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February 11, 1977
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NHL’S… Player of the Week
When Wilf Paiment went second in the 1974 NHL summer amateur draft, it was pretty well figured he would be headed for stardom in a few short years. The hard-shooting right winger of the Colorado Rockies could achieve such expectations this season at his current scoring pace. Paiemcnt, who scored 26 goals his rookie year and 21 last season with the now defunct Kansas City Scouts, is well on his way to his best NHL season ever. The Rockies’ top sniper fired five goals in three games last week to increase his season count to 25, indicating he could finish with as many as 40. Paiement also set up two other Colorado goals for a seven-point week to edge out Washington’s Gerry Meehan for player of the week honors. Meehan also had…
Leafs Screaming Robbery As Salming Takes Second
TORONTO- Just about the only member of the Toronto Maple Leafs who wasn’t upset by the voting for the Prince of Wales Conference team to play in the National Hockey League All Star game at Vancouver in which Larry Robinson of the Montreal Canadiens finished ahead of the Leafs’ Borje Salming for the top defense spot was Salming himself. The other Leafs, who have been touting Salming as the top candidate for the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s best defenseman, strongly objected to the result of the vote. Salming, as expected, merely shrugged because he seldom gets excited about much of anything. “It’s good to be picked on a defense with Robinson,” Salming said. The other Leafs, including two players who made the first 12 for the conference All Stars, center Darry Sittier and…
Goalies Shine In All Star Thriller; Predioer Victim Of Austerity Drive
BRANDON— It was West three, East two in the annual Western Canada Hockey League All Star game, but there were 4,121 winners. The Western Division, coached by Medicine Hat’s Jack Shupe, and the 4,120 fans who took in the most exciting All Star classic in recent league history. Ron Areshenkoff, a 19-year-old centerman from Shupe s Tigers, scored the winning goal on a third-period breakaway. But the stars of the how were the game’s six goaltenders, who combined for 72 saves in the hard-hitting, fastskating and clean contest. It is no secret that the bulk of draftable talent in the WCHL this season resides between the pipes. While last year was a bonanza for goal-scorers (to wit: Don Murdoch, Bernie Federko. Blair Chapman. Greg Carroll), puck-stoppers led the draft lists this year. Included in the…
DEADLINE STOPPERS
CANUCKS DROP APPEAL MONTREAL— What had started out as something of a showdown between the Vancouver Canucks and the NHL over a 10-game suspension to fiery defenseman Jack McIUhargey, petered out when the Canucks withdrew their appeal of Mclllhargey’s penalty. NHL president Clarence Campbell set McIUhargey down for 10 games for his stick-swinging that opened a 28-stitch cut on the head of Red Wing forward J.P. Leblanc. Vancouver protested the ruling and broke precedent when they informed Campbell they were appealing his action. In a sense the Canucks were testing the NHL’s authority to suspend players. McIUhargey was reinstated by Campbell pending a review of his case. The Canucks dressed him for a weekend home game, then announced they were withdrawing their appeal. Campbell said Mclllhargey’s suspension will stand. There had been only…
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