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Sittler strikes back

TORONTO (CP) — Darryl
Sittler, pubilcly dragged
over the coals with a few of
his Toronto Maple Leaf
team-mates by general-
manager Punch Imlach,
returned 8 sharply-directed
mouthful at his boss Thur-

sday, ;

In an Interview in St.
Louis, the Leaf captain tolda
Globe and Mail reporter he
and other players on the.
National Hockey League
club are upset about moves
and statements by [mlach.

“T wouldn’t say there’s a
lack of communication
between Punch Imlach and
the players,” Sittler said.
“There's no communication
at all.”

Sittler, waitlhng with his
teammates for a flight to
Winnipeg where the Leafs
play the Jets on Saturday,

opened up alter being in- °

formed of a selection of
cholce Imlach darts thrown
during radio and television
broadcasts of Wednesday's
game in-St. Louls, which
Leafs won 7-4 over the Blues.

Imlach said during a dis-
cusaion on a post-game tele-
vision show he felt Sittler
was playing as though he
still had not recovered fully
from torn knee ligaments
suffered last season.

Imlach said during the
radio broadcast of the game
and again on the post-game
television show that Sittler

would be available in a trade
fer any NHL all-star.

Sittler used ta be an all-
star, he said, but “might
have lost a step or two.”

ae eRe sitter high.
scar’ t winger Lanny
McDonald and defenceman
Tan Turnbull, Leaf veterans
around whom the club has
been built in recent years,
Were among a group of
players placed on.-waivers
then recalled.

The move by Imlach was
interpreted as a manoeuvre
to see which other NHL
teams were interested in
trades, The players, sald
Situler, didn't appreciate the
fact they were not advised. -
They were upset when they
learned through newspapers
that they'd been placed on
waivers.

“I had a good open
relationship with Jim
Gregory (former general
manager) and with (former
coaches} Red Kelly and
Roger Neilson," Sittler said,

“But I'd say the majority
of players on this team have
never’ talked to Punch
Imiach ,.. We see Punch at
practices and at games now
and again and he gave us one
talking-to in the dressing
room. But other than that,
we never see him.”

Sittler noted two minor
changes that bothered the
players. They no longer are

Ruel disagrees

MONTREAL (CP) —
Assistant coach Claude Ruel
of the National Hockey
League's Montreal
Canadiens reacted with
bitterness Thursday to
weed volced by right
winger Guy Lafleur, saying:
“What he said is not honest,’*

Lafleur was re d aa
“gaying ‘dn the team’d charter
flight home from a game
Wednesday night at Pitt-
sburgh that Ruel was part of
the reason the team has been
struggling this Season under
first-year coach Bernie
Geoffrion.

The Canadiens have an $3-
3 record that would be
considered good anywhere
else but seems only adequate
to Montreal's critical fan-
dom. They raliied for a 3-3 He
against the Penguins,

“I don't want to create any
dissension, but Claude
should revert to the role he
had before,’ Lafleur had
said, referring to Ruel’s
work under the departed
Scotty Bowman. ‘If he
wants to coach, let him go
behind the bench, If not, then
let Bernard do what he
wants,

“Right now, Geoffrion is
getting too many directives
and consultations between
periods and games and he
doesn't know where to turn.”"

Ruel wag upset and said he
would talk to managing
director Irving Grundman
about what to do. “If Boomer
does not want me here, then I
will go somewhere else,'’
Ruel said, referring to
Geoftrion.

Pace set

by the U.S.

ATHENS (AP) — The U.S.
team of John Mahaffey and
Hale Irwin set the pace with
A 141 total in the openin
round Thursday of the 27
World Cup men 8 team golf
tournament.

Mahaffey, who teamed
last year with Andy North
when the tournament was
held in Hawaii, shot 4 five-
under-par 67 aver the par-72
Glyfada course in hig
opening round.

But team-mate Irwin |

turned in a disappointing
performance. Irwin shot

dismal 38 on the front nine

and got so badly tied up at
the approach to No, 6 that he
just threw up his hands in
rustratlon. His approach
shot fell in a sand trap and
his next shot flew over the
Breen to the rough on the
edge of another trap.

Irwin finished the more
difficult back nine with a 35
to total 74, two over par.

Canada’s representatives,
Jim Nelford of Burnaby,
B.C., and Dan Halldorson of
Shilo, Man,, were nine
strokes off the pace in a He
for ninth place with a 150
total, Nelford, 24, shot a 73
and Halidorgon, 27, had a 77
whieh included B triple

are ne ate tab t

Geoffrion, angry enough

about the incident to call
some players off the ice at
practice to talk about it,
defended Ruel.

“If he goes, I go," said
Geoffrion,

Lafleur had said Ruel
should serve Geofirion the
way he did Bowman.

“But you have to un-
derstand the situation,’
Lafleur said. “Geoffrion just
arrived here and he’s not
strong enough yet to take
control of the situation. The
sooner he does, the better.”’
‘ Defenceman Larry
Robinson said earlier this
week that he didn't believe
the coaching change was
responsible for the
Canadiens’ start,

“Basically, the coach
hasn't tried to change
things,'' Robinson said.
“Unintentionally, we kind of
feel that he’s trying to let us
play a little different, which
is not true, He sald time and
time again — it's like a
broken record — that he
doesn't want to change our
style because we have been
successful that way.

"Maybe because af the
way Scotty sald and did
things, we listened a litle
more,” said Robinson.

permitted a beer on char:
tered flights after road
games, a concession Sittler
won from Kelly, and a ping-
pong table has been removed
from an ante-room outside
the home club’s dressing
room at Maple Leaf Gar-
dens,

Both moves, Sittler said,
showed a small regard by
management for the players’
maturity.

Sittler said the players
have reacted to
Management moves hy
pulling together, There is no
dissension among the
players, he stressed.

As for Imlach’s comments

m his knee, Sittler said the

knee Is healthy and he has
had no preblem with it.

“But there are nights when
you're sluggish,”

Sittler, 20, is in his 10th
season with the Leats, the
only NHL team with which
he's played. He recorded his
700th career point with an

_assist Wednesday night.

Sittler. has a no-trade
clause In his contract but his
agent, Bill Watters, said in
Toronto on Thursday that
Sitter would be willing to

waive the clause in return

for a lump-sum payment.

Watters placed a price tag
of “$500,000 on the clause,
saying Imlach had called to
discuss it.

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SABR D

The Herald, Friday, November 9, 1979, Page 9

Bruins double Oilers

Boston Bruins won while
Buffalo Sabres played to a
draw In the only scheduled
National Hockey Lea ue
games Thursday ni

the two teams ied
atop the Adama Division.

The Bruins dealt Ed-
monton Ollera a 4-2 losa
while Buffalo skated to a 3-3
stalemate with Chicago
Black Hawks.

In Beaton, Bobby Sch-
mautz scored his eighth goal
mes as the Bruins
extended their unbeaten
streak tofive games, Wayne
Cashman, Bobby Lalonde
and Dick Redmond also
scored for the Bruins.

Dan Newman and Pat.
Price scored for the Oilers,
who now have a record of
two wins, four ties and eight
logses in 14 games,

Off-season management
eriticism had Schmautz, 34,

wondering whether his days:

with the Bruins were
numbered.

“T wanted to be traded last
summer, it's no secret,”
Schmautz sald. “They told
methey weren't happy that I
scored only 20 goals last
season, that I sheuld be

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