Word: espositos
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...Treaumblay. 35. Bob Cleary. 36. Rusty Ingersoll. Dartmouth. 37. Hull. Balfour. Hay. 38. Boston got Phil Esposito. Ken Hodge and Fred Stanfield for Pit Martin and Jim Pappin. 39. 8.9. John Carlos, wind-aided. 40. Lee Evans. Vince Matthews. Larry Jones. Ron Freeman...
Goalie Ken Dryden of the Montreal Canadiens was second in the voting, and one of six Canadiens chosen for the team. Joining Orr and Dryden as starters will be Guy Lapointe and Yvan Cournoyer of Montreal, Phil Esposito, the League's leading scorer, of Boston, and Richard Martin of the Buffalo Sabres...
...Phil Esposito, the National Hockey League's leading scorer, collected four goals and the 18th hat trick of his career last night, to lead the Bruins to a 5-0 triumph over the Buffalo Sabres at the Garden. Goalie Eddie Johnston had only 20 saves in racking up his fourth shutout of the year...
Then there was the play of Boston's Phil Esposito. Though he has been the top-scoring forward in the National Hockey League for the past four years, Esposito has skated in the shadow of his superstar teammate, Defenseman Bobby Orr (who missed the series because of an injured knee). Where would Espo be, many fans wondered, without Orr? In Moscow, with a superlative display of adroit, aggressive hockey, he supplied the answer by leading Team Canada to victory...
Possibly because he was a mite too aggressive in checking the swift Russian forwards, the Soviets in charge of selecting the stars of the final game ignored Esposito (they chose Henderson and the Rangers' Brad Park) even though he scored two goals and two assists. Yet the slight was mild compared with the puerile and unsportsmanlike behavior that marked much of the series. Soviet team officials demanded that Canadian Coach Harry Sinden order Defenseman Gary Bergman to stop skating past baronial Russian Coach Vsevolod Bobrov during games, on the ground that Bergman was making menacing gestures and lewd comments...