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July 1, 1979

The Hockey News July 1, 1979

<div class="byline">BY TOM HENSHAW</div><p>BOSTON&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>mid all the hubbub in The Hub surrounding the rather unceremonious departure of Bruins&rsquo; coach Don Cherry, was the realization that of the 17 teams contributing four players to the National Hockey League&rsquo;s new expansion teams, Boston may have given up the most.</p><p>The Bruins&mdash;The NHL&rsquo;s oldest team&mdash;lost four players with an average age of less than 24. Drafted from the club were a pair of 26-year-olds, defenseman Al Sims and left winger Bill Bennett by the Hartford Whalers, and 22-year-old goaltender Dave Parro, who toiled for Rochester last year, by the Quebec Nordiques who in turn dispatched him to Washington in return for winger Nelson Burton. The fourth player lost was sophomore defenseman Mike Forbes, 21, who spent most of the season with Rochester. He was grabbed off by Edmonton in the 13th round.</p><p>Bruins were able to fill with veteran rearguards Gary Doak and Dennis O&rsquo;Brien, but the losses of such youthful performers were certain to be felt. Sims was the most experienced of the drafted players and actually had come-into his own this year as Cherry&rsquo;s handyman playing defense, forward, killing penalties, etc. Parro was seen as the one with the most potential after being the first goaler selected in the 1977 draft. He held up quite well with Rochester, a team that simply didn&rsquo;t have the horses this year.</p><p>An hour after the Boston Bruins and their outspoken coach Don Cherry parted company for the last time there was an informal party at the Cherry home in Andover, the kind World War 1 fliers used to throw when they broke glasses in the fireplace.</p><p>&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t a case of showing disloyalty to the Bruins of anything like that,&rdquo; explained Brad Park, one of the players who was there. &ldquo;It was a matter of saying, &lsquo;Hey, something happened to a friend of ours,&rsquo; and we just wanted to go over and say, &lsquo;hello,&rsquo; to him.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been a very, very close hockey club over the last three or four years, three years, I guess, because that&rsquo;s when we started getting all our personnel together and played some great hockey. You get very close over three years and when something like this happens&hellip;</p><p>&ldquo;He wasn&rsquo;t always rational. He&rsquo;d get excited and everything. But he was human and he was a friend. He was somebody you&rsquo;d go to and talk to and that&rsquo;s why we became very, very close, a close-knit team. It&rsquo;s kind of a sad thing to happen.&rdquo;</p><p>The departure of Don Cherry from the Boston Bruins was hardly unexpected. Cherry himself felt it coming as long ago as December. But it happened suddenly. General manager Harry Sinden and president Paul Mooney called a quickie news conference one Thursday afternoon and announced that Cherry would not be back and that was it.</p><p>&ldquo;There have been definite and substantial philosophical differences concerning organizational and procedural responsibilities between the upper management and the coach,&rdquo; said Mooney, who normally doesn&rsquo;t talk that way unless he&rsquo;s up tight about something.</p><p>&ldquo;We made Don an offer that we felt was in line with the top five coaches in the NHL, but we would have been willing to increase that offer to whatever extent was reasonably necessary if in our opinion that would have been a determining factor.</p><p>&ldquo;Perhaps Don has matured to the point when he must seek levels of opportunities that are not available to him within this organization.&rdquo;</p><p>The last meeting between Sinden and Cherry took place that same Thursday noon at Mooney&rsquo;s club, the Algonquin, in Boston.</p><p>&ldquo;We had lunch,&rdquo; said Sinden, &ldquo;and we talked about everything but what we were there for. Within five minutes, we both seemed to say, &lsquo;Well, we&rsquo;ve had three weeks to think about it and we&rsquo;re of the same mind. We may say we&rsquo;re going to change but we&rsquo;re only kidding ourselves.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p><p>Cherry explained his leaving a little more bluntly and, of course, a little more colorfully.</p><p>&ldquo;Tuesday they told me in so many words that I was just too much with the players and not enough with management,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and that if I expected to stay with the Bruins I would have to be more management and not criticize the management and stuff like that.</p><p>&ldquo;They said, &lsquo;Go home and think it over.&rsquo; Maybe they&rsquo;re right, I don&rsquo;t know. I went home and thought it over. I know that one of my best motivating powers with the players is that I&rsquo;m with them all the time and I thought, &lsquo;Well, 1 can&rsquo;t change because if 1 changed it wouldn&rsquo;t be me and how could the players trust me again?&rsquo;</p><p>Within a week, Cherry had landed another job coaching the Colorado Rockies but the Bruins were going slow in selecting a successor to the coach who had brought them to the Stanley Cup finals twice and the semi-finals twice in the past four years.</p><p>Whoever gets the job. Cherry is going to be a difficult act to follow, with the Boston fans, the Boston press and the Boston players.</p><p>&ldquo;Let me put it this way,&rdquo; said Brad Park. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re a great hockey club with Don Cherry. Without Don Cherry we&rsquo;re going to have to sit down and regroup. How we&rsquo;re going to turn out is up for grabs.</p><p>&ldquo;Don Cherry made the game fun for us over the last three or four years and we&rsquo;re going to miss him. But we&rsquo;re still going to show up and we&rsquo;re still going to do our jobs.&rdquo;</p><p>In Boston, life goes on.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-01210/3931001-1-eng-US/f0037-012.jpg" title="f0037-01" width="574" height="1732"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AL SIMS&hellip;Lost In Draft</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Bruins’ Youth Depleted In Draft; Players “Say Goodbye’ To Cherry

<div class="byline">BY FRED PIETILA</div><p>DENVER&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Colorado Rockies, moving to strengthen their forward lines, reclaimed 22-year-old center Doug Berry from Edmonton and signed free agent center-left winger Barry Smith.</p><p>Berry, who was the Rockies&rsquo; second choice behind Barry Beck in the 1977 draft, opted to sign with the Oilers of the World Hockey Association last summer and spent much of the season in the Central Hockey League with Dallas. Previously, the six-foot-one, 195-pound Berry played three seasons for the University of Denver.</p><p>Smith, a 24-year-old who was a second-round choice of the Boston Bruins in 1975, scored 23 goals and 43 assists with Rochester last season.</p><p>&ldquo;Well, 1 think it&rsquo;s going to help us,&rdquo; Rockies&rsquo; general manager Ray Miron said of the acquisition of the two players. &ldquo;Barry Smith plays both center and left wing and Doug Berry had a pretty good year in Dallas. We&rsquo;re getting two good, young players.</p><p>&ldquo;Don (Cherry) recommended Smith. He&rsquo;s not a goal-scorer. He&rsquo;s a good checker, more of a defensive player,&rdquo; Miron said of the five-foot-11,186-pound Smith.</p><p>And of Berry, whose signing with Edmonton last summer caused the Rockies and Miron considerable criticism, Miron said, &ldquo;His only weakness is his skating. He worked like heck last year. He checked pretty well and he knows what to do with the puck.</p><p>&ldquo;His all-around game is pretty good. His only drawback is his skating,&rdquo; Miron continued.</p><p>Miron feels that the year of experience in the minor leagues should help Berry&rsquo;s stamina considering that he had become accustomed to shorter 38 or 40-game schedules in college.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Forwards Berry, Smith Bolster Rockies’ Depth

<div class="byline">BY FRANK ORR</div><p>TORONTO&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>oronto Maple Leafs, during the reign of Harold Ballard, never have been a hockey team noted for the smoothness of its operation. Ballard, whose profile is as high as Mount Everest, guarantees that.</p><p>But the spring of 1979 around Maple Leaf Gardens has established some sort of standard for confusion and, at deadline time for this issue, the Leaf front office picture was about as clear as the political scene in Italy.</p><p>Ballard has done a masterful job of keeping the Leafs on the main sports pages on the newspapers, something at which he&rsquo;s always been excellent.</p><p>The confusion concerns precisely who will be at the helm of the good, old blue-and-white for the 1979-80 National Hockey League season. Of course, owner Ballard really runs the team himself but he does have a few chaps with titles under him to carry out the day-to-day duties.</p><p>Just which chaps would be in those jobs next season is the matter that created the hubbub. Jim Gregory has been the Leaf general manager for the past decade, an incredible record of endurance, under the slings and arrows of an outrageous Ballard. Roger Neilson had been the Leaf coach for the past two seasons, less two days, of course, when Ballard sacked him in late February, then rehired him when no suitable replacement was available.</p><p>This spring, Ballard has been offering jobs to a variety of people. First, he tried to hire Don Cherry, who was wrapping up five successful years as coach of Boston Bruins in the inevitable fashion&mdash;by going out the door.</p><p>Ballard made an offer to Cherry, Colorado Rockies made a larger one and Cherry and his dog Blue were singing Rocky Mountain High (or low, when Rockies&rsquo; NHL position is considered).</p><p>Ballard then turned his attention to Scotty Bowman, who had a nifty little clause in his contract with Montreal Canadiens. That clause allowed Scotty to explore the job market for three weeks after Canadiens wrapped up their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup.</p><p>Ballard wanted Bowman to replace Gregory as Leaf GM with Gregory moving to &ldquo;other duties&rdquo; in the organization. According to Bowman, Ballard&rsquo;s offer was a good one but, in the end, Scotty joined Buffalo Sabres for more money than the Leaf offer and complete control of the Sabre hockey operation.</p><p>When Sabre owners Seymour and Northrup Knox fired Punch Imlach as general manager last fall, Ballard referred to the Knox boys as &ldquo;nickle and dime guys.&rdquo; Those small-change chaps then out-bid Ballard for Bowman.</p><p>Bowman then went out and hired Neilson as coach of the Sabres. Meanwhile, Ballard asked, for&mdash;and received&mdash;permission to talk with Mike Nykoluk, assistant coach of New York Rangers, about the Leaf job.</p><p>Ballard also said he wanted to hire a new general manager and the heavy betting in Toronto was that Imlach would return in triumph to the Leafs, a team from which he made a bitter exit in 1969 when the late Stafford Smythe fired him minutes after the club was eliminated from the playoffs.</p><p>Stay tuned! This soap opera could run on all summer.</p><p>The Leafs escaped from the expansion draft to stock the four new NHL clubs, the refugees from the World Hockey Association, with their &lsquo;78-79 roster intact. The only player the Leafs lost whom they wanted to keep was goalie Pierre Hamel, who spent last season with New Brunswick Hawks of the American League. Hamel was claimed by Winnipeg Jets.</p><p>Hamel&rsquo;s loss left the team with only two pro goalies, Mike Palmateer and Paul Harrison.</p><p>The Leafs reclaimed defenseman Rick Ley from Hartford Whalers but didn&rsquo;t protect him in the expansion draft. When the Whalers reclaimed Ley, the Leafs filled with center Jimmy Jones.</p><p>The Toronto club also lost winger Lome Stamler (Winnipeg), and minor league defenseman Kevin Kamp (Hartford). They filled with veteran forward Ron Ellis, who plans to return next season, and forward Bruce Boudreau.</p><p><b>LEAF NOTES:</b> When Leaf goalie Mike Palmateer was injured in the playoffs against Montreal Canadiens, there was considerable concern that he&rsquo;d sustained some permanent damage to his arm. However, he made a rapid recovery, well ahead of the doctor&rsquo;s schedule, and is off to Europe for much of the summer. The Leafs face a tough negotiation on a new contract for Palmateer, one of the NHL&rsquo;s premier goalies. He&rsquo;s heading into the option year of his deal and wants a hefty raise&mdash;from $75,000 to $200,000 per season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01318/3929861-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="574" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PUNCH IMLACH&hellip;Returning To Leafs?</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Uncertainty Envelops Leafs’ Scene

<h2><b>FIRST TEAM</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03434/3929228-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="605" height="476"></div><h2><b>SECOND TEAM</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04370/3929221-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="589" height="478"></div><h2><b>INDIVIDUAL AWARDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05306/3929214-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="593" height="392"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL’s ‘79 AH Stars

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01659/3931240-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Steve Babineau)</span></figcaption></div><p><b><i>SPECIAL!</i></b></p><p><b>15 PAGES OF STATISTICS ON THE INSIDE</b></p><p><b>SABRES TO DO IT BOWMAN&rsquo;S WAY</b>&mdash;Page 2</p><p><b>CHERRY&rsquo;S RIPE FOR THE ROCKIES</b>&mdash;Page 5</p><p><u>FERGIE WAITS</u></p><p><b><i>JETS GRAB HULL BACK FROM HAWKS</i></b>&mdash;Page 3</p><h2><i>THE TOP DEFENDER</i></h2><p><b>Denis Potvin of the Islanders won the Norris Triphy again as the NHL&rsquo;s best defenseman. Potvin shared the awards&rsquo; limelight with several other NHL stars. For details see page 19.</b></p><p><b><i>NHL&rsquo;S FINAL PLUS-MINUS STATISTICS</i></b>&mdash;Pages 22-23<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NHL SETS UP ‘ENTRY’ DRAFT—Page 9

<div class="byline">BY DICK JOHNSTON</div><p>BUFFALO&mdash;</p><p>The change they have been talking about the Buffalo Sabres needing, for some years now, actually took place. And some change it is.</p><p>Scotty Bowman, who coached the Montreal Canadiens to five Stanley Cups, is the new general manager, taking over the job left vacant since Punch Imlach was fired in the Monday Morning Massacre last December.</p><p>But that wasn&rsquo;t all. Roger Neilson tossed in the towel with Harold Ballard and the Maple Leafs and came over to join Bowman and the Sabres as an associate coach.</p><p>Bowman will be the coach, too, but in the new concept of coaching.</p><p>So he said when introduced to the press. The media turned out for this one in numbers never seen before at a Sabre press conference.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01973/3927667-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="574" height="1018"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROGER NEILSON&hellip;Associate Coach</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;We expect to try a new concept in hockey coaching,&rdquo; the 45-year-old GM told those assembled. &ldquo;I would like to have some help in the coaching area.&rdquo;</p><p>This was the first time since he was announced as general manager at the National Hockey League meetings in Montreal three days before that Bowman actually stated he would coach the Sabres next season.</p><p>What he planned, he said, was a four-man coaching staff. He would head the Sabre staff of three, which would include Neilson as associate coach and an assistant coach.</p><p>A fourth coach would handle the Sabres&rsquo; Rochester farm club in the American Hockey League. One of the big club&rsquo;s coaches might shuttle between the two cities, he added.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m really excited (about the idea of a coaching staff),&rdquo; Bowman mentioned. &ldquo;I hope we can work it out. Maybe we will have two men behind the bench during games.</p><p>&ldquo;The main thing about the concept is availability of getting information of what&rsquo;s going on in the game to me during the period. Not at the end of the period when we are in the dressing room.</p><p>&ldquo;Who&rsquo;s losing faceoffs; things like that. I will make the moves based on the information I get from the other coaches.</p><p>&ldquo;We could have both coaches behind the bench or we could have one in the press box. Or maybe two behind the bench and one up high.&rdquo;</p><p>Two coaches would be on the ice at all times during practice sessions. Bowman added. That would keep everybody on the club busy; no standing around while a certain group gets special attention on some aspect of the game.</p><p>Bowman said he Would be general overseer of both the on-ice and frontoffice activities.</p><p>John Andersen will be his co-worker in the office, Bowman said. Andersen, who has been director of player personnel and handled the GM&rsquo;s duties since Imlach was fired, was named assistant general manager.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02884/3927660-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1818" height="1342"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>New Buffalo general manager Scotty Bowman gets his Sabre tie adjusted by Seymour Knox III, right, chairman of the board and president of the NHL club after he had lured the five-time winning Stanley Cup coach away from Montreal with a multi-year contract. Looking on approvingly at left is Northrup Knox, vice-chairman and vice-president of the Sabres.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by tan MacAlpine)</span></figcaption></div><p>As to the rest of his coaching staff. Bowman did not make any immediate announcements other than Neilson&rsquo;s appointment.</p><p>Billy Inglis still officially was coach until the end of June. He had a verbal extension of his contract until then, made with club president Seymour H. Knox 111 when Billy&rsquo;s contract ran out at the end of May. Inglis, who had been starting his first season as a scout, became coach of the Sabres when Marcel Pronovost was fired along with Imlach.</p><p>Knox said Inglis had a &ldquo;verbal commitment&rdquo; with the Sabres until June 30, 1980 and would be given some duty within the organization. It was figured that Bowman would offer a job on the coaching staff to Inglis.</p><p>Bowman, said he is pleased to be working with Neilson again.</p><p>&ldquo;Roger and 1 go back to the &lsquo;60&rsquo;s when I was coaching in the junior ranks for Montreal and Roger was a scout. I recommended him for the Peterborough Petes job when I left, and he did a great job there. He was Very helpful in drawing the attention of the Montreal Canadiens organization to players he coached, such as Bob Gainey and Doug Jarvis.&rdquo;</p><p>Neilson, 45, was considered one of junior hockey&rsquo;s finest teachers, turning out a succession of successful teams as well as outstanding individual players.</p><p>In two seasons as coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Neilson posted a 75-62-23 record during regular season play.</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> &ldquo;We have a team that has the potential,&rdquo; Bowman said, of the Sabres. &ldquo;We just have to get the players playing up to that potential.&rdquo;</p><p>Defenseman Lee Fogolin and winger Terry Martin were the two Sabre players of 1979-80 lost in the expansion draft. Minor leaguers Ron Areshenkoff and David Given also were taken.</p><p>Danny Gare, right wing and captain of the club, spent the first part of the off-season in the hospital with mononucleosis. He then went west to his parents&rsquo; home in Nelson, B.C., to recuperate.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bowman To Try New Hockey Style On Sabres

<p>NASSAU&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he players in the National Hockey League decided to go for the money rather than the benefits in agreeing to the league&rsquo;s expansion proposal with the WHA.</p><p>In exchange for a number of financial benefits, the NHL Players Association agreed by a 30-1 vote not to exercise their option to block acceptance of the incoming four WHA clubs.</p><p>The collective bargaining agreement between players and owners, scheduled to expire in three years, was extended by two years. But it is going to cost the NHL teams.</p><p>Changes in the document include an increase in the player&rsquo;s pension fund from $750 to $1,000 for each year of service and 100 percent increases in the players&rsquo; disability insurance, life insurance and dental plan&mdash;at a cost of nearly $10 million to the club owners over the duration of the agreement.</p><p>The playoff money pool also will be increased.</p><p>&ldquo;What really came out of this is that individual sacrifices were made for the good of the game,&rdquo; said NHL president John Ziegler, who announced the agreement. &ldquo;There were a lot of people participating on both sides of the bargaining table who had a lot to lose; and if they had just looked out for themselves, we would not have had such success.&rdquo;</p><p>The major concession by the players was to permit to continue the league&rsquo;s current system of compensation to teams who lose free agents to other teams. Currently, if a team loses a player subject to compensation, it is entitled to cash, players, draft choices or a combination of the three.</p><p>If the clubs involved cannot reach agreement, each team presents one offer to an arbitrator, who selects one or the other.</p><p>The players, seeking freer movement from team to team, had insisted that the compensation restrictions must be lightened. They had earlier proposed the awarding of draft choices as compensation.</p><p>&ldquo;But in exchange for all the benefits, we said, okay, go ahead with the merger,&rdquo; said Ranger player rep Phil Esposito.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NHL Players Take Money Ratifying Expansion Pact

<h2><b>THE NHL&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03661/3927743-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="598" height="936"></div><h2><b>OTHER LEAGUES&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04456/3927736-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="604" height="336"></div><h2><b>COLUMNISTS&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05328/3927729-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="596" height="242"></div><h2><b>FEATURES&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06232/3927722-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="590" height="190"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Where To Find It…

<div class="byline">BY MIKE DENNIS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01979/3927781-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jets&rsquo; GM John Ferguson picked Peter Marsh, left, and Barry Melrose in his youth rebuilding plans for the new NHL team.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Ian MacAlpine)</span></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p>Who were the big winners in the expansion draft?</p><p>Was it the four teams who managed to join the National Hockey League with some semblance of the rosters they had assembled in their World Hockey Association days?</p><p>How about the Montreal Canadiens&mdash;the team with the most to lose who managed to dose the least?</p><p>Or was it the Vancouver Canucks&mdash;the team which entered the draft with the least amount of available talent and saved quite handsomely in the area of unloading some unwanted salaries?</p><p>Was it the fans; the owners; the scorecard manufacturers?</p><p>A total of 65 players were juggled around in the space of three and a half hours in the NHL&rsquo;s fifth expansion draft in Montreal&rsquo;s Queen Elizabeth Hotel and while the general managers, coaches and scouts of Edmonton, New England, Quebec and Winnipeg came away convinced that they had procured the nucleus of a future contender, you could tell by the generally unpained expressions of most of the other 17 organizations in the league, that the damage inflicted has not been too severe.</p><p>The expansion draft was basically the last of a four-part odyssey to equip the four new NHL teams with rosters for the 1979-80 season. Shortly before the summer meetings began in Montreal, the WHA held a dispersal draft to redistribute players from the Birmingham and Cincinnati franchises. In all, 28 players were assigned to the four teams.</p><p>Next the 17 NHL clubs reclaimed a total of 43 players they had drafted previously but who had gone to play with the WHA instead. All other previously drafted players not claimed were allowed to stay with their WHA clubs.</p><p>Step three saw the four expansion teams protect up to two goaltenders (only Edmonton protected both) and two skaters as priority selections.</p><p>Finally, the four new teams were allowed to choose until each NHL club had lost four players with the 17 clubs allowed to protect two goaltenders and 15 skaters.</p><p>Here, then, is a breakdown of the players the four teams drafted:</p><p><b>EDMONTON:</b> Drafted the strongest allotment of defensemen in the draft with five blueliners who played regularly this year: Lee Fogolin (Buffalo), Colin Campbell (Pittsburgh) Doug Hicks (Chicago) Pat Price (Islanders) and Larry Brown (Los Angeles), plus sophomore Mike Forbes of the Bruins and Tom Edur of Pittsburgh who did not play this year because of religious convictions.</p><p>The Oilers also selected two veteran NHL goaltenders, promising Pete LoPresti who failed to find steady work in Minnesota because of the presence of Gilles Meloche and Doug Favell who fell into disfavor at Colorado. They&rsquo;ll join Dave Dryden and Ed Mio with LoPresti likely to give Mio a battle for the backup spot.</p><p>Up front, the Oilers didn&rsquo;t fare particularly well. Their first pick in the entire draft was Cam Connor who scored two goals (one in the playoffs) for Montreal this year. They drafted only three players who have scored 20 goals in an NHL season, Inge Hammarstrom who is threatening to remain in Sweden, Wayne Bianchin, who is once again having back problems, and John Gould who couldn&rsquo;t find a spot in the Atlanta Flames&rsquo; lineup.</p><p><b>HARTFORD:</b> Whalers were another team to do reasonably well in the area of defense. They were able to reclaim Alan Hangsleben (Montreal) and Rick Ley (Toronto) who were starters on last year&rsquo;s team and they also picked up Al Sims from the Boston Bruins, who was one of the better defensemen available.</p><p>The Whalers went for potential in the forward ranks and were pleased in getting a couple of centers who could develop: Jean Savard of Chicago who played most of the season with New Brunswick in the American League and Bernie Johnston, the AHL&rsquo;s leading scorer from the Maine Mariners (Philadelphia). New England native Bill Bennett (six-foot-five, 230 pounds) was also taken from the American League (Boston&rsquo;s Rochester farm club), while a pair of future defensemen nabbed were Rick Hodgson from the Flames&rsquo; system and Kevin Kemp who was a teammate of Savard&rsquo;s in New Brunswick.</p><p><b>QUEBEC:</b> The Nordiques hit the New York clubs. Islanders and Rangers, for their earliest selections and it appears that these players will have a good shot of making the starting lineup. On defense Quebec received veteran Gerry Hart from the Islanders and 22-year-old Dave Farrish of the Rangers. They also plucked right winger Pierre Plante who patrolled a Rangers&rsquo; fourth line most of the season.</p><p>Along with goaltender Ron Low (Detroit) who will fight Jim Corsi for a backup spot behind Richard Brodeur, the Nordiques drafted a wide assortment of players including young defensemen John Baby (Minnesota) and Jamie Masters (St. Louis), promising centerman Roland Cloutier (Detroit), veteran pivot Ron Andruff (Colorado), plus Blair Stewart (Washington), Terry Martin (Buffalo), and John Smrke (St. Louis), all of whom have had NHL experience.</p><p><b>WINNIPEG:</b> The Jets had first pick and through previous deals with the Canadiens came away with Peter Marsh who scored 43 goals for Cincinnati this year. Marsh was undoubtedly the best player in the draft. The Jets went for youth in the goaltending department selecting Lindsay Middlebrook (Rangers) and Pierre Hamel (Toronto) to join Markus Mattsson and aging veterans Gary Smith and Joe Daley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02844/3927774-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="512" height="1050"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CAM CONNOR&hellip;Oilers&rsquo; 1st Pick</b></figcaption></div><p>In the draft&rsquo;s biggest surprise, the Jets claimed Bobby Hull who was reclaimed by Chicago but left unprotected. It was an obvious revenge play by Jets&rsquo; GM John Ferguson who was repaying the Black Hawks for reclaiming Terry Ruskowski who Fergie wanted badly.</p><p>After that it was a hodge-podge collection of players taken by Winnipeg, from veteran defenseman Al Cameron (Detroit) who Ferguson says has a chance at a spot in the lineup through young journeymen forwards like Lorne Stamler (Toronto), Gord McTavish (St. Louis) and Mark Heaslip (Los Angeles) through to a pair of high-priced right wingers who completed the draft Gene Carr of Atlanta and Hilliard Graves of the Vancouver Canucks.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Expansion Clubs Get Marginal Aid As Draft Produces Few Surprises

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How New NHL Teams Will Look

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Charlie Halpin, Editor</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-011030/3927843-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="537" height="459"></div><h2><b>NHL Draft Was A Farce</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>HE NHL EXPANSION DRAFT</b> for all intents and purposes, proved to be a colossal flop. Overshadowed by endless pre-conceived draft dealing, most of which was hastily &lsquo;arranged&rsquo; in the sunny Bahamas the week before the draft, it all seemed an almost total waste of time and energy.</p><p>If you lend your ear to the four incoming teams&mdash;Hartford, Quebec, Winnipeg and Edmonton&mdash;everything was, in their minds, acceptable. They got what they wanted, so they say. George Maguire, the GM of the L.A. Kings, thinks the expansion teams did all right, too.</p><p>&ldquo;They sure as hell will be starting better than any other expansion team in the past,&rdquo; said Maguire. &ldquo;In fact, all four of them should be contending for playoff spots right off the bat.&rdquo;</p><p>Personally, I think Maguire&rsquo;s observations are nothing more than window dressing for the NHL&rsquo;s tired draft system.</p><p>The Montreal Canadiens did more than any other team to assure themselves of another Stanley Cup by making shambles of the expansion draft. At one time during the shuffling of the over-priced hockey bodies, they had a total of 29 players &lsquo;blanketed&rsquo; against the draft.</p><p>The NHL laid down the rules of the draft&mdash;each of the 17 established teams would protect 15 skaters and two goalers. This quickly rose to 19 and 2 as the result of dealing with the new teams. Montreal directly negotiated with all four of the expansionists. Everyone was conviently protecting everyone else.</p><p>It was openly predicted that the cup champs would not lose Pierre Larouche, Rick Chartraw, Rod Langway, Pat Hughes or Gilles Lupien, all members of this year&rsquo;s winning cup team because of prearranged deals. The prognosticators were right on. They didn&rsquo;t.</p><p>I ask you, what was the need for a draft?</p><h2><b>Players They Didn&rsquo;t Want</b></h2><p><b>WINNIPEG GM JOHN FERGUSON</b> wasn&rsquo;t quite as overcome with ecstacy as some of his other WHA counterparts when the draft was completed. Fergie admitted being forced to draft &lsquo;four&rsquo; or &lsquo;five&rsquo; players he&rsquo;d rather not have. In fact, the four WHA GMs admitted they had drafted 14 players they didn&rsquo;t want, but the rules stipulated they had to take four from each NHL team, whether they wanted them or not.</p><p>New England GM Jack Kelley was pleased with his selections for one reason. The Whalers wanted to keep players their fans could relate to, like Alan Hangsleben, Rick Ley, Nick Fotiu and Al Sims. I still think they would have been better off with Langway, Larouche, and some other NHL draft &lsquo;fills&rsquo; like Ron Ellis, Bob Hoffmeyer, Bill Nyrop, Eddie Johnstone and Larry Goodenough, rather than possibly struggle with what they have now.</p><p>Edmonton&rsquo;s Glen Sather was hard pressed to explain why he picked one player coming off spinal surgery, two who didn&rsquo;t play last season and a fourth who says he wants to stay in Sweden.</p><p>It seemed inconceivable that the four WHA teams would consent to the whelling and dealing&rsquo;by the old line NHL clubs with their hockey future at stake. The first three picks&mdash;Winnipeg took Peter Marsh first, Edmonton chose Cam Connor second and Hartford drafted Hangsleben third&mdash;were owned by Montreal, who arranged with the WHA clubs to pick these three players in order that they could fill with Nyrop, Lupien and Langway.</p><p>Larouche, Hughes, and Chartraw rode through 15 rounds of the expansion draft untouched. To me, it amounted to the Canadiens making an early down payment on their fifth straight Stanley Cup next spring.</p><h2><b>All Teams Bargained</b></h2><p><b>THERE WERE SO MANY</b> pre-draft deals it&rsquo;s a wonder the NHL&rsquo;s keeper of Central Registry, Don Ellis, could get it all in working order for the June 13 expansion draft. The Canadiens were not the only culprits by a long shot. Most other NHL teams did some bargaining of their own.</p><p>Chicago did not reclaim Real Cloutier, the WHA scoring champion whose NHL rights they own. Goodness knows, the popgun Hawks&rsquo; offense could have used a shooter and scorer of Cloutier&rsquo;s talents. Neither Philadelphia nor Los Angeles exercised their rights to Ron Chipperfield and Blair MacDonald respectively allowing both to stay with Edmonton. MacDonald would have looked good wearing Kings&rsquo; livery and the rusting Flyer attack could have used a proven scorer like Chipperfield.</p><p>It appears the four WHA teams are going to pay the price for being taken into the NHL and the expansion draft is just the beginning.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE HOCKEY

<div class="byline">BY BILL FLEISCHMAN</div><p>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>bout one month after Phil Myre was traded from Atlanta to St. Louis midway in the 1977-78 season, a Philadelphia hockey writer surrounded Pat Quinn, then in his first season as a Flyers&rsquo; assistant, and said, &ldquo;Looks like Atlanta traded the wrong goalie.&rdquo;</p><p>Quinn, who had been Myre&rsquo;s teammate in Atlanta, nodded in silent agreement. Myre was then in the midst of a streak that would lead to a club-record consecutive-game mark of 28 for a St. Louis goaltender. Meanwhile, Daniel Bouchard, the goalie who was left behind, presumably to at least lead the Flames past the opening playoff round, was struggling.</p><p>Bouchard recovered to at least finish the &lsquo;78 season with a first-class 2.75 average. Myre compiled a 3.64 average for a St. Louis team that won 14 fewer games than Atlanta.</p><p>Ah, but as every St. Louis fan, including my friend John Smith (a likely alias) of Florissant, Mo., knows, good times with the Blues lately don&rsquo;t last long. Myre&rsquo;s final figures for last season were 4.33 and a 9-22-8 record. This, of course, was for the NHL&rsquo;s worst defensive team.</p><p>Then, just as Myre began strumming his summertime version of &ldquo;The St. Louis Blues&rdquo; on his guitar, the good news came: he has been traded to Philadelphia.</p><p>That the Flyers needed an experienced goaltender wasn&rsquo;t exactly news. With Bernie Parent&rsquo;s premature retirement and the Flyers&rsquo; lack of confidence in Wayne Stephenson, the Flyers were left with youngsters Pete Peeters, Robbie Moore and Rick St. Croix. At least one of them will play in Philadelphia next season, but to think that one young gentleman could make, fans forget Parent without an experienced goalie available was too much to expect.</p><p>It&rsquo;s unlikely Myre, 30, will make fans forget Parent either, but he at least should provide the Flyers with respectable goaltending-until one of the younger goalies is ready for full-time NHL duty.</p><p>&ldquo;We weren&rsquo;t anxious to have to go entirely with kids this year,&rdquo; said Keith Allen. &ldquo;But there was the chance that we might have been forced to. We&rsquo;re relieved&mdash;I think that&rsquo;s the best word&mdash;to have a guy of Phil&rsquo;s capabilities.&rdquo;</p><p>Referring to their Atlanta days and the continual debate over whether Myre or Bouchard was the No. 1, Quinn said, &ldquo;1 really thought he (Myre) was the more dependable of the two, and he showed it. When we played Montreal or Philadelphia or Boston, he was in goal.&rdquo;</p><p>If Allen is relieved, you should hear Myre.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew something was going to happen,&rdquo; Myre said, pausing between nervous expectant-father paces (his wife, Nicole, was expecting their second child). &ldquo;I knew with Bernie retired the Flyers would be looking for a goalie, so I thought it might be either Philadelphia or one of the expansion teams.&rdquo;</p><p>The words &ldquo;expansion teams&rdquo; send shivers through Myre.</p><p>&ldquo;In Atlanta, the team was always competitive and I used to wonder, when we played teams like the early islanders and Washington, what it would be like to play for a team like that. Well, I found but. It became very difficult. I lost the fun of playing. I like the idea of having a chance to win every game and I was getting a little shell-shocked.&rdquo;</p><p>Shell-shocked is how Blake Dunlop felt when Keith Allen called with the news that he and Rick LaPoint had been swapped to St. Louis for Myre. After a lengthy sentence in the minor leagues, Dunlop had proven, with a 20-goal season for the Flyers that he belongs in the NHL.</p><p>&ldquo;I felt I had a good season in Philadelphia and didn&rsquo;t expect to be traded,&rdquo; said the clever playmaker. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a little sad about leaving, because I enjoyed the Philadelphia organization&mdash;they treated me first class. But, going to St. Louis should be to my benefit. Instead of being the fourth center in Philadelphia, I should be one of the top centers in St. Louis.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Flyers Sought Out Myre To Ease Goaling Fears

<div class="byline">BY FRED PIETILA</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01898/3927946-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON CHERRY&hellip;Multi-Year Deal As Coach</b></figcaption></div><p>DENVER&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Colorado Rockies&rsquo; surprising hiring of Don Cherry to a multi-year contract as head coach of their previously struggling National Hockey League team was a shocker to a lot of people.</p><p>But the May 30 signing of the outspoken former Boston Bruins coach is being viewed as the biggest accomplishment in the short history of the Denverbased franchise. And it&rsquo;s also looked upon as a move which could well guarantee the security of the franchise in Denver.</p><p>The naming of the 45-year-old Cherry gave the Rockies&rsquo; franchise instant credibility, something that has been lacking the past three summers when talk of folding or moving the team shrouded the situation.</p><p>&ldquo;We keep on saying we&rsquo;re for real,&rdquo; Rockies&rsquo; president Armand Pohan Smiled. &ldquo;But people have to see something like this to believe it. This franchise is for real.&rdquo; Pohan is in charge of day-to-day operations of the club since A-P-A Transport, Inc., headed by Arthur Imperatore, purchased the team from Denver oilman Jack Vickers late last summer.</p><p>The Rockies promptly won only 15 games and lost almost $2 million in their third season in Denver. The outlook was not promising until Pohan announced that the team would again play in Denver and then followed six weeks later with the announcement that Cherry had been signed as coach.</p><p>General manager Ray Miron, recently signed to a new three-year contract, expects none of the problems Cherry experienced with the Bruins&rsquo; frontoffice organization and describes the flamboyant Cherry as &ldquo;a coach who will turn the franchise around.&rdquo;</p><p>Cherry seemed unusually humble when asked about such tributes. &ldquo;When 1 hear that, I&rsquo;m sort of embarrassed,&rdquo; he said, seriously. &ldquo;If I can&rsquo;t get the players motivated, I don&rsquo;t care who&rsquo;s coaching, it could be Moses, you can&rsquo;t win.&rdquo;</p><p>Cherry gave several reasons, namely a contract estimated at $130,000 per year, for choosing the Rockies over such viable franchises as Toronto, Buffalo, and Atlanta and another unnamed team which offered him more money.</p><p>&ldquo;I like the city,&rdquo; Cherry said of Denver. &ldquo;1 know they&rsquo;ve got good fans out there and they went through a lot last year with only 15 wins. But I just got a good feeling about Denver. I know the players are the types that never quit and 1 like that.&rdquo; For some reason or another, the Rockies have saved some of their best hockey for the Bruins and last year ended a lengthy winless streak in Boston. &ldquo;They acted like they won the Stanley Cup when they beat us in the Garden,&rdquo; Cherry recalled.</p><p>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t be here if I didn&rsquo;t like the players,&rdquo; Cherry continued. &ldquo;I like the talent here. My son likes fishing. I like the outdoors and I like the challenge.</p><p>&ldquo;My family decided it almost for me,&rdquo; Cherry said. &ldquo;I wanted to accept the challenge (of transforming the worst team in the NHL into a contender). They seemed to be more enthusiastic about Denver than any other team.&rdquo;</p><p>Miron contacted Cherry the day after he parted ways with the Bruins. Miron then met with Bill Watters, a representative of Cherry, in Dallas three days later and Cherry joined them the next day (May 29).</p><p>&ldquo;I thought it would take longer,&rdquo; an ecstatic Pohan said of the quick signing. &ldquo;We followed his saga in Boston for the past three or four months. I&rsquo;ve even had the Boston papers clipped, trying to learn as much about him as possible. We had attempted on a couple of occasions to get permission to talk to him, but Harry Sinden denied it.&rdquo;</p><p>Pohan finally met Cherry for the first time shortly before the memoriable news conference.</p><p>Season ticket sales picked up immediately, even at the first mention that Cherry was considering coming to Denver.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s good for the players and it&rsquo;s also good for the fans. We&rsquo;ve got our 7,000 die-hard fans. Now we have to go out and get the others,&rdquo; said Rocky defenseman Barry &ldquo;Bubba&rdquo; Beck. &ldquo;It&rsquo;ll (the signing) get the fans&rsquo; interest. I&rsquo;m sure we&rsquo;ll have a sound system this time. The way Don has coached, if you don&rsquo;t play his system, you don&rsquo;t play.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;If anyone can shape this outfit up, he&rsquo;d be the one who can do it,&rdquo; added defenseman Mike Christie. &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s the most important thing in the history of the franchise outside of the drafting of Barry Beck. It&rsquo;s the most important thing this year, even more important than how we use the first-round draft pick. His philosophy is to have fun and work hard at the same time. A little more hard work &lsquo;won&rsquo;t hurt this team. &ldquo;And neither will Cherry.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rockies Hoping Cherry’s Signing Will Sweeten Franchise Outlook

<p>Following are the latest off-season movements in hockey:</p><h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><p>EDMONTON&mdash;<b>Dave Lumley</b> and Dan Newman, forwards, secured from Montreal for future considerations. <b>Kari Makkonen,</b> forward, signed as free agent from Finland&rsquo;s National team.</p><p>MINNESOTA&mdash;<b>Richie Hansen,</b> forward, secured from Islanders and later traded to St. Louis for Blues second-rouhd draft choice in 1982. <b>Jean Potvin,</b> defenseman, traded to Islanders for future consideration. <b>Bryan Maxwell,</b> defenseman, traded to St. Louis for future considerations.</p><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;<b>Phil Myre,</b> goaler, traded to Philadelphia in exchange for <b>Rick LaPointe,</b> defenseman. and <b>Blake Dunlop,</b> forward. <b>Terry Richardson,</b> goaler, and <b>Barry Gibbs,</b> defenseman, traded to Islanders for future considerations. Hartland Monahan, forward, purchased from Quebec.</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;<b>Jacques Lemaire,</b> forward, signed three-year contract as player, coach and GM with the Sierre team in Switzerland starting next season.</p><p>WASHINGTON&mdash;<b>Nelson Burton,</b> forward, traded to Quebec in return for Dave Parro, goaler. <b>Steve Clippingdale,</b> forward, secured from Los Angeles in return for <b>Mike Marson,</b> forward.</p><p>ISLANDERS&mdash;<b>Terry Richardson,</b> goaler, traded to Hartford in exchange for <b>Ralph Klassen,</b> forward. islanders later swapped Klassen to St. Louis to complete earlier deal for Richardson and Gibbs, <b>Bert Marshall,</b> defenseman, announced retirement from hockey to become coach of Fort Worth of CHL.</p><p>ATLANTA&mdash;<b>Pekka Rautakallio,</b> defenseman, signed to two-year contract as free agent.</p><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;<b>Ron Sedlbauer,</b> forward, signed one-year contract as free agent. <b>Bob Manno,</b> defenseman, signed a two-year pact.</p><p>HARTFORD&mdash;<b>Dave Keon,</b> forward, signed one-year contract as free agent.</p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;<b>Keith Magnuson,</b> defenseman, announced his retirement from hockey.</p><p>COLORADO&mdash;<b>Barry Smith,</b> forward, signed as free agent from Rochester of AHL. <b>Doug Berry,</b> forward, claimed from Edmonton and protected for NHL expansion draft.</p><p>WINNIPEG&mdash;Secured NHL rights to <b>Barry Melrose</b> and <b>Craig Norwich</b> from Montreal. <b>Willy Lindstrom,</b> forward, signed to multi-year contract as free agent. <b>Ron Wilson,</b> forward, purchased from Nova Scotia of AHL.</p><h2><b>WHA DISPERSAL DRAFT</b></h2><p>EDMONTON&mdash;<b>Mike Liut,</b> goaler, <b>Bryon Baltimore, Bryan Watson</b> and <b>Dave Fortier,</b> defensemen, <b>Reg Thomas, Dave Forbes, Kelly Davis, Mike Parizeau</b> and <b>Bruce Greig,</b> forwards, all claimed from Cincinnati.</p><p>HARTFORD&mdash;<b>Byron Shutt,</b> forward, claimed from Cincinnati. <b>Bob Stephenson, Steve Alley, Tony Cassolato</b> and <b>Paul Henderson,</b> forwards, all claimed from Birmingham. <b>Al McLeod,</b> defenseman, claimed as free agent from defunct Indianapolis.</p><p>QUEBEC&mdash;<b>Greg Tebbutt,</b> defenseman. and <b>Peter Marrin</b> and <b>J.C. Slewart,</b> forwards, claimed from Birmingham. <b>Michel Dion,</b> goaler, <b>Dave Dornseif</b> and <b>Barry Melrose,</b> defensemen, <b>Robbie Ftorek,</b> Bill Gilligan, and <b>Paul Slewart,</b> forwards, claimed from Cincinnati.</p><p>WINNIPEG.&mdash;<b>Barry Legge</b> and <b>Craig Norwich,</b> defensemen, <b>Peter Marsh</b> and <b>Jamie Hislop,</b> forwards, claimed from Cincinnati.</p><h2><b>NHL RECLAIM DRAFT</b></h2><p>EDMONTON&mdash;<b>Doug Berry</b> by Colorado; <b>Steve Carlson</b> by Los Angeles; Dave Dryden by Buffalo; <b>Wes George</b> by Detroit; <b>Bengt Gustafsson</b> by Washington; <b>John Hughes</b> by Vancouver; <b>Dave Langevin</b> by Islanders; <b>Jim Mayer</b> by Rangers; <b>Eiddie Mio,</b> Cal Sandbeck, <b>Dave Semenko</b> and Paul Shmyrby Minnesota; <b>Risto Siltanen</b> by St. Louis; <b>Dennis Sobchuk</b> by Philadelphia; <b>Stan Weir</b> by Toronto. Dryden, Gustafsson and Mio priority selections by Edmonton leaving them untouchable in expansion draft.</p><p>HARTFORD&mdash;<b>Jordy Douglas</b> and Rick Ley by Toronto; <b>John Garrett</b> by Chicago; <b>Alan Hangsleben</b> by Montreal; <b>Mark Howe</b> by Boston; <b>George Lyle</b> by Detroit; <b>Warren Miller</b> by Rangers. <b>Douglas, Garrett and Howe priority selections by Hartford leaving them untouchable in expansion draft.</b></p><p>QUEBEC&mdash;<b>Paul Baxter</b> by Pittsburgh; <b>Chris Bordeleau</b> by St. Louis; <b>Richard Brodeur</b> and <b>Gary Lariviere</b> by Islanders; Alain Cote and <b>Danny Geoffrion</b> by Montreal. Brodeur, Baxter and Lariviere priority selections by Quebec leaving them untouchable in expansion draft.</p><p>WINNIPEG&mdash;<b>Scott Campbell</b> by St. Louis; Kim Clackson and <b>Morris Lukowich</b> by Pittsburgh; Glenn Hicks and Barry Long by Detroit; <b>Markus Mattsson</b> by Islanders; Paul MacKinnon by Washington; Kent Nilsson by Atlanta; Bobby Hull and <b>Terry Ruskowski</b> by Chicago. Campbell, Mattsson and Lukowich priority selections by Winnipeg leaving them untouchable in expansion draft.</p><p>BIRMINGHAM&mdash;<b>Greg Tebbutt</b> by Minnesota.</p><p>CINCINNATI&mdash;<b>Kelly Davis</b> by Islanders; <b>Mike Liut</b> by St. Louis; <b>Peter Marsh</b> by Montreal. Liut protected by St. Louis leaving him untouchable in expansion draft.</p><h2><b>EXPANSION DRAFT</b></h2><p>EDMONTON&mdash;<b>Cam Connor,</b> No. 2 from Montreal; <b>Lee Fogolin,</b> No. 7 from Buffalo; <b>Pat Price,</b> No. 10 from Islanders; <b>Colin Campbell,</b> No. 15 from Pittsburgh; <b>Larry Brown,</b> No. 18 from Los Angeles; <b>Pete LoPresti,</b> No. 23 from Minnesota; <b>Ron Areshenkoff,</b> No. 26 from Buffalo; <b>Inge Hammarstrom,</b> No. 31 from St. Louis; <b>John Gould,</b> No. 34 from Atlanta; <b>Doug Hicks,</b> No. 39 from Chicago; <b>Tom Edur,</b> No. 39 from Pittsburgh; <b>Wayne Bianchin,</b> No. 47 from Pittsburgh; <b>Mike Forbes,</b> No. 50 from Boston; <b>Doug Favell,</b> No. 55 from Colorado; <b>Doug Paley,</b> No. 58 from Washington; <b>Bob Kelly,</b> No. 63 from Chicago.</p><p>HARTFORD&mdash;<b>Alan Hangsleben,</b> No. 3 from Montreal; <b>Nick Fotiu,</b> No. 6 from Rangers; <b>Rick Ley,</b> No. 11 from Toronto; <b>Al Sims,</b> No. 14 from Boston; <b>Jean Savard,</b> No. 19 from Chicago; <b>Ralph Klassen,</b> No. 26 from Colorado; <b>Rick Hodgson,</b> No. 27 from Atlanta; <b>Kevin Kemp,</b> No. 30 from Toronto; <b>Bill Bennett,</b> No. 35 from Boston; <b>Bernie Johnston,</b> No. 38 from Philadelphia; <b>Brian Hill,</b> No. 43 from Atlanta; <b>Dave Givens,</b> No. 46 from Buffalo; M<b>.F. Schurman,</b> No. 51 from Philadelphia; <b>Nick Beverley,</b> No. 54 from Colorado; <b>Norm Lapointe,</b> No. 59 from Vancouver; <b>Don Kozak,</b> No. 62 from Vancouver.</p><p>QUEBEC&mdash;<b>Dave Farrish,</b> No. 4 from Rangers; <b>Gerry Hart,</b> No. 5 from Islanders; <b>Ron Low,</b> No. 12 from Detroit; <b>Pierre Plante,</b> No. 13 from Rangers; <b>Blair Slewart,</b> No. 20 from Washington; <b>John Baby,</b> No. 21 from Minnesota; <b>John Smrke,</b> No. 28 from St. Louis; <b>Dave Parro,</b> No. 29 from Boston, <b>Ken Kuzyk,</b> No. 36 from Minnesota; <b>Roland Cloutier,</b> No. 37 from Detroit; <b>Terry Martin,</b> No. 44 from Buffalo; <b>Jamie Masters,</b> No. 45 from St. Louis; <b>Hartland Monahan,</b> No. 52 from Los Angeles; <b>Ron Andruff,</b> No. 53 from Colorado; <b>Alain Cole,</b> No. 60 from Montreal; <b>Lars Zetterstrom,</b> No. 62 from Vancouver.</p><p>WINNIPEG&mdash;<b>Peter Marsh,</b> No. 1 from Montreal; <b>Lindsay Middlebrook,</b> No. 8 from Rangers; <b>Bobby Hull,</b> No. 9 from Chicago; <b>Al Cameron,</b> No. 16 from Detroit; <b>Dave Hoyda,</b> No. 17 from Philadelphia; <b>Jim Roberts,</b> No. 24 from Minnesota; <b>Lorne Stamler,</b> No. 25 from Toronto; <b>Mark Heaslip,</b> No. 32 from Los Angeles; <b>Pierre Hamel,</b> No. 33 from Toronto; <b>Gord McTavish,</b> No. 40 from St. Louis; <b>Gord Smith,</b> No. 41 from Washington; <b>Clark Hamilton,</b> No. 48 from Detroit; <b>Jim Cunningham,</b> No. 49 from Philadelphia; <b>Dennis Abgrall</b> No. 56 from Los Angeles; <b>Bill Riley,</b> No. 57 from Washington; <b>Gene Carr,</b> No. 64 from Atlanta; <b>Hilliard Graves,</b> No. 65 from Vancouver.</p><h2>COACHING CHANGES</h2><p>ATLANTA&mdash;<b>Al MacNeil</b> named coach of Flames succeeding Fred Creighton, who was fired. MacNeil leaves player personnel role with Montreal.</p><p>BUFFALO&mdash;<b>Scotty Bowman</b> named GM of Sabres after quitting Montreal. <b>Roger Neilson</b> named coach after quitting Toronto.</p><p>COLORADO&mdash;<b>Don Cherry</b> signed five-year contract to coach Rockies after quitting Boston.</p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;<b>Eddie Johnston</b> names coach of Hawks replacing <b>Bob Pulford,</b> who remains as GM. Johnston coached New Brunswick in AHL last season.</p><p>ISLANDERS&mdash;<b>Billy MacMillan</b> named assistant to head coach Al Arbour. MacMillan coached Fort Worth in CHL last season.</p><p>HERSHEY&mdash;<b>Gary Green</b> named coach of AHL Bears replacing Fred Stanfield. Green coached Peterborough in Junior OHA last season.</p><p>NOVA SCOTIA&mdash;<b>Frank St. Marseille</b> fired as coach of Voyageurs in AHL.</p><p>FORT WORTH&mdash;<b>Bert Marshall</b> named coach of CHL Texans replacing Billy MacMillan.</p><p>BIRMINGHAM&mdash;<b>John Brophy</b> named coach of Bulls for entry into CHL as new franchise.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Player Movements

<div class="byline">&#x2014;BY BOB VERDI</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-011062/3928001-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="351" height="484"></div><h2><b>NHLPA Shows Class</b></h2><p><b>NEWS:</b> National Hockey League Players&rsquo; Association gives its approval of merger with four teams from the World Hockey Association.</p><p><b>Views:</b> It comes as no surprise that an organization which has Bobby Clarke as its president acted unselfishly. The NHLPA went to the Bahamas in June with a loaded gun. Never had the players enjoyed such a bargaining position: the expansion-merger had been ratified by all sides except for the NHLPA. In exchange for it OK, the NHLPA figures to emerge with all sorts of new free agent freedoms, a la baseball.</p><p>But the NHLPA settled for money only. If the players had called a strike, hockey would have been in chaos. If the NHL owners had scrapped the merger, hockey would have been in chaos. And if there&rsquo;s anything hockey doesn&rsquo;t need now, it&rsquo;s more chaos.</p><p>The players realize that unlike the other major sports, the NHL received only nickles and dimes from television. The Boston Red Sox get $2.5 million from local broadcast rights before the first ball is thrown each spring. Not to mention what they receive from the networks. But the NHL is a gate receipt league, not a TV league.</p><p>&ldquo;And we couldn&rsquo;t be greedy,&rdquo; said Clarke, the Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; captain. &ldquo;We Still have too many clubs in financial trouble. What good does it do now if we try to rob the owners, but then three teams go under next year? We lose jobs, we lose more money, we lose, period. We had to do what was right for the game, not what was right for us.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Doubts Owners Care</b></h2><p><b>THE PLAYERS&rsquo; POLITE</b> posture furrowed many brows. Norm Caplan, a Montreal agent whose bargaining leverage will be dented by the death of one league, charged NHLPA executive president Al Eagleson with a &ldquo;sellout.&rdquo; And present free agents such as Tony Esposito, who had the most to lose, conceded that &ldquo;the owners won.&rdquo;</p><p>Maybe. On the night the agreement was reached, there was a party on one owner&rsquo;s yacht which is worth millions. It was docked next to another owner&rsquo;s yacht which is worth millions. These are the same owners who are crying poor. I wonder if the NHL owners realize how fortunate they are: how hockey players, as a group, care. 1 wonder if the NHL owners care about the game as much as the players. I wonder, and I doubt it.</p><p><b>News:</b> Bobby Orr quits Black Hawks to enter other business ventures.</p><p><b>Views:</b> This three-year marriage was made in hell, and it didn&rsquo;t end a moment too soon. Orr, a winner, would watch games in Chicago Stadium with the stands half full and the Black Hawks half trying and go bonkers. He had to get out.</p><p>There seem to be a few whispers circulating now that Orr is a big reason why the Black Hawks are the mess they are, that he i a scapegoat. Well, I have a secret for you. The Black Hawks were a terrible organization before Orr arrived, and they probably will be a terrible organization long after he leaves.</p><p>Clarke again: &ldquo;It says something funny about our sport and the Black Hawks when a team which play in front of 8,000 empty seats can&rsquo;t use the greatest player who ever played the game. I&rsquo;m going to talk to our owner (Ed Snider) about hiring him. If Orr works for the Flyers, he won&rsquo;t just shuffle papers.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Boston Loses Big</b></h2><p><b>NEWS: DON CHERRY</b> signs as coach of the Colorado Rockies.</p><p><b>Views:</b> Boston loses big here. Seldom have a coach and a team and a town been such mirror images as Cherry, the Bruins and Beantown. Cherry won&rsquo;t win the Stanley Cup in Denver, but the Rockies don&rsquo;t have all that bad a team. He will not only make them better, but more entertaining.</p><p><b>News:</b> Scotty Bowman leaves the Canadiens to become Buffalo Sabres&rsquo; general manager.</p><p><b>Views:</b> The rap on Bowman was that anybody could win with all those horses in Montreal. We&rsquo;ll see about that. His track record is impeccable, he has a voracious appetite for work, and a great desire to run things himself. In Buffalo, Bowman will be accorded power he never had in Montreal. He inherits some good athletes, some lazy athletes, and a fandom which fills the building but has endured too many disappointments. They talk about the lack of playing talent in the NHL, but the real vacuum is at the top. By hiring Bowman, the Sabres have acquired one of the sport&rsquo;s sharped minds. Look for immediate results this winter, especially now that Bowman will coach for one more year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY TALK

<div class="byline">BY MIKE DENNIS</div><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>ithin the first two minutes of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s fifth expansion draft on June 13 the Montreal Canadiens were sitting pretty as their pre-orchestrated choreography was followed to the letter.</p><p>Winnipeg Jets, with the first choice in the proceedings&hellip;&ldquo;&hellip;Claim Peter Marsh of Montreal&rdquo;, announced Jets&rsquo; GM and vice-president John Ferguson Canadiens filled with Bill Nyrop. Edmonton Oilers choosing second called: &ldquo;Cam Connor of Montreal.&rdquo; Canadiens tabbed Gilles Lupien as their second fill. Then came New England Whalers who announced: &ldquo;Alan Hangsleben of the Montreal Canadiens&rdquo;. Rod Langway was then added to the Montreal protected list and with 62 selections to come, the Canadiens were free and easy.</p><p>They only had to worry about losing one more player&mdash;and though the Quebec Nordiques made them sweat a bit before exercising their commitment to choose Alain Cote in the 15th round&mdash;the Habs managed to come through the draft remarkably unscathed. The final scoreboard read: LOST&mdash;one spot starter (Connor, who dressed but did not necessarily see much action in 23 games) and three players who were reclaimed from World Hockey Association teams and allowed to go back to their original teams with the understanding that Canadiens&rsquo; unprotected players like Pierre Larouche, Rick Chartraw, Pat Hughes and the ones who eventually became fills, would be left alone.</p><p>But while the expansion draft went exceedingly well for the Canadiens, it was the swirl of activities immediately before and after the draft that had Montreal executive vice-president and managing director Irving Grundman humming, &ldquo;They&rsquo;re Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine&rdquo;.</p><p>It started on the Friday before the draft when Al MacNeil, Canadiens&rsquo; director of player personnel, resigned to take a multi-year deal as coach of the Atlanta Fames. Then on the first day of the summer meetings it was Scotty Bowman&rsquo;s turn to leave the ranks of the organization as he came to terms with Buffalo as the new general manager of the Sabres&rsquo; hockey operation.</p><p>The losses continued after the expansion draft when 33-year-old Jacques Lemaire informed the club that he was not going to play in his option year with the Canadiens, but instead was moving to Sierre, Switzerland to serve as playing coach-general manager and director of personnel, of a &lsquo;B&rsquo; division squad. Also staring the Canadiens&rsquo; organization in the face was the possible loss of goaltender Ken Dryden to the lawyer&rsquo;s profession which has remained an attractive alternative in Dryden&rsquo;s plans.</p><p>Dryden and his wife Linda were in England during the summer meetings with the 31-year-old backstop expected to inform the club of his plans in early July.</p><p>Concerning the most immediate problem of finding a coach for next year, Grundman indicated that &ldquo;there was no real deadline&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re considering several names at this time,&rdquo; he explained, &ldquo;but as far as the amateur draft goes, we can go into it with our present set-up.</p><p>&ldquo;Our scouting staff (headed by director of player recruitment Ron Caron and director of player development Claude Ruel) has been evaluating theplayers for the draft and we have (the NHL&rsquo;s) Central Scouting to help out as well.&rdquo;</p><p>Ruel, in fact, who coached the Habs in the late 60s and into the early 70s has been a prominent name in the &ldquo;Guess the Coach&rdquo; contest, but according to Grundman: &ldquo;Claude would certainly do it on an interim basis, but he is not interested on a full-time basis.&rdquo;</p><p>Other names offered as possible replacements for Bowman included former players like Henri Richard, Dickie Moore and even Yvan Cournoyer who began last season as captain of the team but was forced to undergo back surgery after less than a quarter of the season. Winnipeg Jets&rsquo; general manager John Ferguson was supposedly offered the coaching job two months ago by Molson Breweries which own the team on a &ldquo;if Scotty goes, would you coach?&rdquo; basis, but Ferguson indicated that he would fulfill his committments to Winnipeg.</p><p>At press time Grundman was in New York attending a Board of Governors meeting where the question of drafting underage amateurs was to be discussed. Before Grundman left for the meeting he said: &ldquo;There&rsquo;s going to be a serious consideration of the underage draft. It&rsquo;s a case of putting together a formula that would please as many people as possible; one that would avoid possible law suits.&rdquo;</p><p>After that comes the August 9 (moved up one day from original plans) amateur draft in Montreal, and the following day Lemaire will be issued a contract for his option year with the Canadiens. Said Grundman, &ldquo;Then if he doesn&rsquo;t come to training camp, he&rsquo;ll be suspended and we&rsquo;ll just follow league procedure on it.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02819/3928032-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="572" height="1555"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES LEMAIRE&hellip;Opted For Europe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Sultry Summer For Habs Despite “Perfect” Draft

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-011052/3928091-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="507" height="501"></div><p>&bull; <b>ALTHOUGH OVER</b> 600 attended the luncheon hosted by the National Hockey League at their annual meetings in Montreal last month, not too much came out of the meetings of a constructive or newsworthy nature. In fact the format for presenting the NHL awards and All Star recognition is pretty dull. It&rsquo;s the same old format every year. The league would be wise to hire someone to produce their gatherings on a modern updated system. Most every other major league sport leaves the NHL far behind in staging meetings, All Star gatherings and so-called important events&hellip;Claude Ruel will succeed Scotty Bowman as coach of the Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens. He may not want the job but he&rsquo;ll take it&hellip;Mike Nykoluk, assistant to Fred Shero at New York, has been promised the Rangers&rsquo; coaching job when Shero concentrates on the front office which will probably take place in a couple of years&hellip;Ralph Klassen, a forward with Colorado Rockies last season, was owned by four NHL teams in one day during the NHL meetings. He started with the Rockies was claimed by Hartford Whalers in the expansion draft and traded to the Islanders. He was then sent to St. Louis Blues to complete an earlier trade.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02946/3928084-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="301" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ralph Klassen</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>TWO OF HOCKEY&rsquo;S</b> all-time greats died recently and both in Vancouver. Cyclone Taylor, rated by many as one of the greatest to ever play the game, died at 94. Taylor is alleged to have once scored a goal skating the length of the ice backwards. He was the first living person to be inducted into Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame, and was in attendance at most hockey gatherings right up until the end. Frank Fredrickson, another Hockey Hall of Famer, died in his sleep at 84. Before turning professional he captained the Winnipeg team that won the Allan Cup, emblematic of senior hockey supremacy in Canada, and the 1920 Olympic title, the first time hockey was included in the Winter Olympic program&hellip;Scott Garland, a forward with Toronto and Los Angeles of the NHL, was killed in an auto accident near Montreal last month. He was 27&hellip;Fred A. Huber, former publicist of the Detroit Red Wings, is alive, alert and well in Sun City, Arizona. This will come as welcome news to Fred&rsquo;s many friends in hockey, as recently another Fred Huber! died in the same Arizona area and due to a confusion about his death certificate the story received extensive coverage in Arizona papers. As Fred writes us: &ldquo;Hoekey seemingly is dead in Arizona, not me&rdquo;&hellip;Dick Dillman, ace publicist of the Minnesota North Stars, once again won the Professional Hockey Writers Association&rsquo;s &ldquo;Best Press Box Award&rdquo; for the 1978-79 season&hellip;Susie Mathieu, of the St. Louis Blues, sole female NHL publicist, won the Writers&rsquo; Award for the &ldquo;Best Press Guide&rdquo; for the same Reason&hellip;Bud Poile and Bill Adler, president and director of information respectively of the Central Hockey League reappointed and looking forward to an exciting season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03799/3928077-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="294" height="479"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bud Poile</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>HAROLD BALLARD,</b> owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, is being roasted in the Toronto media for raising ticket prices while at the same time not spending any money to improve the team. He is constantly promising to make the team a winner and then does nothing about it. Ballard missed out on both Scotty Bowman as general manager and Don Cherry as coach. The price increases for Toronto Leaf games for next season range from 12.5 percent to 25percent. The biggest hike is in the gold seats ($12 to $15) and greys ($4 to $5) while the reds have gone up 20 percent ($10 to $12), the greens 16.7 percent ($6 to $7) and the blues 12.5 percent ($8 to $9). Also, the tickets must be paid for by July 1st&hellip;John Ferguson, the strong-willed general manager of the Winnipeg Jets, surprised a lot of hockey people when he reclaimed Bobby Hull from the Chicago Black Hawks at the NHL&rsquo;s expansion draft meeting. Ferguson claims that the Hawks double crossed him on a deal for Hull&rsquo;s return to Chicago, saying that he understood the Jets would be able to retain Terry Ruskowski. Hawks took both, but they&rsquo;ll have to give up some players to get Hull back again. Hull would also be interested in playing for the New York Rangers if the Chicago deal falls through&hellip;Al Sims was another surprise at the draft when he was picked up by the Hartford Whalers after Boston had left him unprotected. The tall defenseman is looked upon favorably by many hockey people.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04456/3928070-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="306" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Ruskowski</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>SEVERAL BOSTON</b> players are convinced that Harry Sinden will start the new season as coach of the Bruins. No other suitable candidates are ready to replace Don Cherry at the money offered&hellip;Don Cherry departed the Bruins for the more lucrative region of Colorado where he signed a five-year contract at $150,000 a year to pilot the. Rockies. The colorful Cherry, easily one of the outstanding coaches in hockey, thinks the Rockies have enough good players to become strong contenders during the upcoming season. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re a team with plenty of desire and with such standouts as Barry Beck and Wilf Paiement among others, 1 think this is a club than can really go places. In many ways they remind me of the Bruins for spirit. You just watch us next season.&rsquo;&rsquo;&hellip;Cherry has already earned his salary (highest of any NHL coach) as the Rockies sold more than 3,500 season tickets in less than two weeks after his signing. Add these to the existing 3,000 and the Rockies have the basis of a sound franchise&hellip;Jacques Lemaire will be general manager-coach-player for the Sierre, Switzerland team next season but his salary will be well below the publicized figure of $100,000 plus. He will also receive a house and car while in Sierre. Eddy Duc, vice-president of the team, said: &ldquo;All foreign sportsmen in Switzerland are paid a tax-free salary and Lemaire is no exception in that respect&rdquo;&hellip;Rudy Pilous would like to become Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; Western Canada scout. Rudy coached Chicago to their last Stanley Cup in 1961 and also managed the Winnipeg Jets to the Avco World Trophy in 1976 and 1978.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05337/3928063-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="306" height="501"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wilf Paiement</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">BY NORM MacLEAN</div><p>LONG ISLAND&mdash;</p><p>The Islanders did their homework before the expansion draft and wound up losing only defensemen Gerry Hart and Pat Price off the roster of the team which topped the National Hockey League in regular season points in 1978-79.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll have the youngest Islander team in history next season,&rdquo; promised general manager Bill Torrey. &ldquo;Making Hart available was one of the toughest things I have ever had to do, but when we reclaimed (defenseman) Dave Langevin from Edmonton, we gained seven and one-half years right away. And we protected Mike Hordy who is only 22.&rdquo;</p><p>Hordy played two perfect games in the NHL against Boston and St. Louis last season&mdash;and can move the puck. But so can Denis Potvin and Stefan Persson the Islanders other mobile rearguards. The Islanders problem on defense was moving people out of the slot in front of the goal.</p><p>Hart, slowed by two injuries during the season, played in only 50 games and was sub par. He is still a firebrand, but Gerry checked in at five-foot-nine and 190, Langevin at six-foot-two and 210. Hordy, a mini-type, is five-foot-10 and 180.</p><p>Price, unhappy with an on-again off-again bench diet, may get a chance to play with Edmonton. He had his best game March 22 against Montreal at the Forum, when the Isles took first place overall for the first time, but was the odd man out too often in the playoffs and popped off when benched in the Ranger series.</p><p>Also gone from the varsity is playercoach Bert Marshall, a defensive defenseman who has accepted an assignment as coach of the Fort Worth (CHL) farm team. Billy MacMillan, a former Islander playoff hero, who is well thought of by the Islander players, has been upped from Fort Worth to serve as coach Al Arbour&rsquo;s assistant.</p><p>&ldquo;The guys on the team were unhappy when they sent Billy down a few years back&mdash;and when he returned in the playoffs he got a couple of game winners,&rdquo; recalled Denis Potvin.</p><p>For Marshall, 36, the coaching assignment is a new challenge&mdash;and represents something new for Moose.</p><p>&ldquo;I am going to Fort Worth to find out if 1 can coach and learn some of the things that Billy (MacMillan) has already learned,&rdquo; said Marshall.</p><p>Hordy was happy about being protected, observing, &ldquo;I wanted to stay with a winner, although originally I thought the draft might open up some opportunities elsewhere. But now, I know they want me and it&rsquo;s nice to know I&rsquo;ll still be with them.&rdquo;</p><p>Jean Potvin, whose free agent rights the Islanders obtained from Minnesota, rounds out the complement of rearguards, along with 1978-79 regulars Bob Lorimer, and Dave Lewis. If the Isles go with seven defensemen, as they did last year, Denis&rsquo; older brother, who can play both sides, the right point and right wing, might hang on to a roster spot.</p><p>The unhappy Hart, who with the new retired Eddie Westfall, number one 1972-73 draftee Billy Harris and goalie Billie Smith, were the only original Islanders still on the team, is threatening to retire.</p><p>&ldquo;Hart has a contract with four more years remaining,&rdquo; said Torrey, &ldquo;He is a professional, who takes great pride in his work both on and off the ice, and I am confident he will honor that contract.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06270/3928122-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="577" height="1004"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DAVE LANGEVIN&hellip;Can Clear Crease</b></figcaption></div><p>Gerry was claimed by Quebec, who also aided Torrey in escaping further claims by selecting Richard Brodeur and Gary Lariviere whom the Islanders reclaimed from the WHA team, but then didn&rsquo;t protect.</p><p>As a result, the Islanders were the first NHL team to lose their required four players in the expansion draft.</p><p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s good news when we are the first team to go out in the draft and we only lose Price and Hart,&rdquo; said Torrey. &ldquo;Those were decisions we had to make for the good of the team.&rdquo;</p><p>In other trades, Torrey shipped forward Richie Hansen to Minnesota as payment for Potvin. The North Stars then shipped the Bronx native to St. Louis where Emile Francis will give the 23-year-old another shot. Hansen had failed to sign a contract with the Islanders, acting on the advice of his father, Max, Sr., a former amateur and WHA referee.</p><p><b>ISLAND SOUNDS:</b> Mike Bossy and Torrey have started negotiations for the renewal of Bossy&rsquo;s contract. He is working on the third year of a three-year pact that pays him $50,000 per. Denis Gauthier is representing Bossy, who is expected to ask for something close to a million dollar package for four years.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Torrey Promises ‘Youthful Look’ In Shaping Isles

<p>NEW YORK&mdash;</p><p>The National Hockey League, groping for a solution to its amateur draft problems relating to underage players, may have skirted the touchy situation by introducing a new &lsquo;entry&rsquo; draft with only 19-year-olds being eligible the first year.</p><p>The NHL informed the NHL Players&rsquo; Association it will pick 19-year-old players this season but will include 18-year-olds in 1980.</p><p>The move was seen as a step to head off legal ramifications if the NHL didn&rsquo;t conduct a teen-age draft. Trouble has been brewing between players and their agents and the league for some weeks with some of the agents threatening to take the NHL to court.</p><p>The NHL will conduct six rounds of the &lsquo;entry&rsquo; draft Aug. 9 behind closed doors. It will be carried out through a telephone hookup linking each of the 21 NHL teams with the NHL head office in Montreal. Last year the amateur draft was restored as an open event with the media on hand after the league had shut it down in years previous to 1978 by conducting telephone drafts.</p><p>Each NHL club has been informed that if they draft a player and don&rsquo;t wish to keep him, they must first offer him back to the junior team from whom they took the player. If the juniors decline his services, then he can be farmed out by the NHL team. Players will also be drafted through a payment compensation program that was not revealed at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel meeting of NHL teams.</p><p>In lowering the age of eligibiliby from 20 to 19, the NHL in a sense is conducting its first ever underage draft. The league said it prefers to call it an &lsquo;entry&rsquo; draft and next season it will drop the eligible age down to 18. Under the present system, Wayne Gretzky of Edmonton Oilers, who is 18, is exempt from the 1979 &lsquo;entry&rsquo; draft. However, all of the other 19-year-olds who toiled in the WHA last season must go into the draft pot.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-011017/3928153-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="522" height="908"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WAYNE GRETZKY</b></figcaption></div><p>NHL president John Ziegler said no 19-year-olds would be exempt from the &lsquo;entry&rsquo; draft. Such top draft picks as Mike Gartner, Rob Ramage, Craig Hartsburg, Ricky Vaive, Michel Goulet and goaler Pat Riggin, all of whom played as underage juniors last season in the WHA, will be up for grabs.</p><p>The Colorado Rockies are expected to select Ramage first in the draft and Hartsburg is reportedly destined for the St. Louis Blues as second selection.</p><p>Ziegler said there is a great disparity on the underage draft issue. He added the legal context was very involved. Art Kaminsky, the New York lawyer who represents 19-year-old scoring whiz Tom McCarthy of the Oshawa Generals, said he would haul the NHL into court if his client wasn&rsquo;t given a shot at playing in the NHL next season.</p><p>The NHL said the order of draft will be the reverse of the final league standings with the four new teams taking up the slack from 18th to 21st place in the selecting.</p><p>In one other NHL development at the New York meeting, the All Star game meanwhile, will take a different turn&mdash;to a double-header format. The Prince of Wales Conference stars will meet the Clarence Campbell Conference stars at the new Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on February 5 or 6.</p><p>The United States Olympic team and Canadian Olympic team have been invited to play a second game that night as one of their final tuneups for the 1980 Winter Games competition. Olympic hockey begins on Feb. 12&mdash;one day before the opening ceremonies.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NHL Plans ‘Entry’ Draft With 19-Year-Olds Target

<p>ATLANTA&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>fter more than a month of constant speculation through all corners of the hockey world, Atlanta Flames&rsquo; general manager Cliff Fletcher made it official that Al MacNeil will become the third head coach in the club&rsquo;s eight year history. He follows Bernie Geoffrion, who resigned in February of 1975 and Fred Creighton whose contract was not renewed after the Flames&rsquo; playoff loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>MacNeil, 43, comes to the Flames from the Montreal Canadiens organization where he has served in varying capacities and with consistent success for the past 13 years.</p><p>&ldquo;I have known and worked with Al MacNeil for many years,&rdquo; said Fletcher, &ldquo;and have never met a man that has a more thorough grasp of the game. He has been a successful coach at every level of professional hockey and his association with Montreal enables him to bring to Atlanta a rich tradition of winning. Though many names have been mentioned for this position, Al MacNeil is the only man I had in mind.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I am delighted to have the opportunity to re-join Cliff Fletcher and to coach a hockey team that&rsquo;s as strong as the Atlanta Flames,&rdquo; said MacNeil. &ldquo;This club is one of the finest combinations of size, speed and talent that the NHL has to offer and with just a little more direction can be in a position to challenge for all the marbles.&rdquo;</p><p>In an important player signing patience finally paid off for the Atlanta Flames when they acquired the contract of super-scorer Kent Nilsson from the Winnipeg Jets.</p><p>A fourth round draft pick of the Flames back in 1976, Nilsson opted to sign with the Jets and in two short seasons has quickly proven that he is one of the finest offensive threats that the sport has to offer.</p><p>In his first season, he scored 42 goals and added 65 assists while winning the league&rsquo;s rookie-of-the-year trophy and helping the Jets capture their second WHA championship. During the past campaign he once again tallied 107 points on 39 goals and 68 assists and again Winnipeg demonstrated their strength by winning the league title.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02879/3928184-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="515" height="683"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KENT NILSSON</b></figcaption></div><p>Known for his tremendous skating speed and booming shot, Nilsson should be a substantial addition to the Flames offense, particularly on the power play.</p><p>&ldquo;Kent Nilsson is one of the most gifted players in professional hockey,&rdquo; said Fletcher, &ldquo;and his powerful shot and great versatility will add an extra punch to our offensive attack. He now couples with Bob MacMillan and Guy Chouinard to give us three 100-point scorers for the up-coming season and there are very few clubs that can make that statement.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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MacNeil New Flame Coach; Nilsson Worth Lengthy Wait

<p>DETROIT&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>E</span>ach of the 17 National Hockey League teams figured to lose a minimum of four players, some five, depending on whether or not they lost a priority selection, in the NHL&rsquo;s fifth expansion draft. And as expected, goaltender Ron Low, last season&rsquo;s first All Star goaltender and MVP in the Central League, went high in the draft. He was a third-round selection, 12th-pick overall by the Quebec Nordiques. Low came to Detroit as a free agent from the Washington Capitals during the summer of 1977, sharing the goaltending duties for the 1977-78 season with Jim Rutherford. Last year he spent the entire season with the Wings&rsquo; number-one farm team in Kansas City.</p><p>Wings&rsquo; third loss was center iceman Roland Cloutier, who saw occasional duty with Detroit since being drafted in the 13th round of the 1977 amateur draft. Cloutier drafted by the Nordiques, went in the 10th round, 37th choice overall.</p><p>Clark Hamilton was the Red Wings&rsquo; final loss, going in the 12th round to the Winnipeg Jets, 48th selection overall.</p><p>The Red Wings chose to fill with defenseman Jean Hamel when Cameron was selected and then blueliner Ric Vasko was protected after Cloutier&rsquo;s selection.</p><p>So all in all the Wings came through the draft in find shape, losing players that toiled mainly in the minor leagues last year. They also acquired defenseman Barry Long from Winnipeg and winger George Lyle from New England, both of whom were reclaimed as prior selections of the NHL&rsquo;s amateur draft.</p><p>Long and Lyle will have good chances of fitting right into the Wings&rsquo; starting lineup which was evidenced by the fact that both were added to the team&rsquo;s 15-man protected list prior to the expansion draft.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Low Lost To Red Wings, But Long, Lyle Reclaimed

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-011039/3928239-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"></div><p>Write to:</p><p>FAN FORUM,<br>The Hockey News,<br>1434 St. Catherine St., W.,<br>Montreal, Canada H3G 1R7</p><h2><b>J.D. Deserved Conn Smythe Trophy</b></h2><p>The fact that the Rangers&rsquo; John Davidson did not win the Conn Smythe Trophy is nothing short of an out and out crime.</p><p>The lanky netminder was positively brilliant in each series involving the New Yorkers. It was J.D., more than anyone else, that drove the Islanders to oblivion in the semi-finals. And, against Montreal, he still performed quite capably despite a bum knee and a Ranger defense that was nearly nonexistent in that final round. Even though the Habs scored four or more goals in each of their victories, Davidson still finished with a 2.28 GAA for the entire playoffs.</p><p>What about Bob Gainey, Serge Savard, and the rest of the Canadiens? Granted, each played fine hockey, but any one of the Montreal stars could have broken a leg and Montreal still would have won the Cup. This team turns on in May and no one can stop them; they all played well.</p><p>Without John Davidson, the Rangers would have started their vacations in mid-April. Just because his team lost doesn&rsquo;t diminish any of his accomplishments. But, the writers failed to look beyond &ldquo;the bleu, blanc, et rouge&rdquo; and, once again, an injustice has occurred in the NHL!</p><p><b>RONALD L. BROWN</b><br><b>Saginaw, MI.</b></p><h2><b>Red Wings Shafted Once Again</b></h2><p>Once again the Detroit Red Wings have been shafted by the NHL. In the recent Dale McCourt case, the Wings have lost a player of superior caliber in return for Rogie Vachon whose performance over the past year has been less than adequate.</p><p>In my opinion, Vachon was the main reason Detroit failed to make the playoffs. If Los Angeles has an intention of making a fair deal, why not give Detroit Marcel Dionne and their first round draft choice this year.</p><p><b>ARTHUR GALBRAITH,</b><br><b>Gallants, Nfld.</b></p><h2><b>Suggestions For Board Of Governors</b></h2><p>I have a few suggestions the NHL Board of Governors will surely love.</p><p>First, the playoff situation. I propose that instead of only 16 teams qualifying, let&rsquo;s make it 21. Why not let everyone get into the act! At the end of the regular season the 21 lucky teams will participate in <i>a</i> random drawing to determine playoff ranking. Why let the regular season have any bearing on it? Imagine the Colorado Rockies with the home ice advantage throughout the playoffs!</p><p>The next suggestion is about the four WHA teams being added. The present arrangement leaves them a bit too powerful. I propose that they not be allowed to protect any players, but have to choose in a special draft of players under 15 and over 55 years old.</p><p>Regarding violence in hockey. As we all know this is what the fans really pay their money to see. Players like Guy Lafleur, Jacques Lemaire, Bryan Trottier and Marcel Dionne should be demoted to the Ice Capades where they belong. A new &ldquo;Dave &lsquo;Tiger&rsquo; Williams Trophy&rdquo; should be introduced to honor the NHL player who amassed the most penalty minutes during fights. This would replace the sissy &ldquo;Lady Byng Trophy&rdquo; which was given to hockey players who concentrated on shooting, passing, and giving clean checks. I mean, if you&rsquo;re going to hit someone anyway, why not up high with a stick? It&rsquo;s much more effective.</p><p>Well, I had better not continue along these lines. The NHL just might offer me a position as advisor to the Board of Governors.</p><p><b>DANIEL J. DUPREY,</b><br><b>Harrington Park, N.J.</b></p><h2><b>Tribute For Flyers&rsquo; Parent</b></h2><p>This letter is being written as a tribute to the man they call &ldquo;THE MASTER.&rdquo;</p><p>Thank-you Bernie for those thrilling years of Stanley Cup action. Nobody was more deserving of the Conn Smythe Trophy in your two Stanley Cup championship years than the recipient of the Vezina Trophy during that time, Bernie Parent.</p><p>His excellence was so great an achievement that his fans proclaimed, &ldquo;Only the Lord saves more than Bernie Parent.&rdquo;</p><p>We&rsquo;ll never forget your gleaming smile as you led the Flyers parade down Broad Street, waving the victory sign above your head. During Flyer home games only 17,007 were privileged to witness your expertise. However, on Broad Street in May, millions of Flyer fans joined together to recite that chant that will be forever present Within the hearts of Spectrum fans. &ldquo;BER-NIE, BER-N1E, BER-NIE!&rdquo;, we love you.</p><p><b>DANIEL J. DODD,</b><br><b>Philadelphia, PA.</b></p><h2><b>Montreal Gets Refereeing Breaks</b></h2><p>The Montreal Canadiens have won another Stanley Cup. I am wondering how many of the numero us victories have been won in the manner of the past two. The Canadiens outplayed the Rangers and deserved to win the final, but the fact remains that they did not deserve to be there. In the 1978 final they did not deserve to win either.</p><p>It amazes me that Montreal can always get the benefit of the officiating in crucial games. In the fifth game of the 1978 final the referee did everything in his power to insure a Montreal victory. The seventh game of the 1979 semi-final raises a few questions in my mind after looking back on the hockey season. How could the referee honestly call that a penalty against (Dick) Redmond at the seven minute mark of the third period? If (Jean) Ratelle gets a slashing penalty in the second period then why didn&rsquo;t (Larry) Robinson get one for elbowing? In the fourth game of the final against the Rangers why didn&rsquo;t (Guy) Lafleur get a slashing penalty? Why did Dave Maloney get a penalty for touching Lafleur in game five? Is no one allowed to touch him in Montreal? If Montreal had been the team with too many men on the ice, would they have been called for it? Why do most of the officiating problems occur when a Canadian team plays an American one? Is the Stanley Cup to remain in Canada at all costs?</p><p>The time has come for the NHL to clean up the officiating before all credibility is lost. Let the players play hockey and leave the funny stuff for professional wrestling.</p><p><b>DENIS STUMPH,</b><br><b>Regina, Sask.</b></p><h2><b>Apology Offered By Penguin Fan</b></h2><p>I am a Pittsburgh Penguin fan and was naturally unhappy to see them lose to the Boston Bruins in the quarterfinals of the Stanley Cup playoffs, but I feel that an apology should be extended to the players of the Boston team.</p><p>I realize that it is never easy for a fan to see their team lose; however, it was also unnecessary for unhappy fans to throw debris on the ice and yell nasty remarks to the players of the opposing team. After all, it was Boston&rsquo;s objective to win the quarter-final series; not to let Pittsburgh win.</p><p>I personally extend an apology to the Boston team for the treatment they received in Pittsburgh and was sorry to see them lose against Montreal.</p><p><b>PAMELA McMAHON,</b><br><b>Pittsburgh, PA.</b></p><h2><b>NHL Officiating Must Be Consistent</b></h2><p>I have been a hockey fan since 1967. I was a Ranger fan until the Islanders came to town. Both teams afforded New Yorkers many thrills but the Stanley Cup has eluded them both. Maybe next year.</p><p>In all these years 1 have noticed something about hockey officiating that exists in no other sport. To quote a letter in the Fan Forum concerning the Bruins-Montreal 7th game &ldquo;you never call anything short of murder in the last minutes of a game of such importance.&rdquo; It seems ludicrous to me that a referee would make calls that vary with the importance of the game or the timing, but this happens all the time. Could you imagine not calling an offside in football because it was in sudden death in the Super Bowl?</p><p>I think this is something Scotty Morrison should look into if we arc to bring more success to our game.</p><p><b>MICHAEL A. LOMBARDI,</b><br><b>Ramsey, N.J.</b></p><h2><b>LETTER OF THE WEEK</b></h2><h3><b>Playoffs Proved Fighting Not Needed</b></h3><p>Stanley Cup playoffs certainly proved that you do not have to have one fight after another to attract fans to watch top caliber hockey.</p><p>Let&rsquo;s hope with the merger of the two leagues that the owners and general managers place the emphasis on skating. defensive ability, puck handling and attitude so that the fan gels to see the very best hockey talent available.</p><p>As for the goons, let them take up another profession. I do not enjoy spending my sports dollar to support players who try to make up for their lack of hockey skills with their fists.</p><p><b>DR. JAMES A. LONG II,</b><br><b>Fort Wayne, IN.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">BY JIM MATHESON</div><p>EDMONTON&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span> day before the expansion draft in Montreal, bleery-eyed Edmonton Oiler coach Glen Sather confided that the whopping list of players available was a dog&rsquo;s breakfast.</p><p>&ldquo;At one time,&rdquo; said Sather, &ldquo;there were 761 names up for grabs. After pouring over the names, only 53 excited us a little.&rdquo;</p><p>Sather didn&rsquo;t see much hope of the former World Hockey Association club turning into Stanley Cup contenders overnight. &ldquo;Too many of the players have huge, outta sight contracts, problems with their present coach or GM, a drinking problem or are already retired, like Bobby Orr. And that doesn&rsquo;t include the guys who aren&rsquo;t very good, period.&rdquo;</p><p>But the Oiler coach was jumping up and down like a kid in a candy store after the 90-minute draft. Somehow, out of &ldquo;all those stiffs&rdquo; Oilers managed to get four young defensemen, all probable starters come the fall.</p><p>Sather was ecstatic about drafting big Buffalo discard Lee Fogolin in round two after an obligatory first-round choice of Montreal&rsquo;s Cam Connor. Fogolin, a five-year veteran and former No. 1 draft choice, was the prize blueliner in the draft, according to Sather.</p><p>&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t really understand why Buffalo would leave him unprotected&hellip;and I guess Scotty Bowman thought the same when he signed with Sabres,&rdquo; said Sather. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a good size (six-foot, 204-pounds), and he&rsquo;ll move people in front of the net,&rdquo; said Sather, who favors aggressive, ride-em-cowboy types on the blueline.</p><p>The minute Oilers picked the big guy, three clubs called enquiring about a possible deal. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a hot piece of property,&rdquo; said Sather, &ldquo;maybe the most marketable player in the entire draft.&rdquo; Will Sather listen to offers? &ldquo;We really can&rsquo;t afford not to,&rdquo; said Sather. &ldquo;When you&rsquo;re the weak sister on the block and somebody offers you a skirt you have to look at it closely.&rdquo;</p><p>Still, it&rsquo;ll take a substantial offer by the interested clubs (St. Louis and Buffalo are two) to sway the coach. &ldquo;I know we wouldn&rsquo;t want to make a deal with, say; St. Louis to take back young Finnish defenseman Risto Siltanen.&rdquo; said Sather. The five-foot-eight European rookie was plucked by Blues in the reclamation draft.</p><p>The other three kids on the blueline are Pat Price of New York Islanders, Colin Campbell of Pittsburgh and Doug Hicks of Chicago. Price, a troubled youngster with unlimited potential, is highest on Oiler list. If the 24-year-old can curb his fast lifestyle, off the ice. &ldquo;Price was only 18 when he signed with Vancouver (Blazers),&rdquo; said Sather. &ldquo;He might have been too young to handle the sudden money that came to him as an underage signee. I think he&rsquo;s matured, I think he can be a helluva player if he wants to work at it.&rdquo;</p><p>Price appears willing to give it a good shot. &ldquo;If Glen Sather gives me enough rope to hang myself, hopefully I won&rsquo;t this time. I wasn&rsquo;t mature enough in Vancouver and I couldn&rsquo;t handle the situation (he wrecked a $24,000 Ferrari in short order after signing).</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a funny thing what money does to a guy. &ldquo;Everything comes too easy. One day you&rsquo;re making $6.80 a week in your first year of junior, then you&rsquo;re an instant millionaire. It&rsquo;s like winning the lottery when you&rsquo;re 18.</p><p>&ldquo;Now, I&rsquo;ve picked myself up and told myself it&rsquo;s time to get serious. I&rsquo;ve started telling myself that this is a nice life, a better life than working in the electrical department at Nelson (B.C.).&rdquo;</p><p>Oilers other choices in the draft included defenseman Larry Brown (Los Angeles), center Ron Areshenkoff (Buffalo), forward Wayne Bianchin (Pittsburgh), rearguard Mike Forbes (Boston), winger Doug Patey (Washington), forward Bob Kelly (Chicago) and free agents Inge Hammarstrom (St. Louis), John Gould (Atlanta). Tom Edur (Colorado) and goalie Doug Favell (Colorado).</p><p>&ldquo;We saved ourselves from $350,000 to $5 (X), (XX) by drafting free agents,&rdquo; said GM Larry Gordon. &ldquo;And if they don&rsquo;t sign with us, we get compensation from the club they do sign with.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve now got some money to play with&hellip;some money to sign some juniors in the draft,&rdquo; said Sather.</p><p>When, and if, they do get a couple of top juniors they&rsquo;ll be added to the 44 players already belonging to Oilers. The list includes seven goalies, 12 defensemen and 25 forwards.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Oilers Surprised By Draft Choices After Early Gloom

<div class="byline">BY DONALD BERNS</div><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;</p><p>Emile Francis was determined his St. Louis Blues would not be hurt by the National Hockey League&rsquo;s expansion draft.</p><p>The answer was a flurry of deals that preserved the Blues&rsquo; level of talent&mdash;a level on which Francis and newly rehired coach Barcley Plager hope to build when the Blues get the second choice in the first round of the amateur draft.</p><p>The Blues lost two major-leaguers&rsquo; and two minor-leaguers in the expansion draft by the four new teams. The best of the four was Inge Hammarstrom, who became a free agent June 1. He was chosen by the Edmonton Oilers in the eighth round.</p><p>Hammarstrom played his best hockey last season during two stints as the left wing on a line with Garry Unger. But he also spent some time on Plager&rsquo;s bench and finished with 12 goals and 22 assists.</p><p>The Blues also lost left wings John Smrke and Gord McTavish and defenseman Jamie Masters.</p><p>Smrke, who went to Quebec in the seventh round, started last season with the Blues&rsquo; farm club at Salt Lake City but was called to the parent team Nov. 11 and spent the remainder of the season in a St. Louis uniform. He spent little time on a regular line and had six goals and eight assists in 55 games.</p><p>McTavish, who went to Winnipeg in the 10th round, and Masters, taken by Quebec in the 12th, spent virtually all of their time at Salt Lake City last season. McTavish was the Golden Eagles&rsquo; third-leading scorer with 36 goals and 22 assists.</p><p>After Smrke was the first to go, the Blues added right wing Bob Murdoch to their protected roster. Murdoch, a big scorer with the old Cleveland Barons, spent most of last season with the Blues looking for a line. He seemed to help whatever line he was assigned and did everything expected of him as Wayne Babych&rsquo;s replacement on the line with Bernie Federko and Brian Sutter while Babych was out of action with a broken ankle.</p><p>On subsequent picks the Blues filled their protected list with defenseman Neil Komodoski and left wing Bobby Simpson. St. Louis players with NHL experience who were not protected and not taken in the draft included defensemen Larry Giroux, Bob Hess, Bruce Affleck and Steve Durbano, forwards Brian Ogilvie, Doug Palazzari, Ken Richardson and Harvey Bennett and goalie Doug Grant.</p><p>Simpson was the player who started the Blues&rsquo; series of trades before and after the draft. He was acquired from the Atlanta Flames by the Blues for Curt Bennett, who has played every position except goalie in the NHL and is riding a New York-St. Louis-Atlanta circuit. He has gone from the Blues to the Rangers to the Flames back to the Blues and now back to the Flames.</p><p>The Blues then acquired defenseman Rick LaPointe and center Blake Dunlop from the Philadelphia Flyers for goalie Phil Myre. Although the Blues were not able to get defenseman Scott Campbell, their No. 1 draft choice in 1977, from the Winnipeg Jets, they did get three other St. Louis-owned WHA players: goalie Mike Liut, center Chris Bordeleau and defenseman Risto Siltanen. And the reclaiming of Liut signaled the end for Myre in a St. Louis uniform. Liut apparently will back Eddie Staniowski in St. Louis next season.</p><p>At the trading deadline the Blues acquired defenseman Bryan Maxwell from the Minnesota North Stars and sent defenseman Barry Gibbs and goaltender Terry Richardson to the New York Islanders. The trading of Gibbs, Myre and Bennett within a couple of weeks eliminated the three players acquired in the big December 1977 trade that gave the Flames right wing Bob MacMillan, goalie Yves Belanger and defenseman Dick Redmond.</p><p>The other halves of the deadline deals were disclosed after the expansion draft. To complete the Maxwell trade the Blues gave Minnesota their second-round draft choice in 1982. To complete the Gibbs-Richardson deal the Blues received center Ralph Klassen, who started draft day as a member of the Colorado Rockies, was taken by Hartford in the sixth round, then traded to the Islanders for Richardson.</p><p>The Blues also bought right wing Hartland Monahan from Quebec and acquired center Richie Hansen from Minnesota for a future favor. Minnesota acquired Hansen earlier in the day from the Islanders in a deal that brought defenseman Jean Potvin, a free agent, back to the Islanders.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01995/3928294-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="571" height="1111"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MIKE LIUT&hellip;Replaced Myre</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Blues Busy Dealing To Preserve Foundation

<div class="byline">BY RUSS WHITE</div><p>WASHINGTON&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span> week before the Captials open their training camp in Hershey, Pa., the club brings in its goaltenders for a special five-day school with former goaltending standout Roger Crozier.</p><p>This year Crozier will have a new student: Dave Parro.</p><p>The Caps added Parro to their roster with a deal made at the National Hockey League expansion draft. The Quebec Nordiques grabbed Parro from the Boston Bruins and then sent him to Washington in exchange for tough forward Nelson Burton.</p><p>Parro, the first goalie selected in the 1977 amateur draft, spent a couple of seasons at the Bruins&rsquo; Rochester farm in the American League. Caps&rsquo; general manager Max McNab is high on the young man, who&rsquo;ll challenge Garry Inness and Jim Bedard for a roster berth.</p><p>&ldquo;We want Parro to work with Roger Crozier,&rdquo; McNab said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s amazing what Roger can do with some of these kids in just a short while. Perhaps Dave Parro will pick up just what it takes to land him a job.&rdquo;</p><p>The Caps were disappointed with Bedard&rsquo;s sophomore season although the goalie did come on towards the end of the season after a couple of stints with Hershey in the AHL.</p><p>Inness, who signed with Washington after the Indianapolis Racers collapsed in the World Hockey Association, was brilliant for a coupie of months before tiring from a work overload.</p><p>It appears that Bernie Wolfe, once a favorite of Caps&rsquo; fans at Capital Center, will retire from the game and go into business in the Washington area. Wolfe was hoping to be picked up by Quebec in the expansion draft but was passed by He might still get a tryout in Quebec and McNab says the Caps would be willing to let him try.</p><p>Quebec did select forward Blair Stewart off Washington&rsquo;s unprotected list. Winnipeg, coached by exCapital boss Tom McVie, took defensemen Gord Smith and wing Bill Riley, Edmonton chose wing Doug Patey. Smith was one of the Caps&rsquo; original expansion picks five years ago.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02844/3928325-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="522" height="773"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DAVE PARRO&hellip;-Impressed McNab</b></figcaption></div><p>In a deal made before the trading deadline prior to expansion drafting, the Caps sent forward Mike Marson to the Los Angeles Kings for left wing Steve Clippingdale. McNab likes Clippingdale&rsquo;s minor league scoring record (27 goals for Dallas in Central League last year) and made him one of the team&rsquo;s 15 protected players.</p><p>The Caps have five players whose contracts have run out and they are into their option year&mdash;Rick Green, Pierre Bouchard, Gord Lane, Bob Sirois and Jack Lynch.</p><p>Green, the team&rsquo;s first draft choice and first player in the entire amateur draft four years ago, is asking for considerably more than the club is willing to pay.</p><p>McNab is raving over his move to bring in Gary Green to coach the Caps&rsquo; Hershey farm team. Green, only 27, led the Peterborough Petes to the Memorial Cup championship this past year and is one of the brightest young coaches in the game.</p><p>&ldquo;With a team selecting only once in every 21 picks in the amateur ranks now, it is important to have the best instructors at your minor league base,&rdquo; McNab said. &ldquo;We feel very good about having Green at Hershey for the Caps.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Caps Grab Parro As New Student In Goaler Class

<div class="byline">-BY BILL LIBBY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-011013/3928356-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="416" height="476"></div><h2><b><i>Long Live The King&hellip;</i></b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span>S OWNER</b> of the Los Angeles Lakers, Kings, the suburban Forum, the Washington Redskins and, at one time, the Los Angeles soccer Wolves, Jack Kent Cooke has been by far the most powerful figure in the history of sports. No one else even came close to the strength wielded by this dynamic man.</p><p>Now having sold the Lakers, Kings, and Forum to Jerry Buss, who becomes the second most influential figure ever, Cook&rsquo;s passing from the southern California sporting scene after 13 seasons and from hockey after 11 must be marked. He has been the most colorful and controversial character this writer has known in sports.</p><p>Cooke was born in Hamilton, but reared in Toronto. One of his brothers once told me, &ldquo;Jack was a pretty good hockey player, only he wouldn&rsquo;t pass the bloody puck,&rdquo; which was a pretty good tip of the type of man he would become. He was a selfmade man and as the eminent sportswriter and philosopher, Bud Tucker, once said, &ldquo;Like all selfmade men, he loved his maker.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack had a big ego, but he had earned it. The son of the manager of an encyclopedia firm, Jack sold encyclopedias door to door. He sold soap door to door in sparsely-populated areas of western Canada, often sleeping in his car and sharing crackers with his wife for want of better room and food. A good musician, he had met Jeannie while leading bands on lake cruises and at resorts. He had married her while working as a runner in the Toronto Stock Exchange for $11 a week. Refused a raise to $25, he went out in the world to seek his fortune.</p><p>He was self-educated for the most part, but brilliant and ambitious. He used to say he&rsquo;d make a million by the time he was 30 and he didn&rsquo;t miss by much. He found his fortune with Roy Thomson, who owned a few radio stations and newspapers in the mid 1930s. Offered a job with Thomson for less money than he was making, Cook took it over the objections of family and friends. He saw potential there they didn&rsquo;t.</p><p><b>BACKED BY THOMSON,</b> Cooke made millions for him buying and selling revitalized newspapers, magazines, and stations. Cooke hustled hard, promoted prodigiously, and skirted controversies as he became a prominent personality in Canadian communication and a dandy socially. Thomson made him a partner in the empire they created.</p><p>When Cooke stopped consulting with Thomson on deals, they had a falling out and Cooke went on his own way. It was, in a way, the best thing that ever happened to him because he built his own empire and made his own millions, but he once admitted to me, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the one regret of my life, leaving that man, because he was by far the best friend I ever had and I miss the good fun we shared.&rdquo;</p><p>He was not a man who had a lot of close friends. He was driven by business ambitions. His wife used to say, &ldquo;We went to bed with a briefcase between us.&rdquo; Frustrated by his failure to obtain top Toronto newspapers and the first private television station in town, he left Canada for California where he felt free enterprise was not so stifled by governmental interference. Here he put together a second fortune in cable television.</p><p>But sports always was a passion of his. As owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs minor league baseball team, he had won awards for the clubs and attendance he developed. Unable to buy the Leaf hockey club, he wanted a National Hockey League franchise in Los Angeles.</p><p>He had purchased a piece of the Redskins football team with an option to obtain majority control, which he did, when the owner, George Preston Marshall died. He admitted to me he bought the Laker basketball team strictly to gain influence in southern California sports. He had not even seen a pro basketball game in his life.</p><p>This was in September of 1965. Short had turned down $3 million for the team. Cooke had the club appraised at $4 million. Having learned he could be outbid, Cooke offered $4.5 million. Short asked, for $5 million. Cooke went for it. He confided, &ldquo;I am not a man to haggle over a buck. 1 have learned to measure the worth of something by how much I want it, not what others would pay for it.&rdquo; When Short asked also to be reimbursed for $350,000 in season sales, Cooke went for half.</p><p>He then went after the franchise to be awarded L.A. in the NHL expansion of 1967. Clarence Campbell had promised it to Dan Reeves, but the league president didn&rsquo;t have the power. Ram owner Reeves ran the minor league Blades, but let them run off the track. He offered Cooke 49 percent of the Rams and Blades, but Cooke wanted control of any team he took on.</p><p><b>I WENT TO INTERVIEW</b> Cooke and wound up preparing for him a catalogue of his credentials he could send to the hockey establishment. It was lower key than he would have liked, but some said it sold them on him. When he was awarded the $2 million franchise in a major upset, he asked me what I wanted from him, what job or whatever. from the time I told him I wanted nothing, we were friends. But I could see even then he was an easier man to work with than for.</p><p>We remained friends, though we had falling-outs at times. He never really understood that a writer can&rsquo;t be a rooter. He ordered me out of the building one time for such a small thing as predicting the Kings would not make the playoffs one season. But a few days later he called up to apologize. He was not afraid to apologize for fits of anger. I came to see he was a bigger man than others thought he was. The Kings did not make the playoffs that season, though the over-optimistic Cooke expected them to take the Stanley Cup every year.</p><p>He even flattered me by asking my advice at times, but his confidence in my opinion wavered after Hal Laycoe, whom 1 had recommended as his first hockey coach, took over the team later and failed with it. Cooke was impatient with those who let him down. He lost respect for those who left him. He couldn&rsquo;t understand that those who weren&rsquo;t sharing in the returns weren&rsquo;t willing to work as hard as he was for his enterprises. No one ever worked harder than he did. His motto was, &ldquo;If you want something more than the next man, and are willing to work harder for it, you will get it.&rdquo;</p><p>As a condition of obtaining the Kings, he promised to erect a new arena. Only he ordered it never called an arena. Unhappy with the Sports Arena for supporting Reeves, Cooke built The Fabulous Forum for $16.5 million when few thought he would and this sports palace, open since December of 1967, will remain a marvellous monument to him.</p><p>His Lakers won the NBA title, but the players spoiled it by bickering over shares at his victory party. &ldquo;Nothing ever is as good as you think it&rsquo;s going to be,&rdquo; he sighed. His Kings never won the NHL title, which he wanted most of all.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY PAT DOYLE</div><p>WINNIPEG&mdash;</p><p>Tom McVie has played the expansion game before-, and he figures he learned a valuable lesson in his time with the Washington Capitals.</p><p>&ldquo;When I was in Washington,&rdquo; says McVie, who coached the Caps for three seasons, &ldquo;I found out that there are two things that will drive people away from the rink: (1) a team that gets intimidated, and (2) a team that doesn&rsquo;t try.&rdquo;</p><p>With that in mind, the Jets, under the direction of general manager John Ferguson, went about the business of stocking their roster at the National Hockey League expansion draft in June.</p><p>The players who will wear the Winnipeg pullover in 1979-80 will be young, big and aggressive, which is what Ferguson&rsquo;s pre-draft blueprints called for.</p><p>&ldquo;We took the position the night before the draft,&rdquo; Ferguson explains, &ldquo;that we would go for size, youth and experience.&rdquo;</p><p>Among the 17 players selected by the Jets were Dave Hoyda, a six-foot-one, 205 pound winger from Philadelphia Flyers; Gord McTavish, a six-foot-four, 200 pound center out of St. Louis Blues&rsquo; system; Clark Hamilton, a six-foot-four, 220 pound winger from Detroit Red Wings; and Jimmy Roberts, a six-foot-one, 198 pound winger from Minnesota North Stars.</p><p>Furthermore, already signed and sealed for delivery to Jets prior to the draft was Barry Melrose, whose tale of the tape reads six-foot-two, 200 pounds.</p><p>&ldquo;We came out of the draft with a National Hockey League defense,&rdquo; boasts Ferguson. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no question about that. Al Cameron (drafted from Detroit) is going to fit right in with the guys we&rsquo;ve already got back there.&rdquo;</p><p>Along with Melrose and Cameron, the Winnipeg defense includes holdovers Scott Campbell and captain Lars-Erik Sjoberg, as well as Craig Norwich, who comes to the Jets from the Cincinnati Stingers.</p><p>Ferguson also selected two goaltenders to back up that defense&mdash;Lindsay Middlebrook was taken out of the New York Rangers&rsquo; chain, and Pierre Hamel from Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>That&rsquo;s not to say it&rsquo;ll be Middlebrook and Hamel as Winnipeg&rsquo;s goaltending tandem next season, because veterat) Gary Smith and Finnish youngster Markus Mattsson are still around. And, you can add Joe Daley&rsquo;s name to the training camp roster if he elects to give it another whirl.</p><p>As expected, Ferguson made rightwinger Peter Marsh his first choice in the expansion draft, a selection which gives Winnipeg two big high-scoring wingers for its first whirl in the NHL.</p><p>Already in tow, of course, is left winger Morris Lukowich, a 65-goal man with Jets last season. Marsh did his scoring on behalf of Cincinnati and put 43 pucks in WHA nets.</p><p>Assuming Lukowich and Marsh are used to man the wing positions on the same line, there&rsquo;s no guarantee they&rsquo;ll give headaches to opposition goalers because they still need a center to feed them the puck. And, that&rsquo;s the one area where Jets are woefully weak.</p><p>Both Ferguson and coach McVie acknowledge they need help at center and they aren&rsquo;t convinced they can get it in the amateur draft, which is really their only outlet now.</p><p>Still, Ferguson looks at it optimistically, saying, &ldquo;McTavish might be the answer at center. I think he&rsquo;ll be the sleeper among the players we picked.&rdquo;</p><p>Following the expansion draft, Winnipeg acquired Ron Wilson, a Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; farmhand who has put in time at center ice.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Aggressiveness Key As Winnipeg Drafts Expansion Players

<p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p>Former Boston Bruins defense great Bobby Orr, was among three former players named to the Hockey Hall of Fame this season.</p><p>Other selections were former star rearguard Harry Howell of New York Rangers, California Seals and Los. Angeles Kings and center Henri Richard of Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Orr, only 31, was chosen by the selection committee ahead of schedule. Normally, the player must be retired three years before coming under considerations or nomination, but Orr, who attempted a comeback with Chicago Black Hawks last season before succumbing to numerous knee injuries, was an exception.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Orr, Pocket In Hockey Fame Hall

<div class="byline">BY TOM MURRAY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01974/3928435-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="560" height="944"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MIKE NYKOLUK&hellip;Turned Down Leafs</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK&mdash;</p><p>Just as we went to press with this issue, the hottest hockey story in New York concerned Rangers&rsquo; assistant coach Mike Nykoluk, who was considering what he called a &ldquo;mind-boggling&rdquo; offer from Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; owner Harold Ballard to become head coach of the Leafs for five years.</p><p>Because of an early deadline, THE HOCKEY NEWS was unable to officially confirm what Nykoluk&rsquo;s intentions are, but Mickey Keating, the team&rsquo;s assistant general manager, said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re 90 percent sure that he&rsquo;s going to stay. Right now I&rsquo;d say that it&rsquo;s out of the question that he&rsquo;ll by anwhere but in New York next year.</p><p>&ldquo;There are just one or two points we&rsquo;re trying to get straightened away,&rdquo; Keating said. &ldquo;We think they&rsquo;re not major points and that Mike will be here once our discussions end.&rdquo;</p><p>Keating then conceded that the &ldquo;one or two points&rdquo; concerned Nykoluk&rsquo;s desire to have written into his contract a clause which would assure him of the Rangers&rsquo; head coaching job for the 1980-81 season.</p><p>It would also be safe to say that Nykoluk might request a raise from the Rangers. At the present time, word has it that he makes somewhere in the vicinity of $65,000 a year&mdash;somewhat less than Ballard&rsquo;s &ldquo;mind-boggling&rdquo; offer, which is reportedly a $100,000-per-year deal.</p><p>Nykoluk, understandably, was very excited by Ballard&rsquo;s offer. The 44-year-old Toronto native has never been a head coach at any level and he realizes that an offer to coach in the NHL does not come along every day of the week. Nor does he seem to be disturbed by Ballard&rsquo;s reputation as a crusty, tempermental dictator who constantly meddles with his team and its coach.</p><p>&ldquo;I think that reputation is a little overrated,&rdquo; Nykoluk said. &ldquo;From all of my reports, he never interfered with a coach at all. He might say things to the press which get publicized, but he&rsquo;s never gone to the coach himself. That 1 know. I found out.&rdquo;</p><p>While Nykoluk was making his decision and meeting with Keating and Ranger coach Fred Shero, Ballard and Sonny Werblin, the president of Madison Square Garden, traded barbs with each other.</p><p>&ldquo;I told Nykoluk that he&rsquo;s got to be crazy to stay in New York,&rdquo; Ballard said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a nothing here. But 1 know what&rsquo;s going to happen. The Rangers will make it so interesting for him that he can&rsquo;t turn it down. The Rangers are a deterrent to the NHL. That Gulf and Western conglomerate is. like a big supermarket that comes in and takes over the corner grocery store.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Ballard,&rdquo; Werblin told the New York Times&rsquo; Gerry Eskenazi when those comments were related to him, &ldquo;didn&rsquo;t even have the courtesy to call me to talk to Nykoluk. His statement is unsolicited, unwarranted, indecent, unworthy of a gentleman.&rdquo;</p><p>Maybe so, but as we went to press, Mike Nykoluk had not yet decided where he wants to spent the 1979-80 season.</p><p>Meanwhile, for those of you who haven&rsquo;t picked up a newspaper since mid-June, the Rangers lost four players to the incoming teams from the World Hockey Association in the expansion draft. Defenseman Dave Farrish was the first one to go; he was plucked by Quebec in the first round and the Rangers promptly filled with Jocelyn Guevremont.</p><p>In round two, Hartford grabbed Nick Fotiu, a big favorite in that city several years ago, and the Rangers protected Eddie Johnstone who, unbelievably, had not been touched by anyone up until them.</p><p>Later in that same round, Winnipeg drafted minor league goaltender Lindsay Middlebrook, who spent last season with the New Haven farm team.</p><p>And in round four, the Rangers&rsquo; contributions to the four new teams came to an end when the Quebec Nordiques chose native son Pierre Plante. The Rangers filled with Jim Mayer (who?) and then sat back and fell asleep with everyone else in the room.</p><p><b>BLUE CHIPS:</b> One of New York&rsquo;s most eligible bachelors is no longer eligible. Ranger left wing Steve Vickers married the former Joanne Harper in Rockville Center, R.I. on June 23. Ranger defensemen should be stronger this season. All are participating in a six week weight-training program over the summer.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Nykoluk To Stay Despite Ballard’s Overture

<p>QUEBEC&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>Q</span>uebec Nordiques are into their busiest summer ever as one of the four expansion teams in the National Hockey League, following what has been deemed a successful draft in the expansion club&rsquo;s Montreal hoedown.</p><p>The Nordiques, who are enlarging Le Colisee this summer to what eventually will be a 15,000 seat arena, also entered into a deal to supply Syracuse of the American Hockey League with players for the coming season. Syracuse is the new home of the Philadelphia Firebirds who shifted their operations at the end of the season.</p><p>But the biggest news, of course, came out of the expansion draft where the Nordiques selected 16 players in all and were able to hang onto several key players through some pre determined deals.</p><p>In separate arrangements with the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks and the Los Angeles Kings, the Nordiques were able to keep Marc Tardif, Real Cloutier and Serge Bernier, the big three of their attack. And at the same time, since the three clubs did not reclaim those players, the Nordiques were able to list defensemen Paul Baxter and Garry Lariviere, as priority selection players, thereby eliminating the certainty of losing them to Pittsburgh and the New York Islanders, respectively, who held their NHL rights.</p><p>Nordiques went for defensemen, too, in the early stages of the draft, securing Dave Farrish from the Rangers as their first pick (fourth overall) and following with the selection of veteran Gerry Hart of the Islanders on the next pick.</p><p>In the third round, Quebec chose goaltender Ron Low of Detroit and later drafted Dave Parro, a goaltender who played for Boston&rsquo;s Rochester farm club. Parro was subsequently dealt to the Washington Capitals for winger Nelson Burton.</p><p>Pierre Plante, born in Valleyfield, Quebec, was the first forward chosen by the Nordiques as he was claimed from the Rangers in the fourth round as the 13th player taken overall. The speedy Plante saw spot duty for Fred Shero&rsquo;s Rangers as a penalty-killer and fourthline right winger, but the Nordiques were hoping that Plante would flash the form which saw him score 60 goals over the course of two seasons with the St. Louis Blues.</p><p>Other forwards drafted by the Nordiques included Blair Stewart of Washington, John Smrke of St. Louis, Terry Martin of Buffalo, Ron Andruff of Colorado, Ken Kuzyk of Minnesota, Roland Cloutier of Detroit, Hartland Monahan of Los Angeles, who was later sold to St. Louis, and Alain Cote, who saw limited service with the Nordiques and was not reclaimed by Montreal as part of the agreement. The only forward that the Nordiques did lose in that arrangement was Danny Geoffrion.</p><p>Three players with limited NHL experience on defense were also taken by the Nordiques: Jamie Masters of St. Louis, John Baby of Minnesota and Lars Zetterstrom of Vancouver.</p><p>Heading into the draft, the Nordiques also fattened their roster in the World Hockey Association dispersal draft by taking centers Robbie FtOrek, and Bill Gilligan of Cincinnati and J.C. Stewart and Peter Marrin of Birmingham, defenseman Dave Dornseif of Cincinnati as well as Cincinnati goaler Michel Dion, and Cincy left winger Paul Stewart.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02809/3928466-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="568" height="1258"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PIERRE PLANTE&hellip;Native Son</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Nordiques Keep Active In Building Franchise

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01994/3928532-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03628/3928525-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="981" height="1308"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04439/3928518-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="978" height="1041"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05308/3928511-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="2038" height="993"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06255/3928504-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="2044" height="991"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02830/3928497-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="1001" height="1095"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Photos by Ian MacAlpine)</span></figcaption></div><h2><i>Hockey Silver Glitters With Stars</i></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he NHL summer awards&rsquo; meetings were an occasion for some of the great names of the past to rub shoulders with the stars of today during presentation of league&rsquo;s individual awards. Top row, left, Canadiens&rsquo; Bob Gainey accepts Frank Selke Trophy from the former Montreal executive for the second straight year as the league&rsquo;s best defensive player. In center, Bryan Trottier, left, of the Islanders receives Hart Trophy as the NHL&rsquo;s MVP from Jean Beliveau. At right, Islanders&rsquo; Denis Potvin, left, is presented with Norris Trophy by his coach Al Arbour as NHL&rsquo;s top defenseman. Second row, left, Bob Smith of Minnesota, accepts Calder Trophy as rookie of the year from Frank Mahovlich, right. Bottom row, left, Bob MacMillan of Altanta gets the Lady Byng Trophy from NHL referee-in-chief Scotty Morrison, right, as NHL&rsquo;s most gentlemanly player. Below, the great Gordie Howe, on right, presents Art Ross Trophy to Trottier as NHL scoring champ. Below, Montreal goalers Ken Dryden, left, and Michel Larocque, center, are presented with Vezina Trophy as best NHL goaling team by Bernie Parent, the recently retired Philadelphia netminding great.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY PEOPLE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01958/3928577-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NHL trophy winners from the left are Bryan Trottier, Ross and Hart, Bob Smith, Calder, Denis Potvin, Norris, Bob MacMillan, Lady Byng, Michel Larocque and Ken Dryden, Vezina, and Bob Gainey, the Selke and Smythe tropies.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Ian MacAlpine)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>NHL&rsquo;s Best Performers&hellip;</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02783/3928570-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1170" height="1422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Canadiens did it again winning for a fourth straight time and their 22nd Stanley Cup overall. Much of the credit belonged to the team&rsquo;s &lsquo;quarterback&rsquo;, defenseman Larry Robinson, a big man in a big season.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Robert Shaver)</span></figcaption></div><p><b>Montreal Again Took Short Route To Cup&mdash;page17</b></p><p><b>Jets Made History As Last WHA Champs&mdash;Page25</b></p><h2>AHL</h2><p><b>MAINE MARINERS</b></p><p>Calder Cup Champs</p><h2>CHL</h2><p><b>DALLAS BLACK HAWKS</b></p><p>Adams Cup Champs</p><h2>IHL</h2><p><b>KALAMAZOO K-WINGS</b></p><p>Turner Cup Champs</p><h2>NEHL</h2><p><b>ERIE BLADES</b></p><p>Playoff Champs</p><h2>COLLEGES</h2><p><b>MINNESOTA GOPHERS</b></p><p>NCAA Champions</p><p><b>ALBERTA UNIV. GOLDEN BEARS</b></p><p>CIAU Champions</p><h2>JUNIORS</h2><p><b>PETERBOROUGH PETES</b></p><p>Memorial Cup Champs</p><p><b>BRANDON WHAT KINGS</b></p><p>Western Champions</p><p><b>TROIS-RIVIERES DRAVEURS</b></p><p>Quebec Champions</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03616/3928563-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="558" height="727"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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The Hockey News 1978-79 STATISTICS

<h2><b>Final Standings For 1978-79 Season</b></h2><p><b>PRINCE OF WALES CONFERENCE</b></p><h3>NORRIS DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2068/3928877-1-eng-US/f0016-202.jpg" title="f0016-20" width="600" height="180"></div><h3>ADAMS DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2163/3928870-1-eng-US/f0016-212.jpg" title="f0016-21" width="584" height="144"></div><h2>HOME RECORD</h2><h3>NORRIS DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2261/3928863-1-eng-US/f0016-222.jpg" title="f0016-22" width="592" height="169"></div><h3>ADAMS DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2359/3928856-1-eng-US/f0016-232.jpg" title="f0016-23" width="600" height="145"></div><h3>PATRICK DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2457/3928849-1-eng-US/f0016-242.jpg" title="f0016-24" width="608" height="142"></div><h3>SMYTHE DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2552/3928842-1-eng-US/f0016-252.jpg" title="f0016-25" width="596" height="146"></div><p><b>CLARENCE CAMPBELL CONFERENCE</b></p><h3>PATRICK DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2649/3928835-1-eng-US/f0016-262.jpg" title="f0016-26" width="599" height="148"></div><h3>SMYTHE DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2741/3928828-1-eng-US/f0016-272.jpg" title="f0016-27" width="605" height="143"></div><h2>AWAY RECORD</h2><h3>NORRIS DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2839/3928821-1-eng-US/f0016-282.jpg" title="f0016-28" width="593" height="172"></div><h3>ADAMS DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2932/3928814-1-eng-US/f0016-292.jpg" title="f0016-29" width="589" height="147"></div><h3>PATRICK DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3032/3928807-1-eng-US/f0016-302.jpg" title="f0016-30" width="598" height="142"></div><h3>SMYTHE DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-3132/3928800-1-eng-US/f0016-312.jpg" title="f0016-31" width="602" height="145"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOW RACES FINISHED

<h2>TOP 25 SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01800/3928769-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="600" height="715"></div><h2>TOP 10 ROOKIES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02686/3928762-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="610" height="313"></div><h2>TOP 10 BAD MEN</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03549/3928755-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="614" height="306"></div><h2>FINAL SCORING BY TEAMS</h2><h3>ATLANTA</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04432/3928748-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="614" height="935"></div><h3>BOSTON</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05326/3928741-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="609" height="716"></div><h3>BUFFALO</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06264/3928734-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="611" height="772"></div><h3>CHICAGO</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07238/3928727-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="607" height="1110"></div><h3>COLORADO</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-08218/3928720-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="614" height="1202"></div><h3>DETROIT</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-09195/3928713-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="599" height="122"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-11159/3928706-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="616" height="904"></div><h3>LOS ANGELES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-12142/3928699-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="612" height="796"></div><h3>MINNESOTA</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-13128/3928692-1-eng-US/f0016-132.jpg" title="f0016-13" width="605" height="844"></div><h3>MONTREAL</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-14121/3928685-1-eng-US/f0016-142.jpg" title="f0016-14" width="602" height="211"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-16107/3928678-1-eng-US/f0016-162.jpg" title="f0016-16" width="604" height="536"></div><h3>ISLANDERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1799/3928671-1-eng-US/f0016-172.jpg" title="f0016-17" width="598" height="715"></div><h3>RANGERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1892/3928664-1-eng-US/f0016-182.jpg" title="f0016-18" width="611" height="823"></div><h3>PHILADELPHIA</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1985/3928657-1-eng-US/f0016-192.jpg" title="f0016-19" width="607" height="890"></div><h3>PITTSBURGH</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01709/3928650-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="629" height="853"></div><h3>ST. LOUIS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02570/3928643-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="630" height="953"></div><h3>TORONTO</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03428/3928636-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="616" height="719"></div><h3>VANCOUVER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04310/3928629-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="610" height="880"></div><h3>WASHINGTON</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05232/3928622-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="617" height="1297"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-10173/3928615-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="578" height="604"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB SMITH&hellip;Hottest Rookie</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-15111/3928608-1-eng-US/f0016-152.jpg" title="f0016-15" width="581" height="605"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MIKE BOSSY&hellip;69-Goal Year</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><span>J</span>ust as they have done in past years, the Montreal Canadiens again won the Stanley Cup for the fourth straight year in the shortest time possible.</p><p>This past season, it took the Canadiens 16 games to win their 22nd all-time cup as they won 12 times and lost four in beating Rangers and Boston in the semi-final and final playoff rounds.</p><p>Last season, the Habs romped to the cup in 15 games, winning 12 and losing only three. However, this year&rsquo;s team was behind the pace set in 1976 when Canadiens won the cup in 13 games, losing only once, and in 1977 when they won in 14 games, losing only twice. The Habs&rsquo; four-year cup record is 48 wins and 10 losses.</p><h2><b>PLAYOFF STANDINGS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02594/3929090-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="602" height="358"></div><p><b>PRELIMINARY ROUND</b></p><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03478/3929083-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="587" height="121"></div><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;B&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04367/3929076-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="596" height="121"></div><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;C&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05289/3929069-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="597" height="121"></div><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;D&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-06241/3929062-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="598" height="120"></div><p><b>QUARTER-FINAL ROUND</b></p><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;E&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-07210/3929055-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="590" height="115"></div><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;F&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-08177/3929048-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="602" height="118"></div><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;G&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-09159/3929041-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="600" height="119"></div><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;H&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-10147/3929034-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="596" height="126"></div><p><b>SEMI-FINAL ROUND</b></p><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;I&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-11129/3929027-1-eng-US/f0017-112.jpg" title="f0017-11" width="602" height="120"></div><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;J&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-12118/3929020-1-eng-US/f0017-122.jpg" title="f0017-12" width="594" height="143"></div><p><b>FINALS</b></p><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;K&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1398/3929013-1-eng-US/f0017-132.jpg" title="f0017-13" width="596" height="115"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Sun. May 13</b></p><p><b>Rangers 4 at Montreal 1</b></p><p><b>Tue May 15</b></p><p><b>Rangers 2 at Montreal 6</b></p><p><b>Thu. May 17</b></p><p><b>Montreal 4 at Rangers 1</b></p><p><b>Sat. May 19</b></p><p><b>Montreal 4 at Rangers 3</b></p><p><b>Mon. May 21</b></p><p><b>Rangers 1 at Montreal 4</b></p><h3>TOP PLAYOFF SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1486/3929006-1-eng-US/f0017-142.jpg" title="f0017-14" width="602" height="483"></div><p><b>FINAL SCORING BY TEAMS</b></p><h2>MONTREAL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1570/3928999-1-eng-US/f0017-152.jpg" title="f0017-15" width="599" height="629"></div><h2>RANGERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1667/3928992-1-eng-US/f0017-162.jpg" title="f0017-16" width="592" height="603"></div><h2>BOSTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1758/3928985-1-eng-US/f0017-172.jpg" title="f0017-17" width="593" height="538"></div><h2>ISLANDERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1850/3928978-1-eng-US/f0017-182.jpg" title="f0017-18" width="599" height="585"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1941/3928971-1-eng-US/f0017-192.jpg" title="f0017-19" width="602" height="631"></div><h2>TORONTO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-2029/3928964-1-eng-US/f0017-202.jpg" title="f0017-20" width="606" height="560"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-2118/3928957-1-eng-US/f0017-212.jpg" title="f0017-21" width="593" height="577"></div><h2>CHICAGO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-2216/3928950-1-eng-US/f0017-222.jpg" title="f0017-22" width="600" height="549"></div><h2>BUFFALO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-2315/3928943-1-eng-US/f0017-232.jpg" title="f0017-23" width="591" height="533"></div><h2>VANCOUVER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-2411/3928936-1-eng-US/f0017-242.jpg" title="f0017-24" width="590" height="577"></div><h2>ATLANTA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-2511/3928929-1-eng-US/f0017-252.jpg" title="f0017-25" width="601" height="580"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01270/3928922-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="596" height="554"></div><h3>PLAYOFF GOALING RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-02214/3928915-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="600" height="842"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01691/3928908-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="2426" height="1130"></div><h2>MONTREAL CANADIENS&mdash;Stanley Cup Champions</h2><p>The Montreal Canadiens won their fourth Stanley Cup in succession this past season and they were just as imposing winning this year as they were when they started their four-year run in 1976. The Habs took 16 games to win it all and while they had trouble dislodging the Bruins in the semi-finals, they skated past the Rangers in the cup final with comparative ease. Here are the Canadiens, first row, from the left, MICHEL LAROCQUE, CLAUDE RUEL, director of player development, SCOTTY BOWMAN, coach, YVAN COURNOYER, JACQUES COURTOIS, president, IRVING GRUNDMAN, executive vice-president and managing director, JEAN BELIVEAU, vice-president, and KEN DRYDEN. Second row, EDDY PALCHAK, trainer, DOUG JARVIS, PIERRE MONDOU, MARK NAPIER, PIERRE LAROUCHE, REJEAN HOULE, JACQUES LEMAIRE and PIERRE MEILLEUR asst, trainer. Third row, YVON LAMBERT, PAT HUGHES, MARIO TREMBLAY, BOB GAINEY, CAM CONNOR, GUY LAFLEUR, STEVE SHUTT and DOUG RISEBROUGH. Fourth row, GILLES LUPIEN, LARRY ROBINSON, ROD LANGWAY, SERGE SAVARD, BRIAN ENGBLOM, GUY LAPOINTE and RICK CHARTRAW.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-02

Montreal Again Took Short Route To Cup

<div class="byline">BY ROB VERDI</div><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;</p><p>For a while, it appeared that the Black Hawks would get Bobby Hull, but might lose Eddie Johnston.</p><p>Now, they apparently have Johnston, but they don&rsquo;t have Hull. It could only happen in Chicago.</p><p>Simple stuff first: Johnston, the 43-year-old former goalie, has agreed to coach here despite a needless merry-go-round which started four months ago when he was promised the job, only to wonder where the contract was.</p><p>&ldquo;Finally, though, I decided that whether they offer me one year, or ten years, I&rsquo;m going to the Black Hawks,&rdquo; said Johnston, who comported himself well during his first season with the New Brunswick Hawks of the American Hockey League last year. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s done.&rdquo;</p><p>The Black Hawks thought the Bobby Hull affair was done, too. Except that after agreeing with him on a one-year, last hurrah contract, the Hawks left him unprotected during the NHL expansion draft June 13. Winnipeg Jets&rsquo; general manager John Ferguson took Hull back.</p><p>So, that at least temporarily blocked the 40-year-old retired superstar&rsquo;s return to Chicago and, after weeks of maneuvers and counter maneuvers, the situation is back to Square One: The Golden Jet grounded in Winnipeg where he isn&rsquo;t wanted and doesn&rsquo;t want to play; the Black Hawks promising their hungry fans here that they want Hull, and will get Hull, but not just yet.</p><p>Ferguson&rsquo;s bone of contention was the pothole: he wants something in return for Hull from the Hawks, who already have snagged two of Winnipeg&rsquo;s best players&mdash;Terry Ruskowski and Rich Preston.</p><p>Ferguson claims his next phone call will be to the New York Rangers, who own Hull&rsquo;s erstwhile Winnipeg linemates Ulf Nilsson and Anders Hedberg, plus The Golden Jet&rsquo;s onetime Hawk center, Phil Esposito. But Ranger GM Fred Shero doesn&rsquo;t want Hull, period.</p><p>Ferguson remained undaunted: &ldquo;I know (Ranger owner) Sonny Werblin, and 1 know what he thinks about stars like Hull. He&rsquo;ll take him.&rdquo;</p><p>Hull, on his farm in Winnipeg, was neither bewitched, bothered nor bewildered.</p><p>&ldquo;I think Chicago and Winnipeg will come to some agreement&hellip;! really don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s at the critical stage yet,&rdquo; said Hull. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re just back to where they started. Would 1 play for the Rangers? It would be logical because of Ulf and Anders and Phil.</p><p>&ldquo;But Chicago is where I intended to play all along. It&rsquo;s crazy, really. I don&rsquo;t know what to think of these grown men (laugh). I can&rsquo;t really blame the Black Hawks for not protecting me. And I can&rsquo;t blame the Jets for trying to get something. They were stung pretty good in this draft. I think it&rsquo;s going to wind up OK, though.&rdquo;</p><p>If the Hawks made a mistake in this mudfight, it was underestimating the ire of Ferguson, who is getting all sorts of heat back in Winnipeg for letting Ruskowski go. Many WHA people feel he was the heart of the Jets; Edmonton coach Glen Sather called the sprightly center &ldquo;the best player in our league last year.&rdquo;</p><p>When GM Bob Pulford left Hull open June 11 (the deadline for submitting protected lists), he admits, &ldquo;I allowed for the possibility that the Jets would take him back, but didn&rsquo;t really think they would.&rdquo;</p><p>Ferguson, aware that the Hawks already had scheduled a gala homecoming press conference for Hull June 19, seized the opening. He reminded Pulford time and again here that the Jets would snatch him back unless Chicago parted with some talent.</p><p>The Hawks thought he was bluffing, but at about 1 a.m. the morning of the draft, following a battery of telephone exchanges with Wirtz back in Chicago, they realized Ferguson was serious.</p><p>They learned that Ferguson had arranged with the three other drafting teams&mdash;Hartford, Quebec and Edmonton&mdash;to lay off Chicago&rsquo;s available players until Winnipeg had taken Hull. Had Ferguson not elicited such a committment, the Hawks could have &ldquo;filled&rdquo; with Hull as soon as they lost their first body.</p><p>As it was, the Jets were allowed to complete an earlier arrangement with Montreal and make Peter Marsh their first selection. Their second selection was goalie Lindsay Middlebrook of the Rangers. Not until the third round, ninth pick overall, did Ferguson announce: &ldquo;Winnipeg claims Robert Marvin Hull.&rdquo; It was 10:28 a.m.</p><p>Thereafter, the Hawks lost center Jean Savard to the Hartford Whalers, plus defenseman Doug Hicks and Bob Kelly to the Edmonton Oilers. The Hawks, respectively, filled with Bob Hoffmeyer for Hull, Miles Zaharko for Savard and Keith Magnuson for Hicks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06191/3929121-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="567" height="889"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE JOHNSTON&hellip;Will Coach Hawks</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;We couldn&rsquo;t have come out better,&rdquo; said Pulford. &ldquo;Except for Hull&hellip;who we&rsquo;re going to get anyway, I believe.&rdquo;</p><p>Pulford did make one last-ditch attempt to avert the problem. Two hours before the draft, he telephoned Ferguson. By this time, the Jets request had dropped from Ruskowski to anybody on the protected list.</p><p>&ldquo;But all they offered us was unprotected guys we could have anyway,&rdquo; said Winnipeg coach Tom McVie. &ldquo;You (pointing to a sportswriter) could skate better, and you&rsquo;re not as expensive.&rdquo;</p><p>Pulford admitted offering &ldquo;nobody on our 15-man protected list&rdquo; for later delivery to Winnipeg. But he stressed that the Jets&rsquo; final pre-draft request was defenseman Greg Fox.</p><p>&ldquo;Bobby Hull is a great hockey player and he will help us,&rdquo; said Pulford. &ldquo;But Greg Fox could help us for the next 15 years. It&rsquo;s just too much. We couldn&rsquo;t do it.&rdquo;</p><p>Colorado Rockies&rsquo; coach Don Cherry figures the Hawks goofed: &ldquo;1 don&rsquo;t know how they can figure Ferguson wasn&rsquo;t going to do this. He was mad. 1 rode up with him in the elevator the other night after he had a meeting with Pulford. Fergie was trying to kick the door in. 1 started saying a Hail Mary.&rdquo;</p><p>Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; owner Harold Ballard added that Fergie had Bill Wirtz over a barrel now. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s called a press conference to sign a guy he doesn&rsquo;t even own,&rdquo; said Ballard.</p><p>What Ballard might not know is that Wirtz is fuming, too. As chief architect of the merger, Wirtz asked Jets&rsquo; owners a favor: stay away from Hull. Winnipeg refused.</p><p>Pulford, quite prepared for adverse reaction in Chicago, is still stonewalling it.</p><p>&ldquo;Our bottom line is the same,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We came out of here with Preston and Ruskowski and still have to settle the Hull thing. Mr. Wirtz told us to take and stand and we did. It may have been a gamble, leaving Hull off the protected list, but I feel it was a good gamble.</p><p>&ldquo;Everybody on our list represents a commodity that somebody else wants, including us. But Bobby Hull, only we want. And that&rsquo;s not to cut down Bobby. He&rsquo;s a great player. It&rsquo;s just a fact. That&rsquo;s the way it is.</p><p>&ldquo;Ferguson now is still sitting with a player who won&rsquo;t play for him, and who will play for only one team, ours. Winnipeg will have to pay him unless they trade him. There&rsquo;s only one reason he took Hull today. So he could try putting the squeeze on us. Well, we have all summer to negotiate.&rdquo;</p><p><b>HAWK TALK:</b> If Magnuson can&rsquo;t make it back from his third knee surgery, Johnston said he&rsquo;d like to have the Hawks&rsquo; captain as his assistant coach&hellip;By the way, Magnuson&rsquo;s wife Cynthia gave birth to the couple&rsquo;s second child, Molly&hellip;Grant Mulvey was married to Pam Martin June 8.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-06

Chicago Gains Coach In Johnston But Stalls Obtaining Hull From Jets

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01680/3929159-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>TOP 10 GOALERS</b></h2><h2>Final Goaling Records For All Teams</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02556/3929152-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="1150" height="2822"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0019-01

Montreal Continues Monopoly On Goaling

<p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p>For the first time in National Hoekey League history, a New York team has won three individual awards in one season.</p><p>Voting results for five player awards made Bryan Trottier of New York Islanders the youngest forward and second-youngest player to win the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player to his team. Trottier also won the Art Ross Trophy as the leading pointman during the 1978-79 NHL regular season. Islander defenseman Denis Potvin was named winner for a third time of the James Norris Trophy as the league&rsquo;s most outstanding defenseman.</p><p>Other award winners were Bob MacMillan of Atlanta Flames, the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as the most gentlemanly player; Bobby Smith of Minnesota North Stars, the Calder Memorial Trophy as the leading rookie; and Bob Gainey, the Frank Selke Trophy as the outstanding defensive forward.</p><p>Voting for the five awards was conducted among members of the Professional Hockey Writers&rsquo; Association in the 17 League cities. Points were awarded on the basis of five for a first-place choice, three for a second and one for a third. A unanimous vote would draw 255 points. The nearest thing to a unanimous choice was Potvin in the Norris Trophy balloting. He received 228 points and was the first choice on 40 of the 51 vallots.</p><p>Closest voting was for the Byng Trophy where only nine points separated the top three choices. MacMillan, a 26-year-old native of Charlottetown, P.E.I., obtained by Atlanta from St. Louis in a seven-player deal, Dec. 12, 1977, received 79 points. Second was two-time winner Marcel Dionne of Los Angeles Kings with 73 points. Rick Middleton of Boston Bruins was third with 70 points.</p><p>Of the seven individual trophies for the 1978-79 regular season, three went to Islanders and two to Montreal Canadiens. Ken Dryden and Michel Larocque won the Vezina Trophy for Canadiens for a fourth straight season. Gainey also was winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the 1979 Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>Trottier, Islanders&rsquo; second choice and 22nd overall in the 1974 amateur draft, broke the three-season reign of Montreal&rsquo;s Guy Lafleur as scoring champion when he compiled a record of 134 points, including a leading 87 assists in 76 games.</p><p>The native of Val Marie, Sask., polled 201 points in the Hart Trophy voting. Runner-up was Lafleur, the winner of the award each of the previous two seasons, with 84 points. Lafleur finished third in the points race in 197879 with 129, one fewer than Dionne.</p><p>Trottier will be 23 years of age July 17. The youngest player to win the Hart Trophy was Boston defenseman Bobby Orr, who was 22 years and three months when he was the winner in 1970.</p><p>Gainey is the only player to win the Selke Trophy. He was the initial winner in 1977-78 and this season, polled 170 points in the voting. Second was Don Marcotte of Boston with 92 points. While Gainey&rsquo;s defensive abilities continued to dominate his play throughout the season, he still managed to score 20 goals for the first time in his six-season NHL career. The 25-year-old native of Peterborough, Ont.,&mdash;Montreal&rsquo;s first choice and eighth over-all in the 1973 Amateur Draft&mdash;had 38 points in 79 games, also a point-total high for him.</p><p>Smith was the first choice in the 1978 amateur draft and he lived up to expectations throughout the regular season for the North Stars. The 21-year-old native of North Sydney, N.S., compiled 74 points, a club record for a rookie, including 30 goals. He was the points leader for the North Stars and is the second Minnesota player to win the Calder Trophy. Danny Grant was the winner in 1968-69.</p><p>Smith polled 206 points in the voting. Second was Ryan Walter of Washington Capitals with 101 points.</p><p>Potvin has won the Norris three times in the last four years and this season&rsquo;s runner-up&mdash;Larry Robinson of Montreal&mdash;was the winner in 1976-77. Potvin&rsquo;s 228 points in the voting were 145 more than Robinson.</p><p>Potvin was the defensive leader in Islanders&rsquo; drive to the championship of the NHL. The 25-year-old native of Hull, Que., became only the second defenseman in NHL history to reach the 100-point plateau as he scored 31 goals and added 70 assists for 101 points in 73 games. Orr, who did it six times, is the only other defenseman to reach 100 points in a season.</p><p>Each award winner received $1,500 and the runners-up gained $750 from the NHL.</p><p>Meanwhile, for the first time in 12 years, only two NHL teams are represented on the official first All Star team. Three members each from the Canadiens and the Islanders were named to the first team for the 1978-79 season.</p><p>An oddity about the selections by the hockey writers is that only one player made an appearance for the first time on either team but he is a 12-season veteran in the NHL. That player is defenseman Serge Savard of Montreal, named to the second team. The other 11 players of the two teams have each been named at least once prior to this season.</p><p>On the first team was goaler Ken Dryden of Montreal, defensemen Potvin and Larry Robinson of Montreal, Trottier at center flanked by Lafleur on right wing and Clark Gillies of the Islanders on the left side.</p><p>The second team was composed of Chico Resch of the Islanders in goal, Savard and Borje Salming of Toronto on defense, Dionne at center with Mike Bossy of the islanders on the right and Bill Barber of Philadelphia at left wing.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Islanders Leave Mark In NHL Awards’ Voting

<p>Following are the complete results of the voting for the 1978-79 individual trophy awards and All Star teams:</p><h2><b>HART TROPHY</b></h2><p>Bryan Trottier, 201: Guy Lafleur. 84; Marcel Dionne, 47; Denis Potvin. 46; Mike Palmateer, 18; Serge Savard, 13; Denis Herron, 7; Borje Salming, 7; Mike Bossy. 7; Don Edwards. 6; Tony Esposito, 5; Larry Robinson, 4; Darryl Sittler. 3; Bob Gainey, 3; Phil Esposito. 2; Wilf Paiement, 1; Dan Bouchard, 1; Bobby Clarke. 1: Ron Stackhouse. 1; Ken Dryden, 1; Brad Park, 1.</p><h2><b>SELKE TROPHY</b></h2><p>Bob Gainey, 170; Don Marcotte, 92; Craig Ramsay, 66; Don Luce, 25: Mike Polich. 16; Clark Gillies, 12; Nick Libett, 8; John Marks, 7; Doug Jarvis, 7; Bobby Clarke, 7; Jean Ratelie, 6; Butch Goring, 5; Gregg Sheppard. 4; Dave Taylor, 4; Paul Woods, 3; Bill Harris, 3; Walt Tkaczuk, 3; Reggie Leach. 3; Jean Pronovost, 3; Orest Kindrachuk, 3; Bill Clement. 3; Terry O&rsquo;Reilly. 3; Rick Middleton. 2; Mike Murphy, 1; Bob Bourne. 1; Bill Barber. 1. Rolf Edberg. 1.</p><h2><b>CALDER TROPHY</b></h2><p>Bobby Smith. 206; Ryan Walter. 101; Wayne Babych, 65; Behn Wilson, 34; Mario Lessard, 29; Glen Hanlon, 4; Brad Marsh, 3; Thomas Gradin, 3; Willie Huber, 2; Rod Schutt. 1.</p><h2><b>NORRIS TROPHY</b></h2><p>Denis Potvin. 228; Larry Robinson. 83; Borje Salming, 65; Serge Savard, 41; Guy Lapointe. 12; Robert Picard, 9; Barry Beck, 7; Brad Park. 6; Ron Stackhouse, 5; Phil Russell. 1; Reed Larson. 1; Stefan Persson.</p><h2><b>BYNG TROPHY</b></h2><p>Bob MacMillan. 79; Marcel Dionne. 73; Rick Middleton, 70; Mike Bossy. 40: Guy Chouinard. 40; Peter McNab. 23. Bernie Federko. 22: Butch Goring, 17; Craig Ramsay. 16; Jean Ratelle, 14; Anders Hedberg, 10; Bryan Trottier, 8: Guy Lafleur, 6; Ron Stackhouse. 5; Rick Kehoe, 5; Jacques Lemaire. 5; Ryan Walter, 3; Serge Savard. 3; Dave Pronovost 3; Vaclav Nedomansky, 3; Gilbert Perreault, 1; Bill Barber. 1; Doug Jarvis. 1; Ken Dryden. 1; Gregg Sheppard. 1; Ed Westfall. 1; Walt McKechnie. 1; Ron Ellis, 1; Blake Dunlop. 1; Guy Charron. 1; Orest Kindrachuk, 1.</p><h2><b>ALL STAR TEAMS</b></h2><p>Goal: Ken Dryden, 165; Glenn Resch. 142; Mike Palmateer. 62; Don Edwards, 50; Tony Esposito. 22; Gerry Cheevers, 6; Bernie Parent, 4; Dan Bouchard. 3; Bill Smith. 3: Denis Herron. 1; Michel Larocque, 1.</p><p>Defense: Denis Potvin. 249; Larry Robinson. 196; Borje Salming. 157; Serge Savard, 111; Barry Beck. 39; Guy Lapointe. 36: Robert Picard, 35; Brad Park, 15; Stefan Persson, 13; Reed Larson, 11; Jim Schoenfeld. 9; Randy Carlyle. 8; Ron Stackhouse, 8; Phil Russell, 7; Jerry Korab, 5; Dave Maloney. 5; Ron Greschner. 4; Ed Kea, 3; Bob Dailey, 3; Behn Wilson, 1; Ian Turnbull, 1; Gary Sargent, 1; Mike McEwen, 1.</p><p>Center: Bryan Trottier. 247; Marcel Dionne, 153: Guy Chouinard, 36; Bernie Federko. 8: Darryl Sittier, 7; Phil Esposito, 3; Bobby Clarke, 3; Jacques Lemaire, 1; Ulf Nilsson, 1.</p><p>Right Wing: Guy Lafleur, 203; Mike Bossy. 197: Bob MacMillan. 35; Rick Middleton. 9; Lanny McDonald, 6: Dave Taylor. 4; Terry O&rsquo;Reilly, 2; Anders Hedberg, 2; Vaclav Nedomansky. 1.</p><p>Left Wing: Clark Gillies. 232; Bill Barber. 61; Steve Shutt. 40: Bob Gainey. 31; Brian Sutter. 28: Rick Middleton. 16; Pat Hickey. 10; Craig Ramsay, 8: Ron Sedlbiuer. 7; Bob MacMillan. 6; Eric Vail. 6; Richard Martin. 4; Guy Chouinard, 3; Wayne Cashman. 3; Don Marcotte. 1; Ted Bulley. 1; Bob Bourne. 1; Dave Taylor. 1.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

How NHL Voters Picked Awards Winners, All Stars

<div class="byline">Bill Fleischman&#x2019;s</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01525/3929283-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="350" height="481"></div><h2><b>Parent Meant Much</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>O</span>NE MINUTE HE</b> was defending against the New York Rangers in a regular-season game. The next minute, he was fleeing the Spectrum ice in terror, his left hand covering his damaged right eye.</p><p>When the injury wasn&rsquo;t diagnosed as a scratch, or something else that would quickly heal, Bernie Parent and others probably knew one of the most distinguished of all goaltenders&rsquo; careers was over at 34. But, since we&rsquo;re all generally full of hope, no one wanted to admit Parent would never strap on the pads again.</p><p>At a mid-March luncheon, where he was honored by Philadelphia&rsquo;s hockey writers as the third recipient of their Class Guy award, Parent spoke by tape to the audience of almost 200. He vowed to return to the Flyers&rsquo; lineup, but the silent audience seemed to know there was little chance of ever seeing the masked artist at work again.</p><p>There were more than a few moist eyes at that luncheon, as if the people realized they were hearing Parent speak as an active Flyers&rsquo; player for the last time. Next season, when the Flyers retire Parent&rsquo;s No. 1 at a Spectrum ceremony, there will be 17,077 sets of moist eyes. Because the man has meant that much to the Flyers and Philadelphia sports.</p><p>In 1974, when the Phillies, Eagles and 76ers were bad enough to make residents disavow any allegiance to Philadelphia, the Flyers won the first of two consecutive Stanley Cups. Remember those Flyers? Whether you loved &lsquo;em or hated &lsquo;em, you had to respect what they accomplished. Those who hated &lsquo;em may only remember the antics of Dave Schultz, Bob Kelly and the &ldquo;Mad Squad.&rdquo; Serge Savard and others are right: there were nights the fighting and intimidation exploded beyond even hockey&rsquo;s flexible laws of reason.</p><p>But there was Parent in the nets weaving together consecutive seasons that haven&rsquo;t been equalled in the Seventies. There was Bobby Clarke working his ears off, along with the Barbers, Dornhoefers, Ashbees, Watsons and Van Impes. The two Conn Smythe Trophies Parent won were tributes to his value. As hard as the other Flyers worked, without Parent there would be no Stanley Cups.</p><h2><b>Technically Sound</b></h2><p><b>&ldquo;HE WAS THE BEST,</b> by far the best 1 ever saw,&rdquo; said Bobby Taylor, Parent&rsquo;s understudy in &lsquo;74, at the retirement press conference. &ldquo;The only one I&rsquo;ve seen who could come close was Glenn Hall. Technically, &lsquo;Bennie&rsquo; was the soundest of any goalie who ever played the game. You think how much we were shorthanded in those years, just how tough that is on a goalie. He was incredible.&rdquo;</p><p>Yes, for those two years Parent was incredible. Playing under the mental strain of returning from the WHA and replacing the popular Doug Favell, Parent compiled a Vezina Trophy&mdash;winning 1.89 average in 73 games in 1973-74. The following season was almost as brilliant statistically: 2.03 in 68 games, and another Cup.</p><p>Then, with an adoring city at his feet, it all began to unravel. The neck injury during the Flyers&rsquo; 1975 training camp, surgery, and an awkward return followed. All this occurred while Parent&rsquo;s book, &ldquo;Bernie!&rdquo; was released. Great timing, right? Combine all this with Parent&rsquo;s attorney, who learned his negotiating technique at Dillinger Law School, and you had a mess that would discourage most people.</p><p>Parent&rsquo;s next two seasons were outstanding by normal standards&mdash;2.71 and 2.22, but people kept comparing him to the award-winning goalie of 1974 and &lsquo;75. Despite a brave front, his inconsistency on the ice plus financial troubles off the ice were tearing at Parent&rsquo;s insides. Still, he could joke. Pointing at his prematurely gray hair, he would smile and say, &ldquo;Look, things are so bad the hair is turning black again.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Wanted Another Cup</b></h2><p><b>ON THE AFTERNOON</b> that the stick of either teammate Jimmy Watson or the Rangers&rsquo; Don Maloney inadvertently scored a million-to-one hit into the eyehole of his mask, Parent has a 2.70 average and four shutouts in 36 games. Again, these were stats many goalies would take and run with to the nearest renegotiation table. But stats were never top priority with Parent&mdash;another Stanley Cup was all he wanted. Now, that wish will be denied and Parent is finding it hard to adjust to civilian status.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s difficult for me to be in this situation because I planned to play for at least five more years,&rdquo; Parent said at his gloomy retirement announcement.</p><p>Parent&rsquo;s.plans are cloudy, but he&rsquo;ll likely remain with the Flyers in some capacity&mdash;perhaps tutoring young goalies, perhaps in public relations. Whatever he does, the game shouldn&rsquo;t lose him, because no one has loved hockey more.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY WORLD

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;</p><p>The biggest change within the Los Angeles Kings so far this off-season has been the pending shift of ownership from Jack Kent Cooke to Jerry Buss, who bought the Kings, Lakers, The Forum, and even Jack&rsquo;s Sierra ranch for $67.5 million, the biggest sale in the history of sports. It will be impossible to top that, of course, but at the moment it does not appear there will be a lot of changes in the Kings or their operation.</p><p>The 46-year-old Buss who has a Ph. D in math-oriented Physical Chemistry from USC, has in the last 20 years turned the purchase of a few apartmenthouses into a real estate fortune he estimates at $350 million. He broke into big-time sports as the owner of the Los Angeles Strings of World Team Tennis, but was silent backer of three of the other 10 franchises. He calls his involvement a learning experience, as the league apparently has folded.</p><p>Buss held season tickets to the Laker and King games. He came close to buying basketball&rsquo;s Indianapolis Pacers recently before the Lakers became available and still is interested in purchasing the lease to operate the Indianapolis Market Square Arena. He had been trying to make a deal with Cooke for a long time. Cooke held off until his divorce settlement required him to come up with cash. He insisted on selling his southern California holdings as a package deal and Buss had the dough to go for it. Buss now becomes the most powerful figure in professional sports.</p><p>He calls himself a rookie in hockey. He says general manager George Maguire and coach Bob Berry will continue to do the jobs they know how to do better than he does. He says he thought Berry should have been &ldquo;coach of the year&rdquo; this past season for the job he did with the Kings. He is a more easygoing guy than Cooke, liked by all who know him, and may put less pressure on his leaders to produce, but he has made a success of life and no doubt expects success in sports.</p><p>He knows basketball better than hockey, but it may be significant that he is speaking more of winning the Stanley Cup than the NBA title.</p><p>The Cup continues to be out of reach of the current club. Dale McCourt might help, but the club had to be without his compensation for the loss of Rogie Vachon all last season by ruling of one court and may have to do without him next season as he has appealed to yet another court the latest ruling of a second court that his award to the Kings was proper.</p><p>He wouldn&rsquo;t even answer King calls. It is not clear why he is so determined to stay in Detroit, but it is clear he is acting on advice there. It is not clear why the Kings would not try to sign free-agent Reed Larson from Detroit and try to deal Dale back to the Wings as compensation. But as bad as the Kings need a defenseman like Larson, they did indicate they wanted to keep an offenseman like McCourt.</p><p>The one trade they made at the meetings in Montreal was minor. They traded Steve Clippingdale, who had a good season in the Central League, but was not going to make it with the Kings, to the Caps for Mike Marson, who probably will remain at Binghamton in the American League, which will be coached by Pat Kelly.</p><p>The Kings did reclaim Steve Carlson, a tall, slender, low-scoring, but swiftskating 23-year-old left-handed forward from Edmonton, but passed on high-scoring Serge Bernier and WHA second Team All Star Blair McDonald after reaching agreements with their teams that protected key players from the draft of former WHA teams.</p><p>Edmonton took Larry Brown off the King unprotected list, enabling the Kings to pull Doug Halward back to the protected list. Winnipeg took Mark Heaslip, enabling the Kings to pul! back Darryl Edestrand. Quebec took Hartland Monahan, enabling the Kings to pull back Carlson. Winnipeg then wound up, picking Dennis Abgrall. Heaslip was the only one who played with the Kings last season and he wasn&rsquo;t a regular.</p><p>The Kings may not have helped themselves much at the meetings, but at least they weren&rsquo;t hurt much.</p><p>The agreements might explain why the Kings protected Richard Mulhern instead of Halward, but who can explain why they protected Vic Venasky instead of Syl Apps, and why no one took Apps? Other unprotected (and untaken) Kings were forwards Dave Gardner, Ernie Hicke, Danny Grant, Tommy Williams, Russ Walker, Kurt Walker, Scott Garland and Paul McIntosh, defenseman Brian Glennie, and goaler Gary Simmons.</p><p>Sadly, Garland died in an auto accident in Montreal June 10, just before the draft. The 27-year-old ex-Leaf started last season with the Kings, but soon was sent to Springfield. Eight years earlier, in the summer of 1971, the Kings lost a draft pick, Gary Crosby, in an auto accident.</p><p>On the brighter side, Cathy Goring gave Butch their second daughter, Kellie Dawn, June 1st&hellip;Marcel Dionne was selected second All Star center to the official NHL team voted on by the writers and a team picked by the players. Dave Taylor, sixth among right-wingers in the writers&rsquo; voting, was the only other King to get even a point and he should have gotten many more than the few he drew. Dionne was third MVP in the writers&rsquo; poll and fourth in the players&rsquo; poll. He was second in Lady Byng balloting. Mario Lessard was sixth in the Calder rookie vote.</p><p>The Kings signed Charlie Simmer, Rob Palmer, and Rich Mulhern to multi-year contracts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Buss Digs Deep For Kings In Richest Pro Deal Ever

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01365/3929338-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg" title="f0021-01" width="573" height="669"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SCOTT GARLAND</b></figcaption></div><h2>Ex-King Killed In Car Crash</h2><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>cott Garland, a former member of the Toronto Maple Leafs but more recently with the Los Angeles Kings, was killed in an automobile accident on a Montreal freeway within a few miles of the hotel where the annual NHL summer hockey meetings were held June 11-13.</p><p>Garland, who was 27, was a native of Regina, Sask., but had become an offseason resident of Montreal. He was driving his car on a freeway when he blew a tire and spun out of control, striking a wall.</p><p>The six-foot-one Garland was part of a five-player deal last year that sent him to the Kings along with Brian Glennie and Kurt Walker in exchange for Dave Hutchison and Lorne Stamler. This past season he played six games with the Kings and 45 with Springfield of the AHL.</p><h2>Hockey Immortal Cyclone Taylor Dies Aged 94</h2><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;</p><p>Hockey great Fred (Cyclone) Taylor died in his sleep on June 9 at a private nursing home in Vancouver two weeks short of his 94th birthday.</p><p>Taylor was admitted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947&mdash;the first living member to be admitted.</p><p>He was one of the last 60-minute players in professional hockey and was described by many observers during his career as the greatest of all players.</p><p>Eddie Shore of Boston Bruins said there was no comparison between Taylor and players of Shore&rsquo;s day. Lester Patrick, at that time manager of New York Rangers, said Taylor was the best hockey player he had ever seen.</p><p>Taylor ended his 18-year pro career in 1923 with more than 500 points at a time when assists were rarely counted.</p><h2>Ranger Great Ching Johnson Dies Aged 80</h2><p>NEW YORK&mdash;</p><p>Ivan (Ching) Johnson, the greatest defenseman in the history of the New York Rangers, died June 16 in Takoma Park, Maryland. He was 80.</p><p>Johnson was an NHL Hall of Famer. A devastating bodychecker, he played 11 years with the Rangers, 1926-37, (including two Stanley Cup winners) and another year with the old New York Americans. He made the first All Star team twice and the second team twice.</p><p>A couple of years ago, when he was in the hospital with cancer. Ranger broadcaster Bill Chadwick mentioned it during the course of a game, and Johnson received more than 500 letters from fans who hadn&rsquo;t forgotten him.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Obtuaries

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK MOODY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0021-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-02242/3929369-1-eng-US/f0021-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>COLIN CAMPBELL&hellip;His Loss Surprised Penguins</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Bruce Bennett)</span></figcaption></div><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Pittsburgh Penguins lost three players in last month&rsquo;s National Hockey League expansion draft, including one player they didn&rsquo;t expect to lose. At the same time, thanks to some hanky panky by the Montreal Canadiens, the Penguins weren&rsquo;t able to obtain a player they thought they would.</p><p>The Penguins lost defensemen Colin Campbell and Tom Edur and left wing Wayne Bianchin in the draft. All three were selected by the Edmonton Oilers.</p><p>Penguin general manager Baz Bastien was most disappointed by the loss of Campbell.</p><p>&ldquo;Unfortunately you can&rsquo;t protect everybody,&rdquo; said Bastien. &ldquo;Obviously the early portion of the draft didn&rsquo;t go the way we expected it to go. We really hadn&rsquo;t anticipated losing Campbell.&rdquo;</p><p>Before the draft, Bastien said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;d like to be able to hang on to Campbell. We plan on filling with him as our first alternate.&rdquo;</p><p>Bastien thought that the first Penguin chosen would have been right wing Jacques Cossette. Quebec had expressed interest in Cossette before the draft began.</p><p>Beside losing Campbell, Bastien was not too upset about the rest of the draft. &ldquo;Edmonton&rsquo;s not sure they will be able to convince Tom Edur to play hockey next season,&rdquo; said Bastien. &ldquo;Wayne Bianchin&rsquo;s back is still an unknown thing. Overall we came out pretty good.&rdquo;</p><p>Edur, 24, retired from professional hockey before the start of last season because of religious reasons. He is a Jehovah&rsquo;s Witness and was upset about the violence in hockey.</p><p>Bianchin, 25, did not play the last half of last season because of the back problems. He scored 48 goals during his last two full seasons in the NHL.</p><p>Campbell, 26, was tied with Orest Kindrachuk for the Penguin&rsquo;s scoring lead in last season&rsquo;s Stanley Cup playoffs. He led the club in penalty minutes during the regular season.</p><p>Following Campbell&rsquo;s selection, Bastien filled with defenseman Kim Clack-son. Clackson played the last four seasons with Winnipeg in the World Hockey Association.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re fortunate we had a player like Clackson to fill with,&rdquo; said Bastien. &ldquo;The Winnipeg people think he can play in this league. He&rsquo;s tough. I&rsquo;ve seen that for myself. The only question about him would be his skating ability. We&rsquo;ll just have to wait and see about that. I think he&rsquo;s big enough and physical enough to help us next season.&rdquo;</p><p>Clackson is five-foot-10,200 pounds, while Campbell is five-foot-nine, 180 pounds.</p><p>After Edur was taken, the Penguins filled with defenseman Dale Tallon who missed the last part of the regular season and all of the playoffs because of a broken leg.</p><p>The fact that Pittsburgh had only three players chosen from their roster was, in part, due to the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>As expected Winnipeg protected left wing Morris Lukowich, but what was unexpected was Quebec&rsquo;s protection of defenseman Paul Baxter. Both were amateur draft choices of the Penguins and would have ended up in Pittsburgh next year if not protected by the expansion clubs.</p><p>However, Montreal apparently promised Quebecjhey would not take Marc-Tardif, allowing the Nordiques to protect Baxter.</p><p>&ldquo;We really anticipated being able to pick up Baxter,&rdquo; said Bastien. &ldquo;Montreal&rsquo;s always going to be able to do those things. They have so much more talent than any of the other teams that it&rsquo;s easy to swing a few deals, which will prevent them from getting hurt.&rdquo;</p><p>Penguin coach Johnny Wilson viewed the expansion draft with qualified optimism.</p><p>&ldquo;Just about every team lost a player or two like Campbell in the draft,&rdquo; Wilson said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the nature of it. It&rsquo;s unfortunate, but I think since we were able to fill with Clackson and Tallon, our defense should be in pretty good shape again next season.&rdquo;</p><p><b>PENGUIN TRACKS:</b> Bastien signed a new three-year contract prior to the start of the expansion draft. Free agent center Gregg Sheppard told the Penguins that he will remain a free agent for &ldquo;the immediate future&rdquo; to see what he is worth to other NHL clubs. The Penguins did protect Sheppard in the expansion draft even though he was already a free agent at the time. The Penguins will once again be without a No. I selection in next month&rsquo;s amateur draft. The top choice was traded to Washington in 1977 for right wing Hartland Monahan. Monahan played only seven games in a Pittsburgh uniform before being dealt to Los Angeles Kings.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Penguins Lose Coveted Defensemen As Draft Takes Unexpected Course

<p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p>Veteran defenseman Brad Park of Boston Bruins led the National Hockey League&rsquo;s plusminus calculations for the 197879 regular season.</p><p>Park, who played 40 games&mdash;most of the 40 games he missed was because of a knee injury&mdash;had a difference of 18.3. That means he was on the ice for 43.1 percent of the Bruin goals with both teams even compared with 24.8 percent of the even-strength goals against Boston during the games in which he played.</p><p>Actually, Park was one of seven defensemen among the 20 leaders, all of whom played at least 40 games during the 80-game schedule. Dave Hutchison of Toronto had the second-best record among defensemen, a difference between offensive and defensive records of 15.3.</p><p>The entire New York Islander line of center Bryan Trottier, left winger Clark Gillies and right winger Mike Bossy was also among the top 10. Trottier was third with a figure of 15.8; Bossy and Gillies tied for seventh with 11.4.</p><p>Only two players remained among the leaders all season and both are members of Los Angeles Kings. Dave Taylor, with a figure of 16.0, was second to Park while Marcel Dionne was sixth with 13.0.</p><p>Among the 20 leaders, 13 of the 17 NHL teams were represented. There were two rookies&mdash;Stan Smyl of Vancouver, tied for 10th with 10.4, and Tom Gorence of Philadelphia, 20th with 8.9.</p><p>The plus-minus figure is determined by establishing the percentage of his team&rsquo;s goals, for and against, for which a player is on the ice with both teams even. If the player is on the ice for a higher percentage of goals by his team, he has a plus; if for a higher percentage against his team, he has a minus.</p><p>To arrive at the even-strength goal total, all power-play goals, for and against, are subtracted. An interesting note concerning power-play goals is that Islander defenseman Denis Potvin was on the ice for all power-play goals scored during the 73 games in which he played. In those games, Islanders scored 75 power-play goals. They had another six in the seven games Potvin did not play, for a leagueleading 81.</p><p>Since joining Islanders as the first choice of the 1973 amateur draft, Potvin has been on the ice for 363 of the 374 power-play goals scored by Islanders in the games in which Potvin played.</p><p>Another Islander defenseman, Stefan Persson, who missed two games this season, was on the ice for 78 of the 80 power-play goals scored by his club when he was playing.</p><p>Among the 293 players who played in at least 40 games, only six were on the ice for at least 50 percent of their teams&rsquo; evenstrength goals: Gary Sargent, Minnesota, 53.1; Barry Beck, Colorado, 52.4; Borje Saiming, Toronto, 51.2; Rob Palmer, Los Angeles, and Robert Picard, Washington, 51.0; and Bob Murray, Chicago, 50.5.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01374/3929400-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="556" height="730"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRAD PARK&hellip;No. 1 In NHL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bruins’ Star Park Top Plus-Minus Player Of NHL Season

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NHL PLUS AND MINUS STATISTICS

<p>GP&mdash;Games played.</p><p>TGF&mdash;Total goals scored by his team while player oh ice.</p><p>PGF&mdash;Total power play goals scored by his team while player on ice.</p><p>OFFENSE PERCENT&mdash;Percentage of his team&rsquo;s even-strength goals for which the player was on ice.</p><p>TGA&mdash;Total goals by opposition while player on ice.</p><p>PGA&mdash;Total power play goals by opposition while player on ice.</p><p>DEFENSE PERCENT&mdash;Percentage of opposition&rsquo;s even-strength goals for which the player was on ice.</p><p>PERCENT DIFF&mdash;The difference between the offensive percentage and defensive percentage.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

CODE OF ABBREVIATIONS

<h2>FINAL STANDINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01387/3929584-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="612" height="256"></div><h2>HOME RECORD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-02304/3929577-1-eng-US/f0024-022.jpg" title="f0024-02" width="607" height="198"></div><h2>AWAY RECORD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-03217/3929570-1-eng-US/f0024-032.jpg" title="f0024-03" width="605" height="203"></div><h2>TOP 25 SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-04163/3929563-1-eng-US/f0024-042.jpg" title="f0024-04" width="611" height="711"></div><h2>TOP 10 ROOKIES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-05128/3929556-1-eng-US/f0024-052.jpg" title="f0024-05" width="627" height="308"></div><h2>TOP 10 &lsquo;BAD MEN&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-06110/3929549-1-eng-US/f0024-062.jpg" title="f0024-06" width="615" height="308"></div><p><b>FINAL SCORING BY TEAMS</b></p><h2>BIRMINGHAM</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0794/3929542-1-eng-US/f0024-072.jpg" title="f0024-07" width="620" height="739"></div><h2>CINCINNATI</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0889/3929535-1-eng-US/f0024-082.jpg" title="f0024-08" width="607" height="1042"></div><h2>EDMONTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-0982/3929528-1-eng-US/f0024-092.jpg" title="f0024-09" width="617" height="1149"></div><h2>INDIANAPOLIS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1075/3929521-1-eng-US/f0024-102.jpg" title="f0024-10" width="603" height="475"></div><h2>RACERS WITH OTHERS WHA TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1173/3929514-1-eng-US/f0024-112.jpg" title="f0024-11" width="602" height="442"></div><h2>NEW ENGLAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1265/3929507-1-eng-US/f0024-122.jpg" title="f0024-12" width="602" height="823"></div><h2>QUEBEC</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1354/3929500-1-eng-US/f0024-132.jpg" title="f0024-13" width="604" height="927"></div><h2>WINNIPEG</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1445/3929493-1-eng-US/f0024-142.jpg" title="f0024-14" width="602" height="895"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0024-01

WORLD HOCKEY ASSOCIATION

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0024-15" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1540/3929622-1-eng-US/f0024-152.jpg"></div><h2><b>TOP 10 GOALING LEADERS</b></h2><h2><b>COMPLETE GOALING RECORDS FOR ALL TEAMS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-1637/3929615-1-eng-US/f0024-162.jpg" title="f0024-16" width="1170" height="1267"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0024-15

Oilers’ Dryden Took Final Goaling Honors

<p><b>WINNIPEG&mdash;</b></p><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>he Winnipeg Jets, who came alive in the playoffs, had the distinction of nailing down the World Hockey Association&rsquo;s final championship when they won the Avco Trophy in the league windup.</b></p><p><b>The Jets&rsquo; history-making win was achieved when they won eight of their 10 playoff starts crushing Quebec in four straight before upsetting the league-champion Edmonton Oilers in a six-game cup final.</b></p><h2><b>PLAYOFF STANDINGS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-02241/3929737-1-eng-US/f0025-022.jpg" title="f0025-02" width="596" height="170"></div><p><b>Quarter Finals</b></p><h2><b>SERIES A&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-03167/3929730-1-eng-US/f0025-032.jpg" title="f0025-03" width="604" height="122"></div><p><b>Semi-Finals</b></p><h2><b>SRIES&rsquo;B&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-04126/3929723-1-eng-US/f0025-042.jpg" title="f0025-04" width="602" height="112"></div><h2><b>SERIES&rsquo;C&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-05107/3929716-1-eng-US/f0025-052.jpg" title="f0025-05" width="607" height="124"></div><p><b>Finals</b></p><h2><b>SERIES &lsquo;D&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0687/3929709-1-eng-US/f0025-062.jpg" title="f0025-06" width="593" height="119"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Fri. May 11</b></p><p><b>Winnipeg 3 at Edmonton 1</b></p><p><b>Sun. May 13</b></p><p><b>Winnipeg 3 at Edmonton 2</b></p><p><b>Tue. May 15</b></p><p><b>Edmonton 8 at Winnipeg 3</b></p><p><b>Wed. May 16</b></p><p><b>Edmonton 2 at Winnipeg 3</b></p><p><b>Fri. May 18</b></p><p><b>Winnipeg 2 at Edmonton 10</b></p><p><b>Sun. May 20</b></p><p><b>Edmonton 3 at Winnipeg 7</b></p><h2><b>LEADING PLAYOFF SCORERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0781/3929702-1-eng-US/f0025-072.jpg" title="f0025-07" width="597" height="472"></div><p><b>FINAL SCORING BY TEAMS</b></p><h2><b>WINNIPEG</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0872/3929695-1-eng-US/f0025-082.jpg" title="f0025-08" width="606" height="646"></div><h2><b>EDMONTON</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-0964/3929688-1-eng-US/f0025-092.jpg" title="f0025-09" width="622" height="648"></div><h2><b>NEW ENGLAND</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1047/3929681-1-eng-US/f0025-102.jpg" title="f0025-10" width="598" height="636"></div><h2><b>CINCINNATI</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1139/3929674-1-eng-US/f0025-112.jpg" title="f0025-11" width="604" height="558"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1230/3929667-1-eng-US/f0025-122.jpg" title="f0025-12" width="592" height="620"></div><h2><b>PLAYOFF GOALING RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-1325/3929660-1-eng-US/f0025-132.jpg" title="f0025-13" width="588" height="316"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0025-01328/3929653-1-eng-US/f0025-012.jpg" title="f0025-01" width="2450" height="1187"></div><p>The Winnipeg Jets were the power of the WHA playoffs taking eight of the 10 games to win the Avco Trophy in the league&rsquo;s final year. Here are the Jets, front row, from the left, JOE DALEY, MARKUS MATTSSON, BILL LESUK, BILL SUTHERLAND, asst, coach, MARC CLOUTIER, executive director, JOHN FERGUSON, vicepresident and GM, MICHAEL GOBUTY, president, BOB GRAHAM, chairman of the board, TOMMY McVie, coach, LARS-ERIK SJO-BERG, TERRY RUSKOWSKI and GARY SMITH. Middle row, JOHN SHANSKI, vice-president, BARRY SHENKAROW, trustee, STEVE WEST, JOHN GRAY, GLENN HICKS, ROLAND ERIKSSON, KENT NILSSON, PAUL MacKINNON; RICH PRESTON, PAUL TER-BENCHE, MORRIS LUKOWICH, MARVIN SHENKAROW, treasurer, and HARVEY SECTER, secretary. Back row BILL BOZAK, trainer, BOB GUINDON, MIKE AMODEO, BILL DAVIS, BARRY LONG, SCOTT CAMPBELL, WILLY LINDSTROM, KIM CLACKSON, LYLE MOFFAT, PETER SULLIVAN and KELLY PRUDEN, equipment manager.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0025-02

Jets Made History As Last WHA Champions

<div class="byline">BY PAT THOMPSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01338/3929768-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="530" height="900"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAULSHMYR&hellip;Was Protected</b></figcaption></div><p>BLOOMINGTON&mdash;</p><p>The Minnesota North Stars left the National Hockey League meetings with a mixture of success.</p><p>General manager Lou Nanne went to Montreal with the hopes of returning home with the North Stars owning the rights to defenseman Bill Nyrop. who retired from the Montreal Canadiens before the start of last season to enter private business.</p><p>Nyrop, a 27-year-old blueliner who played on three Stanley Cup championship teams with the Canadiens, still has not committed himself about a return to hockey, but Nanne thinks he might want to. return to play with the North Stars. That&rsquo;s the catch. The Canadiens want him back, too, although they had given the Stars permission to talk contract with the six-foot-two, 205-pound Nyrop.</p><p>Nanne thought he had a deal all worked out where he would have Nyrop&rsquo;s rights without having to compensate Montreal. Supposedly, Edmonton was going to claim Nyrop off Montreal&rsquo;s unprotected list during the draft to stock the four incoming teams from the WHA.</p><p>Montreal, however, had other plans. The Canadiens worked out a deal with Edmonton which allowed the Oilers to claim winger Cam Connor, among other considerations.</p><p>Nanne was going to trade Bryan Maxwell and Edmonton&rsquo;s Paul Shmyr and Dave Semenko (reclaimed by Minnesota under NHL. property rights) to the Oilers for Nyrop. Things just didn&rsquo;t work out that way. So Nanne decided to protect Shmyr, a WHA All Star defenseman, and reclaim Semenko, a rugged winger.</p><p>That helped soften the blow of not gaining the services of Nyrop, who still might end up a member of the North Stars if Nanne and the Canadiens can reach a trade agreement. The North Stars have two first round choices in the amateur draft and Nanne does not want to give up one of them to the Canadiens without getting another player in return.</p><p>The North Stars lost&rsquo;goalie Pete LoPresti to Edmonton, left winger Jimmy Roberts to Winnipeg, defenseman John Baby to Quebec and winger Ken Kuzyk to Quebec in the expansion draft.</p><p>&ldquo;I felt he came out of the meetings in good shape.&rdquo; said Nanne. &ldquo;We might try to work out some kind of a deal to bring LoPresti back. The addition of Shmyr and Semenko could be a big help to our club.&rdquo;</p><p>Nanne said the club would be willing to pick up Shmyr&rsquo;s contract, which is reported to be a big one. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not an austerity program,&rdquo; said Nanne. &ldquo;We will pay for a quality player.&rdquo;</p><p>Semenko is a free agent, but Nanne already has started negotiations with Semenko&rsquo;s Minneapolis attorney, the six-foot-three, 200-pound plus forward was drafted by the North Stars two years ago but was not happy with the contract offered at that time.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0026-01

Draft Gave Stars Mixed Feelings

<div class="byline">BY WAYNE WARRINER</div><p>HARTFORD&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>or their debut in the National Hockey League the Hartford Whalers&rsquo; primary goal is to be competitive. Director of hockey operations Jack Kelley was concerned about protecting the nucleus of his team while still being able to pick up some good young talent in the expansion draft.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to lean as much to youth as we possibly can&mdash;players we think can develop and grow,&rdquo; Kelley had said before the June draft. When it was all over, the consensus was that Kelley and his. task force&mdash;coach Don Blackburn, head scout Flo Potvin, director of player personnel Bill Dineen, and assistant Bob Crocker&mdash;had done quite well.</p><p>Of the seven players whose rights were claimed by other NHL teams, the Whalers were able to retrieve five. Only left winger George Lyle was considered lost (to Detroit). Right wing Warren Miller was selected by the New York Rangers and the Whalers couldn&rsquo;t draft him back before the Rangers were closed off. But management is still hopeful that the Rangers abundance of right wing talent will free the hard-working Miller to be dealt back to Hartford.</p><p>Some wheeling and dealing enabled the Hartford team to retain what they regard to be the heart of the team&mdash;Mark Howe, Gordie Roberts, Alan Hangsleben. Rick Ley, Jordy Douglas, and goalie John Garrett. It was a deal with Montreal that allowed the Whalers to keep three key youngsters.</p><p>Kelley agreed to draft Hangsleben back from Montreal on the first round if the Canadiens reclaimed the rugged left wing-defenseman instead of rearguard Gordie Roberts. The deal not only would enable the Canadiens to fill with one of their prize young phenoms, but it allowed the Whalers to use one of their priority selections to get promising rookie Jordy Douglas back from Toronto.</p><p>On the second round the Whalers lifted Nick Fotiu off the Rangers roster. The move not only gave the Whalers the muscle they had lacked since big Jack Carlson was sold to Minnesota North Stars last winter, but it also brought back to Hartford a man who most fans will attest to be one of the most popular players in the seven-year history of the team. Fotiu began his major league career with the Whalers before defecting to New York in 1976.</p><p>In the next round Kelley got captain Rick Ley back from the Maple Leafs by arranging with the other three expansion teams not to go into Toronto&rsquo;s list until the Whalers could get Ley back.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02278/3929799-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="580" height="672"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JORDY DOUGLAS&hellip;Promising Rookie</b></figcaption></div><p>The fourth round turned up the biggest surprise for the Hartford contingent. Boston defenseman Al Sims was quickly grabbed to augment the Whalers sparse blueline corps. His NHL experience and youth (26) will be more than welcome. Two other young defensemen were also drafted. Rick Hodgson (Atlanta) and Kevin Kemp (Toronto) are probably destined for the Whalers&rsquo; new farm affiliate.</p><p>Kelley feels that fifth round pick Jean Savard (Chicago Black Hawks) has a shot at helping out the team this year. The youngster&rsquo;s competition for a center spot will include veterans Andre Lacroix, Dave Keon, Mike Rogers and possibly Gordie Howe. Savard&rsquo;s speed and offensive potential could force Blackburn to find another spot for one of his vets. At the very feast, the Whalers are excited about the future prospects of young Savard.</p><p>In search of young goaltending, Kelley and company were frustrated when they were unable to land Terry Richardson, top netminder in the CHL last season. But while the draft was proceeding, the Whalers dealt their sixth choice&mdash;Ralph Klassen (Colorado)&mdash;to the New York Islanders for Richardson. Although John Garrett and Al Smith seem entrenched as the team&rsquo;s goaltending duo, the 26-year-old Richardson fills the bill as a talented backup.</p><p>Other promising forwards landed by Hartford were left wing Bill Bennett (Boston), center-left wing Bernie Johnston (Philadelphia), and center-right wing Brian Hill (Atlanta).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0026-02

Whalers Believe Youth Key To Competitiveness

<div class="byline">BY TONY GALLAGHER</div><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>V</span>ancouver Canucks are to be congratulated. After nine full seasons of being dumped on by other members of the National Hockey League, they finally got their own chance in the expansion draft.</p><p>True, they dumped on clubs that are just trying to get started in the NHL, but that&rsquo;s the way things work in that league When you take a new league partner, you don&rsquo;t try to make him feel at home and give him a break, you give him the knee and throw him an anchor. That is what has been happening to the Canucks and every other team since expansion began back in 1967, and now Vancouver is finally learning to give like they get.</p><p>What they did was stiff all the new clubs with highly expensive players in the draft. Despite their lack of overwhelming talents, the likes of Lars Zetterstrom, Don Kozak and Hilliard Graves did not come without abundant salaries. The drafting teams were all furious with Vancouver for having only highly-priced talent available, but that is the way the game is played. The four new members of the fraternity received the waste products of teams like the Canucks, and paid $6 million for the privilege.</p><p>Graves was on an old contract he originally signed with the California Seals. It was for $75,000, plus $15,000 per annum to be paid on the mortgage of his house.</p><p>That little pact was amended and a year added at the beginning of the past season and he now still has a year and an option to go for $5,000 more per season. But Graves, at that price, is a bargain, for at least he has all the tools to be an NHL player. Two campaigns ago he had 20 goals as the only bright light of the Canucks, having fallen into the doghouse of Harry Neale mid-way through last year.</p><p>Of far more serious concern to the new clubs was the situation of Kozak and Zetterstrom. Kozak has now fallen in and out of four separate NHL coaches&rsquo; doghouses, from Bob Pulford, through Ron Stewart and Bob Berry in Los Angeles to Neale, who saw fit not to protect the veteran right winger.</p><p>His salary is open to some speculation, but it was signed in the honeymoon days of the Kings.</p><p>Zetterstrom was part of the package Canucks imported from Sweden. The other partner was Lars Lindgren, maybe the most steady influence on the Canucks&rsquo; defense. His teammate of the Swedish nationals of two years ago did not pan out so well In fact he spent almost the entire season helping Dallas win the Central League title. That may be admirable, but not what Canucks had in mind for his considerable salary&mdash;around $80,000 per year.</p><p>So while Canucks&rsquo; general manager Jake Milford hasn&rsquo;t taken any positive steps towards improving the team for next year, he has most certainly unloaded some salaries which will make next year&rsquo;s empty seats a little easier to live with.</p><p>Milford did manage to sign the two free agents he wanted back, Bob Manno and Ron Sedlbauer.</p><p>Sedlbauer had been optimistically seeking something like $130,000, but Milford&rsquo;s subsequent offer was termed a &lsquo;joke&rsquo; by the Eagleson mafia. A settlement was reached with the price probably fairly high but Sedlbauer, a 40-goal scorer last year and setter of the team&rsquo;s record for most goals in a season, took only a year and an option.</p><p>Manno, the left side defenseman who came very much into his own during the playoff series with Philadelphia, got two years and an option and Milford had completed his task for the time being.</p><p>Canucks are also bringing in Veli Pekka Ketola for a look-see next year, as had been anticipated. He was to have joined the team down the stretch after the Finnish playoffs, but he broke his wrist in the last game of the playoffs and was unavailable. He will be given a look at center, where the team suffered the worst of their blight of injuries all last year.</p><p>Meanwhile, Milford admits he&rsquo;s still trying to make a deal to move up in the draft, but the possibility seems to be waning as the August amateur whirl comes closer.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03237/3929830-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="576" height="925"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB MANNO&hellip;Came To Terms</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0026-03

Canucks Offer Newcomers Slim Pickings In NHL Draft

<div class="byline">BY JIM LEAHY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0028-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01302/3929892-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg"></div><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>SPRINGFIELD&mdash;</p><p>A wealth of experience on defense and some great young talent up front highlight the official 1978-79 American Hockey League All Star team as selected by the media and players in the nine AHL cities.</p><p>The first team is made up of: Lindsay Middlebrook, New Haven, goal; Terry Murray, Maine, John Bednarski, New Haven, defensemen; Bernie Johnston, Maine, center; Rocky Saganiuk, New Brunswick, right wing; Yves Preston, Maine, left wing. The second team is composed of: Pete Peeters, Maine, goal; Bob Bilodeau, Hershey, Dennis Patterson, Maine, defensemen; Bobby Sheehan, New Haven, center; Dave Lumley, Nova Scotia, right wing; Jerry Byers, Nova Scotia, left wing.</p><p>Other awards were as follows: Most Valuable Player&mdash;Rocky Saganiuk, New Brunswick; Best Defenseman&mdash;Terry Murray, Maine; Leading Scorer&mdash;Bernie Johnston, Maine; Rookie Of The Year&mdash;Mike Meeker, Binghamton.</p><p>Saganiuk, who had a great year in New Brunswick before being called up to Toronto, collected a total of 74 points in the poll, six short of a unanimous selection and far out-distancing the other members of the forward line. Murray scored 55 points in the selection and Middlebrook&rsquo;s 62 made him an easy winner among the goaltenders.</p><p>The four defensemen honored have some 25 years of pro experience under their belts. Joining Murray who has seven years, are veterans Dennis Patterson with nine, John Bednarski with six, and Bob Bilodeau with three.</p><p>For Patterson, who was captain of the Calder Cup-winning Maine Mariners, it marks the first time that he has been selected to the AHL All Star team. Terry Murray picked up his third All Star puck, after being named the league&rsquo;s best defenseman during the 1977-78 campaign.</p><p>Bednarski has been an All Star pick on three other occasions, while Hershey&rsquo;s Bob Bilodeau has been an All Star two of his three years in the AHL.</p><p>New Haven&rsquo;s Lindsay Middlebrook was the run-away winner among goaltenders eligible for the team. His 62 points in the ballot box were more than double Pete Peeters&rsquo; 27. Last year was the first full season in the AHL for Middlebrook and Lindsay, who stands only five-foot-seven earned the nickname &ldquo;China Wall&rdquo; playing in a league leading 54 games and compiling a respectable 3.22 goals against average.</p><p>Peeters shared the Mariner goaltending duties with Robbie Moore during the first half of the season before Moore was recalled by the Philadelphia Flyers. He was outstanding during the playoffs and had a 2.74 GAA in post-season play to spark the Mariners. Both Peeters and Moore will have their names inscribed on the Harry (Hap) Holmes Trophy for leading the AHL with the least number of goals allowed during the regular season.</p><p>The AHL All Stars were reviewed by several WHA scouts during the season and two First Team selections were drafted by the new NHL clubs during the hockey meetings in Montreal.</p><p>New Haven&rsquo;s Middlebrook was chosen by the Winnipeg Jets. Johnston went to the Hartford Whalers.</p><p>AHL champion Maine also lost left wing Jim Cunningham in the draft when he was selected by the Winnipeg Jets. New Brunswick saw center Jean Savard go to Hartford and defenseman Kevin Kemp to the Whalers also.</p><p>Right wing Bill Riley and defenseman Gordie Smith were picked by Winnipeg off the Washington Capital roster. Both saw action with Hershey last season. Goaltender Doug Favell went to Edmonton after weathering the storm last year in Philadelphia with the Firebirds. Rochester was hit the hardest, losing three players. Right wing Bill Bennett went to Hartford, goaltender Dave Parro to Quebec and forward Mike Forbes to the Edmonton Oilers.</p><p>Springfield lost right winger Hartland Monahan to Quebec and veteran defenseman Larry Brown to Edmonton. In a separate deal, Nova Scotia saw the parent Montreal Canadiens deal forwards Dan Newman and Dave Lumley to Edmonton. The Binghamton Dusters survived the draft without losing a single player.</p><p>In one other happening; the Maine Mariners announced that they will have a working agreement this coming season with Toledo Goaldiggers of the International League who recently became a farm club of the Philadelphia Flyers.</p><h2>Maine Mariners&mdash;Calder Cup Champions</h2><p>The Maine Mariners turned in a repeat performance of last season when they dominated the AHL&rsquo;s 1978-79 campaign. The Mariners swept both the league and playoff titles carrying off the Calder Cup for the second straight year they have been members of the AHL. Here are the Mariners, front row, from the left PETE PEETERS, GORDON CORKUM, controller, FRANK GILBERT, marketing director, MIKE EMRICK, public relations director, ED ANDERSON, president, DENNIS PATTERSON, BOB McCAMMON, coach, JOE BALLARD, group sales, and YVES GUILLE-METTE, Middle row, DAVE SETTLEMYRE, trainer, KEVIN CADY, stick boy, MIKE BUSNIUK, GARY MORRISON, MIKE SIMURDA, REID BAILEY, JOHN PADDOCK, TERRY MURRAY, GLEN COCHRANE, DAN LUCAS, JIM CUNNINGHAM and JIM EVERS, asst, trainer. Back row, TODD BAYREUTHER, equipment manager, WAYNE SCHAAB, DAVE FAULKNER, GORDIE CLARK, BERNIE JOHNSTON, NORM BARNES, BARRY DEAN, YVES PRESTON, PAUL EVANS, GUY DELPARTE and SHAWN MCCARTHY, stick boy.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NHL Expansion Teams Pick AHL’Stars’

<p>SYRACUSE&mdash;</p><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he transplanted Philadelphia Firebirds are now official residents of Syracuse, New York and the team will be in the AHL&rsquo;s Southern Division once again this season. Since the Firebirds announced their move several months ago, activity in Syracuse has been at a fever pitch. Season ticket sales, went past the 300 mark in the first month and the team has a sales force hard at work in the community.</p><p>The &ldquo;Name the Team Contest&rdquo; drew 867 entries and over 75 percent of the fans wanted to retain the Firebird name. Whether or not the club wears the flashy green and orange Firebird uniforms is another matter.</p><p>After spending seven years in Rochester and helping to make that city one of the best franchises in the AHL, John Den Hamer has come to Syracuse to take the post of director of operations and assistant to the president. President George Piszek, the leader of the Firebird organization, will remain in Philadelphia and tend to his dutires as a vice-president of Mrs. Paul&rsquo;s Kitchens. Erik Nelson will return of the Firebirds and has made the move from Philadelphia to Syracuse.</p><p>After spending the 1978-79 season involved in junior hockey in Syracuse. Al Kalter has been named director of public relations. Kalter will also handle the broadcasting duties.</p><p>The club took a giant step towards respectability by signing a working agreement with the Quebec Nordiques. Under the terms of the pact, Quebec will supply a mimimum of 10 players to the Syracuse Firebirds. Firebirds&rsquo; president George Piszek was elated at the announcement, stating &ldquo;Basically, it&rsquo;s not just a question of the number of players, or the quality of the players, but the feelings of confidence, cooperation, and openess demonstrated by the Nordiques. We have a mutual commitment to excellence, both in the NHL and in the AHL.&rdquo;</p><p>American Hockey League president Jack Butterfield welcomed the Quebec Nordiques to the AHL. &ldquo;From our knowledge of the caliber of hockey players already on the Nordiques&rsquo; roster, as well as those players drafted, the Firebirds are most fortunate to have been able to negotiate such a working agreement. I feel certain, with partners such as the Quebec Nordiques, the Syracuse Firebirds are destined for a great season in their new environment and with their new affiliations,&rdquo; said the AHL leader.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Activity At Fever Pitch For Syracuse Franchise

<h2><b>FINAL STANDINGS</b></h2><h3>NORTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01261/3930031-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="595" height="140"></div><h3>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-02213/3930024-1-eng-US/f0029-022.jpg" title="f0029-02" width="597" height="172"></div><h3>FINAL SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-03143/3930017-1-eng-US/f0029-032.jpg" title="f0029-03" width="595" height="387"></div><p><b>FINAL SCORING BY TEAMS</b></p><h2>BINGHAMTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-04107/3930010-1-eng-US/f0029-042.jpg" title="f0029-04" width="589" height="1226"></div><h2>HERSHEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0596/3930003-1-eng-US/f0029-052.jpg" title="f0029-05" width="588" height="900"></div><h2>MAINE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0675/3929996-1-eng-US/f0029-062.jpg" title="f0029-06" width="600" height="905"></div><h2>NEW BRUNSWICK</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0760/3929989-1-eng-US/f0029-072.jpg" title="f0029-07" width="593" height="1187"></div><h2>NEW HAVEN</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0852/3929982-1-eng-US/f0029-082.jpg" title="f0029-08" width="598" height="915"></div><h2>NOVA SCOTIA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-0947/3929975-1-eng-US/f0029-092.jpg" title="f0029-09" width="596" height="891"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1040/3929968-1-eng-US/f0029-102.jpg" title="f0029-10" width="600" height="1294"></div><h2>ROCHESTER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1135/3929961-1-eng-US/f0029-112.jpg" title="f0029-11" width="608" height="1081"></div><h2>SPRINGFIELD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1231/3929954-1-eng-US/f0029-122.jpg" title="f0029-12" width="603" height="1305"></div><h3>FINAL GOALING RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1325/3929947-1-eng-US/f0029-132.jpg" title="f0029-13" width="604" height="856"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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American Hockey League Statistics

<h2>PLAYOFF STANDINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1422/3930132-1-eng-US/f0029-142.jpg" title="f0029-14" width="600" height="204"></div><h2>Quarter-Finals</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1518/3930125-1-eng-US/f0029-152.jpg" title="f0029-15" width="596" height="253"></div><h2>SEMI-FINALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1616/3930118-1-eng-US/f0029-162.jpg" title="f0029-16" width="587" height="246"></div><h2>FINALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1715/3930111-1-eng-US/f0029-172.jpg" title="f0029-17" width="580" height="115"></div><h2>PLAYOFF SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1815/3930104-1-eng-US/f0029-182.jpg" title="f0029-18" width="600" height="277"></div><p><b>PLAYOFF SCORING BY TEAMS</b></p><h2>MAINE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-1910/3930097-1-eng-US/f0029-192.jpg" title="f0029-19" width="588" height="600"></div><h2>NEW HAVEN</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-208/3930090-1-eng-US/f0029-202.jpg" title="f0029-20" width="593" height="605"></div><h2>BINGHAMTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-218/3930083-1-eng-US/f0029-212.jpg" title="f0029-21" width="597" height="555"></div><h2>NOVA SCOTIA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-228/3930076-1-eng-US/f0029-222.jpg" title="f0029-22" width="591" height="627"></div><h2>HERSHEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-238/3930069-1-eng-US/f0029-232.jpg" title="f0029-23" width="590" height="529"></div><h2>NEW BRUNSWICK</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-248/3930062-1-eng-US/f0029-242.jpg" title="f0029-24" width="587" height="527"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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How Maine Won The Cup

<div class="byline">BY TOM LOBAUGH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0030-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01298/3930163-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg"></div><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>HOUSTON&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Everything is falling into place,&rdquo; commented veteran Al Rollins, general manager-coach of the new Houston Apollos in the CHL.</p><p>&ldquo;If we had come in here with a minor league team right on the heels of a major league team, it might have been bad. But the Aeros (Houston&rsquo;s World Hockey Association entry) folded after the 1977-78 season. And after a year with no professional hockey in the city, the fans really want to see a team in here.</p><p>&ldquo;The response of the fans and the media has been great. We sold 750 season tickets without having a drive of any kind. When we start our drive in August and September, I think we&rsquo;ll really sell a lot.&rdquo;</p><p>Two former Aeros players, defenseman Glen Irwin and forward Paul Popeil, were working in the Apollos&rsquo; front office (ticket sales and promotions) and were expecting to play for the new club.</p><p>Rollins was on the verge of signing a working agreement with the Edmonton Oilers, one of four WHA clubs admitted to the National League in the latest expansion, to provide the bulk of the Apollos&rsquo; players. Last season Edmonton assigned players to Dallas Black Hawks, who won the Adams Cup playoff championship, after finishing second to the Salt Lake Golden Eagles in the CHL&rsquo;s regular season.</p><p>Rollins, a longtime NHL goalkeeper, was player personnel director for the Phoenix Roadrunners of the WHA for the three years that club existed. When the Roadrunners dropped out of the WHA, Rollins went into partnership with Bill MacFarland (who had been Phoenix general manager) in a firm of player representatives. MacFarland will continue the agency.</p><p>The Apollos will play in Sam Houston Coliseum, where the old Apollos played in the CHL for four seasons (1965-69) as a farm club of the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>&ldquo;The Coliseum is a better place to watch hockey than the Summit (where the Aeros played),&rdquo; Rollins insisted. &ldquo;We looked at the Summit, but the rent was just out of the question.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve announced plans to renovate the Coliseum, at a cost of about a quarter of a million dollars, including all new seats. It won&rsquo;t happen overnight, but it&rsquo;s in the works.&rdquo;</p><p>Meanwhile, the CHL&rsquo;s other new team, the Birmingham Bulls announced that John Brophy, last season&rsquo;s coach-of-the-year in the WHA, would head the new-development club.</p><p>Birmingham&rsquo;s CHL entry will be sponsored by the Atlanta Flames, who had a team in Tulsa the past four seasons (three of them in partnership with the Vancouver Canucks).</p><p>Although Brophy&rsquo;s WHA Bulls finished last in their division, they were only a point out of the playoffs, with a team heavily-laden with rookies, including several under age juniors.</p><p>In Tulsa, Mike Smith, 33-year-old former assistant coach of the Colorado Rockies, was announced as coach of the Oilers, who signed a new working agreement with the Winnipeg Meis another WHA club coming into the NHL in the latest expansion.</p><p>Smith, who holds a PH. D. degree from Clarkson College, was special assignments coach for the New York Rangers for two seasons before going to Colorado last year. With the Rangers he worked under general manager John Ferguson, who took over a similar position at Winnipeg last November, and added Smith to the Jets&rsquo; staff.</p><p>Time appeared to be running out on the CHL&rsquo;s hopes of adding former WHA cities Indianapolis and Cincinnati for the 1979-80 season. Local owners in those cities apparently were unable to get working agreements with parent clubs.</p><p>Kansas City&rsquo;s hopes of continuing in the league were dashed when the Kemper Arena roof collapsed during a June 4 storm. The Detroit Red Wings, KC&rsquo;s lone parent club for two years (after a joint arrangement with the St. Louis Blues in 1976-77) had announced earlier they were pulling out of Kansas City, but local businessmen had hoped to find another parent club.</p><h2>DALLAS BLACK HAWKS&mdash;Adams CUP Champions</h2><p>The Dallas Black Hawks were truly the &lsquo;Cinderella&rsquo; team of pro hockey last season. The Hawks, who were in last place in December, came on to finish strong behind Salt Lake and went on to win the playoff title from the Eagles. They won eight of nine playoff games. The new Adams Cup champions are shown above, front row, from the left, ROB FLOCKHART, GERRY MINOR, ERNIE HICKE, Dr. GRAHAM BOLTON, team physician, JOHN MUCKLER, GM and coach, ROBERT BOREN, chairman of the board, JOHN CHENEY, president, GREG HUBICK, BRAD SMITH and JEFF BANDURA. Middle row, ED WALSH, JIM MAYER, STEVE CLIPPINGDALE, DOUG BERRY, LARS ZETTERSTROM, CURT RIDLEY and CLAIRE ALEXANDER. Back row, KEN FLEGER, trainer, DAVE GARDNER, CAL SANDBECK, TOM ROULSTON, DREW CALLANDER, DOUG HICKS, RON CARTER, STEVE HAZLETT and TERRY PAYNE, asst, trainer.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Houston, Birmingham Boost CHL To 7 Teams

<h2>PLAYOFF STANDINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-02236/3930250-1-eng-US/f0030-022.jpg" title="f0030-02" width="590" height="145"></div><h3>SEMI-FINALS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-03177/3930243-1-eng-US/f0030-032.jpg" title="f0030-03" width="595" height="234"></div><h3>FINALS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-04125/3930236-1-eng-US/f0030-042.jpg" title="f0030-04" width="585" height="110"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Fri. Apr. 20</b></p><p><b>Dallas 5 at Salt Lake 2</b></p><p><b>Mon. Apr. 23</b></p><p><b>Dallas 5 at Salt Lake 3.</b></p><p><b>Fri. Apr. 27</b></p><p><b>Salt Lake 7 at Dallas 3</b></p><p><b>Sat. Apr. 28</b></p><p><b>Salt Lake 2 at Dallas 6</b></p><p><b>Tue May 1</b></p><p><b>Dallas 6 at Salt Lake 4</b></p><h3>PLAYOFF SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0586/3930229-1-eng-US/f0030-052.jpg" title="f0030-05" width="594" height="495"></div><p><b>FINAL SCORING BY TEAMS</b></p><h2>DALLAS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0664/3930222-1-eng-US/f0030-062.jpg" title="f0030-06" width="587" height="549"></div><h2>FORT WORTH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0751/3930215-1-eng-US/f0030-072.jpg" title="f0030-07" width="592" height="519"></div><h2>KANSAS CITY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0844/3930208-1-eng-US/f0030-082.jpg" title="f0030-08" width="593" height="511"></div><h2>SALT LAKE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-0936/3930201-1-eng-US/f0030-092.jpg" title="f0030-09" width="596" height="611"></div><h3>PLAYOFF GOALING RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-1028/3930194-1-eng-US/f0030-102.jpg" title="f0030-10" width="595" height="237"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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How Dallas Won The Adams Cup

<h2>Final Standings</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-01273/3930344-1-eng-US/f0031-012.jpg" title="f0031-01" width="587" height="199"></div><h2>Final Scoring Leaders</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-02216/3930337-1-eng-US/f0031-022.jpg" title="f0031-02" width="590" height="420"></div><h2>FINAL SCORING BY TEAMS</h2><h3>DALLAS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-03170/3930330-1-eng-US/f0031-032.jpg" title="f0031-03" width="595" height="1236"></div><h3>FORT WORTH</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-04133/3930323-1-eng-US/f0031-042.jpg" title="f0031-04" width="602" height="640"></div><h3>KANSAS CITY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-05118/3930316-1-eng-US/f0031-052.jpg" title="f0031-05" width="590" height="803"></div><h3>OKLAHOMA CITY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0693/3930309-1-eng-US/f0031-062.jpg" title="f0031-06" width="596" height="1054"></div><h3>SALT LAKE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0780/3930302-1-eng-US/f0031-072.jpg" title="f0031-07" width="602" height="970"></div><h3>TULSA</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0871/3930295-1-eng-US/f0031-082.jpg" title="f0031-08" width="588" height="808"></div><h3>FINAL GOALING RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-1046/3930288-1-eng-US/f0031-102.jpg" title="f0031-10" width="602" height="879"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-0958/3930281-1-eng-US/f0031-092.jpg" title="f0031-09" width="519" height="653"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RICK SHINSKE&hellip;Scoring Champ</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Central Hockey League Statistics

<h2>FINAL STANDINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-1139/3930424-1-eng-US/f0031-112.jpg" title="f0031-11" width="588" height="224"></div><h2>FINAL SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-1222/3930417-1-eng-US/f0031-122.jpg" title="f0031-12" width="587" height="410"></div><p><b>FINAL SCORING BY TEAMS</b></p><h2>PHOENIX</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-1319/3930410-1-eng-US/f0031-132.jpg" title="f0031-13" width="585" height="528"></div><h2>SAN DIEGO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-1417/3930403-1-eng-US/f0031-142.jpg" title="f0031-14" width="595" height="556"></div><h2>SPOKANE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-1516/3930396-1-eng-US/f0031-152.jpg" title="f0031-15" width="595" height="564"></div><h2>TUCSON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-1614/3930389-1-eng-US/f0031-162.jpg" title="f0031-16" width="591" height="576"></div><h2>SAN FRANCISCO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-1713/3930382-1-eng-US/f0031-172.jpg" title="f0031-17" width="603" height="552"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-1812/3930375-1-eng-US/f0031-182.jpg" title="f0031-18" width="596" height="981"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Pacific League Statistics

<div class="byline">BY BUD GALLMEIER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0032-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01278/3930455-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg"></div><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p>The International Hockey League will be a 10-team circuit again during the 1979-80 season. This was assured here during the league&rsquo;s annual summer meeting when official re-entry of the dormant Dayton franchise was approved.</p><p>Dayton suspended operations after the 1977 season but had protected the franchise and will reactivate same this coming year. Still nicknamed the Gems, Dayton got things underway with the announcement of Bill Selman as their new coach. Selman spent 13 years coaching college hockey, the last nine at St. Louis University. His overall record was 250-187-18.</p><p>In other league matters, the directors voted for the return of an 80-game schedule. With 10 teams in operation, an unbalanced schedule will follow. The season will open on Oct. 19 and end on April 6.</p><p>Still pending is the naming of a new commissioner. Frank Gallagher served the league in that capacity following the resignation of Bill Beagan, but does not want to continue on a full-time basis. A number of candidates have already been interviewed. The top candidates appear to be Jack Timmens, - a former IHL player with Fort Wayne and former commissioner of the North American League and Jack Riley, whose long career has included commissioner posts with the American and Southern leagues.</p><p>While no decision was reached at the meetings, one league spokesman said &ldquo;Riley would appear to be the most qualified. But that is only my opinion.&rdquo;</p><p>While the league recognized that some financial obligations still were outstanding by some teams, the future appeared solid. Grand Rapids, which reportedly was in arrears in rent, denied such claims and a subsequent investigation backed up the franchise statement.</p><p>Kalamazoo, which capped a season-long comeback by winning the Turner Cup announced that Bob Lemieux, who helped launch the franchise, is leaving the hockey operation. He will still be visible, however, as he has been given the &ldquo;major responsibilities for the K-Wing Stadium operation,&rdquo; said Ted Parfet, chairman of the board of the stadium.</p><p>Lemieux&rsquo;s new responsibilities will cover all activities in the Stadium including concerts, ice events and community events and projects. Lemieux has been serving as both vice president and general manager of the hockey club as well as chief administrative officer of the stadium.</p><p>Meanwhile, Bill Purcell, who led the Wings to their first Turner Cup championship, hasn&rsquo;t decided as yet if he will return. &ldquo;I am thinking strongly of returning to Kalamazoo next season,&rdquo; Purcell said. &ldquo;1 have thoroughly enjoyed my stay in this community and would cherish the opportunity to come back. However, 1 must first discuss it with my wife and family.&rdquo;</p><p>Officially, only one coaching job in the league is open at this time. That would be Milwaukee where Gene Ubriaco was released shortly after the Admirals lost to Grand Rapids in the first round of the playoffs.</p><p>A likely candidate is Gregg Pilling, who was coach of the year during the 1977-78 season as he led Fort Wayne to the Huber Trophy championship. Pilling is apparently not returning to Regina, where he coached in the Western Junior League this past season. Pilling also has been mentioned as a replacement for Moe Bartoli at Grand Rapids. Bartoli would prefer limiting his duties to general manager only. He was coach and GM this year.</p><h2>KALAMAZOO K-WINGS&mdash;Turner Cup Champions</h2><p><b>The Kalamazoo K-Wings won the their first Turner Cup this past season in a gruelling seven-game showdown with Grand Rapids. The Wings swept both their earlier playoff series and ended up with 12 wins in 15 playoff starts to take it all. The new IHL champs, front row, from the left, AL JENSEN, MIKE WANCHUK, BILL PURCELL, coach, RANDY MOHNS, RON WILSON, BOB LEMIEUX, vice-president & GM, JOHN BARRETT and CLAUDE LEGRIS. Middle row, JOE WRIGHT, trainer, STEPHEN DOHERTY, public relations director, RICK HOFFMAN, equipment manager, LEN IRCANDIA, BENOIT GOSSELIN, PETE CRAWFORD, STERLING LOGA, JEAN CHOUINARD, BRIAN McDAVID, FRANK WILBUR, TERRY ROOF and TERRY FICORELLI, director of communications. Back row, DOUG DERKSON, GLENN WYLIE, GRANT MORIN, TOM MILANI, TOM ROSS and KEVIN SCHAMEHORN.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Dayton Rejoins IHL With Selman As Coach

<h2>PLAYOFF STANDINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0676/3930636-1-eng-US/f0033-062.jpg" title="f0033-06" width="589" height="250"></div><h3>Quarter-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0767/3930629-1-eng-US/f0033-072.jpg" title="f0033-07" width="599" height="439"></div><h3>Semi-Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0857/3930622-1-eng-US/f0033-082.jpg" title="f0033-08" width="588" height="226"></div><h3>Finals</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0948/3930615-1-eng-US/f0033-092.jpg" title="f0033-09" width="586" height="112"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3><p><b>Fri. May 11</b></p><p><b>Kalamazoo 2 at Grand Rapids 4</b></p><p><b>Sat. May 12</b></p><p><b>Grand Rapids 1 at Kalamazoo 7</b></p><p><b>Tue. May 15</b></p><p><b>Kalamazoo 5 at Grand Rapids 7</b></p><p><b>Thu. May 17</b></p><p><b>Grand Rapids 1 at Kalamazoo 6</b></p><p><b>Sat. May 19</b></p><p><b>Kalamazoo 4 at Grand Rapids 5</b></p><p><b>Sun. May 20</b></p><p><b>Grand Rapids 2 at Kalamazoo 6</b></p><p><b>Tue. May 22</b></p><p><b>Kalamazoo 5 at Grand Rapids 2</b></p><h3>PLAYOFF SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1044/3930608-1-eng-US/f0033-102.jpg" title="f0033-10" width="587" height="461"></div><h2>PLAYOFF SCORING BY TEAMS</h2><h3>FLINT</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1142/3930601-1-eng-US/f0033-112.jpg" title="f0033-11" width="596" height="551"></div><h3>FORT WAYNE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1241/3930594-1-eng-US/f0033-122.jpg" title="f0033-12" width="601" height="444"></div><h3>GRAND RAPIDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1330/3930587-1-eng-US/f0033-132.jpg" title="f0033-13" width="592" height="498"></div><h3>KALAMAZOO</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1427/3930580-1-eng-US/f0033-142.jpg" title="f0033-14" width="606" height="500"></div><h3>MILWAUKEE</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1523/3930573-1-eng-US/f0033-152.jpg" title="f0033-15" width="596" height="530"></div><h3>PORT HURON</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1618/3930566-1-eng-US/f0033-162.jpg" title="f0033-16" width="602" height="502"></div><h3>SAGINAW</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1718/3930559-1-eng-US/f0033-172.jpg" title="f0033-17" width="596" height="502"></div><h3>TOLEDO</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1816/3930552-1-eng-US/f0033-182.jpg" title="f0033-18" width="592" height="474"></div><h3>PLAYOFF COALING RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-1914/3930545-1-eng-US/f0033-192.jpg" title="f0033-19" width="602" height="418"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Turner Cup Picture

<h2>FINAL STANDINGS</h2><h3>North Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-01248/3930514-1-eng-US/f0033-012.jpg" title="f0033-01" width="586" height="170"></div><h3>South Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-02192/3930507-1-eng-US/f0033-022.jpg" title="f0033-02" width="588" height="142"></div><h3>FINAL SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-03146/3930500-1-eng-US/f0033-032.jpg" title="f0033-03" width="593" height="414"></div><h3>FINAL SCORING RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-04119/3930493-1-eng-US/f0033-042.jpg" title="f0033-04" width="614" height="7157"></div><h3>FINAL GOALING RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-0595/3930486-1-eng-US/f0033-052.jpg" title="f0033-05" width="588" height="1125"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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International Hockey League Statistics

<p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>TORONTO&mdash;</p><p>The Ontario Major Hockey League has another new coach in their ranks.</p><p>He&rsquo;s 39-year-old Dave Chambers, former hockey coach at York University in Toronto. Chambers will become the head coach of the Toronto Marlboros succeeding former NHLer Bill White with the OHA team.</p><p>Under White the Marlboros had a poor regular-season record finishing fifth in the six-team Emms Division race and coming through the preliminary round of the playoffs without any wins.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m well aware of the Marlboros&rsquo; difficulties last season and I have some plans for improvement,&rdquo; said Chambers, who is faced with coming up with a better record than the 27-40-1 mark the Marlies struggled with last season. The Marlboros ranked only 10th in total offense in the 12-team league and that&rsquo;s another facet of the team on which Chambers plans to do some work.</p><p>Chambers, who began his coaching career at the University of Saskatchewan in 1966, will continue to teach fitness and coachin courses at York University while serving as Marlies&rsquo; tutor.</p><p>After receiving approval for the Marlie job from York physical education chairman Frank Cosentino and York president Ian MacDonald, Chambers declined an offer to return as coach of the Yeomen and decided to opt for the Marlies.</p><p>A conscientious student of hockey. Chambers guided the Yeomen to three first-place and two second-place finishes in the Ontario Universities Athletic Association from 1972 to 1977.</p><p>Chambers is the third coaching change for the OHA this season. Bob Ertel of Kitchener returned to the Rangers after quitting during the spring playoffs over uncontrollable rough play in the league. The other Bill White, no relation, was fired as coach by the Oshawa Generals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

College Coach Named To Direct Marlboros

<h2>FINAL STANDINGS LEYDEN DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-03162/3930796-1-eng-US/f0034-032.jpg" title="f0034-03" width="588" height="192"></div><h2>EMMS DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-04107/3930789-1-eng-US/f0034-042.jpg" title="f0034-04" width="589" height="196"></div><h2>FINAL SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0569/3930782-1-eng-US/f0034-052.jpg" title="f0034-05" width="596" height="301"></div><p><b>FINAL SCORING BY TEAMS</b></p><h2>BRANTFORD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0646/3930775-1-eng-US/f0034-062.jpg" title="f0034-06" width="600" height="580"></div><h2>KINGSTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0740/3930768-1-eng-US/f0034-072.jpg" title="f0034-07" width="592" height="607"></div><h2>KITCHENER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0835/3930761-1-eng-US/f0034-082.jpg" title="f0034-08" width="596" height="577"></div><h2>LONDON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0925/3930754-1-eng-US/f0034-092.jpg" title="f0034-09" width="596" height="567"></div><h2>NIAGARA FALLS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1023/3930747-1-eng-US/f0034-102.jpg" title="f0034-10" width="592" height="587"></div><h2>OSHAWA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01260/3930740-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="607" height="584"></div><h2>OTTAWA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-02217/3930733-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="596" height="581"></div><h2>PETERBOROUGH</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-03162/3930726-1-eng-US/f0035-032.jpg" title="f0035-03" width="597" height="632"></div><h2>SAULT STE. MARIE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-04131/3930719-1-eng-US/f0035-042.jpg" title="f0035-04" width="596" height="452"></div><h2>SUDBURY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-05100/3930712-1-eng-US/f0035-052.jpg" title="f0035-05" width="593" height="505"></div><h2>TORONTO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0681/3930705-1-eng-US/f0035-062.jpg" title="f0035-06" width="597" height="590"></div><h2>WINDSOR</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0772/3930698-1-eng-US/f0035-072.jpg" title="f0035-07" width="602" height="527"></div><h2>FINAL GOALING RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0854/3930691-1-eng-US/f0035-082.jpg" title="f0035-08" width="598" height="1543"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ontario Major League Statistics

<h2>WEST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-0951/3930939-1-eng-US/f0035-092.jpg" title="f0035-09" width="590" height="137"></div><h2>CENTRAL DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1043/3930932-1-eng-US/f0035-102.jpg" title="f0035-10" width="593" height="138"></div><h2>EAST DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1138/3930925-1-eng-US/f0035-112.jpg" title="f0035-11" width="601" height="140"></div><h2>FINAL SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1230/3930918-1-eng-US/f0035-122.jpg" title="f0035-12" width="593" height="550"></div><h2>FINAL SCORING BY TEAMS BILLINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1326/3930911-1-eng-US/f0035-132.jpg" title="f0035-13" width="594" height="922"></div><h2>BRANDON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1424/3930904-1-eng-US/f0035-142.jpg" title="f0035-14" width="614" height="751"></div><h2>CALGARY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1521/3930897-1-eng-US/f0035-152.jpg" title="f0035-15" width="595" height="1203"></div><h2>EDMONTON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1620/3930890-1-eng-US/f0035-162.jpg" title="f0035-16" width="587" height="934"></div><h2>LETHBRIDGE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1716/3930883-1-eng-US/f0035-172.jpg" title="f0035-17" width="598" height="1002"></div><h2>MEDICINE HAT</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1815/3930876-1-eng-US/f0035-182.jpg" title="f0035-18" width="594" height="1093"></div><h2>NEW WESTMINSTER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-1913/3930869-1-eng-US/f0035-192.jpg" title="f0035-19" width="598" height="1108"></div><h2>PORTLAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-2013/3930862-1-eng-US/f0035-202.jpg" title="f0035-20" width="604" height="826"></div><h2>REGINA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-217/3930855-1-eng-US/f0035-212.jpg" title="f0035-21" width="600" height="1195"></div><h2>SASKATOON</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-02176/3930848-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="596" height="1030"></div><h2>SEATTLE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-03129/3930841-1-eng-US/f0036-032.jpg" title="f0036-03" width="595" height="958"></div><h2>VICTORIA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0483/3930834-1-eng-US/f0036-042.jpg" title="f0036-04" width="587" height="688"></div><h2>FINAL GOALING RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0552/3930827-1-eng-US/f0036-052.jpg" title="f0036-05" width="591" height="1768"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Western Hockey League Statistics

<div class="byline">BY DAVE SENICK</div><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>CALGARY&mdash;</p><p>There has been more shuffling in the Western Hockey League than at a poker convention.</p><p>The WHL has undergone a number of changes during the past few weeks, starting from the top.</p><p>League President Ed Chynoweth announced his resignation but, as he put it, is only, &ldquo;moving from the head of the table to the side.&rdquo;</p><p>Chynoweth remains in the league as a minority owner, governor and general manager of the Calgary Wranglers.</p><p>A successor to Chynoweth will be named at a later date.</p><p>Wranglers&rsquo; majority owner Jim Morley said Chynoweth&rsquo;s share of the club is better than 25 percent but less than 50 percent. Chynoweth also has the right to purchase controlling interest if Morley wants to move the franchise.</p><p>Chynoweth has been WHL president for the past seven and one-half years and was executive director of the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League, a post he is also resigning.</p><p>. During his stay in office, the league has branched out into four provinces and three American states.</p><p>Chynoweth was one of the persons instrumental in forming the CMJHL and was the catalyst behind the Labatt Cup, an international junior hockey tournament. He was also in charge of the Memorial Cup championships during 1974 in Calgary and 1977 in Van-couver, two of the more successful finals in the past seven years.</p><p>But he has a new challenge now and that&rsquo;s with the Wranglers.</p><p>&ldquo;The opportunity to attain ownership of a major junior franchise along with the challenge were deciding factors in my decision,&rdquo; said Chynoweth. He figures the team is in the midst of a rebuilding program and it will take a minimum of one year before the effects of his influence start to show.</p><p>One difference with the Wranglers this season will be new uniforms with white and blue trim. Road uniforms will be reversed.</p><p>Pat Ginnell is another person who took the cue for a change.</p><p>His one-year contract as head coach of the Lethbridge Broncos has expired and Ginnell has decided to switch allegiance to the Medicine Hat Tigers. That move occurred after George Maser purchased Joe Fisher&rsquo;s share of the Tigers.</p><p>Ginnell will be general managercoach and governor of Medicine Hat. He has also purchased a share in the franchise.</p><p>Ginnell, in the past, has been part of the former Flin Flon Bombers franchise and the Victoria Cougars. He was named coach-of-the-year on four occasions, three times with Flin Flon and once with the Cougars.</p><p>Last season, his first with the Broncos, he guided the team to second place in the Central Division with a 37-28-7 record. The team reached the league&rsquo;s round robin playoff final with Brandon Wheat Kings and Portland Winter Hawks but were eliminated in the first round. The 37 regular-season wins were the most ever by a Broncos&rsquo; team.</p><p>Mike Sauter, brother of Calgary coach Doug Sauter, will assume Ginnell&rsquo;s coaching position with the Broncos. He has handled the job before.</p><p>Mike Sauter was behind the bench at Lethbridge from Jan. 1976 to March 1977 before being replaced following an indefinite league suspension. He was banished for becoming involved with former Calgary forward Grant Morin during a game.</p><p>For the past two seasons, Sauter has been coach and general manager of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League&rsquo;s (Tier Two) Moose Jaw Canucks. In each of those seasons, the club advanced to the league final.</p><p>There is also a new look in Regina.</p><p>The team finished last in the Eastern Division this past season with just 43 points and gate receipts were just as dismal with an average home attendance of only 1, 607.</p><p>The time was ripe for change, prompting transfer of ownership to the Pinder family of Saskatoon. The transfer ended an association of more than 30 years between the Pats and Del Wilson.</p><p>Wilson, who was the WHL vicepresident last season, was a goaltender on the 1946 Regina Pats and has been with the club since then in various capacities.</p><p>He initiated Pats&rsquo; entry into the WHL in 1970 and was the general manager of the Regina team which won the Memorial Cup in the 1973-74 season. Wilson was one of six owners who sold the team to the Pinders.</p><p>The new executive committee of the Pats includes Herb Pinder Jr., Gerry Pinder, Dick Pinder and Bob Strumm, who is also a part owner, governor and general manager.</p><p>Gerry and Herb are former members of Canada&rsquo;s national team, Gerry has also played in the National Hockey League with Chicago and Oakland and in the defunct World Hockey Association. Herb is a player&rsquo;s agent for a number of professionals, mainly from western Canada.</p><p>Strumm has been general manager of the Billings Bighorns for the past two seasons. He has not yet named a coach for the Pats but Gregg Pilling, who was Regina&rsquo;s GM-coach last season, is out of the running for the job. Last season was Pilling&rsquo;s first coaching junior hockey after a career behind the bench in the minor professional leagues.</p><p>Another person not in the running for the Regina job is Dave King who worked with Strumm as a coach in Billings. King has left the Bighorns for a teaching and coaching position at the University of Saskatchewan.</p><p>King, in his first year at Billings, shared coach of the year honors with Jack Shupe of Victoria.</p><p>&ldquo;My family is still young and I found that in Billings you spend more time on the road than other teams. I still want to coach hockey and spend some time with the family, which I&rsquo;ll be able to do at the U of S.&rdquo;</p><p>But don&rsquo;t be surprised if you see King back in the WHL.</p><p>He is only signed for one year at the University of Saskatchewan, replacing Dave Smith who is on a sabbatical.</p><p>King indicated there is a good possibility he could return to the league, probably in a Canadian center where the travelling wouldn&rsquo;t be as time consuming.</p><p>That leaves the Bighorns without a GM and coach, positions they have not yet filled.</p><p>In other league dealings, Seattle Breakers have been purchased by Portland Business interests including lawyer Mark O&rsquo;Donnell.</p><p>And, the Great Falls Americans, formerly the Edmonton Oil Kings before the franchise was shifted at the end of last season, are expected to have Tom Gauthier as general manager. The team will play out of an arena which will seat 4,700. It is under construction and scheduled to be completed before the season opens.</p><p>Those involved in the WHL will probably be doing some more shuffling before then, too.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01236/3930970-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="575" height="668"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ED CHYNOWETH&hellip;Joins Wranglers</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Chynoweth Assumes New WHL Posts As Loop Undergoes Summer Shuffle

<div class="byline">BY DANNY YOUNG</div><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>CHICOUTIMI&mdash;</p><p>With the large turnover of players in junior hockey, the annual midget draft plays a vital role in the subsequent success of each franchise. Players join a team when they are 16 or 17, and leave in the year of their 20th birthday. As a result, the teams must replace their graduating players with draft selections.</p><p>At the conclusion of the 1978-79 season, the junior careers of 58 Quebec Major Junior League players had expired. The league&rsquo;s 10 teams must therefore bring in at least 58 rookies to fill the vacancies, an average of just under six newcomers per club.</p><p>The Trois-Rivieres Draveurs, league champs for the past two years, were hit hardest by graduations. They have lost 11 players (eight forwards and three defensemen) from their 21-man roster. To make matters worse, the Draveurs traded away their first and second round draft choices.</p><p>The team least affected by graduations was the Chicoutimi Sags who have lost only three players from their sixth place squad. Chicoutimi also had the luxury of drawing the first selection in the draft, and opted for 17-year-old centerman Eric Bernier. The Sags&rsquo; general manager and coach Orval Tessier was looking for someone who could replace departing center Roch Bois. Bernier, a superb playmaker with 93 points in Junior B this past season, should be ideal for the role.</p><p>Bernier&rsquo;s selection initiated a successful draft for the Sags. With five picks in the first three rounds, they should be in good shape as far as rookies are concerned.</p><p>The second and third picks went to the Hull Olympics, and with that club&rsquo;s dismal 10-55-7 record, the choices were badly needed. The Olympics picked John Chabot and Dan Miele, the latter well known as a result of his scoring heroics with the powerhouse Lac St. Louis Lions of Quebec&rsquo;s Midget &ldquo;AAA&rdquo; league.</p><p>Miele was one of eight Lions&rsquo; players taken in the first five rounds of the draft. Trois-Rivieres Jean-Francois Sauve and Laval&rsquo;s Alain Grenier are both products of the Lions. Sauve was the league&rsquo;s leading scorer this past year, and Grenier was rookie-of-the-year.</p><p>Shawinigan also had two picks in the first round, and selected Guy Fournier of St. Foy and Marcel Giguere. Laval and Trois-Rivieres were the teams without a pick in the first round.</p><p>The Cornwall Royals, who draft out of the Ontario Hockey Association, did quite well for themselves. Though interested in a defenseman, they were delighted to grab forward Dale Hawenchuck with the sixth pick of the Ontario draft. Hawenchuck was described as a &ldquo;Wayne Gretzky type.&rdquo; The Royals also drafted Scott Arneil, a solid six-foot-one, 175-pound winger.</p><p><b>QMJHL NOTES:</b> Laval coach and general manager Richard Jamieson may be headed to Wisconsin where he would coach the Milwaukee Admirals of the International Leauge&hellip;Verdun&rsquo;s Raymond Bourque received the Emile Bouchard trophy as the league&rsquo;s best defenseman, beating out Trois-Rivieres Pierre Lacroix, the CCM player of the year&hellip;The Sherbrooke Beavers acquired 18-year-old defenseman Claude Michon from Chicoutimi in exchange for a third-round draft choice. Michon left the Chicoutimi camp last September to study at the University of Sherbrooke.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-01244/3931032-1-eng-US/f0038-012.jpg" title="f0038-01" width="569" height="766"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ERIC BERNIER&hellip;Top Midget Pick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Sags Draft Bountiful Rookie Crop

<h2>FINAL STANDINGS Dilio Division</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-02191/3931147-1-eng-US/f0038-022.jpg" title="f0038-02" width="600" height="163"></div><h2>Lebel Division</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-03143/3931140-1-eng-US/f0038-032.jpg" title="f0038-03" width="610" height="167"></div><h2>FINAL SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0499/3931133-1-eng-US/f0038-042.jpg" title="f0038-04" width="608" height="304"></div><h2>FINAL SCORING BY TEAMS CHICOUTIMI</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0571/3931126-1-eng-US/f0038-052.jpg" title="f0038-05" width="606" height="845"></div><h2>CORNWALL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0655/3931119-1-eng-US/f0038-062.jpg" title="f0038-06" width="598" height="769"></div><h2>HULL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0749/3931112-1-eng-US/f0038-072.jpg" title="f0038-07" width="599" height="930"></div><h2>LAVAL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0834/3931105-1-eng-US/f0038-082.jpg" title="f0038-08" width="595" height="914"></div><h2>MONTREAL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0929/3931098-1-eng-US/f0038-092.jpg" title="f0038-09" width="601" height="854"></div><h2>QUEBEC</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1026/3931091-1-eng-US/f0038-102.jpg" title="f0038-10" width="591" height="860"></div><h2>SHAWINIGAN</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1124/3931084-1-eng-US/f0038-112.jpg" title="f0038-11" width="608" height="902"></div><h2>TROIS-RIVIERES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1222/3931077-1-eng-US/f0038-122.jpg" title="f0038-12" width="606" height="925"></div><h2>VERDUN</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-02168/3931070-1-eng-US/f0039-022.jpg" title="f0039-02" width="618" height="660"></div><h2>FINAL GOALING RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-03129/3931063-1-eng-US/f0039-032.jpg" title="f0039-03" width="609" height="1229"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Quebec Major League Statistics

<div class="byline">BY PATRICK LYON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0039-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-01226/3931178-1-eng-US/f0039-012.jpg"></div><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p><b>LOUISVILLE</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><p>Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;</p><p>Calling it by far his biggest challenge ever, Bill Beagan signed a three-year contract to serve as commissioner of the North Eastern Hockey League.</p><p>The announcement came at the league meetings in Montreal after previous commissioner Jack Timmins made known his resignation. The NEHL Board of Governors took a keen interest in Beagan after they learned that Timmins was under strong consideration for the commissioner&rsquo;s job in the International Hockey League.</p><p>Beagan&rsquo;s successful exploits in rebuilding the International Hockey League are well-known in all hockey circles and the administrative whiz is hoping to work his magic again with a second year league that survived many tense moments in their maiden season of play.</p><p>With the 1HL floundering in the late 1960&rsquo;s, the owners turned to Beagan to help rebuild the entire structure of the league and he didn&rsquo;t disappoint them, slowly adding new franchises until the league was stronger than ever when he resigned his post nine years later following the 1977-78 season. Beagan moved to the Ontario Hockey Association last season before resigning over a disagreement with the OHA board of governors.</p><p>NEHL owners are very strong in their desire of wanting a top flight hockey league and their serious intentions were shown in the selection of Beagan. &ldquo;He gives us true administrative abilities and experience and expertise in running a minor hockey league,&rdquo; said Erie Blades&rsquo; owner Dr. John Caruso.</p><p>Wasting no time after accepting the post, Beagan announced a three phase program that he feels will make the NEHL a solid 10-team league by the 1981-82 campaign. &ldquo;This is going to be very demanding on me, but I welcome the challenge and definitely feel the area the North Eastern League lies in has excellent hockey potential. There are a number of good cities with superior hockey backgrounds.&rdquo;</p><p>Phase I of Beagan&rsquo;s play calls for a complete reorganization for the coming season and the addition of one more franchise. At press time the sixth team had yet to be named, but sources revealed that Providence, Rhode Island was considered the frontrunner for the final franchise since prospective owners of the club held a five and one-half meeting with the board of governors in Montreal. Beagan&rsquo;s Phase II will add two more teams for the 1980-81 season and in Phase III he plans to bring aboard the final two clubs.</p><p>The former NHL referee also made known four priorities for the &lsquo;79-80 year. &ldquo;I want to be able to maintain six solid franchises,&rdquo; said Beagan, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s my first and most important priority. Also 1 want the establishment of a league office and support personnel, I want to market the league and have some type of long range planning for the league.</p><p>In other news to come out of the Montreal meetings, the Reiss family, owners of the Cape Cod Freedoms, were given permission to move their franchise to Richmond, Virginia giving the NEHL what should prove to be an intense rivalry between Richmond and nearby Hampton.</p><h2>ERIE BLADES&mdash;NEHL Champions</h2><p>The Erie Blades completed a championship double this past season winning both the league and playoff titles. The Blades received plenty of opposition from Utica but came through to win it all. The Blades are shown above, from the left, front row, CAREY WALKER, DANIEL POULIN, NICK POLANO, GM and coach, PAUL SHEARD, Dr. JOHN CARUSO, president, BRAD RHINESS and DAVE JOHNS. Middle row, MIKE CARON, traineur, DENNIS ABGRALL, VAL JAMES, RON HANSIS, DAVE DORNSEIF, PAUL MANCINI, DICK LAYO, JOHN PAUL DELLACAMERA, director of communications. Back row, STAN GULUTZAN, RANDY WYROZUB, PAUL PACIFIC, FLOYD LAHACHE, PAUL JOSWIAKand PAUL DEVLIN.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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