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Basketball, however, is a distant third in the sports boredom race behind the Superstars and NHL hockey. The former was once a good idea that Bob Seagren, Kyle Rote Jr., and Reggie Jackson all pitched in to ruin...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Generally Speaking, In Particular... | 3/15/1977 | See Source »

...Montreal Canadian Enterprises, Ltd., the televised ECAC hockey games this winter proved the NHL about as exciting as an American cheese sandwich. On white...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Generally Speaking, In Particular... | 3/15/1977 | See Source »

...almost makes you want to bag the excruciatingly long seasons of the NBA and the NHL completely, and just get right down to the playoffs, when people seem to move faster, referees seem to be sharper, and exciting games come in bunches...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Generally Speaking, In Particular... | 3/15/1977 | See Source »

...Bucyk, the Colvile brothers, and Alex "Killer" Kaleta learned their hockey in the small wheat growing and coal mining towns around Edmonton like Sherwood Park to the East, Red Deer to the South, St. Albert to the North, LeDuc, and Beaumont. If they didn't make it to the NHL, they played for the old local sime-pro teams: the Edmonton Flyers, the Olds Elks, and the Crow's Nest Pass Lascars...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Dum,Da,Dum...Futuite B.U.! | 2/17/1977 | See Source »

Junior League has been the traditional gravy train for pro players ever since teams like the Trail Smokesters and the Pendicton V's won the world hockey championship. Dea's father played Junior hockey, and he has two cousins in the NHL. One is Billy Dea, who played from 1953-58 before going down to the minors and then resurfacing in 1967 with the expansion Pittsburgh Penguins. His other cousing is Don Murdoch, who has acquired the nickname "Killer" after leading the Rangers in scoring this year in his rookie season...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Dum,Da,Dum...Futuite B.U.! | 2/17/1977 | See Source »

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