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January 24, 1975

The Hockey News January 24, 1975

<div class="byline">BY DICK JOHNSTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;Lorenzo the handyman again has proved he&rsquo;s a good man to have around.Jim Lorentz, know to his Buffalo Sabre teammates as &lsquo;Lorenzo&rdquo;, has played all three forward positions for the club. He also performs on the power-play and once in a while kills a penalty.Last season Jim played right wing on a line centered by Gerry Meehan. He finished as the Sabres&rsquo; fourth-ranking scorer, with 23 goals and a total of 54 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03587/3328683-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="256" height="373"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Lorentz</figcaption></div>At training camp Jim told new coach Floyd Smith he would like a.try at center, where he had played in junior hockey and with St. Louis and the New York Rangers before being traded to Buffalo.He moved back to right wing to start the season but suffered a knee injury in the second game. In the meantime, Meehan was traded to Vancouver and Smitty settled on three forward lines.Lorenzo came back and filled in on the power-play and at forward wherever needed. But only for a short time. Center Peter McNab hurt his knee. So Lorenzo moved into the pivot between Brian Spencer and Rick Dudley.Smitty called this line the &ldquo;Disturbers&rdquo; because &ldquo;they disturb the other team all over the ice They&rsquo;re working all the time and you never know where each of them will be.Then Dudley suffered a contusion of the lung in a collison during a 5-2 loss to Philadelphia. McNab, who had missed 22 games, was ready to return, so he took over at center on the line and Lorentz moved back to right wing.&ldquo;Lorenzo will work hard no matter where you put him.&rdquo; Smitty says. &ldquo;He digs in the corners, he battles for the puck all over the ice and on the powerplay. he parks in front of the net and just won&rsquo;t be pushed away. What a guy to have on your hockey club.&rdquo;Ordinarily, Lorenzo plays right wing when the power-play team comes out. Gil Perreault is at center. Rick Martin at left wing and Ren&eacute; Robert, the right winger on the French Connection line, moves back to the right point, with a defenseman at the left point.When Rick Martin was sidelined by torn thumb ligaments on his right hand. Jim sometimes played left wing on the power-play, with Robert at right wing and two defensemen at the points.With Martin sidelined, the Sabres lost two games in a row for the third time this season. They managed a tie against the California Golden Seals in Oakland, where they never seem to do well (2 wins, 7 losses and 3 ties in 12 visits) and then bounced back with a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Buffalo in the NHLs first nationally-televised game of the season.Perreault scored his fifth goal in five games in the St. Louis victory and his right winger on the French Connection, Robert, ended a scoring drought at six eames by tailvine twice. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

‘Handyman’ Lorentz Continues To Answer Sabre Calls For Help

<div class="byline">BY TONY GALLAGHER</div>LOUISVILLE SIUGGER HOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SIUGGER HOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaTORONTO&mdash;If attitude means anything, the Toronto Toros certainly made the right deal when they got Jim Dorey from the New England Whalers as part of the Wayne Carleton deal.It was no secret the Toros needed help on defense. The goals were going into the Toronto goal as fast as they were at the other end which is pretty fast.The arrival of Dorey should be sufficient help for the Billy Harriscrew. particularly because the rugged former Maple Leaf wants to play with a vengeance.Dorey, who will almost certainly immediately become the leader of the Toros defence simply because of his experience, says he&rsquo;s looking forward to the challenge of winning the division title, something that didn&rsquo;t really exist in New England.Dorey found out just how much pressure he&rsquo;d be looking at when the Toros dropped into second place in the Division for 24 hours when they were beaten 3-1 by Quebec Les Nordiques before a full house at the Coliseum.Only a 4-3 win over Cleveland the next day moved them back into the lead they&rsquo;ve held all year.WINNIPEG: The Jets had the week off, and miraculously didn&rsquo;t lose fourth place to Vancouver, who were floundering in the first part of a six-game road trip. But Ernie Walely doesn&rsquo;t have to worry about the situation any more. Jets sold him outright to San Diego for future considerations.The move had been rumored earlier by bench coach Rudy Pilous and director of player personel Bill Robinson when they let defenseman Bob Woy towich go to Indianapolis for nothing. It seems that Wakely, who was hanging around as the third goaltender behind Joe Daley and Curt Larsson, was simply drawing a salary the club could not afford.EDMONTON: Injuries incurred by the Oilers over the past two months may finally be catching up to the third place club in the division. After getting five points out of three consecutive overtime games, a crack appeared in their armour when they lost a home game to the Chicago Cougars.With the retirement of Ron Buchanan and injuries to defencemen Ray McKay and Al Hamilton, the Oilers are lacking any real scoring punch and depth on defense.VANCOUVER: Blazers again pulled to within one point of overtaking fourth place Winnipeg, but took the old gas pipe in Michigan against the Stags when they had an opportunity to squeeze by with the Jets idle.The club has won 12 of it&rsquo;s last 18 games and presently sports an eight game unbeaten home streak, and one of the reasons is second-year pro Jimmy Jones.In his capacity as a penalty killer. Joens has scored three shorthanded goals as well as combining with veteran Jim Cardiff to do an excellent job defensively.Jones gave Vancouver a 2-0 lead in the second period, then banged in a Chipperfield rebound in overtime to provide his fourth game-winning goal out of the six he&rsquo;s scored.Blazer goalie Don McLeod had his goals-against average down under 3.00 for a while, but a 4-3 overtime loss in Springfield. Mass., against the Whalers in their last game in that city and the 3-1 loss to the Stags put it up over that magic figure.QUEBEC: The high flying Nordiques were in first place for a day after Steve Sutherland. Christian Bordeleau and Robert Guindon had scored third period goals to help Quebec to a 3-1 home victory over Toronto. But the problem lies not so much with the Toros as with the difficult road schedule that is ahead of the club.They&rsquo;ve played 25 of their 45 games at the Coliseum, and that&rsquo;s where they&rsquo;re at their best. One thing is certain. Les Nordiques will have every opportunity to refute the accusation that they are only capable of playing at home and that they have be leaned on when they take to the road.Serge Aubry continues to be outstanding in goal for the club. &#9632;

Dorey Supplies Toros With Needed Help On Defense

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. andJCanada<h2>(Including Sun. Jan. 12)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03344/3329183-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="590" height="718"></div> &#9632;

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NHL Leaders

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01133/3330930-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="534" height="544"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE GROULX &hellip;Hat Trick</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-02107/3330923-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="564" height="598"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tim O&rsquo;CONNELL &hellip;Tourney MVP</figcaption></div>BURLINGTON&mdash;The Cats&rsquo; nap is over, the Eastern College Athletic Conference&rsquo;s Division One hockey teams noted with a grimace as they heard the news of the Syracuse Invitational Tournament.The Cats, of course, are the University of Vermont Catamounts, coached by Jim Cross and campaigning for the first season in Division One league play. After a slow start, with one win in seven early games, U VM has ripped off five of its last six capped by wins of 7-5 over St. Lawrence and 5-2 over Cornell in the Syracuse Tourney.The splurge has evened Vermont&rsquo;s overall slate at 6-6, but infinitely more important, it has brought the league mark to 4-1, good for a second place tie with highly-regarded Boston University.Architect of the Syracuse conquest was senior center Tim O&rsquo;Connell from Hingham, Mass. The pivot of the &ldquo;Electric Line&rdquo; between Bill Koch and Roger Mallette netted hat tricks both nights and won MVP designation for the event.Koch&rsquo;s younger brother Randy, a member of the all-freshman second line along with Bill Reber and Andy Halford, chipped in with a pair of goals in the win over St. Lawrence. A three-goal second period gave UVM a comfortablelooking cushion after both teams had scored twice in the opening stanza. St. Lawrence kept plugging in the third period, even after the bulge went to 6-2, and closed the final gap to a more respectable total.That same night, Dave Groulx&rsquo;s three goafs led Cornell to a 7-4 triumph over Colgate. In the consolation game, the Saints blanked Colgate 5-0 for their first divisional win.The championship final was the first meeting ever between Cornell and Vermont. UVM took a 1-0 lead into the first intermission, but penalties and an emotional ebb led to a pair of power-play goafs by the Big Red&rsquo;s Jim Vaughn and a 2-2 tie after two periods.The final period was an emotional inundation, a Cross special. Cornell managed but seven shots on net. Chris Hurley&rsquo;s shorthanded goal at 6:56 proved the winner, but O&rsquo;Connell set up Bill Koch shortly after to make it 4-2, and added the empty-net coffin nail himself.&mdash; BURKE &#9632;

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Vermont Cats Pull Off Syracuse Tourney Win

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01824/3328059-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Canadiens are moving menacingly towards the NHL record of 23 successive undefeated games. They have already set a club record by reaching 20 games without a loss. Two major figures in the Habs&rsquo; unbeaten romp have been defenseman Guy Lapointe, and sensational scoring Guy Lafleur. Both players have been selected to the NHL All Star team for the Jan. 21 game at the Montreal Forum.</figcaption></div><h2>HABS ON RECORD RUN</h2>MONTREAL&mdash;When the Montreal Canadiens started out winning games with regularity a month ago, few expected them to rise to the occasion of threatening the standing NHL record for most undefeated games in succession &mdash; 23 set by the old Boston Bruins back in 1940-41.Now the Habs are for real. They&rsquo;ve run their string to 20, which is a new Montreal club record, and have set their sights squarely on the NHL mark. It won&rsquo;t be easy and they&rsquo;ll have to wait until after the All Star break to achieve the feat. For openers they meet Boston, Toronto and Los Angeles in Montreal, then break for the classic. They resume action Jan. 23 in Minnesota and that could be the game that would crack the long-standing NHL mark of 23.<h2>HARRIS QUITS TOROS</h2>TORONTO&mdash;The pressure of coaching has taken its toll on Billy Harris and the likeable pilot of the Toronto Toros of the WHA has declared he&rsquo;shad enough of it&mdash;for the moment at least.Harris quit the Toros&rsquo; head coaching job after his club defeated San Diego 4-3 at Maple Leaf Gardens for one of their rare home ice, victories.Harris cited family problems for leaving the Toros. His wife is sick and is re-entering hospital and his six-year-old daughter required major surgery. To compound his off-ice troubles, the Toros aren&rsquo;t winning either. They&rsquo;ve lost first place to the Quebec Nordiques as the result of registering only five wins in their last 15 games. Harris said he felt relieved at quitting the job and added that maybe what the Toros needed was a coaching change. Harris recommended player Bob Leduc as his successor to team owner John Bassett Jr.<h2>SABRE TRIO JINXED</h2>BUFFALO&mdash;There doesn&rsquo;t seem to be any justice as far as Buffalo&rsquo;s French Connection line is concerned. No sooner had injured left winger Rick Martin returned to action after missing seven games with torn ligaments in his thumb, than center Gilbert Perreault went out.Perreault had to be helped off the ice with a knee injury that could keep the brilliant Buffalo pivot out of action for up to six weeks. Perreault will miss the NHL All Star game Jan. 21 in Montreal but he won&rsquo;t be alone. Two other All Stars named, Bill White and Bill Goldsworthy, are also out of the mid-season extravaganza with injuries.<h2>BRUIN IN HOT WATER</h2>BLOOMINGTON&mdash;The Minnesota North Stars are seething over the serious eye injury suffered by center Henry Boucha and Dave Forbes of the Boston Bruins appears to be in hot water as the result of the incident, in which Forbes butt-ended Boucha in the eye during a fight on the ice. It took 30 stitches to dose the cut.Forbes, of course, faces disciplinary action from the NHL, while Boucha had to undergo eye surgery and will be lost to the North Stars for an indefinite period. It seems the Hennepin County attorney&rsquo;s office in Minneapolis is also interested in the case, too. They have launched an investigation into the incident, which could go to a grand jury. Statements were taken from all players who witnessed the affair. NHL president Clarence Campbell said he is rnndiictino his own, and will call Forbes on the NHL carpet this &#9632;

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Deadline Stoppers

<div class="byline">BY NORM MacLEAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;Pete Stemkowski said it, Ted Irvine said it, Emile Francis said it and even Gil Villemure said it himself.&ldquo;I have to give the credit tothe little harness racing driver. Early in the year we were giving up the odd soft goal. But Villemure has been making the big save and keeping us in there. A lot of other things have fallen into place, but Gil has been the big reason,&rsquo; said Stem-kowski.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02759/3328090-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="271" height="487"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gilles Villemure</figcaption></div>&ldquo;All three lines are balanced now and the new people have gotten together. Bobby Mac (Millan) and Nick Beverley came off the bench and did good jobs, but Gil Villemure has been great in goal. That&rsquo;s the reason we have won six in a row,&rdquo; said Ted Irvine, who himself has been scoring &mdash; upping his season total to 11. with two against Vancouver January 5.&ldquo;With Ed Giacomin out (since Decmeber 19 with a knee injury) we had to use Villemure. He really has done ajob. In the Jan. 4 Islander game (Rangers 5, Islanders 3) he was almost bombed in the second period, but they only got one goal &mdash; and that was a Denis Potvin breakaway.&rdquo;&ldquo;The reason I&lsquo;m playing better is that I&rsquo;m playing regularly,&rdquo; said Villemure. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s that simple. My muscles are harder and I&rsquo;m getting sharper at stopping the puck and clearing it. You have to play, to play well.&rdquo;Villemure, 34, only played 21 games last year, suffering an acute bronchial attack and then damaging a knee when he collided with Dennis Hull in December. He engaged in a contract renegotiation dispute with Francis in preseason and opened the year as a very definite number two behind Giacomin. But when Eddie was rendered hors de combat in Boston, Gil was ready to come off the bench and do the job.&ldquo;With Villemure sharp and Giacomin about ready to come back we have two great goaltenders,&rdquo; said Stemkowski. &ldquo;You have to have good goaling to win the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;Prior to the Rangers&rsquo; win streak which encompassed Buffalo 12/27,Kansas City 12/29, Minnesota 12/30, Chicago 1/1, the Islanders &frac14; and Vancouver 1/5, Derek Sanderson had quietly wondered about the goaling.&ldquo;No one ever writes it,&rdquo; said Derek. &ldquo;But we could use a little help in goal.&rdquo;Villemure would appear to have cured that problem without the Rangers going into the market place.&ldquo;Villemure is a student of the angles,&rdquo; said Brad Park. &ldquo;He stays upand comes out and makes the shooter beat him, doesn&rsquo;t beat himself.&rdquo;Rick Middleton won the clutch meeting with the Islanders with a powerplay goal, flipping the puck backhanded into the net on his own rebound.&ldquo;Middleton is 100 percent offensively,&rdquo; noted Stemkowski. &ldquo;He still has to increase his strength physically and improve defensively, but one on one he will beat anyone in the NHL most of the time.&rdquo;Rick and Dave Hrechkosy of the California Seals were tied for most goals amongst NHL rookies, with 16, at press time. Another rookie, Ron Greschner. named the number one player in both the Islanders and Canucks&rsquo; games, had tallied 10 points in his last six outings. He set up Middleton with the winner in the Islander contest &mdash; and was 4-17-21 in 28 Ranger games.&ldquo;Greschner scored against Vancouver because he was moving in and not afraid to play offensively. When Rod Gilbert threw the puck to him at the blueline he was in full stride and coming toward the net,&rdquo; said Bill Chadwick, the Rangers&rsquo; TV color caster.&ldquo;I feel more comfortable and I feel good,&rdquo; said Greschner. Ron, needled by some of the shorter shorn Rangers, finally got a New Year&rsquo;s haircut and quipped, &ldquo;This will last at least eight months.&rdquo;Gilbert, the gallant New York elder skate sman. tallied his 800th NHL career point against Vancouver when he had three assists.True to his long time tradition, he said, &ldquo;What does it mean to me? Two points in the standings. We&rsquo;re moving up. It took a while for the new people on this team to fit in, but that&rsquo;s natural. I feelgood. I still get a thrill out of helping the New York Rangers win. My one big goal that I haven&rsquo;t reached is the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;Francis, Gilbert&rsquo;s boss, said, &ldquo;Rod has been a great hockey player for 14 years. He is still great. You notice Jean Ratelle is still great also, and neither of them have been traded as several members of the press reported.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Rangers Give Little Goaler Villemure Full Credit For Turning Team Around

<h2>NHL TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03605/3328149-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="516" height="746"></div><h2>WHA TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04417/3328142-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="516" height="538"></div><h2>OTHER LEAGUES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05292/3328135-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="516" height="372"></div><h2>COLUMNISTS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06196/3328128-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="510" height="126"></div><h2>OTHER FEATURES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-07115/3328121-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="512" height="123"></div> &#9632;

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WHERE YOU’LL FIND IT ALL

<h2>WALES CONFERENCE</h2>ROGATIEN VACHON (135) GLos Angeles &mdash;KEN DRYDEN (45) GMontreal &mdash;BOBBY ORR (135) DBoston &mdash;GUY LAPOINTE (111) DMontreal &mdash;TERRY HARPER (56) DLos Angeles &mdash;CAROL VADNAIS (51) DBoston &mdash;PHIL ESPOSITO (107) CBoston &mdash;GIL PERREAULT (103) CBuffalo &mdash;GUY LAFLEUR (116) RWMontreal &mdash;RENE ROBERT (90) RWBuffalo &mdash;RICK MARTIN (131) LWBuffalo &mdash;JOHN BUCYK (47) LWBoston &mdash;<h2>CAMPBELL CONFERENCE</h2>BERNIE PARENT (125) PhiladelphiaGARY SMITH (76) VancouverDENIS POTVIN (115)N.Y. IslandersBRAD PARK (100)N.Y. RangersBILL WHITE (76)ChicagoJIM WATSON (40)PhiladelphiaBOBBY CLARKE (133) PhiladelphiaGARRY UNGER (49)St. LouisBILL GOLDSWORTHY (97)MinnesotaJIM PAPPIN (40)ChicagoBILL BARBER (77) PhiladelphiaSTEVE VICKERS (76)N.Y. Rangers(Figure in brackets indicates votes each player received.) &#9632;

HOW ALL STARS LOOK

MONTREAL&mdash;All Star coaches Bep Guidolin and Fred Shero announced the names of nine additional players to round out their respective teams for the Jan. 21 game at the Forum.Each coach was to name eight extra players to augment their team but injuries forced them to add a ninth.For his Campbell Conference team, Sherochose defenseman Doug Jarrett and center Stan Mikita of Chicago, center Tom Lysiak and left wing Curt Bennet of Atlanta, defenseman Tracy Pratt ofVancouver, defenseman Ed Van Impe of Philadelphia, right wing Simon Nolet of Kansas City, left wing Ed Westfall of the Islanders and right winy Dennis Hextail of Minnesota.Guidolin, who will guide the Prince of Wales Conference team, has picked center Syl Apps and right wing Jean Pronovost of Pittsburgh, defenseman Jerry Korab and center Don Luce of Buffaladefenseman Bob Murdoch of LA., center Marcel Dionne of Detroit, center Darryl Sittier of Toronto, center Joey Johnston of California and Denis Dupere, a Washington left winger &#9632;

Guidolin, Shero Fill Out All Star Game Lineups

<div class="byline">BY CHRIS ZELKOVICH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01829/3328187-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div>MONTREAL &mdash;It&rsquo;s shaping up as one of those years for Guy Lafleur; one of those years in which everything goes right and absolutely nothing goes wrong.As the current National Hockey League season reached its half-way point the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; right winger was enjoying the greatest season of his four-year career. He was third in the league&rsquo;s scoring race with 62 points, second in goals with 29. had an impressive plus-20 defense rating and was playing hockey with a style normally restricted to men such as Gilbert Perreault and Bobby Orr.The second half of the season already has one more treat in store for Lafleur. When the 28th annual NHL All Star Game is played Jan. 21 at the Forum in Montreal. Lafleur will be in the lineup for the Prince of Wales Conference, playing his first All Star game in front of home fans. It will be like a dream come true.&ldquo;Everybody dreams of playing in the All Star game,&rdquo; Lafleur says. &ldquo;And playing in Montreal will mean a little extra. These fans have been very patient with me and it would mean something to me to play my first All Star game here.&rdquo;Watching Lafleur in his first All Star game will mean a little extra to the Canadiens&rsquo; fans, too. First of all, this will be the twelfth All Star contest played in Montreal and while All Star games generally don&rsquo;t need added attractions when you&rsquo;ve seen 11 you&rsquo;ve probably seen &lsquo;em all and it doesn&rsquo;t hurt to have a little extra interest in the game.Secondly, Lafleur&rsquo;s All Star debut.&rsquo; will be as much a dream come true for the Montreal fans as it will be for Lafleur. They&rsquo;ve waited patiently for him to develop into a star ever since he scored 13 goals his last season of Junior hockey with the Quebec Remparts, four years ago. This is the year their patience has been rewarded.Lafleur has suddenly blossomed into an exciting and effective performer this season. He was the best right winger in the league through the first half of the season and amazed both fans and teammates with his play.Lafleur has become more than a goal-scorer. He&rsquo;s become a goalpainter, with almost every goal he scores a work of art. At 23, Lafleur has become a Picasso on ice.&ldquo;In four yews he&rsquo;s become a hell of a hockey player,&rdquo; says Kansas City coach Bep Guidolin, who&rsquo;ll have the pleasure of coaching Lafleur on Jan. 21. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s everywhere at once and what speed. All the clubs that have been through Montreal have told me about Lafleur. And they weren&rsquo;t exaggerating. He&rsquo;s amazing.&rdquo;Lafleur has been amazing, but no more amazing than his mysterious rise from potential star to star. He managed to score as many as 29 goals one year but never appeared to control the game they way he did as a Junior. Until this year, anyway.&ldquo;Guy is doing the same things now that he&rsquo;s done in practice for the last three years,&rdquo; says teammate Pierre Bouchard. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s learned to relax now and he&rsquo;s learned to stop worrying about all the great guys they compare him to.&rdquo;The secrets of Lafleur&rsquo;s transition are, as Bouchard says, his ability tocope with people compaing him to Jean Beliveau and Rocket Richard; improved confidence in himself and plain, old-fashioned hard work.&ldquo;I just decided this summer that I would go out there and just do me best,&rdquo; Lafleur says. &ldquo;I know what I can do and I realize that I have to play up to my standards and not anyone else&rsquo;s.&ldquo;I have more confidence in myself, too. Scotty (coach Bowman) put me on the ice more often and that showed me he&rsquo;s got more confidence in me. It&rsquo;s a 50-50 thing. If you&rsquo;ve got confidence in yourself and the coach has confidence in you, you&rsquo;ll play better.&rdquo;Canadiens&rsquo; assistant coach Claude Ruel sees Lafleur&rsquo;s key to success as something simple than confidence.&ldquo;Guy&rsquo;s success is easy to explain,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s hard work. When you keep skating like he does the puck is going to come to you.&rdquo;Work, confidence, maturity &mdash; the three have combined to make it a year to remember for Lafleur. After 40 games he has a 45-point lead in the Canadiens&rsquo; Molson Cup race and appears to be on his way to winning the most money in Molson Cup history &mdash; $6,000. He&rsquo;s already matched his previous season&rsquo;s high for goals and is only two points shy of his personal high points total.He&rsquo;s won a spot in the All Star game and if he maintains his current standard of play will make the official All Star team at season&rsquo;s end.If that isn&rsquo;t enough, he and his wife Lise are expecting their, first child in Junes.Yes, it looks like one of those years.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02701/3328180-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1159" height="1144"><figcaption class="caption-body">GUY LAFLEUR&hellip;Having Super Season</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Selection For Lafleur Fulfills Lifetime Dream

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01882/3328287-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="412" height="442"></div>&bull; HARTFORD &mdash; A CAPACITY crowd of 10,500 excited spectators witnessed the first major professional hockey game played in this city when the WHA New England Whalerseked out a thrilling 4-3 overtime win over the San Diego Mariners. It marked the first sports event to take place in the beautiful new 31 million dollar building which will be the new home of the Whalers. Howard Baldwin, president and managing partner of the Whalers, was the one responsible for arranging the move of the Whalers into the fantastic new Civic Center, which has to compare with the finest buildings housing sports events anywhere&hellip; Dennis Murphy, president, and all of the World Hockey Association officials were on hand for the opening. The Whalers have been Eastern Division title holders in the first two seasons of WHA play and were Avco World Trophy winners in the league&rsquo;s initial season. General manager Jack Kelley has assembled another powerful club featuring a number of United States college graduates and the Whalers will again be a strong contender for the Avco Trophy&hellip; Close to 9,000 people watched the Whalers go through a light practice on the morning of the opener. No admission was charged and for many it was their first look at hockey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02838/3328280-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="249" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Howard Baldwin</figcaption></div>&bull; WASHINGTON CAPITALS played the game of their young lives recently when they tied the favored Boston Bruins 3-3. With the worst record in the NHL, the fired-up Caps played brilliantly before one of their biggest crowds of the season (15,222) to embarrass the Stanley Cup finalists of last spring&hellip; Alex Delvecchio, GM-coach of Detroit Red Wings, knows that his club has plenty of problems but he says the morale is good and nothing a few goals can&rsquo;t cure. The Wings have lost 16 one-goal games this season&hellip; Toronto Maple Leaf fans have to be something special the way they support the lacklustre Leafs game in and game out. Garry Unger is the active Iron Man of hockey. The St. Louis center should finish the season, if he stays healthy, as the third most durable player in NHL history. Andy Hebenton holds the NHL consecutive game record at 630 while Johnny Wilson is next with 580&hellip; The two leading goalkeepers at the mid-way mark of the NHL season were, curiously, the smallest duo in the league. Rogie Vachon is only 5-7 and Gary Edwards 5-9, and each weighs just 165 pounds. But the tiny net minders were keeping the big scorers at bay for the Los Angeles Kings better than any other club&rsquo;s goalies&hellip; Recent tests among players on the Philadelphia Flyers taken at Temple University proved among other things that Bill Clement has the strongest grip on the team&hellip; Ed Van Impe is playing better hockey for the Flyers right now than he has since he joined the team. He received a standing ovation at the Spectrum the night he garnered his 100th NHL assist&hellip; Emil (Pop) Kenesky, who revolutionized the making of goalie pads back in 1926 and was the designer and custom tailor of pads for all of the top goalies ever since, died in Hamilton, Ont., earlier this month. He was 97&hellip; Rick Ley performed an unusual feat for New England Whalers against Winnipeg Jets when he scored a goal while his team was two men short&hellip; The excellent coaching by Floyd Smith is being credited by many with the great showing of the Buffalo Sabres this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03733/3328273-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="314" height="404"><figcaption class="caption-body">Floyd Smith</figcaption></div>&bull; FRED AHERN Jr. of South Boston, Mass., became the first Bowdoin College graduate to play in the NHL when he broke in with the California Seals recently. Ahern, a wing who had played well for Salt Lake Eagles in the Central League, scored the final goal as the Seals upset the Philadelphia Flyers 5-1 in his first NHL game&hellip; St. Louis Blues again tied theirrecord of six straight wins at home. They set the record in 1970, tied it in 1973 and again this season&hellip; Jim Schoenfeld, Buffalo Sabres&rsquo; aggressive young captain defenseman, has another album coming out this month. He sings and plays the guitar and cut an album entitled Schoenie in 1972. This one is called The Key is Love, and according to the big redhead is much more professional. &ldquo;We put the first one together in three weeks,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;This one we worked on for more than a year and a half:&rsquo; &hellip;Gene Carr, colorful L.A. Kings forward starving for goals, shaved on his long, flowing mustache in an effort to change his luck and promptly produced his first goal in eight games to help the Kings tie the Flyers. A superb skater, Carr has never played to his potential because he is not a sharp shooter. He went 17 games without a goal earlier this season although playing regularly.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04631/3328266-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="290" height="492"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Ahern</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05506/3328342-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg"></div><h2>Would Be Happy To See Francis Go</h2>In reference to Ken McKenzie&rsquo;s comments in the Dec. 20 issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS regarding Emile Francis leaving the Rangers:Mr. McKenzie stated that it will be a sad day if they let the Cat get away. Speaking on behalf of most Ranger fans, we will be glad to get rid of him. He has not brought us the Cup in 11 years he&rsquo;s been here.DAVID WIEGOND, Jackson Heights, N.Y.<h2>Show How Players Are Really Performing</h2>Hockey players, like any other pro athletes, are being paid very good money for the jobs they are doing on the ice. I would say that very few of them would like to see statistics published which would show hockey fans what kind of a job they really do. I am referring to the plus and minus figures. I am sure that many other fans would also be interested in seeing these statistics published, at least for the top scorers in the major leagues, so that they can see how these players really perform on the ice.D.W. BERGER, Cleveland, O.(Editor&rsquo;s note: Plus and minus figures are the property of the individual NHL teams are not made readily available for publication.)<h2>Sabres Refuse To Be Intimidated</h2>The style of hockey has changed in the last couple of years. The Philadelphia Flyers have brought so much brutality into the game that otherNHL team have had to conform to their style or else get run out of the rink.The Buffalo Sabres have fit in so well to this style that they are running away in the NHL standings. Refusing to be intimidated, they have become the most explosive team in the league. They have the high-scoring French Connection to do the checking and the &ldquo;Disturbers&rdquo; to go out and hit anything that moves. And the greatest thing is that they don&rsquo;t go looking for trouble.The Flyers, &ldquo;the hatchet men of hockey&rdquo;, will have all they can handle when they play the Sabres. Those goons had better remember names like Korab, Schoenfeld, Carriere, Martin and Gare the next time they feel like starting something. The Buffalo Sabres are on the warpath.LEON DOBROWOLSKI,Buffalo, N.Y.<h2>Difficulty Following European Hockey</h2>May I say how much I&rsquo;ve enjoyed the great articles in THE HOCKEY NEWS on European hockey by Goran Stubb.Folks in Canada and the U.S.A, don&rsquo;t know how difficult it is for us Europeans to read about our own brand of the game. You have THE HOCKEY NEWS, which tells you about hockey from Vancouver to country has its own language, ohiy the Swedes can read about the fortunes of Swedish hockey, the Finns about Finnish hockey, the British about British hockey (yes, we have some) and so on. Except for the National lineups at World Championship time, we have as much idea who plays for which team in Europe as you do in North America.So keep up the good work, fellows. And I hope you can find room to cover the European League when, we all expect, it swings into action next autumn.STEWART ROBERTS,, Worthing, Eng.<h2>Rangers Exercised Poor Judgement</h2>Some statistics in the Dec. 13 issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS showed why the New York Rangers are not enjoying a higher position in the Patrick Division. Five ex-Ranger centers, namely Apps, Luce, Hextail, Bennett and Widing, had a cumulative total of 51 goals and 120 points. The current Ranger centers had a point total of 67, with only 21 goals.The strength of a team, in any sport, is down the middle. Ranger management has exercised poor judgement in evaluating its personnel.J. BORGHERI, Wilmington, Del.<h2>Orr Outstanding In All Areas</h2>I almost laughed up my dinner when I read, in Lois Thomson&rsquo;s letter (Nov. 29), that Bobby Orr was not the best defenseman in the NHL and was accepting the Norris Trophy each year under false pretenses. There have been other letters criticizing the attention that Orr gets, so I think it is high time that someone set these poor, disillusioned people straight.King Clancy has called Orr the greatest player in the game today, and thinks he&rsquo;ll turn out to be the greatest who ever played the game. Wren Blair echoed these comments and added that Orr could have played in the old NHL when he was 12 years old. And Milt Schmidt has stated that if anyone as good or better than Orr ever comes along, he hopes the good Lord lets him stay around long enough to see him.I have never seen a player as outstanding or as dominant as Orr, in this or any other sport. Orr controls the game when he&rsquo;s in there, much more than a Babe Ruth, a Jimmy Brown or even a Bill Russell could do. These players were outstanding in one particular area, either offense or defense, whereas Orr is outstanding in all areas. The rap that Bobby costs the Bruins goals because he&rsquo;s too offense-minded is not justified. Maybe the Bruins give up 10 goals a year due to Orr&rsquo;s being up ice, but that&rsquo;s a fair exchange for the 100-plus points a year which he contributes. And when he&rsquo;s not up ice, I challenge anyone to name a better defensive defenseman.THOMAS MORRISSEY, &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">BY BOB VERDI</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01913/3328397-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">STAN MIKITA&hellip;450th NHL Goal</figcaption></div>CHICAGO&mdash;Chicago hockey fans probably will be seeing less of the Black Hawks on television next year. Judging by the way the Black Hawks are playing this year, that could be the best thing for the eyes since Murine.Increased line charges, decreased ratings and the downward plight of the team may force WCN-TV. Channel 9. to cut back its customary card of all Black Hawk road games live, plus a couple or three exhibitions, plus nonnetwork playoff contests.Channel 9. an immensely popularand wealthy independent channel, has broadcast the Black Hawks for the past decade but in the last two seasons has had trouble selling the complete advertising package. It is estimated that the station now has sold 80 per cent of the available advertising time.How this affects the channel&rsquo;s profit margin, no one in power will say. But it is a fair guess that the station must fork over $500,000 to the team in broadcast rights each year, or about $10,000 per game.Because line charges for certain games have doubled in recent years, that means it may cost the station $10,000 to beam a road game back from distant places such as Vancouver.Not only does the late starting time of such a telecast &mdash; usually 10 p.m. in the Midwest &mdash; damage the ratings, but the constant expansion of the National Hockey League and recent problems of the Black Hawks have helped neither attendance nor ratings.For instance. Black Hawk games used to command ratings as high as 14. Now, they are dipping as low as 5 and 6 for mediocre attractions.In layman&rsquo;s terms, this means that Black Hawk games which once were reaching an audience of a million people now may be taken in by only one third that amount. Advertisers look at that and back away.So, then, does the station. In all likelihood. Channel 9 will seek a reduced package of 25-30 games, still a comprehensive coverage compared with most clubs. (This year, only the Boston Bruins telecast more hockey than the Black Hawks.)Should the Wirtz family, which owns the team, seek increased revenue from Channel 9 for the next contract or should the Wirtzes balk at a decreased coverage, it is possible that the station would back out and seek an alternative, perhaps the World Hockey Association Chicago Cougars, who are begging for exposure.The Hawks currently broadcast all their home games on radio over WMAQ. a 50.000-watt station which recently altered its format but elected to retain its hockey affiliation with the Hawks and baseball ties with the Chicago White Sox.Of course. Black Hawk ratings might be better if the team were playing better. As the Chicagoans completed the first week of 1975, they were struggling with a 4-game losing string and a record below .500, with 17 wins and 18 setbacks. This, from a club which dropped only 14 contests all of last season.The natives in Chicago were getting restless, indeed, and some kept waiting for management to make a change just for the sake of making a change.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re always looking.&rdquo; said general manager Tommy Ivan. &ldquo;But you don&rsquo;t panic, because then you&rsquo;re dealing from weakness.&ldquo;Plus, when other teams see you struggling, they&rsquo;re more likely to try and back you into a corner. But our team definitely would seem to have more talent than its record indicates. One or two guys not pulling the load? I would say it might be more than that.&rdquo;Meanwhile, veteran Stan Mikita shone through the Hawks&rsquo; slump as he banged in his 450th NHL career goal, putting him six behind the number nine man. Alex Delvecchio, on the all-time scoring list. &#9632;

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Hawks’ TV Package In Danger As Costs Soar While Club Dips

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>MINNESOTA: Jude Drouin, forward, traded to N.Y. Islanders in exchange for Craig Cameron, forward.TORONTO: Eddie Shack and Lyle Moffat, forwards, assigned to Oklahoma City of CHL. Dave Williams, forward, and Claire Alexander, defenseman. recalled from Oklahoma City.CALIFORNIA: Fred Ahern, forward, recalled from Salt Lake of CHL. Jim Moxey, forward, sent to Salt Lake as replacement.VANCOUVER: Bruce Bullock, goalkeeper, and Barry Wilcox, forward, returned to Seattle of CHL.BOSTON: Rod Graham, defenseman, recalled from Rochester of AHL. Dave Hynes, forward, sent to Rochester.LOS ANGELES: Vic Venasky, forward, assigned to Springfield of AHL.DETROIT: Tom Mellor, defenseman, and Dennis Polonich, forward, recalled from Virginia of AHL under emergency conditions.ST. LOUIS: Frank Spring, forward, recalled from Denver of CHL and traded to California in return for Bruce Affleck, defenseman.WASHINGTON: Jonn Adams, goalkeeper, recalled from Richmond of AHL under emergency conditions as replacement for Michel Belhumeur, goalkeeper, who suffered strained muscle in his side.PITTSBURGH: Wayne Bianchin, forward, recalled from Johnstown of NAHL and assigned to Syracuse of AHL.N.Y. ISLANDERS. Walt Ledingham, forward, returned toFort Worth of CHL.KANSAS CITY: Michel Plasse, goalkeeper, traded to Pittsburgh.<h2>WORLD HOCKEY ASSN.</h2>MICHIGAN: Ed Johnstone, forward, returned to Greensboro of SHL. Jim McLeod, goalkeeper, recalled from Syracuse of NAHL.NEW ENGLAND: Bob Charlebois, forward, recalled from Cape Codders of NAHL. Ted Ouimet, goalkeeper, returned to Cape Codders.INDIANAPOLIS: Rich Pumple, forward, recalled from Mohawk Valley of NAHL.EDMONTON: Ron Buchanan, forward, left team announcing his retirement from hockey.WINNIPEG: Ernie Wakely, goalkeeper, transferred to San Diego for future considerations.MINNESOTA: Joe Robertson, forward, recalled from Mohawk Valley of NAHL.VANCOUVER: Murray Myers, forward, and Pat Price, defenseman, sent to Tulsa of CHL.PHOENIX: Bruce Aberhart, goalkeeper, recalled from Tulsa of CHL as emergency replacement for Jack Norris, who is on disabled list. Jim Murray, defenseman. sent to Winston-Salem of SHL. Robbie Ftorek, forward, sent to Tulsa.SAN DIEGO: Joe Junkin, goalkeeper, returned to Syracuse of NAHL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>PROVIDENCE: Charlie Shaw, defenseman, returned to Detroit for reassignment to Virginia of AHL.RICHMOND: Norm Barnes, defenseman. recalled from Philadelphia of NAHL under emergency conditions.ROCHESTER: Bernie MacNeil, forward, recalled from Broome of NAHL. Gary Jacquith, defenseman. recalled from Broome under emergency conditions and returned.SYRACUSE: Butch Barber, defenseman. signed as free agent.VIRGINIA: Terry Clancy, defenseman. sent to Roanoke of SHL. On loan. Nelson Pyatt, forward, activated from retirement list after returning to club.HERSHEY: Don Brennan, defenseman. and Derek Smith, forward, recalled from Charlotte of CHL under emergency conditions and returned. Don Atchison, goalkeeper, and Guido Tenisi, defenseman. returned to Johnstown of NAHL. Bob Johnson, goalkeeper. secured from Pittsburgh.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>DENVER: Rene Villemure, forward, signed as free agent.OKLAHOMA CITY: Dale Smedsmo, forward, recalled from Hampton of SHL.SALT LAKE: Tom Sundberg, forward, assigned to Toledo of 1HL.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>TOLEDO: Ray Tilley, forward, released. Dino Mascotto, defenseman, signed as free agent.KALAMAZOO: Herb Boxer, forward, acquired from Green Bay of USHL. Ted Lenssen, goalkeeper, secured from Omaha of CHL as backup netminder.DAYTON: Chuck Balon, forward, secured from Fort Wayne. Herb Howdle. defenseman. and Brian Stapleton, forward, sent to Fort Wayne.FORT WAYNE: Bill Bryant, defenseman. released. Fred Hunt, forward, added to roster. John Heffern, forward, secured from Columbus. Rich Perron, defenseman, released.<h2>NORTH AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>CAPE CODDERS: Steve Curry and Harvey Stewart, goalkeeper, defenseman. sent to Maine on loan.MAINE: Rick Molinaro, forward, left team and was suspended.BROOME:Roger Kosar, goalkeeper, placed on disabled list with broken jaw. &#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/f0007-02733/3328435-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="295" height="343"></div><h2>The Sport Of Celebrities&hellip;</h2>&ldquo;IS IT ALWAYS THIS EXCITING?&rdquo; comedian Jan Murray asked between periods of a recent game. It was the second straight National Hockey League game he had seen in southern California. It is this kind of game, he was told. &ldquo;Well, son of a gun. I&rsquo;m going to back again next game, too,&rdquo; he enthused.The Dodgers are between seasons. The Rams are resting until next fall. The Lakers are down and the Kings are up and suddenly the celebrities of filmtown are flocking to the Fabulous Forum in increasing numbers, bringing a bit ot glamour to the game. Going to hockey games has become an &ldquo;in&rdquo; thing to do.Some stars have been going to games all their lives. Larry Mann, the actor out of Toronto, knows all the players and welcomes them to town as friends. He broke into radio as the &ldquo;runner&rdquo; for a &ldquo;man in the street&rdquo; interview show conducted by Monty Hall, who follows the contests closely.Academy-award winning actor George Kennedy got hooked in New York, as did Shelly Manne, the drummer.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01851/3328428-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="273" height="697"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Avev</figcaption></div>who was born near Madison Square Garden and grew up at Ranger games. They supported the Kings through hard times. Kennedy specializes in disaster movies &mdash; &ldquo;Earthquake&rdquo;, &ldquo;Airport&rdquo;. &ldquo;Airport 1975&rdquo;. NoK that the Kings no longer are a disaster, he no longer has time for them. Kings colorman Dan Avey observes.Avey is Peter Puck&rsquo;s pain-in-the-neck. He makes sure Peter&rsquo;s uniform is correct and he does the right things as star of NBC-TV&rsquo;s Sunday afternoon NHL &ldquo;Game of the Week&rdquo;. Technically. Dan is the technical adviser for the feature. Naturally, he never played a game in his life. Well, he played one. Someone talked him into tending goal in a game. He got his first cut on the first shot and fled to the broadcasting booth, where he interviews celebrities between periods at Kings&rsquo; games. Peter is a regular at the games, of course.Manne used to hire a substitute to play the first set at his jazz club so he wouldn&rsquo;t miss the last period at the Forum, but he no longer operates a club. One of the busiest of Hollywood&rsquo;s studio musicians, he now is with a new group which is scheduled to tour Australia in February. &ldquo;Now that the team is a winner. I&rsquo;ll be on the other side of the world.&rdquo; he moans. He&rsquo;ll still be heard as he has an air-horn he used before it was barred.JACK NICHOLSON, one of the great actors and one of the great basketball buffs, now is hooked on hockey. Before the became a super star. Nicholson used to holler at refs and foes like any fan, but now he tries to slip semi-disguised in and out of shadows so he won&rsquo;t be bothered by other fans at games.Bill Walton used to slouch so he wouldn&rsquo;t be noticed. Slouching reduced him to 6&rsquo; 6&rdquo;. Last season he seldom missed a Kings&rsquo; game when he didn&rsquo;t have a game of his own to play. Now he&rsquo;s stopped playing games, but he&rsquo;s stuck in Portland where they play only for fun now. The inside story is that he returned to LA to see the Kings, not for acupuncture. Going to see the Kings used to be like getting needles stuck in you. but no longer.Jan Murray has had season tickets a long time, but he bought them for his kids, who wanted to go to games. Now that he&rsquo;s gone to a couple of games, he&rsquo;s taken the tickets back from his boys. &ldquo;Let them make some money and buy their own tickets.&rdquo; he says.Donald Sutherland, the towering.star of the movies &ldquo;Mash&rdquo; and &ldquo;Klute&rdquo;, took his two sons to a basketball game at the Forum and fell asleep. This embarrassed them and they berated him. He said he&rsquo;d take them to a hockey game and assured them he couldn&rsquo;t fall asleep at a hockey game. He not only didn&rsquo;t fall asleep, he bought season tickets the next day.Actually, he is a Canadian who grew up with the game, listening to Foster Hewitt&rsquo;s broadcasts at a time tickets were scarce. His mother made him try to play the game, but he had grown so fast he was awkward and awful and cut from every club he tried to make. &ldquo;Mom played for the women&rsquo;s team at the University of Alberta in 1926 when Clarence Campbell was in school there.&rdquo; Sutherland says. &ldquo;All Dad cared about was playing cards and having a drink, but Mom broke the basement door teaching us how to shoot.&rdquo;Don grew away from the game while living in England 10 years or so. but he got interested in it anew while in Canada making a movie and watching the Canada-Russia series on tele vision. Returning to Los Angeles, he saw the first major league game he&rsquo;s ever seen and he&rsquo;s been going whenever he&rsquo;s been in town since. He hates fights and has a purist&rsquo;s passion for the sport, but he is not purely a purist as he roots hard for the home team.This has posed problems as his wife is a purist from Canada who was so soured by the Kings when they were bad that she started to root for their foes. It disturbed Don to the point he considered kicking her into the aisle, if not out of the house. &ldquo;She&rsquo;s coming around now, however,&rdquo; he sighs. &ldquo;At the recent Canadiens&rsquo; game she wouldn&rsquo;t stand up for Kings&rsquo; goals, but at least she agreed not to stand up for Canadiens&rsquo; goals, either.&rdquo;SUSAN ST. JAMES, the lovely lady of &ldquo;The Name of the Game&rdquo; and &ldquo;McMillan and Wife&rdquo;, and her husband Tom Lucas turned to the Kings when they couldn&rsquo;t get good Lakers seats and now they won&rsquo;t miss a game if they can help it. A free-spirit. she brings her two-month-old baby to the games because she is breast-feeding the child and can&rsquo;t be away from it for prolonged periods. Jake Milford&rsquo;s General Manager&rsquo;s office has been converted to a Night Nursery, where Susan&rsquo;s sister sits with the bahy. Susan nurses the child between periods. Susan says, &ldquo;I did the same with my older-child and now she can&rsquo;t understand why she has to stay home now while the younger one gets to go. She doesn&rsquo;t understand that it&rsquo;s the nursing, not the games, that is behind it all.&rdquo;LONG BEFORE he hit the big money emceeing game shows in general and &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s Make A Deal&rdquo; in particular. Monty Hall used to broadcast Ranger games for 50 bucks a game. The high point of this period was when he got Phil Watson fired. &ldquo;The Rangers were so bad. Phil didn&rsquo;t even want to see them between periods, much less in games.&rdquo; Monty recalls. &ldquo;He agreed to do a radio interview with me between periods of one game and they were so bad he blasted them, ripping his players publicly: Zat Harry Howell, he wouldn&rsquo;t heet a man if he murdered his mother. Zat Gump Worsley, his beer belly she so beeg that he when he go down in goal he no can get up&hellip;&rsquo; And so on. When the interview was over, general manager Muzz Patrick was waiting for Phil. He was fired on the spot.&rdquo;Born and reared in Winnipeg, Monty, with whom we did a recent book, &ldquo;Emcee&rdquo;, was another who did not skate well enough to play a lot. but he has been going to games since he was a boy. He is convinced he saw junior hockey years ago that is comparable to major league games today.&ldquo;I go back with the game a long way, but it&rsquo;s wonderful to see so many new non-Canadian show business stars supporting the sport today,&rdquo; he says It seemsto be the little children, however, who are leading them. &#9632;

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY BILL HEUFELDER</div>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Dave Burrows&rsquo; roommate should be Dr. Welby. If Pittsburgh hockey fans sent him get-well wishes every time he&rsquo;s been hurt this season, there wouldn&rsquo;t by any cards left in the city.In an exhibition against Cleveland of the rival World Hockey Association. Burrows sustained a broken bone in his foot as he stretched his long, lean body in front of a shot.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03534/3328466-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="264" height="388"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Burrows</figcaption></div>He sat out the first two regular-season games, then returned to the lineup, the seriousness of his injury remaining a secret until it was healed six weeks later.Burrows, who risked further damage to a shoulder separation last season by working, out with his arm in a sling, leads an unbearable existence when he&rsquo;s sidelined. So it is not surprising that he quickly rejoined his teammates and played with a broken foot.&ldquo;The doctor did say it would be quite a while before I got on skates again.&rdquo; Burrows said modestly. &ldquo;I guess I`m a fairly fast healer.&rdquo;Healing fast has been essential. Or else how could he also have suffered a dislocated little finger, jammed thumbs and the flu?Ken Carson, one of the cleverest, most industrious trainers in hockey, protected Burrows&rsquo; foot with a molded piece of plastic placed on the instep.When a bruised foot threatened to keep Burrows out of the first game of &lsquo;75, Carson eased the pressure on the tender area. Burrows took his regular shift in Pittsburgh&rsquo;s 6-3 win and returned two nights later to help the Penguinstrip Vancouver. 4-3. before taking advantage of a three-day break in the schedule.Burrows would have hated to miss the fun. The wins gave the Penguins a 3-0-2 record during a five-game home tand and stretched their unbeaten string at the Civic Arena to 10 (5-0-5).The accomplishments were heartening for a team which had not been able to put more than three games together without a loss and had not lived up to an ambitious pre-season outlook.&ldquo;This should be a real morale booster for us.&rdquo; Burrows said.An All Star defenseman a year ago. Burrows separated his shoulder in the mid-season game at Chicago. He missed six games, his first absence from the Penguins since they had drafted him from the Chicago organization in 1971.Speaking of this season, he says. &ldquo;I &lsquo;haven`t felt good at all. The injuries are the type that slow you up and maybe take your mind of the game, but they&rsquo;re not enough to keep you out.&rdquo;He dislocated his finger when it smashed against the knob at the end of his stick. The jammed thumbs are occupational hazards for Burrows, who rides opposing forwards out of the play in aggressive fashion.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had trouble with my thumbs from getting them jammed against the boards,&rdquo; he said.During the holidays. Burrows shared Christmas, as well as the flu, with his family and relatives visiting from out of town.This season, it seems there`s just no place to hide. &#9632;

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Pens’ Star Burrows Walking Advertisement For ‘Get Well’ Cards

<div class="byline">&#x2014;BY BILL MAKI</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01876/3328497-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;Hi Scout&hellip; Still Looking For A Winger Who Can Really Fly?&rdquo;</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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CARTOON CORNER

<div class="byline">BY JAY GREENBERG</div><h2>&ldquo;Hi Scout&hellip; Still Looking For A Winger Who Can Really Fly?&rdquo;</h2>KANSAS CITY &mdash;He is part of what Bep Guidolin likes to refer to as &ldquo;the nucleus&rdquo;, a hopeful term which implies that when the Kansas City Scouts take their victory lap with the Stanley Cup, he&rsquo;ll be one of the guys holding it.An Ed Gilbert is what expansion is supposed to be about &mdash; a good, young player who didn&rsquo;t get a chance with a talent-rich organization. The losing in Kansas City goes on and on on.but even an expansion draft can&rsquo;t be all bad, if an Ed Gilbert comes out of it.It&rsquo;s a chance, anyway, and that&rsquo;s considerably more than Gilbert grew to expect while spending his second year at the Canadiens&rsquo; Nova Scotia team, watching the phenoms yo-yo back and forth from the parent club, and awaiting his turn.&ldquo;Last year, after Christmas, they had some injuries, so they called me up for a game in Buffalo,&rdquo; Ed remembers, &ldquo;I travelled all day to get there, then they sent me home the next day.&rdquo;So much for Gilbert&rsquo;s career with the Canadiens. &ldquo;Nobody there really talked to me about their plans,&rdquo; said Gilbert. An expansion was draft coming up over the summer and the WHA offered alternatives to another winter in Nova Scotia. Ed says he would have seriously considered an offer from the Chicago Cougars had the Scouts not taken him in the expansion draft. But even while he was completing his 35-goal season, smoke coming from one of the NHLs foremost back rooms was already deciding his future.Baz Bastien, the Scouts&rsquo; assistant general manager, had spent a year lurking around American League rinks preparing for the expansion draft. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t remember how many times I saw him,&rdquo; Bazsays. &ldquo;Maybe 10. maybe 12. But I thought he could be a helluva hockey player. Sid (Abel, the Scouts&rsquo; general manager) liked him. too. We made up our minds pretty much what we wanted and he was the guy.&rdquo;What Abel and Bastien wanted was pretty much dictated by what was available. In the case of most NHL clubs, that meant almost nothing. But Sam Pollock, as usual, had a few to spare, and as usual, was willing to bargain.Claude Larose and John Van Boxmeer were declared off limits, and Gilbert, goalie Michel Plasse, and later, defenseman Mike Baumgartner, were the sacrifices. The Scouts, interested in youth, were amenable to the deal, for in Gilbert the Scouts received a player who they felt could both step in and play in the NHL immediately and also at 22, be part of the building process.Whereas most of the Scouts are stamped&rdquo;?&rdquo;. Gilbert is marked &ldquo;NHL&rdquo;. He can carry the puck skate well, if not explosively, and is accomplished beyond his years as a forechecker. If anything lags, it&rsquo;s experience, and a little sprucing up in his own end. No one doubts that it will come.Eight goals and eight assists in the Scouts&rsquo; first 35 games leave reason for Abel and Bastien to be satisfied with his progress. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got to push himself.&rdquo; says Baz. &ldquo;Everyone has to reach back for that something extra on an&hellip; well, I hate to keep using the term, expansion club. But they&rsquo;ve got to keep coming back for that extra stride.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02783/3328528-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="545" height="725"><figcaption class="caption-body">ED GILBERT&hellip;Happy In Kansas City</figcaption></div>There&rsquo;s just a little bit too much selfsatisfaction. And that&rsquo;s just not him. Hey look, he&rsquo;s a good kid, he listens and improves on his mistakes. He&rsquo;s handled himself very well so far. Sid is really pleased.&rdquo;So is Gilbert, both with his play and his new life in Kansas City. &ldquo;It hasn&rsquo;t been nearly as tough an adjustment as 1 thought, going from the American League to the National,&rdquo; he says. &#9632;

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Gilbert Proof Expansion Draft Isn’t All Bad

<div class="byline">BY FRANK ORR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01892/3328559-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">DUNC WILSON&hellip;12 Consecutive Games</figcaption></div>TORONTO&mdash;Jim Neilson, the veteran defenseman of the California Seals, perhaps summed up best the depths to which the once-mighty Toronto Maple Leafs have fallen during this 1974-75 National Hockey League season.&ldquo;A lot of people around the NHL consider a tie with Leafs as no big deal.&rdquo; Neilson said following a deadlock between Leafs and Seals.Neilson added that this wasn&rsquo;t the Seals&rsquo; attitude to such a sawoff because the beleagured California gang is a strong contender for a playoff spot in the Adams Division. Not that the Seals are any overwhelming force. They&rsquo;re a contender because the Leafs&rdquo; mediocrity has dropped them down that far.As the New Year dawned.the Leafs showed no signs of ending their seasonlong futility. At the 36-game mark, the Toronto club had failed to win two contests in succession since the first two games of the schedule.Although owner Harold Ballard threatened major shakeups, no changes were made.&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t jump off the ship unless you have a life preserver,&rdquo; Ballard said when asked about a coaching change. In other words: If the Leafs fire Kelly, who will replace him?&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just not that easy to change a club around these days,&rdquo; Ballard said. &ldquo;It sounds simple to make a trade, to pick up the phone and talk to another team and change a couple of players. I guarantee you that it&rsquo;s not very simple.&ldquo;There are a lot of people, especially fans, who write me letters demanding that Kelly be kicked out into the street. None of them suggest a good replacement. I still believe that Red Kelly is a darn good coach.&rdquo;The one bright spot for the Leafs was the work of goaltender Dune Wilson, who played in a dozeticonsecutive Decembergames. Although the Leafs won four, tied two and lost six in that stretch. Wilson yielded few soft goals and played strongly in all games.Wilsons&rsquo;s long tenure in the Leaf net led to speculation that the team&rsquo;s other goalie. Doug Favell. was expendable. At this point, however, all Leafs except those with no-trade clauses in their contracts, would be available if the right deal were offered.Through it all. Kelly remained optimistic that the Leafs would turn the season around in the second half despite the almost total lack of anything on which to base such hopes.Kelly&rsquo;s outlook is not shared by many observers of the Leaf scene. Much of the time, the Leafs appeared to be a team without a plan, an undisciplined, leaderless gang of high-priced players with all the drive and ambition of wet tissue paper. Many other clubs pushed the Leafs around, the Leafs seldom pushed back.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not even much fun picking on them any more,&rdquo; said one NHL toughguy. &ldquo;You feel like a big bully if you shove a Leaf player. Very few of them want to fight back. If a Leaf gets into trouble, he doesn&rsquo;t seem to have much faith that one of his buddies will come to his aid.&rdquo;The ultimate insult to the Leafs is the fact that they&rsquo;re in real danger of losing the final divisional playoff spot to California, unless they assemble some sort of winning streak.The Seals are not a very good hockey team but they do have some kids with a little sass. The schedule gives them an edge in home games on the Leafs during the second hall. Neither team plays well on the road and if Seals can take advantage of the home-ice factor, the Leafs could suffer the definitive insult of their long history. &#9632;

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Leafs Show No Signs Of Ending Seasons Futility

TORONTO&mdash;Eddie &lsquo;The Entertainer&rsquo; Shack has gone from the National Hockey League &mdash; and at his own insistence.The Leafs complied with Shack&rsquo;s wishes and sent him to Oklahoma City of the Central League to get himself into playing shape after rusting on the Leafs&rsquo; bench. Shack must spend 14 days with the CHL team before returning &mdash; if at all &mdash; to the NHL club.To replace him on the Toronto roster, Leafs called up rookie Jack Valiquette from the Blazers. &#9632;

Clear The Track To OC For Shack

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Red Berenson, the original hero of the St. Louis Blues, was given a rousing welcome at the St. Louis Arena after being reacquired by the Blues.A crowd of 19.218. largest to watch a hockey game in St. Louis this season, was at the Arena to watch Berenson play his first game in a Blues uniform in nearly four years Berenson was given a lusty cheer as he stepped on the ice just before the game, and a large banner saying &ldquo;Welcome Home. Red&rdquo; was unfurled in the stands.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01875/3328614-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="289" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Berenson</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I was a little nervous,&rdquo; said Berenson. who was the Blues&rsquo; leading goal scorer in each of the team&rsquo;s first three seasons, when the Blues went three straight times to the Stanley Cup finals.&ldquo;It felt a little funny to put this uniform on again.&rdquo; said Berenson. &ldquo;But that big welcome was nice. I&rsquo;m glad to be back.&rdquo;Even though Berenson had become symbolic of the early years ofthe Blues&rsquo; franchise, he was traded to Detroit for Garry Unger in one of the biggest trades in the National Hockey League during the 1970-71 season. Berenson was bitterly disappointed at the time of that trade and he was delighted when Detroit coach-general manager Alex Delvecchio told him of the trade back to St. Louis in exchange for Phil Roberto and the Blues&rsquo; third-round amateur draft choice.&ldquo;I was really surprised, but I was relieved.&rdquo; Berenson said. &ldquo;If I had been given a choice of any team in the league, I would have chosen to come back to St. Louis.&rdquo;Of the many trades the Blues have made over their eight seasons the trading away of Berenson was the most unpopular. Reacquiring the Red Baron has given a boost to the public relations of the Blues&rsquo; management.Sid Salomon III. president of the Blues, said. &ldquo;Sometimes you have to do some things which aren&rsquo;t popular, and the day we traded Red was not a joyous one for me. I&rsquo;m glad to have him back.&rdquo;The Blues traded Berenson the first time because they had a chance to get Unger, who. most teams believed, could not be pried away from the Red Wings. Explaining the reasoning that returned Berenson to the Blues, Salomon said, &ldquo;We decided that we needed a centerman, and, of course, when you talk about the centers in the league. Red&rsquo;s name is sure to come up. We thought that, if we could get Red back, it would be great.&rdquo;One awkward aspect of the recent deal is that both Berenson and Unger, the principals in the big trade, are now on the same team. Berenson, the star of the early Blues&rsquo; teams, was traded away for Unger, who took Berenson&rsquo;s No. 7 jersey and became the star of recent Blues&rsquo; teams. Now the two St. Louis stars of separate periods share top billing. Berenson wears jersey No. 9, the number that was worn throughout Berenson&rsquo;s first stint with the Blues by Frank St. Marseille.Both Berenson and Unger are mature individuals who should be able to handle any discomfort brought about by their newfound togetherness.Berenson, the never complaining workman, says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just trying to fit into the team.&rdquo;The more flamboyant Unger says, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a strange trade but it&rsquo;s not uncomfortable for me. Red&rsquo;s a good hockey player and now he&rsquo;s a teammate.&rdquo;Both Unger and Berenson are centers and will remain centers on coach Garry Young&rsquo;s lines. Unger has been playing with Craig Patrick on left wing and Claude Larose on right. Young put Berenson on a line with Bill Collins on the right side and Wayne Merrick, recently converted from center to left wing. The other St. Louis line has Chuck Lefley centering Ace Bailey and Pierre Plante.The player left in the cold by the reacquisition of Berenson is Doug Paazzari, the gutsy 5&rsquo;5&rdquo; rookie from Colorado College. The Blues plans for Palazzari are indefinite. The youngster certainly has proven his worth in the NHL.Young says he is &ldquo;tickled to death&rdquo; to have Berenson and plans to give him plenty of ice time. On one power-play both Berenson and Unger were on the ice, and their combined efforts on power-plays may become standard practice. Both can work well in the slot with any linemates, and both are good point men. &#9632;

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Berenson Given Rousing Welcome By St. Louis Fans

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01863/3328652-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><h2>Islanders Hapless No More</h2>DURING THE 1972-73 National Hockey League season, Bill Torrey was firmly convinced that the only adjective in the English language was &ldquo;hapless&rdquo;.Torrey is the general manager of the New York Islanders, a team which debuted in the NHL in 1972. The Islanders were one of the most inept teams in NHL history, winning 12, tying six and losing 60 games in their first season. They scored 170 goals and surrendered 347.&ldquo;We seldom were called anything but the hapless New York Islanders,&rdquo; Torrey said. &ldquo;Now I&rsquo;m not arguing with the inference, just the fact that people couldn&rsquo;t find another adjective.&rdquo;Two years have passed since the hapless days on Long Island and no one calls the Islanders that any more, in a splendid case of hanging tough, the team has built an excellent roster of young talent with a big future.The Islanders are in a hectic scramble with the New York Rangers and Atlanta Flames for second place in the Patrick Division. The Philadelphia Flyers should finish with the pennant but behind them, a fine battle is shaping up.There&rsquo;s a strong suspicion around the NHL that the 1970&rsquo;s will belong to three post-70 expansion teams&mdash;the Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks and the Islanders. They&rsquo;ve assembled extremely young teams and as they gain experience and maturity will rise to the top while several clubs now at the top are aging and will decline.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02748/3328645-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="487" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Torrey</figcaption></div>The Islanders claimed the usual collection of discards who were available in the 1972 expansion draft. Then the World Hockey Association zeroed in on this mediocre gang and lured away eight of them. Thus, a team that started with little went downhill. Torrey looks back on the WHA raids from his current vantage point and sees a benefit.&ldquo;The players we acquired in the expansion draft were, at best, a short term solution,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The WHA perhaps did us a favor by taking away players who wouldn&rsquo;t have lasted long with us, although losing them didn&rsquo;t do us much good with our fans. It appeared that we weren&rsquo;t making much of an effort to hold the assets we had.<h2>Had Patience With Youth</h2>&ldquo;WE HAD TO TAKE a long, thorough look at the market which we were attempting to get established in. We were competing against an established, wealthy team, the New York Rangers, one of the NHL powerhouse clubs, even though they operate in Manhattan and we are in a different town almost, out on Long Island.&ldquo;We could have tried for short-term success with veteran players who wouldn&rsquo;t have lasted with us too long. That approach just wasn&rsquo;t the proper one when figured against trying to build a contender over a longer haul.&ldquo;We decided that the correct approach was to build a young team which would come along to contender status over a few years.&rdquo;.Of course, this approach requires a patient owner who is willing to suffer a little at the box office until the kids develop maturity. The Islanders&rsquo; owner Roy Boe was willing to take the chance.&ldquo;Fortunately, Mr. Boe thought the same way as I did,&rdquo; Torrey added. &ldquo;Sure, there have been times when he&rsquo;s asked when we were going to get some results but he&rsquo;s never expressed any doubts in public or to the players.&rdquo;The peppy young Islanders have built a solid following because they play exciting, aggressive hockey. Early this season, they achieved the box office status symbol &mdash; ticket scalpers. For a game against the Boston Bruins, ticket merchants were working outside the Nassau County Coliseum.<h2>Amateur Draft Salvation</h2>THE SALVATION OF THE Islanders was their excellent use of the NHLs amateur draft. The backbone of their roster was acquired through wise selections.In theirfirst draft. 1972. they secured forwards Bill Harris. Bob Nystrom, Lome Henning and Garry Howatt. The bellicose little Howatt was claimed as pick No, 144.In &lsquo;73, the Islanders reaped the only benefit produced by their woeful maiden season. They had the first draft choice again and claimed defenseman Denis Potvin, who&rsquo;s been every bit as good as his advance billing. Defenseman Dave Lewis and forward Andr&eacute; St. Laurent were in that crop, too. So was winger Ron Kennedy, the Islanders&rsquo; best minor pro prospect who&rsquo;s having a big season with Fort Worth in the Central League.Perhaps the most important man in the Islanders climb to respectability is coach Arbour. He took over the reins of this team of colts last season and engineered a dramatic improvement. The Islanders upped their point total by 26 and reduced their goals-against mark by 100 in their second season.Arbour has his young team playing poised, defensive hockey and the Islander kids have great respect for him.&ldquo;For openers, Al and I think alike about the game,&rdquo; Torrey added. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s made believers out of our players. They&rsquo;re devoted to his system and respond to his approach.&rdquo;It will be a few years before Torrey hears the word &ldquo;hapless&rdquo; again. &#9632;

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FRANK ORR SAYS:

<div class="byline">BY BILL FLEISCHMAN</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Fred Shero has already won a Stanley Cup with a team few rank as hockey&rsquo;s most talented collection. Aggressiveness, togetherness and nastiness are the Flyers&rsquo; assets.Somewhere in that mind Shero won&rsquo;t let anyone penetrate he has discovered the formula to motivate modern hockey players. This is not an easy task, as coaches in Minnesota. Toronto and other NHL cities will sadly testify.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01845/3328714-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="265" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Kelly</figcaption></div>Last season, tor example, uave Schultz scored 20 goals. The Flyers don&rsquo;t pay Schultz to score goals, but with Shero&rsquo;s support and regular duty Schultz developed into a respectable hockey player.Shero&rsquo;s latest magic act is Bob (Hound) Kelly. Despite sitting out one-fourth the Flyers&rsquo; games Kelly has more than doubled his goal pace and is a threat to hit the 20-goal level Shero predicted during the summer. Shero seems puzzled why anyone would doubt Kelly&rsquo;s ability to score goals.He&rsquo;s handling the puck better and he&rsquo;s a smarter hockey player.&rdquo; Shero said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no reason he shouldn&rsquo;t score 20 if I give him the opportunity. Right now he&rsquo;s not getting on the powerplay or taking regular shifts.&rdquo;Kelly, in his fifth NHL season, made a rare power-play appearance in the Flyers&rsquo; 2-0 New Year&rsquo;s Day victory in Vancouver. It was not, as Kelly admitted. an impressive start for 1975.&ldquo;I was so good that (referee Lloyd) Gilmour had to give me a push to get me going,&rdquo; Kelly said, smiling.Seeing Schultz score 20 goals last season was the push Kelly needed to seek full-time work again. As an NHL rookie the muscular former high school football fullback impressed people with his reckless body-belting and 14 goals as Bobby Clarke&rsquo;s left winger. Kelly, 24. never curtailed his ricochet style that makes his every shift at the Spectrum a happening. However, as Flyers personnel improved Kelly saw less ice time.&ldquo;My first few years 1 sort of played helter-skelter.&rdquo; Kelly said. &ldquo;1 couldn&rsquo;t handle the puck very well. Now. things are starting to come easier. I knew I had to get better or I wouldn&rsquo;t be here.&rdquo;Kelly&rsquo;s concern over leaving Philadelphia is probably exaggerated. As Shero said, &ldquo;If we put him on the market every team would try to get him. 1 know Boston would.&rdquo;An admiring Shero also hands &ldquo;the Hound&rdquo; this accolade: &ldquo;Kelly is the only hockey player I ever coached who doesn&rsquo;t have to follow my system.&rdquo;Cynics might say Shero has yielded because Kelly couldn&rsquo;t follow any system, but the Flyers&rsquo; shrewd coach explains, &ldquo;I tried to make him a positional player, but he won&rsquo;t help our team that way. We&rsquo;ve got a lot of good positional players. Our centers have gotten smarter. They say &lsquo;you (Kelly) do the work and I&rsquo;ll take your spot.&rsquo; We play according to him.&rdquo;Hockey according to Kelly is crashing into anything, anywhere and generating bursts of speed that often surprise defenders. Kelly&rsquo;s entertaining style turns on the Spectrum customers and revs up the Flyers.&ldquo;The best way to describe him,&rdquo; said Shero, &ldquo;is he&rsquo;s a catalyst. He puts life in us. You can even hear the players saying &lsquo;Come on. Hound, get us going.&rsquo;&rdquo;Kelly, one of the Flyers&rsquo; biggest car lovers, shrugs off his catalyst role.&ldquo;The guys get themselves going. I can hear the crowd when I go out on the ice, but once the puck is dropped I&rsquo;m only interested in one thing: helping the team put the puck in the net.&rdquo;In that offensive role, Kelly is helping more than ever. &#9632;

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‘Hound’ Kelly Coach Shero’s Latest Magic Act

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT&mdash;The headlines that afternoon told of Henry Ford II going to London and trying to get some Arab oil money invested in the Ford-sponsored multimillion dollar Renaissance Center complex on the Detroit River riverfront.Now when Henry Ford II has to go out of town to look for money, you know that times are bad in Detroit.The point was underlined later that evening when the Montreal Cacadiens, riding a 17-game unbeaten streak, met the Red Wings at Olympia&hellip; and there were well over 2,000 empty seats. The crowd was announced as 13,102.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02731/3328776-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="265" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Nick Libett</figcaption></div>Not since the round puck and the Art Ross Net were invented had the Canadiens failed to fill Olympia.But now, with the Motor City economy, so dependent on automotive sales, limping like a 1932 Chevrolet (would you folks out there please buy some cars?), stacked on top of some terribly dreary performances by the Red Wings, empty seats are the rulerather than the exception at Olympia.On this night it was unfortunate because it turned out to be a heckuva hockey game, a throwback to the old days that had those fans present roaring from start (Nick Libett scored 53 seconds into the game) to the end when the Canadiens&rsquo; Serge Savard kept their string alive with a goal at 15:17 of the final period for a 4-4 tie.&ldquo;I can see why they haven&rsquo;t lost a game in 18,&rdquo; said Red Wing goalie Jim Rutherford. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the best team I&rsquo;ve seen this year. And they&rsquo;re playing rougher than the Canadiens of the last couple years. They take the man out. I know I was just glad when it was over.&rdquo;&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got a helluva team,&rdquo; said defenseman Bryan Watson who played a strong, aggressive game for Detroit. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s not one guy on the team playing bad.&ldquo;When you play them you know you have to be skating and checking and be mentally ready or they&rsquo;ll blow you right out of the rink.&rdquo;Well then, the proper question seemed to be if the Red Wings could do it this night, why can&rsquo;t they do it all the time instead of floundering around and getting in each other&rsquo;s way?&ldquo;It&rsquo;s concentration,&rdquo; Watson answered. &ldquo;They play disciplined hockey so you&rsquo;re really on your honor to have one guy coming back.&rdquo;But not the Red Wings. The previous weekend the Wings scored just one goal in six periods. They lost, 2-1, in Kansas City and then lost, 1-0, to Toronto in a game in which the Maple Leafs got two shots in the first period and four in the third.Ironically, then, they scored four times against the powerful Canadiens. Three of the goals came from behind the goal line, though. Libett&rsquo;s opening goal went in off Dryden&rsquo;s leg, Phil Roberto put one in off Savard and Marcel Dionne got a reach-back goal.The only goal from out in the normal firing range was a hard slap by Libett and the Canadiens charged, futilely, that the long pass from Bill Lochead was offside.The fact that the Wings still need scoring punch was illustrated when they had a two man power-play for a full two minutes in the first period and not only didn&rsquo;t get a single shot on goal but had trouble even getting over the blueline.Top triggerman Mickey Redmond watched it from the stands and Redmond, who scored 50-plus goals each of the last two seasons, said &ldquo;It&rsquo;s tough to stay in the seat, especially a game like this one.&rdquo;It had been three weeks to the day of Redmond&rsquo;s back surgery at University of Michigan Hospital and he said the doctors are pleased with his progress. &ldquo;They say I&rsquo;ll be 100 percent,&rdquo; Redmond said.The Wings are hoping Redmond might be able to play the final month of the season but the doctors aren&rsquo;t promising anything. &#9632;

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Wings Loud In Praise Of Habs, Hope It Will Rub Off On Them

<div class="byline">BY RUSS WHITE</div>WASHINGTON&mdash;It is too soon to judge Jimmy Anderson as coach of the Washington Capitals ice hockey team. He took the job with the understanding that he would be given time to develop a winner. It would take at least two or three years.Anderson&rsquo;s has been a lonely ordeal.&ldquo;Red Sullivan, who was through the expansion business himself, told me that I&rsquo;d be worth double the salary they paid me,&rdquo; Anderson said yesterday after working his team out at Tyson&rsquo;s Comer rink. &ldquo;When I&rsquo;m down and out, I like to think that.&rdquo;Down and out.With a 3-34-4 record the signs of encouragement are hardly frequent. Anderson said that people are on the most part extremely generous. &ldquo;There is a lot of mail,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;People write to say that they are pulling for us, saying prayers for the team.&ldquo;Now and then there is a bad letter, too. And those really hurt. I take them deeply. But for every one that is bad there are maybe ten nice ones.&ldquo;I keep looking over the Christmas cards that came in and almost everyone had something nice to write on the cards. It wasn&rsquo;t a case of the old ritual of just, signing the cards. All of them had a personal message. &lsquo;Keep the faith&rsquo; my friends pleaded.&rdquo;All Anderson asks for is time &mdash; time and patience.&ldquo;Actually I am satisfied as coach,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I realize the record isn&rsquo;t inspiring. We&rsquo;ve been blown out at times. Other times though we&rsquo;ve been in games against older teams. I know what I&rsquo;m teaching. I see progress.&ldquo;Just about all the other teams have had bad scores against them this year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01848/3328745-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="550" height="763"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM ANDERSON &hellip;Sees Progress</figcaption></div>Clubs like Minnesota and Detroit and Toronto. For some of those older clubs to get beat the way they do is terrible. We&rsquo;re not as bad off as they are&hellip; really.&rdquo;The New York Islanders were three years ago the losingest team in National Hockey League history. Their first year record was 12-60-6.The Caps may not win 10 in their 80-game initial year.Anderson refuses to run his fingers through the win-loss and league standings, however.&ldquo;There is more to it than that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There are 20 guys who have to be thought of here. They are giving it all that they have. Before I go to sleep each night, I like to think about them. What is good for them. What is to become of them.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m certain that these guys have not given up. That they have more enthusiasm today than they did a month ago. I saw it the other night when they saw a capacity crowd at Capital Centre. These fellows have pride and they&rsquo;re together as a team.&rdquo;Anderson was as psyched up as anyone the other night for the sellout game against the Philadelphia Flyers.From reports inside the clubhouse he gave a whale of a pre-game pep talk. &ldquo;Sometimes,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;you really find the words rolling.&rdquo;For most of his 43 years, hockey has been Anderson&rsquo;s life. His wife Ginny insists it is No. I. He tells her that his family is No. I. hockey No. &ldquo; 1&frac12;Being away from his family in Springfield, Mass., makes Anderson&rsquo;s stay in Washington all the lonlier.&ldquo;Our children are at a crucial period of their growth and development,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It is unfair that my wife has to do all the supervising, the teaching, the encouraging the scolding.&rdquo;Because he is living with his expansion hockey team it is not always as easy to see the changes in the Capitals. Anderson insists though that progress is being made.&ldquo;I want to be there two years from now,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;when the change is noticeable to everyone.I feel 1 can do the job. I feel I am doing it. But it takes time for anything good to grow.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Caps’Coach Anderson Makes Plea For Time

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;At mid-season the leading candidate for &ldquo;Coach of the Year&rdquo; honors in the National Hockey League would seem to be Bob Pulford. who has brought the Los Angeles Kings back from the bottom.They had averaged less than 20 victories a year and an attendance of 8.000 fans a game for three seasons when Pulford became the club&rsquo;s fifth coach I in 1972.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01825/3328807-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="280" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Pulford</figcaption></div>The records were 14-52-10. 25-40-13 and 18-42-8.Pully&rsquo;s first season the team won 31 and barely fell from the playoffs the final week of the season. Last.season the Kings won 33, finished at .500 for the first time ever, and made the playoffs for the first time in five years. This season. the team may win 40 at its present pace, will be well above .500 and seems a cinch for the playoffs.The records have been 31-36-11, 3333-12 and, so far this season, 20-6-12.Attendance is soaring. It topped 10.000 fans per game his first season. 11.000 last season and should be above 12.000 this season. In eight years there have been eight sellouts and three have come this season. In the 13th week of this season they had their first-ever back-to-back 16,005-seat sellouts against Boston on a Thursday night and Philadelphia on a Saturday night. The first was the first ever not on a Saturday night, the second the first against a foe other than the glamorous Bruins.Pulford practices conservatism. His teams play Toronto&rsquo;s old closechecking contests, which is responsible for a record run of tie games. Defense comes first with them, offense second. They score less than most teams, it is in this way that they make the most of their physical skills. There are better teams, but few playing better.&ldquo;Talent is the most overused term in sports,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Without desire, you waste talent. There are a lot of players playing better than those with great talent in this league.&rdquo; he points out. He has a system. So do most coaches, but the secret to his success is he is getting all his players to play his system, to play as a team.More on this in a forthcoming column.Meanwhile, the proof that fans want to win more than they want to see wild games is demonstrated by the soaring attendance in Los Angeles. The team scored more than five goals in a game only twice and tied six games in the first half of its home schedule, but the fans have been turning out in increasing numbers and with increasing enthusiasm.Frankly, Pully says. &ldquo;The Los Angeles area fans and news media have been criticized for not supporting the team better before, but I believe the Kings got what they deserved. They&rsquo;re doing better now and getting much better support and publicity. The team deserves it now. It is a team which has been over their heads, but I think with you, not only don&rsquo;t I think they&rsquo;ve been over they heads, but I think they&rsquo;re going to get a lot better yet.&rdquo;Blasted in Boston, 8-1. a few weeks ago. the Kings were hungry for revenge when the Bruins came to town, but were overpowered by a stronger team again, 5-2. But they bounced back to tie Philadelphia. 2-2, and might have knocked off the Flyers if they could have connected on one-man and two-man advantages. However, their powerplay, the one specialty Pully wanted most to improve, remains a mystery to him. and unimproved.Earlier in the week they had won in Detroit and Chicago to continue as the top road team in the game and at week&rsquo;s end they left home on a seven-game road trip that will test them extensively before they are back home again near month&rsquo;s end. Confidence plays a large part in a team&rsquo;s performance and the Kings, who now have a lot of confidence in themselves, have been buoyed by their ability to win away from home so far this season. &#9632;

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Pulford Has Brought Kings Back From The Bottom

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-11" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-11108/3329090-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg"></div><h2>ATLANTA</h2><h3>Flames</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01653/3329083-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="163" height="142"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02567/3329076-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="742" height="612"></div><h2>BOSTON</h2><h3>Bruins</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03455/3329069-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="172" height="175"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04350/3329062-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="745" height="607"></div><h2>BUFFALO</h2><h3>Sabres</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05254/3329055-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="202" height="199"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06205/3329048-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="750" height="616"></div><h2>CALIFORNIA</h2><h3>Seals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07183/3329041-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="271" height="121"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-08166/3329034-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="746" height="752"></div><h2>CHICAGO</h2><h3>Black Hawks</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-09144/3329027-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="205" height="193"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-10122/3329020-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="741" height="546"></div><h2>DETROIT</h2><h3>Red Wings</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1292/3329013-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="259" height="136"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1381/3329006-1-eng-US/f0016-132.jpg" title="f0016-13" width="743" height="612"></div><h2>KANSAS CITY</h2><h3>Scouts</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1475/3328999-1-eng-US/f0016-142.jpg" title="f0016-14" width="211" height="196"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1565/3328992-1-eng-US/f0016-152.jpg" title="f0016-15" width="740" height="603"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES</h2><h3>Kings</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1662/3328985-1-eng-US/f0016-162.jpg" title="f0016-16" width="205" height="223"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1754/3328978-1-eng-US/f0016-172.jpg" title="f0016-17" width="739" height="526"></div><h2>MINNESOTA</h2><h3>North Stars</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1847/3328971-1-eng-US/f0016-182.jpg" title="f0016-18" width="211" height="184"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1943/3328964-1-eng-US/f0016-192.jpg" title="f0016-19" width="739" height="692"></div><h2>MONTREAL</h2><h3>Canadiens</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2043/3328957-1-eng-US/f0016-202.jpg" title="f0016-20" width="217" height="175"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2140/3328950-1-eng-US/f0016-212.jpg" title="f0016-21" width="744" height="580"></div><h2>NEW YORK</h2><h3>Islanders</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2238/3328943-1-eng-US/f0016-222.jpg" title="f0016-22" width="205" height="202"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2336/3328936-1-eng-US/f0016-232.jpg" title="f0016-23" width="744" height="580"></div><h2>NEW YORK</h2><h3>Rangers</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2434/3328929-1-eng-US/f0016-242.jpg" title="f0016-24" width="190" height="202"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2530/3328922-1-eng-US/f0016-252.jpg" title="f0016-25" width="743" height="663"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2><h3>&lsquo;Flyers</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2628/3328915-1-eng-US/f0016-262.jpg" title="f0016-26" width="229" height="169"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2723/3328908-1-eng-US/f0016-272.jpg" title="f0016-27" width="736" height="632"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>Penguins<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2821/3328901-1-eng-US/f0016-282.jpg" title="f0016-28" width="130" height="127"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2914/3328894-1-eng-US/f0016-292.jpg" title="f0016-29" width="740" height="610"></div><h2>ST. LOUIS</h2><h3>Blues</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3014/3328887-1-eng-US/f0016-302.jpg" title="f0016-30" width="169" height="148"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3114/3328880-1-eng-US/f0016-312.jpg" title="f0016-31" width="744" height="610"></div><h2>TORONTO</h2><h3>Maple Leafs</h3><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3210/3328873-1-eng-US/f0016-322.jpg" title="f0016-32" width="148" height="157"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3310/3328866-1-eng-US/f0016-332.jpg" title="f0016-33" width="739" height="604"></div><h2>VANCOUVER</h2><h3>Canucks</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-346/3328859-1-eng-US/f0016-342.jpg" title="f0016-34" width="223" height="157"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-354/3328852-1-eng-US/f0016-352.jpg" title="f0016-35" width="739" height="606"></div><h2>WASHINGTON</h2><h3>Capitals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-363/3328845-1-eng-US/f0016-362.jpg" title="f0016-36" width="274" height="154"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-373/3328838-1-eng-US/f0016-372.jpg" title="f0016-37" width="739" height="638"></div> &#9632;

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Players’ Scoring & Penalty Statistics

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01563/3329121-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="514" height="598"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL GOLDSWORTHY &hellip;Peacemaker Role</figcaption></div>TWIN CITIES-Diehard fans of the Minnesota North Stars saw their new year&rsquo;s resolution go jp in smoke the first time their favorites took the ice in 1975. Don&rsquo;t worry, they thought, things could be worse.Sure enough, things got worse.The North Stars went into their first 1975 outing in Pittsburgh, trying to win their first game on the road since they beat Vancouver Oct. 22.General manager Jack Gordon turned the coaching job for the game over to his assistant, Charlie Burns, with the explanation that he Gordon) needed to spend some time scouting other NHL teams for trade purposes.Gordon probably was not too surprised when he learned in Atlanta that the North Stars ahead 3-1 entering the final period, bowed 6-3 for their 19th straight road game without a victory.Little did Gordon know what awaited him in Minnesota when his flight landed the next morning.The first thing he found out after checking into his office was that Bill Goldsworthy, the team captain and leading scorer, would not be able to play for at least the next two weeks and possibly longer with a severed tendon on the forefinger of his right hand. (He&rsquo;s a righthanded shot).Seems Goldy. promoting unity as team captain, was attempting to break up a fight among several teammates at the team&rsquo;s Pittsburgh hotel in the early morning hours.Involved in the fracas were Dennis Hexta, Jude Drouin, Alain Langlais and John Flesch. Hexta apparently became upset when he was awakened from noise in the hallway, and fists started flying when accusations were hurled about as to who had. or had not, been working hard in the Pittsburgh game.&ldquo;If we had been winning, this probably would have never happened,&rdquo; said Gordon. &ldquo;It has to stem from the frustration of losing.&rdquo;Ironically, Bums suggested after the game that the team go out together aftei the game in an effort to become closer together. Everybody agreed&hellip;but Hex tall.&ldquo;Maybe all of this has cleared the air,&rdquo; Gordon said.Goldy joined defenseman Fred Barrett, out for two weeks with a cracked bone in his right hand, and right wing Lou Nanne, out indefinitely with a cracked bone in his right wrist, on the North Star list of injured. &#9632;

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Goldy’s Loss Biggest Blow To North Stars

<div class="byline">BY PAT THOMPSON</div>TWIN CITIES &mdash;As general manager Jack Gordon phrased it. &ldquo;We had been taking our lumps anyway.&rdquo;Gordon was answering a pointed question about the Minnesota North Stars having to pay the price for the number of youngsters they suddenly have skating for them (10 rookies to be exact) after the trades of veterans Barry Gibbs, J.P. Parise and Jude Drouin over a four day span in early January.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02458/3329152-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="277" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Charlie Burns</figcaption></div>Gibbs, the highest scoring defenseman in North Star history, went to Atlanta for 21-year-old center Dean Talafous and 22-year-old defenseman Dwight Bialowas. Then gritty left winger Parise, who ranked third in North Star seniority behind Cesare Maniago and Bill Goldsworthy, was dealt to the New York Islanders for 24-year-old center Doug Rombough and 27-year-old left wing Ernie Hicke. Gordon also purchased 29-year-old Bob Cook, a right wing, in a separate transaction from the Islanders for cash and future considerations. Then Drouin headed to the Islanders in a straight exchange for Craig Cameron. Neither player had been setting the world in fire.&ldquo;We are thinking of the hockey club now and in the future,&rdquo; Gordon explained. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to take some time for these youngsters to develop, but they have the potential. We had to give up something to get them.&rdquo;The North Stars seemed locked in fourth place in the Conn Smythe Division as it was. but another reason behind the trades was the overloaded training room.When Henry Boucha was viciously speared by the butt end of Dave Forbes&rsquo; stick above the right eye (a 30-stitch cut), he became the third right winger on the injured list. Goldsworthy was out with a severed tendon in his finger and Lou Nanne with a broken bone in his right wrist. Also) defenseman Fred Barrett had a broken bone in his right hand and Fern Rivard still had not come back as reserve goal because of a back injury, So the North Stars faced that situation when they met Kansas City trying to win their first road game since Oct. 22 (their only road victory of the season as a matter of fact) with 10 rookies in uniform. There were five newcomers in the lineup from the weekend trades, and it was not surprising when the Scouts skated off to a 5-2 victory that extended Minnesota&rsquo;s winless streak on the road to 20 consecutive games.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to get our injured players back to blend in with all our new players,&rdquo; observed Charlie Bums, Gordon&rsquo;s assistant who apparently will continue to coach the team indefinitely.The North Stars had only seven players suited up who had been with the team since the close of the 1973-74 season: defensemen Dennis O&rsquo;Brien and Tom Reid, goalie Maniago, and forwards Murray Oliver, Hexta, Fred Stanfield and Alain Langlais.And Gordon has said that if the opportunity arises to make another deal he likes he wouldn&rsquo;t hesitate to make it.The addition of the 6&rsquo;4&rdquo; Talafous, an American collegian last year, and 6&rsquo;3&rdquo; Rombough gives the North Stars some of the biggest forwards in the league if you also include the 6&rsquo;2&rdquo; John Flesch, 6&rsquo;1&rdquo; Goldsworthy, 6&rsquo;1&rdquo; Boucha and 6-footers Nanne and Don Martineau.But until everyone makes the adjustment of learning how to play together, it looks like the North Stars will just have to take their lumps.ICE NOTES: Boucha was injured in the 8-0 loss to the Bruins as the players skated from the penalty box after five-minute majors for fighting had expired. Boucha was a few paces ahead of Forbes and was not unaware the blow was coming. &ldquo;I thought my eye was gone,&rdquo; Boucha said. Team doctors said if the blow would have been a half inch lower. Boucha would have lost his sight in the right eye. Forbes telephoned Boucha the next day to apologize. Boucha. asked if he harbored any hard feelings, replied: &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather not comment.&rdquo; As a result of a 10-minute misconduct, not counting a match penalty against Forbes. and leftover time from a five-major penalty against Bobby Orr, the North Stars had 13 consecutive minutes with a man advantage but were unable to score. Boston, with Dennis O&rsquo;Brien in the box on a five-minute major, rattled off four goals in a 2&frac12;-minute span. &#9632;

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Desperate North Stars Make Four Trades

DARRYL SITTLER Toronto Maple LeafsThe Toronto Maple Leafs appear to be coming back from their early season doldrums and the man sparking the attack Is 24-year-old center Darryl Slttler.Sittier&rsquo;s six-point week, three goals and three assists, paced the Leafs to a .500 week, two wins and two losses.He registered a single tally In 6-4 win over Vancouver, another In 4-3 victory over the Islanders and sparked a valiant comeback effort with one goal and three assists In 7-5 home ice loss to Los Angeles.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04264/3329221-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="505" height="580"></div>STAN MIKITAChicago Black HawksThe Chicago Black Hawks are having their problems getting untracked this season but Stan Mikita is carrying on with his usual steady type of play.Miklta&rsquo;s two goals during the past week lifted his career total to 450, which ranks him tenth on the NHLs all-time list.His 450th came in Hawks 4-2 win over the New York Rangers and he also tallied in 7-5 victory over Pittsburgh.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05202/3329214-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="496" height="574"></div> &#9632;

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Stars of the week

<div class="byline">BY JACK MCCARTHY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01389/3329259-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="490" height="433"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03248/3329252-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="460" height="454"></div>BOSTON &mdash;The now-accepted practice of NHL teams carrying not two, but three goaltenders is a far, far cry from the old days when a stick boy might have to take over in net if anything happened to the big man in goal.At one time trainers would be pressed into service if the back-up goaler was among the missing, or even if he had been left home to pare expenses. Not how. And because of the present practice of having three men, at least for the Bruins, Boston came up with two games in a row in the win column from the third man.In Boston&rsquo;s case, it is Ken Broderick, obtained two years ago from the San Diego Gulls of the Western League by Harry Sinden of Boston.The 33-year-old Toronto native was called upon by coach Don Cherry to play in the middle of a coast trip against the LA Kings, and he brought the Bruins home a winner. 5-2.Said Cherry, &ldquo;He did a great job. When Gilles Gilbert came down with the bad back, we had to give Ken some work. We didn&rsquo;t know how long Gilbert would be out, and if anything happened to Ross Brooks, we&rsquo;d have been up the creek&hellip;&rdquo; Gilbert had been flown home from Vancouver for diagnosis of back pains, which eventually turned out to be strained muscles. Broderick went in again versus Bob Pulford&rsquo;s Kings at a time when Cherry was saying, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been playing poorly, terribly in fact, on the road. We haven&rsquo;t been playing our type of game. The game with the Kings was more like we normally play&hellip; It was just the type of game we needed. We have to play hard like that&hellip;&rdquo;It was, incidentally, just the sixth loss of the year for the Kings, and Boston had been the winner in two of them.Cherry continued, &ldquo;The club as a whole played well. They skated and hit for three periods. I&rsquo;ve said it a million times and I believe every word of it.&ldquo;If we&rsquo;re skating and hitting the way we can, no one can beat us.&rdquo;There was hitting enough in the next game, however, an 8-0 romp over Minnesota &mdash; the game in which Henry Boucha and Dave Forbes had their difficulties, which wound up with Boucha in the hospital with an eye injury.Broderick was in the net again for that one also, making it two games in a row for him, and his first NHL shutout.After his first victory, in LA. he grinned, &ldquo;It sure was a long time between starts &mdash; a year and three days.&rdquo; Asked if he had been nervous starting out, he said, &ldquo;At first I was a little nervous. Then I was really nervous, and 1 got worried more when they scored their two goals on consecutive shifts, I think, didn&rsquo;t have enough work earlier. I have to thank the guys. They played great in front of me. It was great to look up and see that scoreboard.&rdquo;After the second victory, over the North Stars, he said, &ldquo;I may have been a little more confident, but I don&rsquo;t believe there was any real difference in mental attitude from Los Angeles. I really felt in the game when 1 stopped J.P. Parise on an early two-on-one break&hellip;&rdquo;Broderick also got another NHL first for him, a penalty when he and Cesare Maniaco left their nets. &#9632;

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Third Man Broderick Comes To Bruins’ Rescue

<div class="byline">BY HARRY KLAFF</div>LONG ISLAND&mdash;All around the NHL, the &lsquo;74-&rsquo;75 season has become known as the &ldquo;Year of the Injury&rdquo;. Some clubs have been bitten more than others, but hardly a game goes by where a team can field its full complement of players.Through much of the early going, the Islanders managed to shake off the injury jinx that virtually decimated its torces in each of the past two years. Jean Potvin missed a couple of games with a muscle spasm in his neck in late October, and Ed Westfall suffered a couple of cracked ribs, but that was just about it.The law of averages began to catch up around Thanksgiving, though. Gerry Hart&rsquo;s knee began acting up at about that time, and Westfall returned to the sidelines again, this time with a bad back.No sooner had Hart and Westfall returned to action than veteran defenseman Bert Marshall pulled a back muscle. Bob Nystrom joined him on the sidelines the following week when he suffered a hairline fracture of his left collarbone, followed by Billy MacMillan, who was nursine a severely bruised ankle.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02295/3329290-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="265" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Marshall</figcaption></div>Last year a rash of injuries would have sent the Islanders into a tailspin. But this season coach Al Arbour has enjoyed the luxury of looking down the bench and summoning someone who is equally capable of doing the job.Not only is the Islander defense one of the top units in the league, it is also one of the deepest. Although Denis Potvin is the only big name on the blueline, many rival coaches envy Arbour&rsquo;s store of defensive talent.The loss of Marshall didn&rsquo;t alter the course of the Islander ship one bit. And unless a casual observer looked closely, he might not have noticed that the club was operating with a manpower shortage.Arbour has employed six defensemen for the past two months. At first some ot his players were a bit skeptical, but eventually swayed in favor of the idea. When Marshall went out with the back injury, Al decided to rest Bert&rsquo;s regular partner, Dave Lewis, rather than break up the other combinations of Gerry Hart and Jean Potvin, and Denis Potvin and Dave Fortier. When Marshall returned, Lewis resumed his normal shift as well. &#9632;

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Isles DisplayDepth As Injuries Strike

WE&rsquo;VE GOT IT ALL&hellip; THAT&rsquo;S WHY WE RE ACKNOWLEDGED AS ONE OF THE BEST HOCKEY SCHOOL AND CAMP&hellip; ANYWHERE. IN FACT WE RE SO PROUD OF OUR REPUTATION THAT WE OFFER A GUARANTEE&hellip; PROBABLY THE FIRST ONES TO DO SO.*TOP RATED HOCKEY INS TRUCTION FROM AN EXCELLENT STAFF OF INSTRUCTORS HEADED UP BY WALTER TKACZUK, OF THE NEW YORK RANGERS. DENNIS DUPERE OF WASHINGTON CAPITOLS AND OTHERS* POWER SKATING SESSIONS DAILY, TAUGHT BY A PRO SKATER* NHL REFEREES WEEKLY CLINIC* CAMP FACILITIES THAT INCLUDE SWIMMING POOL, MINIATURE GOLF COURSE, BASKETBALL, BASEBALL, FIELD HOCKEY, SOCCER AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.* AN ATMOSPHERE THAT MAKES FOR AN IDEAL TIME FOR EVERY YOUNG BOY WHO WANTS TO ENJOY PLAYING HOCKEY, MORE.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-04178/3329321-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="496" height="1012"><figcaption class="caption-body">WALTER TKACZUK</figcaption></div>FOR INFORMATION: WRITE:WALTER TKACZUK HOCKEY SCHOOL AND CAMP,104 BIRCHCLIFF AVE.,KITCHENER. ONTARIO, CANADA. &#9632;

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SUPER STAR HOCKEY CAMP

<div class="byline">BY DEREK COOPER</div>OAKLAND&mdash;The law of averages being what it is, it&rsquo;s not really a news story to report that another rookie is making it big with the California Golden Seals. After all, the current roster shows 11 first-year men on the team, and with the Seals suddenly making their presence felt in the National Hockey League, the chances are good that it&rsquo;s because one or more of these rookies is beginning to feel his oats.Rookie center Larry Patey is just such a case. And if you don&rsquo;t believe it, just ask Rogie Vachon of the Kings, or Flyers&rsquo; goalie Bernie Parent.The 21-year-old Patey, in only his second year of professional hockey, was labeled a can&rsquo;t miss&rsquo; prospect at the beginning of this season. Munson Campbell, president caretaker of the NHL owned Seals, went so far as to say that only goalie Gilles Meloche and Patey were untouchable as far as trades were concerned.There was good reason for his optimism. Last year Patey finished his first professional season as Rookie-of-the-Year in the WHL, with 40 goals and 43 assists. The Seals felt so strongly about the offensive capabilities of the 6&rsquo;1 &rdquo;, 185-pounder, that during the off-season they dealt high-scoring center Ivan Boldirey to Chicago and veteran Walt McKechnie to New York.By mid-November, however, people were beginning to wonder. Patey had only five goals and was about to embark upon a stretch of 13 games where he didn&rsquo;t see a red light. Everyone was worried &mdash; except Patey.&ldquo;I had been through this type of thing before,&rdquo; recalls the freckled redhead. &ldquo;Last year at Salt Lake 1 went 15 games with only one goal. Even though I started out slow this year, I knew that I was getting a lot of chances so I figured that they were bound to start going in.&rdquo;Fortunately for the Seals, Patey was right. They started &lsquo;going in&rsquo; in late December when he scored two goals on Rogie Vachon to help the Seals to a 3-2 win over the Kings. The next game he scored again in a losing effort at Detroit, and two games later he scored two more goals against Bernie Parent in a 5-1 upset win over the Flyers.The pace continued and suddenly the Seals were winning and Patey, with seven goals in nine games, had become the scorer that he and everyone else knew that he could be.The story of Patey&rsquo;s rise to success is unique for a number of reasons. First, he was a ninth round draft choice, which is not exactly considered prime NHL material. And second, he is probably the only graduate of the Braintree Hawks now playing in the big leagues.Patey, a native of Toronto, could have had a bright future in Junior A hockey, but instead chose to attend Boston University for both its educational offerings and top hockey program. However, when he got to BU he found that because of scholastic red tape, he would be ineligible to complete on the varsity team.Rather than return to Toronto and Junior A competition, he stayed in school and furthered his hockey education by playing for the Braintree Hawks of the New England Hockey League (NEHL).&ldquo;It was one of the best decisions I ever made,&rdquo; he now says. &ldquo;I loved Boston and the Hawks played a 50-game schedule as compared to only about 25 in college. There were some good players in the league. They would hit anything that moved, and the year there really taught me to keep my head up.&rdquo;.Patey finished the &lsquo;72-73 season with 36 goals and 27 assists, but owing to the relative obscurity of the league, not too many teams knew of his ability. Two that did, however, were the Boston Bruins and the Seals, through their New England scout, Jim Sutherland.The Seals chose right before the Bruins in the draft and picked Patey in the ninth round. The Bruins were all set to make him their next choice.And now with the rough start behind him, Patey looks for a 20-goal plateau by early February.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve made a couple of adjustments since the start of the season,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m shooting more and I&rsquo;m trying to make that one extra move when coming out of my end to commit the other man and free one of my wingers. Things are going good right now, but before the season is over they should get a lot better.&rdquo;And with things looking a lot better for Patey, the possibility of a playoff spot looks a lot better for the California Golden Seals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01236/3329352-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="553" height="508"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY PATEY &hellip;Rookie Shines</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Seals’ Patey Living Up To Expectations In NHL

(Standings on Tue. Jan. 14)NORRIS DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-227/3329694-1-eng-US/f0022-222.jpg" title="f0022-22" width="538" height="178"></div>ADAMS DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-237/3329687-1-eng-US/f0022-232.jpg" title="f0022-23" width="542" height="142"></div>PATRICK DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-246/3329680-1-eng-US/f0022-242.jpg" title="f0022-24" width="542" height="148"></div>SMYTHE DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-255/3329673-1-eng-US/f0022-252.jpg" title="f0022-25" width="540" height="178"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Mon. Jan. 6Minnesota 2 at Kansas City 5Tue. Jan. 7Toronto 3 at N.Y. Islanders 5. Boston 3 atWashington 3: California 3 at St Louis 2Wed. Jan. 8N.Y. Rangers 6 at Kansas City 1; California 3 at Atlanta 4; Montreal 4 at Detroit 4; PittsuBurgn at chicago 7; los angeles at minnesota 2; vancover 4 at toronto 6.Thu. Jan. 9N.Y. Islanders 3 at Philadelphia 1; Los Angeles 5 at Buffalo 2; Vancouver 1 at Boston 5.Fri. Jan. 10Pittsburgh 3 at Atlanta 3.Sat. Jan. 11N.Y. Rangers 5 at St. Louis 3; Atlanta 2 at N.Y. Islanders 2; Philadelphia 0 at Montreal 6; Washington 3 at Kansas City 5; California 3 at Pittsburgh 6. Buffalo 3 at Detroit 3; Los Angeles 7 at Toronto 5; Chicago 1 at Boston 5; Vancouver at Minnesota (postponed).Sun. Jan. 12N.Y. Rangers 2 at Chicago 4; N.Y. Islanders 3 at Toronto 4; California 1 at Philadelphia 2; Montreal 7 at Washington 2; St. Louis 2 at Detroit 1; Vancouver 1 at Buffalo 5GAMES TO COMETue. Jan. 14St. Louis at N.Y. Islanders; Philadelphia at Kansas City; Los Angeles at WashingtonWed. Jan. 15N.Y. Rangers at Minnesota; Atlanta at Pittsburgh; Boston at Montreal; Vancouver at Chicago; Toronto at St. Louis; Buffalo at California.Thu. Jan. 16Washington at Philadelphia. Kansas City at Detroit. Los Angeles at BostonFri. Jan. 17N.Y Rangers at California; Los Angeles at Atlanta. Buffalo at VanvouverSat. Jan. 18N.Y Rangers at Vancouver. Detroit at N.Y Islanders. Atlanta at Philadelphia. Toronto at Montreal; Boston at Pittsburgh; Chicago at Kansas City. Minnesota at St LouisSun. Jan. 19Los Angeles at Montreal; Pittsburgh at Washington. Minnesota at Detroit. * California at Chicago. Kansas City at Buffalo; Toronto at BostonTue. Jan. 21All Star game at MontrealWed. Jan. 22California at PittsburghThu. Jan. 23Atlanta at NY Rangers; NY Islanders at Chicago. Philadelphia at St. Louis. Montreal at Minnesota. Vancouver at Washington. Detroit at Buffalo; Toronto at Los Angeles; Kansas City at BostonFri. Jan. 24Vancouver at Atlanta. Toronto at California(&lsquo; TV Game of the Week) &#9632;

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LOOKING AT THE NHL SCOREBOARD

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0022-26" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-264/3329642-1-eng-US/f0022-262.jpg"></div>WARNING: The Department of National Health and Welfare advises that danger to health increases with amount smoked.<h2>Sun. Jan. 5</h2>PHILADELPHIA 1, CALIFORNIA 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01260/3329635-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="592" height="608"></div><h2>Mon. Jan. 6</h2>MINNESOTA 2, KANSAS CITY 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-02191/3329628-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="588" height="523"></div><h2>Tue. Jan. 7</h2>TORONTO 3, ISLANDERS 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-03164/3329621-1-eng-US/f0022-032.jpg" title="f0022-03" width="592" height="555"></div>BOSTON 3, WASHINGTON 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-04129/3329614-1-eng-US/f0022-042.jpg" title="f0022-04" width="585" height="515"></div>CALIFORNIA 3, ST. LOUIS 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-05109/3329607-1-eng-US/f0022-052.jpg" title="f0022-05" width="588" height="260"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0682/3329600-1-eng-US/f0022-062.jpg" title="f0022-06" width="588" height="176"></div><h2>Wed. Jan. 8</h2>RANGERS 6. KANSAS CITY 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0771/3329593-1-eng-US/f0022-072.jpg" title="f0022-07" width="590" height="580"></div>CALIFORNIA 2, ATLANTA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0861/3329586-1-eng-US/f0022-082.jpg" title="f0022-08" width="590" height="434"></div>MONTREAL 4, DETROIT 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-0954/3329579-1-eng-US/f0022-092.jpg" title="f0022-09" width="592" height="144"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1044/3329572-1-eng-US/f0022-102.jpg" title="f0022-10" width="592" height="404"></div>PITTSBURGH 5, CHICAGO 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1139/3329565-1-eng-US/f0022-112.jpg" title="f0022-11" width="594" height="698"></div>LOS ANGELES 4, MINNESOTA 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1235/3329558-1-eng-US/f0022-122.jpg" title="f0022-12" width="588" height="318"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1329/3329551-1-eng-US/f0022-132.jpg" title="f0022-13" width="588" height="287"></div>VANCOUVER 4, TORONTO 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1421/3329544-1-eng-US/f0022-142.jpg" title="f0022-14" width="598" height="726"></div><h2>Thu. Jan. 9</h2>ISLANDERS 3, PHILADELPHIA 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1519/3329537-1-eng-US/f0022-152.jpg" title="f0022-15" width="592" height="374"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1614/3329530-1-eng-US/f0022-162.jpg" title="f0022-16" width="590" height="116"></div>LOS ANGELES 5, BUFFALO 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1711/3329523-1-eng-US/f0022-172.jpg" title="f0022-17" width="592" height="522"></div>VANCOUVER 1. BOSTON 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1810/3329516-1-eng-US/f0022-182.jpg" title="f0022-18" width="598" height="614"></div><h2>Fri. Jan. 10</h2>PITTSBURGH 3. ATLANTA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-1910/3329509-1-eng-US/f0022-192.jpg" title="f0022-19" width="592" height="466"></div><h2>Sat. Jan. 11</h2>RANGERS 5, ST. LOUIS 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-209/3329502-1-eng-US/f0022-202.jpg" title="f0022-20" width="590" height="520"></div>ATLANTA 2, ISLANDERS 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-219/3329495-1-eng-US/f0022-212.jpg" title="f0022-21" width="584" height="202"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01239/3329488-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="590" height="206"></div>PHILADELPHIA 0, MONTREAL 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-02187/3329481-1-eng-US/f0023-022.jpg" title="f0023-02" width="588" height="606"></div>WASHINGTON 3, KANSAS CITY 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-03143/3329474-1-eng-US/f0023-032.jpg" title="f0023-03" width="588" height="606"></div>CALIFORNIA 3, PITTSBURGH 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-04111/3329467-1-eng-US/f0023-042.jpg" title="f0023-04" width="592" height="664"></div>BUFFALO 3, DETROIT 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0590/3329460-1-eng-US/f0023-052.jpg" title="f0023-05" width="590" height="490"></div>LOS ANGELES 7, TORONTO 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0678/3329453-1-eng-US/f0023-062.jpg" title="f0023-06" width="592" height="692"></div>CHICAGO 1, BOSTON 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0769/3329446-1-eng-US/f0023-072.jpg" title="f0023-07" width="586" height="202"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0857/3329439-1-eng-US/f0023-082.jpg" title="f0023-08" width="584" height="230"></div><h2>Sun. Jan. 12</h2>RANGERS 2, CHICAGO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-0948/3329432-1-eng-US/f0023-092.jpg" title="f0023-09" width="582" height="462"></div>ISLANDERS 3, TORONTO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1039/3329425-1-eng-US/f0023-102.jpg" title="f0023-10" width="554" height="108"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1129/3329418-1-eng-US/f0023-112.jpg" title="f0023-11" width="588" height="468"></div>CALIFORNIA 1, PHILADELPHIA 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1225/3329411-1-eng-US/f0023-122.jpg" title="f0023-12" width="584" height="374"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1320/3329404-1-eng-US/f0023-132.jpg" title="f0023-13" width="590" height="94"></div>MONTREAL 7. WASHINGTON 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1419/3329397-1-eng-US/f0023-142.jpg" title="f0023-14" width="594" height="654"></div>ST. LOUIS 2, DETROIT 1FIRST PERIOD<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1518/3329390-1-eng-US/f0023-152.jpg" title="f0023-15" width="598" height="320"></div>VANCOUVER 1.BUFFALO 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-1616/3329383-1-eng-US/f0023-162.jpg" title="f0023-16" width="586" height="456"></div> &#9632;

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Mark Ten That’s taste

C&mdash;CaptainA&mdash;AlternateR&mdash;Rookie<h2>BOSTON</h2>GOALKen Broderick *Ross BrooksDEFENSEGary DoakDarryl EdestrandAl SimsDallas Smith ACarol VadnaisRod Graham *CENTERPhil Esposito AWalt McKechnieAndre SavardGregg SheppardR. WINGKen HodgeTerry O&rsquo;ReillyCraig Sarner *L. WINGJohn Bucyk CDave ForbesDon MarcotteINJUREDBobby Orr AWayne CashmanGilles GilbertBobby Schmautz<h2>BUFFALO</h2>GOALGary BromleyRocky Farr*Roger CrozierDEFENSELarry CarriereLee Fogolin*Bill Hajt*Jerry KorabJ. GuevremontJ. Schoenfeld CCENTERDon Luce AJim LorentzPeter McNab*R. WINGLarry MickeyRene RobertDanny Gare *L. WINGCraig RamsayBrian SpencerMorris Titanic *Norm GrattonRichard MartinINJUREDRick DudleyGil Perreault<h2>DETROIT</h2>GOALJim RutherfordBill McKenzie *DEFENSEGary Bergman AJean HamelJack LynchBryan WatsonBarry Salovaara *Bart CrashlevTom MellorCENTERBlair Stewart*Marcel Dionne CPierre JarryDennis Polonich *Bill HogaboamR. WINGEarl Anderson*Ted SnellBill Lochead*Doug RobertsL. WINGNick Libett AHank Nowak*Danny GrantPhil RobertoINJUREDMickey Redmond A<h2>ISLANDERS</h2>GOALGlen Resch *Billy SmithDEFENSEDave Fortier*Gerry HartDave LewisBert Marshall AJean PotvinDenis PotvinCENTERLorne HenningBob Bourne*Ralph Stewart AEddie Westfall CR. WINGJude DrouinBilly Harris ABob NystromAndre St. LaurentL. WINGClark Gillies*Walt Ledingham*Jean-Paul PariseINJUREDGarry Howatt<h2>MONTREAL</h2>GOALKen DrydenMichel LarocqueWayne ThomasDEFENSEPierre BouchardGuy LapointeLarry RobinsonSerge Savard ADon AwreyJim RobertsCENTERJacques LemairePete MahovlichDoug Risebrough *R. WINGYvan Cournoyer AMario Tremblay *Guy LafleurL. WINGBob GaineyGlen SatherSteve ShuttMurray WilsonYvon LambertINJUREDJ. LaperriereHenri Richard C<h2>RANGERS</h2>GOALGilles VillemureCurt Ridley*DEFENSENick BeverleyGilles MarotteBrad Park CJohn Bednarski*Ron Greschner*CENTERJean RatelieDerek SandersonPete StemkowskrABob MacMillanWalt Tkaczuk AR. WINGBill FairbairnRod Gilbert AJerry Holland*Rick Middleton*Jerry ButlerL. WINGTed IrvineSteve VickersGreg PolisBert Wilson*INJUREDDale RolfeRon HarrisBobby RousseauEd Giacomin<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALDoug FavellDune WilsonDEFENSEBrian GlennieBob NeelyBorje SalmingDave DunnRod SeilingClaire Alexander*CENTERDave Keon CDarryl SittierNorm Ullman AGeorge FergusonR. WINGRon Ellis ABlaine StoughtonLanny McDonaldGary SabourinL. WINGInge HammarstromDave Williams*Errol ThompsonBill FlettINJUREDIan TurnbullJim McKenny<h2>VANCOUVER</h2>GOALGary SmithKen Lockett*DEFFNSEBob DaileyDennis KearnsTracy PrattAb DeMarcoJohn GrisdaleHarold Snepsts *CENTERAndre Boudrias ABobby LalondeGerry MeehanR. WINGGregg BoddyLeon RochefortJerry O&rsquo;FlahertyL. WINGJohn GouldDon LeverGarry MonahanRon Sedlbauer *INJUREDPaulin BordeleauDennis VervergaertChris Oddleifson AMike Robitaille A<h2>KANSAS CITY</h2>GOALDenis HerronPeter McDuffe*DEFENSEBrent Hughes AJim McElmury*Bryan LefleyKen MurrayJean-Guy LagaceCENTEREddie Gilbert*Richard LemieuxLynn PowisGuy CharronDave HudsonR. WINGSimon Nolet CWilf Paiement*Randy Rota AL. WINGRobin Burns*Gary CroteauNorm Dube*INJUREDMike Baumgartner*Claude Houde*<h2>ATLANTA</h2>GOALDan BouchardPhil MyreDEFENSEBarry GibbsJean LemieuxEd Kea*Pat Quinn ANoel Price ABob Murray*Randy ManeryCENTERCurt BennettRey ComeauBryan HextaliTom LysiakBob Leiter AR. WINGHilliard GravesBuster HarveyTim EcclestoneL. WINGJacgues RichardKeith McCrearv CEric VailINJUREDNone.<h2>CALIFORNIA</h2>GOALGilles MelocheGary Simmons*DEFENSELen Frig ARick Hampton*Jim NeilsonBob StewartGeorge Pesut*CENTERLarry Patey*Stan WeirDave GardnerCharlie Simmer *R. WINGAl MacAdam*Morris MottWarren WilliamsFred Ahern *Frank SpringL. WINGJacgues RichardJohn StewartDave Hrechkosy*Brian LavenderINJUREDMike Christie*Wayne King*Ron Huston*<h2>CHICAGO</h2>GOALTony EspositoMike Veisor*DEFENSEDoug Jarrett ADick RedmondPhil RussellKeith MagnusonCENTERIvan BoldirevStan Mikita ARob Palmer*Pit MartinR. WINGJim PappinAlain Daigle*Cliff KorollGrant MulveyL. WINGDennis HullDarcy RotaJohn MarksGermain GagnonINJUREDDale TallonBill White AJ.P. Bordeleau<h2>LOS ANGELES</h2>GOALRogatien VachonGary EdwardsDEFENSELarry BrownTerry Harper CDave Hutchison*S. KannegeisserNeil KomadoskiBob MurdochCENTERGene CarrButch GoringJuha Widing AR. WINGMike CorriganDon KozakMike MurphyBob NevinFrank St. MarseilleL. WINGBob BerryDan Maloney ATom WilliamsINJUREDNone.<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>GOALCesare ManiagoPeter LoPresti*DEFENSEDwight Bialowas*Doug Hicks *Dennis O&rsquo;BrienTom ReidChris Ahrens*CENTERCraig CameronDennis Hextall AMurrav OliverFred StanfieldDoug RomboughR. WINGDean Talafous *John Flesch*Bob CookL. WINGDon Martineau*Blake Dunlop*Ernie HickeAlain Langlais *INJUREDBill Goldsworthy CHenry BouchaFern RivardFred BarrettLou Nanne<h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2>GOALWayne StephensonBernie ParentBob TaylorDEFENSEAndre DupontTed HarrisEd Van ImpeTom BladonJimmy WatsonJoe WatsonCENTERRick MacLeishBill ClementTerry Crisp AOrest KindrachukBobby Clarke CR. WINGGary Dornhoefer AReg LeachDon SaleskiRobert Sirois *L. WINGBill BarberDave SchultzBob KellyRoss LonsberryINJUREDNone<h2>PITTSBURGH</h2>GOALGary Inness*Michel PlasseDEFENSEDave Burrows AColin Campbell*Bob ParadiseDennis Owchar*Ron StackhouseCENTERSyl Apps ARon Schock CPierre Larouche*Bob McManama*R. WINGChuck ArnasonRick KehoeLew MorrisonJean PronovostL. WINGVic HadfieldNelson DebenedtKelly Pratt*Lowell MacDonalBob KellyINJUREDDurbanoBurry Wilkins<h2>ST. LOUIS</h2>GOALJohn DavidsonEddie JohnstonDEFENSEBob Gassoff*Bob Hess*Barclay Plager CBob Plager ALarry Sacharuk*Chris EvansBruce Affleck *CENTERChuck LefleyGarry Unger ADoug Palazzari*Ken Richardson *Red BerensonR. WINGBill Collins APierre PlanteClaude LaroseL. WINGAce BaileyStan GilbertsonFloyd ThomsonWayne MerrickCraig PatrickINJUREDNone.<h2>WASHINGTON</h2>GOALRon LowJohn AdamsDEFENSEYvon LabreBill Mikkelson ADoug Mohns CMurray AndersonGord SmithCENTERMike Bloom*Pete LaframboiseTommy Williams ADave KryskowRon LalondeR. WINGSteve AtkinsonGordie BrooksMike Marson*L. WINGBruce Cowick*Denis DuperePaul Nicholson*Bill LesukINJUREDMichel BelhumeurJack Egers AGreg Joly*Willie BrossartJim Hrycui &#9632;

NHL Team Rosters

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01242/3329780-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="502" height="511"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02181/3329773-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="502" height="517"><figcaption class="caption-body">Serge Bernier</figcaption></div>EDMONTON &mdash;Houston Aeros and Toronto Toros dominated balloting for the annual World Hockey Association All Star game to be held Jan. 21 in Edmonton.The Aeros placed eight players on the West Division squad, which is comprised of players from the Vancouver Blazers, Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Minnesota Fighting Saints, San Diego Mariners and Phoenix Roadrunners, while the Toros have five players on the East Division roster, which is drawn from the Quebec Nordiques, New England Whalers, Cleveland Crusaders, Michigan Stags, Chicago Cougars and Indianapolis Racers.Bobby Hull of Winnipeg, and Serge Bernier of Quebec were the only unanimous choices to the starting lineups.Seven players have been added to the rosters, listed below, some because of injuries to scheduled starters.Here&rsquo;s how the teams were selected:<h2>FIRST TEAM</h2>EASTG&mdash;GERRY CHEEVERSCleveland CrusadersD&mdash;J.C. TREMBLAYQuebec NordiquesD&mdash;PAUL SHMYRCleveland CrusadersRW&mdash;TOM SIMPSONToronto TorosC&mdash;SERGE BERNIERQuebec NordiquesLW&mdash;FRANK MAHOVLICHToronto TorosWESTG&mdash;JOE DALEYWinnipeg JetsD&mdash;LARS-ERIK SJOBERGWinnipeg JetsD&mdash;BARRY LONGEdmonton OilersRW&mdash;FRANK HUGHESHouston AerosC&mdash;LARRY LUNDHouston AerosLW&mdash;BOBBY HULLWinnipeg Jets<h2>SECOND TEAM</h2>G&mdash;AL SMITHNew England WhalersD&mdash;PAT STAPLETONChicago CougarsD&mdash;BRAD SELWOODNew England WhalersRW&mdash;TOM WEBSTERNew England WhalersC&mdash;WAYNE DILLONToronto TorosLW&mdash;PAUL HENDERSONToronto TorosG&mdash;DON McLEODVancouver BlazersD&mdash;PAUL POPEILHouston AerosD&mdash;AL HAMILTONEdmonton OilersRW&mdash;GORDIE HOWEHouston AerosC&mdash;ANDRE LACROIXSan Diego MarinersLW&mdash;ANDRE HINSEHouston Aeros<h2>THIRD TEAM</h2>G&mdash;ANDY BROWNIndianapolis RacersD&mdash;JIM DOREYToronto TorosD&mdash;RICK LEYNew England WhalersRW&mdash;REJEAN HOULEQuebec NordiquesC&mdash;RALPH BACKSTROM ChicagoLW&mdash;PIERRE GUITEMichigan StagsCOACH: RON RYANNew England WhalersG&mdash;WAYNE RUTLEDGEHouston AerosD&mdash;JOHN SCHELLAHouston AerosD&mdash;GERRY ODROWSKIPhoenix RoadrunnersRW&mdash;MIKE WALTONMinnesota Fighting SaintsC&mdash;ULF NILSSONWinnipeg JetsLW&mdash;MARK HOWEHouston AerosCOACH: BILL DINEENHouston Aeros &#9632;

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Aeros, Toros Dominate WHA’s All Star Voting

RICH LEDUCCleveland CrusadersCleveland Crusaders come off a week In which they collected five of a possible six points and the man who led them was 23-year-old Rich Leduc who tallied five points on three goals and two assists.Leduc had a goal and an assist in 6-4 win over Vancouver, two goals including the tying marker in 4-4 sawoff with Winnipeg and set up the winning tally In 4-2 win over Phoenix.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-03127/3329818-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="499" height="601"></div>His goal total for the season now stands at 14.ANDRE LACROIXSan Diego MarinersAndr&eacute; Lacroix&rsquo;s eight points led the Mariners to one victory and two narrow defeats in their three outings.Lacroix tallied once and added two assists In 5-3 home ice win over New England, recorded two assists in 4-3 return match defeat against the Whalers and scored once and set up two others in 4-3 setback in Toronto.The eight-point outburst lifted his season&rsquo;s total to 55 points, 18 goals and 37 assists, fourth best in the league.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0498/3329811-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="496" height="580"></div> &#9632;

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WHA’s

<div class="byline">BY RICH PASSAN</div>CLEVELAND&mdash;It was almost too good to be true. Nearly half the World Hockey Association season had been completed and nary a coach had been tired.Then the axe fell. Squarely on the neck of Crusaders&rsquo; coach John Hanna, who was relieved of his duties late on the night of Jan. 3 in the offices of general manager Jack Vivian. Hanna had piloted the Cs to a 14-18-1 record and second place in tne bast Division, out the club had not played well consistently. The wolves began baying. Vivian excused Hanna, his hand-pick choice last May, from the bench chores and appointed himself amidst heavy criticism from the local press. But the team continued its downward flight.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01194/3329856-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="288" height="474"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pat Stapleton</figcaption></div>Hanna, who said he saw the move coming for three weeks, called the dismissal &ldquo;a grave injustice. They never game me a chance to show my ability. I think Mr. Vivian made a mistake by letting me go.&rdquo;Vivian, who said Hanna &ldquo;was not a bad coach&rdquo;, claimed the Crusaders &ldquo;were in a rut playing-wise and attitude-wise. The club has not been going well.&rdquo; was the way he defended the decision. &ldquo;John was a victim of circumstances. The team was not living up to its expectations or ability.&rdquo;Hanna was &ldquo;flabbergasted. I will leave my coaching ability up to the players.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The easiest thing for me to do is blame somebody or make a pile of excuses and cry sour grapes. The players wanted to win. They tried.&rdquo;Hanna said he suspected Vivian always wanted to coach a major league hockey club. But he didn&rsquo;t think it would happen as soon as it did.The deposed bench boss blamed several factors for his club&rsquo;s disappointing start, the worst in the club&rsquo;s history. &ldquo;We had problems with our building, five postponements and a large number of games on the road.&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;We were just starting to get settled when this happened.&rdquo;Hanna, a 20-year veteran defenseman before he hung up the skates, was relieved after the first game of a sevengame home stand. &ldquo;I was hoping they would wait until after the home stand before making a decision.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The players were home with their families for the first time this season and I saw some good signs.&rdquo;Vivian, who became Cleveland&rsquo;s first general manager in the summer of 1973, came here from the campus of Bowling Green State University, where he built a nationally strong hockey program from nothing.The 33-year-old Vivian, who fired Bill Needham as the Cs&rsquo; coach last May. is a strict disciplinarian and will run a tighter ship than Hanna, considered too soft by some of his players, players.&ldquo;You judge me by the way they play,&rdquo; said Vivian. &ldquo;If they play for me. fine. If they win. fine. Ifthey don&rsquo;t, then I&rsquo;m in trouble. I&rsquo;ve put my career on the line.&rdquo;Vivian said the firing &mdash; &ldquo;the hardest thing I ever did in my life&rdquo; &mdash; was not premature. &ldquo;When would such a decision be considered premature?&rdquo; he queried. &ldquo;If the ingredients and signs are there, then you have to make a decision.&ldquo;How long have we said this was a talented hockey club? All year. When did the telltale signs begin to show? Two or three weeks ago. We were the second-lowest scoring team in the league and ranked 13th out of 14 teams on the power-play.&rdquo;Thus, the change, unpopular with the Cleveland fans, was made. Vivian became only the third coach and general manager &mdash; Johnny Wilson of Michigan and Vancouver&rsquo;s Joe Crozier are the others &mdash; in the WHA.In his coaching debut, the Crusaders played brutally and lost to San Diego. 2-0. on Jan. 4. The next day they played much better, but lost to the Toronto Toros, 4-3.During Hanna&rsquo;s last appearance behind the bench, a 4-1 victory over the Indianapolis Racers, the club suffered a large setback when defenseman Paul Shmyr sustained a broken right collarbone and will miss at least two months.The two-time WHA All Star backliner was trying to clear the puck in his own end and collided, but not that hard, with Racer Jim Wiste. It appeared as though Wiste&rsquo;s stick made contact with Shmyr&rsquo;s shoulder, but not in a deliberate fashion.INDIANAPOLIS: For the first time in a long time, the Racers did not make any player changes. The roster is&rsquo;frozen at a ponderous 24. however.The Racers&rsquo; winless streak on the road has reached 13, but they have some to go catch the leader in this department. That&rsquo;s because Michigan is winless in its last 18 ventures On foreign ice and still going strong.Despite the Racers&rsquo; woes &mdash; they are 6-31-2 halfway through their initial campaign &mdash; there is no indication coach Gerry Moore is in jeopardy of losing his job.New president and general manager Jim Browitt is talking to Edmonton GM Bill Hunter about center iceman Ron Buchanan, who recently retired because he wanted to go back to the United States.NEW ENGLAND: The Whalers finished their Springfield portion of the schedule this season with an 11-2 record. exeeding the expectations of club GM Jack Kelley.&ldquo;The Big E (in Springfield) certainly didn&rsquo;t hurt our performance,&rdquo; said Kelley, whose club finally broke a six-game winless streak with a victory in I oronto over the Toros.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-02135/3329849-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="570" height="488"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK VIVIAN &hellip;Assumes Coaching Role</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not suprised at the record in Springfield because we have always been a good home team, but hoping for an 11-2 record would have been a little optimistic, I&rsquo;m extremely pleased.&rdquo;Now it son to Hartford, the Whalers&rsquo; first permanent home, after spending the first two-plus campaigns as orphans. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good feeling.&rdquo; said Kelley, &ldquo;to move into a facility that&rsquo;s all your own.&rdquo;The injury jinx continues to plague the Whalers. Center iceman Terry Caffery has a pulled stomach muscle and defenseman Rick Ley is laid up with pulled groin muscle. And left winger Al Karlander reinjured his ankle so badly it was placed in a cast and will remain there until mid-February.CHICAGO: Cougars&rsquo; public relations director Mike Haggerty resigned his post after having differences with Whitey Stapleton. the club&rsquo;s new majority owner&hellip; Stapleton said he never planned to move the Cougars to Schererville. Ind., as he threatened when he was negotiating to buy the club&hellip; The Cougars&rsquo; offices have been moved to suburban Carol Stream, the site of one of Stapleton&rsquo;s rinks. &#9632;

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Axe Falls On Crusaders’ Hanna; Injuries Continue To Hit Whalers

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01201/3330034-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="598" height="684"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-40/3330041-1-eng-US/f0026-402.jpg" title="f0026-40" width="149" height="192"></div>Sun. Jan. 5NEW ENGLAND 3. MINNESOTA 9</div><div style="clear: both;"></div>CHICAGO 3, EDMONTON 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02149/3330027-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="592" height="430"></div>PHOENIX 2, INDIANAPOLIS 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03118/3330020-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="592" height="407"></div>Tue. Jan. 7MINNESOTA 4, CHICAGO 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0489/3330013-1-eng-US/f0026-042.jpg" title="f0026-04" width="598" height="458"></div>WINNIPEG 4, CLEVELAND 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0571/3330006-1-eng-US/f0026-052.jpg" title="f0026-05" width="602" height="668"></div>VANCOUVER 2, INDIANAPOLIS 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0654/3329999-1-eng-US/f0026-062.jpg" title="f0026-06" width="592" height="540"></div>PHOENIX 3, TORONTO 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0744/3329992-1-eng-US/f0026-072.jpg" title="f0026-07" width="592" height="492"></div>NEW ENGLAND 3. SAN DIEGO 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0836/3329985-1-eng-US/f0026-082.jpg" title="f0026-08" width="592" height="492"></div>QUEBEC 3, MICHIGAN 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-0931/3329978-1-eng-US/f0026-092.jpg" title="f0026-09" width="592" height="548"></div>Wed. Jan. 8VANCOUVER 3, QUEBEC 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-1028/3329971-1-eng-US/f0026-102.jpg" title="f0026-10" width="596" height="524"></div>Thu. Jan. 9NEW ENGLAND 1, PHOENIX 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-1126/3329964-1-eng-US/f0026-112.jpg" title="f0026-11" width="596" height="576"></div>WINNIPEG 4, MICHIGAN 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-1221/3329957-1-eng-US/f0026-122.jpg" title="f0026-12" width="584" height="436"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-1321/3329950-1-eng-US/f0026-132.jpg" title="f0026-13" width="596" height="234"></div>MINNESOTA 2, EDMONTON 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-1417/3329943-1-eng-US/f0026-142.jpg" title="f0026-14" width="598" height="582"></div>Fri. Jan. 10INDIANAPOLIS 3, EDMONTON 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-1515/3329936-1-eng-US/f0026-152.jpg" title="f0026-15" width="593" height="638"></div>VANCOUVER 4, CLEVELAND 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-1611/3329929-1-eng-US/f0026-162.jpg" title="f0026-16" width="590" height="144"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-179/3329922-1-eng-US/f0026-172.jpg" title="f0026-17" width="592" height="550"></div>QUEBEC 6, WINNIPEG 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-189/3329915-1-eng-US/f0026-182.jpg" title="f0026-18" width="588" height="722"></div>SAN DIEGO 3, TORONTO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-199/3329908-1-eng-US/f0026-192.jpg" title="f0026-19" width="594" height="488"></div>MICHIGAN 2, CHICAGO 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-207/3329901-1-eng-US/f0026-202.jpg" title="f0026-20" width="590" height="498"></div>Sat. Jan. 11PHOENIX 4, HOUSTON 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-216/3329894-1-eng-US/f0026-212.jpg" title="f0026-21" width="596" height="670"></div>SAN DIEGO 3, NEW ENGLAND 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-225/3329887-1-eng-US/f0026-222.jpg" title="f0026-22" width="582" height="492"></div> &#9632;

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World Hockey Association Summaries

(Standings on Tue. Jan. 14)<h2>CANADIAN DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-372/3330184-1-eng-US/f0026-372.jpg" title="f0026-37" width="536" height="197"></div><h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-382/3330177-1-eng-US/f0026-382.jpg" title="f0026-38" width="535" height="169"></div><h2>WEST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-392/3330170-1-eng-US/f0026-392.jpg" title="f0026-39" width="533" height="200"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tue. Jan. 7Minnesota 4 at Chicago 2; Winnipeg 4 at Cleveland 4; Vancouver 2 at Indianapolis 4; Phoenix 3 at Toronto 2; New England 3 at San Diego 5; Quebec 3 at Michigan 2.Wed. Jan. 8Vancouver 3 at Quebec 4.Thu. Jan. 9New England 1 at Phoenix 1; Winnipeg 4 at Michigan 5; Minnesota 2 at Edmonton 3Fri. Jan. 10Indianapolis 3 at Edmonton 3; Vancouver 4 at Cleveland 6; Quebec 6 at Winnipeg 1. San Diego 3 at Toronto 4; Michigan 2 at Chicago 5.Sat. Jan. 11Phoenix 4 at Houston 6; San Diego 3 at New England 4.Sun. Jan. 12Toronto 7 at Houston 4; Phoenix 2 at Cleveland 4. Vancouver at Minnesota (postponed): Indianapolis at Winnipeg (postponed); San Diego at Michigan (postponed).<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Tue. Jan. 14Indianapolis at Michigan; Toronto at San Diego: Quebec at Vancouver; Phoenix at ChicagoWed. Jan. 15Toronto at Phoenix. Edmonton at Houston; Minnesota at Cleveland; Vancouver at Winnipeg; Chicago at New England.Thu. Jan. 16Cleveland at Indianapolis; Edmonton at San Diego; Chicago at Michigan.Fri. Jan. 17Edmonton at Phoenix; Toronto at New England.Sat. Jan. 18Edmonton at Phoenix; Houston at San Diego; New England at Quebec; Minnesota at Chicago; Michigan at Cleveland.Sun. Jan. 19Cleveland at Winnipeg; Indianapolis at Vancouver; Minnesota at New England.Tue. Jan. 21All Star game at Edmonton.Wed. Jan. 22Vancouver at Minnesota; Chicago at Phoenix; Indianapolis at Winnipeg.Thu.Jan. 23Chicago at Indianapolis; Toronto at Michigan; Vancouver at San Diego; Cleveland at QuebecFri. Jan. 24Toronto at Minnesota: Houston at Edmonton; New England at Phoenix; Winnipeg at Vancouver.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-235/3330163-1-eng-US/f0026-232.jpg" title="f0026-23" width="251" height="285"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-243/3330156-1-eng-US/f0026-242.jpg" title="f0026-24" width="210" height="276"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-252/3330149-1-eng-US/f0026-252.jpg" title="f0026-25" width="248" height="238"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-262/3330142-1-eng-US/f0026-262.jpg" title="f0026-26" width="254" height="258"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-272/3330135-1-eng-US/f0026-272.jpg" title="f0026-27" width="242" height="242"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-282/3330128-1-eng-US/f0026-282.jpg" title="f0026-28" width="316" height="228"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-292/3330121-1-eng-US/f0026-292.jpg" title="f0026-29" width="258" height="250"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-302/3330114-1-eng-US/f0026-302.jpg" title="f0026-30" width="262" height="246"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-312/3330107-1-eng-US/f0026-312.jpg" title="f0026-31" width="226" height="218"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-322/3330100-1-eng-US/f0026-322.jpg" title="f0026-32" width="275" height="197"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-332/3330093-1-eng-US/f0026-332.jpg" title="f0026-33" width="196" height="249"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-342/3330086-1-eng-US/f0026-342.jpg" title="f0026-34" width="299" height="235"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-362/3330079-1-eng-US/f0026-362.jpg" title="f0026-36" width="241" height="240"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-352/3330072-1-eng-US/f0026-352.jpg" title="f0026-35" width="305" height="300"></div> &#9632;

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WHA Scoreboard

WINNIPEG<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01184/3330327-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="586" height="601"></div>HOUSTON<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-02144/3330320-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="586" height="546"></div>QUEBEC<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-03110/3330313-1-eng-US/f0027-032.jpg" title="f0027-03" width="588" height="544"></div>VANCOUVER<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0496/3330306-1-eng-US/f0027-042.jpg" title="f0027-04" width="585" height="603"></div>CHICAGO<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0580/3330299-1-eng-US/f0027-052.jpg" title="f0027-05" width="589" height="600"></div>SAN DIEGO<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0669/3330292-1-eng-US/f0027-062.jpg" title="f0027-06" width="582" height="371"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0762/3330285-1-eng-US/f0027-072.jpg" title="f0027-07" width="587" height="169"></div>TORONTO<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0858/3330278-1-eng-US/f0027-082.jpg" title="f0027-08" width="589" height="633"></div>EDMONTON<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-0957/3330271-1-eng-US/f0027-092.jpg" title="f0027-09" width="586" height="578"></div>MINNESOTA<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1054/3330264-1-eng-US/f0027-102.jpg" title="f0027-10" width="585" height="578"></div>CLEVELAND<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1146/3330257-1-eng-US/f0027-112.jpg" title="f0027-11" width="590" height="607"></div>INDIANAPOLIS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1240/3330250-1-eng-US/f0027-122.jpg" title="f0027-12" width="584" height="691"></div>PHOENIX<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1335/3330243-1-eng-US/f0027-132.jpg" title="f0027-13" width="589" height="548"></div>NEW ENGLAND<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1431/3330236-1-eng-US/f0027-142.jpg" title="f0027-14" width="586" height="289"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1527/3330229-1-eng-US/f0027-152.jpg" title="f0027-15" width="584" height="290"></div>MICHIGAN<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1622/3330222-1-eng-US/f0027-162.jpg" title="f0027-16" width="588" height="579"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-1719/3330215-1-eng-US/f0027-172.jpg" title="f0027-17" width="562" height="844"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY LUND&hellip;Top Aero</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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WHA’s Team Scoring, Penalty Statistics

<h2>CLEVELAND</h2>GOALGerry CheeversBob WhiddenDEFENSERay ClearwaterTom EdurLarry HillmanWayne MuloinWayne HillmanCENTERJim HarrisonRich LeducRon WardJohn Stewart*R. WINGTerry Holbrook *Skip KrakeAl McDonoughRon AndersonRuss WalkerL. WINGSteve CardwellGrant EricksonGarry JarrettGerry PinderINJUREDPaul Shmy<h2>CHICAGO</h2>GOALDave DrydenCam NewtonDEFENSEBryon Baltimore*Darryl MaggsLarry MavetyPat StapletonDune MacCallumCENTERRalph BackstromPete Mara*Gary MacGregor*Rod ZaineLou AngottiR. WINGMark Lomenda *Duke HarrisRosaire PaiementDon GordonL. WINGBob LiddingtonRick MorrisJan PopielFrankie RochonINJUREDNone.<h2>EDMONTON</h2>GOALKen BrownChris WorthyJacques PlanteDEFENSEDoug BarrieRay McKayMurray Kennett *Barry LongJim McCrimmonCENTEREddie JoyalRoss PerkinsMike Rogers *Bobby SheehanR. WINGBlair MacDonaldBruce MacGregorRusty PatenaudeL. WINGRon ClimieTom GilmoreDon HerrimanKen BairdINJUREDSteve CarlyleAl Hamilton<h2>HOUSTON</h2>GOALWayne RutledgeRon GrahameDEFENSELarry HaleMarty HoweGlen Irwin*Poul PopielJohn SchellaCENTERGord LabossiereLarry LundTerry RuskowskiJim SherritR. WINGMurray HallGordie HoweFrank HughesDon Larway *L. WINGAndre HinseMark HoweTed TaylorBill Preston*INJUREDNone.<h2>INDIANPOLIS</h2>GOALAndy BrownEd DyckDEFENSEDick ProceviatRoger CoteBob WoytowichJim HargreavesCraig Hanmer*Bob AshBilly HortonKen DesjardineCENTERBob FitchnerBob SicinskiBob Whitlock*Jacques LocasJohn Sheridan*R. WINGRoss Smith*Nick HarbarukBrian McDonaldRich PumpleL. WINGJim WisteKerry Bond*Joe HardvJim JohnsonINJUREDNone.<h2>MICHIGAN</h2>GOALGerry DesjardinsPaul HogansonJim McLeodDEFENSEPaul CurtisLarry JohnstonJohn MiszukArnie BrownRandy Legge*Jerry ZrymiakCENTERJ.P. LeblancSteve West*Reg ThomasR. WINGTom ServissGary Bredin*Steve Andrascik.Alain CaronL. WINGSteve Richardson*Gary VeneruzzoCraig ReichmuthBilly Evo*INJUREDPierre GuiteDanny Gruen*<h2>MINNESOTA</h2>GOALMike CurranJohn GarrettJack McCartanDEFENSEJohn ArbourTerry BallRon BusniukPat Westrum*Rick SmithMike McMahonCENTERTed HampsonDanny O&rsquo;SheaFran HuckMike AntonovichGary GambucciR. WINGMike WaltonWayne ConnellyKevin O&rsquo;SheaJoe RobertsonL. WINGMurray HeatleyGeorge MorrisonDon TannahillGord GallantINJUREDNone.<h2>NEW ENGLAND</h2>GOALAl SmithC. Abrahamsson *DEFENSET. Abrahamsson *Paul HurleyBrad SeiwoodTed GreenCENTERLarry PleauGary Swain*Bob CharleboisR. WINGMike ByersFred O&rsquo;DonnellTim SheehyTom EarlTom WebsterL. WINGWayne CarletonDon BlackburnJohn FrenchNick Fotiu*INJUREDRick LeyAl KarlanderTerry Caffery<h2>PHOENIX</h2>GOALGarry KurtBruce AberhartDEFENSEAl MacLeod*Wendell BennettGerry OdrowskiMike Stevens*Jim NiekampJohn Hughes*CENTERJim Boyd*Murray KeoganDennis SobchukR. WINGHowie YoungCam Connor*John Gray*Bob Mowat *L. WINGMichel Cormier *Don Borgeson*John MigneaultPete McNamee*Bob BarlowINJUREDJack Norris<h2>QUEBEC</h2>GOALSerge AubryRichard BrodeurDEFENSEDale HogansonRic JordanPierre RoyJ.C. TremblayFrancois LacombeJean Bernier *CENTERSerge BernierAndre GaudetteJeannot GilbertMichel ParizeauChris BordeleauR. WINGRene LeclercReal Cloutier*Rejean HouleJean Garneau *L. WINGBobby GuindonMarc TardifSteve SutherlandINJUREDNone.<h2>SAN DIEGO</h2>GOALRuss GillowErnie WakelyDEFENSERon PlumbKen BlockHarry HowellBob FalkenbergKevin MorrisonCENTERAndre LacroixRay Adduono *Brian MorenzMike LaughtonMike RouleauR. WINGRick SentesWayne RiversTed ScharfNorm FergusonL. WINGBrian BradleyGene PeacoshTom Trevelyan *INJUREDBob Wall<h2>TORONTO</h2>GOALGilles GrattonLes BinkleyJim Shaw*DEFENSEMike AmodeoRick CunninghamSteve CuddieJim Turkiewicz*George Kuzmicz*Brian GibbonsJim DoreyCENTERRichard Farda*Gavin KirkVaclav NedomanskyWayne DillonR. WINGTony FeatherstoneTom MartinTom SimpsonL. WINGPaul HendersonFrank MahovlichPat HickeyGordie Titcomb*INJUREDBrit SelbyBob Leduc<h2>VANCOUVER</h2>GOALDon McLeodWayne Wood*DEFENSE *Jim CardiffDon McCullochMike PelykPat Price*Duane RuppPaul TerbencheCENTERBryan CampbellRon Chipperfield*Claude St. SauveurRob WaltonR. WINGDanny LawsonJohn McKenzieJimmy Jones *L. WINGDon BurgessButch DeadmarshJohn ShmyrHugh HarrisINJUREDPete Donnelly<h2>WINNIPEG</h2>GOALJoe DaleyCurt Larsson*DEFENSELarry HornungDuke AsmundsonHeikki Riihiranta*Lars-Erik Sjoberg*Thommie BergmanPerry Miller*Alain BeauleCENTERDanny SpringVeli Ketola *Ulf Nilsson*R. WINGNorm BeaudinMilt BlackJean&mdash;Guy GrattonRon SnellAnders Hedberg*L. WINGMike Ford *Ron AshtonBobby HullDanny JohnsonINJUREDNone. &#9632;

WHA TEAM ROSTERS

<div class="byline">BY DOUG McCONNELL</div>Fran Huck scored three times and Mike Walton twice in a 9-3 triumph over the New England Whalers which was the Saints&rsquo; eighth victory in the last 10 games.The surge moved the Saints to third spot, one point ahead of San Diego and four behind Phoenix.The Saints continue to score in bunches, downing the Cleveland Crusaders 6-2 earlier in the week, breaking open the 2-2 tie with a four-goal outburst.HOUSTON: Larry Lund wasn&rsquo;t satisfied to just pass out cigars like most new fathers.Lund celebrated the birth of his son, Erik Laurence, with a hat-trick against the Michigan Stags. The child was the first for the 34-year-old center and wife Sharon.Lund has 20 goals and 32 assists for 52 points.The Aeros have won six in a row, tying a club record and maintaining a healthy hold on the WHA Western Division lead of 12 points over second place Phoenix.PHOENIX: Gary Kurt had his recordsetting winning streak of 10 games and his unbeaten string of 12 broken in a 3-2 overtime loss in Vancouver but the big netminder bounced back for a tie and a victory in his next two games (3-3 at Edmonton and 2-1 at Indianapolis) to lower his goals-against average to 2.91, third best in the WHA.Kurt is also tied for most victories, 14, with Houston&rsquo;s Ron Grahame and Vancouver&rsquo;s Don McLeod.Howie Young, who had not dressed for seven games and has only played a few shifts in the past 13, scored the winning goal and set up the earlier score in the 2-1 victory at Indianapolis.The 1-1 tie at Detroit, the 3-2 loss at Vancouver and the 3-3 tie at Edmonton sent the Roadrunners onto three consecutive overtime games in a span of four nights. Their victory at Indianapolis was their fifth road game in seven days and their seventh game in 10 days.SAN DIEGO: The San Diego Mariners, who have dropped to fourth place in the World Hockey Association West, picked up two players in trades, called up two from their Syracuse farm team and sent five to the Blazers in the North American Hockey League.The Mariners purchased goaltender Ernie Wakely from the Winnipeg Jets to fill a postion in which coach Harry Howell has been disappointed.Wakely, 34, had a 2.70 goals-against avergage and a 3-3-0 record in six games. If he had enough appearances, he&rsquo;d be ranked third in goaltenders&rsquo; averages.DETROIT: The Stags, who obtained Michel Rouleau from the Quebec Nordiques in a multi-player swap just a couple of weeks ago, traded him to the San Diego Mariners for winger Craig Reichmuth.J.P. Leblanc scored twice and Gary Bredin once in the final five minutes to give the Stags a 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Blazers.LeBlanc&rsquo;s second goal was into an empty net with 17 seconds remaining, the Stags&rsquo; first empty net goal of the seasonMovements of Players &#9632;

Huck, Walton Keep Fiqhting Saints On The March

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U. S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaSPRINGFIELD &mdash;&ldquo;I kind of got my head together and settled down.&rdquo;That&rsquo;s how Tom Cassidy explains re-emergence as a hockey player.There was some question as to his future in the game after last season in which he totaled 15 goals, 19 assists and 18 penalty minutes while with Salt Lake City of the Western League and Springfield of the American League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01142/3330413-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="262" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Campbell</figcaption></div>There&rsquo;s a new Tom Cassidy skaing for the Springfield Kings this season.Shortly before the 1974-75 season reached the halfway point, the new Tom Cassidy had 10 goals, a leagueleading 30 assists and 142 penalty minutes &mdash; one behind leader Rick Foley of Syracuse.The new breed of cats playing hockey these days often are quick to point the finger at everybody but themselves when things don&rsquo;t work out quite right.Not Cassidy. He accepts most of the blame for his &ldquo;season to forget&rdquo;.After seasons of 42 goals and 62 assists and 32 goals and 44 assists for the Kitchener Ranger Juniors, Cassidy was drafted first both by California of the National Hockey League and the Chicago Cougars of the World Hockey Association in 1972.&ldquo;After that, I thought I had the world by the tail,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I figured 1 didn&rsquo;t have to work at it. I just wanted to go to the NHL so I never hardly listened to the Cougars whatsoever. But when I went to the Seals&rsquo; training camp, I had a very, very bad camp.&rdquo;Cassidy had such a poor camp he wasn&rsquo;t even assigned to the Seals&rsquo; farm club in Salt Lake for his first pro season. He was loaned to Baltimore of the AHL and had 21 goals and 32 assists which he describes as &ldquo;a fairly good year for a fairly poor club&rdquo;.He went back to California&rsquo;s camp last season &ldquo;and I thought I had a good camp, but they had signed so many to one-way contracts that the handwriting was on the wall. I went to Salt Lake but things just didn&rsquo;t work out.&ldquo;I finally just sat out and didn&rsquo;t play or practice. I&rsquo;d had it with the organization. I&rsquo;d made it known I&rsquo;d really love to be traded and the good news came just a day or so before the deadline last spring after I&rsquo;d been sitting around off skates for about six weeks.&rdquo;Cassidy was traded to Los Angeles for defenseman Brian Erickson, who since jumped to the WHA.&ldquo;That was pretty much a wasted year, that&rsquo;s for sure. The trade gave me a new lease on life though. I thought 1 had a good camp for Los Angeles and 1 was one of the last cuts.&ldquo;If you have the talent, the whole thing is hard work, something I didn&rsquo;t believe I had to do before. I guess I&rsquo;m just finally realizing what it&rsquo;s all about.&rdquo;PROVIDENCE: The Reds would just as soon have had 1974 continue for a while longer. They certainly didn&rsquo;t enjoy the start of &lsquo;75 &mdash; losing their first three games.As 1974 drew to a close, coach John Muckier&rsquo;s skaters were on an 11-game undefeated streak, goalie Glen Seperich was unbeaten in 11 starts in the nets and the Reds hadn&rsquo;t lost a home game this season.All of these were wiped out in the first three days of 1975. The Rochester Americans took care of both the overall streak and Seperich with a 5-3 victory New Year&rsquo;s Day in Rochester. And Nova Scotia edged the Reds two nights later in Providence. A loss in Hershey the next night made it three straight defeats, matching the total for the first 32 games.The defeat in Rochester prevented the Reds from tying the all-time club record for consecutive games without a loss.The original record was set in 1948-49 when the Reds won nine and tied three. They matched at the outset of this season with 10 triumphs and two ties.Jerry Holland is within range of the AHL record for goals by a rookie. With 26 before the halfway point in the season, he was only 16 away from the record of 42 set by Wally Hargasheimerof Cleveland in 1950-51 and tied by Doug Volmar of Springfield in 1970-71.Ken Campbell, who suffered a broken hand right after the season opener, didn&rsquo;t score his first goal until Dec. 13 because he was sidelined. But he tallied eight goals in the next 11 games.NOVA SCOTIA: The Voyageurs literally fought their way into 1975.It all started Jan. 2 during the third period against New Haven in Halifax. There were 106 penalty minutes called in the period as five separate fights broke out at different times in the first 12 minutes.Gord McTavish of the Vees and Lowell Ostlund of the Nighthawks started it off at 1:49, with McTavish also getting a 10-minute misconduct. Then Louis Chiasson of Nova Scotia went at it with Dennis Giannini at 5:07, followed by a wild melee at 7:33 for which Sean Shanahan of the Vees was given a major and a misconduct, teammate Gilles Lupien earned a major and a game misconduct and Ostlund collected two more majors and a game misconduct.McTavish won the game with a goal with a minute remaining in suddendeath overtime.Two nights later in Providence, the Voyageurs had three more fights and again won 4-3.They didn&rsquo;t need the rough stuff against Springfield on the 5th, hammering the Kings 7-0 with three goals in the first period and four in the third. Ron Andruff scored his 21st goal of the season in the rout and Shanahan had his second game-winner in a row.ROCHESTER: Coach Dick Mattiussis Amerks did something New Year&rsquo;s Night that very few Rochester teams have done during 19 seasons in the AHL. They won.When the Americans bounced Providence 5-3 in Rochester Jan. I. it was only the second New Year&rsquo;s Night victory on home ice in history. Amerk teams had won once, lost five times and tied one at home. On the road, they were 1-3-1 for Jan. 1 games.Handyman Rod Graham was summoned to the Boston Bruins and Dave Hynes was returned to the Amerks. Hynes, who had gone up after the Nov. 15 game, marked his return by scoring four goals in four games in the space of five nights. Despite missing 17 games. Hynes&rsquo; outburst gave him 12 AHL goals this season and tied him for fourth place on the Amerks.Penalty shots may be rare, but the Amerks ran into two of them on successive nights and escaped without yielding a goal. Goaltender Dave Reece stopped Dale Lewis of Springfield Jan. 4 in Springfield, and goalie Bob Sneddon watched Morris Stefaniw of Baltimore shoot wide of the net the following night in Rochester.NEW HAVEN: Overtimes cost the Nighthawks a couple of points in the first few days of 1975.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-02114/3330406-1-eng-US/f0029-022.jpg" title="f0029-02" width="546" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM CASSIDY &hellip;Flop With Seals</figcaption></div>They began Jan. 2 by losing a 4-3 match in Halifax when the Nova Scotia Voyageurs scored with a minute to go in the suddendeath overtime.Then after surprising Rochester 7-4 the following night in New Haven, coach Dean Prentice&rsquo;s men held a 3-2 lead over Richmond as the final minutes started ticking off in New Haven on the 5th. But Randy Wyrozub tied it with 52 seconds to play and Ron Anderson won it for the Robins after only 36 seconds of overtime play.A bright spot for the Nighthawks was the play of goalie Brian Holderness against Rochester. He went into the game with a 1-7-2 record and a goals against average of 4.27, but he held off the Amerks&rsquo; third-period surge in which they poured 21 shots on goal to only six for New Haven. He gave up one goal in the period as the Nighthawks protected a lead. &#9632;

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Cassidy Gets New Lease On Life With Kings After Wasted Season

<div class="byline">BY JERRY LINDQUIST</div>RICHMOND&mdash;Call them the Soviet All Stars, which they weren&rsquo;t. Or Wings of the Soviet, which they were. No matter.The Russian hockey players who played the Richmond Robins, attracting the season&rsquo;s largest crowd (8,174) at the Coliseum, scored a 4-2 victory and in the process impressed practically no one.&ldquo;They weren&rsquo;t as good as I expected,&rdquo; said defenseman Joe Lundrigan.&ldquo;They didn&rsquo;t impress me,&rdquo; said Jack McIlhargey.&ldquo;They could have put on a better exhibition than that, eh?&rdquo; said Larry Goodenough.What the Robins did was intimidate the Wings, USSR national champions of a season ago, now second back home and being treated rather rudely by the Soviet press for not playing up to their potential.Richmond came out hitting, and while they couldn&rsquo;t skate with the Wings, they matched them stick check for stick check, slash for slash, cross check for cross check, and threw in a few solid body bumps as well.By the third period the Russians were pulling up, ducking potential contact, and coach Boris Kulagin admitted his team &ldquo;ran out of gas.&rdquo; He attributed it to &ldquo;four games in five days.&rdquo;Larry Wilson, the Richmond coach, suggested a four or five game series would be a more reasonable indication of the teams&rsquo; comparative strengths. &ldquo;I think we&rsquo;d win it, too,&rdquo; Wilson said, &ldquo;once we became more accustomed to their style.&rdquo;&ldquo;We knew we were going to take on a strong opponent,&rdquo; Kulagin said via a fellow Russian interpreter. &ldquo;We have high respect for professional hockey players. We did not expect an easy victory here.&rdquo;Kulagin emphasized the word professional. By their own definition, there is no such thing as a paid player in the Soviet Union. All athletes there are supposedly amateurs.Nevertheless, the Wings did outshoot the Robins, 40-26, the margin of victory a pair of unanswered first-period goals by Vjacheslav Anisin and Sergei Glukhov, both from outside 20 feet. Goaltender Graham Parsons blamed himself for the first, a shot that nicked the inside of his glove hand and darted by him into the net.For the home team, Jean Payette (0:31 of the second period) and Bob Gryp (16:28 of the third) collected the goals &ldquo;and we could have had more. We had other good chances,&rdquo; said Mcllhargey, the Richmond captain.Seven Wings, including their first line of Anisin, captain Juri Lepedev, and Aleksandr Bodunov, were members of the USSR National team that crushed Team Canada &lsquo;74. Bodunov picked up a goal and three assists against the Robins. His line was by far the most effective and why not? They&rsquo;ve been playing together since 1966.&ldquo;They were scared,&rdquo; said Goodenough who proved especially agressive throughout the game. &ldquo;But they play smart hockey. They don&rsquo;t even look to make a pass&hellip; but they don&rsquo;t like to be hit.&rdquo;From Richmond, the Wings went to Hershey where the Bears played an aggressive game, too, and won, 10-7. The home team led, 6-1 after the first 20 minutes only to watch the Russians pull even at six in the third period.The eight-game, seven stop series wound up 4-3-1, Wings, as they capped the two-week swing around the American Hockey League with an 8-3 romp in Providence before the series&rsquo; largest crowd (10,006).In all, total attendance was 51,000 for the eight games, with the Wings guaranteed a minimum of $15,000 per game. They outscored the opposition. 49-33.HERSHEY: Captain Billy Inglis and Bernie Lukowich each scored three goals against the Russians. Derek Smith had two, Harvey Bennett and Dean Sheremeta one each&hellip; Crowd was 7,273 sell-out&hellip; Buffalo returned Jack Surbey after brief stay but kept Morris Titanic to replace injured Rick Dudley&hellip; Paul McIntosh sidelined with injured elbow and Donnie Brennan brought up &mdash; again &mdash; from Charlotte (Southern) for two games.BALTIMORE: Defenseman Ken Murray taken under emergency conditions by Kansas City Scouts&hellip; Marc Dufour sidelined with injured tendon&hellip; Nagging injuries plagued veteran defenseman Kent Douglas&hellip; Four-goal third period brought 4-3 victory over visiting Hershey. Howie Menard and Gary Coalter started comeback. Bob Rivard finished it with two goals, the last 3:59 from the end.SYRACUSE: Eagles added Wayne Bianchin, left winger on loan from Pittsburgh. He was the Penguins&rsquo; No. 2 amateur draft choice two years ago&hellip; Also signed was veteran defenseman Butch Barber, the North American League&rsquo;s MVP of last season&hellip; Crowd of 4,400 saw Eagles routed, 9-1. by touring Russian team&hellip; Goals by Joe Noris, Dave Ferguson, and Barry Brooks gave Eagles 3-0 lead after one period in Richmond.&rsquo; They lost, 6-5, their 12th setback in 13 games. It marked second time that the Robins had come from three-goal deficit to beat Syracuse this year&hellip; Defensemen Wayne Lachance and Steve Warr still sidelined with injuries.RICHMOND&mdash; Rookie defenseman Norm Barnes brought back from Philadelphia (North American) Firebirds&hellip;Joe Lundrigan suspended one game by AHL president Jack Butterfield for run-in with linesman in Providence&hellip; Andre Peloffy on hot streak (nine goals, seven assists in eight games). Linemates Bob Sirois, John Paddock outstanding, too&hellip; Robins built overtime record to 2-0-1 with 4-3 decision in New Haven. Randy Wyrozub tied game 52 seconds from end of regulation time then Ron Anderson won it 36 seconds into sudden death.VIRGINIA: Center Nelson Pyatt returned after announcing retirement six weeks ago&hellip; Terry Clancy sent to Roanoke (Southern) on loan&hellip; With 11-5 victory in Baltimore, Wings set club record. Old mark for goals scored, one game was eight&hellip; Dennis Polonich. Bob Krieger, Mike Jakubo and Tom Mellor paced rout with two goals apiece&hellip; Coach Doug Barkley said defenseman Larry Giroux played a near-perfect game in 2-1 victory in Nova Scotia&hellip; Terry Richardson ready to return.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0386/3330444-1-eng-US/f0030-032.jpg" title="f0030-03" width="474" height="628"></div> &#9632;

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AHL Teams Extend Tourin? Russians

LEADING SCORERS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01167/3330482-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg" title="f0030-01" width="585" height="607"></div>GOALERS&rsquo; RECORDS MIN<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-02116/3330475-1-eng-US/f0030-022.jpg" title="f0030-02" width="588" height="660"></div> &#9632;

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AHL Leaders

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WEST SPRINGFIELD&mdash;It turned out to be a real &ldquo;bah humbug&rdquo; Christmas and New Year&rsquo;s holiday season for Gordon Anziano, the American Hockey League&rsquo;s vice president, secretary, public relations director and what-have-you.To retain his youthful trim. Anziano took up paddleball.Now paddleball is a strenuous game to be sure, but how many people wind up with a blood clot in their lung from playing it?Anziano did.It was the Friday afternoon before Christman and Anziano was participating in one of his usual Friday pleasures &mdash; paddleball &mdash; near his West Springfield. Mass., office.&ldquo;I was running to make a shot,&rdquo; he recalled, &ldquo;and I pulled a calf muscle in my left leg. 1 thought that was all there was to it.&ldquo;The next morning (Saturday), 1 went over to the Springfield Kings office and had trainer Eddie Tyburski lake a look at it. He iced it down, did some therapy and taped it.1 want to the Kings&rsquo; game that night and went to the AHL office Sunday morning like 1 usual do to see how the game reports are coming in. So far. everything was okay&hellip;I thought.&ldquo;1 was back home watching a game (football, not hockey because the hockey games hadn&rsquo;t started yet) on television when I suddenly got very warm,&rdquo; Anziano continued.&ldquo;1 got dizzy and I said to my wife, who was with our baby who had the flu, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m going to the porch to get some air.&rsquo; She asked me if something was wrong, and I said I was all right. I just got those words out when I hit the floor.&ldquo;1 crawled to the bathroom where she and the baby were. I couldn&rsquo;t talk or catch my breath. She called the West Springfield police and they were right there and took me to the hospital.&ldquo;Thanks to them. I&rsquo;m still here. I had very little or no blood pressure when I got to the hospital. It was diagnosed as a blood clot that had shaken loose from the tom muscles. It lodged in a lung.&rdquo;Anziano was kept in intensive care for a day and it was discovered that rather than a pulled muscle, he had a severe tear and more clots were discovered in the leg.He released from the hospital about a week later but will have to use crutches to get around probably until about the I5th of February. &#9632;

AHL Publicist Anziano On Mend After Brush With Paddleball

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>BALTIMORE &mdash;This seems to be crisis season in the American Hockey League.The Baltimore Clippers nearly dropped out of the league earlier and almost certainly would have had a proposed sale to interests wanting to put a World Hockey Association team in Baltimore gone through.But off-again-on-again negotiations ended on an off note and the Clippers are hanging on. Their future is anything but secure, however, as club owners have said they cannot continue unless fan support improves, and so far, not much improvement has been noted.So the Clippers may yet depart.While AHL president Jack Butterfield was keeping up with the Baltimore situation, another problem was breaking loose in his hometown of Springfield.It&rsquo;s no secret that the Los Angeles Kings are unhappy with the support, or rather the lack of it, their AHL Kings have been receiving. And there have been rumblings that Jack Kent Cooke would pull out after this season.But few expected the bombshell that hit the papers (the Springfield Union&rsquo;s Gene McCormick broke the story) the morning of Jan. 5.McCormick had learned that Los Angeles had threatened to pull out its 15 players (the other four on the Springfield team belong to California) effective Monday the 7th.While Cooke refused to comment on the report, it was learned from a variety of sources that the Kings were committed to play only the Rochester game on the 5th and in Nova Scotia the following night.Ironically, the story broke the day the New England Whalers were playing their final game in Springfield before moving to their new home in Hartford. Competition from the Whalers has been one of the reasons for poor turnouts (averaging about 2,500) for the American League games this season.The status of the Springfield franchise changed almost hourly over that weekend.Los Angeles decided to leave its 15 players in Springfield for the balance of the season and will pay their salaries.Eddie Shore, owner of the franchise who has been leasing it to Los Angeles, has assumed the day-to-day operation of the club and the other expenses of the organization.Shore, who did not rule out the possibility of suing Cooke and the Kings for breach of contract, said he was prepared to go it alone if the Kings had pulled out all their players. There even was talk of a draft from other teams in the league to stock Springfield had it been needed.It has been projected that Springfield stands to lose $600,000 this season. And even Shore hedges a bit in his promise to keep hockey alive in Springfield.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m making an earnest attempt to keep the team here, somehow, if public support warrants,&rdquo; he said.So the people in Springfield and Baltimore will have a lot to say about how many teams finish this season. &#9632;

Baltimore, Springfield Fighting For Hockey Existence

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Jan. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-01149/3330620-1-eng-US/f0031-012.jpg" title="f0031-01" width="590" height="406"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Jan. 7Hershey 1 at Virginia 7.Wed. Jan. 8Syracuse 5 at Hershey 3.Thu. Jan. 9Baltimore 2 at Nova Scotia 3; Providence 2 at Rochester 7.Fri. Jan. 10Rochester 5 at Providence 7; Hershey 1 at Richmond 2; Baltimore 2 at Springfield 10; New Haven 5 at Syracuse 3.Sat. Jan. 11Nova Scotia 5 at Hershey 5; Springfield 4 at New Haven 6, Richmond 2 at Virginia 5.Sun. Jan. 12Baltimore 0 at Providence 3; Virginia 1 at Richmond 7; Nova Scotia 2 at Rochester 2; New Haven 0 at Springfield 4; Hershey 4at Syracuse 6.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Jan. 14Baltimore at Virginia.Wed. Jan. 15Syracuse at Baltimore; Virginia at Hershey; Providence at New Haven.Thu. Jan. 16Rochester at Nova Scotia, Syracuse at Richmond.Fri. Jan. 17Hershey at Baltimore; Nova Scotia at Providence; New Haven at Rochester; Richmond at Springfield; Syracuse at Virginia.Sat Jan. 18Baltimore at Hershey; Providence at Springfield.Sun. Jan. 19Springfield at New Haven; Syracuse at Nova Scotia; Richmond at Providence; Baltimore at Rochester; Hershey at Virginia.Wed. Jan. 22New Haven at Baltimore; Richmond at Hershey; Rochester at Nova Scotia.Thu. Jan. 23New Haven at Richmond.Fri. Jan. 24Hershey at Syracuse; Rochester at Springfield; Virginia at Baltimore; Nova Scotia at Providence.Sat. Jan. 25Rochester at Baltimore; Syracuse at Hershey; Providence at Richmond; Nova Scotia at Springfield; New Haven at Virginia.Sun. Jan. 26Baltimore at New Haven; Springfield at Nova Scotia; Syracuse at Providence; Hershey at Rochester<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Jan. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-02113/3330613-1-eng-US/f0031-022.jpg" title="f0031-02" width="588" height="376"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Jan. 7Omaha 2 at Salt Lake 1.Wed. Jan. 8Dallas 2 at Tulsa 6.Thu. Jan. 9Salt Lake 4 at Fort Worth 3; Omaha 2 at Seattle.Fri. Jan. 10Tulsa 5 at Dallas 3; Denver 4 at Oklahoma City 5; Fort Worth at Omaha (postponed).Sat. Jan. 11Dallas 3 at Fort Worth 6; Salt Lake 4 at Oklahoma CityO; Denver4 at Tulsa5; Omahaat Seattle [postponed).Sun. Jan. 12Denver 2 at Dallas 5.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Jan. 14Seattle at Fort Worth; Dallas at Oklahoma City; Omaha at Tulsa.Wed. Jan. 15Seattle at Dallas; Denver at Omaha; Tulsa at Salt Lake.Thu. Jan. 16Seattle at Fort Worth.Fri. Jan. 17Tulsa at Oklahoma City; Fort Worth at Salt Lake.Sat. Jan. 18Seattle at Dallas; Fort Worth at Omaha.Sun. Jan. 19Seattle at Oklahoma City; Dallas at Omaha.<h2>QUEBEC MAJOR JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Thur Jan. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0394/3330606-1-eng-US/f0031-032.jpg" title="f0031-03" width="586" height="406"></div><h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Jan. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0475/3330599-1-eng-US/f0031-042.jpg" title="f0031-04" width="592" height="432"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tus Jan. 7Des Moines 0 at Lansing 6; Toledo 3 at Kalamazoo 2.Wed. Jan. 8Flint 1 at Columbus 7; Des Moines 1 at Dayton 7; Lansing 3 at Saginaw 4.Fri. Jan. 10Toledo 3 at Flint 5; Saginaw 6 at Des Moines 3; Port Huron 2 at Muskegon 4; Dayton 0 at Columbus 1; Fort Wayne 1 at Kalamazoo 4.Sat. Jan. 11Saginaw 3 at Des Moines 6; Fort Wayne 3 at Port Huron 10. Flint 5 at Muskegon 2; Columbus 2 at Dayton 5; Kalamazoo 2 at Lansing 3.Sun. Jan. 12Muskegon 2 at Port Huron 3; Dayton 2 at Flint 6; Lansing 2 at Columbus 7; Fort Wayne 2 at Toledo 2.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Jan. 14Saginaw at Kalamazoo.Wed. Jan. 15Dayton at Fort Worth; Port Huron at Toledo; Lansing at Muskegon; Saginaw at Columbus.Fri. Jan. 17Des Moines at Port Huron; Toledo at Lansing; Fort Wayne at Dayton; Flint at Kalamazoo; Muskegon at Columbus.<h2>NORTH AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Jan. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0563/3330592-1-eng-US/f0031-052.jpg" title="f0031-05" width="592" height="260"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Jan. 8Long Island 1 at Broome 3; Maine 0 at Syracuse 6; Mohawk Valley 6 at Philadelphia 7.Fri. Jan. 10Mohawk Valley 3 at Cape Codders 6; Long Island 6 at Maine 9; Syracuse 7 at Philadelphia 4; Johnstown 4 at Broome 6.Sat. Jan. 11Mohawk Valley 6 at Maine 5; Cape Codders 1 at Long Island 7; Broome 2 at Syracuse 5.Sun. Jan. 12Cape Codders 1 at Philadelphia 3; Long Island 5 at Broome 7.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Jan. 14Long Island at Philadelphia.Wed. Jan. 15Syracuse at Broome; Maine at Cape Codders; Johnstown at Long Island.Thu. Jan. 16Syracuse at Maine; Johnstown at Mohawk Valley.Fri. Jan. 17Syracuse at Mohawk Valley; Broome at Philadelphia.Sat. Jan. 18Cape Codders at Johnstown; Long Island at Maine.Sun. Jan. 19Cape Codders at Johnstown; Mohawk Valley at Long Island; Syracuse at Broome; Maine at Philadelphia<h2>SOUTHERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Jan. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0643/3330585-1-eng-US/f0031-062.jpg" title="f0031-06" width="592" height="180"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Mon. Jan. 6Charlotte 6 at Hampton 4.Tua. Jan. 7Roanoke Valley 6 at Charlotte 2.Wed. Jan. 8Hampton 5 at Greensboro 3.Thu. Jan. 9Charlotte 5 at Roanoke Valley 4; Greensboro 3 at Winston-Salem 9.Fri. Jan. 10Greensboro 3 at Charlotte 4.Sat. Jan. 11Charlotte 6 at Greensboro 5; Hampton 2 at Roanoke Valley 4.Sun. Jan. 12Hampton 5 at Winston-Salem 4.<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tue. Jan. 14Hampton at Charlotte.Wed. Jan. 15Charlotte at Greensboro; Winston-Salem at Hampton.Thu. Jan. 16Charlotte at Winston-Salem; Greensboro at Roanoke.Fri. Jan. 17Hampton at Charlotte; Roanoke at Greensboro.Sat. Jan. 18Winston-Salem at Roanoke.Sun. Jan. 19Roanoke at Charlotte; Greensboro at Winston-Salem. &#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--Vancouver. 22&mdash;Michigan. 23&mdash;Toronto. 24&mdash;Quebec, 25&mdash;Edmonton. 26&mdash;Houston. 27&mdash;Chicago. 28&mdash;Winnipeg. 29&mdash;Minnesota. 30&mdash;New England. 31&mdash;Indianapolis. 32&mdash;Phoenix. 33&mdash;Cincinnati.Inter-League: 34&mdash;Phoenix (WHA) & Vancouver (WHA). 35&mdash;Philadelphia (NHL) & Washington (NHL). 36&mdash;Los Angeles (NHL) & California (NHL)37&mdash;Minnesota (NHL) & N.Y. Islanders (NHL)38&mdash;Kansas City (NHL) & N.Y. Islanders (NHL).39&mdash;St. Louis (NHL), Montreal (NHL) & N.Y. Rangers (NHL). 40&mdash;Pittsburgh (NHL) & Buffalo (NHL). 41&mdash;Boston (NHL) & Washington (NHL). 42&mdash;New England (WHA) & Cleveland (WHA). 43&mdash;Buffalo (NHL), California (NHL) & Vancouver (WHA).44&mdash;Winnipeg, (WHA), Houston (WHA), Cleveland (WHA), Indianapolis (WHA), Phoenix (WHA)45&mdash;Michigan (WHA), N.Y. Islanders (NHL) & Quebec (WHA). 46&mdash;Edmonton (WHA) & N.Y. Rangers NHL). 47&mdash;Boston (NHL) &mdash; Washington (NHL).48&mdash;N.Y. Rangers (NHL) &mdash; Kansas City (NHL)49&mdash;Chicago (NHL) &mdash; Edmonton (WHA).50&mdash;Vancouver (NHL), Philadelphia (NHL) &mdash; Atlanta (NHL). 51&mdash;Indianapolis (WHA) &mdash; St. Louis (NHL). 52&mdash;Michigan (WHA) &mdash; San Diego (WHA). 53&mdash;New England (WHA) &mdash; Cleveland (WHA). 54&mdash;Indianapolis (WHA) &mdash; Toronto (WHA). 55&mdash;Buffalo (NHL), California (NHL) &mdash; Vancouver (WHA). 56&mdash;Winnipeg (WHA). Houston (WHA), 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

<div class="byline">BY TOM LOBAUGH</div>LOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaLOUISVILLE SLUGGERHOCKEY STICKSMade in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and CanadaSALT LAKE CITY&mdash;Scorekeepers wore out a few pencils as the Salt Lake Golden Eagles burned up the nets, scoring 16 goals in two games to strengthen their bid for first Diace in the Central League&rsquo;s Northern Division.A 6-1 home victory over Denver was followed by a 10-2 rout of Seattle in the Salt Palace, leaving the Eagles only three points belting Denver, with two games in hand, while the Scott Seagrist Spurs were faltering through a long, unhappy road grind.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01152/3330682-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg" title="f0032-01" width="296" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Scott Seagris</figcaption></div>It was the first time the Eagles had beaten the division leaders in five tries this season. Denver had won two previous clashes in Salt Lake, and the clubs had played two ties in the Denver Coliseum.OMAHA: Jerry Byers&rsquo; breakaway goal with 3:59 left in the final period against Oklahoma City preserved the Knights&rsquo; unbeaten string at home, but only for one night. The 2-2 tie with the Blazers was followed by a 5-3 setback at Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum against the Dallas Black Hawks, as Omaha blew a 3-1 advantage.Coach Fred Creighton&rsquo;s Knights hadn&rsquo;t tasted defeat in Ak-Sar-Ben for nine games since Nov. 15, when they suffered a 7-0 whitewashing by Dallas goalie Michel Dumas. The January triumph gave the Hawks three victories in four invasions of Ak-Sar-Ben.The Knights remained three points in front of Seattle, and had a game in hand, in the fight for the last playoff berth in the Northern Division.DENVER: It was either a feast or a famine for Jean-Guy Talbot&rsquo;s Spurs, and the one banquet didn&rsquo;t make up for the three nights of fasting.Starting a 10-game road swing that would keep them out of their own Coliseum until Jan. 26, the Spurs were bombed, 6-1 in both Salt Lake and Dallas, and suffered a 4-2 setback in Seattle. In between the two shellackings they erupted for a 9-6 triumph in Tulsa.Frank Spring&rsquo;s hat trick sparked the victory in Tulsa, as the Spurs roared to a 5-0 lead in the first period, and made it 7-0 before the Oilers found the net.Babin and Heggedal each collected four points for the week to remain tied for the CHL scoring lead at 50 points. Wes Wiseman was tied for fourth with 39.SEATTLE: The Totems recovered from their 10-2 rout in Salt Lake to hold off the division-leading Denver Spurs, 4-2, in spite of yelding a shorthanded goal.Defenseman Larry McIntyre continued playing, but had to take his meals with a straw, after a puck left him with a one-inch hole in his cheek during a practice session. He lost 10 pounds on his liquid diet the first week.The Totems weren&rsquo;t looking ahead happily to the period of Jan. 12-Feb. 3, when they had 10 straight road games and would be away from home for 22 days, since no practice facilities were available in Seattle. The 22 days may not be a CHL record, since the 1964-65 Memphis Wings had to open with two months on the road, awaiting completion of their building, but at least the Wings stopped over at home from time to time, which the Totoems won&rsquo;t.The loss in Salt Lake snapped a five-game win stringforthe Totems, but their rebound against Denver ran the home streak to six straight victories since a Dec. 13 loss to the Eagles.DALLAS: A tie and two victories (including a rare road triumph) vaulted the Black Hawks of Bobby Kormm into a first-place tie in the Southern Division, and they had three games in hand over the former pace-setters, Oklahoma City Blazers.It was the Blazers who pulled their goalie to achieve a 3-3 tie in Dallas, but the Hawks followed with a 6-1 blitz of Denver, then went ino Omaha to take a&rsquo; 5-3 verdict. That broke a losing streak of seven road games since the Hawks were last in Omaha. Asa matter of fact, Dallas&rsquo; only road victories in 13 games since Nov. 2 had been three in Omaha.Germain didn&rsquo;t yeld a goal to Denver until 7:30 of the third period, when Howard Heggedal spoiled the shutout.TULSA: The &ldquo;second season&rdquo; wasn&rsquo;t going too well for the faltering Oilers, although newcomers Rob Fo-trek and Jim Benzelock bolstered the attack.It was the defense which let them down as Denver roared to a 7-0 lead in 30 minutes. A strong Oiler rally never had a chance, although reducing the final margin to 9-6.The next night the Oilers broke a six-game losing streak by winning in Fort Worth, 4-2, but they came home to suffer a 3-1 loss against the same club. That left Tulsa winless in five home starts since Dec. 7, although they owned two road victories in that span.Gene Sobchuk and Don Liesemer led the club scoring with 34 points each, and Sobchuk notched his 19th goal. He scored two in the futile rally against Denver, including a penalty shot after he was fouted on a second-period breakaway.A dressing-room chewing out by Al Rollins, player personnel director for the parent Phoenix Roadrunners, apparently got the Oilers playing better in the last two periods against the Spurs, and the next night in Fort Worth. But they were back to their old pattern of loose-leaf defense for the home game against the Texans, and couldn&rsquo;t cash in on a multitude of scoring chances.FORT WORTH: Asked for a word for the press, Fort Worth coach Ed Chadwick simply said, &ldquo;Help&rdquo; but that was at the low point of his week, following a 4-2 home loss to Tulsa. His club had earlier beaten Oklahoma City, 7-5, and won the rematch in Tulsa, 3-1.&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t play that bad in losing.&rdquo; Chadwick commented. &ldquo;One of our goals was disallowed, because the referee (Terry Pierce) said we had a man in the crease. 1 didn&rsquo;t see anyone in there but the goalie.&rdquo;The Texans put it al 1 together early against OC. takikng a 4-0 lead in the first 13 minutes. The Blazers scored twice in the last 10 seconds of the first period (the second goal with but one second to play), and later cut the margin to 4-3 and again to 5-4, but the Texans held on. Jim Webster and Glen Johnson led the Fort Worth assault with two goals, while Pat Boutette had the hat trick for Oke City.Brad Anderson and Wynne Dempster scored for Fort Worth early in the first period of the loss to Tulsa, before the Oilers struck back. In Tulsa the next night Webster and Dempster scored in the middle period. Mike Kennedy on a breakaway in the third.Skeeter Teal, the Texans&rsquo; leading playmaker, was sidelined for the second time when he hurt his knee against the boards in the first Tulsa match. He missed three weeks earlier when both legs were cut severely in an auto accident.OKLAHOMA CITY: The Blazers followed a loss in Fort Worth with two ties, and dropped into a first-place tie with Dallas. But the return of Moffat and the arrival of veteran Eddie Shack, both left wings, bolstered the Blazers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0443/3330675-1-eng-US/f0032-042.jpg" title="f0032-04" width="552" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body">LYLE MOFFAT&hellip;Back In Form</figcaption></div>Moffat, a 19-goal scorer for the Blazers last season (and the CHL scoring leader for Tulsa the previous season), was shipped down by the parent Toronto Maple Leafs, and promptly made his presence felt. He scored two goals against Dallas, including the tying tally with 55 seconds on the clock.Shack, 37-year-old veteran of 17 pro seasons (including 16 in the NHL), tired of inaction at Toronto and asked for two weeks in Oklahoma City.Left wing Dale Smedsmo, who played for Tulsa the past two seasons, was called up by the Blazers from Hampton in the Southern League for two games while right wing Alf Han-drahan was sitting out a suspension for kicking Rob Ftorek at Tulsa. Dec. 29.Toronto called up left wing Dave Williams, and the Blazers lost right wing Mike Sauter, hospitalized with a groin injury after the Omaha game. &#9632;

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Onrushing Eagles Threaten Denver; Dallas Spurts Past Blazers In South

LEADING SCORERS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-02101/3330720-1-eng-US/f0032-022.jpg" title="f0032-02" width="587" height="343"></div>GOALERS RECORDS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-0358/3330713-1-eng-US/f0032-032.jpg" title="f0032-03" width="559" height="502"></div> &#9632;

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CHL Leaders

<div class="byline">BY MORLEY HOWE</div>THUNDER BAY&mdash;As the United States Hockey League turned the comer into the second half of its 1974-75 schedule, there was a growing feeling the Northern Division race wculd become a head to-head battle between Thunder Bay Twins and the aroused Green Bay Bobcats.The Twins led the Cats by five points prior to the All Star game break but Green Bay enjoyed the advantage of having four games in hand on the USHL champs.In the southern race. Waterloo&rsquo;s Black Hawks were on top of the pack and with a three-point bulge and six games in hand on Sioux City, it appeared unlikely the Hawks would be unseated.THUNDER BAY: Team officials feel this year&rsquo;s edition of Twins stronges ever. Playing-coach Dave Siciliano has club aiming at third consecutive pennant and then on to the elusive Allan Cup. emblematic of Canadian senior hockey supremacey. Twins again came up with solid team effort against European competition, coming from behind to tie the touring Czechoslavakia Olympics 4-4 before a standing-room crowd of 5.000 plus. Veteran utility forward mike Mithrush scored a hat trick in recent game at Sioux City. Former Mich. Tech, and Copper Country goalie Moe Trewin, signed as back up to Rocky Menard and Bob Johnson. Center Jack Byerley after missing opening month, now flying high with 42 points. The All Star playmaker, in his fourth season, has moved into second position in modern all-time points with 242, just eight behind teammate Barry Hogan.GREEN BAY: Coach Paul Coppo has Bobcats in tight pennant race with Thunder Bay. Led by the high-scoring Purpur brothers. Cats have seven forwards averaging better than point a game clip. Defensively, strong blueline corps and steady play of Ron Beck in goal has cut down goals against. Six Bobcats named to Northern Division All Star squad by news media, led by brilliant center. Cliff Purpur.MARQUETTE: Coach Barry Cook working overtime attempting to snap team&rsquo;s mid-season slump. Veteran goaltender. Brian Lunney, named to All-Stars for fourth time in eight seasons. Forward Don Gagnon leads Iron Rangers with 15 goals and six others have potted a dozen or more. Hard working winger Mike L.Huillier nearing 200-point mark in fifth season.COPPER COUNTRY: Recently appointed playing coach Jack Mahon has Chiefs playing inspired hockey, winning six of past nine games. New Year&rsquo;s Eve 6-3 victory at Marquette was first win ever on Rangers&rsquo; home ice.WATERLOO: Coach Dave Swick has problem most other coaches wish they could share. Both Black Hawks goaltenders George McPhee and Bubby Heaney playing brilliantly. McPhee, voted to the first Southern All Star team, starred in New Year`s Eve overtime 2-2 tie. stopping 54 Bobcat drives. Heaney, unbeaten in eight starts, leads all goalies with superb 2.59 average, as Hawks riding high on eight-game undefeated streak.SIOUX CITY: Musketeers moved above .500 mark with recent victories over Chicago and Central Wisconsin. Coach John Saville looking forward to a strong second half with favoring home schedule. Scoring-wise, team strong upfront as forwards Alex Shibicky, Steve Heathwood, Julian Nixon, and Bogdan Podwysocki have 20 plus markers in bank to date.CHICAGO: Warriors hit hard by recent injuries, however. All Star Rich Kramp returned to action after missing six weeks with fractured foot. Playingcoach Nelson Leclair pleased with play of rearguard Mark Slewidge and Andy Janicek. Forward Randy Ciotti. a 21-goal scorer last season, has potted 16 tallies, since rejoining club early last month.MILWAUKEE: Team owner Bill Chimo recently named former player Andre Caron as Admirals&rsquo; new coach. Under Caron&rsquo;s leadership, club has produced three victories in last four games, including two big wins over third place Warriors. Led offensively by Phil Wittliff, Wayne Cautield, George Ripley and Bruce Salnier and sparked by antics of goalie John Anderson, club looks to climb in league standing during second half of schedule.CENTRAL WISCONSIN: With the additions of forwards Brad Colehour. Larry Viens and Sam Grosso, general manager and coach Stan Martin is looking forward to improved results. Twenty-one year old defenseman Steve Prusky, a Chapleau. Ont. native, represented Flyers, league&rsquo;s newest expansion club, in All Star game. Also, prominent in balloting was goalie Jeff Bayens, a 20-year-old from Madison. Team directors working hard to improve the attendance. Flyers produced their biggest offensive display to date in 10-7 exhibition win over Madison Blues, current leaders of new Continental League. &#9632;

Thunder Bay, Green Bay Locked In Divisional Battle

<h2>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Thu. Jan. 9)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-01133/3330775-1-eng-US/f0033-012.jpg" title="f0033-01" width="590" height="372"></div> &#9632;

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HOW THEY STAND

<div class="byline">BY LEN HOYES</div>For the finest in Hockey Magazines subscribe today to the Hockey Twins:HOCKEY WORLD & HOCKEY PICTORIALFor the finest in Hockey Magazines subscribe today to the Hockey Twins:HOCKEY WORLD & HOCKEY PICTORIALFLINT &mdash;The two-goalie system is working perfectly for the Flint Generals.The combination of four-season veteran Merlin Jenner and rookie Bob Volpe has shot the Generals to the top of the International Hockey League on defense.Halfway through the campaign. Volpe, a 20-year-old pro from the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; system, ranked No. I with a 2.55 goals-against average and Jenner, 26, formerly in the Boston Bruins&rsquo; system, ranked No. 2 with a 2.68 GAA.Each had allowed exactly half of the opponents&rsquo; 106 goals. The difference in averages was contained in Volpe&rsquo;s four shutouts which led the league&rsquo;s netmin-ders. Jenner had six one-goal efforts but twice was deprived of perfection by fluke goals.Coach Doug Carpenter rotated net-minders for the first 34 games, finally breaking the pattern because Volpe would have faced the Saginaw Gears for the fourth straight time.Carpenter found it necessary to relieve his netminder only once in Flint`s first 40 games and then only to try interrupting Saginaw&rsquo;s momentum in a 6-l setback.He said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s difficult to break up a pattern when we&rsquo;ve been so successful,&rdquo; referring to the Generals&rsquo; hold on the North Division lead for most of the season. However, he added. &ldquo;Later in the season we&rsquo;ll go with the goalie with the hot hand.&rdquo;Each had played spectacularly on occasion, so it was difficult to determine the hot hand.At their present paces, both would better the Flint record of a 2.84 goals-against average by now-retired Bob Perani in the 1970-71 season.Jenner shared netminding duties with Perani for three seasons, emerging as the No. I netminder last season when an injury limited Perani to 29 games.The Beaver Lodge, Alta., native is one of the most popular Generals and many are hoping that a good record this season will earn another shot at the big time. At 26, there&rsquo;s plenty of time to make his mark.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d sure like another chance. When 1 turned pro, 1 was a little too young but I think I&rsquo;ve gained a lot of experience in the IHL.&rdquo; he said.Flint fans are likening Volpe&rsquo;s rookie year to that of Gilles Meloche of the California Golden Seals who went directly from the Generals to the National Hockey League after playing in 197071. Meloche&rsquo;s GAA was a modest 3.34 in the IHL but he played for a team which wasn&rsquo;t as good as the current Generals.Volpe was the 106th pick in the NHL &lsquo; draft but only 235th in the World Hockey Association draft after posting a 4.03 goals-against average at Sudbury. Ont., last season in the Ontario Hockey Association. He had one shutout.He said, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a lot different playing in the IHL because the defensemen are so much more experienced. I&rsquo;ve learned a lot this season, especially about the way experienced defensemen make the forwards move to the outside and have poorer shots. That sure helps a goaltender.&rdquo;Jenner and Volpe have extra incentive this season because of the team&rsquo;s over-all defense. If Flint maintains that No. 1 spot, they&rsquo;ll share the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the goaltenders with the best defensive club.That honor will help both in their desire to move up in the hockey world.TOLEDO: Goaldiggers completed rugged series of 12 games in 17 days with 7-5 record&hellip; Tom Sudberg arrived from Salt Lake City (CHL) in time to score winning goal in 4-2 victory at Des Moines&hellip; Diggers reached 1,000 penalty minutes in 28th game, well ahead of IHL&rsquo;s record pace&hellip; Doug Mahood on injured list with 23-stitch arm cut&hellip; Michel Laurendeau scored nine goals in first 15 games&hellip; Darwin Mott had 13-game point string snapped&hellip; Kid&rsquo;s Night crowd of 5.634 tops in league for season&hellip; Juri Kudrasovs bagged clincher in 3-2 victory at Fort Wayne&hellip; Ray Tilley released&hellip; Ex-coach Dino Mas-cotto signed in defensive emergency&hellip; Diggers&rsquo; 3-1 loss to Des Moines only second in last nine home starts.FLINT: Doug Manchak topped IHL with 35 goals, Kirk Bowman led in assists with 37&hellip; Dave Bonter&rsquo;s hat trick boosted total to 18 goals in 6-1 victory over Port Huron&hellip; Turnaway crowds of 4,395 greeted back-to-back home games against Muskegon and Saginaw&hellip; Generals beat Port Huron for 11th straight time on home ice&hellip; Generals went seven straight games without major penalty.COLUMBUS: Owls anchored grip on No. 2 spot in South withe record for last 13 home games&hellip; Mike Powers tied for No. 4 in league scoring, bagged winning goals in back-to-back games against Lansing and Fort Wayne. He scored four goals, six assists in four-game span, including two shorthanded goals&hellip; Brian Coughlin tops in PIM with 123&hellip; Dave Heitzstopped 49 shots in 3-0 shutout against ex-mates from Lansing&hellip; Jim Doyle scored two goals. Bill Yeo made 36 saves in 4-0 victory over Kalamazoo.KALAMAZOO: Mike Wanchuk second in league with 11 power-play goals, boosted production to 23 goals in 36 games&hellip; Last-place Wings averaged 3,764 fans for six-game stretch&hellip; Ted Lenssen secured as backup goalie&hellip; Winger Herb Boxer acquired from Green Bay (USHL)&hellip; Winger Bob Wright released&hellip; Wings suffered back-to-back shutouts at Muskegon and Columbus&hellip; Coach Bob Lemieux viewed game from Saginaw press box as injured captain Al Genovy ran club from behind bench.DES MOINES: Bob Geoffrion ended four weeks on injured list by sparking 6-1 victory over Toledo with help of Len Ircandia&rsquo;s shorthanded goal&hellip; Crowd of2,577, Caps&rsquo; second biggest of year, viewed game&hellip; Len Chalmers bagged tying toal in 4-4 deadlock at Columbus with goalie Jerome Mrazek making 50 stops&hellip; Caps dropped three straight home games to Saginaw and Dayton (two)&hellip; Pat Russell scored twice in 3-1 victory at Toledo.LANSING: Pierre LeBlanc, Charlie Labelle scored two goals as 10-game losing streak ended in 6-2 victory over Port Huron&hellip; Only 50 fans watched 4-1 victory over Fort Wayne&hellip; Terry Ryan ranked No. 9 in league scoring with 1634-50 combination&hellip; Owner Paul Bright, awaiting result of receivership hearing for Metro Ice Arena owners, feared closing of building and being locked out of place to play.DAYTON: Don Westbrooke scored three goals in first three games after return from injured list&hellip; Tony White placed on waivers, then recalled. Later he was suspended when he failed to report back from short vacation to rest injured leg&hellip; Former President Jack Walker resigned from club board of directors&hellip; Re-acquired Chick Balon scored goal, four assists in 8-0 victory over Toledo with P. J. Flaherty scoring shutout on only 17 stops&hellip; Jim Pettie suffered broken hand in scrap at Muskegon&hellip; Steve Self helped victory over Toledo with 24th goal&hellip; Brian Kinsella ended 10-game point drought with winning goal in 4-3 victory at Des Moines&hellip; Gems&rsquo; 13th road victory well ahead of last year&rsquo;s final total of nine&hellip; Rick Bragnalo had fifth two-goal game.SAGINAW: Paul Evans&rsquo;s hat trick spurred important 6-1 victory at Flint, giving Gears outright first place in North&hellip; Mike Palmateer made 29 saves in scoring 3-0 shutout at Des Moines&hellip; Marcel Comeau, Doug Marit and Evans scored goals&hellip; Gears one month ahead of 1973-74 victory pace with 26th victory&hellip; Borden Smith. Tom Thomson, Stu Irving scored goals in space of 1:29 in 5-2 victory over Kalamazoo&hellip; Coach Don Perry getting excellent scoring from all three lines&hellip; Goalie Mario Lessard lowered GAA to 3.16.FORT WAYNE: Defenseman Herb Howdle, winger Brian Stapleton secured in deals with Dayton&hellip; Defenseman Bill Bryant released. John Dobie returned from injured list. Ron Ullyot scored five goals in week after switch to center, then suffered knee injury and expected to be lost for three weeks. Rich Uhrich&rsquo;s 10th goal was winner in 4-2 triumph over Columbus. Len Cunning termed Komets&rsquo; most consistent defenseman. Doug Gibson second Komet to score 20 goals, bagged winner in 3-2 triumph over Flint. Winger John Heffern obtained from Columbus, rookie defenseman Rich Perron released&hellip; Fred Hunt. Jr. scored two goals in first game, goalie Robbie Irons made 28 saves in 9-0 victory over Lansing.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0373/3330806-1-eng-US/f0034-032.jpg" title="f0034-03" width="558" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body">MERLIN JENNER&hellip; No. 2 Ranked</figcaption></div>MUSKEGON: Veteran defenseman Lynn Margarit reached 100 penalty minutes for seventh straight season&hellip; Margarit (4-30-34) and Murray Flegel (7-29-36) top-scoring defensemen in league&hellip; Goalie Dave Hainsworth built 2.42 GAA in l1-game span, scored back-to-back shutouts over Dayton and Kalamazoo&hellip; Bob Olein placed on waivers. later recalled&hellip; Joe Nathe reactivated&hellip; Line of Gary Ford-Bob Tombari-Emie Moser only Mohawks with plus ratings&hellip; Bert Scott scored hat trick in 6-0 victory over Dayton. Hainsworth making 29 saves.PORT HURON: High-scoring Ray Germain lost indefinitely after auto accident&hellip; Bill Watt had six-game goalscoring string after switch to center&hellip; Gord Redden set up two goals in 4-3 victory over Lansing&hellip; Rookie Ty Langton starting to click as goaltender&hellip; Brian Curtis scored with 16 seconds left to beat Lansing&hellip; Coach Bobby McCammon juggling lines in effort to find more scoring help for second-lowest offensive team&hellip; Wings waiting to activate defenseman Dan O&rsquo;Donohue. &#9632;

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Two-Goaler System Paying Off For Flint’s Generals

<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01145/3330844-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="593" height="462"></div><h2>GOALERS&lsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0297/3330837-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="592" height="755"></div> &#9632;

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IHL Leaders

<div class="byline">BY TOM BURKE</div>BOSTON&mdash;Few will dispute that the pen is ightier than the sword. But in the orld of sports, the judge&rsquo;s gavel wields ore power than pen and sword combined.Intergalactic sports names like Curt lood, John Mackey, Catfish Hunter nd Joe Kapp will be forever remembed, not so much for their considerable thletic prowess as for their courtroom orts to penetrate professional sports&rsquo; aven of legal invulnerability.Far from the headlines, a similar war brewing on the college hG&rsquo;Vev front.Boston University hockey players eter Marzo and Bill Buckton fired the impaign&rsquo;s first salvo prior to last seaing. With attorney Gordon A. Martin of oston as counsel, the two sued for their right to play college hockey after le Eastern College Athletic Conference had ruled them ineligible. Both participated last season and continue to play this year under a preliminary injunction handed down by U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro.Martin is back in court again, this time alongside Melrose, Mass., native Steve Jones, a freshman at Northeaster University. Bitten by the pro hockey bug in high school, Jones had transferred to Verdun, Quebec, Catholic High and played portions of four seasons on the Major Junior A level.A fine student, Jones eventually realized that the Canadian Junior hockey route was not for him. and he returned home to graduate from Melrose High. Encouraged to go out for hockey at Northeastern by Martin, Jones was ruled ineligible and brought the matter to court.Some backtracking is necessary here in order to comprehend the entire convoluted picture. The Buckton Marzo trial, which totaled 12 days of testimony last year, is not officially complete; the preliminary injunction of over a year ago is still in effect. Under it. the ECAC or NCAA may not sanction Boston University for allowing these two to play hockey. You may recall the unfortunate Dick DeCloe incident at BU two seasons ago. wherein DeCloe was tossed bodily from college hockey in mid-season. BU had to forfeit nine games.After the Buckton-Marzo ruling, the ECAC took a big step toward reform in the consent decree issued in Judge Tauro&rsquo;s court on June 19. 1974. In the decree, the ECAC reinstated Buckton and Marzo and recommended that the NCAA do likewise.Smarting from Tauro&rsquo;s criticism of their ambiguous eligibility affidavit, the ECAC agreed in the consent decree to revise the document and try again.On September 12, the ECAC reported to Tauro that 21 players from seven schools would have been ruled ineligible. upon review of the new affidavits. However, the ECAC did not sanction them and asked the NCAA to grant similarclemency to the 21, one of whom was Jones.The NCAA wasn&rsquo;t quite so cooperative. They sent out some new questionnaires to hockey-playing schools and established a committee on professionalism. This committee recommended that the outright ban on &ldquo;Tier One&rdquo; Major Junior A hockey players be dropped, along with certain provisions discriminatory to Canadians.The big brother association did not. however, rule Jones eligible upon Northeastern&rsquo;s request, following a refusal on Jones in the ECAC&rsquo;s 21-player clemency request. The NCAA also slapped five-game suspensions on a handful of other skaters for some reason.Jones thereupon brought suit. Judge Tauro. by now well versed in the serpentine realm of Canadian Junior hockey and NCAA eligibility standards. issued a temporary restraining order on December 10 allowing Jones to play.&ldquo;Actually, there are two basic issues here,&rdquo; said the soft spoken Martin. &ldquo;First, whether these individual players receive the procedural process due them. Second, whether the NCAA, an organization whose members grant scholarship aid without financial need in evidence, can actually bar a Steve Jones. Jones has received some compensation but never has he been declared a professional.&rdquo; &#9632;

Eortheastern Player Wins Court Nod In Latest NCAA Eligibilitv Test Case

DETROIT&mdash;Michigan Tech captured the I Oth annual Great Lakes invitational hockey tournament for the third time by scoring three goals in the final six minutes of play to defeat Michigan 3-2 as the collegians set a record for attendance.A total of 15,942 turned out for the first night action as Michigan handed Harvard its first loss of the season with a 3-2 decision over the Crimson. In the semi-finals. Michigan Tech overpowered Yale 7-3 in the other semi-final opener. Harvard trimmed Yale 8-3 for the consolation title.The two night show attracted 24,049 at the Detroit Olmpia. &#9632;

Crowd of 15,942 Watches Michigan Topple Harvard

EAST LANSING&mdash;With all 10 WCHA teams half-way through their 32-game schedules, Michigan State has moved into a three-point lead in first place, thanks to hard-earned 5-4 victories over North Dakota. The series sweep gave the Spartans a 12-3-1 record for 25 points, agame and a half ahead to Minnesota, which edged Wisconsin twice. 4-2 and 3-1, and Colorado College, which was idle.Michigan State center Tom Ross fattened his WCHA scoring lead by scoring three goals and collecting five assists at North Dakota. Ross now has 19 goals and 25 assists for 44 points on the season, 11 ahead of Michigan Tech center Bob D&rsquo;Alvise, who has 12 and 21 for 33.In Michigan State&rsquo;s back-to-back victories. over North Dakota, winger Brendon Moroney scored the gamewinner both nights.Minnesota moved into a tie for second place by stopping Wisconsin twice. The sweep gave the Gophers three wins in four games over the Badgers, the two clubs having split the weekend before at Madison.Up-and-coming Minnesota-Duluth doubled its WCHA victory output for the season by scoring 6-4 and 6-5 triumphs over Denver, which now has lost eight successive league games. Both matches were deadlocked 2-2 at the end of the first 20 minutes. On Friday goals by Craig Arvidson and Tom Milani put the Bulldogs ahead to stay. The following night Denver jumped to a 2-0 lead but Duluth equalized this by the end of the first period. After a scoreless second period, scoring action blossomed in the third. Freshman center Mark Falcone moved Denver ahead 3-2 at 5:34. Rod Jones evened things at 7:31 before two more Denver goals were scored in 26 seconds, Jim Miller at 7:41 and Falcone at 7:57. UMD again rallied with Mike Newton cashing in at 10:16, Tom Milani at 12:25 and Kirk Mclvor getting the game-winner at 15:33 on the only power-play goal of the night. For the series UMD scoring was well-balanced: Top point-getters were Gord McDonald and Mike Newton (2-2), Doug Spoden and Tom Milani (2-1) and Jim Knapp, three assists. Bright spots for Denver were the first two hat tricks of the season at Denver Arena, both by Chisholm. Minn, high school products. Senior defenseman Dave Tomassoni. a Pioneer co-captain, collected three goals on Friday and Mark Falcone did the same Saturday. &#9632;

Michigan State Rolls Into WCHA Race Lead

ECAC CONFERENCE(Standinqs on Wed. Jan. 1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0377/3330992-1-eng-US/f0035-032.jpg" title="f0035-03" width="593" height="523"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDECAC CONFERENCEVermont 7, St. Lawrence 5Cornell 7, Colgate 4St. Lawrence 5. Colgate 0Vermont 5. Cornell 2Harvard 8. Yale 3Northeastern 6. RPI 3Boston College 7. Providence 4NON-CONFERENCE GAMESDenver 10, Boston College 4Boston College 5, Denver 2BLUE-GREEN TOURNAMENTPennsylvania 3, Dartmouth 1New Hampshire 8. St. Mary&rsquo;s 6Dartmouth 12, St. Mary&rsquo;s 4Pennsylvania 6, New Hampshire 4(Pennsylvania wins tournament)SYRACUSE TOURNAMENTVermont 7, St. Lawrence 5Cornell 7, Colgate 4St. Lawrence 5, Colgate 0Vermont 5. Cornell 2(Vermont wins tournament)GREAT LAKES TOURNAMENTMichigan 3. Harvard 2Michigan Tech 7, Yale 3Harvard 8, Yale 3Michigan Tech 3. Michigan 2(Michigan Tech wins tournament)RPI INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENTNortheastern 6, RPI 3Northeastern 6. Sir George Williams 2RPI 7, Sir George Williams 4Bowling Green 6, Sir George Williams 3Bowling Green 6, RPI 5Northeastern 4, Bowling Green 4(Northeastern wins tournament)ST. LOUIS TOURNAMENTBoston University, 7, Minn-Duluth 6St. Louis 6, Ohio State 3Minn-Duluth 3, Ohio State 3Boston University 5. St. Louis 1(Boston Univ, wins tournament)CCHA CONFERENCECONFERENCE GAMESLake Superior 7. Ohio State 2Ohio State 6. Lake Superior 5NON-CONFERENCE GAMESBowling Green 8, Western Ontario 3Bowling Green 4, Western Ontario 2Western Michigan 8, Bowling Green 2St. Louis 6. Princeton 0St. Louis 8. Princeton 4LAURENTIAN TOURNAMENTLake Superior 4. Toronto 3Loyola 7, Lake Superior 2Loyola 3, Waterloo 2(Loyola wins tournament)WCHA CONFERENCE(Standings on Fri. Jan. 10)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0466/3330985-1-eng-US/f0035-042.jpg" title="f0035-04" width="593" height="314"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDWCHA CONFERENCEMichigan State 4, Minn-Duluth 3Michigan State 6, Minn-Duluth 5Minnesota 4, Michigan Tech 2Minnesota 6, Michigan Tech 3North Dakota 8, Colorado College 7Colorado College 4, North Dakota 2Wisconsin 2, Minnesota 1Minnesota 4. Wisconsin 1Minn-Duluth 6, Denver 4Minn-Duluth 6, Denver 5Michigan 7. Notre Dame 4Notre Dame 7. Michigan 4Michigan State 5. North Dakota 4Michigan State 5, North Dakota 4Minnesota 4, Wisconsin 2Minnesota 3, Wisconsin 1NON-CONFERENCE GAMESWisconsin 8. RPI 2Wisconsin 7, RPI 3Denver 3, West Germany 2Colorado College 4. West Germany 2Notre Dame 7. Boston College 4Harvard 8. Notre Dame 2Harvard 13, St. Louis 3St. Louis 5, Harvard 4 &#9632;

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College Races

<div class="byline">BY DEREK KNIGHT</div>Follow All The Action Every Week By Subscription Today ToTHE HOCKEY NEWSSuperb Hockey Reading Each MonthHOCKEY WORLD & HOCKEY PICTORIALSOUTH YARMOUTH&mdash;The phones are being constantly tied up in NAHL offices these days with general managers looking for a player or two that just might turn thint&gt;s around. The race is so close. even closer than league optimists predicted. For the near I future, a league I brochure is in the works to attract potential investors to the young but stable circuit.Meanwhile. Cape Codders were looking for help after injuries and recalls left them shorthanded. Hot line of John Cunniff. Bob Charlebois and Gary Dufour had to be broken up after Charlebois was recalled by New England. Addition of Bill Berglund in goal should help. He&rsquo;s no stranger to Coach Larry Kish, having played for the Codder coach last year when Larry led the Sun Coast Suns. Injuries and recalls proved the real value of &ldquo;Cowboy&ldquo; Dan Cowley. A versatile skater, Cowley has filled in both up front and on the backline. Season high crowd of 3,938 turned out at the Cape Cod Coliseum to see the Codders and Dusters battle to a 2-2 deadlock. Ted Ouimet still making the big saves in goal. John Danby&rsquo;s picking up some big points while still serving as the league&rsquo;s premier penalty killer. Cleveland scout Roger Roy seen looking over the Codders in Long Island recently.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01117/3331030-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="270" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Ouimet</figcaption></div>JOHNSTOWN: Jack Carlson scored the game winner in a thrilling 7-6 overtime win versus Syracuse. Right winger Galen Head remained on the injured list while forward John Gofton came back from the same list to join the active roster. Seeking some help, the club obtained (via loan from San Diego. WHA) right winger Derek Emerson. Emerson went to Johnstown after Long Island relinquished NAHL rights on the aggressive skater.MAINE: Defenseman Steve Curry was a welcome addition on loan from the Cape Codders. Nordiques bombed Broome 7-3. After a 0-16-0 start, new coach Jean Charles Gravel had his club playing just over .500 hockey in their next 21 starts. Out of the playoff picture in November, the Lewiston-based club showed signs of climbing up a notch or two in the NAHL standings.SYRACUSE: The Blazers have a nice record going for themselves. The club has not been shut out in 233 straight games, regular season and playoffs included. Bobby Jones&rsquo; 20-point spree in nine games brought him to the league scoring leadership with 55 points. Bob Champoux became the sixth Blazer to guard the nets this year. Right winger Darryl Knowles has had cast removed from his injured left leg and has resumed skating to work his way back into playing condition. Doctors anticipate his return by February I. Doug Volmar found scoring range for Blazers as did Kevin Devine after the two were reassigned to Syracuse Jim McLeod had a sparkling 1.67 goals-against average in three games before being recalled by Michigan. Reg Krezanski tops club defenders-in the scoring column with 33 points.BROOME: pusters&rsquo; Ken Davidson was the hero in Cape Cod with a gametying goal with just thirty seconds remaining. Skating his way back to his excellent form. Rod Bloomfield scored his I8th marker. Roger Kosar. who made 56 saves on the night, was later to suffer a broken jaw. Dusters were still looking for player help as this issue went to press. As expected, the club was leading the NAHL in attendance with capacity (4.793) or near capacity crowds at every single game.LONG ISLAND: Left winger Kevin Ahearn looked impressive in early action as a Cougar. Long Island inked former Ranger prospect Ken Ireland to a contract. To make space on the roster Al Vick was released and the club relinquished league rights to right winger Derek Emerson. Brian Coates topped the club in scoring with 43 points on 18 goals and 25 assists. Center Dave Walter led in goals scored with 19. Bob Falconer impressing Island fans with hishustle. Rich Coutu still tough with 2.74 goals-against average. Coates and Keith Kokkola were tied with the best plusminus figures on club. Impressive third period comeback saw Long Island tie Cape Cod at 3-3 in overtime. For the Cougars, it was the 10th overtime game with the young club still unbeaten at 6-0-4.PHILADELPHIA: Injured defenseman Mark Bousquet was working out looking to return to game action. Rookie R&eacute;jean Lemelin recorded his first professional shutout, a 3-0 blanking of Johnstown. Michel Plante tops club in game winning goals with four while Tom Young and Rychard Campeau are tied with three. Young also leads in shorthanded scores with two. Speaking of Young, coach Gregg Pilling has decided to sit out the redheaded dynamo until his injured ankle feels better. The hustling right winger missed some three weeks with the injury and has not really been the same hot scorer since his return. It is hoped that rest will be a good cure. Injured skaters Dale MacLeish and Ray Schultz returned to the lineup while backliner Norm Barnes was shuttling back and forth from Philadelphia to Richmond.MOHAWK VALLEY: Comets looked impressive in successive victories over Long Island. Brian McKenzie&rsquo;s third period goal nipped the Cougars at Long Island. Jeff Jacques widened team scoring lead by 10 points over runner-up John Cook. Jim Park playing well in nets with a 15-11-2 mark. Peter Marrin is scoring at a blistering pace with 35 points in 25 games. Rich Pumple was recalled by Indianapolis. Comets have been playing better hockey. They have a fine club on paper and are a genuine threat to win it all after a cellar finish just a year ago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0278/3331023-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="546" height="674"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEVIN AHEARN&hellip;Impressive Debut</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Injuries, Recalls Leave Codders Looking For Help

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<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>TORONTO&mdash;Different teams have employed different methods while trying to halt Toronto Marlboros on their march to what seems to be an almost certain Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior A league championship.The most-used technique, naturally, is an attempt to check the Mar-lies closely &mdash; but this has seldom succeeded as they are well on their way to becoming the highest-scoreing team in Ontario Major Junior A history.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-01108/3331099-1-eng-US/f0037-012.jpg" title="f0037-01" width="264" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Duguay</figcaption></div>Bill Long, the veteran London coach who has also handled teams in Ottawa and Niagara Falls while also working with Hap Emms during the latter&rsquo;s long stay in Barrie, tried a different tactic in Maple League Gardens &mdash; instructing his club to concentrate on offense and score as many goals as possible.In a way the Knights did succeed&hellip;The problem was that while London won the battle, the Marlies carried home the two-point spoils of the &ldquo;war&rdquo;, firing 10 goals past starter Dave Jenner and his successor Mike Kasme-tis to win 10-7.And this has been pretty well the story of the Marlies against the rest of the league as they have vaulted into a long first-place margin and have scored almost 40 more goals than their closest rivals.PETERBOROUGH: The Petes, who customarily leave the starting gate like a well-trained thoroughbred, were slower this year working up a head of steam but recently have moved into second place as the closest club to the run-away Marlies&hellip; However they were held to a 3-3 tie by Sault Ste. Marie when the Greyhounds&rsquo; Bruce O&rsquo;Grady scored with just 30 seconds left&hellip; Tony Casso-lato. Stan Johnathan and American-born Pete Scammura accounted for the Peterborough goals&hellip; Frank Salive continuing his solid goaltending after his partner Mike Kasmetis was traded to London.HAMILTON: Proof of how much the Hamilton club has improved rests in the fact that they held the Soviet Union Red Army team to a one-goal 5-4 loss&hellip; However in league play they have hit a slump after a great beginning, dropping the 6-5 game to London Knights, then being thumped 6-1 by Oshawa Generals.OTTAWA: The 67&rsquo;s salvaged one point out of two weekend games, tying 4-4 in Oshawa, then moving on to St. Catharines where the Black Hawks nudged them 5-4&hellip; The line of Peter Lee, Tim Young and Jim Roberts continues to carry most of the scoring lead&hellip; They had a goal each in Oshawa and Young added another in St. Catharines as their rally from a 5-2 deficit failed to give them at least a draw.OSHAWA: With no big stars the Generals are still holding a middle-of-the-league position and their three points in two games certainly helped coachmanager Gus Bodnar&rsquo;s cause&hellip; After trailing 3-1 at the end of the second period at home they rallied to tie Ottawa 4-4 with Ken Morden sparking the offense and providing two goals.KINGSTON: The Canadians afforded further proof they may have reached their peak and are now going at least slightly downhill by having to settle for a 3-3 tie against last place Kitchener Rangers&hellip; The Canadians had a great beginning to the schedule and at one time the sophomore team held first place but they have now slipped back among the &ldquo;common folk&rdquo;.ST. CATHARINES: The battle for the last two playoff spots continues between defending champion St. Catharines Black Hawks. Sudbury Wolves, London Knights and Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds&hellip; When this was written the Hawks had a two-point lead over the other three teams which were tied in eight&hellip; They helped their cause with the narrow 5-4 win over Ottawa at home as Rick Adduono scored what proved to be the game-winner in the first minute of the third period.SUDBURY: Wolves stuck in the hunt for seventh or eighth position with one of their highest-scoring wins of the season, 9-7 over Peterborough&hellip; Ron Duguay, who has been playing very well, scored twice along with Bob Russell&hellip; Goals spaced by 13 seconds from Russell and Jim Maxfield decided the game midway in the third period&hellip; Also scoring for Sudbury were Dave Farrish. Rod Schutt, Paul Crowley and John Walker.SAULT STE. MARIE: Greyhounds under coach Jim Farelli making their strongest bid in three years for playoffs and the 3-3 tie with Peterborough certainly helped&hellip; It was O&rsquo;Grady&rsquo;s second goal of the night with half a minute left which gave them the split in points and Tony Cuomo, playing his first game since a shoulder separation sidelined him seven weeks ago added the other.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0630/3331092-1-eng-US/f0037-062.jpg" title="f0037-06" width="552" height="497"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRANK SALIVE &hellip;Solid Goaltending</figcaption></div>KITCHENER: The first place Rangers of 1973-74 continue to be the last place Rangers of 1974-75 as half the schedule is completed&hellip; However even though nine points back, coach Eddie Bush and the Kitchener fans haven&rsquo;t given up the ship&hellip; They proved they are still dangerous by blasting Kingston 8-2. after leading 7-0 in the first two perioids&hellip; All their goals were singles which was a good sign and the win was in Kingston where the Canadians don&rsquo;t lose too often. &#9632;

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Knights Keeping Playoff Hopes Alive; Canadians Slipping After Fast Start

<h2>ONTARIO MAJOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Sun. Jan. 12)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0281/3331144-1-eng-US/f0037-022.jpg" title="f0037-02" width="582" height="342"></div>LEADING SCORERS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0356/3331137-1-eng-US/f0037-032.jpg" title="f0037-03" width="584" height="458"></div><h2>WESTERN CANADA LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Jan. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0445/3331130-1-eng-US/f0037-042.jpg" title="f0037-04" width="585" height="422"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY BOB STRUMM</div>WINNIPEG&mdash;The Western Canada Hockey League had been working on an international conspiracy for four months. The purpose was simple&hellip; to crack Russia&rsquo;s iron curtain of amateur hockey supremacy.A cast of WCHL All Stars were gathered back in September to play a five-game exhibition series against Team Canada &lsquo;74. When that test of skill concluded, the juniors returned to their respective clubs until Dec. 22.Then, the score of the WCHL All Star group plus added frills were regrouped in Winnipeg to represent Canada in the world junior hockey championship. There was confidence in the young Canadians&rsquo; manner, and they played like it. Canada won its opening game 9-3 over the United States as Lethbridge Bronco addition Bryan Trottier scored three times to set the tempo. Then two goals each by Mel Bridgman of the Victoria Cougars and Rick Blight of the Brandon Wheat Kings snarked a 10-2 triumph over Sweden.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0535/3331175-1-eng-US/f0037-052.jpg" title="f0037-05" width="264" height="354"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dale McMullin</figcaption></div>In game three, a goal by Brandon&rsquo;s Dale McMullin late in the third period gave the young Canadians a 2-1 win over Finland. And finally. Regina Pat stopper Ed Staniowski shut out Czechoslovakia 3-0.The Canadians had company however. The Russians had won four in a row as well. The stage was set for the tournament final as has been the case so many times in international competitions&hellip; Canada against Russia.If ever there was a setting where Canada would control the ice, this was it. But these Russian kids were younger images of the renowned national club.The Russians held period leads of 2-1 and 4-1 and then held on to defeat a game Canadian bunch 4-3. Two goals by Boris Alexandrov, a familiar name from Russian teams gone by, became the difference.Saskatoon Blade Danny Arndt instigated Canada&rsquo;s third period comeback, setting up Rick Lapointe for goal number two and firing Canada&rsquo;s third goal himself with less than four minutes remaining. But the WCHL stars could not find the equalizer.&ldquo;We were pleased in one respect and disappointed in another,&rdquo; offered WCHL president Ed Chynoweth. &ldquo;I thought our guys played pretty well for taking 24 strangers and putting them on a team together.&ldquo;But certainly we were disappointed that one bad period of hockey and a couple of defensive lapses probably cost us the championship,&rdquo; added Chynoweth. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t have lapses against a team like the Russians or thev&rsquo;ll capitalize.&ldquo;Well, we&rsquo;ve had a look at two different formulas now,&ldquo; said Chynoweth. &ldquo;Last year, Canada was represented by a club team, this year by a Western All Star team. Maybe what we need to win is a Canadian All Star team.&rdquo;Whatever the future of Canada&rsquo;s participation in the tournament, the overall show from an entertainment standpoint was a tremendous success except for one thing. Canada was second best to the Russians once again.VICTORIA: Rookie Greg Miazga scored his second hat-trick of the season in a 10-2 victory over Medicine Hat&hellip; 17-year-old defenseman Gordie Roberts added four points in the win, giving him 34 points in the 32 games he has played this season&hellip; Rookie Jim Gustafson raised his goal total to 30 in a 5-5 tie with New Westminster.KAMLOOPS: Chiefs extended their unbeaten string to eight games with a 7-4 win over Saskatoon and a 4-3 victory over Medicine Hat Brad Gassort had trick seman Reg Kerr continued his fine offensive play with two goals against the Hat.MEDICINE HAT: Barry Dean broke out of a lengthy slump with six assists in an 11-2 triumph over Lethbridge&hellip; Dean had missed six games in December through injury&hellip; Tigers bought forward Brian Hill from Estevan of the Saskatchewan Junior League, and Hill responded with six points in his first seven games&hellip; Tigers ventured into BC for games in Victoria, New Westminster and Kamloops and came home empty-handed.NEW WESTMINSTER: Bruins have a five-game unbeaten string of their own in keeping pace with the Western Division leaders&hellip; Rick Shinske, who had all kinds of trouble scoring goals before coming to the Bruins from Calgary, fired four goals in three games&hellip; Mike Sleep also has four goals in Bruins&rsquo; last three outings, raising his total to 19, third best on the club behind Mark Lofthouse (25) and Kelly Secord (22).EDMONTON:The puzzling Oil Kings can`t put any sort of consistency together&hellip; After winning two straight, they dropped a 6-3 decision to the lowly Flin Flon Bombers right in Edmonton&hellip; Sophomore Doug Lecuyer shed his scoring woes with five points in four games&hellip; Rookie Paul Mulvey is back in uniform after missing seven games through injury.CALGARY: The Cents continue to field a no-name lineup and suffer from it&hellip; Recent addition DaveColborne scored his first WCHL goal, but it didn&rsquo;t help as the Cents were dumped 5-4 by Saskatoon&hellip; Calgary did manage its second road victory of the season however, beating Regina 6-4&hellip; Captain Dennis McLean had three goals and an assist in that one.SASKATOON: Goaltender Bill Oleschuk. purchased part way through the season from Lethbridge, recorded his second shutout of the year in a 6-0 win over Winnipeg&hellip; Blades&rsquo; team record for a season is five set by Ed Humphrey in the 1972-73 season&hellip; Danny Arndt returned from the world junior tournament in Winnipeg and fired three goals in a 5-4 win over Calgary&hellip; Arndt had just recovered from a broken jaw which forced him to miss almost the whole month of December.LETHBRIDGE: Rookie Jerry Bancks scored twice in an important 5-3 win over Brandon&hellip; Bancks has scored 10 times in Broncos&rsquo; last 10 games&hellip;Bill Jobson and Les Crozier also added single goals in the second-place battle as the lesser-lights took over in the absence of stars Bryan Trottier and Brian Sutter.BRANDON: Wheaties put together a four-game winning streak at home, but still found the going rough once they hit the road&hellip; Kings have won only twice away from home in 18 starts&hellip; Defenseman Gary Soetaert scored his first goal as a Wheat King in a 7-3 win over Regina,.. Soetaert came to Brandon in a trade with Edmonton.REGINA: Pats&rsquo; losing string, extended to seven games as they struggled to score goals&hellip; In those seven appearances, Pats scored only 20 goals, an average of less than three per game&hellip; Backup goaltender Bob Mahnic has played five of those contests in place of regular Ed Staniowski who was playing in the world junior tourney.FLIN FLON: Look out. here come the Bombers&hellip; They&rsquo;re one of the WCHL&rsquo;s hottest teams with seven wins in their last 10 games&hellip; Jeff McDill returned to the lineup after missing 24 games and made his presence felt with a couple of goals in a double triumph over Calgary&hellip; Goaltender Roger Swanson made 50 saves as the Bombers beat Edmonton 6-3 right in Oil King country.WINNIPEG: Clubs finally gave a serious note that they were still thinking playoffs by dumping fourth-place Regina 4-3 and 5-3&hellip; Defenseman Jerry Rollins must have come close to a hockey record anywhere when he took eight minor &#9632;

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Hand-Picked Selects Fall Short Against Russians

THE HOCKEY NEWSEVERY WEEK for the price of a ticket to a SINGLE GAMESuperb Hockey Reading Each MonthHOCKEY WORLD & HOCKEY PICTORIALLEADING SCORERS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0536/3331206-1-eng-US/f0038-052.jpg" title="f0038-05" width="592" height="462"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY BILL BRILL</div>HAMPTON&mdash;Nobody seems able to challenge Charlotte for first place, but the only team around with the confidence to move up appears to be Hampton.The Gulls, playing not at all like an expansion team, have overhauled Roanoke Valley for second place and coach John Brophy says he isn&rsquo;t conceding first place to Charlotte.Hampton&rsquo;s newly found defensive play has sparked the Gulls into the runnerup position. The big thing for Brophy was solving his goaltending problems. With veteran Andr&eacute; Gill now and hand, plus an improved Peter Proulx, the Gulls played three straight games in which the opposition got just one goal. Unfortunately, one of those was a 1-0 loss to Charlotte.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-01130/3331237-1-eng-US/f0038-012.jpg" title="f0038-01" width="270" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Peter Proulx</figcaption></div>Gill stopped Roanoke Valley on one goal in his SHL debut, but later suffered a broken nose in practice. Proulx stepped in and did a fine job, beating Winston-Salem 6-1, losing to Charlotte 1-0 and then beating Roanoke Valley 6-5.&lsquo;I&rsquo;ve gotten confidence since I&rsquo;ve been playing more,&rdquo; said the 21-year-old Dartmouth graduate who joined the Gulls from Nova Scotia, as did the SHLs leading goaltender. Roanoke Valley&rsquo;s Yves Archambault. &ldquo;1 feel more at home now that I&rsquo;m getting a regular chance.&rdquo;Gill has been delighted with the Gulls. &ldquo;The guys have been tremendous.&rdquo; said the 33-year-old veteran who helped Brophy&rsquo;s Long Island team reach the North American playoff finals last year.CHARLOTTE: During one stretch, the league-leading Checkers went 11 games (10 wins and a tie) before losing to fourth-place Winston-Salem. 4-2. &ldquo;Our whole team is playing well defensively,&rdquo; explains coach Pat Kelly&hellip; Kelly has practically decided to keep veteran Gave Coolev and Rrvan Cousineau as his goalies. &ldquo;Cooley will definitely stay,&rdquo; revealed Kelly after Cooley gave up only four goals in his first three games since returning from a knee injury. Don Muio, property of the Atlanta Flames, is Charlotte&rsquo;s third goalie.ROANOKE: The Rebels surrendered second place to Hampton after a losing streak that saw the team go 3-10-1. Over that 14-game stretch, the defending SHL champs scored 56 goals, causing coach Bill Needham some concern over defense, especially the backchecking of his forwards&hellip; After a 6-5 loss to the Polar Twins, the team held a players-only team meeting that received much of the credit for Roanoke Valley&rsquo;s 7-2 win over Greensboro the following night&hellip; During the losing stretch. Michel Boudreau had nine goals and nine assists, including a hat trick agaihst Hampton Dec. 31.WINSTON-SALEM: The Polar Twins received some of their best news of the season when defenseman Jim Murray joined the club. Murray, a twotime All Star for Phoenix of the old Western League, scored a goal and three assists in only his second game with the club&hellip; The return of forwards Tom Stachniak and John Campbell to the lineup has allowed coach Forbes Kennedy to form three healthy lines for the first time in over a month&hellip; GM Pat Shetler announced that the team is currently negotiating with an NHL team for a goalie. The Polar Twins have the worst goals-against average in the league.GREENSBORO: The Generals are still playing .500 hockey (6-6-1) since Garry MacMillan took over from Bob Perreault as coach a month ago. Continued success is expected with the return of right winger. Ed Johnstone, who scored nine goals during an earlier seven-game appearance with the club. Johnstone, returned to Greensboro from the Michigan Stags, had a goal and an assist in his first game back with the Generals&hellip; Diminutive center Wayne Zuk continues to lead the team in scoring by a wide margin. &#9632;

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<h2>CONTINENTAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Sat. Jan. 4)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0285/3331275-1-eng-US/f0038-022.jpg" title="f0038-02" width="587" height="203"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0359/3331268-1-eng-US/f0038-032.jpg" title="f0038-03" width="589" height="484"></div> &#9632;

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MADISON&mdash;In a mid-year meeting, the Continental Hockey League board of governors voted unanimously to add two new franchises for the 1975-76 season.A group headed by Gary Frees and Bill Coombe representing Springfield, III., have contacted CHL president Mark Olson and expressed interest in obtaining a franchise for next season. Also, a group from the Milwaukee, Wis.. area is also interested in a franchise. Olson has set Feb. 1 1975 as the deadline for receiving a formal application from those cities interested.In other action at the meeting the board of governors set up this season&rsquo;s playoff structure as follows: The first four finishers in the final league standings will compete for the championship Walmar Cup. The first place team, at the end of season play, will play the fourth place team, and the second place team, will play the third place team in a best out of five series. The two winners of the five game series. will play the final best-of-seven series for the championship cup. The home ice advantage will be given to the team that finished highest in the final standings for all playoff series. &#9632;

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January 24, 1975

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