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February 4, 1977
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NHL BOOSTER CLUB NEWS
Colorado Joins In IT’S A GRAND OLD NAME. And now we have not only the St. Louis Blueliners but the Colorado Rockies Blueliners too. Out in Mile-High Denver. “Rocky Hockey” started off on Oct. 11 with a banquet attended by over 230 fans plus players and managements Bombarded with questions were GM Ray Miron, coach Johnny Wilson, play-by-play man Joe Starkey, and of course the Rockies themselves…Prizes ranged from tickets to T-shirts… The club’s newsletter is painstakingly typed by Dave “Thumbs” Meacham, who reports that a ski trip was held in December…Joe Lebar is president. Club members stop by the booth at the areana and vote for Rocky of the Month after each game…Doug Favell took the honors in October, coming away with dinner for two plus wine and cocktails, plus…
Hawks Hoping Captain Magnuson Will Give Club Lift
CHICAGO– Keith Magnuson, who would break his neck for the Black Hawks and last year almost did, has been named team captain by coach Bill White. The appointment is highly proper because Magnuson has been the club’s spiritual leader since appearing here seven and a half seasons ago, and if ever the Black Hawks needed a heart transplant, it is now. The craft Magnuson now captains floats somewhere between the Titanic and the Good Ship Lollipop. “Maggie will do a great job,” predicted White. “He’s well-liked, well-respected and he’s the perfect guy for it. I thought about having a vote among the guys, then I changed my mind. Sometimes when you vote, you don’t end up with the right person. “I went out to have a bite with Keith after a game around Christmas…
Rookie Pirus Scoring With Checks
TWIN CITIES— Ted Harris prefers not to go overboard in extolling the seven rookies currently on the roster of the improving Minnesota North Stars. So you might consider it a bit lavish when Harris citied one of these freshmen for a kind word recently. No, the subject of this praise was not the offensive success of stylish Swedish center Roland Eriksson, who is coming into his own in the opponents’ end of the rink, nor center Glen Sharpley, whose all-around play will make him the team’s biggest star one day. No, the subject was a young man who has drawn plaudits from the coach for his physical abilities. Alex Pirus, a six-foot-one, 205-pound right wing, scores points with body checks, not goals. His favorite sounds are. ’’Snap, crackle and crunch,” along the boards."Alex Pirus,” stated…
The WIHL Scene
CRANBROOK– Preparing to charge into uncontested first place in the Western International League lead as they began the second half of the season, the Cranbrook Royals were tripped twice. The Royals, who had put together a streak of 11 wins and a tie in a dozen starts, were stunned twice by the surging Spokane Flyers. After winning six straight the Royals were drilling 4-1 on their own ice. That was Spokane’s third straight win on foreign ice. After winning in Trail, the Royals ventured to Spokane and were thrashed 8-2, the most one-sided loss of the year for Cranbrook. This indifferent week kept Cranbrook, the team most observers picked to win the league championship for a second straight year, in a first-place tie with Kimberley. Atop the league almost since the season started, Kimberley…
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