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December 10, 1976
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Shooters Get Jump On AHL Netminders
Special To The Hockey News SPRINGFIELD For most goaltenders life in the American Hockey League has been anything but a picnic so far this season. The latest statistics released from the league office here indicate that it has been truly a shooters’ season. Of the 12 active goalies (two per club only two sport goals-against averages of less than three goals a game Six of them have averages under four goals a game and the remaining four are carrying an average of just under five goals a game. The goaltending tandem of Dave Elenbaas and Eddie Walsh, recently reunited when Elenbaas joined the club after spending the first month and a half in Montreal, has hot been that effective despite Nova Scotia’s lofty position in the standings Actually Nova Scotia’s success in the…
Delvecchio Trying To Make Trades In Hopes Of Stopping Wings’ Slump
DETROIT— Add Bruce Norris to the list of people disenchanted by the Detroit Red Wings’ recent performances. Owner Norris is his club’s biggest fan, quite naturally, but he’s not at all pleased with the way things have gone this season. “I can’t understand why we’re not playing better,” Norris said. “We’ve got more ability than we’ve shown. We’re not playing up to our capabilities. “I’m baffled.” The Wings were in the clutches of a horrid six-game winless streak three ties, three losses) in mid-November. When they played well, they couldn’t buy a victory. Whenthey played poorly, they gotclobbered. Once, against St. Louis, the Wingstwice blew three-goal leads, only to tie it on defenseman Rick Lapointe’s fluke goal against goalie Ed Staniowski. That touched off a declaration by coach Billy Dea that some of his players were…
Murphy Coming ThroughFor Kings
LOS ANGELES- Having covered the Kings from the first, my opinion that this is the best team the franchise has so far produced may carry some weight, but results so far do not support this theory. The club completed the first fourth of the season with an 8-6-6 record, which wasn’t too bad, but might have been better. The record was the second-best in the Norris Division, and fifth-best in the league behind Montreal. Boston. Buffalo and the Islanders. The Kings cannot be expected to carry a fight for the divisional lead to Montreal, but their runnerup position ahead of Pittsburgh is shaky. The Penguins usually start slow, close fast, and just miss catching the Kings. This season they have not fallen as far behind as usual Kings.This season they have not fallen…
Cherry Pleased With Bruins’Alternating Goalers
BOSTON— You can’t knock success, so the Bruins and coach Don Cherry will continue with their practice of alternating goal-keepers until the wheels come off or somebody gets hurt. The Bruins were piling up imposing statistics in the early going of the NHL season, leading their division handily over Buffalo, and playing pretty tight hockey in front of Gilles Gilbert and Gerry Chee vers. Goals-against is not the top statistic owned by Boston, but when a team has a run such as four straight wins; unbeaten in eight games. (7-0-1), and 9-0-1 at home, who cares about goals-against? Cheevers, of course, is the veteran who, with Eddie Johnston, was in the nets when the old Bruins were breaking all scoring records, and leaving the back-checking to someone else. Neither Cheevers nor Johnston had any…
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