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February 8, 1980
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Bruins Appeal Ziegler’s Suspensions
BOSTON—It was an exciting hockey weekend around Boston, although most of the action came in the court room and the executive suite rather than out on the ice. The hassle centered around an eight-game suspension to Terry O’Reilly and six-game sentences to Peter McNab and Mike Milbury for going into the stands after harassing fans following a game in New York Dec. 23. It began at noon Friday when NHL President John Ziegler finally arrived in Boston to hold a hearing into the affair. This was 33 days after the incident but only three days after four of the fans who were involved filed a $7-million suit against nine Boston players, the Bruins team, the New York Rangers, Madison Square Garden, the NHL and New York City. First, Ziegler addressed the whole club in…
Detroit, Pittsburgh Winning At Box Office
TORONTO—The National Hockey League continued to pick up the momentum in attendance as the 21 league teams hit the halfway mark in the schedule. In fact it was the brightest first half the NHL has experienced in nearly three years. There were several encouraging signs for the league with the most noteable being the turnstile resurgence of the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins, two teams who have been slightly inconsistent on the ice. Both cities helped contribute to a 156,989 rise in NHL attendance at the 40-game plateau and the upsurge in Pittsburgh was welcomed around the Steel City where the hockey club has been waging a losing battle trying to keep pace with the football Steelers and the baseball Pirates—both world champions. The Penguins attracted 191,181 fans to their first 40…
Ranger Road Act Gets Rave Reviews
NEW YORK—Phil Esposito has been called many things in his long career. This week, call him King of The Road. As the New York Rangers hit the West Coast and worked their way back East, their veteran center scored game-winning goals in Los Angeles and Vancouver, and then scored the tying goal with just 24 seconds remaining in Denver Sunday night as the Rangers muscled their way to a 3-3 tie with the Colorado Rockies. The Rangers swung into the second week of their pre-All Star Break road trip, having yielded Madison Square Garden to the Ice Capades, Dorothy Hamill and two Soviet defectors, Oleg and Ludmila Protopopov. However, it was the Rangers’ journey to the West that could not have been better-timed. Depleted by injuries and playing inconsistently the weekend before the…
Soviets Still Team To Beat Despite Dismal Tour of NHL
When two top club teams from the Soviet Union—Central Red Army and Moscow Dynamo—failed to play to the expected standard of excellence on a North American tour last month against National Hockey League teams, hopes were raised slightly that the USSR national club for the Olympic Games might not be the usual powerhouse. Almost all the players who will be on the Soviet squad in Lake Placid were on the Army and Dynamo rosters. Some turned in ordinary performances against the pros and Dynamo could manage only a tie in three games against the young Canadian Olympic squad. Even the big men in the Soviet hockey picture—Boris Maiorov, who heads the entire comrades’ puck program and Army team coach Victor Tikhonov—expressed some alarm at the ordinary work of some of their important…
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