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May 13, 1977
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Jets’ Hot Line Discards Shackles Before WHA Playoff Sellout Crowd
LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street, Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S and Canada LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S and Canada WINNIPEG— Winnipeg Jets and Houston Aeros have dominated the Avco Cup scene for the past three seasons. It comes as no surprise then that they should meet for the Western Division championship. While the Aeros were eliminating Edmonton Oilers in five games in their semi-final set, the Jets were pushed to the limit by San Diego Mariners as neither the Jets nor the Mariners managed to come up with a victory in the other team’s surroundings all season. It came down to game seven and a sellout throng of 10,342 jammed its way into the Winnipeg Arena.…
Looking At The Races
WESTERN CANADA LEAGUE PLAYOFF GAMES Quarter-Finals (Lethbridge wins best-of-seven series 4-2)) (Portland wins best-of-seven series 4-1) (Calgary wina best-of-seven series 4-0) (Naw Westminster wins best-of-seven series 4-1) (Brandon wins best-of-nine series 5-2) (Lethbridge wine best-of-flve aeries 3-2) Semi-Finals (Brandon wina best-of-seven series 4-0) GAMES COMPLETED Brandon 3, Lethbridge 2 Brandon 4, Lethbridge 2 Brandon 8, Lethbridge 3 Brandon 8, Lethbridge 7 (New Westminster wina best-of-seven aeriea 4-1) GAMES COMPLETED New Westminster 5, Portland 3 New Westminster 2, Portland 1 New Westminster 3, Portland 2 Portland 6, New West mine ter 1 New Westminater 5, Portland 2 Finals (New Weatminater leads best-of-seven series 2-1) GAMES COMPLETED Brandon 4. New Westminster 1 New Westminster 5, Brandon 2 QUEBEC MAJOR LEAGUE Finals (Quebec wine eight-point aeries 8-2) GAMES COMPLETED Sherbrooke 6, Quebec 3 Sherbrooke 6, Quebec 2 Quebec 11, Sherbrooke 4 Sherbrooke 3, Quebec 2 Sherbrooke 7, Quebec 4 Semi-Finals (Sherbrooke wins eight-point series 9-3) (Quebec wins eight-point series 9-1) GAMES COMPLETED Montreal 3. Quebec 3 Quebec 5, Montreal 3 Quebec 9. Montreal…
HOCKEY TALK
NHL Gets Slapped IT’S NOT THAT it took four months to read the book. That could have been accomplished in four minutes. No, it just took four months to believe it. Believe that the National Hockey League, which needs all the public relations it can muster, would allow it. Believe that the National Hockey League, during its annual All Star Game boolboola last January in Vancouver, could stand around and get slapped in the face without, apparently, knowing it. But it’s true. They threw the book at the NHL, and the NHL didn’t even blink. The book is called “Blood, Sweat and Bears”. It consumes 47 pages but not necessaruly 47 minutes of your time. It is liberally adorned with unfunny cartoons. And it is printed in type so large that one needn’t worry about having…
O’Brien’s Play Won Defense Respectability
TWIN CITIES— For those North Stars who are still with the club from the previous three years of misery, this spring left them with a feeling of major accomplishment. The only members from the last Minnesota team to make the playoffs in 1972-73 were defensemen Tom Reid, Fred Barrett, Lou Nanne and Dennis O’Brien. They remembered how it used to be in Minnesota with packed houses at the Met Sports Center and the extra money that went with making the playoffs. Empty seats, lots of the and the grim realization of no playoff prestige and no playoff moola have hounded them for more than three years. The defense, of course, was the prime target for the hecklers, and the 27-year-old O’Brien was probably the man who drew the loudest abuse. It was fitting that O’Brien, a…
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