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January 2, 1976
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Delvecchio Aims To Turn Wings Around
DETROIT— For better or worse, Alex Delvecchio is coach-of the Detroit Red Wings for the rest of the season. “We’ve got to get this club straightened out and into the playoffs,” Delvecchio said the day he fired Doug Barkley as coach. “We can’t do that if I go out and hire another coach. There isn’t enough time for the new guy to get settled and establish something. “And we can’t do it under the pretense that I’m just an interim coach until we find somebody else. I’m going to coach the team.” For Delvecchio, it’s the second turn in the dual role of general manager and coach. He held the dual jobs last season before hiring Barkley, an old teammate, to handle the coaching. “It wasn’t an easy decision,” Delvecchio said of Barkley’s dismissal. “It looked…
Huber’s Physical Play Gives Roanoke Lift
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 ROANOKE When new management took over the Roanoke Valley Rebels this season, it determined that the team would have toget much more physical tor the upcoming SHI. season. The Rebels had drifted into nearoblivion last season for a number of reasons. Primarily. however, the team simply didn’t give as i much its it took on the ice. That, figured new management. simply had to change. To that end. high on the priority list of players needed to re-stock the team was a tough, physical player who would hopefully inspire the rest of the team…
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FRANK SAYS:
Demise Of A Team PERHAPS THE HIGH HOPES were based on shaky premises but when the 1973-74 National Hockey League season opened, the future was very bright for the Minnesota North Stars. The previous season, the Stars and Philadelphia Flyers had given parity its biggest shot in the arm when they tied for second place in the old West Division eight points behind Chicago Black Hawks. The two teams were the first from’ the expansion crop to have what appeared to be a good shot at the Stanley cup, the Flyers with their brash young roster of roughies. North Stars with a solid team of veterans and kids breaking through to the front ranks. Three years later, the Flyers are fawored to win their third consecutive Stanley Cup; the North Stars are trying…
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