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February 4, 1977
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Irish Ace Walsh Provides Punch As Notre Dame Rolls Unbeaten
SOUTH BEND– As Brian Walsh goes, so goes Notre Dame’s hockey team. Right now the senior captain of the Fighting Irish is red hot. The center from Cambridge, Mass., has scored eight goals in his last four games and, not so coincidentally, Notre Dame has won all four, moving it into a third place tie in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. “Walsh is so strong. There’s little you can do against him,” said Minnesota-Duluth coach Gus Hendrickson after watching Walsh score four goals in an Irish sweep over the Bulldogs. “He’s not flashy like some players in the league, but he’s a great playmaker,” said UMD’s freshman-of-the-year candidate Dan Lempe, who tried to stay with Walsh during the series. After personally destroying the Bulldogs, Walsh moved on to East Lansing the next weekend (Jan. 14-15)…
Sorel Delays Moving Hockey Franchise; Sherbrooke Wins Big ’Four-Point’ Match
SOREL— The Sorel Black Hawks will not be moving to another center in Quebec—at least not until the end of the 1976-77 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League season. Municipal officials stepped in at the last minute and agreed to demands made by club owner Rodrigue Lemoyne, preventing a possible move of the franchise to Verdun, a Montreal suburb. Lemoyne had threatened to move the franchise because of a lack of support by the fans and by civic officials. Some fans, about 100, had even sent a telegram to the provincial government, asking the newly-elected Parti Quebecois government to block a possible move. Lemoyne, who doubles as business agent for controversial Pierre Larouche of the Pittsburgh Penguins, had been seen talking with several businessmen in the last few weeks and appeared to be going through…
Habs’ Letdown Causes No Panic With Cup Champs Class Of NHL
MONTREAL— Perhaps the best way to describe the play of the Canadiens recently is to compare it with an elevator—up one game and down the next time out. Believe it or not, the Canadiens lost two games in less than seven days last week But. There’s no panic around Atwater and St Catharines Streets in downtown Montreal. The Habs are still well ahead of everyone else in the National Hockey League. After blanking the Colorado Rockies just three hours after arriving in Denver, the Canadiens travelled on to St. Louis where the Blues thrashed the Habs 7-2. It was then back to the Forum, where the Canadiens shutout the L A. Kings 6-0. From the Forum, it was off to Boston and the Bruins stunned the Canadiens 7-3—winning over Montreal for the third time…
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…
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