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October 29, 1976
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Injuries, Malcontent Riddling Flyers; Special Shoe Allows Parent To Return
PHILADELPHIA— Spectrum management is involved in entertainment so why not a Flyers' Theater of the Absurd? This production has nothing to do with the Flyers' on-ice behavior, which, with the transfer of Dave Schultz to Los Angeles, will now be good conduct material. Call this “21 Days of Turmoil,” with a painful prologue. Prologue: Bobby Clarke suffers a sprained ankle in the Canada Cup opener. The Hart Trophy winner rests, then limps through the remaining Canada Cup games. The tender right ankle which Flyers' physical therapist Matt DiPaolo describes as a moderate sprain, keeps Clarke out of all 10 Flyers' exhibitions. In Team Canada's second game, Jimmy Watson is felled by a Gary Sargent shot. Result: a fractured cheekbone. Watson returns, wearing a helmet and football-style face guard for the last exhibition game. Both…
NHL WEEK
MONTREAL- As National Hockey League teams settled into the second week of the regular schedule, some familiar names began drifting toward their customary spots atop the scoring parade. Montreal's Guy Lafleur. last season's Art Ross Trophy-winner, picked up eight points in four games to move into a first-place tie with line mate Steve Shutt. Each has 13 points, although Shutt appears first because he leads Lafleur in goals, seven to six. Shutt, a 45-goal scorer last season, did not register his seventh goal until his 20th game in 1975-76. Another eight-point performance was turned in by center Marcel Dionne of Los Angeles Kings. That vaulted him into an eighth-place tie with teammates Mike Murphy and Tom Williams, and last week's scoring leader, Tim Young of Minnesota, each with 10 points. Following Shutt and…
Three Whaler Newcomers Push Regular Off Team
NEW ENGLAND— The New England Whalers opened their fifth WHA season with three new names on their roster - new names so impressive in training camp that New England had to cut three veterans to make room for them. Center Brett Callighen, left wing Dave Hynes, and left wing George Lyle survived the toughest-ever Whalers' camp and held three of the coveted New England berths when the Whalers boarded a plane for their Oct. 8 opener in Edmonton. The impressive Callighen scored 58 points in 72 games with Kalamazoo of the IHL last year, Hynes tallied 67 points in 63 games with Rochester of the AHL, and Lyle, an All-American at Michigan Tech, finished his 43-game collegiate slate with 47 goals and 41 assists. Three of the Whalers' final cuts were the toughest to…
Meet The Rookies…
One of the many new faces to adorn the roster of the Minnesota North Stars this season is Roland Eriksson, the 22-year-old Swedish import the NHL club hopes will become as much of a sensation on this side of the world as he was in his native Sweden. Eriksson, who is six-foot-two and weighs 195 pounds, played for Sweden in the recent Canada Cup series. North Stars' coach Ted Harris is highly impressed with Eriksson, who he thinks reminds him at times of Jean Beliveau, the Canadiens' great center. It was Eriksson's performance in the World Tournament last spring that attracted the attention of the North Stars' scouts. He scored 10 times in 10 tourney games and the Stars were sold on the youngster. Like Beliveau, Erikssonis a slick center…
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