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Poor Phil Esposito. For weeks now, the hard-driving forward of the Boston Bruins has been threatening to overtake Teammate Bobby Orr as the National Hockey League's leading scorer. He might already have succeeded were it not for a pesky new goaltender with the Chicago Black Hawks who shut him out in all but one of their first five confrontations this season. To make matters worse, whenever the young upstart catches a Bruin game on TV, he calls Phil and gives him a few pointers. Phil would be outraged-if the Hawks' new netman were...
...last year) is roughly akin to a Little Leaguer's slapping a home run off Tom Seaver. The Black Hawks could not have survived with anything less. Last season the hapless Chicagoans had the most porous defense in the N.H.L.; this season, with the curly-haired, 190-lb. Esposito plugging the nets, they have been among the league leaders in defense. As of last week, Tony was the stingiest regular N.H.L. goalie, with an average of only 2.26 goals-against per game and eleven shutouts-just two shy of the modern record set in the 1953-54 season...
...Bruins twice blew two-goal leads, allowing the Toronto Maple Leafs to tie them. 4-4, last night at Boston Garden. Phil Esposito scored twice for the first place Bruins. In a surprising development in Boston sports, the Patriots shut out Houston, 24-0, for their first win of the season...
...Meade Esposito, Brooklyn Democratic county chairman
After blanking the Toronto Maple Leafs, 10-0 and 7-0, in Boston Garden, the Bruins squeaked out the final two wins by one-goal margins, 4-3 and 3-2. In last night's triumph, Derek Sanderson notched two goals, while record-setting Phil Esposito added another...