MONTREAL — For two days, they’ve had a ‘’count* down” going here at the annual NHL meetings the hockey executives who had been whispering in corners talking trades and possibilities in the draft, set the beginning of the intra-league draft as the “lift-off’ to the meetings. But they never got off the launching pad. NHL …
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Fans, players say goodbye to Maple Leaf Gardens TORONTO – The Chicago Blackhawks finished what they started – winning the last NHL game at historic Maple Leaf Gardens just as they won the first 68 years ago. “Unfazed by the hoopla of a gala goodbye party, the Blackhawks dominated all but a few moments in …
Cheevers Blanks Wings 7-0 09 Feb 1976, Mon Biddeford-Saco Journal (Biddeford, Maine) BOSTON (AP) — Gerry Cheevers, the Boston Bruins’ wandering goalie who is back in good standing after 3 1/2 years in the World Hockey Association. is off to a perfect start with his old pals in the National Hockey League. Making his first …
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