Komets’ Scully Has Tools For NHL Career

FORT WAYNE—Barry Scully slipped in front of the intended receiver just outside the Fort Wayne blueline. He dropped his stick on the puck and exploded between two Port Huron defenders and set sail for the Flag net. Goalie Bart Hunter braced. Scully dropped his shoulder, took a peek and blasted the puck into the upper righthand corner of the net. “I wish some of those National Hockey League scouts who say Scully can’t skate would have seen him on that play,” said one of the observers from the press box high above the Memorial Coliseum ice surface. “The other times,” Scully was to say later, “I shot low. The last time I went high. He never moved.” There were three other times this night as Scully pumped in four goals to lead the Komets…

ON THE CONTRARY

Hockey Lacks Contact IT WAS NOVELIST Mordecai Richler who set the record straight for many of us ostriches. Yes, says Richler, big-league hockey has gone soft. In an article which has been syndicated across the United States and Canada, Richler suggests that what the NHL needs most of all today is some good, old-fashioned black-and-blue hockey. He’s right. Unfortunately, Richler writes like a professor of metaphysics. Understanding Mordecai is like walking 900 miles through 1,000 labyrinths. Still, his basic theme is a good one; the contemporary game is about as hard as a freshly-baked jelly donut. (Before getting into this delicious subject, it is time that we conducted a simple burial. Let us here and now deep-six the word “violence.” The term is so overused, misunderstood, and distorted that it should be banned from…

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Moncton Kelly Division Champions

MONCTON—The University of Moncton assured themselves of the Kelly Division championship and a bye into the semi-finals of the Atlantic University Athletic Association playoffs as they clobbered the slumping University of New Brunswick Red Devils 9-1. Kevin Gaudett and Remi Levesque each chipped in with a pair of markers while John Kinch ruined Benoit Fortier’s shutout bid as he scored the lone UNB goal at 17:34 of the third period. Fortier’s next attempt was not to be denied as he recorded his first shutout in regular season play as he two days later blanked the Dalhousie Tigers, 4-0. Once again Gaudett paced the Aigles Bleus offensively with two goals. With first place all wrapped up for Moncton, coach Jean Perron is faced with the task of trying to keep his high-flying Aigles…