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January 4, 1980
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FAN FORUM
No Room For Child’s Play After watching a game between the L.A. Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers, I’m completely disgusted with the childish display put on by both teams, especially the Flyers. When the Kings jumped out to a 3-0 lead at the end of the first period and Flyers’ saw that they couldn’t skate with the Kings, they started the second period with the old ‘Broad Street Bully’ image. The Flyers started hitting after the whistle, giving unnecessary cheap shots, and that’s when the problems began. Behn Wilson tried to take Andre St. Laurent’s head off with his stick; Paul Holmgren, outplayed by Dave Taylor, had to drop his gloves and start swinging, somehow thinking fighting proves hockey superiority. A dozen different examples could be cited. The sad part was that…
SLAPSHOTS
Fans Attack Bruins NEW YORK—The old player-fan outburst that was so much a part of the NHL scene in past years, erupted on a major scale for the first time this season at Madison Square Garden. The brawl broke out between Boston players and Ranger Garden fans. Four fans were arrested. At game’s end, hard feelings which had been developing got the better of New York goalie John Davidson. The netminder skated to the Bruins’ end of the rink instead of going directly to the dressing room and confronted Boston’s Al Secord and John Wensink. Both Boston players had been involved in some rough play with Davidson and New York’s Swedish forwards, Ulf Nilsson and Anders Hedberg. “Secord suckered Nilsson and the referee (Greg Madill) did nothing about it,” said Davidson, who surrendered three…
ON THE CONTRARY
Don’t Blame Boomer FOR THE PAST three weeks everybody but Santa Claus has been dumping on Bernie Geoffrion. Rapping The Boomer has become as easy as kicking a soda can down the street. As for me, I’ll pass on putting the boot to Boom Boom. The predators of the press tell us that Geoffrion never should have taken the Canadiens’ job in the first place. (That’s like telling Lee Majors he shouldn’t have married Farrah Fawcett. Who could resist?) Geoffrion-watchers argue that, despite his experience in Atlanta and New York, he never had enough bench smarts to be a winner. And, finally, they insisted that there was a matter of respect which Bernie seemed not to obtain in large doses. The critics concluded that Geoffrion should have stayed in Georgia. Forget it. Geoffrion had to coach…
Moscow Spartak Zaps WHL Foes
BILLINGS—Moscow Spartak has looked awesome during a tour involving Western Hockey League teams. The Soviet club opened their tour with a 14-3 win over Victoria Cougars then dumped a reinforced New Westminster Bruins’ club 111. Seattle Breakers, also bolstered with players from other clubs, turned in the best showing to date, losing by only a 7-4 count. But Spartak continued to easily handle the opposition by disposing of Billings Bighorns, 7-1. Aleksandr Barinev had two goals against Victoria and three against the Bruins. At Regina, Spartak toyed with the Regina Rats, whipping them 11-2 to give the Soviets a sweep of the eight-game series against WHL opposition.…
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