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February 21, 1975
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Losing Captain Blow To Saskatoon; Clubs Keeping Playoff Hopes Alive
SASKATOON — This is a sailor’s tale of a different twist. The ship is still riding the crest of the waves. It’s the captain who has fallen overboard. And the question that follows is logical. If the captain is expected to go down with his ship, then is the ship expected to sink with it’s captain? Not likely, in this case. Saskatoon Blades are floating along in first place in the Western Canada Hockey League’s Eastern Division despite receiving the worst news of all this past week. Versatile captain Ralph Klassen has contracted mononucleosis. Klassen, the Blade leader by example, will be out “for at least a month and possibly for the season”, according to team physician Pat Bobyn. People are still waiting for the backlash to set in. Strangely enough. Blades skated to an impressive…
Goring Remains Kings’ Most Exciting Player
LOS ANGELES— The Kings’ most exciting player remains Butch Goring. He also is one of their most effective. So small at 5’9” and 180 pounds, his long, straight hair hanging beneath his helmet, Butch looks like a boy among men on the ice, but he is a bowlegged buzzsaw who bedevils foes. With his short, choppy strides, relentlessly aggressive, he hustles harder than all but a few foes. The Kings have made the most of the few late draft choices they have not traded away. Out of St. Boniface. Manitoba, he was selected on the fifth round of the gab-bag in the summer of 1969 and is in his sixth season with the team. His first two seasons he spent prolonged periods in the minors at Springfield. The last three seasons he…
Stars Desperately Hoping Goldy Can Turn Things Around
TWIN CITIES— Coach Charlie Bums and team captain Bill Goldsworthy sat down the other day to talk over the plight of the Minnesota North Stars. One big decision was reached. It was time for Goldsworthy to get back into action after missing 10 games with a severed tendon on his right index finger. He probably would have come back sooner, if he could have talked Bums and team doctors into it. So Goldy took the ice for the first time since the hand was cut trying to break up a fight among teammates in a Pittsburgh hotel Jan. 2. It took the North Star captain two periods before he bulged the netting against the New York Islanders for his 23rd goal of the season. It was a big goal at the time, giving the…
Henning, St. Laurent Give Isles Lift In Playoff Push
LONG ISLAND — Last season Andrs St. Laurent scored five goals for the N.Y. Islanders as he split his time between New York and the CHL’s Fort Worth Wings. Last season Lome Henning scored 12 goals for the N.Y. Islanders (most during the first half of the campaign) as he split his time between his center ice position and the New York bench. By the beginning of February, St. Laurent had registered six goals for the current term, while Henning was cruising along with two. Not particularly impressive figures at first glance, but both will undoubtedly remind general manager Bill Torrey at contract time, “Look what I’ve done for you lately.” At the beginning of the season, both players had been relegated to spearcarrier service. The two centers had seen the first three…
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