sporting so many mustaches they are giving the Oakland Athletics a run for the title &lsquo;Mustache Gang&rsquo;. &#9632;

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Middleton Could Be Key To Ranger Season

<div class="byline">By Jules Furth</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01686/3464609-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="206" height="316"></div>Dear Jules:I would like to know who was the first man to think to pull the goalie in the last minute of play in the game? And did this man&rsquo;s team tie up the game?M.G. Hewlett, N.Y.Dear M.G.:The very first man to try this strategy was some obscure minor league coach in 1931. Nobody seems to remember his name. Nobody, however, will ever forget the name of the man who first pulled this stdnt in major league competition. It also came in 1941 and in the most major competiton of the day&hellip; a Stanley Cup Playoff Game.This imaginative, inventive hockey genius also gave us the design for the puck and goal nets now in use today. He also developed the first Achilles tendon guard made of protective fiber that went on the back of the skate boot. The name of this genius&hellip; Arthur Howey Ross.Art Ross saw pucks bounce out of goal cages and back into play like ricocheting bullets causing much confusion. He built a goal that used a mesh net instead of the taut twine that allowed the puck to stay in most of the time. His puck utilized a beveled edge that stings a fan&rsquo;s hands when catching one coming out of play!!Enough of the approved Art Ross inventions. Let&rsquo;s talk about Art Ross the innovator. On March 26,1931 as coach of the Boston Bruins, he managed them against the Montreal Canadiens in Stanley Cup Play. In the second game of the semi-final series Ross found his Bruins on the short end of a 1-0 score with about a minute left to play. With play stopped, he signalled to Cecil &ldquo;Tiny&rdquo; Thompson, his spunky goalie, to come over to the bench. Thompson skated over to the bench and sat down!! Ross sent out another forward to take his place.The immediate reactions were varied. The fans couldn&rsquo;t believe the sight of an empty net and the buzzing sound rose in volume as they gesticulated and pointed at the Boston end of the rink. The press, the referee, the Montreal coach and players were baffled. They couldn&rsquo;t find any immediate objection or anything illegal in the Rulebook about this maneuver so they let play progress. The Bruins peppered the Montreal net but to no avail. The Canadiens held on to their precarious one goal lead to win the game. (They consequently beat the Chicago Black Hawks three games to two to win the Stanley Cup.)Needless to say it was the topic of conversation of the hockey world that year. According to Brian McFarlane, the strategy didn&rsquo;t work for that minor league coach either. However, it is the accepted play today and always exciting to watch whether it backfires or wins.Dear Jules:There are little tricks to the game that can be used to gain an advantage. One I thought of is why can&rsquo;t a player who is in the penalty box stay there to avoid an icing call on his team after his penalty is over? The linesman would only count five players on the ice and not know that penalty was over and think the team was still shorthanded. This would give his team better ice position on the face off.G.P. St. Louis, Mo.Dear G.P.:They have been playing hockey for a long time now and the officials are pretty well aware of most of the legal tricks. Yours is a good idea and might work some of the time if the linesmen are not alert. As good an idea as it is, it isn&rsquo;t allowed.As the end of the penalty time nears, watch the linesman look at the clock and even check with the penalty timekeeper. He will ask, &ldquo;What is the out time?&rdquo; to make sure. It is then the responsibility of the &ldquo;back&rdquo; linesman (the linesman responsible for determining whether the pass came from behind the red line) to make the decision. He will call &ldquo;icing&rdquo; when the penalty time has expired whether the player wants to come out and play or chooses to stay in the box and flirt with the cute redhead that always sits behind the sin bin. &#9632;

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hey, ref!

<div class="byline">BY PAT THOMPSON</div>TWIN CITIES &mdash;The pitfall of rebuilding a National Hockey League team: mistakes will be made.The questions facing the Minnesota North Stars in the early going of the 1974-75 season delve into how long it will take the newcomers to fit in and how often they will be burned before the transformation is completed.That major problem confronting general manager-coach Jack Gordon surfaced no sooner than the regular season opener Oct. 9, a 4-2 setback to the Pittsburgh Penguins.Minnesota opened the season with eight players who did not figure in the 1973-74 edition that missed the playoffs for only the second time in the team&rsquo;s seven-year history. Seven of these skaters have little or no NHL experience.&ldquo;We know that we&rsquo;ve got afairly young club,&rdquo; Gordon remarked, &ldquo;and mistakes are going to be made. We&rsquo;ve got to stay with them and get the experience.&rdquo;Doug Hicks, the team&rsquo;s 19-year-old top draft choice, is a case in point. The native of Cold Lake, Alta., enjoyed an excellent training camp, and is pegged for stardom. He showed enough flashes to draw the praise of Penguin coach Marc Boileau.But Hicks also learned a few facts of NHL life. He was the victim, of sorts, on the game-winning and insurance goals, both in the third period by Syl Apps. One play saw Apps get behind Hicks for a shofthanded goal, the other came after Jean Pronovost faked Hicks out of his skates at a faceoff circle and passed to unguarded Apps at the crease.&ldquo;Geez, did I learn my lessons in that game,&rdquo; exclaimed the 6&rsquo;, 185-pound blue-liner. &ldquo;I shouldn&rsquo;t have started running around out there. The pace was a lot different than the exhibitions.&rdquo;Welcome to the NHL.The other newcomers in the North Stars&rsquo; cast (not including Henry Boucha, obtained from the Red Wings for Danny Grant) are defenseman Chris Ahrens, center Blake Dunlop and wingers Richard Nantais, Johnny Rogers, Don Martineau, and John Flesch.Of this group, Dunlop had played in 12 NHL hames without scoring a point and Rogers carried a log of 10 games with two goals and four assists. Ahrens saw action in three games, Martineau four, the others zero.Dunlop, a second-year pro from Ottawa, distinguished himself in the training period with four goals and five assists in the eight games he suited up to rank as the team&rsquo;s number two exhibition center and top point maker among five centers.The 5&rsquo;11&rdquo;, 175-pound centerman credited a different attitude and a year in the minors (37 goals and 41 assists in 59 games at New Haven) for his performance.&ldquo;I came to training camp knowing what I was supposed to do,&rdquo; Dunlop said. &ldquo;In junior, I knew all the guys and was the bin star. When was too shy. It was hard to believe they started me out on a line with Bill Goldsworthy &mdash; I used watch him on television quite a bit&mdash;and I sort of stood around. This year I just tried to go out and prove I could stay.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02598/3464647-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="566" height="730"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG HICKS &hellip;Learning Fast</figcaption></div>Gordon is looking for the balance of his brood to find that confidence, and he is optimistic. Take Hicks, again.&ldquo;He learned some things in that Pittsburgh game,&rdquo; Gordon said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s going to get stronger, and I don&rsquo;t think a game like that will hurt his confidence.&rdquo;NORTH STAR NOTES: With five centers still with the team, Gordon has had one player watch from the press box. Veteran Fred Stanfield, a disappointment last season after his trade from Boston, was the first-game pick to sit in that perch. Some 900 persons turned out at a luncheon in Minneapolis honoring the North Stars. Mean Mary Jean, the petite television actress, was the featured guest. Lou Nanne and his recent hair transplant turned out the main target of many barbs bandied about at the affair. The day before the season opener, Gordon picked Fern Rivard as the backup goalie to Cesare Maniago. It was decided to send rookie Pete LoPresti to New Haven to get him more playing time. Nantais. another first-year pro, was on the New Haven roster until the last two pre-season games, earning a spot with two goals in one game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03481/3464640-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="560" height="732"><figcaption class="caption-body">RICHARD NANTAIS &hellip;Late Addition</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rookie Hicks Gets ‘Burned’ Early In Big League Career

<div class="byline">BY JAY GREENBERG</div>KANSAS CITY&mdash;The ice cream before the game was part of Simon Nolet&rsquo;s routine. Where he was eating it was not.He was in the coffee shop of a motel in Philadelphia, a town which for six years was his hockey home, and now he was ready to play against the team he had helped to the Stanley Cup championship the year before.&ldquo;It sure is going to seem funny.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m trying not to think about it.&rdquo;They wouldn&rsquo;t let him forget it. When the Kansas City Scouts skated onto the Spectrum ice a few hours later, the fans already in their seats cheered. When he reappeared half-an-hour after that for the start of the game, it had turned into a standing ovation.Then, as magic would have it. came a goal, a dazzling piece of work by Nolet that put the Flyers in an embarrassing position of being behind an expansion team playing only its third game in history, and without exaggeration, two-thirds of the capacity crowd of 17.007 were on their feet and cheering.&ldquo;I know they would probably clap,&rdquo; said Nolet after the valiant, disciplined but undermanned Scouts succumbed to the champions, 3-2. &ldquo;But I never expected an ovation.&ldquo;The fans here never booed me. They always like me, and I always tried my best for them. But I never thought I&rsquo;d get that.&rdquo;Nolet is the third-leading scorer in Flyer history, but had been nudged aside as Fred Shero had remade the club&rsquo;s image on the way to the Stanley Cup. Nolet had played in 35 of the Flyers&rsquo; regularseason games last year, so he could reasonably expect only an &ldquo;isn&rsquo;t that Nolet?&rdquo; or two, or a smattering of applause when he made his return.He got much more, and the goal was a piece of Hollywood that put the fans into time-lock. A Philadelphia writer said it was one of only two times in the eight-year history of the Flyers that a visiting player had been so treated. The other was when Red Berenson scored six goals in one game.Nolet only got his one, but it was spectacle in itself. With the Scouts skating short one man and the game tied 1-1. he took a pass from Butch Deadmarsh and had only one man to beat. It was only Bobby Clarke, and Nolet went right by him. His first shot was stopped by Wayne Stephenson, the Flyer goalie, but Nolet kept his stick down and poked in the rebound before Stephenson could recover.Nolet&rsquo;s stick went high into the air. his free hand shot up as he hashed back to the bench and over the boards, full of nervous excitement and with no other place to go. &ldquo;Was that Clarkie I went by?&rdquo; asked Nolet. grinning after the game. Clarkie was sprawled on the ice at that point, and later he was both sheepish and impressed.&ldquo;He went through me like I wasn&rsquo;t there,&rdquo; Clarke said. &ldquo;I should know he was too good a player to beat him like that.&rdquo;His Flyer teammates had rallied to Nolet&rsquo;s side last year, when he wasn&rsquo;t playing and wondering why, and Clarke said he was happy Nolet, at 32, was finally getting his chance to both play regularly and be a team leader. Bep Guidolin, the Scouts&rsquo; coach, had named Nolet the Scouts&rsquo; captain.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01585/3464678-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="552" height="710"><figcaption class="caption-body">SIMON NOLET &hellip;Big Opportunity</figcaption></div>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s got more responsibility now.&rdquo; said Clarke. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s with a team now where he probably won&rsquo;t make the playoffs for the rest of his career, but at leal he&rsquo;ll get his share of goals and recognition.&rdquo;The Scouts, at the time still coming together as a team, were already starting to look to him as their bridge over troubled expansion times. &ldquo;We were so up when Simon scored that goal,&rdquo; said Richard Lemieux, but inspirationalone couldn&rsquo;t carry them and the Flyers scored twice and won. Yet if one wants one surely wasn&rsquo;t expected by game number three. Simon shortened the schedule and provided it early.LOOSE PUCKS: Guidolin continued to juggle lines, trying to find the right combinations in the early games. The Scouts had very little time to practise power plays during training camp, what with everything else they had to do, and it showed. The Islanders took 17 penalties in the Scouts&rsquo; second game, and killed all but one&hellip; Nolet scored the first goal in Scouts history the second period and was assisted by Dave Hudson and Jim McElmury. &#9632;

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Nolet Makes Triumphant Return To Philly

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01595/3464961-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"></div><h2>ATLANTA</h2>Flames<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02483/3464954-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="215" height="188"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03363/3464947-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="719" height="583"></div><h2>BOSTON</h2>Bruins<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04274/3464940-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="191" height="188"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05208/3464933-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="726" height="560"></div><h2>BUFFALO</h2>Sabres<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06169/3464926-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="197" height="197"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-07144/3464919-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="718" height="616"></div><h2>CALIFORNIA</h2>Seals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-08119/3464912-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="277" height="125"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-09102/3464905-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="716" height="646"></div><h2>CHICAGO</h2>Black Hawks<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1089/3464898-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="212" height="194"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1185/3464891-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="725" height="548"></div><h2>DETROIT</h2>Red Wings<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1277/3464884-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="258" height="139"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1365/3464877-1-eng-US/f0018-132.jpg" title="f0018-13" width="712" height="553"></div><h2>KANSAS CITY</h2>Scouts<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1460/3464870-1-eng-US/f0018-142.jpg" title="f0018-14" width="215" height="205"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1558/3464863-1-eng-US/f0018-152.jpg" title="f0018-15" width="717" height="673"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>Kings<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1656/3464856-1-eng-US/f0018-162.jpg" title="f0018-16" width="187" height="225"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1746/3464849-1-eng-US/f0018-172.jpg" title="f0018-17" width="714" height="586"></div><h2>MINNESOTA</h2>North Stars<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1842/3464842-1-eng-US/f0018-182.jpg" title="f0018-18" width="224" height="201"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1938/3464835-1-eng-US/f0018-192.jpg" title="f0018-19" width="716" height="537"></div><h2>MONTREAL</h2>Canadiens<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2039/3464828-1-eng-US/f0018-202.jpg" title="f0018-20" width="223" height="180"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2137/3464821-1-eng-US/f0018-212.jpg" title="f0018-21" width="716" height="645"></div><h2>NEW YORK</h2>Islanders<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2234/3464814-1-eng-US/f0018-222.jpg" title="f0018-22" width="215" height="199"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2332/3464807-1-eng-US/f0018-232.jpg" title="f0018-23" width="714" height="638"></div><h2>NEW YORK</h2>Rangers<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2431/3464800-1-eng-US/f0018-242.jpg" title="f0018-24" width="190" height="203"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2531/3464793-1-eng-US/f0018-252.jpg" title="f0018-25" width="714" height="583"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>Flyers<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2630/3464786-1-eng-US/f0018-262.jpg" title="f0018-26" width="241" height="168"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2729/3464779-1-eng-US/f0018-272.jpg" title="f0018-27" width="711" height="516"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>Penguins<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2825/3464772-1-eng-US/f0018-282.jpg" title="f0018-28" width="223" height="205"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2920/3464765-1-eng-US/f0018-292.jpg" title="f0018-29" width="720" height="613"></div><h2>ST. LOUIS</h2>Blues<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3020/3464758-1-eng-US/f0018-302.jpg" title="f0018-30" width="197" height="171"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3119/3464751-1-eng-US/f0018-312.jpg" title="f0018-31" width="714" height="555"></div><h2>TORONTO</h2>Maple Leafs<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3218/3464744-1-eng-US/f0018-322.jpg" title="f0018-32" width="202" height="211"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3318/3464737-1-eng-US/f0018-332.jpg" title="f0018-33" width="720" height="698"></div><h2>VANCOUVER</h2>Canucks<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3415/3464730-1-eng-US/f0018-342.jpg" title="f0018-34" width="229" height="160"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3515/3464723-1-eng-US/f0018-352.jpg" title="f0018-35" width="733" height="640"></div><h2>WASHINGTON</h2>Capitals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3613/3464716-1-eng-US/f0018-362.jpg" title="f0018-36" width="266" height="149"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3711/3464709-1-eng-US/f0018-372.jpg" title="f0018-37" width="714" height="579"></div> &#9632;

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Playes’ Scoring & Penalty Statictics

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TOP NHL SCORERS

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Looking At NHL Goalers

MONTREAL&mdash;Marcel Dionne of Detroit Red Wings obviously agrees that a center in hockey should primarily be a playmaker first and a goal-scorer second.After Wings&rsquo; first five games, Dionne is the National Hockey League&rsquo;s leading scorer. He has 12 points but only one of those is a goal. His league-leading assist to tai of 11 includes five that he picked up during Detroit&rsquo;s 7-3 win against California Seals Oct. 13. In 1970-71 when Bobby Orr of Boston set the assist record for a season of 102, he had only three after five games.Maintaining the pace he has established so far this young season would give Dionne 176 assists for the season but with 75 games still left in the schedule, the Wings&rsquo; 1971 first choice in the Amateur Draft is probably more satisfied with the best start the team has had in several seasons than with any assist record prospect. The Wings have won four of their first five games.Dionne has compiled more points in his first three seasons in the NHL than any other player in a similar span &mdash; 257 points, including 93 goals and 164 assists in 234 games. He led the Wings in scoring last season with 78 points, one more than Mickey Redmond, and had 90 in 1972-73, three fewer than Redmond that season.Redmond, too, is off to a fast start for the Wings with seven goals, the NHL lead in that department. He is well on his way to a third straight 50-goal season. Redmond had 51 last season and 52 goals two seasons ago.Yvan Cournoyer of Montreal Canadiens is second in the individual scoring race with 10 points, including five goals, Redmond shares third place with Gilbert Perreault and Don Luce of Buffalo, Jim Pappin of Chicago, Pete Mahovlich of Canadiens and Andr&eacute; Boudrias of Vancouver, each with nine points. Boudrias is second to Dionne in assists with nine. Last season&rsquo;s scoring champion &mdash; in fact the leading scorer for the last four seasons &mdash; Phil Esposito of Boston is tied with six other players for ninth place, all with eight points each.Los Angeles Kings continue to be the surprise of the NHL so far and are the only undefeated team in the League, this despite the fact they played their first five games on the road. Kings have three wins and three ties and lead the James &#9632;

NHL WEEK — In Review

<div class="byline">BY RUSS WHITE</div>WASHINGTON&mdash;Someday people might remember Jim Hrycuik, use his name in a hockey trivia quiz, and perhaps even pronounce it properly (Huhrye-chuck).Hrycuik already merits an asterisk in the record book.He is the fellow who scored the first goal for the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League at 5:06 of the first period Oct. 9 against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03377/3465075-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="278" height="524"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Hrycuik</figcaption></div>The goal came in Hrycuik&rsquo;s first NHL game, on this first shift, on his first shot. He was checking veteran Rod Seiling of the Rangers and alertly snatched the puck from between Seiling&rsquo;s legs. Teammate Dave Kryskow was skating alongside as the two Capitals made a dash for the Rangers&rsquo; goal. When the lone Ranger defender stayed with Kryskow, Krycuik had a clear shot on goal.He deked Ed Giacomin one and backhanded a shot past.Hrycuik had turned 25 only two days before his first NHL game and thought himself to be an odd major league rookie.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to have made it up sooner,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There were a lot of times when I almost gave up hoping. Just because every kid in Canada wants to play hockey doesn&rsquo;t mean that each one can. It looked for a while that I was going to be one who couldn&rsquo;t.&rdquo;Hrycuik, from Rostern Saskatchewan, fills one of the critical positions for the new Capitals &mdash; center.General manager Milt Schmidt combed the bushes for capable centermen last winter. He caught up with Hrycuik in Hershey, Pa. It was a better find than a crate of good Hershey chocolate bars. Schmidt was soon stuck on Hrycuik.&ldquo;I knew he was there,&rdquo; Hrycuik said. &ldquo;I knew a lot of scouts were coming to our games. I didn&rsquo;t know they were looking at me. We had a lot of guys who could come up to the NHL.&rdquo;His first night goal is just a start. Hrycuik knows that.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not bedded down yet,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have a place to stay in Washington. I keep my bags packed. I&rsquo;m approaching this thing day-to-day. I&rsquo;m afraid to tell myself that I&rsquo;ve got it made. I&rsquo;ve got to keep working.&rdquo;Hrycuik could hardly wipe away his own satisfaction after game one despite the fact that the team fell to pieces late in the third period and was dumped 6-3. It had been a victory of sorts. One, the team didn&rsquo;t embarrass itself. Two, it gave promise it might not ever embarrass itself.&ldquo;The worst moments,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;were when we got trapped in our own zone and couldn&rsquo;t move the puck out. They swarmed all over us. They hit us, they muscled us. I never realized how strong some of the guys are who are in the league.&ldquo;I think it was Ron Harris who got me once. And I remember when a melee broke out that the guy I bumped into and started to hold on to was Peter Stemkowski. I must be crazy. What is he 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, 210?&rdquo;It wasn&rsquo;t like any hockey Hrycuik had played before, and he&rsquo;s been a few places.&ldquo;I might be one the few guys in this league who ever played in Johannesburg, South Africa,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It was the best I could do a few years ago. I&rsquo;d finished Junior A and no one noticed. So I tried Senior amateur and we had this trip to South Africa for a tournament.&rdquo;An amateur tournament in South Africa to the ice at Madison Square Garden is quite a jump. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think it really has hit me yet just where I am,&rdquo; Hrycuik said.Hrycuik came out a plus two against the Rangers which means that he was on the ice for two Washington scores &mdash; the one he scored himself and one that he assisted Dave Kryskow on in the third period &mdash; and that he was not on for any of the Ranger goals.General managers keep plus and minus records for the season. Bobby Orr is liable to come out a plus 80 for the year. Maybe even better.Hrycuik was a plus 38 at Hershey last year and helped his club take the Calder Trophy in the American Hockey League playoffs.NOTES: Caps were routed 6-0 in second game at Minnesota as Cesare Maniago recorded his 26th NHL shutout. Schmidt and coach Jimmy Anderson were more concerned about lack of fight in that game than lack of goals. Anderson threatened some of those on the big league roster that there are kids on the Richmond farm who could be brought up. Lefty Reid of the Hockey Hall of Fame brought the Stanley Cup to Washington for Capital Centre first night Oct. 15. It&rsquo;ll take some doing for the Cup to return.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0625/3465068-1-eng-US/f0042-062.jpg" title="f0042-06" width="562" height="728"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOCELYN GUEVREMONT</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0723/3465061-1-eng-US/f0042-072.jpg" title="f0042-07" width="560" height="732"><figcaption class="caption-body">MIKE ROBITAILLE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0816/3465054-1-eng-US/f0042-082.jpg" title="f0042-08" width="562" height="730"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARRY MONAHAN</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Scoring Capitals’ First Goal Completes Hrycuik’s Big Jump

<div class="byline">BY ALAN TRUEX</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S and CanadaATLANTA&mdash;Scoring 26 goals for the Atlanta Flames last year was no guarantee Bobby Leiter would play regularly this year.Because in 1972-73, he also scored 26 goals &mdash; and lost his turn on the ice when the next season started. For even though Leiter led the club that season in goal production and points (60), Atlanta&rsquo;s management thought he may have been worn out at the age of 32.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01418/3465130-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="565" height="1189"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY LEITER &hellip;A New Look</figcaption></div>Leiter didn&rsquo;t finish the 1972-73 season as well as he started it, so general manager Cliff Fletcher speculated, &ldquo;We just didn&rsquo;t think he had enough stamina to go the full season. So Leiter spent the first two months of the 1973-74 season as the No.4 center.Now if this happens to anyone else, there are fumes of anger. Demands of a trade, threats of retirement or league jumping and a mouthful of expletives, are sprayed at the coach.When Leiter got the news he wouldn&rsquo;t be playing much, he was so upset he quit smiling. For a full three minutes. It was the closest he has ever come to being furious.He shrugged it off, sat placidly on the bench and never said a word against coach Bernie Geoffrion.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t feel I should be sitting out,&rdquo;Leiter says. &ldquo;But I wasn&rsquo;t resentful. I realized they had some younger centers they wanted to play, and that&rsquo;s understandable.&rdquo;Leiter didn&rsquo;t feel that he had tired out at end of the previous season. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just that the whole team had a slight letdown, and we had some rough games.&rdquo;Playing rarely, Leiter scored only six goals in the first half of the 1973-74 season. Then, when Geoffrion decided to give him more of a chance, he delivered 20 goals in the second half, finishing with 26 for the second straight year. He also had 26 assists.Leiter&rsquo;s size, 5&rsquo;9&rdquo; and 180 pounds, is one reason his stamina is in doubt. But he says, &ldquo;I believe I have several more years of hockey left. I feel stronger and just as quick as when I broke into the league. I don&rsquo;t get knocked down as much as I used to.&rdquo;He says, &ldquo;The older I get, the more I learn how to save steps and keep from tiring out as fast.&rdquo;Leiter&rsquo;s baldness makes him look older than he is, but to offset that problem, he wears a toupee. This has evoked considerable joking by his teammates, but Leiter has taken advantage of the publicity by endorsing toupees for an Atlanta distributor.&ldquo;I have to do something to try to keep up with these young kids on this team,&rdquo; he smiles. Sor far, he&rsquo;s kept up fine on the ice, at least.&ldquo;I think after the year I had last year I&rsquo;m going to play regularly for the whole season,&rdquo; he predicts confidently.The Flames probably have learned their lesson about not playing him.FLAMES NOTES Dean Talafous, a center just out of the University of Wisconsin, had a strong pre-season but was sent down to Omaha for minor-league experience. The Flames did keep four rookies &mdash; left winger Eric Vail, who played well for them last year; left winger Gerry Byers from the Minnesota North Stars; defenseman Dwight Bialowas and forward Vic Mercredi. However, Mercredi did not suit out in the first three games of the regular season and wasn&rsquo;t expected to stay long with the big club&hellip;The goaltending of Dan Bouchard and Phil Myre was nearly flawless through the preseason and into the early regular season. Geoffrion is planning to use both equally, at least until one establishes superiority. So far, they&rsquo;re dead even&hellip;Left wing Jacques Richard has been shifted off the Tom Lysiak line in a demotion for Richard, who had a disappointing camp. Richard didn&rsquo;t like the move and is at odds with Geoffrion.&ldquo;I scored 27 goals,&rdquo; Richard points out. &ldquo;What does he expect of me?&rdquo; The barbs are going both ways. One game, Geoffrion moved Richard.to right wing Buster Harvey had a groin pull. Asked about the switch, Geoffrion said, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been over on the right side all the time, anyway, so I might as well play him there.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Bench Role At End For Leiter — 52 Goals Later

JIM PAPPINChicago Black HawksThe early season heroics in hockey are usually left to rookies and players fighting to stay in the National Hockey League. Jim Pappin is certainly no rookie and he doesn&rsquo;t have to worry about his job, either.But his early figures show that the 35-year-old right winger isn&rsquo;t waiting to get started this season.Pappin scored four goals and four assists last week in leading the Black Hawks to three victories. The highlight was a one goal and four assists in a 6-0 victory over Minnesota.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02318/3465175-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="553" height="730"></div>MICKEY REDMONDDetroit Red WingsTwo years ago Mikey Redmond stunned the hockey world by scoring 52 goals. The Detroit right winger continued his assault on the record books last season with 51 and appears well on his way to another 50-goal season.The 26-year-old scored five goals last week to boost his season total to seven. Redmond scored twice in the Wings&rsquo; 4-2 victory over Atlanta and added three in a 6-4 decision over the Washington Capitals.At that pace, Redmond could be headed for 60 goals this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03265/3465168-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="544" height="736"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-04189/3465161-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="669" height="765"><figcaption class="caption-body">A teste you can call your own.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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NHL Player’s of the week.

<div class="byline">BY BILL FLEISCHMAN</div>PHILADELPHIA &mdash;June was not the most relaxed month around the Crisp household in St. Mary&rsquo;s, Ont. The NHL expansion draft to stock Kansas City and Washington was to be held and Terry Crisp was worried.Just weeks before, Crisp had helped the Philadelphia Flyers win their first Stanley Cup. Crisp&rsquo;s role wasn&rsquo;t as pro minent as Bobby Clarke&rsquo;s, Rick MacLeish&rsquo;s or Bernie Parent&rsquo;s, but the veteran handyman was valuable. In fact, coach Fred Shero later admitted that Crisp was actually running the Flyers from the bench in the chaotic closing minutes of the clincher against Boston.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01263/3465213-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="289" height="493"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Kelly</figcaption></div>The Flyers wanted to keep Crisp, but protecting him was a problem. It was either Crisp, 31, or Bill Clement, 23. The Flyers finally decided to include Clement among the protected, leaving Crisp to fret.&ldquo;Nobody likes to leave any team. period, &ldquo;Crisp said later. &ldquo;You like to feel you&rsquo;re part of something. Finally, I just said to my wife, Sheila, &lsquo;Whatever happens, happens.&rsquo;&rdquo;Crisp&rsquo;s fears were relieved early in the draft. Goalie Michel Belhumeur was the first Flyer chosen (by Washington) and the Flyers filled with Joe Watson. When Kansas City selected Simon Nolet, Crisp was quickly back among the protected.Halfway through training camp, the energetic redhead&rsquo;s value was underscored again when MacLeish suffered a groin pull. Guess who was centering the Ross Lonsberry&mdash;Gary Dornhoefer line for several games?And in the second regular season game, guess who scored two goals and two assists? Crisp, that&rsquo;s who, the same guy who somehow manages to contribute big plays just when they are needed.The Flyers had lost their opener to Los Angeles making the customers impatient for a good start in the matinee against Buffalo. So, Crisp smacked in a rare slapshot just over four minutes into the game, then added another goal mid-way in the period giving the Flyers a 3-0 lead.&ldquo;I think I&rsquo;ve had a four-point game before in the NHL, with one goal and three assists,&rdquo; Crisp said. &ldquo;But this is my first two-goal game.&rdquo;The Flyers tried to get Crisp his first hat trick. Clarke stationed him high in the slot, then won a face-off, but goalie Rocky Farr stopped Crisp&rsquo;s shot.&ldquo;Clarkie did everything he could for me,&rdquo; Crisp said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never been that close to a hat trick.&rdquo;Crisp could never cruise within another hat trick and he&rsquo;d still be important to the Flyers. He&rsquo;ll never be compared as a skater to Yvan Cournoyer, or even Yvon Lambert, but what he lacks in skill he makes up for with hustle and anticipation. As a forechecker, his stick appears to be a giant windshield wiper as it glides back and forth across the ice.Two years from now, when Denver and Seattle join the NHL and cause a further talent drain, Crisp may not be as fortunate at evading the draft. He won&rsquo;t like it, but he is prepared.It&rsquo;s part of the game, but it&rsquo;s hard to accept,&rdquo; the thoughtful veteran said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s toughest on your family, making the kids change schools and things.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve gone through it (expansion) twice, with St. Louis and the Islanders. The only way I&rsquo;ll do it again is if I&rsquo;d get a really good salary and the club would say &lsquo;Crispie, we&rsquo;re counting on you to help our young players, not to pull us up by the bootstraps on the ice.&rsquo;&rdquo;Meanwhile, Crisp will continue to pull the Flyers up by the bootstraps when the occasion arises.FLYER FACTS: Remember Shero&rsquo;s prediction of a 20-goal season for Bob Kelly? Well, after three games the kamikaze-style winger was the Flyers&rsquo; top scorer (2-3-5)&hellip; Kansas City&rsquo;s first visit to the Spectrum was a hot one: a window drape caught fire, filling the arena with smoke and delaying the game by 30 minutes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-02193/3465206-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="559" height="1816"><figcaption class="caption-body">TERRY CRISP &hellip;Lifts Flyers</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Crisp Showing Flyers True Value

<div class="byline">BY HARRY KLAFF</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01289/3465258-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="502" height="457"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-02215/3465251-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="490" height="487"></div>LONG ISLAND &mdash;A year ago, Glenn Resch was playing goal for the Fort Worth Wings of the Central Hockey League, wondering when he would get his chance to play in the National Hockey League. A year ago, the New York Islanders were the have-nots of hockey, en route to their second last place finish in as many years.Just 12 months later, Resch had fulfilled his dream and was appearing as a regular with the Islanders. And the Islanders &mdash; for one brief instant at least &mdash; were the first place Islanders, leaders of the Lester Patrick Division.When the Isles topped the Kansas City Scouts in their home opener Oct. 12 by a score of 6-2, the club went into first place for the first time in its brief existence. It&rsquo;s still very early in the campaign, but as coach Al Arbour put it, &ldquo;It feels good; but it will feel even better if we stay there.&rdquo;Arbour decided to start his rookie netminder in the Nassau Coliseum outing at the last minute. Al usually informs the starting goaltender of his assignment the night before the game, but Resch didn&rsquo;t know about it until the morning.&ldquo;Al called me up, and told me I was starting,&rdquo; said the 26 year-old Regina product. &ldquo;I was a little surprised, so he asked me, &lsquo;Aren&rsquo;t you ready?&rsquo; I said &lsquo;sure,&rsquo; becoming a little more excited.&rdquo;&ldquo;I just didn&rsquo;t want him to be nervous,&rdquo; was Arbour&rsquo;s reason for not letting Resch in on the surprise earlier.Resch had little to be nervous about, as the Islanders built a 3-1 lead in the first period and were never headed. But he didn&rsquo;t have time to really unwind, as the Scouts took 36 shots at him in a penalty-ridden contest. &ldquo;He had to be sharp,&rdquo; said Arbour. &ldquo;The Scouts were a man up the whole game.&rdquo;&ldquo;They had some good chances, but I found I could play relaxed,&rdquo;said the articulate University of Minnesota-Duluth graduate. &ldquo;That give me an indication that I could play up here. In the exhibition game against the Rangers, I was tight, and I let in a couple of bad goals. But tonight I was playing my own game.&rdquo;Resch was the Islanders&rsquo;No. 1 minor league goaltender last year, as the parent club went the season with Billy Smith and Gerry Desjardins. But when the latter defected to Michigan of the WHA, it appeared that all Glenn would have to do to win a job this season was show up at training camp.&ldquo;I felt I had the job sewn up,&rdquo; said Resch. &ldquo;But Moose Lallo, who coached the Muskegon club of the International Hockey League, had a kid by the name of Billy Hughes. Moose said that he was super, and that he (Hughes) had told him that he &lsquo;was going to beat out Resch in training camp.&rsquo; That got me going.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m on a two-way contract, and that was another incentive for me. That means I get paid so much if I stick with the Islanders, and so much if I&rsquo;m sent back to the minors. But there&rsquo;s no such thing as a sure job in the NHL. If I don&rsquo;t play well, they&rsquo;ll just get someone else.&rdquo;Resch is a member of the growing list of former collegians who are making it in the NHL, something that was virtually unheard of a decade ago. After spending a couple of years with the Regina Pats of the Western Canada League, Glenn moved on to Minnesota-Duluth, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree.After graduation, Resch hooked up with the Montreal Canadiens organization, spending the 1971-72 season at Muskegon, where he was selected the rookie-of-the-year in addition to posting the best goals-against average in the circuit. After the season, he was purchased by the fledgling Islanders.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-03187/3465244-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="553" height="1111"><figcaption class="caption-body">GLENN RESCH &hellip;Another Collegian</figcaption></div>He spent the &lsquo;72-73 campaign with the New Haven Nighthawks, and moved on to Fort Worth when the Islanders shifted their minor league affiliate. He was the Central League&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player last year, and was promoted to the Isles for a two game tryout, which saw him win one and lose one. &#9632;

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Islanders Rookie Resch Proving Cool Customer Under Early Fire

LONG ISLAND &mdash;Islanders weren&rsquo;t expected to score many goals, but the club scored 11 in its first two games. Center Ralph Stewart led the way with three goals in tha span&hellip;Billy Harris&rsquo; injured ankle has healed, and the former top draft choice has been placed on a line with Eddie Westfall and newcomer Clark Gillies&hellip;Denis Potvin didn&rsquo;t miss a turn despite a broken bone in his left hand. It has affected his shooting, but not his overall play&hellip; Craig Cameron missed the Islanders&rsquo; first few games with what was described as a &ldquo;slight case of pneumonia.&rdquo; &hellip;The Islanders home game against California, originally slated for Oct.29, was moved to the 28th to accomodate a closed circuit screening of the Muhammed Ali-George Foreman bout at the Coliseum&hellip;The Canadiens tied the Islanders 5-5 on opening night when Peter Mahovlich scored two power-play goals in the final two minutes. The Habs had a two man advantage (with Ken Dryden pulled on the second one) on both occasions.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-04144/3465289-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="541" height="793"><figcaption class="caption-body">RALPH STEWART</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Stewart Puts Punch In Islander Offense

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div>ST. LOUIS &mdash;Phil Roberto, hoping very much to get off to a good start this season with the St. Louis Blues, missed the first regular-season game with a cracked knuckle.For more than 16 months Roberto&rsquo;s hockey career has been in limbo because of a freak injury that severed the nerves in his arm in 1973. Unlike the many cuts routinely suffered by hockey players, the gash in Roberto&rsquo;s arm was the kind of major injury that can put a crimp in a fellow&rsquo;s career. The husky right wing hopes the minor knuckle injury at the outset of this season is only a temporary delay in his long return to top playing form.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01267/3465320-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="272" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Roberto</figcaption></div>At the end of the 1972-73 season, after he had scored 20 goals for the first time, Roberto visited his parents in Niagara Falls, Ont. As he was leaving the house one day, he slammed the glass-and-metal storm door on the side of the garage. The storm door bounced back at him, and Roberto stiffarmed it to prevent it from hitting him in the face. His hand broke the glass, which fell on to his arm and and cut deeply into a nerve.Roberto underwent surgery in Toronto, and his arm was still in a cast when the blues played their opening game last season. He finally was permitted to skate at the beginning of December but his legs had grown weak over seven months of inactivity, and his shot was a shadow of what it had been.Roberto got into a few games in the second half of the season, but the layoff had been too long for him to rejoin the competition. He spent some time with the Denver farm team and started thinking about full recovery by the beginning of this season.The blues once gave up their team captain, Jimmy Roberts, to get Roberto in a trade with Montreal and have always been convinced of his worth. The injury did not change the minds of the team&rsquo;s management, and Roberto was retained for this season even though the Blues made a series of trades and changes. Coach Lou Angotti told Roberto to work hard this summer on restoring the strength of the arm, and Roberto seriously took up the game of tennis to strengthen his arm. He played virtually every day, frequently with teammate Barclay Plager.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m taking the attitude that I just lost a year out of my career,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the same as if I had suffered a separated shoulder or a broken ankle during a game.&rdquo;Roberto was enthusiastic in training camp, but Angotti was determined not to rush him into action. The coach switched center Brian Ogilvie to right wing, where Pierre Plante and Bill Collins are the other St. Louis wingers plus Roberto.&ldquo;Roberto is behind the other guys but he&rsquo;s working hard,&rdquo; Angotti said. &ldquo;He sat out almost the entire year, and I don&rsquo;t expect him to come around for awhile.&rdquo;Roberto hoped that training camp would be sufficient time to get with the pace, but then he suffered the bothersome knuckle injury which kept him out of the last few exhibition games.When the Blues went to the West Coast for their first two regularseason games with California and Vancouver, Roberto was left in St. Louis.Ogilvie, who would have been the fourth-string center behind Garry Unger, Wayne Merrick and Dave Gardner, started the game at right wing with Unger at center and top draft choice Bob Hess, normally a defenseman, on left wing in place of John Wensink, out with a back injury. Ogilvie, obtained from Chicago in June, scored the first St. Louis goal of the season by deflecting a shot by Don Awrey on the left point. &#9632;

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Injury Jinx Continues To Plague Blues’ Roberto

(Standings on Tue. Oct. 22)<h2>PATRICK DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-2311/3465627-1-eng-US/f0024-232.jpg" title="f0024-23" width="583" height="152"></div><h2>SMYTHE DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-2410/3465620-1-eng-US/f0024-242.jpg" title="f0024-24" width="578" height="174"></div><h2>NORRIS DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-258/3465613-1-eng-US/f0024-252.jpg" title="f0024-25" width="588" height="181"></div><h2>ADAMS DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-265/3465606-1-eng-US/f0024-262.jpg" title="f0024-26" width="579" height="126"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Oct. 15Montreal 3, at N.Y. Islanders 6; Los Angeles 1 at Washington 1; Vancouver 6 at St. Louis 4.Wed. Oct. 16California 5 at N.Y. Rangers 5; Atlanta 2 at Detroit 2; Los Angeles 1 at Toronto 1; Vancouver 1 at Minnesota 1; Boston 0 at Chicago 4.Thur. Oct. 17Boston 4 at Philadelphia 1; Montreal 2 at St. Louis 3; Chicago 3 at Washington 4; California 1 at Buffalo 6.Fri. Oct. 18Kansas City 2 at Atlanta 4Sat. Oct. 19N.Y. Rangers 4 at N.Y. Islanders 2; Philadelphia 6 at Pittsburgh 3; California 1 at Montreal 5; Washington 4 at Detroit 6; Kansas City 0 at Los Angeles 3; Vancouver 5 at Toronto 4; Chicago 3 at St. Louis 1; Buffalo 2 at Minnesota 1.Sun. Oct. 20Vancouver 1 at N.Y. Rangers 0; N.Y. Islanders 5 at Washington 0; Montreal 2 at Philadelphia 2; Pittsburgh 1 at Atlanta 5; Minnesota 0 at Chicago 6; California 0 at Boston 5; Toronto 5 at Buffalo 5.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Oct. 22Atlanta at N.Y. Islanders; Philadelphia at Los Angeles; Detroit at Washington; Minne-Wed. Oct. 23St. Louis at N.Y. Rangers; Detroit at Atlanta. Montreal at Toronto Washington at Chicago; Boston at Pittsburgh; Kansas City at California.Thu. Oct. 24Buffalo at Los Angeles; St. Louis at Boston.Fri. Oct. 25Philadelphia at California; Minnesota at Atlanta. Kansas City at Vancouver.Sat Oct. 26N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh. Minnesota at N.Y. Islanders. Philadelphia at Vancouver; Detroit at Montreal; California at Los Angeles; Chicago at Toronto; Buffalo at St. Louis.Sun. Oct 27Atlanta at N.Y. Islanders; Montreal at Buffalo; Toronto at Washington: St Louis at Chicago; Kansas City at BostonMon. Oct. 29Pittsburgh at Los AngelesTue. Oct. 29California at N.Y. Islanders; Buffalo at Washington; Detroit at Vancouver; St. Louis at TorontoWed. Oct. 30N.Y. Islanders at N.Y Rangers; California at Atlanta; Chicago at Montreal; Boston at Minnesota.Thu. Oct. 31N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia; Montreal at Washington; St. Louis at Los AngelesFri. Nov. 1Toronto at Atlanta; Pittsburgh at Vancou- &#9632;

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LOOKING AT THE NHL SCOREBOARD

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0024-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01274/3465575-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg"></div>WARNING: The Department of National Health and Welfare advises that danger to health increases with amount smoked.<h2>Tue. Oct. 15</h2>MONTREAL 3, ISLANDERS 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02210/3465568-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="583" height="491"></div>LOS ANGELES 1, WASHINGTON 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-03148/3465561-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="582" height="487"></div>VANCOUVER 6, ST. LOUIS 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-04114/3465554-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="589" height="727"></div><h2>Wed. Oct. 16</h2>CALIFORNIA 5, RANGERS 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0588/3465547-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="589" height="661"></div>ATLANTA 2, DETROIT 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0675/3465540-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="583" height="252"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0761/3465533-1-eng-US/f0024-072.jpg" title="f0024-07" width="584" height="171"></div>LOS ANGELES 1, TORONTO 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0856/3465526-1-eng-US/f0024-082.jpg" title="f0024-08" width="582" height="433"></div>VANCOUVER 1, MINNESOTA 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0951/3465519-1-eng-US/f0024-092.jpg" title="f0024-09" width="580" height="438"></div>BOSTON 0, CHICAGO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1045/3465512-1-eng-US/f0024-102.jpg" title="f0024-10" width="585" height="523"></div><h2>Thur. Oct. 17</h2>BOSTON 4, PHILADELPHIA 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1143/3465505-1-eng-US/f0024-112.jpg" title="f0024-11" width="587" height="556"></div>MONTREAL 2, ST. LOUIS 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1237/3465498-1-eng-US/f0024-122.jpg" title="f0024-12" width="581" height="457"></div>CHICAGO 3, WASHINGTON 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1327/3465491-1-eng-US/f0024-132.jpg" title="f0024-13" width="589" height="553"></div>CALIFORNIA 1, BUFFALO 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1421/3465484-1-eng-US/f0024-142.jpg" title="f0024-14" width="590" height="489"></div><h2>Fri. Oct. 18</h2>KANSAS CITY 2, ATLANTA 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1517/3465477-1-eng-US/f0024-152.jpg" title="f0024-15" width="588" height="486"></div><h2>Sat. Oct. 19</h2>RANGERS 4, ISLANDERS 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1615/3465470-1-eng-US/f0024-162.jpg" title="f0024-16" width="583" height="457"></div>PHILADELPHIA 6, PITTSBURGH 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1713/3465463-1-eng-US/f0024-172.jpg" title="f0024-17" width="569" height="69"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1812/3465456-1-eng-US/f0024-182.jpg" title="f0024-18" width="588" height="578"></div>CALIFORNIA 1, MONTREAL 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1912/3465449-1-eng-US/f0024-192.jpg" title="f0024-19" width="589" height="515"></div>WASHINGTON 4, DETROIT 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-2011/3465442-1-eng-US/f0024-202.jpg" title="f0024-20" width="589" height="549"></div>KANSAS CITY 0, LOS ANGELES 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-2111/3465435-1-eng-US/f0024-212.jpg" title="f0024-21" width="579" height="490"></div>VANCOUVER 5, TORONTO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-2211/3465428-1-eng-US/f0024-222.jpg" title="f0024-22" width="591" height="594"></div>CHICAGO 3, ST. LOUIS 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01224/3465421-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="596" height="433"></div>BUFFALO 2, MINNESOTA 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-02160/3465414-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="586" height="380"></div><h2>Sun. Oct. 20</h2>VANCOUVER 1, RANGERS 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-03112/3465407-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="586" height="413"></div>ISLANDERS 5, WASHINGTON 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0486/3465400-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="595" height="434"></div>MONTREAL 2, PHILADELPHIA 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0574/3465393-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="593" height="468"></div>PITTSBURGH 1, ATLANTA 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0658/3465386-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="592" height="524"></div>MINNESOTA 0, CHICAGO 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0755/3465379-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="592" height="522"></div>CALIFORNIA 0, BOSTON 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0847/3465372-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="583" height="181"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0941/3465365-1-eng-US/f0025-092.jpg" title="f0025-09" width="597" height="234"></div>TORONTO 5, BUFFALO 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1028/3465358-1-eng-US/f0025-102.jpg" title="f0025-10" width="591" height="695"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1122/3465351-1-eng-US/f0025-112.jpg" title="f0025-11" width="1818" height="938"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leafs&rsquo; rookie Lyle Moffat manoeuvres puck past Boston defenseman Carol Vadnais (10)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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National Hockey League Summaries

C&mdash;CaptainA&mdash;Alternate*&mdash;Rookie<h2>BOSTON</h2>GOALGilles GilbertRoss BrooksKen BroderickDEFENSEGary DoakDarryl EdestrandBobby Orr AAl SimsDallas Smith ACarol VadnaisCENTERPhil Esposito AWalt McKechnieAndre SavardGregg SheppardR. WINGKen HodgeTerry O&rsquo;ReillyBobby SchmautzL. WINGJohn Bucyk CWayne CashmanDave ForbesDon MarcotteINJUREDNone.<h2>BUFFALO</h2>GOALJacques CaronGary Bomley*Rocky Farr*DEFENSELarry CarriereLee Fogolin*Bill Hajt*Jerry KorabPaul McIntosh*Jim Schoenfeld AJocelyn GuevremontCENTERDon Luce APeter McNab*Gil Perreault AR. WINGNorm GrattonBryan McSheffreyLarry MickeyRene RobertL. WINGJim LorentzRichard MartinCraig RamsayBrian SpencerMorris Titanic*INJUREDNone.<h2>DETROIT</h2>GOALJim RutherfordDoug GrantTerry Richardson*DEFENSEThommie BergmanGary Bergman AJean HamelClaude Houde*Jack LynchBryan Watson ACENTERRed BerensonMarcel Dionne CBill HogaboamMike Jakubo *R. WINGEarl Anderson*Mickey Redmond ANelson Pyatt*L. WINGGuy CharronPierre JarryNick Libett ABill Lochead *Hank Nowak *Danny GrantINJUREDDoug Roberts<h2>ISLANDERS</h2>GOALGlen Resch *Billy SmithDEFENSEDave Fortier*Gerry HartDave LewisBert MarshallDenis PotvinJean PotvinCENTERLorne HenningBob Bourne *Ralph Stewart AEddie Westfall CR. WINGCraig CameronBilly Harris ABob NystromAndre St. LaurentL. WINGClark Gillies *Ernie HickeGarry HowattBilly MacMillanINJUREDNone<h2>MONTREAL</h2>GOALKen DrydenMichel LarocqueWayne ThomasDEFENSPierre BouchardRick Chartraw*Guy LapointeLarry RobinsonSerge SavardJohn Van BoxmeerCENTERJacques LemairePete MahovlichHenri Richard CDoug Risebrough *Guy LafleurR. WINGYvan Cournoyer AGlenn Goldup *Claude Larose AJim RobertsChuck LefleyL. WINGBob GaineyYvon LambertGlenn SatherSteve ShuttMurray WilsonINJUREDJacques Laperriere A<h2>RANGERS</h2>GOALEd GiacominGilles VillemureDEFENSENick Beverley*Ron HarrisGilles MarotteBrad Park CDale RolfeRod SeilingCENTERJean RatelieDerek SandersonPete StemkowskiWalt TkaczukR. WINGJerry ButlerBill FairbairnRod Gilbert ARick Middleton *Bobby RousseauL. WINGTed IrvineSteve VickersGreg PolisINJUREDNone<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALDoug FavellDune WilsonDEFENSEBrian GlennieJim McKennyBob NeelyBorje SalmingIan TurnbullWillie BrossartCENTERGeorge FergusonDave Keon CDarryl SittierNorm Ullman AR. WINGRon Ellis ABill FlettBlaine StoughtonLanny McDonaldTim EcclestoneL. WINGInge HammarstromLyle Moffat*Dave DunnEddie ShackErrol ThompsonINJUREDGary Sabourin<h2>VANCOUVER</h2>GOALGary SmithKen LockettDEFENSEBob DaileyDennis KearnsJim MairTracy PrattHarold Snepts*Barry WilkinsJohn Grisdale*Mike RobitailleCENTERAndre BoudriasChris OddleifsonJim Wiley*Jerry O&rsquo;FlahertyGerry Meehan CR. WINGPaulin BordeleauGregg BoddyDennis VervergaertLeon RochefortL. WINGn John GouldDon LeverBobby LalondeGarry MonahanINJUREDNone<h2>KANAS CITY</h2>GOALMichel PlassePeter McDuffe*DEFENSEChris EvansMike Baumgartner *Brent Hughes AJim McElmury*Bart CrashleyBryan LefleyCENTEREddie Gilbert*Richard LemieuxJohn WrightGlen Burdon*Dave HudsonR. WINGSimon Nolet CWilf Paiement*Randy Rota ATed SnellDoug Horbul*L. WINGRobin Burns*Lynn PowisNorm Dube*Gary CroteauButch Deadmarsh AINJUREDNone.<h2>ATLANTA</h2>GOALDan BouchardPhil MyreDEFENSEArnie BrownDwight Bialowas*Jean LemieuxRandy ManeryPat Quinn ANoel Price ABob MurrayCENTERCurt BennettRey ComeauBryan HextailBob Leiter ATom LysiakR. WINGHilliard GravesBuster HarveyLarry RomanchychL. WINGJerry ByersKeith McCreary CEric VailINJUREDJacques Richard<h2>CALIFORNIA</h2>GOALGilles MelocheGary Simmons*Marv EdwardsDEFENSELen Frig ARick Hampton*Ted McAneeleyJim Neilson ABob StewartMike Christie*CENTERRon Huston*Larry Patey*Stan WeirLarry WrightR. WINGWayne King *Morris MottCraig PatrickAl MacAdam *Jim Moxey *L. WINGStan GilbertsonJoey Johnston CJohn StewartDave Hrechkosy *Brian LavenderINJUREDNone<h2>CHICAGO</h2>GOALTony EspositoMike VeisorDEFENSEDoug Jarrett AKeith MagnusonDick RedmondPhil RussellBill White ACENTERIvan BoldirevPit MartinStan Mikita ADale TallonR. WINGJ.P. BordeleauAlain Daigle*Cliff KorrollChico MakiGrant Mulvey*Jim PappinL. WINGDennis HullDarcy RotaJohn MarksINJUREDNone<h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>GOALRogatien VachonGary EdwardsDEFENSELarry BrownTerry Harper CDave Hutchison*S. KannegeisserNeil KomadoskiBob MurdochCENTERGene CarrJimmy PetersVic VenaskyJuha Widing AR. WINGMike CorriganDon KozakMike MurphyBob NevinFrank St. MarseilleL. WINGBob BerryDan Maloney ATom WilliamsINJUREDButch Goring<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>GOALCesare ManiagoFern RivardDEFENSEBarry Gibbs ADoug Hicks*Dennis O&rsquo;BrienTom ReidChris Ahrens *CENTERJude DrouinDennis HextaliMurray OliverFred StanfieldR. WINGJohn Flesch*Bill Goldsworthy CLou NanneHenry BouchaJohnny Rogers*L. WINGDon Martineau*Blake Dunlop*Jean-Paul Parise AINJUREDFred Barrett<h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>GOALWayne StephensonBernie ParentBob TaylorDEFENSEAndre DupontTed HarrisEd Van ImpeTom BladonJimmy WatsonJoe Watson ACENTERBobby Clarke CBill ClementTerry Crisp AOrest KindrachukRick MacLeishR. WINGGary Dornhoefer AReg LeachDon SaleskiL. WINGBill BarberDave SchultzA Bob KellyRoss LonsberryRandy Osburn*INJUREDNone.<h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>GOALGary InnessBob Johnson*DEFENSEDave Burrows AAb DeMarcoSteve DurbanoJean-Guy LagacRon StackhouseBob ParadiseDennis Owchar *CENTERSyl Apps ARon Lalonde ABob McManamaRon Schock CR. WINGChuck ArnasonRick KehoeKelly Pratt *Jean PronovostL. WINGVic HadfieldNelson Debenedet&rsquo;Bob KellyLowell MacDonaldPierre Larouche *INJUREDNone<h2>ST. LOUIS</h2>GOALJohn DavidsonEddie JohnstonDEFENSEDon AwreyBob Hess*Barclay Plager CBob Plager ALarry Sacharuk*Bob Stumpf *CENTERDave GardnerWayne MerrickGarry Unger ADoug Palazzari*R. WINGBill CollinsPierre PlantePhil RobertoBrian Ogilvie*L. WINGAce BaileyMurray Kuntz*Floyd ThomsonI Gord Buynak *INJUREDNone.<h2>WASHINGTON</h2>GOALJohn Adams*Michal BelhumeurRon LowDEFENSEGreg Joly*Yvon LabreJoe Lundrigan*Bill MikkelsonDoug MohnsGordon Smith*CENTERJim Hrycuik*Pete LaframboiseRandy WyrozubAndre Peloffy*Tommy WilliamsR. WINGRon Anderson *Steve AtkinsonGordie BrooksMike BloomL. WINGBruce Cowick*Denis DupereDave KryskowBill LesukMike Marson*Jack EgersINJUREDNone. &#9632;

NHL Team Rosters

WAYNE DILLONToronto TorosThere may have been a few eyebrows raised last year when 18-year-old Wayne Dillon scored 30 goals in his first season in the WHA. But the Toronto Toros&rsquo; center is showing that it was no first-year fluke.Dillon scored three goals and added three assists last week to lead the Toros to three straight victories. He scored the winning goal in the Toros&rsquo; 5-4 victory over Michigan and had a goal and two assists in a season-opening 6-2 victory over New England.The 19-year-old center added another goal and assist in a 3-1 win over Indianapolis.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02178/3465727-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="544" height="646"></div>AL McDONOUGHCleveland CrusadersWhen the Cleveland Crusaders lured Al McDonough from the NHL Atlanta Flames they hoped he would provide some much-needed scoring punch. Judging by the first week of this season, the Crusaders&rsquo; hopes have been realized.The 24-year-old right winger scored four goals in the Crusaders&rsquo; first two games to lead them to a win and a tie. McDonough scored three times in a 4-4 tie with Phoenix and added another goal in a 3-1 victory over Minnesota.And that&rsquo;s what the Crusaders wanted him for&mdash;scoring.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03142/3465720-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="550" height="775"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-04108/3465713-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="681" height="767"><figcaption class="caption-body">A taste you can call your own.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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WHA Player’s of the week.

<div class="byline">BY RICH PASSAN</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaCHICAGO&mdash;The Chicago Cougars surprised many World Hockey Association observers last season by not only gaining a World Trophy playoff spot, but advancing to the final round before bowing to Houston in four straight games.The Cougars did not overwhelm anybody with their offense and their defense was a little better than adequate. With key acquisitions in these two areas, the Windy City crew figures to be even tougher this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01230/3465682-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="553" height="1501"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE DRYDEN&hellip;Adds Balance</figcaption></div>Where the Cougars lacked terribly last season was in goal.Cam Newton and Andre Gill pretty much divided the duties, but neither stood out. It was not until the playoffs that Gill took charge. But the curly-haired veteran was not the solution.The National Hockey League supplied that solution in the person of Dave Dryden, who finally came into his own with the Buffalo Sabres. Now that the big guy is in the fold, the Cougars boast a fine balance all the way around.Particularly enthusiastic is director of player personnel Jacques Demers, who had been running the club&rsquo;s training camp at Wheton-Carol Stream, Ill. while playercoach Whitey Stapleton was playing for Team Canada.Demers, who will run things on the bench during games this season, is surprised by the condition of his club and some of the young players the Cougars picked up during the off-season.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got three guys who will Jielp us now,&rdquo; beamed Demers, who coached amateur hockey in Canada for six years. They are center iceman Gary MacGregor, right winger Mark Lomenda and defenseman Bryon Baltimore.MacGregor, a 5&rsquo;11&rdquo;, 170-pounder, figured to move in and nail a starting spot. The young man blasted 100 goals by enemy goaltenders last season in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. &ldquo;He definitely has all the tools to become a very good hockey player,&rdquo; said Demers. &ldquo;When he first came into our league, he thought it was easy, but the soon found out it was stronger than he thought and has adjusted well.&rdquo;MacGregor, who was also pursued by the Montreal Canadiens, will form the center troika with returnees Ralph Backstrom and Joe Hardy.Lomenda is the biggest surprise. The Cougars&rsquo; fifth-round draft choice has good size at 6&rsquo; and 180 pounds and does something few Juniors do when they come out of those ranks. &ldquo;He goes both ways,&rdquo; Demers enthused. &ldquo;And he can put the puck in the net.&rdquo;Baltimore is even bigger than Lomenda at 6&rsquo;3&rdquo; and 210 pounds and loves to hit. &ldquo;He does something we didn&rsquo;t do much of last year,&rdquo; Demers pointed out. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s hitting and cleaning up the slot. He also moves the puck well.&rdquo;Baltimore was drafted originally by the Los Angeles Kings and spent all his time at the Kings&rsquo; farm club in Springfield, Mass. Chances are Baltimore will team up with his coach at the beginning of the season, according to Demers.A fourth rookie, center Dave Walter, has had an impressive camp and could finally realize the stardom the Cougars have been looking for the last two years. The husky pivot has two excellent minor league campaigns behind him and also has dropped 15 pounds, which has helped.Yet, with all these youngsters, the key man is Dryden in more ways than one. &ldquo;Having Dave behind him helps a guy like Newton,&rdquo; said Demers. &ldquo;These two guys are the keys to the success of our club. We&rsquo;ll probably use Dryden in about 50 games, depending on how he performs and how Newton responds.&rdquo;So, look for the Cougars to improve slightly on offense and defense and considerably goal. With Backstrom leading, the offense and Stapleton the defense, the Cougars probably won&rsquo;t have to battle down to the last game this season to gain the playoffs.CLEVELAND: The Crusaders released veteran right winger Paul Andrea and shipped left winger Paul Andrea and shipped left winger Billy Heindl, goaltenders Harvey Stewart and Ted Ouimet and defenseman Ron Anderson to their Cape Cod farm club in the North American Hockey League.The right side has been doing most of the scoring in the exhibition season with Terry Holbrook, Al McDonough, Skip Krake and Russ Walker getting plenty of shots&hellip; Centers Richie Leduc, Ron Buchanan, Ron Ward and rookie John Stewart have been getting the puck to their wings consistently. Buchanan appears to have fully recovered from a near-crippling neck injury last season and is again functioning well&hellip; Another center, Rob Neale, has suffered from muscle spasms in his back, and rookie defenseman Paul Baxter hurt his knee in 6-4 ex-and having the headmanner trailing the play.stressing headmanning the puckINDIANAPOLIS: Racer officials expected around 11,000 for the club&rsquo;s home opener at the Market Square Arena&hellip; Among the final cuts by coach Gerry Moore and director of player personnel Chuck Catto were left wingers Doug Brindley and Ross Smith, goalies Mike Dion and Jim Park, defensemen Ralph Hopiavuori and Dick Spannbauer, and right wingers Ron Anderson and right wingers Ron Anderson and Bob Murray. All will report to Mohawk Valley in the North America League&hellip; Nick Harbaruk, the veteran right winger who jumped from the National Hockey League has been named team captain&hellip; The Racers were 0-2-2 in exhibition play. They scored eight goals and eight different players scored them&hellip; In its 2-1 loss to the Houston Aeros, Indy outshot the foe 42-27.NEW ENGLAND: The Whalers will put particular emphasis on strong forechecking in the first half of the season, according to coach Ron Ryan. &ldquo;With so many away games early in the year,&rdquo; Ryan said, &ldquo;we need an outstanding record in Springfield to insure a good first half. And with the smaller size of the Springfield arena, the emphasis will be on agressive forechecking in the offensive zone.&rdquo; &hellip;The Whalers will play the first half of their home schedule in the tiny Eastern States Coliseum before moving into their new home in Hartford, Conn., sometime in early 1975&hellip; The Whalers&rsquo; first &ldquo;home&rdquo; game in Springfield will be against the Michigan Stags, coached by an old Springfield favorite, Johnny Wilson&hellip; New faces this year will belong to the Abrahamsson brothers, goalie Christer and defenseman Thommy, right winger Fred O&rsquo;Donnell and left winger Wayne &#9632;

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Dryden Acquisition Solves Troubled Goaling Spot

<div class="byline">BY DOUG McCONNELL</div>SAN DIEGO&mdash;The San Diego Mariners were known last season as the New York Golden Blades and the Jersey Knights.And the worst defensive team in the World Hockey Association&rsquo;s Eastern Division.&ldquo;We weren&rsquo;t too badly off in goals for,&rdquo; said player coach Harry Howell, &ldquo;so we started out this year concentrating on defense.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s paid off so well that the Mariners allowed just five goals in four pre-season games. Included were a pair of shutouts, 3-0 over the Vancouver Blazers and 3-0 over Phoenix Roadrunners, and a 3-1 loss to the Blazers in Portland, a game in which the Mariners left six regulars behind.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01212/3465772-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="286" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dennis Sobchuk</figcaption></div>&ldquo;We wanted to take a look at the kids,&rdquo; Howell said of the loss.&ldquo;The guys have responded well to our system,&rdquo; said Howell. &ldquo;Anybody who doesn&rsquo;t will be gone. We&rsquo;ve got enough good talent in Syracuse (NAHL) that we can change anybody.&rdquo;The Mariners figure to be tougher in the regular season than they were in pre-season as Andre Lacroix, the WHA&rsquo;s first-year scoring leader, missed the whole preseason while playing for Team Canada.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve made our biggest improvement on defense,&rdquo; pointed out Howell.The Mariners added Bob Wall and Bob Falkenberg from the Edmonton Oilers and have Ron Plumb on loan from Cincinnati for the season to go with holdovers Kevin Morrison, Ken Block and Howell.Howell, the 41-year-old player coach, said he expected to &ldquo;play at least as many games as I did last season.&rdquo; That was 65.It should be a lot easier for him, with director of player personnel Ron Ingram working behind the bench.&ldquo;The only time I had help behind the bench last season was in about 10 games when we had an injured player there,&rdquo; said Howell. &ldquo;They weren&rsquo;t too excited about that idea and it wasn&rsquo;t a good situation, changing your own teammates.&rdquo;The Mariners reduced to 25 players by releasing defenseman Bill Speer, who weighed in at 219 and out at 220, and sending defensemen Dean Boylan and Reggie Krezanski to Syracuse.&ldquo;Both Boylan and Krezanski will be back playing for the Mariners in the near future,&rdquo; said Howell.The cuts left the Mariners with 15 fowards, six defensemen and two goaltenders. Three more players, a center, a left wing and a right wing, were to be lopped off.&ldquo;We have a problem, but a nice one,&rdquo; said Ingram. &ldquo;Nobody is playing his way off the team. It&rsquo;s a great situation to be in although the decisions are going to be hard.&rdquo;&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a good club, really improved over last season,&rdquo; judged Roadrunner defenseman Gerry Odrowski. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve picked up some good veterans and really helped themselves.&rdquo;&ldquo;They&rsquo;re a big hustling club and they&rsquo;re going to give a lot of teams trouble.&rdquo; said Phoenix coach Sandy Hucul.Howell had been worried about goaltending.&ldquo;Not any more,&rdquo;, he smiled.Russ Gillow and Guy Denoncourt, since assigned to Syracuse, shared the shutout of the Blazers and Gillow shared the zero over Phoenix with Joe Junkin, the club&rsquo;s regular goaltender last season. They blocked 41 Roadrunner shots.&ldquo;Gillow has been our best all through camp,&rdquo; said Howell, &ldquo;and Junkin is starting to play like last year, and he played well for us last year.&ldquo;I hadn&rsquo;t seen Gillow last season. He came to us from Los Angeles (now Michigan) and was assigned to Syracuse. He&rsquo;s really going to help us.&rdquo;HOUSTON: What do the Howes mean to Houston? Well, while they were with Team Canada, the Aeros lost wo of three pre-season games. When they returned, the Aeros won all three. Gordie scored a power-play goal and a shorthanded goal in a 5-4 victory over the Michigan Stags and took the next game off &mdash; exhausted from travel &mdash; with Mark, 19, taking over to score four goals, including the winner with 23 seconds left, in a 7-6 victory over the Phoenix Roadrunners. The following night, Gordie was back in the lineup to contribute an assist in a 2-1 victory over the Indianapolis RacersPHOENIX: Bill MacFarland, president of the Phoenix Roadrunners, returned from a jaunt to Europe with Team Canada to find reports of a &ldquo;power struggle&rdquo; between his director of player personnel, Al Rollins, and his coach, Sandy Hucul. MacFarland tried to quash reports and restore order&hellip; The two stars of the West German team, Alois Schloder, 28, and Erich Kuhnhackl, 24, left the Roadrunners waiting at the Phoenix Sky Harboer Interntaional Airport, and reports were that the two did not pick up the tickets from Germany to Phoenix for a one-week tryout. The Roadrunners were at a loss to explain&hellip; Since breaking training camp at Brandon, Man., with a 4-0 pre-season record, the Roadrunners lost five of their final six games. The only victory was 6-2 over Des Moines of the International Hockey League&hellip; Rookie center Dennis Sobchuk led the Roadrunners with two goals and eight assists for 10 points in eight games. Michel Cormier (2-6-8), was second in eight games followed by Robbie Ftorek (4-3-7 in eight games) and Hugh Harris (2-4-6 in six) and John Gofton (2-4-6 in eight).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-02166/3465765-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="552" height="667"><figcaption class="caption-body">HARRY HOWELL&hellip;Good For 65 Games</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-03126/3465758-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="548" height="606"><figcaption class="caption-body">RUSS GILLOW&hellip;Best In Camp</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Mariners’ Emphasis On Defense Pays Off In Pre-Season Wins

(Final Standings)<h2>CANADIAN DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-03106/3465862-1-eng-US/f0028-032.jpg" title="f0028-03" width="593" height="178"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0484/3465855-1-eng-US/f0028-042.jpg" title="f0028-04" width="588" height="377"></div>(Games against WHA teams only included)WHA vs NHL<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0570/3465848-1-eng-US/f0028-052.jpg" title="f0028-05" width="589" height="87"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri. Sept. 20Phoenix 3, Vancouver 1Sat. Sept. 21Phoenix 6, Vancouver 5Tue. Sept. 24Phoenix 3, Winnipeg 1Thur. Sept. 26Houston 5, St. Louis (NHL) 4Vancouver 5. Edmonton 4Fri. Sept. 27New England 5, Toronto 4Sat. Sept. 28Philadelphia (NHL) 4, New England 2Phoenix 7, Vancouver 3Sun. Sept. 29Atlanta (NHL) 3, Winnipeg 1Tue. Oct. 1New England 7, Quebec 6San Diego 3, Vancouver 0Wed. Oct. 2Edmonton 2, Winnipeg 2Toronto (NHL) 5, Phoenix 3California (NHL) 6. Vancouver 0Minnesota 2, Michigan 0Thur. Oct. 3Minnesota 3, Indianapolis 3Phoenix 6, Des Moines (IHL) 2Winnipeg 5. Edmonton 5Fri. Oct. 4Vancouver 5. Phoenix 1Indianapolis 3. Detroit (NHL) 3Edmonton 4. Winnipeg 4Cleveland 5, Pittsburgh (NHL) 2Sat. Oct. 5New England 6, Quebec 3Vancouver 5, Phoenix 3San Diego 4, California (NHL) 3Michigan 5. Indianapolis 1Sun. Oct. 6Minnesota (NHL) 5. Toronto 3Vancouver (NHL) 4, Edmonton 1Pittsburgh (NHL) 5, Cleveland 3Quebec 6, Chicago 4Vancouver 5, Phoenix 2Mon. Oct. 7Minnesota 6, Houston 5Tue. Oct. 8Cleveland 6, Toronto 4Michigan 5, Houston 1Wed. Oct. 9Providence (AHL) 3. New England 1Chicago 10. Long Island (NAHL) 4Thu. Oct. 10San Diego 2. Phoenix 0Houston 5. Michigan 4Long Island (NAHL) 3, Chicago 1Fri. Oct. 11Toronto 5. New England 2Sat. Oct. 12Chicago 5. Minnesota 4Toronto 4. Cleveland 2New England 4. Cape Codders (NAHL) 3Quebec 7. Maine (NAHL) 2Houston 7, Phoenix 6Sun. Oct. 13Chicago 4. Minnesota 2Cleveland 5, Michigan 2Houston 2. Indianapolis 1Toronto 4. Mohawk Valley (NAHL) 2Mon. Oct. 14Chicago 4. Michigan 3Tue. Oct. 15Cleveland 6. Michigan 0 &#9632;

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Exhibition Scoreboard

<h2>CLEVELAND</h2>Goal&mdash;Gerry Cheevers, Bob Whidden.Defense&mdash;Paul Baxter, Ray Clearwater, Tom Edur, Larry Hillman, Wayne Hillman, Wayne Muloin, Paul Shmyr.Centers &mdash; Ron Buchanan, Rich Leduc, John Stewart, Ron Ward.R. Wings&mdash;Mike Bartley, Terry Holbrook, Skip Krake, Al McDonough, Russ Walker.L. Wings&mdash;Steve Cardwell, Grant Erickson, Garry Jarrett, Gerry Pinder.<h2>CHICAGO</h2>Goal&mdash;Dave Dryden, Cam Newton.Defense&mdash;Byron Baltimore, Darryl Maggs, Larry Mavety, Dick Proceviat, Pat Stapleton, Jim Watson.Centers&mdash;Ralph Backstrom, Joe Hardy, Gary MacGregor, Dave Walter, Rod Zaine.R. Wings&mdash;Jim Benzelock, Don Gordon, Duke Harris, Rosaire Paiement, Mark Lomenda.L. Wings&mdash;Bob Liddington, Rick Morris, Jan Popiel, Frankie Rochon.<h2>EDMONTON</h2>Goal&mdash;Jacques Plante, Chris Worthy.Defense&mdash;Doug Barrie, Ken Baird, Al Hamilton, Barry Long, Ray McKay, Bill Morris, Jim McCrimmon.Centers&mdash;Jim Harrison, Eddie Joyal, Ross Perkins, Mike Rogers, Bobby Sheehan.R. Wings&mdash;Tom Gilmore, Bruce MacGregor, Rusty Patenaude.L. Wings&mdash;Ron Climie, Don Herriman, Blair McDonald, Steve Carlyle, Bill Laing, Jack Gibson.<h2>HOUSTON</h2>Goal&mdash;Wayne Rutledge, Ron Grahame.Defense&mdash;Larry Hale, Marty Howe, Glen Irwin, Poul Popiel, John Schella.Centers&mdash;Gord Labossiere, Larry Lund, Terry Ruskowski, Jim Sherrit.R. Wings&mdash;Don Grierson, Murray Hall, Gordie Howe, Frank Hughes.L. Wings&mdash;Andre Hinse, Mark Howe, Ted Taylor, Don Larway, Rick Preston.<h2>INDIANAPOLIS</h2>Goal&mdash;Andy Brown. Ed Dyck.Defense&mdash;Bob Ash, Roger Cote, Ken Desjardine, Jim Hargreaves, Billy Orr, Craig Hanmer, Rick Fraser.Centers&mdash;Bob Fitchner, Steve Richardson, Joe Robertson, John Sheridan, Bob Sicinski, Bob Whitlock.R. Wings&mdash;Steve Andrascik, Gary Bredin, Nick Harbaruk, Ron Walters.L. Wings&mdash;Jim Wiste, Brad Buetow, Rich Pumple, Ross Smith.<h2>MICHIGAN</h2>Goal&mdash;Gerry Desjardins, Paul Hoganson. Jim McLeod.Defense&mdash;Paul Curtis, Billy Horton, Larry Johnston, John Miszuk, Jerry Zrymiak, Bill Reed, Barry Legge, Randy Legge.Centers&mdash;J.P. Leblanc, Steve West, Jacques Locas, Brian McDonald, Fred Speck, Reg Thomas.R. Wings&mdash;Mike Hyndman, Len Fontaine, Ed Johnstone, Tom Serviss, Alton White.L. Wings&mdash;Danny Gruen, Marc Tardif, Gary Veneruzzo, Billy Evo, Steve Sutherland.<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>Goal&mdash;Mike Curran, John Garrett, Jack McCartan.Defense&mdash;John Arbour, Terry Ball. Bob Boyd, Ron Busniuk, Mike McMahon. Dick Paradise, Rick Smith.Centers&mdash;Gary Gambucci, Ted Hampson, Jim Johnson, Danny O&rsquo;Shea, Fran Huck. Mike Antonovich.R. Wings&mdash;Mike Walton, Billy Klatt, Wayne Connelly.L. Winns&mdash;Murray Heatley, Gearge Morrison, Don Tannabill, Billy Gold.<h2>NEW ENGLAND</h2>Goal&mdash;Crister Abrahamsson, Al Smith.Defense&mdash;Thommy Abrahamsson, Jim Dorey, Ted Green, Paul Hurley, Rick Ley, Gerry Methe, Brad Seiwood.Centers&mdash;Terry Caffery, Al Karlander, Larry Pleau, Gary Swain.R. Wings&mdash;Mike Byers, Fred O&rsquo;Donell, Tim Sheehy, Tom Webster.L. Wings&mdash;Wayne Carleton, Don Blackburn, John French, Tom Earl, Nick Foitu.<h2>PHOENIX</h2>Goal&mdash;Don Caley, Gary Kurt, Jack Norris.Defense&mdash;Gary Braun, Al McLeod, Rick Newell, Gerry Odrowski, John Hughes, Mike Stevens.Centers&mdash;Bob Barlow, Jim Boyd, Robbie Ftorek, Murray Keogan, Don Liesemer, Dennis Sobchuk.R. Wings&mdash;Bob Borgeson, Cam Connor, Dave Gorman, John Gray, Bob Mowat, Howie Young.L. Wings&mdash;John Gofton, Hugh Harris, Michel Cormier.<h2>QUEBEC</h2>Goal&mdash;Serge Aubry, Michel Deguise, Richard Brodeur.Defense&mdash;Alain Beaule, Jean Bernier, Dale Hoganson, Ric Jordan, Pierre Roy, Francois Lacombe, J.C. Tremblay.Centers&mdash;Serge Bernier. Andre Gaudette. Jeannot Gilbert. Rene Leclerc, Jean Payette, Michel Parizeau.R. Wings&mdash;Alain Caron. Real Cloutier, Rejean Houle, Mike Rouleau.L. Wings&mdash;Pierre Guite, Bobby Guindon, Reg Fleming.<h2>SAN DIEGO</h2>Goal&mdash;Joe Junkin, Russ Gillow.Defense&mdash;Ron Plumb, Ken Block, Harry Howell, Kevin Morrison. Bob Falkenberg, Bob Wall.Centers&mdash;Andre Lacroix. Mike Laughton. Ray Adduono.R. Wings&mdash;Rick Sentes, Jamie Bateman, Brian Morenz, Wayne Rivers, Ted Scharf, Doug Volmar.L. Wings&mdash;Brian Bradley. Kevin Devine. Gene Peacosh, Craig Reichmuth, Norm Ferguson, Lee Inglis.<h2>TORONTO</h2>Goal&mdash;Gilles Gratton, Les Binkley, Jim Shaw.Defense&mdash;Mike Amodeo, Rick Cunningham, Steve Cuddie, Jim Turklewicz, George Kuzmicz, Brian Gibbons.Centers&mdash;Wayne Dillon, Pat Hickey, Gavin Kirk, Pete Marrin, Vaclav Nedomansky.R. Wings&mdash;Tony Featherstone. Bob Leduc, Gord Titcomb, Tom Martin. Lou Nistico, Tom Simpson, Guy Trottier, Richard Dupras.L. Wings&mdash;Paul Henderson. Frank Mahovlich, Brit Selby, Richard Farda.<h2>VANCOUVER</h2>Goal&mdash;Don McLeod, Pete Donnelly, Ed Humphreys.Defense&mdash;Serge Beaudoin, Jim Cardiff. Don McCulloch, Mike Pelyk, Pat Price, Duane Rupp, Pete McNamee.Centers&mdash;Bryan Campbell, Ron Chipperfield. Claude St. Sauveur. Rob Walton.R. Wings&mdash;Danny Lawson, Paul Terbenche, John McKenzie.L. Wings&mdash;Don Burgess, Mike Chernoff. Peter Driscoll, Murray Myers, John Migneault.<h2>WINNIPEG</h2>Goal&mdash;Joe Daley, Curt Larsson. Ernie Wakely.Defense&mdash;Larry Hornung, Duke Asmundson, Anders Hedberg, Heikki Riihiranti. Lars-Erik Sjoberg. Ken Stephanson. Bob Woytowich. Perry Miller, Mike Ford.Centers&mdash;Danny Johnson. Veli Ketola, Ulf Nilsson. Danny Spring.R. Wings&mdash;Randy Andreachuk, Norm Beaudin, Ron Ashton, Jean-Guy Gratton, &#9632;

Starting WHA Rosters

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01203/3465817-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="258" height="512"><figcaption class="caption-body">Nick Mileti</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-02141/3465810-1-eng-US/f0028-022.jpg" title="f0028-02" width="255" height="505"><figcaption class="caption-body">Charles Jowaiszas</figcaption></div>CLEVELAND&mdash;Nick Mileti&rsquo;s $20 million dream has become a reality and Cleveland sports fans &mdash; who number over five million in Northeast Ohio &mdash; are the winners.Now if the Cleveland Crusaders can put it all together on the ice, it will make it all worthwhile for Mileti and Cleveland hockey fans. The Crusaders and Toronto Toros clash Oct. 27 in the official hockey premiere of the Coliseum and it will be an opening night hockey fans will long remember.More than two years of concentrated effort by Mileti and members of his staff brought about the site of the superstructure on 1-271 and Route 303 in Richfield Township, Ohio, equidistant between Akron and Cleveland. The sophisticated highway system provides easy access from anywhere in Northeast Ohio.Everything has been designed for the spectators&rsquo;enjoyment, the sight line are perfect and the facilities outstanding. The first taste of excitement begins even before entering the grounds.Upon reaching the facility the fan is met by a fashionably uniformed parking attendant who directs him to one of the 6,000 parking spaces in the landscaped parking area. With the building located in the center of a 107 acre plot, the spectator has a short walk to the east or west entrance of the fully air conditioned building onto the east or west entrances of the fully air conditioned building onto the concourse where he sets his sights on the expertly decorated corridors. The first stop could well be one of the modern concessions stands, cocktail lounges, or perhaps, as a season ticket holder, to &ldquo;Jacques&rdquo; the restaurant available for season ticket subscribers.Having obtained adequate refreshments the spectator proceeds to the main arena area. There he is met by an usher or usherette dressed in an attractive uniform of The Coliseum colors of yellow, blue and green, and seated in one of the gold, cinnamon, brown or burnt orange theatre-type seats. Once comfortably seated with ample leg room, the patron is ready to enjoy the unobstructed view of one of the over 300 annual events. (Seating capacity differs for performances &mdash; there will be 19,500 seats available for basketball, 18,000 for hockey, and up to 20,000 for a center stage presentation.) Not only are there perfect sight lines, but the furthest seat is only 138 feet from the action.Patrons&rsquo; sights are then focused on a new dimension of spectator viewing combining the excitement of live entertainment with the unlimited unique capabilities of one-site color television provided by Telscreen.C. Charles Jowaiszas, president of Ohio Sports Center, inc., recently announced the purchase of a new computer-controlled Telscreen system, featuring high intensify, large screen television projection on two giant screens for the new Coliseum. This marks the first arena in the Midwest to combine the excitement of live sports and entertainment with on-site television viewing.This comprehensive display system presents live, giant screen television as part of a new. totally versatile, large audience information system. The complete flexibility of the Conrac System allows presentation of unlimited scoring, promotional and advertising displays, instant replays, and close-up projection of personalities for all forms of sports and entertainment presentations.Giant color television pictures will be displayed at both the north and south ends of The Coliseum on 15&rsquo; x 20&rsquo; screens. Images will be projected by means of Eidophor Television Projectors known internationally for their extraordinary brightness and picture quality.Each TV screen will be flanked bytwo advertising screens illuminated by high intensity slide projectors. As part of the Telscreen system, game in progress information, in addition to being displayed on Telscreen, will also be displayed on solid-state matrix scoreboards located on the east and west sides of The Coliseum.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0656/3465803-1-eng-US/f0028-062.jpg" title="f0028-06" width="1790" height="1240"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here&rsquo;s an artist&rsquo;s view of the newly-completed Cleveland Coliseum and its 18,000 hockey fans as well as the new computer-controlled Telscreen, which will feature high intensity, large screen television projection on two giant screens for fans attending Coliseum hockey games. It is a first in the Midwest in combining excitement of live sports and entertainment with on-site television viewing.</figcaption></div>The rink level will also house four professional locker rooms, two for home and two for visiting teams with direct access to the playing floor. There are also eight satellite dressing rooms for various show personnel.This is the first arena-type facility to have incorporated in its original plans a Coliseum Club which will provide the building provides access into a tastefully decorated lobby. Members then proceed to the four high speed elevators which transports them to two private levels encircling the building.The Coliseum Club offers the added luxuries of indoor tennis courts, mens&rsquo; and women&rsquo;s health spas, two cocktail lounges, and exclusive dining in &ldquo;Gretchen&rsquo;s&rdquo; Gourmet Room or for more casual flavor &ldquo;Morris&rsquo; Deli&rdquo;.Membership is attained by leasing of Loge Suites or Sports Loges. Loge Suites contain 300 sq. ft. with 10 theatretype seats over-looking the performance area with the remaining space for the lessee&rsquo;s own decorating touch. For those seeking a more casual form of elegant entertaining, Sports Loges (wi- &#9632;

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New Cleveland Coliseum Set To Handle 18,000 Hockey Fans

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-02133/3466029-1-eng-US/f0029-022.jpg" title="f0029-02" width="591" height="520"></div><h2>Tue. Oct. 15</h2>NEW ENGLAND 2, TORONTO 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01168/3466036-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="164" height="202"></div>WINNIPEG 6. VANCOUVER 2<h2>Wed. Oct. 16</h2>SAN DIEGO 2, PHOENIX 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0390/3466022-1-eng-US/f0029-032.jpg" title="f0029-03" width="589" height="589"></div>HOUSTON 6, VANCOUVER 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0468/3466015-1-eng-US/f0029-042.jpg" title="f0029-04" width="585" height="641"></div>Thur. Oct. 17MICHIGAN 4, INDIANAPOLIS 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0561/3466008-1-eng-US/f0029-052.jpg" title="f0029-05" width="589" height="493"></div><h2>Fri. Oct. 18</h2>HOUSTON 4, PHOENIX 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0646/3466001-1-eng-US/f0029-062.jpg" title="f0029-06" width="586" height="547"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0737/3465994-1-eng-US/f0029-072.jpg" title="f0029-07" width="587" height="545"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0832/3465987-1-eng-US/f0029-082.jpg" title="f0029-08" width="589" height="118"></div>EDMONTON 0, WINNIPEG 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0928/3465980-1-eng-US/f0029-092.jpg" title="f0029-09" width="589" height="526"></div>CHICAGO 2, VANCOUVER 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1024/3465973-1-eng-US/f0029-102.jpg" title="f0029-10" width="594" height="526"></div>INDIANAPOLIS 1, TORONTO 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1121/3465966-1-eng-US/f0029-112.jpg" title="f0029-11" width="584" height="468"></div><h2>Sat. Oct. 19</h2>CLEVELAND, 3, MINNESOTA 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1217/3465959-1-eng-US/f0029-122.jpg" title="f0029-12" width="591" height="544"></div>MICHIGAN 1, NEW ENGLAND 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1312/3465952-1-eng-US/f0029-132.jpg" title="f0029-13" width="592" height="521"></div>HOUSTON 2. SAN DIEGO 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1411/3465945-1-eng-US/f0029-142.jpg" title="f0029-14" width="589" height="579"></div>Attendance: 7,264.<h2>Sun. Oct. 20</h2>CHICAGO 1, VANCOUVER 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-157/3465938-1-eng-US/f0029-152.jpg" title="f0029-15" width="588" height="568"></div>MICHIGAN 3, TORONTO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-165/3465931-1-eng-US/f0029-162.jpg" title="f0029-16" width="593" height="579"></div>INDIANAPOLIS, 1, QUEBEC 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-175/3465924-1-eng-US/f0029-172.jpg" title="f0029-17" width="595" height="522"></div>CLEVELAND 4, PHOENIX 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-185/3465917-1-eng-US/f0029-182.jpg" title="f0029-18" width="598" height="702"></div> &#9632;

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World Hockey Association Summaries

What&rsquo;s happened to Chris Bordeleau and the Winnipeg Jets? Suddenly they&rsquo;re far apart.Bordeleau, the club&rsquo;s second leading scorer last season with 26 goals and 49 assists, has been suspended for allegedly leaving the club for no reason and heading for his home. The Jets sent him a registered letter informing him that he had been suspended and the issue came to a standstill.&ldquo;We had no alternative to suspend him,&rdquo; said Pilous. &ldquo;He just left. We can&rsquo;t just have somebody coming and going when they please.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-03110/3466248-1-eng-US/f0030-032.jpg" title="f0030-03" width="508" height="622"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHRIS BORDELEAU</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Jets Suspend Bordeleau For Walking Out On Club

<div class="byline">BY TONY GALLAGHER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01198/3466217-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg" title="f0030-01" width="541" height="877"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALAIN CARON &hellip; Back In Form</figcaption></div>WINNIPEG&mdash;Rudy Pilous calls himself the chef of the smorgasbord in his role as general manager-coach of the Winnipeg Jets.He&rsquo;s got four Swedes, two Finns, two French Canadians and Bobby Hull, and that&rsquo;s enough to keep him at the Berlitz school of languages for the next little while.But he says the Jets will be entertaining and will be something else once the European players get used to the more rugged Canadian style of hockey. &ldquo;Give this guy Veli Ketola 20 games under his belt and he&rsquo;s going to be in the Phil Esposito mold at center,&rdquo; said Pilous. &ldquo;All he needs is a little experience in playing the slot better.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-02146/3466210-1-eng-US/f0030-022.jpg" title="f0030-02" width="280" height="478"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rudy Pilous</figcaption></div>The other Finnish player is defenseman Heikki Riihiranti, a big rugged type.Pilous, who will be filling in behind the Jets&rsquo; bench for Hull, also says that Anders Hedberg is really something on a pair of skates.&ldquo;He can sometimes blow by Hull,&rdquo; remarked Pilous and Ulf Nilsson is going to be a good center. Once again, all he needs is a little experience. And of course, all these guys have been in fights because everybody has been anxious to try them out.&rdquo;But everything isn&rsquo;t going all that well for Pilous.The man he figured to be his first string goaltender, Curt Larsson, suffered a broken finger on his catching hand in practice and is expected to be out for around three weeks.Meanwhile, in a Jets&rsquo; release, if the pun can be forgiven, director of player personnel Bill Robinson said that 30-year-old Ted Hargreaves will not be offered a contract for this season.&ldquo;Ted was well respected for his attitude and personality, but he does not fit the Jets&rsquo; plans for this season.&rdquo;Hargreaves, who had seven goals and 12 assists for Winnipeg last year, has been the playing coach of the Nelson Maple Leafs in the Western International League.VANCOUVER: Andy Bathgate will not be making a comeback after all. The team doctor nixed the idea when he said that the blind spot in Bathgate&rsquo;s affected eye was significantly worse than the 42-year-old ex-great had expected.&ldquo;Another point to consider is that if something happened to my good eye. I&rsquo;d be blind,&rdquo; said Bathgate, who will retain his position as assistant coach and general manager to Joe Crozier with the Blazers. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll go along with his advice. It just isn&rsquo;t worth the risk.&rdquo;Meanwhile Blazers have decided to go with goaltender Peter Donnelly as back-up to Don McLeod this season. Donnelly. who faced a couver defense last year, was kept on the strength of his play in the exhibition season. His competition for the position, Wayne Wood, was sent to Tulsa of the Central League.QUEBEC: Les Nordiques came up with only one good Junior forward in the June draft, and that was Real Cloutier. But the reason coach Jean-Guy Gendron isn&rsquo;t terribly worried about his scoring punch this season is the return to good health of Alain &ldquo;BoomBoom&rdquo; Caron, one of the most prolific scorers in hockey over the past 10 years.Caron had 31 goals in only 57 games with Quebec last season, a truley remarkable total for a man that many coaches claim can&rsquo;t skate well enough to play in the World Hockey Association.Caron was back in fine shape in the pre-season scoring in three of Les Nordiques exhibition games.TORONTO: It should be interesting to see how coach Billy Harris and the rest of the Toros can handle the pressure. Last year they finished second to the New England Whalers in the Eastern Division with a team that wasn&rsquo;t expected to do anything. They were a bunch of nobodys who wouldn&rsquo;t stop hustling. Now they&rsquo;ve got the name players, and many observers are picking them for first place in the Canadian Division. The heat is on.No longer will the Toros be able to inch up the standings in relative obscurity. People know that Gilles Gratton can play goal and people like Richard Farda, Vaclav Nedomansky, Paul Henderson and Frank Mahovlich can score goals, and they&rsquo;ll be expected to perform.EDMONTON: When the Oilers changed the first few dates of their schedule in order to get all their games played in the new Coliseum, the move was purely economic. The fact that all their first few games will be played on the road generally assures a slow start.But the changes will save the Oilers money. With sellouts, or near capacity crowds expected to enter the building on its competion date. Oilers feel they&rsquo;ll stand to make a little money &mdash; or at least not take the fearful losses they have been taking in games at the Klondike Palace. &#9632;

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Pilous May Have To Be Linguist To Handle ‘Mixed’ Winnipeg Stars

<h2>Sat. Oct. 12</h2>NOVA SCOTIA 4, SPRINGFIELD 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-03116/3466338-1-eng-US/f0031-032.jpg" title="f0031-03" width="597" height="600"></div><h2>Sun. Oct. 13</h2>NOVA SCOTIA 1, ROCHESTER 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0491/3466331-1-eng-US/f0031-042.jpg" title="f0031-04" width="586" height="206"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0578/3466324-1-eng-US/f0031-052.jpg" title="f0031-05" width="596" height="386"></div><h2>Fri. Oct. 18</h2>NOVA SCOTIA 3. RICHMOND 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0655/3466317-1-eng-US/f0031-062.jpg" title="f0031-06" width="594" height="586"></div> &#9632;

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AHL Summaries

<div class="byline">BY JERRY LINDQUIST</div>Follow All The Action Every Week By Subscribing Today ToTHE HOCKEY NEWSSuperb Hockey Reading Each MonthHOCKEY WORLD & HOCKEY PICTORIAL<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-01179/3466286-1-eng-US/f0031-012.jpg" title="f0031-01" width="562" height="547"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOE NORIS&hellip;Sent By Sabres</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-02139/3466279-1-eng-US/f0031-022.jpg" title="f0031-02" width="529" height="613"><figcaption class="caption-body">RALPH MacSWEYN&hellip;On Look-See Basis</figcaption></div>SYRACUSE &mdash;Mild-mannered during his playing career, Art Stratton has turned tiger in his debut behind the bench.The American Hockey League season was less than two games old when the Syracuse Eagles&rsquo; coach was ejected by referee Steve Dowling, the result of a verbal confrontation between perjods in Springfield.&ldquo;I got to the point where I couldn&rsquo;t take it,&rdquo; Stratton explained. &ldquo;Yes, I did blow my cool.&rdquo;The Eagles led 1-0 when back-to-back minor penalties, one a delay of game infraction by goaltender Lyle Carter, set the Kings in motion to a 10-3 romp that also saw three Eagles &mdash; in addition to Stratton &mdash; sent to the dressing room.&ldquo;That one little linesman called a 10-minute misconduct on one of our guys,&rdquo; Stratton said, &ldquo;&hellip;and by the end of the second period I was mad.&ldquo;As I came off the ice, all three of them (Dowling and the two linesmen) were standing there at the door. They didn&rsquo;t go straight to their room. They were waiting for me.&ldquo;Well, by this time I was really fuming. I told that little linesman, &lsquo;Who are you trying to impress?&rdquo; Naturally, there was more, a lot more, and in the end Dowling told Stratton not to return for the final 20 minutes.&ldquo;I was sitting in the stands, and this man and his wife came over to me,&rdquo; Stratton continued. &ldquo;They said they were Springfield fans, and they didn&rsquo;t know me personally, except who I was.&ldquo;The man told me they&rsquo;d be witnesses if there was a hearing&hellip; that those three (officials) waited for me to come&hellip; that they were the agitators. I took their name and address.&rdquo;The Eagles entered their first AHL campaign expected to be a hard-hitting, rambunctious team built around several graduates of the old Eastern League style of rough-house.&ldquo;It looks like they&rsquo;re just waiting to stick it to us,&rdquo; Stratton said. &ldquo;I know we have some Eastern League players, and I&rsquo;ve told them to cut out that high stick business. I want them to hit hard but clean.&ldquo;I want to win so badly. I&rsquo;m 100 percent behind my players, and when I see some of this stuff happen.&rdquo;It was a frustrated Stratton, the league&rsquo;s MVP for Rochester a year ago, who watched the Eagles drop their opener 4-3 at home to Richmond, blowing a 3-0 lead in the process. Springfield was next and after that one he promised some changes would be made.Defenseman-forward Joe Noris joined the club from the Buffalo Sabres, and goaltender Dave Hainsworth was brought in on a look-see basis. He previously had been in the Providence camp until Curt Ridley was returned by the parent New York Rangers.RICHMOND: Shortly after regular-season&rsquo;s start, the Robins added former captain (1971-72) Ralph MacSweyn on what coach Larry Wilson described as &ldquo;a 10-game look-see basis.&rdquo; The 32-year-old defenseman defected to the World Hockey Association&rsquo;s Los Angeles Sharks, who in turn traded him to Vancouver last year. He was not invited to the Blazer&rsquo;s camp this year.&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s important to have an experienced defenseman of his caliber&hellip; but he&rsquo;s got to earn a spot. I don&rsquo;t believe in handing anyone a job,&rdquo; Wilson said. Richmond already had five defensemen, but only Murray Anderson (ex-Nova Scotia and New Haven) had more than one year of professional experience.&ldquo;The kids can learn from MacSweyn&hellip; the way he blocks shots, plays the body and carries people into the boards. He&rsquo;s a defensive defenseman, and we need someone like that especially killing penalties. You need someone strong in front of the net, and he is strong,&rdquo; Wilson said.While MacSweyn was in, the last of the original Robins, Danny Schock, was out. The veteran left winger who scored 71 goals the last two years was handed his outright release.Notoriously inept away from home last year (4-28-6), the new-look Robins &mdash; with only five players back from 1973-74 &mdash; opened with three of a possible six points in unfriendly territory. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s face it,&rdquo; Wilson said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the difference between a good team and an average team&hellip; how well you do on the road.&rdquo; Richmond won only one of its first 26 games away from the Coliseum &mdash; tying two &mdash; a season ago.BALTIMORE: With help from their new friends in Kansas City, the Clippers opened with an impressive lineup of veterans but general manager Terry Reardon expressed caution. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not looking for more players but I can&rsquo;t feel secure. You&rsquo;re never secure,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;It all depends on how Kansas City goes. They&rsquo;re an expansion club, and my guess is there will be a number of changes. That&rsquo;s okay, as long as we get a player in return.&rdquo;Latest to he shipped to Baltimore under a limited working agreement with the Scouts was ex-Hershey center Hugh Harvey. The Clippers also loaned forward Paul Granchukoff to Fort Wayne (International) and defenseman Mark Davis to Roanoke Valley (Southern).A seldom-seen penalty shot gave the Clippers the lead to stay in a 7-4 victory over Hershey. Referee Bob Kilger said Bears&rsquo; Mario Faubert tripped Duncan Rousseau from behind. Rousseau then took advantage of the free shot, beating goaltender Denis Herron from 15 feet. &ldquo;I think that&rsquo;s the first penalty shot we&rsquo;ve had in a couple of years,&rdquo; Reardon said. &ldquo;I know we had a couple called against us last year.&rdquo;HERSHEY: The defending Calder Cup champions staggered to an 0-3 start, losing in Halifax and New Haven before failing in their home opener against Beltimore. A breakdown on defense was said to be the main reason.The Buffalo Sabres, sharring the Bears with Pittsburgh for the first time this year, retained several extra players as the season got under way. They had 25, while the Penguins came up thin defensively when Dave Burrows was injured and Steve Durbano suspended.For that reason Pittsburgh kept young Colin Campbell, who originally was listed on the Hershey roster, and Dennis Owchar was called up when defenseman Jean-Guy Lagac&eacute; was hurt. Injuries forced Brian Walker and Yves Bergeron from the lineup. Top-rated rookie Pierre Larouche found himself in Pittsburgh instead of Hershey &mdash; as expected &mdash; too.VIRGINIA: On the eve of the first game, veteran center Rick McCann, one of the league&rsquo;s best penalty killers, was named captain by coach Doug Barkley. The Wings then went out and delighted a Scope crowd of 4,197 with a 3-2 victory over Baltimore.Barkley pulled an early surprise, opening with Jim Makey in goal instead of holdover Bill McKenzie. Makey spent last year with San Diego (Western) where he appeared in only eight games. &ldquo;I felt Makey earned it with his play in exhibitions,&rdquo; Barkley explained.The parent Detroit Red Wings assigned defenseman Harry Shaw to Virginia. Shaw played for Barkley and the now-defunct London Lions last year. &#9632;

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Early Bench Coaching Frustrations Catch Up With Syracuse’s Stratton

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0377/3466442-1-eng-US/f0032-032.jpg" title="f0032-03" width="590" height="401"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Oct. 16Hershey 6 at Richmond 4; Nova Scotia 3 at Syracuse 2; Springfield 4 at Virginia 4.Fri. Oct. 18New Haven 2 at Providence 3; Nova Scotia 3 at Richmond 3; Rochester 2 at Syracuse 2.Sat. Oct. 19Springfield 3 at BaLtimore 3; Syracuse 3 at Hershey 3; Nova Scotia 2 at Virginia 2.Sun. Oct. 20Virginia 1 at New Haven 4; Baltimore 3 at Providence 7: Springfield 5 at Richmond 3; Hershey 2 at Rochester 7.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Oct. 23Syracuse at Virginia.Thu. Oct. 24Rochester at Nova Scotia.Fri. Oct. 25Hershey at New Haven; Providence at Richmond; Springfield at Rochester; Baltimore at Syracuse.Sat. Oct 26Baltimore at Hershey; Providence at Virginia.Sun. Oct. 27Baltimore at New Haven; Richmond at Nova Scotia; Providence at Rochester; Springfield at Syracuse.Wed. Oct. 30Baltimore at Richmond; Providence at Syracuse Hershey at Virginia.Thu. Oct. 31Rochester at Nova Scotia.Fri. Nov. 1Virginia at Baltimore; Hershey at Richmond; New Haven at Rochester; Syracuse at Springfield.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Oct. 22)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0452/3466435-1-eng-US/f0032-042.jpg" title="f0032-04" width="591" height="343"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Oct. 16Dallas 1 at Tulsa 3.Thur. Oct. 17Omaha 3 at Salt Lake 5; Denver 1 at Seattle 4.Fri. Oct. 18Dallas 4 at Fort Worth 4; Denver 7 at Oklahoma City 5; Salt Lake 5 at Tulsa 2.Sat. Oct. 19Denver 8 at Fort Worth 2; Salt Lake 2 at Oklahoma City 5; Omaha 1 at Seattle 1.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Oct. 22Denver at Tulsa; Dallas at Salt Lake.Wed. Oct. 23Oklahoma City at Fort Worth.Thu. Oct 24Salt Lake at Denver; Dallas at Seattle.Fri. Oct. 25Tulsa at Fort Worth; Seattle at Oklahoma City; Denver at Omaha.Sat. Oct 26Oklahoma City at Dallas; Seattle at Tulsa; Omaha at Denver; Fort Worth at Salt Lake.Sun. Oct. 27Dallas at OmahaMon. Oct 28Oklahoma City at Salt Lake.Tue. Oct. 29Salt Lake at Tulsa; Fort Worth at Seattle.Wed. Oct. 30Tulsa at Denver.Thu. Oct. 31Salt Lake at Fort Worth.Fir. Nov. 1Salt Lake at Dallas; Fort Worth at Oklahoma City; Omaha at Tulsa; Seattle at Denver.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0533/3466428-1-eng-US/f0032-052.jpg" title="f0032-05" width="584" height="430"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri. Oct. 18Columbus 3 at Des Moines 2; Port Huron 6 at Dayton 4; Kalamazoo 3 at Flint 6; Muskegon 1 at Saginaw 4; Lansing 1 at Toledo 4.Sat Oct. 19Columbus 6 at Des Moines 1; Kalamazoo 3 at Muskegon 4; Toledo 2 at Fort Wayne 4; Flint 3 at Lansing 4; Saginaw 2 at Port Huron 1.Sun. Oct. 20Columbus 2 at Dayton 4; Muskegon 2 at Flint 2; Port Huron 5 at Saginaw 7; Fort Wayne 1 at Toledo 4.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Oct. 23Flint at Saginaw.Fri. Oct 25Fort Wayne at Des Mornes: Toledo at Flint; Muskegon at Port Huron.Sat Oct. 26Fort Wayne at Des Moines; Flint at Muskegon; Kalamazoo at Port Huron; Saginaw at Lansing; Dayton at Toledo.Sun. Oct. 27Dayton at Flint; Columbus at Saginaw; Muskegon at Lansing; Des Moines at Toledo.<h2>NORTH AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Oct. 22)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0622/3466421-1-eng-US/f0032-062.jpg" title="f0032-06" width="535" height="261"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri. Oct. 18Johnstown 4 at Maine 3; Cape Codders 4 at Mohawk Valley 4; Broome 0 at Long Island 3; Syracuse 3 at Philadelphia 3.Sat. Oct 19Broome 5 at Mohawk Valley 3; Maine 3 at Cape Codders 11; Long Island 1 at Syracuse 4; Philadelphia 4 at Johnstown 3.Sun. Oct. 20Johnstown 2 at Broome 5; Philadelphia 3 at Long Island 4.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Oct. 22Broome at Philadelphia.Wed. Oct. 23Mohawk Valley at Syracuse; Broome at Cape Codders; Johnstown at Philadelphia.Fri. Oct. 25Syracuse at Johnstown; Long Island at Mohawk Valley; Philadelphia at Broome.Sat Oct. 26Cape Codders at Maine; Broome at Syracuse; Mohawk Valley at Johnstown.<h2>SOUTHERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Oct. 22)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0715/3466414-1-eng-US/f0032-072.jpg" title="f0032-07" width="538" height="176"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri. Oct. 18Winston-Salem 2 at Charlotte 5; Greensboro 0 at Roanoke 5.Sun. Oct. 20Greensboro 2 at Winston-Salem 3.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Oct. 22Roanoke at Charlotte; Fayetteville at Winston-Salem.Wed. Oct. 23Charlotte at Greensboro.Thu. Oct. 24Winston-Salem at Roanoke.Fir. Oct. 25Greensboro at Charlotte; Fayetteville at Winston-Salem.Sat. Oct. 26Fayetteville at Greensboro; Charlotte at Roanoke.Sun. Oct. 27Roanoke at Winston-Salem; Charlotte at Fayetteville. &#9632;

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LOOKING AT THE MINOR LEAGUE SCOREBOARD

NHL: 1&mdash;Montreal. 2&mdash;Detroit. 3&mdash;Boston. 4&mdash;N.Y. Rangers. 5&mdash;Chicago. 6&mdash;Toronto 7&mdash;Los Angeles. 8&mdash;Pittsburgh. 9&mdash;California. 10&mdash;Philadelphia. 11&mdash;Minnesota. 12&mdash;St. Louis. 13&mdash;Vancouver. 14&mdash;Buffalo. 15&mdash;N.Y. Islanders. 16&mdash;Atlanta. 17&mdash;Kansas City. 18&mdash;Washington.WHA: 19&mdash;Cleveland. 20&mdash;San Diego. 21&mdash;Vancouver. 22&mdash;Michigan. 23&mdash;Toronto. 24&mdash;Quebec. 25&mdash;Edmonton. 26&mdash;Houston. 27&mdash;Chicago. 28&mdash;Winnipeg. 29&mdash;Minnesota. 30&mdash;New England. 31&mdash;Indianapolis. 32&mdash;Phoenix. 33&mdash;Cincinnati.Inter-League: 34&mdash;Phoenix (WHA) & Vancouver (WHA). 35&mdash;Philadelphia (NHL) & Washington (NHL). 36&mdash;Los Angeles (NHL) & California (NHL). 37&mdash;Minnesota (NHL) & N.Y. Islanders (NHL). 38&mdash;Kansas City (NHL) & N.Y. Islanders (NHL). 39&mdash;St. Louis (NHL), Montreal (NHL) & N.Y. Rangers (NHL). 40&mdash;Pittsburgh (NHL) & Buffalo (NHL). 41&mdash;Boston (NHL) & Washington (NHL). 42&mdash;New England (WHA) & Cleveland (WHA). 43&mdash;Buffalo (NHL), California (NHL) & Vancouver (WHA). 44&mdash;Winnipeg, (WHA). Houston (WHA), Cleveland (WHA), Indianapolis (WHA). Phoenix (WHA). 45&mdash;Michigan (WHA), N.Y. Islanders (NHL) & Quebec (WHA). 46&mdash;Edmonton (WHA) & N.Y. Rangers NHL). 47&mdash;Boston (NHL) &mdash; Washington (NHL). 48&mdash;N.Y. Rangers (NHL) &mdash; Kansas City (NHL). 49&mdash;Chicago (NHL) &mdash; Edmonton (WHA). 50&mdash;Vancouver (NHL), Philadelphia (NHL) &mdash; Atlanta (NHL). 51&mdash;Indianapolis (WHA) &mdash; St. Louis (NHL). 52&mdash;Michigan (WHA) &mdash; San Diego (WHA). 53&mdash;New England (WHA) &mdash; Cleveland (WHA). 54&mdash;Indianapolis (WHA) &mdash; Toronto (WHA). 55&mdash;Buffalo (NHL), California (NHL) &mdash; Vancouver (WHA). 56&mdash;Winnipeg (WHA), Houston (WHA), Celveland (WHA). Indiapanpolis (WHA) &mdash; Phoenix (WHA). 57&mdash;Michigan (WHA), Quebec (WHA) &mdash; N.Y., Islanders (NHL). 58&mdash;Edmonton (WHA) & N.Y. Rangers (NHL). &#9632;

Minor League Affiliations

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01180/3466383-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg" title="f0032-01" width="547" height="691"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG GIBSON</figcaption></div>PROVIDENCE &mdash;Making his debut in professional hockey is a big night for any player. For Jerry Holland of the Providence Reds, it was a really big night.Holland, who they&rsquo;ll be calling the Flying Dutchman if he continues the fine play of his first game, assisted on the Reds&rsquo; first goal in their Oct. 11 American Hockey League opener at home against Nova Scotia.Then he score their second goal.Then he scored their third goal. Then he scored their fourth goal.Later, with the score 6-6, he stole the puck from a Voyageur and went in for his fourth goal of the game.It proved to be the game-winner as Providence outscored Nova Scotia, 8-6.&ldquo;The thing that impressed me most about that is that he scored in so many different ways,&rdquo; coach Johnny Muckier said.&ldquo;He went to the goalie&rsquo;s left for his first one, went to his right for the second one, tipped in a shot for his third goal and stole the puck for his fourth one.&rdquo;Holland was the New York Rangers&rsquo; third draft choice in June after scoring 55 goals and 65 assists for Calgary in the Western Canada Junior League.But he wasn&rsquo;t the only rookie hero for Muckier&rsquo;s squad. Defenseman Ron Greschner scored a pair of goals. He was the Rangers&rsquo; second choice in the draft after breaking Larry Sacharuk&rsquo;s Western Canada Hockey League scoring record by collecting 33 goals and 70 assists for 103 points.&ldquo;He scored his first goal from the blueline and he skated through the whole team for the other one,&rdquo; Muckier said.The Providence coach was still smiling over his team&rsquo;s exhibition record against major league teams.The Reds beat the Rangers and tied Atlanta of the National Hockey League and beat the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-02126/3466376-1-eng-US/f0032-022.jpg" title="f0032-02" width="559" height="766"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON GRESCHNER</figcaption></div>A fine turnout of 8,581 saw the Reds&rsquo; league opener in which their club bounced back from 3-1 and 6-4 deficits.Holland&rsquo;s goals came at 7:36, 7:47 and 11:33 of the second period and at 13:26 of the third.NOVA SCOTIA: The Voyageurs had a tough schedule to open the season, following a home game with six games in nine nights on the road.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d just as soon get the road games over with,&rdquo; coach Al MacNeil said. &ldquo;There are both advantages and disadvantages to it. Six games is a little long, but if we can de something with them, it&rsquo;ll give us an advantage. If we can stay from injuries, the busy schedule should have has fully ready physically for the season.&rdquo;A turnout of 4,560 &mdash; the biggest crowd for an opening in Halifax by 1,500 &mdash; watched the Vees turn back Hershey, 4-2. Ron Andruff had the honor of scoring the AHL&rsquo;s first goal of the season (Nova Scotia and Hershey played the first game) to put the Voyageurs ahead. He scored off a faceoff while on the ice to kill a penalty.Eighteen-year-old Mario Tremblay had four goals and three assists for the first four games of the season. Three of his goals came in a 4-2 victory in Springfield on the 12th. He assisted on the other goal that night.Rookies Mike McKegney and Mike Busniuk also had a pair of goals a piece over the first four games, while second-year man Don Howse had three goals.ROCHESTER: The Americans opened defense of their Northern Division championship by tying and winning at home.Coach Dick Mattiussi&rsquo;s debut was a 4-4 tie with Richmond in which the Amerks did everything but score a lot of goals. They outshot the Robins by periods of 19-7, 15-6 and 15-5 for a game edge of 49 to 18.Doug Gibson had two goals and Dave Hynes and Al Simmons one piece as members of last season&rsquo;s Boston Braves accounted for all the scoring.Mattiussi made his first strategy move in the second game and it paid off.Because of an injury to defenseman Harry Shaw, Mattiussi moved Rod Graham back from wing to defense and elected to have Craig Sarner, who was a spectator at the opener, in uniform.Sarner watched the first period and much of the second from the bench. Then with a Nova Scotia skater in the penalty box, Mattiussi put Sarner on left wing. He wasn&rsquo;t on the ice more than a minute before he scored the goal that snapped a 1-1 tie and proved to be the winner in a 4-1 Rochester victory.NEW HAVEN: The Nighthawks made Dean Prentice&rsquo;s move from player to coach a happy one with a pair of 5-4 victories in the first two games, both in New Haven.But Prentice realized he&rsquo;d have to tighten up his team&rsquo;s defensive play as rookie goalie Peter LoPresti faced 36 shots in the opening win over Hershey and 41 in the triumph over Richmond.Alain Langlais and Rick Chinnick, both Nighthawks last season, scored the game-winning goals. Tom Miller, on loan from the New York Islanders, scored the first two goals of the season for New Haven.SPRINGFIELD: Ron Stewart, one of three new coaches in the Northern Division, came up with probably the strangest quote of all after the opening week&rsquo;s play.&ldquo;We played better our second game than we did in our first,&rdquo; he said.His Kings won their opener, 103, over Syracuse, then lost their second game, 4-2, to Nova Scotia.&ldquo;We really did play better in the loss, but we couldn&rsquo;t put the puck in the net. We missed breakaways and everything.&rdquo;Springfield received a big shot in the arm with the return of Phil Hoene from Los Angeles. Hoene had 36 goals and 44 assists for the Kings two seasons ago and had 19 goals and 23 assists in only 42 games last season. He was up with LA for 31 games. Hoene didn&rsquo;t rejoin the club until after the first two games.Doug Buhr, a rugged left wing, shouldn&rsquo;t have any trouble surpassing his goal-scoring total of last season. He scored in each of season, he managed only three goals &mdash; two in 29 games for Springfield and one in 37 for Portland.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-0915/3466369-1-eng-US/f0043-092.jpg" title="f0043-09" width="559" height="1480"><figcaption class="caption-body">PETER LOPRESTI&hellip;Opening Win</figcaption></div>Oddly, neither Buhr nor Bob Poffenroth. who scored the other goal in the 4-2 loss to Nova Scotia, played on a regular line that night. They were spotted. &#9632;

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Holland Scores 4 Goals In First Pro Hockey Game

<h2>NEW HAVEN NIGHTHAWKS</h2>Goal, Peter LoPresti, Brian Holderness.Defense, Billy Plager, Dwayne Pentland, Kim MacDougal, Jerome Engele, Ron Wilson.Centers, Tom Colley, Tom Miller, Richard Grenier.R. Wings, Rick Chinnick, Dave Cressman, Scott MacPhail.L. Wings, Alain Langlais, Walt Ledingham, Rod Norrish, Dennis Giannini.<h2>NOVA SCOTIA VOYAGEURS</h2>Goal, Dave Elenbaas, Peter Proulx, Yves Archambault, Ed Walsh.Defense, Gilles Lupien, Bill Nyrop, Greg Hubick, Gary Geldart, Chuck Luksa.Centers, Pete Sullivan, Louis Chaisson, Jim Cahoon, Gordon McTavish.R. Wings, Mike Busniuk, Mike McKegney, Sean Shanahan, Ron Andruff, Mario Tremblay.L. Wings, Guy Delparte, Don Howse, Richard Latulippe, Michel Belisle.<h2>PROVIDENCE REDS</h2>Goal, Curt Ridley, Glen Seperich.Defense, Joe Zanussi, Ron Greschner, Dave Maloney, Marty Gateman, John Bednarski.Centers, Norm Dennis, Gerry Teeple, Bob MacMillan, Wayne Chernecki.R. Wings, Ken Campbell, Hartland Monahan, Bob Craig, Pierre Lagani&egrave;re.L. Wings, Jerry Holland, Boyd Anderson, Greg Holst.<h2>ROCHESTER AMERICANS</h2>Goal, Dave Reece, Jim Pettie, Bob Sneddon.Defense, Harry Shaw, Bob Malcolm, Ray Maluta, Rick Pagnutti, Al Simmons, Mike Milbury.Centers, Doug Gibson, Bernie MacNeil, Barry Merrell, Billy Knibbs.R. Wings, Craig Samer, Gordie Clark, Larry McKillop.L. Wings, Peter Sturgeon, Rod Graham, Steve Langdon, Dave Hynes, Jake Rathwell.<h2>SPRINGFIELD KINGS</h2>Goal, Steve Rexe, Rick Charron.Defense, Danny Helm, Paul Shakes, Barry Cummins, Gary Sargent, Tim Jacobs, Jim Witherspoon.Centers, Tom Cassidy, Brad Winton, Bob MacGuigan, Paul Evans, Phil Hoene.R. Wings, Al Blanchard, Bob Poffenroth, Dennis Abgrall. Mark Heaslip.L. Wings, Doug Buhr, Mike Usitalo, Dale Lewis, Reg Kinch, Peter Harasym, Lome Stamler.<h2>BALTIMORE CLIPPERS</h2>Goal, Lynn Zimmerman. Ron Marlow.Defense, Kerry Ketter, Roger Lemelin, Larry Bignell, Dennis Patterson, Ken Murray, Kent Douglas.Centers, Morris Stefaniw, Dave Gilmore, Reg Bechtold, Bobby Rivard.R. Wings, Howie Menard, Marc Dufour, Jerry Kemp.L. Wings, Gary Coalter, Hugh Harvey, Brian Murphy, Dune Rousseau.<h2>HERSHEY BEARS</h2>Goal. Tim Regan, Denis HerronDefense, Colin Campbell, Mario Faubert, Guido Tenesi, Jean Landry, Dennis Owchar.Centers, Jack Surbey, Brian Walker, Pierre Larouche, Derek Smith. Harvey Bennett.R. Wings, Terry Ewasiuk, Jacques Cossette, Yves Bergeron, Bob Smulders, Neil Korzack.L. Wings, Don Seiling, Dean Sheremeta, Michel Deziel.<h2>RICHMOND ROBINS</h2>Goal, Graham Parsons, Bernie Wolfe.Defense, Don McLean, Larry Goodenough, Jack Mcllhargey, Norm Barnes, Murray Anderson, George Pesut, Ralph MacSweyn.Centers, Randy Wyrozub, Jack Patterson, Mike Clarke, Brian Kinsella.R. Wings, Mike Boland, Bob Sirois, Steve Coates, Paul Nicholson, Serge Lajeunesse, Lew Morrison.L. Wings, John Paddock, Bob Gryp, Steve Short, Larry Fullan.<h2>SYRACUSE EAGLES</h2>Goal, Lyle Carter, Mike Corcoran, Dave Hainsworth.Defense, Blake Ball, Billy Orr, Gary Gresdal, Wayne Lachance, Rick Foley, Steve Warr.Centers, Doug Ferguson, Luc Simard, Jean-Rene Losler.R. Wings, Joe Noris, Al Rycroft, Barry Brooks, Mike Martin, Meehan Bonnar.L. Wings, Ron Morgan, Dave Ferguson, Dick Sarrazin.<h2>VIRGINIA RED WINGS</h2>Goal, Jim Makey, Bill McKenzie.Defense, Frank Bathe, Mike Korney, Ron Simpson, Tom Mellor, Claude Houde, Barry Salovaara, Harry Shaw, Jim Nahrgang.Centers, Dennis Polonich, Rick McCann, Rene Drolet.R. Wings, Bob Krieger, Michel Bergeron, Brian McCutcheon, Ken Mann. &#9632;

Starting AHL Rosters

<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-01159/3466528-1-eng-US/f0033-012.jpg" title="f0033-01" width="586" height="378"></div><h2>GOALERS&rsquo; AVERAGES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-02119/3466521-1-eng-US/f0033-022.jpg" title="f0033-02" width="586" height="435"></div> &#9632;

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AHL Leaders

<h2>OMAHA</h2>Goal, John Voss, George Hulme.Defense, Glen Surbey, Pat Ribble, Jerry Badiuk, Bob Bilodeau, Ken Houston, Ed Kea.Forwards, Guy Chouinard, Cam Botting, Wayne Schaab, Jim McMasters, Lucien Grenier, Allie Sutherland, Mike Conroy, Dean Talafous, Alan Young, John Huber, Bob Law, Frank DeMarco.<h2>SALT LAKE</h2>Goal, Ray Martyniuk, Ernie Miller.Defense, Glenn Patrick, Brent Meeke, Bob Girard, Tom Price, Bruce Affleck, John Van Horlick.Forwards, Denis Meloche, Bob Murdock, John Healey, Lyle Bradley, Scott Seagrist, Del Hall, Gary Holt, Charlie Simmer, Bob McAneeley, Rick Kessell, Fred Ahearn.<h2>SEATTLE</h2>Goal, Dan Brady, Bruce Bullock, Dave McLelland.Defense, Peter Folco, Larry McIntyre, Dennis McCord, Chris Murphy.Forwards, Emile DeMoissac, Danny Gloor, Larry Gould, Ron Homenuke, Howie Hughes, Paul O&rsquo;Neil, Dan Seguin, Paul Sheard, Dave Westner, Dave Wiesener, Barry Wilcox, Bob Hurlburt, Ron Sedlbauer.<h2>TULSA</h2>Goal, Bruce Aberhart, Ed Humphreys.Defense, Jim Clarke, Gary Braun, Duane Bray, Gary Lariviere.Forwards, Bob Watt, Bob Mowat, Gene Sobchuk, Danny Mandryk, Ernie Gare, Mike Chernoff, Peter Driscoll, Jim Adair, Don O&rsquo;Donoghue, Ray DeLorenzi, Jim Jones.<h2>OKLAHOMA CITY</h2>Goal, Gordon McRae, Pierre Hamel.Defense, Bill Butters, Ron Clarke, Claire Alexander, Jim Marsh, Mike Ruest.Forwards, Les Burgess, Steve Doloff, Pat Boutette, Scott Garland, Alf Handrahan, Mike Sauter, Jack Valiquette, Per Arne Alexandersson, Bob Duncan, Bob Sykes, Dave Williams.<h2>DENVER</h2>Goal, Yves Belanger, Jim Watt.Defense, Bob McCord, Bob Gassoff, Larry Giroux, Mike Thompson, Dave Roberts.Forwards, Mitch Babbin, Butch Williams, Norm Cournoyer, Howie Heggedal, Jack Borotsik, Mike Kelly, Gary Winchester, Frank Spring, Wes Wiseman, Dan McPherson, Ray Brownlee, Ren&eacute; Villemure.<h2>FORT WORTH</h2>Goal, Bill Hughes, Don Cutts.Defense, Ron Smith, Ken McPhail, Dave Inkpen, Neil Nicholson, Denis Anderson.Forwards, Denis Desgagnes, Brian Marchinko, Skeeter Teal, Jim Webster, Bob Cook, Bob Fowler, Mike Kennedy, Ron Kennedy, Brad Anderson, Wynne Dempster, Glenn Johnson.<h2>DALLAS</h2>Goal, Mike Dumas, Bernie Germain, Sam Restivo.Defense, Roger Wilson, Ian McKegney, Randy Holt, Larry Gibbons, Bob Murray, Dave Logan.Forwards, Moe L&rsquo;Abbe, Rob Palmer, Duane Wylie, Bill Orban, Mike Archambault, R&eacute;jean Giroux, Dan Hinton, Dean Blais, Dave Elliott, Terry Smith, Gary Donaldson, &#9632;

CHL Rosters

TULSA &mdash;Stubby Allie Sutherland, one of the Omaha trio of Sutherland, Wayne Schaab and Jean Losier that terrorized the CHL for 94 goals and 239 points last season, has a new linemate on the opposite end but it hasn&rsquo;t slowed his pace.Sutherland came up with the league&rsquo;s first hat trick of the fresh season in the Knights&rsquo; season opener, an Oct. 11 visit to Tulsa. Omaha won the match 6-4Sutherland scored the three goals against Oiler rookie goalie Bruce Aberhart, left alone since veteran Wayne Wood had not arrived from Vancouver. Wood got there for Tulsa&rsquo;s second game, a 5-2 loss to Denver.Schaab, last year the CHL&rsquo;s leading scorer, is still with Sutherland although on the other end there&rsquo;s Alan Young, a third-year pro who was on loan to Tulsa&rsquo;s independent team last season. In two CHL seasons Young&rsquo;s netted 37 goals and 107 points. &#9632;

Omaha’s Sutherland Nets CHL’s First Hat Trick

<div class="byline">BY MORLEY HOWE</div>SIOUX CITY &mdash;United States Hockey League began its 28th consecutive season Oct. 12 and 13 with five games and from the opening game results it appears Sioux City Musketeers, under the leadership of owner Gary Lipshutz and coach John Saville, have built a powerhouse in the Southern Division as the Musketeers blasted the visiting Central Wisconsin Flyers, the circuit&rsquo;s newest expansion club, by scores of 14-2 and 13-2.Sioux City wasted little time in establishing two new records in the opener as no less than 11 different players scored before 2,141 home fans. Jim White set a modern league mark for defensemen with his six-point performance of two goals and four assists. Rookie Julian Nixon playing in his first U.S.H.L. game, registered a hat trick in the Saturday game.In Sunday&rsquo;s contest, 10 Musketeers shared goals with forwards Steve Boyle, Barry Head, and Alex Shibicky potting two apiece.At Marquette, the Northern Division Iron Rangers opened their season under new coach Barry Cook with a 5-4 overtime win against Chicago Warriors. Veteran Mike L&rsquo;Huillier played the hero&rsquo;s role in that contest with his winning goal coming late in the overtime period after the Rangers had come from behind three goals in the third.In the other Saturday game, a third period goal by Bob Purpur at 19:45 gave Green Bay a 6-6 overtime tie with Copper Country Chiefs at Calumet, Mich. Former pro Herb Boxer led the visiting Bobcats with three goals and center Tom O&rsquo;Brien scored a pair. Fowards Gary Moores and Ron King enjoyed two goal performances for the Chiefs.On Sunday, Chicago gained an even split from their weekend road trip north by edging Copper Country 4-3. Craig Robinson paced the Windy City club with two goals. The Warriors, under new playing-coach Nelson LeClair, received brilliant netminding from Richard Dumas to move into second place, two points behind Sioux City. Dumas, bombarded with over 60 shots the previous night in Marquette, came into Sunday&rsquo;s contest for the third period and turned aside 20 drives flawlessly as the Chiefs pressed for another tie.The addition of Dumas, who played last year with the Long Island farm team of the Chicago Cougars, should give the Warriors considerable depth in the nets. He joins Gord Wollnough and Dan Niemet holdovers from last year.This actually marks Duma&rsquo;s second tour of duty with the Warriors, the first coming in 1972-73 when he was key factor in the club&rsquo;s first-place finish in the U.S.H.L.&rsquo;s Southern Division.League champions, Thunder Bay Twins, aiming for a record breaking fourth consecutive title, Waterloo Black Hawks and Milwaukee Admirals were not scheduled on the one. &#9632;

Around The USHL

<div class="byline">BY BUD KENNEDY</div>OMAHA&mdash;In a way, you could tell it was October. Stores started putting all their presumptuous Christmas ornaments up, students started getting tired of school and Fred Creighton was grumbling.Creighton, the former Eastern Hockey League wizard who stepped in two years ago to oversee the fortunes of the newborn Atlanta Flames&rsquo; first farm team, was going through his third dismal October in three years as the season opened.The Knights weren&rsquo;t scheduled for a home game until Oct. 25 after two weeks as gypsies. In their first three outings they picked up three points but Creighton claimed his Atlanta leftovers this year weren&rsquo;t exactly Adams Cup champion caliber. Variations of the tale have been heard before.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what the problem is,&rdquo; Creighton said, &ldquo;but we&rsquo;ve just got guys who can&rsquo;t play in this league. Trades hurt us and now we just haven&rsquo;t got any experience.&rdquo;Creighton used John Voss last year the CHL&rsquo;s top goalie in goals-against average, in the Knight nets the first two evenings in a 6-4 win at Tulsa and a 6-6 tie Oklahoma City.Creighton wound up the week with Detroit chattel George Hulme, who put together a 4.25 goals-against mark last season at Virginia but led all American Hockey League goalies in penalty minutes with 35. Hulme&rsquo;s work was commendable but he was tagged with the Knights&rsquo; first loss Oct. 13 in Fort Worth, 4-2.&ldquo;I like Hulme,&rdquo; Creighton said. &ldquo;Two years ago in the playoffs against Fort Worth we gave him a lot of good stuff and he nearly beat us himself.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d have to say we&rsquo;re a bit stronger this year with him and Voss in the net than we were last year with Voss and (rookie Don) Muio. The experience is good, especially when there&rsquo;s so little of it elsewhere.&rdquo;Creighton&rsquo;s Omaha teams have been slow starters for the past two seasons but neither has been exactly lethargic at season&rsquo;s end. In 1972-73 the Knights won the Adams Cup in a dramatic seventh game at Dallas and last year Omaha tied in points, for the regularseason title but lost out to Dallas in the playoffs.But this year Creighton started with a defense that had only one year of experience combined, that one belonging to Ken Houston. Ed Kea, a two-year vet down from the Flames, sat out the first few games with knee trouble.DENVER: The Spurs were described by St. Louis Lou Angotti as &ldquo;up there with the best in the league on defense but maybe a little shaky on offense.&rdquo; The shakiness was short-lived as the Spurs made their CHL coming-out party a big bash.First they unleashed 47 shots in 3-2 win at home against Fort Worth, then Jean-Guy Talbot&rsquo;s tykes took on the highly regarded Dallas Black Hawks and slapped them 4-1. For the capper they also won their first road game, a 5-2 job in Tulsa Oct. 13.All that despite the fact that Denver was going with only one goalie, former American Leaguer Yves Belanger. Jim Watt, last year a Spur regular, is due back in late October from an operation.SALT LAKE: While the rest of the league was living it up on the first weekend the Salt Lake Golden Eagles didn&rsquo;t have much to do, they played one game, and won 4-2 over Seattle. The Eagles had an Oklahoma swing scheduled before returning home Oct. 22 to face Dallas.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0483/3466676-1-eng-US/f0035-042.jpg" title="f0035-04" width="546" height="697"><figcaption class="caption-body">YVES BELANGER&hellip;Went It Alone</figcaption></div>SEATTLE: The Totems didn&rsquo;t exactly make new coach Oralnd Kurtenbach&rsquo;s first sessions a joy to behold, dropping their home opener to the Black Hawks 2-1 and losing their only other game in Salt Lake City 4-2. But the schedule smiled on Kurtenbach for the rest of October, blessing the Totems with five home games and only two road games before Halloween. &#9632;

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Creighton Unhappy With Knights; Denver Off To Flying CHL Debut

<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01161/3466714-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="592" height="378"></div><h2>GOALERS&rsquo; AVERAGES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-02134/3466707-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="593" height="382"></div> &#9632;

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CHL Leaders

<h2>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Fri. Oct. 18)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-03100/3466745-1-eng-US/f0035-032.jpg" title="f0035-03" width="586" height="378"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Sat. Oct. 12Central Wisconsin 2 at Sioux City 14; Green Bay 6 at copper Country 6: Chicago 4 at Marquette 5. &#9632;

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HOW THEY STAND

FLINT&mdash;The International Hockey League, expanded to 11 clubs from the nine that operated last season, raised the curtain on its 30th successive campaign, with two new cities joining the circuit, Kalamazoo and Lansing, Michigan where the teams will be known as the Wings and Lancers, respectively.Last season&rsquo;s Toledo franchise has shifted to Lansing and a new franchise was granted to Toledo where the team will have the nickname &ldquo;Goaldiggers.&rdquo;The IHL will operate in two divisions. Flint, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Muskegon, Port Huron and Saginaw, all from the State of Michigan, comprise the six-team North Division. Columbus, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Des Moines, Iowa and Fort Wayne, Indiana are the five members of the South Division.Each team will play a 76-game schedule, 38 contests at home and the same number on the road.Des Moines Capitols are the defending Turner Cup (playoff) and Huber Trophy (regular season) champions and Dan Belisle has returned as coach.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0376/3466821-1-eng-US/f0036-032.jpg" title="f0036-03" width="558" height="574"></div>Bob Lemieux is the coach and general manager of the new Kalamazoo Wings and Real Turcotte will make his IHL coaching debut behind the bench for the Lansing Lancers. Ted Garvin has assumed the general manager and coaching duties for the new Toledo Goaldiggers.The other seven teams and their coaches, all returning from last season, are: Columbus Owls (Moe Bartoli), Dayton Gems (Tom McVie), Flint Generals (Doug Carpenter), Fort Wayne Komets (Ted Wright), Muskegon Mohawks (Moose Lallo), Port Huron Flags (Bob McCammon), and Saginaw Gears (Don Perry).The 4l8-game schedule will end March 23, 1975 to be followed by the Turner Cup playoffs.Meanwhile, both Muskegon and Port Huron trimmed their bulky training camp rosters prior to the IHL opener.Flags&rsquo; fans will get an early look at all of the new faces plus some of the veterans. Among the familiar faces are forwards Billy LeCaine, Randy Sokoll, Ray Germain, Danny Newman, and Billy Watt; and defensemen Denis Deslauriers, Larry Klewchuk, and Gordie Redden.Four new players sent to Port Huron from the two teams with whom the Flags hold working agreements, Kansas City Scouts and New York Rangers, include to Port Huron through the Scouts&rsquo; chain. Right wings Alex Kogler, Russ Hall, and goalie John Memryk have been sent by the Rangers&rsquo; organization.The Flags announced that their training camp roster had been reduced through the release of nine rookies: forwards Al Hilton, Graham Wise, Stan Hinkley, Bruce Anderson, John Flynn, and Gary Enmark; defenseman Bob Dugan; and goalie Barry Oakes.Defenseman Denis Deslauriers is expected back with the Flags. Deslauriers, who is pro property of the Toronto Maple Leafs, was called to the Leafs&rsquo; Oklahoma City CHL farm club on an emergency basis while the Blazers&rsquo; defense heals from numerous injuries.Muskegon trimmed down as defenseman Moose Jenkins, and goalies Buddy Heaney and Kelvin Erickson were released, leaving the Mohawks with 21 players in camp (2 goalies, 6 defensemen, 13 forwards). Erickson was sent to Kalamazoo, while Jenkins and Heaney went home. As many as 25 players are permitted on IHL rosters until Nov. 1.Here&rsquo;s how the Mohawks looked for the IHL opener:Goal: Jim Foubister, Jerry Thomas.Defense: Brian Derksen, Murray Flegel, Bill Kestell, Lynn Margarit, Dan Sharpe, Carlo Torresan.Left wing: Jim Mancuso, Bob Tombari, Dave White, Carlo Ugolini.Center: Gary Ford, Bill McKinnon, Bob Olein, Marc Severyn.Right Wing: Marty Desmarais, George Klasons, Dan Kras, Sid Prysunka, Bert Scott. &#9632;

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IHL Opens 30th Season With Two New Cities

PORT HURON &mdash;If the size of the first player to ink a contract with the Port Huron Flags is any indicator of those who will follow, this year&rsquo;s club could be one of the biggest in the history of the franchise.Big 6&rsquo;4&rdquo;, 200-pound Leo &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Koopmans became the first to ink a contract for the 1974-75 season.Owner of dual-citizenship from Canada and Holland, Koopmans, a 20-year-old left winger, skated with the Dutch National Team last year and also rolled up 152 minutes in penalties.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a big find in both meanings of the word,&rdquo; commented Flags&rsquo; general manager Morris Snider. &ldquo;He was in the Washington Capitals training camp for a few days, but, when he was cut loose, we jumped at the chance to get him. The New York Rangers scouts advised us that he was a good property and encouraged us to get him if we could.&rdquo;Koopmans was the biggest of the 35 players who reported to coach Bob McCammon&rsquo;s training camp, and quite likely &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY LEN HOYES</div>Follow All The Action Every Week By Subscribing Today ToTHE HOCKEY NEWSSuperb Hockey Reading Each MonthHOCKEY WORLD & HOCKEY PICTORIALFLINT&mdash;Any doubts that general manager Frank Gallagher would follow through on his promise of a &ldquo;house cleaning&rdquo; for the Flint Generals were ended emphatically when only seven holdovers were among the 31 candidates attending the start of training camp.Spirited competition at defense and both wings indicated that only two or three of the holdovers were assured of spending the winter based at IMA Sports Arena where the Generals are playing their sixth season in the International Hockey League. Now it remains for coach Doug Carpenter, in his first full season as Flint&rsquo;s bench boss, to mold the new look Generals into a competitive team right from the start.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01141/3466790-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="259" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Gallagher</figcaption></div>Being competitive in the IHL&rsquo;s North Division is uppermost in Gallagher&rsquo;s thoughts after the Generals slipped to a 30-43-3 record last winter from the division championship in 1972-73.The Generals have been a model for minor league hockey with fabulous attendance figures for their five-season history. In 193 regular-season and Turner Cup playoff games, they have drawn almost 770,000 for an average of 3,987 in an arena which seats 4,021.They&rsquo;ve averaged 99.15 percent of the seating capacity and a hot start may be the trigger for picking up the 6,586 fans who are the difference between the current figures and 100 percent attendance.In one stretch spanning the 1970-71 and 1971-72 seasons they had standing-room crowds for 36 games. Sometime early in the 1975-76 campaign Gallagher will greet the Generals&rsquo; millionth fan.However, those great expectations are tied to early-season success in 1974-75 because of the economic pinch in the Flint area. Key General Motors plants are in the area and unemployment was running approximately 15 percent.The Generals held the line on ticket prices largely because of the economic picture but partly because Gallagher felt that the performance of last year&rsquo;s team didn&rsquo;t warrant a price boost.His thoughts were rewarded when the Generals&rsquo; faithful bought more than 2,200 season tickets. That&rsquo;s a drop from the 2,700 of last tely 84,000 before Gallagher opened the doors.&ldquo;Our fans have been extremely loyal when things didn&rsquo;t go right and we didn&rsquo;t feel that we could boost prices in light of what happened last season,&rdquo; Gallagher said.Then he vowed that &ldquo;things will be different next season.&rdquo;Only goalie Merlin Jenner, starting his fourth campaign, has more than three years of service with the Generals. The start of training camp produced the retirements of defenseman Gary Gilbert, the last remaining charter member of the 1969-70 team, goalie Bob Perani who had 4 1/2 seasons with the Generals and winger Dave Gorman who had played 3 1/2 seasons in Flint.Other returnees included defensemen Rod Collins and Brian Mc-Bratney and wingers Doug Manchak and Ernie Moser from the 1972-73 club and center Dave Bonter and winger Frank Beaton from the 1973-74 aggregation.Goalie Bob Volpe and forwards Bob Peppier and Clyde Simon were sent down as pros from the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; organization and draft choices Mike St. Cyr, Glen Ing and Dwayne Byers also arrived from the Hawks. That&rsquo;s the best help offered by the Hawks in Flint&rsquo;s history and Gallagher indicated that further help would be forthcoming as the need develops.Here&rsquo;s how the Generals looked near the close of training camp:Goal, Jenner and Volpe; defense, Collins, McBratney, Yves Plouffe, St. Cyr, Bryon Barker, John Riley and Gary Armstrong; left wings, Manchak, Beaton, Peppier, Norm Metcalfe, Dale Constanzo; right wings, Moser, Simon, Byers, Ing, Pete Fleming and Kevin Treacy; centers, Bonter, Bob Goodenow, Murray Hanson, Kirk Bowman.The Generals have had a tradition of fast starts and capable finishes but have sagged badly from mid-December to February.That&rsquo;s the pattern that Carpenter must revise, especially the sagging part.He said, &ldquo;Our biggest project is to increase scoring. We lost too many games last season by one goal. If we won just half of those games, we&rsquo;d have been second in the over-all standings.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-02100/3466783-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="565" height="1192"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLYDE SIMON&hellip;Sent By Hawks</figcaption></div>The departure of captain Wayne Zuk for Greensboro of the Southern Hockey League will hamper the search for scoring. The little center averaged 40 goals over his last three seasons, earning a training camp invitation from the new Michigan Stags of the World Hockey Association. The Stags signed him and sent him to Greensboro.With the veteran Gorman also absent from the start of training Manchak who scored 27 goals and 27 assists in 67 games last winter. Coming off shoulder surgery, Manchak is hopeful of having a 40-goal year.IHLNOTES: Juri Kudrasovs. loaned to the Toledo Hornets last season by Saginaw, has remained in Toledo under the new regime of coach Ted Garvin and the Goaldiggers&hellip; Columbus expanded radio network to include 27 home games and 23 road contests&hellip; Veteran Bert Scott, whose 42 goals led all IHL right wingers in 1973-74, back with Muskegon&hellip; Former scoring champion Darrel Knibbs left Muskegon to play hockey in Aus-Holmes to Columbus for future considerations&hellip; Flint awarded rights for onetime Des Moines star Pete Slater to Caps for future<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0041-0270/3466776-1-eng-US/f0041-022.jpg" title="f0041-02" width="560" height="510"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERT SCOTT</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Generals Get Complete New Look With Help Of Chicago Farmhands

TORONTO&mdash;In the November 1973 Bureau of Broadcast Measurement (BBM) survey there was a combined total of 4,592,000 Canadian viewers of the Saturday Hockey Night in Canada telecasts on the CBC English and French networks. In the January 1974 survey, the total had risen to 4,794,000.On the English network of the CBC Hockey Night in Canada was viewed by 3,150.000 viewers in November, making it the fifth ranked of all programs, following only Walt Disney, All In the Family, The Waltons and the Partridge Family. It ranked first amongst adult men over 18 with 1,525,000 viewers.On the CBC&rsquo;s French network the Saturday games in November were watched by an average of 1,442,000 viewers. Among men 18 and over only two programs had larger audiences and &#9632;

TV Audiences Near 5 Million

TORONTO &mdash;The 18 hockey teams are ready for the start of a gruelling 80-game NHL schedule &mdash; so are Hockey Night in Canada&rsquo;s three city telecast teams.In Montreal, Danny Gallivan, voted Canada&rsquo;s outstanding sportscaster last year, returns to the booth to team up with sidekick and color man Dick Irvin, for their 9th season as a dynamic duo. In all Danny is commencing his 22nd season of colorful play calling. Last year his amazing consecutive game string of over 1,100 broadcasts was broken, but he&rsquo;s already well started on another long run at the microphone. Danny and Dick will be joined by a new intermission host this season. He&rsquo;s Dave Reynolds, CFCF Montreal sportscaster.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-02101/3466931-1-eng-US/f0037-022.jpg" title="f0037-02" width="274" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Gallivan</figcaption></div>In Vancouver the on air crew is anchored by the veteran broadcaster Ted Reynolds as host. Jim Robson&rsquo;s exciting delivery will once again detail the play-by-play activities of the hometown Canucks while Bill Good Jr. is the color man and Walter Babe Pratt is resident good humour man and analyst.Bill Hewitt and Brian McFarlane, Toronto&rsquo;s booth team last year, return for another year of describing the action from Maple Leaf Gardens. Dave Hodge is starting his fourth season as host and Jack Dennett can always be depended upon to plug any gaps that may arise. Foster Hewitt confines most of his broadcast activity to radio these days but will participate in the telecasts occasionally.Newfoundland&rsquo;s Bob Cole made his Hockey Night in Canada debut last season as a swingman. filling in for both Hewitt and Gallivan. Bob&rsquo;s operational scope will likely be increased this season with more games from Montreal and Toronto as well as some possible visits to Vancouver, spelling off Robson.Only the Vancouver crew has a permanent analyst in Pratt. Montreal will present a variety of experts including Jean Beliveau, Red Storey, John Ferguson, Don Marshall, Red Fisher and recent Hall of Fame nominee Dickie Moore. Howie Meeker will add his pungent observations on some occasions from the Forum broadcast booth as well.Toronto&rsquo;s resident analyst is veteran Bob Goldham, who&rsquo;ll handle the majority of Leaf games. Meeker, his former teammate of the mid-forties, will spell Bob from time to time over the season.All of the analysts will be employing a new technique through much of the coming season. The emphasis of between period analysis will be on plays, situations and facets of the game that aren&rsquo;t readily apparent in the basic game coverage. The analysts will be looking for and commenting about the often forgotten arts of the game which lead to goals being scored, big plays being made. An isolation camera will be deployed to provide a different look at various aspects of the game, all designed to provide more insight and more enjoyment of the hockey spectacle.For the 1974-75 season Hockey Night in Canada has lined up a slate of intermission features ranging from exclusive film of the Russian hockey stars to the further adventures of Peter Puck. They&rsquo;ll all be used to supplement the games live action in bringing Canadian viewers hockey telecasts which rank with the best sports telecasts anywhere in the world.The film material on Russia&rsquo;s international stars has never before been seen in North America. It will give Canadians an intimate look at the Russian players both on the ice and at home.The Hot Stove League, long a feature of early hockey broadcasts on the CBC Radio network, will be reconvened. Its members will get together regularly for some friendly old style banter and hockey talk.For the younger viewers and those relatively unfamiliar with the game, pint sized Peter Puck will be back around mid-season in a new Hanna-Barbera series. The little fellow gained instant stardom during the Christmas period last season with his four part series on hockey rules and nomenclature.A wide variety of film features will provide inside looks at hockey&rsquo;s great stars and unknown rookies, team and league histories and instructions on how to play the game. In addition there&rsquo;ll be live visits with the headline makers on all teams.The coaches around the NHL will be put under the Press Conference gun with Canada&rsquo;s top hockey writers firing at them verbally. The Hockey Hot Seat will submit a number of victims to grilling on timely items of interest.Hockey quizzes, Trivia Nights, highlights from other key games, the latest on trades and last minute hockey developments will all add to the general interest and enjoyment of NHL hockey as the season progresses.In the 1974-75 season Hockey Night in Canada will again endeavor to bring the most attractive games available to the widest possible viewing audience. Both Canadian networks, CBC and CTV, have some excellent matchups to present with the top U.S. contenders frequently providing the opposition for the Torotnto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens and Vancouver Canucks.CBC national network-highlights, on Saturday night, include all three Boston at Toronto contests; four visits by the defending champion Philadelphia Flyers (two against Toronto, one each against Montreal and Vancouver); three Canadian invasions by the New York Rangers and two by the Chicago Black Hawks and Buffalo Sabres. In addition CBC has two Montreal-Toronto confrontations&rsquo; and one each between Vancouver-Montreal and Vancouver-Toronto.CTV&rsquo;s top Wednesday attractions include all three Toronto home games in the traditional Maple Leafs versus Canadiens rivalry plus all three Montreal home games between the Canadiens and the Boston Bruins. CTV&rsquo;s national audience will also see the Vancouver Canucks twice, once in Montreal and once in Toronto. &#9632;

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Canadian TV Hockey Teams Ready For Action

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0037-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0371/3466976-1-eng-US/f0037-032.jpg"></div><h2>Wednesdays on CTV</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0456/3466969-1-eng-US/f0037-042.jpg" title="f0037-04" width="511" height="604"><figcaption class="caption-body">HOWIE MEEKER&hellip;Top Analyst</figcaption></div><h2>Saturdays on CBC-TV</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0542/3466962-1-eng-US/f0037-052.jpg" title="f0037-05" width="1742" height="822"></div> &#9632;

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November 1, 1974

CARTOON CORNER

Forth Worth In Auspicious Start But Blazers, Oilers Fall Flat

Stewart Reforms As Seals Show Contending Look

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