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October 7, 1977
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Third Line Scorer Sought By Sabres In Training Camp
BUFFALO— Punch Imlach and the Buffalo Sabres’ new coach, Marcel Pronovost, are hoping that this year’s training camp and exhibition schedule produce something that the last two years haven’t, namely competition for jobs. The Buffalo lineup has been pretty well set for the last few years and, as there were no trades made by general manager Imlach during the summer, it looks that way again. There are, however, some youngsters who could push the veterans and maybe work their way into the regular lineup. “We’re looking for someone to come out of the pack,” said Imlach, as he watched Pronovost skate his charges through a strenuous workout, “some one who will give us the big scoring threat we need on the third line. “If Danny Gare comes back the way we hope he will, we…
HOCKEY TALK
Campbell Thrived On Work “CAMPBELL HERE.” For three decades, former NHL president Clarence Campbell answered his phone calls thusly. Daily and twice on Sunday, and at all hours. He was always busy, but never too busy. There’s even a rumor going around that he took off Christmas Day On a Wednesday night in Montreal, he might bolt the office to watch a game, sitting beneath a dark chapeau, on an aisle, at rink’s end Hardly the type of locale you’d expect to find the president of the National Hockey League in its headquarters city. There, flanking him. his wife would replace his briefcase “She was my secretary for nine years before I married her.” he says, amtter-of-factly. “so my habits were no surprise to her. There are many nights when she’d ask if…
WHA’S… Player of the Week
LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY, LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada LOUISVILLE SLUGGER HOCKEY STICKS Made in Canada by HILLERICH & BRADSBY. LTD Arnold Street. Wallaceburg. Ontario Sold in U.S. and Canada The Winnipeg Jets have been sharpening up their scoring eyes in European hockey rinks and it appears the climate has agreed with veteran Bobby Hull. The Golden Jet scored nine goals in the Jets’ whirlwind swing through Sweden and Finland as part of their training camp. Hull registered a hat trick in one game and scored twice in two other starts for Winnipeg including the Jets’ farewell 6-3 victory over the Vastra Frolunda club of Sweden. Hull and Jets are headed back to face such NHL teams as Minnesota, St. Louis and Detroit in exhibition games before opening the season. It would appear…
Ken McKenzie’s PASSING THE PUCK
• FRED SHERO, unusual coach of the Philadelphia Flyers who is always coming up with far-out statements passed along this classic gem recently: The opportunities for a hockey player are unlimited today. I wish I were 20 again. I’d go to China. They’re going crazy over hockey in the Far East. They’re advertising for hockey players for new leagues in Europe, Africa, Australia and Japan. The sun never sets on hockey “… Punch Imlach, general manager of the Buffalo Sabres, asked Jim Schoenfeld to resign the team’s captaincy he has held the last three years, because the club Marcel Pronovost, “and it should be his decision as to who the captain should be”… This didn’t sit too well with the big redheaded defenseman. who said he did not resign. “I…
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