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November 9, 1979
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Bruins Opt For Small Package To Plug Hole
BOSTON—”This,” said Bobby Lalonde, the newest and littlest of the Boston Bruins, “is an opportunity of a lifetime.” And, for the Bruins, the acquisition of Lalonde from the Atlanta Flames for “future considerations” was an opportunity to shore up a center corps that has been depleted by injury and never was very deep to begin with. Knee surgery to Dwight Foster had left them with only three centermen on the big club, Peter McNab, Jean Ratelie and Bobby Miller, and two in reserve at Birmingham, Craig MacTavish and Randy MacGregor, who are potentials and little else right now. “With Foster out for a month, we were vulnerable at center,” said coach Fred Creighton. “Lalonde not only gives us the depth we haven’t had but he gives us flexibility. “I coached him for two seasons…
HOCKEY PEOPLE
Bring back the cup Joseph LaSala, left, a Philadelphia city representative, appears to be telling Bob Butera, executive vice-president of the Philadelphia Flyers, that it would be nice if the NHL team brought the Stanley Cup back to the City of Brotherly Love. It was last in Phillu in 1975. Lunch with the president NHL president John Ziegler was on hand for the Philadelphia Flyers’ first annual face-off luncheon and was joined by the Flyers’ high brass for the affair. Shown with Ziegler, front is GM Keith Allen. In rear Joe Scott, left, team president, and Ed Snider, chairman of the board. An observer Jim Roberts is cast in a new hockey role this season as an assistant coach with the Buffalo Sabres. The 15-year NHLer joined Scotty Bowman and Roger Neilson in a three-man…
Sabres’ Power Play Concern For Bowman
LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS BUFFALO—Power play. That was something Scotty Bowman didn’t have to worry about much, one way or the other, when he was coaching the Montreal Canadiens. He had good shots from the point, marksmen up front, and good passing, when his team had a manpower advantage. When the Canadiens were shorthanded, they had fine penalty killers. Now that Scotty is head man of hockey with the Buffalo Sabres, however, power plays are causing him more than a bit of anguish. In their first six games of the National Hockey League season, the Sabres scored only four power-play goals in 21 chances. That was not to Bowman’s satisfaction. He and his staff—Associate Coach Roger Neilson and Assistant Coach Jim Roberts—talked it over in their innumerable meetings and came up with some…
Lysiak Finally Breaks Scoring Ice
CHICAGO—Were it not for his expertise in perhaps the most intricate of athletic art forms, Tom Lysiak probably would be dwelling deep in Canada’s north woods instead of living in a high-rise apartment a few blocks off Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. “Funny you asked, because we were just talking about that last night,” mused Lysiak, contemplating what might have been if it hadn’t been for hockey. “I was planning on becoming a game warden. I love the outdoors.” Unlike some farm boys who never have been able to adjust to life in the big city, the 26-year-old native of High Prairie, Alberta is aclimating admirably to Chicago, both on and off the ice. And his orientation figures to accelerate now that he finally has broken out of his goalscoring slump. Lysiak had gone 14 games last…
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