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January 21, 1977
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Soviet Union's Second-Rate Squad Disappoints Tournament Organizers
CALGARY- What made the International Major Junior Hockey tournament international' in the first place is a solitary team from a region other than Canada—a second-rate unit from the Soviet Union. In hindsight, Western Canada Hockey League president Ed Chynoweth is wishing he'd made sure the Soviets sent a quality team to Alberta for the double round-robin tournament involving three teams from Canada—WCHL All Stars. Quebec Major Junior Hockey League All Stars and the bolstered Kingston Canadians of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A series, and the youthful Russian squad. They weren't much better than a good junior B team,” said WCHL All Star coach Ernie McLean after the WCHLers had bombed the Russians 9-0 in their first meeting on their way to winning the first Labatt Cup tournament with a perfect 6-0 record. What…
Flames Need Plett's Aggressiveness
ATLANTA— Willi Plett started out so well in the National Hockey League that he raised doubts immediately that he was for real. In his first 19 games in the NHL this season, he scored 11 goals and 21 points. The six-foot-three. 210 pound right winger also beat up several opponents including the renowned boxer Dan Maloney of the Detroit Red Wings. Plett was linked with Tom Lysiak and Eric Vail to form the biggest and one of the most effective lines in the league. But then, after an 18-game stretch, coach Fred Creighton broke up the line. “I was shocked.” Plett said when he was separated from Lysiak and Vail. “I didn't know what to think.” Creighton did not explain the move to Plett, and the coach didn't offer much of an explanation to newspaper…
JUNIOR JOTTINGS
N.Y. Metro League The N.Y Metropolitan Jr Hockey Association regular season races sharpened with the emergence of the Bergen- Rockland Rangers as contenders for one of the top three spots and the undisputed claim of the Suffolk Royals in first place. The Rangers have overcome an early 1-4-0 record with an 11 game unbeaten streak to take third place, only six points behind the league-leading Royals. Suffolk scored two impressive wins over Long Island rivals—Oyster Bay Gulls and New Hyde Park Arrows, to break a deadlock with the defending champ New York Americans for the top position… Rangers thumped the Gulls 11-8, Westsiders 9-5 and White Plains Plainsmen 4-3, to widen their lead over Jersey Rockets to five points. Both B/R and Jersey beat Plainsmen. but not easily. The Rockets took…
London Coach Long Touts Knights As Threat To Champion Fincups
LONDON— St. Catharines Fincups are generally regarded as the top team in the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior “A” series, if not the best junior club in all of Canada. But what status does that give London Knights? The Knights began their holiday break in second place in the Emms Division, just one point back of the highly-touted Fincups. And yet, whenever the discussion turns to who will be the OHA's representative in next spring's Memorial Cup, the Knights are continally overlooked in favor of the defending champion Fincups. “As a team I think this is probably the best team we have had.” Knights' coach Bill Long said of this season's club. That may appear to be a pretty heady statement considering some of the squads the Knights have had in past years but the key…
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