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November 27, 1981
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Blues’ Liut Not Into Swing Of Play
ST. LOUIS — Blues’ goaltender Mike Liut is seeing black these days, and as far as he’s concerned, that’s even worse than seeing red. The thing that has Liut upset are the long pants being worn this season by the Philadelphia Flyers. “The long pants are bad enough,” said Liut, “but the fact that they are black makes it even worse. Because the long pants are loose fitting at the bottom, they’re flopping around. That makes the puck a little harder for the goalie to see when there’s a lot of traffic in front of the net. “But when those pants are black, it makes it almost impossible to see the puck. With the regular pants, black is bad enough, but with the long pants it’s ridiculous. If the league doesn’t do something…
Turnbull’s Price Right For Kings
LOS ANGELES — When Trevor Johansen heard that Jan Turnbull, his former defense partner with Toronto, had been obtained by the Kings, his reaction came in two parts. “He can play and I think he’ll be happy here,” Johansen said. “But that raises another question: What are they going to do with all of us?” Turnbull, who came to the Kings in the trade for Billy Harris and John Gibson, is the third defenseman picked up by the Kings since training camp. Johansen and Al Sims, both picked up in the waiver draft, are the others. Turnbull gives the Kings six healthy defensemen. When Sims returns from a sore knee he has been resting back in Hartford and Jay Wells comes back from a broken hand, they’ll have eight. Overstocked? George Maguire, the Kings’ general…
Fitchburg Folds; Schenectady Ponders Move
UTICA — The financial demise of the Fitchburg Trappers and possible transfer of the Schenectady Chiefs to another city overshadowed a lively race for first place in the brand new Atlantic Coast Hockey League. Two weeks into the season, Jack Timmins, the ACHL executive director, reluctantly terminated the Trappers franchise for the club’s “failure to satisfy the league” of financial obligations. A few days later, word was circulated through the league that the Schenectady franchise also was in distress and its executive director, Robert Critelli, was looking for a buyer or a locale where he could transfer the team to complete the season. Critelli was quoted by the Schenectady Gazette as seeking a move or a sale because of meager fan support. Critelli also served as executive director of the Fitchburg team where the…
BLUELINES
For every rumor or gossip item, there is a denial or difference of opinion. With that in mind, we have decided to set aside some space at the bottom of this column — called THE PENALTY BOX — where we will print reactions to our items. So if you’re sufficiently outraged or offended by something that Monsieur Justice says about you … let us know. We’ll see that he gets the message. Fred Shero is in line for the Los Angeles Kings’ coaching job if Parker MacDonald fails. Shero apparently had L.A. in mind when he made his Outlandish salary demand to the Washington Caps. Shero supposedly wanted $200,000 from the Caps while retaining the flow of gold still coming his way via the Rangers. Caps’ owner Abe Pollin was interested…
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