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January 11, 1980
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Gillies Trying Positive Thinking
LONG ISLAND—He has thick arms and wide shoulders and a heavy, dark beard that gives him the look of a lumberjack. And it’s true that Clark Gillies can chop down just about anyone with a thunderous check. But now Gillies is struggling. He has always been a player whose presence alone was enough to intimidate other teams. Added to his considerable offensive skills, it made Gillies a fearsome left wing, a first-team All Star for two straight seasons. This season has been a disappointment for him. “Even my stick feels heavy when I pick it up,” Gillies said. “I’ve tried so many things. I tried taping my stick differently. I tried changing the knob on the handle. Everything.” Again Gillies has tried sprouting the beard that once made him among the most recognizable…
HOCKEY PEOPLE
Lady goalkeeper envied Linda Cohn, 20-year-old netminder for the Oswego State women’s hockey team, is the envy of the three goalers on the Great Lakers’ men’s team. Linda starts every game for her team while the men have to rotate between the pipes. The men goalers from the left are Mark Edwards, son of former NHL goalkeeper Marv Edwards, Mike Shevlin and Eddie Layton. That’s my pop! Young Martin Lafleur doesn’t have to go far to get any hockey tips as he gets out on the Forum ice with his illustrious father during Canadiens’ recent Christmas party. Martin is 4½and is really taking to skating. Starting out the hard way Tiny Jason Shutt has a long way to go to catch up to his hockey-playing dad, left winger Steve Shutt of the Canadiens, but he…
NHL Falling Behind Soviets
Bill Torrey, the general manager of the New York Islanders, has some definite ideas what we should do and what we’re doing wrong against the touring Soviets. Frank Orr, the hockey writer of The Toronto Star and contributing editor for THE HOCKEY NEWS, asked Torrey about the situation and here are some of Torrey’s excerpts as seen in The Star: It’s the same old story for the NHL teams on these games with the Soviets. We have to realize that if we can’t play them on equal footing, then we shouldn’t play them on a haphazard basis. What’s the sense of embarrassing ourselves with these games? We have as much hockey expertise as they do and our players can do all the things their’s can, although perhaps the Soviets are better at…
Sedlbauer’s Trade Disorientating
CHICAGO—Christmas Eve for Ron Sedlbauer was the loneliest night of the year. He’d left on a jet plane from Toronto bound for Vancouver—which four days before had been his home but wasn’t any more—when a wave of loneliness overtook him. “I sat and thought about all that had happened in such a short time and how different my life was going to be in Chicago than it had been in Vancouver,” said Sedlbauer. “I’d just met my parents in the airport in Toronto to wish them a Merry Christmas and now I was on my way to Vancouver to pick up my things and say goodbye to the people I lived with. “I felt very sorry for myself.” The newest member of the Black Hawks was no longer on a sad sentimental journey when…
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