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November 22, 1974

The Hockey News November 22, 1974

<h2>NEW ENGLAND JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Fri. Nov. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-01104/3272444-1-eng-US/f0042-012.jpg" title="f0042-01" width="594" height="232"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0268/3272437-1-eng-US/f0042-022.jpg" title="f0042-02" width="594" height="233"></div><h2>MICHIGAN JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Wed. Nov. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0345/3272430-1-eng-US/f0042-032.jpg" title="f0042-03" width="592" height="289"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0434/3272423-1-eng-US/f0042-042.jpg" title="f0042-04" width="596" height="232"></div><h2>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Nov. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0529/3272416-1-eng-US/f0042-052.jpg" title="f0042-05" width="589" height="205"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0623/3272409-1-eng-US/f0042-062.jpg" title="f0042-06" width="590" height="377"></div><h2>NEW YORK METRO JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Sat. Nov. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0721/3272402-1-eng-US/f0042-072.jpg" title="f0042-07" width="589" height="316"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0814/3272395-1-eng-US/f0042-082.jpg" title="f0042-08" width="593" height="313"></div><h2>NORTHEAST JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Oct. 28)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0911/3272388-1-eng-US/f0042-092.jpg" title="f0042-09" width="596" height="144"></div><h2>ONTARIO PROVINCIAL JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Tue. Nov. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-1010/3272381-1-eng-US/f0042-102.jpg" title="f0042-10" width="593" height="381"></div><h2>SOUTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-1110/3272374-1-eng-US/f0042-112.jpg" title="f0042-11" width="593" height="198"></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

HOW THEY STAND

<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div>SAN DIEGO&mdash;The San Diego Mariners closed out a perfect home stand with a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cougars and opened a five-game, road trip with a 6-2 waltz over the Vancouver Blazers proving that coach Harry Howell&rsquo;s emphasis on defense is paying off.The Mariners, who were shelled 8-2 in their season opener at Phoenix, have now allowed just five goals in the last five games, while scoring 23. Joe Junkin owns a 2.33 goals against average and Andre Lacroix is taking care of much of the scoring, as usual. The WHA&rsquo;s two-time All Star center and two-year scoring leader scored a pair of goals against Chicago and added another pair plus an assist in the road trip opener at Vancouver.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01132/3271023-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="282" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Junkin</figcaption></div>Lacroix has seven goals and five assists in seven games. Wayne Rivers is second among the Mariner scorers with five goals and four assists in six games. Gene Peacosh has two goals and six assists in six games.HOUSTON: The Houston Aeros, proving they still have the Chicago Cougars&rsquo; number, settled down for a home stand of five games, the first time they have been at home more than three days since Oct. 6 when they took off on an 18-day road trip.The Cougars, who were eliminated in four straight games in the Avco World Cup finals last season, were the victim of a 1-0 shutout by Wayne Rutledge with the goal by Murray Hall in Houston to open the home stand. It was the sixth shutout in Houston history and three have been against the Cougars.The night before, the Aeros had dumped the Cougars in Chicago 4-2 on third period goals by Larry Lund and Gordon Labossier.The Aeros remained in a tie for the Western Division lead with San Diego and the Mariners were due in for a rematch with the Aeros looking for revenge or the 6-2 whipping they took in San Diego.Revenge was what the Aeros were after and that&rsquo;s what they got. battering the Phoenix Roadrunners 8-2 with Lund scoring twice and assisting once. The Roadrunners had scored four unansewred goals in Phoenix earlier to wipe out a 4-2 Houston lead fora 6-4 Phoenix victory.The Aeros went one better in their vengance game with five unanswered third period goals.PHOENIX: A lengthy road trip with few opportunities to practice this early in the season is not what a coach would request for his expansion team.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not playing as a team yet. Everybody wants to do it himself.&rdquo; said Roadrunner coach Sandy Hucul, whose team has been evicted from the Memorial Coliseum for three weeks by the Arizona State Fair.Winning two and tying one of their season opening three-game home stand, the Roadrunners took over the Western Division lead, but losing the first five of the eight-game. 18-day road trip, they sank to fourth, just one point ahead of the cellar dwelling Michigan Stags.The Roadrunners have had difficulty in getting started, falling behind early and having to play catch-up hockey.Still, they led the Winnipeg Jets 5-3 but lost 6-5 in overtime on Bobby Hull&rsquo;s third goal of the night.Then they were blitzed by five unanswered third period goals in an 8-2 loss at Houston. It was revenge for the Aeros who had given up four unanswered goals in a 6-4 loss in Phoenix.Michel Cormier set a World Hockey Association record with the earliest hat trick by a rookie. He scored three times at Winnipeg, his seventh game in the league. hRobbie Ftorek scored a hat trick in the Roadrunners&rsquo; debut game, an 8-2 win over San Diego, but it was his 13th game in the major leagues.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-02105/3271016-1-eng-US/f0029-022.jpg" title="f0029-02" width="556" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDRE LACROIX</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Mariners’ Tight Defensive Play Earns Dividends

<h2>Sat. Oct. 26</h2>BALTIMORE 2, HERSHEY 2<h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>No scoring.Penalties: Deziel 3:38, Surbey 8:58. Harvey 15:58.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>Hershey, 1&mdash;Surbey (Ewasiuk) 3:25; Baltimore, 2&mdash;Rivard (Douglas, Menard) 13:33.Penalties: Ewasiuk 13:11, Rivard 14:27, Lemelin, Sheremeta (two minors) 17:43, Seiling, Dufour (19:54.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>Baltimore, 3&mdash;Rivard (Menard, Bechtold) 1:28;Hershey. 4&mdash;Surbey (Ewasiuk, Bergeron) 18:28.Penalties: Rousseau 5:07.Saves: Zimmerman (Balt.) 35. Regan (Her.) 23. Attendance: 5,351.PROVIDENCE 2, VIRGINIA 2<h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>Virginia, 1&mdash;Jakubo (Nahrgang, McCann) 6:11. Penalties: Dennis 7:32.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>Providence. 2&mdash;Nichols (Chernecki, McMillan) 4:00; 3&mdash;Holland 10:32; Virginia. 4&mdash;Drolet 19:30.Penalties: None.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>No Scoring.Penalties: Nahrgang 0:48, Bednarski 13:26, Nahrgang 16:40.Saves: Ridley (Prov.) 20, Grant (Virg.) 32. Attendance: 4,317.<h2>Sun. Oct. 27</h2>PROVIDENCE 5, ROCHESTER 2<h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>Rochester, 1&mdash;Rathwell 5:15; 2&mdash;Rathwell (Sarner, Knibbs) 11:39; Providence, 3&mdash;Bednarski (Teeple, Laganiere) 12:19: 4&mdash;Anderson (Dennis, Maloney 16:03.Penalties: Monahan 0:41, Shaw 5:01, Nichols 7:52, Pagnutti 9:23, Greschner 9:35. Bednarski 9:46; Maluta 13:30, Laganiere 18:42. Pagnutti 19:19.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>Providence. 5&mdash;MacMillan (Holland) 11:58.Penalties: Simmons 7:10, Maloney 8:59, Nichols 14:48, McKillop 18:31.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>Providence, 6&mdash;Nichols (Greschner, MacMillan) 10:46; 7&mdash;Zanussi 19:59.Penalties: McKillop 14:53. Greschner. Ridley 15:03. Greschner, Graham 16:48. Greschner 17:51.Saves: Ridley (Prov.) 24. Reece (Roch.) 21. Attendance: 5,397.SPRINGFIELD 4, SYRACUSE 4<h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>Springfield. 1&mdash;Shakes (Sargent, Peters) 3:51; Syracuse 2&mdash;Noris (Brooks, Dussiaume) 6:39, Springfield. 3&mdash;Heaslip (Harasym, Peters) 10:42.Penalties: Losier 1:56, Lachance 3:15, Brooks 12:08, Ferguson. Jacobs 13:04, Orr 15:35, Ball 18:32, Foley 19:34.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>Syracuse, 4&mdash;Orr (Simard, Warr) 5:27; 5&mdash;Sarrazin (Losier. Ferguson) 12:08; 6&mdash;Losier (Ferguson, Sarrazin) 14:44.Penalties: Blanchard 3:43, Heaslip 12:56.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>Springfield. 7&mdash;Poffenroth (Buhr) 8:34; 8&mdash;Peters (Lewis) 14:58.Penalties: Ball 10:05, Orr 19:01.Saves. Charron(Spring) 22. Caron (Syr.) 27. Attendance: 2,139.BALTIMORE 3, NEW HAVEN 3<h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>New Haven. 1&mdash;Wilson (Colley) 12:45.Penalties: Langlais. Kemp 3:02, Douglas 11:19, 13:22, Harvey 18:56.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>Baltimore, 2&mdash;Kemp (Stefaniw, Harvey) 1:34; New Haven. 3&mdash;MacPhail (Colley. Plager) 1:53; Baltimore. 4&mdash;Stefaniw (Harvey, Kemp) 6:07; 5&mdash;Dufour (Gilmour) 11:08.Penalties: Plager 17:18.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>New Haven, 6&mdash;MacDougal (Langlais. Colley) 2:22.Penalties: Ketter7:l 1. Rousseau (major). Plager (major) 17:20.Saves: Zimmerman (Balt.) 46. LoPresti (NH) 25. Attendance: 3,676.RICHMOND 1, NOVA SCOTIA 7<h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>Nova Scotia, 1&mdash;Tremblay (Howse, Andruff) 0:29; 2&mdash;Andruff (Sullivan, Busniuk) 12 02; 3&mdash;Tremblay (Sullivan, Geldart) 18:58; 4&mdash;Rise-brough (Hubick, Howse) 19:08.Penalties: Boland 5:05; Mcllhargey 9:04, 11:44, Richmond bench (served by Boland). Howse 17:37.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>Nova Scotia, 5&mdash;Delparte (Risebrough. Walsh) 3:28; Richmond. 6&mdash;Fullan (Wyrozub, Morrison) 4:16; Nova Scotia. 7&mdash;Andruff (Delparte, Latulippe) 15:54.Penalties: Andruff 1:54, Risebrough 4:50, Lupien 8:51, Walsh (served by Howse) 9:13, Pesut 12:28, Mcllhargey (major, minor). Risebrough (major, minir) 12:49.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>Nova Scotia. 8&mdash;Sullivan (McTavish) 4:47.Penalties: Clarke 1:42, Short 12:54, Pesut (major). Busniuk (major) 18:16.Saves. Adams (Rich.) 34. Walsh (NS) 25.Attendance: 4.085.<h2>Wed. Oct. 30</h2>PROVIDENCE 6, SYRACUSE 1<h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>Syracuse, 1&mdash;Noris (Dussiaume, Lachance) 5:51; Providence, 2&mdash;Holland (Teeple) 6:31.Penalties: Ball 3:32, Dennis 14:38. Moris (major),Anderson(major), Dennis (gamemisconduct) 19:58.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>Providence. 3&mdash;Holland (Laganiere, Teeple) 3:44.Penalties: Bonnar, Craig 2:44, Gresdal 3:16 THIRD PERIODProvidence, 4&mdash;Greschner (Laganiere) 0:57; 5&mdash;Zanussi (MacMillan) 1:19; 6&mdash;Holland (Teeple) 15:55; 7&mdash;Greschner (Anderson) 19:22.Penalties: Zanussi 11:02, Monahan 18:05. Saves. Ridley (Prov.) 27, Carter (Syr.) 41. Attendance: 2,006.<h2>Sat. Nov. 2</h2>VIRGINIA 3, SPRINGFIELD 3<h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>Springfield. 1&mdash;Peters (Lewis, Abgrall) 11:20; Virginia, 2&mdash;Stewart (Shaw, Polonich) 14:58; 3&mdash;Drolet (Jarry) 19:50.Penalties: Cassidy (major). Jakubo 1:46, MacGuigan. Bathe 13:04, Polonich 14:48 Buhr 15:29.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>Virginia, 4&mdash;McCann (Jakubo) 2:50;Springfield. 5&mdash;Sargent (Peters, Abgrall) 10:22.Penalties. Salovaara 4:39. Heaslip (misconduct) 16:22, Bathe 18:19.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>Springfield. 6&mdash;MacGuigan 15:57.Penalties: Nahrgang 2:37. Cassidy (major). Watts (major) I8.2frSaves. Grant (Virg.) 26. Rexe (Spring.) 21.Attendance: 2,241. &#9632;

American League Summaries

<h2>OHA Scoring</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0355/3272139-1-eng-US/f0039-032.jpg" title="f0039-03" width="586" height="676"></div> &#9632;

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OHA MAJOR HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01191/3272651-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARRY MONOHAN One Of The New Faces With Vancouver Canucks</figcaption></div>&mdash;Page 3CANUCKS TRADE UP TO AN NHL CONTENDER &mdash;Page 2PARENT GUIDES FLYERS BACK TO TOP &mdash;Page 9BALANCE TURNS SABRES INTO HOTTEST NHL CLUB &mdash;Page 15TORONTO TOROS MAKING THE EXPERTS LOOK LIKE PROPHETS &mdash;Page 27<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-02163/3272644-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="1155" height="1484"><figcaption class="caption-body">WAYNE DILLON No. 1 Scorer In The WHA</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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SALARIES MUST COME DOWN NHL WARNS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01807/3268836-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Benching St. Louis veterans like captain Barclay Plager of the Blues in favor of younger players helped bring about Lou Angotti&rsquo;s demise as coach. For full details see page 23.</figcaption></div><h2>SEALS, BLUES SWAP</h2>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Two of hockey&rsquo;s most trade-conscious teams, the California Seals and St. Louis Blues, were at it again this past week. The Blues, who havejust about turned their player roster upside down in the past year, picked up two more new faces from the Seals in Stan Gilbertson and Glen Craig Patrick.In exchange for the California pair, the Blues gave up Dave Gardner and little known Warren &lsquo;Butch&rsquo; Williams. The transaction reunited new Blues&rsquo; coach Garry Young and two of his former California players. Young called Patrick &ldquo;a versatile and good defensive player&rdquo;.<h2>CAMPBELL PLOT DENIED</h2>TORONTO&mdash;Maple Leafs&rsquo; president Harold Ballard may have let the cat out of the bag when he disclosed that a plot had been hatched last summer to unseat Clarence Campbell as NHL president. Ballard said Philadelphia&rsquo;s chairman of the board, Ed Snider, had solicited support from the other NHL teams to have Campbell removed from office and supplanted by Sam Pollock of the Montreal Canadiens.Pollock wouldn&rsquo;t comment at first and Campbell replied: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to become involved in it at all. First, because I am employee of the league and, second, because this is a garbled version of what really happened. Basically, parts of the story were the wrong way around.&rdquo; Campbell would not eloborate.Campbell&rsquo;s first reaction to the story was one of complete denial. He issued a statement saying &ldquo;his position as president was never really challenged.&rdquo;As for Snider, he denied any knowledge of the alleged plot and called the story &ldquo;an outright lie.&rdquo; Pollock said the allegiations were &ldquo;rubbish, absurd.&rdquo;<h2>COUGARS GO TO COURT</h2>CHICAGO&mdash;The Chicago Cougars are going to court and they could be fighting for their very existence. The WHA club has stepped up its court battle for a new arena by filing a $10 million suit against a hockey chain, its owner and the mayor of suburban Rosemont, where the new rink was to be built.The suit alleges the builders of the rink and mayor Donald Stephens of Rosemont conspired to delay construction of the proposed $20 million, 18,000-seat arena &ldquo;for their own personal gain.&rdquo; Cougar owners Walter and Jordan Kaiser are adamant that the WHA club needs the new arena to maintain their franchise in Chicago.<h2>STAGS DOUBLE DEAL</h2>DETROIT&mdash;When things go bad there&rsquo;s only one thing to do. Start changing the players. And that&rsquo;s what the lowly Michigan Stags did last weekend. They began shuttling in new blood in an attempt to get the team out of last place after a disastrous 2-9 start.The Stags purchased Guy Trottier from the Toronto Toros in return for their second round 1975 amateur draft choice and then traded farmhand Billy Horton, a defenseman, to Indianapolis Racers in exchange for Gary Bredin, a forward who checked out of the Racers&rsquo; camp Sunday after scoring the game-winning goal in overtime Saturday night to beat Houston 5-4. &#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/f0002-03596/3268895-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="529" height="826"></div><h2>WHA TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04411/3268888-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="529" height="553"></div><h2>OTHER LEAGUES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05288/3268881-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="523" height="358"></div><h2>COLUMNISTS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06193/3268874-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="529" height="148"></div><h2>OTHER FEATURES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-07112/3268867-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="526" height="220"></div> &#9632;

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WHERE YOU’LL FIND IT ALL

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div>VANCOUVER&mdash;On Oct. 14 Phil Maloney, their coach and general manager, shook up his Vancouver Canucks by making two separate deals in a single day &mdash; the second just minutes before the team was to board a flight for St. Louis and the start of a four-game road trip.Earlier that morning Maloney had completed a deal with Buffalo that sent defenseman Jocelyn Guevremont and winger Bryan McSheffrey to the Sabres for defenseman Mike Robitaille and center Gerry Meehan.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02745/3268805-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="265" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barry Wilkins</figcaption></div>The players were still digesting that one when news of the second deal broke. Winger Dave Dunn, already at the airport clutching his boarding pass, was sent to the Toronto Maple Leafs for winger Garry Monahan and defenseman John Grisdale.What with making last-minute phone calls to his new players, Maloney was the last to board the aircraft. As he walked down the aisle a voice from the back of the plane said, &ldquo;Tighten your seat belts, men, here he comes again.&rdquo;Barry Wilkins didn&rsquo;t fasten his belt securely enough or loosened it too soon. In any event Maloney continued his reconstruction project on the Canucks by trading the veteran defenseman to the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenseman Ab DeMarco.That made it six new players &mdash; forward Leon Rochefort was purchased from Atlanta just before the league opener &mdash; to don a Canucks&rsquo; uniform since the start of the team&rsquo;s National Hockey League training camp.Early results give Maloney&rsquo;s rebuilding program an unqualified success rating. In their last two games the Canucks have out-scored the opposition 14-4. They actually have the staid denizens of the Pacific Coliseum making some noise and instead of battling Minnesota and St. Louis for second and third place in the Smythe Divisions, they&rsquo;re crowding Chicago for the lead.Maloney&rsquo;s latest move was not unexpected. Indeed, insiders with the club considered it almost inevitable.Last February, shortly after Maloney assumed his dual role with the Canucks, Wilkins came to him and asked to be traded. Two days later he changed his mind and Maloney ceased his efforts to find him a new home. But shortly before his actual move Wilkins reactivated his request to be traded and this time no one was changing his mind.After playing a prominent role in the team&rsquo;s first seven games, Wilkins injured his shoulder and missed games against Kansas City and Philadelphia. He announced he was ready to play against the Detroit Red Wings, but Maloney left him on the sidelines for a third game reasoning that since all his other defensemen were playing well there was no sense in rushing Wilkins back into the lineup.With Wilkins watching from the stands the Canucks demolished the Wings&rsquo; 7-0. It was the club&rsquo;s best performance of the year and provided goaltender Gary Smith with his second shutout of the young season.&ldquo;When Wilkins again asked to play, I asked him who he thought deserved to be sat out to make room for him,&rdquo; Maloney reported. &ldquo;He couldn&rsquo;t give me an answer but he asked to be traded, so I accomodated him&rdquo;.The accomodation was reached with Pittsburgh general manager Jack Button just hours after the Canucks had defeated his Penguins 7-4, a game that emphasized the Pens&rsquo; need for a left defenseman to replace the injured Steve Durbano.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m very happy to have Wilkins with our club&rdquo;, said Button after the deal. &ldquo;I like the way he plays. We tried to get him from Vancouver a year ago.&rdquo;Maloney, obviously, was less enchanted by the way Wilkins plays, but he strongly countered the player&rsquo;s departing remark that he didn&rsquo;t like him.&ldquo;If I didn&rsquo;t like him I could have traded him to a team like Washington or Kansas City instead of a contender like Pittsburgh.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And before dealing with Pittsburgh I offered him to teams like Boston, but they didn&rsquo;t want him.&rdquo;In any event, Wilkins&rsquo; departure means the Canucks now do not have a single player remaining from their 1970 expansion draft. Center Andre Boudrias has been with them from the start, but he was purchased from St. Louis immediately after the draft.Maloney also emphasized he didn&rsquo;t deal Wilkins simply to provide him with a new home. He likes what he&rsquo;s getting in return.&ldquo;DeMarco is a right hand shot and that gives us four righthanded defensemen&rdquo;, he said, &ldquo;but he can also play the left side and he gives us another good shot from the point for our power play. He has good hands&hellip;he handles the puck real well. His Dad (Ab DeMarco. Sr.) was a brilliant playmaker and some of that seems to have been handed down.&rdquo;CANUCK CAPERS: After giving up five power play goals in their first two games, the Canucks surrendered only three in theirnexl eight&hellip;The addition of Robitaille and Monahan is a big reason&hellip;Little Bobby Lalonde, who spent most of the first nine games on the bench, responded with three goals in two games after getting a regular shift. &#9632;

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Maloney Trades Up to NHL Contender As Vancouver Roster Gets New Look

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01812/3268933-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">One of hockey&rsquo;s highest paid young stars is Lanny McDonald of the Leafs, who signed a multi-year contract reportedly in the neighborhood of $600,000. He was one of the first to get the big money for jumping from Junior ranks but this season almost every NHL club has one.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL &mdash;The future of hockey looks somewhat gloomy says the man at the top.National Hockey League president Clarence Campbell has uttered an omnious warning to professional hockey teams that unless salary inflation is cut back and pro hockey leagues desist in drafting Junior aged players all of hockey could be in for serious problems.The NHL&rsquo;s chief officer was addressing a symposium at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., last week and took advantage of the occasion to predict a dubious future for Juniorand minor pro hockey that could ultimately affect the operation of the NHL and the rival World Hockey Association.Campbell said the major leagues must be concerned about the plight of Junior hockey clubs in Canada, which are already feeling the pinch of losing so many top name performers to the NHL and WHA in the last two years. The NHL president said pro hockey is draining the Juniors dry and at the same time cutting off its supply line for the future.In the 1974 summerdrafts, a total of 29 under-age junior players (youngsters who had not reached their 20th birthday) were picked off by the NHL and WHA combined depriving junior clubs across Canada of their best gate attractions. A total of 18 made it to the big leagues with the NHL signing 12 and the WHA six.Campbell said it was.a crushing blow to the junior hockey development program. &ldquo;Those were the 18 best players in Canada. They were the players who were to be the box office attractions for junior teams. The effect is already being felt,&rdquo; he added.Campbell said that player bidding has escalated hockey salaries out of proportion and that a drastic cutback in contracts would have to come to keep professional hockey in perspective. He blamed the drafting of underage players primarily on the WHA and said the NHL had no recourse but to go along and get in on the bidding war at great expense to all clubs.The NHL president took a long, hard look at the minor level of hockey and doesn&rsquo;t like what he sees. He has already predicted that hundreds of players will be looking for jobs within a year&rsquo;s time and called the future of minor league hockey &ldquo;very dubious&rdquo;.NHL and WHA teams have been dolling out inflationary salaries to players and it isn&rsquo;t uncommon for some teams to be burdened with a half dozen players with $500,000 contracts spread over a few years.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02686/3268926-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="561" height="901"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLARENCE CAMPBELL &hellip;Future &lsquo;Very Dubious&rsquo;</figcaption></div>Where is it going to end? Campbell said that because of escalating hockey salaries. NHL teams have been compelled to-cut back in their farm club operations, a drastic step.During the last two years, Campbell revealed that major league player salaries had risen 93 per cent placing hockey ahead of both baseball and football in the professional money earning sports field.The NHL president told his university audience &ldquo;the NHL cannot continue to be economically viable with its present scale of salaries.&rdquo; He made no reference to the WHA but it was obvious his warning was meant for all of professional hockey.The secret to staying in business for both the NHL and WHA appears to hinge on their ability to bring down players&rsquo; salaries. &#9632;

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NHL PLAYERS’ SALARIES MUST COME DOWN CLAIMS PRESIDENT

<div class="byline">BY DEREK COOPER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03465/3268964-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The new man in the California nets this season is Gary Simmons, and the rookie backstopper brings with him a new flare in goaling masks. Here&rsquo;s Simmons displaying the &lsquo;Cobra&rsquo; style protector he uses in game action. Simmons made his NHL debut an unforgettable one by blanking Atlanta 3-0.</figcaption></div>OAKLAND&mdash;it was like one of those oldtime Western movies where the beautiful lady is tied to the railroad tracks and a handsome cowboy comes to her rescue moments before the train arrives.Translated into hockey jargon, the cast of characters should read: Beautiful Lady &mdash; California Golden Seals; Train &mdash; a 13 game winless streak; Cowboy &mdash; goaltender Gary &lsquo;Cobra&rsquo; Simmons, the man who wears those face masks.Simmons, who in real life sports cowboy boots, stetson, tatoos, and jade necklaces, did more than just come to the Seals&rsquo; rescue when he posted a 3-0 shutout over the Atlanta Flames in his first NHL start. He made believers out of the Seals&rsquo; front office staff. Bay Area hockey fans, and most importantly, himself.Like most famous gunslingers, Simmons likes to shoot from the hip. So when he joined the Seals this spring after jumping from the WHA-bound Phoenix Roadrunners, he immediately made clear his intentions.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t come here to be a backup goalie,&rdquo; he said very matter-of-factly. &ldquo;I came here to be number one and if you give me a chance, that&rsquo;s just what I&rsquo;ll be.&rdquo;But did he really believe it? At 30 years of age, Simmons had been bouncing around the minor leagues for 10 years, and how many 30-year-olds can you name who suddenly made it big in this league? In fact, at one point he got so discouraged with his future that he dropped out of professional hockey entirely for a year and joined a Senior team travelling throughout Sweden.&ldquo;I admit that before this season I was beginning to wonder if I would make it to the big league.&rdquo; says Simmons. &ldquo;You start out with great ambitions, but as you get older you begin to wonder just how far you can go&rdquo;Simmons fall training camp did nothing to bolster his spirits. First he was stricken with a severe case of the flu, which kept him off the ice for three days. Then, because of legal red tape, he wasn&rsquo;t permitted to play in a game until Oct. 1. When Simmons finally did make his first appearance under live game conditions he was less than sharp, and had a lot of people wondering.&ldquo;Things happen a lot faster around here,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just going to take some getting used to.&rdquo;Someone suggested that he might have to change his style of play for the NHL, and discontinue his habit of roaming far outside the net. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s ridiculous,&rdquo; he snapped back. &ldquo;The style that got me here is the style I&rsquo;ll stay with. Just relax, the Cobra will be ready.&rdquo;And sure enough he was.After the Atlanta whitewash, Simmons&rsquo; next home appearance came against the Flyers. In the now famous record-setting brawl, Simmons turned back Philadelphia 4-1 and firmly convinced everyone that he was indeed ready to play in the NHL.But now that Simmons is finally playing in the NHL, he is not about the rest on his laurels. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s always been my dream to play in this league and it took me 10 years to get here, but I&rsquo;m still not satisfied,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m only satisfied on the ice if I get a shutout, and I&rsquo;ll only be totally satisfied when I&rsquo;m the best in the league.&rdquo;But in the meantime, Simmons has purchased a home in Hayward, California where he, his wife Margaret, daughter Monica, and two Dobermans can enjoy what it took so long to achieve. And after 10 years that has got to be a satisfying feeling.SEALS NOTES: Dave Hrechkosy notched his first NHL goal against the New York Rangers&hellip; Larry Patey is now centering Joey Johnston and Craig Patrick&hellip; Ron Huston is between Wayne King and John Stewart&hellip; King has netted his first three NHL goals since the switch. &#9632;

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Rookie Simmons Comes Through To Rescue Seals

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01866/3269016-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="437" height="445"></div>&bull; THE FIRST time Steve Shutt tried out a new make of a hockey stick he scored three goals as Canadiens downed Vancouver 4-3. Needless to say he has placed an order for several dozen of the same make&hellip; Buffalo Sabres have now gone eight straight games without a loss. This is the fastest start yet for the high-scoring Sabres. Buffalo outshot Pittsburgh 47-20 during a recent game and held the Penguins to 12 shots in two periods&hellip; Philadelphia&rsquo;s Bernie Parent, rated the number one goalie in all of hockey, has three shutouts already this season&hellip; When Vancouver defeated the Red Wings 4-2 the other night, it marked only the Canucks&rsquo; second win on Detroit ice in their five-year history&hellip; A rumor making the rounds in Montreal has Dickie Moore, one of Canadians&rsquo; all-time greats, succeeding Scotty Bowman as coach of the Canadiens before the end of the current season&hellip; Marcel Dionne. Detroit Red Wings captain, on criticism of his checking ability: &ldquo;The fans don&rsquo;t realize how hard it is to play defensive hockey.&rdquo;&hellip; Denis Potvin, the New York Islanders&rsquo; sensational sophomore defenseman. was hospitalized for a couple of days last week with exhaustion. It&rsquo;s not uncommon for Potvin to be on the ice for 40 minutes of a game. Besides taking his regular turn he kills penalties and plays the point when the Isles hold an edge in manpower.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02822/3269009-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="281" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Denis Potvin</figcaption></div>&bull; EDMONTON OILERS had 15,326 excited fans on hand for the opening game in their new Edmonton Coliseum. They turned away another 5,000 followers&hellip; Al Arbour, coach of the early-season sensations, the New York Islanders, relies heavily on scouting reports given him by super spy Terry Gray. Terry watches the Islanders&rsquo; opponents in action a few games before they meet the Islesand his timely reports have aided Arbour and his crew considerably&hellip; Followers of the New York Rangers becoming a little restless with the poor start of their favorites&hellip; Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; Stan Mikita is president of the American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association. Part of the program involves hockey clinics and Tony Esposito and Ralph Backstrom have assisted Stan in the coaching. Most of the instruction has to be given by signs, since most of the kids are deaf&hellip; Did you know that the standard playing contract in the World Hockey Association contained a clause that said if in the view of the club the player was not competitive he could be dropped? It is through this loophole that many high-money pacts for low-level players have been discarded this season as the teams cut back economically&hellip; Montreal&rsquo;s Ken Dryden has looked very bad on long shots in games this season. He&rsquo;s far from the goalie he was two years ago&hellip; Dale Berra, youngest son of Yogi, manager of the New York Mets, is a promising forward and leading scorer on the Montclair. N.J. high school hockey team&hellip; When Lynn Patrick, senior vice-president of the St. Louis Blues, took over the club for two games before Garry Young was appointed general manager-coach, he had coached the sons of two former players he had coached years ago at New Haven of the AHL. Patrick has now coached Cal Gardner and his son Dave, and Alan Kuntz and his son Murray&hellip; Fred Shero of the Flyers had praise for Al Arbour of the Islanders. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if they&rsquo;re belter. Don&rsquo;t forget, he (Arbour) has had them for a whole year. They understand his ideas and his system. They miist like him as a person.&rdquo;&hellip; The Montreal NHL Oldtimers have disbanded after many years of playing exhibition games for charity&hellip; Philadelphia Flyers played their 88th consecutive sellout recently. What a franchise!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03718/3269002-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="258" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">A&rsquo; Arbour</figcaption></div>&bull; PREDICTION: This is the final season for those extremely high player contracts. Too many clubs are feeling the financial pinch and many of the fans are fed up with the performances by some of the overpaid players&hellip; Mike Antonovich, one of the smallest players in the WHA, was once an allstate third baseman in high school in Minnesota. Now he&rsquo;s with the Saints of St. Paul but he&rsquo;s not a Fighting Saint&hellip; Garry Young is the sixth St. Louis coach in four years&hellip; Terry Sawchuk, late NHL goalkeeper, has been named Manitoba&rsquo;s hockey player of the century&hellip; Jean Ratelle is said to be the next player the New York Rangers will unload. Ratelle is in the third year of a four-year contract. For the first two years the club couldn&rsquo;t trade him&hellip; Dick Redmond has been playing great hockey for Chicago this season. The Black Hawks made a smart move in getting him from California. He&rsquo;s playing the finest hockey of-his career&hellip; Kevin Morrison, San Diego Mariner defenseman, does a great Groucho Marx impersonation&hellip; Dennis Murphy, WHA president, can tell you some great stories about U.S. politics. Murphy has been active in California politics all of his life&hellip; Cable television subscribers in Philadelphia are now able to watch the Flyers&rsquo; home games&hellip; Walter Kaiser, president of the Chicago Cougars, says that his franchise in the WHA is in jeopardy. The reason being a suitable place to play. Plans for the proposed new arena were turned down.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04616/3268995-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="264" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Redmond</figcaption></div>The Hockey NewsOFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Vol. 28 No. 7 NOVEMBER 22, 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 Staled Advertising Representatives: Boston Steve Ganak. Ad. Reps. 479 Statler Office Bldg. Boston. Mass 02116. telephone (617) 524-6913: Chicago: Hooper Jones & Associates. 3322 W. Peterson Ave. Chicago. Ill 60659 telephone (312) 478-5544 New York. Bill Hitzig. National Sports Publishing Corp.. 150 East 58th Street. New York. N.Y. 10022. Telephone (212) 593-2100.YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $9.50 in Canada $10.50 in the U.S.A, and $14.00 in Foreign Countries. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., 1001 and at additional mailing offices. SEND ADDRESS CHANGES T01434 ST. CATHERINE STREET WEST. SUITE 217, MONTREAL, CANADA, H3G 1R7. Second Class mail Registration No. 1327. All inquiries pertaining to subscriptions should be addressed to Subscription Oept., 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/f0004-05492/3269047-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div><h2>NHL Teams Sacrifice Talent For Muscle</h2>I realize that violence in hockey is an accepted thing and that a good fight can be inspirational or degrading to a team&rsquo;s play in any particular game. Hockey is a man&rsquo;s game and men do tend to get rough, but there is a limit as to what should be accepted as part of the game.I&rsquo;m referring to the penalty recordsetting California-Philadelphia game of Oct. 25. For two and a half periods, the Seals soundly outplayed the Flyers in every way. In the third period, the enraged Flyers quit playing hockey and started taking cheap shots. We all know the story of the brawl that ensued and this, I admit, is part of the game. But what is not part of the game is three men soundly beating one man in the penalty box. Kelly and Saleski have been suspended but that doesn&rsquo;t remove the 14 stiches around Mike Christie&rsquo;s eyes.The last 10 minutes of the game were degrading to hockey. Violent &ldquo;clothesline&rdquo; hooks, tripping, players interfering from the bench, etc. Munson Campbell was quoted as saying, We&rsquo;ll bring up the butchers.&rdquo; But perhaps, with the success of the Flyers, other NHL teams will sacrifice talent for muscle. I pay to see a good aggressive hockey game but I won&rsquo;t pay to see a bloodbath.I will say one thing in the Flyers&rsquo; defense. They are abused by the fans every time they&rsquo;re in Oakland, and some consideration should be taken of this. But his is an altogether different subject.KEN BURTON, San Jose, Cal.<h2>We Should Think Twice About Playing Russians</h2>Canada has once again experienced the unfairness of international hockey. I am referring of course to the recent Team Canada U.S.S.R. hockey summit.As an avid hockey fan, I was appalled at the officiating and the carrying on that went on in the Soviet Union. Why was all the hassle in Russia, but not in Canada? The Soviet timekeepers were deceptive and dishonest. Why is this allowed to go on? We won that seventh game, 5-4, but the clock and been tampered with and we were refused the goal. Perhaps Canada should be more hesitant about playing the Soviets from now on.The Russian team was far superior to Team Canada. The Canadians lacked depth and they never did adapt to Moscow&rsquo;s wide ice surface. I&rsquo;d hate to have seen what would have happened to us if Cheevers hadn&rsquo;t been so brilliant. The Russians are masters at passing and stick handling. Tretiak was unbelievable and the back up goalie was just as good. Canada didn&rsquo;t have an adequate replacement for Cheevers.Godie Howe and his two sons, Bernier, Backstrom, J.C. Tremblay, R&eacute;jean Houle, Marc Tardif and of course Bobby Hull, all played well for Team Canada.If we are to play the Russians again, we&rsquo;d better have an All Star line from the NHL and the WHA. No way we can beat them otherwise, they&rsquo;re too powerful.MELVIN JOHNSTON, Winnipeg, Man.<h2>&lsquo;Real&rsquo; Team Canada Should Face Russians</h2>I agree wholeheartedly with Cliff Kobland regarding the recent WHA-USSR hockey series that was billed as &ldquo;Team Canada&rdquo; vs. Russia. Here is my roster of a real &ldquo;Team Canada&rdquo;, which includes players from both leagues. Let the Russians beat these guys and I will acknowledge them as the world&rsquo;s greatest hockey players.Goal &mdash; Parent, T. Esposito. Defense &mdash; Orr, Park, Potvin, Guevremont, Awrey. Centers &mdash; P. Esposito, Clarke, Mikita, Perreault. Right wings &mdash; G. Howe, Cournoyer, Redmond, Walton. Left wings &mdash; Hull, F. Mahovlich, Martin, Henderson.FRANK McDERMOTT Trenton, N.J.<h2>Removing Crusaders From Ice Bad Move</h2>Recently, I read in THE HOCKEY NEWS about the incident between Pittsburgh defenseman Steve Durbano and the Cleveland Crusaders. I was not surprised to see Durbano involved in his favorite pastime, nor was it surprising to see a benchclearing brawl as a result. However I was very surprised to read that Cleveland coach John Hanna pulled his Crusaders oft the ice when it appeared that no one could or would quiet the fiery Durbano.I believe the incident was triggered when Durbano, after battling Rich Leduc, took a sucker punch at Crusader Gerry Pinder, not generally known for his fistic ability. This caused the mass brawl. Then came Hanna&rsquo;s move.As all real hockey fans are aware, hockey is not only a game of finesse and clever playmaking. Intimidation plays a bigger part than most hockey officials would like to admit. Unless I heard an exaggerated account of what happened, I will go on believing that the Crusaders were losers before the season began.PHIL HORWITZ, Baltimore, Md. &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

Statement of the ownership, management, etc., of THE HOCKEY NEWS, a weekly newspapei published in New York N.Y.The name of the publisher is Kenneth W. McKenzie of Hampstead, Que.; editor is Charles S. Halpin of Pierrefonds, Que. The publishing company is W.C.C. Publishing Ltd. 1434 St. Catherine St, West, Montreal, Que., Canada H3G 1R7.There are W.C.C. Publishing Ltd. and K.W. McKenzie Holdings Ltd., both of Montreal, Que. There are no bond holders, mortgages or other security holders. The average number of copies of each weekly issue of the publication sold and distributed through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the 12 months preceding the date shown, is 94,531. &#9632;

STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP

<div class="byline">BY CHRIS ZELKOVICH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01897/3269126-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GUY LAFLEUR&hellip; Showing Plenty Of New Moves</figcaption></div>MONTREAL&mdash;It has become an annual event in Montreal. Every fall, in some newspaper or on some television or radio station in this city, someone asks: &ldquo;Is this the year Guy Lafleur lives up to his potential?&rdquo;The question has been asked since Lafleur joined the Montreal Canadiens three years ago and for the first time in those three years it appears the question has been answered. Guy Damien Lafleur, the man who was once compared to Jean Beliveau, has arrived as a National Hockey League star. Three years late, maybe, but he has arrived.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s any doubt about it,&rdquo; says his coach. Scotty Bowman. &ldquo;Guy Lafleur is playing the best hockey of his career, by far &hellip; by far.&rdquo; &lsquo;If you can&rsquo;t believe a guy&rsquo;s coach, who can you believe? Why even Guy Lafleur believes him.&ldquo;Yeah,&rdquo; says Lafleur,&ldquo;I&rsquo;d agree with that.&rdquo; See?If you don&rsquo;t believe Scotty or Guy then you can believe the people who choose the three stars of each game, because they&rsquo;ve chosen Lafleur as a star in four of the Canadiens&rsquo; last six games. Twice he was first star of the game.Still not convinced? Then maybe you can believe the statistics, which say Lafleur has scored four goals and three assists in his last six games.And if it&rsquo;s possible that you don&rsquo;t believe either Guy or Scotty, the three star people or the statistics, then believe your eyes. Watch Lafleur and you&rsquo;ll see that he is performing more effectively than any member of the Canadiens.The four goals he&rsquo;s scored in the last six games understate Lafleur&rsquo;s contribution to the team. He also had an incredible streak of bad luck during the first five games.There&rsquo;s little doubt that the 23-year-old right wing (for now, anyways) has been the Canadiens&rsquo; most effective player this year. He&rsquo;s been setting up plays the same way he did as a Junior super star with the Quebec Remparts. And he&rsquo;s been checking effectively and playing with the confidence of a man who knows he can star in this league.The improvement has been amazing.Now don&rsquo;t get the impression that Lafleur classified as the dud-of-the-decade for his performance during his first three years in the league. After all. the 78 goals he&rsquo;d scored prior to this year is more than some players score in their careers.It was just that Lafleur&rsquo;s 78 goals were probably the most unimpressive 78 goals ever scored. The fans always expected more of the player who had scored 130 goals his last season in Junior hockey.Lafleur may never score 40 or 50 goals in a season, but he&rsquo;s become a better two-way hockey player than anyone ever expected and he works harder than anyone ever expected. Let him explain.&ldquo;This is my fourth year,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got more experience. I know the league better. But I guess this year I just decided I wanted to play tough hockey and work harder.&ldquo;Playing centerlike I did at first this year gave me more ice time, more confidence.&rdquo;Confidence, ah yes. That magic ingredient that turns bums into heroes, chumps into champs, potential into reality. But how does a guy who scored 130 goals one year lack confidence?&ldquo;There was a lot of pressure on me those first two years,&rdquo; Lafleur says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d be so worried about making a mistake that I&rsquo;d make even more. The more I made, the less confidence I had.&rdquo;One thing that has helped Lafleurs&rsquo;s confidence this season has been the removal of a little weight from his head &mdash; namely, a helmet. After three years of wearing a helmet, Lafleur has adopted the bare-headed look and it has helped his hockey tremendously.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s funny,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;when I was wearing the helmet I was always thinking about getting hit. When a guy came near me I thought about him hitting me. Now I don&rsquo;t have the helmet I can be more aggressive and I don&rsquo;t think about getting hurt.&rdquo;So discarding his helmet has helped his hockey?&ldquo;Yeah. It may not help my head any, though.&rdquo;HAB-BITS: The Canadiens&rsquo; power-play, which was so effective early in the season, has ground to a halt. The Habs have scored only one power-play goal in their last 17 attempts. On top of that the power-play has been scored upon twice&hellip; The Canadiens&rsquo; penalty killing has also fallen apart. Opposing power-plays have scored four goals in their last nine opportunities&hellip; Bob Gainey scored his first goal of the year against Detroit, marking the first goal he&rsquo;s scored against any team other than the Minnesota North Stars. &#9632;

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Canadiens, Bowman Happily Agree Lafleur Has Arrived As NHL Star

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>CALIFORNIA &mdash; Stan Gilbertson and Craig Patrick, forwards, traded to St. Louis in return for Dave Gardner and Warren Williams, forwards.WASHINGTON &mdash; Murray Anderson, defenseman, returned to Richmond of AHL. Joe Lundrigan, defenseman, Steve Atkinson, Andre Peloffy, Mike Lampman, forwards, assigned to Richmond.KANSAS CITY &mdash; Norm Dub&eacute;, Doug Horbul, and John Wright, forwards, assigned to Providence of AHL.ST. LOUIS &mdash; Bob Stumpf, defenseman, Gordon Buynak and Phil Roberto, forwards, sent to Denver of CHL.BUFFALO &mdash; Morris Titanic and Bryan McShefirey, forwards, assigned to Hershey of AHL.PITTSBURGH &mdash; Wayne Bianchin, forward, sent to Hershey to play himself into condition.MINNESOTA &mdash; Richard Nantais, forward, recalled from New Haven of AHL.PHILADELPHIA &mdash; Randy Osburn, forward, returned to Richmond of AHL.<h2>WORLD HOCKEY ASSN.</h2>SAN DIEGO &mdash; Doug Volmar and Mike Laughton, forwards, assigned to Syracuse of NAHL.TORONTO &mdash; Brian Gibbons, defenseman, and Lou Nistico, forward, assigned to Mohawk Valley of NAHL.VANCOUVER &mdash; Larry Israelson, forward, recaded from Tulsa of CHL.QUEBEC &mdash; Jean Bernier, defenseman, and Denis Patry, forward, assigned to Maine of NAHL.INDIANAPOLIS &mdash; Brian McKenzie, forward, recalled from waivers and restored to active roster.CLEVELAND &mdash; Ron Anderson, forward, assigned to Cape Codders of NAHL.MICHIGAN &mdash; Larry Edwards, forward, sent to Kalamazoo of IHL.NEW ENGLAND&mdash;Gerry Methe, defenseman, recalled from Cape Codders of NAHL and returned after one game.EDMONTON &mdash; Billy Morris, defenseman, and Bill Laing, forward, assigned to Winston-Salem of SHL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>ROCHESTER &mdash; Steve Stirling, forward, recalled from Broome of NAHL. Ron Garwasiuk, forward, signed as free agent after release by Edmonton of WHA. Bernie MacNeil, forward, assigned to Broome. Bob Malcolm, defenseman, sent to Winston-Salem of SHL.SPRINGFIELD &mdash; Dan Helm, defenseman, sent on loan to Fort Worth of CHL. Lome Stamler, forward, placed on disabled list indefinitely with broken arm.SYRACUSE &mdash; Dan Schock, forward, quit team over contract problems and return Ron Morgan, forward, sent to Hampton of SHL.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>FORT WORTH &mdash; Dave Inkpen, forward, assigned to Muskegin of IHL after completing 5-game pro tryout.<h2>SOUTHERN LEAGUE</h2>CHARLOTTE &mdash; Brian Cousineau, goalkeeper, signed as free agent.WINSTON-SALEM &mdash; Bob Halpenny, forward, secured from Roanoke of SHL.<h2>NORTH AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>BROOME &mdash; Roy Carmichael, defenseman, placed on disabled list for 4-6 weeks with shoulder separation.MAINE &mdash; Yvon Verreault, Jean Marc Lacombe, Robert Vinette and Gordon Talbot, forward, released. Jacques Blain, defenseman, secured from Greensboro of SHL.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>FORT WAYNE &mdash; Wayne Spooner, defenseman signed as free agent. Terry Thomson, forward, placed on disables list for 10 weeks with broken ankle.MUSKEGON &mdash; Ernier Moser, forward, secured from Flint of IHL. Pat DeMarchi, forward, secured from Fort Worth of CHL.TOLEDO &mdash; Chris McMasters, forward, released.SAGINAW &mdash; Brian Glenwright, forward, signed as free agent after release by Chicago of WHA.KALAMAZOO &mdash; Gary Armstrong, defenseman, secured from Flint of IHL on loan.DES MOINES &mdash; John Martin, forward, announced retirement. Clay Hebenton, goalkeeper, and Oliver Steward, forward, released.LANSING &mdash; Brian Mason, forward, secured from Dayton of IHL on loan.FLINT &mdash; Jim Bannatyne, defenseman, secured from Dayton of IHL on loan.PORT HURON &mdash; Don Grierson, forward, signed as free agent after being reinstated as amateur. John Memryk, goalkeeper, released. Tim McQuiston, goalkeeper, released to return to college. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">&#x2014; By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01885/3269164-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="301" height="359"></div><h2>Living By The Book&hellip;</h2>SHELDON KANNEGIESSER marches to a different drummer. He does not take the beaten path. He is a major league hockey player, but he is much more, too. He not only carries a book about with him, but the book is The Bible. He not only reads The Bible, but the financial pages of newspapers. He studies theology and he studies economics.A handsome young man. among the best-dressed in sports, he has been called &ldquo;The Golden Boy&rdquo;, partly because of the golden locks which tumble around his ruddy cheeks, but also because he invests much of his money in gold coins as a hedge against the fluctuating financial state of world affairs.Concerned about overpopulation and an underfed populace around the world, he also is into dehydrated foods as the fare of the future. And he is building a wilderness retreat he can farm, close to fresh water, as a place to escape if civilization becomes uninhabitable.Recently married, he is a most uncommon character who endures the skepticism of others with the strength of his personal convictions. Now he has someone to share his enthusiasms as he walks his way.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02787/3269157-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="305" height="545"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sheldon Kannegiesser</figcaption></div>Out of North Bay. Ontario, he is in his eighth professional season and has changed uniforms 11 times in that time. He has played for eignt different teams in those eight years. He was traded by the Rangers to Pittsburgh, back to the Rangers and on to Los Angeles.He is just getting an opportunity to develop as a player. Part of the problem lay in his being different from other players. He did not run with the pack and has been outspoken with his opinions. Since his formal conversion to Christianity, he has been held to be apart from other players.Presumably, most persons believe, but only a minority preach and the majority is uncomfortable with those who are passionate about their religion. Shelly does not preach, nor does he seek converts, but he will discuss in depth his beliefs if asked and he is speaking out on his passion more and more these days.Accordingly, while at 27 he is develping into an outstanding defenseman for the Kings, there are those who feel he is distracted from performing to his capability by his interests in other things outside of hockey. He disagrees, contending, &ldquo;On the ice, I concentrate on hockey. Off the ice, I do have other interests, but they do not interfere with my hockey.&rdquo;ATHLETES ARE an earthy lot. In private, profanities come natural to them. Members of an exclusive fraternity, they needle one another outrageously. Many are comfortable only within the fraternity. And many are faintly uncomfortable around Kannegiesser. They cuss a little louder around him. Their needles jab at him a little harder.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m used to it,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t bother me. There&rsquo;s only a few who get out of line, anyway. Most guys are good about letting other guys be themselves. These days people wear mustaches and wild clothes without being considered eccentric. Society accepts men and women living together without being married. If I think it&rsquo;s wrong, that&rsquo;s my business. I should be allowed to believe what I want to believe and live my kind of life just as others are free to do their things. For the most part, I am.&ldquo;If there is such a thing as a Jesus Freak,&rsquo; suppose I&rsquo;m one. I&rsquo;m not ashamed of my feelings, so why should I be afraid to talk about them? Four or five years ago I took a long, hard look at my life and I realized there wasn&rsquo;t much to just playing hockey, having a few beers, chasing women and travelling on to the next town. I love playing hockey. I&rsquo;m paid well to play it. And the life isn&rsquo;t bad. But I felt there had to be more to life. I was unsatisfied and didn&rsquo;t know why until I got into The Bible.&ldquo;I read and re-read The Bible. It is my favorite book because it is the only one with real meaning in it. I havebecomeastudentof The Bible and of Christ and have committed my life to him. My life feels meaningful to me now and I am satisfied with it. I always was religious but as a child got no guidance and I did not devote myself to it. Once you commit yourself to Christ, you find he guides your life. The Holy Spirit tells me how to live my life. I can&rsquo;t explain how. It&rsquo;s a feeling. Until you experience it. you can&rsquo;t understand because you don&rsquo;t have the same feeling for it.&rdquo;I ASKED WHY he did not enter some form of religious work full time. He said. &ldquo;If everyone was a minister, we would have a lot of empty churches. I considered it, but I felt God needs representatives in every walkof life, from business to sports, I&rsquo;m not a salesman for religion in sports. I don&rsquo;t preach to other players. But I&rsquo;m always willing to talk religion to those who are interested in it and if I can give a helping hand to someone who wants one. then I am serving my Master. Christ is making inroads into hockey. Other players, such as Doug Mohns. Dean Prentice. Jimmy Peters and Mark Heaslip are passionate about their belief. Every day I see more men going over &mdash; businessmen, sportsmen&hellip; even sports-writers.&rdquo;Having been put properly in my place, I laughed a little. But he was serious. He is right, of course, when he says he sees no reasonwhy a man can&rsquo;t put his talents to their best use in any profession, even hockey, while remaining religious. It is a good game and he is an honest player. Nor is there any need not to be well-dressed. Not given to the wilder styles. Shelly nevertheless is so stuck on natty attire that he has considered opening a men&rsquo;s boutique to offer personalitzed clothing turned out by his own custom tailor. Lou Miles of Toronto. &ldquo;Iam not in a monastery. I am in the mainstream of normal life,&rdquo; he points out.SHELLY AND DEBBY seem suited, to one another. &ldquo;We met last January,&rdquo;he says, &ldquo;and dated all winter and summer. We met each other&rsquo;s families. She became a Christian last winter. We prayed together before we reached our decision. We were married this October, when the season had just started, but we will have plenty of time to honeymoon later. We married at my church, the Grace Community Church in the San Fernando Vally, by my minister, John MacArthur, a marvelous man. It is non-denominational church. We have moved into an apartment in the Marina Del Rey, near the ocean. We consider that Christ comes first in our marriage. He is the head of our family. We will have children at His will. We will have a good life. I am sure. If he wills it.&rdquo; Shelly knows his time at the top is limited and he is looking to the future. He has borrowed against his future salary to purchase gold coins, which he stores in safe-deposit boxes. He explains. &ldquo;I do not buy rare, collector&rsquo;s coins. I pay $170 an ounce, which is the free market value, for gold coins of various countries. The economic situation around the world is dreadful and I feel in the event of inflation or depression only gold and silver will be of stable value.&rdquo; Also, he and his brother, retired player Gordon, are investigating an investment in dehydrated foods. &ldquo;We feel as the worldwide food shortage worsens, such substitutes may be all we have left to eat eventually,&rdquo; Shelly says. He hopes to have a well-stocked cottage in northern Ontario ready for such an eventuality.Whether you agree with his style of life or not, he would appear to be a young man who sees more than only what is in front of him. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY RUSS WHITE</div>WASHINGTON &mdash;Halloween night in Washington wasn&rsquo;t as scary as some nights Rod Seiling had experienced recently in New York City even though the Washington Capitals played trick or treat with him.The Capitals tricked Seiling into playing a Hallowen night game at Capital Centre against the Montreal Canadiens. Two days later the Capitals gave Seiling a treat &mdash; by trading him to the Toronto Maple Leafs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03654/3269195-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="289" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body">Willie Brossart</figcaption></div>Step by step the Seiling adventure went this way:&bull; He was purchased from the New York Rangers on Wednesday Oct. 30 for the $30,000 waiver price. The Rangers were dumping the veteran defenseman for the remarks he made about New York&rsquo;s fans, who preferred fury rather than finesse from Seiling.&bull; He played for Washington Oct. 31 against Montreal, often on double shifts and lost 10 pounds. &ldquo;It was a struggle to survive.&rdquo; Seiling said. &ldquo;And I enjoyed it.&rdquo; Seiling praised his new teammates, promised he&rsquo;d try to make the club better.&bull; He was traded to Toronto within 24 hours later for defenseman Willie Brossart and wing Tim Ecclestone. Ecclestone was then sent to Atlanta for cash and future considerations.The Capitals bragged about their cute maneuver. Said assistant general manager Lefty McFadden (GM Milt Schmidt was unavailable) &ldquo;We got a tough defenseman (Brossart), some cash and a future consideration. We gave up nothing.&rdquo;Nothing?To begin with the Capitals deceived what few fans they&rsquo;ve been able to muster in Washington. People were led to believe that Seiling was going to stabilize the new team. Schmidt and coach Jimmy Anderson raved about him the day the New York deal came through. Said Schmidt: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll build our defense around him.&rdquo;Second, Seiling was obviously deceived. His teammates in New York Said he was near tears when the deal was announced. Going to the Capitals after 11 years in the Big Apple was no big treat. Apparently neither Emile Francis of the Rangers nor Schmidt in Washington &lsquo;told Seiling of the upcoming Toronto transaction.McFadden, however, admitted the whole thing was pre-arranged. &ldquo;Two weeks ago.&rdquo; he said.The Capitals, upon getting Brossart, started pumping him up as a tough, clear&rsquo;em out defenseman who would mean more to the club than Seiling. Brossart was 25. Seiling 30. And Seiling, the reports filtered out, was making $150,000 a year.The truth of the matter is the Capitals had three NHL players in their possession in a revolving door episode and came out of it with the least valuable player of the threesome.Seiling, to be sure, was the best of the lot. He could have helped the Capitals. He can move the puck, he can play defense. Fred Shero of the Philadelphia Flyers said that Seiling was better than at least three or four of the guys the Rangers had on defense. He was certainly better than what Washington had.Ecclestone could have helped Washington too. But he won&rsquo;t see Capital Centre until the Flames visit.Brossart, originally a Flyer, has played little the past two years at Toronto. He was in only 17 games all last season and was in civies for most of this year&rsquo;s early games. He did play immediately for Washington against the Kansas City Scouts. He wore the same Halloween costume &mdash; Caps uniform No. 17&mdash;Seiling had worn in his one brief game as a Capital.Brossart was around to be part of the new Caps&rsquo; biggest disgrace &mdash;a 5-4 loss to the Scouts after being up 4-2. It was the first win in the NHL for Kansas City.The loss was Washington&rsquo;s seventh straight after a victory 17 days earlier over the Chicago Black Hawks.The work rated a standing boo from the 7.964 fans who watched the two expansion babies meet for the first time. A few of them chanted that they wanted Rod Seiling.Who knows, maybe the Capitals will buy Seiling again some day. Thanksgiving is coming soon. &#9632;

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Caps’ Fans Puzzled By Fast Departure Of Veteran Seiling

<div class="byline">BY BILL FLEISCHMAN</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;The Flyers had just beaten the New York Islanders when Al Arbour was asked how the Stanley Cup champions looked to him.&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve still got the big guy in the nets,&rdquo; said the Islanders&rsquo; classy coach. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the same guy as last year.&rdquo;The &ldquo;bigguy&rdquo; is Bernard Marcel Parent and Arbour was right, statistically and artistically speaking. After the Flyers&rsquo; fourth straight victory, a 3-1 decision over the improved Islanders. Parent&rsquo;s goals-against average had dwindled to 1.89. Ironically. 1.89 is the same average Parent posted last season in sharing the Vezina Trophy with Chicago&rsquo;s Tony Esposito.Even if Parent&rsquo;s average hadn&rsquo;t returned to normal (for him), the Flyers would have known he was in Stanley Cup form. During the four-game streak Parent held Vancouver to two goals, the Rangers to one, blanked Montreal in a memorable performance and cooled off the Islanders on one goal.Bobby Taylor, a Flyers back-up goaltender, friend and admirer of Parent, pinpointed the difference between the slugglish early season Parent and the current super saver.&ldquo;You could see Bernie moving better against Montreal.&rdquo; said Taylor. &ldquo;He had that great balance he had last season.&rdquo;Marcel Pelletier was equally enthusiastic.&ldquo;The more Bernie plays, the more timing he has,&rdquo; said Pelletier, the Flyers&rsquo; player personnel director and former pro goalie. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s catching the puck in the center of his glove and controlling everything. When he goes down he&rsquo;s right back up. Before he makes a move he knows what his next move will be.&rdquo;Many think the key to Parent&rsquo;s success is steady work. The most Parent played during the seasons first three weeks was two straight games. Joking about the on-again, off-again status. Parent said, &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t remember the last time I had to play two in a row.&rdquo;Last season, the Conn Smythe Trophy winner set an NHL record of 73 games played by a goaltender. Included in the busy season were streaks of .37 and 28 consecutive games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02770/3269226-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="565" height="621"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNIE PARENT &hellip; Thrives On Work</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I like to play a lot games,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But we&rsquo;ve got three (goalies). What can you do? It&rsquo;s bad for the other guys if they don&rsquo;t get work.&rdquo;Wayne Stephenson has the most reason to grumble. He played half of St. Louis&rsquo; games last season and won both yet his Philadelphia starts went over two weeks without playing.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s Freddie&rsquo;s decision on who will play,&rdquo; said Stephenson, shrugging. Would he consider asking coach Fred Shero for a start even though Parent is hot?&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; Stephenson said, sounding like a man trying not to disrupt team harmony.Shero sounded like a man who&rsquo;s mind was made up.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll go with Bernie for awhile,&rdquo; Shero said. &ldquo;The race is so&rsquo;tight that if we could break it open now I might go with Stephenson.&rdquo;Sorry, Wayne &mdash; pull up a stool and enjoy watching a master.FLYER FACTS: The Flyers&rsquo; 3-0 victory in Montreal was their first shutout of an original NHL team on the road&hellip; Parent spends his days off from practice bow-and-arrow hunting&hellip; Shero presented what he called &ldquo;a $50 hat&rdquo; to Parent. &ldquo;I was supposed to wear it after we got back to first place, but there&rsquo;s no way I&rsquo;ll wear that thing,&rdquo; said Shero. Parent said he would wear the.orange fedeora hunting&hellip; Bill Clement was filling in superbly for suspended Don Saleski and Bob Kelly. &#9632;

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Parent’s Superb Goaling Credited For Club’s Sudden Upsurge

<div class="byline">&#x2014; BY BILLMAKI</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01861/3269257-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="913" height="1170"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;That Dressing Room Is So Cold That The Light Only Goes On When The Door Is Opened!&rdquo;</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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CARTOON CORNER

<div class="byline">BY HARRY KLAFF</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01875/3269295-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Nystrom is typical of the new breed of Islanders who are coming into their own this season in the club&rsquo;s rebuilding program. Here&rsquo;s Nystrom fighting off Rangers&rsquo; Brad Park for puck in recent clash between clubs.</figcaption></div>LONG ISLAND &mdash;By the end of October, it was no longer a secret that the New York Islanders were off to quite an incredible start. With an early record of 5-1-2, the Isles found themselves in the rather unaccustomed position of first place in the Lester Patrick Division.As might be expected, there were a number of skeptics around the league. &ldquo;Who have they beaten?&rdquo;, was the customary question designed to puncture the Islander fans&rsquo; lofty bubble. The Isles did manage to overtake a sluggish Canadiens&rsquo; squad, and nipped the rival Flames in a close contest, but the remainder of their triumphs wereagainst Kansas City, Washington and company.Even after the Islanders destroyed the California Seals by a 10-1 count at the Coliseum there seemed little doubt to some that the end was in sight. Two big games against the Rangers and Bruins marked only the beginning of the club&rsquo;s toughest stretch of the campaign.Instead of rolling over, the Islanders played their best hockey of the season, coming away with three out of a possible four points against two of the NHL&rsquo;s kingpins. A late goal by Bob Nystrom earned the Isles a 1-1 tie at Madison Square Garden while it was Nystrom again with a third period tally that gave the club a 3-2 victory over Boston at the Coliseum.Prior to the Ranger game the closest the Islanders had ever come to earning a point at the Garden was on Feb. 18, 1973 when they dropped a 3-2 decision. In the rest of their visits, they were never in the game.The Rangers had handed the Islanders their first loss (and only loss to that point) of the season by a score of 4-2 at the Coliseum. And the Broadway Blues were looking to perform that feat once again. A spokesman for the Rangers even queried if the scoreboard had enough numbers to accommodate the expected number of Ranger goals.Instead it was a close-checking affair, as the Rangers demonstrated the art of checking in textbook style. They generally outplayed the Islanders and had a number of good chances, but superlative goaltending by Billy Smith kept them off the board until Brad Park scored, early in the third period.Then Nystrom took a pass from Denis Potvin and left Gilles Marotte counting the house at the Islander blueline. Nystrom then swept down the ice with Gary Howatt on the left, and beat Ed Giacomin with a low shot to the far corner.&ldquo;He gave me a good piece of net to shoot at,&rdquo; said Nystrom. &ldquo;He came out a little too far, and I put the puck just where I wanted to,&rdquo;Although the Islanders may not have played their best hockey, Ranger general manager-coach Emile Francis was convinced.&ldquo;You&rsquo;d better believe the Islanders are for real,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re solid from the goaltender on out. That Billy Smith played a great game for them in goal. This is going to be a great rivalry.&rdquo;Three nights later it was the Bruins&rsquo; turn to discover that the Islanders weren&rsquo;t doing it with mirrors. Once again it was Nystrom in the right place at the right time to give the Isles a 3-2 decision in their most pugnacious game of the year.The Bruins got the better of the fighting, though. Carol Vadnais deposited big Dave Lewis into the Boston bench during a second period fracas, while Terry O&rsquo;Reilly sent Gerry Hart to the hospital with a concussion in the finale. But it&rsquo;s goals, not punches, that win games.&ldquo;Smith played a great came,&rdquo; offered Phil Esposito, who got off nine shots in the contest, scoring twice on power-plays. &ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t the first time he&rsquo;s robbed me, and it won&rsquo;t be the last. He&rsquo;s been a big difference, but there&rsquo;s no question that the whole team has matured.&ldquo;The Islanders are for real&rdquo; ISLAND SOUNDS: The Islanders broke 11 club records and tied five others in the 10-1 romp over the Seals. Eddie Westfall and Bill MacMillan scored hat-tricks in that one&hellip;After the first month of the season, Denis Potvin was second in defenseman scoring behind Bobby Orr&hellip;Defenseman Bert Marshall missed the third period of the Bruin game after being hit in the lower abdomen by a Carol Vadnais slapper. Bert was understandably doubled up with pain at the time, but laughed about it afterward&hellip;Through the beginning of November, Billy Smith had appeared in all but one of the Islanders&rsquo; 10 starts. Back-up man Glenn Resch topped Kansas City in his only start in the second game of the season&hellip;Jean Potvin was moved up to a regular defense position with the injuries to Hart and Marshall against Boston, and stickhandled his way into Boston ice to set up Nystrom&rsquo;s game-winner. Jean had missed a couple of weeks with a pinched neck nerve.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02746/3269288-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="559" height="848"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILLY SMITH &hellip; High Stepper</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rangers, Bruins Readily Agree Young Islanders Are For Real

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04407/3269395-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">RICK HAMPTON&hellip;California Seals</figcaption></div>The California Seals almost felt the bottom had fallen out of their world during the summer hockey meetings when they lost the player they wanted for their No. 1 amateur draft pick. Ron Chipperfield had jumped to the WHA and the Seals had no recourse but to change their plans. They chose defenseman Rick Hampton instead and now when they look back on the move, they obviously have no regrets. Hampton is a promising 18-year-old playing his first major league season. He&rsquo;s gaining invaluable experience for the day when he&rsquo;s expected to be a key man in the rebuilding plans of the Seals. A six-foot, 180-pounder who starred with St. Catharines in the OHA Major Junior Series, Hampton plays a physical game and packs a sizzling shot, two things the Seals have sorely needed in recent years. &#9632;

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MEET THE ROOKIES

<div class="byline">BY BILL HEUFELDER</div>PITTSBURGH&mdash;The Pittsburgh Penguins broke fast in the National Hockey League season and so, in a manner of speaking, did Steve Durbano, their most rugged defenseman.Heartened by their impressive finish last year, the Penguins zipped to a pair of wins. Durbano, meanwhile, sat out a two-game suspension, but in game three, he was very much in evidence.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03576/3269364-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="266" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Steve Durbano</figcaption></div>Less than two minutes into the battle with the defending Stanley Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers, he was assessed a misconduct. The second period had barely begun when he broke his left wrist in a freakish collision with Philadelphia&rsquo;s Moose Dupont.It was a tough break for Durbano and the first of a string of bad breaks that has darkened what had been a bright outlook for the Penguins.They fell to the Flyers, 6-3, starting a winless streak that stretched to seven games as Marc Boileau&rsquo;s club worked its way home from a West Coast trip.The Penguins can&rsquo;t look to Durbano for help. He&rsquo;ll be sidelined for at least 12 weeks.His injury occurred as he carried the puck to center ice with Dupont steaming toward him. Dumping the puck into the enemy zone Durbano pulled up, dropping his left hand from his stick.Dupont kept coming and caught Durbano&rsquo;s outstretched hand with a hip. &ldquo;It jammed my hand back into my wrist,&rdquo; Durbano explained. &ldquo;I felt it instantly. There was a shock that went through my whole arm.&rdquo;After two operations, Durbano ended a 10-day hospital stay. Some pain remains and he is gradually getting back the full movement in his fingers.&ldquo;The doctor said my wrist looked like corn flakes inside,&rdquo; he revealed. &ldquo;There were so many broken pieces of bone.&rdquo;In the first operation, doctors set the wrist and waited for the swelling to subside until surgery could be performed again to further repair the damage.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re still not too sure about the wrist,&rdquo; Durbano said. &ldquo;It may need some more work on it.&rdquo; While an answer is being sought, he wears a cast all the way to his shoulder.For Durbano, the mishap was the culmination of a stormy series of events that began early in the exhibition schedule with an automatic $200 fine for swinging his stick at Gary Coalter of Kansas City.As the regular season neared, Durbano found himself in trouble again, this time from his actions during the second of back-to-back games against the Cleveland Crusaders of the rival World Hockey League. The Cleveland coach, John Hanna, pulled his club off the ice before the game was officially ended.Taking a dim view of the Pittsburgh defenseman&rsquo;s behavior, NHL president Clarence Campbell fined Durbano $300 and ordered the two-game suspension.&ldquo;When you&rsquo;ve been suspended before, you know you&rsquo;re going to get nailed again,&rdquo; explained Durbano, who felt the fine was too harsh. &ldquo;1 think Mr. Campbell knows who I am.&rdquo;Durbano, who piled up 402 penalty minutes in his only minor league season with Omaha, finds trouble even when he&rsquo;s trying to avoid it.Arguing a line call in his debut against the Flyers, Durbano wound up with a misconduct. &ldquo;I wanted to skate out of the official&rsquo;s way and we collided,&rdquo; said Durbano, who thought less of his misconduct than he did of his fine from the league office.Durbano, however, thinks highly of his chances to resume his career in the same crunching, vocal style that has brought him more than 500 penalty minutes in two big-league campaigns.&lsquo;I&rsquo;ll just follow the doctor&rsquo;s orders and try not to move the arm at all,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;The big thing is I can&rsquo;t play again until the wrist is completely healed. I&rsquo;m not going to rush back into the lineup.&rdquo;Durbano figures he&rsquo;s had his share of bad breaks for one year.PENGUIN NOTES: Colin Campbell and Dennis Owchar, recalled from Hershey after Durbano&rsquo;s injury, have played capably&hellip; However, to cover themselves, the Penguins also acquired another rough defenseman in 27-year-old Barry Wilkins, who arrived from Vancouver in exchange for Ab DeMarco&hellip; Wilkins averaged more than 100 penalty minutes in four seasons with the Canucks&hellip;Syl Apps, Lowell MacDonald and Jean Pronovost continued their high-scoring ways, each producing nine points in as many games&hellip; Los Angeles&rsquo; 2-0 win was the first shutout of a Pittsburgh club since Boileau became coach&hellip; Rogie Vachon has blanked the Penguins in three of his last five starts against them&hellip; Struggling to adjust in the NHL, goalie Bob Johnson allowed three goals in four minutes at Vancouver and was lifted with the Canucks leading 4-1 after one period&hellip; The Penguins finally lost 7-4. &#9632;

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Durbano’s Broken Wrist Injury Another In Series Of Bad Luck

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01846/3269333-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><h2>Booed Out Of New York</h2>THE LETTER TO THE SPORTS EDITOR of the New York Times was titled &ldquo;Hurrah For Rod Seiling&rdquo;. A chap in University City, Mo., was the writer and he claimed that he was &ldquo;distressed by the reaction of most Madison Square Garden fans&rdquo; towards Seiling during a game he had watched on television in St. Louis.Part of the letter went like this: Each time Rod Seiling stepped onto the ice he was greeted by loud boos. Now anyone who is familiar with the Rangers of recent years knows that Seiling has been perhaps the team&rsquo;s steadiest performer of the last decade&hellip; A defenseman&rsquo;s main job is keeping the puck out of his team&rsquo;s net and Seiling has excelled at that&hellip; He is not a colorful player and in the past he has paid the price in terms of his relative lack of popularity and recognition&hellip; But to treat as solid a performer as Seiling in the manner the Garden fans did is an insult to the intelligence of Ranger enthusiasts.Thus, a hockey fan summed up well the case of Seiling, the solid, unspectacular defenseman who went from the New York Rangers to the Washington Capitals to the Toronto Maple Leafs in less than a week.In short, Seiling was booed out of New York following a decade on the Ranger defense. When he deflected a couple of goals into the Rangers&rsquo; net this season, Seiling spent some time on the bench. This seemed to confirm what the Ranger fans felt they knew along &mdash; that Seiling was a bad player &mdash; and they booed his every move. Seiling had been jeered before and lived with it. This time, he sounded off to the effect that the Ranger fans didn&rsquo;t really know what was going on.Before long, Seiling was made available on waivers and the Capitals claimed him for the $30,000 tab. Three days later, Seiling moved back to where his hockey career began, with the Maple Leaf organization, in a complicated three-team trade.The Leafs sent defenseman Willie Brossart and winger Tim Ecclestone to Washington in exchange for Seiling. The Caps then dispatched Ecclestone to the Atlanta Flames for cash and future considerations.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02733/3269326-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="505" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rod Seiling</figcaption></div><h2>Trade Took Him Home</h2>SEILING WAS ELATED by the trade. After all, his home is in Elmira, Ont., 60 miles from Toronto where he owns a farm and a good harness horse, Albert Star. When he was playing midget hockey in Elmira, Seiling was the most prized young prospect in hockey and the Leafs won him in a strong battle against all other five NHL clubs.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s great to be here because I do know the organization so well,&rdquo; Seiling said. &ldquo;I played junior hockey on teams coached by Jim Gregory (Leaf general manager) and it is close to my farm.&rdquo;The fan situation in New York is nothing new. It seems the fans in Madison Square Garden always have to have a target. Perhaps impatience at the high-salaried Rangers&rsquo; failure to win a pennant or a Stanley Cup is the inspiration for the jeers but it&rsquo;s a trifle sad that some excellent hockey players have been subjected to it.There&rsquo;s abundant precedence for a booed Ranger winding up with the Leafs. Back in the 1950s, Allan Stanley was the fan target in New York. Following brief stints with Chicago and Boston, Stanley wound up in Toronto where he anchored four Stanley Cup winning teams.Stanley and Seiling played the game the same way. Neither was especially flashy or the owner of large offensive totals. Stanley is acknowledged as one of the most intelligent defensemen ever to play the game, almost a model for defensive backliners.That evaluation was made by knowledgeable hockey men. The Rangers fans figured otherwise, which says something for the Ranger fans and their knowledge of the game, a point Seiling emphasized.<h2>Lauded By Francis</h2>LAST SEASON, RANGER general manager-coach Emile Francis was quoted as saying that Seiling was one of the most underrated defense players in the league.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think we ever appreciated Seiling more than we did this year &mdash; when wedidn&rsquo;thave him,&rdquo; Francis said. &ldquo;He was out for three weeks with a bad knee.&ldquo;While he was gone, we got one tie in seven games. The guy anchors our defense. He doesn&rsquo;t make mistakes.&rdquo;Obviously, Seiling did make a mistake. He knocked the people who buy the tickets. It didn&rsquo;t matter that what he said about them was the truth. Perhaps, too. Seiling&rsquo;s hefty salary, rumored to be in the $150,000 range entered the picture, too. The Rangers are cleaning house, although Francis claims that isn&rsquo;t the case. But Vic Hadfield and Jim Neilson were traded away. Now Seiling is gone and there are rumbles of other veterans on the block, notably Jean Ratelle.Seiling wisely chose to look back on the New York experience as history when he reached Toronto.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s in the past and I prefer not to talk about it,&rdquo; he said. If I knock the New York situation, then people will say it&rsquo;s just sour grapes. If! say good things, they&rsquo;ll think I&rsquo;m trying to use the needle. It&rsquo;s history, as far as I&rsquo;m concerned.&ldquo;People have mentioned the Allan Stanley situation to me. I just hope that it turns out as well for me as it did for him with the Leafs.&rdquo;Seiling wasa winger in midget hockey and his work attracted the scouts to his Elmira home the way a 7&rsquo;4&rdquo; high school basketball player draws college recruiters.I guess all the NHL teams made a pitch of some sort,&rdquo; Seiling recalled. &ldquo;The Canadiens made a big bid and I could have written my own ticket with Chicago.&ldquo;But the Leafs gave me the chance to play close to home and I liked their Junior team&rsquo;s school set up. At that time. St. Michael&rsquo;s College had a Junior A team. I liked the idea of playing for a school team.&rdquo;Now, 10 years later. Seiling gets his chance in blue and white. Undoubtedly. the Leaf fans who do understand the game and have been well trained in appreciation of players who excel defensively, will welcome Seiling.His arrival couldn&rsquo;t have been more timely. The night he made his debut as a Leaf, the team&rsquo;s best player, defenseman Borje Salming. broke a finger and will miss at least three weeks. &#9632;

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FRANK ORR SAYS:

<div class="byline">BY PAT THOMPSON</div>TWIN CITIES&mdash;Things were just beginning to break for the Minnesota North Stars when the roof suddenly fell in and it all hapened on the road, out of the view of the faithful Minnesotans who had just come back to the sides of their ice heroes after a trying season opening.The Stars took it on the chin in three successive road outings being bombed 10-1 in Boston. 6-1 in Montreal and 7-4 in Toronto. It was hard to swallow particularly with the Minnesota front office brass figuring the Stars had turned the comer and were about to celebrate.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01831/3269426-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="286" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Martineau</figcaption></div>Before the North Stars rallied to tie the Boston Bruins 3-3 Oct. 30. there had been considerable grumbling from the Met Sports Center patrons, who in previous years have solidly backed their team.Things started much differently this year. First, season ticket sales were down 1,000 to 11,500. And many fans were still unhappy about that seventh place finish last spring in the old West Division. Attendance for the first four homes games (a win, a tie and two losses) was down an average of more than 1,000.Needless to say, Walter Bush Jr. and the other North Star directors were concerned before the Boston game, especially since the team has to virtually sell out each game to reach a breakeven figure.So 15,102 (83 short of capacity) turned out that Halloween Eve to judge the new edition of the North Stars, and their six rookies, against the powerful Bruins. There were a few murmurs of discontent when Phil Esposito made it 1-0 Boston on a power-play in the first period.The place virtually exploded with noise, though, soon after when one of the rookies, right winger Don Martineau, smashed Gary Doak against the boards. One minute, 39 seconds later the North Stars were ahead 2-1. It ended 3-3 with the North Stars holding a 37-32 edge in shots.The point they took out of the tie meant virtually nothing in changing the standings, but they made a major point with their fans.Wiry North Star center Dennis Hextall had a point to make, too, after the game. It was, more or less, a warning to other NHL teams and a request for patience from the North Star followers.&ldquo;If we can pick up a point here, a point there like we did against Boston and stay in the middle of things, by Christmas we ll be ready to come on strong.&rdquo; Hextail maintained. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s taking us time to readapt to (general manager-coach Gordon) Jack&rsquo;s style of defensive hockey.&ldquo;Of course, Goldy and myself aren&rsquo;t scoring as much as we have. But maybe we&rsquo;ll make the playoffs this year. Listen, every night somebody different is starting to make big plays for us. The last couple of years, two or three guys took care of most of the scoring. It&rsquo;s a team effort now.&rdquo;Hextail added a point about the rookies: wingers Martineau, John Flesch. Richard Nantais and Johnny Rogers: center Blake Dunlop, and defensemen Doug Hicks and Chris Aherns.&ldquo;These kids are really working,&rdquo; said Hextail. &ldquo;It takes time for them to learn from experience. As they get that experience, we&rsquo;re going to get better.&rdquo;The play of Martineau and Flesch drew a rather positive, and noisy, reaction in that Boston game. Martineau helped out on two goals and Flesch joined with Hextall and Goldsworthy to check the Esposito line.Flesch particularly won the crowd&rsquo;s admiration when, during a tense moment of the third period, he rose from the bench and, like a cheerleader, joined in urging the North Stars on by waving his arm.&ldquo;I guess I&rsquo;m a little nuts anyway,&rdquo; Flesch said, &ldquo;and when the crowd gets going, I really get hypergenerated.&rdquo;NORTH STAR NOTES: Minnesota has some interesting power-play statistics. At one stage of the young season, the North Stars led the league in fewest power-play goals allowed as well as fewest power-play goals scored&hellip; A difficult schedule awaits the North Stars in November and December &mdash; 21 of the 28 games during those two months are on the road&hellip; A four-game road swing the first week of November marked goalie Cesare Maniago&rsquo;s 400th NHL game&hellip; Through the first three weeks of the season, Maniago posted a 1.83 goals-against average&hellip; Backup goalie Fern Rivard was beaten 6-0 and 4-0 his first two starts, but GM-coach Gordon came to his defense by blaming lack of effort by the gang in front of him. Defenseman Fred Barrett rejoined the North Stars to skate his way back into shape after fracturing an ankle. &#9632;

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But Disaster Strikes North Stars On Road Trip

<div class="byline">BY JAY GREENBERG</div>KANSAS CITY&mdash;They were home, finally, and their hard-core supporters, who had waited patiently for two years and agonzied with them through their painful birth, let them know it.Half the people already in their seats at Kemper Arena rose and cheered when Kansas City Scouts first appeared out of the tunnel. The players had had no idea of what to expect from the fans, and most had not even seen their new home until that very morning<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02719/3269457-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="283" height="478"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wilf Paiement</figcaption></div>&ldquo;They were great,&rdquo; said Bep Guidolin, the Scouts&rsquo; coach.&rdquo;Just tremendous for a first-night crowd.&rdquo;&ldquo;I think they got their money&rsquo;s worth.&rdquo; said Robin Burns, and that was true, but they still didn&rsquo;t get their first victory. The 14,758 were being more than polite when, fittingly, Wilf Paiement, the club&rsquo;s first great hope, scored the first Scouts&rsquo; goal ever in the arena. They went mad.Eventually, Cliff Koroll scored two goals to sour the occasion and give the Black Hawks a 4-3 victory, but it didn&rsquo;t ruin it for the first-night crowd. They appreciated the effort enough to give their newborn a standing ovation when it had ended.It was encouraging, as losses go, and the Scouts boarded a charter flight to Washington afterwards buoyed by their first night out in ther new town.And less than 24 hours later, the puck was at center ice at Capital Centre, and the clock was running out. When it reached zero, defenseman Brent Hughes picked the puck up. The Scouts were winners for the first time.They had rallied twice from 2-goal deficits and then converted Butch Deadmarsh&rsquo;s third-period goal into a 5-4 victory over the Capitals. The locker room was jubilant. &ldquo;We were working hard, even when we were losing, and it finally paid off,&rdquo; said center Ed Gilbert, who had set up Wilf Paiement for the tying goal five minutes before Deadmarsh&rsquo;s rebound won it.The glacier that had surrounded the new club as it struggled nine games without a victory had finally been broken. Bep appeared more relieved than ecstatic, and with five straight home games coming up the Scouts could get down to the business of trying to get more.&ldquo;We thought we played well Saturday night,&rdquo; said captain Simon Nolet. who like Paiement scored his sixth goal of the season at Washington. &ldquo;And we played just as well in Washington.&ldquo;You knew it eventually would come. Now that it has it will help the guys a lot, especially it coming on the road like that.&rdquo;But while the road victory was like a giant crane lifting a ton of frustration of the players&rsquo; shoulders, the home opener had been the realization of a 4-year dream for Ed Thompson, president, founder and at one-time thought to be pathetic dreamer of the Scouts.There never was a warranty with the magic date of Nov. 2, no guarantee that when it finally rolled around the game would not be played in the deserted cowbarn across the street which had housed the minor league Blues, or St. Louis or Omaha.&ldquo;Or not at all,&rdquo; said Thompson. Surely at sometime he must have envisioned himself sitting, shirtless, at one of the above sites sobbing.When the pickets came down in midJune. there appeared to be no way the building would ever be ready. But the contractors made up the time, and except for a parking mess outside, Kemper was almost completed when it opened its doors for the first time.It was culmination night for the Ed Thompson follies, the end of years of merry-go-rounds and roller coasters concerning franchise applications, referendums, lawsuits and construction strikes.&ldquo;It has to be the biggest thrill of my lifetime to be involved in something of this scope,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Whatever role I played in it, I&rsquo;m just excited to be a part of it. Only and idiot wouldn&rsquo;t be.&rdquo;The city-owned building is not exactly to be confused with the Taj Mahal from the outside, but the approximately 16,200 seats offer an almost immaculate view of the action.The Scouts&rsquo; players, who kept hearing about the building during the 8-game season opening road trip and were beginning to doubt its existence, seemed impressed. And despite the traffic tieups outside and the typical first-night confusion so did the fans.LOOSE PUCKS: The Scouts&rsquo; season-ticket sale has been readjusted to 5.000&hellip;They obtained defenseman Larry Giroux from St. Louis for Chris Evans, but Sid Abel and Baz Bastien, are still looking for a sorely-needed physical-type defenseman. Left wing Doug Horbul was sent to Providence and John Wright and Norm Dube were placed at Providence. The Scouts were ready to bring up winger Gary Coalter from Baltimore when he suffered a broken ankle. &#9632;

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Scouts Get Standing Ovation Despite Loss To Hawks

<div class="byline">BY Jules Furth</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01832/3269488-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="197" height="305"></div><h2>Hockey Pucks Treasured</h2>Dear Jules:I saw a rookie score his first National Hockey League goal. He was thrilled and jumped up and down. He went over to the goal to get the puck and the linesman wouldn&rsquo;t give it to him. Instead the linesman went over and got a new puck and dropped the used one at the penalty desk.I noticed later in the game that every time a goal was scored, they took the puck over to the desk and got a different one. Why didn&rsquo;t the player get his puck?G.L. Los Angeles, Calif.Dear G.L.:You are very observant. In the NHL they are putting a new puck into play after every goal now (they put a new baseball into play when if gets soiled or nicked or after someone knocks it out of the park). But the NHL is changing pucks for a different season. They have entered into an agreement with a firm in Canada called Hockey Diversified. They are taking every goal scoring puck and mounting them with a written description telling who scored it, which goal it was and from what game making them available to the public for purchase through catalogs and at the various arenas around the country.Don&rsquo;t fret about your player not getting his milestone puck. He has first call on it and will get it just as soon as it is mounted properly. Any significant goals such as a 400th or a winning Stanley Cup goal will go to the Hockey Hall of Fame and a suitable replica will be given to the player.So if your favorite player happens to turn the red light on and you want the puck that did it, you will soon be able to buy it and place it in that special place you have for your hockey memorabilia.Some overexuberant football players toss the ball into the stands after scoring. Some hockey players, unhappy after being scored upon, have been known to shoot their &ldquo;game ball&rdquo; into the stands. Now they will either have to beat the linesman to it or buy it if they want to get rid of it!<h2>What Do They Say?</h2>Dear Jules:Could you tell me what is said between the players and the referees on the ice? Someone told me that baseball players talk about where they are going to dinner. We sit up in the balcony and cannot hear any of the talk and were wondering what was going on.D.S. Northbrook, IllDear D.S.:This is a family newspaper and the editor wants to keep in that way. Unless you take a good lipreader with a pair of binoculars you won&rsquo;t get an accurate translation of those arguments.I can, however, share an anecdote with you that occurred in a game last year between the Chicago Black Hawks and the Pittsburgh Penguins. John D&rsquo;Amico, who is considered one of the very finest linesman in hockey, couldn&rsquo;t see Jim Rutherford, then the Penguin goalie, touch the puck on an apparent icing. He raised his arm to indicate icing and immediately everyone in the stadium started to scream at John for blowing the call. Actually D&rsquo;Amico was positioned away from the side of the nets where the contact was made and couldn&rsquo;t see it.Stan Mikita, assistant captain for the Hawks and fabled orator, decided that D&rsquo;Amico should learn the facts of life, and skated over to him for that very purpose. Since the crowd was screaming approval at Stan&rsquo;s oratory, you couldn&rsquo;t hear the repartee even at rinkside. All you could see was Mikita face to face with D&rsquo;Amico was just nodding. Mikita was doing all thetaiking. All of a sudden the official turned red and dis his best to stifle a smile and Mikita skated away to take the ensuing faceoff.I asked later what was said, and here is the dialogue.Stan: &ldquo;John. I consider you the best linesman in the game!&rdquo;John: (Nod)Stan: &ldquo;I think I am one of the best players in the game!&rdquo;John: (Nod)Stan: &ldquo;John do you know what happens to me when I make a mistake out there?&rdquo;John: (Nod)Stan: &ldquo;I get all sorts of bleep! &lsquo;Jc in: (Nod)Stan: &ldquo;You made a mistake out there John!&rdquo;John: (Nod)Stan: &ldquo;And that&rsquo;s just what I am going to give you John, bleep!!!&rdquo;John: (Blush and swallow hard to keep from laughing)One year Mikita was arguing vehemently with referee John Ashley (who has retired since) and getting nowhere. Exasperated, Mikita broke our in fluent Czechoslovakian. Ashley listened for a moment and then banged his hands on his hips to indicate a misconduct on Mikita. Switching to English, Stan yelled, &ldquo;Why?&rdquo; Ashley replied, &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t sound good, you must be swearing!&rdquo;It&rsquo;s not always like that. Sometimes they even make a date to meet after the game fora cool sasparilla. The rest of the stories would lose something in the translation and, besides, aren&rsquo;t you getting tired of hearing those bleeping stories?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!

BUFFALO&mdash;Which is the hottest team in the National Hockey League at the moment&hellip; Philadelphia&hellip; Los Angeles&hellip; N.Y. Islanders? Nope, the Buffalo Sabres are and the pace the club has been setting in recent weeks has the rest of the NHL look-king up.Boasting the best balanced team in the club&rsquo;s history according to coach Floyd Smith, the Sabres have been lowering the boom on just about everything that looms in their sights &mdash; and they&rsquo;re not picking their spots either.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01809/3269519-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="297" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Bromley</figcaption></div>Through the Nov. 10 weekend, the Sabres had gone eight straight games without a loss and have been defeated but once in their last dozen starts.The last time the Sabres had actually tasted defeat was Thursday, Oct. 27 on a trip to the West Coast when they ran into a fired up band of Los Angeles Kings and came off second best by a 7-2 score.But since that night, the Sabres have been sheer murder on their NHL opposition and they&rsquo;ve did it with a combination of success both at home and on the road.For instance, the Sabres are 4-0-1 at home and on the road they are 5-1-1 in their last seven outings. It all adds up to a phenomenal nine wins, two ties and only one loss in the team&rsquo;s last 12 games.The Sabres believe in spreading their success around.They have won in Kansas City, New York. Toronto, St. Louis and Minnesota since Oct. 27 and tied the Bruins 2-2 in Boston. At home they&rsquo;ve licked Pittsburgh, Chicago, Montreal and California while tieing Toronto 5-5.Smith has his Buffalo team cruising atop the Adams Division with an impressive 10-3-2 record that is simply astounding when you look at some of the problems the Sabres encountered in the early weeks of the season. They went into the new year with two untried netminders and their only experienced puckstopper Roger Crozier on the shelf with a recurrence of his stomach problems that forced him to miss the training camp period.But the Sabres have rallied around the inspiring play of rookie Gary Bromley, who has been cast into the number one spot and has responded with an 8-2-2 record and a3.00goals-againstaverage. Bromley has started in 12 of the 15 Buffalo games, registered one shutout and shown some sparkling netminding in the process.While Bromley&rsquo;s goaling has been the big surprise and bonus for the Sabres, they have also came up with one of the NHL&rsquo;s best offenses. The Sabres&rsquo; 63 goals in 15 starts represent the second-higest goals scored in the NHL this season. Only Boston with 64 has connected more times than the division-leading Sabres.Smith credits balance for his team&rsquo;s lofty position the least of which has been the fact each of the Sabres&rsquo; three lines have contributed almost equally to their attack.The fact Gil Perreault leads the Sabres in points with 20 is a pretty good indication that Buffalo&rsquo;s power is spread around. &#9632;

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Sabres’ Hottest Club In Early Campaign As Balance Pays Off

<div class="byline">BY DAN PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO&mdash;The Maple Leafsand Buffalo Sabres, supposedly arch-rivals capable of leaving their fans limp whenever they meet, left Maple Leaf Gardens almost half empty on a recent Schlockey Night in Canada. The disgusted fans were pouring out in the third period.It wasn&rsquo;t the Sabres&rsquo; fault. In fact, Buffalo manager Punch Imlach and his assistant in charge of rooting, wife Dodo, didn&rsquo;t leave their seats until the 6-3 Sabre win was official.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01638/3269550-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="267" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body">Borje Salming</figcaption></div>But, Leafs were lifeless. They had all the zing of a leftover pizza crust the day after the night before. The sight of bored patrons leaving the place did not please owner Harold Ballard, either, because he takes team performances personally. (When Toro fans streamed out of a boring WHA game two nights later, big Harold was able to chuckle, but only until it reminded him of the Saturday debacle.)And so, the tone of Toronto hockey conversations continued to change, from the high optimism of a month earlier to a dull cyniscism. Everyone wanted answers.By the time this appears, Leafs may be on a winning streak. But, at the 11-game mark that seemed an incredible improbability, despite this space&rsquo;s record for being rendered out of date this season. Dave Williams had been assigned to Oklahoma City Blazers by the time a story appeared here on his excellent chances of making Leafs.By the time an account of Leafs&rsquo; first-place hopes was printed, the team had started to slump.&ldquo;I only hope your record keeps up,&rdquo; said coach Red Kelly, looking for any way out of the series of sickly performances.What was wrong with the Leafs? Goaltenders giving up soft goals. Second-year defensemen playing inconsistently. Forwards so uninspired as to send the sales of any products they inspire into similarly severe slumps.Naturally, everyone took turns dissecting the team. Captain David Keon told a &lsquo;Go Leafs Go&rsquo; luncheon crowd that more hard work was required, that players couldn&rsquo;t expect to win by merely showing up. Keon, of course, went on record at training camp with the observation that this was the best Leaf team he had seen in years.Kelly noted the inconsistent goaltending and the loss of Jim McKenny with a Charley horse. McKenny has since returned.To compound the situation. Borje Salming, probably the best player on the Leafs, went on the shelf for several weeks with a broken ring finger on his right hand. He was injured stopping a shot and will be gone for three weeks. If he requires surgery the period of inactivity could reach six weeks and that would hurt the Leafs more than anything.Toronto Sun sports editor George Gross, a veteran hockey reporter, dedicated a column to an attack on Leaf lethargy, claiming that George Ferguson was the only center actually producing. Gross partially excused Norm Ullman, whose productivity was hurt by limited ice time, but criticized Keon, who had one goal in 11 games, and Darryl Sittier, who had four (they had eight and six assists respectively).The point was, everyone was looking for logical explanations &mdash; a situation which doesn&rsquo;t leave a team feeling very comfortable, and which can cause more problems.The appearance of Ballard at a practice at North York Centennial Arena didn&rsquo;t ease the tension, either. He watched as coach Kelly had his wingers scrimmaging without sticks, the idea being to force them to use their bodies more in containing their checks.&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t put as much zing into it as they used to.&rdquo; Ballard said when asked by a reporter about the practice. He explained his sudden appearance at the rink, a half hour&rsquo;s drive from the Gardens, by saying, &ldquo;I want to see what I was spending my money on. It costs money to practice as well as to pay their salaries.&rdquo;Rod Seiling&rsquo;s arrival, after a trading burst that involved four teams, was a clear indication of the Leafs&rsquo; brass recognizing that the defense needed steadying. Seiling, 29, was in disfavor in New York, where Ranger fans had been on his back, but many NHL executives still consider him to box among the more skilful defensemen.Seiling had a fight his first game. As far as is known, none of his new teammates explained to him that such aggressive behavior isn&rsquo;t, customary in Toronto.LEAF NOTES: Tim Ecclestone and Willie Brossart went to Washington Capitals for Seiling, whose rights had just been acquired from Rangers. Ecclestone was immediately sent on to Atlanta Flames.Dave Dunn, the player Leafs got from Vancouver Canucks for John Grisdale and Garry Monahan, had difficulty fitting in effectively&hellip; Lyle Moffat, the only rookie to make Leafs this season, played only five games before being sidelined with an injury to his side. He had been playing left wing with Keon and Bill Flett. &#9632;

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Contending Leafs Sliding Backwards

<div class="byline">BY ALAN TRUEX</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01542/3269581-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM LYSIAK&hellip; Scoring Production Ahead</figcaption></div>ATLANTA &mdash;Boomer Geoffrion&rsquo;s contention that &ldquo;there are no stars on my team&rdquo; may be outdated, it doesn&rsquo;t take into account the continued development of the Atlanta Flames 21-year-old center Tommy Lysiak.A close runner-up to Dennis Potvin in the rookie-of-the-year voting last year, Lysiak has become one of the top point-makers in the NHL.In the first month of play, he is running far ahead of last year&rsquo;s statistics, when he scored 19 goals and had 45 assists. In his first 11 games this year. Lysiak had 14 points.He has been the director of Atlanta&rsquo;s power-play, which was a misnomer last year but now ranks among the more effective ones in the league.Geoffrion, who never overpraises his players, for fear of inducing overconfidence, says of Lysiak: &ldquo;He controls the puck like an Orr.&rdquo;Lysiak, who says he has gained confidence after his rookie season, is a more freewheeling skater this year, although Geoffrion looks upon this change with conflicting emotions.He can&rsquo;t argue with the result, but the coach has denounced the &ldquo;cute plays&rdquo; as largely unnecessary. He doesn&rsquo;t always appreciate the way Lysiak passes the puck between his legs or behind his back.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s fine if it works. But when it doesn&rsquo;t. Boomer does this.&rdquo; Lysiak says.clutching his throat with both hands.The tricky passes by Lysiak sometimes cause difficulties for his linemates.Hilliard Graves, who played right wing with Lysiak during the first 10 games. says. &ldquo;Tommy&rsquo;sgot so many great moves he&rsquo;s always throwing the defense off balance. But sometimes he throws me off balance, too.&rdquo;Graves was having trouble anticipating the passes, which may have been one reason he was moved off Lysiak&rsquo;s line and was replaced by Buster Harvey. In Harvey&rsquo;s first game on the new line, he scored two goals, one off a pass from Lysiak.Curt Bennett at left wing was having little problems playing with Lysiak. Bennett is off to his best scoring start ever, ranking among the leaders in goals and points in the NHL.Lysiak defends his flamboyant style of play by saying. &ldquo;Sometimes the only way to make the pass is between your legs.&rdquo; But he is not entirely pleased with another aspect of his play, his goal scoring.Among the first 14 points, only three were goals, and Lysiak admits he&rsquo;s had plenty of chances for more. &ldquo;Sometimes I&rsquo;m taking too long to shoot.&rdquo; he says.Boston&rsquo;s peerless scorer. Phil Esposito, has listed Lysiak as one of a half-dozen players who conceivably could score 100 goals in a season. But Lysiak will not buy that.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m no Esposito.&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I could shoot a hundred times and still not score goals.&rdquo;.Still, there will be few complaints if he keeps setting up goals for his teammates the way he&rsquo;s done so far.FLAMES NOTES: Right winger Larry Romanchych, out for a month with a knee injury, has been fitted for a knee brace in New York, and he was planning to play with it on. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s too much of a problem.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s like the ones other players use.&rdquo;&hellip; Jacques Richard. Atlanta&rsquo;s leading goal-scorer last season with 27. has had a streak of incredible bad luck. He felt he scored a goal in California which was disallowed, then he broke his nose and cheekbone in Detroit, and about the time he recovered from that, he came down with the flu&hellip; Phil Myre and Dan Bouchard (in either order) have been splitting the goaltending on a perfectly even basis. And their performances have also been just about perfectly even. Just about perfect, in fact. &#9632;

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Lysiak’s Sparkling Ice Moves Win Raves From Boomer, Flames

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01547/3269864-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"></div><h2>ATLANTA</h2>Flames<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02446/3269857-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="205" height="187"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03336/3269850-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="745" height="604"></div><h2>BOSTON</h2>Bruins<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04257/3269843-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="190" height="184"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05198/3269836-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="742" height="548"></div><h2>BUFFALO</h2>Sabres<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06161/3269829-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="202" height="196"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-07137/3269822-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="748" height="655"></div><h2>CALIFORNIA</h2>Seals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-08113/3269815-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="277" height="139"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0997/3269808-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="740" height="626"></div><h2>CHICAGO</h2>Black Hawks<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1084/3269801-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="211" height="205"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1179/3269794-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="740" height="539"></div><h2>DETROIT</h2>Red Wings<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1272/3269787-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="253" height="145"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1360/3269780-1-eng-US/f0018-132.jpg" title="f0018-13" width="745" height="571"></div><h2>KANSAS CITY</h2>Scouts<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1455/3269773-1-eng-US/f0018-142.jpg" title="f0018-14" width="212" height="203"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1553/3269766-1-eng-US/f0018-152.jpg" title="f0018-15" width="748" height="581"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>Kings<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1651/3269759-1-eng-US/f0018-162.jpg" title="f0018-16" width="211" height="238"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1741/3269752-1-eng-US/f0018-172.jpg" title="f0018-17" width="739" height="523"></div><h2>MINNESOTA</h2>North Stars<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1837/3269745-1-eng-US/f0018-182.jpg" title="f0018-18" width="238" height="199"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1933/3269738-1-eng-US/f0018-192.jpg" title="f0018-19" width="751" height="607"></div><h2>MONTREAL</h2>Canadiens<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2034/3269731-1-eng-US/f0018-202.jpg" title="f0018-20" width="229" height="175"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2132/3269724-1-eng-US/f0018-212.jpg" title="f0018-21" width="742" height="643"></div><h2>NEW YORK</h2>Islanders<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2229/3269717-1-eng-US/f0018-222.jpg" title="f0018-22" width="220" height="196"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2327/3269710-1-eng-US/f0018-232.jpg" title="f0018-23" width="748" height="607"></div><h2>NEW YORK</h2>Rangers<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2426/3269703-1-eng-US/f0018-242.jpg" title="f0018-24" width="211" height="214"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2526/3269696-1-eng-US/f0018-252.jpg" title="f0018-25" width="745" height="622"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>Flyers<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2625/3269689-1-eng-US/f0018-262.jpg" title="f0018-26" width="250" height="175"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2724/3269682-1-eng-US/f0018-272.jpg" title="f0018-27" width="751" height="613"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>Penguins<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2820/3269675-1-eng-US/f0018-282.jpg" title="f0018-28" width="226" height="211"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2915/3269668-1-eng-US/f0018-292.jpg" title="f0018-29" width="748" height="580"></div><h2>ST. LOUIS</h2>Blues<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3015/3269661-1-eng-US/f0018-302.jpg" title="f0018-30" width="193" height="175"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3114/3269654-1-eng-US/f0018-312.jpg" title="f0018-31" width="736" height="604"></div><h2>TORONTO</h2>Maple Leafs<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3213/3269647-1-eng-US/f0018-322.jpg" title="f0018-32" width="241" height="214"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3313/3269640-1-eng-US/f0018-332.jpg" title="f0018-33" width="745" height="670"></div><h2>VANCOUVER</h2>Canucks<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3410/3269633-1-eng-US/f0018-342.jpg" title="f0018-34" width="223" height="166"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3510/3269626-1-eng-US/f0018-352.jpg" title="f0018-35" width="742" height="586"></div><h2>WASHINGTON</h2>Capitals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-368/3269619-1-eng-US/f0018-362.jpg" title="f0018-36" width="304" height="157"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-376/3269612-1-eng-US/f0018-372.jpg" title="f0018-37" width="730" height="676"></div> &#9632;

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Players’ Scoring & Penalty Statistics

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01528/3269895-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div>(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 10) &#9632;

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TOP NHL SCORERS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02452/3269926-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg"></div>(Including Games of Sun. Nov. 10) &#9632;

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Looking At NHL Goalers

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT &mdash;At this point, with Thanksgiving coming up and all, the Red Wings do indeed have something to be thankful about &mdash; they don&rsquo;t have another one of those extended trips until March.Perhaps by then Alex Delvecchio and his assistant coaches, Billy Dea and Denis Dejordy, will have found the secret of winning on the road.Actually, it&rsquo;s no secret. All you&rsquo;ve got to do is win some faceoffs, play up and down the wing, check your man, allow the defense to stand up at the blueline and have your goalkeeper come up with those couple of &ldquo;game-saving&rdquo; stops. That&rsquo;s all.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03361/3269957-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="288" height="473"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Delvecchio</figcaption></div>Everyone knows what you&rsquo;ve got to do. The problem is translating it from paper to the ice and so far, Delvecchio is doing no better at it than his immediate predecessors.The Red Wings just don&rsquo;t put it together on the road. It was proven again in the club&rsquo;s six game trip that saw them stagger home with a 1-4-1 record.The trip included a couple of real thumpings, 10-I in Atlanta and 7-0 in Vancouver and the final stop, Los Angeles, wasn&rsquo;t any kind of cliff-hanger. The Red Wings lost that one to their Norris Division rivals, 5-1.Delvecchio said he didn&rsquo;t quite understand it but noted that everyone has had trouble winning on the road this year.Again, it&rsquo;s no mystery in Detroit. Delvecchio has to work hard to get (everyone backchecking and helping out the inexperienced defense corps at home.Once out of Detroit, defense seems to be out of sight, out of mind. Through the first month of the season the Red Wings played reasonably good defense &mdash; discounting a victory 4-0 at Washington. over an expansion team &mdash; only in Montreal.They lost that one 4-2 to the Canadiens, but they played reasonably well. Of course, just about everyone plays well against the Canadiens in the Forum. To a hockey player, going to the Forum or Maple Leaf Gardens is like making a pilgrimmage to Mecca or St. Peter&rsquo;s in Rome. It simply brings out the best in them.But the Los Angeles Forum, the Pacific Coliseum, the Omni, the Alameda County Coliseum, the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh&hellip; that&rsquo;s something else.Why it even got to the point that the Red Wing offense stopped functioning on the west coast portion of the journey. It produced just five goals&hellip; against 16&hellip; in three games.The old hockey maxim, the formula for success, was to win at home and break even on the road. Obviously the Red Wings haven&rsquo;t been successful in a long, long time. They&rsquo;ve had only one winning record on the road since Eisenhower was president. The lone winning year since 1956 was 196970 and Detroit finished in third place that season and was in the chase for first up to the final week of the season. They haven&rsquo;t been close since and haven&rsquo;t made the playoffs since.That season also marked the end of an era. Harkness came in as coach the following fall and before he resigned as general manager last season, the team virtually was dismembered.And with the Detroit defense so suspect this season and the forwards not that diligent about backchecking, it would appear this will be still another season without a winning road record. After the journey it stood at a dismal 1-5-1 &#9632;

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Wings Maintain Club History Of Ineptness In Road Games

Four Division Leaders Maintain Sizzling PaceMONTREAL &mdash;&bull; The four divisional leaders &mdash; Los Angeles, Buffalo, Philadelphia and Vancouver &mdash; executed near-perfect performances last week demonstrating to the rest of the league how determined they are to maintain their lofty positions.Of 15 games played by these clubs only one loss was suffered; that was a 4-3 Montreal win over Vancouver. They won 11 games and tied the other three for 25 of a possible 30 points. (Canucks have yet to overcome the jinx that has hounded them in games against Montreal in which they have never won in 24 attempts).All four teams are enjoying their fasteststarts ever and two basic reasons for their remarkable showings thus far are their ability to win on the road and a general over-all improvement in team defense. The two teams, however, that have experienced the most dramatic improvements are the Canucks and the Kings.&bull; Canucks lead the Smythe Division with nine wins and 20 points after 15 games. Last season they did not win their ninth game until their 40th outing &mdash; Jan. 11, 1974. The Kings &mdash; unbeaten in their last eight games &mdash; have lost just one game of 15 and lead the Norris Division with nine wins and 23 points. Their record after as many games last season was 5-8-2 and they didn&rsquo;t win their ninth game until their 28th contest. Buffalo Sabres, who lead the Adams Division with 10 wins and 22 points in 15 games, recorded their 10th victory in their 21st game last season. Philadelphia Flyers, leaders of the Patrick Division with 24 points, are two points ahead of their pace of a year ago.These four teams have played a total 28 games on the road and have lost only four. Kings have yet to lose a road game. Sabres have lost two while Vancouver and Philadelphia have lost one each.&bull; Kings&rsquo; over all defense, led by goalies Rogie Vachon and Gary Edwards, has given up only 27 goals &mdash; 1.73 per game &mdash; compared to 49 in their first 15 games a year ago. Vancouver has chopped 10 goals off its total allowed in as many games last season &mdash; from 51 to 41. Sabres have allowed 47 goals, the same number as last year, hut have scored 13 more themselves. Flyers, oddly enough, have given up seven more goals than last year while scoring four more. &#9632;

NHL WEEK — In Review

STEVE SHUTTMontreal CanadiensEver since the Montreal Canadiens drafted Steve Shutt first in the 1972 amateur draft they&rsquo;ve been waiting for the hard-shooting left wing to flash some of the scoring talent he showed in Junior hockey.After two years in pro hockey it appears that Shutt is ready. Last week he bombed enemy goaltenders for six goals, including a three-goal performance against the Vancouver Canucks. He added two goals in a 6-1 victory over Minnesota and another in an 11-1 win over Washington.The six goals give the 22-year-old eight for the season, more than half of what he scored all last year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02281/3270050-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="489" height="626"></div>GILBERT PERREAULTBuffalo SabresWhile the record books say that Gil Perreault missed 23 games last season because of a broken leg, the truth is he missed most of the year. After the Buffalo center returned from his injury he showed little of the speed and moves that had set him apart as one of the top young players in the game.But off this season&rsquo;s performance it&rsquo;s obvious that Perreault is back in top form. He has 11 goals and 20 points already this year and is among the top scorers in the league.He boosted that total with four goals and four assists last week. The highlight was a two-goal, three-assist performance in Buffalo&rsquo;s 8-3 victory over Pittsburgh.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03236/3270043-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="497" height="589"></div> &#9632;

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NHL’S Stars of the week

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</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 CanadaLOS ANGELES &mdash;We had steaks for lunch and Jack Kent Cooke picked up the tab, proving he still is solvent. His much-publicized problems with TelePrompTer are real, but not about to break him, and he does not deny he remains one of the richest men in this part of the world. At least he laughs at reports he has mortgaged or is about to sell his Kings, Lakers or Forum.Cooke cannot see a lot of games in his building these days for fear of risking the health he is recovering, but if his team could win the Stanley Cup it would cap his career, and while that ultimate triumph is not yet within reach you would not know it to talk to him about it.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01373/3270012-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="269" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Brown</figcaption></div>Completing the longest home stand they will have this season, his Kings won five, lost one and tied one of seven games to finish the fourth week of the season with seven victories, one loss and four ties in a dozen outings, 18 of a possible 24 points, and the best record in the NHL. He went to one recent game, but left after two periods, scared off by his excitement. His team is getting good and he knows it. He doesn&rsquo;t want to think about the slumps that lie ahead.The Kings have improved personnel. Cooke has a good general manager, Jake Milford, and a good coach, Bob Pulford, but he is backin business as the boss and is as close to his club&rsquo;s operation as the nearest telephone. Cooke makes contributions, too. Some say too many, but it is his ball and his right. And some of his slants are sharp.For example, it was Cooke&rsquo;s idea to use the steady veteran Larry Brown as the fourth regular defenseman replacing the defected Barry Long instead of the erratic young Dave Hutchison or Neil Komadoski and it has paid rich returns in the early going.The fact is the Kings&rsquo; all-around play has not been as good as it could be. The checking of the forwards has been irregular. The great early record has been brought about by great goaltending and steady play by defensemen, who have not been making many mistakes.Rogie Vachon has played eight of the 12 games and has given up only eight goals. He gave up two goals in one game, but none in another. He has been as brilliant as he has to be, but because of the play of the defensemen he often has not been hard pressed.Terry Harper, Bob Murdoch and Shelly Kannegiesserall have performed efficiently, but Brown has been the surprise. Not to Cooke, who took a liking to him from the minute he landed here two years ago. Cooke was out of town last season while Larry rode the bench. Now Cooke is back and so is Brown.Bounced ground by the Rangers, Red Wings and Flyers earlier in his career, the knock on the 6&rsquo;2&rdquo;, 185-pounder there as it has been here has been that he is not the hitter his size suggests he should be. Actually, big men seldom are. He plays with his head and long arms, not his body, but he plays very well.&ldquo;No one actually told me I had to hit more,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;but I assumed they were not satisfied because they were not playing me all last season. All I can do is play the way I play. I try to play smart. I&rsquo;m not afraid of rough stuff, but I&rsquo;m not a physical person. I felt I played well when I did get to play. I feel I&rsquo;m playing well now. But no different.&rdquo;An unemotional man, the 27-year-old veteran of six previous pro seasons is not being swept up by his recent success. &ldquo;I try not to get too high in good times because I don&rsquo;t want to get too low in bad times,&rdquo; he says.I had a bad time last year. I think most professional athletes try to keep their frustrations at the arena, but it&rsquo;s depressing when you&rsquo;re not playing. I took some of that home with me and it affected my life.&ldquo;There were times when I had to talk to myself to put out in practice, but I was able to keep giving it my best and hoping for the best and it has paid off.&rdquo;The Kings feel he was a little overweight last season and he admits he deliberately lost a little weight during the off-season. The Kings did not protect him during the draft, but he was not picked up.&ldquo;This gave me more motivation to put out even more this season.&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;It worried me when no one wanted me. I knew I could play in this league, but I needed the opportunity to show others.&rdquo;Coach Bob Pulford played him in the pre-season play, he played himself into the lineup and Pully now is pleased that he has Larry on the ice instead of the bench. &ldquo;He is one of the biggest reasons for our success so far.&rdquo; Pulford says.Brown is not breaking foes apart. but he is breaking up their offensive efforts.KINGS THINGS: Friends gave a surprise party for Allan Malamud, new sports editor of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. He replaced Bud Furillo, who had to choose between the newspaper and his budding broadcasting career and chose the latter. Ed Kociela, who covered the departed Sharks, has replaced his new boss as Kings&rsquo; correspondent and will be the only area, writer regularly travelling with the team&hellip; Despite the team&rsquo;s swift start, attendance has been disappointing, down 500 a game from last season&hellip; The first line has become the hot line. Juha Widing, Bob Berry and Don Kozak each has five goals now after totalling only one in the first five games. Widing is off to the first fast start of his career. Berry became the team&rsquo;s all-time goal-scoring leader with his 105th. but Widing is close behind at 100. Kozak, continuing his immense improvement, is showing marvelous moves&hellip; Another who was unprotected last summer. Bob Nevin remains the team leader with eight goals&hellip; Curiously, the Kings have been outshot, but have been opportunistic. Tom Williams scored his first two goals on two shots in a 5-1 defeat of Detroit. The team has scored the first goal in 11 of its 12 games and has yet to be scored on in the first period&hellip; Rather than break up a winning combination, Pulford has played Butch Goring primarily is a penalty-killer since he came off the injury list, and he and Nevin killed off 15 in a row recently. The Kings permitted only four goals in their first 50 such stints, while their improved power-play connected on 12 of its first 50 chances. &#9632;

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Kings’ Rearguard Brown Justifies Cooke’s Faith

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01225/3270081-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="569" height="525"><figcaption class="caption-body">GRANT MULVEY &hellip; Big Jump</figcaption></div>CHICAGO&mdash;A year ago September, Grant Mulvey celebrated his 17th birthday trying to make the Calgary Centennials of the Western Canada Hockey League.This September, Grant Mulvey celebrated his 18th birthday trying to make the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League.That is what&rsquo;s called having your cake and eating it, too.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a big. big jump and I&rsquo;m very impressed with all that I&rsquo;ve seen so far,&rdquo; said Mulvey. &ldquo;I realize I&rsquo;ve got an awful lot to learn, but I&rsquo;m happy to even be here.&rdquo;Mulvey goes about 200 pounds and towers 6&rsquo;3&rdquo; above sea level. That was his reading at press time, at least. In no time, he could be, say, 6&rsquo;5&rdquo;.Whether such growth will enable this angular right wing to enjoy a thoroughly successful rookie campaign is a question that will be answered only in April. But he had a precocious start, considering he had the distinction last year of being the youngest amateur picked by the NHL and, according to Chicago general manager Tommy Ivan, the greenest lad ever drafted by the organization.&ldquo;We had him rated very highly,&rdquo; said Ivan, &ldquo;but we were mostly looking at him as a future prospect. But he came to camp ready, with a good attitude, and we like the way he skates. You might figure a boy his size &mdash; who&rsquo;s still growing &mdash; would be a little awkward. But he seems to handle himself pretty well.&rdquo;Mulvey came to Chicago with modest aspirations, too.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got a long way to go before I mature as a hockey player,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I looked at this team in training camp and there were a half dozen good right wings around, so I knew what I was up against.&ldquo;But this franchise has shown patience before with kids, and I hope they&rsquo;ll stick with me. I figured even if they sent me to Dallas I would learn down there.&rdquo;Mulvey, who calls Merritt, B.C. home, was slightly awed by his initial glimpse of the big show.&ldquo;One of the first days in camp. I was skating behind Cliff Koroll,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;He was going half speed and I was going full speed, and I still wasn&rsquo;t catching him. Just being on the ice with some of these guys is so impressive. But even if you&rsquo;re scared on the inside you don&rsquo;t show it on the outside.&rdquo;Fear was unknown to Mulvey last season, when he connected for 31 goals, 31 assistsand 191 penalty minutes &ldquo;not looking for fights but fighting whenever there was one to be fought.&rdquo;Until recently, the NHL refrained from drafting amateurs until they hit 20 years of age. but then the World Hockey Association appeared and went straight to the cradle&mdash;grabbing among others, Gordie Howe&rsquo;s prodigies, Mark and Marty, in their late teens.&ldquo;Myself. I think that&rsquo;s not the best idea,&rdquo; said Mulvey. &ldquo;That is. it may be good for the players, but not so good for the junior teams. They have to survive, too, and when they plan on having a certain guy, and then he&rsquo;s drafted and turns pro, it hurts them.&ldquo;I was surprised when I was picked, and when I was, the people in Calgary tried to persuade me to stay. It wasn&rsquo;t an easy decision for me, because I thought I might be rushing myself.&ldquo;Vancouver of the WHA was talking to my representative, but that fell through. I wanted the NHL and Chicago anyway. This is a great organization, and the coaching is super.&rdquo;Mulvey clicked for his first pro goal Oct. 19 in St. Louis. He saved the puck, went through the perfunctory acceptance of congratulations, and admitted it was a slight load off his shoulders.&ldquo;But I&rsquo;m not too worried about scoring,&rdquo; said he. &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t that much of a goal-scorer even in the Juniors. Billy Reay told me just to check my man and the chances will come. And up here, you either check your man or sit down.&rdquo;PARTING SHOTS: Chico Maki was expected back on skates by early November. He had missed all of training camp, and the start of the season while attending to his son Mike, who suffered a farming accident at the family home in Simcoe, Ont&hellip; But defenseman Keith Magnuson was due to miss six to eight weeks with a fracture of his right wrist&hellip; Cliff Koroll&rsquo;s stunning wife Lynnae gave birth to the couple&rsquo;s first child &mdash; Clifford John &mdash; in early November. &#9632;

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Mulvey Stands Tall On Hawk Right Wing

<div class="byline">BY JACK McCARTHY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01246/3270133-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="497" height="441"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-02176/3270126-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="497" height="477"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-03151/3270119-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="1129" height="1776"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN BUCYK&hellip; 6th On All Time Scoring List</figcaption></div>BOSTON&mdash;It was still a little early to tell, but the signs were ominous. The Bruins, who had been having some difficulty getting untracked, shifted into overdrive and rammed 10 goals past Minnesota goaler Cesare Maniago in a game at Boston Garden.Coach Don Cherry was delighted with this turn of events, and noted that he had never seen a game in which 10 different men had scored goals. You may have heard of balanced scoring, but this was ridiculous.Balance, however, is what any coach wants and with Wayne Cashman and little Gregg Sheppard breaking out with goals and Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito getting a goal and three assists apiece, this was beginning to look like the Bruins of the recent Stanley Cup doings.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-04119/3270112-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="305" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Schmautz</figcaption></div>Said Cherry. &ldquo;This is the kind of a team I thought the Bruins were when I came here. It was good to see the scoring, especially by Shep and Cash.&rdquo;Just for the record, the goals were scored by Espo. Orr, Cashman, Sheppard, Ken Hodge. Dave Forbes, Andr&eacute; Savard. Terry O&rsquo;Reilly. Don Marcotte and Darryl Edestrand.Johnny Bucyk. not so incidentally, got a pair of assists in this game, and the two points raised him to sixth on the all-time scoring list at 1.154 points in 20 seasons.Orr and Esposito, off this game, went to the top of the class in the NHL scoring lists at 21 points apiece. Espo had raised his goal total to 13 in 11 games, and appears once more to be aiming to break the old NHL record set by Joe Malone.Cherry had to shuttle his lines for this game because of an injury suffered in the game previous by Bobby Schmautz. Against the Islanders in New York Schmautz had belted Ernie Hicke on the head, and ex-rays disclosed that fractured a bone at the base of his right thumb. It was expected that this injury would keep him out of action for a month, which is not good news for Boston.To compensate for Schmautz&rsquo; loss. Cherry moved Cashman on to a line with Sheppard and Bucyk. and put Dave Forbes on the left side with Esposito and Hodge.Cherry had been a bit concerned that the bulk of the Boston scoring had been coming from Orr and Esposito (something which has happened many times in other years). He said. &ldquo;We wanted balance, but I don&rsquo;t think I ever saw a 10-goal game in which 10 different guys got the goals.&rdquo;Another happy aspect of all this for the Bruins was that Gilles Gilbert performed well in goal on the chances he had. allowing only one score, and that by Bill Goldsworthy on a power-play.Apparently he has mastered the use of the glove while playing with a protective shield on his catching hand. He had several catches and didn&rsquo;t appear to be wincing on any of them. A healthy Gilbert is vital to this team.The Bruins were in for a stretch of six games out of seven at home, which is always good to take for any team.Best line of the young season came from hockey writer D. Leo Monahan of the Boston Herald-American, who wrote. &ldquo;The Bruins came to bury Cesare, not to praise him.. &hellip;&hellip;&rdquo; &#9632;

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Cherry Knew It All The Time But Bruins Prove They’re Scorers

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div>ST LOUIS&mdash;The St. Louis Blues are the first team in the National Hockey League to be disrupted this season by a coaching change.Lou Angotti, tired of disagreements over his theories of hockey, resigned as St. Louis coach after just nine games of the season. After Lynn Patrick, the teams&rsquo;s senior vice president, coached two games on an emergency basis, Garry Young, formerly with the Boston Bruins and California Golden Seals, was appointed the new St. Louis coach.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01223/3270164-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="274" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barclay Plager</figcaption></div>At the time Angotti resigned the Blues had a 2-5-2 record.&ldquo;Obviously we haven&rsquo;t been playing well, and it is only proper that I as coach should take the blame,&rdquo; Angotti said. &ldquo;We went into this season with the philosophy of going with younger players and building for the future. But we did poorly, and it was obvious the fans weren&rsquo;t going to be patient.&rdquo;The St. Louis fans are, of course, accustomed to having winners more frequently than other NHL teams. Of the original expansion teams the Blues had instant success and went to the Stanley Cup finals their first three years. Last season the Blues finished out of the playoffs for the first time in their existence. Angotti, who coached the last 23 games of last season after succeeding Jean Guy Talbot, was expected this season to right all wrongs and get the Blues back into the playoffs.Although some fans were quickly disenchanted this season and expressed themselves, the criticism of fans didn&rsquo;tappear to be at an unbearable level. More significant was the hesitancy of some players to swallow everything that Angotti said and did.Angotti had, indeed, committed himself to the development of the Blues&rsquo; unproven talent. The Blues started the season with the unusually high number of nine rookies on a squad of 23 players. Rookies such as Doug Palazzari, Brian Ogilvie, Murray Kuntz, Gordon Buynak and Bob Stumpf were getting a lot of ice time and showing signs of improvement, but while the rookies were playing, the three players who have been with the Blues the longest were being benched or shuffled about.Veteran defenseman Bob Plager, always a favorite with the St. Louis fans and management, skated a full shift in only one of the Blues&rsquo; first eight games and was unhappy about his role. Team captain Barclay Plager was also spending more time on the bench and apparently disagreed with some of Angotti&rsquo;s on-the-ice strategies. Garry Unger, annually the Blues&rsquo; high scorer, was taken off the power-play and getting less ice time, then was switched to left wing. The free-wheeling Unger, a center throughout his Junior and professional careers, roamed far from the unfamiliar left wing position and Angotti abandoned the experiment after three games.The handling or mishandling of the Blues&rsquo; veterans did not lead to increased harmony inside or outside the St. Louis Arena. Angotti, always a gentleman of conviction, took full responsibility for his actions.But Angotti quickly grew tired of the heat he was being forced to take. As he resigned he said. &lsquo;There are only two levels I can see where it&rsquo;s worthwhile to be in hockey&mdash;either as a player or as an agent. Coaching is a thankless job. Even being an owner isn&rsquo;t any good anymore with the big salaries and all the other headaches.&rdquo;The rise and fall of Angotti in the St. Louis organization was remarkably swift. He came to the team last season as a utility center left unprotected by the Chicago Black Hawks in the intra-league draft. When Talbot was forced to quitascoach in February because of illness, Angotti was the surprise choice to succeed him. He took over the job with the storm warning that &ldquo;the players who don&rsquo;t want to skate for me can sit on the bench.&rdquo;The Blues had a record of 4-15-4 in the last six weeks of the season under Angotti. At the end of the season he was given a promotion by being named general manager as well as coach.However, the general manager&rsquo;s title was lifted from him during the summer with no successor being named. Sid Salomon III, president of the team, took the additional title of managing director.As Angotti left the Blues he was talking about resuming his career as a player, so the cycle perhaps will become complete. &#9632;

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Snubbing Blues’ Veterans Led To Angotti’s Demise

(Standings on Tue. Nov. 10)<h2>NORRIS DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-236/3270492-1-eng-US/f0024-232.jpg" title="f0024-23" width="588" height="177"></div><h2>ADAMS DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-245/3270485-1-eng-US/f0024-242.jpg" title="f0024-24" width="589" height="152"></div><h2>PATRICK DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-254/3270478-1-eng-US/f0024-252.jpg" title="f0024-25" width="586" height="151"></div><h2>SMYTHE DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-262/3270471-1-eng-US/f0024-262.jpg" title="f0024-26" width="592" height="181"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Mon. Nov. 4Minnesota 1 at Montreal 6.Tue. Nov. 5Rangers 1 at Vancouver 2; Philadelphia 4 at Islanders 4; Pittsburgh 5 at Kansas City 3; Los Angeles 4 at St. Louis 3; Buffalo 2 at Boston 2.Wed. NOV. 6Rangers 7 at California 3: Islanders 1 at Atlanta 2; Montreal 4 at Detroit 4; Chicago 4 at Buffalo 6; Minnesota 4 at Toronto 7.Thur. Nov. 7Minnesota 0 at Philadelphia 2; Washington 4 at Boston 10; Los Angeles 5 at Pittsburgh 3; Vancouver 6 at Kansas City 4.Fri. Nov. 8Chicago 0 at Atlanta 2.Sat. Nov. 9Rangers 2 at Los Angeles 2; Islanders 2 at St. Louis 4; Washington 2 at Philadelphia 6; Vancouver 3 at Montreal 4; California 2 at Pittsburgh 5; Toronto 5 at Minnesota 7; Buffalo 6 at Kansas City 1.Sun. Nov. 10California 0 at Philadelphia 3; Atlanta 3 at Boston 4: Montreal 11 at Washington 1; Pittsburgh 3 at Buffalo 8; Vancouver 4 at Detroit 2.GAMES TO COMETue. Nov. 12Atlanta at Washington; Chicago at Vancouver; Boston at St LouisWed. 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 BuffaloFri. Nov. 15N.Y Islanders at Kansas City; Philadelphia at Atlanta; Los Angeles at Vancouver; Toronto at California.Sat Nov. 16N.Y Rangers at Montreal. N.Y Islanders at Detroit; Philadelphia at St. Louis; Washington at Pittsburgh; Chicago at Los Angeles; Toronto at Vancouver; Kansas City at Minnesota; Buffalo at BostonSun. Nov. 17California at N.Y Rangers; Atlanta at Buffalo; Pittsburgh at Washington; Boston at Detroit.Mon. Nov. 18Minnesota at Montreal.Tue. Nov. 19Pittsburgh at N. Y Islanders; California at Washington; St. Louis at VancouverWed. Nov. 20N.Y Rangers at Detroit; N.Y. Islanders at Chicago; Atlanta at Kansas City; Montreal at Los Angeles; Washington at Buffalo; Pittsburgh at TorontoThu. Nov. 21Vancouver at Philadelphia; St. Louis at Minnesota; California at BostonFri. Nov. 22Toronto at N. Y. Islanders; Buffalo at Atlanta; Montreal at Kansas City. &#9632;

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LOOKING AT THE NHL SCOREBOARD

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0024-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01226/3270440-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg"></div>WARNING: The Department of National Health and Welfare advises that danger to health increases with amount smoked.<h2>Mon. Nov. 4</h2><h3>MINNESOTA 1, MONTREAL 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02169/3270433-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="594" height="492"></div><h2>Tue. Nov. 5</h2><h3>RANGERS 1,VANCOUVER 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-03120/3270426-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="583" height="490"></div><h3>PHILADELPHIA 4, ISLANDERS 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0493/3270419-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="592" height="692"></div><h3>PITTSBURGH 5, KANSAS CITY 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0576/3270412-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="591" height="552"></div><h3>LOS ANGELES 4, ST. LOUIS 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0663/3270405-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="588" height="378"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0751/3270398-1-eng-US/f0024-072.jpg" title="f0024-07" width="593" height="90"></div><h3>BUFFALO 2, BOSTON 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0846/3270391-1-eng-US/f0024-082.jpg" title="f0024-08" width="600" height="391"></div><h2>Wed. Nov. 6</h2><h3>RANGERS 7, CALIFORNIA 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0941/3270384-1-eng-US/f0024-092.jpg" title="f0024-09" width="586" height="650"></div><h3>ISLANDERS 1, ATLANTA 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1036/3270377-1-eng-US/f0024-102.jpg" title="f0024-10" width="586" height="352"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1134/3270370-1-eng-US/f0024-112.jpg" title="f0024-11" width="594" height="96"></div><h3>MONTREAL 4, DETROIT 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1228/3270363-1-eng-US/f0024-122.jpg" title="f0024-12" width="594" height="554"></div><h3>CHICAGO 4, BUFFALO 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1320/3270356-1-eng-US/f0024-132.jpg" title="f0024-13" width="590" height="628"></div><h3>MINNESOTA 4, TORONTO 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1416/3270349-1-eng-US/f0024-142.jpg" title="f0024-14" width="597" height="250"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1512/3270342-1-eng-US/f0024-152.jpg" title="f0024-15" width="602" height="414"></div><h2>Thur. Nov. 7</h2><h3>MINNESOTA 0, PHILADELPHIA 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1610/3270335-1-eng-US/f0024-162.jpg" title="f0024-16" width="586" height="444"></div><h3>WASHINGTON 4, BOSTON 10</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-178/3270328-1-eng-US/f0024-172.jpg" title="f0024-17" width="588" height="672"></div><h3>LOS ANGELES 5, PITTSBURGH 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-187/3270321-1-eng-US/f0024-182.jpg" title="f0024-18" width="586" height="706"></div><h3>VANCOUVER 6, KANSAS CITY 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-197/3270314-1-eng-US/f0024-192.jpg" title="f0024-19" width="586" height="614"></div><h2>Fri. Nov. 8</h2><h3>CHICAGO 0, ATLANTA 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-206/3270307-1-eng-US/f0024-202.jpg" title="f0024-20" width="587" height="386"></div><h2>Sat. Nov. 9</h2><h3>RANGERS 2, LOS ANGELES 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-216/3270300-1-eng-US/f0024-212.jpg" title="f0024-21" width="590" height="494"></div><h3>ISLANDERS 2, ST. LOUIS 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-226/3270293-1-eng-US/f0024-222.jpg" title="f0024-22" width="590" height="382"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01184/3270286-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="590" height="205"></div><h3>WASHINGTON 2, PHILADELPHIA 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-02127/3270279-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="601" height="667"></div><h3>VANCOUVER 3, MONTREAL 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0394/3270272-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="598" height="517"></div><h3>CALIFORNIA 2, PITTSBURGH 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0471/3270265-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="601" height="559"></div><h3>TORONTO 5, MINNESOTA 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0563/3270258-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="604" height="727"></div><h3>BUFFALO 6. KANSAS CITY 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0648/3270251-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="595" height="523"></div><h2>Sun. Nov. 10</h2><h3>CALIFORNIA 0, PHILADELPHIA 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0745/3270244-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="594" height="352"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0837/3270237-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="595" height="118"></div><h3>ATLANTA 3. BOSTON 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0931/3270230-1-eng-US/f0025-092.jpg" title="f0025-09" width="603" height="523"></div><h3>MONTREAL 11. WASHINGTON 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1020/3270223-1-eng-US/f0025-102.jpg" title="f0025-10" width="574" height="124"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1115/3270216-1-eng-US/f0025-112.jpg" title="f0025-11" width="596" height="560"></div><h3>PITTSBURGH 3, BUFFALO 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1212/3270209-1-eng-US/f0025-122.jpg" title="f0025-12" width="588" height="206"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-138/3270202-1-eng-US/f0025-132.jpg" title="f0025-13" width="589" height="586"></div><h3>VANCOUVER 4, DETROIT 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-147/3270195-1-eng-US/f0025-142.jpg" title="f0025-14" width="591" height="530"></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;ReillyL. WINGJohn Bucyk CWayne CashmanDave ForbesDon MarcotteDave Hynes*INJUREDBobby Schmautz<h2>BUFFALO</h2>GOALGary Bomley*Rocky Farr*Roger CrozierDEFENSELarry CarriereLee Fogolin*Bill Hajt*Jerry KorabJ. Schoenfeld CJ. GuevremontCENTERDon Luce APeter McNab*Gil Perreault AR. WINGNorm GrattonLarry MickeyRene RobertDanny Gare *L. WINGRichard MartinCraig RamsayBrian SpencerJim LorentzINJUREDNone.<h2>DETROIT</h2>GOALJim RutherfordTerry Richardson*DEFENSEThommie 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*DannyINJUREDNone.<h2>ISLANDERS</h2>GOALGlen Resch *Billy SmithDEFENSEDave Fortier*Gerry HartDave LewisBert MarshallJean PotvinDenis PotvinCENTERLorne HenningBob Bourne*Ralph Stewart AEddie Westfall CDoug RomboughTom MillerR. WINGCraig CameronBilly Harris ABob NystromAndre St. LaurentL. WINGClark Gillies*Ernie HickeGarry HowattBilly MacMillanINJUREDNone<h2>MONTREAL</h2>GOALKen DrydenMichel LarocqueWayne ThomasDEFENSEPierre BouchardRick Chartraw*Guy LapointeL. RobinsonSerge Savard AJ. Van BoxmeerCENTERJacques LemairePete MahovlichHenri Richard CR. WINGYvan Cournoyer.Glenn Goldup*Claude Larose AJim RobertsGuy LafleurL. WINGBob GaineyYvon LambertGlen SatherSteve ShuttMurray WilsonChuck LefleyINJUREDJ. Laperriere<h2>RANGERS</h2>GOALEd GiacominGilles VillemureDEFENSENick Beverley*Ron HarrisGilles MarotteBrad Park CDale RolfeRon Greschner*CENTERJean RatelleDerek SandersonPete StemkowskiWalt TkaczukR. WINGX. Jerry ButlerBill FairbairnRod Gilbert ARick MiddletonL. WINGTed IrvineSteve VickersGreg PolisBert WilsonINJUREDNone<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALDoug FavellDune WilsonDEFENSEBrian GlennieJim McKennyBob NeelyRod SeilingIan TurnbullCENTERGeorge FergusonDave Keon CDarryl SittlerNorm Ullman AR. WINGRon Ellis ABill FlettBlaine StoughtonLanny McDonaldGary SabourinL. WINGInge HammarstromLyle Moffat*Dave DunnEddie ShackErrol ThompsonINJUREDBorje Salming<h2>VANCOUVER</h2>GOALGary SmithKen Lockett*DEFENSEBob DaileyDennis KearnsTracy PrattAb DeMarcoJohn Grisdale*Mike RobitailleCENTERAndre BoudriasChris OddleifsonJim Wiley*Jerry O&rsquo;FlahertyGerry MeehanR. WINGPaulin BordeleaiGregg BoddyDennis VervergaLeon 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**rt Randy Rota ATed SnellL. WINGRobin Burns*Bobby LalondeNorm Dube*Gary CroteauButch Deadmarsh AINJUREDNone<h2>ATLANTA</h2>GOALDan BouchardPhil MyreDEFENSEDwight Bialowas*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 MoxeyWarren WilliamsL. WINGStan GilbertsonJoey Johnston CJohn StewartDave Hrechkosy*Brian LavenderINJUREDNone.<h2>CHICAGO</h2>GOALTony EspositoMike VeisorDEFENSEDoug Jarrett ADick RedmondPhil RussellBill White ADale TallonCENTERIvan Boldirev*Pit MartinStan Mikita AR. WINGJ.P. BordeleauAlain Daigle*Cliff KorollChico 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 MurphyBob NevinFrank St. MarseilleL. WINGBob BerryDan Maloney ATom WilliamsINJUREDNone.<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>GOALCesare ManiagoDEFENSEBarry Gibbs ADoug Hicks *Dennis O&rsquo;BrienTom ReidChris Ahrens*Fred BarrettCENTERJude DrouinDennis HextailMurray OliverFred StanfieldR. WINGJohn Flesch*Bill Goldsworthy CLou NanneHenry BouchaJohnny Rogers*L. WINGDon Martineau*Blake Dunlop*Jean-Paul Parise A.Richard NantaisINJUREDFern Rivard<h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>GOALWayne StephensonBernie ParentBob TaylorDEFENSEAndre DupontTed HarrisEd Van ImpeTom BladonJimmy WatsonJoe Watson ACENTERRick MacLeishBill ClementTerry Crisp AOrest KindrachukBobby Clarke CR. WINGGary Dornhoefer AReg LeachDon SaleskiL. WINGBill BarberDave SchultzBob KellyRoss LonsberrySerge LajeunesseINJUREDNone.<h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>GOALGary InnessBob Johnson*DEFENSEDave Burrows ABarry WilkinsRon StackhouseBob ParadiseColin Campbell *Dennis Owchar*CENTERSyl Apps ARon Lalonde ARon Schock CHarvey Bennett*R. WINGChuck ArnasonRick KehoeKelly Pratt*Jean PronovostL. WINGVic HadfieldNelson DebenedeBob KellyLowell MacDonalcPierre Larouche*Wayne BianchinINJUREDSteve Durbano<h2>ST LOUIS</h2>GOALJohn DavidsonEddie JohnstonDEFENSEDon AwreyBob Hess*Barclay Plager CBob Plager ALarry Sacharuk*Chris EvansCENTERDave GardnerWayne MerrickGarry Unger ADoug Palazzari*Ken Richardson *R. WINGBill CollinsPierre PlanteBrian Ogilvie*L. WINGAce BaileyMurray Kuntz*Floyd ThomsonINJUREDNone.<h2>WASHINGTON</h2>GOALMichel BelhumeurRon LowDEFENSEGreg Joly*Yvon LabreBill MikkelsonDoug MohnsGordon Smith*Willie BrossartCENTERJim Hrycuik*Pete LaframboiseTommy WilliamsDave KryskowR. WINGRon Anderson*Gordie BrooksLew MorrisonL. WINGBruce Cowick*Denis DupereBob Gryp*Bill LesukMike Marson*Jack EgersINJUREDNone &#9632;

NHL Team Rosters

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0483/3270578-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="602" height="1078"></div> &#9632;

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WHA Leaders

MIKE WALTONMinnesota Fighting SaintsWhatever the reason was for Mike Walton acquiring the nickname &ldquo;Shaky&rdquo;, you can be sure it wasn&rsquo;t for his performance on the hockey rink. The Minnesota right wing&rsquo;s hockey talents are as steady as anyone&rsquo;s.Walton took a good step tow ards equalling his 57-goal production of last season with a six-goal week. The six goals gave him for nine for the season. Three of his goals came in 10-4 romp over Phoenix.The 29-year-old Team Canada &rsquo;74 member added three assists to boost his season scoring total to 14 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02140/3270616-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="460" height="589"></div>PAUL HENDERSONToronto TorosIt appears that Paul Henderson isn&rsquo;t going to let Team Canada get to him again. Two years ago Henderson had one of his poorest seasons after he couldn&rsquo;t recover from his heroics in the 1972 Canada-Russia series.Henderson wasn&rsquo;t a hero in the 1974 series and he&rsquo;s showing no ill effects from the confrontation. The Toro left winger has scored nine goals this season and ranks fifth in WHA scoring.He helped that total last week with five goals and three assists, including a hat-trick in the Toros&rsquo; 7-4 victory over Minnesota.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03110/3270609-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="457" height="535"></div> &#9632;

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WHA’s Stars of the week

<div class="byline">BY RICH PASSAN</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada byHILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, OntarioSold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaINDIANAPOLIS &mdash;The most important part of hockey is to put the puck in the net, right?Well, the Indianapolis Racers have not been doing this with monotonous regularity much to the consternation and bewilderment of coach Gerry Moore.&ldquo;We just can&rsquo;t score goals,&rdquo; said the perplexed coach of the expansion Racers. &ldquo;We have no goal scorers. They are all workers.&ldquo;Scoring 20 goals today is nothing,&rdquo; continued the frustrated Indy bench boss. &ldquo;At the rate we&rsquo;re going, we won&rsquo;t score 200 goals over the course of the season.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01191/3270547-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="561" height="887"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON BUCHANAN&hellip;Fired Game Winner</figcaption></div>Why not? The Racers are outshooting their opponents in most of their games.&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t teach anybody to score,&rdquo; Moore replied. &ldquo;Some fellows have a knack for scoring, others don&rsquo;t. Our guys aren&rsquo;t taking the good percentage shot.&ldquo;Some of our guys should be scoring more. Bobby Sicinski has only one goal in our first eight games (seven of which the Racers have lost) and Jim Wiste hasn&rsquo;t scored yet. These guys are proven scorers.&rdquo;In that span, the Indianapolis skaters have scored just 14 goals and five came in the lone victory. That means only nine lamplighters have been scored in the other seven outings.&ldquo;The way the guys feel now,&rdquo; Moore said, &ldquo;they believe they cannot score. They look for someone around the net and pass up a good opportunity to score. That&rsquo;s negative thinking.&ldquo;All I can do is tell them to keep working and try to take the good shot. The other night, Nick Harbaruk and Rich Pumple walk right in on (Edmonton&rsquo;s) Chris Worthy and neither scored.&rdquo;Maybe it&rsquo;s a case of hot goaltending then. &ldquo;Not really,&rdquo; retorted Moore. &ldquo;Bad shooters make goaltenders look good.&rdquo;All of this puts added pressure on a young and relatively inexperienced defense and the fine goaltending of Andy Brown.&ldquo;Brown has been super,&rdquo; Moore said. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say enough about him. And I&rsquo;m not going to get down on some of our inexperienced kids on defense. They are our future.&rdquo;What has hurt the Racers more than anything has been the penalty-killing and power-play departments. &ldquo;Our power play has been brutal,&rdquo; is Moore&rsquo;s frank appraisal. &ldquo;And we&rsquo;ve given up 10 power play goals.&rdquo;Another thing that bothers Moore is the attitude of some of his players, most of them veterans. &ldquo;Nobody expects an expansion team to win and some of our players &mdash; and I&rsquo;m not going to name names &mdash; feel the same way,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;Most of the guys are working and trying. They&rsquo;ve hustled in all but one game so far, but you can&rsquo;t force them to score. One of our problems now is that a lot of us don&rsquo;t know the league yet and that includes myself,&rdquo; Moore said.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re making mistakes now we hope not to make when we get to know these guys.&rdquo;And what will be done to rectify the current scarcity of goals? &ldquo;Chuck Catto (the Racers&rsquo; director of player personnel) is working on some deals now,&rdquo; said Moore. &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t win hockey games playing like this.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think we can snap out of it unless we get some guys who will score goals.&rdquo;The only consolation is the Racers have not been shut out yet. They have had scored one goal in five games two goals in two others.Personnel wise, defenseman Ken Desjardine is out for six weeks with a broken bone in his left heel. Ralph Hopiavuori has been recalled from Indy&rsquo;s Mohawk Valley farm club in the North American League.NEW ENGLAND: Whalers&rsquo; general manager Jack Kelley is pleased with his team&rsquo;s fine start which has seen them leap to the top of the division with plenty of room below. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re getting great balance and consistency,&rdquo; said Kelley, who pointed to Terry Caffery&rsquo;s return as one of the keys. &ldquo;His contributions have been immense,&rdquo; said the GM of the little center iceman who missed all last season with a knee injury. &ldquo;When you get Larry Pleau, Caffery and Wayne Carleton coming over the boards, you don&rsquo;t give the enemy breathing room.&rdquo; &hellip;Goaltender Al Smith has been hot, allowing only four goals in a recent three-game span&hellip;Captain and defenseman Ted Green has been sidelined with muscle spasms in his back and Gerry Methe was called up from Cape Cod for one game and played well.CHICAGO: Cougars snapped a five-game losing streak (after winning the season opener) against the Toronto Toros when Dave Walter scored the game-winner in the second minute of overtime. Walter, a late cut during training camp, was recalled just before the Toronto game to shake up the Windy City crew&hellip;Among those five losses were three one-goal setbacks&hellip; Veteran center iceman Joe Hardy is off to a rough start with only two assists in seven games.CLEVELAND: The Crusaders finally got their home opener in after two postponements. The second was caused by bad ice. A crowd of slightly over 13,000 saw the C&rsquo;s drop a 4-2 decision to the Edmonton Oilers in a game of ironies. And all of them involved centerman Ron Buchanan. Bucky, who had hoped to play the first game in the 18,500-seat Coliseum, was traded to the Oilers and would not have played that opener except for the two postponements. And it was Buchanan who not only scored the first goal ever at the Coliseum, but he also scored the game-winner and set up a third tally, an empty netter by Bruce MacGregor&hellip;First Crusader to score at the Big C was Ron Ward. &#9632;

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Indianapolis Coach Bemoans Lack Of Scoring Punch By Racers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0027-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01174/3270647-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">WAYNE DILLON&hellip; Getting Better All The Time</figcaption></div>TORONTO&mdash;The Toronto Toros are living up to their pre-season press notices that they are the team to beat in the World Hockey Association this season and they are on the move mainly because of their younger scoring phenonm &mdash; like Wayne Dillon and Tom Simpson to name two.The future of the WHA, it has been said, is in its youth &mdash; young lions like Mark Howe, Dillon, Frankie Rochon, Claude St. Sauveur and Kevin Morrison.Those were the rookie stars of a season ago, and as they enter their sophomore year it&rsquo;ll be interesting to note the degree of maturity.As boys among men they distinguished themselves admirably &mdash; and at this early juncture in Year HI of the WHA at least one of the heralded rookies of Year II appears ready to move into the front ranks of the league&rsquo;s playing citizenry.He&rsquo;s 19-year-old Wayne Dillon architect of 30 goals and 35 assists as a WHA rookie.Looked upon by Toros&rsquo; general manager Buck Houle as the classic big centerman (6 feet-185) that every winning team needs, Dillon &mdash; for the fourth straight week &mdash; is leading team the league&rsquo;s point parade with 10 goalsand 13 assists for 23 points.That&rsquo;s three more than Winnipeg&rsquo;s Bobby Hull, who has posted a league-leading 12 goals.Certainly, Dillon appears to have shed the growing pains and distored coordination of adolescence for smoothness, strength and confidence from the knowledge he can play his kind of game.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s not much he can&rsquo;t do,&rdquo; said Houle. &ldquo;And we know he&rsquo;s going to get even better at what he&rsquo;s already doing.&rdquo;A year ago, of course, Dillon was the highest salaried high schooler in history. As a Toro rookie, he combined major league hockey with grade 13 studies at Wexford Collegiate in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough.He also drove a Corvette to and from classes.Now, with the books out of the way, he can concentrate on goals &mdash; something the Toros as a team appear to be doing very well.EDMONTON: The Edmonton Oilers opened their glamorous new Coliseum Nov. 10 with a resounding 4-1 victory over the Cleveland Crusaders as 15,236 fans looked on for the first ever game in the new rink.Goaler Jacques Plante was the architect of the opening Coliseum win as he bested Gerry Cheevers of the Crusaders in making his first start in an Edmonton uniform since giving up the general manager and coaching job with the Quebec Nordiques.QUEBEC: After a slow start and a rash of injuries, the Nordiques are starting to put it all together as evidenced by their 6-3 record after games of the Nov. 10 weekend to stay int he division race behind Edmonton and Winnipeg&hellip; The Nordiques also are also running ahead at the box office with 32,834 spectators present for their first four home games. &#9632;

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Toros On Early Rampage As Dillon Sets WHA Pace

<h2>CLEVELAND</h2>GOALGerry CheeversBob WhiddenDEFENSERay 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 WorthyJacques PlanteDEFENSEDoug BarrieKen BairdAl HamiltonBarry LongRay MacKayJim McCrimmonCENTEREddie JoyalRoss PerkinsMike RodgersBobby SheehanRon BuchananR. WINGTom GilmoreBruce MacGregorRusty PatenaudeL. WINGRon ClimieBlair MacDonaldSteve CarlyleINJUREDDon Herriman<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 WaltersBrian McKenzieL. 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 KurfJack 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 RoyJ.C. TremblayCENTERSerge BernierAndre GaudetteJeannot GilbertMichel ParizeauR. WINGRene LeclercAlain CaronReal CloutierRejean HouleL. WINGPierre GuiteMike RouleauCharles ConstantinINJUREDFrancois Lacombe<h2>SAN DIEGO</h2>GOALJoe JunkinRuss GillowDEFENSERon PlumbKen BlockHarry HowellKevin MorrisonBob FalkenbergBob WallCENTERAndre LacroixRay AdduonoWayne RiversR. WINGRick SentesJamie BatemanBrian MorenzTed ScharfL. WINGKevin DevineGene PeacoshCraig ReichmuthNorm FergusonINJUREDNone.<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALGilles GrattonLes BinkleyJim ShawDEFENSEMike AmodeoRick CunninghamSteve CuddieJim TurkiewiczGeorge KuzmiczCENTERWayne DillonPat HickeyGavin KirkVaclav NedomanskyR. WINGTony FeatherstoneBob LeducTom Martin*Tom SimpsonGuy TrottierL. WINGPaul HendersonFrank MahovlichBrit SelbyRichard FardaINJUREDNone.<h2>VANCOUVER</h2>GOALDon McLeodEd HumphreysDEFENSEJim CardiffDon McCullochMike PelykPat PriceDuane RuppPete McNameeCENTERBryan CampbellRon ChipperfieldClaude St. SauveRob WaltonR. WINGDanny LawsonPaul TerbencheJohn McKenzieDon O&rsquo;DonoghueLarry IsraelsonL. WINGDon BurgessMurray MyersJohn MigneaultMike ChernoffINJUREDPete Donnelly<h2>WINNIPEG</h2>GOALJoe DaleyErnie WakelyCurt LarssonDEFENSELarry HornungDuke AsmundsonAnders HedbergHeikki RiihirantiLars-Erik SjobergBob WytowichPerry MillerCENTERDanny JohnsonVelli Ketolaur Ulf NilssonChris BordeleauR. WINGNorm BeaudinRon AshtonDanny SpringL. WINGMike FordMilt BlackBobby HullINJUREDNone. &#9632;

WHA Team Rosters

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-02107/3270835-1-eng-US/f0028-022.jpg" title="f0028-02" width="597" height="533"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01165/3270842-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="166" height="206"></div><h2>Mon. Nov. 4</h2><h3>QUEBEC 5, TORONTO 3</h3><h2>Tue. Nov. 5</h2><h3>SAN DIEGO 3, HOUSTON 9</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0376/3270828-1-eng-US/f0028-032.jpg" title="f0028-03" width="595" height="727"></div><h3>PHOENIX 3, INDIANAPOLIS 0</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0460/3270821-1-eng-US/f0028-042.jpg" title="f0028-04" width="592" height="442"></div><h3>TORONTO 5, MICHIGAN 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0548/3270814-1-eng-US/f0028-052.jpg" title="f0028-05" width="592" height="459"></div><h3>VANCOUVER 5, CHICAGO 4</h3><h3>FIRST PERIOD</h3>Chicago. 1&mdash;Backstrom (Harris. Mavely) 5:33. Vancouver. 2&mdash;McKenzie (Campbell. Lawson) 7:31. Chicago. 3&mdash;Stapleton (Hardy) 12:24. Vancouver, 4&mdash;Lawson (McKenzie. Burgess) 14:38 Chicago. 5&mdash;MacGregor (Paiement. Maggs) 19:18.Penalties: Stapleton 2:37. St Sauveur 4 15, Pelyk. Hardy 4 47. Mavety 6:30, St. Sauveur 8:36. Campbell 11 20, Popiel 13:47, Maggs 16:52.<h3>SECOND PERIOD</h3>Vancouver. 6&mdash;Burgess (Lawson. Walton) 10:35.Penalties Mavety 12.22.<h3>THIRD PERIOD</h3>Vancouver 7&mdash;St. Sauveur (Jones. Isrealson) 8 14. Chicago. 8&mdash;MacGregor (Paiement. Mavety) 11:42 Vancouver (Israelson. Pelyk) 11:56.Penalties: Paiement 5:18, Cardiff 11:11. Jones 12:21. Walton 19:10.<h3>MINNESOTA 4, WINNIPEG 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0640/3270807-1-eng-US/f0028-062.jpg" title="f0028-06" width="591" height="519"></div><h2>Wed. Nov. 6</h2><h3>VANCOUVER 3, QUEBEC 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0734/3270800-1-eng-US/f0028-072.jpg" title="f0028-07" width="593" height="622"></div><h2>Thur. Nov. 7</h2><h3>SAN DIEGO 0, INDIANAPOLIS 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0831/3270793-1-eng-US/f0028-082.jpg" title="f0028-08" width="587" height="500"></div><h2>Fri. Nov. 8</h2><h3>SAN DIEGO 0, NEW ENGLAND 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0928/3270786-1-eng-US/f0028-092.jpg" title="f0028-09" width="583" height="353"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1027/3270779-1-eng-US/f0028-102.jpg" title="f0028-10" width="588" height="94"></div><h3>CLEVELAND 2, VANCOUVER 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1121/3270772-1-eng-US/f0028-112.jpg" title="f0028-11" width="593" height="407"></div><h2>Sat. Nov. 9</h2><h3>TORONTO 7, MINNESOTA 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1219/3270765-1-eng-US/f0028-122.jpg" title="f0028-12" width="602" height="672"></div><h3>INDIANAPOLIS 5, HOUSTON 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1315/3270758-1-eng-US/f0028-132.jpg" title="f0028-13" width="599" height="381"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-149/3270751-1-eng-US/f0028-142.jpg" title="f0028-14" width="594" height="352"></div><h3>PHOENIX 4, NEW ENGLAND 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-159/3270744-1-eng-US/f0028-152.jpg" title="f0028-15" width="589" height="485"></div><h3>WINNIPEG 3, VANCOUVER 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-168/3270737-1-eng-US/f0028-162.jpg" title="f0028-16" width="595" height="701"></div><h2>Sun. Nov. 10</h2><h3>INDIANAPOLIS 6, MICHIGAN 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-177/3270730-1-eng-US/f0028-172.jpg" title="f0028-17" width="596" height="645"></div><h3>TORONTO 7, CHICAGO 0</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-187/3270723-1-eng-US/f0028-182.jpg" title="f0028-18" width="597" height="580"></div><h3>SAN DIEGO 4, QUEBEC 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-197/3270716-1-eng-US/f0028-192.jpg" title="f0028-19" width="589" height="726"></div><h3>PHOENIX 4, MINNESOTA 10</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-205/3270709-1-eng-US/f0028-202.jpg" title="f0028-20" width="597" height="727"></div><h3>CLEVELAND 1, EDMONTON 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-215/3270702-1-eng-US/f0028-212.jpg" title="f0028-21" width="598" height="584"></div> &#9632;

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World Hockey Association Summaries

(Standings on Tue. Nov. 12)<h2>CANADIAN DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-224/3270985-1-eng-US/f0028-222.jpg" title="f0028-22" width="589" height="182"></div><h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-234/3270978-1-eng-US/f0028-232.jpg" title="f0028-23" width="595" height="141"></div><h2>WEST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-244/3270971-1-eng-US/f0028-242.jpg" title="f0028-24" width="590" height="178"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Mon. Nov. 4Quebec 5 at Toronto 3.Tue. Nov. 5San Diego 3 at Houston 9: Phoenix 3 at Indianapolis 0: Toronto 5 at Michigan 2; Vancouver 5 at Chicago 4: Minnesota 4 at Winnipeg 6.Wed. Nov. 6Vancouver 3 at Quebec 5.Thur. Nov. 7San Diego 0 at Indianapolis 3.Fri. Nov. 8Cleveland 2 at Vancouver 1; San Diego 0 at New England 3.Sat. Nov. 9Toronto 7 at Minnesota 4: Indianapolis 4 at Houston 4; Phoenix 4 at New England 2; Winnipeg 3 at Vancouver 3.Sun. Nov. 10Phoenix 4 at Minnesota 10: Cleveland 1 at Edmonton 4; Indianapolis 6 at Michigan 1; Toronto 7 at Chicago 0: San Diego 4 at Quebec 3.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Nov. 12Quebec at Michigan: San Diego at Chicago; New England at HoustonWed. 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 MichiganFri. Nov. 15Toronto at Edmonton; Indianapolis at Winnipeg; Cleveland at SanDiego.Sat. Nov. 17New England at Phoenix; Chicago at Houston; Michigan at QuebecSun. Nov. 17Indianapolis at Edmonton; Toronto at Winnipeg; New England at Michigan; Minnesota at Quebec; San. Diego at Houston.Tue. Nov. 19Houston at Indianapolis; New England ab Chicago; Vancouver at San Diego.Wed. Nov. 20Edmonton at Quebec; Minnesota at Winnipeg; Indianapolis at Chicago.Thu. Nov. 21New England at Indianapolis; Phoenix at Michigan; Cleveland at Quebec.Fri. Nov. 22Edmonton at Toronto: Houston at Vancouver; Michigan at Quebec.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-254/3270964-1-eng-US/f0028-252.jpg" title="f0028-25" width="257" height="291"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-264/3270957-1-eng-US/f0028-262.jpg" title="f0028-26" width="218" height="286"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-274/3270950-1-eng-US/f0028-272.jpg" title="f0028-27" width="250" height="249"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-284/3270943-1-eng-US/f0028-282.jpg" title="f0028-28" width="251" height="264"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-294/3270936-1-eng-US/f0028-292.jpg" title="f0028-29" width="244" height="253"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-304/3270929-1-eng-US/f0028-302.jpg" title="f0028-30" width="323" height="247"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-314/3270922-1-eng-US/f0028-312.jpg" title="f0028-31" width="264" height="259"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-324/3270915-1-eng-US/f0028-322.jpg" title="f0028-32" width="273" height="249"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-334/3270908-1-eng-US/f0028-332.jpg" title="f0028-33" width="238" height="226"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-344/3270901-1-eng-US/f0028-342.jpg" title="f0028-34" width="292" height="214"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-354/3270894-1-eng-US/f0028-352.jpg" title="f0028-35" width="219" height="253"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-364/3270887-1-eng-US/f0028-362.jpg" title="f0028-36" width="255" height="252"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-373/3270880-1-eng-US/f0028-372.jpg" title="f0028-37" width="304" height="316"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-383/3270873-1-eng-US/f0028-382.jpg" title="f0028-38" width="313" height="247"></div> &#9632;

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WHA Scoreboard

<div class="byline">&#x2014;McConnell</div>&mdash;DETROIT&mdash;The Michigan Stags of the World Hockey Association haven&rsquo;t made an impression let alone a dent in this National Hockey League stronghold.The Stags&rsquo; home opener in the World Hockey Association here drew 2,522.It&rsquo;s too bad. The fans missed an overtime victory by the Stags and a record-tying performance by Stag right wing Gary Veneruzzo. Danny Gruen scored on Mike Curran at 4:22 of overtime to give the Stags a 4-2 victory over the Minnesota Fighting Saints. Veneruzzo welcomed Curran back from his five-game suspension with a goal 10 seconds into the game. The original record of 10 seconds was set by Rick Morris for the Chicago Cougars, Dec. 9, 1972, in a loss to Quebec.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01157/3271054-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg" title="f0030-01" width="319" height="487"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Veneruzzo</figcaption></div>The Saints reaped revenge with a 6-3 victory a couple of days later at St. Paul.The Stags remained in the Western Division base ment with two wins and seven losses and were realing after an 11-3 whipping at Winnipeg in which Bobby Hull scored his seventh and eighth goals in three games, giving him 10 for the seven games the Jets have played this season.MINNESOTA: The Minnesota Fighting Saints are getting over their slow starts, but barely.The Saints, who had allowed a goal by the opposition in the opening 21/2 minutes for the previous five games, kept the Michigan Stags off the board until Marc Tardif clicked at 7:29.The Saints rebounded, peppering Stag goaltender Gerry Desjardins with 44 shots, 33 of them in the first two periods, for a 6-3 victory. It avenged an overtime 4-3 loss to the Stags at Detroit a few days earlier.That loss in Detroit marked the return of Mike Curran to the Saints&rsquo; nets following a five-game suspension for his assault on a referee in the playoffs.Mike McMahon hopes to return to action soon. He&rsquo;s been on the sidelines since breaking two ribs in the first pre-season game.Also on the sidelines since the opening game has been Danny O&rsquo;Shea&rsquo;s younger brother, Kevin, who has a knee injury. The big right wing missed much of last season with Phoenix in the Western League with a knee injury.Gord Gallant had 18 stitches taken in his lips and lost his mustache when he first collided with temmate Jim Johnson and then was high sticked from behind.The Saints have announced an eight-game television package made up of six road games and two from the Civic Center. The first televised game is Nov. 10 at home with the Phoenix Roadrunners as guests. &#9632;

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Fans Not Impressed By Stags; Saints Suffer In Early Going

(Including Sun. Nov. 3)<h2>PHOENIX</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0378/3271211-1-eng-US/f0030-032.jpg" title="f0030-03" width="590" height="606"></div><h2>WINNIPEG</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0465/3271204-1-eng-US/f0030-042.jpg" title="f0030-04" width="592" height="643"></div><h2>VANCOUVER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0555/3271197-1-eng-US/f0030-052.jpg" title="f0030-05" width="586" height="609"></div><h2>MICHIGAN</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0644/3271190-1-eng-US/f0030-062.jpg" title="f0030-06" width="583" height="179"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0735/3271183-1-eng-US/f0030-072.jpg" title="f0030-07" width="592" height="494"></div><h2>MINNESOTA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0829/3271176-1-eng-US/f0030-082.jpg" title="f0030-08" width="587" height="636"></div><h2>SAN DIEGO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0924/3271169-1-eng-US/f0030-092.jpg" title="f0030-09" width="592" height="612"></div><h2>INDIANAPOLIS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-1019/3271162-1-eng-US/f0030-102.jpg" title="f0030-10" width="587" height="349"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-1116/3271155-1-eng-US/f0030-112.jpg" title="f0030-11" width="590" height="323"></div><h2>CLEVELAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-1215/3271148-1-eng-US/f0030-122.jpg" title="f0030-12" width="591" height="637"></div><h2>CHICAGO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-1313/3271141-1-eng-US/f0030-132.jpg" title="f0030-13" width="587" height="639"></div><h2>TORONTO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-1412/3271134-1-eng-US/f0030-142.jpg" title="f0030-14" width="590" height="489"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-1512/3271127-1-eng-US/f0030-152.jpg" title="f0030-15" width="589" height="213"></div><h2>QUEBEC</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-169/3271120-1-eng-US/f0030-162.jpg" title="f0030-16" width="589" height="545"></div><h2>NEW ENGLAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-179/3271113-1-eng-US/f0030-172.jpg" title="f0030-17" width="594" height="665"></div><h2>EDMONTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-187/3271106-1-eng-US/f0030-182.jpg" title="f0030-18" width="592" height="85"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-196/3271099-1-eng-US/f0030-192.jpg" title="f0030-19" width="587" height="555"></div><h2>HOUSTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-206/3271092-1-eng-US/f0030-202.jpg" title="f0030-20" width="584" height="612"></div><h2>GOALERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-214/3271085-1-eng-US/f0030-212.jpg" title="f0030-21" width="588" height="328"></div> &#9632;

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WHA SCORING STATISTICS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0030-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-02107/3271242-1-eng-US/f0030-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">VACLAV NEDOMANSKY&hellip; Toronto Toros</figcaption></div>It was, in many days, the plot heard round the world. When the Toronto Toros completed their cloak-and-dagger scheme to get Czechoslovakian star Vaclav Nedomansky, the man they call &ldquo;Big Ned&rdquo; was hailed as the Phil Esposito of Europe. While that may have seemed a bit of an overstatement at the time, WHA fans are learning that the 30-year-old rookie has not been overrated as Nedomansky had six goals and two assists after the Toros&rsquo; first 10 games. Nedomansky says he came to Canada with his future in mind. The Toros believe he has a good one. &#9632;

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WHA ROOKIE PARADE

<div class="byline">&#x2014;TANNER</div>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;The American Hockey League governors surprised their owners, general managers and coaches by adopting a five-minute sudden-death overtime and a new substitution rule.The fact that 15 of the first 50 AHL games this season were ties had a lot to do with the board of governors going for the overtime.If a game is tied after the regulation 60 minutes, the teams now will switch ends and play will commence immediately with no re-surfacing of the ice. Overtime last was played in the league in 1965-66.The substitution rule limits the times when player changes can be made. Most will have to be made during the action, with the only other changes allowed during stoppages when there is a goal, an injury, an inequality of players due to penalties and in the last two minutes of play in the third period and in the overtime.The changing-on-the-fly rule first was voted down by the National Hockey League following its use during exhibition games. AHL president Jack Butterfield, a staunch supporter of the rule, polled his clubs just before the season opened and it narrowly missed acceptance. But it wasn&rsquo;t brought to an official vote until a recent Nov. 4 meeting.Both rules were adopted by 5-4 votes, with Syracuse not represented at the meeting. &#9632;

AHL Adopts New Rulings On Overtime, Line Changes

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada byHILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street, Wellaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada byHILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD. Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaNEW HAVEN &mdash;For a guy who never has been in the minor leagues before, Dean Prentice is taking the step down very well.It&rsquo;s not really a demotion though because while Prentice spent every game of his 22 seasons in professional hockey as a player in the National Hockey League, he is a coach now.And he&rsquo;s enjoying it.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s exciting &hellip;I find it more exciting behind the bench than I did when I played,&rdquo; said the New Haven Nighthawks&rsquo; coach during a recent lull in his team&rsquo;s American Hockey League schedule.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-01140/3271280-1-eng-US/f0031-012.jpg" title="f0031-01" width="282" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dean Prentice</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I get a thrill out of seeing the players doing what I&rsquo;ve shown them,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;When they come through with the teaching I&rsquo;ve done, it&rsquo;s a lot of satisfaction. I can see we are accomplishing something.&rdquo;Prentice admits he&rsquo;s at a disadvantage over a lot of the coaches who have been in the AHL for the last several seasons. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know the playerssol can&rsquo;t reallymatch up lines,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I look at the scoring statistics and try to go from there. We don&rsquo;t even have that many players on this team who have been in the league long enough that they know the older players, either.&ldquo;But there are an awful lot of new players in the league this year, so it&rsquo;s not as bad as it could be for me.&rdquo;New Haven was pretty much a three-man team offensively last season when Steve West had 50 goals and 60 assists, Blake Dunlop 37 goals and 41 assists and Jerry Byers 31 goals and 47 assists.Prentice hopes for more balance this season, and seemed to be achieving it until a four-game stretch at the end of October and early in November. Of the first 16 goals scored by the Nighthawks this season, only three players had two goals as 13 different skaters scored.But starting with the Oct. 27 game against Baltimore, the Alain Langlais - Tom Colley - Scott McPhail line got hot and was on the ice for 10 of the 13 goals in the next four games. Langlais scored five goals in a three-game stretch, including three in a 6-1 victory at Hershey Nov. 2.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to get the other two lines scoring,&rdquo; Prentice said. &ldquo;I like a balanced team. Sure you&rsquo;d always like to have a Phil Esposito ora Bobby Orr, but it&rsquo;s nice to have balance all the way down. Philadelphia had good balance from the goaltender right on out and it sure paid off.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not that the one line is getting all the chances, either. The other two just aren&rsquo;t putting the puck in the net. In Rochester, for example, we had two breakaways and didn&rsquo;t score, and the Americans had one and scored. They won the game by a goal.&rdquo;The Nighthawks are really putting it to the opposition in the third period. They outshot Hershey 19-8 in the final period Oct. 25, outgunned Baltimore 15-5 in the third period on the 27th, had 19 shots in the final period in Rochester Nov. I, outshot Hershey 13-4 in the third period Nov. 2 and had an amazing 25-8 bulge in the third period against Providence on the 3rd. But the Nighthawks won only one of those games.Richard Nantais, who had three goals in four games while making quite an impression on New Haven fans, was recalled by the parent Minnesota North Stars.PROVIDENCE: The Reds carried their undefeated season into November with a 4-2 victory in New Haven on the 3rd. It was their seventh victory in eight games, the otherbeingatie. And they&rsquo;d played only three on home ice.Rookie Jerry Holland, who scored four goals in the season opener, had a three goal game in Syracuse Oct. 30, giving him 11 goals already this season.The Reds did suffer a big loss when the parent New York Rangers recalled rookie defense star Ron Greschner. &ldquo;I expect he&rsquo;ll be staying up,&rdquo; said coach John Muckier.But there was more player help for the already strong Reds. Norm Dub&eacute;, who scored 32 goals in only 48 games for Springfield last season, and Johnny Wright, a National Leaguer the past two seasons, were sent to Providence on loan by Kansas City.NOVA SCOTIA: Coach Al MacNeil gambled with a rather unusual move and it backfired in the Oct. 31 home game against Rochester.With the score 3-2 Rochester and an Amerk in the penalty box, MacNeil pulled goalie Dave Elenbaas for an extra attacker with 2:50 left in the game. The Vees didn&rsquo;t score, and Elenbaas still wasn&rsquo;t back on the ice when the penalty to Rochester&rsquo;s Rick Pagnutti expired. A long shot by rookie defenseman Ray Maluta sailed into the empty net with 1:26 to play.Nova Scotia did score a goal with 26 seconds left to lose by a goal.&ldquo;Using our manpower right, they should never touch the puck with a two-man advantage for us,&rdquo; MacNeil explained. &ldquo;But we just never put any pressure on them. We just never got a chance to put him (the goaltender) back in. I wouldn&rsquo;t hesitate to do it again in the same situation. It just didn&rsquo;t work this time.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-02108/3271273-1-eng-US/f0031-022.jpg" title="f0031-02" width="532" height="593"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALAIN LANGLAIS&hellip;On Hot Streak</figcaption></div>Mario Tremblay, the red-hot Vees rookie, didn&rsquo;t last long in the Nov. 3 game against Virginia. A fight broke out early and Tremblay figured teammate Gary Geldart was outsized, so he stepped in and was hit with a game misconduct at 2:56 of the first period.SPRINGFIELD: To the Kings fell two dubious honors &mdash; being the first Northern Division team to lose to a Southern Division club and the first team in the AHL to be shut out this season.Springfield lost 2-1 at home to Syracuse Nov. 1 for the first Northern Division loser in inter-divisional play. Two nights later in Rochester, the Kings were whipped 6-0 in a game in which they trailed only 2-0 after two periods.The Syracuse game had a wild finish. Springfield coach Ron Stewart called for a measurement of the stick of Eagles&rsquo; Rick Foley with 1:45 to play, knowing it was illegal. Foley was sent to the penalty box. Then Steve Warr of Syracuse went off for holding the puck with 21 seconds to play.With Springfield goalie Rick Charron pulled for an extra skater, the Kings had six men on the attack against three defenders and goalie Jacques Caron.&ldquo;We did everything but put the puck in the net,&rdquo; Stewart said. &ldquo;It was a wild scramble at the end. But the first period of that game was the worst we&rsquo;ve played all season.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m still not too unhappy though because even though we didn&rsquo;t win that weekend, we were getting chances. The puck just wasn&rsquo;t going in. If we keep shooting, they&rsquo;ve got to go in sometime.&rdquo;Veteran Jimmy Peters continues to have a fine season for the Kings and for one stretch had a hand in seven of eight goals. &#9632;

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Prentice Strives For Balance On Hawks; Powerful Reds Receive Even More Power

<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01142/3271440-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg" title="f0032-01" width="531" height="496"></div><h2>SCORING BY TEAMS</h2><h3>BALTIMORE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0294/3271433-1-eng-US/f0032-022.jpg" title="f0032-02" width="535" height="552"></div><h3>HERSHEY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0355/3271426-1-eng-US/f0032-032.jpg" title="f0032-03" width="535" height="460"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0441/3271419-1-eng-US/f0032-042.jpg" title="f0032-04" width="533" height="155"></div><h3>NEW HAVEN</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0528/3271412-1-eng-US/f0032-052.jpg" title="f0032-05" width="534" height="494"></div><h3>NOVA SCOTIA</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0619/3271405-1-eng-US/f0032-062.jpg" title="f0032-06" width="538" height="578"></div><h3>PROVIDENCE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0712/3271398-1-eng-US/f0032-072.jpg" title="f0032-07" width="536" height="233"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0810/3271391-1-eng-US/f0032-082.jpg" title="f0032-08" width="536" height="237"></div><h3>RICHMOND</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-098/3271384-1-eng-US/f0032-092.jpg" title="f0032-09" width="540" height="724"></div><h3>ROCHESTER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-107/3271377-1-eng-US/f0032-102.jpg" title="f0032-10" width="538" height="611"></div><h3>SPRINGFIELD</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-116/3271370-1-eng-US/f0032-112.jpg" title="f0032-11" width="540" height="584"></div><h3>SYRACUSE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-125/3271363-1-eng-US/f0032-122.jpg" title="f0032-12" width="536" height="554"></div><h3>VIRGINIA</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-133/3271356-1-eng-US/f0032-132.jpg" title="f0032-13" width="535" height="406"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-142/3271349-1-eng-US/f0032-142.jpg" title="f0032-14" width="533" height="175"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-152/3271342-1-eng-US/f0032-152.jpg" title="f0032-15" width="502" height="593"><figcaption class="caption-body">JERRY HOLLAND &hellip;Off To Hot Start</figcaption></div><h3>GOALERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-162/3271335-1-eng-US/f0032-162.jpg" title="f0032-16" width="539" height="640"></div> &#9632;

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Reds’ Rookie Holland Early AHL Scoring Leader

<div class="byline">&#x2014;TANNER</div>ROCHESTER &mdash;A chance telephone call brought the Rochester Americans just whai coach Dick Mattiussi figured they needed &mdash; a peppy winger who can score goals.Ron Garwasiuk, an aggressive left wing who scored 31 goals for Providence as an AHL rookie in 1970-71, phoned Mattiussi, a former teammate with Providence, and asked for a job. It didn&rsquo;t take long for the Amerks to obtain his rights from Providence.Garwasiuk moved to the World Hockey Association with the Los Angeles Sharks last season, but was dropped by the Michigan Stags (the Sharks moved) this fall, then was cut by Edmonton.Although he hadn&rsquo;t been on skates for two weeks, Garwasiuk played a key role as the Amerks won the first three games in which he played. He scored two goals and assisted on one in one of them.In other player moves made by Mattiussi, center Steve Stirling was brought up from Broome of the North American Hockey League, Bernie MacNeil was sent to Broome and veteran defenseman Bob Malcolm was assigned to Winston-Salem of the Southern Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-172/3271471-1-eng-US/f0032-172.jpg" title="f0032-17" width="313" height="404"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Garwasiuk</figcaption></div>Dave Reece made it three straight years of shutting out Springfield in his first appearance against the Kings when the Amerks took a 6-0 victory at home Nov. 3. As a Boston Brave, Reece blanked the Kings 4-0 Nov. 21, 1972, in Boston and 5-0 Nov. 1, 1973, also in Boston.The Amerks had quite a trip Rome from Halifax, Nova Scotia, for their Nov. I game against New Haven.&ldquo;We got up at 5 a.m. Rochester time in Halifax.&rdquo; Mattiussi said. &ldquo;Then were fogged in there for 3&frac12; hours. We missed our flight out of Boston as a result and had to spend two hours in the airport there. We never got back home until 3:30 p.m.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Chance Phone Call Lands Amerks Aggressive Winger As Ron Garwasiuk Returns

<div class="byline">BY JERRY LINDQUIST</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-01123/3271526-1-eng-US/f0033-012.jpg" title="f0033-01" width="553" height="547"><figcaption class="caption-body">LYNN ZIMMERMAN&hellip;Likes To Roam</figcaption></div>BALTIMORE &mdash;Lynn Zimmerman is a little bit of a man &mdash; in stature that is. At 5&rsquo;8&rdquo; 165 he&rsquo;s guaranteed to stump the panel on What&rsquo;s My Line?A professional hockey player? Goal tender? Stops pucks ranging in speeds upwards of 75 miles an hour? No way.But that&rsquo;s Zimmerman, now minding the mesh for the Baltimore Clippers and doing it rather well. He&rsquo;s a dazzler, too, making all kinds of heart-stopping saves when he&rsquo;s not roaming the ice, assisting the defense.It is typical of Zimmerman to charge from the crease &mdash; in any direction &mdash; in an attempt to clear the puck from harm&rsquo;s way when he recognizes a potentially dangerous situation developing. What keeps him from being mauled by opposing forwards is another story. Somehow he survives to carry on another day, another game.The Clippers borrowed Zimmerman from the Rochester Americans this year after last year&rsquo;s incumbents &mdash; Ken Lockett and Denis DeJordy &mdash; didn&rsquo;t return. Lockett was sold to the Vancouver Canucks. DeJordy retired. And they left a hard act to follow. After all, Baltimore did claim the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Southern Division title a season ago.A new working agreement with the Boston Bruins left Zimmerman expendable in Rochester. &ldquo;I asked for my release but they wouldn&rsquo;t let me go,&rdquo; he explained, &ldquo;and I said there was no way I&rsquo;d go back there.&rdquo;The fact that he posted a commendable 2.90 goals-against average for the Northern Division champs figured to make Zimmerman a hot item. He wound up in Baltimore on a loan basis, with the Clippers having the right to purchase him outright any time before season&rsquo;s end.In his first six games, Zimmerman faced an average of 40 shots. He was at his best blunting one Richmond assault after another in a 2-2 standoff away from home. He seemingly was everywhere, once roaming into the left corner to help the defense while the Robins had a man advantage.&ldquo;Some nights you just have to.&rdquo; the 32-year-old Zimmerman said later. &ldquo;Some nights you just have to help out.&rdquo;VIRGINIA: Red Wings off to a flying start, winning three and tying four of first 10 games, to set Southern Division pace&hellip;Rick McCann, the team captain, moved into AHL top 10 scorers with four goals and seven assists. In his first six games after being sent down by Detroit, goaltender Doug Grant was 2-1-3, with a glossy 2.50 goals-against average&hellip; Defenseman Charlie Shaw returned to the lineup. Likewise center Blair Stewart&hellip;Coach Doug Barkley impressed with play of winger Pierre Jarry, also demoted by parent club. Jarry also served on point on power play.HERSHEY: Parent Pittsburgh Penguins took defensemen Dennis Owchar and Colin Campbell as well as center Harvey Bennett. Veteran backliner Jean-Guy Lagace came down&hellip;Buffalo Sabres, who share Bears with Pittsburgh this year, came to coach Chuck Hamilton&rsquo;s rescue by shipping forwards Bryan McSheffrey (obtained in a trade with Vancouver) and Morris Titanic. Latter was Sabres&rsquo; first draft choice in 1973&hellip;Wayne Bianchin was given green light to return after careful examination. He suffered broken neck in off &mdash; season accident.RICHMOND: Like Hershey, Robins had players coming and going. Philadelphia Flyers called for Serge Lajeunesse and Randy Osburn to fill in while Don Saleski and Bob Kelly served six-game suspensions&hellip;Washington recalled Bob Gryp and Lew Morrison, replacing them with Andre Peloffy, Steve Atkinson and Joe Lundrigan. Morrison was Robins&rsquo; leading scorer (7-4-11) after nine games&hellip;Peloffy off to fast start, securing hat trick plus assist in first game then adding two more goals in second&hellip;Capitals later shipped defenseman Murray Anderson, and Flyers ordered Osburn back after a few games.SYRACUSE: New Eagles won only one of first 10 games with four ties but found themselves only four points off the pace. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been fortunate that nobody in our division has pulled away but we can&rsquo;t expect that to go on forever,&rdquo; said coach Art Stratton&hellip;A 6-1 loss to Providence prompted Stratton to call for two-a-day workouts. &ldquo;The people who have been giving me less than 100 per cent were made aware of how things stand, and changes will be made if things don&rsquo;t shape up and quickly.&rdquo;&hellip;Rick Foley was returned to defense because, said Stratton, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to get some muscle in front of the net.&rdquo;&hellip;Winger Danny Schock failed to come to contractural terms with owner Bill Charles and returned to his home in Richmond. &#9632;

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Zimmerman Stands’Big’Filling Baltimore Net Job

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Nov. 12)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0290/3271578-1-eng-US/f0033-022.jpg" title="f0033-02" width="590" height="412"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Nov. 5Springfield 2 at Richmond 5.Wed. Nov. 6Springfield 3 at Hershey 5; Rochester 3 at New Haven 3; Virginia 4 at Syracuse 5Thur. Nov. 7Providence 7 at Nova Scotia 5Fri. Nov. 8Hershey 7 at Baltimore 4; New Haven 4 at Providence 5; Syracuse 1 at Richmond 4; Nova Scotia 2 at Rochester 3; Virginia 2 at Springfield 2.Sat. Nov. 9Syracuse 2 at Baltimore 4; Richmond 5 at Her shey 6, New Haven 1 at Springfield 5.Sun. Nov. 10Nova Scotia 3 at New Haven 2; Springfield 4 at Providence 4; Virginia 4 at Rochester 6; Richmond 1 at Syracuse 7.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Nov. 12Providence at Richmond.Wed. Nov. 13Providence at Hershey; Nova Scotia at New Haven; Baltimore at Virginia.Thu. Nov. 14Baltimore at Syracuse.Fri. Nov. 15New Haven at Nova Scotia; Virginia at Providence; Syracuse at Rochester; Richmond at Springfield.Sat Nov. 16Richmond at Baltimore; Virginia at Hershey New Haven at Springfield; Rochester at Syracuse.Sun. Nov. 17Springfield at New Haven; Hershey at Providence; Baltimore at Richmond; Virginia at Rochester.Tue. Nov. 19Virginia at Syracuse.Thu. Nov. 21Virginia at Nova Scotia; Hershey at Syracuse.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0366/3271571-1-eng-US/f0033-032.jpg" title="f0033-03" width="587" height="358"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Nov. 5Dallas 2 at Denver 2; Tulsa 1 at Seattle 3.Wed. Nov. 6Omaha 3 al Fort Worth 3; Oklahoma City 3 at Dallas 0Thur. Nov. 7Tulsa 6 at Seattle 2.Fri. Nov. 8Omaha 3 at Dallas 7; Fort Worth 2 at Tulsa 5; Seattle 2 at Denver 6; Oklahoma City 4 at Salt Lake 7.Sat Nov. 9Denver 5 at Fort Worth 1; Oklahoma City 2 at Tulsa 2; Salt Lake 3 at Omaha 2; Dallas 2 at Seattle 4.Sun. Nov. 10Dallas 4 at Omaha 2.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>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.Fri. Nov. 15Seattle at Fort Worth; Salt Lake at Tulsa; Oklahoma City at DEnver; Dallas at Omaha.Sat. Nov. 16Fort Worth at Dallas, Salt Lake at Oklahoma City; Seattle at Tulsa; Omaha at Denver.Sun. Nov. 17Salt Lake at Seattla.Tue. Nov. 19Oklahoma City at Seattle.Wed. Nov. 20Omaha at Dallas; Tulsa at Denver; Oklahoma City at Salt Lake.Thu. Nov. 21Fort Worth at Seattle.Fri. Nov. 22Dallas at Tulsa; Seattle at Denver; Fort Worth at Salt Lake.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Nov. 12)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0451/3271564-1-eng-US/f0033-042.jpg" title="f0033-04" width="592" height="433"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Nov. 6Dayton 0 at Des Moines 4; Muskegon 5 at Fort Wayne 4; Port Huron 3 at Columbus 6; Lansing 4 at Saginaw 5; Flint 4 at Kalamazoo 1Thur. Nov. 7Port Huron 3 at Saginaw 7Fri. Nov. 8Kalamazoo 4 at Lansing 7; Dayton 5 at Toledo 2; Des Moines 6 at Columbus 3; Fort Wayne 3 at Flint 3.Sat. Nov. 9Toledo 4 at Dayton 6; Columbus 4 at Fort Wayne 3; Des Moines 3 at Muskegon 8; Lansing 4 at Port Huron 5; Kalamazoo 1 at Saginaw 2.Sun. Nov. 10Des Mones 3 at Flint 4; Fort Wayne 6 at Columbus 11; Lansing 4 at Kalamazoo 3; Saginaw 1 at Toledo 2; Muskegon 5 at Port Huron 2.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Nov. 12Des Moines at Fort Wayne.Wed. Nov. 13Toledo at Saginaw; Port Huron at Muskegon; Lansing at Dayton.Fri. Nov. 15Flint at Des Moines; Muskegon at Columbus; Saginaw at Lansing; Port Huron at Toledo; Fort Wayne at Kalamazoo.Sat. Nov. 16Flint at Des Moines; Toledo at Fort Wayne; Saginaw at Muskegon; Kalamazoo at Port Huron; Dayton at Columbus.Sun. Nov. 17Muskegon at Kalamazoo; Des Moines at Toledo; Columbus at Dayton; Port Huron at Lansing; Fort Wayne at SaginawWed. Nov. 20Columbus at Fort Wayne; Saginaw at Flint; Port Huron at Kalamazoo; Lansing at Des Moines; Dayton at Toledo.Fri. Nov. 22Saginaw at Dayton; Fort Wayne at Columbus; Des Moines at Kalamazoo; Flint at Toledo; Muskegon at Lansing.<h2>SOUTHERN LEAGUE</h2><h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Nov. 13Hampton at Greensboro; Winston-Salem at Charlotte.Thu. Nov. 14Charlotte at Roanoke; Hampton at Winston-Salem.Fri. Nov. 15Greensboro at Charlotte.Sat. Nov. 16Charlotte at Greensboro: Roanoke at Winston-Salem.Tue. Nov. 19Greensboro at Charlotte; Winston-Salem at Hampton.Wed. Nov. 20Charlotte at Roanoke; Greensboro at Hampton.Thu. Nov. 21Greensboro at Roanoke; Charlotte at Winston-Salem.Fri. Nov. 22Hampton at Charlotte; Winston-Salem at Greensboro.<h2>NORTH AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Nov. 12)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0543/3271557-1-eng-US/f0033-052.jpg" title="f0033-05" width="590" height="261"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Nov. 5Johnstown 1 at Philadelphia 2.Wed. Nov. 6Johnstown 0 at Long Island 6; Mohawk Valley 4 at Philadelphia 3.Thur. Nov. 7Philadelphia 4 at Mohawk Valley 11.Fri. Nov. 8Syracuse 1 at Johnstown 4; Broome 5 at Cape Codders 9; Maine 4 at Philadelphia 9.Sat. Nov. 9Cape Codders 2 at Syracuse 4; Broome 2 at Johnstown 8; Long Island 6 at Maine 2.Sun. Nov. 10Mohawk Valley 5 at Broome 8; Syracuse 2 at Long Island 3; Cape Codders 4 at Philadelphia 5.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>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.Sun. Nov. 17Maine at Johnstown; Syracuse at Cape Codders; Long Island at Philadelphia.Tue. Nov. 19Mohawk Valley at Maine; Broome at Philadelphia.Wed. Nov. 20Maine at Cape Codders; Broome at Johnstown; Philadelphia at Syracuse.Thu. Nov. 21Long Island at Mohawk Valley; Broome at Philadelphia.Fri. Nov. 22Cape Codders at Johnstown; Broome at Syracuse; Maine at Long Island.Sat. Nov. 23Cape Codders at Johnstown; Syracuse at Mohawk Valley; Philadelphia at Maine.Sun. Nov. 24Cape Codders at Broome; Mohawk Valley at Syracuse; Philadelphia at Long Island. &#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 (NHA). 35&mdash;Philadelphia (NHL) & Washington (NHL). 36&mdash;Los Angeles (NHL) & California (NHL). 37&mdash;Minnesota (NHL) & N.Y. Islanders (NHL). 38&mdash;Kansas City (NHL) & N.Y. Islanders (NHL). 39&mdash;St. Louis (NHL), Montreal (NHL) & N.Y. Rangers (NHL). 40&mdash;Pittsburgh (NHL) & Buffalo (NHL). 41&mdash;Boston (NHL) & Washington (NHL). 42&mdash;New England (WHA) & Cleveland (WHA). 43&mdash;Buffalo (NHL). California (NHL) & Vancouver (WHA).44&mdash;Winnipeg. (WHA), Houston (WHA). Cleveland (WHA). Indianapolis (WHA). Phoenix (WHA). 45&mdash;Michigan (WHA). N.Y. Islanders (NHL) & Quebec (WHA). 46&mdash;Edmonton (WHA) & N.Y. Rangers NHL). 47&mdash;Boston (NHL) &mdash; Washington (NHL). 48&mdash;N.Y. Rangers (NHL) &mdash; Kansas City (NHL). 49&mdash;Chicago (NHL) &mdash; Edmonton (WHA). 50&mdash;Vancouver (NHL). Philadelphia (NHL) &mdash; Atlanta (NHL). 51&mdash;Indianapolis (WHA) &mdash; St. Louis (NHL). 52&mdash;Michigan (WHA) &mdash; San Diego (WHA). 53&mdash;New England (WHA) &mdash; Cleveland (WHA). 54&mdash;Indianapolis (WHA) &mdash; Toronto (WHA). 55&mdash;Buffalo (NHL). California (NHL) &mdash; Vancouver (WHA). 56&mdash;Winnipeg (WHA). Houston (WHA), 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). *&mdash;Independent. &#9632;

Minor League Affiliations

<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0288/3271748-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="520" height="405"></div><h2>SCORING BY TEAMS</h2><h3>DENVER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0367/3271741-1-eng-US/f0034-032.jpg" title="f0034-03" width="517" height="697"></div><h3>OKLAHOMA CITY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0452/3271734-1-eng-US/f0034-042.jpg" title="f0034-04" width="517" height="234"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0540/3271727-1-eng-US/f0034-052.jpg" title="f0034-05" width="521" height="418"></div><h3>SALT LAKE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0628/3271720-1-eng-US/f0034-062.jpg" title="f0034-06" width="521" height="617"></div><h3>DALLAS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0723/3271713-1-eng-US/f0034-072.jpg" title="f0034-07" width="521" height="563"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0818/3271706-1-eng-US/f0034-082.jpg" title="f0034-08" width="520" height="122"></div><h3>FORT WORTH</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0911/3271699-1-eng-US/f0034-092.jpg" title="f0034-09" width="541" height="558"></div><h3>OMAHA</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1011/3271692-1-eng-US/f0034-102.jpg" title="f0034-10" width="521" height="590"></div><h3>TULSA</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1112/3271685-1-eng-US/f0034-112.jpg" title="f0034-11" width="522" height="269"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1211/3271678-1-eng-US/f0034-122.jpg" title="f0034-12" width="522" height="388"></div><h3>SEATTLE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-136/3271671-1-eng-US/f0034-132.jpg" title="f0034-13" width="522" height="672"></div><h3>GOALERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-144/3271664-1-eng-US/f0034-142.jpg" title="f0034-14" width="516" height="500"></div> &#9632;

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CHL’s Scoring, Penalty Statistics

<div class="byline">BY BRUCE KENNEDY</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street, Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S and CanadaDENVER&mdash;Amidst reports of the California Seals&rsquo; possible arrival here a year from now and rumors that coach Jean-Guy Talbot would be back in St. Louis to coach the parent Blues, Denver&rsquo;s Spurs kept making hamburger out of the rest of the Central League.As November opened the Spurs hadn&rsquo;t lost in seven games and they stretched that streak to nine with a pair of wins over the Seattle Totems. The Totems&rsquo; only win, ironically, was Denver&rsquo;s only loss in the first month of the season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01135/3271633-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="270" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Yves Belanger</figcaption></div>Talbot was checking the defensive chartsand gleaming with pride. Veteran Larry Giroux departed for Kansas City in a trade but still the Spurs were deep in defensemen and goalie Yves Belanger earned CHL player of the week honors.It&rsquo;s an especially sweet experience for Belanger, who put together a 4.14 goals-against average last season at defense-weak Jacksonville of the American League. Jacksonville evaded the cellar by only two points as Bob Lemieux&rsquo;s Virginia Red Wings earned that unenviable spot.Belanger was threatening to shave that figure in half as he was Sporting a Jaunty 2.38 mean through 13 games. The Spurs over that time were a stiff 10-1-12 and gave up only 31 goals, the fewest in the league.As a result the Spurs were well ahead in the Northern Division and were threatening to make a farce of the race. Neverin the league had a St. Louis farm club staged such a bloodthirsty attack, either in Kansas City or Denver.Veteran Bob McCord donated experience in big helpings to the backline and the inflammable Bob Gassoff donated fists. Gassoff took an early Northern Division lead in penalty minutes with only Dallas Randy Holt ahead.Rookie Mitch Babin&rsquo;s part was no cameo role as the rookie center put a hammerlock on the league scoring lead, scoring eight goals in the Spurs&rsquo; first 10 games and adding nine assists.The other key figures in the Spurs&rsquo; tight defensive unit were veterans Ron Serafini and Dave Roberts, along with Bob Stumpf, sent down from St. Louis. George Tower, Gordon Buynak and Don Whelden were the rookie blueliners and Buynak. too, arrived in late October from the Blues.St. Louis took up forwards Ken Richardson and Jack Borotsik but sent Phil Roberto down for conditioning in other player moves.SALT LAKE: The Golden Eagles faltered in the season&rsquo;s fourth week, winning only once in four starts, but still they clung tight to second place in the Northern loop.The one Eagle win was a road win&mdash;all four games in the week were on the road&mdash;as the Eagles slickered Fort Worth&rsquo;s Texans by a 6-3 score.An 8-3 loss in Tulsa and a 4-2 loss in Dallas were the blemishes on the Salt Lakers&rsquo; record while a 2-2 tie in Omaha closed out the week. Still the Eagles&rsquo;6&mdash;3-3 record would have been good enough for first place in the South Division, where no team was really stepping forward.Salt Lake protected its home unbeaten mark with a 3-3 tie with Oklahoma City Oct. 28, as former Eagle goalie Pierre Hamel handcuffed Jack Evans&rsquo; men over the final few minutes.Eagle right wing Bob McAneeley awaited disposition of a third-degree assault charge filed in Denver court after he allegedly threw his stick angrily into the crowd. The stick struck two brothers, treated by the Denver team doctor and released to their family physician.California sent defenseman Terry Murray and center Larry Wright to the Eagles in late October.Dennis Meloche and Scott Seagrist both tallied hat-tricks for the Eagles in a 7&mdash;3 win over Dallas Oct. 22.OMAHA: The Knights&rsquo; Ak-Sar-Ben retreat was the only refuge for them as November began, as they hadn&rsquo;t won on the road in six ties. But they hadn&rsquo;t lost in three home starts, closing out the fourth week of play with a 4-2 win over Oklahoma City&rsquo;s Blazers, the South Division leaders.Right wing Alan Young, the veteran who stepped into Jean Losier&rsquo;s skates alongside Wayne Schaab and Allie Sutherland on the league&rsquo;s hottest line of last year, scared coach Fred Creighton when he suddenly announced he was considering retirement.Young sat out a pair of losses to Denver and returned Sun., Oct. 27. to score the Knights&rsquo; winning goal in a 5-2 victory over Dallas. The 5&rsquo;8&rdquo;, two-year veteran played in Tulsa last year after scoring 18 goals on Omaha&rsquo;s Adams Cup champion team his rookie season.&ldquo;I told him not to rush into anything,&rdquo; said Creighton. &ldquo;I told him maybe to think about it for a couple of days and let me know if he still felt the same.&ldquo;Alan sets very high standards for himself. He&rsquo;s always worked hard and I&rsquo;ve got a lot of respect for him.&rdquo;The parent Atlanta Flames summoned center Dean Talafous after returning Vic Mercredi.SEATTLE: The Totems&rsquo; story was not a happy one as the season&rsquo;s fourth week drew to a close. Rookie coach Orland Kurtenbach looked on in horror as his team was shut out at home by Fort Worth, the league&rsquo;s worst defensive team in the early going, and then just two nights later by Oklahoma City &hellip; at home in the Coliseum.Seattle&rsquo;s only win over the four weeks was North Division leader Denver&rsquo;s only loss, a 4-2 victory Oct. 17. The Totems also had a 1-1 tie Oct. 19 against Omaha to their credit but had lost their nine other games.After the back-to-back home shutouts the Totems lost to Denver twice, 5-2 on the road and 6-2 at home. They were due to swing through the South Division in mid-November.The Totems had scored only 20 goals, fewer than two per game. The defensive crew was ailing, with Harold Snepsts&rsquo; shoulder in a harness. Peter Folco and Jim Mair out and Dennis McCord returning from an earlier injury. &#9632;

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Denver Flying At Wicked Pace To Top CHL

<div class="byline">BY MORLEY HOWE</div>MARQUETTE&mdash;Southern Division clubs might have enjoyed some smooth travelling weather while flying north for interlocking games during the past month but the final results indicate they had rough landings.In 21 interlocking league games to date, the four Northern Division teams have won 19 contests, outscoring their opposition 155 to 67.Since 1972-73, when expansion forced the United States Hockey League into two divisions, the South has held the edge. The first year ended 56-39-1 in favor of the strong Southern Division and last season the out - come was a close 60-58-2 record.Including games played last weekend, the high scoring Northern Division teams have narrowed the overall record to 118116-3 mark.Meanwhile, the Iron Rangers are off to their best start in years with six consecutive victories under new coach Barry Cook. Center Brian MacKenzie and Gordon Nelson pace club with 14 scoring points each. Newcomer George Nicholson has scored in 5 of 6 outings to lead Rangers with 7 goals. Another pleasant addition has been the performance of leftwinger Don Gagnon, from the Milwaukee Admirals. The smooth skating Sault. Ontario native has five goals, to date including a hat trick in recent 10-4 win over Waterloo. Nelson&rsquo;s three game winning markers tops circuit. Attendance averaging well above 2.000 mark.THUNDER BAY: The Twins repeating as defending champions &ldquo;depends on how much the other teams have improved.&rdquo; says playing coach Dave Siciliano. &ldquo;Both Green Bay and Marquette look real tough.&rdquo; A big plus for the Twins has been the addition of goalie Roch Menard from the Centennial Cup finalist Smith Falls Bears. The 20-year-old leads all netminders with an impressive 1.25 average. Other new players include defenseman Rick Lefebvre. Murray Wing, Jack Davies, Larry Zulianello and Bob Johnson. Veteran hard worker Gary Lindquist potted four goals plus an assist in 8-3 win at Chicago.GREEN BAY: Bobcats&rsquo; owner Jim Van Essen and coach Paul Coppo worked overtime during the off season rebuilding their roster and early results show Cats the league&rsquo;s most improved club. New faces include the high scoring Purpur brothers, Cliff Dick. Bob and Gary from the Madison Blues. Other players obtained from Madison via draft and trades include All Star winger Dan Tremblay, rearguards Ken Lawson and Ernie Dupont. Former pro Herb Boxer, 27-year-old winger, has proved a valuable addition along with defenseman Ron Lemieux. Recent Minnesota WHA cut Rick Barefoot expected to join blueline corps shortly. Bobcats ended last season a distant third and are currently undefeated in six starts including two road victories over the injury plagued Sioux City Musketeers. Southern Division leaders. &#9632;

Around The USHL

<div class="byline">BY BUD KENNEDY</div>FORT WORTH&mdash;The rich got richer and Fort Worth&rsquo;s Texans got poorer in the first four weeks of the season. While most of the other CHL teams got late cuts from their parent teams second-year coach Ed Chadwick got nothing from his New York Islander higher-ups.The Texans picked up their third win of the season as goalie Bill Hughes blanked Seattle 4-0, but two nights later Hughes was pulled in a 6-3 loss to Salt Lake. The Texans went on to lose 4-3 in Oklahoma City and by an embarrassing 7-1 at home against arch rival Dallas.Even Dallas Black Hawk coach Bobby Kromm, usually not too sympathetic to anyone west of the county line, admitted that the Texans were in need of help. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s obvious they&rsquo;ve got to get someone to help,&rdquo; said Kromm. &ldquo;They just haven&rsquo;t got the material right now.&rdquo;Defenseman Dan Helm, two years ago a second-team CHL All Star while in Fort Worth, was borrowed from Springfield, where his parent California Seals had loaned him to the Los Angeles farm team. Helm played for the first time in the 6-3 home loss to his former Salt Lake teammates.Hughes and Don Cutts, a rookie from Rensselear Poly, had given up 54 goals in the Texans&rsquo; nine games, and the FW folks were looking dimly on the duo and remembering the work of CHL MVP Glenn Resch in the FW net last year.The arrival of Helm allowed Chadwick to send amateur Dave Inkpen on to the International League after his five-game trial. Left wing Sid Prysunka came up from Muskegon on a similar trial and drew a misconduct in his first game after brawling with Salt Lake&rsquo;s Glenn Patrick.Before Hughes&rsquo; shutout, the first in the CHL this season, Chadwick had said the rookie netminder &ldquo;might have had trouble stopping a football a couple of nights.&rdquo; Hughes spent last season in the International League after a couple of games with the World Hockey Association Houston Aeros the year before.Center Skeeter Teal, last year the league&rsquo;s second scorer, put his 11th goal of the year in the net while the Texans won only once in nine games.DALLAS: The Hawks, picked to win the South Division in the preseason judging, stumbled about through the first four weeks of play but veterans Gary Donaldson and Michel Archambault were putting their share of pucks in the net and goalie Michel Dumas&rsquo; goals-against average was still holding around the three-flat mark.Defenseman Randy Holt gained the tag &ldquo;Crazy Horse&rdquo; after piling up the CHL penalty lead, earning 95 minutes worth in the first three weeks and taking on Denver strongman Bob Gassoff in a couple of adventures.Seven different Hawks scored in the 7-1 win Nov. 2 at Fort Worth and Dallas beat Salt Lake 4-2 in its only other game of the week.The Salt Lake win upped Dallas&rsquo; home ice record to 2-0. The Hawks opened their home schedule before 5,388 fans Oct. 26, turning a 3-1 deficit into a 7-3 win over Oklahoma City.OKLAHOMA CITY: The Blazers set up a three-point lead in the South Division&rsquo;s first spot in the first week of November, still sparked by the goal-tending of rookie Pierre Hamel.Of all the CHL regulars only Salt Lake&rsquo;s Ray Martyniuk stands smaller than Hamel&rsquo;s 5&rsquo;9&rdquo; and 170 pounds. But the rookie pro from the Senior leagues who played one game and gave up four goals for Salt Lake last season blanked Seattle in the Totems&rsquo; home rink Oct. 31 and went seven games without loss.It was the Blazers&rsquo; first loss in five games as they had scored more goals, 45, than anyone else in the South Division. Alf Handrahan rang up a hat trick in a 5-1 win over Seattle, putting him in the early OC scoring lead with rookies Per Arne Alexandersson and Jack Valiquette close behind.TULSA: The Oilers broke even in the fourth week of the season, beating Salt Lake 8-3 and Omaha 7-1 but losing to Denver 4-2 and Oklahoma City 3-2.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0370/3271803-1-eng-US/f0035-032.jpg" title="f0035-03" width="555" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body">VIC TEAL &hellip; Doing His Bit</figcaption></div>The Oilers led 2-0 in the Oklahoma City loss on Larry Israelson and Gene Sobchuk goals but Handrahan scored the Blazers&rsquo; winner with 3:19 left.Still the Oilers were surprising the league&rsquo;s National Hockey League farms with the work of veteran goalie Wayne Wood and a host of talented rookies. A 20-year-old rookie, Robbie Watt, scored Tulsa&rsquo;s first hat trick of the season in the win over SLC, and Watt, Israelson and veteran Jim Jones led the Oiler scorers in the early going.The Oilers lost Peter McNamee in the Denver loss when McNamee, his hand taped after being obroken earlier, got into a fight and drew a match penalty. Fighting with a taped fist is considered deliberate attempt to injure this year under the rules. &#9632;

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Slumping Texans Send Out SOS; Dallas Maintains Home Ice Touch

<div class="byline">BY MORLEY HOWE</div>SIOUXCITY &mdash;The Sioux City Musketeers, just entering their third season in the United States Hockey League have already experienced tremendous growth, rising in just a few short years, from a weak expansion club to a firmly established team in the league.This is due largely to solid team management. The Musketeers are led by president and general manager, Gary Lipshutz, who in addition to his efforts with his own club, has experienced a tremendously rapid rise in position in the United States Hockey League. Lipshutz currently holds the position of league vice-president.It is his theory that a team doesn&rsquo;t have to use cheap gimmicks to achieve a rise in popularity. &ldquo;The best gimmick around,&rdquo; states Lipshutz, &ldquo;is good, solid, honest hockey. And that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;ve provided for our public.&rdquo;The Sioux City Musketeers came into alien territory where the sport of hockey was virtually unknown. But with a fine group of people making up the club, and a talented office staff to back them up. acceptance of the team soon began to grow. Attendance jumped 44% by the second season, and records at the beginning of the third season show a startling 100% increase in season ticket sales.The Musketeers have come a long way in their office staff, too, being one of the few teams to induct women into the man&rsquo;s sport of hockey. Two front office positions have been invaded by women&rsquo;s lib, with Sally Earley, sales director and Cathy Stueve, public relations director, providing competent back-up for the team itself.On the ice. the Musketeers have experienced the same type of orderly growth as at the box office. For the second year, the team is being led by coach and director of player personnel. John Saville. At age 25, Saville earns the distinction of being the youngest coach in the league. He has done an outstanding job with the Musketeers, both as coach and player, and attributes most of his success to his background. Saville is a native of Toronto and received his early hockey training from Jack Harper and Curly Davies. He then went on to play four years of college hockey under the tutelage of renowned University of Denver coach Murray Armstrong.&ldquo;I feel that having the opportunity to learn hockey under one of the great teachers of the game has been extremely beneficial to me. and is of great assistance in helping me impart my knowledge to our squad.&rdquo; commented Coach Saville. &#9632;

Sioux City’s Rise To Top Tribute To Club Directorate

<h2>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Nov. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01123/3271865-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="595" height="383"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Oct. 30Marquette 6 at Central Wisconsin 3.Thur. Oct. 31Green Bay 3 at Milwaukee 1Fri. Nov. 1Waterloo 1 at Thunder Bay 10.Sat. Nov. 2Waterloo 4 at Marquette 10; Thunder Bay 3 at Milwaukee 1; Green, Bay 5 at Sioux City 4; Central Wisconsin 4 at Copper Country 13.Sun. Nov. 3Thunder Bay 8 at Chicago 3; Waterloo 1 at Copper Country 4; Green Bay 12 at Sioux City 1.<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0297/3271858-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="595" height="466"></div> &#9632;

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<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 NEWSDAYTON&mdash;Now everyone knows why Coach Tommy McVie worked so hard to secure the International Hockey League rights to Rick Bragnalo of the Dayton Gems.He&rsquo;s the topscoring forward for the South Division leader, outdoing even such standouts as Don West-brooke, twice the IHL scoring champion and most valuable player.Inasmuch as the Gems are rated the team to beat in the South, Bragnalo&rsquo;s value can be seen immediately. He may have a battle to stay ahead of Westbrooke, Brian Kinsella and Steve Self in the Gems&rsquo; point derby but that should be no problem. He&rsquo;s been battling the odds most of his hockey career.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01109/3271903-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="255" height="508"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kevin Treacy</figcaption></div>Only 5&rsquo;8&rdquo; and I55 pounds, the 22-year-old centerman was overlooked by the pro scouts when he graduated from University of Denver.He begged invitations to the training camps of the Washington Capitalsand Indianapolis Racers. The Racers of the World Hockey Association wanted to play him in exhibition games but an injury prevented it. So, the Racers suggested that he go to Fort Wayne in the IHL.However, Dayton already had secured his rights through McVie&rsquo;s salesmanship in the Capitals&rsquo; camp.&ldquo;Ken Ullyot (Fort Wayne general manager) saw him in the Racers&rsquo; camp and wanted him,&rdquo; Mcvie said. &ldquo;He was upset when Bragnalo told him he already was committed to us.&rdquo;Bagnalo&rsquo;s forte is speed, an obvious asset considering his size.He scored two goals in the Gems&rsquo; opener and had four goals and five assists through the first eight games. Only Yvon Bilodeau, the All Star defenseman transplanted from Des Moines, outpointed him with a 5-5-10 combination.Bragnalo views his size as no handicap in the IHL.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve played against bigger opponents all my life,&rdquo; he says.He went to Denver after two seasons of Junior hockey to work toward an education, figuring the pro scouts would notice him there as much as anywhere.Except for one two-minute minor penalty, Bragnalo has avoided the sin bin. He has plenty of teammates to handle the policing, notably Dave Simpson, Gordon Lane and Lome Weighill so he can concentrate on offense.Former Dayton coach Gerry Moore, now the bench boss at Indianapolis, best summed up Bragnalo&rsquo;s potential by saying. &ldquo;If he can keep from beaten up, he&rsquo;ll be a good player.&rdquo;With eight games down and 68 to play, Bragnalo still has a ways to go. Then there&rsquo;s the Turner Cup playoffs. The Gems plan to be part of that scramble so his season could be as long as 87 games.That&rsquo;s the supreme test for a 5&rsquo;8&rdquo;, 155-pounder.FLINT: Kevin Treacy&rsquo;s five-point game highlighted Generals&rsquo; record-breaking 12-1 victory over Lansing with help of two-goal efforts by Clyde Simon and Duane Byers&hellip; Rookie goalie Bob Volpe stopped Muskegon&rsquo;s Gary Ford on penalty shot to help cement 5-3 Flint triumph&hellip; Defenseman Rod Collins holding amazing plus-15 only four weeks into season&hellip; Rookie defenseman Mike St. Cyr delighting Generals&rsquo; fans with puck carrying&hellip; Veteran goalie Merlin Jenner&rsquo;s 2.13 goals-against average best in the league&hellip; &ldquo;Rat Line&rdquo; of Byers, Treacy and Murray Hanson contributed at least one goal in Generals&rsquo; first seven victories, failed to score in first two defeats.COLUMBUS: Steve Lyon named captain, Ed Kenty, Elgin McCann and Bill McEwan appointed alternates&hellip; Sam Clegg recorded league&rsquo;s first shutout in IHL&rsquo;s first 43 games in 5-0 triumph over Kalamazoo&hellip; Jim Doyle. Francois Ouimet and McEwan injured in 6-2 setback by Dayton in Owls&rsquo; home opener after successful 3-1 record on road&hellip; Coach Moe Bartoli upset by ineffective power-play&hellip; Al Hillier and John Heffern setting early team scoring pace with aid of nine assists for each&hellip; Marty Reynolds scored five goals in four games, including three via power-plays&hellip; Rookie Brian Coughlin early policeman with 37 penalty minutes in only seven games.TOLEDO: GM-coach Ted Garvin accused commissioner Bill Beagan of trying to become czar after being handed two-game suspension, $300 fine&hellip; Tom Pinder subbed for Garvin as playing coach, scored shorthanded goal to aid 8-2 triumph at Des Moines, Goaldiggers&rsquo; only victory in five-game span&hellip; Paul Tantardini averaging 11.3 penalty minutes per game&hellip; Jim McCabe and Jean-Paul Gilbert scored two goals to help end four-game losing string at Des Moines&hellip; Captain Juri Kudrasovs averaged point a game for six-game stretch, tying Moe Brunel for team lead with 13 points.KALAMAZOO: Wings drew 3,918 for first home game&hellip; Doug Keeler&rsquo;s goal averted shutout in 6-1 setback at Port Huron&hellip; Captain Al Genovy sidelined for 12 weeks with broken wrist&hellip; Defenseman Ray Bibeau cut&hellip; goaler Roly Kimble obtained from Saginaw, then dropped after trial&hellip; Wings only IHL team with two brother acts, Glenn and Norm McLeod and Jim and Dan Makey&hellip; Center Larry Edwards obtained from Michigan Stags of WHA&hellip; GM-coach Bob Lemieux scouted numerous games, seeking talent before final cutdown&hellip; Winger Mike Randolph dropped, reported to Waterloo of United States Hockey League&hellip; Lemieux seeking offensive help to bolster 2.0 goals-per-game average.DAYTON: Defenseman Yvon Bilodeau remained team scoring leader with 5-5-10 combination&hellip; Defenseman Larry Bolonchuk&rsquo;s first goal of campaign started 4-3 victory against ex-mates from Des Moines&hellip; Brian Kinsella scored winning goal and assisted on two goals in first start&hellip; Coach Tommy McVie awaiting return of Captain Dave Simpson from injured list be fore paring overstocked defensive corps&hellip; Rookie goalie Garth Marlachuk sent to Kalamazoo, assuring Jim Pettie and P.J. Flaherty of netminding jobs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0270/3271896-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="565" height="883"><figcaption class="caption-body">RICK BRAGNALO &hellip; Worth Fighting For</figcaption></div>LANSING: Goalie Dave Heitz victimed forall goals in 12-1 setback to Flint&hellip; Reg Kinch&rsquo;s goal averted shutout by Generals&hellip; Pierre Leblanc&rsquo;s two goals not enough in 8-4 setback by Muskegon&hellip; Heitz faced 97 shots in back-to-back games against Saginaw and Muskegon, suffered through another 50 against Flint&hellip; Leblanc, Dave Staffen only Lancers with more than one goal&hellip; Norm Park returned after missing two weeks with dislocated shoulder&hellip; Owner Paul Bright desperately trying to keep franchise afloat despite low attendance, lack of seats at Metro Ice Arena.DES MOINES: Defenseman Len Ircandia suspended three games for allegedly pushing linesman during 5-3 victory at Toledo&hellip; Coach Dan Belisle&rsquo;s blueline corps further depleted when Dan O&rsquo; Donohue was injured when struck on knee by shot from Dayton&rsquo;s Herb Howdle&hellip; Al Labreque scored winner in 2-1 victory over Toledo&hellip; Ken Wright drew game misconduct after scrapping twice with Toledo&rsquo;s Paul Tantardini&hellip; Caps-Toledo game totalled 26 penalties for 114 minutes, club record for two-team total.MUSKEGON: League scoring leader Gary Ford sidelined by ankle injury&hellip; Ford, Bob Tombari and Ernie Moser combined for 15 of Mohawks&rsquo; 23 goals in four-game stretch&hellip; Bert Scott only other Mohawk with more than one goal&hellip; Dave Hainsworth registered 4-1 record in first five starts&hellip; Seven men scored goals in 7-1 triumph over Saginaw in duel for outright second place&hellip; Defenseman Murray Flegel leading league with 12 assists. Ford, Tombari sharing goal lead with eight each&hellip; GM-coach Moose Lallo awaiting arrival of pro help from New York Islanders&rsquo; organization&hellip; Ford and Tombari scored two goals in 8-4 victory at Lansing before only 260.FORT WAYNE: Winless string (0-3-1) of four games dropped Komets into South Division cellar&hellip; Coach Ted Wright concerned about offense which produced only 15 goals in five games&hellip; Komets only veteran team without repre sentative among scoring leaders&hellip; Ken Tarnow&rsquo;s first goal after acquisition from Dayton averted shutout in 3-l setback at Des Moines&hellip; Defenseman Chuck Labelle added to growing injury list&hellip; Doug Gibson setting team pace in goals and points. Rookies Rick Uhrich and Bill Bryant tops in assists.SAGINAW: Coach Don Perry urged Gears to shoot more&hellip; Line of Dennis Desrosiers. Stu Irving and Reg Malinoski produced all goals in 4-3 victory over Port Huron&hellip; Brian Glenwright abruptly left club on own&hellip; Desrosiers scored hat-trick. Irving assisted on three goals as Gears ruined Kalamazoo&rsquo;s home debut. 7-3, with 60-shot barrage&hellip; Gears slipped from North Division lead with 1-3-1 record for five games&hellip; Marcel Comeau injured and out of action.PORT HURON: Flags drew biggest crowd of season, 2,336, to watch 4-2 triumph which ended Flint&rsquo;s six game undefeated string&hellip; Brian Curtis scored five goals in two games but wasted hattrick in 4-3 setback at Saginaw&hellip; Veteran Billy LeCaine restricted to one goal in first seven games&hellip; Tom Peluso&rsquo;s string of assistsper-game ended at five but he scored two goals in victory over Flint&hellip; Randy Sokoll stretched scoring string to six games&hellip; Flags forced to leave Mike Korney off roster when it was discovered that Greg Holst was team&rsquo;s fourth pro-on-option&hellip; Bill Watt setting scoring pace. &#9632;

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Bragnalo Keeps Dayton Gems’ Offense Bristling In Club’s Dash To Top Spot

<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-01100/3272039-1-eng-US/f0037-012.jpg" title="f0037-01" width="518" height="588"></div><h2>DES MOINES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0275/3272032-1-eng-US/f0037-022.jpg" title="f0037-02" width="520" height="646"></div><h2>FLINT</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0351/3272025-1-eng-US/f0037-032.jpg" title="f0037-03" width="520" height="609"></div><h2>FORT WAYNE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0442/3272018-1-eng-US/f0037-042.jpg" title="f0037-04" width="518" height="619"></div><h2>COLUMBUS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0533/3272011-1-eng-US/f0037-052.jpg" title="f0037-05" width="522" height="204"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0629/3272004-1-eng-US/f0037-062.jpg" title="f0037-06" width="525" height="469"></div><h2>DAYTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0725/3271997-1-eng-US/f0037-072.jpg" title="f0037-07" width="518" height="646"></div><h2>KALAMAZOO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0822/3271990-1-eng-US/f0037-082.jpg" title="f0037-08" width="521" height="755"></div><h2>LANSING</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0919/3271983-1-eng-US/f0037-092.jpg" title="f0037-09" width="522" height="608"></div><h2>MUSKEGON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-1016/3271976-1-eng-US/f0037-102.jpg" title="f0037-10" width="517" height="268"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-1111/3271969-1-eng-US/f0037-112.jpg" title="f0037-11" width="530" height="356"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-1210/3271962-1-eng-US/f0037-122.jpg" title="f0037-12" width="577" height="905"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY FORD &hellip; Tops Race</figcaption></div><h2>PORT HURON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-138/3271955-1-eng-US/f0037-132.jpg" title="f0037-13" width="517" height="647"></div><h2>SAGINAW</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-148/3271948-1-eng-US/f0037-142.jpg" title="f0037-14" width="520" height="647"></div><h2>TOLEDO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-158/3271941-1-eng-US/f0037-152.jpg" title="f0037-15" width="523" height="584"></div><h2>GOALERS RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-165/3271934-1-eng-US/f0037-162.jpg" title="f0037-16" width="521" height="761"></div> &#9632;

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Muskegon Hawks’ Ford Leading IHL Scorer

<div class="byline">BY DEREK KNIGHT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0038-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-01122/3272077-1-eng-US/f0038-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG VOLMAR&hellip; Joins Blazers From WHA</figcaption></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 NEWSJOHNSTOWN&mdash;If Commissioner Bob Dextraze is smiling these days he has good reason. It seems that every day a new player or two with experience in either the NHL or WHA is as signed to the second year loop. &ldquo;The assignment of these players with WHA and NHL experience has to help us,&rdquo; enthuses Dex traze. When these veterans are mixed in with our own nucleus of talent, it will make for an even more exciting brand of hockey.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0277/3272070-1-eng-US/f0038-022.jpg" title="f0038-02" width="300" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Hodgson</figcaption></div>Johnstown Jets, who have an NHL working agreement with St. Louis, were smarting after back-to-back home losses to the Long Island Cougars by respective scores of 5-1 and 5-0. Defenseman Francois Ouimet was assigned to Johnstown by the St. Louis Blues. Crowd of 3,500 sat in on the Jets-Cougars game. Jack Carlson was second in league scoring and top man in the penalty minutes department. Left winger Dave Hanson was suspended for one game as a result of his being the first man off the bench in a bench clearing incident.MOHAWK VALLEY: Lou Nistico, a left wing-center, became the latest Comet. He was sent down by the Toronto Toros of the WHA. Nistico played all of last season with Jacksonville (AHL). And 20-year-old Rick Fraser also joined the club earlier. Fraser, a defenseman, was a high draft choice of the Indianapolis Racers. Hottest Comet line has been Doug Brindley and Ron Anderson flanking center John Cook. Guy Provost and Jeff Jacques have also been cited for some good performances. Young Michel Dion, 20, shares netminding chores with Jim Park. Dion is another Racer prospect.BROOME: The first place Dusters are getting solid goaltending from Rick Lemay. Ron Boehm and Paul Brown were throwing their weight around. Both were among the loop&rsquo;s penalty minute leaders. Rod Bloomfield, Randy McGregor, Bill Gratton and Boehm were all among the top scorers. Dusters scoring has been well balanced and of course not a seat in the house is empty.LONG ISLAND: Peter Mara was the Cougars&rsquo; leading scorer with nine points in seven games. Competition was closing in, however, as newcomer Mark Lomenda connected on six goals in three games. Two other newcomers made news in those three games. Right winger George Swarbrick scored an important goal in Johnstown while left winger Mike Smith connected for two goals in the three games. The Cougars&rsquo; road swing was a good one as the club won two out of three, capturing a most important four points out of six on foreign ice. Rich Coutu was reestablishing himself as one of the NAHL&rsquo;s finest goaltenders, if not the finest.SYRACUSE: It was bad news in the goaltending department over indefinite loss of Guy DeNoncourt, out with an injured left hand. Young, impressive Bob Blanchet will carry the load. Two new players, assigned by the Mariners brought the total of San Diego assigned players on Syracuse to seven. The two latest were center Mike Laughton and right winger Doug Volmar. Laughton tallied 20 goals and 16 assists in 71 Blades-Knights games. Volmar connected for 24 goalsand 12 assists in just 47games split between Springfield and Richmond.MAINE: Housecleaning was in order for the 0-7 Nordiques thus Yvon Verreault, Robert Vinette, Jean Marc Lacombe and Gordon Talbot were all released. Despite a drop down to 15 in their player roster. moves were expected to fill out the Nordique team. Bob Murphy and Denis Patry were point leaders with six apiece. Maine general manager Maurice Ducharme was confident that his club would &ldquo;get back into it.&rdquo; Reacquisition of All Star defenseman Jacques Blain will help but more support is needed.PHILADELPHIA: Rugged Ted Hodgson was named as the Firebirds&rsquo; first Captain. Nick Haramis, Doug Ferguson and Mark Bousquet were named as alternates. Three goals in 26 seconds is not a long time but it may have seemed it to the Cape Codders. The Codders were soundly beating the Firebirds when Robbie Neale received a five minute penalty for throwing his stick at the puck. Bousquet scored once and MacLeish twice, to narrow the gap but the Philly entry still dropped a 9-7 game.CAPE CODDERS: Defenseman Ron Anderson was assigned by Cleveland. A WHA All Star participant two years ago with the Chicago Cougars, Anderson should be a big plus on the Cape Codders&rsquo; defense. The Codders are averaging about 600 more fans per game. The good hockey played by the Codders and the better calibre of play in the league are the reasons for the large crowds according to general manager Joe Sherman, who is pleased thus far with the fans&rsquo; response.<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-L 4 P.O. Box 475, Allentown, Pa. 18105. &#9632;

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Volmar, Laughton, Anderson Latest Arrivals In NAHL

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>HAMILTON&mdash;If a poll was taken right now as to the most improved team in the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior A League, Hamilton Fincups would win hands down,Linder the name of Red Wings and the ownership of Nick Durbano. Hamilton clubs had finished in last place three of the past five years, next to last once and just crawled into the playoffs in seventh position in 1970-71. They were then quickly eliminated in the first round by Ottawa.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-01105/3272108-1-eng-US/f0039-012.jpg" title="f0039-01" width="275" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Jarvis</figcaption></div>However the fortunes of Hamilton, now playing under the peculiar name of Fincups, have made a dramatic upswing. During the off-season the Hamilton franchise and the ancient Forum were purchased by Hamilton businessmen Joe Finochio and Mario and Ron Cupido &mdash; hence the new tag Fincups. Attendance, which had never reached 1,000 for any one game last year, jumped over the 2,000-mark the first game of the current season and has remained in the 1,800-2,200-range ever since.One reason of course is that the Fincups have started winning with a fair degree of regularity.In their first 15 games they had won nine, more than half the total victories (16) they accumulated in 1973-74, and for a time shared first place &mdash; something which hadn&rsquo;t happened to a Hamilton team in more than a decade.Under new coach Bert Templeton they have achieved good balance plus the leadership of outstanding center Dale McCourt.The Fincups may not win the OHA title, but they&rsquo;ll come closer than any of their predecessors since the last championship team played in the Forum in 1961-62.The Wings claimed the maximum four points out of two games during the week, winning 9-4 in Oshawa and 6-3 at home against the Generals.McCourt had three goals in the away game while Ron Seiling had a pair and at home rookie Dan Shearer, one of the most promising freshmen in the league, scored twice. Mike Yosurack. Greg Clause, McCourt and Joe Contini scored once.TORONTO: The Marlboros, away to a fairly slow start, just seem to get stronger as the schedule progresses&hellip; In their only game they withstood considerable pressure from Sudbury Wolves in the third period to post a 5-3 win and move, temporarily, into first place by themselves&hellip; However later the week Kingston and Hamilton moved up to give them company&hellip; Bruce Boudreau and Mark Napier continue to be the club leaders and both picked up a goal again the Wolves as the Marlies made one of their infrequent appearances on home ice. Maple Leaf Gardens&hellip; Almost half their home games this season will be played in Brantford because of bookings by the NHL Leafs, the WHA Toros, the National Basketball Association Buffalo Braves and special events.KITCHENER: The Rangers fans and management, to say nothing oftfieir players, still have little to smile over after the team finished first last season&hellip; This year they&rsquo;re at the opposite end of the league, in the basement, with no immediate hope of vacating it&hellip; They ended an eight-game losing streak by winning 5-1 in Kingston but got into their old habits almost immediately, losing 5-1 in Peterborough&hellip; Their only goal in Peterborough was by Rick Bourbonnais, one of the few steady players coach Eddie Bush can count on&hellip; Two nights later Rangers dropped another, this time on home ice, 3-2 to the Petes&hellip; It was the first game in front of their own fans in three weeks by the Rangers and they drew 3,112 despite their poor record.KINGSTON: While Hamilton may be the most improved team, Kingston Canadians are definitely the most surprising&hellip; Playing only their second year of Major Junior A, the Canadians under coach Jack Bownass, nudged London Knights 5-4 on a goal with only 2:49 left by Brad Rhiness and, temporarily at least, moved into first place by themselves&hellip; It was the second goal of the game for Rhiness, who has been playing superb hockey for the sophomore Canadians&hellip; Earlier in the week they handed Ottawa 67s their first setback on home ice, 6-1, with Rhiness again scoring twice&hellip; Other Kingston goals went to Barry Scully, Bob Street, Doug Hynek and Mike Crombeen&hellip; The Kingston success story just verifies the selection of Bownass as coach of the year in 1973-74 and their attendance averaging well over 3,000. is still the best in the league.PETERBOROUGH: The Petes, as usual, pose a strong threat for the first division, especially after handing Kitchener back-to-back defeats, 5-1 at home and 3-2 on the road&hellip; Stan Jonathan. Doug Jarvis, Pete Scamurra, Tony Cassolato and Red Laurence scored in the 5-1 game. Ed Smith had two of the three in Kitchener&hellip; They also downed Ottawa 7-3 for a perfect three for three average during the week, scoring five times in the third period which is an unusual splurge for the usually-conservative Petes&hellip; The seven goals against Ottawa came from seven different players, an indication of theirdepth despite losing under-age Junior defenseman Jim Turkiewicz to Toronto Toros&hellip; The Petes may not be strong enough to win it all but coach Roger Neilson will at least have them knocking on the door.ST. CATHARINES: The Black Hawks, still trying to shake a rash of injuries, managed to win two of three games during the week, defeating Sault Ste. Marie by identical 5-4 scores home and away, then being crushed 6-1 in Sudbury by the aroused Wolves&hellip; Bill Hamilton had three goals during the Hawk Northern Ontario swing, including two in the Sault and their only marker in Sudbury&hellip; The team acquired winger Tim Stortini from the Wolves for a future draft choice and the big (6&rsquo; 1&rdquo;, 190 lbs.) native of Sudbury seems to fit into the Hawk style well&hellip; However, they need center Rick Adduono back&hellip; The co-scoring champion last season has played only three games and has been out five weeks with torn knee ligaments&hellip; Much of the center ice responsibility has fallen on St. Catharines product Greg Craig.SUDBURY: The Wolves had 14 players returning from last season and although they have lost of a couple of their veterans, they still have as much, if not more, experience than any team in the league&hellip; However, they lost 5-3 to Toronto Marlboros before swamping the Black Hawks 6-1 and in the latter game Rod Schutt and Bobby Russell scored before one minute had been completed&hellip; Ron Maston, Paul Crowley, Mike Gazdic and Reese Dobrick added the others&hellip; With new coach Stu Duncan looking after things, the Wolves have risen from the lower reaches of the league and, like so many other teams, have to be given a real shot at the championship&hellip; Attendance has been much improved over last year, often going over the 3,000 mark.OTTAWA: The 67s, once the league leaders, continued their long slump, dropping their sixth straight game 7-6 at home to Oshawa Generals&hellip; The past few weeks have been a complete form reversal for coach Brian Kilrea&rsquo;s 67s as they started the schedule with victories in eight of their first 10 games&hellip; The past week was particularly rough as they were beaten 7-3 in Peterborough, then twice at home, 6-1 by Kingston and 7-6 by Oshawa&hellip; Peter Lee had a pair of goals for Ottawa against the Generals, whose miseries started in Toronto when they were humiliated 13-1&hellip; They just haven&rsquo;t been able to recover&hellip; Dale Ross was lost for an indefinite period, to compound their woes, when he crashed head-first into the boards in the game with Kingston and was carried from the ice with a suspected concussion.OSHAWA: The Generals are having a season similar to 1973-74, playing about .500 hockey and looking very good on occasion, very poor on other dates&hellip; One of their better games was the 7-6 win in Ottawa with veteran Bud Stefanski firing three goals, Peter Vandemark, Greg Mallone, Brian Dillon and Mike Boyd adding the others&hellip; However they had been thrased 9-4 at home four nights earlier and could do little right despite Dillon&rsquo;s two goals&hellip; The Generals should make the playoffs but it&rsquo;s doubtful if coach Gus Bodnar has a first division team even though he invariably gets the best out of the talent available.SAULT: This was to be the year the Greyhounds, in their third Major Junior A season, were finally going to make the playoffs&hellip; So far they have not lived up to expectations&hellip; Their two 5-4 defeats by St. Catharines pushed them into ninth position and they must climb at least one rung higher to qualify for the post-season games&hellip; Cary Farelli is playing well and accounted for three of the four goals in St. Catharines plus another in the Sault. But the talent is thin and the Greyhound fans&rsquo; patience is said to be growing even thinner.LONDON: As mentioned earlier Hamilton is most improved, Kingston the most surprising and London Knights, so far, are unquestionably the, most disappointing team&hellip; Like Sudbury, they had 14 returning veterans but, unfortunately, they just don&rsquo;t seem to have improved&hellip; As a result the Knights, expected to be among the top three, are next to last, losing eight of their first 13 starts and tying another&hellip; A lot have been by close scores, such as their 5-4 and 2-1 setbacks to Kingston, but they&rsquo;re still listed in the loss column&hellip; Coach Bill Long may make some changes before Christmas&hellip; The largest crowd of the season in London (2,404) watched the Knights blow at least a tie when Rhiness scored late in the game&hellip; Terry Martin, Tom Rowe and Rick McIntyre had the others&hellip; Dennis Maruk had the only goal in the 2-1 loss. &#9632;

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Hamilton Hockey Fortunes On Upswing As New Fincups Raise Crowds, Wins

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0039-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0275/3272170-1-eng-US/f0039-022.jpg"></div><h2>Backchecking</h2>Backchecking is one of the unglamorous chores of hockey, and usually is the result of a broken attack play. The opposition has got possession of the puck and has switched from a defensive to an offensive role.The original attacking team members can all be seen scrambling back to their own zone to catch the new puck carrier before he can score on a goalie who&rsquo;ll be looking for all the help he can get.The best backcheckers never give up, even if they seem to be hopelessly outdistanced. The man with the puck might slow down, he might pass to another attacker and miss, he might even tripover his own feet. &#9632;

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November 22, 1974

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