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December 7, 1979
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Cornwall Contender Despite Injury Problem
LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS CORNWALL—In his two years as coach of the Cornwall Royals, Doug Carpenter has learned the hard way what key injuries can do to a hockey team. Last season, he lost Brian Fontaine, who had scored at a 65-goal pace, for 20 games. And though Bob Crawford scored 62 goals and 70 assists, he was hampered by a shoulder separation injury during the first half of the season. This season, things have been even worse for the Royals. Rod Willard, a 38 goal and 57 assist man last season, missed the first eight weeks of the season with an injury. And as Willard returned to the lineup, the club’s top scorer Mark Crawford broke his jaw and will be out for about six weeks. “It’s been tough,” says Carpenter. “When you lose…
FRANK ORR’S HOCKEY VIEWPOINT
Improve Basic Skills IT HAPPENS MANY TIMES in just about every National Hockey League game played these days. A player is in the open, maybe 20 or 25 feet, often closer, from a teammate who’s in possession of the puck. A pass is made but does it arrive? No, it’s five feet ahead or the same distance behind the intended receiver. Or it’s an accurate pass and the receiver botches up the reception. Passing the puck doesn’t seem to be a difficult matter. Neither does receiving one. Heck, Soviet hockey players do both successfully quite often. There are other areas of the game, small, basic skills the execution of which should be a big part of every NHL player’s repertoire, where NHL players, many of them considered to be the league’s front-line stars, show a…
Jury Still Deliberating On Flyers’ Pair
PHILADELPHIA—With the Flyers and Boston Bruins playing the best hockey of all NHL lodge members through November, it is almost cruel to put any players under the interrogation-room bare bulb. Ah, but why not? Most coaches will tell you sports writers are generally mean people. Sit in that chair, Dennis Verver-gaert. You, T. J. Gorence, sit over there. The glare of the lights directly in your eyes? Good. What’s going on here, gentlemen? The rest of the Flyers are playing as if they’re serious about winning a Stanley Cup. Leach, Clarke, Propp, MacLeish, Linse-man, Barber—they’re all scoring often. Maybe you two guys should cuddle up with one of Reggie Leach’s sticks. “I think I’ve been playing okay,” replied Ververgaert, the perspiration glistening on his forehead. “I just haven’t been scoring.” “I know I haven’t…
BILL FLEISCHMAN’S HOCKEY WORLD
Belisle Was Sacrificed DANNY BELISLE HAS NEVER pretended to be a genius. I have never heard anyone say Belisle could be the next Scotty Bowman or Fred Shero. What Danny Belisle is though, is a good hockey coach, a decent human being with a great sense of humor. The way the Washington Capitals handled his firing, Belisle needed a sense of humor. A one paragraph announcement told the world, and those masses in the Washington area who care about hockey, that Belisle was being replaced by 26-year-old Gary Green. Jay Greenberg, my colleague at the Philadelphia Daily News, was stunned. When Belisle reached the AHL Firebirds—one of the many minor league stops where he gained people’s respect—Jay and I learned to like the man. “The Capitals said Tommy McVie was too tough,” said Jay. “Now…
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