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February 18, 1977
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Caps’ Defenseman Lane Vastly Improved Player
WASHINGTON- The Washington Capitals have been poor relations long enough. Now they have some cousins. In sporting circles “cousins” refer to ateam you can beat handily, time after time. Hello, Detroit Red Wings. The Wings weren’t always the Capitals’ cousins—more like step-fathers for a year and a half. The first eight times the clubs met the Red Wings won seven of them. The last of those was Tom McVie’s coaching debut on New Year’s Eve, 1975, when Jim Rutherford and company zeroed Washington 4-0. But, with “Uncle Tom” at the helm the relationship changed In the next eight matches it was Detroit that won only once. The teams ended 3-3 last season and the Caps enjoy a 2-0-2 supremacy now pending the final two meetings in March. The D.C. icemen couldn’t have chosen a better…
Scary Eye Injury Puts Lonsberry On Shelf
PHILADELPHIA- ROSS Lonsberry is normally one of the most agreeable Flyers. When the Flyers win, which is often, Lonsberry is available to provide insights and analysis into the game. He doesn’t volunteer his opinions, but, if you ask, he’ll spend as long as a writer wishes in discussions. When the Flyers lose, Lonsberry is the same person—calm and candid. On this night in St. Louis, however, Ross Lonsberry didn’t feel like talking. And the writers who cover Philadelphia’s road games understood: Lonsberry could only see from his left eye. Accidentally poked in the right eye by Bob Plager’s stick in the game’s closing minutes, Lonsberry was on his way to Barnes Hospital in St. Louis where he was scheduled to spend several days. The diagnosis was: shallow lacerations of the cornea in addition to…
DEADLINE STOPPERS
TURNBULL SETS RECORD TORONTO- When the Toronto Leafs drafted Ian Turnbull off the Ottawa 67s four years ago they knew he could score but until this past week they didn’t really find out how offensive minded the young defenseman was. Turnbull scored five times in one game as the Leafs bombed Detroit 9-1 and the feat was unprecedented. No other NHL defenseman in history had ever been able to score that many goals in one game. The record of four was set 60 years ago and equalled six times since but the last time was 50 years ago. Any wonder when Turnbull riddled the Wings for five goals that he had to be proud. Going back over the years none of the great ones—Red Kelly, Doug Harvey, Bobby Orr or Brad Park—ever achieved…
HOCKEY WORLD
Refs Telling It All? THINGS I CAN’T believe I’ve seen and heard… —Clarence Campbell telling me at an All Star game press conference that I was exaggerating the 10-15 minute delays in recent Flyers’ games for administering stick measurements. Even when I named the games and mentioned the delays were largely caused by officials searching for the measurement equipment. Campbell insisted I was wrong. Could it be NHL officials aren’t including the stick-measuring delays in their game reports? —Emile Francis’ remark that Paul Holmgren “wasn’t near the action “in the first Philadelphia-St. Louis meeting since the Flyers accused Bob Gassoff of attempting to gouge Holmgren’s right eye? Francis’ insistence that Holmgren hides behind his protective mask is outrageous. The Flyers’ rookie has proven his courage too often to be the target of such…
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