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March 18, 1977
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Racers’ Demers Lodges Protest; Bulls Hot As Sheehy Shows Way
INDIANAPOLIS— Racers’ coach Jacques Demers feels World Hockey Association referees are showing favoritism toward league champion Winnipeg, and he planned to show evidence to WHA president Bill MacFarland. ’I think there is favoritism.” Demers told The Indianapolis News. And he had a long list of statistics compiled by the club’s radio broadcaster. Bob Lamey. to support his stance. I don’t know why there would be favoritism.” Demers said. “Maybe wher Bobby Hull sat out that game last seasor in protest over violence in hockey in general and against his Swedish teammates in particular it had something to do with it. But in my opinion any infraction the Jets make the referees close their eyes and any we make, the referees open ther eyes.” Lamey studied the statistics from the Jets’ first 53 games and found…
NHL WEEK …In Review
MONTREAL— Montreal’s Guy Lafleur has scored his 50th goal to boost his NHL leading points total to 110. Marcel Dionne of Los Angeles is second with 100 points followed by Steve Shutt of Canadiens who has 90, including a league-leading 53 goals. It’s the first time in Canadiens’ history that they have had two 50-goal men in one season and only the fifth instance in NHL history. For Lafleur it’s his third consecutive 50-or-more goal season, an accomplishment bettered only by Phil Esposito who had five such consecutive seasons with Boston from 1970-71 through 1974-75. Lafleur has now scored at least one point in each of his last 16 games (13 goals, 22 assists. 35 points in that period) for the longest such streak by a player this season and equalling the longest…
The WIHL Scene
SPOKANE— Struggling along in the middle of a tightly-bunched Western International League field, the Spokane Flyers began to develop optimism with the regular schedule running out. Hardly assured of one of the four playoff berths in the British Columbia series, the Flyers have turned in a couple of strong games and their personnel problems have decreased. Meanwhile. Cranbrook and Kimberley continue to battle for the league lead. And Nelson. Trail and Spokane continue to vie for third place. Both Trail and Nelson have games in hand on Spokane and Spokane is two games behind Nelson in the loss column. However, the Flyers are gaining in optimism. Left wing Ken Gustafson, for example. won three league scoring titles and shared a fourth in seven previous league seasons. After rejoining the club this year some weeks…
Wisconsin Clinches Top Spot But Only Irish Assured Playoff
MADISON— What has been apparent since the first of the year became official Feb. 19: Wisconsin is the champion of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. The Badgers won their first league crown with a hard-fought 6-4 win over last place UM-Duluth on third period goals by Craig Norwich and Jim Scheid, a freshman walk-on center from Rochester, Minn. Scheid got his chance to play when Mark Johnson, the league’s highest-scoring freshmen, suffered a shoulder separation. The son of Badger coach Bob Johnson is expected to be tost for the remaining four games of the regular season, but he will return for the playoff opener March 9. The loss of Johnson was one of the few things that went wrong for the Big Red. They won 7-4 in the series opener against UMD with a…
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