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August 1, 1979
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Bowman Brings New Game To Buffalo
BUFFALO— Fans expecting to see the wide-open Buffalo Sabres’ offensive of days past will be in for a disappointment this season. But then again, coach Scotty Bowman will be attempting to reverse the Sabres’ downward trend in recent years and he’ll be doing so with a new style called defensive hockey. Bowman, who’ll run the show as general manager of the Sabres and will enlist the aid of Roger Neilson as a co-coach behind the bench, will be stressing team play, checking, positional play and various other strategems which have been foreign to Sabre teams of the past. And he’ll be in the position he has been seeking for the past few years—one where he is running the hockey operation and is solely responsible for the progress of the team—and that’s what…
NORTH EASTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE
LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada Canucks At Play Vancouver Canucks are partaking in other sporting endeavors during the summer months. The tennis star is none other than defenseman Harold Snepsts, who captured a celebrity doubles event for the second year in a row at Vancouver’s Stanley Park. At left is goaler Glen Hanlon, who was practicing his golfing form.…
Kings Optimistic Big Improvements About To Happen
LOS ANGELES— Unlike last year when the Los Angeles Kings lost free agents Rogie Vachon, Gary Sargent, and Dave Hutchison prior to the start of the new season, the club this year lost no one and announced the signing of free agent Mike Murphy as this summer’s highlight. The players the Kings received as compensation for Sargent and Hutchison did not make up for their loss. Dale McCourt might have made up for the loss of Vachon, but the Kings so far have had to do without him as he carries on his case in the courts. At this writing, the latest court ruling upheld the National Hockey League’s compensation rule and awarded McCourt to the Kings, but his latest move in his desire to remain in Detroit was to ask for a…
Big Ned Hits For ‘Double’, Becomes Canadian Citizen And Signs Multi-Year Pact
DETROIT— Vaclav Nedomansky is like a man walking on the clouds these days. Everything that has happened to him since the last National Hockey League campaign closed has been productive. Big Ned hasn’t taken a backward step since the 1978-79 season ended and it all started when he and his family were sworn in at Toronto as new Canadian citizens. It was something Nedomansky wanted since the day he defected from Czechoslovakia when he chose to join the free world. On the hockey side of the ledger, Nedomansky ended his free agent status by signing a new multi-year contract with the Detroit Red Wings and now he says proudly, he’s ready to face the hockey world with renewed enthusiasm. Nedomansky became a free agent June 1. Big Ned is special, and his free agent…
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