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February 16, 1979
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Harkness Bounces Back Onto Red Wing Scene
DETROIT— Ned Harkness is back in the Detroit Red Wing organization. Four years—less two weeks—from the day he resigned as general manager of the Red Wings, Harkness was named general manager of Detroit’s newest farm club, the Adirondack Red Wings of the American Hockey League. The Adirondack Red Wings will enter the AHL next season and will play out of the Glens Falls Center, a new 5,200 seat facility of which Harkness is the manager, a job he took last March after resigning as the hockey coach at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Harkness, the winningest college hockey coach ever, was named coach of the Red Wings in 1970. He lasted five months as coach before being promoted to general manager, a post he held until his resignation on Feb. 6, 1974, amid a…
Leaf Misfortunes Result Of Team’s Over-Aggression
TORONTO— The Toronto Maple, Leafs these days remind you of a kid who murdered both his parents, then howled about being an orphan. The Leafs are complaining that the National Hockey League referees are picking on them. The Leafian view is that they’re getting the butt-end of the stick on the allotment of penalties. At least, they haven’t squealed that they’ve been getting too many sentences. The Leaf-beef is that the opposition isn’t getting enough. During his rookie season as the Leaf coach, 1977-78, Roger Neilson seldom complained about the referees. Perhaps the other men in the coaches’ lodge threatened to give Neilson the boot from the membership list for violating what often seems to be the NHL’s coaching credo: When things go badly, blame the referee. Of course, about here, a big question…
COLLEGE HOCKEY NEWS
Where The Colleges Play… ECAC Conference Wed. Feb. 7 Clarkson at Colgate Yale at Princeton Cornell at Harvard Thu. Feb. 8 Northeastern at New Hampshire Fri. Feb. 9 Boston University at Providence RPI at St. Lawrence Sat. Feb. 10 Brown at Princeton Northeastern at Colgate Dartmouth at Cornell RPI at Clarkson Yale at Haravrd Mon. Feb. 12 Vermont at Clarkson Providence at New Hampshire Tue. Feb. 13 Brown at Yale St. Lawrence at Colgate RPI at Cornell Wed. Jan. 14 Princeton at Harvard New Hampshire at Northeastern Thu. Feb. 15 Vermont at RPI Fri. Feb. 16 Colgate at New Hampshire Sat. Feb. 17 Cornell at Brown Colgate at Vermont Clarkson at Boston College Princeton at Dartmouth Yale at Boston Univesrity St. Lawrence at RPI WCHA CONFERENCE Feb. 6 Air Force at Colorado College Feb. 9-10 Michigan Tech at Michigan State Notre Dame at Minnesota Duluth North Dakota at Wisconsin Michigan at Denver Feb. 10-11 Colorado College at Minnesota Feb. 16-17 Minnesota-Duluth at Michigan State Minnesota at Notre Dame Denver at Michigan Tech Wisconsin at Michigan North Dakota et Colorado College CCHA Conference Feb 9-10 Northern Michigan…
Injuries Knock Cougars Out Of Contention
VICTORIA— It definitely isn’t the year of the Cougar. As in Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League. The team many pre-season prognosticators picked to win the tough Western Division has been crippled with injuries since the start of the season. But the Cougars have gamely managed to stay close to the .500 mark, and at the time of writing sport a 19-20-6 record. However, things don’t appear to be getting any better for the WHL’s most western club. The Cougars’ latest rash of injuries has the Victoria media proclaiming it to be the worst ever in the club’s history. Only 15 players—including three brought up from the Tier Two Nanaimo Clippers—suited up for a game Jan. 14 at Portland. Only four defensemen were included in that total and two were 16-year-olds playing for…