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January 13, 1978
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The New League… THEY CALL IT the Pacific Hockey League. They look like the World Hockey Association. The faces are familiar—Dennis Murphy, Jim Browitt, Walt Marlow. However, Gary Davidson is long gone. Their idea is different, more like the old Western Hockey League, only less. The smiling Irishman, Murphy, a roly-poly roving gypsy who sells dreams, says, “We have no ambitions to become a new major league. We’re a new minor league. We believe there are plenty of good players and plenty of good towns to play in.” Murphy was the man behind the formation of the American Basketball Association, first of the modern rebel leagues. It succeeded to the point that it achieved a merger with the National Basketball Association. Davidson helped. Davidson and Murphy formed the World Hockey Association, which…
Taylor Steal In ’75 Draft, Impresses As Rookie King
LOS ANGELES— The only rookie remaining on the roster of the Los Angeles Kings as this season neared the midway mark is a surprise package fresh from collegiate ranks. Dave Taylor, a rugged young right-winger from Levack, Ontario. The fourth of five children, Dave is the only one in the family who went into hockey. A younger brother, Mark, plays a little, but has a bad back. Three others are sisters, married and working. Mom, Margaret, is a postal clerk. Dad, Andrew, is a retired nickel miner. Dave says, “He worked down below—hard, dirty work. I worked in the mines three summers. That was enough for me. Hockey was a way out for me.” As scoring champion, first All Star, best rookie, and most valuable player, he swept all laurels his first season with…
Black Hawks Complain About NHL Scheduling
CHICAGO— The Black Hawks are not doing well because the National Hockey League schedule won’t let them, the Black Hawks announced recently. “This,” said Stan Mikita, the team’s most veteran player, “is the worst I’ve seen in 19 years I’ve been here.” “This,” remarked captain Keith Magnuson, “is the worst it’s been in the nine years I’ve been around.” “This,” added coach Bob Pulford, “is a bad, bad schedule, there’s nothing we can do about it this year. Next year, yes. But not this year.” “This,” the Hawks’ schedule, was a series of back-to-back assignments, particularly in December, particularly in unfortunate order. Witness: from Dec. 3 through Dec. 14, the Hawks had a series of eight games in 12 days. All eight games came in pairs and all of the pairs had something in common: road…
Rochester Sprints Into Southern Lead; Maine Battling Indians For No. 1 Spot
ROCHESTER— The American Hockey League divisional races continue to sway back and forth as the teams near the halfway mark in the 1977-78 schedule and before long the loop could have two new leaders. Rochester Americans, who have won only two of their last five games, still managed to catapult into first place in the close Southern Division race with the help to the floundering Philadelphia Firebirds. The Firebirds obliged the Americans by extending their winless streak to four straight games as they continued to lose their excellent first-half edge. Rochester limped past them with a 6-0 shutout over the Hershey Bears despite losing to both Hampton Gulls 4-1 and Binghamton Dusters 7-4. While the Amerks ran a slim point ahead of the surprising Firebirds in the South, the revitalized Maine Mariners continued to…
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