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March 28, 1975
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Movements of Players
Following are the latest player movements in hockey: NATIONAL LEAGUE VANCOUVER—Gerry Meehan, forward, traded to Atlanta in exchange for Bob Murray, defenseman. N.Y. RANGERS—Marty Gateman, defenseman. recalled from Providence of AHL as emergency replacement for Ron Harris, defenseman. who returned to disabled list with charley horse. Joe Zanussi, defenseman. returned to Providence. KANSAS CITY—Bryan Lefley, defenseman. assigned to Providence of AHL. ST. LOUIS—Jim McCrimmon, defenseman. jumped Edmonton of WHA to sign NHL contract with Blues, who purchased his NHL rights from Los Angeles. WORLD HOCKEY ASSN. BALTIMORE—Arnie Brown, defenseman. sold outright to Vancouver of WHA. Billy Goldthorpe, forward, placed on suspended list by club. Fred Speck and Craig Reichmuth, forwards, assigned to Syracuse of NAHL. Jerry Zyrmiak, defenseman. sent to Greensboro of SHL. VANCOUVER—Peter Donnelly, goalkeeper, recalled from Tulsa of CHL for two games and later returned. TORONTO—Paul Henderson,…
Checkers, Gulls Lead All Star Voting; Olds, Deschamps Share MVP Honor
THE HOCKEY NEWS EVERY WEEK for the price of a ticket to a SINGLE GAME! Superb Hockey Reading Each Mon HOCKEY WORLD & HOCKEY PICTORIA ROANOKE— Regular season champion Charlotte and runnerup Hampton garnered most of the honors for the Southern League All Star team for ‘74-75. Sharing most valuable player honors are Hampton defenseman Wally Olds and Charlotte left winger Andre Deschamps. They each received six votes from the 24 ballots cast by the media representatives. players and coaches. Deschamps. a 21-year-old from Valleyfield. Quebec, has broken the SHL goal scoring record and entered the final week of the regular campaign with 55 tallies. The old record of 51 was set last year by Howie Heggedal of Greensboro. Olds, 25, is one of the few American-born players in the SHL. The 205-pounder is a…
Monahan’s Defensive Play Making Trade Look Good For Canucks
VANCOUVER— Perhaps the reason why Garry Monahan’s hockey skills so frequently go unappreciated is that we live in a society geared to workship statistics. The cost of living index, the gross national product, the unemployment rate are all factors that govern our daily lives. We learn to watch apprehensively to see if they go up or down. But Garry Monahan’s worth can’t be measured by statistics. No one keeps tables to demonstrate how seldom a player loses the puck in his own end. Numbers do not accurately reflect a player’s versatility, his defensive skills, his penalty killing ability or his competitive fire. If such figures existed. Monahan would rate high in them all. The Vancouver Canucks acquired the much-travelled forward’s services Oct. 14, 1974 from Toronto. Since then they have gone on to enjoy…
Canadians’ Coach Bownass Gets Axe; aruk Establishes Career Goal Mark
KINGSTON— “I’m absolutely shocked.” That was the reaction of Jack (Red) Bownass when he was informed by Kingston Canadians’ general manager Lloyd (Punch) Scherer he had been relieved of his coaching duties with only four games left in the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior A schedule. Bownass had reason to be upset. Just 12 months ago he had been named coach of the year in Ontario Junior A hockey when the new Kingston franchise finished in 10th position and accumulated 47 points. 10 above the old Hamilton Red Wings who were in the cellar. It was the most points earned by any new Ontario Junior A team in recent years. Bownass, a former player with Canada’s national hockey team, refused further comment than being “schocked”, stating he would take a few days to think things…
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