Word: montreal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seven years - there simply have not been enough quality players to staff all the teams - the newcomers are already reaching for the top of the league. In fact, three of the four divisions are presently being led by expansion teams: Philadelphia, Vancouver and Buffalo, with pushy Los Angeles giving Montreal a scare in the fourth...
Parent understands the concern; he once played in similar amateur programs in his native Montreal. His introduction to hockey came with a tennis ball as a puck and galoshes for skates. The pick-up games were played on neighborhood streets and young Bernie, always a loner, wanted to play goalie from the start. "I stopped the first shot and that settled it," he recalls. "The challenge to make a save was always there. It was just in me." The son of a factory foreman, Parent did not start skating until he was 11, and then his debut in the goal...
...Channel Five Invitational and he's been improving ever since. He has been jumping seven years (three years less than Stones), starting at his high school in East Lansing. Michigan, and hopes to peak next year for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal...
...Edna Rae Gillooly-the daughter of middle-class Irish parents, "with dashes of French, Dutch and American Indian"-until she left Detroit's Cass Technical High School; Edna Rae as a fashion illustrator's model in Texas; Keri Flynn as a dancer in a Montreal night club; Erica Dean as a model for paperback book covers in New York; and Ellen McRae in Broadway's Fair Game in 1957. Comments Burstyn: "I was a checker player, not chess. I could only see one move ahead...
...leads the King attack. Before this season started, Vachon made an extra effort to get in shape, running three to four miles as well as playing tennis for up to four hours every day. He also worked full time building a new house for his wife and son in Montreal. When the season opened with a victory against the Stanley Cup Champion Flyers in Philadelphia, Vachon and the Kings felt that this might be their year. "That win gave us a lot of confidence," says Vachon. "We realized we could beat anyone." Pulford may be more realistic when he says...