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December 26, 1980
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Whalers Try Flyers Again To Boost Battered Defense
HARTFORD — In a time of need, the Hartford Whalers have found the Philadelphia Flyers to be quite generous. Two weeks after the Whalers acquired defenseman Jack McIlhargey from the Flyers (for future considerations), Hartford plucked another blueliner off the Philadelphia roster — Norm Barnes. “Acquiring Jack McIlhargey and Norm Barnes from Philadelphia gives us two players who bring with them winning attitudes,” said Whaler managing general partner Howard Baldwin. “These are the types of players that make a team competitive.” And from all records, the price was right too — at least from the Whalers’ point of view. Both of the big defensemen came to Hartford in exchange for one second-round draft choice in either 1981 or 1982. (Which year depends upon what Chicago does. The Black Hawks had been given…
Plenty Of Ice Suits Pens’ Ferguson
PITTSBURGH — With all of the injuries the Pittsburgh Penguins have experienced at the center position this season George Ferguson has had to pull more than his share of ice time. And the converted right wing has responded with one of his best starts in his nine-year National Hockey League career. “Once you get off to a good start early in the year and you get five or six quick goals your confidence builds and you tend to look for the openings more,” said Ferguson, who scored 10 goals and added 13 assists in his first 26 games of the season. The 28-year-old Ferguson came to the Penguins three seasons ago along with Randy Carlyle from Toronto in exchange for Dave Burrows, who recently was traded back to the Penguins, along with…
OHL Player Of The Week
LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS If wearing No. 22 in hockey is an omen of good things to come, then young Tony Tanti of the Oshawa Generals has it made. The 17-year-old underage scoring whiz of the Generals is already being compared to another more famous No. 22, Mike Bossy of the Islanders. It appears both players have one thing in common already — they know how to score goals. Tanti won Player of the Week honors in the Ontario Hockey League after a three-game scoring spree in which he collected 11 goals and five assists as Oshawa won three shootouts, 8-7 over Windsor 9-8 over London and 9-6 against Brantford. Tanti, who is a rookie in the OHI this year, is a 5-10, 180-pound right wing who scores in bunches. He already has…
Four Days With Uncle Harold And The King
Harold E. Ballard, the 77-year-old owner and president of the National Hockey League’s Toronto Maple Leafs and the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats, is sitting at a table in Maple Leaf Gardens’ Hot Stove Lounge, doing what he does practically every morning of every day of the year — eating his breakfast and waiting for Mike. Breakfast is a big bowl of cottage cheese sprinkled liberally with salt; sliced tomatoes doused heavily with oil; brown toast spread thickly with butter; and coffee sweetened with two or three tablets of a sugar substitute. Mike is Ballard’s affectionate name for his inseparable buddy — Francis Michael Xavier King Clancy, also 77, the vice president of the Maple Leafs and, like Ballard, a widower, a diabetic, and a member of the NHL’s Hall of Fame.…
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