Saturdays NHL Roundup By THE CANADi..° PRESS Lost in the media hype surrounding coach Roger Neilson’s. defensive . “approach to hockey is the fact Toronto Maple Leafs can score goals. Mucn of the credit for the Leafs successful start to..the current National Hockey League season . has been tied to the club's improved defensive ploy under Neilson—ge' ‘2 his first taste of NHL coaching alter an im- pressive record in the minor leagues and junior ranks, , However, the Leafs— With a 19-63 record—-are scoring almost four goals & game, while surren- dering an average of 2.5 goals a contest. They padded their offensive output Saturday night and did little to mar their defensive statistics posting a 7-1 victory over icago Black Hawks. The win was Toronto's sixth consecutive and came less than 24 hours after the Leafs had blasted Minnesota North Stars 8-5—their highest goal total of the season. In other games Penguins upset Montrect ns upset Montre Canauiens ey New York Islanders beat Boston Bruins 4-1, Vancouver Canucks and Buffalo Sabres tied 5-5, Colorado Rockies dumped Min- nesota 5-1, Cleveland Barons downed New York. Rangers 4-2, Philadelphia Flyers edged Atlanta Flames 4- 3, Detroit Red Wings shaded St. Louis Blues 3-2 and Washington Capitals nipped Los Angeles Kings Much of the Toronto offensive thrust of late has come with reuniting of speedy ieft Winger Errol Thompson with centre Darryl Sittler and right winger Lanny McDonald. REPEATS PER- FORMANCE For the second con- secutive night, McDonald scored twice for the Leafs, giving him 15 for the season and five in his last three games. Sittler also netted a pair to raise his season total to 15, while Thompson added one—giving him 10 for the year. The line picked up a total of 11 points. Although they outshot the Leafs 40-82, includin a 16-9 edge in the fin period, the Black Hawks rarely gave Toronto netminder Mike Palm- ateer. any trouble. Ivan Boldirev’s 12th goal of the season at 15:50 of the opening period was the only drive to elude him. Montreal, playing without four regulars— including highscoring Guy Lafleur—because of a flu virus, lost for the second time in as many games. Having dropped a the . 3-2 road decision to Minnesota on Friday, the Canadiens saw their record fall to 19-7-4, They lost only eight games in all of last season. Montreal held a 2-1 advantage midway through the first period and led 3-2 early in the second, But Pittsburgh then struck for three unanswered goals, with former Canadien Peter Mahovlich getting the final score at 1:08 of the third, Rookie Mike Bossy scored his 23rd goal of the season as the Islanders handed Boston its second successive defeat after the Bruins had gone 17 games without a loss. Veteran Pit Martin's goal out of a _ wild scramble in front of the Buffalo net with less than two minutes to play lifted Vancouver into the tie, Richard Martin had iven the Sabres a 5-4 ead at 3:52 of the final period on a power-play goal after Ron Sadlbauer of the Canucks was sent off for interfering with Buffalo goaltender Don. Edwards. , BECK STARS . Rookie defenceman Barry Beck scored three times, giving him 14 for - the season, as Colorado dumped Minnesota. The third period was marred by two brawls which saw Minnesota’s Harvey Bennett and Doug Hicks ejected with game misconducts. The Barons got goals from rookies Rich Shinske, Ken Kuzyk and Kris Manery and veteran Rick Hampton to down the Rangers, who fought back to within one goal on two occasions. Philadelphia erupted for three third-period goals, including Bob Kelly’s second of the game, to down Atlanta which held a 20 lead early in the second pe- riod. Greg Joly’s goal at 11:16 of the third period proved decisive as troit snapped a nine- game winless streak with its fifth road victory of the season—a 32 win over St. Louis Blues. Dennis Hull collected his 200th career goal and second in seven games since being acquired by the Wings from Chicago. Guy Charron scored his second goal of the game with 2:34 left to give Washington the upset victory—its first in 11 games on Los Angeles ice. Rookie goaltender Jim Bedard, called up earlier in the month from Hershey of the American Hockey League, per- formed spectacularly while turning back 938 Kings drives. Gary Sargent, with his first goal of the season, was the only King to beat Bedard. WIHL Sport Roundup — By THE CANADIAN ' PRESS okane Flyers whipped Trail Smoke - Eaters 6-1 Saturday night before a home-ice crowd of 2,330 as they extended their winning streak to seven ames and maintained a two-point lead in Western In- Leace Sandia Hockey én + i gs: Gag eran “the Royals scored their second weekend victory Saturday by edging Nel- son Maple Leafs 3-1 to remain in second spot with 38 points, two behind the Flyers. Cranbrook downed the Smoke Eaters 9-2 Friday night in a penalty-filled contest in Trail. The Smokies remain fourth in: the league with 18 points, 12 less than Kimberley Dynamiters and six more than Nelson. Craig Topolinski. and Ron Huston led the Flyers with two goals, while Garth Morgan and Kirk Fyffe added singles, Johit'Hordoff ‘replied for Trail, which traifed 2-0 at the end of the first period and 5-0 after 40 minutes. Henry Durkin made 46 saves for Trail while Spokane’s Ron Lefebvre turned aside 26 shots. The Royals and the Leafs played through a scoreless first period and SFU Wins over Montana BURNABY, B.C, (CP) — Tom Skerlak scored 16 points and Jay Triano added 14 to lead Simon Fraser University Clans- mento an 8-51 National Association of In- tercollegiate Athletics basketball victory over Montana Tech Orediggers Saturday night, Gary Emmerson, who led the defence with 15 rebounds and several blocked ‘shots, and Mike MeNeill each added 12 for the Clan which jumped to a 12-4 lead and led 38-25 at half time. . Forward Ecb Wurm led the Orediggers with 23 points and pulled down 12 rebounds in the contest that was much more de- fensive than Friday night’s 113-78 SFU vic- tory. > The Clansmen - ‘dominated the boards 41- #4 «and outshot the Orediggers from the field 47 per cent to 28 per cent. The win consolidated SFU's third-place position in NAIA District 1 standings. were tied 1-1 going into the final 20 minutes on coals by Cranbrook’s rek Spring and Nelson's Brad Carefoot. HUGH GETS WINNER Hugh Christiaens gave the Royals a 2-1 edge and Jim Miller scored the clincher on a power play with 57 seconds _ re- maining. _ Bm ‘Mario Dibella madé 30 saves in the Nelson goal, while Ray Martynuik blocked 24 shots for the Royals. On Friday, Bob Craig led the Royals with three goals while Christiaens, Brian Dickie, John Migneault, Jim Miller, Rick Wannamaker and Marcheschuck adde singles. Tom Gawryletz and Dan McCarthy replied for Trail Leo Karchie stopped 42 shots for Cranbrook while Durkin and Bob Blanchet combined to make 39 Brail was assessed 16 of 24 minor penalties and several majors and misconducts were handed out for fights during the contest. Play resumes Tuesday when: Spokane visits Cranbrook. Barr Intermediate Hockey by Murray Hamer Terrace Jevenile Reps scored five first period goals Friday night to post a7-6 win over the Kitimat Jevenile Reps in a poorly refereed game in the Kitimat arena. Cliff Flury and Henry Davidson led the Terrace Reps with two goals each while Murray Hill and Bob Dempster and Peter Kirby added singles. Kitimat Reps B. Semby, T. Stevens, T. Aken, A. Cenchuka, S. Crimarty and S. Sappala all scored singles. A combination of a 4- goal lead by Terrace and a very poorly refereed game resulted in 13 penaltles for Terrace with 3 Terrace players dismissed from the ice for fighting. Kitimat teams racked up 19 penalties and 4 suspension$ from the game for fighting and one match penalty. Terrace Reds Intermediate Hockey Terrace hockey fans were looking forward to Sunday night when the Terrace Reds In- termediate team were scheduled to ice three one period games at the local arena, starting at 7 p.m. The Reds program called for them to play one period against the CP Air ulldogs; one period against the Terrace idget Reps. and one period versus teh ‘RCMP and Firemen, The Herald will try to carry a games report of the short series in a later edition. ‘ Terrace player in No. 9 sweater, Murray Hill drives puck toward Kitimat net, P| i ‘ 3 a _ Photo by Murray Hamer THE HERALD, Monday, December 10, 1977, PAGE 4 Terrace Jevenile Reps. on ice with Kitimat Jevenile save puck from getting through. Kitimat team in light Reps. Kitimat goalie flattens out in successful bid to uniforms. Photo by Murray Hamer Terrace Mens Basketball Dec, 13 On the evening of Dec. 13 in the first game of the evening, Ev’s Clippers beat out All Seasons 92-91. In this very close game Rod Kluss with 28 and Ernie Froese with 24 were high scorers for Ev’s Clippers. All Seasons’ high scorers were Mike Ireland with 26 and Doug MeKay with 15. It was by the score an very close game. All Seasons lead the way at half time 43-42, but Dave Crawley scored to tie the ame with 1 minute left. e was fouled on the play and scored the winning int at the free throw ine. All Seasons had 3 chances to tie it up or go ahead but threw the ball away each time. Wth the win Ev’s moves 2 games ahead of All Seasons in the race for first place. . In the seconnd game Willie Chemkoscored 27, Al Glover 22 and Fred Lindsay 21 as members of the Terrace Reds as they took the game 94-93 over Skeena Hote]. In- this close game Pat- Kofoed with 25 points.and Jim Checkley with 21 were the Skeena’s high scorers. With a close first half the Reds lead 48-42 at ha!f time. The Reds led by as much as 15 points in the second half but the Or- phans came back and took the lead with only 20 seconds remaining. The Reds got the Bail out of Bounds with 9 seconds leftand turned the tide. Andy Ruygrok passed the ball to Al Glover who scored the winning basket with only a scant few seconds remaining. Dec, 15 Skeena Hotel Orphans took out All Seasons $9-81 seemed to tire. in this tirst game of the evening. High scorers for the Skeena were: John Gurban 21, Pat Kofoed, Jim Cheekley and Joe Prokopchuck all with 16 points. On the All Seasons side Mike Ireland totaled 30, Doug McKay 18 and Bruce Johnstone 16 to head the scoring list. The first half was extremely close with the Orphans only leading 49- 47 at half time. The second half was also close until with aoubt 6 minutes left to play the Skeena Hotel pulled away as All Seasons, who were only playing with 6 players, or the Orphans, it was a team efiort as 5 players scored in the double figures. In the second gem of the evening it was Ev’s Clippers over Terrace Reds 94-92. High scorers for Ev;s consist of Ernie Froese with 29, Dave Crawley with 23 and Paul Walker totaled 22, On the Red's side Al Glover hit 23, Willy Chemko 21 and Fred Lindsay 20. The whole game was extremely close with the Reds leading 48-44 ath the half. The second half was also close with the Lead changing hands many times. It finally came down to the last minute when the Clippers were the last to score with Ernie Froese putting in the last points with a couple of free throws in the last second left in the game. Standings The standings in Terrace Men's Basket- ball Assoc. are as follows: Leading is Ev's Clip- pers with a total of 26 ints. Next is All easons with 20,. six oints over Skeena otel, who trail with 14. The Terrace Reds are at the bottom of the list with 12 points, only two behind Skeena. 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