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January 20, 1978
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Fans’ Quick Hockey Quiz
1. One U.S. based NHL team won games in only one U.S. city in the 1977 portion of the 1977-78 schedule. Which team was it? St. Louis □ Minnesota □ Detroit □ 2. Match these players with their World Hockey Association teams? Claude Larose Darryl Maggs Bob Fitchner Quebec Cincinnati Indianapolis 3. This NHL rookie led the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 197677 with 108 points, more than three per game? Bob Miller □ Kris Manery □ Dave Taylor □ 4. Which was the last team to be shutout in the NHL’s 1977-78 schedule? Washington □ Chicago □ Colorado □ 5. Which goaltender had the most wins through the first half of the 1977-78 schedule? Don Edwards □ Mike Palmateer □ Ken Dryden □ 6. Which WHA team has only allowed one shorthanded goal through the 1977 portion of the 1977-78…
Former Quebec Loop Stars Spectacular In NHL
MONTREAL— Mike Bossy and Jere Gillis, two alumni of the Quebec Major Junior League, are having sensational seasons as rookies in the NHL. The two freshmen, whose success story reads something like Barry Manilow’s “Look’s Like We Made It,” are looking back at their years in the QMJHL with much gratification now that they have made their mark in professional hockey. Gillis has scored 16 goals with the Vancouver Canucks following a spectacular junior career which culminated with a league championship last spring. He was very satisfied with his years as a left winger for the Sherbrooke Beavers. “I played four years in the league with a good coach, Ghislain Delage,” Gillis said. “He was hard at times but its paid off now. I’m glad I spent my last year in the juniors rather…
CENTRAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
CHL’s Revised Schedule JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL…
St. Louis Sets Sights On NCAA’s After Billikens Win Brown Tourney
PROVIDENCE— The setting was familiar, but Bill Selman was acting differently. Selman, the effusive coach of St. Louis University’s hockey team, has lived a missionary’s existence for most of his seven seasons as Billikens mentor. Wherever competition was available, from Denver to Boston, Selman would bring his Bills and seek out believers in the cause of big time college hockey outside the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. But at this year’s Old Colony Invitational Tournament, hosted by Brown University at Meehan Auditorium, Selman was thinking as much about the tuneup value of playing three games in three nights against Eastern College Athletic Association Division One competition as he was about finding converts to CCHA hockey. “This is the kind of competition that’ll get us ready for the NCAA’s.” he…
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