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October 9, 1981
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BEDCLOTHES
A Salute To Ballard THE TENANT OF this literary flophouse rises to salute an old flamboyant foe, Harold Ballard, the Toronto hockey owner who always plays a merry tune on the cash register in Maple Leaf Gardens. Business is always so brisk that y’r ob’t servant reveres the Gardens as the Maple Leaf Mint. Mr. Ballard, it says here, is one of the few Canadian hockey promoters who escaped hypocrisy in the recent Canada Cup tournament. He refused to allow the tournament into the Gardens, for reasons explained a few weeks ago in THE HOCKEY NEWS. “It’s the Russians, mainly,” Ballard told this esteemed publication. “I don’t like the way they’ve treated the world and I don’t know why the hell we should all welcome them over here with open arms and give ‘em a…
McIlhargey Takes Pride In Game He Loves
HARTFORD—Jack Mcllhargey, in a nomadic National Hockey League career, has scored 10 goals while compiling 1,020 minutes in penalties. To time him accurately on skates, one might use a calendar instead of a stopwatch. “If Jack makes an end-to-end rush,” Vancouver coach Harry Heale once said, “you have to call timeout to get another puck.” For all the wisecracks—Mcllhargey has been known to give as good as he gets—there’s a side to the 29-year-old defenseman that turns on virtually everybody in hockey. “Jack has. the absolute, perfect attitude,” Neale said. “He’s happy in his work. He gives the Whalers a dimension they desperately need.” The Hartford Whalers—make no mistake about it—are using Mcllhargey. Okay, he’s getting paid, but he is not in the team’s future plans. He is a stop-gap, but he is also a…
Canucks Plagued By Bad Luck In Early Going
VANCOUVER—Bad luck is hardly the sole property of any one national hockey league club, but the Canucks are making an excellent start to gain the accompanying sympathy at the start of their training camp. At the end of the sixth day of workouts, they had four players injured and in the first period of their first exhibition game, another would fall. Two of them were serious, and a shoulder injury to Dave Williams would likely be more troublesome were the injured party not accustomed to pain and playing with it. Certain to miss the start of the season are center Gerry Minor and defenseman Harold Snepsts. Minor was working out with his helmet sitting on his head rather than laced when he ran into the imposing figure of Rory Cava. They collided head…
HOCKEY VIEWPOINT
The Great Trophy Caper ON SEPT. 13, 1981, the wonderful chaps attached to the national hockey team of the Soviet Union attempted one of the great double steals in the history of sport. The comrades completed the first half of the big swipe when they whipped Team Canada, 8-1, in the final of the Canada Cup international hockey tournament. That earned them a trophy valued at $70,000, a huge slab of Canadian nickel in the shape of half a maple leaf. Now, the Soviets were not happy with merely winning the Canada Cup by humiliating the Canadians. They tried to take the Cup back to the USSR by sneaking it out of the Montreal Forum in an equipment bag. The ever-alert R. Alan Eagleson, the tournament organizer, at that point had had it up…
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