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Leafs barely intact since Monday

THE CANADIAN
PRESS
Toronto Maple Leafs’
unbeaten string
remained intact Monday
night—but just barely.
t took a goal from
Lanny McDonald, his
second of the game and
16th of the season, at
10:51 of the third period to
complete a third-period
T e cone gr
which saw the Leafs
overcome a 3-0 deficit
and salvage a 4-4 tie with
St. Louis Blues.
The single point moved
- the Leafs to within one of

8
Bruins in the Adams
Division of the National
Hockey League and to
within iyo 1 fustplage

alo res,! i
inbentes ie ite last eeven
staris—six wins and a
tie—also enjoys two
ames in hand on both the

bres and Bruins.

In the only other game
Angeles-Kings got a goal
es: ings gol a g
from Marcel Dionne
midway through the third
period to edge Vancouver
Canucks 3-2.
After a scoreless first
riod, the Blues struck
lor a pair of goals during
the third minute of the
second and took a 3-0 lead
at 13:38 of the period.
“It was a heck of a
comeback,” Leafs coach
Roger Neilson said after
a game: > eoing ints
really up going in
the third period and
evidence of that was the
quick goal by Sittler.”
Neilson was referring

to a goal after only 11 | i
inal, .mirder Mike Palmateer
riod “by. f J ¢aptain |. had ‘to.face’25 shots. —
arty! “Sitller, ‘which

seconds . Of the...

narrowed the score to 3-2.
Sittler had opened the
scoring for Toronto with
his 16th goal of the season

at 15:36 of the middle
riod after Jimmy
erts, Larry Patey and
Brian Ogilvie had staked
the Blues to their 3-0 lead.
UNGER TIES IT
McDonald’s first goal
tied it at 7:54, but Garry
Unger, the league's iron
man—playing in his 754th
consecutive game—put
the Blues out in front
again nine seconds later.
Toronto dominated
play in the opening
riod, but ran into the
ot goaltending of Phil
Myre—a_=s recent
acquisition from Atlanta
Flames who faced 15
shots in the first period
and 37 on the night. By
comparison, Leaf net-

St. Louis is tied with
Minnesota North Stars
for last place in the
Smythe Division with
only seven wins and four

ties in 31 starts, 10 points
back of first-place
Chicago Black Hawks.

At = Los Angeles,
Dionne’s 11th goal of the
season, a brilliant 10-foot
backhand shot, came as
he stickhandled through
the Vancouver defence to
beat goaltender Caesar
Maniago. It was his first
goal since returning to
the Kings’ lineup Dec. 15
after sitting out nine
games with a shoulder
injury.

Harold Snepsts scored

an unassisted goal, his
first of the season, at the
three-minute mark of the
first period to give the
Canucks a 1-0 lead, But
the Kings tied it 2%
minutes later ‘ on ° Har-
” tland Monahan's sixth of
the season and took the
lead with 4:43 remaining
in the period on defen-
ceman Bob Murdoch's
first of the year.

Gregg’s temper his downfall

By MIKE HARRIS
CLEVELAND (AP) —
Forrest Gregg is
unemployed after nearly
three seasons as head
coach of Cleveland
. Browns, and many
National Football League
fans are wondering why.
How did Gregg go from
NFL Coach of the Year in
1976 to just another
unemployed mentor in

less than 12 months?
’ Most persons close to
the scene agree that the
catalyst in Gregg's
downfall was his temper,

“dead and buried.”
Several players said
they were shocked when
Gregg refused to join in
the usual postgame team
prayer, saying he cursed
them and walked out of
the dressing-room.
Gregg later said he was
wrong in his initial
assessment of the
players’ effort against
the Chargers. But several
Browns said it was the
last in a long series of

outbursts by Gregg, an
emotional man schooled
as a player by Vince
Lombardi, the master of
the biting remark and the

_ shouted reprimand.

During the week prior
to his forced resignation

Dec. 13, players took
sides, with some berating
Gregg und others
‘defending him.

When Gregg’s
departure owas = an-

nounced, Modell refused

to talk about the reasons,
saying only: “We felt it
was in the best interests
of the Browns and
Forrest Gregg.”
However, it appeared

Modell felt Gregg’s
emotional style of
coaching may have

sapped the spirit from the
young Browns and,

- combined with injuries to

some key players, put too
heavy a fad on a thin
talent reserve,

Are
ee a

Dennis Kearns pulled
the Canucks even at 5:01
of the third and the score
remained 2-2 until
Dionne’s goal at 9:16.

Chicago
. owner ill

CHICAGO (AP) — Bill
Veeck, owner of the
Chicago. White Sox
baseball club, underwent

one hour of abdominal

surgery Monday and a
hospital spokesman said
the operation was “ex-
tremely successful.”
The spokesman said

the 62-year-old Veeck will..
‘-be home for. Christmas, .

Ny LARRY HARDING
ONTREAL (CP) -

Guy Lafleur of Montreal

Canadiens of the National
Hockey League was
caught off guard when he
was numed Canuda’s
mule athlete of the year
for 1977:

“I was surprised," he
said at ua Cunadiens
practice Tuesday. “‘Last
night I was watching
television and heard it for
the first time. [ wasn’t
even thinking of it and
nobody had said anything
to me.”

In the 10 preceding
years, the award went to

Jenkins four times, to
hockey players four
times, to one football
player and to one track
and field athlete.

Lafleur led the NHL in
scoring last season with
56 goals and 80 assists for
136 points, a record for
right wingers, and won
the Art Ross Trophy. He
also became the. first
player since Bobby Orr to
win the Hart Trophy as
most valuable player
during the regular season
as well as the Conn
Smythe trophy as MVP in
the playoffs.

In addition, Lafleur
was named to the first ail-
star team for the third

year in a row and
received the Lester B.
Pearson award, the .
Players’ Association
version of the

honor.

In 1976 balloting for the

award, Lafleur finished
second to high-jumper

Greg we of ancouwer,
an ympic _— silver
medallist.

HAD NO IDEA

But Lafleur did not
know that. “I knew Joy
won last year but I had no
idea that I was second:

“T’'m very happy abou
this because, I P ,asa
trophy, it might be the
biggest one. We won the
Stanley Cup as a team

and we all contributed to . 8

THE HERALD, Wednesday, December 71, 19//, PAGES

winning the Vezina
Trophy, but to be singied
out nat only from our
team, but from fouthull
players und everyone
else— that’s really un
honor.” .

Born in Thurso, Que.,
4) kilometres southeast of
Hull on the OtLawa Hiver
on Sept, 2, 1056, Lufteur

ine

first gained 4 measure of
national prominence in
1962 al the peewee in-

take } ano i
tournament in Quebec

Cy.

e led his team to the
final that year and wus
chosen the tournament's
MVP. He missed the
honor in 1963 when his
team failed to reach the
final but won again in
1964,

At that point, however,
he had noidea of what the
future held for him.

“H's too young. You're
just hoping that one .day
you'll be up there playing
in the big leagues.”
REWROTE THE HOOK

From there, Lafleur
went on to star for
Quebec Remparts as-he
rewrote the tecord book
for goals and total points

- media

, jm - Lafleur athlete of the year

in the Quebec Major
Junior Hockey Leagues.
He became the No. 1
amateur draft’ pick in
1971 when chosen by the
Canadiens and was
toute by most Queber:
province journalists ux
the eventual team leader
and successer to Jean
Beliveau, his idol.

In his first three years
with Montreal, he scored
2, 2 und 21) goals
respectively, and was not
quite everything that
team management and
cople had ex-
pected of the new leader.

But the Flower, as
Lufleur is affectionately
called, blossomed in his
fourth big-league season
as he scored 53 goals and
66 assists for 119 points.

. He scored 56 goals in each

of the two followin
seasons and had 125 an
136 points respectively
for a pair of scoring titles
as well as two Stanley
Cup victories for the
leam and numerous
individual awards for the
right winger.

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1978
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INVOICES

Have now been mailed to alt 1977 licenced
businesses. (f your firm or business has not
received an invoice contact the District of

Terrace immediately.

Anyone doing

business within the District of Terrace
without a valid licence is subject to

prosecution.

Signed,

T.G, Chesterman,
Licence Officer.
District of Terrace

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only the fifth regular-
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the Browns in their 27
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Modell immediately
said he had asked general
Manager Peter Hadhazy
“to re-evaluate the
- organization from top to
bottom.”
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