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July 1, 1967
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PASSING THE PUCK
• CALIFORNIA SEALS and Philadelphia Flyers did outstanding jobs in drafting at the NHL meetings last month…Most observers felt these two clubs came out the best of any of the six new NHL teams but of course this is only conjecture at this point…Frank Selke Jr., president of the Seals, said: “We have the ingredients of a strong club, good goaling, a solid defense and strength down the middle”…Bert Olmstead, General ManagerCoach of the Seals, added: “We look tough on paper and we’ll be tougher on the ice”…Rudy Pilous was fired as general manager of the Seals before the club played their first NHL game…Philadelphia acquired a fine young goalkeeper in Bernie Parent and two of the best young NHL defensemen in Chicago’s Ed Van Impe and Boston’s Joe Watson…Five…
Chicago’s Black Hawks Best Shooting Team
MONTREAL, Que.— The six National Hockey League teams had more shots on goal but scored fewer goals in 1966-67 than they did the previous season. A statistical analysis of the past season released by Ron Andrews, publicity director and statistician for the NHL reveals that 1,252 goals were scored on 13,352 shots in the 210-game, 1966-67 season. The totals represent 153 more shots but 25 fewer goals than in 1965-66. A goal was scored every 10.7 shots this season compared to 10.3 shots the previous term. Chicago Black Hawks, who scored a record 264 goals while winning their first NHL championship, led teams in shooting accuracy with a percentage of 12.0, an increase of one-half per cent over the previous season when they also led in accuracy. Boston Bruins had the lowest goal-scoring percentage,…
NHL OK’s Players’ ‘Union’
MONTREAL, Que— The National Hockey League relented and gave its blessing to the new NHL Players’ Association during the summer hockey meetings. It was a milestone event for the men who put the people in the big NHL rinks by their prowess on the ice and official sanction was inevitable by the NHL’s board of governors. The man behind the venture was Alan Eagleson, the ‘hockey player’s lawyer,’ who has been advising players on their legal rights in regard to dealing with hockey management in such increasing numbers that he reportedly now counts 90 of the 120 players in the old NHL among his ‘clients’. His most famous protege of course is Bobby Orr, who received a large bonus in the neighborhood of $40,000 for signing with the Boston Bruins last year. Eagleson…
FAN FORUM
Your Friend Was Wrong, Giacomin, Kurt Ex-Reds Hockey News Editor: In order to settle an argument, would you please let me know if both Ed Giacomin and Orland Kurtenbach of the New York Rangers were products of the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League. I have been a fan of the Reds for some time now, and I am sure that Giacomin and Kurtenbach played for that club. My friend insists that they were both brought up from the Rochester Americans. He is very hard to convince, so we ask your help. STEVE GERRY,Newport, R.I. (Editor’s note: Giacomin and Kurtenbach played as teammates with Providence in 1961-62). Don’t Knock Kings Says Hopeful LA Fan Hockey News Editor: When I first read the list of the players that the six new teams of the NHL drafted, I was…
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