Rangers, Wings Rally For Ties With Toronto

DETROIT — (AP) — Val Fonteyne and Bruce MacGregor scored 42 seconds apart in the third period Sunday night on Bruce Gamble, Toronto's third goalie of the game, to earn a 3-3 tie for Detroit Red Wings.

Toronto used all three of its goalies, Johnny Bower, Terry Sawchuk and Gamble while tuning up for the Stanley Cup playoffs which begin Thursday in the National League. Toronto is at Montreal and Detroit at Chicago.

Bower started the game, didn't allow a goal and coached the club during the third period while manager-coach Punch Imlach sat in the stands.

Brit Selby and George Armstrong scored in the first period for Toronto and Eddie Shack made it 3-0 in the second period with his 26th goal before Norm Ullman started Detroit's comeback, flipping a rebound over Terry Sawchuk late in the second period for his 31st goal.

Fonteyne scored his fifth of the season at 9:11 of the third period on a 25-footer down the middle after a setup pass from Paul Henderson.

Henderson also did the work on MacGregor's 20th of the season at 9:53. digging the puck from behind the net and centring it for MacGregor who laced it in from just outside the crease to bring a roar from the 14,013 fans.

Seemed On Way

Toronto appeared well on its way, in the final regular season game, to winning for the first time in seven tries on Olympia ice. The Leafs had scored only three goals in six previous starts here.

Selby, rookie of the year leader in the first-half voting, scored only his third goal in the second half, fighting off Gordie Howe to do it.

Howe tried to tie up Selby from behind but the Leaf left wing got a low shot away at 13:17 for his 14th goal.

Armstrong made it 2-0 at 19:43 while killing a penalty to Larry Hillman. Tim Horton outwrestled Howe for the puck in the corner in Detroit territory and centered it for Armstrong who was ungarded in front of the Red Wing net.

Shack Scores

Shack's goal came on a long breakaway pass from Bob Pul-ford. Detroit defenceman Bryan Watson raced across trying to intercept him and Shack stopped and used. Watson as a partial screen for his long shot.

Detroit finished the second with an 8-4-2 record against Toronto.

Leafs Use 3-Goalie System

BY BOB PILLE

Punch Imlach flirt with the fringers of the rules?

Heaven forbid.

The Toronto coach was just working on a new cure for illness. That's how he got to three goalies—one a period— in Sunday's 8-3 tie with the Red Wings.

The three-goalie system, in a game just getting used to the two-goalie system, is a bit illegal unless there is an emergency.

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And the emergency was that Imlach considered Johnny Bower ill after one period. Then had Terry Sawchuk feel some twinges in a bad knee in the second, then had to finish with Bruce Gamble.
Bower sick?

The ageless old goalie coached the third period while Imlach sat in the stands.

“Yeah, he said he was sick, but I asked him if he could stand up,” said Imlach of Bower. “He said he could and said all right, it might make you feel better anyway.”

Imlach paused, then chuckled. “I declare it an emergency, that protects me with the rules.”

The Red Wings complained to referee John Ashley about the Toronto goalie parade but got nowhere.

They weren't really unhappy, except for being irritated that Imlach was playing with the National Hockey League code.