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November 15, 1974

The Hockey News November 15, 1974

<div class="byline">BY JEAN-PAUL RICARD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0041-0198/3157050-1-eng-US/f0041-012.jpg" title="f0041-01" width="566" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARIO VIENS &hellip;Hot Goaler</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0041-0265/3157043-1-eng-US/f0041-022.jpg" title="f0041-02" width="570" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body">YVON DISOTELL &hellip;Fired Hat Trick</figcaption></div>CORNWALL&mdash;The Cornwall Royals are this year&rsquo;s biggest surprise in the Western Division of the Quebec Major Hockey League.The Royals, who lost 12 players at the end of last season and found themselves with only three 19-year-old players plus a good number of rookies this season, have defied the oddsmakers and have managed to stay at or near the ton aloneside Sherbrooke in the battle for first place after 13 games. The Royals won their first seven games before losing 3-0 against the Sherbrooke Beavers, who at the time became the only unbeaten club of the league.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0041-0722/3157036-1-eng-US/f0041-072.jpg" title="f0041-07" width="274" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Orval Tessier</figcaption></div>Coach Orval Tessier is back behind the bench of the only Ontario QMJHL team after one year as general-manager. Ronnie Racette. now coaching the Long Island Cougars, was the Royals&rsquo; coach last season. Tessier first coached the Royals, then went behind the bench of the Quebec Semparts before coming back to Cornwall. He is without doubt responsible for the success of his team along with goaltender Mario Viens, who owns an average of 3.00 goals per game.The Royals scored a recent big win over the East Division leading Trois-Rivi&eacute;res Draveurs 7-3 with Yvon Disotell showing the way with a hat trick.SHERBROOKE: Even though they have only six 19-year-old players, the Beavers are favorite to win the Western Division title and they are proving it. Coach Ghislain Delage&rsquo;s team won its first eight games before bowing 6-3 to Quebec.Sydney Versey. Jere Gillis and team captain Michel Brisebois are the offensive leaders of the Beavers. This line has scored more than the half the Sherbrooke goals up to now. Versey and Gillis, the latter only 17 years old. have been the team&rsquo;s leading scorers since the beginning of the season. Veysey in the number two scorer behind Montreal&rsquo;s Norman Dupont, who leads with 33 points, Veysey has 32.Richard Mulhern, considered by many as one of the five best Junior players in the country, is the key man of &lsquo;he Beavers&rsquo; defensive unit.HULL: One must also consider the Hull Festivals as another surprising team. Coach Wayne Maxner has put new life into the club and even though they won&rsquo;t win the title of their division the other teams will have to respect the Festivals all season long with players like Tom Bulley and Jimmy Montgomery. But the defensive play of the Festivals is the biggest problem and probably the reason why they won&rsquo;t be fighting for first place, unless a notable improvement develops before the end of the season. Bulley is the Festivals&rsquo; top point man with 29. good for sixth place in the individual scoring race.MONTREAL: Larry Regan, the new Montreal Junior pilot, and certainly the most experienced coach in the league, is learning that it&rsquo;s not always easy to work with young players.Even though Regan is probably not responsible for this situation, there is still the fact that his team has been disappointing since the beginning of the season. Mario Tremblay, drafted by the Montreal Canadiens at the age of 18, is certainly a big loss, but there are still other good players on the team who aren&rsquo;t producing as they should. Also, the absence of their excellent defenseman, Blair Mackasey, who just came back after an injury, didn&rsquo;t help Regan&rsquo;s plight.Everybody had expected young defenseman Robert Picard to be the leader of the team, but it seems that it was asking too much with his lack of experience. American Mike Wongjust might be the man who could take charge for the team. But he has missed the first three weeks of activities waiting for his transfer from the United States Amateur Hockey Association.LAVAL: The Nationals are considered as one of the best in the QMJHL but again they haven&rsquo;t quite lived up to their potential.Admittedly the team has had more than its share of trouble. Right at the beginning of the season, goaler Robert Sauve was stricken by an appendicits attack and needed immediate surgery. The convalescence could be long and nobody knows how long Sauve will need to get his reflexes back. But the case of Sauve was not the only problem. Outstanding scorer Mike Bossy injured his knee and will be missing for a couple of months.After 14 games, Nationals won four, lost nine and tied one. Their record might be behind the dismissal of coach Claude Labossi&eacute;re, who was fired Oct. 27 and replace by Jacques St-Jean. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Cornwall Early Surprise of QMJHL Race

<div class="byline">BY DEREK KNIGHT</div>For the finest In Hockey Magazines subscribe today to the Hockey Twins:HOCKEY WORLD & HOCKEY PICTORIALFor the same price as a ticket to ONE GAME you can read over 1600 PAGES of outstanding news about Hockey by subscribing today toTHE HOCKEY NEWSLEWISTON&mdash;When you lose your first three games, it usually isn&rsquo;t time to panic. But when you&rsquo;re the Maine Nordiques (a second place team one year ago) and the improved opposition it just starting to pass you by, it might be time to make some changes.The Nordiques, however, were not the only team to mak changes. The Long Island Cougars were making some moves as well, as the league entered its third week of play.Newcomers added to the Maine squad were Jean Bernier and Denis Carufel, both defensemen, and left winger Colin Wood. Bernier and Carufei were both draft choices of the parent Quebec Nordiques while Wood was purchased from Broome where he played last year. The addition of Wood and previous acquisition Bob Murphy helped the Nordiques up front, but more aid was still being sought with general manager Maurice Ducharme spending most of his time and energy on long distance telephone calls.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0191/3156784-1-eng-US/f0037-012.jpg" title="f0037-01" width="259" height="387"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Atchison</figcaption></div>JOHNSTOWN: Dont&rsquo;t blame Don Atchison if he should happen to look tired. The 22-year-old goaltender from the Pittsburgh Penguins organization made 50 saves in a 4-1 loss to Broome. Atchison has been playing solid hockey in the Johnstown net. He&rsquo;s been receiving some help from his defense, namely Pat Westrum. Westrum, 26, sent down by the parent Minnesota Fighting Saints has had considerable playing experience. He divided last season between the AHL&rsquo;s Boston Braves and the IHL&rsquo;s Dayton Gems as property of the Boston Bruins. The Carlson brothers remain the hit of the town with the Jets averaging well over 3,000 fans for the first three home games.MOHAWK VALLEY: Ralph Hopiavouri did the job and did it well during his stay in the NAHL. Hopiavouri scored the winning goal in the Comets&rsquo; 3-2 win over Syracuse and was good enough to prompt the parent Indianapolis Racers to recall him when Ken Desjardine was injured. In his place, the Racers assigned rugged left winger Connie Forey to the Comets. Forey, who was suspended by the defunct Western Hockey League last year, is coming off shoulder problems and probably won&rsquo;t be able to play right away&hellip; Veteran Doug Brindley was selected as captain&hellip; The Comets drew their best home crowd of the young season (2,800) in a 5-2 victory over Long Island. The Comets had enough chances to score in that game with 65 shots altogether.LONG ISLAND: The Cougars were busy making personnel changes. Mark Lomenda, the fifth round draft choice of the Chicago Cougars, reported to Long Island. Mike Smith, a left winger in the San Diego Mariners&rsquo; organization, was loaned to the Cougars on a look-see basis. The Cougars then signed veteran right winger George Swarbrick, 31, a man with American League, Western League and National League experience with Oakland, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. The veteran forward, who could be a key acquisition for Long Island, joined the Cougar organization after several telephone conversations with Gerry Lamoureux, director of minor league operations for Chicago.PHILADELPHIA: Another familiar surname has joined the Firebirds. John Barber, a 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, 190 lb. defenseman, adds further strength to the Philadelphia backline. The former Phoenix Roadrunner is the brother of Philadelphia Flyer Bill Barber&hellip; The addition of Barber, a free agent, brings to three the number of NAHL-NHL brother acts on the Firebirds. Ray Schultz is the brother of Flyer Dave Schultz and Dale MacLeish is the brother of Flyer Rick MacLeish&hellip; Tom Young and Willie Friesen are leading the Firebirds in goals with four in six games. Young has two shorthanded markers.BROOME: Ex-coach Wayne Kitchingman has been kept in the Duster organization. Duster president Jim Matthews appointed Kitchingman chief scout&hellip; In the first five Duster games, Rick Lemay received the nod in goal four times with Roger Kosar starting the other. Last year it was Kosar who was the tower of strength in the Duster goal&hellip; Ron Boehm and Paul Brown were in a head-to-head duel for the lead in penalty minutes. Boehm had 28 while Brown was close behind with 26&hellip; Roy Carmichael may not score many goals but on the average he was assisting on one goal per game after the first five games.SYRACUSE: Bob Blanchet, a 20-year-old goaltender from the Kitchener Rangers, has shone for Syracuse in the early going. Drafted by San Diego, Blanchet had allowed just one goal in his first two starts&hellip; Ex-Blazers Russ Gillow and Ray Adduono have both made the San Diego team&hellip; John Raynak. a big scorer with Cape Cod last year, is seeing regular duty under coach Garry Peters. Peters has some strong scorers on the front lines in Lee Inglis, Alton White, Bob Jones, Brian Perry, Brian Bradley and Darrell Knowles.CAPE COD: Robbie Neale, a bright young center, has arrived from the Cleveland Crusaders. He&rsquo;ll be a fine addition to a front line bolstered the week before with the acquisition of Mike Hyndman&hellip; Denis Lemieux, John Cunniff, Guy Dufour, Bob Charlebois and John Danby were all among the league&rsquo;s top 10 scorers&hellip; The Cape Codders were 3-0-1 in the first four games with two victories over natural rival Maine Nordiques by a combined score of 18-5.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0267/3156777-1-eng-US/f0037-022.jpg" title="f0037-02" width="573" height="574"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN BARBER &hellip; New Firebird</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0344/3156770-1-eng-US/f0037-032.jpg" title="f0037-03" width="574" height="570"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB BLANCHET &hellip; Hot Rookie</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Nordiques Shuffle Roster After Stumbling Start

<h2>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</h2>(Standlnqs on Wed. Oct. 30)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0278/3156594-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="614" height="377"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Thur. Oct. 24Copper Country 2 at Marquette 3.Fri. Oct. 25Chicago 3 at Thunder Bay 13.Sat. Oct. 26Sioux City 6 at Green Bay 8; Milwaukee 2 at Marquette 12; Waterloo 6 at Central Wisconsin 1; Chicago 4 at Copper Country 6.Sun. Oct. 27Central Wisconsin 5 at Chicago 7; Sioux City 3 at Waterloo 3; Milwaukee 2 at Thunder Bay 6.<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0360/3156587-1-eng-US/f0034-032.jpg" title="f0034-03" width="590" height="231"></div> &#9632;

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HOW THEY STAND

(Standings on Monv. Nov. 4)<h2>PATRICK DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-252/3155570-1-eng-US/f0023-252.jpg" title="f0023-25" width="579" height="150"></div><h2>SMYTHE DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-262/3155563-1-eng-US/f0023-262.jpg" title="f0023-26" width="585" height="174"></div><h2>NORRIS DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-272/3155556-1-eng-US/f0023-272.jpg" title="f0023-27" width="581" height="177"></div><h2>ADAMS DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-282/3155549-1-eng-US/f0023-282.jpg" title="f0023-28" width="579" height="147"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Mon. Oct. 28California 1 at N.Y. Islanders 10 Pittsburgh 0 at Los Angeles 2Tue. Oct. 29Detroit 0 at Vancouver 7; Buffalo at Washington (rescheduled to Feb. 21); St. Louis at Toronto (rescheduled to Nov. 25).Wed. Oct 30N.Y. Islanders 1 at N.Y. Rangers 1; California 1 at Atlanta 4; Chicago 4 at Montreal 4; Boston 3 at Minnesota 3.Thur. Oct. 31N.Y. Rangers 1 at Philadelphia 5; Montreal 3 at Washington 0; St. Louis 1 at Los Angeles 1.Fri. Nov. 1Toronto 2 at Atlanta 5; Pittsburgh 4 at Vancouver 7; Detroit 4 at California 4.Sat. Nov. 2Philadelphia 3 at Montreal; Boston 2 at N.Y. Islanders 3; Atlanta 0 at St. Louis 9; Detroit 1 at Los Angeles 5; Chicago 4 at Kansas City 3; Buffalo 6 at Toronto 3.Sun. Nov. 3Buffalo 4 at N.Y. Rangers 3; N.Y. Islanders 1 at Philadelphia 3; Kansas City 5 at Washington 4; Pittsburgh 3 at Chicago 3; Minnesota 1 at Boston 10.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Mon. Nov. 4Minnesota at Montreal.Tue. Nov. 5N.Y Rangers at Vancouver; Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders; Pittsburgh at Kansas City; Los Angeles at St Louis. Buffalo at BostonWed. Nov. 6N.Y. Rangers at California; N.Y. Islanders at Atlanta; Montreal at Detroit; Chicago at Buffalo; Minnesota at Toronto.Thu. Nov. 7Minnesota at Philadelphia; Washington at Boston; Los Angeles at Pittsbu rgh; Vancouver at Kansas City.Fri. Nov. 8Chicago at Atlanta.Sat. Nov. 9N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles; N.Y. Islanders at; St. Louis; Washington at Philadelphia; Vancouver: at Montreal; California at Pittsburgh; Toronto at; Minnesota; Buffalo at Kansas City.Sun. Nov. 10California at Philadelphia; Atlanta at Boston; Montreal at Washington; Pittsburgh at Buffalo; Vancouver at Detroit.Thue. Nov. 12Atlanta at Washington; Chicago at Vancouver; Boston at St. Louis.Wed. Nov. 13Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers; N.Y Islanders at Pittsburgh; Washington at Atlanta; Buffalo at Montreal; Detroit at Minnesota; Toronto at Los Angeles; Chicago at California; St. Louis at Kansas City.Thu. Nov. 14Montreal at Boston; Minnesota at Buffalo.Fri. Nov. 15N.Y. Islanders at Kansas City; Philadelphia at Atlanta; Los Angeles at Vancouver; Toronto at California. &#9632;

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LOOKING AT THE NHL SCOREBOARD

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01174/3157292-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"></div>&mdash; Page 2EDMONTON GM HUNTER SEES NEW COLISEUM AS FINEST &mdash; Page 27PHIL &rArr; ESPOSITO: FAMILIAR NAME STILL NO. 1 NHL GOAL SCORER &mdash; Page 19VIVIAN&rsquo;S TRADES LOOKING GOOD FOR WHA&rsquo;S CLEVELAND CRUSADERS &mdash; Page 26SELECTING ALL TIME TOP GOALERS TOUGH TASK &mdash; Page 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-02145/3157285-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="799" height="1423"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNIE PARENT</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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NHL COACHING TURNOVER CONTINUES

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01773/3153842-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rookie Bob Bourne of the New York Islanders has been one of the big surprises of the new NHL season. For full details on the Bourne story see page 8.</figcaption></div><h2>BLUES HIRE YOUNG</h2>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Garry Young is back in the NHL as the new coach of the St. Louis Blues. The appointment of the 42-year-old Young to succeed Lou Angotti at the helm of the Blues caught everyone by surprise, even Young it seems.&ldquo;This is a great surprise,&rdquo; echoed Young as he was named, by Sid Salomon III, the Blues&rsquo; president, to take over the Blues following Angotti&rsquo;s resignation. Young had started the year as general manager of the California Seals but quit for &lsquo;health reasons&rsquo;. After viewing the Blues in action, Young said,&rdquo;I see little to be desired. They&rsquo;re young, they want to win and so do I.&rdquo;<h2>FLYER DUO SET DOWN</h2>MONTREAL&mdash;NHL president Clarence Campbell came down hard on Don Saleski and Bob Kelly of the Philadelphia Flyers for their part in a recent California-Philadelphia bench-clearing brawl. Campbell handed each player a six-game suspension, a sentence that drew the ire. of the Flyers&rsquo; ice captain Bobby Clarke.The Flyers and Clarke said they felt Campbell was too harsh in meting out the suspension to the Philadelphia duo. Kelly said the NHL chief was considering past sins in making his decision.<h2>SEILING TO LEAFS</h2>TORONTO &mdash;Rod Seiling continued to be tossed around the NHL like a pelican on the sea. Seiling was virtually booed off the Ranger roster by resentful New Yorkers after a couple of bad games this season. He was soon placed on waivers and claimed by Washington for $30,000.The expansion club turned around and swapped him to Toronto Maple Leafs for Tim Ecclestone and Willie Brossart making this the fourth NHL club he has been with &mdash; Rangers, St. Louis, Washington and now Toronto.<h2>ECCLESTONE ON MOVE</h2>ATLANTA&mdash;No NHL player has moved around as much as Tim Ecclestone since the mid 1973-74 campaign. Ecclestone was traded to Toronto by Detroit last season after originally belonging to the Blues, who shipped him to Detroit.Last weekend Ecclestone found himself on the move again. He was part of Toronto&rsquo;s two-for-one trade with Washington for Rod Seiling but he didn&rsquo;t remain a member of the expansion Capitals long. Washington traded him to Atlanta for cash and future considerations.If it&rsquo;s any consolation to Ecclestone, he appears to be set in Atlanta. Coach Bernard Geoffrion said he likes him and plans to give him plenty of work with the Flames. &#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/f0002-03579/3153932-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="520" height="737"></div><h2>WHA TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04400/3153925-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="519" height="578"></div><h2>OTHER LEAGUES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05278/3153918-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="514" height="401"></div><h2>COLUMNISTS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06183/3153911-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="508" height="124"></div><h2>OTHER FEATURES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-07105/3153904-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="506" height="281"></div> &#9632;

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WHERE YOU’LL FIND IT ALL

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div>ST-LOUIS&mdash;It was less than a year ago that the St. Louis Blues were proudly pointing to the slogan &ldquo;Seven Playoffs In Seven Years.&rdquo;There&rsquo;s a new slogan concerning the Blues, and it&rsquo;s not one they can be proud of.The new phrase is &ldquo;Nine Coaching Changes In Eight Years&rdquo;, a phrase brought about when Lou Angotti resigned as coach of Blues Oct. 30.Angotti, who retired from the playing ranks last February to replace Jean-Guy Talbot as coach, resigned amidst reports that he was having trouble getting along with his players. Angotti plans to return to playing and asked the Blues for his unconditional release. &ldquo;Circumstances will not allow me to play in St. Louis,&rdquo; he said.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02719/3153873-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="271" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Angotti</figcaption></div>Lynn Patrick, senior vicepresident of the Blues and the first in a long line of St. Louis coaches, will handle the team until a successor is named. Angotti, 36, had led the Blues to a 2-5-2 record this season.The Blues meanwhile, off with a flourish at the beginning of the season, suddenly faltered and found themselves trailing Vancouver and Chicago in division standings.The Blues&rsquo; power-play became powerless, and fans at the St. Louis Arena booed the Blues during a game with Buffalo, when the Blues lost, 2-0, and failed to capitalize on six Buffalo penalties. The boos came after the Blues handled the puck loosely during a 41-second span when they had a two-man advantage.With the loss to Buffalo the Blues were winless in their last four games and hadn&rsquo;t scored a power play goal in six games. The team&rsquo;s four power-play goals were all by point man Larry Sacharuk and came in the first two games of the season on the road.The Blues have been successful in cutting the number of St. Louis penalties, so they are not being unnecessarily burned by the opposition&rsquo;s power play. But the Blues, who are not a high-scoring team, will have to revitalize their own power play if they are to assure themselves of a playoff position in the first year of four-division play.The Blues started the season with 23 players, but have sent two rookies, forward John Wensink and defenseman Don Whelden, to the Denver farm team. Forward Ken Richardson, who had seven goals and four assists in nine games, was recalled.Richardson played on left wing on a line with Garry Unger to end a three-game experiment that had Unger playing left wing.&ldquo;I wanted Unger to get more scoring chances, and he was getting them in those three games,&rdquo; Angotti said. &ldquo;But the position is foreign to him, so I decided to put him back at center.&rdquo;Unger, as a left wing with Dave Gardner at center, skated all over the ice. However, the experiment was an interesting one, which Angotti had felt compelled for some time to try. He finally decided in favor of it when the Blues&rsquo; need for more scoring punch became more apparent. Unger, switching from center to wing and back, was still looking for his first goal of the season, although he had five assists, tied for team high with Don Awrey.Awrey and Barclay Plager are standing tall as the two experienced hands on the St. Louis crew of defensemen. After those two veterans the Blues have been relying on rookie defensemen, Sacharuk, Bob Stumpf, Richard Wilson, Gordon Buynak and Bob Hess.Conspiciously absent from mention is Bob Plager, who has been with the Blues longer than any other player, past or present. Plager has seen very little action this season. The first time Angotti used him was in the sixth game of the season when brother Barclay was forced to leave for stitches after a shot hit him in the forehead and bounced into the St. Louis net. Bob was injured in the third period of that game against New York when his left ear was cut by a skate. However, Bob was in the lineup against Boston two nights later. Back home in St. Louis he skated one shift in each period against Buffalo.Bob Plager has long been the people&rsquo;s choice in St. Louis, and his dedicated play and rollicking personality have also made him popular with the team&rsquo;s management.<h2>Photo Credits</h2>Bob Shaver page 1; Steve Babineau pages 1-3; Bruce Bennett pages 2-10; Bernie Moser page 6; Peter Wooll ey page 9. &#9632;

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St. Louis Coaching Turmoil Continues As Problems Force Angotti To Resign

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03442/3154008-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"></div><h2>EARLY ERA (PRE-1943) REGULAR SEASON</h2><h2>MODERN ERA (POST-1943) REGULAR SEASON</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04256/3154001-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1232" height="257"></div> &#9632;

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All Time Top Goalers

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div>CHICAGO &mdash;Jim Pappin in October was as sizzling as July. Eight goals in his first nine games, one of the best starts of his career. So let&rsquo;s hear it now for Jim Pappin, fans.Booooooooooooo! Hiss-Boom-Bah!&ldquo;No, no not yet&hellip; they ve been nice to me so far,&rdquo; said the Black Hawks&rsquo; laconic right winger. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s early, though. The people are still too busy booing the Bears in football. They&rsquo;ll be back before long, my friends.&rdquo;Of course, Pappin couldn&rsquo;t care less. In seven years with Chicago, his ample ears have consumed large quantities of boos, but he&rsquo;s gone on record as branding his Stadium detractors a bunch of idiots, his TV critics a bunch of videots, his Team Typewriter squalers a bunch of deleted expletives.&ldquo;Most of the people who come to the games don&rsquo;t know what they&rsquo;re seeing anyway,&rdquo; said Pappin. &ldquo;The people who boo, you wouldn&rsquo;t have to give them an IQ test to know that their IQs are under are hundred. All you have to do is look at them. I know, I&rsquo;ve sat up there with them.&ldquo;But I guess they have to boo somebody to stay happy. They used to boo Phil Esposito. Now how can you boo him? And then it was Dennis Hull. It doesn&rsquo;t make sense. I hear &lsquo;em, but it doesn&rsquo;t bug me.&rdquo;But maybe, just maybe, this will be a different year&rsquo;for The Bird. Certainly there are a lot of changes in Pappin&rsquo;s me. Ivan Boldirev. Pontiac United. Quick Sensation. Upto Snuff. Gus&rsquo;s Pride. To name a few.Boldirev, of course, is the talented center man whom Papin has joined to help make the Black Hawks a better hockey club. The other four names are horses Pappin has bought to make him forget that he plays hockey with anybody.&ldquo;If you just think hockey all the time, you go crazy,&rdquo; said Pappin. &ldquo;I have to have a hobby to get my mind away from it, to keep it from being a grind. I get very bored without something else to do, particularly on the road.&ldquo;Last year, I took up flying planes, and I still do it when I can. But now I&rsquo;m into horses, training and conditioning them, and I think that&rsquo;s probably what I&rsquo;ll do when I&rsquo;m finished playing hockey. I don&rsquo;t race &lsquo;em myself, though.&ldquo;When a new track was built near his summer home of Sudbury, Ont., Pappin found that he could harness his desire no more.&ldquo;So I bought all four of them &mdash; all pacers &mdash; with the money I won from the &lsquo;Showdown In The NHL&rsquo; series,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Actually, I got about $12,000 from the TV horses and all the equipment.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got a trainer, Real Bourgeois, who takes care of them when I&rsquo;m not there. But all during the summer, I was with them from 7 in the morning until night time.&rdquo;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s paid off, too, Pontiac United cost me $5,000 and now that he&rsquo;s won seven of his first 14 starts, he&rsquo;s worth 10 or 15 grand. But I&rsquo;m not in it for the money. It&rsquo;s just an escape.&rdquo;Such distractions are eminently wise for Pappin, who is nearing the 250 goal plateau&mdash;most of which were achieved with erstwhile MPH Line cohorts Dennis Hull and Pit Martin.&ldquo;Billy (Reay) broke us up late last year and it hasn&rsquo;t bothered me too much yet,&rdquo; said Pappin. &ldquo;Ivan, Dennis and I have worked pretty well together. The only better start I had was 10 goals in my first ten games the first year I was here.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good thing, being split up for a little while. We were getting a little stale, and it got so that other teams were keying on our line. As long as we&rsquo;re winning, that&rsquo;s what matters.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-05149/3154039-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="561" height="737"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM PAPPIN</figcaption></div>And as long as Pappin doesn&rsquo;t drive his horses into snowstorms as he did his airplane last January, it&rsquo;s fine with his coach. &#9632;

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Horses Replace Planes As Pappin’s Escape Device

<div class="byline">BY FRANK ORR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01778/3153970-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY CHEEVERS&hellip; Veteran Branded Winner&rsquo;</figcaption></div>TORONTO&mdash;The subject was goaltenders and King Clancy, the vice-president of the Toronto Maple Leafs who has seen &rsquo;em all in his 50 years as a National Hockey League player, coach, referee and executive, made a statement which sums up the matter of rating the goalies.&ldquo;Talk to a half a dozen hockey men about who was the best goalie they&rsquo;ve ever seen and if you get two answers the same, it will be a miracle,&rdquo; Clancy said.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve heard more arguments about which goalie was best than about probably anything in hockey. When you talk about the best forward or best defenseman, well, the argument usually will be narrowed down to two or three names. But with goalies, you&rsquo;ll get many more names as the best one.&rdquo;Take defensemen as an example. When hockey followers try to pick the best one in history, only three men rate serious consideration &mdash; Eddie Shore, Doug Harvey and Bobby Orr.But ask for &ldquo;best goalie&rdquo; nominations and the list will be as long as your arm George Hainsworth, Charlie Gardiner, Lome Chabot, Terry Sawchuk, Turk Broda, Harry Lumley, Frank Brimsek, Johnny Bower, Bill Durnan, Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante are some of them.Thus, it would be foolish to make an attempt at picking the all time best goalie. This treatise will take a look at the great goalies of history and include a few thoughts on the matter, mostly from others.The accompanying charts list the goalies who rated best in career averages, dividing them into two lists which cover the &ldquo;early&rdquo; and &ldquo;modern&rdquo; eras of hockey. The loose dividing point between the eras is the 1943-44 season when the centre red line was introduced in the NHL. A career total of 30 regular season games was required for that list. Early era goalies with 20 games were included in the playoff list while modem goalies had to play at least 30 playoff contests.The game of hockey has had so many changes from the time of Alex Connell to the days of John Davidson that comparison is fruitless. Connell to the days of John Davidson that comparison is fruitless. Connell was the brillant goalie with Ottawa Senators, Detroit and Montreal Maroons who tops both lists &mdash; a 1.99 regular season goals against average in 415 games and an incredible 1 24 mark in 21 playoff games.Hockey&rsquo;s evolution has produced the slap-shot, the curved stick and the rushing defenseman, none of which has made the goalie&rsquo;s life any easier.&ldquo;The way the game is played now doesn&rsquo;t make it any easier for goalies,&rdquo; Clancy said. &ldquo;Back in the 1920s, the defensemen all stood up at the blueline and forced the play there. The thing we guarded against most was backing in towards the net.&ldquo;Now, defensemen back in more and players cluster around the net like a bunch of grapes. This forces the goalie to handle many more screened shots. Too, the game has opened up since those days. I don&rsquo;t have any pile of statistics to back this up but goalies face many more shots now than they did back then.&rdquo;Goals against averages, while extremely important, don&rsquo;t supply a definitive statistic on goalies. Assorted factors must be considered &mdash; how many shots did the goalie face, how efficiently did his defense clear rebounds and traffic from the goal area, how many &ldquo;big&rdquo; saves at key spots of a game did the goalie make?Low-average goalies are not always winning goalies. Gerry Cheevers of the Cleveland Crusaders of the World Hockey Association, for instance, had a 2.86 goals against mark in 252 NHL games with the Boston Bruins, a good but not great figure.However, Cheevers had a reputation as a &ldquo;winner&rdquo;, a goalie who would make the crucial save in key games.&ldquo;When we were ahead, say 5-4, in a big game especially in the playoffs, Gerry would make the really great stops to hold that lead,&rdquo; said Bruin star Phil Esposito. &ldquo;He was at his best when we needed him. Other goalies might have lower averages but very few were better winners.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02653/3153963-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="562" height="1486"><figcaption class="caption-body">TONY ESPOSITO &hellip;Best Modern Mark</figcaption></div>Most hockey people rate the late Turk Broda as the best &ldquo;money&rdquo; goalie in NHL history. During his fabled career with the Toronto Maple Leafs, when the Leafs were the NHL class in the 1940s, the Turk had a 2.56 regular season average. In the playoffs, his mark was 1.99.In one three-year stretch of 24 playoff games, Broda yielded only 34 goals.&ldquo;I needed the money,&rdquo; was Broda&rsquo;s explanation for the playoff greatness.&ldquo;When those playoff bucks were on the line, you couldn&rsquo;t shoot a bean past Broda with a bazooka,&rdquo; Clancy said. &ldquo;There have been several great pressure goalies. Broda probably was the best but Johnny Bower wasn&rsquo;t bad, either.&rdquo;Bower was the goalie on the Leafs&rsquo; four Stanley Cup teams of the 1960s. Bower didn&rsquo;t become an NHL regular until he was 33 years old. However, when he did arrive, he had the maturity and skill to excel.&ldquo;Of all the goalies I&rsquo;ve seen since I came into the NHL in 1960, Bower is the one I&rsquo;d want behind me if my team had to win a big game,&rdquo; said Leaf center Dave Keon.If any goalie earns more support than the others for the &ldquo;best&rdquo; title among that mysterious group usually referred to as &ldquo;veteran observers, it&rsquo;s the late Terry Sawchuk, who acquired a record 103 shutouts during his 21-season NHL career with the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.Sawchuk brought the &ldquo;crouch&rdquo; style of goaltending to the NHL, playing with his waist bent almost in a right angle. He claimed it gave him better balance and an improved view of screened shots.There have been some extraordinary goaltending accomplishments. George Hainsworth&rsquo;s 22 shutouts in 44 games in 1928-29 with the Montreal Canadiens is one of hockey&rsquo;s great records. So is the five consecutive Vezina Trophy Triumphs by Plante with the mighty Canadiens of the late 1950s.In 1955-56, Plante played 64 games and gave up only 119 goals for a 1.86 average. Or how about Lumley with the &rsquo;53-54 Leafs. He played in 69 games and surrendered only 128 goals for a 1.85 average. Then there&rsquo;s Tony Esposito&rsquo;s 15 shutouts as a 1969-70 rookie with Chicago and his 1.76 average in 48 games in &rsquo;71-72. Or how about Bernie Parent&rsquo;s 1.89 average in 73 games last season plus a 2.02 playoff statistic. What goalie ever had a better season than that?By now, you should be convinced that trying to pick the all time best goalie is a rather hopeless task. &#9632;

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PICKING BEST ALL TIME GOALER SEEN AN ALMOST HOPELESS TASK

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01836/3154091-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="448" height="448"></div>&bull; THE EDMONTON COLISEUM is the newest and finest sports arena in Canada. It will be the home of the World Hockey Association Edmonton Oilers. Both the Oilers and the Coliseum are the creations of the hard-driving and colorful Bill Hunter, vice-president and general manager of the Oilers. In fact, it was Hunter more than any one individual who was responsible in forming the WHA&hellip; &ldquo;It makes Edmonton major league in every way,&rdquo; said Hunter, who has the only organization in the WHA that is intact since the inception of the league&hellip; Hunter predicts an average attendance of 10,000 a game in the new 16,000-seat arena for this season and follows this up by predicting that within three years the Edmonton Oilers will be in a sold out position for every game&hellip; Lou Angotti is the first NHL coach to vacate his post this season but you may rest assured he won&rsquo;t be the last. There will be at least two more NHL coaches to bite the dust before the season ends. Lynn Patrick, who has taken over temporarily as coach of the Blues, must be the oldest coach in the history of the NHL. He&rsquo;s classified as a senior vice-president in the St. Louis Blues brganization&hellip; Two of the youngest captains in the history of the NHL are Jim Schoenfeld of Buffalo and Marcel Dionne of Detroit. Schoenfeld is just 22 while Dionne is 23. Youngest captain in history was Harry Howell, who was only 21 when named captain of the New York Rangers in 1955&hellip; Maurice Richard was off base the other night when interviewed over television when he implied that players wearing helmets weren&rsquo;t manly. Every player on the Russian team wears a helmet and everyone knows they sure aren&rsquo;t sissies. Also, what about Chicago&rsquo;s Stan Mikita?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02789/3154084-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="271" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Hunter</figcaption></div>&bull; DETROIT RED WINGS&rsquo; 13-day six-game coast to coast road trip involved logging over 8,000 air miles, five airplanes, numerous bus companies and taxis, a three-hous time change plus reverting to standard time, customs and immigration clearance, as well as severe climatic conditions. Only consolation to the Red Wings is that all the other NHL teams face the same gruelling schedule&hellip; Frank Polneszek, demon statistician of the World Hockey Association, has come up with a great innovation in his weekly statistics. The WHA lists the plus and minus figures for each player every week. Frank lists these interesting figures by both individuals and by forward lines. This is a major breakthrough for hockey stats to the news media and is being very well received&hellip; Marshall Johnston, coach of the California Seals, isn&rsquo;t getting along too well with his general manager. Bill McCreary&hellip; St. Louis Blues are still the top expansion team in victories and points over the seven full seasons. Their record is 221 wins and 96 ties for 538 points. They also set records in changingcoaches. They are now seven for seven&hellip; Philadelphia Flyers are far from happy with the play of Rick MacLeish. Coach Fred Shero was furious when he took a needless penalty late in the game against Pittsburgh. &ldquo;MacLeish isn&rsquo;t playing well according to his ability. He&rsquo;s not using his strength and size and sometimes he has mental lapses,&rdquo; said the critical Shero&hellip; Al Arbour, coach of the Islanders, is very high on this year&rsquo;s team. At the time, the Isles had the second lowest goals-against record in the league and offensively were the third highest. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy we&rsquo;re getting our share of goals while keeping the goals-against average down,&rdquo; reported Arbour&hellip; Denver had five of the top 15 scorers in the Central Hockey League&hellip; Edmonton Oilers claim the tallest player in the WHA in Ray McKay, a 6&rsquo;4&rdquo; defenseman, and one of the heaviest in 220-pound defenseman Jim McCrimmon&hellip; Muzz Patrick and Pat Doyle, two longtime employees, have both been retired by Madison Square Garden&hellip; Bill Libby, our crack columnist who has written more sports books than any writer around today, has two new ones on the book shelves. They are Random House&rsquo;s &ldquo;Hockey Heroes of Today&rdquo; which adapts 24 of his HOCKEY NEWS Ad Lib pieces to hardcover form, and Hawthorne&rsquo;s &ldquo;Foyt&rdquo;, a frank look at the life of our greatest racing driver.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03685/3154077-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="268" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray McKay</figcaption></div>&bull; MONTREAL CANADIENS have played to more empty seats so far this season than they have for several years combined. Management is very concerned&hellip; New York Islanders are the most improved team in the NHL this season with Vancouver Canucks, Los Angeles Kings and Detroit close behind&hellip; Kansas City Scouts and Washington Caps are finding the going tough in their initial season. K.C. was looking for their first win after their first eight games and Washington had one win in 10 games&hellip; Philadelphia Flyers draw more people on the road than any other NHL club. They&rsquo;ve passed Canadiens in this department When the Flyers played in Oakland the other night they had the first sellout in that city for some time&hellip; New York Islanders had posted their sixth win after their first eight games this season. A year ago they played 31 games before winning their sixth game&hellip; Red Storey, former NHL referee, says the reason the officiating is so poor in international hockey is that most of the officials are just plain scared&hellip; Chicago&rsquo;s Bill White is telling everyone he would like to end his playing days in his native Toronto with either the Leafs or the Toros&hellip; Chico Maki, the splendid forward of the Black Hawks, has rejoined the team. Chico had considered retirement after his son was severely injured in an accident at home.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04586/3154070-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="273" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guy Lafleur</figcaption></div>The Hockey NewsOFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Vol. 28 No. 6 NOVEMBER 15, 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 III 60659 telephone (312) 478-5544 New York Bill Hitzig. National Sports Publishing Corp. 150 East 58th Street. New York. N.Y. 10022. Telephone (212) 593-2100YEARLY 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 Printed In Canada &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05466/3154122-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div><h2>Tables Turning Towards WHA</h2>I would like to reply to a letter published in your Oct. 25 issue from Mr. Rocky Stewart. He states that the NHL is definitely superior to the WHA.While it would be foolish to contest such a statement, I feel that the trend is changing. Increasing numbers of former NHL stars, together with some of the top Juniors in the country, are going WHA. Witness the number of high NHL draft picks that will be performing in the WHA this season. Sobchuk, Locas, Price, Chipperfield, Connor, and MacGregor were all highly rated Juniors.This signifies that the World Hockey Association is in a competitive bargaining position With the NHL, and if the WHA can complete successfully for top Juniors, which everyone agrees is the future of the two leagues, it won&rsquo;t be too long before the situation is reversed.And while the NHL is a better league from the standpoint of quality, the WHA is more interesting due to the parity throughout. For instance, look at the difference between first and last place clubs in the two leagues last season. Boston finished with 113 points, California with 36. There&rsquo;s a difference of 77 points. The difference between the Aerosand the Sharks was 51 points and with the improvements the. Stags have made compared to the Aeros over the summer, it should be about half that come April.His statistical information looks good, but is about as conclusive as an argument that says the Kansas City Scouts are a Cup threat.BILL HOTMAN, Ottawa, Ont.<h2>Blues Robbed By Officials</h2>After matching the St. Louis Blues and the Boston Bruins in action at Boston Garden Oct. 24, my only comment is &ldquo;robbery&rdquo;. Is the calibre of the officiating in the National Hockey League really as bad as was portrayed by referee Wally Harris that night? Or was the referee remembering the bottle throwing incident in Boston Garden last season when the unruly Boston fans were showering the ice with bottles and anything else handy because they did not care for the call against Bobby Orr after his fight with Bill White of the Black Hawks?The missed call on Ken Hodge hooking Garry Unger, who had the puck and was on his way to the open net, was inexcusable. Hodge neatly passed the puck to Bobby Orr, who immediately put it in the net to tie the score. In addition, according to several Blues&rsquo; players, Wayne Cashman was offside when Bobby Orr scored the tying goal, but again no whistle was blown to stop play.How long is this sort of officiating going to continue, especially when it concerns the Boston Garden?MARIE SOMMERS, St. Louis, Mo.<h2>Flyers On Way To Another Cup</h2>Having witnessed the Flyers&rsquo; first few games this year, I can see a repeat of last year. Bobby Clarke and Reg Leach are pairing up nicely, setting up constructive passing patterns. The always aggressive and hard-working Terry Crisp is producing and should be an important drive in this year&rsquo;s fight to the finish. On defense, aging Ted Harris is effectively filling the void caused by Barry Ashbee&rsquo;s injury. Andr&eacute; Dupont and Jimmy Watson are on the verge of becoming stars for the Flyers. And, needless to say, Bernie Parent will continue his fantastic goaltending with the help of newly-acquired Wayne Stephenson and popular Bobby Taylor. Though I can see one or two weak links in the Flyers&rsquo; organization, I&rsquo;m confident that the master brain of Fred Shero will strengthen these so that the Flyers can keep the Cup. All in all, the Flyers should provide another exciting year of hockey for NHL fans.AMY JERREHIAN Wynnewood, Pa.<h2>American Fans Know Hockey, Too</h2>In regard to Robert Collier&rsquo;s letter in the Nov. 1, 1974 issue. I think it&rsquo;s the preference of the arena whether to play both anthems.Being a season ticket holder, and following hockey for years from bush league to pro, I don&rsquo;t believe Canadians aren&rsquo;t the only &ldquo;true and experienced&rdquo; hockey fans in the world.It isn&rsquo;t only because of Canadians that the Sabres&rsquo; games are sold out, in that only about one-fifth of the season ticket holders are Canadians. Each game could easily be sold out twice over with American fans waiting for tickets.BRIAN PAWLOWSKI, Buffalo, N.Y.<h2>Time For Open World Tournaments</h2>I was very disappointed by the performance of Team Canada &lsquo;74. The Russians had better tactics and more speed than Canada.It is time now for open world tournaments with the best players from Canada playing the best players from Europe. That means players from both the NHL and WHA playing for Canada &mdash; not just for money.ARNO WOSTHEINRICH, Hirschberger, W. Germany &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>PHILADELPHIA &mdash; Serge Lajeunesse and Randy Osburn, forwards, recalled from Richmond of AHL to replace suspended players Don Saleski and Bob Kelly for next six games.BUFFALO &mdash; Roger Crozier, goalkeeper, returned to active roster for first time this season.N.Y. RANGERS &mdash; Ron Greschner, defenseman, recalled from Providence of AHL.WASHINGTON &mdash; Rod Seiling, defenseman, claimed on waivers from N.Y. Rangers, later traded to Toronto in exchange for Tim Ecclestone, forward, and Willie Brossart, defenseman. Ecclestone later traded to Atlanta for cash and future considerations. John Adams, goalkeeper, assigned to Richmond of AHL.PITTSBURGH &mdash; Ab DeMarco, defenseman, traded to Vancouver for Barry Wilkins, defenseman Jean-Guy Lagace, defenseman. assigned to Hershey of AHL. Dennis Owchar, defenseman, and Harvey Bennett, forward, recalled from Hershey.MONTREAL &mdash; Doug Risebrough, forward, sent to Nova Scotia of AHL.KANSAS CITY &mdash; Chris Evans, defenseman, traded to St. Louis in return for Larry Giroux, defenseman and 4th round amateur draft choice in either 1975 or 1976.N.Y. ISLANDERS &mdash; Neil Nicholson, defenseman, recalled from Fort Worth of CHL for one game and returned. John Barber, defenseman, signed as free agent.ATLANTA &mdash; Vic Mercredi, forward, returned to Omaha of CHL.<h2>WORLD HOCKEY ASSN.</h2>VANCOUVER &mdash; Ed Humphreys, goalkeeper, recalled from Charlotte as backup netminder with Pete Donnelly on injury list. Mike Chernoff and Don O&rsquo;Donoghue, forwards, recalled from Tulsa of CHL. Serge Beaudoin, defenseman, and Peter McNamee, forward, assigned to Tulsa.CHICAGO &mdash; Dave Walter forward, recalled from Long Island of NAHL.CLEVELAND &mdash; Ron Buchanan, forward, traded to Edmonton of WHA along with future considerations for Jim Harrison, forward.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>SYRACUSE &mdash; Cal Swenson and Dan Schock, forwards, signed as free agents. Mike Morton, forward, sent to Greensboro of SHL. Doug Ferguson, forward, assigned to Hampton of SHL.VIRGINIA &mdash; Jim Makey, goalkeeper, assigned to Kalamazoo of IHL. Mike Korney, defenseman, sent to Port Huron of IHL.HERSHEY &mdash; Brian Walker, forward, sent to Fort Wayne of IHL.RICHMOND &mdash; Brian Kinsella and Jack Patterson, forwards, sent to Dayton of IHL.ROCHESTER &mdash; Steve Stirling, forward, recalled from Broome of NAHL under emergency conditions.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>SEATTLE &mdash; Dave McLelland, goakeeper, and Emile DeMoissac, forward, assigned to Des Moines of IHL.FORT WORTH &mdash; Sid Prysunka, forward, recalled from Muskegon of IHL. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">BY BILL FLEISCHMAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01867/3154177-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Flyers&rsquo; captain Bobby Clarke hasn&rsquo;t let the club&rsquo;s indifferent start hamper his offensive play. He still is the team&rsquo;s point leader, which accounts for all the extra attention he gets on the ice from checking defensemen like Boston&rsquo;s Dallas Smith, shown here at left, beating Clarke to the puck in an NHL game.</figcaption></div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;The Flyers are learning all the warnings were true: defending the Stanley Cup is much tougher than winning it the first time.Every rival is playing the Flyers as if the cup was at stake. The Boston Bruins hadn&rsquo;t won until they visited the Spectrum, scene of their memorable Stanley Cup final tussle with the Flyers. Final score: Boston 4, Flyers I.After an impressive victory in Los Angeles, the Flyers strolled into Oakland &mdash; and were promptly embarrassed 4-1 by the normally tame Seals. The game also set an NHL record for penalties (44) and minutes (232).The Flyers weren&rsquo;t alone in their plight. Montreal, the New York Rangers. Boston and, for awhile, Chicago were all less than overwhelming. The Flyers weren&rsquo;t grinding down most opponents, but were they really struggling?Fact number I:The Flyers admit they aren&rsquo;t playing up to Stanley Cup standards but, fact number 2 is they had only one less point than at a comparable period a year ago. After nine games the Flyers were 5-3-1 matched against 6-3-0 in their championship season.The most noticeable difference was in goals-against, 25 this season compared to 13 (including three Bernie Parent shutouts) after three weeks a year ago. The situation isn&rsquo;t alarming, but it was critical enough for Philadelphia defensemen to hold a meeting in Oakland.&ldquo;Ah, we just sat around for two hours and criticized the forwards.&rdquo; said a smiling Joe Watson.Joking aside, the criticism would be justified as an authority like Flyers&rsquo; captain Bobby Clarke, who happens to be a forward, points out.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think our defense is playing bad, and we&rsquo;re getting good goaltending,&rdquo; said Clarke. &ldquo;Our forwards just aren&rsquo;t doing any forechecking. Teams are coming three and four strong into our end. If you let a team like the Seals skate they can hurt you. It&rsquo;s happening every game. We&rsquo;re not stopping the other team in their end.&rdquo;Surely the absence of Barry Ashbee has hurt. Ashbee, the second team NHL All Star whose career was ended by an eye injury in last season&rsquo;s Stanley Cup semi finals, was always there to take the man or break up a play.Clarke admits, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no way you replace a guy like Ashbee,&rdquo; but Clarke is right when he says the defensive pairs of Ed Van Impe-Jimmy Watson and Andre (Moose) Dupont - Joe Watson have been first class.The Flyers&rsquo; other blueline twosome of Tom Bladon and Ted Harris hasn&rsquo;t been as effective. Although Ashbee, now a Flyers&rsquo; assistant coach, insists Bladon has &ldquo;arrived&rdquo; as an NHL defenseman the evidence suggests Ashbee is reading the wrong timetable. Bladon, who won&rsquo;t be 22 until Dec. 29, still has trouble anticipating plays. However, the third-year Flyer does have superb offensive skills and the Flyers obviously feel he&rsquo;ll develop. So does Bladon.&ldquo;I think I can do an adequate job as a regular,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The club must feel the same way or else they wouldn&rsquo;t be sticking with me.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Poor Forechecking, Extra Attention Blamed For Flyers’ Lethargic Start

<div class="byline">&#x2014; By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-01106/3154215-1-eng-US/f0044-012.jpg" title="f0044-01" width="276" height="362"></div><h2>The Pain Has Stopped&hellip;</h2>BARRY ASHBEE WAS a good hockey player, but hockey was not good to him.He had major league ability, but had to endure eight years in the minors. His Hershey team was one of those which set such a high price on its prospects that major league teams shopped elsewhere. Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Springfield team was another on the American League circuit that operated that way and it kept talented players like Bill White and Dale Rolfe buried in the minors.During the 1965-66 season. Ashbee was brought up to Boston to replace Teddy Green, who was out with an injury. Hit hard in Montreal. Ashbee suffered a back injury but the Bruins wanted him to keep playing. He suffered muscle spasms throughout the season, played in a lot of pain and soon was sent down to Hershey again.A doctor in Toronto operated on Ashbee&rsquo;s crushed spinal disc that summer and fused the bones together. At first the bones rejected the fusion and he had to be filled with antibiotics. He suffered through the entire 1966-67 campaign without being able to compete.While he sat on the sidelines, White, Rolfe and others moved up as the majors expanded for the 1967-68 season. Noone wanted to take a chance on Ashbee so he was back in the minors at Hershey making a minorleaguer salary while lesser players were garnering gold and glory in the big time.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-0272/3154208-1-eng-US/f0044-022.jpg" title="f0044-02" width="296" height="604"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barry Ashbee</figcaption></div>Finally, in the summer of 1970, Philadelphia general manager Keith Allen traded two players to Hershey for the Hershey defenseman. He did not play a lot for the Flyers at first and in 1972 he announced to an assemblage of writers that he wanted to be traded. preferably to Vancouver, &ldquo;where the fishing is good.&rdquo; Instead of trading him. the Flyers started to play him.Used regularly in the 1972-73 season the rangy rearguard was effective. Late in the season, however, he strained and tore some ligaments in a knee and started to skate poorly. Frustrated, he took exception to a call by referee Bryan Lewis and punched him. Clarence Campbell suspended Ahsbee eight games. The knee injury sidelined him six more.By the time he got back, only a dozen or so games remained. Limping through life, he helped his side nose out Minnesota for second place in the pennant race, then oust the Stars in the playoffs, before they bowed to Montreal in a sizzling semi-final that was the tipoff of things to come. But he was far from at his best when he needed it the most.Last season Ashbee arrived at the advanced age of 34. Despite a pinched neck nerve, bursitis in his left shoulder and tendonitis in his left arm. he was the steadiest performer on the brawling Broad Street Bullies. Some were flashier and some fought mote, hut none checked more consistently than Ashbee as the surprising Flyers upset Chicago to capture the West Division pennant. He was so good he was selected to the second All Star team behind the brilliant Bobby Orr and Brad Park.ASHBEE WAS EFFECTIVE as the Flyers routed Atlanta in the first round of the playoffs, and a rock of strength in the semi-final stand against the Rangers. Then in the nationally-televised Sunday afternoon fourth game, his old pal from the American League. Rolfe, ripped a slapshot that hit Ashbee just below his right eyebrow. He went to his hands and knees, his head dripping blood on the ice.Hurried to the hospital, he was found to have broken bones in his right eyesocket and ruptured blood vessels in the eyeball. He lay flat on his back as the Flyers eliminated the Rangers to reach the Finals against the favored Boston Bruins. He was out of the hospital, but his eyes were bandaged behind dark glasses as the Flyers upset the Bruins in seven games to capture the Stanley Cup.He stood on the sidelines as the Flyers flooded across the ice to congratulate one another and waltz the towering trophy around the rink to the cheers of their fans. He stood in the shadows as the Flyers celebrated riotously by showering one another with champagne in that delirium that was a dressing room later. He was part of the parade as the city went wild, but he did not feel a part of it.HE HAD BEEN WARNED he might not have enough vision to play again, but he didn&rsquo;t believe it because he didn&rsquo;t want to believe it. Then last summer the former lacrosse star was playing lacrosse with his son, just a little catch with the boy. when he found out he couldn&rsquo;t see the ball. Eyeball bleeding had resulted in scars destroying his straight-ahead vision. He could see out of the sides, but with bad depth perception.The doctor advised him he could compensate with his good eye eventually so he would have adequate vision for many things, but not for playing hockey with its swinging sticks and flying pucks. Ashbee accepted it and admitted it at an emotional, but restrained press conference in Philadelphia in which it was announced he would become an assistant coach with the club.&ldquo;The club has been good to me. but 1 don&rsquo;t know if 1 want to coach.&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I know 1 don&rsquo;t want charity. If I can coach effectively I may keep it. If not. I&rsquo;ll go home and find something else to do.&ldquo;Playing hockey is all I know. I could have quit a dozen times but I didn&rsquo;t want to. I could have quit when I was stuck in the minors. I could have quit when I was out a full season with a bad back. I could have quit when I came back and didn&rsquo;t move up to the majors. But it&rsquo;s what I wanted more than anything else. Now just when everything was going good I&rsquo;ve quit because I have to.&rdquo;At 35, after 15 seasons as a professional, after by far his finest season as a player, his career has been curtailed prematurely. The Flyers are flying high but he has been grounded, cut apart from their colorful fun.After Bill Masterton was killed a few years ago. a lot of players started to wear helmets to protect against head injuries, but eye injuries have had a far more horrible impact on this sport.ASHBEE BELIEVES SOMEONE should devise unbreakable glasses which could be provided players for protection The list is long. To name a few who had to stop playing because of the loss of or serious injury to an eye. there have been Baz Bastien, Claude Ruel, Glen Sonmor, Bert Conacher, Doug Barkley, Leo Reise, Bill Dobbyn. Herb Dickenson. Doug Robinson and Ian Young. Some became coaches, some slipped from the sport.Ashbee has a lovely wife. Donna, and two nice children, daughter Heather and son Danny. He has his own home and his health, aside from the loss of vision in one eye. He is still young and he has a little money. He has saved some and he has collected $25,000 in insurance from the league. &ldquo;1 have a lot to he happy about.&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got a lot of life Io live and I see no point in protesting a little luck which went bad.&rdquo;As a player, lie was so intense he sometimes was Hide to the press. He has hollered at writers who smiled in the dressing room after losses and once blasted a broadcaster for smoking a cigar there. He is not a mean man He is honest. Approach him al the wrong time and he will resent it. Al the right time he will talk straight. He has at times not only refused to talk to writers, but also toother players, who callee him &ldquo;Grumpy&rdquo;. But he was comfortable among theHe is a major leaguer, but he no longer can play in the majors. &ldquo;It happened to me and I can&rsquo;t change it so why kick about it?&rdquo; he asks, growling a little, grumpy. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY HARRY KLAFF</div>LONG ISLAND &mdash;When the Islanders played their first of two pre-season games at the Nassau Coliseum Oct. 1, the P.A. announcer advised the fans to add &ldquo;number 14. Bob Bourne&rdquo; to their program lineups.Few fans responded, and those who did thought the man was referring to Bob Baun. the old rearguard who used to police the Toronto blue line. Rookie Bourne might have been an un known that night, but it wouldn&rsquo;t be long before he would become a member of the growing list of Islander heroes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0044-0343/3154246-1-eng-US/f0044-032.jpg" title="f0044-03" width="279" height="379"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Bourne</figcaption></div>After the first three weeks of the season. Bourne was the highest scoring rookie in the NHL with three goals and five assists. And two of those tallies were game-winners.Bourne had begun to attract a following as early as the club&rsquo;s home opener against Kansas City, but his popularity reached the heights on Oct. 22 after his dramatic goal with 43 seconds left in the game lifted the Isles to a 2-1 victory over the Atlanta Flames.&ldquo;Garry Howatt fed me a pass, and I saw two of their defensemen coming in after me,&rdquo; said the 20-year-old rookie, who was enjoying every minute of his post-game interview. &ldquo;Then 1 went around Noel Price and moved in on (goaltender) Phil Myre. I saw a big hole over his shoulder, and that&rsquo;s where 1 aimed.&rdquo;&ldquo;It was one of the prettiest goals I&rsquo;ve seen,&rdquo; commented coach Al Arbour. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been playing great hockey for us. Our scouts had seen him in Saskatoon last season, and we knew what he could do.&rdquo;Bourne&rsquo;s chances of making the Islanders seemed quite remote as training camp opened, for the simple reason that he was the property of the Kansas City Scouts. Bob was K.C.&rsquo;s third round pick, and the 38th player selected overall. The Scouts&rsquo; organization believed that he would eventually develop into a top flight performer, but wasn&rsquo;t quite worth the money he was asking for.&ldquo;We had seen him play when we scouted Dave Lewis a couple of years ago,&rdquo; said general manager Bill Torrey. &ldquo;He had somewhat of an off year last season (if 29 goals and 42 assists can be called an off year), and the fact that 13 underage players were drafted also moved him down on the list. We liked what we saw, and we were pleased that we had a chance to get him.&rdquo;The price that the Islanders paid for the right to talk to Bourne was veteran defenseman BartCrashley, who only months before had decided to jump back to the Islanders from the Michigan Stags of the WHA.By coming to the Islanders, Bourne was reunited with teammate Clark Gillies, another Islander rookie. The first time they played together was with Covington of the Appalachian Class A Baseball League in the Houston Astros&rsquo; chain. That was in 1972 when they were still in their teens.The pair split the first base chores for the club that year, and just for the record. Bourne hit 257. while Gillies checked in one point behind with two home runs.Meanwhile, after going through 161 straight NHL games without a shutout, the Islanders and Billy Smith posted two in three games. First Smitty whitewashed the Washington Capitals 5-0 on the road, and followed it up two games later with a 4-0 effort against the Minnesota North Stars. And had it not been for a fluke play. Smith might have had three in a row.The Islanders were leading the Flames 1-0 in the third period, when Atlanta defenseman Pat Quinn wound up from 40 feet out. His drive struck Islander Ralph Stewart&rsquo;s stick and carommed past Smith.Although the Islanders stood at 5-1-1 after their first seven outings, and were with Philadelphia for top spot in the Lester Patrick Division. Arbour and Torrey know that the real test will come early in November when the club plays the Rangers, Bruins, Flames, and the Flyers twice. How the club comes through that stretch, followed by a long road swing, will determinejust how much Islander fans can reasonably expect from their team this season. &#9632;

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Bourne Shows Isles His High Price Tag Is Not Inflationary

<div class="byline">&#x2014; BY BILL MAKI</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01854/3154277-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;&hellip; Coach, I Can&rsquo;t STAND To See A Man Cry&hellip; May I Sit Down?&rdquo;</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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CARTOON CORNER

<div class="byline">&#x2014;LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES &mdash;Don Kozak has replaced Mike Corrigan on the first line with Juha Widing and Bob Berry and it has paid off. Kozak had three goals in the Buffalo game. He is continuing the improvement he showed last season and is flying into fits of temper less often every season&hellip; Usually a slow-starter, Widing has four goals in the last five games. Steady Berry has four goals, too&hellip; Bob Nevin continued his swift start, scored two against the Seals and now has eight. Overdue, Gene Carr scored his first against the Seals and played splendidly.Little-used Vic Venasky is the only scoreless forward, but he remains on the roster, which was cut to 20 as Phil Hoene and Jimmy Peters were returned to Springfield&hellip; Pulford said his power-play was the key to improving his side this season and it now has scored on half its last 18 opportunities. Butch Goring helped as he came off the injury list to get his season started in the eighth game. And Goring was reunited with Nevin to again form a splendid penalty-killing pair. &#9632;

Shifting Kozak To No. 1 Line Pays Big Dividends For Kings

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02757/3154308-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROGIE VACHON&hellip; He May Be The Best</figcaption></div>LOS ANGELES &mdash;It is becoming clear that the Kings are a strong team now. Coach Bob Pulford says their greatest strength lies in their goalkeeping. Rog Vachon may be the best goaler in hockey. Gary Edwards may be the best back-up goaler. Together they form maybe the top netminding duo in the game. Bernie Parent and Tony Esposito deservedly are regarded as the leading goaltenders, but Vachon was the only other goaler to be supported as the best in a recent vote of NHL coaches, and he may have caught up to and passed the other two.In the past he has had less support than the others and this determines how good a goaltender looks. However, this is changing. Pulford stresses defense and has all his players checking. Bart Crashley, who has been around and now is with Kansas City, says of the Kings, &ldquo;The thing they do best is forecheck. They forecheck even better than Philadelphia.&rdquo;The Kings&rsquo; six-game seasonstarting undefeated streak was snapped by Philadelphia, 4-2, with Edwards in the nets, but the Kings rebounded behind Vachon to beat Buffalo 7-2 and California 5-1 to conclude the third week of the new season with only one loss in nine games, the best record in the league.The Buffalo game was especially interesting as the Sabres outshot, the Kings 55-31, but the Kings won in a breeze because Vachonmade a near-record 53 saves, including 20 in each of the last two periods. He was simply sensational and Floyd Smith, the losing coach, commented afterwards, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the best goaltending I&rsquo;ve ever seen.&rdquo;Traditionally, goaltenders develop slowly because experience means so much in playing this most difficult of positions. At 29, Vachon appears to be just approaching his peak. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m better than I&rsquo;ve been before and I&rsquo;m getting better.&rdquo; Vachon says. &ldquo;When I look back and realize how much I had to learn, I&rsquo;m amazed I did so well before.&rdquo;He was surrounded by strength at Montreal, of course, and in five seasons with Canadiens his goals-against average ranged between 2.4 and 2.8. And he was never above 2.5 in the playoffs. His last playoff record for Canadiens, 1.4, was far superior to Ken Dryden&rsquo;s first, 3.0, but Dryden got so much praise you&rsquo;d have thought otherwise.Dryden was younger and bigger, but Montreal made a mistake replacing Vachon. That is clear now. Vachon may be better now and he is more dependable, too. After an injury-aborted first season in Los Angeles, he has had two 2.8 campaigns and been voted team MVP both seasons. He had a 1.7 average in the playoffs last season and his 1.9 for his playoff career is the best of any active goaltender.Rogie, his model-pretty wife Nicole and two-year-old son Nicholas have a home in southern California now and are happy here. He has given up only six goals in his first five games this season and is so steady, quick and agile that he can overcome lack of support when he must, as he did against Buffalo.The next game he had superlative support and didn&rsquo;t have two tough saves to make, while at the other end Gilles Meloche was magnificent while being beat on five times, bombarded 20-2 in the last period by what manager Jake Mil ford called &ldquo;the Kings best period of the season.&rdquo;Size simply isn&rsquo;t important. Vachon is the smallest in the circuit at 5&rsquo;7&rdquo;. Edwards is only 5&rsquo;9&rdquo;. Each weighs only 165. But both get the job done. Bounced around the minors early in his career, Edwards was underrated and remains underrated after three seasons in Los Angeles. His stats, 3.2 to 3.6, do not show it, but he has been brilliant much of the time.Even Pulford underrated Edwards last season. After Edwards recovered from an injury, he was seldom used even when Vachon was hurting. Vachon wanted to play. Vachon always wants to play. He is an old-fashioned fellow who would guard the goal every game if the coach permitted it, but the difficult schedule in modem times makes it more reasonable to rest the regular sometimes.Pulford has been playing Edwards more so far this season and he has come through with four good games, including a shutout over Kansas City. &ldquo;I was a little down last season when I didn&rsquo;t get in many games, but I began to feel better about things when I got into some at season&rsquo;s end and I feel good now because I think I&rsquo;ll get into a fair share of games this season,&rdquo; Edwards says.At 27, Edwards is getting better. He has hurt his cause on this club by being bad in practice. It is hard to stay sharp when you don&rsquo;t get much game action. But games bring out the best in him and he is the ideal back-up goaler. &#9632;

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Vachon Major Reason For Kings’ Move To Summit

<div class="byline">BY NORM MacLEAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01831/3154363-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">DEREK SANDERSON&hellip; Capitalizes On Opportunity</figcaption></div>NEW YORK&mdash;Pete Stemkowski came up with a charley horse and missed three straight Ranger wins giving Derek Sanderson the opportunity to play. Sanderson took full advantage of the opportunity, scoring two goals in the three contests.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s two in three games,&rdquo; said Turk. &ldquo;Not in eight games. I didn&rsquo;t get much ice in the others.&rdquo;While testing his aching thigh muscles prior to the win over St. Louis 5-1, Oct. 23. Stemkowski yelled over to Sanderson, &ldquo;I would be a louse to play now with all the build up for you, Turk.&rdquo;But Stemmer will be back as you read this, once more giving coach Emile Francis the problem of what to do with Sanderson.&ldquo;My guess is I won&rsquo;t play that much,&rdquo; said Sanderson after the New York 4-1 win over Atlanta Oct. 27.In between these two easy verdicts, the Blueshirts travelled to Pittsburgh for their first confrontation with Vic Hadfield&rsquo;s Pittsburgh Penguins. In a seesaw battle, the Rangers won 5-4 on Steve Vickers&rsquo; second goal of the game. It came with two and a half minutes left. Steve stole the puck from Ab DeMarco and walked in on Gary Inness, drilling a low hard shot into the net. His first goal was typical Vickers, a tip in.&ldquo;Steve has been working on his shooting from out a ways. He has one of the hardest shots on the team,&rdquo; said Ted Irvine, who got his first of the year in the same game. It put New York ahead 4-3, but Syl Apps tied it later.Hadfield was on for two Ranger goals, and had a chance to win it for the Pens&rsquo; late in the third period. He was in alone on Gilles Villemure, but the puck was bouncing and Villemure took his shot straight on.&ldquo;It was a funny feeling playing against those guys,&rdquo; Hadfield said. &ldquo;They are a great bunch of fellows. They have a great team and should go all the way.&rdquo;Goalie Gilles Villemure is playing well, working in three games so far to Eddie Giacomin&rsquo;s five. Villemure may still be trade bait, but the rumors have abated. Usually, just as this happens, the trade pops.Rod Seiling&rsquo;s unhappiness in New York was short-lived. Only two games after he was benched for sloppy play, the 29-year-old defenseman was sold to the Washington Capitals for the $30,000 waiver price.The departure of Seiling was not a surprise, but the low price was. Just a year ago he and Jim Neilson formed the Rangers&rsquo; second defensive pairing. Two years ago Seiling played with Team Canada.Seiling is a smooth defenseman and a good point man. Despite his tendency to put pucks in his own net, he seldom makes mistakes. Mots of his &ldquo;goals&rdquo; are more bad luck than lack of talent.But Seiling is not a hitting defenseman, and this put him in disfavor with the Madison Square Garden fans. The Washington fans should appreciate his talents more.With four centers, including Jean Ratelle, Walt Tkaczuk, Sanderson and Stemkowski, Francis has ready-made trade material.Greg Polis notched his 100th NHL goal in the Atlanta game, scoring, against the Flames&rsquo; Dan Bouchard on a one-on-one situation.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad it was one on one and not a fluke bouncing in off a skate or something,&rdquo; said Polis.BLUE CHIPS: Billy Fairbairn, so often unlucky in front of the goal, got a hat trick against the Blues, with two of them being deflections of St. Louis players&hellip; Fairbairn is doing well once more with Walt Tkaczuk and Steve Vickers. &#9632;

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Turk Not Assured Regular Duty With Rangers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01835/3154401-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div><h2>Fans Pick All Stars</h2>A FEW NOTES AND QUOTES and nonsense from an early hockey season vantage point:Eddie &ldquo;The Entertainer&rdquo; Shack of the Toronto Maple Leafs has urged team owner Harold Ballard to allow him to bring his dog &ldquo;Foo-Foo&rdquo; into the Leaf dressing room which, incidentally, now has its floor covered with new broadloom.&ldquo;But, Harold, Foo-Foo brings luck.&rdquo; Shack pleaded.&ldquo;It won&rsquo;t be luck he leaves behind on the carpet in the dressing room,&rdquo; Ballard said.Scotty Munro, the general manager-coach of the Western Canada Junior league Calgary Centennials, is concerned that hockey, at both the big league and amateur level, isn&rsquo;t considering the fans enough. Munro cites rapid expansion and the subsequent dilution of the product, increased ticket prices inspired by the war between the National League and the World Hockey Association, and over-exposure on television.Unlike many hockey men who refuse to acknowledge that other sports even exists, Munro feels the game could take a few lessons from baseball.&ldquo;Baseball has expanded slowly and wisely, and interest in the game and attendance are steadily climbing again,&rdquo; Munro said.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02762/3154394-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="497" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Shero</figcaption></div>&ldquo;For instance, there&rsquo;s enormous interest in baseball&rsquo;s All Star game fora simple reason: The fans pick the All Star teams. Don&rsquo;t you think the NHL All Star game would be much more interesting if the fans picked the teams?&rdquo;A good idea. Are you there, Clarence and Dennis?Marty Howe of the Houston Aeros, describing his father, Gordie: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s built like no one else in the world. His arms start at his ears.&rdquo;The fact that Gordie Howe&rsquo;s name wasn&rsquo;t included in the list of hockey&rsquo;s super stars in a recent page three story in this paper is an incredible blunder on my part. Howe&rsquo;s superb play for Team Canada 74, which demonstrated that he&rsquo;s still the ultimate master of the game&rsquo;s every skill and his magnificent personal contribution to that series, ended any small notion that his talent had been eroded.Also, the fact that he&rsquo;s Mark Howe&rsquo;s father, by itself, makes him eligible for the super star club.<h2>Shero Raps Exhibitions</h2>KEN ULLYOT, THE POPULAR president-owner of the Fort Wayne Komets in the International League, had an embarassing experience when he misjudged the depth of his garage and drove his car through the wall and into the back yard of his Fort Wayne home.Ullyot was quoted in a Fort Wayne newspaper as describing the accident this way: &ldquo;When I drove past the fireplace, I knew I was in trouble.&rdquo;Fred Shero, coach of the Stanley Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers, claims that the NHL pre-season games should be limited to approximately four per team. He says that he can&rsquo;t accomplish much coaching with a long exhibition schedule.&ldquo;Mostly, all those exhibitions are dopey,&rdquo; Shero stated. &ldquo;When you play an exhibition, you lose any chance for a three-hour workout to teach the players some new ideas. Take nine or ten days out of a three-week preseason period for games and you don&rsquo;t have much time left.&ldquo;Actually, about all I had time to do this fall was to give the players a refresher course in the things I taught them last season. You&rsquo;d be amazed at how much these guys forget during the off-season.&rdquo;<h2>Refs Wear Helmets</h2>On the matter of hockey violence, the Ontario Minor Hockey Association has taken strong steps to clean up the game. The group had 9,106 teams and 148,309 players registered last season and was the first Canadian hockey organization to make helmets mandatory apparel.New rules, passed at the OMHA annual meeting, make coaches directly responsible for players&rsquo; behavior and clamp down on fighting and high-sticking offences. The OMHA did have a game miscouduct for fighting last season.The new legislation:&#9642; Imposes a one-game suspension on any coach whose team exceeds a penalty quota, 26 minutes per game in pee wee and lower, 36 minutes in minor bantam and above.&#9642; Players who receive a major penalty for fighting will receive a game misconduct as well.&#9642; An almost landmark high-sticking rule which says: The carrying of any part of the stick above the normal height of the shoulder, within a stick length of any opponent, is prohibited and a minor penalty shall be assessed any player violating this rule.Should any contact take place between any part of the stick and any part of the face, head or neck of any opposing player while being carried in the above manner, a major penalty shall be assessed. Should any injury result of such action, a major penalty plus a game misconduct shall be assessed.This season, OMHA referees will be required lo wear helmets, too. &#9632;

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FRANK ORR SAYS:

<div class="byline">BY PAT THOMPSON</div>TWIN CITIES &mdash;One of Jack Gordon&rsquo;s prime objectives when he returned behind the bench of the Minnesota North Stars was to reduce a conspicuous goals-against average.The 1973-74 North Stars allowed 275 goals, the most by any team except California (342). Detroit (319) and Vancouver (296). Gordon termed the showing a &ldquo;team effort&rdquo;, not necessarily laying the blame on goaltending or the defense.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03632/3154432-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="265" height="394"><figcaption class="caption-body">Henry Boucha</figcaption></div>So, the new general managercoach of the North Stars called for agressive play to turn the climb of the goals-against chart. The message apparently was accepted.Through the first two weeks of the 1974-75 season, the North Stars yielded 15 goals in their first six games, third best in the league. Take away a 6-0 drubbing they took in Chicago and the figure would easily be the best.Yet, the North Stars found that a good defensive showing did not necessarily generate offensive success. They saw that their 13 goals was seventeenth among the 18 teams.Through the first two weeks, only seven of the 17 skaters on the roster had been able to cross the magic line. Of the seven, team captain Bill Goldsworthy posted three goals in the first two games of the season and was blanked the next four games. Lou Nanne, rookie John Flesch, newcomer Henry Boucha and Dennis Hextall had two each. Barry Gibbs and J.P. Parise were the only other men on the. club with a goal.Another concern is that one line has done most of the scoring, the tandem of Parise-Hextall-Goldsworthy. When Gordon put Flesch with Hextall and Goldsworthy for a game and part of another, he scored his two goals.That leaves some scoring gaps on the other lines. Gordon, however, is optimistic the other lines will start carrying their share, and does not yet want to break up the Hextall line.&ldquo;I tried that in training camp and we didn&rsquo;t do much scoring at all.&rdquo; Gordon said. &ldquo;Hextall&rsquo;s line seems to get the goals and gives the rest of the team a lift.&rdquo;Boucha went five games without a goal as a North Star. He ended that drought with a pair in a 3-2 victory over Vancouver to help the team break out of a three-game winless spin.&ldquo;After a while you atart to lose your confidence when you can&rsquo;t score,&rdquo; remarked Boucha. who was acquired from Detroit for left winger Danny Grant. &ldquo;I was gettinggood shots, too. I&rsquo;ve found that once you break a scoreless streak, the goals come in bunches. I&rsquo;m optimistic, now.&rdquo;The Vancouver victory boosted other spirits as well.&ldquo;Maybe our season started with that game,&rdquo; mused Goldsworthy. &ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t get out of the gate fast. But then, neither did Secretariat.&rdquo;Secretariat, as most people know, latched onto horse racing&rsquo;s Triple Crown. The North Stars are more interested in building up that GF figure, now that they&rsquo;ve reduced the GAs.NORTH STAR NOTES: Backup goalie Fern Rivard made his first start in the 6-0 loss at Chicago&hellip; Rivard was not as much at fault as some of those playing in front him. The Black Hawks had 32 shots on goal the first two periods&hellip;One reason for the good goals against figure in the early going has been the play of Boucha. Murray Oliver, Goldy and Parise on penalty killing. The North Stars had skated off 21 power-play thrusts in 22 chances by the opponents in the first six games&hellip; Defenseman Fred Barrett has been convalescing at his home in Ottawa from a fractured ankle, and will be trying to come back soon from his fourth major injury in his five years as a professional&hellip; In their first four home games, attendance was down an average of almost 1,000 a game. The team pointed for an Oct. 30 match against Boston as the first SRO gate of the season.<h2>SPORTS</h2>Guides, Yearbooks, Programs, Photos, Tickets, etc. Largest Selection. Lowest Prices. Fastest Service.FOR NEW CATALOG SEND 25c TO:G.-S. GALLERY, Dept. HN-L3 P.O. Box 475, Allentown, Pa. 18105. &#9632;

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North Stars’ Offense Suffers When Defense Play Emphasized

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04523/3154463-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">RICK CHARTRAW&hellip; Montreal Canadiens</figcaption></div>If a rookie entering the National Hockey League was asked what would be the toughest thing for him to accomplish, he would more than likely put earning a spot on the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; defense near the top of his list. Yet that is exactly what Rick &ldquo;The Truck&rdquo; Chartraw has done. The 20-year-old defenseman, who was drafted in the first round from the Kitchener Rangers, has nailed down the sixth spot on the Canadiens&rsquo; defense with his hitting and puck-handling abilities. If you think that makes the 6&rsquo;2&rdquo;, 205-pounder unique, consider this. He&rsquo;s the only native of Caracas, Venezuela to make the NHL and he&rsquo;s also the only player raised in Erie, Pennsylvania to make it. &#9632;

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MEET THE ROOKIES

<div class="byline">BY BILL HEUFELDER</div>PITTSBURGH &mdash;Wearing a St. Louis uniform at the start of last season. Bob (Battleship) Kelly began shelling National Hockey League goaltenders.A 27-year-old rookie, he produced seven goals in his first 19 games. Kelly had been playing on a line centered by Lou Angotti, now coach of the Blues. During the next month and a half, every time Kelly looked up there was a new man at center.&ldquo;I had five different centermen,&rdquo; said Kelly, who looked up one day last January and discovered he&rsquo;d been traded to Pittsburgh. Until the trade, in which he accompanied defensemen Ab DeMarco and Steve Durbano to the Penguins in exchange for Greg Polis, Bryan Watson and a high draft choice, the Battleship had dropped out of sight while the Blues experimented at center.&ldquo;I found it really tough until I was traded,&rdquo; he recalled.Well, it&rsquo;s a new season and Kelly is going great guns again. He&rsquo;s knocked in five goals in Pittsburgh&rsquo;s first six games, tying him for the club leadership with Syl Apps.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m shooting for 30 or 35 goals,&rdquo; Kelly says. &ldquo;You always set your sights a little high. But I feel I can score 20 or 25.&rdquo;Joining the Penguins was not a cure-all for Kelly. He felt more comfortable with his new team, but was unable to shake off the effects of living in a hotel with his wife and three children for a month while a strike delayed the arrival of the family&rsquo;s belongings from St. Louis.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01816/3154494-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="525" height="717"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Kelly</figcaption></div>One of the league&rsquo;s foremost punchers, Kelly provided the Penguins with needed muscle, but his scoring touch seemed to be in transit with his furniture.The leading scorer on the Blues with nine goalsat Thanksgiving, he was blanked until Feb. 14.Kelly rebounded well, delivering seven in his last 18 games and finishing with 18 goals, despite missing the last two weeks of the season because of a disc problem that required surgery.The trouble arose in Vancouver when Kelly, racing along on a breakaway, suddenly was spilled as goalie Gary Smith flung his stick in front of the unsuspecting skater.&ldquo;He knocked my feet out from under me,&rdquo; Kelly explained. &ldquo;The back of my neck and shoulders hit the boards when I slid into them.&rdquo; Two weeks later, the 195-pound left winger aggravated the injury in a fight with Minnesota&rsquo;s Dennis Hextall. A few days later, Kelly was out of the lineup.He has experienced no ill effects from the operation in which a ruptured disc was removed from his neck. Opposing goaltenders would tend to agree. Kelly struck for a goal in each of the Penguins&rsquo; first three games, was stopped at Atlanta, and came back to connect against Boston and the New York Rangers.His center has been Pierre Larouche, the club&rsquo;s first dratt choice who won&rsquo;t be 19 until mid-November. Kelly is impressed with him.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s got an awful lot of potential,&rdquo; observed Kelly, who arrived in the NHL the hard way, having made a half-dozen stops after Toronto picked him from the Port Arthur Juniors in the second round of the 1967 amateur draft.&ldquo;He has all the moves. He just needs experience.&rdquo;As the Penguins pushed off on their first West Coast trip that would include games in Chicago and Kansas City on the way home, Kelly sensed he may have added responsibilities as an enforcer due to the absence of Durbano from the lineup.&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t call him Demolition Derby for nothing,&rdquo; Kelly laughed. &ldquo;With Stevie, we always had somebody out there to keep the other team honest.&ldquo;One guy can&rsquo;t be the policeman for the whole team.&rdquo;If Battleship continues his impressive scoring pace, the opposing teams may be so busy trying to defense him, they won&rsquo;t have time to fight.PENGUIN NOTES: Jean Pronovost scored his 150th career goal in 5-4 loss to Rangers&#8229; After winning its first two games, Pittsburgh was winless in next four, managing only a tie in three home games&hellip; Unhappy with the play of defenseman Jean-Guy Lagace &mdash; specifically his errant passing &mdash; coach Marc Boileau dispatched him to Hershey and recalled Dennis Owchar. In his first two big-leagne games, Owchar has registered four assists&hellip; Durbano, who required a second operation on his broken wrist, will be sidelined at least 12 weeks. &#9632;

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Kelly’s Battling May Be Curtailed By Hot Goal Pace

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div>VANCOUVER&mdash;&ldquo;Sure, they looked pretty good tonight,&rdquo; noted a railbird after one of the Vancouver Canucks&rsquo; preseason victories, &ldquo;but what are they going to do for goals if that big line ever runs into a slump?&rdquo;It was not an unreasonable question. As the Canucks approached the 1974-75 National Hockey Lea-season the key to their success, most of it at least, appeared to rest in the hands of Don Lever, Andre Boudrias and Dennis Ververgaert.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02728/3154525-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="253" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Gould</figcaption></div>Those three &mdash; Lever on left wing, Boudrias at center and Ververgaert on right wing &mdash; appeared to be the Canucks&rsquo; only consistent goalscoring combination.Since then Phil Maloney, their general manager and coach, has made a lot of changes. He traded with Buffalo to acquire center Gerry Meehan and defenseman Mike Robitaille. He dealt with Toronto to obtain left winger Garry Monahan and defenseman John Grisdale. He purchased right winger Leon Rochefort outright from the Atlanta Flames.But the question of who will score Vancouver&rsquo;s goals in the event the &ldquo;big line&rdquo; hits a slump is being answered by three players who have been around since the start of training camp &mdash; Paulin Bordeleau, Chris Oddleifson and John Gould.Those three form an unusual line by North American if not Russian standards in that Bordeleau, a right hand shot, plays left wing and Gould, a left hand shot, plays right wing. That leaves centre Oddleifson with the task of frequently having to put his passes on his linemates&rsquo; backhand.Obviously though, that isn&rsquo;t presenting any of them with much of a problem because after nine games they had supplanted the Lever - Boudrias - Ververgaert combination as the Canucks&rsquo; highest scoring line, 11 goals to nine. Gould had five goals. Bordeleau four and Oddleifson with two goals and 10 assists was leading the club in scoring.Mind you, up to a point, that training camp evaluation remains valid. If the Canucks are to fulfil Maloney&rsquo;s prediction of finishing second in the Smythe Division, Lever, Boudrias and Ververgaert will have to score a lot of goals. Between them they combine too much talent to think they won&rsquo;t, but alredy Oddleifson and company have established the Canucks are not going to wither away if those threee encounter a slump as they did during the second week of the season.With their so-called big line struggling and scoring only one goal, the Canucks dropped two out of three on home ice and had to battle from behind to subdue the stubborn Kansas City Scouts 5-3 for their lone victory. But their two losses, to Minnesota and Philadelphia, were both by 3-2 margins and with just a modicum of good fortune they could have come out of both games with a point or even two.While the home ice defeats, particularly the one to Philadelphia where the they blew a 2-0 first period lead and left Maloney in grumpy humor, the emergence of a Bordeleau, Oddleifson and Gould as a second consistent scoring threat had to improve his long range view.Rochefort, Bobby Lalonde ana Gregg Boddy have seen limited ice time, but their brief appearances have held promise. &#9632;

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Canucks’ Offensive Eggs No Longer In One Basket

<div class="byline">By Jules Furth</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01800/3154556-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="208" height="313"></div>Dear Jules,During the Atlanta Flames &mdash; Chicago Black Hawks game, Dick Redmond got his skates caught in the net and couldn&rsquo;t get loose. He was screaming at the referee but the referee did not blow his whistle. He could have gotten hurt or something but the referee didn&rsquo;t pay any attention. Why?Claudia Pawloski, Chicago, III.Dear Claudia,Referee Bob Myers was very sympathetic to Dick Redmond&rsquo;s problem and it was because Redmond was not injured that play was allowed to continue. A referee does not stop play on a situation like that unless there is a serious injury because otherwise it could take a scoring opportunity away from a team. Atlanta had possession in the Hawk end where Redmond was netted. Myers waited until the Black Hawks got control of the puck and then stopped play and even helped Dick get untangled. If the Hawks had intercepted the puck at their blue line and had a clear breakaway, would you want play stopped then? Redmond knows the rules well and just got a little frustrated being hung up and not able to help defend at that time. His most recent claim to fame was being voted most improved player in 1973-74 for the Chicago team so don&rsquo;t feel sorry for Dick when he gets &ldquo;caught up&rdquo; in his work.Dear Jules,During a recent discussion of amateur rules, the following situation was brought up. Team A has one player in the penalty box with a minor, and one in with a major. Team B has one man in with both a minor and a major. All penalties are called at the same time. Who, if anyone, is shorthanded and for how long? Also, what kind of situation would result in this type of calling penalties?Becky Eberhardt. Buffalo, N.Y.Dear Becky,The amateur rules for this situation are the same as the professional. Because there are coincidental majors, it is easier to figure out because you simply make a chart with the penalties from one team on one side and those of the other team on the other. The major penalties (being coincidental) cancel each other and substitutes are permitted for these players, however you are now left with two minor penalties, one on a player from Team A and one on the same player from Team B who got the major. The minor penalties are equal and must be served. The Team B minor is served by another player designated by the coach. This all results in four players in the box. Two from each team. Therefore both teams will be shorthanded one man for two minutes. At that time the two players serving the minors can return to play leaving the two with the majors to sit out another three minutes of their majors. Since the teams are at equal strength no one will come out if a goal were to be scored. There are too many possibilities that would cause the above results but a simple one would be that the B player could have elbowed one player on team A and that player retaliated by tripping. Infuriated by the trip, the B player got up and started to skate after the &ldquo;tripper&rdquo;. Another from Team A grabbed him to stop him and the two got into fisticuffs. The fighting players got majors and you have the original minors that started the whole thing. Just remember Becky, when you are calling the game, be sure to hand out coincidental majors or minors and it all evens out.Dear Jules,How much would it cost to have a goalie&rsquo;s face mask custom fitted for you? And what are the basic steps in making the mask?Karl Franek, Windsor, Ont.Dear Karl,About $100 but I don&rsquo;t think I need one. However, if you would like one, here are the basic steps in order to obtain same. Call 313-895-7000 and ask for Ross &ldquo;Lefty&rdquo; Wilson. It is not long distance for you as he is the trainer for the Detroit Red Wings (who are right across the river from Windsor). &ldquo;Lefty&rdquo; has made many of the face masks being worn currently by many of the goalies in both leagues. He will probably need your face, so be prepared to go over and visit him for fitting. He travels with the team so pick a day when the Wings are at home. And by the way, when you get your new mask, paint it whatever color or design you think will scare your opponents and keep pucks out of the nets AND your face.WHISTLE STOPS: Steve Dowling refereed his first NHL game when Rangers met California. Congratulations to Dowling, who is the first American NHL referee born since Hall of Earner Bill Chadwick&hellip; Referee Bob Myers tied an NHL record Oct. 23 at Chicago Stadium when he called two penalty shots against Washington in one game. But it&rsquo;s been a long time since it happened. Back on Dec. 11, 1934 Roy Worters of the old. N.Y Americans stopped both Eddie Shore and Dit Clapper in the same game and again on Jan. 22, 1935, Boston&rsquo;s great goaler Tiny Thompson foiled both Russ Blinco and Earl Robinson of the Montreal Maroons. In the recent Chicago game, Michel Belhumeur of the Caps stopped both Jim Pappin and Stan Mikita on the penalty shot attempts&hellip; Eric Manship, a WHA linesman, stepped into the breach at the last minute to referee a Vancouver-Chicago game when Brent Casselman became incapacitated.Any reader having any questions regarding rule interpretations or game situations can write to HEY REF, c/o THE HOCKEY NEWS, 1434 St. Catherine Street West, Montreal, Canada H3G 1R7. &#9632;

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Hey, ref!

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT&mdash;Ah, it was too good to be true, too good to last.Marcel Dionne, the diminutive captain, had talked about how the Red Wings were winning the close games. &ldquo;Last year we either bombed them or they bombed us.&rdquo;Three times in the first five games the Wings won by one goal &hellip; they got empty netters in two of them but, basically, they were one goal decisions. Then, kicking off a six-game coast-to-coast trip, the Wings blanked the Washington Capitals 3-0. Detroit didn&rsquo;t shut out anyone last season until Dec. 15 and had only two shutouts all season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03666/3154587-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="271" height="354"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Roberts</figcaption></div>But the roof fell in the next night in Atlanta and the Wings looked like last year&rsquo;s Red Wings, absorbing a 10-1 shellacking that manager-coach Alex Delvecchio called &ldquo;humiliating, shoddy and brutal.&rdquo;No one escaped Delvecchio&rsquo;s ire, from rookie goalie Terry Richardson, making his first start of the season, to the captain.&ldquo;They quit, every one of them,&rdquo; Delvecchio said. He amended it then, saying &ldquo;No, they didn&rsquo;t quit &mdash; they never got started.&rdquo;Delvecchio himself might have shared the blame. He switched goalkeepers, going from little Jimmy Rutherford, who blanked Washington the previous night, to Richardson.His reasoning was obvious &mdash; Rutherford fractured Atlanta star Jacques Richard&rsquo;s nose in two places the previous week in Detreoit.The Flames blamed the 5&rsquo;8&rdquo;, 160-pound, mild-mannered goalkeeper, saying he&rsquo;d done it deliberately. Rutherford denied it and said he&rsquo;d been spun around and, in fact, had his back to Richard.Atlanta didn&rsquo;t have Rutherford to take it out on so they took it out on the rest of the Red Wings. Actually, Atlanta had outplayed Detroit in that earlier meeting but Rutherford was so outstanding that the Red Wings pulled out one of those close decisions, a 4-2 victory with the cushion coming on an empty-netter at 19:59 by Nick Libett.Detroit did make a semi-rebound from the trouncing in Atlanta, moving up to Montreal and playing the Canadiens even until mid-way in the final period.The Wings were tied 2-2 on goals by Dionne and Danny Grant and then greying Henri Richard, the Canadiens&rsquo; ever-young 39-year-old captain, hit Guy Lafleur with a long breakaway pass and Lafleur beat Rutherford for the winning goal.Murray Wilson clinched it and the Wings headed off to the Pacific to complete the six game journey.RED WING NOTES: Rookie Bill Lochead, Detroit&rsquo;s first draft choice for big bucks, obviously knows his way to the net. Lochead scored 60 goals in 62 games for Oshawa of the OHA Major Junior league last year and scored five in his first six games with Detroit, the fourth and fifth two beauties against Washington in the first two minutes and 15 seconds of the game&hellip; Native Detroiter Doug Roberts has been juggled from defense to forward throughout his career, from college at Michigan State to the pros&hellip;Roberts, who played mostly forward in his first tour with Detroit in 1967 and 1968 and then went to the blueline in three seasons with the California Golden Seals, went back up front in Boston and when he returned to Detroit last season&hellip; But the Wings have needed help on right defense so Delvecchio has worked Roberts back in there. &#9632;

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Start Of Road Trip Produces Memories Like 1973-74 Wings

<div class="byline">Bl DICK JOHNSTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;Scotty Bowman was talking to the press after his Montreal Canadiens had suffered a 3-2 loss to the Buffalo Sabres in Buffalo&rsquo;s Memorial Auditorium.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no question but that Buffalo has better balance this year,&rdquo; said the Canadiens&rsquo;bench boss. &ldquo;Tonight we stopped the Perreault line but their other two lines outplayed ours.&rdquo;Over on the Buffalo side, Floyd Smith, the Sabres&rsquo; coach, agreed. &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;we have better balance on our lines than we ever had before. We feel this is the best team we have ever had in Buffalo for talent.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01775/3154625-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="254" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Lorentz</figcaption></div>&ldquo;For instance, Jim Lorentz has been hurt and now he has to work himself back into the lineup. It&rsquo;s the first time we&rsquo;ve ever been able to sit out a fellow with Lorentz&rsquo;s ability.&rdquo;Lorentz, who was sidelined for four games by a bruised left knee, returned to work on the powerplay, as he has the last two years, but Smith just couldn&rsquo;t put the hard-working winger-center on any of the lines. Everyone was doing too well.The French Connection &mdash; Gil Perreault, Rick Martin and Ren&eacute; Robert &mdash; always considered Buffalo&rsquo;s scoring threat over the last two seasons, got off to a great start in the opener but then was overshadowed by the other two lines through the next eight games.With Perreault scoring three goals and assisting on two, the Connection picked up 10 points in the 9-3 trouncing of Boston in the opener.After that, Gil kept scoring on the power-play but his line was behind both the other two in points after nine games. The Connection had 10 goals and 20 points.The checking line &mdash; Don Luce, Craig Ramsay and Dan Gare &mdash; had 10 goals and 22 points. It got two of the three goals in the 3-2 win over Montreal.The Peter McNab-Brian Spencer-Rick Dudley line, called &ldquo;the disturbers&rdquo; by Smith, had eight goals and 22 points. Dudley got both goals in a 2-0 victory over the St. Louis Blues the night before the victory over Montreal.&ldquo;No matter what line goes on the ice,&rdquo; noted Ramsay, &ldquo;they&rsquo;re all capable of scoring. That makes it tougher for the opposition because they have to check all of us.&ldquo;When McNab&rsquo;s line is out there, the other team is on the defensive. Those guys dig and work and get the puck in the other team&rsquo;s end and Peter is a very good scorer.&ldquo;And the thing is, even though the Connection isn&rsquo;t scoring, the guys on that line are playing a better checking game than they ever have before.&rdquo;Both Bowman and Smith praised Buffalo&rsquo;s young defense after the Montreal game.&ldquo;Their defense moved up and kept the puck in,&rdquo; noted Bowman. &ldquo;They didn&rsquo;t give us much chance to get started. We couldn&rsquo;t forecheck them as they did us.&rdquo;&ldquo;Our forwards are coming back,&rdquo; pointed out Jim Schoenfeld, the 22-year-old who is Buffalo&rsquo;s oldest defenseman in point of service with the club and was recently named captain. &ldquo;That allows the defensemen to play up. Then the opposition can&rsquo;t move the puck out, so they dump it inourend and our forwards are back there to get it and away they go.&rdquo;ICE CHIPS: The 2-0 victory over St. Louis was Gary Bromley&rsquo;s first NHL goaltending shutout. The fans still were clamoring for general manager Punch Imlach to trade for a goaltender but Bromley had a 5-2-1 record after the club&rsquo;s first nine games. Rocky Farr played the other game&hellip; In one of Bromley&rsquo;s losses, in Los Angeles, the Sabres outshot the Kings by 24 but lost by five goals. Buffalo put 55 shots on Rogie Vachon in losing 7-2&hellip; When Ramsay was penalized for hooking in the third period of the St. Louis contest, it was his first penalty in 122 games. The last penalty came Jan. 6, 1973, against the New York Rangers in Madison Square Garden.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02693/3154618-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="562" height="823"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM SCHOENFELD &hellip;New Captain</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Sabres’ Balance Best In Team History

<div class="byline">BY ALAN TRUEX</div>ATLANTA &mdash;Dean Talafous&rsquo; stay in the minor leagues turned out to be much shorter than he expected.He was in Omaha for only two weeks before the Atlanta Flames called him up to replace the injured Larry Romanchych at right wing.Talafous (pronounced TAL-uh-fuss) was promoted so suddenly and surprisingly that he didn&rsquo;t have time to contract a proper case of the butterflies before his first regular season NHL game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01606/3154656-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="264" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dean Talafous</figcaption></div>The rookie, just out of the University of Wisconsin, said he was nervous in his NHL debut, &ldquo;But if I had two days to think about it I would have been much more nervous.&rdquo;As it was, &ldquo;It all happened so fast I didn&rsquo;t have much time to think about it.&rdquo;One night he was in Omaha, and after the game he got a call from Flames&rsquo; general manager Cliff Fletcher. Talafous was told to pack up as fast as he could and get to Atlanta the next day.He was able to fit in only four hours of sleep the night before his first NHL game. But actually, he could not have picked a better time to enter the league.Talafous&rsquo; teammates kept the pressure off him by scoring a record-setting 10 goals in a 10-1 rout of the Detroit Red Wings. Talafous contributed an assist in the game in which both Curt Bennett and Eric Vail had hat-tricks.Romanchych must have felt highly unneeded, although coach Boomer Geoffrion has called him &ldquo;the key to our power-play&rdquo;. The Flames in the early going displayed one of the league&rsquo;s most effective power-plays, although it was highly ineffective the past two years.Geoffrion constantly praised Romanchych for &ldquo;holding onto the puck until someone was open&rdquo;. Romanchych. who injured his right knee in training camp, was just about back to full speed when he tore ligaments in his left knee two weeks into the season. He was ruled out of action for a month.The left knee was the one that underwent surgery in the offseason. Doctors are planning not to operate on the knee again this season. They are hoping it will heal well enough for Romanchych to play with the knee taped.Meanwhile the team is confident of a strong performance from the 6&rsquo;3&rdquo;, 190-pound Talafous, who had an excellent training camp. In fact. Geoffrion called him &ldquo;the biggest surprise of the camp&rdquo; and once said it was a &ldquo;toss of the coin&rdquo; over whether Talafous would make the club.Talafous. a good skater and a surprisingly smooth puck handler, nevertheless is not considered to have enough speed to play right wing on a regular basis. He&rsquo;s a natural center, and he says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve played center all my life.&rdquo;He did play some right wing in training camp, however, and did well enough that Geoffrion feels he can fill in adequately.Talafous considers himself more of a playmaker than a goal scorer, but Geoffrion says, &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll score some goals when he learns you don&rsquo;t have to deke two or three people at the same time; you just have to deke one.&rdquo;FLAMES NOTES: Jerry Byers has played well at left wing replacing Jacques Richard, who broke his nose and fractured his right cheekbone when he skated into the stick of Detroit goalie Jim Rutherford. Richard was operated on and was expected to miss two or three weeks of action. Byers scored a goal in his first game replacing Richard. &#9632;

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Opportunity Knocks and Flames’ Talafous Answers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01518/3154939-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"></div><h2>ATLANTA</h2>Flames<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02462/3154932-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="194" height="173"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03383/3154925-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="713" height="614"></div><h2>BOSTON</h2>Bruins<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04300/3154918-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="179" height="172"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05247/3154911-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="711" height="536"></div><h2>BUFFALO</h2>Sabres<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-06208/3154904-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="197" height="186"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-07182/3154897-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="725" height="674"></div><h2>CALIFORNIA</h2>Seals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-08149/3154890-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="247" height="154"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-09133/3154883-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="713" height="637"></div><h2>CHICAGO</h2>Black Hawks<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-10123/3154876-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="204" height="190"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-11106/3154869-1-eng-US/f0017-112.jpg" title="f0017-11" width="721" height="556"></div><h2>DETROIT</h2>Red Wings<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1295/3154862-1-eng-US/f0017-122.jpg" title="f0017-12" width="252" height="135"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1378/3154855-1-eng-US/f0017-132.jpg" title="f0017-13" width="715" height="586"></div><h2>KANSAS CITY</h2>Scouts<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1467/3154848-1-eng-US/f0017-142.jpg" title="f0017-14" width="202" height="197"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1556/3154841-1-eng-US/f0017-152.jpg" title="f0017-15" width="736" height="669"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>Kings<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1654/3154834-1-eng-US/f0017-162.jpg" title="f0017-16" width="188" height="215"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1747/3154827-1-eng-US/f0017-172.jpg" title="f0017-17" width="710" height="588"></div><h2>MINNESOTA</h2>North Stars<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1840/3154820-1-eng-US/f0017-182.jpg" title="f0017-18" width="210" height="190"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1933/3154813-1-eng-US/f0017-192.jpg" title="f0017-19" width="714" height="557"></div><h2>MONTREAL</h2>Canadiens<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-2022/3154806-1-eng-US/f0017-202.jpg" title="f0017-20" width="211" height="172"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-2113/3154799-1-eng-US/f0017-212.jpg" title="f0017-21" width="708" height="613"></div><h2>NEW YORK</h2>Islanders<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-2211/3154792-1-eng-US/f0017-222.jpg" title="f0017-22" width="208" height="194"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-2310/3154785-1-eng-US/f0017-232.jpg" title="f0017-23" width="718" height="606"></div><h2>NEW YORK</h2>Rangers<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-247/3154778-1-eng-US/f0017-242.jpg" title="f0017-24" width="183" height="198"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-257/3154771-1-eng-US/f0017-252.jpg" title="f0017-25" width="714" height="614"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>Flyers<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-267/3154764-1-eng-US/f0017-262.jpg" title="f0017-26" width="242" height="160"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-275/3154757-1-eng-US/f0017-272.jpg" title="f0017-27" width="714" height="578"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>Penguins<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-285/3154750-1-eng-US/f0017-282.jpg" title="f0017-28" width="210" height="198"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-295/3154743-1-eng-US/f0017-292.jpg" title="f0017-29" width="713" height="581"></div><h2>ST. LOUIS</h2>Blues<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-304/3154736-1-eng-US/f0017-302.jpg" title="f0017-30" width="179" height="166"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-313/3154729-1-eng-US/f0017-312.jpg" title="f0017-31" width="713" height="664"></div><h2>TORONTO</h2>Maple Leafs<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-323/3154722-1-eng-US/f0017-322.jpg" title="f0017-32" width="194" height="201"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-333/3154715-1-eng-US/f0017-332.jpg" title="f0017-33" width="711" height="584"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-342/3154708-1-eng-US/f0017-342.jpg" title="f0017-34" width="219" height="148"></div><h2>VANCOUVER</h2>Canucks<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-35/3154701-1-eng-US/f0017-352.jpg" title="f0017-35" width="716" height="629"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-36/3154694-1-eng-US/f0017-362.jpg" title="f0017-36" width="262" height="143"></div><h2>WASHINGTON</h2>Capitals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-37/3154687-1-eng-US/f0017-372.jpg" title="f0017-37" width="716" height="583"></div> &#9632;

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NHL Players’ Scoring & Penalty Statistics

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TOP NHL SCORERS

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Looking At NHL Goalers

<div class="byline">BY JACK MCCARTHY</div>BOSTON &mdash;The Bruins were having their troubles in the early games of the NHL season, but there isn&rsquo;t much wrong With any hockey club that can&rsquo;t be cured by putting the puck in the net, and there is not much wrong with Boston that can&rsquo;t be cured by Bobby Orr breaking loose, either.One strange thing about the Bruins&rsquo; late-game heroics that included Orr was that both games came out as ties. But it was the manner in which they were done that gave rise to the feeling that the old Bruins were ready to go.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03318/3155032-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="283" height="517"><figcaption class="caption-body">Carol Vadnais</figcaption></div>In the game in Pittsburgh, Orr scored three goals for his sixth career hat trick (not bad for a defenseman). Coach Don Cherry then went to the old routine of lifting the goaltender and, sure enough, Carol Vadnais got the tying goal with 32 seconds left. Then, the next night, in Boston Garden against St. Louis, Cherry pulled the goaler again and this time, with 34 seconds left, Orr got the tying goal.Said former Bruin Eddie Johnston, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the difference, isn&rsquo;t it? When they need a big play, there&rsquo;s Bobby. Our guy (John Davidson) played a great game in the nets and we just get a tie.&rdquo;Cherry, of course, would have much preferred not to have been playing catch-up either game. What he had been waiting for was for the Bruins to start putting the puck in the net &mdash; to capitalize on early chances.&ldquo;We have got to realize that we have to go out there in the first 10 or 15 minutes and get some goals,&rdquo; Cherry said. &ldquo;If we don&rsquo;t and they do, pretty soon they&rsquo;ll be thinking they can beat us. Once we start putting the puck in the net we&rsquo;ll be all right.&rdquo;No sooner said than former Boston coach Bep Guidolin arrived in Boston Garden with his expansion Kansas City Scouts, pretty well exhausted from eight games on the road while waiting for their new rink in Kansas City to be completed.The Bruins put the puck in the net alright, beating the Scouts, 8-2, with Phil Esposito and Johnny Bucyk getting two goals each.This led Guidolin to say, &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got a good hockey club. They are polished around the net. They have that little hesitation handling the puck and they can finish off.&rdquo;This, of course, is what Cherry had been looking for. He said after that game, &ldquo;Now we are starting to put the puck in the net. And after we got a big lead, there was no letdown, That made me happy, also.&rdquo;Bep, who had left Boston last season with some harsh words for some of his players and for management, said that he heard nothing directed toward him by the Bruins on the ice &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t hear anything,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I was too busy running my team. But, they said enough with the score.&ldquo;Wayne Cashman looked really good. He is skating well, and Carol Vadnais is playing fine hockey. Orr is Orr. Esposito is still around the net and they have that crafty old man out there around the net, too, (Johnny Bucyk).&ldquo;If you push the Boston team, they&rsquo;ll come up with a good game. Toronto might give them a run for the division title.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Bruins Give Positive Proof Scoring Drought Nearing End

MONTREAL &mdash;&bull; Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr share the individual scoring race lead in the National Hockey League but their Boston Bruins are second in the Adams Division with 12 points in 11 games, three fewer than Buffalo Sabres. Bob Nevin and Whitey Widing share 11th and 18th place, respectively, but their Los Angeles Kings have more points than any other NHL team.With Rogie Vachon supplying the hottest netminding in recent seasons, the Kings this week leave for a two-game road trip to St. Louis and Pittsburgh with only one loss on their slate and a five-game undefeated road record. The only other team undefeated on the road is Vancouver Canucks, who have also played five away from home.The Kings have 18 of a possible 24 points and lead the Norris Division by six points over runner-up Montreal Canadiens. The work of Vachon, the defense and the penaltykillers have been primarily responsible. Vachon is the leading goaltender in the League with a paltry one-goal-a-game average &mdash; eight goals against in eight games and a record of five wins and three ties. Gary Edwards, who has played the other four games, has a 2.50 average and the two-totals give Kings a combined 1.50 average, half a goal better than runner-up duo Glenn Resch and Billy Smith of the &ldquo;real&rdquo; New York Islanders, who lost only their second game of the season when Philadelphia defeated them 3-1 to move a point ahead of Islanders into first place of the Patrick Division.&bull; The Bruins, who tied North Stars 3-3 at Minnesota and then lost 3-2 to Islanders at New York, finally erupted against the North Stars at Boston, winning 10-1. As has been the case in the last two weeks, Orr and Esposito led the way in that game, each picking up a goal and three assists, Esposito and Orr each have 21 points in 11 games, Espo the NHL leader in goals with 13, eight of them off the powerplay, and Orr the assist leader with 16. &#9632;

NHL WEEK — In Review

<div class="byline">BY DAN PROUDFOOT</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 CanadaTORONTO&mdash;Maple Leaf goaltenders complained last season about workingconditions preventing them from working at peak efficiency, as coach Red Kelly alternated Eddie Johnston, Doug Favell and Dune Wilson as starters.Everyone agreed the situation wasn&rsquo;t ideal for producing a winning team, so general manager Jim Gregory reluctantly traded Johnston to St. Louis Blues, getting Gary Sabourin in exchange for the veteran netminder.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01501/3155087-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="257" height="352"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Favell</figcaption></div>Favell and Wilson, while admitting they would miss old Popsy as a companion, were delighted with the prospect of sharing the 80-game schedule.But when the matter came up of pointing out trouble spots during a two-week slump in October, the weakness was narrowed down to, ahem, goal. &ldquo;The last place we expected trouble,&rdquo; grumbled general manager Gregory.The team&rsquo;s goals-against average, after nine games, was 3.67, 12th best in the league. Johnston, Favell and Wilson shared a 2.95 mark in 1973-74, fourth best &mdash; but, then, last year&rsquo;s team never went six games in a row without a win, as the current squad did with three losses and three ties after opening with a pair of wins.&ldquo;I think the main problems were with the goaltending and on defense,&rdquo; said Kelly. &ldquo;Both places. Our goalies were giving up bad goals, but don&rsquo;t forget we had Jim McKenny out (with a charley horse) for four of those games.&ldquo;A lot of people don&rsquo;t realize how important McKenny is. He has been playing extremely well, and he was as fit this season as I&rsquo;ve ever seen him. You just don&rsquo;t lose a guy like that off your defense without it hurting.&rdquo;There was more. Favell, honest us usual, tells it best. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been letting the shots in when big saves are called for.&ldquo;The entire team could be playing better defensively. But this team&rsquo;s strength isn&rsquo;t its defensive play. It wasn&rsquo;t any different last year, but last year we were making the saves.&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t say what it is, but every team, every goaltender, runs into it sometimes. You can second guess yourself. I should have had that shot against Montreal (when Canadiens came from behind and Yvon Lambert scored from a weird angle for a 3-2 win in Toronto). I gambled, and I shouldn&rsquo;t have. I was out too far and I was going to poke my stick out to stop Lambert&rsquo;s pass across to Pete Mahovlich. So I was anticipating, my mistake.&ldquo;The pass I expected turned into a shot and went in off the heel of my stick. If it hadn&rsquo;t hit the stick just so, it wouldn&rsquo;t have been in. But, that&rsquo;s the way it goes.&rdquo;Leafs&rsquo; lowest point came in the sixth game of the slump with a 9-3 loss to Chicago Black Hawks at the Gardens. Wilson started the game but played poorly.The next night in Washington, however, George Ferguson scored twice including the winner and brought at least temporary relief. The strongest player of the game, however, was Ron Low &mdash; the goaltender Leafs gave up in the expansion draft. &#9632;

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Leaf Netminders Not Making Big Saves This Year

<div class="byline">BY RUSS WHITE</div>WASHINGTON&mdash;Inflation has made it nearly impossible for anyone to save anything in the Nation&rsquo;s Capital. The new Washington hockey team could be the exception.The saves at Capital Centre are quite spectacular. In a few short weeks the Capitals have achieved respectability because of the goaltending work by Ron Low and Michel Belhumeur. Although the Capitals are losing (1-7-1 start) their fans have had nothing but praise for Low and Belhumeur. The praise has been seconded by National Hockey League people.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02430/3155118-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="253" height="501"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Low</figcaption></div>After Low had played brilliantly in a 1-1 tie against Los Angeles, Kings&rsquo; coach Bob Pulford said, &ldquo;That guy was fantastic.&rdquo; Two nights later when the Caps scored their first NHL victory, losing Black Hawks coach Bill Reay said, &ldquo;No question &mdash; Low beat us.&rdquo;Belhumeur drew the raves later in a game at Chicago, where in a bizarre night of net play he became the first goalie in league history to be tested twice on penalty shots. The former Philadelphia Flyer was up for it. He denied both Jim Pappin (last year&rsquo;s NHL Showdown champ) and Stan Mikita on the penalty shots and had 39 saves for the evening.Though the Capitals lost a 3-2 decision that night, a couple of the Black Hawks said they were willing to take Michel Belhumeur out for an evening on Rush Street. &ldquo;The guy had some sort of night,&rdquo; said Dale Tallon of Chicago.The averages aren&rsquo;t going to do justice to either Low or Belhumeur. Forget the Vezina Trophy. With the expansion Capitals getting outshot by 45 to 15 almost each time out there is no way that any masked marvel can turn everything away.&ldquo;Our goalies have given us respectability,&rdquo; said general manager Milt Schmidt, who is the guy who scouted Low and Belhumeur and made them his two choices in the NHL expansion draft.The way Schmidt talks about it, the Capitals have come up with as big a surprise as the Atlanta Flames did three years ago when they plucked Danny Bouchard and Phil Myre in the expansion pool.&ldquo;May be I&rsquo;m a sadist,&rdquo; said Low, the former Toronto Maple Leaf, &ldquo;but I enjoy playing goal. It&rsquo;s satisfying to beat a good team, to win any game. If you play a good game and you lose, you can look at your-selfand say &lsquo;I did the best I could.&rsquo;Low doesn&rsquo;t seem to moan over the team&rsquo;s setbacks and bounces back quickly.He suffered a tough loss to the Maple Leafs, 4-3, last week. Not only was it to his old teammates, whom he wanted to stop cold, but Low&rsquo;s parents had come to Washington that day and watched him play goal in the NHL for the first time.Belhumeur hasn&rsquo;t played as much as Low but his big night in Chicago, on a game televised to Washington, drew him a fan club. He is flashier than Low and takes perhaps too many chances. Coach Jimmy Anderson would like Belhumeur to stay on his feet more if possible. &#9632;

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Saving’s Big Thing With Capitals’ Fans

PHIL ESPOSITOBoston BruinsThere are some things that must happen, it seems. The sun must rise every morning, set every night and Phil Esposito must score a pile of goals every year. Otherwise, things just wouldn&rsquo;t be right.This year is no exception to rule of nature, as Esposito has 13 goals this season. He boosted that total with five goals and three assists last week to lead the NHL.Esposito had two-goal games against the Islanders and North Stars and four points in a 10-1 victory over Minnesota.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03349/3155156-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="519" height="609"></div>ROGATIEN VACHONLos Angeles KingsThe Los Angeles Kings have been one of the biggest surprises in the NHL this season with an amazing 7-1-4 record after 12 games. One of the major reasons has been confidence.After all, a team has to have confidence knowing that when its number one netminder, Rogatien Vachon, is playing all they have to do is score two goals to win. After his first eight games Vachon leads the league with a 1.00 average.He helped that average last week, surrendering only two goals in three games while recording his first shutout of the year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04298/3155149-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="512" height="646"></div> &#9632;

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NHL’S Stars of the week

<div class="byline">BY CHRIS ZELKOVICH</div>MONTREAL&mdash;It looks like one those which-name-doesn&rsquo;t-belong quizzes. Listed among the back-up goaltenders, spare forwards and rookkies is the name of Jacques Laperriere. All Star defenseman.His name has been on the list of players not dressed for Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; games since January of last season and all indications are that it will be there for some time yet. In fact, there are indications that Laperriere may never play again.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01347/3155194-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="257" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glen Sather</figcaption></div>Ask him about the knee he injured last January and Laperriere replies with jokes. &ldquo;Hah,&rdquo; he laughs. &ldquo;I could tell you the weather the night before it rains, just by my knee.&rdquo;Ask him about the rumors that say he&rsquo;s finished as an NHL player and again he laughs. &lsquo;Those are just rumors,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;The doctor tells me to keep working and it will come back. It won&rsquo;t be easy but if I keep working it&rsquo;ll come back.&rdquo;But continue talking to Laperriere and watch him skate in practice and you&rsquo;ll realize that the jokes and laughter are a cover-up for deep concern. Laperriere is a pathetic sight in practice, limping along the ice like a cripple, skating at nothing better than quarter speed.He&rsquo;s been that way since shortly after training camp opened.Laperriere had undergone extensive surgery last spring, surgery that had seen part of a knee muscle grafted to repair a torn ligament.When training camp opened it appeared that the 32-year-old defenseman had made a complete recovery.But that illusion lasted only a week.&ldquo;The first week of training camp, everything went very well you know,&rdquo; Laperriere says. &ldquo;But in the first exhibition game the fluid started to come and I couldn&rsquo;t skate any more.&ldquo;The doctor told me to keep working and it would come back. But I&rsquo;m practising all the time, running, I work with weights and all I&rsquo;m doing is getting further behind the other guys who are playing.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know. I&rsquo;ve been doing this since August. I don&rsquo;t know when it&rsquo;s going to get better.&rdquo;Laperriere is not alone. No one seems to know if or when the knee will recover. One thing is clear, though, and that is if Laperriere&rsquo;s knee does mend properly, it won&rsquo;t be for some time.As for now, the Canadiens aren&rsquo;t taking any chances. Rookie defenseman Rick Chartraw is staying with the club as the sixth detenseman and he will remain in the NHL until Laperriere shows positive signs of recuperating.That does not mean, however, that the Canadiens&rsquo; taxi squad will continue to be the largest in the league. Up until last week six players sat out every game, but that number has been reduced to five and possibly may be further reduced.Rookie center Doug Risebrough. who was so impressive in the exhibition games, was dispatched to Nova Scotia of the American League afterseeing action in onlyone or the Canadiens&rsquo; first eight games.Veteran left winger Glen Sather has also played in only one of the first eight games. But he will not be sent to Nova Scotia. Odds are that he will be traded.Goaltender Bunny Larocque has been banished to the press box by coach Scotty Bowman because Bowman contends Larocque is more concerned with his negotiations with the World Hockey Association than he is with playing goal. Again, a trade is in order.Neither Sather nor Larocque are making any permanent plans in Montreal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02258/3155187-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="560" height="656"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACQUES LAPERRIERE &hellip;May Be Through</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Long Road Ahead For Habs’ Laperriere In Attempt To Regain Strength In Knee

<div class="byline">BY JAY GREENBERG</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01202/3155253-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="496" height="448"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-02148/3155246-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg" title="f0021-02" width="438" height="459"></div>KANSAS CITY &mdash;A few hours after another chunk of Scouts&rsquo; history had been served, Bep Guidolin was sitting in a motel lounge in Oakland puffing on a big cigar. &ldquo;Is that your victory cigar?&rdquo; he was asked.&ldquo;It was no victory,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It was a tie. I always smoke one after the game.&rdquo;So much for symbolism. Something more concrete was accomplished on Oct. 23. The Kansas City Scouts woke up the next day, read the National Hockey League standings and saw that next to &ldquo;Kansas City&rdquo; and under the &ldquo;Pts.&rdquo; there was the number &ldquo;1&rdquo;. That was history. It was also the only thing the Scouts had to grab onto during their eight-game road torture-test to open the season.Bep didn&rsquo;t stop at the standings the next morning, climbing a little higher on the page to read the game story of his 4-4 tie with the California Golden Seals. He took the tie somewhat reluctantly, anyway because the Scouts&rsquo; blew a 4-1 lead, but when he saw what Marshall Johnston, the Seals&rsquo; coach, and Billy McCreary, the general manager, said Bep, well, felt the urge to reply.&ldquo;It was our worst game this year,&rdquo; said McCreary. &ldquo;The comeback means nothing. We had to have a save on a breakaway (by Wilf Paiement) to avoid losing to a team that hadn&rsquo;t won a game all year.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-03105/3155239-1-eng-US/f0021-032.jpg" title="f0021-03" width="558" height="721"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s Tough Getting Seals Up For Games With Those New NHL Teams.&rdquo;&mdash;MARSHALL JOHNSTON</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0489/3155232-1-eng-US/f0021-042.jpg" title="f0021-04" width="557" height="737"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;He&rsquo;s Got Rocks In His Head, Give Us Time We&rsquo;ll Smoke Right By Them.&rdquo;&mdash; BEP GUIDOLIN</figcaption></div>Then Bep read a little farther. &ldquo;Maybe it&rsquo;ll convince them (the Seals) in the future that playing teams like Kansas City, Washington and Vancouver you have to prepare for like any other team.&rdquo;By this time, Guidolin was sizzling and he demanded the reporter take a reply. He began: &ldquo;Any guy (Johnston) that makes a statement like that has to have rocks in his head,&rdquo; Bep said. &ldquo;Couldn&rsquo;t get his team up, huh? They haven&rsquo;t been able to get that team up for seven years. That franchise has been putting people to sleep all over the National Hockey League. I remember when they came into Boston last year, they used to put the whole Gardens to sleep.&ldquo;Now they&rsquo;re talking like they&rsquo;re Mr. Hockey or something. They&rsquo;re just as bad off as we are. Give us seven years and see what we do. Give us two years and we&rsquo;ll smoke right by them.&rdquo;By that time most of the smoke in the Bay Area had risen out of Bep&rsquo;s head and cooled him off. So he was now ready to talk about how much better he felt that the the Scouts had finally made a place in the points column.&ldquo;The pressure is off,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Everybody is more relaxed. It was important to them. But it&rsquo;s a good thing we held on and got the tie, because if we would have lost, we would have been so down that. His voice trailed off. He could think of nothing worse than, blowing a three-goal lead to the Seals and losing.Bep was gracious in his return to Boston, but the Bruins were not, outclassing the tired Scouts 8-2. The pain of the loss was more easily suffered with the Scouts knowing that finally, the next day, they could go home to Kansas City.They broke out in applause when they landed the next day. And with five days to get ready for the home opener, Bep set out immediately to rebuild some frazzled egos. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re only five points out of a playoff spot,&rdquo; he said hopefully.LOOSE PUCKS: Simon Nolet and Wilf Paiement each scored goals in the last three games of the trip, bringing their totals to five (Nolet) and four (Paiement)&hellip;The goaltending held up well despite the losses. Particularly tragic was Peter McDuffe kicking out 40 Vancouver shots, and losing on a goal by Paulin Bordeleau that took a weird bounce off the boards as McDuffe routinely moved out to set up behind his goal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-0575/3155225-1-eng-US/f0021-052.jpg" title="f0021-05" width="551" height="672"><figcaption class="caption-body">PETER McDUFFE &hellip;Beaten On Fluke</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Guidolin Irked By Johnston’s Put-down As Scouts End Road Trip With One Point

<div class="byline">BY HANK MASLER</div>OAKLAND &mdash;Experience. It&rsquo;s something that&rsquo;s needed in the National Hockey League in order to survive. The California Seals will need the help of experience even more this year with one of the youngest teams in the NHL.Jim Neilson will help provide the experience needed. Neilson, the 12-year veteran of the New York Rangers, is now wearing a Seals uniform, and his experience at defense will be invaluable.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01222/3155284-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="263" height="398"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Neilson</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Most young players are good, level-headed fellows,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;They want to be part of the team, and obviously, so do I. So, I&rsquo;m sure we&rsquo;ll work well together. What&rsquo;s good about playing with young guys is that after watching them play, you can be helped too. You just try to mold your styles of play together. Maybe that&rsquo;s what experience is all about.&rdquo;Neilson, who says that his leaving the Rangers &ldquo;didn&rsquo;t come as a great surprise,&rdquo; has helped young players before. &ldquo;When I was with New York, I was teamed with Rod Seiling when he first came up from Junior hockey. I&rsquo;ve done this type of thing before, and things seemed to work out well.&rdquo;The &ldquo;Chief&rsquo; also is looking forward to helping the Seals&rsquo; youngest addition, Rick Hampton. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d be happy to play with him,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d welcome that. We&rsquo;ve just got to get to know one another. I used to rush the puck a lot, but now I&rsquo;ve adapted my game to the fellow I&rsquo;m playing with, and we both have an understanding.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a gung-ho, razzle-dazzle guy. I&rsquo;m quiet. I&rsquo;m a Doug Harvey or Harry Howell type. I try to stay disciplined on the ice.&ldquo;I hope that my on-the-ice performances will be helpfull to a young player. If I can perform really well on the ice, it should rub off.&rdquo;Neilson leaves no doubt that he&rsquo;s happy to be playing for California, and is out to do his best. &ldquo;Deep in the back of my mind, I was hoping to leave New York,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had 12 years there which I&rsquo;ve really enjoyed, but I was sort of happy to be moving on, and I was more than tickled pink to be going to a team like the Seals.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great opportunity for me to get out there and lend in my experience with the young guys and get things going in the right direction. Maybe we can get a system worked out where a young guy can start accomplishing right off the bat, even if it&rsquo;s not winning. I just hope to be part of it.&rdquo;Even with the added responsibilities that Neilson will have with the team, he insists that the pressure will not bother him or his performance on the ice. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s much pressure on me personally,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure there are a lot of things that the Seals want me to do, but I&rsquo;ll do them without letting them weigh me down. I&rsquo;m just going to go out and play my game. If that works out, it will surely be the best for the whole team. I hope what I do is beneficial to the Seals.&rdquo;Neilson, who will be working at times with Seals&rsquo; coach Marshall Johnston, has known the ex-NHL veteran for many years. They played junior hockey together nearly 15 years ago in Prince Albert. &ldquo;I have lots of respect for him,&rdquo; Neilson says. &ldquo;He might run things with an iron hand, but in a subtle way.&rdquo;Neilson, 33 years old in November, claims that he&rsquo;s feeling better all the time, and can&rsquo;t even think of retirement. &ldquo;I think I can play until I&rsquo;m 40,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;If I could play 20 years in the NHL, that would be great. In the last two years I&rsquo;ve felt the best I ever felt. I&rsquo;m feeling better all the time.&rdquo;Jim Neilson will help the young Seals this year with his experience and leadership. In fact, he might be helping for quite a few years to come.NOTES: Perth, Australia is becoming a Seal hot bed of interest as local fans are taping the games on cassette and sending them to friends in Perth&hellip; Bob Stewart netted his first goal of the season against the New York Islanders in New York&hellip; Larry Patey is among the top rookie scorers in the NHL&hellip; Mike Christie sat out two games following injuries suffered in the Philadelphia game&hellip; Joey Johnston has moved into third place on the Seals all-time scoring list passing Gerry Ehman&hellip; Johnston&rsquo;s next goal is to pass Bill Hicke, who also has the most goals with 79&hellip; Since the Seals joined the NHL 119 different players have played in regular season action. &#9632;

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Old Pro Neilson Brings Experience To Young Seals

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0023-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01200/3155518-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg"></div>WARNING: The Department of National Health and Welfare advises that danger to health increases with amount smoked.<h2>Mon. Oct. 28</h2>CALIFORNIA 1, ISLANDERS 10<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-02159/3155511-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="600" height="609"></div>PITTSBURGH 0. LOS ANGELES 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-03126/3155504-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="596" height="534"></div><h2>Tue. Oct. 29</h2>DETROIT 0, VANCOUVER 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0498/3155497-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="595" height="548"></div><h2>Wed. Oct. 30</h2>ISLANDERS 1, RANGERS 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0578/3155490-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg" title="f0023-05" width="590" height="483"></div>CALIFORNIA 1, ATLANTA 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0666/3155483-1-eng-US/f0023-062.jpg" title="f0023-06" width="587" height="345"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0760/3155476-1-eng-US/f0023-072.jpg" title="f0023-07" width="593" height="180"></div>CHICAGO 4, MONTREAL 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0850/3155469-1-eng-US/f0023-082.jpg" title="f0023-08" width="604" height="553"></div>BOSTON 3, MINNESOTA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0941/3155462-1-eng-US/f0023-092.jpg" title="f0023-09" width="604" height="557"></div><h2>Thur. Oct. 31</h2>RANGERS 1, PHILADELPHIA 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1033/3155455-1-eng-US/f0023-102.jpg" title="f0023-10" width="595" height="239"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1125/3155448-1-eng-US/f0023-112.jpg" title="f0023-11" width="591" height="289"></div>MONTREAL 3, WASHINGTON 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1221/3155441-1-eng-US/f0023-122.jpg" title="f0023-12" width="594" height="437"></div>ST. LOUIS 1, LOS ANGELES 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1316/3155434-1-eng-US/f0023-132.jpg" title="f0023-13" width="594" height="421"></div><h2>Fri. Nov. 1</h2>TORONTO 2, ATLANTA 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1415/3155427-1-eng-US/f0023-142.jpg" title="f0023-14" width="585" height="385"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1514/3155420-1-eng-US/f0023-152.jpg" title="f0023-15" width="590" height="152"></div>PITTSBURGH 4, VANCOUVER 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1613/3155413-1-eng-US/f0023-162.jpg" title="f0023-16" width="600" height="585"></div>DETROIT 4, CALIFORNIA 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-179/3155406-1-eng-US/f0023-172.jpg" title="f0023-17" width="585" height="552"></div><h2>Sat. Nov. 2</h2>PHILADELPHIA 3, MONTREAL 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-188/3155399-1-eng-US/f0023-182.jpg" title="f0023-18" width="583" height="257"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-195/3155392-1-eng-US/f0023-192.jpg" title="f0023-19" width="599" height="208"></div>BOSTON 2, ISLANDERS 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-204/3155385-1-eng-US/f0023-202.jpg" title="f0023-20" width="597" height="554"></div>ATLANTA 0, ST. LOUIS 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-213/3155378-1-eng-US/f0023-212.jpg" title="f0023-21" width="594" height="609"></div>DETROIT 1, LOS ANGELES 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-223/3155371-1-eng-US/f0023-222.jpg" title="f0023-22" width="592" height="520"></div>CHICAGO 4, KANSAS CITY 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-233/3155364-1-eng-US/f0023-232.jpg" title="f0023-23" width="596" height="460"></div>BUFFALO 6, TORONTO 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-242/3155357-1-eng-US/f0023-242.jpg" title="f0023-24" width="603" height="269"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01207/3155350-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="595" height="380"></div><h2>Sun. Nov. 3</h2>BUFFALO 4, RANGERS 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02151/3155343-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="592" height="526"></div>ISLANDERS 1, PHILADELPHIA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-03105/3155336-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="603" height="491"></div>KANSAS CITY 5. WASHINGTON 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0482/3155329-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="605" height="585"></div>PITTSBURGH 3, CHICAGO 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0566/3155322-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="597" height="461"></div>MINNESOTA 1. BOSTON 10<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0654/3155315-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="609" height="613"></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 MarcotteDave Hynes*INJUREDNone<h2>BUFFALO</h2>GOALGary Bomley*Rocky Farr*Roger CrozierDEFENSELarry CarriereLee Fogolin*Bill Hajt*Jerry KorabJ. Schoenfield CJ. GuevremontCENTERDon Luce APeter McNab*Gil Perreault AR. WINGNorm GrattonBryan McSheffreyLarry MickeyRend RobertDanny Gare *L. WINGRichard MartinCraig RamsayBrian SpencerMorris Titanic*INJUREDJim Lorentz<h2>DETROIT</h2>GOALJim RutherfordTerry Richardson*DEFENSEThommle BergmanGary Bergman AJean HamelJack LynchBryan Watson ADoug RobertsCENTERRed BerensonMarcel Dionne CBill HogaboamGuy CharronR. WINGEarl Anderson*Mickey Redmond ANelson Pyatt*Bill Lochead*L. WINGNick Libett AHank Nowak*Danny GrantINJUREDNone.<h2>ISLANDERS</h2>GOALGlen Resch *Billy SmithDEFENSEi Dave Fortier*Gerry HartDave LewisBert MarshallJean PotvinCENTERLorne HenningBob Bourne*Ralph Stewart AEddie Westfall CDoug RomboughTom MillerR. WINGCraig Cameront Billy Harris ABob NystromAndre St LaurentL. WINGClark Gillies*Ernie HickeGarry HowattBilly MacMillanINJUREDDenis Potvin<h2>MONTREAL</h2>GOALKen DrydenMichel LarocqueWayne ThomasDEFENSEPierre BouchardRick Chartraw*Guy LapointeL. RobinsonSerge Savard AJ. Van BoxmeerCENTERJacques LemairePete MahovlichHenri Richard CR. WINGYvan Cournoyer AGlenn Goldup*Claude Larose AJim RobertsGuy LafleurL. WINGBob GaineyYvon LambertGlen SatherSteve ShuttMurray WilsonChuck LefleyINJUREDJ. Laperriere<h2>RANGERS</h2>GOALEd GlacominGilles VillemureDEFENSENick Beverley*Ron HarrisGilles MarotteBrad Park CDale RolfeRon Greschner*CENTERJean RatelleDerek SandersonPete StemkowskiWalt TkaczukR. WINGJerry ButlerBill FairbairnRod Gilbert ARick MiddletonL. WINGTed IrvineSteve VickersGreg PolisBert WilsonINJUREDNone<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALDoug FavellDune WilsonDEFENSEBrian GlennieJim McKennyBob NeelyRod SellingIan TurnbullCENTERGeorge FergusonDave Keon CDarryl SittierNorm Ullman AR. WINGRon Ellis ABill FlettBlaine StoughtonLanny McDonaldGary SabourlnL. WINGInge HammarstromLyle Moffat*Dave DunnEddie ShackErrol ThompsonINJUREDBorje Salming<h2>VANCOUVER</h2>GOALGary SmithKen Lockett*DEFENSEBob DaileyDennis KearnsTracy PrattAb DeMarcoJohn Grisdaie*Mike RobitailleCENTERAndre BoudriasChris OddlelfsonJim Wiley*Jerry O&rsquo;FlahertyGerry MeehanR. WINGPaulin BordeleauGregg BoddyDennis VervergaertLeon RochefortL. WINGJohn GouldDon LeverBobby LalondeGarry MonahanINJUREDNone<h2>KANSAS CITY</h2>GOALMichel PlassePeter McDuffe*DEFENSEMike Baumgartner*Brent Hughes AJim McElmury*Bart CrashleyBryan LefleyLarry GirouxCENTEREddie Gilbert*Richard LemieuxJohn WrightGlen Burdon*Dave HudsonR. WINGSimon Nolet CWilf Paiement*Randy Rota ATed SnelL. WINGRobin Burns*Bobby LalondeNorm Dube*Gary CroteauButch Deadmarsh AINJUREDNone<h2>ATLANTA</h2>GOALDan Bouchard Phil MyreDEFENSEDwight Blalowas*Jean LemieuxRandy ManeryPat Quinn ANoel Price ACENTERCurt BennettRey ComeauBryan HextailBob Leiter ATom LysiakR. WINGHilliard GravesBuster HarveyDean Talafous*Tim EcclestoneL. WINGJerry ByersKeith McCreary CEric VailINJUREDLarry Romanchych<h2>CALIFORNIA</h2>GOALGilles MelocheGary Simmons*Marv EdwardsDEFENSELen Frig ARick Hampton*Ted McAneeleyJim NeilsonBob StewartMike Christie*CENTERRon Huston*Larry Patey*Stan WeirR. WINGWayne King*Morris MottCraig PatrickAl MacAdam*Jim MoxeyL. WINGStan GilbertsonJoey Johnston CJohn StewartDave Hrechkosy*Brian LavenderINJUREDNone<h2>CHICAGO</h2>GOALTony EspositoMike VeisorDEFENSEDoug Jarrett ADick RedmondPhil RussellBill White ACENTERIvan BoldirevPit MartinStan Miklta ADale TailonR. WINGJ.P. BordeleauAlain Daigle*Cliff KorroliChico MakiGrant Mulvey*Jim PappinL. WINGDennis HullDarcy RotaJohn MarksGermain GagnonINJUREDKeith Magnuson<h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>GOALRogatien VachonGary EdwardsDEFENSELarry BrownTerry Harper CDave Hutchison*S. KannegeisserNeil KomadoskiBob MurdochCENTERGene CarrButch GoringVic VenaskyJuha Widing AR. WINGMike CorriganDon KozakMike MurphyBuu NevinFrank St. MarseilleL. WINGBob BerryDan Maloney ATom WilliamsINJUREDNone.<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>GOALCesare ManiagoFern RivardDEFENSEBarry Gibbs ADoug Hicks *Dennis O&rsquo;BrienTom ReidChris Ahrens*CENTERJude DrouinDennis HextailMurray OliverFred StanfieldR. WINGJohn Flesch*Bill Goldsworthy CLou NanneHenry BouchaJohnny Rogers*L. WINGDon Martineau*Blake Dunlop*Jean-Paul Parise A.INJUREDFred Barret<h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>GOALWayne StephensonBernie ParentBob TaylorDEFENSEAndr&#133; DupontTed HarrisEd Van ImpeTom BladonJimmy WatsonJoe Watson ACENTERRick MacLeishBill ClementTerry Crisp AOrest KindrachukR. WINGGary Dornhoefer AReg LeachDon SaleskiRandy OsburnL. WINGBill BarberDave SchultzBoff KellyRoss LonsberrySerge LajeunesseINJUREDBobby Clarke C<h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>GOALGary InnessBob Johnson*DEFENSEDave Burrows ABarry WilkinsRon StackhouseBob ParadiseColin Campbell *Dennis OwcharCENTERSyl Apps ARon Lalonde ARon Schock CHarvey Bennett*R. WINGChuck ArnasonRick KehoeKelly Pratt*Jean PronovostL. WINGVic HadfieldNelson DebenedetBob KellyLowell MacDonaldPierre Larouche*Wayne BianchinINJUREDSteve Duroano<h2>ST LOUIS</h2>GOALJohn DavidsonEddie JohnstonDEFENSEDon AwreyBob Hess*Barclay Plager CBob Plager ALarry Sacharuk*Bob Stumpf*Chris EvansCENTERDave GardnerWayne MerrickGarry Unger ADoug Palazzari*Ken Richardson *R. WINGBill CollinsPierre PlantePhil RobertoBrian Ogilvie*L. WINGAce BaileyMurray Kuntz*Floyd Thompsond Gord Buynak*INJUREDNone<h2>WASHINGTON</h2>GOALMichel BelhumeurRon LowDEFENSEGreg Joly*Yvon LabreMurray AndersonBill MikkelsonDoug MohnsGordon Smith*Willie BrossartCENTERJim Hrycuik*Pete LaframboiseAndre Peloffy*Tommy WilliamsDave KryskowR. WINGRon Anderson*Steve AtkinsonGordie BrooksNorm Dub&#133;*Lew MorrisonL. WINGBruce Cowick*Denis DupereBob GrypBill LesukMike Marson*Jack EgersINJUREDJoe Lundrlgan* &#9632;

NHL Team Rosters

<div class="byline">BY RICH PASSAN</div>LOUISVILLE SIUGGERHOCKEY 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 CanadaCLEVELAND&mdash;Crusaders&rsquo; general manager has maintained since he took over the job 16 months ago that he was dedicated in his efforts to bring Cleveland a championship hockey team.Slowly, but surely, he has weeded out the malcontents and non-talents and brought in quality hockey players to wear the Purple, Black and White.They have come in various ways. Some from the National Hockey League and others by trade. It&rsquo;s the latter route that Vivian has excelled in. Last season, he picked up center Ron Ward from the old Los Angeles Sharks for a couple of fringe skaters. Then he swapped center Jim Wiste to the Indianapolis Racers for tough left winger Steve Cardwell.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01167/3155625-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="258" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Harrison</figcaption></div>But his biggest deal was swung on the eve of what turned out to be an aborted home opener at the Coliseum.For six months, Vivian has been hot on the trail of Edmonton Oilers&rsquo;center iceman Jim Harrison. But Edmonton GM Bill Hunter&rsquo;s asking price always was too high, as it should have been, because Harrison is one of the best.Finally, Hunter relented, mainly because Harrison refused to play any more for the Oilers. Edmonton, he claimed, reneged on an oral agreement they reached midway through last season to extend his contract to make it a 10-year pact.In exchange for Harrison, Vivian was forced to surrender another pivot, Ron Buchanan, who has been with the club since its inception, and the well-travelled future considerations.&ldquo;Harrison is one of the top four centers in all hockey and the best in the World Hockey Association.&rdquo; beamed Vivian shortly after signing the 5&rsquo; 11&rdquo;, 200-pounder to contract estimated at $600,000 for four years.&ldquo;This means we are going to make a run at the championship this year,&rdquo; the GM said. &ldquo;He plays his position the way it should be played. He has great scoring ability and his wingers always pick up a lot of goals.&rdquo;Harrison, an outstanding talent, has been hampered by injuries in his first two WHA seasons. In 112 (out of 156) games in the league, he has scored 63 goals and assisted on 93 others.Attesting to his aggressive style is his 192 minutes spent in penalty boxes around the league. Had it not been for serious knee and back injuries, he would have added significantly to those totals.Harrison, under suspension at the time of the trade, revealed Cleveland was where he wanted to wind up, although he had a no-trade clause in his Edmonton pact.&ldquo;I had my mind made up I was going to Cleveland after meeting with Mr. Vivian&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The way he presented himself and the organization had a lot to do with my decision. I felt I could trust him.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had trouble with a couple of other general managers and I felt I couldn&rsquo;t trust them. This whole thing is a relief to me. Now, I can start concentrating on playing hockey.&rdquo;The right-handed shooting Harrison is the consummate hockey player. His only weakness &mdash; and it&rsquo;s not really a weakness &mdash; is his skating. &ldquo;It could be better, but it&rsquo;s not that bad,&rdquo; he said.NEW ENGLAND: The switch of defenseman Thommy Abrahamsson to left wing has proved a stroke of genius. The blond Swede has picked up a point in each of his first four games, three of which have been victories&hellip; The Whalers are two men over the 19-player limit, making for lively competition. All the players know if they don&rsquo;t produce, they will be spectators instead of part of the action. Winger Al Karlander sat out the third game of the season and came back to be the outstanding player in a 6-1 victory over the Indianapolis Racers&hellip; Left winger John French was struck in the mouth by a puck in that game, lossening several teeth and requiring five stitches to close the wound&hellip; Tom Webster needs only two goals to become only the third man to score 100 career goals in the WHA. Webster also has been moved from his normal right wing position on the Terry Caffery line to the left side, switching with Tim Sheehy who was having problems.CHICAGO: The Cougars, wh played five of their first six games on foreign ice, had a seven-day layoff between games and dropped it, a 6-5 overtime loss to the Minnesota Fighting Saints. Wayne Connelly&rsquo;s goal late in the extra session handed goaltender Dave Dryden his second loss in two Starts&hellip; Scoring his first big league goal against the Saints was prize center Gary MacGregor. The youngster also was chosen as one of the stars of the game in two of his first three games &mdash; all on the road&hellip; Only two Cougars wear helmets &mdash; MacGregor and Rod Zaine.INDIANAPOLIS: The Racers finally won a game after five straight opening losses. The date of Oct. 27 will be one remembered for a long time in the Indiana town as the lads of coach Gerry Moore broke a prolonged scoring slump for a 5-3 victory over the previously unbeaten Quebec Nordiques before nearly 7,000 fans at the Market Square Arena. &#9632;

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Crusaders Grab Harrison To Solidify Title Bid

BOBBY HULLWinnipeg JetsMost of the predictions concerning the Winnipeg Jets this season asked this question: &ldquo;What do the Jets have after Bobby Hull?&rdquo; Another question can be used to answer that. &ldquo;What do the Jets need besides Bobby Hull?&rdquo;Hull led the Jets to three victories last week by scoring eight goals and collecting four assists as the Winnipegers moved into a tie for first place in the WHA&rsquo;s Canadian Division.Hull scored hat-tritks in a 6-5 victory over Phoenix and a 10-1 win over Toronto and added two goals and two assists in an 11-3 victory over Michigan.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-02112/3155663-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="572" height="641"></div>ANDRE LACROIXSan Diego MarinersEver since he joined the WHA two years ago, Andr&eacute; Lacroix has specialized in setting up his linemates. Last year, for instance he set a WHA record with 80 assists.Last week, though, the 29-year-old center took his turn at scoring, connecting for four goals and adding one assist to lead the Mariners to two victories. He scored twice in a 6-2 victory over Vancouver and added two more, including the winner, in a 4-3 decision over Chicago.Not that Lacroix is a slouch as a goal scorer. He scored 31 last year and won the WHA scoring championship two years ago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0381/3155656-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="555" height="588"></div> &#9632;

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WHA’s Stars of the week

<div class="byline">BY TERRY JONES</div>EDMONTON &mdash;Bill Hunter, a man who doesn&rsquo;t use a single adjective when a dozen will do, is having trouble coming up with enough of them to describe the new Edmonton Coliseum.Edmonton Oilers, the World Hockey Association team Hunter started, on Nov. 10 will skate into a new arena that&rsquo;s bigger and better than maybe even Hunter dreamed of.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the finest arena in Canada,&rdquo; said Hunter, who has been known to overstate a case in the interests of promotion. But it&rsquo;s no overstatement this time.Designed along the same lines as the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, it will hold 16,000 fans when it opens but has room to expand to more than 20,000 seats in the future. An extra $3.5 million was spent on the interior of the building above and beyond what was spent in Vancouver.Hunter, the colorful promoter who has blazed trails here as a Junior hockey promoter, talked of the day when Edmonton would have big league hockey in a big league arena long before either appeared remotely possible.&ldquo;Everyone laughed when I said that,&rdquo; he recalled.The arena was built by the Edmonton Exhibition Association at a cost of more than $12 million and won&rsquo;t be finished until sometime in the new year. The seats, dressing rooms and concession stands will be ready for the opener but escalators, lounges and restaurants won&rsquo;t be completed until mid-way in the season. Oilers will move their executive offices to the building sometime in January.&ldquo;It makes Edmonton major league in every way,&rdquo; said Hunter, who has the only organization in the WHA that is intact since the beginning.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01174/3155701-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="865" height="1207"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Edmonton Oilers have lured several top NHLers over to their side this season and two of the club&rsquo;s steadiest newcomers are Bruce MacGregor, left, and Barry Long. MacGregor came from the Rangers and Long from the L.A. Kings.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02126/3155694-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="861" height="1192"></div>Oilers in their first two seasons played in the Klondike Palace that Edmonton reporters refused to call by that name on the grounds it was no palace.-The Edmonton Gardens has been the name its gone by from birth back in 1913. It has been remodeled several times. Only 5,200 seats were in the rink and about 1,2000 were up in one end of the otherwise symetrical seating. Posts were everywhere.Oilers played to near capacity last year in the old building and lost large sums both seasons.&ldquo;Our season ticket sales have tripled already and I&rsquo;m sure they&rsquo;ll continue to sell after the opening game.&rdquo; said Hunter.&ldquo;I predict an average of over 10,000 a game this season and quite frankly I think that&rsquo;s conservative.&ldquo;The following season I expert the base of the season ticket sales to assure us of a profit.&rdquo;Hunter makes one more prediction.&ldquo;Edmonton, in a minimum of three years, will be in a sold out position for every game.&rdquo;Lofty objectives, certainly. Especially considering Edmonton has a population of only half a million to work with.Hunter says Edmonton really is big league.The hockey establishment is waiting to see. &#9632;

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Edmonton’s Hunter Calls Coliseum ‘Canada’s Finest Hockey Arena’

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-02121/3155886-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="604" height="697"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01158/3155893-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="144" height="192"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>Mon. Oct. 28</h2>PHOENIX 3, TORONTO 7<h2>Tue. Oct. 29</h2>HOUSTON 4, CHICAGO 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0392/3155879-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="611" height="558"></div>MINNESOTA 3, MICHIGAN 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0485/3155872-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="606" height="556"></div>PHOENIX 5, WINNIPEG 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0571/3155865-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="598" height="681"></div>CHICAGO 0, HOUSTON 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0662/3155858-1-eng-US/f0027-062.jpg" title="f0027-06" width="606" height="410"></div>EDMONTON 6, VANCOUVER 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0755/3155851-1-eng-US/f0027-072.jpg" title="f0027-07" width="598" height="443"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0851/3155844-1-eng-US/f0027-082.jpg" title="f0027-08" width="600" height="331"></div><h2>Wed. Oct. 30</h2>TORONTO 2, NEW ENGLAND 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0950/3155837-1-eng-US/f0027-092.jpg" title="f0027-09" width="594" height="527"></div><h2>Thur. Oct. 31</h2>CHICAGO 3, SAN DIEGO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1047/3155830-1-eng-US/f0027-102.jpg" title="f0027-10" width="603" height="631"></div>NEW ENGLAND 6, INDIANAPOLIS 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1139/3155823-1-eng-US/f0027-112.jpg" title="f0027-11" width="588" height="64"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1233/3155816-1-eng-US/f0027-122.jpg" title="f0027-12" width="600" height="436"></div>CLEVELAND 4, MICHIGAN 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1328/3155809-1-eng-US/f0027-132.jpg" title="f0027-13" width="606" height="554"></div><h2>Fri. Nov. 1</h2>TORONTO 1, WINNIPEG 10<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1424/3155802-1-eng-US/f0027-142.jpg" title="f0027-14" width="608" height="636"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1520/3155795-1-eng-US/f0027-152.jpg" title="f0027-15" width="607" height="93"></div><h2>Sat. Nov. 2</h2>MICHIGAN 3, MINNESOTA 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1616/3155788-1-eng-US/f0027-162.jpg" title="f0027-16" width="593" height="668"></div>PHOENIX 2, HOUSTON 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1713/3155781-1-eng-US/f0027-172.jpg" title="f0027-17" width="592" height="681"></div>EDMONTON 4, CLEVELAND 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1811/3155774-1-eng-US/f0027-182.jpg" title="f0027-18" width="581" height="161"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-198/3155767-1-eng-US/f0027-192.jpg" title="f0027-19" width="592" height="331"></div>TORONTO 3, CHICAGO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-207/3155760-1-eng-US/f0027-202.jpg" title="f0027-20" width="602" height="619"></div>QUEBEC 2, NEW ENGLAND 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-215/3155753-1-eng-US/f0027-212.jpg" title="f0027-21" width="590" height="536"></div><h2>Sun. Nov. 3</h2>MICHIGAN 3, WINNIPEG 11<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-225/3155746-1-eng-US/f0027-222.jpg" title="f0027-22" width="602" height="733"></div>EDMONTON 3, INDIANAPOLIS 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-234/3155739-1-eng-US/f0027-232.jpg" title="f0027-23" width="592" height="474"></div>SAN DIEGO 6, VANCOUVER 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-244/3155732-1-eng-US/f0027-242.jpg" title="f0027-24" width="599" height="586"></div> &#9632;

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World Hockey Association Summaries

(Standings on Mon. Vo. 4)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-253/3156022-1-eng-US/f0027-252.jpg" title="f0027-25" width="592" height="630"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Mon. Oct. 28Phoenix 3 at Toronto 7Tue. Oct 29Houston 4 at Chicago 2; Minnesota 3 at Michigan 4.Wed. Oct. 30Toronto 2 at New England 5; Phoenix 5 at Winnipeg 6; Chicago 0 at Houston 1; Edmonton 6 at Vancouver 8; Minnesota at Cleveland (postponed).Thur. Oct. 31Chicago 3 at San Diego 4; New England 6 at Indianapolis 1; Cleveland 4 at Michigan 2.Fri. Nov. 1Toronto 1 at Winnipeg 10Sat Nov. 2Michigan 3 at Minnesota 6; Phoenix 2 at Houston 8; Edmonton 4 at Cleveland 2; Toronto 3 at Chicago 4; Quebec 2 at New England 4.Sun. Nov. 3Michigan 3 at Winnipeg 11; Edmonton 3 at Indianapolis 1; San Diego 6 at Vancouver 2.<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Mon. Nov. 4Quebec at Toronto.Tue. Nov. 5San Diego at Houston; Phoenix at Indianapolis; Toronto at Michigan, Vancouver at Chicago; Minnesota at Winnipeg.Wed. Nov. 6Vancouver at Quebec; Minnesota at Edmonton.Thu. Nov. 7San Diego at Indianapolis. 1Fri. Nov. 8Winnipeg at Edmonton; Cleveland at Vancouver; San Diego at New England.Sat Nov. 9Toronto at Minnesota, Indianapolis at Houston Phoenix at New England; Winnipeg at Vancouver.Sun. Nov. 10Phoenix at Minnesota, Cleveland at Edmonton; Indiapapolis at Michigan; Toronto at Chicago; San Diego at Quebec.Tue. Nov. 12Quebec at Michigan; San Diego at Chicago; New England at Houston.Wed. Nov. 13Houston at Minnesota; Indianapolis at Quebec; Toronto at Vancouver; Winnipeg at Edmonton.Thu. Nov. 14Cleveland at Phoenix; New England at San Diego; Chicago at Michigan.Fri. Nov. 15Toronto at Edmonton; Indianapolis at Winnipeg; Cleveland at San Diego.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-263/3156015-1-eng-US/f0027-262.jpg" title="f0027-26" width="248" height="280"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-272/3156008-1-eng-US/f0027-272.jpg" title="f0027-27" width="215" height="280"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-28/3156001-1-eng-US/f0027-282.jpg" title="f0027-28" width="237" height="240"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-29/3155994-1-eng-US/f0027-292.jpg" title="f0027-29" width="244" height="252"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-30/3155987-1-eng-US/f0027-302.jpg" title="f0027-30" width="233" height="245"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-31/3155980-1-eng-US/f0027-312.jpg" title="f0027-31" width="245" height="239"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-32/3155973-1-eng-US/f0027-322.jpg" title="f0027-32" width="310" height="320"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-33/3155966-1-eng-US/f0027-332.jpg" title="f0027-33" width="305" height="240"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-34/3155959-1-eng-US/f0027-342.jpg" title="f0027-34" width="302" height="239"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-35/3155952-1-eng-US/f0027-352.jpg" title="f0027-35" width="250" height="251"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-36/3155945-1-eng-US/f0027-362.jpg" title="f0027-36" width="260" height="244"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-37/3155938-1-eng-US/f0027-372.jpg" title="f0027-37" width="211" height="211"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-38/3155931-1-eng-US/f0027-382.jpg" title="f0027-38" width="282" height="207"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-39/3155924-1-eng-US/f0027-392.jpg" title="f0027-39" width="212" height="245"></div> &#9632;

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WHA Scoreboard

<div class="byline">By Doug McConnell</div>HOUSTON &mdash;At least three of the five teams in the Western Division of the World Hockev Association don&rsquo;t feel like sending the schedule maker Christmas greetings.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01148/3156053-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="558" height="752"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE&hellip;53 Days Away</figcaption></div>&ldquo;This crazy scheduling hasn&rsquo;t been fair to this club,&rdquo; complained Houston Aeros&rsquo; coach Bill Dineen after his club returned home with a 1-4 record. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve played five exhibition games on the road and playing five more in the regular season away from home when it counts, that&rsquo;s a bit too much.&rdquo;The San Diego Mariners, getting their defensive game together for three straight home-ice victories with only seven goals against after an opening 8-2 blitzing in Phoenix, faced a week layoff.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to play a couple of games over the weekend,&rdquo; said Ron Ingram, the Mariners&rsquo; director of player personnel who runs the bench for player-coach Harry Howell. &ldquo;When you have a hot hand, the last thing you need is time off.&rdquo; Bombarding Phoenix goaltender Jack Norris with 49 shots for a 2-1 victory, the Mariners took over the Western Division leadership.The Roadrunners, who opened with three home-ice appearances for two wins and a tie, are in the midst of an eight-game road trip: which could knock them from the Division lead &mdash; that happened at San Diego &mdash; all the way to the basement.The Aeros&rsquo; road trip broke a personal record for Gordie Howe. He completed his longest road trip in almost 30 years of pro hockey, both in miles and elapsed time.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s 53 days in a row away from home, including the time I spent with Team Canada in the series against the Russians,&rdquo; said Howe. &ldquo;Look at the younger guys. They&rsquo;re bone tired. How do you think I feel at the age of 46?&rdquo;After the 5-4 loss to New England, which completed the road trip, Dineen pointed out as an example of the Aeros&rsquo; competitiveness the fact that the elder Howe stayed on the ice despite being given the night off and scored an assist.New England coach Ron Ryan sympathized with the Aeros.&ldquo;Give them credit for making a stand,&rdquo; said Ryan. &ldquo;They were weary from being on the road so long, but you&rsquo;d never have known it. Our goalie, Al Smith, made the big saves near the end.&rdquo;Dineen wasn&rsquo;t overly concerned at the defending champions&rsquo; slow start.&ldquo;It would have been nice to finish this road trip 2-3 instead of 1-4 but our guys have experience,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t panic unless we get home and can&rsquo;t win any games there.&rdquo;Back home and after a couple of days&rsquo; rest, the Aeros posted a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Fighting Saints, the team picked by many to beat Houston out for the Western Division title.Frank Hughes, who had a couple of days of enforced idleness, and rookie Rich Preston, with his first as a pro, scored second period goals to lead the Aeros.Hughes sat out a two game suspension for cross checking referee Brent Casselman in a 6-4 loss at Phoenix, but he&rsquo;s still the Aeros&rsquo; leading scorer with four goals and an assist in four games.Andr&eacute; Lacroix, the WHA&rsquo;s alltime scoring leader, is the Mariners&rsquo; top pointman with seven, including three goals, in four games.The Roadrunners started the road trip without Robbie Ftorek, who authored a hat trick in the 8-2 opening night victory over San Diego. The little (5&rsquo;8&rdquo;, 155) center pulled a muscle in the back of his leg.They were also without defenseman Rick Newell in the trip opener at San Diego. He was sitting out the second shoving referee Bob Kolari in the final pre-season tuneup.Don Borgeson, the 29-year-old left wing getting his first chance at major league hockey, is the Roadrunners&rsquo; points leader with three eoals and two assists.MINNESOTA: The Minne sota Fighting (Saints, the team picked by many to unseat the defending World Hockey Association champion Houston Aeros in the Western Division winner, got off to a stumbling start but may be on the right track, winning two of the last three.The Saints stopped the expansion Indianapolis Racers 3-2 with power-play goals by Danny O&rsquo;Shea and Fran Huck and after a 3-2 loss at Houston came back for a 6-5 overtime victory on Wayne Connelly&rsquo;s goal over the Chicago Cougars.Mike Walton, last season&rsquo;s scoring leader, is the Saints&rsquo; scoring leader with three goals and two assists after five games. &#9632;

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Aeros’Complaint-Too Much Time Spent On Road

(Including Sunday, Nov. 3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0291/3156084-1-eng-US/f0028-022.jpg" title="f0028-02" width="604" height="1160"></div> &#9632;

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WHA Leaders

<div class="byline">BY TONY GALLAGHER</div>TORONTO &mdash;It looks as though the Toronto Toros are becoming the showcase of the World Hockey Association.Toros won their fifth straight game in the race for the Canadian Division flag when they defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3-1, but more importantly, they drew 14,141 fans, the largest crowd ever to watch a WHA game in Toronto. And despite an injury to the Toros&rsquo; excellent goaltender Gilles Gratton, the club is sailing along with Jim Shaw filling, in.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01116/3156115-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="295" height="348"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vaclav Nedomansky</figcaption></div>The big scorers for the Toros are the people who are supposed to do the scoring, a successful bit of role playing by such stars as Wayne Dillon, Vaclav Nedomansky and Frank Mahovlich.Dillon, who scored the first goal in the game against Winnipeg, brought his total to five in five games, and is going very well for any 19-year-old. Tom Simpson scored three goals in the Toros 11-2 romp over the Minnesota Fighting Saints, then added his fifth in five games before the big crowd. The only thing coach Billy Harris was left complaining about was the excess in hockey players on the Toros&rsquo; roster.Even the defense, which was supposed to be suspect, has played well as Steve Cuddie, Mike Amodeo and the other four defensemen Harris is using have more than made up for the departure of Carl Brewer.Many coaches, although they won&rsquo;t admit it, have already conceded Toronto first place in the division. As time goes on, it looks like more and more people will be doing the same if the Toros continue their prolific production.QUEBEC: Les Nordiques remained the only other undefeated team in the Division with their 7-2 victory over the World Cup champion Houston Aeros at le Colis&eacute;e. Real Cloutier scored his first regular season goal in pro hockey and Pierre Guite had two goals, but the most important aspect of the club&rsquo;s start has been the play of defenseman J.C. Tremblay. The veteran, obviously in good shape following his stint with Team Canada, had two assists in both the win over Houston and the 6-2 victory over Michigan Stags and has been partly responsible for the club&rsquo;s goals against average of two over their first three games.VANCOUVER: Blazers finally won a couple of hockey games, 3-1 over Chicago Cougars and 4-1 over the Cleveland-Crusaders, but it still left them with a record of 2-3 with all games having been played at home. Bryan Campbell was the offensive leader in the victory over Cleveland with a goal and two assists and Johnny McKenzie is the club&rsquo;s leading goal scorer on the year with three.Blazers learned that goaltender Peter Donnelly will require surgery on his ankle and that Don McLeod&rsquo;s back-up man will be out about eight weeks. Ed Humphreys, a second-year pro who had been playing in the Southern League, was called up from Charlotte to dress in place of Donnelly. The club also recalled forwards Mike Chernoff and Don O&rsquo;Donoghue from their Central League farm team in Tulsa and returned left winger Peter McNamee and defenseman Serge Beaudoin.With a little help from the Edmonton arena situation, Blazers go nearly a month into the schedule before playing their first road game.WINNIPEG: The Jets, it could be argued, have most of their eggs in one basket, meaning that the line of Bobby Hull, Ulf Nilsson and Anders Hedberg has represented most of their scoring punch so far this year. In their loss in Toronto, Hull, with his first goal of the season, was the lone scorer and the line was the only one which got any good scoring opportunities against the Toros. Joe Daley continues to provide the club with outstanding goaltending and it appears Curt Larsson may have problems getting the number one job back from the veteran when the Swede recovers from the broken finger on his catching hand. &#9632;

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Toros’ Hot Start May Result In Abbreviated Race

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0029-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0291/3156146-1-eng-US/f0029-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEVIN DEVINE.&hellip;San Diego Mariners</figcaption></div>The San Diego Mariners engaged the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL In a bidding war for the services of young Kevin Devine and the 20-year-old left winger decided to cast his lot with the WHA&rsquo;s Mariners. Devine closed out his Junior career last season with Toronto Marlboros scoring 40 goals and picking up 218 penalty minutes to substantiate the claim the Mariners made about him &mdash; he&rsquo;s a digger and hard forechecker who Is rated highly as a defensive player. With good instinct, Devine could conceivably bag 30 goals In his rookie WHA year. It&rsquo;s something the San Diego Mariners are hoping for. &#9632;

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WHA ROOKIE PARADE

<h2>CLEVELAND</h2>GOALGerry CheeversBob WhlddenDEFENSERay ClearwaterTom EdurLarry HillmanWayne HillmanWayne MuloinPaul ShmyrCENTERJim HarrisonRich LeducJohn StewartRon WardR. WINGTerry HolbrookSkip KrakeAl McDonoughRon AndersonL. WINGSteve CardwellGrant EricksonGarry JarrettGerry PinderINJUREDNone.<h2>CHICAGO</h2>GOALDave DrydenCam NewtonDEFENSEBryon BaltimoreDarryl MaggsLarry MavetyDick ProceviatPat StapletonJim WatsonCENTERRalph BackstromJoe HardyGary MacGregorRod ZaineDave WalterR. WINGJim BenzelockDon GordonDuke HarrisRosaire PaiementL. WINGBob LiddingtonRick MorrisJan PopielFrankie RochonINJUREDNone.<h2>EDMONTON</h2>GOALKen BrownChris WorthyDEFENSEDoug BarrieKen BairdAl HamiltonBarry LongRay MacKayJim McCrimmonCENTEREddie JoyalRoss PerkinsMike RodgersBobby SheehanRon BuchananR. WINGTon) GilmoreBruce MacGregorRusty PatenaudeL. WINGRon ClimieBlair MacDonaldSteve CarlyleBill LaingINJUREDDon HerrimanJacques Plante<h2>HOUSTON</h2>GOALWayne RutledgeRon GrahameDEFENSELarry HaleMarty HoweGlen IrwinPoul PopeilJohn SchellaCENTERGord LabossiereLarry LundTerry RuskowskiJim SherritR. WINGMurray HallGordie HoweFrank HughesBill PrenticeL. WINGAndre HinseMark HoweTed TaylorDon LarwayBill PrestonINJUREDNone<h2>INDIANAPOLIS</h2>GOALAndy BrownEd DyckDEFENSEBob AshRoger CoteMurray KennettJim HargreavesCraig HannerRick FraserRalph HopiavouriCENTERBob FitchnerSteve RichardsonJoe RobertsonBob SicinskiBob WhitlockR. WINGSteve AndrascikGary BredinNick HarbarukRon WaltersL. WINGJim WisteKerry BondRich PumpleRoss SmithINJUREDKen Desjardine<h2>MICHIGAN</h2>GOALGerry DesjardinsPaul HogansonJim MacLeodDEFENSEPaul CurtisLarry JohnstonJohn MiszukArnie BrownBill ReedBarry LeggeRandy LeggeCENTERJ.P. LeblancSteve WestJacques LocasBrian McDonaldFred SpeckR. WINGLen FontaineEd JohnstoneTom ServissL. WINGDanny GruenMarc TardifGary VeneruzzoBilly EvoSteve SutherlandINJUREDReg Thomas<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>GOALMike CurranJohn GarrettJack McCartanDEFENSEJohn ArbourTerry BallBob BoydRon BusniukMike McMahonDick ParadiseRick SmithCENTERGary GambucciTed HampsonJim JohnsonDanny O&rsquo;SheaFran HuckMike AntonovichR. WINGMike WaltonBilly KlattWayne ConnellyKevin O&rsquo;SheaL. WINGMurray HeatleyGeorge MorrisonDon TannahillGord GallantINJUREDNone.<h2>NEW ENGLAND</h2>GOALC. AbrahamssonAl SmithDEFENSET. AbrahamssonJim DoreyTed GreenPaul HurleyRick LeyBrad SeiwoodCENTERTerry CafferyAl KarlanderLarry PleauGary SwainR. WINGMike ByersFred O&rsquo;DonnellTim SheehyTom WebsterL. WINGWayne CarletonDon BlackburnJohn FrenchTom EarlNick FotiuINJUREDNone.<h2>PHOENIX</h2>GOALGarry KurtJack NorrisDEFENSEAl MacLeodRick NewellGerry OdrowskiJohn HughesMike StevensJim MurrayJim NiekampCENTERBob BarlowJim BoydRobbie FtorekMurray KeoganDennis SobchukR. WINGBob BorgesonCam ConnorDave GormanJohn GrayHowie YoungL. WINGHugh HarrisMichel CormierWayne HicksINJUREDNone.<h2>QUEBEC</h2>GOALSerge AubryMichel DeguiseRichard BrodeurDEFENSEAlain BeauleDale HogansonRic JordanPierre RoyFrancois LacombeJ.C. TremblayCENTERSerge BernierAndre GaudetteJeannot GilbertMichel ParizeauR. WINGRend LeclercAlain CaronReal CloutierRejean HouleL. WINGPierre GuiteMike RouleauCharles ConstantinINJUREDNone.<h2>SAN DIEGO</h2>GOALJoe JunkinRuss GillowDEFENSERon PlumbKen BlockHarry HowellKevin MorrisonBob FalkenbercBob WallCENTERAndre LacroixMike LaughtonRay AdduonoR. WINGRick SentesJamie BatemanBrian MorenzWayne RiversTed ScharfDoug VolmarL. WINGKevin DevineGene PeacoshCraig ReichmutNorm FergusonINJUREDNone.<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALGilles GrattonLes BinkleyJim ShawDEFENSEMike AmodeoRick CunninghamSteve CuddieJim TurkiewiczGeorge KuzmiczBrian GibbonsCENTERWayne DillonPat HickeyGavin KirkVaclav NedomanskyR. WINGTony FeatherstoneBob LeducTom MartinLou NisticoTom SimpsonGuy TrottierL. WINGPaul HendersonFrank Mahovlichh Brit SelbyRichard FardaINJUREDNone<h2>VANCOUVER</h2>GOALDon McLeodEd HumphreysDEFENSEJim CardiffDon McCullochMike PelykPat PriceDuane RuppPete McNameeCENTERBryan CampbellRon ChipperfieldClaude St. SauveurRob WaltonR. WINGDanny LawsonPaul TerbencheJohn McKenzieDon O&rsquo;DonoghueL. WINGDon BurgessMurray MyersJohn MigneaultMike ChernoffINJUREDPete Donnelly<h2>WINNIPEG</h2>GOALJoe DaleyErnie WakelyCurt LarssonDEFENSELarry HornungDuke AsmundsonAnders HedbergHeikki RiihirantiLars-Erik SjobergBob WytowichPerry MillerCENTERDanny JohnsonVelli KetolaUlf NilssonChris BordeleauR. WINGNorm BeaudinRon AshtonDanny SpringL. WINGMike FordMilt BlackBobby HullINJUREDNone &#9632;

WHA Team Rosters

<h2>NEW HAVEN</h2>Goal: Peter LoPresti, Brian Holderness.Defense: Bill Plager, Dwayne Pentland, Kim MacDougal, Jerome Engele, Ron Wilson.Forwards, Tom Colley, Tom Miller, Richard Grenier, Rick Chinnick, Dave Cressman, Scott Mac-Phail, Alain Langlais, Walt Le-dingham. Rod Norrish, Dennis Giannini.<h2>NOVA SCOTIA</h2>Goal: Dave Elenbaas, Peter Proulx, Ed Walsh.Defense: Gilles Lupien, Bill Nyrop, Greg Hubick, Gary Geldart, Chuck Luksa.Forwards: Pete Sullivan, Louis Chaisson, Jim Cahoon, Gordon McTavish, Doug Risebrough, Mike Busniuk, Mike McKegney, Sean Shanahan, Ron Andruff, Mario Tremblay, Guy Delparte, Don Howse, Richard Latulippe, Michel Belisle.<h2>PROVIDENCE</h2>Goal: Curt Ridley, Glen Seperich.Defense: Joe Zanussi, Ron Greschner, Dave Maloney, Marty Gateman, John Bednarski.Forwards: Norm Dennis, Gerry Teeple, Bob MacMillan, Wayne Chernecki, Ken Campbell, Hartland Monahan, Bob Craig, Pierre Laganiere, Jim Nichols, Jerry Holland, Boyd Anderson.<h2>ROCHESTER</h2>Goal: Dave Reece, Bob Sneddon.Defense: Harry Shaw, Bob Malcolm, Ray Maluta, Kick Pagnutti, Al Simmons, Mike Milbury.Forwards: Bernie MacNeil, Barry Merrell. Billy Knibbs, Craig Sarner, Gord Clark, Larry McKillop, Peter Sturgeon, Rod Graham, Steve Langdon. Dave Hynes, Jake Rath well.<h2>SPRINGFIELD</h2>Goal: Steve Rexe, Rick Charron.Defense: Gary Sargent, Dan Helm, Paul Shakes, Barry Cummins, Tim Jacobs, Jim Witherspoon.Forwards: Tom Cassidy, Brad Winton, Al Blanchard, Doug Buhr, Mike Usitalo, Dale Lewis, Phil Hoene, Jimmy Peters, Pete Harasym, Bob Poffenroth, Lorne Stamier. Bob MacGuigan, Dennis Abgrall, Mark Heaslip.<h2>BALTIMORE</h2>Goal: Ron Marlow, Lynn Zimmerman.Defense: Kerry Ketter, Roger lemelin, Larry Bignell, Dennis Patterson, Ken Murray, Kent Douglas.Forwards: Morris Stefaniw, Dave Gilmour, Reg Bechtold, Bobby Rivard, Howie Menard, Marc Doufour, Jerry Kemp, Hugh Harvey, Brian Murphy, Dune Rousseau.<h2>HERSHEY</h2>Goal: Denis Herron, Tim Regan.Defense: Jean-Guy Lagac&eacute;, Mario Faubert, Paul McIntosh, Jean Landry.Forwards: Jack Surbey, Bob McManama, Derek Smith, Billy Inglis, Jacques Cossette, Bob Smulders, Yves Bergeron, Bernie Lukowich, Don Seiling, Dean She-remeta, Michel Deziel, Neil Korzack, Terry Ewasiuk.<h2>RICHMOND</h2>Goal: Bernie Wolfe, Graham Parsons, R&eacute;jean lemelin.Defense: Don McLean, Larry Goodenough, Jack Mcllhargey, Norm Barnes, George Pesut, Ralph MacSweyn.Forwards: Randy Wyrozub, Randy Osburn, Mike Clarke, Brian Kinsella, Mike Boland, Bob Sirois, Steve Coates, Paul Nicholson, John Paddock, Steve Short, Larry Fullan.<h2>SYRACUSE</h2>Goal: Jacques Caron, Lyle Carter, Mike Corcoran.Defense: Blake Ball, Billy Orr, Gary Gresdal, Wayne Lachance, Rick Foley, Steve Warr.Forwards: Doug Ferguson, Luc Simard, JeanRen&eacute; Cosier, Joe Noris, Al Rycroft, Barry Brooks, Meehan Bonnar, Cal Swenson, Dan Schock, Dave Ferguson, Dick Sarrazin, Ron Dussiaume, Billy Gold-thorpe.<h2>VIRGINIA</h2>Goal: Doug Grant, Bill McKenzie.Defense, Frank Bathe, Mike Korney, Ron Simpson, Tom Mellor, Claude Houde, Barry Salovaara, Jim Nahrgang, Charlie Shaw.Forwards: Dennis Polonich, Rick McCann, Ren&eacute; Drolet, Blair Stewart, Bob Krieger, Michel Bergeron, Brian McCutcheon, Ken Mann, Brian Watts, Dennis Johnson, Mike Jakubo; Terry Clancy. &#9632;

AHL Rosters

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</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 Canada<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01141/3156201-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg" title="f0030-01" width="580" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY SARGENT &hellip;4-Goal Outburst</figcaption></div>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;Explosive performances by rookie pros have been a feature of the early part of this American Hockey League season.And the Springfield Kings have not been left out.Gary Sargent, a full-blooded American Indian of the Chippewa tribe, plays defense for the Kings but on Oct. 25 in Rochester he showed a lot of offense.The Minnesota-born defenseman scored four goals as Springfield wiped out an Amefk jinx with a 7-3 romp. Rochester had lost only once in the previous 18 meetings of the clubs since March 18. 1972. Springfield had one victory. four ties and 13 losses &mdash; both home and away.Sargent&rsquo;s first goal came at 18:50 of the first period when he moved in from the left point and drilled in a power-play goal.He came out of the penalty box and joined Phil Hoene in a two-on-the-goaltender rush to score his second, which came at 7:29 of the second period. He intercepted the puck and drove it home at 8:37 of the final period, then capped off his evening with one second to play.Sargent didn&rsquo;t make any big fuss over his four-goal outburst, although he seemed to enjoy the good-natured kidding of his teammates.&ldquo;1 had three or four hat tricks last season.&rdquo; he said, adding that he scored 28 goals in 45 games.He played for Fargo-Moorhead of the Midwest Junior League after being a first-team NAIA AllAmerican at Bemidji State College.Sargent still rates as his biggest thrill the fact he was chosen first by the Los Angeles Kings in June&rsquo;s amateur draft. And it doesn&rsquo;t bother him the Kings didn&rsquo;t have a pick until number 48.&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t believe it when they took me first. I was really surprised&hellip; and happy,&rdquo; he said.Sargent is more than a good hockey player.&ldquo;He turned down a contract from the Minnesota Twins in baseball and was an All-State fullback and linebacker in high school football,&rdquo; said Jake Milford, Los Angeles general manager.Ron Stewart, in his first year as a coach in the AHL after guiding Portland in the Western League last season, is happy with the way his team has played &mdash; completing a five-game road trip without a loss. The Kings won in Richmond and Rochester and tied in Virginia, Baltimore and Syracuse.Does Stewart consider the job with Springfield a step up the hockey coaching ladder?&ldquo;I guess I&rsquo;d have to say it is a step up &mdash; especially after the team I had last year folded.&rdquo;ROCHESTER: The Amerks, starting an eight-game stretch against Northern Division rivals, suddenly ran into trouble after going undefeated in their first four games.They were beaten in the final half minute in Nova Scotia, then suffered 7-3 and 5-2 home defeats to Springfield and Providence.On top of all that, injuries began to take their toll.Veteran center Barry Merrell missed the Providence game with an eye infection.Gordie Clark, an All-American the past two seasons at the University of New Hampshire, tried to come back after missing four games with a pulled achilles tendon, strained ligaments and a broken toe on his left foot and promptly reinjured the ankle, putting him on the shelf for another two weeks.Rookie Peter Sturgeon fell into the boards during the pre-game warmup against Providence and so badly bruised his shoulder that he was scheduled to miss two or three games.And to cap it all for coach Dick Mattiussi trainer Nate Agnello came down with the flu.PROVIDENCE: The Reds showed they&rsquo;re going to be tough on the road as well as at home when they played in Richmond. Norfolk and Rochesteron successive nights and came away with two victories and a tie.After rolling to a 6-2 triumph in Richmond.&rsquo; coach John Muckier&rsquo;s Reds bounced back to tie 2-2 in Norfolk and rallied from a 2-0 deficit for a 5-2 verdict over the Amerks.Jim Nichols, with Cincinnati the past three seasons, proved a welcome addition as he scored a goal in each of his first three games with Providence.Rookie Jerry Holland reached the eight-goal mark in the Reds&rsquo; fifth game of the season.Muckier is happy with the work of Curt Ridley in goal. He allowed only two goals a game in the first three games of the road trip.NEW HAVEN: The Nighthawks continued to be a third-period hockey club. For their first six games, the Nighthawks scored 24 goals, and 15 of them came in the final period.One home ice, where five of the six games were played, New Haven tallied 14 of 22 goals in the final sessions.The Nighthawks pulled out a pair of ties with their latest third-period rushes. Coach Dean Prentice&rsquo;s skaters trailed Hershey 3-2 Oct. 25 entering the final 20 minutes, fell behind 4-2 and bounced back with three straight goals before the Bears tied it late in the game.Against Baltimore on the 27th, New Haven again trailed 3-2 going into the final period, and this time rookie defenseman Kim MacDougal scored his first pro goal for a 3-3 tie.New Haven outshot Hershey 19-8 in the third period of that game and then outgunned Baltimore 15-5 in the final period of the other one. &#9632;

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Sargent Leads Kings In Snapping Rochester Jinx

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-01123/3156263-1-eng-US/f0031-012.jpg" title="f0031-01" width="580" height="865"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG RISEBROUGH &hellip;High Draft Pick</figcaption></div>HALIFAX&mdash;Don&rsquo;t shed a tear for the Nova Scotia Voyageurs.They&rsquo;re loaded this time around with top National Hockey League draft choices and one in particular who is making big noises in the AHL is young Mario Tremblay.Tremblay continues to impress everybody and to score timely goals since his arrival in Halifax from the parent Montreal Canadiens.The Vees are on top of the North Division race and it is fitting that the top point man in the AHL should be Tremblay.The 18-year-old winger intercepted a pass and scored an early goal against Rochester in Halifax Oct. 24. Then he took a pass and scored the game-winner with just 26 seconds left for a 2-1 vicotry.In the Voyageurs&rsquo; next game three nights later, the Vees had a ganging attack in the Richmond end right from the opening face-off.The puck went in front of the Robins&rsquo; net, Tremblay was there for a backhander and it was 1-0 after just nine seconds. He scored another goal that game, too, giving him 10 for the season. Along with three assists, Tremblay had 13 points to lead teammate Pete Sullivan and Providence&rsquo;s Jerry Holland, both of whom have 11 points.His first goal that game was the fourth time in five games he had started the Nova Scotia scoring.The already-strong Vees received more help from the parent Montreal Canadiens in the person of Doug Risebrough, who was the seventh player taken overall in June&rsquo;s amateur draft.Risebrough had 25 goals, 27 assists and 114 penalty minutes in only 46 games for the Kitchener Juniors last season.&ldquo;We got a pretty good hockey player,&rdquo; said coach Al MacNeil, with a smile. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a real hardnosed hockey player and he handles the puck well.His arrival gives the Vees three of the top 15 players drafted. He was seventh, Tremblay 12th and Gord McTavish 15th.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0465/3156256-1-eng-US/f0031-042.jpg" title="f0031-04" width="562" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARIO TREMBLAY &hellip;He Can Score</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Tremblay Sets Sizzling Scoring Pace

<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0297/3156301-1-eng-US/f0031-022.jpg" title="f0031-02" width="591" height="538"></div><h2>GOALERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0381/3156294-1-eng-US/f0031-032.jpg" title="f0031-03" width="607" height="648"></div> &#9632;

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AHL Leaders

<h2>Wed. Oct. 16</h2>SPRINGFIELD 4, VIRGINIA 4FIRST PERIODVirginia, 1&mdash;Jakubo (McCann) 10:26; Springfield, 2&mdash;Blanchard (Lewis, Sargent) 17:25.Penalties: Cassidy 4:53, Lewis 5:27.SECOND PERIODSpringfield, 3&mdash;Heaslip (Cassidy) 0:45; 4&mdash;MacGuigan (Cummins, Stamler) 6:08; 5&mdash;Heaslip (Lewis, Stamler) 10:38; Virginia, 6&mdash;Drolet (Jakubo, McCann) 17:51.Penalties: Mann 3:27, Springfield bench (served by Heaslip) 8:17, Shakes (major), Sargent (major), Buhr (major), MacGuigan (major, game mis-conduct), Rexe, Bathe (major), Polonich (major), McCutcheon (major), Mann (major), McKenzie (double minor, game misconduct), Makey 10:54 Sargent 16:41, Helm (major), Jakubo 17:51.THIRD PERIODVirginia, 7&mdash;Miller (Mann, McCann) 9:10; 8&mdash;Krieger (Jackson, McCann) 16:06.Penalties: Jacobs 7:45, Houde 12:18, Cummins 15:07.Saves, Rexe (Spr.) 32, Makey (Virg.) 20.Attendance: 3,257HERSHEY 6, RICHMOND 4FIRST PERIODHershey, 1&mdash;Bergeron (Deziel) 12:23: 8&mdash;Smith (McManama, Faubert) 13:17.Penalties: Mcllhargey 1:21, Inglis 2:50, Morrison 6:40, McManama 14:12, McLean 15:32.SECOND PERIODRichmond, 3&mdash;Wyrozub (Lajeunesse) 1:56; Hershey, 4&mdash;Lukowich (McManama, Owchar) 2:20; 5&mdash;Bergeron (Inglis, Owchar) 9:45; Richmond, 6&mdash;Lajeunesse (Wyrozub) 16:42; 7&mdash;Morrison (Gryp, Short) 19:48.Penalties. Morrison 0:26, Clarke 4:19, Mcllhagey 8:21, Lukowich, Anderson 8:37, Bennett 11:20, Deziel 15:10, Campbell, McLean 16:13, Ewasiuk 18:29.THIRD PERIODHershey, 8&mdash;Smith (McManama) 4:48; 9&mdash;Inglis (Ewasiuk) 11:30; Richmond, 10&mdash;Lajeunesse (Nicholson, Fullan) 16:10.Penalties: Ewasiuk 6:84, McIntosh (major, misconduct, game misconduct), Campbell (Major, game misconduct), McLean (minor, major, misconduct, game misconduct), Short (major) 10:54, Bennett 14:05.Saves, Regan (Her.) 30, Parsons, Wolfe (Rich) 32.Attendance: 4,481.<h2>Wed. Oct. 18</h2>NEW HAVEN 2, PROVIDENCE 3FIRST PERIODProvidence, 1&mdash;Anderson (Dennis, Lagani&eacute;re) 7:16; 2&mdash;Monahan (Teeple, Holland) 7:51.Penalties: Maloney 3:49, 9:53, Plager, Craig 12:58, Norrish 14:29, Miller 15:00.SECOND PERIODNew Haven, 3&mdash;MacPhail 14:46.Penalties: Bednarski 6:08, Wilson 11:53, Holland 12:50, Bednarski 13:29.THIRD PERIODNew Haven. 4&mdash;MacPhail (Colley) 7:40; Providence, 5&mdash;Laganiere (Greschner) 19:18.Penalties: Monahan 0:46, Monahan (mmajor), Nantais (major) 9:46. Saves, LoPresti (NH) 35, Ridley (Prov.) 28. Attendance: 3,736.NOVA SCOTIA 3, RICHMOND 3FIRST PERIODRichmond. 1&mdash;Morrison (Gryp, Fullan) 5:12; Nova Scotia, 2&mdash;Tremblay (Howse) 19:11.Penalties: Mcllhargey 9:18.SECOND PERIODNo Scoring.Penalties: McTavish (major), Mcllhargey (match penalty) 0:53, Geldart 11:06, Lupien (major, bench minor), Coates (major, bench minor, misconduct) 16:43.THIRD PERIODNova Scotia, 3&mdash;Sullivan (Geldart) 2:48; Richmond. 4&mdash;Lajeunesse (Gryp, Sirois) 6:30; Nova Scotia, 5&mdash;cahoon (Busniuk) 11:52; Richmond, 6-Morrison (Fullan) 18:50.Penalties: Nicholson 3:04, Delparte 5:40, Busniuk 7:11. Saves, Walsh (NS) 34, Wolfe (Rich.) 39. Attendance: 3,522.ROCHESTER 2, SYRACUSE 2FIRST PERIODRochester, 1&mdash;McKillop (Merrell, Pagnutti) 1:39; Syracuse, 2&mdash;Simard (Rycroft) 18:35.Penalties: Syracuse bench 0:32, Rathwell 8:01, Shaw 11:07, Foley 12:56, Rycroft 16:27SECOND PERIODRochester, 3&mdash;Hynes 13:43.Penalties: Bonnar, Merrell 5:35, Orr7:l9, Foley 8:42, Pagnutti 12:37, Goldthorpe 14:58, Syracuse bench 17:08.THIRD PERIODSyracuse, 4&mdash;Sarrazin (Noris, Rycroft) 7:41.Penalties: Knibbs 10:23.Saves, Sneddon (Roch.) 25, Carter (Syr.) 37. Attendance: 3,195.<h2>Sat. Oct. 19</h2>SYRACUSE 3, HERSHEY 3FIRST PERIODHershey, 1&mdash;Bergeron 3:35; 2&mdash;Campbell (Lukowich. McManama) 11:51, Syracuse, 3&mdash;Foley Orr, Losier) 16:49.Penalties: Inglis 1:10, Bennett 7:31, McIntosh 9:24, Ball 17:27.SECOND PERIODHershey. 4&mdash;Owchar 3:24: Syracuse, 5&mdash;Losier (Orr) 12:00: 6&mdash;Losier (Foley) 16:24.Penalties: Orr 2:16. Campbell 4:50, Ferguson 13:46, Orr 17:41.THIRD PERIODNo Scoring.Penalties: Bonnar. Campbell 3:43, Bergeron 5:11, Brooks 7:29. Campbell 11:27, McIntosh 13:38.baves, Garter, Corcoran (Syr) 21, Herron (Her.) 39.Attendance: 4.870.NOVA SCOTIA 2, VIRGINIA 1FIRST PERIODNova Scotia, 1&mdash;Delparte (Latulippe) 2:32:2-Latulippe (Cahoon, Busniuk) 6:53; Virginia, 3-Nahrgang (McCann, Johnson). 9:12.Penalties: Geldart 3:19, Salovaara 10:49.SECOND PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Tremblay 0:20, Tremblay (major, minor), Bathe (major, minor) 6:22, Simpson 19:36.THIRD PERIODNo Scoring.Penalties: Lupien 4:29.Saves, Elenbaas (NS) 38. Makey, McKenzie (Virg.) 17.Attendance: 5,326.<h2>Sun. Oct. 20</h2>BALTIMORE 3, PROVIDENCE 7FIRST PERIODProvidence, 1&mdash;Anderson (Maloney, Zanussi) 2:51, 2&mdash;Bednarski (Holland. Greschner) 4:27, 3-Chernecki (MacMillan) 16:10; Baltimore, 4-Coalter 17:55.Penalties: Bignell 3:26, 4:27 (misconduct) Bednarski 14:35, Monahan 19:34.SECOND PERIODBaltimore, 5&mdash;Stefaniw (Kemp) 10:13.Penalties: Maloney 9:30, Menard 12:49, MacMillan 19:04.THIRD PERIODProvidence, 6&mdash;Anderson (Laganiere) 1:21:7-Anderson (Laganiere) 1:41, 8&mdash;Holland (Zanussi) 6:11, 9&mdash;Greschner 7:44; Baltimore, 10&mdash;Menard (Rivard. Lemelin) 13:09.Penalties: Lemelin (bench minor). Harvey (bench minor). Bignell (misconduct) 0:39, Holland 2:39, Maloney 7:53, Zanussi 12:43, Rousseau (minor, major) Lemelin (game misconduct) Gateman (minor, major) 13:09. Monahan 14:53.Saves, Ridley (Prov) 21, Zimmerman (Balt.) 32. Attendance: 4,105.VIRGINIA 1, NEW HAVEN 4FIRST PERIODVirginia, 1&mdash;Bergeron (McCutcheon) 11:03.Penalties: Drolet 4:24, Simpson 5:24, Langlais 14:53.SECOND PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Plager 0:10, Miller 5:56, Langlais 8:43, Wilson 9:51, Bathe 12:14, Nantais(minor and major) Simpson (minor and major) 13:25.THIRD PERIODNew Haven, 2&mdash;Cressman (Norrish) 5:15; 3&mdash;Norrish (Cressman, Chinnick) 13:54; 4&mdash;Nantais (Pentland, Ledingham) 16:53; 5&mdash;Langlais (Colley) 19:03.Penalties: Bathe 8:10, Wilson, 10:34, Salavarra 16:36.Saves, McKenzie (Vir.) 27, LoPresti, (NH) 28. Attendance: 4,023.SPRINGFIELD 5, RICHMOND 2FIRST PERIODNo Scoring.Penalties: Short 9:07, Boland 14:56, Morrison 19:19.SECOND PERIODSpringfield. 1&mdash;Harasym (Heaslip, Cassidy) 0:53; 2&mdash;Sargent (McGuigan, Usitalo) 3:29; Richmond, 3&mdash;Fullan (Sirois) 6:48.Penalties: Cummins 6:41, Gryp 12:10.THIRD PERIODSpringfield, 4&mdash;Abgrall (Lewis) 2:40; 5&mdash;Peters (Jacobs. Abgrall) 3:38; Richmond, 6&mdash;Sirois (Barnes. Lajeunesse) 6:20; Springfield, 7&mdash;Peters 19:21.Penalties: Blanchard 4:02.Saves. Rexe (Spr) 29, Wolfe (Rich) 30. Attendance: 3,156.HERSHEY 2, ROCHESTER 7FIRST PERIODRochester, 1&mdash;Rathwell (Knibbs) 4:02; 2&mdash;Hynes (Sarner, Simmons) 7:28.Penalties: Regan 1:26, Shaw 2:21, Reece 5:18, McIntosh 7:16, Samer 11:07, Owchar 13:56, Pagnutti 16:20.SECOND PERIODRochester, 3&mdash;Pagnutti (Sturgeon, Merrell) 4:08; Hershey, 4&mdash;Smulders (Ewasiuk, Campbell) 14:06; Rochester, 5&mdash;Gibson (Simmons. Reece) 14:41.Penalties: Campbell (major) 3:44; McIntosh, McIntosh 14:19, Lukowich, Simmons 19:06.THIRD PERIODHershey, 6&mdash;McManama (Lukowich, Owchar) 9:03; Rochester. 7&mdash;Hynes (Gibson) 10:28; 8-Merrell (McKillop, Sturgeon) 13:18; 9&mdash;Merrell (Sturgeon, Simmons) 17:25.Penalties: Bennett 4:41, Knibbs 7:45, Rathwell 8:36, Regan (minor and major), McIntosh (game misconduct), Graham (major) 10:50.Saves, Regan (Her.) 23, Reece (Roch.) 23. Attendance: 5,714.<h2>Thu. Oct. 24</h2>ROCHESTER 1, NOVA SCOTIA 2FIRST PERIODNova Scotia, 1&mdash;Tremblay 4:47.Penalties: Tremblay 5:15, Pagnutti (major), Milbury (major, misconduct), Lupien (minor, major). Busniuk (major, misconduct) 10:55, Delparte 14:03.SECOND PERIODNo Scoring.Penalties: Shaw6:l5, Milbury(major),Tremblay (major) 7:25, McTavish 10:46.THIRD PERIODRochester, 2&mdash;Sarner (Hynes, Gibson) 2:15; Nova Scotia. 3&mdash;Tremblay (Nyrop. Howse) 19:34.Penalties. Shaw 8:26, Delparte 14:49.Saves, Reece (Roch.) 36, Elenbaas (NS) 30. Attendance: 3,981. &#9632;

American League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY JERRY LINDQUIST</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01129/3156356-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg" title="f0032-01" width="571" height="750"><figcaption class="caption-body">PIERRE JARRY &hellip;Down From NHL</figcaption></div>RICHMOND &mdash;Lew Morrison has hustled his way back to the National Hockey League and it appeared inevitable that it would happen. The Richmond Robins were expecting it any day.When the Washington Capitals demoted Morrison, someone obviously forgot to remind him of how players with NHL tenure are supposed to react under such circumstances.You know, the old they-didn&rsquo;t-give-me-a-chance routine.What&rsquo;s with this guy Morrison anyway? Here he was. dumped to the Richmond Robins, and he was working his&hellip;err, ahh&hellip;butt off.He should have been sulking. Going through the motions. Feeling sorry for himself. Instead, it was damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. All the time. Game or practice. Made no difference.&ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t give 100 percent.&rdquo; says Larry Wilson, the Richmond coach. &ldquo;He gives 150 percent.&rdquo;Why? To Morrison, the answer was simple. Why not?&ldquo;I always try to do the best I can. I&rsquo;m an average player who&rsquo;s got to make up for things I don&rsquo;t, have by hustling,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;Coming here wasn&rsquo;t the end of the world, but I don&rsquo;t want to stay and the only way to get back up is by working my butt off.&rdquo; The NHL Caps recalled Morrison and Bob Gryp from the Robins late in the week.&ldquo;At this point all I can do is work hard. That&rsquo;s all. The rest is up to them. If they want me&hellip;&rdquo; As it turned out the Capitals did want him. The losers were the Richmond Robins, of course.SYRACUSE: The Eagles added valuable experience when veteran forwards Cal Swenson and Danny Schock signed on, both as free agents&hellip;One time property of Toronto, Swenson, a center, spent most of last year with Jacksonville of the AHL on loan from the WHA&rsquo;s Winnipeg Jets. He was with the Indianapolis (WHA) Racers in training camp this year&hellip;Schock was released by the Richmond Robins just prior to regular-season&rsquo;s start. A former Robin captain (&lsquo;72-73), the 25-year-old left winger scored 71 goals over the past two seasons including 48 in 72-73. He was injured part of last year&hellip;To make room for Swenson and Schock, the Eagles dispatched Mike Morton to Greensboro and Ron Morgan to Hampton, both of the Southern League.BALTIMORE: Consecutive standoffs in Syracuse, Hershey, and New Haven set a club record&hellip;The Morris Stefaniw line, with Hugh Harvey on left wing and Jerry Kemp on right, set early offensive pace&hellip;Stefaniw led team scoring with eight points&hellip;Extra weight (20 pounds) is making Kemp difficult to move in front of net&hellip;Defenseman Ken Murray is still sidelined more than three weeks after run-in with Hershey&rsquo;s Dean Sheremeta Oct. 12&hellip;Errant stick caught Larry Bignell in the eye in Syracuse but the veteran defenseman wasn&rsquo;t injured seriously&hellip; Duncan Rousseau is proving to be the Clippers&rsquo; policeman.HERSHEY: Parent Pittsburgh Penguins took young defenseman Dennis Owchar, replacing him on Bears&rsquo; roster with vet Jean-Guy Lagac&eacute;&hellip; Also going to Pitt for what was expected to be a brief look were center Harvey Bennett and defenseman Colin Campbell&hellip;Coach Chuck Hamilton pulled goaltender Tim Regan with 1:09 remaining, and Jack Surbey promptly scored to secure a 2-2 standoff against Baltimore. Surbey hah both Hershey goals. Bob Rivard cashed in on two power-play opportunities for the Clippers&hellip;Former Bears&rsquo; captain Ralph Keller is skating, but the publicity department says it&rsquo;s doubtful he&rsquo;ll make a comeback.VIRGINIA: Rookie defenseman Frank Bathe has been outstanding&hellip; Jim Makey was sent to Kalamazoo (International) when Detroit Red Wings dispatched goal tender Doug Grant&hellip;In V-Wings&rsquo; debut Grant, AHL first-team All Star two years ago, was brilliant in a tie with unbeaten Providence&hellip; Blair Stewart has recovered from late-summer head-on automobile collision that saw him break his leg&hellip;Parent club later sent down winger Pierre Jarry, who come to Detroit last season in a trade for Tim Ecclestone&hellip; Defenseman Charie Shaw is about ready to return following inactivity due to strained knee ligaments. &#9632;

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Robins Losers As Morrison Hustles Way Back To NHL

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Nov. 5)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0282/3156415-1-eng-US/f0032-022.jpg" title="f0032-02" width="604" height="408"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Oct. 30Baltimore 2 at Richmond 2; Providence 6 at Syracuse 1; Hershey 3 at Virginia 4.Thur. Oct. 31Rochester 4 at Nova Scotia 3.Fri. Nov. 1Virginia 1 at Baltimore 3; Hershey 6 at Richmond 5; New Haven 2 at Rochester 3; Syracuse 2 at Springfield 1.Sat. Nov. 2Richmond 4 at Baltimore 1; New Haven 6 at Hershey 1; Virginia 3 at Springfield 3.Sun. Nov. 3Providence 4 at New Haven 2; Virginia 1 at Nova Scotia 1; Springfield 0 at Rochester 6.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Nov. 5Springfield at RichmondWed. Nov. 6Springfield at Hershey; Rochester at New Haven; Virginia at Syracuse.Thu. Nov. 7Providence at Nova Scotia.Fri. Nov. 8Hershey at Baltimore; New Haven at Providence; Syracuse at Richmond; Nova Scotia at RoChester; Virginia at Springfield.Sat. Nov. 9Syracuse at Baltimore; Richmond at Hershey; New Haven at Springfield.Sun. Nov. 10Nova Scotia at New Haven; Springfield at Rochester; Virginia at Rochester; Richmond at Syracuse.Tue. Nov. 12Providence at Richmond.Wed. Nov. 13Providence at Hershey; Nova Scotia at New Haven; Baltimore at Virginia.Thu. Nov. 14Baltimore at Syracuse.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Nov. 5)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0347/3156408-1-eng-US/f0032-032.jpg" title="f0032-03" width="594" height="343"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Mon. Oct. 28Oklahoma City 3 at Salt lake 3.Tues Oct. 29Salt Lake 3 at Tulsa 8; Fort Worth 4 at Seattle 0.Wed. Oct. 30Tulsa 2 at Denver 4.Thur. Oct. 31Salt Lake 6 at Fort Worth 3; Oklahoma C. 3 at Seattle 0.Fri. Nov. 1Salt Lake 2 at Dallas 4; Fort Worth 3 at Oklahoma City 4; Omaha 1 at Tulsa 7; Seattle 2 at Denver 5.Sat. Nov. 2Dallas 7 at Fort Worth 1; Tulsa 2 at Oklahoma City 3: Salt Lake 2 at Omaha 2; Denver 6 at Seattle 4.Sun. Nov. 3Oklahoma City 2 at Omaha 4.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Nov. 5Dallas at Denver; Tulsa at Seattle.Wed. Nov. 6Omaha at Fort Worth; Dallas at Oklahoma City.Thu. Nov. 7Tulsa at Seattle.Fri. Nov. 8Omaha at Dallas: Fort Worth at Tulsa; Seattle at Denver; Oklahoma City at Salt Lake.Sat. Nov. 9Denver at Fort Worth; Oklahoma City at Tulsa; Salt Lake at Omaha; Dallas at Seattle.Sun. Nov. 10Dallas at Omaha.Mon. Nov. 11Tulsa at Salt Lake.Tue. Nov. 12Seattle at Fort Worth.Wed. Nov. 13Seattle at Dallas; Fort Worth at Oklahoma City.Thu. Nov. 14Tulsa at Salt Lake.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Nov. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0435/3156401-1-eng-US/f0032-042.jpg" title="f0032-04" width="598" height="432"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Oct. 29Port Huron 5 at Fort Wayne 5.Wed. Oct. 30Des Moines 3at Dayton 4; Saginaw 7 at Kalamazoo 3; Toledo 4 at Muskegon 6.Thur. Oct. 31Dayton 6 at Columbus 2.Fri. Nov. 1Toledo 8 at Des Moines 2; Port Huron 3 at Flint 4Sat. Nov. 2Toledo 1 at Des Moines 2; Saginaw 1 at Muskegon 7; Flint 2 at Port Huron 4; Kalamazoo 0 at Columbus 5.Sun. Nov. 3Muskegon 2 at Dayton 4; Lansing 1 at Flint 12; Toledo 6 at Columbus 3; Port Huron 3 at Saginaw 4<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Nov. 6Dayton at Des Moines; Muskegon at Fort Wayne; Port Huron at Columbus; Lansing at Saginaw; Flint at Kalamazoo.Thu. Nov. 7Port Huron at Muskegon.Fri. Nov. 8Kalamazoo at Lansing; Dayton at Toledo; Des Moines at Columbus, Fort Wayne at Flint.Sat. Nov. 9Toledo at Dayton; Columbus at Fort Wayne; Des Moines at Muskegon; Lansing at Port Huron; Kalamazoo at Saginaw.Sun. Nov. 10Des Moines at Flint; Fort Wayne at Columbus; Lansing at Kalamazoo; Saginaw at Toledo; Muskegon at Port Huron.<h2>SOUTHERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 4)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0523/3156394-1-eng-US/f0032-052.jpg" title="f0032-05" width="594" height="176"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Oct. 29Greensboro 3 at Hampton 4.Wed. Oct. 30Winston-Salem 2 at Greensboro 5.Fri. Nov. 1Wins ton-Salem 2 at Charlotte 13.Sat. Nov. 2Roanoke 3 at Greensboro 4.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Nov. 5Hampton at Charlotte; Roanoke at Winston-Salem.Wed. Nov. 6Hampton at Grensboro.Thu. Nov. 7Hampton at RoanokeFri. Nov. 8Winston-Salem at Charlotte.Sat. Nov. 9Charlotte at Greensboro; Winston Salem at Roanoke;Sun. Nov. 10Charlotte at Winston-Salem.<h2>NORTH AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>Standings on Tue. Nov. 5)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0615/3156387-1-eng-US/f0032-062.jpg" title="f0032-06" width="595" height="265"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Oct. 30Maine 2 at Broome 3; Johnstown 3 at Cape Codders 3.Thur. Oct. 31Maine 2 at Mohawk Valley 3.Fri. Nov. 1Long Island 5 at Johnstown 1.Sat. Nov. 2Syracuse 6 at Cape Codders 3; Long Island 5 at Johnstown 0; Broome 6 at Mohawk Valley 3; Philadelphia 6 at Maine 3.Sun. Nov. 3Syracuse 7 at Maine 4; Long Island 4 at Broome 7, Philadelphia 7 at Cape Codders 9.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Nov. 5Johnstown at Philadelphia.Wed. Nov. 6Johnstown at Long Island; Mohawk Valley at Philadelphia.Thu. Nov. 7Philadelphia at Mohawk Valley.Fri. Nov. 8Syracuse at Johnstown; Broome at Cape Codders; Maine at Philadelphia.Sat. Nov. 9Cape Codders at Syracuse; Broome at Johnstown; Long Island at Maine.Sun. Nov. 10Mohawk Valley at Broome; Syracuse at Long Island; Cape Codders at Philadelphia.Tue. Nov. 12Cape Codders at Maine.Wed. Nov. 13Long Island at Broome; Johnstown at Syracuse; Mohawk Valley at Philadelphia.Fri. Nov. 15Long Island at Cape Codders; Mohawk Valley at Syracuse; Maine at Philadelphia.Sat. Nov. 16Broome at Long Island; Maine at Johnstown; Cape Codders at Mohawk Valley. &#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 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). Cleveland (WHA), Indianapolis (WHA) &mdash; Phoenix (WHA). 57&mdash;Michigan (WHA), Quebec (WHA) &mdash; N.Y.. Islanders (NHL) 58&mdash;Edmonton (WHA) & N.Y. Rangers (NHL) 59&mdash;Minnesota (WHA) & Pittsburgh (NHL). 60&mdash;San Diego (WHA). Michigan (WHA) & Philadelphia (NHL). &lsquo;&mdash;Independent. &#9632;

Minor League Affiliations

<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, Vic Mercredi, 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, Terry Murray.Forwards, Denis Meloche, Bob Murdock, John Healey, Lyle Bradley, Scott Seagrist, Del Hall, Gary Holt, Charlie Simmer, Bob McAneeley, Rick Kessell, Fred Ahern, Larry Wright.<h2>SEATTLE</h2>Goal: Dan Brady, Bruce Bullock.Defense, Peter Folco, Larry McIntyre, Dennis McCord, Chris Murfey, Harold Snepts, Jim Mair Forwards, Andy Spruce, Danny Gloor, Larry Gould, Ron Homenuke. Howie Hughes, Paul O&rsquo;Neil, Dan Seguin, Paul Sheard, Dave Westner. Dave Wisener, Barry Wilcox, Bob Hurlburt, Ron Sedlbauer, Ross Webley.<h2>TULSA</h2>Goal, Bruce Aberhart, Wayne Wood.Defense, Jim Clarke, Wendell Bennett, Brian Erickson John Held, Gary Lariviere, Pete McNamee.Forwards, Bob Watt, Bob Mowat, Gene Sobchuk, Danny Mandryk, Peter Discoil, Jim Adair, Kay Delorenzi, Jim Jones, Dennis Olmstead, Don Liesemer, Larry Israelson.<h2>OKLAHOMA CITY</h2>Goal, Gordon McRae, Pierre Hamel.Defense, Bill Butters, Ron Clarke, Claire Alexander, Jim Marsh, Mike Ruest.Forwards, Les Burgess, Steve Dolloff, Pat Boutette, Scott Garland, Alf Handrahan, Mike Sauter, Jack Valiquette, Per Arne Alexandersson, Bob Duncan, Bob Sykes, Dave Williams, Billy Hassard, Brian Kuruliak.DENVERGoal, Yves Belanger, Jim Watt.Defense, Bob McCord, Bob Gassoff, Ron Serafini, Dave Roberts, George Tower, Don Wheldon.Forwards, Mitch Babin, Butch Williams, Norm Cournoyer, Howie Heggedal, Jack Borotsik, Mike Kelly, Gary Winchester, Frank Spring, Wes Wiseman, Dan McPherson, Mike Kelly, Dave Johnson, John Wensink.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, Syd Prysunka.<h2>DALLAS</h2>Goal, Mike Dumas, Bernie Germain.Defense, Koger Wilson, Ian McKengney, 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, Chuck Ness, Doug Kerslake, Jim Koleff. &#9632;

CHL Rosters

<div class="byline">BY BUD KENNEDY</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 CanadaOKLAHOMA CITY&mdash;Veteran goaltender Gordie McRae, dubbed &ldquo;The Serpent&rdquo; by writers for his mobile play last year during the Adams Cup finals, was having unusually rough going early in the Central Hockey League season.So when Blazer coach Ray Miron turned to rookie reliever Pierre Hamel he found relief &mdash; fast, fast relief.Hamel was in the net Oct. 19 in the Blazers&rsquo; Myriad home as the league&rsquo;s regular-season champs of last year took their first win &mdash; a 5-2 job which also happened to be Salt Lake City&rsquo;s only loss of the first three weeks.Hamel was cut from the Salt Lake City camp in the early going but just to show the motive wasn&rsquo;t pure revenge he beat Fort Worth four nights later in the Texans&rsquo; home arena, again by a 5-2 count.McRae and the Blazers had fallen to the Texans 7-1 two weeks previous in the season opener for Miron&rsquo;s crew. &ldquo;Gordie hasn&rsquo;t actually played well,&rdquo; said Miron, &ldquo;and he&rsquo;d be the first to admit it. But I know he&rsquo;s a good goalie so I&rsquo;m not too worried.&rdquo;The Salt Lake City win launched a three-game win streak for the Blazers, abruptly halted Oct. 26 by Dallas, 7-3.DALLAS: Goalie Michel Dumas was troubled by nagging injuries &mdash; and the CHL&rsquo;s defending champions were troubled by nagging losses.That&rsquo;s the way the first-three weeks of the season went for Bobby Kromm&rsquo;s men, who survived a deathly road trip 2-3-1 and then returned to home, family and State Fair Coliseum to blister Oklahoma City 7-3 Oct. 26.The Hawks dropped back under .500 the next night, though, losing a tight 5-4 decision in Omaha. Still Dallas stayed in a three-way tie for the division lead with Oklahoma City and Tulsa, although compared with the Northern Division work of Salt Lake and Denver the Southern knot looked more like a three-way tie for third place.TULSA: The Oilers, uneasy in their first couple of weeks after arriving from the World Hockey Association camps of Phoenix and Vancouver, collected their thoughts in the third week and went unbeaten in three games.First Adam Keller&rsquo;s men tied Northern Division leader Denver 1-1 Oct. 22, and if it hadn&rsquo;t have been for the sterling work of Spur goalie Yves Belanger (39 saves) the Oilers might have become the second team to beat the hot Spurs.FORT WORTH: Ed Chadwick&rsquo;s young Texans fell into a recession in the late days of October, going winless in five games and giving up a fat 31 goals over that stretch.Left wings Wynne Dempster and Glenn Johnson were both missing&rsquo; with injuries and Chadwick summoned left wing Sid Prysunka from International Hockey League affiliate Muskegon to help out. Defenseman Neil Nicholson did a game&rsquo;s duty with the parent New York Islanders but reappeared without missing a FW game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-01110/3156494-1-eng-US/f0033-012.jpg" title="f0033-01" width="564" height="703"><figcaption class="caption-body">PIERRE HAMEL &hellip;Stops Slide</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rookie Goaler Comes Off Bench To Lift Blazers Back In Race

<div class="byline">BY MORLEY HOWE</div>MARQUETTE&mdash;After the opening two weeks of action, three Northern teams and one Southern Division club remain undefeated.New coaches Barry Cook of Marquette Iron Rangers (4-0) and Dave Siciliano of Thunder Bay Twins (3-0) have taken advantage of home ice to sport perfect records to date.Marquette registered its second overtime win of the new season on Gordon Nelson&rsquo;s goal with just 18 seconds remaining to edge Copper Country 3-2.Green Bay Bobcats, led by Tom O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s three goals, defeated Sioux City Musketeers 8-6 to remain one point behind the second place Twins.Waterloo Black Hawks showed a balanced attack as six Hawks scored in a 6-1 win over Central Wisconsin Flyers, the USHL&rsquo;S newest entry, in a game played at Stevens Point, Wisconsin.Waterloo, playing in its home opener, before 2,271 fans, battled Sioux City Musketeers to a 3-3 overtime tie. Forward Jack Barzee&rsquo;s goal at 18:56 of the third period tied the contest. This marked the first point Sioux City had collected on Waterloo ice since coming into the USHL three years ago.Chicago Warriors snapped a four game losing streak defeating Central Wisconsin 7-5 on Doug Kacarevitch&rsquo;s two goals.Forwards Brian Depiero and Dave Bragnalo scored two goals each in leading Thunder Bay Twins to a 6-2 win over Milwaukee Admirals.The Chicago Warriors are hoping for better things.Under new coach Nelson &ldquo;Nellie&rdquo; Leclair, the Warriors have skated to a 2-5 mark thus far this year, but Leclair is optimistic.The major task confronting the Warriors at this point in the season is finding experienced help on defense, according to Leclair.One of last year&rsquo;s top defensemen, Paul McKibbon, left the club a few days before the season&rsquo;s opener, leaving the Warriors thin on the backline.Leclair is hopeful that newcomers Dan Lemieux, Dan Menard, Craig Kemple and John Hebding will help tighten up the Warrior defense.The Warrior offense, led by the high-scoring line of Ron Guzzo, Greg Robinson and Rich Kramp, appears in good shape.Robinson and Kramp have combined for 14 of the club&rsquo;s 28 goals, netting seven each thus far. &#9632;

Around The USHL

<div class="byline">BY BUD KENNEDY</div>SALT LAKE CITY&mdash;Two of the orphans left by the passing of the Western Hockey League found immediate shelter in the Central Hockey League&rsquo;s Northern Division &mdash; and began eating the CHL regulars out of house and home.Salt Lake City&rsquo;s Golden Eagles and Denver&rsquo;s Spurs entered the fourth week of the season with only one loss each after bulldozing their way through 12 CHL wins.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01123/3156556-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="270" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Holt</figcaption></div>Jack Evans&rsquo; Utah crew ended its third week of mayhem by slipping three goals past Fort Worth&rsquo;s Bill Hughes in the third period for a 6-2 Salt Palace win Oct. 26. The Eagles also bombed defending champion Dallas 7-3 in the same surroundings Oct. 22, and sandwiched in between was a reconciling 3-3 tie at Denver.Evans was alternating rookie Ernie Miller and veteran Ray Martyniuk in the early going and neither was having much trouble as the SLC offense was giving them nearly five goals per game to work with.Among the biggest surprises was free agent winger Fred Ahern, who wangled a tryout in the California Seals&rsquo; camp and made the Eagles by the skin of his teeth. Ahern tossed three goals into the net in SLC&rsquo;s 5-3 win over Omaha Oct. 17 for his first pro hat trick.Left winger Gary Holt, whose brother Randy anchors the Dallas defense, scored three goals in his first four games. Between the brothers they were called for 423 penalty minutes last season. Garv at Salt Lake and Randy at Dallas. Gary is a year older.DENVER: The Spurs soared to a 7-1-2 record through the first 20 days of league play, losing only a 4-1 decision in Seattle. Jean-Guy Talbot&rsquo;s merry men bashed bodies in every Southern Division building except Dallas&rsquo;, where they don&rsquo;t appear until Dec. 27.It was curtain time for Omaha&rsquo;s Knights Oct. 25 when they made their home debut against the Spurs but Denver rang down the curtain with a 4-1 win. Earlier the Spurs had won 7-5 in Oklahoma City, 5-2 in Tulsa and by a fat 8-2 in Fort&rsquo; Worth.The Spurs&rsquo; roster bulged to 22 when the parent St. Louis Blues dispatched defenseman Don Whel-don, the Blues&rsquo; fourth draft choice, and forward John Wensink, who played in Rochester last year and briefly for the Blues. Backup goalie Carl Sapinsky, who was around in case Yves Belanger got hurt while Spur returnee Jim Watt was recovering from an operation, was sent packing.OMAHA: The Knights floundered in a six-games winless streak in the early going, as Fred Creighton&rsquo;s Atlanta farmhands won their opener in Tulsa and then went 16 days before winning again.When they broke the string they did it in grand style, nudging defending champion Dallas 5-4 in the Knights&rsquo; home Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum Oct. 27. Denver had spoiled the home opener for Creighton&rsquo;s crew two nights earlier with a 4-1 win.The Knights welcomed back center Vic Mercredi, who scored 21 goals and 57 points last season, from the parent Flames. His arrival left Creighton with Mercredi, top league scorer Wayne Schaab, and 18-year-old Guy Chouinnard at center.SEATTLE: The Totems brought a glimmer of joy to the CHL&rsquo;s northern outpost Oct. 17, when they spanked Northern Division leader Denver 4-1 in Seattle. The win, though, was the only one rookie coach Orland Kurtenbach had to smile about in his first three weeks as a tutor.Dave Wisener, Dan Seguin, Ron Sedlbauerand Paul Sheard scored for the Totems in the win and goalie Bruce Bullock made 22 saves. But Seattle had scored only 10 goals in its other five games and slipped into the basement in the gritty Northern loop.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0446/3156549-1-eng-US/f0034-042.jpg" title="f0034-04" width="562" height="712"><figcaption class="caption-body">VIC MERCREDI &hellip; Back With Knights</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Salt Lake, Denver Blitzing CHL Rivals In Early Action

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CHL Leaders

<div class="byline">BY LEN HOYES</div>For the finest In Hockey Magazines subscribe today to the Hockey Twins:HOCKEY WORLD & HOCKEY PICTORIALFor the same price as a ticket to ONE GAME you can read over 1600 PAGES of outstanding news about Hockey by subscribing today toTHE HOCKEY NEWSTOLEDO&mdash;Terrible Ted Gavin of Port Huron is now Terrible Ted Garvin of Toledo and he has given early indications of resuming the antics which made him the most colorful figure in the International Hockey League.Only this time there&rsquo;s a bonus: Terrible Ted may be about to save one of the IHL&rsquo;s trouble spots and restore the franchise to a place of prominence at the box office, if not on the ice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01110/3156663-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="262" height="532"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Tucker</figcaption></div>Although Toledo has had an IHL. franchise for 25 of its 30 seasons, it has been in financial trouble for the last seven seasons and ownership was transferred five times. Now it appears that Garvin may be able to rescue the team which has been christened &ldquo;Goaldiggers&rdquo; after Mercurys. Blades and Hornets failed to attract crowds in previous years.At least the crowds will be there as long as Garvin, who&rsquo;s general manageras well as coach, can think up promotions.A crowd of 5,392. Toledo&rsquo;s larges since 1948. watched the opening game on UAW Night. Kid&rsquo;s Night drew 3.808 and 10-cent Beer Night lured 3.894. The following day. with no promotion, the crowd dipped to 2.347.Even so. the four-game total of 15.574 is almost I8 percent of last season&rsquo;s total for 38 home games. The four games averaged 3.894 compared to 2.321 for 1973-74 under Paul Bright who transferred his franchise to Lansing. Mich., after claiming three-season losses of more than 5100.000.Ironically. Bright&rsquo;s Lansing franchise is in jeopardy because of the failure by owners of the Metro Ice Arena to follow through on a promised renovation program which would provide more than: 3.000 seats.Garvin isn&rsquo;t about to worry over &lsquo;Bright&rsquo;s problems.He said. &ldquo;This can be a good franchise. We&rsquo;ve done a lot of work to provide Toledo with an exciting hockey team. We&rsquo;ve got the best working agreement in the International Hockey League. I know that because I know what some other teams have had in the past.&rdquo;The Goaldiggers are working with the California Seals.Unofficial reports had the Diggers&rsquo;programadvertisingsales upto a respectable $55,000 and other club officials were working on &ldquo;selling&rdquo; hockey to service clubs and anyone else willing to listen in the Toledo area.Perhaps their best selling item was Garvin who required only two weekends of the season before incurring the wrath of IHL Commissioner Bill Beagan.Garvin&rsquo;s protests following a call by referee Dennis Parish led to a two-game suspension and $100 fine, reminiscent of yearly penalties meted out when Garvin was the highly-successful coach of the Pori Huron Flags and Wings.Among other things. Garvin refused to send his team to the dressing room when Parish tacked the final 2:29 of the first period onto the second period, threw towels into the air and paced on the top rail of the Goaldiggers&rsquo; bench.He also got into a heated discussion with Fred Blackburn, the IHL supervisor of officials, when Blackburn tried to convince Garvin to get his team to the dressing room.John Gugger of The Toledo Blade reported Garvin as saying Parish was afraid of Toledo&rsquo;s fans and had lost control of the game. Garvin said, &ldquo;Here&rsquo;s a guy used as a referee at the start of the season for the last four or five years. Then he goes back to being a linesman because he can&rsquo;t cut it. When are they going to learn the guy isn&rsquo;t a referee?&rdquo;Blackburn retorted, according to Gugger. with &ldquo;Garvin is just trying to pass the blame for his team&rsquo;s problems. This is nothing new with him.&rdquo;Earlier in the week, prior to a game in Flint, Garvin got into a discussion about officials and flatly stated. &ldquo;All officials make me sick to the stomach.&rdquo;He also told about getting a bill from the Fort Wayne Komets for 13 towels which Garvin apparently had tossed into the stands at Allen County Memorial Coliseum during a game on the first weekend of the season.&ldquo;I wrapped up a bunch of paper towels and sent them back with the bill. I told them to get the towels back from their fans because they&rsquo;re the ones who stole them.&rdquo; he said.Now he&rsquo;s concentrating on turning his expansion team into a winner. He has only Juri Kudrasovs and Moe Brunel from the 1973-74 Toledo club but came up with a proven goalie in Ted Tucker, late of Salt Lake City, and a flock of kids from the California system.Darwin Mott, a 22-goal scorer for Phoenix of the Western Hockey League, joined Kudrasovs in setting the early team scoring pace.But the No. I Goaldigger may be Paul Tantardini whose early-season penalties are coming at a record pace. He was spending time in the sin bin al the rate of 8.3 minutes per game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0286/3156656-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="568" height="605"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED GARVIN &hellip;Turning It On</figcaption></div>Projected over a 76-game schedule. that would mean 630 minutes.Inasmuch as the IHL record is &ldquo;only&rdquo; 375 by Gordon Malinoski. with Dayton in 1972-73. Tantardini is well on the way to eclipsing such &ldquo;bad men&rdquo; as Ivan (The Terrible) Prediger. Ted Lebioda. Moe Bartoli and Lynn Margarit.After all, Garvin can&rsquo;t expect to get all the attention. &#9632;

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Garvin ‘Savior’ Of Toledo Franchise, Quickly Gets Into Hot Water With IHL

<div class="byline">BY LEN HOYES</div>DES MOINES &mdash;Return of goalie Dave McLelland, star of Turner Cup victory, expected to boost Des Moines Capitols in South race after 0-2 start&hellip; Scott Smith&rsquo;s two goals wasted in 3-2 loss to Columbus&hellip; Holdover John Martin announced retirement&hellip; Reinstated Pete Slater and holdover Pat Russell scored two goals in 6-4 victory over Fort Wayne&hellip; Caps also secured Emile DeMoissac from Vancouver by way of Seattle&hellip; Series sweep gave Caps 7-1 record for last eight home starts against Fort Wayne&hellip; Clay Hebenton and Oliver Steward dropped.LANSING: Pierre LeBlanc and Steve Staffen owned more than half of Lancers&rsquo; goals&hellip; Terry Ryan sparkling as playmaker with five assists through first four games&hellip; Center Brian Mason obtained from Dayton, allowed switch of veteran Ivan Belisle to familiar spot at left wing&hellip; Coach Real Turcotte concentrating on improvement in power play&hellip; Total of 1,700 viewed Lancers&rsquo; first three home games, prompting rumors about club&rsquo;s financial picture&hellip; Owner Paul Bright hoping addition of seats to help improve image.COLUMBUS: Elgin McCann bagged winner against Des Moines with 40 seconds to play, his second goal of game&hellip; Owls won three of first four road games to earn tag as worthy contender for South crown&hellip; Owner Al Savill willing to settle for split, thrilled with weekend sweep at Des Moines&hellip; Rookie Denny Bolton in three-point game against former Lake Superior State teammate Don Muio in Des Moines net&hellip; Marty Reynolds bagged two goals to help 4-2 triumph at Saginaw after return from suspended list.FLINT: Veteran defenseman Jim Bannatyne secured on loan from Dayton, sparked three-game weekend sweep which put Generals a top North&hellip; Rod Collins playing defense with more skill than in 1972-73 All Star year&hellip; Merlin Jenner boasting 1.68 GAA in goal, sparkled in 4-1 triumph over Dayton&hellip; Rookie defenseman Mike St. Cyr assisted on six goals in first seven games&hellip; Dave Bonter credited with winning 12 of 13 faceoffs in 5-3 triumph at Muskegon&hellip; Doug Manchak snapped four-game goal drought with winner in 4-1 victory over Dayton&hellip; Rookie goalie Bob Volpe won two of first three starts in road games&hellip; Brian McBratney early leader in penalty minutes.DAYTON: Center Brian Kinsella, winger Jack Patterson obtained from Washington Caps&rsquo; organization&hellip; Defenseman Yvon Bilodeau leading Gems&rsquo; scoring with 4-3-7 combination&hellip; Coach Tommy McVie in tough decision to trim final seven from 24-man roster&hellip; Goalie Jim Pettie out with hand injury, Pat, Flaherty sparkled despite 4-1 setback at Flint&hellip; Former star Pete Gaw coaching and playing hockey in Lugano, Switzerland&hellip; Rookie center Rich Bragnalo sparkling despite bandaged left elbow&hellip; Lome Weighill captain in absence of injured Dave Simpson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01100/3156701-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="572" height="679"><figcaption class="caption-body">RANDY SOKOLL &hellip;Five-Goal Start</figcaption></div>PORT HURON: Flags lost first two home games, responded with 6-1 shellacking of Kalamazoo&hellip; Defenseman Denis Deslauriers called up to Oklahoma City for remainder of season&hellip; Randy Sokoll scored five goals in first five games, dueling Ray Germain for Flags&rsquo; early scoring lead&hellip;. Billy LeCaine, Don Grierson and goaler Frank Blum benched as coach Bobby McCammon tried to find winning combination&hellip; Rookie goalie John Memryk dropped&hellip; Defenseman Mike Korney obtained from Detroit Red Wings, rookie goalie Tim McQuiston dropped and reported returning to college.FORT WAYNE: Brian Walker, star of 1972-73 Turner Cup championship team, welcomed back from injury list and counted on to help shaky offense which average only 2.5 goals per game&hellip; Coach Ted Wright anxiously awaiting help from Pittsburgh Penguins&rsquo; organization&hellip; Tough play by defenseman Terry Pembroke keeping Komets respectable in South race&hellip; Wayne Spooner added to bolster defense&hellip; Right winger Doug Gibson early-season scoring leader.MUSKEGON: Goalie Dave Hainsworth, right wingers Ernie Moser and Pat DeMarchi added&hellip; Capt. Bob Tombari jumped into league lead with seven goals, Gary Ford resumed accumstomed spot at top of over-all point race with 12&hellip; Moser, obtained in deal with Flint, 3-4-7 for first three games with Mohawks&hellip; Defenseman Murray Flegel sparkling in setting up goals, averaging 1.5 assists per game&hellip; Sid Prysonka recalled to Fort Worth for weekend series&hellip; Mohawks&rsquo; power-play clicked for four goals in 6-3 victory at Port Huron&hellip; Coach Moose Lallo seeking help for third line.TOLEDO: Rookie Paul Tantardini making shambles of &ldquo;bad man&rdquo; derby with 58 penalty minutes in first six appearances&hellip; Winger Chris McMasters dropped&hellip; Capt. Juri Kudrasovs early-season pacesetter in team scoring derby&hellip; Coach Ted Garvin&rsquo;s young club held Flint Generals to virtual stand still before suffering 3-1 setback which led to 0-3 week-end&hellip; Goaldiggers blew 3-0 lead in 5-3 setback by Des Moines&hellip;Garvin banking on veteran goalie Ted Tucker to hold Diggers in race until new team develops experience&hellip; &ldquo;He&rsquo;s better than anything the Detroit Red Wings have,&rdquo; Garvin said.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0262/3156694-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="565" height="670"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM BANNATYNE &hellip; Loaned To Flint</figcaption></div>SAGINAW: Veteran center Borden Smith named Gears&rsquo; captain, first to wear &lsquo;C&rsquo; in two seasons&hellip; Dale Smedsmo averaging goal per game&hellip; Center Paul Evans arrived via Springfield, winger Brian Glenwright arrived via Chicago Cougars&hellip; Smith setting early team pace with five goals&hellip; Marcel Comeau&rsquo;s playmaking early-season high spot&hellip; Coach Don Perry unhappy about two straight home-ice setbacks which cost No. 1 position in North Division&hellip; Gears dropped 4-2 decision at home to ex-teammate Sam Clegg in goal for Columbus.KALAMAZOO: Dale Cook awarded decision in scrap against Muskegon&rsquo;s Marty Desmarais&hellip; Coach Bob Lemieux hoping arrival of goalie Jim Makey from Virginia is answer to netminding problems&hellip; Doug Keeler&rsquo;s goal averted shutout in 6-1 setback at Port Huron after Wings held home club scoreless for 38 minutes&hellip; Lemieux viewed Flint-Dayton game, talked to both about help for new club&hellip; Rookie defenseman Gary Armstrong secured on loan from Flint&hellip; Wings&rsquo; hierarchy figured home-ice surroundings would be tonic to winless start. &#9632;

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Caps Hope Goaler’s Return Solves Woes

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November 15, 1974

Cornwall Early Surprise of QMJHL Race

Nordiques Shuffle Roster After Stumbling Start

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