NEW YORK (AP) – The path of a National Hockey league team to Cleveland appears to have been cleared, II was burned Monday. Two independent sources said Monday night that an announcement relevant to the NHL’s operation in Cleveland would be made at some time today, It also was learned that the World Hockey Association …
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MONTREAL (CP) — Guy Lafleur, the explosive right-winger from Quebec Rem parts of the Quebec Junior A Hockey League, today had the honor to be the first player picked in the National Hockey League’s 1971 amateur draft Lafleur, who scored 130 goals in 62 regular season games last year, was grabbed by the Stanley Cup …
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -The National Hockey League Board of Governors is all that stands between the Oakland Seals and a supply of white hockey skates. The board must consider the proposed sale of the Seals to Charles O. Finley, the flamboyant owner of baseball’s Oakland A’s, whose request to purchase the hockey club was approved …
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Another established National Hockey League player has jumped to the World Hockey Association. Andre Lacroix of Chicago Black Hawks, a former star with Philadelphia Flyers, signed a multi-year contract with Philadelphia Blazers of the WHA. New England Whalers, one of the most active WHA franchises. announced signing Tom Webster, who had 30 goals in 1970-71 …
MONTREAL (AP) – Six infant hockey clubs, whose multiple birth doubled the size of the once-staid old National League, start growing up in a hurry Tuesday….the biggest moving day in the history of professional sports. Hockey’s first expansion draft, to be conducted in conjunction with the NHL’s 50th annual summer meeting, will uproot 120 players …
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TORONTO (CP) — Pat Price says he will follow the tradition of many other rich young hockey players and buy a sleek sports car. Price, a 19-year-old defenceman from Saskatoon Blades of the Western Canada Hockey League, was the first choice Friday in the World Hockey Association amateur draft. He then signed with Vancouver Blazers …
