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November 19, 1976
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Loose Defensive Play Contributes Heavily To Pens Inconsistency
PITTSBURGH— The Pittsburgh Penguins have the same habits, good and bad, as they did a year ago. They score goals, as well as allow them, in huge amounts. “We can't get any continuity,” coach Ken Schinkel said. 'Everybody is trying so hard and that doesn't always help.” While Dune Wilson gets accustomed to regular work in goal and the damaged knees of veterans Vic Hadfield and Lowell MacDonald slowly heal, the Penguins struggle. After 10 games, they had allowed five more goals than any other club in the National Hockey League. Wilson started all seven games since joining Pittsburgh from the New York Rangers, but Schinkel concedes the 28-year-old netminder will need plenty of work to settle into the job. “He's not what you call a super practice player,” Schinkel mentioned, “but he plays well…
Cheevers Winner At Track, In Goal
BOSTON- Gerry Cheevers, the Bruins' veteran goalkeeper, is a man of many talents, not the least of which is tending goal, which has been lucrative for him to say the least. But he picks up a bob or two on the side racing horses, and he recently came up with a fabulous daily double. He was in goal at Montreal where he played just a super game against Canadiens as the Bruins beat Les Habs, 4-3 giving Bruins two wins over Montreal in the month of October. Some teams are lucky to get two wins over Montreal in a career. The Cheese' played brilliantly to hold off the Canadiens, and in the midst of it, one wag commented, “He wants to do better than the horse did.” What the horse, Royal Ski, had done…
Parenteau Bounced Off Sorel Team; LeBel Division Race Tightening Up
SOREL— The Sorel Black Hawks are having their problems on and off the ice. On the ice, it reads like this: Three wins, two ties and 13 losses in 18 games. The club has scored 72 goals in those 18 games but has given up a league-leading 121. Off the ice, the picture doesn't look any brighter. General manager Rodrigue Lemoyne had to bounce veteran center Gilles Parenteau right off the team Parenteau was traded to the Laval Nationals during the off-season only to wind up back with the Black Hawks just before the start of the regular season The story is that Parenteau broke a few curfews after repeated warnings from Lemoyne and the end came early last week when the 19-year-old pivot was told to leave. “I won't accept anything but discipline on…
Defenseman Dupont Keeps Flyers Loose
PHILADELPHIA— Bernie Parent was standing in the Flyers' Spectrum dressing room when suddenly he was airborne. Andre (Moose) Dupont, known to friends as A. Moose, had scooped up the valuable goaltender and cradled him like a baby. If Ed Snider or Keith Allen had been watching the horseplay, they'd have needed oxygen and a soft place to collapse. Parent had had enough troubles in his come-eback attempt without being dropped by a teammate. Another way of looking at Dupont's well-meaning maneuver was: he has helped carry Parent on the ice so why not off the ice for a while? Through the Flyers early struggle, while Parent was barely a shadow of his award-winning self and Bobby Clarke's normally explosive line was fizzling at a minus rate, Dupont was among the Flyers who maintained positive…
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