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December 20, 1974

The Hockey News December 20, 1974

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0021-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-02182/3391592-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg"></div>(Including Games of Sun. Dec. 8) &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

TOP NHL SCORERS

<div class="byline">BY HARRY KLAFF</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02742/3390951-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">RALPH STEWART&hellip; Islanders&rsquo; Top Producer</figcaption></div>LONG ISLAND&mdash;With the Christmas season just about upon us. Islander fans might be wondering what to get coach Al Arbour Well. Al could always use some new shirts, and handkerchiefs are always nice.But forget about ties. Al has more than enough already.Back in 1969-70. the Philadelphia Flyers earned themselves the moniker &ldquo;Philadelphia Tyers&rdquo; by knotting their opponents 24 times in a 76-game schedule. This year&rsquo;s Islanders have a way to go before they can equal that mark, but if their recent play is any indication, they are definitely heading in the right direction.Through the end of November, the Islanders had tied seven times, with only the L.A. Kings with more to their credit. But three of them have been in succession, and four in their last five outings.A popular philosopher once remarked that &ldquo;a tie is like kissing your sister&rdquo;. But this isn&rsquo;t always the case. There can be such a thing as a &ldquo;good&rdquo; tie and a &ldquo;bad&rdquo; tie.Only two (and possibly three, depending on how you&rsquo;re looking at it) of the Islanders&rsquo; seven ties have been &ldquo;good&rdquo; ones, that is, in which the Isles were the &ldquo;tyers.&rdquo; rather than the &ldquo;tiees.&rdquo; Back on Oct. 29. Bob Nystrom&rsquo;s goal with two-and-a-half minutes remaining earned the Islanders a 1-1 verdict with the Rangers. Then on November 29th, it was Nystrom again who scored late in a game at California to knot the Seals at three apiece.The only other time that the Islanders scored to tie a game was against the Flyers on Nov. 5 at the Coliseum. Billy Harris beat Bernie Parent with a slapper with only 34 seconds left to make it 4-4. but the Islanders had blown a one goal advantage some minutes earlier.The rest of the ties have been more like kissing your cocker spaniel than kissing your sister. The first of these goes back to the first game of the season at Montreal, where the underdog Islanders found themselves with a 5-3 lead with less than two minutes remaining.But a couple of penalties, plus the pulling of Ken Dryden from the Montreal cage gave the Habs a two-man advantage. Peter Mahovlich potted a pair in that span, including the equalizer with 57 seconds left.It was a similar story on Nov. 20 at Chicago, where the New Yorkers held a 4-2 lead late in the second period. Hawk rookie Alain Daigle made it 4-3. while Cliff Koroll provided the equalizer on a power-play in the finale.The &ldquo;pull the goalie&rdquo; trick worked again against the Islanders three nights later at the Coliseum, with the Vancouver Canucks pulling the strings. Three third period goals had put the Isles in front 3-2, but Chris Oddleifson knotted thingsagain with45 seconds remaining.Every team blows its share of leads over the course of the long season, but the first game on the Isles&rsquo; recent western road trip had Arbour talking to himself. After a scoreless first period, Doug Rombough. Jean Potvin and Garry Howatt gave the visitors a 3-0 margin over the L.A. Kings after two.Then the roof fell in. Los Angeles battled back in the final period for three unanswered goals, with Mike Murphy scoring the big one with a minute-and-a-half left. Since the Islanders briefly held the lead against the Seals early in the third period of the following game. Arbour&rsquo;s club had to settle for three ties in games that could (or should) have been won. And those three points could mean a great deal as the Islanders continue to battle the Rangers and Flames for the remaining playoff berths behind Philadelphia in the Lester Patrick Division.On a positive note, the western swing marked the return to the lineup of defenseman Gerry Hart, who was the club&rsquo;s top &ldquo;defensive&rdquo; rearguard before bow ing out a couple of weeks ago with a knee injury.Gerry has always had a history of knee miseries, but has managed to escape the necessity of the surgeon&rsquo;s knife. Fluid in the joint was the problem this time, and a couple of weeks away from competition the only cure.ISLAND SOUNDS: Hart&rsquo;s place was taken by Dave Fortier, who was obtained over the off-season from the Flyers. Fortier had a couple of two-point nightsduring his swing&hellip; Ralph Stewart, teamed with rookie Clark Gillies and Craig Cameron of late, has been the club&rsquo;s most consistent scorer, scoring at least one point in his last six games. &#9632;

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New Yorkers On NHL Record Course For Drawn Games

<div class="byline">BY HAL SIGURDSON</div>VANCOUVER&mdash;Right winger Dennis Ververgaert. perhaps the Vancouver Canucks&rsquo; most obvious All Star candidate, has undergone surgery for a shoulder separation and will be lost to the National Hockey League team for six to eight weeks.Mike Robitaille, who has been enjoying an outstanding season on the Vancouver blue line, has a sprained wrist that will keep him on the sidelines for six or seven games. Winger Paulin Bordeleau and defenseman Bob Dailey, two other key members of the team, have been in and out of the other lineup because of injuries. Goaltender Gary Smith has remained in the lineup despite a groin injury that requires a tape job from knee to waist.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01838/3391013-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="280" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dennis Ververgaert</figcaption></div>In the face of all that, the Canucks have increased their lead atop the NHL&rsquo;s Conn Smythe division.&ldquo;This has been the greatest bunch of guys I&rsquo;ve ever been associated with,&rdquo; said general manager-coach Phil Malorey after watching his Canucks hike heir lead to 11 points over the second place Chicago Black Hawks with a 3-0 victory over the New York Islanders.The victory over the Islanders was he Canucks&rsquo; second in a row &mdash; they lefeated the Blues 6-1 in St. Louis &mdash; after suffering their first brief letdown of the season, a stretch that saw them ose two in a row and go three games without a win.The Canucks have already proved a lot of things to the skeptics this season. Now they are demonstrating the necessary depth to absorb a punishing string of injuries.Gregg Boddy. Bobby Lalonde and Leon Rochefort are playing as a line primarily because they were the three forwards left over after Maloney had selected the personnel for his other three attacking units.But with the injuries to Ververgaert and Bordeleau disrupting the Canucks&rsquo; two highest scoring units, those three have taken over as the leaders on attack and continued their remarkable defensive record.They spent much of the first 10 games of the season either parked on the end of the bench or watching proceedings from the stands. In the 15 games they played since then they have scored 16 goals. Six of those goals were scored in the three games since the injuries started piling up.But more impressive by far than their scoring exploits is the fact that as a complete unit they haven&rsquo;t allowed the opposition a single goal.Each member of the line scored once in the victory over the Islanders. Rochefort got his fourth of the season. Boddy his third and the mercurial Lalonde his ninth.Boddy is an aggressive checker and strong in the corners. Rochefort is solid defensively and a good puck handler, but it is the amazing Lalonde, the smallest man in the league, who makes the line go with his darting speed and suddenly improved passing game.This is the 5&rsquo;5&rdquo;. 155-pound Lalonde&rsquo;s fourth season with the Canucks. His 20 goals in the 1972-73 campaign proved he could score and no one ever doubted his ability to skate. But this year he has mastered the give-and-go passing game that has been driving opposing centers and defensemen to distraction.While Lalonde. Rochefort and Boddy have been picking up the slack on the forward lines. John Grisdale has been doing the job on defense.When a pulled thigh muscle kept Dennis Reams out of the lineup. Grisdale stopped in to play the left defense beside Dailey. With Robitaille out. he shifted to the right side with Tracy Pratt. In both cases he played outstanding hockey.When both Robitaille and Dailey were out of the lineup. Ab DeMarco, whom Maloney has employed primarily on the power-play, also stepped in to play a regular shift and the Canucks kept on winning.CANUCK CAPERS: The Canucks had 34 points from their first 25 games&hellip; Last season it took them 51 games to earn that many&hellip; Yves Bernier, a 20-year-old right winger, is getting a tryout with Vancouver&hellip; The former Sherbrooke. Que, junior suffered an injury during the Washington Capitals&rsquo; camp and was released&hellip; The Canucks picked him up as a free agent and plan to give him a shot with their farm team in Seattle. &#9632;

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Injury Outbreak Fails To Slow Down Runaway Canucks

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>SAULT STE. MARIE&mdash;When Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds&rsquo; 17-year-old Jack Valiquette was selected by Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League draft last spring as an under-age junior, many observers felt that a player of at least equal ability with the Hounds had been overlooked.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-01122/3393572-1-eng-US/f0039-012.jpg" title="f0039-01" width="265" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cary Farelli</figcaption></div>Valiquette was co-winner of the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior A scoring championship with Rick Adduono of St. Catharines. each with 135 points. However the youngster who set up Valiquette on many of his 63 goals was apple-cheeked Cary Farelli who had 51 goals of his own and finished fourth in the over-all individual standings with 125 points. Farelli is proving this season that he is indeed an outstanding prospect. Although only 5&rsquo;8&rdquo; he is sturdily built, has natural puck sense, is an exceptionally fast skater andpossesses a good shot.With his dad Jim (a former minor league professional) coaching, the Farellis could take the Greyhounds into the playoffs for the first time since they were granted a franchise in the 1972-73 season.In two games against St. Catharines Black Hawks last week Farelli scored two goals and set up two others in a 5-3 win at St. Catharines, then scored all three as his team tied the Hawks 3-3 on home ice before a capacity crowd.The goals brought his total to 26 in just 27 games &mdash; a much higher rate than last season.With his linemates Randy Borbely and Paul Woods &mdash; both relatively small &mdash; they have &ldquo;sold&rdquo; Major Junior A to the Sault fans.The win and tie with the Hawks stretched the Greyhounds&rsquo; undefeated streak to nine games &mdash; for wins and five ties &mdash; their longest in the three years they have operated.The previous high was seven as they were last while making their Major Junior A debut in 1972-73 and ninth last season, just one spot out of the playoff picture.But things look much brighter this year for manager Angelo Bumbacco and coach Farelli.TORONTO: The Marlboros aren&rsquo;t scoring as many goals during the first seven weeks of the schedule but they are winning games and have regained first place&hellip; They downed Kingston Canadians 5-3 and Oshawa Generals 4-3 before picking up their second straight 4-3 win over the Generals&mdash;this time in Brantford&hellip; Because of National Hockey League and World Hockey Association games in Maple Leaf Gardens, the Marlies have shifted 15 of their home dates to Brantford and are averaging better than 2.000 fans a game there&hellip; Their win in Kingston was accomplished before the largest Canadians&rsquo; crowd of the season. 3,916, with Bruce Boudreau, as usual, leading the way. scoring once and assisting on three others&hellip; With Mark Napier the Marlies have the best one-two punch in Ontario Junior A&hellip; Despite starting late because of a contract dispute, Napier has more than 20 goals.OTTAWA: The 67s, who had a spectacularstart in the schedule, then hit the skids for nine games, are back on the right track and challenging Toronto for first place&hellip; They extended their undefeated string to nine games with a 9-5 victory over the slumping Hamilton Fincups, including six wins and three ties&hellip; Balance now appears to be the key to the Ottawa success as Bruce Baker. Warren Holmes and Dale Ross scored two each against Hamilton&hellip; Previously they relied almost exclusively on Peter Lee (closing in on the 30-goal mark) and Tim Young&hellip; In their only other game they tied Kingston 5-5 with Jamie Masters scoring twice.HAMILTON: After holding first place briefly, the Fincups have run into problems following a big 11-2 splurge victory over London Knights&hellip; The Fincups counted six goals in the first period and coasted the rest of the way against the Knights with all six coming while London&rsquo;s Scott Campbell was serving a major penalty&hellip; Mike Keating. Dave Norris and Ren&eacute; Peltier all had two goals&hellip; However in their next two starts they lost 5-2 in Peterborough and 9-5 in Ottawa&hellip; Archie King accounted for both goals against the Petes and Dan Shearer had two in Ottawa&hellip; Without captain-center Dale McCourt scoring regularly, the Fincups are in trouble.PETERBOROUGH: The Petes, continuing their steady play, earned three of a possible four points, defeating Hamilton 5-2 at home, then tying 3-3 in London&hellip; Doug Jarvis was the hometown hero with two of his club&rsquo;s five goals and singles went to Mike Fryia. Brad Pirie and Red Laurence&hellip; Tony Cassolato had a pair and Mark Perras scored on a power-play with four minutes left to give coach Roger Neilson&rsquo;s team the 3-3 tie in London even though the Petes were outshot by a narrow 3432 margin&hellip; Peterborough is solid if not spectacular and could be a threat during the playoffs.KINGSTON: After flirting with first place, the Canadians managed only one point in two games and dropped slightly off the pace although the top nine teams are so closely bunched that even a slight slump or win streak can change a team&rsquo;s position within a matter of days&hellip; The Marlboros beat them 5-3 right in Kingston as Alex Forsyth. Ken Linseman and Mike O&rsquo;Connell looked after their scoring&hellip; In the 5-5 tie with Ottawa consistent Tony McKegney. brother of former Kitchener Ranger Mike McKegney. had two goals &mdash; the first and last of the game&hellip; However coach Jack Bownass still has his sophomore club playing better than most people anticipated and they appear to be headed for a certain playoff berth.SUDBURY: The Wolves continued playing .500 hockey and tied their two games during the week &mdash; both home fixtures &mdash; 4-4 with St. Catharines and 3-3 with Kitchener&hellip; They appeared to have the game with the Black Hawks won as they led 4-2 in the third period but a major penalty to Dave Farrish for highsticking (one of the new get-tough rules in the OHA) gave the Hawks the opportunity they needed and they scored twice to pick up the single point&hellip; Twenty-four hours later they gave up a 3-2 lead in Kitchener when Bobby Schnurr scored with 10 minutes left&hellip; Rod Schutt is maintaining his fine play with a goal against the Hawks while Randy Carlyle, John Walker and Geoff Green were the marksmen in Kitchener.OSHAWA: The Generals, under veteran coach Gus Bodnar, are. like so many other Ontario Junior A teams, playing about .500 hockey in wins, losses and ties&hellip; It&rsquo;s indicative of the good balance this season from the top down to ninth spot, with London a 10th team to contend with if they can put it all together&hellip; The Generals lost two tough 4-3 decisions to the Marlboros. generally rated the team to beat in Major Junior A and could have won either but for the absence of their undisputed leader Andy Whitby who is still nursing a damaged knee&hellip; Former Marlie Brian Dillon had one goal for the Generals at home with others contributed by Bud Stefanski and Greg Malone and in Brantford against the Dukes. Oshawa gave up a 3-2 lead in the third period when Craig Crawford. Bruce Boudreau and John Smrke scored in succession&hellip; Greg Malone. Mike Kaszyckiand Brian Drumm were the marksmen in Brantford.ST. CATHARINES: Sault Ste. Marie scored its first-ever win in St. Catharines 5-3 over a disorganized Black Hawk team but the Hawks rebounded on the Northern swing to tie 4-4 in Sudbury and 3-3 in the Sault&hellip; Both draws were accomplished on comebacks as Sudbury led 4-2 going into the third period and the Greyhounds by 3-1 on a natural hat-trick by Cary Farelli&hellip; Sophomore Gary McAdam broke his long scoring slump with goals in both Northern Ontario games&hellip; The hard-working winger hadn&rsquo;t scored since the second game of the season &mdash; away back on Sept. 29 against Hamilton&hellip; Captain-center Rick Adduono tried to return after being idle five weeks with damaged knee ligaments but found his leg wasn&rsquo;t strong enough and was instructed to sit out two more weeks&hellip; Adduono had just been elected captain.LONDON: The Knights continue to be the mystery team of the Junior A League &mdash; a mystery that is why they aren&rsquo;t winning more games&hellip; With so many players returning from last season they were expected to place well up in the league but so far can&rsquo;t climb out of 10th position&hellip; They were smashed 11-2 by Hamilton as Rick McIntyre and Vern Stenlund. two of their holdovers, scored once each, then managed a 3-3 home ice tie with Peterborough with Stenlund, Terry Martin and Ron Zanussi scoring&hellip; Afteracquiring All Star goalie Mike Kasmetis from Peterborough the Knights sent Jim Weaver to Kingston Canadians&hellip; Both deals were for future considerations, which generally means draft choices.KITCHENER: The Rangers managed just one point in two games which is about the pace they have been setting after losing almost all their talent this season following their 1973-74 pennant&hellip; Coach Eddie Bush hasn&rsquo;t given up the ship however and Kitchener is still not that far back that they couldn&rsquo;t make the playoffs with a string of wins&hellip; Bobby Schnurr&rsquo;s goal on a rebound in the third period gave Rangers the draw with Sudbury and sent 3.204 fans home reasonably happy and in St. Catharines the Hawks rallied for four goals in the last 20 minutes to win 5-2 after Kitchener led 1-0 and 2-1 in the first two&hellip; Newcomers Barry Duench and Marc Thiel were the marksmen for Kitchener. &#9632;

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Farellis Could Take Sault To Playoffs For First Time In Club’s OHA History

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT &mdash; Who would have believed it&hellip; a Red Wing team that had been able to post only two road victories in 12 tries, and those two at Washington and Kansas City, both expansion poverty pockets, beating the Boston Bruins in Boston Garden.Incredible as it seems, it happened. What&rsquo;s more, the Red Wings fought the Bruins physically and Bryan Wajson. Hank Nowak and Jean Hamel came out on top.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02772/3390292-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="248" height="374"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marcel Dionne</figcaption></div>The only things you might have believed of the Wings&rsquo; 6-4 victory in Boston Garden, seemingly Detroit&rsquo;s first victory there since Paul Revere was stickboy. was Marcel Dionne&rsquo;s performance.Week in and week out this season, the best that can be said of the Red Wings is Marcel Dionne.The 23-year-old French-Canadian flyer, reveling in his role as team captain. continues to play like the super star he was in Junior hockey. Not that he hadn&rsquo;t played well in the NHL but he just hadn&rsquo;t really taken command the way his talents indicated he could.Dionne collected his second three-goal game of the season in the victory over the Bruins &mdash; the other was against the Rangers &mdash; and when the Bruins closed the gap to 5-4 and seemed ready to pull out another tie as they had the previous night in Montreal. Dionne scored the clincher.It was his 13th goal and he picked up his 24th assist in the game. Detroit&rsquo;s 24th, to give him his fastest start by far in four NHL seasons. Dionne had a string where he had a point or more in 13 of 14 games.Manager-coach Alex Devecchio found some encouragement too in his new rookie line of Blair Stewart. Hank Nowak and Earl Anderson.Delvecchio put the line together on his 43rd birthday and it was all he had to celebrate that night &mdash; the Wings lost, 4-2, at New York.But the rookies played aggressively and the following night in Boston. Anderson scored a pair of goals and Anderson and Nowak won their fights with Bruins Dave Forbes and Carol Vadnais.Anderson is one of the increasing number of American-born players in the NHL. The native of Roseau. Minn., starred at the University of North Dakota and last winter toured Europe with Bruce Norris&rsquo; London Lions. He scored 62 goals and assisted on 48 in 70 games.Stewart, who had a 17-game trial with the Wings last season and was expected to start with the big club this season, sustained a fractured leg in a midAugust car accident. When it mended, he was sent to the Virginia Wings to get in condition.As usual, there has been considerable shuffling between Detroit and Virginia as Delvecchio tried to put something together to get the Wings into contention in the Norris Division.Brian McCutcheon, called up from Virginia, and Brian Murphy, acquired from Baltimore, and Swedish defenseman Thommie Bergman all were sent down to Virginia in the latest shuffle.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s still a lot of hockey to be played.&rdquo; Delvecchio said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not out of it vet.&rdquo;RED WING NOTES: Mickey Redmond returned after six games on the sidelines with a back injury that had him hospitalized and in traction&hellip; and no sooner was he back than a Detroit radio sportscaster packaged him in a trade to the Canadiens.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t appreciate that.&rdquo; Delvecchio said. &ldquo;It got Mickey all shook up.&rdquo; Delvecchio said he had no deal for Redmond.Redmond was just returning when Red Berenson went out with a painful rib cartilage injury and. of course. Bill Hogaboam will be out until midJanuary with his broken leg.The heaviest snowfall in Detroit in this century and the second largest on record, a 19.8 inch fall, forced the first potsponement of a Red Wing home game in history, the Dec. I game with the Toronto Maple Leafs.Delvecchio made it to the Olympia and trainers Lefty Wilson and Dan Olesevich slept the night there but not many of the players could get through the storm and certainly few fans were about to leave their hot hearths and warm television sets.The closest thing to a postponement of a home game according to statistician Morrie Moorawnick was a 1948 game with the Rangers.The Rangers were supposed to fly in on a Sunday but weather delayed their departure and the pre-jet days&rsquo; flights were much slower. They finally got the game started at 10:45 p.m. and it ended at 1:15 a.m. &#9632;

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Red Wings’ Hockey Successes Few But They Revolve Around Dionne

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01840/3390323-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">One of the NHL&rsquo;s high-scoring rookies is Eric Vail of Atlanta Flames, shown here in action. Vail has 13 goals. For details on NHL&rsquo;s top rookie scorers see NHL Week In Review on page 19.</figcaption></div><h2>SEALS DRAINING NHL</h2>PITTSBURGH&mdash;While NHL President Clarence Campbell predicted economic doom for the rival WHA, he acknowledged that his own league is not free of financial problems and cited the California Seals as a case in point who are draining the NHL of its resources through the courts.Campbell, who figures it will be economically impossible for the WHA to continue much longer, but who admitted some franchises will survive, declared of his own league, &ldquo;we&rsquo;ve got to resolve the Oakland situation or we will bleed to death.&rdquo; He said the NHL takover of the Oakland franchise had cost the league $2.9 million the last two years in legal fees alone.The NHL is currently waging a court battle with the original Oakland owner Barry Van Gerbig, who filed suit against the NHL when the league placed a franchise in Vancouver after rejecting his bid to move the financially-troubled Seals to the Canadian coastal city. The NHL won the original court battle but is still waiting to see if Van Gerbig plans an appeal. Meanwhile, the NHL can&rsquo;t sell the club and it is costing a pretty sum to keep the Seals operating.Campbell said the salary war between the NHL and WHA has levelled off. &ldquo;Economics have dictated a peak in salaries,&rdquo; he added.<h2>CAT ON WAY OUT?</h2>NEW YORK&mdash;While the Rangers are quick to deny it, there are recurring reports Emile &lsquo;Cat&rsquo; Francis will part company with the New Yorkers probably sometime after the close of the present season.Francis, who has been GM and coach of the Rangers for the past 11 years, is being victimized by new Garden corporation boss Alvin Cohen&rsquo;s reportedly drastic curbs on spending. Francis has objected and rumors persist he&rsquo;ll move on to another plush NHL job, possibly in St. Louis or Los Angeles. The Cat is much in demand and certainly wouldn&rsquo;t lack NHL offers. Most hockey clubs would welcome his hockey acumen.<h2>CANADA BACK IN &lsquo;76</h2>OTTAWA&mdash;Take it from Gordon Juckes, the major domo of the CAHA, Canada will be back in world open hockey tournament competition by 1976 with a team of professionals.Juckes was commenting on an IIHF report by president Bunny Ahearne, who has cleared the way in meeting with Olympic officials, to allow pros and amateurs to play against one another in world tournaments without affecting their amateur status. Juckes said he did not see any problems getting Canada approved for re-entry in &lsquo;76 under these conditions. However, NHL owners are dead against their players becoming involved in a national team, which could create a hurdle for the CAHA. Also the date, late April in Poland, would not be conducive to the NHL. Dates would also have to be changed to accomodate the pros.<h2>STAPLETON AN OWNER?</h2>CHICAGO&mdash;Little Pat Stapleton has been just about everything in hockey, player, captain, coach&hellip; now he wants to become an owner. Stapleton is attempting to head up a Chicago group to purchase control of the Chicago Cougars of the WHA and keep the team in the Windy City. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll do anything in my power to keep the franchise in Chicago,&rdquo; stated Stapleton. There have been reports the club, plagued by the lack of a proper playing facility, would be sold to a Baltimore concern and the club moved. Present owners say it won&rsquo;t happen.At any rate if Stapleton succeeds he&rsquo;ll set a precedent by becoming the first player-coach-owner in big time hockey. &#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/f0002-03610/3390382-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="518" height="742"></div><h2>WHA TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04419/3390375-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="520" height="572"></div><h2>OTHER LEAGUES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05294/3390368-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="516" height="410"></div><h2>COLUMNISTS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06198/3390361-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="518" height="130"></div><h2>OTHER FEATURES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-07117/3390354-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="514" height="166"></div> &#9632;

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WHERE YOU’LL FIND IT ALL

<div class="byline">BY DICK JOHNSTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;The month of November, which appeared almost suicidal for the Buffalo Sabres at the start, turned into a victory march that put them atop the entire National Hockey League and nine points ahead of the runner-up Boston Bruins at month&rsquo;s end.It also brought Ren&eacute; Robert out of his scoring slump and moved him second only to the Bruins&rsquo; super scorer. Phil Esposito, in goals scored.Ren&eacute;, who sagged to 21 goals in 1973-74 after scoring 40 the season before, got off to a slow start this campaign. He netted only one goal in the Sabres&rsquo; first 12 games. He hit for two in the Sabres&rsquo; 6-4 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks &mdash; their fourth game into November &mdash; and then went on a scoring binge in which he recorded 16 goals in 14 games fora total of 18 in the club&rsquo;s first 26 starts.When the Sabres entered November, they faced 16 games, nine of them of the road, and opposition included mostly clubs from the old establishment of pre-1967 days.Montreal twice, Boston twice. Chicago twice, the New York Rangers once. Toronto once and Detroit once. And coach Floyd Smith&rsquo;s worthies went through the month with 12 wins, three ties and a single defeat. The loss was to the Bruins in Boston. They finished the month the highest-scoring team in the league and first in power-play goals.It was a sweet month for Robert and for the entire French Connection. Gil Perreault finished the month third in the league in scoring. behind only Bobby Orr and Esposito of Boston, and Rick Martin picked upat least one point in 16 straight games and also scored four times in one game.But the reason Buffalo kept winning. as Robert pointed out, was that all three lines were scoring. &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t have the pressure on us that we had in the past.&rdquo; Ren&eacute; pointed out. &ldquo;When we need a goal, one of the other two lines is just as apt to score it as we are.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01845/3390427-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="799" height="1222"><figcaption class="caption-body">Richard Martin, left, and Ren&eacute; Robert have come up hot after a somewhat slow start. Martin had a point in 16 straight games and turned in one four-goal game. Robert clicked for 16 goals in 14 games after getting only one in his first 12.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02716/3390420-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="805" height="1210"><figcaption class="caption-body">Center Gil Perreault is the key to the French Connection line. As long as he&rsquo;s in high gear, his linemates are highly productive. Perreault himself was No. 1 man in the individual scoring race ahead of Boston&rsquo;s Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03482/3390413-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="790" height="1201"></div>The Don Luce-Craig Ramsay-Danny Gare line scored a goal in 14 straight games. And the Jim Lorentz-Brian Spencer-Rick Dudley line came through with important goals, besides keeping opposing forwards off balance with their headlong pursuit of the puck.When one of the regular forwards was out of the lineup for any reason. Norm Gratton or Larry Mickey would step in and do the job. Against Chicago, late in the month, Gratton came off the bench to replace Martin (banished on a game misconduct) and set up Perreault for the winning goal. Mickey scored on his first shift in two of the games he played in.&ldquo;The more you win, the more you want to win.&rdquo; Robert pointed out. &ldquo;Things are really going well for the team but we&rsquo;ve worked a long way to get where we are.&ldquo;After last season I had something to prove this year. I worked for a month to get in shape and in training camp I worked and I worked.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m in the best shape I ever was in. It pays off to be in shape. Playing hockey is so much easier. Eventhough I wasn&rsquo;t scoring at the start of the season. I was getting chances. When you get the chances you shouldn&rsquo;t worry because sooneror laterthey will start goingin.&rdquo;ICE CHIPS: The Sabres&rsquo; showing is all the more remarkable because they played through much of the big month without the services of their 22-year-old captain and rugged defenseman, Jim Schoenfeld. Another backliner. Josh Guevremont. was bothered by a charley horse much of the time, too.Rookie Lee Fogolin moved into a regular shift, teamed with Larry Carriere, and Bill Hajt, who had been alternating with both Carriere and Guevremont, took over Schoenfeld&rsquo;s spot with Jerry Korab.Gary Bromley was the winningest goalie in the league at the end of November, with an I l-win2-loss 3-tie record in his first full NHL season. He had a possible 25 of 34 points (Vancouver&rsquo;s Gary Smith had 30 of a possible 42 at the time) and veteran Roger Crozier won the first six games in his comeback attempt.The Sabres started December with a win. 6-3 over the Pittsburgh Penguins, whom they tied to end November the night before&hellip; Robert got four goals in the two week-end games against the team that traded him to Buffalo in March, 1972.Martin suffered ligament damage of the thumb of his right hand in the first Pittsburgh game and had trouble shooting. &#9632;

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FRENCH CONNECTION AND THE BUFFALO SABRES: THEY’VE SURPRISED EVERYONE

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01898/3390479-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="442" height="451"></div>&bull; GARY SMITH, the elongated goaltender of the Vancouver Canucks, is given major credit for the unexpected showing of the Canucks in the NHL season to date&hellip; However. Smith has a record of always rebelling in the past at the amount of work he&rsquo;s been getting and Vancouver followers feel the club will show a letdown shortly&hellip; Things must be in bad shape for the Vancouver Blazers when they have to dress Andy Bathgate, who has been out of major play for a number of years&hellip; Bob Hess, rookie St. Louis defenseman, tied a team record by getting an assist in seven straight game. The record was set by Phil Goyette in 1969&hellip; Johnny Gagnon, former NHL great with Montreal Canadiens. who has scouted for the New York Rangers for a number of years, was delirious with joy when he heard the news that the arena in Chicoutimi. Que., was to be named after him. A native of Chicoutimi. Gagnon said: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the biggest honor I&rsquo;ve ever had&hellip; Boston Bruins continue to advertise that there are seats available in Boston Garden, which had been an unheard of thing when they were winning the Stanley Cup and riding high with Orr. Espo. etc&hellip; Jack Kent Cooke&rsquo;s Los Angeles Forum has been sold out seven times for hockey and all seven times the opposition has been the Boston Bruins.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02854/3390472-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="250" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Hess</figcaption></div>&bull; EBBIE GOODFELLOW, former NHL great and a member of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall Fame, and Warren Godfrey, former defense man with Boston Bruinsand Detroit Red Wings, expressed enthusiasm over the Ice Skating Institute of America&rsquo;s Support Youth Hockey&rdquo; bumper strips when they met recently with Mark Fornango. the ISI A&rsquo;S public relations director. Goodfellow and Godfrey are both year-round residents of Fort Myers. Florida, home of the ISlA&rsquo;s national office&hellip; Hockey players are human dept: Bobby Orr. Bob Murdoch and Tom Williams are just three of many in the NHL who took advantage of the recent trend toward having husbands with their wives in the delivery rooms to wittness the arrival of their most recent offspring. Each expresses enthusiasm for what they consider an exciting experience&hellip; Harry Sinder. Boston&rsquo;s managing director, says there has always been a thin line between the two or three top American Hockey League teams and the bottom-place NHL clubs&hellip; The Bruins are far from the powerhouse they once were in the National Hockey League, although they have on their roster three or four of the finest players to be found in the game today&hellip; Stories keep circulating that Emile Francis will leave New York Rangers at the end of this season. It will be a sad day for the Rangers if they allow the Cat to get away from them&hellip; Joe Crozier, who jumped from the Buffalo Sabres to the Vancouver Blazers of the WHA, is being reminded that he called the Blazers a first-place club before the season started. The news media is asking if he made a mistake then or is making mistakes now&hellip; There are many hockey experts who think Punch Imlach has done a better job in building up the Buffalo Sabres than Sam Pollock has ever done with Montreal Canadiens. Imlach says he refuses to trade with Canadiens. &ldquo;They don&rsquo;t have anything good enough.&rdquo; he stated the other day.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03749/3390465-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="253" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Crozier</figcaption></div>&bull; SHELLY KANNEGIESSER says he has received mail from all over Canada and the United States interested in his religious dedication and complimenting him on his willingness to discuss it in a recent column in THE HOCKEY NEWS. Kannegiesser is the fine young defenseman with Los Angeles who has been quite an inspiration to his teammates on the Kings and former clubs, the Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers&hellip; Connie Horvat has done quite a job in taking care of the Kings&rsquo; matrimonial needs. First she took care of matridone quite a job in taking care of the Kings&rsquo; herself, marying Vic Venasky. Then she introduced her sister, Yvonne to another King. Mike Murphy, and they were married this year. Finally. she introduced a coworker, Debby Bigelow, to yet another King. Shelly Kannegiesser, and they were married this fall. The service is free and she is rumored offering it to the team&rsquo;s two remaining bachelors. Dave Hutchison and trainer John Holmes.. Much of the credit for Buffalo&rsquo;s fast start has to go to their, physical program headed by Chuck Wurzer, a former YMCA physical director who has been working with them every day before home practices&hellip; Roger Crozier, the Sabres&rsquo; veteran goalie, was in the midst of a recent bench-clearing brawl Detween his team and the Montreal Canadiens. &ldquo;No more of this for me.&rdquo; said Roger afterward.&rdquo; It tires you out too much&hellip; Let us be the first to wish you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY, HEALTHY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04647/3390458-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="280" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Shelly Kannegiesser</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THS PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05521/3390534-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div><h2>Top Hockey Fan Proud Of Record</h2>Many thanks for your kind words in your Nov. 29 issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS. Being acclaimed top hockey fan by your publication has put me on cloud nine. Having a subscription, to your fine publication, until 1994 makes me the holder of a proud record and I&rsquo;ll cherish it proudly.Unlike other sports figures, who hate to see their records broken, I hope my record of longest-ranging subscription is broken time and time again in the very near future. This would mean others find the same enjoyment I do through the whole year reading about hockey, there&rsquo;s no sport like it.Again, sincerest thanks for the wonderful article and the highest praise a hockey fan could receive from the bible of hockey. THE HOCKEY NEWS.While I have the floor I&rsquo;d like to suggest to various NHL rink owners that they raise the plexiglass behind the nets about two feet. It seems, in recent years, that more and more pucks are being shot or deflected into the crowd behind the nets via slap shots and the like. It is only a matter of time before one or more fans will be critically hurt from these rubber bullets fired by the pros.HENRY WARGOCKI, Bronx, N.Y.<h2>Lack Of Clutch Play Adding To Pens&rsquo; Woes</h2>With the potential the Pittsburgh Penguins have, (the Apps line; Kehoe, Hadfield, Burrows and co.), why aren&rsquo;t they winning more games?A recent game, where the Pens were defeated 4-3 by the New York Islanders, provided a good answer to this question. For the last three minutes of the game, the Pens shot and shot but couldn&rsquo;t dent the net for that clutch goal. Compare this to the performances of teams like Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago. Twice already this year, the Bruins have scored goals with less than one minute remaining in the game to force a tie (one of these times was against the Pens).Philadelphia beat New York early this year on a clutch goal with 15 seconds left. But when was the last time the Penguins scored a goal at 18:00 or 19:50 of the third period, to win or tie a game? The Penguins would have a chance at the Norris Division crown if they would only start scoring goals when it counts the most.TIM GALEZA, Pittsburgh, Pa.<h2>WHA Games Prove More Wide Open</h2>I have watched most of the Toronto Toros&rsquo; games on television this year and I believe that the WHA teams play a much better style of hockey than do the NHL teams. The games I have seen were more wide open and more exciting. There was more skating and passing. In the NHL, the teams try to win with muscle, and this results in fights and dirty play. Of course there are fights and dirty players in the WHA. but not nearly so many as in the NHL. I suggest that all fans who are fed up with poor sportsmanship turn to the WHA. The talent might not be as good, but the hockey is better.MICHAEL FITZSIMMONS, London, Ont.<h2>Rogers&rsquo; Junior Career Spent With Calgary</h2>I agree with the feelings expressed in an article on the World Hockey Association in a recent issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS. However, I would like to correct an error made in this article.Mike Rogers, the dazzling rookie turning pro with the Edmonton Oilers, played his junior games with the Calgary Centennials, not the Edmonton Oil Kings.LORNA MIDDLEBROUGH, Edmonton, Alta.<h2>Flyers&rsquo; Fan Says Howatt Jumped Clarke</h2>Just to set the record straight: re the Nov. 5 Flyers-lslanders game, in which there was a bench-clearing brawl. Harry Klaff made the statement, &ldquo;Bobby Clarke decided to take on Gary Howatt.&rdquo; If Klaff would look at the replay, he would clearly see Howatt jumping on Clarke from behind. Maybe this was why Howatt got the best of it. By the way, if anybody doubts Clarke&rsquo;s fighting ability, ask Rod Seiling of the Leafs.BOB WALSH, King of Prussia, Pa.<h2>Big Names Good, What About Little M?</h2>Everytime you pick up a newspaper, all you read about is Esposito, Orr and Clarke. Sure, they&rsquo;re all good, but they&rsquo;re grossly overrated. If everyone played as much as they do, the scoring race would look like yards gained by a running back.I think more credit should go to Pete Mahovlich, who is one of the hardest workers around. He&rsquo;s also one of the most classy and explosive penalty killers, who earns his goals, and not just by standing around in front of the net picking off rebounds. There&rsquo;s also Serge Savard who made such an unbelievable comeback and was our most consistent defenseman against Russia in 1972. Defense means Savard, not somebody who will sacrifice his team&rsquo;s goals-against to finish at the top of the scoring race.LORAINE WINGHAM, Nanaimo, B.C.<h2>Officials Discriminating Against Flyers&rsquo; Schultz</h2>The Flyers have become victims not of their style, but of their reputation. And no one has been victimized more than Dave Schultz. They have special rules for Philadelphia and extra special rules for Dave.In Oakland, they told him to leave the ice and the reason they gave was that it was for the good of the game. Now what kind of an excuse is that? I don&rsquo;t find that statement anywhere in the rule book.Last week, against the N.Y. Islanders, it was even more ludicrous. A fight erupted, and though Schultz was nowhere near the action, he was thrown out of the game. This time there wasn&rsquo;t even a reason. They just opened the gate and told him to leave. What other sport have you heard of where a guy gets thrown out for doing absolutely nothing and the only reason he gets the gate is because of his name?JOHN CAVANAUGH, Philadelphia, Pa. &#9632;

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Fan Forum

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div>CHICAGO&mdash;Frustration is locking yourself out of your apartment at two in the morning and not being able to explain the problem to anyone.Frustration is sitting through a locker room litany by your coach and grasping only the barest bits and pieces of advice.Frustration is leaving home in another country and coming to a city of millions to start a career midst people who don&rsquo;t even speak your language.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01928/3390596-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="256" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Duane Wylie</figcaption></div>Alain Daigle, a flying Frenchman, has experienced all of the above &mdash; and no doubt more &mdash; in two months with the Chicago Black Hawks. If we could speak his tongue, or he ours, the stories no doubt would be plentiful.After all. its arduous enough being a rookie in the National Hockey League. But in Chicago, when you can&rsquo;t speak a word of English, the insecurity of all it surely must be compounded.&ldquo;But he&rsquo;ll let his stick do the talking.&rdquo; said coach William T. Reay. just to coin a phrase. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s shown us a lot. He goes for that net, he knows what to do with the puck, and furthermore, he&rsquo;s strong. Im&rsquo; upset at myself for not using him more at the beginning, but we&rsquo;ll have a good look at him now.&rdquo;Daigle was the Hawks&rsquo; No. 2 draftee last June (behind Grant Mulvey). He collected 80 goals with Three Rivers of the Quebec Junior League, playing a little bit of everywhere on the forward line, though right wing is nominally his post.Daigle warmed the pines in the first couple weeks, then finally got some ice. His progress has come slowly but surely, just like his English. But an interpreter such as J.P. Bordeleau or Germain Gagnon or Pit Martin still helps.It makes it a lot easier to have them around,&rdquo; said Daigle, via Bordeleau one day after practice. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m starting to learn the necessary words. The first words that I got to learn here were the ones that have to do with equipment. Skates, gloves, things like that.It&rsquo;s difficult, but not that bad. The main thing is that I am here in the National Hockey League doing what I want. I feel like I am getting more and more confidence all the time.&rdquo;Perhaps the easier route for Daigle would have been a signature with the World Hockey Association. The Quebec Nordiques would have been perfect, and they were willing.&ldquo;But I wanted the National Hockey League,&rdquo; said Daigle. &ldquo;The money wasn&rsquo;t that much different, and the Black Hawks were a good team to come to.&ldquo;It is a transition, of course, to come from a league where you score 80 goals and only finished about 10th on the list, to a league which is not as wide-open and to a team that plays defensively.&ldquo;But I knew what I was coming to. I knew I would have to work hard at checking my man here. It was tough for the first couple weeks when I didn&rsquo;t play at all. but I hope now that I&rsquo;m playing a little more that I can help.&rdquo;The Black Hawks needed all the help they could get in November, and that was the silver lining in their cloud. At one point five regulars were sidelined &mdash; Jim Pappin with a suspension. Pit Martin (appendectomy). Dale Tallon (dislocated hip). Keith Magnuson (wrist fracture) and Bill White (back problems.)Such a dearth of manpower not only created openings for imports from the Dallas farm club such as center Duane Wylie and defenseman Roger Wilson, but it cleared the Hawk bench of several players such as Daigle who had been working infrequently.Reay played Daigle on the right side for center Ivan Boldirev and left wing Darcy Rota during the latter stages of a month which saw the Hawks win but 3 of 11 games and drop 13 points behind the first place Vancouver Canucks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02738/3390589-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="560" height="508"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALAIN DAIGLE &hellip;Learning Fast</figcaption></div>That&rsquo;s a heck of a hole to dig. In anybody&rsquo;s language.PARTING SHOTS: Wylie notched his first NHL goal at Minnesota Nov. 30. a 5-3 loss. But goalie Tony Esposito came back the next night to record his 50th regular season shutout and give the Chicagoans a 3-0 win&hellip; Ted Damata. a veteran hockey reporter for the Chicago Tribune, will retire at the end of December. Damata. who covered his first match in 1929. is without peer as an analyst of the game. He&rsquo;ll be feted with a big bash in the Governor&rsquo;s Room at Chicago Stadium Dec. 12&hellip; The Hawks are expecting their new scoreboardclock any day now. &#9632;

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Daigle Lets His Stick Do The Talking

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>MONTREAL: Claude Larose, forward, traded to St. Louis for cash and future considerations.BOSTON: Ken Broderick, goalkeeper, assigned to Rochester of AHL.WASHINGTON: Andr&eacute; Peloffy, forward, and Gord Smith, defenseman, assigned to Richmond of AHL. Murray Anderson, defenseman, and John Adams, goalkeeper, recalled from Richmond.PITTSBURGH: Wayne Bianchin, forward, recalled from Johnstown of NAHL.ST. LOUIS: Frank Spring, forward, returned to Salt Lake of CHL.KANSAS CITY: Norm Dub&eacute;, forward, recalled from Providence of AHL. Roger Lemelin, defenseman, returned to Baltimore of AHL.ATLANTA: Jerry Byers, forward, sent to Omaha of CHL.N.Y. ISLANDERS: Richard Grenier, forward, recalled from New Haven and reassigned to Fort Worth of CHL. Bob Cook, forward, recalled from Fort Worth and reassigned to New Haven.MINNESOTA: Rod Norrish, forward, returned to New Haven of AHL.CALIFORNIA: Brent Meeke, defenseman, returned to Salt Lake of CHL.TORONTO: Jack Valiquette, forward, returned to Oklahoma City of CHL.VANCOUVER: Bob Hurlburt, forward, recalled from Seattle of CHL and returned<h2>WORLD HOCKEY ASSN.</h2>MICHIGAN: Marc Tardif and Steve Sutherland, forwards, traded to Quebec in return for Pierre Guit&eacute;, Alain Caron and Mike Rouleau, forwards. Joe Robertson, forward, traded to Minnesota in exchange for Jim Johnson, forward.INDIANAPOLIS: Brian McKenzie and Ron Walters, forwards, sent to Mohawk Valley of NAHL. Jim Murray, defenseman, picked up on waivers from Phoenix and signed to 5-game trial.WINNIPEG: Chris Bordeleau, forward, traded to Quebec in exchange for Al Beaul&eacute;, defenseman, and cash.NEW ENGLAND: Don Blackburn, forward, sent to Cape Codders of NAHL and recalled under emergency conditions as replacement for injured Tom Webster.CHICAGO: Don Gordon, forward, assigned to Long Island of NAHL.VANCOUVER: John Henderson, goalkeeper, signed to 5-game pro tryout and assigned to Seattle of CHL.PHOENIX: Bob Mowat, forward, recalled from Tulsa of CHL.CLEVELAND: Ted Ouimet, goalkeeper, recalled from Syracuse of NAHL and sold outright to New England.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>RICHMOND: Bernie Wolfe, goalkeeper, sent to Maine of NAHL on loan.VIRGINIA: Nelson Pyatt, forward, placed on suspended list indefinitely.NOVA SCOTIA: Peter Proulx, goalkeeper, sent to Hampton of SHL on loan.BALTIMORE: Paul Grand-chukoff, forward, recalled from Fort Wayne of I HL.HERSHEY: Dean Sheremeta, forward, returned to Fort Wayne of AHL. Don Brennan, defenseman, recalled from Charlotte of SHL and later returned.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>OMAHA: Billy Klatt, forward, signed as free agent after release by Minnesota of WHA.DALLAS: Mike St. Cyr, defenseman, recalled from Flint of IHL.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>KALAMAZOO: Jean-Paul Gilbert, forward, secured from Toledo of IHL.TOLEDO: John Dobie and Darrell Stamp, forwards, placed on waivers. Michel Laurendeau, forward, placed on active roster.COLUMBUS: Dave Birch, forward, secured from Dayton of IHL. Bill Bond, defenseman, signed as free agent.DES MOINES: Dave Murphy and Jim Jones, forwards, released.PORT HURON: Russ Elliott, forward, placed on waivers.FLINT: Dave Inkpen, forward, returned to active roster. Frank Beaton, forward, placed on 14-day injury list with broken hand.<h3>SOUTHERN LEAGUE</h3>ROANOKE: Roger Lafreniere, defenseman, signed as free agent. &#9632;

Movements of Players

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01917/3390634-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="300" height="348"></div><h2>Return Of The Star&hellip;</h2>HE WAS NOT, as these who are devoted to hockey would have you believe, weeping into his pillow nights for wanting to be playing goal for the mighty Montreal Canadiens in the glamorous National Hockey League. Nor was he being paid off to practice law for pennies while waiting out a season so he could shift into the uniform of the upstart Toronto Toros in the World Hockey Association.I expect to spend most of my life in law. but I am not even certain of that.&rdquo; says Ken Dryden. &ldquo;I had to spend a year&rsquo;s apprenticeship as a clerk for a firm and when it became clear near the end of the season-before last that I could not get the kind of contract I wanted from the Canadiens. I decided to take a year off from hockey. It might have turned out to be much more.&ldquo;It is true that the managing partner of the firm for which I went to work. Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt in Toronto, does a lot of work for the Bassett family and John Bassett is the owner of the Toros, but that was largely coincidental. It was the only firm I interviewed with and they paid me only what they paid any clerk.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02818/3390627-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="292" height="478"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Dryden</figcaption></div>&ldquo;It is also true that the Toros talked to me about signing with them and I was interested. They offered me a very good contract. But so did the Canadiens. I don&rsquo;t know why they changed their minds, but they did. Maybe they missed me. as everyone assumes. Also they perhaps saw for sure that I was serious about not playing for them if I was not paid by them what comparable players are paid.&ldquo;Money is far from my only motivation, but I do expect to be paid in proportion or the going rate. I was one of the lowest paid of the leading goalkeepers in hockey. I felt this was unfair and the glamor of wearing a Canadiens&rsquo; uniform was not for me what it may have been for youngsters years ago. However. I did decide the NHL was so far sufficiently superior to the WHA and I need that challenge at playing the best to stimulate me. I did not miss the sport as much as I thought I would, but I have a talent for and I was somewhat motivated by the youth I would waste if I did not take advantage of when I can get from it while it is possible for me. And I will stay awhile, at least the length of my contract.&rdquo;AFTER A YEAR CLERKING for $134 a week on an annual salary of less than $7,000 a year, he now has a contract calling for three years and an option year at a salary estimated at anywhere from $100,000 to $200,000 a season, more than $1,000 to 2,000 a game, counting playoff games. The spread of the estimates testifies to how little the media know about his personal affairs when he prefers not telling them. He sees no point in telling them because they do not believe what he does tell them, anyway.&ldquo;The only thing that bothered me about being away was the constant flow of rumors spread by the news media about what I was going to do. I told them I did not know and the writers and broacasters did not believe me. A writer would ask me if I had signed with the Toros and I would say I had not and he would write that I had said I had not. but the would then add that, however, of course I had. It was insulting&rdquo; he says. His wife says, pointedly, &ldquo;My husband does not lie.&rdquo;Ken says, &ldquo;Maybe the media has been brainwashed into believeing you can&rsquo;t believe what people say in sports, but they should have known me better and they should have believed me. I have been honest with the press at all times and I should have earned their respect You have to take each person as he is. I now know which members of the media to respect. I have been let down badly by many.&rdquo;Dryden sighed, his handsome face sad. Oh well, he shrugged it off. This was the way it was and he had learned a lesson from it. He is a fellow who learns. He has a marvellous mind, which he uses. He has an independent personality and he cannot conform to the norm. He refuses to say he missed his sport because it is what he is supposed to say. He says. &ldquo;I missed it when I was close to it. I didn&rsquo;t miss it when I was far removed from it.&ldquo;BUT I DID NOT see many games and most of the year hockey was for me what it had been for 20 years before I came up to the Canadiens &mdash; just something interesting to read about in the newspaper or watch sometimes on television. It was as though I had never been a player. There is a fraternity in an office, too. You have a common interest and are working toward a common good. It is true you do not have thousands of people watching you work and hollering at you as in hockey, but thousands may be affected by each piece of work you handle in law.&ldquo;Pressure is self-imposed, anyway. If you do not care how good your work is. it doesn&rsquo;t matter whether you are playing goal or preparing a brief. The few people who count in either case are judging your work and you prosper only if you produce. Hockey is a lot like the litigation aspects of law. In both there are long periods of preparation followed by brief presentations. In hockey the impact is more immediate. The red-light flashes and everyone knows you have not done yourjob properly. Afteronly 60 minutes ofaction the game result is in. You have to add up a season&rsquo;s worth of games to really determine your hockey performance, but it may be 10 years until say a seeming success is challenged in the courts before your legal work can be judged. lt is a different game, but intellectually just as exciting.&rdquo;Dryden says he felt pressure during his year at law. &ldquo;I was a rookie all over again in another game. I wasn&rsquo;t given the most important assignments and I had to make the most of my opportunities. I found I liked some parts of the practice of law. but not all. I enjoyed court cases most of all. However. I think I would be most interested in some form of public interest law later on. such as work for the cause of saving our natural environment, or in consumer protection&rdquo; Dryden, who has worked for &ldquo;Nader&rsquo;s Raiders&rdquo;, and is active in civic and charity work, says, &ldquo;1 am involved because I know I can afford to take an interest more than many others. I do want to contribute to the community with my work later, but I do not know if that will be with the practice of law. Like many young people. I do not yet know what I want to do with my life.&rdquo;AT 27, HE AND Lynda expect their first child around Chrstmas-time. He found it a fallacy that he would have more time for a family on the outside than in hockey, when a husband and father is home during the day half the winter and all of the summer.The giant prepared properly for his return by dieting on yogurt, honey and fruit and by playing defense in full goaler&rsquo;s gear in commercial leagues, but he has performed erratically so far. &ldquo;I was given greatness before I had earned it.&rdquo; he sighs. &ldquo;I will have to earn high ranking, but I am rusty. I do not think the year off hurt me too much, but I have to regain agroove. I have to go after the puck instead of waiting to receive it. I have a job to do and I intend to do it right.&rdquo;So it is back to the heavy books he reads on road trips, the waiting for games, the full houses at the Forum. &ldquo;Those who ask me if I missed the cheers forget about the boos.&rdquo; he smiles. &ldquo;Recently, I was booed during a bad game. It wasn&rsquo;t fair, but people aren&rsquo;t always fair. And the game isn&rsquo;t always a game and it isn&rsquo;t al ways-fun.&rdquo; he concluded. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY BILL HEUFELDER</div>PITTSBURGH &mdash;This may come as a surprise, but the travelling still affects Barry Wilkins.Traded from Vancouver to the Pittsburgh Penguins early this season. the 27-year-old defenseman doesn&rsquo;t miss the two-week excursions forced upon the Canucks. &ldquo;But I find it tough to adjust to playing Sunday when we have back-to-back weekend games.&rdquo; he said.Wilkins arrived in Vancouver as one of the players selected in the team&rsquo;s original draft in 1970. He enjoyed his stay, which also may come as a surprise. because it was no secret that he welcomed the news to leave the organization.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03681/3390665-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="257" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barry Wilkins</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t trade those four and a half years for anything.&rdquo; says Wilkins, who intends to make his permanent home in Vancouver. &ldquo;Everybody treated me real well.&rdquo;Well, perhaps not everybody. Wilkins was anxious to join another National Hockey League club because of an uncomfortable feeling that existed between himself and Phil Maloney, the manager-coach of the Canucks.Reflecting on the situation. Wilkins said. We didn&rsquo;t hit it off too well. Over a period of time, things just built up. Maybe I made too much of something. I&rsquo;ve read where he says he didn&rsquo;t dislike me.&rdquo;Strangely, both sides seem to have benefited from the unhappy experience. The Canucks have asserted themselves, as Wilkins suspected they would do. and he has no complaints about playing in Pittsburgh.He admits, however, to joining the club with some reluctance.First, Wilkins, despite more than seven years as a pro. had never been traded. To complicate matters, he was coming to the big-league team which had the most strangers to him.&ldquo;1 was a little scared.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know any of the guys except Jean Pronovost. We played together in Oklahoma City.&ldquo;I kinda wondered how the guys would adjust to me. but they stick together real good here. I&rsquo;m really happy.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s understandable that the Penguins greeted him with a certain amount of enthusiasm. Acquired in exchange for another defenseman. Ab DeMarco, he was arriving on the heels of a severe wrist injury sustained by Steve Durbano.The loss of Durbano drained them of much of their muscle and Wilkins played with sufficient vigor at Vancouver to establish himself as the team&rsquo;s all-time penalty leader.To Wilkins, the thought did not occur to him to be any tougher than usual in Durbano&rsquo;s absence. &ldquo;I never thought I was replacing anybody.&rdquo; Wilkins said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve played the same way for nine years. I can&rsquo;t change my style now.&rdquo;The only adjustment on the ice was to adapt to the Penguins&rsquo; style of clearing the puck out of their own end. &ldquo;It took me a couple of games,&rdquo; he said, to get used to where the guys would be.&rdquo;Although he scored well in Boston&rsquo;s minor-league system. Wilkins does not envision himself as a scorer, rather preferring to concentrate on his defensive responsibilities and stick close to his own net.His authority as a checker is unquestioned. While with Pittsburgh, he has forced Buffalo&rsquo;s Peter McNab and George Ferguson of Toronto out of action. New York Ranger center Walt Tkaczuk. considered one of the game&rsquo;s most rugged players, broke a leg in a freakish collision involving Wilkins.&ldquo;I fell down on top of Tkaczuk more than a case of me hitting him.&rdquo; Wilkins explained. &ldquo;The other two were clean checks.&rdquo;Wilkins manages to be paired with an aggressive partner, size notwithstanding. Coach Marc Boileau has paired him with scrappy 5&rsquo;.8&rdquo; Jean-Guy Lagace.&ldquo;In Vancouver.&rdquo; Wilkins laughed. &ldquo;I played with Bob Dailey. He&rsquo;s 6&rsquo;5&rdquo;.&rdquo;PENGUIN NOTES: It was revealed that All-Star defenseman Dave Burrows played the first few weeks of the season with a broken bone in the instep of his left foot&hellip; &#9632;

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Wilkins Welcomed Trade, Admits New Experience Adjusting To Penguins

<div class="byline">BY JACK MCCARTHY</div>BOSTON&mdash;The Bruins have lost Wayne Cashman for vet another six or eight weeks but, following surgery for a ruptured disc in his back, the big winger may be ready to help Boston in its stretch drive in 1975.Cashman, whose forte is rough and tough banging in the corners, underwent surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital on Nov. 30 to repair a ruptured disc. Dr. James I. Huddleston was the surgeon.Bruins&rsquo; GM Harry Sinden reported, &ldquo;The surgery was successful. It was a ruptured disc. A piece of the bone had broken off and was pressing against a nerve, causing severe pain.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02791/3390696-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="260" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Cashman</figcaption></div>According to Sinden. Dr. Huddleston estimated that Cashman could start skating in three to four weeks and might be able to play in six to eight weeks. Said Harry, &ldquo;The doctor said that they were fortunate in finding the piece and that everything went well.&rdquo;Big Cash, one of the NHL&rsquo;s tougher customers in the corners and one of its best fist-fighters (a lefty), has been playing in pain with the condition for some time.Cashman had been troubled by the back condition since 1972, and played all 78 games of the 1973-74 season with it, after being treated by injections in the summer of 1973. Although he had shooting pains down his legs at times, he wound up with 30 goals and 59 assists, fourth highest scorer in the NHL. He had 20 goals or more for four straight seasons.He played in the first 16 regularseason games this season, and had five goals and 11 assists. Then the pain got too much and he had sat out the last eight games before making the decision to have the operation.Since Cashman was strong in the corners on a line with Phil Esposito and Ken Hodge, one must appreciate the pain which resulted from lifting and pulling and hauling with a piece of bone rubbing against a nerve.With the injuries to Cashman and Bobby Schmautz, who has since returned after being out for a stretch with a broken hand, coach Don Cherry has had to make a flock of line changes.Not the least of these was the moving of Don Marcotte, the pro&rsquo;s pro, from Andr&eacute; Savard&rsquo;s line over with Esposito to take Cashman&rsquo;s place.Marcotte pumped in a goal as the Bruins beat the Oakland Seals in Oakland, 3-1, for Boston&rsquo;s sixth win in a row. It din&rsquo;t help them much, the way Buffalo keeps on going. Gilles Gilbert was in the net for this one, his 10th straight appearance, and Cherry decided to keep it going in the next game, against the L. A. Kings. This was a loser for Gilbert, 2-0, but his play in the 11 previous games had kept Boston from falling almost hopelessly behind Buffalo. Gilles was 8-2 before being beaten by the Seals.Cherry had hoped to give Ross Brooks some work, but said. &ldquo;I want to give Brooks a chance. He should be playing. But Gilles is so hot and going so very well, that there is no way we can change right now. He was the big difference in Oakland, although I thought the team as a whole played a helluva game. &lsquo;&ldquo;Oakland&rsquo;s a good club, and I don&rsquo;t care what their record is. They&rsquo;re moving, and they did a great job against us&hellip;&rdquo;What with injuries and this and that. Cherry has not been able to keep his lines anywhere normal, a far cry from the situation he faced when he went into his first NHL training camp in September with everything set, and only an outside chance for any newcomers to break in.But Walt McKechnie, seemingly slated for penalty-killing, has been getting a lot of ice time, and Darryl Edestrand and young Dave Hynes, the former Harvardian, have also been used. Hynes has scored four goals in his short playing time, and Cherry said, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s playing great hockey. He&rsquo;s not a big kid (5&rsquo;9&rdquo;. 180), but he knows how to use what he&rsquo;s got. I think he&rsquo;s going to be very good.&rdquo;If Hynes can keep putting the puck in the net, it will be hard to keep him out of there. That&rsquo;s the name of the game. &#9632;

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Bruins Hoping Winger Will Be Ready For Stretch Drive

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01890/3390727-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"></div>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re Trying To Tell Me Something&hellip; Right?&rdquo; &#9632;

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CARTOON CORNER

<div class="byline">BY FRANK ORR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01908/3390758-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">RED KELLY&hellip; Cracked Whip, But Nobody Jumped</figcaption></div>TORONTO&mdash;The future was extremely bright for the Toronto Maple Leafs back there in October when the National Hockey League season was young.The team had its five sophomores who made such an impressive debut as rookies in the 1973-74 season, especially defenceman Borje Salming and Ian Turnbull. Doug Favell and Dune Wilson supplied good goaltending. Darryl Sittier was ready to move into the front ranks of NHL stars, off-season deals brought in experienced forwards Bill Flett and Gary Sabourin and the team had a good sprinkling of veterans.All of this indicated that the Leafs were ready to make a good run at the Boston Bruins in the Adams Division. Oh. no one really expected them to unseat the Bruins but the Leaf brass figured the team could make it slightly hot for them.For the Leafs, the bright promise of Saturday night has turned into Monday&rsquo;s wash. In their first 22 games, the Leafs accumulated 14 points and only the California Seals provided a cushion between the Leafs and the basement floor.At the end of November, the Leaf defence was so riddled by injuries that the team was trying to acquire the NHL rights to Eddie Shore. And when Leaf backliners go hunting for injuries, they don&rsquo;t fool around. Here&rsquo;s the list.&bull; Borje Salming, a cracked bone in his heel which will prevent his skating until mid-December and likely will keep him out of the lineup until 1975. He sustained the injury in his first game back fter missing five contests with a broker finger.&bull; Lan Turnbull, knee surgery to repair torn ligaments sustained when he was checked by Bob Plager of the St. Louic Blues. He&rsquo;ll be in a cast until late December, off skates for two months more and probably won&rsquo;t play again this season.&bull; Rod Seiling, the defenceman acquired from the Washington Capitals, knee cartilage damage when clipped by the New York Rangers&rsquo; Derek Sanderson. He doesn&rsquo;t need surgery but will miss from three to six weeks.&mdash;Jim McKenny. bothered by a painful groin injury secured when he stopped a hard shot. McKenny missed six games earlier in the season with a severe charley horse.&bull; Dave Dunn, who was picked up in a deal with the Vancouver Canucks as a winger and pressed into defense action. Dunn obtained a badly bruised hand which made controlling the stick difficult.Defensemen Bob Neely, who missed six games earlier with a bad hand and Brian Glennie, who&rsquo;s nicknamed &ldquo;Evel&rdquo; because he has had so many broken bones ala motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel. were the only sound backliners.In addition, Sittler collided with teammate Lanny McDonald and sprained his soulder. The injury limited his duty to power-play work for several games.The Leafs&rsquo; biggest problem was weak puck-handling in their own zone. Salming and Turnbull were the club&rsquo;s best in that department and their absence makes the Leafs vulnerable to good forechecking, a fact which opponents were quick to spot.&ldquo;Just pour it on with a couple of men in the Leafs&rsquo; zone and sooner or later they&rsquo;ll cough up the puck to you.&rdquo; said one rival NHL coach.The Leafs continued to have problems in other areas, too. They were a tight, tense group as they tried to work their way out the prolonged slump. Opposition workers claimed the Leaf players appeared to be operating under abundant stress.&ldquo;The Leafs were so tense that they didn&rsquo;t seem to want to touch the puck.&rdquo; said Garry Unger of St. Louis after the Blues and Leafs tied. 2-2, at Toronto.Former Leaf Garry Monahan, who went to Vancouver along with defenseman John Grisdale in the trade for Dunn, chatted with the Leaf players when the teams&rsquo; visits to the New York Islanders overlapped.&ldquo;The Leaf players were so uptight that they hardly wanted to get into cabs to go to the rink.&rdquo; Monahan commented.There were complaints from Leaf players about lack of communication with coach Red Kelly. Although they were reluctant to comment publicly on the matter, they deeply resented owner Harold Ballard&rsquo;s much-publicized &ldquo;fat cat&rdquo; speech.&ldquo;We needed a pat on the back, not a kick in the tail when things were going badly.&rdquo; one Leaf said. &ldquo;Why didn&rsquo;t Ballard say those things to us in the dressing room with the door closed instead of delivering his message through the newspapers.&rdquo;NOTES: Coach Kelly, who was criticized by Ballard as not being tough enough, appeared behind the bench at Madison Square Garden for a game against the Rangers carrying a large whip. &#9632;

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Leafs’ Future Looked Good When NHL Season Was Young

<div class="byline">BY NORM MacLEAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;The New York Rangers that general manager-coach Emile Francis iced in Atlanta&rsquo;s Omni Nov. 30. had eight players who were not New Yorkers a short year before. One, detenseman Gilles Marotte, even was wearing a new &ldquo;A&rdquo; as alternate captain.Marotte was the fifst of the new Blueshirts, coming last November from the LosAngeles Kings in the swap which sent Sheldon Kannegiesser. Mike Murphy and Tommy Williams to the Kings. With Dale Rolfe hurt, Marotte has been paired with 1974 draftee Ron Greschner on one tandem. Captain Brad Park is working the other with John Bednarski. another of the rookies.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03595/3390827-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="264" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob MacMillan</figcaption></div>Up front the Rangers showed Pete Stemkowski. with Ted Irvine and 1973 draftee Rick Middleton. an NHL rookie this season. Derek Sanderson was centering for Greg Polis and Billy Fairbairn. Two thirds of that line is new with Polis coming in a trade with St. Louis and Sanderson from Boston via California. The Jean Ratelie - Steve Vickers - Rod Gilbert trio was all veteran, but the Bob MacMillan. Vickers-Jerry Butlerfourth line, had newcomers in MacMillan and Butler. Mac was called up when center Walter Tkaczuk broke his leg and Butler joined New York last January.Add spare defenseman Nick Beverley and extra forward Bert Wilson, both rookies and the Rangers are carrying 10 new men &mdash; and dressing nine for most games.&ldquo;That may change a bit when Rolfe and Tkaczuk get back.&rdquo; said Francis. &ldquo;We are finding out what these guys cart do. Middleton is a candidate for rookie of the year &mdash; and Greschner has done well on defense.&rdquo;&ldquo;Greschener can skate darn good,&rdquo; said Marotte. &ldquo;He gets the puck out and doesn&rsquo;t run all over as much as most graduates from junior hockey. He is going to be a good one.&rdquo;Bednarski. the hard working 22-year-oldfrom-Thunder Bay. Ontario, is a hitter, who drew 205 and 222 PIM in the AHL in the last two years. He has even gotten to play the point with the Rangers. &ldquo;Ski&rdquo; was unlucky in the Atlanta game deflecting what turned out to be the Flames winning goal, behind Ed Giacomin. New York lost 3-2. despite a gallant all out attack in the third period. Earlier they had beaten Toronto 4-1 on November 27. A tie 4-4 with St. Louis December I completed the week&rsquo;s work.Sanderson, playing regularly has had bad luck in front of the goal. He was alone in front of Phil Myre three times in Atlanta &mdash; and didn&rsquo;t score.&ldquo;Twice Bill (Fairbairn) got it to me. One time I went high and the other put in on the ice. I changed my mind three times on the one. Outfoxed myself.&rdquo; said Turk.Overall Sanderson has done what New York thought he would do, although he hasn&rsquo;t been total death on faceoffs as was his wont with the Bruins. Polis, with 7 goals and 6 assists has been restored to the lineup and is playing better, after an early November dip. Greg has the potential to be a thirty goal scorer. He needs to come back a bit more on defense.Butler and MacMillan are checkers, with MacMillan emerging as a winner in the face off circle. In his first game versus Toronto the 22-year old won nine of 10. Butler tightens things late in the game and when penalty killing.&ldquo;Jerry earned his spot on this team last year when Bruce MacGregor got hurt.&rdquo; said Stemkowski.Steve Vickers is playing soldily, no matter who is his center. He got two goals in the Flame game and one more against the Blues.&ldquo;Steve is getting harder and harder to deal with in the slot.&rdquo; opined Francis. &ldquo;And he is surer, if anything, around the net.&rdquo;The Rangers are outshooting their opponets. whomping Toronto 51-24, Atlanta 38-25 and St. Louis 3.9-20. And their power play is working well with eleven straight games in which they had notched a PPG and 25 goals in 101 attempts. But they have made some elemental mistakes. In the Toronto game the Leafs only goal was a shorthanded effort by Errol Thompson. In Atlanta Keith McCreary scored while the Rangers were a man up &mdash; and against the Blues Chuck Lefley had an unassisted breakaway.BLUE CHIPS: Ratelie&rsquo;s two assists against the Blues gave him a career total of 730, surpassing Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s 728 and giving him second place in the Rangers all time list. Linemate Gilbert is the leader with 774 on 315 goals and 459 assists. He has passed Bathgate&rsquo;s assist record of 457. Rod got two goals against St. Louis and has played well all season&hellip; Defenseman Joe Zanussi has been returned to Providence of the, AHL&hellip; Carl Martin is the new Rangers public address announcer this season, replacing the retired Pat Doyle&hellip; Rod Seiling&rsquo;s return to MSG was an unhappy one. He was hit from the rear by Sanderson and suffered a serious knee injury. Rod left the building on crutches, looking rather battered with a discolored eye also showing from a battle elsewhere&hellip; &#9632;

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Revamped Rangers Show N.Y. Fans Nine New Faces In Riddled Lineup

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04415/3390858-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLARK GILLIES&hellip; New York Islanders</figcaption></div>The New York Islanders have been counting their blessings since they made it big with Denis Potvin last season and Billy Harris the year before. This season they have several rookies who are capable of reaching stardom and one of these is big Clark Gillies, the 6&rsquo;3&rdquo; left winger, who dazzled the Western Canada Hockey League last year with his robust play. Gillies figured in 112 goals scoring 46 himself as he helped spark Regina to the Memorial Cup. The islanders were attracted to the rangy Gillies because of both his offensive skills and his hard-checking which netted him 179 penalty minutes in the WCHL. He has performed well with 12 points in his first 24 NHL games and the Islanders are expecting big things from him in the future. &#9632;

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MEET THE ROOKIES

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01879/3390796-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><h2>Leafs&rsquo; Owner Sounds Off</h2>THE PATHS OF THREE National Hockey League teams crossed on Long Island one day recently, the product of the new-style scheduling inflicted on the NHL.The Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders and Vancouver Canucks represent three separate eras of NHL history, and their approach and performance at this particular time offers an interesting contrast and comparison.The Leafs are one of the old-guard teams, a proud name in hockey with a great tradition. Lately, though, they&rsquo;ve fallen on hard times. Figured as a contender this season, the Leafs have wallowed around with little achievement or purpose, and confusion in their administration.The Canucks entered the league in 1970 and have established a tradition of chaos, mismanagement and inferior performance. This season. though, they&rsquo;ve been the NHL&rsquo;s biggest surprise by running in front of the Chicago Black Hawks in the Smythe Division.The Islanders arrived in 1972 and established NHL standards for futility by winning only 12 games and gaining 30 points in 78 games in their first season. But they&rsquo;ve stuck fast with young players and now. in their third season, the Islanders are involved in a hectic scramble with New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and Atlanta Flames in what should be called &ldquo;The Black and Blue Division&rdquo;, the Patrick sector.The Leafs were finishing one of the strangest weeks in their existence. Although the club has good, if not overwhelming talent, it has played ineffective, bland hockey all season, winning only five of its first 19 games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02758/3390789-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="450" height="644"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harold Ballard</figcaption></div>Team president and vast-majority owner Harold Ballard levelled a blast at his players, which tore them apart in a way which few owners ever have ripped a team. According to Ballard, the Leafs were overpaid, unaggressive. leaderless fat cats who should be ashamed to accept their pay checks and face the citizens to Toronto.Ballard claimed that he sounded off in an effort to make the players mad at him. and they then would transfer that anger to their opponents.<h2>His Words Were Wasted</h2>BALLARD&rsquo;S RANTING accomplished absolutely nothing. The Leafs lost their next three gamesand, if anything, played worse than before his psychological ploy.The Leafs might not have a surplus of players who are producing on the ice but they certainly do have an over-abundance of front-office prominence. Ballard, vice-president King Clancy, general manager Jim Gregory and coach Red Kelly all are deeply involved in the team&rsquo;s operation and. often, all are quoted delivering assessments of the team.Remembering that a camel is a horse built by a committee, perhaps the Leafs have too many engineers and not enough oil cans. The players must wonder just who is calling the shots. Benevolent dictatorship is the only set-up which seems to work in the administration of sports teams and the Leafs don&rsquo;t have it right now.Eddie Westfall, the erudite, thoughful captain of the Islanders, had a few select words to say about Ballard and his statements against the players.Opening his remarks with the statement that the Leaf situation probably was none of his business. Westfall said that it burned him to hear what Ballard had to say.&ldquo;How does he expect players to want to work for the team when he says those things about them?&rdquo; Westfall asked.<h2>Boe Kept His Cool</h2>WESTFALL POINTED out that the Islanders&rsquo; owner Roy Boe had retained his optimism through the team&rsquo;s dark hours.&ldquo;Even in that first year when we were so bad. Mr. Boe never was anything but positive.&rdquo; Westfall added. &ldquo;If he did have anything negative to say. he certainly didn&rsquo;t say it to us. He&rsquo;d come in the dressing room and tell us to hold our heads up and hang tough.&ldquo;He never gave us any of the stuff Ballard gave the Leafs. I&rsquo;ll tell you that makes you want to produce a winner for him.&rdquo;The operation of the team was left squarely in the hands of GM Bill Torrey and coach Al Arbour, who has done such a remarkable job with a very young team (II of 19 starters are 23 years and under).The Vancouver Canucks&rsquo; situation was such a cartoon during the club&rsquo;s first four seasons in the NHL that you expected &ldquo;That&rsquo;s All. Folks&rdquo; to flash across the sky over Pacific Coliseum every time the team&rsquo;s owners and executives met or the club played a game.There were ownership wrangles, criminal charges against owners, constant managerial and coaching changes. The players sometimes didn&rsquo;t know who the boss was, which was understandable because many times, there really wasn&rsquo;t anyone in charge.At one time, the team had a vice-president who didn&rsquo;t speak to the manager plus a coach who talked to either of them only when he couldn&rsquo;t avoid it plus an owner who was calling many shots from his winter home in Hawaii.Benevolent dictatorship has arrived on the Canucks&rsquo; scene in the form of Phil Maloney, the general manager-coach. There&rsquo;s no doubt now who calls the shots and the team is playing extremely well.&ldquo;When I worked out the contract, I had a lawyer who knows a little about hockey, Alan Eagleson. as my advisor.&rdquo; Maloney explains. &ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t negotiate for me but he told me how to get the proper job description into the deal.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had no problems at all. Sure, I discuss things like trades with Mr. Hall but there&rsquo;s been no interference with my decisions.&rdquo; &#9632;

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FRANK ORR SAYS:

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We don’t just put you on ice. We teach you uniat to do when you’re out there.

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;At 27, Juha Widing should have his best years in front of him, but he is the senior citizen of the Los Angeles Kings in continuous service with the club.Mike Corrigan is the only original King remaining from the first roster, eight seasons back, but Mike spent more than a season in exile in Vancouver.Mike and Bob Berry are in their fourth seasons here. Berry&rsquo;s seasons have been continuous. Butch Goring is in his fifth season, but Butch spent a stint in the minors.Obtained from the Rangers in exchange for Ted Irvine in one of the best deals this team has made. Widing arrived in February of 1970 and is in his sixth season.A full year now has passed since the Kings last traded a player and the stability that at last has been gained is reflected in the team&rsquo;s improvement. And Widing is typical of many of his teammates.Widing often has been considered in deals. He is a swift skater, but unspectacular player. He is not by nature aggressive or a physical player. Team officials and fans alike have underrated him.However, he is a steady veteran center whose contributions to this club have been consistent and it would not be what it is without him.He scored 102 goals in his first five NHL seasons and tallied 27 for the second season last year. However, he looks for the pass before the shot. He entered this season with the team career records for number of games played. 281; assists. 154. and points. 206.Tipoff on his talent is how well his wings do. They have their best seasons flanking him: A couple of seasons back Corrigan and Berry broke the team single-season record for goals with 37 and 36. respectively. This has been the best line this team has had.Currently, Don Kozak has replaced Corrigan on the line and he appears headed for his best season.Placed on a line with Mike Murphy and Butch Goring. Corrigan scored the first two goals and Murphy the third, all in the third period, as the Kings came off their worst two periods of the season and an 0-3 deficit to tie the visiting New-York Islanders, 3-3. in their most stirring comeback of the campaign.Corrigan has had an up-and-down career. off and on the bench, good years and bad. but he says he can&rsquo;t complain about being used infrequently this season because the club has been winning.I respect the coach and have kept working and waiting for the chance to contribute.&rdquo; he said.Given it. he made the most of it.This set upa biggame to conclude the eighth week of the season. With only two losses, but eight ties in their first 20 games, the Kings have not been losing, but they also have not been winning. At their present pace they will easily surpass the league record of 24 ties in a season. Also they have not beaten a big team since the first week of the season. They had won only one of their last six starts and needed badly a big win when Boston came to town the last night of November with six straight victories.The Kings came through, 2-0, with Widing&rsquo;s line scoring both goals. Knocked to his knees. Kozak banged in Berry&rsquo;s rebounded shot for the first one. then Berry backhanded in a 20-footer to finish off the foes. Having switched to a straight stick to give him control of more shots. Berry struck from longer range than is usual for him.This was the best all-around game this writer has seen the Kings play in their history. Aggressive all night and almost always in position, they outplayed their experienced rival from start to finish. Only a couple of Kings were careless or lacked confidence. Frank St. Marseille got away with wrapping up Phil Esposito so he didn&rsquo;t get off a shot the entire game. Bobby Orr was restrained. Only great play by Boston netminder Gilles Gilbert kept the score close.Backup goaler Gary Edwards, who goes good against the top teams, scored his second shutout in nine starts and lowered his goals-against average below 2.0 per game. Regular Rogie Vachon leads the league at 1.4. the lowest after 15 games in almost 20 years, since Jacques Plante&rsquo;s 1.3 at a comparable point in the 1956-57 season. The King duo now has a 15-goal bulge on the Black Hawk goalers in the Vezina Trophy race.This was the sixth 16,005-seat sellout in the Kings&rsquo; history and all have come in games with glamorous Boston. At $6.80 an average ticket on a sellout and assuming about 1.000 comps the gross gate topped $100,000. Forty such would be a bonanza, but with only 4,400 season-ticket sales and only 18 of the Saturday nights at home that produce what sellouts there are. this is a ways away yet.The club is catching on, but not completely. In a reversal of form for the two L.A. newspapers, the Times ran the story of this big game on sports page one. but the Herald-Examiner buried it back on page 5. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not like living in Montreal,&rdquo; admits Widing. &ldquo;but we are beginning to draw big crowds. They cheer us on and it helps.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01858/3390889-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="571" height="823"><figcaption class="caption-body">JUHA WIDING&hellip;Best Years Ahead</figcaption></div>The players used to come in to play a dismal season, pick up their paychecks, and go home. Now that they are winners here, this is home for many of them, and a happy home. too. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you. winning makes everything in life a lot nicer.&rdquo; Widing says.&ldquo;The difference between this team and the one I joined is tremendous. That team dreaded going to games because it expected to lose. This team looks forward to games because it expects to win. With winning has come the confidence to believe we can beat the best teams because we now are one of the best.&rdquo;Widing points out that while young players have lifted the team, veterans remain the heart of the team. He says. &ldquo;We have good depth and balance. Everyone contributes on this club. Everyone plays good defense and we have been getting great goaltending. We don&rsquo;t get a lot of shots or goals, but we score key goals with our shots.&rdquo;Widing has the team&rsquo;s single-season records of 54 assists and 70 points and has topped the team in total points three of his four full years here. Usually a slow-starter. he is off to by far his best start, but so is the entire team. He is one of several veterans whose play &mdash; steady if not flashy &mdash; has so far been consistent.<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-M3 P.O. Box 475, Allentown, Pa. 18105. &#9632;

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Widing Helps Kings To Best Start

<div class="byline">By Jules Furth</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01863/3390982-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="202" height="316"></div><h2>Hockey Rules From The Red Book</h2>Dear Jules:Last Jan. 8, I went to New Haven to see the Russian National Team play the Nighthawks of the American League. Midway during the game the Russian team had a man in the penalty box. A shot toward goal was steered behind the net and the Russian goaler Vladislav Tretiak went to the backboard and froze the puck without anyone challenging him. The referee immediately called a delay of game penalty. The Russians protested and after a long delay the penalty was disallowed. The situation was never explained. Is it possible there is such a crazy rule in International play? I know the Russians threatened to pull their team off the ice. Can you shed some light on this.Tom Unger, Pelham, N.Y.Dear Tom:I&rsquo;ll be glad to shed for you. Many others have been wondering the same thing. What happened in New Haven? The incident occured just as you stated. Referee Terry Pierce called the delay of game penalty on Russian goaler Tretiak. The call was correct. There is no crazy International rule that is any different from NHL, WHA, AHAUS, or NCAA that would apply to this situation. There are a few differences in International rules but this is not one of them. The rules are not crazy&hellip; the Russians were. They protested during the ensuing delay, and threatened to pull their team off the ice if the call were not reversed. The sponsoring officials who were in attendance were asked if there could be any other interpretation of the rule. They were all in agreement that the on ice decision was the right one. Cooler heads prevailed and so in the interest of International cooperation and good will, the off ice decision was to use the rule found in the Red Book of Hockey. The game then continued peacefully. The whole thing really wasn&rsquo;t necessary. It&rsquo;s like Las Vegas. They can beat you there without cheating or changing the rules. The Russians can too. they&rsquo;re that good.<h2>Stuck In The Box</h2>Dear Jules:It says in Rule 28 (a) of the NHL rules &ldquo;For the first&rdquo; major penalty in any one game, the offender shall be ruled off the ice for five minutes, during which time no substitute shall be permitted. If so when a player is off the ice serving his penalty, would be come back it the opposing team scored a goal or would he remain in the penalty box?David Quinn, Cincinnati, O.Dear David:He would remain in the box for the entire five minutes even if the other team scored over and over again. That&rsquo;s the price you pay for being very naughty. Also, if you read down a little further to paragraph (b) you will discover that for the &ldquo;third major penalty&rdquo; to the same player in the same game, that player is ruled out of the game. With that goes an automatic game misconduct penalty and a fine of one hundred dollars ($100). There is a slight procedural change for serving the penalty. The team would have to play a man short on the ice for the five minutes but would not have to place a substitute in the penalty box to serve the departed teammate&rsquo;s penalty. That would take two players out of the game for the same offense and that isn&rsquo;t fair.<h2>Dupont Doubly Done In</h2>Dear Jules:In the Flyer-Islander game on Nov. 5, Andr&eacute; Dupont was given a double minor and a double game misconduct penalty after an altercation between Bobby Clarke and Gary Howatt in which both benches emptied. On what grounds can a player be given a double game misconduct and how does it figure in his total penalty minutes? Also why was Dave Schultz forced to leave the game when he didn&rsquo;t receive any penalties? Was it. as they put it &mdash; &ldquo;For the good of the game&rdquo;?Sandy Karulis, Lancaster, Pa.Dear Sandy:The grounds for this rare (and precedent setting) double game Misconduct are to be found in the rule book. Dupont committed two no-no&rsquo;s that call for mandatory game misconducts. The first one was for being &ldquo;the first identifiable player to leave the player&rsquo;s bench during an altercation&rdquo;. The penalty for that boo-boo is a double minor and a game misconduct (plus whatever other fouls he would incur while on the ice). The second one came because after he came off the bench, he jumped into the Clarke-Howatt fight immediately and became the &ldquo;third man in&rdquo;. Being the first playerto intervene in an altercation in progress, he incurred another game misconduct. How did it figure in his total penalty minutes? Heavy! It added another 24 consisting of a double minor (4) and the two game penalties (20). It got him up to within 20 minutes of Mr. Schultz about whom you ask your next question. Schultz was not forced to leave the game. He wasn&rsquo;t even asked to leave. And it wasn&rsquo;t for the &ldquo;good of the game&rdquo;, it was for the good of his injured hand. He left the ice at the same time as Dupont and an accompanying linesman. It was just a coincident of timing. As for Dupont? Well when you have a no-no. plus a boo-boo, you get Double Jeopardy. My My!!Any reader having any questions regarding nde 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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<div class="byline">BY ALEN TRUEX</div>ATLANTA&mdash;For awhile this season. Keith McCreary felt out of place as captain of the Atlanta Flames.Not that it was a new assignment for McCreary. On the contrary, he served as captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins before coming to the Flames, where he has been captain since the expansion team started.McCreary is plenty used to the job. But what he&rsquo;s not used to is being team captain and sitting on the bench. He has played regularly ever since his rookie year in the NHL. in 1967-68. But this season the 34-year-old forward found himself relegated to penalty-killing duties and substituting when another player was injured.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01669/3391044-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="262" height="370"><figcaption class="caption-body">Keith McCreary</figcaption></div>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a new concept for me.&rdquo; McCreary says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m used to playing and scoring goals.&rdquo;McCreary says that at first, this new concept had him &ldquo;quite disappointed and depressed. I felt I had a pretty good training camp and should be getting to play more.&rdquo;He said he considered resigning as captain. &ldquo;I thought it might be better if someone who was playing more would be wearing the letter. I didn&rsquo;t think I was qualified to do it not playing.&rdquo;But then McCreary had a discussion with general manager Cliff Fletcher and coach Bernie Geoffrion. They convinced him to remain as team captain.&ldquo;I realized I had the confidence of the people who were running the club, and I had the support of the guys.&rdquo; McCreary said.On the ice, McCreary is having an excellent season killing penalties. Not only has he scored a shorthanded goal, in a 3-2 win over the New York Rangers. but due largely to his efforts and Bryan Hextall&rsquo;s, the Flames have ranked among the league leaders in penalty-killing this year.&ldquo;It would appear that you get better at it as you get older.&rdquo; McCreary says. &ldquo;You have to be able to read plays better. and you don&rsquo;t run around as much. It&rsquo;s a job of complete concentration.&rdquo;Hextail has been used extensively at penalty-killing but with Bob Leiter out with an ankle injury, he has also taken a regular turn at center.The 33-year-old Hextali says, &ldquo;I can do both as long as I don&rsquo;t have to do it all the time. It&rsquo;s been working out real well. I kill penalties one night, and the next I take a regular shift.&rdquo;Hextali is making a strong comeback after what he calls &ldquo;a lost season&rdquo;. 1973-74. He scored 21 goals two years ago for Pittsburgh, but then the Penguins barely used him last season, trading him in the middle of the year to Atlanta.&ldquo;Pittsburghgave me the shaft.&rdquo; Hextall says, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;ll never know why. But I&rsquo;m glad they did. I&rsquo;d much rather be in Atlanta than Pittsburgh.&rdquo;FLAME NOTES: Larry Romanchych. after missing a month of action because of a knee injury, is back on ice and playing with a knee brace&hellip; With Romanchych back, the Flames sent left winger Jerry Byers to Omaha, keeping the playing roster to 21.Phil Myre continued his hot streak in goal. He beat the Rangers 3-2 Nov. 29 for his sixth straight undefeated game, and his third straight victory. The Flames at that point were still undefeated in the Omni. Counting three games last year, their streak is 16 straight.Rookie left wing Eric Vail had a streak of scoring goals in four straight games, finishing the string with a hattrick against Kansas City, Nov. 27. &#9632;

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Atlanta Captain Not Used To Bench-Sitting Role

<div class="byline">BY CHRIS ZELKOVICH</div>MONTREAL&mdash;Sam Pollock&rsquo;s most recent rade is the biggest flop Montreal Canadiens fans have witnessed in years, but Sam&rsquo;s reputation as a master trader won&rsquo;t suffer because of the trade. Not one bit.The flop is Don Awrey&rsquo;s style of playing defense and it&rsquo;s made the veteran a welcome addition to a club that wasn&rsquo;t doing much defensively until he arrived. Awrey. who arrived from the St. Louis Blues after being traded for forward Chuck Lcfley, is the type of defenseman who flops in front of opposition shots and passes.It&rsquo;s a style that has made the 31-year-old former Boston Bruin one of the most popular players on the team &mdash; and he&rsquo;s only been here for two games.In his debut as a Canadien, Awrey was cheered loudly every time he blocked a shot as the Canadiens whipped the Blues 7-1. Two nights later the cheers continued as Awrey continued his flopping in the Canadiens&rsquo; 2-0 victory over Atlanta.It was a pretty good week for Awrey. In the space of four days he&rsquo;d moved from a team on its way down to a team on its way up. he&rsquo;d helped the new team win two games and keep the opposition to one goal, and he&rsquo;s won the approval of the fans.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s like a dream come true.&rdquo; says Awrey. &ldquo;Except I never dreamt anything like this would happen.&rdquo;If Awrey had dreamed about playing for the Canadiens before it most likely would have been a nightmare. While with the Bruins Awrey hated the Canadiens. and he probably wasn&rsquo;t too keen on playing with new teammate Claude Larose.&ldquo;I hated him.&rdquo; Awrey recalls. &ldquo;We were very physical against each other.&ldquo;it was the same when I went to St. Louis. Before then I hated Phil Roberto. probably because he broke my ankle when he was with the Canadiens. It&rsquo;s funny, though, when you&rsquo;re traded you usually discover that the guy you hated turns out to be a pretty nice guy.&rdquo;The past year has been a tough one for Awrey. After nine years with the Bruins he was traded to the Blues for a minor league forward and a second round draft choice. A year later he was traded again.&ldquo;Being traded isn&rsquo;t really tough on a player,&rdquo; Awrey says. &ldquo;And being traded the second time is a lot easier than the first. The toughest part is facing the fact that one team didn&rsquo;t want you. but it&rsquo;s nice to know that another one does.&ldquo;A trade is toughest on the family. That&rsquo;s twice in a year we&rsquo;ve had to move, pull up roots. It&rsquo;d be worse if my daughter (Kristen. 2) was in school.&ldquo;But the guys (on new teams) are pretty good. They&rsquo;ll accept you no matter where you play.&rdquo;Awrey certainly had no problems being accepted by his teammates on the ice.Upon his arrival he was paired with Jim Roberts and both played key roles in the revival of the Canadiens&rsquo; defense. But Awrey&rsquo;s performance wasn&rsquo;t as influential as his mere presence. In trading for Awrey. Pollock told his players that he wanted a better defensive effort and it appears they&rsquo;ve received the message.And. on a team dominated by players that have spent their careers in one organization. the trade probably shook up a few of the complacent members.There was also another message in the trade, one that cast a dark cloud on the Forum. The securing of a defensive defenseman such as Awrey all but verbalizes the Canadiens&rsquo; apparent belief that Jacques Laperri&egrave;re is out for at least this reason.He won&rsquo;t be missed as much w&rsquo;ith Awrey around.HAB-BITS: Bunny Larocque. who appeared to be second to Wayne Thomas in the fight to sit on the bench while Ken Dryden played goal, got a surprise start against Pittsburgh. He held the Penguins to two goals and followed that by surrendering one goal against St. Louis and then shutting out Atlanta. He even stopped Chuck Lefley on a breakaway&hellip; Coach Scotty Bowman said the acquisition of Awrey would free Jim Roberts to play forward. But Roberts teamed with Awrey and John Van Boxmeer stayed in the press box&hellip; The line of Yvon Lambert - Doug Risebrough - Mario Tremblay has been the Canadiens&rsquo; top trio lately&hellip; For the third straight year the Canadiens donated money to buy hockey equipment for underprivileged children in Quebec. This year it was $15,000.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01571/3391075-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="562" height="1453"><figcaption class="caption-body">DON AWREY&hellip;New Canadien</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Veteran Awrey Welcome Addition To Club That Needed Defensive Help

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01578/3391358-1-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/f0018-02471/3391351-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="214" height="186"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03354/3391344-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="747" height="608"></div><h2>BOSTON</h2>Bruins<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04269/3391337-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="190" height="187"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05206/3391330-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="739" height="556"></div><h2>BUFFALO</h2>Sabres<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06168/3391323-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="195" height="193"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-07143/3391316-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="742" height="620"></div><h2>CALIFORNIA</h2>Seals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-08118/3391309-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="276" height="122"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-09101/3391302-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="734" height="639"></div><h2>CHICAGO</h2>Black Hawks<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1088/3391295-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="210" height="191"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1184/3391288-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="739" height="587"></div><h2>DETROIT</h2>Red Wings<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1276/3391281-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="259" height="134"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1364/3391274-1-eng-US/f0018-132.jpg" title="f0018-13" width="735" height="555"></div><h2>KANSAS CITY</h2>Scouts<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1459/3391267-1-eng-US/f0018-142.jpg" title="f0018-14" width="202" height="203"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1557/3391260-1-eng-US/f0018-152.jpg" title="f0018-15" width="737" height="578"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>Kings<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1655/3391253-1-eng-US/f0018-162.jpg" title="f0018-16" width="190" height="229"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1745/3391246-1-eng-US/f0018-172.jpg" title="f0018-17" width="736" height="535"></div><h2>MINNESOTA</h2>North Stars<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1841/3391239-1-eng-US/f0018-182.jpg" title="f0018-18" width="220" height="197"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1937/3391232-1-eng-US/f0018-192.jpg" title="f0018-19" width="733" height="539"></div><h2>MONTREAL</h2>Canadiens<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2038/3391225-1-eng-US/f0018-202.jpg" title="f0018-20" width="219" height="174"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2136/3391218-1-eng-US/f0018-212.jpg" title="f0018-21" width="737" height="577"></div><h2>NEW YORK</h2>Islanders<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2233/3391211-1-eng-US/f0018-222.jpg" title="f0018-22" width="212" height="198"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2331/3391204-1-eng-US/f0018-232.jpg" title="f0018-23" width="736" height="571"></div><h2>NEW YORK</h2>Rangers<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2430/3391197-1-eng-US/f0018-242.jpg" title="f0018-24" width="185" height="199"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2530/3391190-1-eng-US/f0018-252.jpg" title="f0018-25" width="739" height="634"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>Flyers<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2629/3391183-1-eng-US/f0018-262.jpg" title="f0018-26" width="243" height="171"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2728/3391176-1-eng-US/f0018-272.jpg" title="f0018-27" width="733" height="564"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>Penguins<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2824/3391169-1-eng-US/f0018-282.jpg" title="f0018-28" width="221" height="203"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2919/3391162-1-eng-US/f0018-292.jpg" title="f0018-29" width="736" height="589"></div><h2>ST. LOUIS</h2>Blues<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3019/3391155-1-eng-US/f0018-302.jpg" title="f0018-30" width="197" height="172"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3118/3391148-1-eng-US/f0018-312.jpg" title="f0018-31" width="740" height="614"></div><h2>TORONTO</h2>Maple Leafs<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3217/3391141-1-eng-US/f0018-322.jpg" title="f0018-32" width="199" height="202"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3317/3391134-1-eng-US/f0018-332.jpg" title="f0018-33" width="738" height="624"></div><h2>VANCOUVER</h2>Canucks<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3414/3391127-1-eng-US/f0018-342.jpg" title="f0018-34" width="222" height="151"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3514/3391120-1-eng-US/f0018-352.jpg" title="f0018-35" width="734" height="565"></div><h2>WASHINGTON</h2>Capitals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3612/3391113-1-eng-US/f0018-362.jpg" title="f0018-36" width="268" height="152"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-3710/3391106-1-eng-US/f0018-372.jpg" title="f0018-37" width="733" height="627"></div> &#9632;

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Player’s Scoring & Penalty Statistics

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01558/3391389-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div>(Including games of Sun. Dec. 8) &#9632;

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Looking At NHL Goalers

KANSAS CITY &mdash;Nearly nine thousand persons left the Philadelphia-Kansas City contest with an unusual feeling.The Scouts had battled the defending Stanley Cup champion Flyers to a 3-3 tie and the hometown fans left with the feeling that they had gotten their money&rsquo;s worth.The Scouts fought back from a 2-0 first period deficit to take a 3-2 lead, on Randy Rota&rsquo;s two goals and a single by Lynn Powis. only to have Reg Leach tie the contest mid way through the final frame.The remainder of the week varied little from the previous weeks for the Scouts, a 7-3 loss in Chicago and a 4-1 thumping in New York against the Islanders.Rota had another two goal performance in Chicago with Simon Nolet netting the other. Ted Snell scored the Scouts&rsquo; lone goal in Long Island.Thanks to their brothers in expansion. the Washington Capitals, the Scouts elude the distinction of having the worst NHL record. Kansas City has obtained 10 points, on four wins and two ties in 26 games, while the Caps have managed only seven points in the same number of outings.Veteran Simon Nolet continues to lead&rsquo;the Scouts in scoring with 11 goals and nine assists for 20 points. Rookie Wilf Paiement is also demonstrating that he knows where the net js having the same number of goals as Nolet but only three assists for a total of 14 points. &#9632;

Rota, Scouts Give KC Fans A Rare Treat

MONTREAL &mdash;&bull; Buffalo Sabres continue their most impressive showing in their five-year National Hockey League history. The Sabres lead all teams in points with 46: have the leading pointman, Gilbert Perreault, with 48; have a line with each member recording 20 goals: and have the leading pointman among rookies &mdash; Dan Gare with 26.The Sabres, who have lost only four games &mdash; second best to Los Angeles Kings&rsquo; two losses &mdash; hold a 14-point lead over runner-up Boston Bruins in the Adams Division. They are currently on an 11 game undefeated streak (nine wins, two ties) and have lost only one of their last 22 games (18 wins, three ties).&bull; Offensively, the Sabres are led by their &ldquo;French Connection&rdquo; line, centered by Perreault, who has 20 goals. 28 assists and 48 points in 29 games Right winger Rene Robert is third in scoring with 43 points, including 20 goals, while left winger Richard Martin is tied with Phil Esposito of Boston for fourth place with 42 points. Martin, too. has 20 goals. That gives the league&rsquo;s top line a total 60 goals and 133 points in 29 games.Perreault&rsquo;s taking over of the number one spot in the individual scoring parade &mdash; relegating Bobby Orr of the Bruins to second place with 47 points &mdash; is a rare feat in recent seasons. Generally either or both Esposito and Orr enjoy the top spots but it must be pointed out that Bruins have played three fewer games than Buffalo so Perreault&rsquo;s lead is not too secure al the moment.&bull; Gare heads a list of seven rookies who have picked up at least 15 points so far. The 20-year-old native of Nelson. B.C.. was Buffalo&rsquo;s second choice and 29th over all in the 1974 Amateur Draft. The right winger has 11 goals and 15 assists. Next in points among rookies is Eric Vail of Atlanta with 21, including 13 goals which ties him with New York Rangers&rsquo; Rick Middleton for the lead among first-year NHl.ers in goals. Vail, who played in 23 games for the Flames last season, was their third choice and 21 st over-all in the 1973 Amateur Draft.Pittsburgh Penguins&rsquo; first choice in the 1974 draft and eighth overall. Pierre Farouche, is third in plaints among rookies with 19. including eight goals. Next are Middleton. Rangers&rsquo; first choice in the 1973 draft, and Bob Hess of St. Louis, who was Blues&rsquo; first choice in the 1974 Amateur draft. They each have 18 points. Ron Huston of California &mdash; not a draft choice but a rookie &mdash; is next with 17 points, followed by Ed Gilbert of Kansas City with 15. &#9632;

NHL WEEK - In Review

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div>ST. LOUIS &mdash;The St. Louis Blues appeared for a brief time to be abandoning their traditionally rough, aggressive, physical style of play. But the apparent change in hockey styles now seems to have been a mirage.While Lou Angotti was coach, he stressed skating and passing and digging. And Angotti made some personnel changes to back his hockey theories.But Angotti is gone, and his hockey philosophies left St. Louis with him. The Blues are once again espousing a rugged style of play that they used successfully before the Stanley Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers brought it to its current pinnacle of fame.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02472/3391420-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="266" height="378"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Gassoff</figcaption></div>The St. Louis coach is Garry Young, but the hockey style can hardly be called his own. Young is simply a sound hockey man working with a style of play with which he arid other hockey men feel comfortable. Young has reversed some of Angotti&rsquo;s moves but he has been careful to proceed in an orderly&rsquo; fashion.&ldquo;When you come in like this in midstream. you can&rsquo;t just change everything overnight.&rdquo; Young said. &lsquo;You have to take the basic way the team is used to playing the game and gradually make the small changes that you feel are necessary.&rdquo;But. make no mistake. Young is changing the emphasis on several points of the Blues&rsquo; play, and an unimpressive won-lost record is bringing the changes into effect with all deliberate speed, In Young&rsquo;s first four weeks as coach the record was 4-5-1.While Angotti became terribly upset by what he considered unnecessary penalties, Young says, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mind them taking penalties when they&rsquo;re playing physical hockey&rsquo;After an embarrassing 6-1 loss to Vancouver. Young said, &ldquo;We have to be more aggressive. We wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.&rdquo;Young is a hockey fundamentalist, and he has not hesitated to emphasize the most rudimentary hockey in the Blues&rsquo; practices.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going right back to fundamentals. and it&rsquo;s going to take work.&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;We have to play a tough brand of hockey with emphasis on taking the man. We&rsquo;re working on coming out of our own end and tightening up defensively. And we&rsquo;re practicing our power play and killing penalties. We&rsquo;ve changed the way we kill penalties. We&rsquo;re sending our forwards in deeper to force the play rather than falling back and allowing the other team to get set up.&rdquo;Although Young is a fundamentalist, he is not adverse to trying experiments.Young has presided over the Blues during some frustrating losses, including a humiliating 5-3 beating by the Kansas City Scouts, winning their first home game. In a frantic effort to get his team moving in the second period of that game Young threw on to the ice a line consisting of defenseman Larry Sacharuk. penalty-killer Chris Evans and left wing Stan Gilbertson. The threesome skated up a storm but allowed a goal on their second shift to end the experiment.In a game with Boston and the Blues leading 4-3 the Bruins pulledgoalie Gilles Gilbert with 1:19 to go. Young iced an unfamiliar line of Garry Unger at center. Bill Collins on right wing and Gilbertson on the left. The Blues held on for the victory, and Young explained his unorthodox line: &ldquo;Gilbertson&rsquo;s a 10-year pro and knows what to do in a tight situation like that: Collins is my best defensive right winger, and I wanted Unger out there for the faceoffs against Phil Esposito.&rdquo;Young&rsquo;s former association with the California Seals was obviously helpful in making the trade that brought Gilbertson and Craig Patrick to the Blues in exchange for Dave Gardner and Butch Williams. And the other big trade the Blues made under Young was shipping Don Awrey to Montreal for Chuck Lefley. Awrey had served the Blues well, but the new regime had brought about a reinstatement of tough defenseman Bob Gassoff. whom Angotti had banished to Denver for lack of skating ability. &#9632;

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Blues Return To Old Time Aggressive Style Of Play

<div class="byline">BY DEREK COOPER</div>OAKLAND &mdash;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 CanadaRED RAIDER TO CONTROL&hellip; RED RAIDER TO CONTROL&hellip; COME IN PLEASE. I&rsquo;M IN TROUBLE&hellip; crackle&hellip; screech&hellip; THIS IS CONTROL RED RAIDER. WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE PROBLEM?&hellip; hiss&hellip; pop&hellip; I&rsquo;VE GOT ESPOSITO ON A BREAKAWAY. WHAT SHOULD I DO?&hellip; RED RAIDER, MOVE GOALIE UP 20 DEGREES TO CUT DOWN ANGLE&hellip; THANK YOU CONTROL.The above is not dialogue from an old war movie. Sci-Fiadventure, or James Bond epic. It is part of the Seals&rsquo; newest plan to win hockey games.&ldquo;The Medium is the Message&rdquo; was MarshalL McLuhan&rsquo;s watchword several years ago, and taking it to heart, the Seals have turned to electronic communications as the hope of the future.Quite simply, Seal coach Marshall Johnston is now equipped with a twoway walkie-talkie. His phonemate is either Bill McCreary, director of hockey operations, or assistant coach Marv Edwards. Both are sitting high up in the press box.The idea is a good one &mdash; time tested by just about every football team from high school on up to the NFL. Hopefully) McCreary and Edwards will spot things from above ice that will prove helpful to Johnston behind the bench. The walkie-talkies will allow the Seal spotters to relay the information in time for it to do some good.The idea of a spotter in the stands is not a new one in the NHL. At this very moment Mike Nykoluk serves in that capacity with the Flyers. Sveral teams utilize a video-tape machine to allow the coach to analyze mistakes and weaknesses between periods. But no one has the instant communication now employed by the Seals.The question is: Will it work?&ldquo;On some things I can see the benefit of it.&rdquo; says Johnston, who. as a former school teacher, is more receptive to any new idea. &ldquo;If there&rsquo;s a stoppage in action I might be able to listen, but during play things are happening so fast that you really can&rsquo;t concentrate on what&rsquo;s being said.&rdquo;The Seals unveiled their surveillance equipment against the Boston Bruins and the results of the experiment were less than heartening.&ldquo;It was so noisy I couldn&rsquo;t really hear what they were saying,&rdquo; says Johnston.But there were other problems as well. Apparently Johnston&rsquo;s receiver was set on a fairly common frequency, because the directives he received from above (the press box, that is) were certainly not in the best interest of the Seals.&ldquo;Go to 66th and Seminary.&rdquo; said one transmission, and it&rsquo;s lucky that Johnston didn&rsquo;t because the cab company already had a driver responding to the call.The visual effect of Johnston attired with an earphone also brought a response from the players.&ldquo;What are you doing Marsh, listening to the game.&rdquo; said Bruin Carol Vadnais, as he skated past the Seals&rsquo; bench.But the crowd noise and radio frequency are minor problems that are already being corrected. And Johston, never known as a vain person, is less than concerned about how he looks wearing the equipment.&ldquo;All I&rsquo;m interested in is winning hockey games,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;If Bill thinks that this will work then I&rsquo;m all a favor of trying it.&rdquo;McCreary is equally as optimistic about the new method of communication. &ldquo;Sometimes we can see things up in the press box that are hard to see from behind the bench.&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;After all. Marsh has the worst seat in the house.&ldquo;And we&rsquo;re keeping stats up here.&rdquo; he continues. &ldquo;Suppose we notice that a player has lost nine faceoffs during a game. If an important faceoff is coming up, we might relay this information to Marsh and he can get another player out there.&rdquo;And if it works, if electronics can be utilized in hockey, who knows what&rsquo;s next? An electronic eye as a goal judge? Pucks with flight recorders to determine offside passes?Listen, people laughed about goalies wearing face masks, a defenseman winning the scoring title, a hockey team in the South, and an expansion team winning the Stanley Cup.Bill McCreary and the Seals are not concerned about the laughs they get with this experiment. They know that the last laugh is best.SEALS&rsquo; NOTES: When he scored his first NHL goal, even the P.A. announcer at the Oakland Coliseum mispronounced his name. But Seals&rsquo; rookie left wing Dave Hrechkosy (Ha-Wreck-ah-see) found an easy way to help people learn the correct pronunciation, (n the next 10 games the 6-2, 205-pounder reeled off seven goals and two assists, which gave the P.A. man and the crowd plenty of practice in saying his name correctly&hellip; Figures released by Steve Bieri, Seals&rsquo; ticket manager, show attendance up 29% from last season and equally as important, paid receipts up 52%. &#9632;

Johnston, McCreary Optimistic Walkie-Talkies Will Aid Club

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01401/3391530-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="646" height="712"></div>MARCEL DIONNEDetroit Red WingsOne of the few bright spots on the Detroit Red Wings this season has been the play of, their diminutive, center-captain, Marcel Dionne.Dionne and the Red Wings had one of their most productive weeks of the season. Dionne picked up seven points, four goals and two assists, and the Wings recorded five out a possible eight points.Dionne led the Wings to a 6-4 win over the Bruins in Boston, only the second home loss for the Bruins this season, with three goals, the final one being the clincher as Boston had fought back from a four-goal deficit to narrow the margin to one. He also had a single marker in the Wings&rsquo; 4-2 loss to the Rangers.If the Wings are to make an impression on the NHL this season Marcel Dionne is going to be the cog in the wheel.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02305/3391523-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="638" height="714"></div>GUY LAFLEURMontreal CanadiensIf the past week is any indication Guy Lafleur has finally come of age and has started to pay dividends for the Montreal Canadiens.Lafleur boosted his goal total to 20, he only managed 21 all of last season, with four goals during the week and also two assists.The Habs went through an undefeated seven days by registering two wins and two ties. Lafleur notched one marker in the 4-4 tie with the Bruins and turned a hat-trick in the 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.With Henri Richard out of the line-up, the Canadiens are looking to to one of the younger players to fill his shoes. Guy Lafleur may be just the person to do it and at the same time make a name for himself. &#9632;

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NHL’s Stars of the week

<div class="byline">BY RUSS WHITE</div>WASHINGTON &mdash;It is only a few more days to Christmas and things are topsy-turvy in the Capital City. Rep. Wilbur Mills (DArk.) is being upseated by his fellow members of Congress, who don&rsquo;t approve of his doing with stripper Fanne Foxe.Meanwhile, stripper Foxe had record breaking engagements on stage in Boston and New York.Her road record was a lot better than that of the new Capitals ice hockey team, which gets undressed almost as often as Ms. Foxe.Trouble is the Capitals don&rsquo;t have as much up front as the Tidal Basin Bombshell.General manager Milt Schmidt, trying to keep owner Abe Pollin off his back, has tried vainly to make a deal for some new forwards, particularly a veteran center. He&rsquo;d accept a defenseman too.Pollin remains patient.He still has those $2 parking lot dues coming in from what few people attend games at Capita. Centre (the Stanley Cup champion Flyers ask only $1 at the Spectrum) and his basketball team, the Bullets, are going all right.The Bullets must be Pollin&rsquo;s favorites. When Olga Korbut and the Russian gymnasts visited Capital Centre recently, he gave them Bullets shirts and pants. There were hockey shirts and pants sitting around. The Caps had tried three different color pants on the road &mdash; they were 0-4 in white pants, 0-4 in red, 0-4 in blue. It&rsquo;s not what you wear.In Minnesota for instance, recently recalled wing Steve Atkinson zipped his 5lst NHL goal through the legs of Ceaser Maniago and into the net. Atkinson lifted his stick. So did his teammates. Anderson had to hold back the celebration on the bench.Neither the goal judge northe referee &mdash; whose name is not used to protect the guilty &mdash; saw Atkinson score, however.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never been surer of anything in my whole life.&rdquo; said Atkinson&rsquo;s teammate Doug Mohns. &ldquo;His shot hit the strip in the center of the goal cage and came out again. Maniago knew. He was trying to hold back from cracking up.&rdquo;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t speak English&rdquo; Maniago told a Washington reporter.The Atkinson goal would have put the Caps up 5-4. Instead, they lost 6-4.In their next game the Caps hit Toronto. They had never lost a league game in Canada. And, the Leafs were down. The edition of the Toronto Sun that day carried the headline: &ldquo;What&rsquo;s the Cure for Leafs Slump?&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01250/3391561-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="571" height="637"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON LOW &hellip;Broken Toe</figcaption></div>At 10:30 that same evening there was an answer: the Washington Capitals.The Leafs zapped the Caps. 7-1.The game marked the debut of the Capitals on Hockey Night in Canada. Maybe they should have gotten some film clips of Fanne Foxe. The visiting team did little to prove itself even though Tommy Williams did score the game&rsquo;s first goal. It gave his team the lead for almost a minute. Leafs scored the next seven.Further woes to the Caps were a broken toe to goalie Ron Low and a 105 temperature and flu to goalie Michel Belhumeur. John Adams had to be called from Richmond.Adams was told to come to Washington at noon in Richmond.&ldquo;Oh no.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I know who they&rsquo;re playing tonight.&rdquo;Adams was to face Buffalo and its French Connection Line.Althrough he played well &mdash; making 41 saves&mdash;Adams went down. 5-3. Richard Martin beat him four times. &ldquo;I lost count.&rdquo; Adams said.Two nights later Adams had a rematch with Martin at Buffalo.&ldquo;Some guys are lucky.&rdquo; he said. &#9632;

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Stripper’s Record Much Better Than Capitals’

<div class="byline">BY PAT THOMPSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01274/3391637-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="516" height="466"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-02203/3391630-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="464" height="470"></div>TWIN CITIES &mdash;An unusual story is unfolding at Metropolitan Sports Center, home of the Minnesota North Stars.On occasion, the guy who gets the assists receives a more rousing ovation than the man who scored goal. And that guy, 6-foot. 200-pound rookie left wing John Flesch, is a character. Zany, zealous.Flesch. 20-year-old product of Sudbury. Ont., has won over the Minnesota fans in a fashion never exhibited before in the white and green North Star colors. Perhaps not in the NHL. Like, sometimes he pounds himself on the head with his stick after scoring a goal. Or knocks down a teammate in celebrating the other&rsquo;s score &mdash; the upraised arms of triumph may be on the way out as the medical reports go up if this continues.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-03177/3391623-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="270" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Flesch</figcaption></div>Flesch reported to training camp last September along with right wing Don Martineau from Atlanta&rsquo;s Omaha farm club after GM-coach Jack Gordon dealt Buster Harvey and Gerry Byers to the Flames.First, he wore jersey 21. Now. it&rsquo;s 27. He tried a helmet, then discarded it.&ldquo;It made my mother happy, about the helmet.&rdquo; said Flesch. &ldquo;But when I went into the corners. I kept looking around, anticipating the check. The jersey? I guess I was too bashful at the start of camp to ask for 27. Frank Mahovlich has always been my idol.&rdquo;It didn&rsquo;t take John long to crack out of his shell. He did it in a big way with an assist and a goal after an injury gave him an opening for his first extended duty early in the year.&ldquo;That really put me at ease,&rdquo; Flesch said.The commotion began. He was so excited after his first NHL goal that he almost fell flat on his face during a wild dance. Then in a tie against Boston, he became a self-appointed cheerleader and jumped up from the bench to join the chants of the crowd.Enough? No. Before a Saturday night game against Kansas City, he went to his barber and exited without his garden of unmistakable curly locks after a burr cut.&ldquo;I felt like doing something different.&rdquo; he explained.Opponents now call him. &ldquo;Skinhead.&rdquo; Teammates have tagged him &ldquo;Bullet&rdquo;, or &ldquo;Marine&rdquo;.He has another explanation.&ldquo;I guess.&rdquo; Fleschie said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m kind of wingy. I&rsquo;ve always been a hyper person. I hate to lose, and I always have to go, go, go. I&rsquo;ve always played that way since my father first put the blades on me 16 years ago.&rdquo;Flesch, besides his entertaining antics. does contribute to the size and aggressive style which GM-coach Jack Gordon wanted on the club this year. The club&rsquo;s biggest forward, skating on a line with Bill Goldsworthy on the right side and Jude Drouin at center, played a key role in helping the North Stars go through a November stretch where they won six straight home games.Now, if he could play that way on the road. Flesch might emerge as a contender for the Calder Memorial Trophy. Through the first two months of the season before starting a December road trip, the North Stars were 1-8-2 on the road and Flesch had practically all his points at home.&ldquo;I thought I played my best hockey on the road in Omaha last year.&rdquo; Flesch said. &ldquo;The fans usually got on me after I caused come commotion and that made me work that much harder.&rdquo;Perhaps Flesch is ready to test that theory again, now that he&rsquo;s established himself at home.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been around the league now and I&rsquo;m not so dazzled by the glamor of the big names anymore,&rdquo; he said.NORTH STAR NOTES: Through November, the North Stars had yet to win in front of their backup goalies&hellip; They were 0-3 before Fern Rivard injured his back, and didn&rsquo;t even score a goal for him&hellip; While Fern recovers from a severe back injury, rookie Pete LoPresti is subbing occasionally for Cesare Maniago&hellip; In his first two games. LoPresti lost to Buffalo and tied Washington&hellip; Injury report: defenseman Dennis O&rsquo;Brien out two to four weeks with torn ligaments in his knee after a solid check by Bob Plager of the Blues: center Fred Stanfield out with hyper-extended elbow week to 10 days from collision with Bill Collins in same game. &#9632;

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Zealous North Star Rookie, Flesch, Winning Over Fans In Unusual Way

<div class="byline">BY BILL FLEISCHMAN</div>PHILADELPHIA &mdash;The Flyers signed him as an over-age junior. He played the minor league season and as an NHL rookie wound up centering the Stanley Cup champions so-called checking line. He has attended the University of Saskatchewan and wants to be an optimetrist. His name is Orest Kindrachuk.The name alone is enough to attract attention, but this proud young man of Ukrainian ancestry could be named Joe Smith and would desserve regular NHL duty. &ldquo;I was watching films of our first Vancouver game,&rdquo; Flyers&rsquo; coach Fred Shero was saying. &ldquo;After awhile. I said to myself &lsquo;he (Kindrachuk) is better than I thought he was.&rsquo; He&rsquo;ll hold the puck even if the gets knocked down. He couldn&rsquo;t care less.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01253/3391668-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="266" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body">Orest Kindrachuk</figcaption></div>Shero&rsquo;s assessment isn&rsquo;t entirely accurate. Anyone bright enough to pursue a career as an optometrist cares about getting knocked down. But Kindrachuk is like many other Flyers who willingly sacrifice themselves for a victory. Talented players such as Clarke. Parent and MacLeish were vital to winning the Stanley Cup. but it was the Kindrachuks, Schultz&rsquo;s and Ashbees who, as Shero says, took the bumpsand supported the championship drive. This unselfishness is the one clear difference between the Flyers and other good NHL teams.&ldquo;It seems everyone was surprised last year when we (Dave Schultz and Don Saleski) scored a goal, &ldquo;said the center known as &ldquo;Big 0&rdquo; and &ldquo;Ernie&rdquo; (afterthe Sesame Street character). &ldquo;Al you have to do is move around, pick your head up and give a look. It&rsquo;s so easy if you think about it. Getting those-big defensemen running at you is what you want.&rdquo;It may be what you want, 0, but not what others want. Perhaps the first person in the Flyers&rsquo; organization to spot Kindrachuk&rsquo;s ability was scout Jerry Melnyk. It was Melnyk. the same man who convinced the Flyers to draft Bobby Clarke when others were skeptical about his diabetes, who liked Kindrachuk&rsquo;s poise and playmaking with the Saskatoon Blades.The 5&rsquo;10&rdquo;. 175-pound Kindrachuk is also searching for ways to improve himself. An I l-goal scorer as a rookie. Kindrachuk has seven after seven weeks.&ldquo;Everyone wants to get 20. 25 goals.&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;but being a plus player is important to me. The less goals scored against you shows you&rsquo;ve accomplished something. I&rsquo;ve always said the team comes first.&rdquo;Despite his supporting role. Kindrachuk has found people to recognize him.&ldquo;Some of us got into a cab in Toronto.&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;The driverturned to me and said You Kindrachuk?&rsquo; I hesitated, then said Yes.&rsquo; He started speaking to me in Ukrainian. I thought &lsquo;Of all the cabbies in Toronto&hellip;&rsquo;Ah, the price of fame&hellip; &#9632;

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Kindrachuk Better Than Shero Thought He Was

(Standings on Tue. Dec. 10)<h2>NORRIS DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-2210/3392010-1-eng-US/f0024-222.jpg" title="f0024-22" width="537" height="175"></div><h2>ADAMS DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-2310/3392003-1-eng-US/f0024-232.jpg" title="f0024-23" width="534" height="146"></div><h2>PATRICK DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-249/3391996-1-eng-US/f0024-242.jpg" title="f0024-24" width="537" height="150"></div><h2>SYMTHE DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-257/3391989-1-eng-US/f0024-252.jpg" title="f0024-25" width="538" height="172"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Mon. Dec. 2Atlanta 0 at Montreal 2Tue. Dec. 3Buffalo 5 at Washington 3 Minnesota 5 at Vancouver 6. California 1 at St Louis 5Wed. Dec. 4Detroit 2 at N.Y. Rangers 4. Atlanta 1 atCalifornia 3; Boston 4 at Montreal 4; Toronto 2 at Pittsburgh 4, Minnesota 1 at LoS Angeles 4; Kansas City 3 at Chicago 7.Tue. Dec. 5Toronto 3 at N.Y. Islanders 3; Chicago 2 at Philadelphia 3. Washington 2 at Buffalo 9; Detroit 6 at Boston 4Fri. Dec. 6Philadelphia 3 at Kansas City 3; Atlanta 5 at Vancouver 7; Minnesota 3 at California 5Sat. Dec. 7N.Y. Rangers 7 at Chicago 4; Kansas City 1 at N.Y. Islanders 4. Atlanta 2 at Los Angeles 6, Pittsburgh 2 at Montreal 5; Washington 2 at St. Louis 8; Detroit 3 at Toronto 3.Sun. Dec. 8Montreal 3 at N.Y. Rangers 3: N.Y. Islanders 2 at Philadelphia 3. St Louis 3 at Washington 1, Pittsburgh 2 at Boston 3: Vancouver 2 at Detroit 4; Toronto 4 at Chicago 1; Minnesota 0 at Buffalo 5<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tue. Dec. 10St Louis at N.Y Islanders: Montreal at Minnesota; California at Vancouver; Boston at Kansas CityWed Dec. 11Chicago at Atlanta. Los Angeles at TorontoThu. Dec. 12N.Y Rangers at Washington, Minnesota at Philadelphia. Montreal at Pittsburgh; St Louis at Detroit. Los Angeles at Boston. Vancouver at Buffalo. California at Kansas CityFri. Dec. 13Philadelphia at AtlantaSat. Dec. 14N.Y. Rangers at St Louis. Los Angeles at N.Y. Islanders. Atlanta at Toronto; California at Montreal. Washington at Boston. Chicago at Pittsburgh; Vancouver at Kansas City. Buffalo at MinnesotaSun. Dec. 15Los Angeles at N.Y. Rangers. N.Y. Islanders at Boston, St Louis at Philadelphia. Toronto at Washington. Pittsburgh at Detroit; Vancouver at Chicago. California at BuffaloTue. Dec. 17N.Y. Islanders at St Louis. Atlanta at Boston. Washington at VancouverWed. Dec. 18Minnesota at N.Y. Rangers; N.Y. Islanders a&rsquo; Buffalo Montreal at California; Pittsburgh at Toronto Detroit at Chicago Los Angeles at Kansas CityThu Dec. 19N.Y. Rangers at Boston. Toronto at Philadelphia. Washington at Los Angeles. Kansas City at PittsburghFri. Dec. 20St Louis at Atlanta. Montreal at Vancouver Washington at California &#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/f0024-01257/3391958-1-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. Dec. 2</h2>ATLANTA 0, MONTREAL 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02194/3391951-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="589" height="469"></div><h2>Tue. Dec. 3</h2>BUFFALO 5, WASHINGTON 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-03138/3391944-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="590" height="552"></div>MINNESOTA 5, VANCOUVER 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-04106/3391937-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="592" height="637"></div>CALIFORNIA 1, ST. LOUIS 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0585/3391930-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="586" height="463"></div><h2>Wed. Dec. 4.</h2>DETROIT 2, RANGERS 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0672/3391923-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="584" height="313"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0758/3391916-1-eng-US/f0024-072.jpg" title="f0024-07" width="587" height="180"></div>ATLANTA 1, CALIFORNIA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0853/3391909-1-eng-US/f0024-082.jpg" title="f0024-08" width="587" height="460"></div>BOSTON 4. MONTREAL 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0948/3391902-1-eng-US/f0024-092.jpg" title="f0024-09" width="589" height="613"></div>TORONTO 2. PITTSBURGH 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1042/3391895-1-eng-US/f0024-102.jpg" title="f0024-10" width="589" height="120"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1140/3391888-1-eng-US/f0024-112.jpg" title="f0024-11" width="590" height="408"></div>MINNESOTA 1. LOS ANGELES 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1234/3391881-1-eng-US/f0024-122.jpg" title="f0024-12" width="589" height="431"></div>KANSAS CITY 3, CHICAGO 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1326/3391874-1-eng-US/f0024-132.jpg" title="f0024-13" width="589" height="547"></div>TORONTO 3 ISLANDERS 3FIRST PERIODToronto. 1&mdash;Ullman (Sabourin. Ellis)19:50<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1420/3391867-1-eng-US/f0024-142.jpg" title="f0024-14" width="587" height="408"></div>CHICAGO 2, PHILADELPHIA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1516/3391860-1-eng-US/f0024-152.jpg" title="f0024-15" width="589" height="527"></div>WASHINGTON 2, BUFFALO 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1614/3391853-1-eng-US/f0024-162.jpg" title="f0024-16" width="586" height="552"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1712/3391846-1-eng-US/f0024-172.jpg" title="f0024-17" width="578" height="58"></div>DETROIT 6, BOSTON 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1811/3391839-1-eng-US/f0024-182.jpg" title="f0024-18" width="592" height="698"></div><h2>Fri. Dec. 6</h2>PHILADELPHIA 3, KANSAS CITY 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1911/3391832-1-eng-US/f0024-192.jpg" title="f0024-19" width="590" height="512"></div>ATLANTA 5, VANCOUVER 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-2010/3391825-1-eng-US/f0024-202.jpg" title="f0024-20" width="589" height="688"></div>MINNESOTA 3, CALIFORNIA 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-2110/3391818-1-eng-US/f0024-212.jpg" title="f0024-21" width="586" height="626"></div><h2>Sat. Dec. 7</h2>RANGERS 7, CHICAGO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01208/3391811-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="591" height="604"></div>KANSAS CJTY 1. ISLANDERS 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-02147/3391804-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="589" height="453"></div>ATLANTA 2, LOS ANGELES 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-03107/3391797-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="586" height="543"></div>PITTSBURGH 2, MONTREAL 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0481/3391790-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="592" height="491"></div>WASHINGTON 2, ST. LOUIS 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0571/3391783-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="595" height="613"></div>DETROIT 3, TORONTO 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0655/3391776-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="587" height="508"></div><h2>Sun. Dec. 7</h2>MONTREAL 3, RANGERS 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0752/3391769-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="586" height="203"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0844/3391762-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="583" height="313"></div>ISLANDERS 2, PHILADELPHIA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0938/3391755-1-eng-US/f0025-092.jpg" title="f0025-09" width="585" height="514"></div>ST. LOUIS 3, WASHINGTON 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1025/3391748-1-eng-US/f0025-102.jpg" title="f0025-10" width="580" height="115"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1119/3391741-1-eng-US/f0025-112.jpg" title="f0025-11" width="597" height="365"></div>PITTSBURGH 2. BOSTON 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1216/3391734-1-eng-US/f0025-122.jpg" title="f0025-12" width="585" height="418"></div>VANCOUVER 2, DETROIT 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1312/3391727-1-eng-US/f0025-132.jpg" title="f0025-13" width="585" height="114"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1410/3391720-1-eng-US/f0025-142.jpg" title="f0025-14" width="588" height="367"></div>TORONTO 4, CHICAGO 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-158/3391713-1-eng-US/f0025-152.jpg" title="f0025-15" width="591" height="425"></div>MINNESOTA 0, BUFFALO 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-167/3391706-1-eng-US/f0025-162.jpg" title="f0025-16" width="581" height="115"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-176/3391699-1-eng-US/f0025-172.jpg" title="f0025-17" width="583" height="310"></div> &#9632;

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National Hockey League Summaries

C&mdash;CaptainA&mdash;Alternate*&mdash;Rookie<h2>BOSTON</h2>GOALGilles GilbertRoss BrooksBOSTONDEFENSEGary DoakDarryl EdestrandBobby Orr AAi SimsDallas Smith ACarol VadnaisCENTERPhil Esposito AWalt McKechnieAndre SavardGregg SheppardR. WINGKen HodgeTerry O&rsquo;ReillyDave Hynes*Bobby SchmautzL. WINGJohn Bucyk CDave ForbesDon MarcotteINJUREDWayne Cashman<h2>BUFFALO</h2>GOALGary Bromley *Rocky Farr*Roger CrozierI BUFFALODEFENSELarry CarriereLee Fogolin*Bill Hajt*Jerry KorabJ. GuevremontPaul McIntosh*CENTERDon Luce AJim LorentzGil Perreault AR. WINGNorm GrattonLarry MickeyRene RobertDanny Gare *L. WINGRichard MartinCraig RamsayBrian SpencerRick DudleyINJUREDPeter McNab*J. Schoenfeld C<h2>DETROIT</h2>GOALJim RutherfordDoug GrantDETROITDEFENSEGary Bergman AJean HamelJack LynchBryan WatsonBarry Salovaara *CENTERRed BerensonMarcel Dionne CGuy CharronRick McCann*R. WINGEarl Anderson*Mickey Redmond ABill Lochead*Doug RobertsL. WINGNick Libett AHank Nowak*Danny GrantBlair Stewart*INJUREDBill Hogaboam<h2>ISLANDERS</h2>GOALGlen Resch *Billy SmithISLANDERS |DEFENSEDave Fortier*Gerry HartDave LewisBert Marshall AJean PotvinDenis PotvinCENTERLorne HenningBob Bourne*Ralph Stewart AEddie Westfall CDoug RomboughR. WINGCraig CameronBilly Harris ABob NystromAndre St LaurentL. WINGClark Gillies*Garry HowattBilly MacMillanINJUREDErnie Hicke<h2>MONTREAL</h2>GOALKen DrydenMichel LarocqueWayne ThomasMONTREALDEFENSEPierre BouchardGuy LapointeLarry RobinsonSerge Savard AJ. Van BoxmeerDon AwreyCENTERJacques LemairePete MahovlichDoug Risebrough *Yvon LambertR. WINGYvan Cournoyer AGlenn Goldup*Jim RobertsGuy LafleurMario Tremblay *L. WINGBob GaineyGlen SatherSteve ShuttMurray WilsonINJUREDJ. LaperriereHenri Richard C<h2>RANGERS</h2>GOALEd GiacominGilles VillemureRANGERS IDEFENSENick BeverleyGilles MarotteBrad Park CJohn Bednarski*Ron Greschner*CENTERJean RatelleDerek SandersonPete Stemkowski ABob MacMillan*R. WINGJerry ButlerBill FairbairnRod Gilbert AL. WINGTed IrvineSteve VickersGreg PolisBert Wilson *INJUREDRick Middleton*Dale RolfeRon HarrisBobby RousseauWalt Tkaczuk<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALDoug FavellDune WilsonDEFENSEBrian GlennieJim McKennyBob NeelyClaire Alexander*Dave DunnTORONTOCENTERDave Keon CDarryl SittierNorm Ullman AGeorge FergusonR. WINGRon Ellis ABill FlettBlaine StoughtonLanny McDonaldGary SabourinL. WINGInge HammarstromLyle Moffat*Eddie ShackErrol ThompsonINJUREDIan TurnbullRod SeilingBorje Salming<h2>VANCOUVER</h2>GOALGary SmithKen Lockett*Bruce Bullock*VANCOUVERDEFENSEBob DaileyDennis KearnsTracy PrattAb DeMarcoJohn GrisdaleHarold Snepsts *CENTERAndre BoudriasChris OddleifsonGerry MeehanR. WINGPaulin BordeleauGregg BoddyLeon RochefortJerry O&rsquo;FlahertyL. WINGJohn GouldDon LeverBobby LalondeGarry MonahanINJUREDMike RobitailleDennis Ververgaert<h2>KANSAS CITY</h2>GOALMichel PlassePeter McDuffe*DEFENSEMike Baumgartner*Brent Hughes AJim McElmury*Bart CrashleyLarry GirouxCENTEREddie Gilbert*Richard LemieuxDave HudsonLynn PowisR. WINGSimon Nolet CWilf Paiement*Randy Rota ATed SnellL. WINGRobin Burns*Gary CroteauGlen Burdon*Norm Dube*KANSAS CITYINJUREDNone<h2>ATLANTA</h2>GOALDan BouchardPhil MyreDEFENSEDwight Bialowas*Jean LemieuxRandy ManeryPat Quinn ANoel Price ABob Murray*Ed Kea*CENTERCurt BennettRey ComeauBryan HextaliTom LysiakR. WINGHilliard GravesBuster HarveyDean Talafous*Tim EcclestoneL. WINGJacques RichardKeith McCreary CEric VailLarry RomanchychINJUREDBob Leiter A<h2>CALIFORNIA</h2>GOALGilles MelocheGary Simmons*Marv EdwardsDEFENSELen Frig ARick Hampton*Jim NeilsonBob StewartTerry MurrayCENTERRon Huston*Larry Patey*Stan WeirDave GardnerR. WINGAl MacAdam*Morris MottWarren WilliamsL. WINGJoey Johnston CJohn StewartDave Hrechkosy*Brian LavenderINJUREDMike Christie*Tom Price*Wayne King*Jim Moxey*<h2>CHICAGO</h2>GOALTony EspositoMike Veisor*CHICAGO |DEFENSEDoug Jarrett ADick RedmondPhil RussellBill White ARoger Wilson*CENTERIvan BoldirevDuane Wylie*Stan Mikita AR. WINGJ.P. BordeleauAlain Daigle*Clif KorollGrant Mulvey*Jim PappinL. WINGDennis HullDarcy RotaJohn MarksGermain GagnonINJUREDKeith MagnusonDale TallonPit Martin<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 ManiagoPeter LoPresti *DEFENSEBarry Gibbs ADoug Hicks *Fred" BarrettTom ReidChris Ahrens*CENTERJude DrouinDennis Hextali AMurray OliverR. WINGBill Goldsworthy CLou NanneHenry BouchaL. WINGDon Martineau*Blake Dunlop*Jean-Paul Parise A.Richard Nantais*John Flesch*INJUREDFern RivardDennis O&rsquo;BrienFred Stanfield<h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>GOALWayne StephensonBernie ParentBob TaylorDEFENSEAndre DupontTed HarrisEd Van ImpeTom BladonJimmy WatsonJoe WatsonCENTERRick MacLeishBill ClementTerry Crisp AOrest KindrachukBobby Clarke CR. WINGGary Domhoefer AReg LeachDon SaleskiL. WINGBill BarberDave SchultzBob KellyRoss LonsberryINJUREDNone<h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>GOALGary Inness*Bob Johnson*DEFENSEDave Burrows ABarry WilkinsRon StackhouseBob ParadiseDennis Owchar*Jean-Guy LagaceCENTERSyl Apps ARon Lalonde ARon Schock CPierre Larouche*R. WINGChuck ArnasonRick KehoeWayne BianchinJean PronovostL. WINGVic HadfieldNelson Debenedet&rsquo;Bob KellyLowell MacDonaldKelly Pratt*INJUREDSteve Durbano<h2>ST. LOUIS</h2>GOALJohn DavidsonEddie JohnstonDEFENSEBob Gassoff*Bob Hess*Barclay Plager CBob Plager ALarry Sacharuk*Chris EvansCENTERWayne MerrickGarry Unger ADoug Palazzari*Ken Richardson *R. WINGBill CollinsPierre PlanteClaude Larose ACraig PatrickL. WINGAce BaileyStan GilbertsonFloyd ThomsonPhil RobertoChuck LefleyINJUREDNone.<h2>WASHINGTON</h2>GOALMichel BelhumeurRon LowDEFENSEGreg Joly*Yvon LabreBill MikkelsonDoug MohnsMurray Anderson*Willie BrossartCENTERJim Hrycuik*Pete LaframboiseTommy WilliamsDave KryskowR. WINGSteve AtkinsonGordie BrooksLew MorrisonL. WINGBruce Cowick*Denis DuperePaul Nicholson*Bill LesukINJUREDJack EgersMike Marson* &#9632;

NHL Team Rosters

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-184/3392065-1-eng-US/f0025-182.jpg" title="f0025-18" width="588" height="549"></div> &#9632;

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Team Penalties

KEVIN MORRISONSan Diego MarinersKevin Morrison appears to be picking up where he left off last season as he counted four goals and three assists over the past week. &rsquo;Last season with the Jersey Knights, now the Mariners, the 5 11&rdquo;, 202-lb. Morrison tallied 67 points on 24 goals and 43 assists from his rearguard poition.Morrison, who has since joined the Mariners&rsquo; forward corps, had three points, including two goals in the 5-3 in the Indianapolis Racers, one goal in the 5-3 loss to Michigan and another single tally in 5-4 setback against Phoenix.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02162/3392134-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="490" height="526"></div>MIKE ROGERS Edmonton OilersMike Rogers, fourth round pick of the Edmonton Oilers in last summer&rsquo;s Junior draft, undoubtedly experienced one of the biggest thrills in his young career by counting six points in the Oiler&rsquo;s 7-0 romp over the Michigan Stags. He had two goals and four assists in the contest. His other goal came in the 3-1 loss to Phoenix.The seven points raised Rogers&rsquo; total for the season to 10 points, five goals and five assists, in 15 games.The Oilers hope this outburst may be the sign of things to come for the Calgary, Alberta native who had 67 goals and 73 assists for the Calgary Junior in the Western Canada Hockey League last season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03129/3392127-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="488" height="556"></div> &#9632;

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WHA’s Stars of the week

<div class="byline">BY DOUG MCCONNELL</div>LOUISVILLE SLUBBERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaLBUiSVILlI SLUBBERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U. S. and CanadaHOUSTON &mdash;The Houston Aeros. showing a solidly balanced team, opened an eight-point lead over second place San Diego in the World Hockey Association Western Division as they began to take command of the WHA in much the same manner as last season when they won it all.Gordie Howe and son Mark took care of the scoring as Wayne Rutledge was called on to make just 15 saves in posting his second shutout of the season, a 2-0 job on the Edmonton Oilers. Ron Grahame, who splits the netminding chores with Rutledge, also has two shutouts.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01214/3392096-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="265" height="391"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gene Peacosh</figcaption></div>Frank Hughes scored his 19th and 20th goals of the season, in only 21 games. to take over second in the goal scoring race, three behind Winnipeg&rsquo;s Bobby Hull.Hughes&rsquo; center, Larry Lund, is second to Hull in points. Lund, rated the best faceoff man in the league as well as one of the best stickhandlers and playmakers. has 36 points, two less than Hull, on 16 goals and 20 assists.SAN DIEGO: Gene Peacosh went on a goal scoring rampage which netted him nine goals in four games, including the club&rsquo;s first hat trick of the season, and leads the team in goals but is four behind the team&rsquo;s points leader. Andre Lacroix,SAN DIEGO: Gene Peacosh went on a goal scoring rampage which netted him nine goals in four games, including the club&rsquo;s first hat trick of the season, and leads the team in goals but is four, behind the team&rsquo;s points leader. Andr&eacute; Lacroix.Peacosh has 12 goals in 19 games, well on his way to returning to the form which accounted for 37 goals two seasons ago. The 26-year-old left wing fell off to 21 goals last season.Lacroix, the WHA&rsquo;s all-time points leader, has 27 points for the season. 11th in the league. His total includes 11 goals. Peacosh has 23 points.The Mariners, picked in most preseason polls to finish last in the Western Division, have a solid hold on second place, but have fallen eight points behind the leading Houston Aeros.Billed in pre-season advertising as the &lsquo;Mad. Mean. Menacing Mariners.&rdquo; the team has lived up to that slogan with the league&rsquo;s penalty leadership but San Diego coach Harry Howell has switched to a tighter checking game with more skate and less stick.&ldquo;We had to begin the season by showing other teams we wouldn&rsquo;t be intimidated.&rdquo; explained Howell. I think we made that point. Now we can concentrate on a few other parts of our game.&rdquo;Kevin Morrison, the WHA&rsquo;s top scoring defenseman last season with 24 goals and 43 assists, has been switched to a forward position, in an attempt to gain a little scoring from other than Lacroix&rsquo;s line.That, move and Howell&rsquo;s reduced playing time of late, leaves a four-man defense. Bob Wall. Bob Falkenberg. Ken Block and Ron Plumb.With Vaclav Nedomansky scoring a goal per period in a 3-1 Toro victory, it left the Mariners with a 4-1 record against Canadian Division teams. 4-2 against Western and 3-5 against Eastern teams. The Chicago Cougars, with two goals and an assist from Pete Mara in a 3-2 victory, had earlier snapped a four-game San Diego winning streak.PHOENIX: The Phoenix Roadrunners have not yet become accustomed to the wide variety of starting times, mostly because of three different time zones, in the WHA.The Roadrunners seldom start before the second period.The expansion team has been outscored 35-16 in the opening period but have come back for a 26-13 advantage in the second and a narrow 25-23 margin in the third.They fell behind 3-1 in the first period to the Toronto Toros in Phoenix and scrambled back for a 4-4 overtime tie but a couple of nights later were trailing the Minnesota Fighting Saints 3-1 after one period, tied the game, but eventually lost 4-3 on a steal in the final minutes deep in the Phoenix end by Danny O&rsquo;Shea.The Roadrunners reversed their tactics at Winnipeg, getting the opening goal, one of two by Murray Keogan. and upset the Jets 3-1. They followed that by matching the Houston Aeros 3-3 in the opening period and going on for a 6-4 victory at Houston, largely because of Hugh Harris&rsquo; first hat trick of the season.MINNESOTA: The O&rsquo;Shea brothers played a couple of the starring roles as the Fighting Saints first snapped a thre-game losing streak with a 6-2 victory over the Toros in Toronto, then cut the Roadrunners&rsquo; third place lead to two points with a 4-3 win over the expansion club.Kevin O&rsquo;Shea&rsquo;s first goal of the season and one of Mike Walton&rsquo;s two for the game were part of a second period explosion which did the Toros in.Walton continues as the team&rsquo;s scoring leader with 28 points, including 15 goals.Otherwise, the Saints acquired center Joe Robertson from the Indianapolis Racers in exchange for Jim Johnson.Both Johnson and Robertson are property of. and on loan from, the Cincinnati Stingers, who will begin play in the World Hockey Association next season. &mdash;MICHIGAN: The WHA trustees are reported to have taken measures to provide the Michigan Stags with financial assistance if they go broke. WHA executive trouble-shooter Bud Poile spent last week in Detroit trying to straighter the Stags out.They&rsquo;re certainly not going to remain solvent simply from box office receipts. Crowds of l200 are commonplace at Michigan games in Cobo Hall.In an attempt to shake up their last place club, the Stags traded Brian McDonald and Jacques Locas to the Indianapolis Racers for forwards Steve Richardson and Steve Andrascik.Andrascik, 26, is a former No. I draft choice of the Detroit Red Wings and Locas is owned by the Cincinnati Stingers who begin what play next season. Andrascik had two goals and four assists this season. Locas had one goal and four assists but as a Junior last season he scored 99 goals for the Quebec Remparts.Richardson had a goal and four assists for the Stags and McDonald, a 22-goal scorer last season, had clicked for three goals and five assists.The Stags were the victims as Bobby Hull set yet another WHA record. The Golden Jet scored three or more goals in one game for the 11th time since the WHA was formed, a record, and counted four goals for the seventh time in his career. &#9632;

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It’s Like Old Times As Houston Widens Division Lead

<div class="byline">BY RICH PASSAN</div>INDIANAPOLIS &mdash;There is no question in Nick Harbaruk&rsquo;s mind. His Indianapolis Racer teammates will get back on the beam before long.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re starting to work better as a team now.&rdquo; said the Indy captain after watching the team drop its I Oth straight game to tie a World Hockey Association record for futility. They broke it two nights later by losing to Houston.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re starting to hustle and it&rsquo;s going to pay off.&rdquo; continued the deep-voiced right winger who jumped to the WHA from the National Hockey League St. Louis Blues. &ldquo;This club is not as bad as its record,&rdquo; declared Harbaruk. rated as one of the best defensive wingers in professional hockey. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not getting the breaks and have had some bad ones against us.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01196/3392165-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="268" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tom Webster</figcaption></div>He could have made a perfect case the night of the I Oth straight loss &mdash; a 4-2 setback against the Cleveland Crusaders.The first goal by the C&rsquo;s Gerry Pinder appeared to be kicked in. yet was allowed by referee Wayne Mundey. And the third goal, a power-play effort by Cleveland&rsquo;s Paul Shmyr. deflected off Indianapolis defenseman Jim Hargreaves&rsquo; right thigh and beat goaltender Andy Brown.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care who scores as long as we win.&rdquo; said the 3l-year-old Polish born Harbaruk. who prepped for the pro ranks with the Toronto Marlboros.Teammate Jim Wiste believes the club is &ldquo;playing up tight. We are still rough around the edges. They say you work for your breaks and we&rsquo;re working hard, but we&rsquo;re not getting the breaks.The Racers made a couple of trades to improve their center ice situation which has left something to be desired.First, they sent Steve Richardson and Steve Andrascik to the Michigan Stags for center Jacques Locas and right winger Brian McDonald. Then they swapped Joe Robertson to the Minnesota Fighting Saints for center Jimmy Johnson.Locas, property of the Cincinnati Stingers, was one of the top scorers in the Quebec Junior League last season, but was languishing on the bench in Michigan. He will give the Racers necessary speed down the middle.NEW ENGLAND: The Whalers bumped into another long winning streak &mdash; this one lasting six games &mdash; at the right time. They rang up five of those triumphs on the road, setting a club mark for consecutive victories on foreign ice.The last one was a 5-4 squeaker at Quebec with left winger John French in the starring role. Frenchie brought the Harpoonists into a tie with just five minutes remaining in regulation and then set a league record for overtime brevity with a goal four seconds into the extra session.Then a trip to the Canadian west proved semi-disastrous with a pair of losses at Vancouver and Edmonton. In the Vancouver setback, right wing Tom Webster bruised his right shoulder and missed a week of action. His 15 goals in 19 games leads the club in scoring.Also injured in Vancouver were defensemen Brad Seiwood (eye) and Fick Ley (bruised collarbone) and right winger Tim Sheehy (eye)&hellip; Center Wayne Carleton&rsquo;s nine-game scoring streak was snapped in Quebec&hellip; Al Karlander is back after missing eight games with a twisted right ankle and hyper extension of his right knee.CHICAGO: Walter Kaiser, president of the Cougars, makes it very clear his club is not moving to Baltimore, or anywhere for that matter.&ldquo;We did not put $4 million into this club to move it out of town,&rdquo; said Kaiser. &ldquo;We are Chicagoans and want the team in Chicago. The rumors before were never true then and are not true now.&rdquo;On the ice, the Cougars are beginning to make noises in the WHA East by making hay in the WHA West. They recently completed their most successful trip of the season by storming past Phoenix. San Diego and Minnesota, all West Division foes. It also represented the Cougars&rsquo; longest winning streak of the season.CLEVELAND: The Crusaders have, all of a sudden, found home ice more favorable than the first two games. both of which they lost. They won their next three outings at the New Coliseum and closed out the month of November with a four-game winning streak.One of the home victories was a 5-4 thriller over the Winnipeg Jets with centerman Jim Harrison notching the winning goal with just seconds left in overtime. It was Harrison&rsquo;s second game winner in the extra session this season.The Nov. 30 game with the Michigan Stags was postponed because the Stags could not get out of snow-bound Detroit.Defenseman Wayne Hillman was removed from the suspension list by general manager Jack Vivian after Hillman&rsquo;s attorneys upheld the no-trade clause in the veteran&rsquo;s contract.Hillman was swapped to Michigan for three players.but refused to report. Since being reactivated, he dressed for one game and played only one shift. A waiting game appears in the offing since it seems certain Hillman will get little or no ice time. &#9632;

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Racers’ Captain Sees Better Days Ahead; Chicago Owners Deny Cougars To Be Moved

(Including Sun. Dec. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-02153/3392196-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="589" height="739"></div> &#9632;

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WHA Leaders

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-02126/3392388-1-eng-US/f0028-022.jpg" title="f0028-02" width="586" height="461"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01187/3392395-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="158" height="210"></div><h2>Tue. Dec. 3</h2>NEW ENGLAND 1, MICHIGAN 2HOUSTON 5, TORONTO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0392/3392381-1-eng-US/f0028-032.jpg" title="f0028-03" width="601" height="577"></div>PHOENIX 5, SAN DIEGO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0472/3392374-1-eng-US/f0028-042.jpg" title="f0028-04" width="595" height="687"></div><h2>Wed. Dec. 4</h2>SAN DIEGO 2, PHOENIX 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0560/3392367-1-eng-US/f0028-052.jpg" title="f0028-05" width="593" height="406"></div>MINNESOTA 6, QUEBEC 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0650/3392360-1-eng-US/f0028-062.jpg" title="f0028-06" width="594" height="526"></div>NEW ENGLAND 3, CLEVELAND 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0743/3392353-1-eng-US/f0028-072.jpg" title="f0028-07" width="586" height="490"></div>HOUSTON 3, WINNIPEG 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0839/3392346-1-eng-US/f0028-082.jpg" title="f0028-08" width="589" height="488"></div>VANCOUVER 3, EDMONTON 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-0935/3392339-1-eng-US/f0028-092.jpg" title="f0028-09" width="594" height="618"></div><h2>Thur. Dec. 5</h2>CHICAGO 5, INDIANAPOLIS 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1034/3392332-1-eng-US/f0028-102.jpg" title="f0028-10" width="589" height="400"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1128/3392325-1-eng-US/f0028-112.jpg" title="f0028-11" width="590" height="96"></div>SAN DIEGO 3, MICHIGAN 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1226/3392318-1-eng-US/f0028-122.jpg" title="f0028-12" width="589" height="550"></div>NEW ENGLAND 1, QUEBEC 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1322/3392311-1-eng-US/f0028-132.jpg" title="f0028-13" width="592" height="572"></div><h2>Fri. Dec 6</h2>EDMONTON 1, PHOENIX 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1416/3392304-1-eng-US/f0028-142.jpg" title="f0028-14" width="585" height="316"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1516/3392297-1-eng-US/f0028-152.jpg" title="f0028-15" width="589" height="154"></div>WINNIPEG 2, MINNESOTA 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1615/3392290-1-eng-US/f0028-162.jpg" title="f0028-16" width="591" height="610"></div><h2>Sat. Dec. 7</h2>SAN DIEGO 1, CLEVELAND 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1713/3392283-1-eng-US/f0028-172.jpg" title="f0028-17" width="590" height="416"></div>MICHIGAN 2, VANCOUVER 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1814/3392276-1-eng-US/f0028-182.jpg" title="f0028-18" width="583" height="366"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-1914/3392269-1-eng-US/f0028-192.jpg" title="f0028-19" width="597" height="61"></div>TORONTO 3, CHICAGO 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-2012/3392262-1-eng-US/f0028-202.jpg" title="f0028-20" width="591" height="566"></div>INDIANAPOLIS 3, NEW ENGLAND 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-2112/3392255-1-eng-US/f0028-212.jpg" title="f0028-21" width="586" height="524"></div><h2>Sun. Dec. 8</h2>HOUSTON 1, QUEBEC 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-2211/3392248-1-eng-US/f0028-222.jpg" title="f0028-22" width="588" height="393"></div>MICHIGAN 0. EDMONTON 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-2311/3392241-1-eng-US/f0028-232.jpg" title="f0028-23" width="586" height="499"></div>CHICAGO 2, WINNIPEG 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-2411/3392234-1-eng-US/f0028-242.jpg" title="f0028-24" width="589" height="556"></div>SAN DIEGO 3, INDIANAPOLIS 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-2510/3392227-1-eng-US/f0028-252.jpg" title="f0028-25" width="589" height="555"></div> &#9632;

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World Hockey Association Summaries

(Standings on Tue. Dec. 10)<h2>CANADIAN DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-2610/3392538-1-eng-US/f0028-262.jpg" title="f0028-26" width="538" height="169"></div><h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-2710/3392531-1-eng-US/f0028-272.jpg" title="f0028-27" width="535" height="142"></div><h2>WEST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-2810/3392524-1-eng-US/f0028-282.jpg" title="f0028-28" width="537" height="176"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Dec. 3New England 1 at Michigan 2: Houston 5 at Toronto 4. Phoenix 5 at San Diego 4Wed. Dec. 4San Diego 2 at Phoenix 0; Minnesota 6 at Quebec 3; New England 3 at Cleveland 2; Houston 3 at Winnipeg 2; Vancouver 3 at Edmonton 6Thu. Dec. 5Chicago 5 at Indianapolis 3; San Diego 3 at Michigan 5; New England 1 at Quebec 9.Fri. Dec. 6Edmonton 1 at Phoenix 3; Winnipeg 2 at Minnesota 4Sat. Dec. 7San Diego 1 at Cleveland 3; Michigan 2 at Vancouver 4; Toronto 3 at Chicago 9; Indianapolis 3 at New England 6.Sun. Dec. 8Houston 1 at Quebec 2; Michigan 0 at Edmonton 8; Toronto 5 at Phoenix 2; Chicago 2 at Winnipeg 5; San Diego 3 at Indianapolis 5; Minnesota 2 at Vancouver 4<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Dec. 10Vancouver at Cleveland; Winnipeg at Indianapolis; Minnesota at Toronto; Michigan at San Diego; Phoenix at Chicago.Wed. Dec. 11Vancouver at Houston; Edmonton at Quebec: Minnesota at New England.Thu. Dec. 12Vancouver at Phoenix; Winnipeg at Michigan; Cleveland at QuebecFri. Dec. 13Edmonton at Minnesota; Cleveland at Toronto.Sat. Dec. 14Minnesota at Phoenix; Winnipeg at Houston; Indianapolis at San Diego; Michigan at Chicago: Quebec at New England.Sun. Dec. 15Edmonton at Indianapolis; Quebec at Minnesota; San Diego at Houston; New England at Winnipeg; Toronto at Michigan; Cleveland at Vancouver.Tue. Dec. 17Edmonton at Houston; Vancouver at Indianapolis; Winnipeg at Toronto; Cleveland at San Diego; Quebec at Chicago; New England at MichiganWed. Dec. 18Vancouver at Phoenix; Winnipeg at Quebec.Thu. Dec. 19Vancouver at Houston; Minnesota at Indianapolis; Edmonton at San Diego; Cleveland at Michigan.Fri. Dec. 20Indianapolis at Minnesota; Michigan at Phoenix. New England at Cleveland; Chicago at Quebec<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-2910/3392517-1-eng-US/f0028-292.jpg" title="f0028-29" width="255" height="290"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-3010/3392510-1-eng-US/f0028-302.jpg" title="f0028-30" width="220" height="289"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-3110/3392503-1-eng-US/f0028-312.jpg" title="f0028-31" width="249" height="252"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-3210/3392496-1-eng-US/f0028-322.jpg" title="f0028-32" width="253" height="257"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-3310/3392489-1-eng-US/f0028-332.jpg" title="f0028-33" width="239" height="249"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-349/3392482-1-eng-US/f0028-342.jpg" title="f0028-34" width="252" height="247"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-357/3392475-1-eng-US/f0028-352.jpg" title="f0028-35" width="309" height="316"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-367/3392468-1-eng-US/f0028-362.jpg" title="f0028-36" width="310" height="241"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-376/3392461-1-eng-US/f0028-372.jpg" title="f0028-37" width="326" height="249"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-386/3392454-1-eng-US/f0028-382.jpg" title="f0028-38" width="264" height="259"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-394/3392447-1-eng-US/f0028-392.jpg" title="f0028-39" width="270" height="256"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-402/3392440-1-eng-US/f0028-402.jpg" title="f0028-40" width="225" height="216"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-412/3392433-1-eng-US/f0028-412.jpg" title="f0028-41" width="281" height="209"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-42/3392426-1-eng-US/f0028-422.jpg" title="f0028-42" width="217" height="249"></div> &#9632;

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WHA Scoreboard

(Including Sun. Dec. 2)<h2>WINNIPEG</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01155/3392688-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="586" height="608"></div><h2>EDMONTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-02125/3392681-1-eng-US/f0029-022.jpg" title="f0029-02" width="594" height="580"></div><h2>HOUSTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0384/3392674-1-eng-US/f0029-032.jpg" title="f0029-03" width="588" height="548"></div><h2>SAN DIEGO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0464/3392667-1-eng-US/f0029-042.jpg" title="f0029-04" width="589" height="577"></div><h2>NEW ENGLAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0558/3392660-1-eng-US/f0029-052.jpg" title="f0029-05" width="586" height="562"></div><h2>TORONTO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0643/3392653-1-eng-US/f0029-062.jpg" title="f0029-06" width="586" height="490"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0734/3392646-1-eng-US/f0029-072.jpg" title="f0029-07" width="540" height="90"></div><h2>PHOENIX</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0830/3392639-1-eng-US/f0029-082.jpg" title="f0029-08" width="586" height="586"></div><h2>QUEBEC</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0926/3392632-1-eng-US/f0029-092.jpg" title="f0029-09" width="592" height="546"></div><h2>CLEVELAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1022/3392625-1-eng-US/f0029-102.jpg" title="f0029-10" width="590" height="612"></div><h2>VANCOUVER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1119/3392618-1-eng-US/f0029-112.jpg" title="f0029-11" width="594" height="632"></div><h2>CHICAGO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1215/3392611-1-eng-US/f0029-122.jpg" title="f0029-12" width="588" height="582"></div><h2>MICHIGAN</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1310/3392604-1-eng-US/f0029-132.jpg" title="f0029-13" width="590" height="378"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-149/3392597-1-eng-US/f0029-142.jpg" title="f0029-14" width="588" height="266"></div><h2>MINNESOTA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-155/3392590-1-eng-US/f0029-152.jpg" title="f0029-15" width="586" height="618"></div><h2>INDIANAPOLIS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-163/3392583-1-eng-US/f0029-162.jpg" title="f0029-16" width="588" height="608"></div><h3>TOP TEN GOALERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-173/3392576-1-eng-US/f0029-172.jpg" title="f0029-17" width="583" height="321"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-183/3392569-1-eng-US/f0029-182.jpg" title="f0029-18" width="560" height="848"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY HULL &hellip; Top WHA Scorer</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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WHA’s Team Scoring, Penalty Statistics

<h2>CLEVELAND</h2>GOALGerry CheeversBob WhiddenDEFENSE-Ray ClearwaterTom EdurLarry HillmanWayne MuloinPaul ShmyrCENTERJim HarrisonRich LeducRon WardR. WINGTerry Holbrook *Skip KrakeAl McDonoughL. WINGSteve CardwellGrant EricksonGarry JarrettGerry PinderRuss WalkerINJUREDNone<h2>CHICAGO</h2>GOALDave DrydenCam NewtonDEFENSEBryon Baltimore *Darryl MaggsJim WatsonLarry MavetyPat StapletonDune MacCallumCENTERRalph BackstromMark Lomenda *Gary MacGregorRod ZaineJoe HardyR. WINGPete Mara*Duke HarrisRosaire PaiementL. WINGBob LiddingtonRick MorrisJan PopielFrankie RochonINJUREDNone.<h2>EDMONTON</h2>GOALKen BrownChris WorthyJacques PlanteDEFENSEDoug BarrieKen BairdAl HamiltonBarry LongRay McKayJim McCrimmonCENTEREddie JoyalRoss PerkinsMike Rogers *Bobby SheehanRon BuchananR. WINGTom GilmoreBruce MacGregorRusty PatenaudeDon HerrimanL. WINGRon ClimieBlair MacDonaldSteve CarlyleINJUREDNone.<h2>HOUSTON</h2>GOALWayne RutledgeRon GrahameDEFENSELarry HaleMarty HoweGlen Irwin*Poul PopielJohn SchellaCENTERGord LabossiereLarry LundTerry Ruskowski *Jim SherritR. WINGMurray HallGordie HoweFrank HughesBill PrenticeL. WINGAndre HinseMark HoweTed TaylorDon Larway*Bill Preston *INJUREDNone<h2>INDIANAPOLIS</h2>GOALAndy BrownEd DyckDEFENSEBob AshRoger CoteMurray KennettJim HargreavesCraig Hanmer *Ralph HopiavouriBillv HortonKen DesjardineCENTERBob FitchnerBob SicinskiBob Whitlock.Jacques LocasSteve Richardson*R. WINGRoss Smith*Nick HarbarukBrian McDonaldL. WINGJim WisteKerry Bond*Rich PumpleJohn Sheridan*INJUREDNone.<h2>MICHIGAN</h2>GOALGerry DesjardinsJim McLeodDEFENSEPaul CurtisLarry JohnstonJohn MiszukArnie BrownRandy Legge*Jerry Zrymiak *CENTERJ.P. LeblancSteve West *Jim JohnsonFred SpeckR. WINGLen FontaineEd Johnstone *Gary Bredin*Guy TrottierSteve AndrascikAlain CaronL. WINGDanny Gruen*Gary VeneruzzoPierre GuiteMike RouleauINJUREDReg Thomas<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>GOALMike CurranJohn GarrettJack McCarlanDEFENSEJohn ArbourTerry BallBob BoydRon BusniukPat Westrum *Rick SmithMike McMahonCENTERTed HampsonJoe RobertsonDanny O&rsquo;SheaFran HuckMike AntonovichGary GambucciR. WINGMike WaltonWayne ConnellyKevin O&rsquo;SheaCurt BrackenburyL. WINGMurray HeatleyGeorge MorrisonDon TannahillINJUREDGord Gallant<h2>NEW ENGLAND</h2>GOALC. AbrahamssonTed Ouimet*DEFENSET. AbrahamssonJim DoreyPaul HurleyBrad SeiwoodTed GreenCENTERTerry CafferyLarry PleauGary SwainR. WINGMike ByersFred O&rsquo;DonnellTim SheehyTom EarlL. WINGWayne CarletonDon BlackburnJohn FrenchNick FotiuINJUREDAl SmithRick LeyAl KarlanderTom Webster<h2>PHOENIX</h2>GOALGarry KurtJack NorrisIDEFENSEAl MacLeodWendell Bennett *Gerry OdrowskiMike StevensJim NiekampJohn HughesCENTERBob BarlowJim BoydMurray KeoganDennis SobchukRobbie FtorekR. WINGDon BorgesonCam ConnorJohn GrayBob Mowat*L. WINGHugh HarrisMichel CormierHowie YoungINJUREDRick Newell<h2>QUEBEC</h2>GOALSerge AubryRichard BrodeurMichel DeguiseDEFENSEDale HogansonRic JordanPierre RoyJ.C. TremblayFrancois LacombeCENTERSerge BernierAndre GaudetteJeannot GilbertMichel ParizeauChris BordeleauR. WINGRene LeclercReal CloutierRejean HouleJean Garneau *Steve SutherlandL. WINGCharles ConstantinBobby GuindonMarc TardifINJUREDNone.<h2>SAN DIEGO</h2>GOALJoe JunkinRuss GillowDEFENSERon PlumbKen BlockHarry HowellBob FalkenbergBob WallCENTERAndre LacroixRay AdduonoWayne RiversMike LaughtonDoug VolmarR. WINGRick SentesJamie BatemanBrian MorenzTed ScharfKevin MorrisonL. WINGKevin DevineGene PeacoshCraig ReichmuthNorm FergusonINJUREDNone.<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALGilles GrattonLes BinkleyDEFENSEMike AmodeoRick CunninghamSteve CuddieJim TurkiewiczGeorge KuzmiczBrian GibbonsCENTERPat HickeyGavin KirkVaclav NedomanskyWayne DillonR. WINGTony FeatherstoneTom MartinTom SimpsonL. WINGPaul HendersonFrank MahovlichBrit SelbyRichard FardaINJUREDJim ShawBob Leduc<h2>VANCOUER</h2>GOALDon McLeodWayne Wood*DEFENSEJim CardiffDon McCullochMike PelykPat PriceDuane RuppPete McNamee*CENTERBryan CampbellRon ChipperfieldClaude St. SauveurRob WaltonR. WINGDanny LawsonPaul TerbencheJohn McKenzieAndy BathgateL. WINGDon BurgessJimmy Jones *Butch DeadmarshPeter Driscoll *John MigneaultINJUREDPete DonnellyMurray Myers<h2>WINNIPEG</h2>GOALJoe DaleyErnie WakelyCurt LarssonDEFENSELarry HornungDuke AsmundsonHeikki RiihirantaLars-Erik Sjoberg:Bob WoytowicnPerry MillerAlain BeauleCENTERDanny JohnsonVeli Ketola *Ulf NilssonJean-Guy GrattonR. WINGNorm BeaudinRon AshtonDanny SpringRon SnellAnders HedbergL. WINGMike FordMilt BlackBobby HullINJUREDNone. &#9632;

WHA Team Rosters

<div class="byline">BY TONY GALLAGHER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01181/3392750-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg" title="f0030-01" width="564" height="883"><figcaption class="caption-body">ULF NILSSON &hellip;High In Scoring</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-02129/3392743-1-eng-US/f0030-022.jpg" title="f0030-02" width="574" height="826"><figcaption class="caption-body">BUTCH DEADMARSH &hellip;Traded From NHL</figcaption></div>WINNIPEG&mdash;Some call him the Golden Jet. Others refer to Bobby Hull as the World Hockey Association&rsquo;s credibility. Skeptics in Winnipeg refer to him as Bobby Franchise.But whatever the handle, one thing is perfectly clear, he&rsquo;s still one of the greatest players in the game.As if that were not abundantly clear, Hull gave another little demonstration last week by having another four-goal game.Nothing special really&mdash;just the seventh four-goal game of his career for Winnipeg Jets bringing his season total to 23 goals for the year, three &lsquo;ahead of right winger Frank Hughes of the Houston Aeros.The Jets defeated the Michigan Stags 7-6 in the process and Hull set a WHA record for most games with three or more goals at 11.&ldquo;This could have been the game in which I had the most shots, but the puck just seemed to come to me.&rdquo; said Hull.&ldquo;Nilsson was getting it to me and I was getting it away.&rdquo;The Nilsson referred to is the the youthful Swedish centre Ulf who finds himself third in league scoring with 34 points, just one behind Larry Lund of Houston.And that fact once again, is another tribute to Hull. Not only can he do the things that Canadians have seem him do for so many years, but he can help people like Nilsson and his other linemate &mdash; Swede Anders Hedberg. break into Canadian hockey.Said Rudy Pilous. Jets&rsquo; bench coach about Hull: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the best person to coach a man could hope for. If they were all like the big shooter, you&rsquo;d just have to open and close the gate.&rdquo;Jets also moved into second place during the week beating Quebec 3-2 to move ahead of Les Nordiques in the standings.VANCOUVER: Blazers had easily their best week of the season when they won three in a row. including a 6-2 victory over Division leading Toros in Maple Leaf Gardens. Clearly responsible for the club&rsquo;s turnaround is 42-year-old Andy Bathgate, who finally got around to coming back after an aborted attempt early in the exhibition schedule. Bathgate. who&rsquo;s picking his spots to make appearances on the ice. had four assists in the three games and he&rsquo;s got the rest of the players going great guns.I&rsquo;m not trying to be a hero.&rdquo; said Bathgate. I&rsquo;m just trying to help out some of our guys and get us on the right track.Blazers, meanwhile, were also making news offthe ice as general manager and coach Joe Crozier managed to get Kansas City Scouts to sell Blazers Butch Deadmarsh for the $30,000 NHL waiver price. The big left-winger had already signed a three-year contract with Vancouver to begin in 1975. but general manager Sid Abel of the Scouts probably thought is best to get something for him now rather than nothing at the end of the season.QUEBEC: Not a banner week for Les Nordiques. especially for their splendid winger Rejean Houle. Not only did Quebec drop out of second place in the division, they lost Houle with a broken toe when he was checked into the boards and he&rsquo;ll be out at least three weeks. Then there was the overtime loss to New England Whalers, a heartbreaker in that John French ended the game after four seconds, before poor Serge Aubry in Les Nordiques goal had a chance to get set.EDMONTON: Shut out one night in Houston, the Oilers came back in their next game and got eight goals against the Whalers, one of the letter road clubs in the league.It&rsquo;s been that kind of season for the fourth-place Oilers, who are continuing to pack people into the beautiful Edmonton Coliseum.In the Win over New England. Ron Climie had a goal and four assists as the Oilers broke a three-game losing streak to move three points ahead of the last place Vancouver Blazers. &#9632;

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Hull Continues To Be ‘Mr. Incredible’ For Winnipeg

TORONTO&mdash;It wasn&rsquo;t the best week of the year for the Toronto Toros, but certainly one which Frank Mahovlich will remember.The Big M scored his 545th career goal which now puts him third on the all-time scoring list behind Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull. He also pulled away from retired Maurice Richard, with whorn he was tied before he scored his milestone goal.Mahovlich&rsquo;s goal came on the power play against Vancouver&rsquo;s Don McLeod early in the second period and moved Toros to winthin one goal at the time. However, the goal which sent Mahovlich past Rocket Richard on the all-time list didn&rsquo;t help much as Blazers took a 6-2 victory.The real bright spot for Toros came in San Diego where Vaclav Nedomansky scored all the club&rsquo;s goals in a 3-1 victory over the Mariners. It was big Ned&rsquo;s first hat trick in Canadian pro hockey &mdash; and likely not the last.&mdash;GALLAGHER<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0397/3392781-1-eng-US/f0030-032.jpg" title="f0030-03" width="562" height="1132"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRANK MAHOVLICH &hellip;New Milestone</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Mahovlich Passes Richard With 545th Career Goal

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0030-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0477/3392812-1-eng-US/f0030-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDERS HEDBERG&hellip; Winnipeg Jets</figcaption></div>The Winnipeg Jets&rsquo; European player airlift is paying big dividends for the WHA club this season. Players like Ulf Nilsson, Heikki Riihiranta, Lars-Erik Sjoberg, goaler Curt Larsson, Veli Ketola and last but not least Anders Hedberg, the tall Swedish right winger who is making such an impact on North American hockey. Hedberg has the extra benefit of being the right winger on Bobby Hull&rsquo;s line with the Jets and he is making the most of the opportunity. The former Swedish National team member was the 29th ranking WHA scorer with 19 points in 13 games. Two of his goals won games for Winnipeg and three others came on the power-play. &#9632;

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WHA ROOKIE PARADE

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>Follow All The Action Every Week By Subscribing Today ToTHE HOCKEY NEWSSuperb Hockey Reading Each MonthHOCKEY WORLD & HOCKEY PICTORIALSPRINGFIELD &mdash;Imagine buying 170 pounds of anything today for a dollar.The Los Angeles Kings made a bargain buy for that price during the 1973 hockey meetings in Montreal and it still is paying off &mdash; this time for the Springfield Kings.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-01162/3392850-1-eng-US/f0031-012.jpg" title="f0031-01" width="266" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Garwasiuk</figcaption></div>The 170-pound item they bought was Rick Charron, then a soon-to-be 31-year-old goaltender. The Kings picked him up for the $1 from the New York Rangers. then sent him to their Portland farm team in the Western League last season.All he did was win the league&rsquo;s outstanding goalkeeper award and the first-team All Star berth. Charron had a goals-against average of 2.63 in 48 games &mdash; the only goalie in the league under 3.00.What turned it around for him after posting an average of 4.03 in 19 games for Providence in 1971-72 and 4.10 in 22 games for the Reds in 1972-73 in his lone stints in the AHL?&ldquo;First, my last year with Providence we played our first 15 games on the road and I played the first 11. We had a 9-1-1 record and I was about 3.00. then suddenly I didn&rsquo;t get to play anymore. Larry Popein was the coach and he wouldn&rsquo;t tell me. he just wouldn&rsquo;t play me.&ldquo;Except for three games in February. which I think we won. I only played in spots and in games when we were getting bombed,&rdquo; Charron says.&ldquo;Last year, I had a chance to play the whole thing once I got over an early injury. I&rsquo;m not looking to have anywhere near that low an average in this league. It&rsquo;s much tougher to play goal here. It&rsquo;s a scramble game. I think a 3.15 to 3.20 would be a great average in this league.&rdquo;It took Charron a while to earn his first victory of the season in the AHL. but once he got over the hurdle, things became brighter for him.He was beaten 4-2 &mdash; the last goal going into the empty net after he had been pulled &mdash; at home by Nova Scotia in his first appearance. Following a 3-3 tie in Baltimore and a 4-4 deadlock in Syracuse, he lost 2-1 at home to Syracuse. 5-2 in Richmond and then was knocked out of a 5-3 loss in Hershey.Victory No. I came in a 6-2 home-ice triumph over Richmond Nov. 15. He won 4-1 in New Haven, was knocked out of a 6-5 defeat in Richmond, but then won a key 5-4 verdict in Rochester and two nights later came back to shut out Baltimore. 7-0, in Springfield, it was his first AHL shutout.Springfield coach Ron Stewart had Charron as his goalie in Portland last season, so knew he could do the job.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d have to say Rick was a pretty good investment for our organization. New York had an overabundance of goalkeepers and Rick didn&rsquo;t figure in their plans.&ldquo;I think playing regularly helped him a great deal. He probably won&rsquo;t get to play as much here because we also have Steve Rexe. but it gives us two solid goalkeepers.&rdquo;Does it bother Charron that he was a $1 purchase?&ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t matter for me, anyhow. I hope to have another good year to open their eyes to show them what they did.&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I knew New York wouldn&rsquo;t use me. so it is better I play for somebody who can.&rdquo;The Kings nearly lost the game that ended up 5-4 over Rochester. They were ahead 4-0 with 23 minutes and 38 seconds to play, then suddenly the Amerks caught fire and cut it to 4-3 with 9:58 to go. Pete Harasym scored to give the Kings some breathing room, but another Rochester goal with a minute and half left had the Kings on the ropes until the finish.ROCHESTER: The Amerks on their first big road trip of the season after playing 14. of their first 20 games on home ice.While they still were no better than tied for third place with Springfield at the time, the Amerks hadn&rsquo;t exactly been pushovers in the road games they had played. They&rsquo;d lost only one of the six. winning two and tying three.Ron Garwasiuk. who was beginning to close in on the AHL record of consecutive goal-scoring games, saw his chances dashed as the result of an early exit from the Nov. 29 game against Springfield.He had scored in seven straight games &mdash; four short of the record &mdash; and had peppered former teammate Rick Charron with five shots in the first 19 1/2 minutes.With only 16 seconds remaining in the period, Garwasiuk was given a minor penalty for slashing, a 10-minute misconduct and a game misconduct by referee Dave Shewchyk.&ldquo;I just lost my cool, that&rsquo;s all,&rdquo; said the frustrated Garwasiuk. &ldquo;When I went around their player, he hooked me. Then a guy hits me from behind and I turned around with my stick. I didn&rsquo;t hit him, the stick hit the boards, but he (Shewchyk) gave me the penalty.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-02123/3392843-1-eng-US/f0031-022.jpg" title="f0031-02" width="558" height="644"><figcaption class="caption-body">RICK CHARRON &hellip;Bargain Buy</figcaption></div>&ldquo;It was such a stupid call I blew up. I deserved the 10-minute and I guess my gesture with a stick is a game misconduct, but I shouldn&rsquo;t have had the minor in the first place. It&rsquo;s the first time in my career I&rsquo;ve been thrown out of a game except for fighting.&rdquo;In the big victory over Providence. Doug Gibson had a goal and three assists, Craig Sarner two goals and an assist and Barry Merrell and Gordie Clark each a goal and two assists.NOVA SCOTIA &mdash; Rookie Gordon McTavish. who scored 34 goals and 49 assists for the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Major Junior League and was a high draft choice (he was the 15th player taken oversail) by the Montreal Canadiens in June, found it a long time between goals, but maybe it was worth the wait.McTavish scored his first goal as a pro Oct. 16 and it was the winner in a 3-2 victory in Syracuse. The rest of October and all of November were dry for him. but he started December with a bang.The Voyageurs were trailing New Haven 2-1 in Halifax when McTavish scored his second goal of the season. Later in the game, the Nighthawks held a 5-4 lead with only 4 1/2 minutes to play.McTavish scored an unassisted goal at 15:40 to tie the score, then added the winner at 16:57 for his first pro hat trick.Third-period heroics enabled the Vees to win in Springfield earlier that week and to tie New Haven in Halifax on the 29th. Don Howse scored at 9:57 to tie the game in Springfield and Peter Sullivan won it with a goal at 16:15. In the game of the 29th. it was Howse at 16:14 of the final period who tied the game.NEW HAVEN &mdash; Dean Prentice and his New Haven Nighthawks are already tired of seeing the Nova Scotia Voyageurs. During a nine-game stretch from Nov. 10 through Dec. I. the Nighthawks played the Voyageurs six times and had only one victory and a tie to show for their efforts.Rookie goalie Brian Holderness. who has had to face a lot of shots since filling in forthe called-up Peter LoPresti. ran afoul of the officials during the second period in Nova Scotia Nov. 29. He was given a minor penalty at 8:22. a 10minute misconduct at 16:50 and another minor at 19:15.The Nighthawks finally seemed to be showing signs of breaking out of their offensive doldrums with 13 goals in three games, but they yielded 16 and had a tie and two defeats. &#9632;

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One Dollar Goaltender Paying Dividends In Late Start With Springfield Kings

<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-03103/3392888-1-eng-US/f0031-032.jpg" title="f0031-03" width="586" height="654"></div><h2>GOALERS RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0483/3392881-1-eng-US/f0031-042.jpg" title="f0031-04" width="584" height="745"></div> &#9632;

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AHL Leaders

<div class="byline">BY JERRY LINDQUIST</div>RICHMOND &mdash;Not a few people, including Richmond Robins&rsquo; coach Larry Wilson, thought Jim Hrycuik might be shipped back to Hershey &mdash; instead of Richmond &mdash; if the Washington Capitals decided they didn&rsquo;t require his services.The Caps grabbed the 5-10. 178 pounder from Rosthern. Sask., for $40,000 in the inter-league draft. In order to send him back to the minor leagues. they first had to offer him back to his former club for half price or $20,000. That would appear money well spent, a deal the Hershey Bears couldn&rsquo;t refuse, but they did. Coach Chuck Hamilton explained.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01164/3392919-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg" title="f0032-01" width="256" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Hrycuik</figcaption></div>&ldquo;He can play on my team any time,&rdquo; Hamilton said, recalling Hrycuik led the Calder Cup champion Bears in scoring last year. He registered 26 goals, 49 assists and logged 75 penalty minutes in 74 regular-season games. In the playoffs he contributed three goals and 11 assists in 14 games.&ldquo;But for us to take Jimmy back,&rdquo; Hamilton continued, &ldquo;it would mean taking him back on our own, and with a double operation here now, it meant we would have to cut someone belonging to either Buffalo or Pittsburgh. That would create more problems.&rdquo;Wilson can appreciate Hamilton&rsquo;s dilemma. Two National Hockey League teams stocking one minor-league team creates special difficulties, not the least of which is the NHL&rsquo;s development club rule which calls for a minimum of seven players under 26 years old belonging to each parent club dressing for each American Hockey League game.The 25-year-old Hrycuik joined the Robins in time for a 6-5 victory over Springfield in which he scored a goal. In his first four games, they won three and tied one to take over first place in the Southern Division. He hadn&rsquo;t played in almost three weeks for the Capitals.Why Washington would put Hrycuik on the plank was considered a mystery to some NHL observers. One man who sees many games because that&rsquo;s part of his job said. &ldquo;He (Hrycuik) would still be in the NHL if they had a different coach up there.&rdquo;The man didn&rsquo;t explain, and he wasn&rsquo;t pressed. The fact remains that Hrycuik had three goals and as many assists for the punchless Caps in nine games, then saw little to no service for them in six games he dressed thereafter.He had the distinction of scoring the expansion learns first goal&mdash;Oct. 9 in New York against the Rangers &mdash; then told a reporter afterwards that he didn&rsquo;t feel secure enough to unpack his bags. &ldquo;At the time they had five or six centers, and the quote came out of the blue but I meant it,&rdquo; he recalled.The way Washington has been juggling its lineup, keeping players on the road between Capital Centre and the Richmond Coliseum, there is no such thing as security. &ldquo;This could happen all year, which isn&rsquo;t good for either team.&rdquo; Hrycuik continued.Sitting on the Washington bench or watching from the stands didn&rsquo;t do Hrycuik a whole lot of good either. Wilson immediately put him &mdash; as well as Ron Anderson who along with Bob Grypaccompanied Hrycuik in the latest trek down Interstate 95 &mdash; on a crash course to regain their physical stamina.In each of his first four games. Hrycuik probably was on the ice from 35 to 40 minutes, taking a regular shift as well as power-plays, killing penalties, and at times engaging in key faceoffs even when his regular line wasn&rsquo;t out there.The parent Philadelphia Flyers purchased 28-year-old center Jean Payette from Toronto and assigned him to Richmond. He spent last two years with Quebec of the World Hockey Association&hellip; A 4-1 victory over Syracuse put Robins in first place&hellip; Club videotaping all home games.BALTIMORE: Rumors continue that Clippers will be sold to local group which, in turn, will bring one of several ailing WHA franchises to Civic Center. Chicago Cougars reported most likely although Michigan Stags and Indianapolis Racers possibilities, too&hellip; Meanwhile, coach Jimmy Morrison trying to keep team morale from hitting bottom in face of uncertainty&hellip; Lynn Zimmerman gave Clippers first shutout &mdash; league&rsquo;s second &mdash; with 3-0 blanking of North Division pace-setter Providence&hellip; Baltimore later blanked (6-0) in Springfield by Rick Charron who had to turn aside only 17 shots&hellip; Paul Granchukoff recalled from Ft. Wayne (International) and immediately became center ofillegal stick controversy. Syracuse coach Art Stratton protested stick during overtime, and protest upheld but Eagles didn&rsquo;t score and final was 4-4&hellip; Howie Menard&rdquo;slowed by series of injuries&hellip; Kansas City recalled Bryan Lefley and Glen Burdon, sending Roger Lemelin and Hugh Harvey back to Clippers&hellip; Gary Coalter began skating again. He suffered broken ankle Oct. 20.HERSHEY: Mid-ice collision with Richmond&rsquo;s Jack Mcllhargey left rookie center Harvey Bennett with broken jaw. Ironically enough, they collided last year in International League with same result&hellip; Bears argued they scored tying goal in what proved 4-3 loss in Richmond. Jack Surbey&rsquo;s shot eluded goaltender John Adams who reached back to grab puck near right post Red light did not go on, and referee Alf Lejeune ignored ensuing protest&hellip; Surbey cut for six stitches when hit by puck in same game&hellip; Near-capacity home crowd of 7,001 saw Providence come from 2-1 deficit in third period to win, 5-2. Last two goals went into vacant net&hellip; AHL president Jack Butterfield presented James C. Hendy Memorial Award to Arthur Whiteman, recently retired president of Bears. Board of Governors give award annually to execulive who has made outstanding contribution to league.VIRGINIA: Rookie center Nelson Pyatt quit and went home&hellip; Wings lost six players within two weeks, with no replacements&hellip; Injuries forced parent Detroit Red Wings to recall Rick McCann and Brian McCutcheon&hellip; Six game losing streak which saw V-Wings go from first place to last prompted coach Doug Barkley to call for two-a-day workouts and threaten fines. &ldquo;I promised the people here a hardworking team, and some of these guys are not in condition. They think it&rsquo;s a picnic.&rdquo; Barkley said&hellip; V-Wings&rsquo; skid also traced to Detroit&rsquo;s recall of goaltender Doug Grant.SYRACUSE: Veteran center Cal Swenson named captain. You&rsquo;ve got to have a leader out there, someone to keep these guys together,&rdquo; explained coach Art Stratton&hellip; Ex-Robin Danny Schock suited up for three game trial. He scored two goals in debut, a 5-2 victory in Norfolk, then added another en route to 4-4 standoff in Baltimore. Veteran left winger blanked in Richmond despite having at least three blue-ribbon scoring opportunities. When Eagles returned home. Schock did not accompany them&hellip; Dick Sarrazin had 12 goals in 24 games. &#9632;

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Hrycuik Victim Of Dual-Club Agreement; Rumors, Ice Losses Have Clippers In Tizzy

<h2>Sat. Nov. 30</h2>PROVIDENCE 5, HERSHEY 2FIRST PERIODProvidence. 1&mdash;O&rsquo;Connor (Wright. Monahan) 16:45.Penalties Campbell 0:52. Monahan 3 47. Titanic. O&rsquo;Connor 11:58. Bergeron. Gateman 15 49. Craig 17:28, Bergeron 18 34, Gateman 18 50SECOND PERIODHershey. 2&mdash;Inglis (Bergeron. Ewasiuk) 2:13; 3&mdash;Bergeron (Faubert. Inglis) 19 33.Penalties Hershey bench (served by Surbey) 3:25, Brennan 11:47. Laganiere 18:01THIRD PERIODProvidence. 4&mdash;Holland 1 53. 5&mdash;Dube (Wright. Zanussi) 3.38; 6&mdash;Anderson (Monahan. Wright) 19:11, 7&mdash;Monahan (Anderson. Wright) 19 40.Penalties Bergeron. Anderson 0 43. Ewasiuk 7 46, Bergeron 1159, Zanussi 12:09. McManama 19:40.Saves. Herron-Regan (Her) 23. Seperich (Prov.) 32Attendance 7.001<h2>Sun. Dec. 1</h2>PROVIDENCE 4, ROCHESTER 6FIRST PERIODRochester. 1&mdash;Merell (Gibson. Garwasiuk) 12:33: Providence. 2&mdash;Teeple (Zanussi. Holland) 19:10Penalty Wright 11.27SECOND PERIODRochester. 3&mdash;Clark (Gibson. Sarner) 1 ;23; Providence. 4&mdash;Nichols (Holland. O&rsquo;Connor) 2 32. Rochester. 5&mdash;Sarner (Clark. Simmons) 11:30; Providence. 6&mdash;Teeple (Zanussi. Nichols) 14 39THIRD PERIODProvidence. 7&mdash;Wright (O&rsquo;Connor. Anderson) 0:28; Rochester. 8&mdash;McKillop (Gibson. Simmons) 10:25; 9&mdash;Sarner (Pagnutti. Merrell) 11:35. 10&mdash;Gibson (Merrell. Clark) 12:36.Penalties Gateman 10 05. Monahan 10 18. Zanussi 11.21Saves. Ridley (Prov.) 28, Sneddon (Roch.f27)Attendance 6.371BALTIMORE 0, SPRINGFIELD 7FIRST PERIODSpringfield. 1&mdash;Blanchard (Sargent) 4 46. 2&mdash;Heaslip (Hoene. Sargent) 17:17 3&mdash;Cassidy (Lewis. Abgrall) 19 17Penalty: Shakes 6:48SECOND PERIODSpringfield. 4&mdash;Cassidy (Cummins. Blanchard) 9:21Penalties Bignell 6 30. Douglas 9 49. Sargent 11 23. Shakes 14 11. Ketter 19:47THIRD PERIODSpringfield. 5&mdash;Hoene (Heaslip. Shakes) 0.25.6-Cummins (Harasym. Witherspoon) 5 18. 7 - Witherspoon (Heaslip. Hoene) 13 48Penalties: Baltimore bench (served by Granchukoff) 4.17. Rivard 9 35. Lemelin 12:16.Saves. Zimmerman (Balt.) 20. Charron (Spr) 17.Attendance 1.658NEW HAVEN 5, NOVA SCOTIA 6FIRST PERIODNew Haven. 1&mdash;Kessell (Chinnick) 4 01,2&mdash;Ledmgham (Ostlund) 4:52; Nova Scotia. 3&mdash;Cahoon (Shanahan. MacTavish) 14 12; 4&mdash;MacTavish (Chartraw) 1444 Penalties Delparte 7:23. Ostlund 1149. Ledingham 19 38SECOND PERIODNova Scotia. 5&mdash;McKegney (Sullivan. Howse) 0 48; New Haven. 6&mdash;Miller (Rogers. Wilson) 3:38. 7-Cressman (Langlais) 7 04 8&mdash;MacDougall(Chinnick. Colley) 13:30.Penalties Delparte 5:40. Shanahan (double minor). Ostlund (double minor) 9 35. MacTavish 13 30. Chiasson 17:38THIRD PERIODNova Scotia 9&mdash;Sullivan (Goldup) 3 51: 10&mdash;MacTavish 15:40: 11-MacTavish (Busniuk) 16.57.Penalties Wilson 3 28 Engele 6:40. Ostlund 11:22. Nova Scotia bench (served by Goldup) 1312.Saves. Holderness (NH) 27. Walsh (NS) 29Attendance 2.909SYRACUSE 1, RICHMOND 4FIRST PERIODRichmond. 1&mdash;Hrycuik (Lajeunesse. Sirois)9:37. 2&mdash;Paddock (Short. Coates) 10 58; Syracuse. 3&mdash;Sarrazin (Warr) 13 19Penalties: Mcllhargey 5:13. Orr 5 51. Foley 9 26.Mcllhargey 13:51SECOND PERIODRichmond. 4&mdash;Gryp (Fullan. Goodenough) 5 28Penalties Foley 3 51. Ferguson 11:21. Warr. Coates 16&rsquo;27. Foley 18.16THIRD PERIODRichmond, 5&mdash;Paddock (Wyrozub) 4 55. Penalty R. Anderson 1 28Saves. Caron-Carter (syr) 43. Parsons (Rich) 38Attendance 4.183. &#9632;

American League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>PROVIDENCE&mdash;The Reds smooth sailing encountered some rough waters the weekend of Nov. 29 as the recalls by the injury-riddled New York Rangers and their own injuries took their toll.Coach John Muckier&rsquo;s skaters went into the weekend with one defeat in 18 games this season. They came out of it with three losses.But Lynn Zimmerman of Baltimore stopped Providence cold, shutting them out 3-0 in Baltimore on the 29th. The Reds had a 35-26 edge in shots on goal, including a 12-5 bulge in the final period.&ldquo;Baltimore played very well, especially in the first period, and Zimmer man was exceptional,&rdquo; said Muckier.His team bounced back the following night for a 5-2 victory in Hershey, but it wasn&rsquo;t easy. The Bears held a 2-1 lead going into the third period. Jerry Holland tied the score at 1:53 and Norm Dub&eacute; put the Reds ahead at 3:38. It stayed 3-2 until Providence scored twice into the empty net in the final 50 seconds.An unusual string of penalties cost the Reds dearly the following night in Rochester. Oddly, the Reds had taken only one penalty in the first 50 minutes of the game, and it cost them a goal.Despite being down to nine forwards, four defensemen and two goalies as leading scorer Pierre Lagani&egrave;re (seven goals. 20 assists. 27 points) watched from the press box because of a slight concussion and rookie defense star Dave Maloney watched from the bench because of an injury, the Reds held a 4-3 lead.Then Marty Gateman was chased by referee Steve Dowling for holding at 10:25. At that point, Dowling refused to let the Reds make a player change, which is allowed under the AHL&rsquo;s new substitution rules. So Providence had to play with one defenseman and three, forwards while Muckier howled.The howls turned to shrieks seconds later when Hartland Monahan was penalized for delaying the game by pinning the puck along the boards. That penalty came 13 seconds after Gateman&rsquo;s.The Amerks quickly scored to tie the game. Then Joe Zanussi of the Reds went off for cross-checking at 11:21 and Rochester had another two-man advantage. The Amerks scored quickly again to go ahead and Zanussi watched helplessly from the box as they added yet another goal for the insurance.&ldquo;When he (Dowling) wouldn&rsquo;t let us put on a defenseman as we were supposed to be able to do, that&rsquo;s when all our trouble started,&rdquo; a hot Muckier said afterward. &ldquo;He was going to be the big man and show us &lsquo;I&rsquo;m the official, I control the game&rsquo;.&ldquo;You know what he did? He controlled the outcome of the game. He violated the rule and it cost us a hockey game.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-01145/3392974-1-eng-US/f0033-012.jpg" title="f0033-01" width="544" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">PIERRE LAGANIERE &hellip;Leading Scorer Hurt</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Recalls, Injuries Take Toll On Providence Reds

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Dec. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-02106/3393033-1-eng-US/f0033-022.jpg" title="f0033-02" width="582" height="395"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Dec. 4New Haven 2 at Hershey 3: Baltimore 4 at Richmond 3; Rochester 0 at Virginia 2Thu. Dec. 5Syracuse 4 at Nova Scotia 7.Fri. Dec. 6Rochester 0 at Baltimore 2; Providence 2 at New Haven 1. Richmond 5 at Syracuse 2Sat. Dec. 7Springfield 0 at Baltimore 4; Rochester 4 at Hershey 2; Richmond 4 at Virginia 5.Sun. Dec. 8Providence 1 at Nova Scotia 0; Rochester 2 at Richmond 1. New Haven 4 at Springfield 1, Baltimore 5 at Syracuse 3.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Dec. 11Nova Scotia at Syracuse; Baltimore at Virginia.Fri. Dec. 13Baltimore at New Haven; Syracuse at Providence; Nova Scotia at Rochester Richmond at Springfield; Hershey at Virginia.Sat. Dec. 14Providence at Baltimore; New Haven at Hershey; Virginia at Richmond; Nova Scotia at Springfield; Rochester at Syracuse.Sun. Dec. 15Springfield at New Haven; Richmond at Nova Scotia: Hershey at Providence; Syracuse at Rochester.Wed. Dec. 18Baltimore at Richmond; Virginia at SyracuseFri. Dec. 20Virginia at Baltimore; Nova Scotia at New Haven; Springfield at Providence; Richmond at Rochester.Sat. Dec. 21Rochester at Hershey; Nova Scotia at Springfield; Baltimore at Syracuse; New Haven at Virginia.Sun. Dec. 22Springfield at Nova Scotia; New Haven at Providence; Virginia at Richmond; Baltimore at Rochester.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Dec. 9)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0376/3393026-1-eng-US/f0033-032.jpg" title="f0033-03" width="586" height="353"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Dec. 4Oklahoma City 2 at Fort Worth 2; Salt Lake 9 at Denver 9Thu. Dec. 5Omaha 5 at Seattle 4Fri. Dec. 6Salt Lake 4 at Dallas 1; Fort Worth 4 at Tulsa 2; OklahomaCity 1 at Denver9; Seattle 1 at Omaha 6.Sat. Dec. 7Dallas 4 at Fort Worth 7; Salt Lake 1 at Tulsa 7; Omaha 6 at Denver 1; Oklahoma City 5 at Seattle 3.Sun. Dec. 8Salt Lake 5 at Fort Worth 1; Tulsa 2 at Omaha 4.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Mon. Dec. 9Dallas at Salt Lake.Tue. Dec. 10Oklahoma City at Denver,Wed. Dec. 11Omaha at Tulsa; Fort Worth at Denver.Thu. Dec. 12Denver at SeattleFri. Dec. 13Omaha at Dallas; Oklahoma City at Tulsa; Salt Lake at Seattle.Sat. Dec. 14Tulsa at Dallas; Fort Worth at Salt Lake.Sun. Dec. 15Oklahoma City at Omaha; Fort Worth at Seattle.Mon. Dec. 16Denver at Salt LakeTue. Dec. 17Salt Lake at Seattle.Wed. Dec. 18Omaha at Oklahoma City; Tulsa at Denver.Thu. Dec. 19Salt Lake at Seattle.Fri. Dec. 20Omaha at Fort Worth; Tulsa at Salt Lake.Sat Dec. 21Denver at Fort Worth; Dallas at Oklahoma City; Tulsa at Seattle.Sun. Dec. 22Oklahoma City at Dallas; Denver at Omaha.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Dec. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0461/3393019-1-eng-US/f0033-042.jpg" title="f0033-04" width="584" height="425"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Dec. 3Flint 2 at Kalamazoo 6Wed. Dec. 4Muskegon 6 at Saginaw 7; Toledo 3 at Dayton 6; Lansing 6 at Fort Wayne 4Thu. Dec. 5Toledo 6 at Columbus 5Fri. Dec. 6Saginaw 6 at Muskegon 5; Fort Wayne 4 at Port Huron 3; Dayton 2 at Des Moines 9; Kalamazoo 2 at Flint 3; Lansing 2 at Toledo 12.Sat. Dec. 7Flint 11 at Fort Wayne 5; Kalamazoo 7 at Muskegon 5; Columbus 4 at Port Huron 3; Dayton 4 at Des Moines 2; Saginaw 6 at Lansing 3.Sun. Dec. 8Fort Wayne 6 at Dayton 2; Columbus 3 at Flint 5: Lansing 2 at Saginaw 6; Muskegon 2 at Kalamazoo 2; Port Huron 1 at Toledo 4.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Dec. 11Columbus at Fort Wayne; Muskegon at Des Moines; Kalamazoo at Saginaw.Fri. Dec. 13Lansing at Kalamazoo; Saginaw at Flint; Dayton at Columbus; Port Huron at Muskegon; Des Moines at Toledo.Sat. Dec. 14Muskegon at Fort Wayne; Flint at Columbus; Saginaw at Port Huron; Kalamazoo at Lansing; Des Moines at Dayton.Sun. Dec. 15Des Moines at Flint; Port Huron at Saginaw; Columbus at Toledo; Dayton at Kalamazoo.Wed. Dec. 18Des Moines at Fort Wayne; Flint at Dayton: Muskegon at Columbus.Fri. Dec. 20Lansing at Des Moines; Fort Wayne at Toledo; Saginaw at Kalamazoo.Sat. Dec. 21Lansing at Des Moines; Dayton at Fort Wayne; Flint at Muskegon; Saginaw at Columbus; Kalamazoo at Toledo.Sun. Dec. 22Fort Wayne at Flint; Columbus at Dayton; Toledo at Saginaw; Muskegon at Port Huron; Des Moines at Kalamazoo.<h2>NORTH AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Dec. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0552/3393012-1-eng-US/f0033-052.jpg" title="f0033-05" width="585" height="253"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Dec. 4Cape Codders 3 at Long Island 4; Johnstown 2 at Broome 5Thu. Dec. 5Maine 3 at Mohawk Valley 4Fri. Dec. 6Long Island 0 at Cape Codders 3; Philadelphia 4 at Broome 3.Sat. Dec. 7Long Island 1 at Maine 2; Johnstown 6 at Mohwak Valley 8; Philadelphia 1 at Syracuse 4Sun. Dec. 8Johnstown 5 at Broome 4; Syracuse 4 at Philadelphia 5; Maine 4 at Long Island 4.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed. Dec. 11Mohawk Valley at Cape Codders; Maine at Broome; Long Island at Philadelphia.Thu. Dec. 12Long Island at Mohawk ValleyFri. Dec. 13Johnstown at Syracuse; Maine at Philadelphia.Sat. Dec. 14Syracuse at Long Island; Broome at Mohawk Valley; Maine at Johnstown; Philadelphia at Cape Codders.Sun. Dec. 15Long Island at Syracuse; Maine at Johnstown; Cape Codders at Broome; Mohawk Valley at Philadelphia.Tue. Dec. 17Syracuse at Maine; Long Island at Philadelphia.Wed. Dec. 18Mohawk Valley at Broome; Maine at Long Island.Fri. Dec. 20Mohawk Valley at Long Island: Philadelphia at Syracuse.Sat. Dec. 21Broome at Johnstown; Syracuse at Mohawk Valley; Long Island at Cape Codders; Philadelphia at Maine.Sun. Dec. 22Broome at Syracuse: Long Island at Maine.<h2>SOUTHERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Dec. 10)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0640/3393005-1-eng-US/f0033-062.jpg" title="f0033-06" width="584" height="163"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Dec. 3Charlotte 5 at Winston-Salem 2.Wed. Dec. 4Winston-Salem 4 at Greensboro 3: Charlotte 1 at Hampton 4.Thu. Dec. 5Greensboro 5 at Winston-Salem 3.Fri. Dec. 6Roanoke 3 at Charlotte 5; Greensboro 4 at Hampton 5.Sat. Dec. 7Charlotte 6 at Greensboro 2 ; Hampton 4 at Roanoke 6.Sun. Dec. 8Roanoke 6 at Winston-Salem 2.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Dec. 10Roanoke at Charlotte.Wed. Dec. 11Roanoke at Greensboro.Thu. Dec. 12Winston-Salem at HamptonFri. Dec. 13Winstom-Salem at Charlotte; Greensboro at Roanoke.Sat. Dec. 14Greensboro at Winston-Salem.Sun. Dec. 15Roanoke at Winston-Salem; Charlotte at Hampton.Tue. Dec. 17Greensboro at Hampton.Wed. Dec. 18Winston-Salem at GreensboroThu. Dec. 19Hampton at Winston-Salem.Fri. Dec. 20Greensboro at Charlotte; Winston-Salem at Roanoke. &#9632;

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LOOKING AT THE MINOR LEAGUE SCOREBOARD

NHL 1&mdash;Montreal. 2&mdash;Detroit. 3&mdash;Boston. 4&mdash;N.Y. Rangers. 5&mdash;Chicago 6&mdash;Toronto 7&mdash;Los Angeles. 8&mdash;Pittsburgh 9&mdash;California. 10&mdash;Philadelphia. 11&mdash;Minnesota. 12&mdash;St. Louis. 13&mdash;Vancouver. 14&mdash;Buffalo 15&mdash;N.Y. Islanders. 16&mdash;Atlanta. 17&mdash;Kansas City 18&mdash;Washington.WHA 19&mdash;Cleveland 20&mdash;San Diego 21&mdash;Vancouver 22&mdash;Michigan 23&mdash;Toronto 24&mdash;Quebec. 25&mdash;Edmonton 26&mdash;Houston 27&mdash;Chicago 28&mdash;Winnipeg. 29&mdash;Minnesota 30&mdash;New England. 31&mdash;Indianapolis. 32&mdash;Phoenix 33&mdash;Cincinnati.Inter-League: 34&mdash;Phoenix (WHA) & Vancouver (WHA). 35&mdash;Philadelphia (NHL) & Washington (NHL). 36&mdash;Los Angeles (NHL) & California (NHL) 37&mdash;Minnesota (NHL) & N.Y. Islanders (NHL) 38&mdash;Kansas City (NHL) & NY Islanders (NHL). 39&mdash;St Louis (NHL). Montreal (NHL) & N.Y. Rangers (NHL) 40&mdash;Pittsburgh (NHLj & Buffalo (NHL). 41&mdash;Boston (NHL) & Washington (NHL). 42&mdash;New England (WHA) & Cleveland (WHA). 43&mdash;Buffalo (NHL). California (NHL) & Vancouver (WHA). 44&mdash;Winnipeg. (WHA). Houston (WHA). Cleveland (WHA), Indianapolis (WHA). Phoenix (WHA). 45&mdash;Michigan (WHA). N.Y. Islanders (NHL) & Quebec (WHA). 46&mdash;Edmonton (WHA) & N.Y. Rangers NHL). 47&mdash;Boston (NHL) &mdash; Washington (NHL). 48&mdash;N.Y. Rangers (NHL) &mdash; Kansas City (NHL). 49&mdash;Chicago (NHL) &mdash; Edmonton (WHA). 50&mdash;Vancouver (NHL), Philadelphia (NHL) &mdash; Atlanta (NHL) 51&mdash;Indianapolis (WHA) &mdash; St. Louis (NHL). 52&mdash;Michigan (WHA) &mdash; San Diego (WHA). 53&mdash;New England (WHA) &mdash; Cleveland (WHA). 54&mdash;Indianapolis (WHA) &mdash; Toronto (WHA). 55&mdash;Buffalo (NHL). California (NHL) &mdash; Vancouver (WHA) 56&mdash;Winnipeg (WHA). Houston (WHA), Cleveland (WHA). Indianapolis (WHA) &mdash; Phoenix (WHA) 57&mdash;Michigan (WHA). Quebec (WHA) &mdash; N.Y Islanders (NHL). 58&mdash;Edmonton (WHA) & N.Y Rangers (NHL). 59&mdash;Minnesota (WHA) & Pittsburgh (NHL) 60&mdash;San Diego (WHA). Michigan (WHA) & Philadelphia (NHL). &lsquo;&mdash;Independent. &#9632;

Minor League Affiliations

OKLAHOMA CITY&mdash;The Oklahoma City Blazers haven&rsquo;t put together any sensational winning streak but nonetheless they are perched a top the Central Hockey League&rsquo;s South Divisin race and they reached the pinnacle by playing solid, steady hockey.The Blazers&rsquo; offense did put it all together in a big game against Tulsa beating the Oilers 8-3. Then they embarked on a road trip for three games picking up a win in Seattle and a tie in Fort Worth. Their only loss was to the Denver Spurs. Blazer schedule calls for only three home games in December as they go through a streak that has them playing three at home and 12 on the road. If they get by that portion of their schedule in reasonably good shape, the Blazers will be strong contenders for first place. Dave Williams (141) and Bill Butters (137) are leading the team in penalty minutes. Les Burgess received an unusual penalty call in a game against Fort Worth &mdash; he was assessed a triple minor (slashing, high-sticking, kneeing) and a major peanlty when involved in a fight with Texan&rsquo;s Richard Grenier, who received a major.DALLAS: Just when the Hawks started to pull away from the pack into a solid first place position, Bobby Kromm found his original 22-man roster cut down to 16 by injuries to his own team and emergency recalls by Chicago. The results were predicitable &mdash; two wins and five losses In their last seven games. This streak gave OC the opportunity to move into first place in the South Division while playing 500 hockey. Rob Palmer has been a steady point producer all season and has moved into the team lead with 26 points in 22 games &mdash; one point ahead of teammate R&eacute;jean Giroux. Hawks miss the services of Moe L&rsquo;Abbe. He has been the veteran stabilizer on this young team and his injury coincides with their minor slump. Duane Wylie and Roger Wilson still up with the injury-riddled Chicago Hawks.TULSA: The South Division has a three-way battle for first with Tulsa only four points out. Best offense of the year saw the Oilers bomb Salt Lake 7-1 with seven players scoring a single goal. Gene Sobchuk well ahead as team&rsquo;s leading goal-scorer with 13 in 27 games. Goalie Paul Hoganson recalled by Vancouver Blazers. Larry Isrealson playing steady hockey for the Oilers. The Notre Dame graduate is a heady player who keeps improving. He scored his team&rsquo;s only two goals in a tough 4-2 loss to Omaha.FORT WORTH: The Texans has an outstanding week with wins over Dallas 7-4 and Tulsa 4-2 to go with a come-from-behind tie with OC. The win over Dallas their first in four games as the Hawks had dominated the turnpike series with three straight lop-sided victories. Anyone can win in the south now as the Texans closed the gap to 12 points from the top spot. Lome Henning&mdash;on 14-day loan from Long Island-picked up five points, two goals and three assists in his first three games. Skeeter Teal still out with injuries. Coach Ed Chadwick would love to have both Teal and Henning on his season-long roster. Texans&rsquo; Jim Webster and Salt Lake&rsquo;s Charlie Simmer tied for league lead for assists with 22.OMAHA: After their perennial show start, the Knights are agin coming on strong. The &ldquo;Knight Gang&rdquo; as they are referred to in their Nebraska hometown, is on a 7-game winning streak that has carried them past Seattle into third place in the North Division and only six games behind the league leading Denver Spurs and Salt Lake Golden Eagles. Bill Klatt and Jerry Byers added the offensive spark to get the team going. Playing the toughest possible type of a schedule &mdash; 4 games in 4 nights &mdash; Fred Creighton&rsquo;s fighting Knights won all four games, including two against Seattle, 5-4 on the cost and 6-1 back in Omaha to grab third spot. Last year&rsquo;s CHL total point leader Wayne Schaab is once again leading the Knights&rsquo; scoring with 13 goals &mdash; 15 assists &mdash; 25 points in 27 games.DENVER: When the two top teams meet in a game to decide who will be in first place, one would expect a close checking, low-scoring game. Not so. Denver Spurs hosted Salt Lake in just such a game and the score was a surprising 9-9 tie. This tied a CHL record for the most goals scored in a single game set Oct.24, 1969 when Oklahoma City defeated Kansas City 10-8. The most amazing statistic to come out of all this scoring was the fact that league leader Mitch Babin did not record a single point while his teammates ammassed nine goals and 16 assists for 25 points. After being the closest checking team in the CHL for the first six weeks the Spur defense has been hurting and the scores in Denver have been wild. Besides the 9-9 tie. other scores have been an 8-6 win over Dallas and 6-1 and 5-2 losses to Omaha. Coach Jean-Guy Talbot is one of the better defensive coaches in hockey and when the gets his team healthy you can be assured that the Spurs will be back to their tough defensive game again. The change has been interesting for the fans who are coming out in larger numbers than any previous year.SALT LAKE: The Eagles are still hurting but have stayed tied with Denver because of a good record two wins, loss and a tie in their last four games on the road. Brent Meeke. returned to Salt Lake by California, has helped. He now has 10 goals and is the team&rsquo;s best offensive defenseman at this point. Center Charlie Simmer, third round draft choice, is a good-looking prospect. A tall (6&rsquo;3&rdquo;) well-built (195) hustler, Simmer continues to impress with his smart playmaking and effective forechecking. Charlie was drafted 39th by the California Seals after a fine season with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. Ted McAneely has been a big help to the Eagles as he moves the puck wuickly and smartly from his defensive position. Salt Lake leading CHL oin attendance &mdash; well ahead of last year and looking at an excellent home schedule for the last two-thirds of the season.SEATTLE: The Totems were the hottest club in the CHL &mdash; only one loss in 10 games&mdash;ountil they met the tough Omaha Knights in back-to-back four pointers and lost both games. Orland Kurtenbach, Totem rookie coach, is not discouraged because he knows that his team can win whet) healthy and Omaha was on a streak where nobody was going to beat them. Kurt is going through a session that drives every rookie coach crazy, trying to find the answer as to why his team is playing better on the road than at home. Howie Hughes is the hottest Totem scoringwise with 12 points in his last 10games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01156/3393088-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="572" height="674"><figcaption class="caption-body">LORNE HENNING &hellip;Hot For Texans</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Blazers’ Steady Play Earns First Place; Omaha Knights Come Alive In North Race

LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH 8. BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street, Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-02107/3393133-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="590" height="347"></div><h2>GOALERS RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0381/3393126-1-eng-US/f0034-032.jpg" title="f0034-03" width="582" height="60"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0462/3393119-1-eng-US/f0034-042.jpg" title="f0034-04" width="586" height="494"></div> &#9632;

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CHL Leaders

<h2>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Fri. Dec. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01145/3393241-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="586" height="374"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Nov. 27Maulwaukee 4 at Sioux City 6.Thur. Nov. 28Milwaukee 3 at Waterloo 5; Green Bay 2 at Marquette 5.Fri. Nov. 29Thunder Bay 6 at Copper Country 4Sat. Nov. 30Marquette 4 at Sioux City 5; Copper Country 3 at Cent. Wise. 0; Thunder Bay 4 at Green Bay 2; Waterloo 2 at Milwaukee 0.Sun. Dec. 1Thunder bay 6 at Chicago 10. Marquette 1 at Waterloo 5.<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-02118/3393234-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="585" height="348"></div><h2>TEAM SCORING.</h2><h3>MARQUETTE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0388/3393227-1-eng-US/f0035-032.jpg" title="f0035-03" width="587" height="522"></div><h3>GREEN BAY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0472/3393220-1-eng-US/f0035-042.jpg" title="f0035-04" width="582" height="521"></div><h3>COPPER COUNTRY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0560/3393213-1-eng-US/f0035-052.jpg" title="f0035-05" width="584" height="546"></div><h3>SIOUX CITY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0648/3393206-1-eng-US/f0035-062.jpg" title="f0035-06" width="588" height="518"></div><h3>MILWAUKEE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0743/3393199-1-eng-US/f0035-072.jpg" title="f0035-07" width="587" height="517"></div><h3>WATERLOO</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0832/3393192-1-eng-US/f0035-082.jpg" title="f0035-08" width="588" height="461"></div><h3>CHICAGO</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0932/3393185-1-eng-US/f0035-092.jpg" title="f0035-09" width="584" height="485"></div><h3>THUNDER BAY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1026/3393178-1-eng-US/f0035-102.jpg" title="f0035-10" width="590" height="460"></div><h2>CENTRAL WISCONSIN</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1123/3393171-1-eng-US/f0035-112.jpg" title="f0035-11" width="584" height="400"></div><h3>LEADING GOALERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1216/3393164-1-eng-US/f0035-122.jpg" title="f0035-12" width="584" height="200"></div> &#9632;

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Around The USHL

<h2>CONTINENTAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 25)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1313/3393279-1-eng-US/f0035-132.jpg" title="f0035-13" width="583" height="200"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1413/3393272-1-eng-US/f0035-142.jpg" title="f0035-14" width="581" height="457"></div> &#9632;

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HOW THEY STAND

MADISON&mdash;The fledging Continental Hockey League is off to a flying start in their first year of existence. With franchises located in Peoria, III., Madison and Kenosha, Wis. St. Louis, and two from Chicago, plus the nucleus of familiar hockey names like Reggie Fleming, who was the Chicago Black Hawks bad boy for 11 years, Billy Reay Jr. son of the Chicago coach, and Rick Francis, son of Emile Francis of the New York Rangers, have given the new league instant recognition. League president Mark Olson, who founded the league, says he is pleased with the progress of the league in such a short period of time.KENOSHA: Owner Don Walsh is throwing money around to get key personnel for Flyers. His latest addition. Reggie Fleming, scored winning goal as the Flyers remained undefeated by beating the Madison Blues 4-3 in Kenosha.MADISON: Player-coach Greg Campbell has seven goals and 11 assists in first eight games including four against St. Louis. Blues&rsquo; forwards Stan Hinkley, Brad Colehour, Sam Grosso, Greg Campbell, Billy Reay Jr, Laurent Viens, Bob Shaughnessy, and Phil Caruso have accounted for 67 goals in first eight games. Defensemen Dan Osborn and Todd Lampman are providing the Blues with muscle.CHICAGO WILDCATS: Vic Lacroix scored the hat trick against Madison, although the Wildcats were defeated 7-4. The line of Ron Byrne, Sam Saltzman, and Lacroix is the Wildcats&rsquo; hottest with a total of 22 goals.CHICAGO CARDINALS: Club is expected to open at home in their new rink soon after five straight games on the road. Coach Doug Peterson is happy with Cards&rsquo; 2-2-1 record away from home.PEORIA: General manager Mark Olson is building a young and aggresive team for the future. With brothers, Mike and Rick Olson leading the way, and the nucleus of young players, GM Olson feels he has a playoff contender. Blades continue to have sell-out crowds, despite their 2-6-0 Record. Forward Mike Finnergan released.ST. LOUIS: Saints&rsquo; player-coach Rick Francis is very patient with his young team. After weeks of long road trips Saints returned home and upset the Chicago Wildcats 4-1 and were tied by the league leading Kenosha Flyers 4-4. &#9632;

Fleming Fires Winner For Kenosha In Continental Hockey League

<h2>Sun. Nov. 17</h2>SALT LAKE 0, SEATTLE 5FIRST PERIODSeattle, 1&mdash;Westner (Gould, Murfey) 19:31;2-Wilcox (Murfey) 19:58.Penalties; Seagrist (major), Snepsts (major) 0:55, Sedlbauer 2:30, Simmer 2:57.SECOND PERIODSeattle. 3&mdash;Seguin (Spruce, Snepsts) 4:02, 4&mdash;Hurlburt (Wiley. Hughes) 16:56.Penalties: Meloche 5:00, Patrick, Wiley 5;20, Simmer 13:49.THIRD PERIODSeattle. 5&mdash;Snepsts (Spruce, Wisener) 4:16Penalties: Simmer 6:01, Meloche 8:28, Murray, Hurlburt 12:27, T. McAneeley 15:12, Meloche (misconduct) 19:50. Saves. Miller (SL) 31. Brady (Sea.) 21.Attendance: 3,350<h2>Tue. Nov. 19</h2>OKE CITY 0, SEATTLE 2FIRST PERIODSeattle. 1&mdash;Gould (Spruce. Murfey) 2:48; 2&mdash;Wiley (Snepsts, Hurlburt) 13:46Penalties: Deslauriers 1:33, Burgess 6:30, Gloor 9:30, Handrahan 11:37, McIntyre 15:14SECOND PERIODNo Scoring.Penalties: Williams (major), Homenuke (major) 18:07.THIRD PERIODNo Scoring.Penalties: Seguin 1:27, Dolloff. Sedlbauer 18:10Saves. Palmateer (OC) 22, Bullock (Sea.) 33.Attendance: 2,056<h2>Wed. Nov. 20</h2>OMAHA 1, DALLAS 4FIRST PERIODNo Scoring.Penalties McMasters 1:21, Hinton 9:43, Ribble 13:13.SECOND PERIODDallas. 1&mdash;Giroux (Koleff, McKegney) 2:19; Omaha. 2&mdash;Schaab 7:56; Dallas. 3&mdash;Smith (Murray, Elliott) 14 48; 4&mdash;Giroux (L&rsquo;Abbe. Logan) 17:09.Penalties: Huber 1:19, Logan 3:19, Conroy 13:14, Ribble, Giroux 14:31, Blais 18:59THIRD PERIODDallas. 5&mdash;Hinton (Blais, Elliott) 1:54.Penalties: Voss (major), Giroux (major) 4:24, Van Horlick 8:13, Koleff 13:16. Huber 18:36.Saves, Voss (Om.) 17, Dumas (Dal.) 26. Attendance: 1,826.TULSA 1, DENVER 3FIRST PERIODDenver. 1&mdash;McPherson (Heggedal. Wiseman) 8:33.Penalties: Buynak 7:37, Gassoff 9:06.SECOND PERIODDenver, 2&mdash;Babin (Borotsik, Gassoff) 0:09; 3-Johnson (Kuntz, Buynak) 15:22.Penalty: Stumpf 7:17.THIRD PERIODTulsa. 4&mdash;Andrea (Clarke. Israelson) 16:39.Penalties: Beaudoin, Stumpf 2:27, Heggedal 4:04, Held 14:13.Saves, Hoganson (Tul.) 27, Belanger (Den.) 27. Attendance: 2,982.OKE CITY 0, SALT LAKE 3FIRST PERIODNo Scoring.Penalties Marsh 6:51, Handrahan (minor, major). Seagrist (minor, major) 9.17, Butters. Holt (double minor) 12:10, Sauter (minor, major), Holt (major) 19 34SECOND PERIODSalt Lake, 1&mdash;Meeke (Simmer) 11:40Penalties Williams (major). Meloche (major). Girard (misconduct) 2:25, Marsh (minor, major), Ahern (minor, major) 5:03. T. McAneeley 5:32. Simmer 16 54.THIRD PERIODSalt Lake. 2&mdash;Ahern (Simmer. Hall) 7:02, 3&mdash;Meloche (T. McAneeley. Seagrist) 16:59.Penalties: Williams 8:52, Boutette (major), Patrick (major) 11.27, Murray 11:57. Marsh 16:32 Saves. McRae (OC) 29. Martyniuk (SL) 19 Attendance 4,175<h2>Fri. Nov. 22</h2>DALLAS 1, TULSA 3FIRST PERIODNo Scoring.Penalty: Murray 17:24.SECOND PERIODDallas, 1&mdash;Orban (Giroux. Koleff) 10:21.Penalties: None.THIRD PERIODTulsa, 2&mdash;Israelson 0:20; 3&mdash;Sobchuk (Liesemer, Lariviere) 11:42, 4&mdash;DeLorenzi (Beaudoin) 19.44.Penalties: None. Saves, Dumas (Dal.) 39, Hoganson (Tul.) 24 Attendance: 2.686.FT. WORTH 3, SALT LAKE 7FIRST PERIODFort Worth. 1&mdash;M. Kennedy (Cook, Nicholson) 2:25; 2&mdash;Johnson (Helm. Smith) 10:32.Penalties Patrick 2:17, R. Kennedy 10:44, Girard 17:10.SECOND PERIODSalt Lake. 3&mdash;B. McAneeley (Holt. T. McAneeley) 1:06; 4&mdash;Murdock (Meeke, Holt) 5:48; 5&mdash;B. McAneeley (Murdock. Patrick) 9:09; 6&mdash;Murdock (Holt, B. McAneeley) 14:00; 7&mdash;Girard (Meloche, Seagrist) 17:28.Penalty: Simmer 6:19.THIRD PERIODSalt Lake. 8&mdash;Murdock (Meeke) 4:26; Fort Worth, 9&mdash;Cook (Smith. Johnson) 5 14; Salt Lake. 10&mdash;Ahern (Simmer) 16:33.Penalties Murray 1:04, Cook. Simmer 5:30, Smith 6:09. Helm, Murray 7:21, Seagrist 12:25, McPhail 19:14 Saves. Hughes (FW) 36. Miller (SL) 24.Attendance: 5.871.<h2>Sat. Nov. 23</h2>TULSA 4, DALLAS 2FIRST PERIODTulsa, 1&mdash;Ch&eacute;rnoff (Gorman, Olmstead) 3.30.Penalties: Wylie 1:28, Olmstead 6:04, Hinton 14:33, Beaudoin 14:40, L. Abbe 15:41.SECOND PERIODDallas, 2&mdash;Koleff (Giroux, St. Cyr) 3:38; 3-Smith (McKegney. Donaldson) 6:32; Tulsa, 4-Chernoff (Mandryk, Olmstead) 9:56.Penalties: Logan 0:44, Murray 5:05, Ch&eacute;rnoff 5:31; Erickson, Ness 14:50THIRD PERIODTulsa, 5&mdash;Mandryk (Ch&eacute;rnoff, Lariviere) 3:01; 6&mdash;Sobchuk 17:17.Penalties: Murray 1:26, Lariviere (major, minor), Ness (major) 6:32, Gorman 12:30, Holt. Beaudoin 15:14, Held, Logan (double minir) 18:14, Holt 18:43. Saves. Hoganson (Tul.) 23. Dumas (Dal.) 13.Attendance: 3.499.OMAHA 3, OKE CITY 2FIRST PERIODOmaha, 1&mdash;Law (Bilodeau) 10:57.Penalties: Williams (major), Handrahan (major). Houston (major). Van Horlick (misconduct, served by Klatt) 0:10, Boutette 1:18, Sauter 13:04, Butters 14:42.SECOND PERIODOmaha, 2&mdash;Law (Mercredi, Kea) 12:19Penalties: Boutette (major). Surbey (major) 6:39, Handrahan 9:13, Huber 14:58.THIRD PERIODOklahoma City. 3&mdash;Ruest (Boutette, Williams) 4:59; 4&mdash;Dolloff (Butters. Alexander) 14:18; Omaha. 5&mdash;Kea 15:11.Penalties: Surbey 3:40. Marsh 11:13. Kea 18:34 Saves, Voss (Om.) 27. McRae (OC) 26 Attendance: 3,305.<h2>Sun. Nov. 24</h2>DENVER 2, OKE CITY 4FIRST PERIODNo ScoringPenalties: Butters. McPherson 9:19, Roberts 17:41.SECOND PERIODOklahoma City, 1&mdash;Boutette (Williams. Ruest) 5:34; Denver. 2&mdash;Kuntz (Serafini. Borotsik) 13:56; Oklahoma City. 3&mdash;Sykes (Garland. Handrahan) 15:33.Penalties: Tower 4:00, Marsh 12:51, Sykes. Watt (served by McPherson) 13:25.THIRD PERIODOklahoma City. 4&mdash;Kuruliak (Dolloff. Butters) 3:42; Denver. 5&mdash;Serafini (Cournoyer. Roberts) 11:20; Oklahoma City, 6&mdash;Ruest 19:15.Penalties: Williams 4:26, Roberts 13:44, Boutette, Buynak 14:18. Williams (minor and misconduct) 19:00, Heggedal 19:52. Saves. Watt (Den.) 12. Hamel (OC) 15Attendance: 2,011. &#9632;

Central League Summaries

<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 NEWSCOLUMBUS&mdash;Moe Bartoli isn&rsquo;t ready to concede the South Division title to the Dayton Gems in the International Hockey League.The colorful Bartoli, who raised the Columbus Owls from doormat to respectability last season, figures all he needs is a little luck and good health for his key players.With nine new faces in his regular lineup, Bartoli had the Owls playing at a .500 pace through the first one-fourth of the 76-game schedule. He needs to improve on that pace but there&rsquo;s plenty of time left.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01126/3393365-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="265" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dana Johnson</figcaption></div>That&rsquo;s provided someone can slow down Dayton, which is off to its best start. The Gems had opened a nine-point lead over second-place Des Moines and led Columbus by I2.Most of that difference stemmed from the Owl&rsquo;s shaky performances at the Ohio State Fairgrounds Coliseum. They won only three of their first nine appearances there but snapped back with victories over Des Moines and Flint, both by one-goal margins.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what I mean by getting a little luck for a change. We&rsquo;ve blown three-goal leads at home. That just doesn&rsquo;t happen. At least it shouldn&rsquo;t happen.&rdquo; said Bartoli.KALAMAZOO, GM-coach Bob Lemieux suffered broken left hand, sprained right hand in excitement of Wings&rsquo; first victory&hellip; Jean-Paul Gilbert obtained from Toledo&hellip; Mike Wanchuk scored two goals, assisted on two in 4-4 tie against Des Moines&hellip; Goalie Garth Malarchuk ranked No. 4 in league with 2.28 GAA&hellip; Wings averaging 2.848 fans for first eight home games.TOLEDO: Hornets averaging 30.3 penalty minutes per game, threatening league record of 2.015 for season&hellip; Coach Ted Garvin seeking help after 2-7-1 record for 10 games&hellip; Jim McCabe scored goals 12 seconds apart in four-goal effort in 9-7 triumph at Lansing&hellip; Michel Laurendeau activated, scored two goals in second start&hellip; Juri Judrasovs&rsquo; hat trick included overtime game-winner against Fort Wayne&hellip; Doug Mahood drew three assists in first start after nine-game absence in 7-6 victory over Fort Wayne&hellip; Darrell Stamp placed on waivers, John Dobie dropped.LANSING: Defenseman Lowell Ostlund recalled by New Haven&hellip; Dave Staffen misfired on 13 shots on goal in 4-3 loss to Columbus&hellip; Pierre Leblanc scored three goals, asssited on two more in 5-4 overtime victory over exmates at Saginaw&hellip; Hat-trick came five days after another helped 7-4 victory over Fort Wayne&hellip; Ivan Belisle required 22 stitches for head cut suffered in auto accident&hellip; Lancers scored three power-play goals while ending Saginaw&rsquo;s 7-game winning streak on home ice&hellip; Owner Paul Bright beaming about season&rsquo;s largest crowd. 1.168 for Toledo game.COLUMBUS: Goalie Bill Yeo sparkled in 4-3 victory over Lansing but victim in back-to-back 3-2 losses against Fort Wayne&hellip; Jerry DeMarco&rsquo;s hat trick included game-winner in 6-5 overtime victory against Des Moines&hellip; Mike Fox sidelined with painful lip injury&hellip; Ray Brownlee on inactive lit because of mononucleosis&hellip; John Heffern placedin 17-day injured list&hellip; Duel with Des Moines highlighted by 104 penalty minutes via first-period series of scraps&hellip; Mike Powers&rsquo; shorthanded goal earned 3-2 victory over Flint&hellip; Rugged Dave Birch acquired from Dayton.SAGINAW: Captain Borden Smith Gears&rsquo; only 10-goal scorer&hellip; Dennis Desrosiers scored twice to support Mike Palmateer&rsquo;s 5-0 shutout at Port Huron&hellip; Paul Daigle&rsquo;s five goals tied team record but were wasted in 8-7 overtime loss to Des Moines. Gear&rsquo;s second straight overtime setback at home&hellip; Marcel Comeau&rsquo;s 164th point claimed club&rsquo;s all-time scoring lead&hellip; Jim Johnston&rsquo;s third-fourth goals of season included game-winner in 4-3 triumh at Fort Wayne&hellip; All-time scoreless string reached 148:21 before Lansing ended rivals&rsquo; goal drought&hellip; Russ Friesen drawing raves for durability.DES MOINES: Len Ircandia drew first two assists in Caps&rsquo; 17th game, bagged first goal in No. 19&hellip; Steve Stone switched permanently to defense as coach Dan Belisle sought to shore up shaky blue line corps&hellip; Defenseman Jim Jones released, winger Dave Murphy placed on waivers&hellip; Pete Slater second clincher to beat Kalamazoo, 2-1. before 2.481, Caps&rsquo; biggest home crowd of season&hellip; Emile DeMoissacs two goals spurred 4-3 victory at Fort Wayne&hellip; Frank DeMarco&rsquo;s first goals after return from Omaha included hat trick and game winner with in-laws viewing 8-7 victory at Saginaw&hellip; DeMoissac first Cap to reach 10 goals.DAYTON: Gems&rsquo; 16-6-1 record best in club&rsquo;s 11-season history at this stage of campaign&hellip; Brian Kinsella scored game-winner in 5-4 overtime triumph at Fort Wayne&hellip; Dana Johnson scored goal in first game after return from injury list&hellip; Steve Selfs 15th goal was game winner in 3-1 victory over Columbus&hellip; Johnson followed with shorthanded goal for 3-2 game winner at Muskegon, ending victory drought in latter&rsquo;s arena from Dec. 4. 1970&hellip; Gems playing man short, waiting for return of injured Larry Bolonchuk&hellip; Rich Bragnalo, Self, Dave White only Gems with hat-tricks, all from same game&hellip; Top 1973-74 goalie Jim Pettie suffering with 4.52 goals-against average.PORT HURON: Flags played best game in 5-2 victory over Flint, avenging 3-0 setback previous night&hellip; Attendance average of 1.848 up 400 from last season&hellip; Billy LeCaine back from injured list. Russ Elliott placed on waivers&hellip; Doug Hearns getting second trial after being dropped by Des Moines&hellip; Ray Germain&rsquo;s 369th assist earned 17th place on all-time IHL listings&hellip; Germain&rsquo;s 624th game put him only seven behind 21st place on durability list&hellip; Alex Kogler&rsquo;s goal against Flint ended six-period goal drought&hellip; Captain Larry Klewchuck&rsquo;s 16 assists best on team&hellip; Tim McQuistion saw first action in goal.FORT WAYNE: Four straight one-goal defeats among five-game losing streak which dropped new coach Ralph Keller&rsquo;s record to 5-6-0&hellip; Center Paul Granchukoff returned to Baltimore (AHL)&hellip; Chick Balon penalized for illegal curvature in stick in game against Saginaw&hellip; Dean Sheremeta. 36-goal scorer in 1972-73. welcomed back from Hershey and responded with two goals in 4-3 setback by Des Moines&hellip; Brian Walker&rsquo;s hat trick wasted in 7-6 loss to Toledo, second time Komets scored six goals in losing effort.FLINT: Three losses in four-game span cost Generals North Division lead&hellip; Rookie Bob Volpe blanked Port Huron. 3-0. with 31 saves for third shutout in four starts&hellip; Doug Manchak boosted league-leading total to 18 goals&hellip; Brad Winton scored first two goals after activation&hellip; Clyde Simon placed on 17-day disabled list with knee injury. Dave Inkpen activated&hellip; Right winger Dwane Byers switched from &ldquo;Rat Line&rdquo; in move to stimulate overall scoring.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0285/3393358-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="554" height="640"><figcaption class="caption-body">ELGIN McCANN &hellip; Owls&rsquo; Handyman</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bartoli Sees Columbus Giving Dayton Tough Battle For South Division Title

MUSKEGON&mdash;Three power-play goals helped Muskegon to 4-3 victory at Flint, putting Mohawks in North Division lead&hellip; Eleven victories in 14-game span made Mohawks tough to catch&hellip; Murray Flegel top-scoring IHL defenseman with 6-17-23 combination&hellip; Carlo Ugolini still out after surgery for fractured cheekbone&hellip; Bob Fowler&rsquo;s second goal was game-winner in 5-2 victory over Lansing&hellip; League-leading Gary Ford scored in ninth straight game, earned point in 19 of 21 starts&hellip; Dave Hainsworth sporting 13-3-1 record in goal.Gary Ford, Dave Hainsworth, Lynn Margarit, GM-coach Moose Lallo and assistant coach Bryan McLay all awaiting fines after incidents in game against Dayton. &#9632;

Muskegon No. 1 In North With Span Of 11 Victories

<div class="byline">BY TOM BURKE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0037-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-01116/3393420-1-eng-US/f0037-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">New York&rsquo;s Madison Square Garden is preparing to stage its 13th Annual Eastern College Athletic Conference Holiday Hockey Festival on Jan. 3 and Jan. 5. Here are members of the special alumni committee which as been formed to help stage the tournament. From the left, Emile Francis, Rangers&rsquo; GM-coach, Robert Whitelaw, commissioner of the ECAC, William Daly and Pamela Sue MacBrayne, St. Lawrence; Joseph Chisholm and William Shine, Boston College; Larry Lowenstein, Cornell; Kenneth Rider and John Danforth, Brown. Doubleheaders will be played both days with the tourney winner receiving the John Reed Kilpatrick Memorial Trophy. Cornell plays Boston College in the first game while Brown faces St. Lawrence in the nightcap of the opening night on Jan. 3.</figcaption></div>BOSTON &mdash;The first full week of ECAC Division One action saw heavily favored Boston University and lightly-regarded Northeastern hop out to an early league lead with a pair of divisional wins each.The Terriers edged Providence on the road. 7-5. and then journeyed to the North Country Thanksgiving Tournament where they dumped co-host Clarkson 9-6 in the opening round. Two nights later, however. BU&rsquo;s slate was besmirched when CCHA power Bowling Green edged them 3-1 for the Tourney Crown. Wayne Saunders&rsquo; breakaway goal at 12:44 provided the winning margin for Ron Mason&rsquo;s Falcons.Northeastern, meanwhile, took to the road for back-to-back games and came home with a 9-8 overtime win at Colgate and a 6-2 thumping of Yale in New Haven. The trio of Charlie Huck (4 goals, 4 assists). Jim Martel (3-5). and Dave Sherlock did all the scoring for the Huskies at Colgate. The Red Raiders looked like they had the game sewn up at 16:19 of the third frame when Rick Mirabelli&rsquo;s goal made it 8-6, but Huck made it 8-7 at 18:38 and Sherlock tied the score at 19:03, with Martel assisting both times. Martel popped in the winner at 4:05 of the extra period.Huck also had a pair of goals the following night in NU&rsquo;s 6-2 win at Yale, helping to propel Fernie Flaman&rsquo;screw to their best start ever.RPI, Princeton, Harvard, and New Hampshire all boasted perfect 1-0 records at the end of the first week&rsquo;s competition, while Providence followed with a 2-1 league slate and Clarkson came next with 1-1. Brown. Boston College, and Cornell did not play divisional games until the second week of December, while Vermont. Dartmouth. St. Lawrence. Yale. Colgate. and Penn were still winless in loop play.Princeton bounded back from a 4-3 deficit in the third period to win 5-4 over Dartmouth in Hanover for a mild surprise. It was a typical, hang-tough Princeton effort, with sophomore goalie Mike O&rsquo;Leary backboning his team with 38 saves.Mark Stuckey and Pete Maguire each had two goals for the Tigers, who&rsquo;d gone ahead 3-1 only to have three straight Dartmouth goals wipe out their lead. But stuckey tallied at 17:33 of the final frame, setting up the winning tally by Rick Friesz only forty seconds later.Harvard, skating like whirlwinds as usual, out distanced Penn 7-3 in Cambridge. helped by Randy Roth&rsquo;s two scores and a pair of shorthanded tallies by Jim Thomas. The young Quakers tightened up as the game went on, but by that time Harvard&rsquo;s 45 shot barrage on soph goalie Kevin Crovo had put the game out of reach. Earlier in the week. Penn had lost its home opener to Providence, 7-4.I&rsquo;m pleased with our effort tonight.&rdquo; commented Crimson coach Billy Cleary, whose team is rated second best to BU in the pit season polls. &ldquo;But we still have a long way to go.&rdquo;Seven different New Hampshire players tallied in UNH&rsquo;s 7-2 win over Colgate in Hamilton. Red Raider goalie Ron Spadaccini faced 56 shots by the Wildcats.In RPI&rsquo;s 4-3 win over Vermont at Troy, the Engineers twice overcame deficits to set the stage for a breakaway goal by RPI freshman Bill Sherlock, brother of Northeastern&rsquo;s Dave. Tim O&rsquo;Connell had a pair of goals for Vermont, off to a slow start with a 1-6 overall slate. It was RPI&rsquo;s first win in four tries against the Catamounts.Clarkson ripped St. Lawrence in Canton 8-1 in the consolation game of the North Country Thanksgiving Tourney. led by senior Sandy McAdam&rsquo;s hat trick. The Larries had lost their tourney opener to eventual champ Bowling Green, 6-5 in overtime.Best showings in non-league early action were by Providence, 5-1 overall, RPI, and Brown. The Friars won a pair at St. Louis, 4-2 and 5-4.,for the first time that the Billikens suffered twin home losses since 1971. The Engineers boasted wins over McGill and Loyola, each by 6-5 scores, and 4-3 over Lake Superior State.All eyes are on Brown, an unexpected pre-season pick for fifth in our HOCKEY NEWS pre-season coaches&rsquo; poll. Now in their first full season under coach Dick Toomey, the Bruins didn&rsquo;t disappoint in their opening action by blasting Ohio State 9-3 and 6-2 in Meehan Auditorium.&ldquo;Playing hockey is just so much more fun now&rdquo; related Bruin captain Dave Given the next day.&ldquo;We are much more disciplined now than before. Our passing is much crisper and we&rsquo;re skating better.&ldquo;Actually, people didn&rsquo;t give us enough credit for skating ability in the past couple of years. But I think we lost some games we shouldn&rsquo;t have because we didn&rsquo;t to have a system we could work on in close games.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Boston U., Northeastern Win Pair To Set Early Pace In ECAC Race

<h2>ECAC CONFERENCE</h2>DIVISION I(Standings on Mon. Dec. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0288/3393479-1-eng-US/f0037-022.jpg" title="f0037-02" width="598" height="508"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>RPI 4. Vermont 3Boston University 7, Providence 5Providence 7, Pennsylvania 4Boston University 9. Clarkson 6Northeastern 9. Colgate 8Providence 4. Yale 2Clarkson 8. St. Lawrence 1New Hampshire 7. Colgate 2Princeton 5. Dartmouth 4Harvard 7. Pennsylvania 3Northeastern 6. Yale 2<h3>OTHER RESULTS</h3>Boston College 13. Boston State 1Bowling Green 3. Boston University 2Brown 9. Ohio State 3Brown 6, Ohio State 2Cornell 8. York 2Cornell 3. Ottawa 3Merrimack 2, Dartmouth 1Air Force 7. New Hampshire 6New Hampshire 9. Air Force 4Providence 4. Merrimack 1Providence 4. St Louis 2Providence 5. St. Louis 4RPI 6. McGill 5RPI 4. Lake Superior 3RPI 6. Loyola 5St Lawrence 5. Buffalo 2Bowling Green 6. St Lawrence 5St. Louis 3. Vermont 2St Louis 7, Vermont 4Williams 5. AIC 3<h2>ONTARIO COLLEGES</h2>(Standings on Mon. Dec. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0361/3393472-1-eng-US/f0037-032.jpg" title="f0037-03" width="586" height="515"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Guelph 9. Windsor 2Queen&rsquo;s 4. RMC 1Waterloo 10, Brock 1Western 8. Guelph 4Laurier 5. McMaster 3Ottawa 5. RMC 3Queen&rsquo;s 4. York 1Waterloo 13. Ryerson 3Waterloo 8. Ryerson 2York 5. RMC 3Brock 3. Windsor 1Laurentian 4. McMaster 3<h2>MARITIME COLLEGES</h2>(Standings on Mon. Dec. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0449/3393465-1-eng-US/f0037-042.jpg" title="f0037-04" width="588" height="325"></div><h2>WESTERN COLLEGES</h2>(Standings on Mon. Dec. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0538/3393458-1-eng-US/f0037-052.jpg" title="f0037-05" width="586" height="356"></div><h2>QUEBEC COLLEGES</h2>(Standings on Mon. Dec. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0632/3393451-1-eng-US/f0037-062.jpg" title="f0037-06" width="583" height="175"></div> &#9632;

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College Races

<div class="byline">BY JOHN ARNOLD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0293/3393541-1-eng-US/f0038-022.jpg" title="f0038-02" width="836" height="1106"></div>SOLUTION IN DECEMBER 27 ISSUE<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Wears No. 12 for Montreal.7&mdash;Golf term.8&mdash;Kansas City captain.11&mdash;A Los Angeles left winger.13&mdash;Estimated time of arrival, (abbr.)15&mdash;New York Islanders rookie goaltender. (init)16&mdash;First name of a California defenseman.17&mdash;Pronoun.19&mdash;Fifty-one. (Rom. Numb.)20&mdash;Skating requisite.21&mdash;Affirmative23&mdash;Pictured player28&mdash;One of the Canadiens.29&mdash;Initials of one of the North Stars.31&mdash;An NHL general manager.32&mdash;Recently injured Maple Leaf.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;One of the Minnesota Saints.2&mdash;A Veteran Toronto forward.3&mdash;Preposition.4&mdash;An NHL coach.5&mdash;Initials of former Red Wing Reibel.6&mdash;Veteran NHL coach.9&mdash;Each, (abbr.)10&mdash;One of the Atlanta Flames, (init)12&mdash;First name of an Atlanta left winger.14&mdash;Coaches Salt Lake in Central leaque.18&mdash;Beverage.20&mdash;Number worn by Magnuson of Chicago (Rom. Numb)22&mdash;Canadiens play most of their home games on this day. (abbr.)24&mdash;One of the North Stars, (init)25&mdash;First name of one of the Kings.26&mdash;Initials of former goaltender Rollins.27&mdash;Nickname of a WHA team. (Sing.)30&mdash;Initials of one of the Flyers.31&mdash;One of the Kansas City Scouts, (init)<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1. FLETT.4. PAT.7. A.E.9. N.R10. LAPRADE.12. LEITER.13. R.M.14. NEB.15. E.R.17. CAL.18. RAY.19. HAY.21. BERENSON.24. ME.26. FLEMING.27. S.L.28. EEL.<h3>DOWN</h3>1. FIELDER.2. ELLIS.3. TAPE.5. ANDREA.6. TREMBLAY.8. ERR.11. AT.14. N.C.16. RATELLE.19. HODGE.20. ANN22. EMMS.23. NEIL.25. VAL. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">BY DEREK KNIGHT</div>For the finest in Hockey Magazines subscribe today to the Hockey Twins:HOCKEY WORLD & HOCKEY PICTORIALFor the same price as a ticket to ONE GAME you can read over 1600 PAGES of outstanding news about Hockey by subscribing today toTHE HOCKEY NEWS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-01139/3393510-1-eng-US/f0038-012.jpg" title="f0038-01" width="565" height="595"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRIAN MCKENZIE &hellip;Joins Comets</figcaption></div>LEWISTON &mdash;The second year North American Hockey League continues to look better as both the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League continue to assign players. Some of the latest arrivals have included forwards Ron Walters, Brian McKenzie. Don Blackburn, and Wayne Bianchin, although Bianchin went back to Pittsburgh after a two-week conditional stay with the Johnstown Jets. Blackburn also was quickly recalled.Meanwhile, there were a few surprises around NAHL and they were provided by Maine.Not only did the Nordiques win a game, they won two back to back. Broome and Syracuse were the losers by identical 5-3 scores. Colin Wood is no longer a Nordique. Colin just couldn&rsquo;t produce for Maine the way he had last year for Broome. A defenseman from last year&rsquo;s club Al Globensky has returned to aid coach Jean Gravel&rsquo;s defense. Bob Murphy off to another strong start. The smooth playmaker has come up with 10 goals and 16 assists after 20 games. He was tied for team scoring honors with Paul Larose, both had 26 points but Larose led with 13 goals.BROOME: Injuries were beginning to take their toll on first place Dusters. Sparkplug Ron Boehm was lost for 2-3 weeks with a broken finger. A groin injury forced Rod Bloomfield out of a couple of games.CAPE CODDERS: Goaltender Ted Ouimet was sold to New England by the WHA Cleveland Crusaders. Veteran Don Blackburn was assigned by the Whalers to the Cape. In &ldquo;Blackie&rsquo;s&rdquo; debut, he came up with a goal and two assists in 7-1 rout of Blazers. Blackburn was then recalled to replace the injured Tom Webster, the Whalers high scoring right winger. Speaking of right wingers. Rick Molinaro was sold to Maine.PHILADELPHIA: An ear injury forced premature retirement of center Nick Haramis. Gregg Pillings&rsquo; 5 game suspension has ended. Veteran Jack Chipchase guided the club to a 2-3 record in Pilling&rsquo;s absence. Dan Sullivan seeing a lot of work in Firebirds&rsquo; net. Michel Plante back in action after bruised heel kept him out of a few games.SYRACUSE: Brian Perry. Bob Jones, and Alton White were among the league&rsquo;s top scorers, Jones led club with 28 points, 10 goals and 18 assists. Gary Sittler third in NAHL in penalty minutes with 90. Dean Boylan only three minutes behind Sittier. Blazers have had some strong goaltending. A look at their three netminders shows Guy DeNoncourt 2.92 in 2 games, Bob Blanchet 2.71 in 11 games, and John Kiely 3.14 in 8 games.LONG ISLAND: Jim Benzelock and Dick Proceviat enjoyed home debut with Long Island. &ldquo;Benzy&rdquo; scored twice. Proceviat once in 6-0 romp over Broome. Rich Coutu&rsquo;s blanking of Broome was his third shutout of the season, two have been against the Dusters. Right winger George Swarbrick really finding the scoring range. George tallied once against Broome and twice in proceeding game with Johnstown. Coach Ron Racette doing juggling act after a couple of injuries and callups by the parent club.MOHAWK VALLEY: Newcomers included forwards Ron Walters and Brian McKenzie. They&rsquo;ll add experience and goal production upfront. Jeff Jacques took over team scoring lead with 28 points. Goaltender Jim Park on top with a winning 7-4-1 mark after 12 games. Comets enjoyed second straight sellout and an 88 percent increase in attendance over a similar period last season. Bob Murray and Gordie Tit comb joining list of Comet high scorers. Lou Nistico&rsquo;s 44 penalty minutes in 15 games was club high. Guy Provost continues as Comets&rsquo; best offensive defenseman. Left winger Connie Forey joins goaltender Michel Dion on disabled list.JOHNSTOWN: Young Wayne Bianchin was a hit here with eight goals in four games including a hat trick. Bianchin played all last year with the Pittsburgh Penguins and was slated to return there until suffering a broken neck in a summer surfing accident in Hawaii. He was ultimately recalled by Pittsburgh after playing himself into shape. Bianchin scored both Jet goals in 2-2 over-time with long Island. &#9632;

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New Arrivals From WHA Bolster NAHL Teams

<h2>ONTARIO MAJOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Sat. Dec. 7)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0289/3393610-1-eng-US/f0039-022.jpg" title="f0039-02" width="583" height="331"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Sun. Dec. 1London 4 at Sudbury 3; Hamilton 8 at Toronto 11; Ottawa 1 at Oshawa 8: Peterborough 5 at St Catharines 5: Kitchener 3 at Kingston 3Tue. Dec. 3St Catharines 0 at Hamilton 5; Ottawa 4 at Kingston 6Thu. Dec. 5Oshawa 1 at Peterborough 8; Hamilton 4 at Sudbury 2.Fri. Dec. 6Sudbury 2 at Kingston 12; Hamilton 3 at Sault 2. Toronto 4 at Kitchener 6. Peterborough 2 at Ottawa 6; St. Catharines 3 at London 3.<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0368/3393603-1-eng-US/f0039-032.jpg" title="f0039-03" width="585" height="456"></div> &#9632;

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