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...Again with the series at two games apiece, Sawchuk replaced Bower, now out for good with a groin injury. In three periods he beat back another 37 shots, allowed only a single goal as the Leafs won 4-1. With just one more win to go in the best-of-seven series, Toronto Coach Imlach told his team: "They said you old men couldn't possibly win the Stanley Cup. For some of you it's farewell. Now go out there and stick the puck down their throats." And so they did-with three goals, while Sawchuk...
Last week the two old Warriors led the 76ers against San Francisco in the finals of the National Basketball Association championships. And revenge, ah, it was sweet. Not that it was easy. The 76ers won the first two games of the best-of-seven series, but the Warriors' big gun now is Rick Barry, 23. Scoring 55 points in one game, 43 in another, Barry carried the Warriors to two victories in the next three games, and returned home trailing by only three games...
...still in a state of shock over its collapse in last year's Eastern Division playoffs. Under Coach Dolph Schayes, the 76ers posted a 55-25 record during the regular season, beating the Boston Celtics by one game, only to get walloped 4-1 in the best-of-seven play-offs by the same Celtics-who went on to win their ninth N.B.A. championship in ten years. Schayes blamed the debacle on "players who were saying things behind my back"-particularly 7-ft. 1 1/16-in. Center Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, whose sullen disdain for Schayes flared into open, noisy...
Fair guess-considering that Blake's favored Canadiens trailed the ragtag Red Wings 2-0 after the first two games of the best-of-seven playoffs. The Canadiens were the defending Stanley Cup champions. They had won the regular-season National Hockey League championship (Detroit finished fourth), and they had wiped up the ice with the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-0 in the playoff semifinals. By comparison, the main thing the Red Wings had going for them was Gordie Howe, the alltime scoring champion (with 624 goals) of the N.H.L. But Gordie was 37 and slowing down; eleven other...
After four games in the best-of-seven series, the Celtics led 3-1, and it looked like a typical runaway. But then the Lakers won the next two, and it was a brand-new series. "There isn't a man on this team who doesn't know that we can win," said Laker Coach Fred Schaus, going into the final game at Boston...