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January 19, 1979
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Ontario Captures Junior Cup Play
LONDON— The Ontario Hockey League won the Labatt International hockey tournament by defeating the Quebec League All Stars 3-2 in the championship game. The win avenged two previous losses in the tournament at the hands of the Quebecers. Ontario’s victory was the climax of a week of tournament activity which included teams from, the Western Hockey League, a Soviet team, Moscow Riga, and the Canadian Olympic team. Gary Green coached the OHA selects, which received goals from. Tom McCarthy, Greg Theberge and Steve Marengere to topple Quebec. Raymond Bourque and Normand Aubin scored for Quebec.…
WHA’S… Player of the Week
Young Wayne Gretzky is rapidly becoming one of the big fan favorites around the WHA. The 17-year-old whiz kid turned in an outstanding performance in the Soviet-WHA three-game series scoring three times. Gretzky, who is now the property, of the Edmonton Oilers, combined with Gordie and Mark Howe to give the WHA AH Stars a highly-productive line that helped win the first two games of the series. Gretzky, who was the pivot for the line, ended up with five points in the three series games to lead all scorers. He had eight shots on the Russian net and scored on three of his drives. He also had a power play goal as he and Mark Howe combined to score five of the eight goals in games one and two for the WHA…
‘Hounds Battle Year Of Adversity
LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S and Canada LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S and Canada SAULT STE. MARIE— Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds had to do some unexpected rebuilding during the summer, so their first-half record in the Ontario Major Junior League has been impressive over-all. When they went into the priority salection draft in June, the Greyhounds didn’t expect to have to replace center Wayne Gretzky and defenseman Craig Hartsburg. But when Gretzky signed as an under-age player with the defunct Indianapolis Racers and Hartsburg did the same with Birmingham Bulls of the World Hockey Association, the Soo was left having to fill two gaping holes. Gretzky, now with Edmonton Oilers in…
LETTER OF THE WEEK
Why Not Adopt Universal System? The arguments about league alignments seem Io be endless. Why not just adopt the system which is universal, except in North America, and align the 23 NHL and WHA teams into three divisions, with promotion and relegation al each year’s end? On current merit this would give the following: 1st Division: Canadiens, Bruins, Islanders, Rangers, Flames, Maple Leafs, Flyers and Black Hawks. 2nd Division: Kings, Sabres, Canucks, Red Wings, Nordiques, Whalers, Oilers, Stingers. 3rd Division: Penguins, North Stars, Blues, Capitals, Rockies, Jets, Bulls. Each team would meet those in their division 12 times for an 84 match schedule; the more frequent meetings would revive the old fierce inter-club competitiveness which is now lacking, and eliminate unbalanced schedules. As for the Stanlev Cup, here again take a leaf from the…
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