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February 20, 1981
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Gears’ Gruhl Pays Price For Using ‘Hot Stick
LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS SAGINAW—Scotty Gruhl won’t forget his 26th goal of the season. For a couple of reasons. First of all, the goal proved to be the winner in a 3-2 triumph over Flint, played before the season’s largest crowd—4,683. It was also a costly goal. Like $100. “I just grabbed the wrong stick,” Gruhl said later after his stick was found to be illegal. “It’s not that I try to use an illegal stick. But when [Warren] Holmes skated over and told me to go to the penalty box I was worried. I knew I had the $100 fine coming because Don [general manager-coach Don Perry] warned all of us before the season started. But I knew I would have been in for a worse chewing if Flint had scored the…
ON THE CONTRARY
Hockey’s Babe Ruth When I was a kid my Dad took me to see Rochet Richard. One more I’ll never forget. Rochet looked like he was out of the play. He was boxed off at the face-off circle. Suddenly, he bulled his way to the side of the net with a defenseman on his back and poked the puck in. Only The Rochet could do that. Bob Berry, coach, Los Angeles Kings. LIKE MYSELF, BOB BERRY remembers Maurice Richard as if we had just seen him play an hour ago. The Rocket made an indelibly sharp impression on our memories as well as the record book. That’s why it has been such a joy to watch Mike Bossy and Charlie Simmer assault The Rocket’s red light bastion. It was great stuff because their…
HOCKEY TALK
Hawks Laughing Again ON A RECENT GAME night, it was Tom Lysiak at work. The Black Hawks were trouncing the Pittsburgh Penguins, yet here he was, diving face first to block a shot. The morning after, it was Tom Lysiak at play. The Black Hawks were practicing. One player wore a ridiculous hat, another wore a uniform that really was more of a costume, and Tom Lysiak was right there in the middle of it all again, reveling in a somewhat slapstick scene. At last, after three months of matching bad moods with bad games, the Black Hawks are having fun again. Tom Lysiak, Chicago’s resident expert in that department, isn’t exactly sure about the order—whether you have to win before you laugh, or laugh before you win. He knows only that they…
Blues Are Justifiably Upset Over All Star Game Snub
ST. LOUIS—There may not be a sport in which motivation is a greater factor than hockey, which is why the St. Louis Blues may have more reasons than most teams to be “up” in the homestretch and into post-season play. More than two months will have passed by the time the playoffs begin, but the Blues are certain to remember—and perhaps use the memory to good advantage—that they were roundly snubbed in the All Star Game voting. Mike Liut was voted first-team goaltender for the Clarence Campbell Conference All Stars, but no other St. Louis players made either the first or second teams in the voting by the Professional Hockey Writers Association. Bernie Federko, however, was picked as a “fill” by Campbell coach Pat Quinn. Emotion in the Blues’ organization—from the dressing room…
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