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February 24, 1978
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‘Old Pro’ Harper Steadying Wings
DETROIT— Ted Lindsay has always been a favorite of Detroit hockey fans, and the feeling is mutual. Lindsay calls Detroit fans “the best” and says they were justified in their harsh treatment of the Red Wings in recent seasons. The new Wings—Lindsay’s version—have given the fans plenty to cheer about. Their progress has been more rapid than anybody had a right to expect. The fans seldom boo the home team these days. But they do boo on occasion. Most of those occasions are when Terry Harper is on the ice. And that, friends, makes Lindsay fighting mad. And who wants to fight with Terrible Ted? “When I took over this job. I said how knowledgeable the fans here were,” Lindsay said. “But I can’t understand why Terry Harper gets booed. It can only be…
Lafleur Striving To Be All-Time Best
If they’re going to pay Hedberg and Nilsson $475,000 a year, then Guy Lafleur should get a million a year. —Yvan Cournoyer Montreal Captain MONTREAL— He was once the best junior player in Canada. Then the best skater in the National Hockey League. Then the best right winger. Then the best player in the league. Now he’s called the best in the world and the only thing left for Guy Lafleur is to be called the best of all time. He may make it—he enjoys hockey that much, and he’s willing to work and work at being the best and he’ll accept nothing less. Lafleur is held in awe by just about everyone who is witness to his breathtaking finesse on ice. It begins the moment Canadiens’ coach Scotty Bowman taps him on the shoulder…
Rockies’ Spruce Takes New Outlook
DENVER— Andy Spruce has his sights set on a possible 20-goal season for the Colorado Rockies. This is gratifying for both Spruce and the Rockies, because a few weeks ago the young left winger wasn’t sure about his sight, period. Spruce, who has returned to the Rockies’ lineup with a flourish of late, wasn’t sure when he was hospitalized in Toronto in early January that he still had a hockey career to conduct. He recalls the frightening events of Wednesday night, Jan. 4, this way: “It was the first period and I was in front of the net. A few feet to the side Dennis Owchar and Ron Ellis were coming together. As I turned Owchar’s stick came up and the tip end hit me in the right eye. I went right down,…
Hockey Ad Lib
The Hockey Fan… SITTING BEHIND THEM, we got to know Paul and Lefty at the Giants’ football games at the old Polo Grounds and later at Yankee Stadium and we started to go downtown with them afterwards to see the Ranger games in the old Garden on Saturday nights. We were not yet torn by the despair of too many defeats. We were young then and our hopes were yet youthful. The memories are marvellous, of course. So often yesterday seems better than today. They stood in the lobby before every game, their backs to one wall, as though holding up the place. They knew almost everyone, including coaches and players, old and new, and the faithful fans, of course, who came by. They sat right behind the old press box and…
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