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...most victories at home and on the road, they made more goals (399) than any team has ever scored in a season. Ten Boston players each put in 20 or more, which is roughly equivalent to a baseball team's having ten .300 hitters. Center Phil Esposito alone netted 76, far surpassing the old record of 58 set by Chicago's Bobby Hull in 1969. Little wonder, then, that although the Bruins split the first two games of the Stanley Cup quarter-finals with the Montreal Canadiens, they were heavy favorites to repeat their 1970 cup victory...
...best at controlling face-offs. From the New York Rangers, Boston acquired John McKenzie, a hard-charging right-winger who scored 31 goals this season. From the Chicago Black Hawks came another fine right-winger, Ken Hodge (43 goals), plus Centers Fred Stanfield (24 goals) and Phil Esposito. The fast, gangling "Espo" has been playing as if scoring had just been invented. His 76 goals constitute only one of the ten new scoring records he set this season, among them the most points (152) and the most game-winning goals...
Solid goal keeping by the East's Gilles Villemure and the West's Tony Esposito kept the scoring down as they blanked hockey's big guns in the last two periods...
...Then came an astounding turnabout. Last year the Hawks suddenly swooped off with top honors in their division. This year their new-found talons have been sharp enough to earn them 23 victories and five ties in their first 34 games. Much of the credit goes to Goalie Tony Esposito, who set a league record of 15 shutouts in his rookie season last year. But at least an equal share goes to another newcomer, a cherubic-looking young fellow named Keith Magnuson, who shows the Hawks how to live up to their name...
...alleged problem is Morton's past two years as chairman of the Republican National Committee. "He knows too well where the G.O.P. gets its campaign funds," says John Esposito, a leader of Ralph Nader's Raiders, implying that Morton may be soft on big industrial polluters. On the other hand, Chairman Morton has proved himself an able administrator and skillful politician-qualities that Hickel tended to lack...