- LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Washington Capitals - Coach Gary Green liked the _osmay goaltender Mike -Palmateer handled the pack, in only. his secood game after returning to the “Hoeup fran a groin injury _ {hat kept him off thei ice for four weeks. “Mike, (Plamateer >. . played an excellent game,” Green said Thursday night - after the Capitals scored a el. National ‘League: “= victory “Vancouver Canucks. “He's «ike an extra’ defenceman out there .. the way he _ handles the ‘puck. “When. you hod a team to. one: goal, goaltending definitely, plays an im- portant part.” - Palmateer stopped 27 ‘Vancouver shots .at the . Capaial Centre: Vancouver; which jost 7-3 . to Chicago Black Hawks | _- Wednesday night, -was saddied with its fourth - straight loss on the road. - In other games Thur- aday, Boston Bruins edged ‘Winnipeg Jets 7-6, Mon- frcal Canadiens and Calgary Flames tied 44 while Minnesota North. Stars and Detroit Red Wings played to a 3-3 draw. “They (Canucks) didn’t waste any energy in last night's game in Chicago ‘which we hid hoped for,” Green said. . this building I know they're going to give you three "good periods of wham-bam ; hockey.”’ However, _ coach Harry Neale wasn't ' pleased with his team's - effort,’ ‘, -*“We played the first * period with a lack of en- " thusiasm,”” he said. “We dida’t start playing until we got mad. “There's nothing in the rule book that says you can't play mad. If we had - Hockey - over. “But every '. time I see them come to - Vancouver. - Palmateer, meanwhile, Was excited about his _ Return to the lineup and, in. ’ particular, formance ‘Thursday. “The defence played ex- ceptionally Well,”” he said: “the erin, including three “MH like this kind of game where they (the opposition) havetoshoit from way out. “] like to roam around and handle the puck.” But he wasn't satisfied with his game ‘because be | ket one goal slip by, a” power-play: score by Stan Smy) in the second period, “] should have stopped that goal because I got a good piece of it,” he sald. _ Dennis Maruk scored his Mst goal of the year and * assisted on another, Guy Charron scored Washingtan’s first goal on a power play, and Bob - Kelly scored at 17:15 of the opening period to, give the Capilaly a two-goal lead. Washington defenceman dim McTaggart received a his per. - mateh misconduct. penalty for having his hand taped when he was involved in a, fight with Vancouver's: Dave Williams in’. the second period. Eleven — penalties were handed out . by referee Ron Hoggarth in to Williams. . What didn’t seem preity . to. Bosten. Bruins coach. Gerry Cheevers would have been satisfying to ~ Wayne | Manner, Detroit. Red Wings hew coach. . Cheevers was hard- ‘pressed’ ‘to describe the - National Hockey League game at Boston Garden after Bruins’ winger Rick Middleton.’ capped ~a - _Shootout, by scoring -on a -rebound if the last minute for a 24 win over the hapless Winnipeg Jets ina . _ contest marred by six separate fights. . Maxner, whose - arrival bebind . the bench in December hailed the . departure of Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay as coach as 1 Friday i in Terrace. other, In the 65 victory, and Zaporzan ‘Anthony Della Siega, Brent Petch and Mike Jephson each scored twice for Terrace and Brad Trudeau and Mark Greyeyes scored the In Saturday's encounter between the same ; twoteams, they played to a 5-5 tie. Grepeyes ‘had two of the Terrace goals, with Petch, Trudeau and Della Siega scoring singles. . The Terrace Bantams travelled to Prince . George and won two exhibition games by. scores of 11-3 and 6-5. Richard Lindstrom had” three goals, Terry Zaporan and Mario Desjardins two each and Rod Philpott, Rody _ Poeschek, Dan McGhee and Dale Kushner - counted singles in the first: ganie.’ Kushner each scored twice and Desjardins added .the others. . The Bantam Reps play host io Prince - George this weekend. at the Terrace Arena, - with games Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at ; MINOR HOCKEY | Terrace PeeWees defeated Prince Rupert 8- Clif Furnseth and played the whole like Booz lpateedcic) BE Mid(dida . Cia se By % we Mayed tid Test BF ay a Nien “poibet ‘qrmis), eit jinsbiesuy bes *_-frobilbly Gbald a WOR, 5! ~sideradanast mena 2 vetil ei tive” ’ Once we got mad the score PrinaR wt pis. was only 2-1," toner a ae Neale said his ‘team's aie PREWEES Poa ate most pressing problem has Kitimat oh “Ww eULE to do: with conditioning . GANTAMS ey ! n ue. ince, like the other West rirece oo uo 8s Coast team — Los Angeles Prince Ruper? AIDOETS 7 ue 4 Kings — the Canucks are Kitimat ; , Pen forced to travel much Prince Rupert toes. : goals. : Peplinski - Calgary goals. "yell -home against 4 Minnesota See |. oa sports . Berbick “seeking — ranks were depleted by flu. “I, don’t know how. to describe it,” was .. Cheevers’s feeble attempt to analyse the game in... which Boston four times fost the ead tothe Jets, whose 535-10 record is the worst inthe NHL... 'Middleton’s. 23rd goal resulted. from a Ray "Bourque shot from the left - ; Jets goaltender -.- Pierre Hamel made ‘the. point. save; but Middleton’ knocked the rebound home with 46 seconds to play. ‘The godl prolonged _ Winnipeg's road woes, The Jets now are 1-204 away from bame. : North Siars 3 Red Wings 3 The Red Wings were struggling to stay ahead of *: Winnipeg when Maxner. was called up from the* club's American. Hockey League farm team in Glen Falls, N.Y:, in December. The players seemed to respond to couragement and now are challenging ‘for a post-sea-. son berth, — Detroit captain Reed . OD a 30foot slapshot with 4:55 remaining in the - “game. Mike Foligno and Brent Peierson were the . other Red Wings scorers, Al. 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