Bay Area Still Best Home For Seals

OAKLAND— Vancouver, Indianapolis, San Diego, Seattle, Denver. All of these cities have two things in commons. The first is that at one time or another they all wanted the Seals hockey team to call their city home. The second is that the first never has and never will occur. Each year a story appears on the national wires saying that the Seals are moving. Once alarming, these stories have since become a Bay Area tradition, much like the Chinatown parade. The Seals’ publicity office is seriously contemplating sending out a fill-in-the-blank denial saying “Rumors that the Seals are moving to — have been denied by league and front office management”, which the newspapers could update to fit the situation. “Everytime somebody wants to create some hockey news he calls a press conference in his…

Parise Gives Youthful islanders Rare Touch Of Hockey Class On Ice

LONG ISLAND— “All we lack is experience,” was the way that Islander general manager Bill Torrey summed up his team’s prospectus back in October. Torrey and coach Al Arbour had a tine nucleus of young talent, but with the exception of Eddie Westfall and Bert Marshall. lacked the comforting hand that a veteran could provide. When Torrey plucked 34-year-old Jean-Paul Parise from the withering Minnesota North Stars, he obtained a sturdy left winger who has been part of the NHL scene since 1966. And the price couldn’t be beat, as all the Isles had to give up was left winger Ernie Hicke and center Doug Rombough, both of whom had been big disappointments on the Island. Many Islander fans were dismayed when the North Stars opened their rummage sale by shipping top defenseman…

College Races

ECAC CONFERENCE (Standings on Mon. Jan. 13) GAMES COMPLETED ECAC CONFERENCE Providence 8, Colgate 3 Boston 12, RPI 3 Northeastern 8, Colgate 6 Vermont 6. Pennsylvania3 Harvard 2, Boston College 1 Cornell 8, Colgate 4 New Hampshire 6, Pennsylvania 3 Boston University 8, Northeastern 2 Brown 8, Providence 5 Clarkson 9, Northeastern 6 Vermont 6, Dartmouth 2 Harvard 4, Cornell 2 Pennsylvania 6, St. Lawrence 3 New Hampshire 5, Boston College 1 Brown 8, RPI 5 Northeastern 1, St. Lawrence 1 Harvard 14, Colgate 4 Pennsylvania 7, Clarkson 7 Providence 11, Princeton 5 Cornell 7, Dartmouth 6 NON-CONFERENCE GAMES Loyola 3, Clarkson 2 Harvard 13, St. Louis 3 St. Louis 5, Harvard 4 Toronto 6, Clarkson 3 RPI 7, Merrimack 5 Boston University 3, St. Louis 3 ECAC HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT Cornell 10, Boston College 7 St. Lawrence 4, Brown 3 Brown 6, Boston College 4 Cornell 7, St. Lawrence 4 (Cornell wins tournament) WCHA CONFERENCE (Standings on Fri. Jan. 17) GAMES COMPLETED WCHA CONFERENCE Colorado College 8, Michigan State…

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