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August 1, 1980
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SALUTES THE CHAMPIONS
ERIE BLADES The 1979-80 Eastern League Regular Season & Playoff Champs CORNWALL ROYALS The 1979-80 Quebec League And Memorial Cup Champions ALBERTA GOLDEN BEARS Canada’s 1979-80 College Champions…
Question Marks Fill Punch’s Summer
TORONTO—Question marks have been the constant companion of Toronto Maple Leafs’ general manager Punch Imlach this summer and will be present in great abundance when the Leafs open training camp in September. In an effort to head off any future trouble with the player who has been designated—at least in the eyes of owner Harold Ballard—as the team’s No. 1 star, Borje Salming, Imlach headed for Sweden and a mid-July summit for contract discussions with Salming and his agent, Bjorn Wagnsson. Salming is a little more than a month away from showing up to training camp with only an option year remaining in his current contract, a situation about which neither he nor Imlach is thrilled. Both sides would just as soon settle before the 1980-81 season gets underway—especially the Leafs, who…
Winston-Salem Joins EHL For ‘81-82 Season
LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS WINSTON-SALEM—Eastern Hockey League commissioner Bill Beagan announced that Winston-Salem would join the fledging EHL, but the new club would wait until the 1981-82 season to begin operations. Al Salvo, who was co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins and who owned the Grand Rapids Owls in the International Hockey League, has decided to come into the league after many discussions with Beagan. “I’m very impressed with the performance of the league and I’m very enthusiastic about joining the EHL,” said Salvo, who added that he will wait until the 1981-82 season in order to have plenty of time to perfect the franchise. Beagan was disappointed that the league would fall short of its two-team expansion, but he felt that Salvo already sending in his application was a very positive aspect. “We…
NHL Govs O. K. Overtime; Players To Decide
LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS LOS ANGELES—Despite objections from several team owners and a number of players, the National Hockey League’s board of governors, by a vote of 12-9, gave their approval for the return of overtime to the league after an absence of nearly 40 years. The NHL announced that a five-minute suddendeath overtime period will be instituted in all preseason exhibition games and throughout the 1980-81 league schedule. Some of the NHL’s players and more prominent governors, notably Toronto’s Harold Ballard, expressed opposition to overtime, but in spite of the negative feeling, NHL president John Ziegler declared that the overtime rule would be introduced. “It was the consensus of the board of governors that a sudden-death overtime period would generate added enthusiasm among our fans,’’ said Ziegler. Ziegler viewed the decision as helping…
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