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November 21, 1975
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Crozier Determined Cowboys Will Change; Nordiques, Jets Facing Head-To-Head Battle
CALGARY— Things are never so bad they can’t get a little worse or, in the case of Calgary Cowboys, a lot worse. And, in the case of Calgary coach Joe Crozier, he can always find some comfort in looking back to last season, when he coached the Vancouver Blazers prior to their departure for the foothills. If he thinks his club is having a poor start this time around, he can always recall how bad things were then. A year ago, Blazers won only three of their first 15 games yet still finished the season with 37 wins, five wins short of a playoff berth. Moreover, Crozier feels he has a better team this time. Strangely, like the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League, the Cowboys managed to put together a mild…
Flin Flon Hoping Better Days Ahead As Club Hits Cellar, Fires Pearson
FLIN FLON— Bobby Clarke of Philadelphia Flyers would cringe if he could take a look at the latest Western Canada Hockey League standings. Clarke would make teammate Reggie Leach shed a tear too. By showing him just what has happened to the great Flin Flon Bomber franchise. A power for years in the WCHL, the Bomber franchise has been crumbling for the past two or three years. Whether it will survive to see the next decade is a question only the good people of Flin Flon can answer. In the years when Clarke, Leach, Chuck Amason, Gene Carr, Blaine Stoughton and other present-day professionals were leading the Bombers to victory after victory and more glory than this Manitoba center could ever hope for, the Bomber franchise appeared indestructable. But when Patty Ginnell, the manager…
Rout By Cup Flyers Dimmed K.C. Hopes
KANSAS CITY— In the end, if the Kansas City Scouts are to pick up the pieces, they will have to acknowledge that it was only one night and only one week in a National Hockey League season that stretches out over 80 games and almost six months. Year One was not without its humbling experiences. There was even a 10-0 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers at the Spectrum that matched the one Nov. 2. But never had one setback been taken so to heart. “It’s just the humiliation of a night like this,” said Gary Bergman, one of the many Scouts who sat in his dressing-room stall 15 minutes after the end of the game without moving toward the showers. “The harder we work, the worse things seem to gowrong.” It seemed almost unfair…
ESPO CRUSHED—PARK STUNNED
NEW YORK— In a transaction which made veteran New York sports fans think back to the startling transfer of allegiance when Leo Durocher switched from managing the Brooklyn Dodgers to the New York Giants, the Rangers swapped longtime favorites Jean Ratelle and Brad Park to the Boston Bruins for center Phil Esposito, a hated ogre in Madison Square Garden, and defenseman Carol Vadnais. Ratelie, a smooth classic center, will take Espo’s spot in the Bruins lineup with Park, the Rangers captain, and a Bobby Orr type of defenseman, taking Vadnais’ defense post. New York also threw in Joe Zanussi, a Providence Reds rearguard and the best AHL blueliner. “I’ll cheer my head off for Esposito when he plays for the Rangers,” siad George Feintuch, a long time Ranger fan. “This shows GM…
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