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May 26, 1978
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STANLEY CUP SUMMARIES
Series ‘I’ Tue. May 2 TORONTO 3, MONTREAL 5 FIRST PERIOD Montreal, 1—Savard (Lafleur, Shutt) 0:23, Toronto, 2—Ellis (Sittler, Maloney) 2:25, Montreal, 3—Cournoyer (Risebrough, Robinson) 17:06, 4—Lemaire (Gainey, (Robinson) 19:13. Penalties: Chartraw 2:43, Carlyle 8:42, Johansen 12:59. SECOND PERIOD Toronto, 5—Turnbull (McDonald) 827. Penalties: Lapointe 1:54, Lafleur 10:02, Boutette 19:05. THIRD PERIOD Montreal, 6—Cournoyer (Risebrough, Bouchard) 3:14, 7—Lafleur (Shutt) 8:54, Toronto 8—Boutette (Jones. Turnbull) 14:30. Attendance: 16,363. (Montreal leads best-of-seven series 1-0) Thu. May 4 TORONTO 2, MONTREAL 3 FIRST PERIOD Montreal, 1—Robinson (Lapointe, Lafleur) 4:01, 2—Lafleur (Mondou, Houle) 6:46. Penalties: Carlyle 3:34, Houle 4:17, Williams 13:50,1927. SECOND PERIOD Toronto, 3—Turnbull (Sittler, Johansen) 5:47, 4—Maloney (Sittler, Turnbull) 8:35, Montreal, 5—Lafleur (Lapointe, Robinson) 15:32. Penalties: Gainey 6.47, Ferguson 14:11. THIRD PERIOD No scoring. Penalty: Lemaire 5:46. Attendance: 17,049. (Montreal leads best-of-seven series 2-0) Sat. May 6 MONTREAL 6, TORONTO 1 FIRST PERIOD Montreal, 1—Shutt (Lafleur, Robinson) 1:34, 2—Chartraw (Gainey, Robinson) 13:09, 3—Lambert (Nyrop, Cournoyer) 17:00. Penalties: Glennie 1:20,…
Kimberley Ends 42-Year Respite With Cup Victory
KIMBERLEY— Three’s were wild for the Kimberley Dynamiters who used three unassisted third-period goals to pull away to a 7-3 win over the Brantford Alexanders to capture their first Allan Cup in 42 years, but 25-year-old Dynamiters’ playing-coach Jim McCrimmon attributed his club’s success to teamwork and to the spirit of comaraderie among the players. Kimberley was the third consecutive third-place club from the Western International League to reach the Allan Cup finals and made it two out of three for British Columbia as they wrested the crown away from defending champion Brantford, four games to one. Spokane general manager Tom Hodges whose Flyers lost in five games to Brantford last year and who captured first place in the WIHL before bowing in the playoffs to Kimberley predicted before the series that Brantford…
Offensive Woes Sidetracked Kings More Than Problems With Defense
LOS ANGELES— It seems to this reporter that the turning point in the Kings’ campaign came through the first half of the season when they were outskating and outshooting most of their opponents, but often not outscoring them. There is no way the Kings could have been giving less than their best offensively when they outshot teams by 58-17, 48-18, 45-26, and 41-22, but when not too many goals resulted there was bound to be a letdown. The Kings settled for ties in games in which they outshot teams by 48-20, 4433, and 32-18 and lost games in which they outshot teams by 48-25, 39-15, 3830, and 34-17. In the last one, they were even shut out. This has to be discouraging. It seems to me that in the second half of the season…
St. Louis Second Major University To Drop Hockey In Economy Move
Special To The Hockey News ST. LOUIS— College hockey is feeling the economy pinch in the United States. St. Louis University, one of the top college hockey powers over the past eight years, has agreed to discontinue intercollegiate hockey in an effort to meet budgetary guidelines set down by the university. The Billikens are the second major U.S. university to throw in the towel since last season for economic reasons. Earlier in the year, Pennsylvania University announced it was deemphasizing senior collegiate hockey and would not return to the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference in 197879. The demise of the Billikens is a crushing blow for Western collegiate hockey since St. Louis, ironically, became the first major school outside of the ECAC and the WCHA, to gain national recognition for hockey quality since the team entered…
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