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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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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Those Oakland Seals, the unloved waifs of the National Hockey League, have suddenly been thrust into the forefront of the league’s annual meetings June 8-11. Highlight of the meetings will be the expansion draft to stock Vancouver Canucks and Buffalo Sabres. Both clubs enter the NHL next season for a $6 million entry fee each. …
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