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...Detroit Red Wings, battling for a playoff berth, upset the Boston Bruins last night, 6-3. Detroit, in fifth place in the NHL Eastern Division, is now only one point behind the Toronto Maple Leafs...
...rule change has far deeper implications. Some coaches feel that the former restrictions hampered the progress of American-born players and ruined their chances for playing professional hockey, since the adjustment of one's skating and stickhandling style to accommodate the more open NHL game was nearly impossible to make. Consequently, a number of American collegiate coaches, 21 to be exact, see the expansion of checking as the key to a new era in the development of the American hockey player...
Others, including Harvard coach Bill Cleary, claim that the new rule will bring about the prostitution of college hockey for the aggrandizement of the NHL and the recently-formed WHA. They may have a point...
...circumstances, it is a reasonably unwise thing to do, and she pays for it, lying moaning for a few days in a Toronto apartment while her friends move on to San Francisco for another gig. Duke, meanwhile, goes to pieces, athletically, and the Maple Leafs stagger downward in the NHL standings to the point where they must defeat the Vancouver Canucks in the season's final game to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs...
...WHICH is disheartening, because Cannon Group, Inc., invested a large sum of money and a good bit of time putting it together. There is some good action footage from NHL games that includes nice cameo shots of Stan Mikita, Jean Beliveau, Gordie Howe, and Bobby Orr and an impressive brawl between the Maple Leafs and Los Angeles Kings that apparently was caught by accident...