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May 2, 1975
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Stanfield Playing Important Role In Cup Drive
BUFFALO— Punch Imlach has made some canny trades to build the Buffalo team that finished tied in points with Philadelphia and Montreal atop the National Hockey League this season. One of the best has to be the one in which the Sabres acquired Fred Stanfield from the Minnesota North Stars for Norm Gratton and future considerations. Stanfield, who played on two Stanley Cup champions with the Boston Bruins, performed an important role in Buffalo’s stretch drive to the Prince of Wales Conference championship and it looks as though he will do the same in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The 30-year-old forward has played all three forward positions, has played center, right wing and the point on the power play and has killed penalties, on occasion. He filled in on the French Connection, first for left…
Hawks Proved To Themselves They Could Win In Clutch
CHICAGO— April 15 is the day of reckoning here in the States. That is the day we settle up with Uncle Sam and pay the man his due. The day of reckoning for the Black Hawks came a little earlier in the month. Five days, to be exact. That was the day of their decision for 1975: they either had to prove that they were the team that everyone figured they were or discover that the Stanley Cup playoffs were a spectator sport. This was a day of mixed emotions. The Hawks had been soundly trounced in Boston 8-2 and had to win two crucial games to keep them from being TV viewers for the rest of the series. Mixed emotions? It they lost, it would prove that they were the mediocre team…
Salt Lake-Dallas Final Set As Knights, Blazers Bow Out
LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U. S. and Canada LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD. Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U. S. and Canada SALT LAKE— Jack Evans was announced as Central Hockey League Coach of the Year, and his Northern Division champions made it to the Adams Cup playoff finals against Dallas. Ray Martyniuk posted an 8-0 shutout of the Omaha Knights in the Salt Palace to open the best-of-five semi-finals. Two nights later, it was an entirely different script, but the Eagles prevailed, 5-4, on Brent Meeke’s goal with 41 seconds left. That moved the series to Omaha’s Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum, where the Eagles had hopes of wrapping up the semifinals with their third…
Flames May Yield Myre Or Bouchard To Close Talent Gap
ATALNTA— Until now, the idea was almost unthinkable that the Atlanta Flames would consider trading a goaltender. “In the past.” Flames general manager Cliff Fletcher says, “any inquiries we’ve had about the possibility of one of our goaltenders being available—well, we pretty well squashed them right there.” But times have changed, along with divisions. This season the Flames found themselves bogged down in the highly competitive Patrick Division, where they finished fourth out of four teams. Although they had a better team and a better record than last year, they did not make the playoffs, as they did a year ago. Atlanta was 30-34-14 last season and 34-31-15 this time while finishing five points out of the playoffs. Fletcher maintains that his team’s failure to enter the playoffs won’t affect his willingness to make off-season…
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