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Interim OHA Boss Bass in ‘No Puppet,’ Determined To Rule With Integrity

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 OSHAWA— Sherwood Bassin has been named interim commissioner of the Ontario Major Junior League and aims to do the best possible job as long as he’s in the possition as head of the league. Bassin, the general manager of Oshawa Generals and a former coach of the same team, recently took over as interim commissioner after “the board of governors unanimously accepted Bill Beagan’s resignation.” Beagan was named commissioner Dec. 15 but walked out of a meeting at the league’s All Star game in Sault Ste. Marie Jan. 30 and league officials took that to mean he was offering…

HOCKEY TALK

Pittsburgh Turnabout THE GOOD CITIZENS of Pittsburgh, ladies and gentlemen and patrons of Penguinly persuasion, were angry. They wanted to change the name of their town from The Steel City to The Steal City. They wanted to expose Baz Bastien to the better business bureau. They wondered why, when most teams in the National Hockey League were building with the draft, the Penguins were draft dodging. And they questioned why, when a player seemed to become good and popular in Pittsburgh, that player was gone from Pittsburgh, Syl Apps. Pierre Larouche. Dave Burrows. Jean Pronovost. With a front office like that, who needs enemies? “Yeah…they were ready to lynch me more than once,” chuckles Bastien, above the noise. There’s noise because on this particular night, the Pittsburgh Penguins are playing before more than 15,000 people in the Igloo…

Bruins Employing Park Cautiously, Saving Ace Defender For Playoffs

BOSTON— The first thing Don Cherry did one morning before a game in Vancouver was to look up Brad Park. “If you say your knee is swollen,” the Boston Bruins’s coach told his star defenseman, “I’m going to choke you to death.” Fortunately for his windpipe, Park was able to say that his knee felt pretty good and he did play that night against the Canucks, although not as much as usual. Cherry probably would not have carried out his threat but it indicates the importance that the Bruins place on the ability of a healthy Park to play regularly as the long season winds down to the playoffs. Boston has been in the Stanley Cup finals for the past two seasons and, if any one skater can be said to have put them there,…