The Herald, Wednesday, January 14, 1981, Page 7 -

Quick surge gets tie —

VANCOUVER (cP) —
Brent Ashton scored two
goals ina 45-second span in
the third period to lift the
lifeless Vancouver Ca-
muicks to & 3-3 tie with
Colorado Rockies ina dull
National Hockey League
game Tuesday night. ‘

The Canucks fell two
goals behind in the last

' period when Yvon Vautour

scored one goal and set up
another almost

the lead before 13,800 fans.

Lanny McDonald scored _
‘for Colorado in the first

period and Thomas Gradin

couver In the second.

The tle was the 14th in 44
games for the Canucks and
left them ina seventh-place
tie with Minnesota North
Stars in the over-all
standings. Colorado moved
into a 13th-place tie with
Hartford Whalers.

Colorado oulshot Van-
couver 25-19 as both net-
minders, Al Smith of the

- Rockies and Gary Bromley

of Vancouver had little
work, Both teams were dis-
organized on attack,
prelering to dump the puck

UNIONDALE, N.Y,
(AP) — Mike Bossy scored
three powerplay goals and
added another into an
empty net Tuesday night,
bringing his league-leading

‘total to 45, to lead New

York Islanders to a 6-3

‘Natlonal Hockey League

victory over Pittsburgh

* Penguins.

It marked the seventh
game this season in which

’ Bossy scored three or more

y

goals, tying an NHL record
also shared by Joe Malone
of the 1917-18 Montreal
Canadiens, Phil Esposito of

-in’ rather

two!
minutes later by Barry -
Smith to give the Rockies |

passing plays, 7

The Canucks were for-
tunate to survive the
opening period, —con-
sidering they took five mi-
ner penalties, including ane
occasion when they played
two men short for a minute
and 35 seconds. The
Colorado power play was
ineffective, however, and
Bromley was steady,
McDonald fired his 20lh
goal of the season at 14:06
of the first period after
Walt McKechnie won a
faceoff in the Vancouver
zone. McDonald's shot

’ deflected in off Vancouver
tied the score for Yan-''

defenceman Rick Lanz.
Bromley was lucky ona

couple of other occasions.

Doug Berry hit the past

-early in the period and

later Bromley got his arm
on a deflection by Rene
Robert.

Robert hit the post early
in the second period and

Bromley had to be alert to

stop rookie Ed Cooper wilh
a close-in scoring chanme
moments later.
Vancouver finally
started to apply some
pressure about five
minutes into the second

this Season.

Bob Bourne and Bryan
Trottier also scored for the
Islanders. George
Ferguson, Rick Kehoe and
Rod Schutt replied for the
Penguins,

Bossy’s goals gave him
the NHL lead in power play
scores with 21. He now is
one behind a goal-a-game
pace, and has registered 16
pointsin his last six games
with seven goals and nine
assists,

New York's victory was _
its first in the last nine —

outings against the

the 1970-71 Boston Bruins: “-‘Penguins’(1-2-0¥"and alsd

and Rick Martin of” the "1

1975-76 Buffalo Sabres, Hé
has two four-goal games

apped 4.) tee oi-
3) winless strea against
Pittsburgh at home.

Red Wings rally

DETROIT (AP) — Paul
Woods scored on a short
backhand shot late in the
third period as Detroit Red
Wings salvaged a 3-3 tie
with Boston Bruins in a
National Hockey League
game Tuesday night.

-. The tie snapped Boston's
fourgame winning streak

.— the longest of the season
for Bruins, 17-19-9, The Red |

Wings are 11-22-9,
Gary McAdam —

acquired last week from

Pittsburgh Penguins — and
Dale McCourt also scored
for the Red Wings. Rick
Middleton, Steve Kasper
and Brad McCrimmon
scored for Boston. ;
The Bruins had two men
in the penalty box and the

Red Wings had one man off"

when Middleton skated in
on Detroit’s rookie
goaltender Larry Lozinski

_ for an unassisted goal at

14:15 o€ the first period,
Nine seconds later,

than make -

r

perlod, mainly on the
forechecking of wingers
Darcy Rota and Ashton.

Gradin scored
seventh goal of the season
at 7:43 when he took a
return pass from de-
fenceman Dennis Kearns
and quickly fixed a high
shot past Smith which
dropped into the net off the
crossbar,

Vancouver skated much
better in the last period and

‘ carrled the play to: the |

Rockies, with Per-Olov
Brasar hitting the post with
a backhand shot,

Vautour came out of the
penalty box, where he was
serving a Colorado bench
penalty for two many men
on the ice, to score his 10th
goal of the season at 8:31
with a rising shot over
Bromley’s shoulder on a -
two-onone break with
centre Smith,

Smith then scored his
second of the “season at
11:28 0n another break with .
Vautour,

Ashton gave the Canucks

. ome hope at 14:50 when he
- scored from the side of the

net when goaltender Smith
pulled away from the post.

Bourne scored at 10:32 of
the first period on a five-
foot rebound in the slot-
after Butch Goring missed
a 10footer from the right’

- side. Bossy’s first score, on

a rebound from a Clark
Gillies shot, made it 20 at
1:07 af the second pe-
riod. Trottier made the lead
3-0 with a 25-foot slap shot

- from the edge of the right

face-off circle at 16:28,
Chico Resch, the only

NHL goalie with two -

shutouts this season, lost
his bid for a third when
Ferguson scored on a
.. Bower play. on i, 10-footer,,

“from the right late in the |

middte period, Randy.
Carlyle, who fed Ferguson

McAdam tied it up with a
power-play. goal from the
top of the circle, Kasper |
made it 21 for Bruins
before the priod ended
when he flipped a .short
backhander past Lozinskl
at 17:37,

McCourt tied it up again
at 2-2 with his 15th goal of
the season at 15:58 of the

. Second period with a. hard

1¢-footer that sailed into
the upper corner of the net
aver the glove hand of

Power plays kill Flames

CALGARY (CP) — New

' ‘York Rangers scored three -

third-period goals, in-

_ cluding two on power

plays, to come from behind
and tie Calgary Flames 4-4

in a National Hockey -

League game before a
crowd of 7,226.

The Rangers, who never
led in the game, went into
thefinal 20 minutes dawn 3-
1, but got power-play goals
from Ron: Greschner at

2:42 and Ren Duguay at

- 9:11, Dave Silk, deflecting

in a pass from Duguay,
scored at 12:26 to give the
Rangers a tie — the first
point the team has
managed in three games
against Calgary this sea-
son.

Wiill Plett, the Flames
leading goal-getter, with
his second goal of the night
and 24th of the season,

_notched the only Flames‘

goal in the period at the
eight-minute mark. -
Plett had opened the
scoring in the game at 2:30
of the first period. Don

’ Lever was the other

Calgary marksman in the
opening 20 minutes and

Kent Nilsson scored
Calgary's only goal in the
second period,

Nilsson, Flames leading ,

pointgetter with 60, also

his - ‘pet.

Ashton then got the tying .

goal at 15:35 froma
scramble in front of the

The Canucks thought

“they had scored the winner |
“with two minutes left when ~

Ashton broke through the
middle and was pulled
down by Colorado defen-
ceman Mike McEwen.
Rota tapped the loose puck
into the net, but referee
Ron ‘Wicks ruled ‘he had

whistled the play down be- —

fore the apparent goal.
Vancouver had several
scoring chances during the
late power play, with Ivan
Boldirey missing two good

opportunities from the slot

area. |
‘Bromley started the
game for Vancouver after
Richard Brodeur, who had
played the last eight
games, became III with the
flu,

Right winger Rick Blight
played his first game of the

alter being recalied from
the minors to replace
Bobby Schmautz, who
began a three-game sus-
pension imposed by the

league for a stick-ewinging
incident Dec, 19.

: Bossy hits for four goals

the pass, set a Penguins
season record for power-
play assists with 25. Jean
Pronovost held the
previous mark with 24.

Bossy restored New
York’s three-goal edge
with an eightfooter from in
front of the net on a pass
from Trottier at 1:26,
Kehoe retaliated with a
powerplay goal at 2:53.

Schutt
margin to 4-3 witha goal at
5:36 of the third period, but
Bossy answered with his
third goal of the.game, a

stuff shot that beat goalie _
“Greg Millen at.18:51.,He .. [.

slid the empty-netter home
at 19:24.

for 3-3 tie

Boston’s rookie goalie, Jim
Craig.

At 4:17 of the third .

period, MeCrimmon blazed

a 45-foot screen shot past

Lozinski to give the Bruins
a 3-2 lead before Woods got
the equalizer fram a
scramble in front of the net
at 16:55.

Craig was called upon to
stop 32 shots, while the

‘Bruin had 25 shots on goal .

in the free-wheeling, hard-
checking game.

had two assists in the
game,

~ Tom Laidlaw acored the _
other goal for the Rangers,
who outshot the Flames 31- .

Both teams played
lacklustre hockey during
the first 40 minutes, but
Calgary took advantage of
Ranger lapses to take the
lead.

. Calgary opened a 2-0 lead
In the firat period.

Jets and Nordiques deadlock

QUEBEC (CP) — Michel
Goulet scored his second
goal of the game at 3:54 of
the third period to give
Quebec Nordiques a 3-3 tle
with Winnipeg Jets in
Nalional Hockey League

” play Tuesday night.

‘The Nordiques failed to
win for the 10th straight
time, managing only five
ties in that stretch. Win-
nipeg, meanwhile, has 4 1-
9-9 won-lost-tied mark In lts
last five games.

‘The tying goalcameona -

weak backhander from.
behind the net, which
deflected through the pads
of goaltender Markus
Mattsson.

Dale Hunter had the

other goal for Quebec,
while Normand Dupont,
Morris Lukowich - and
centre Ron Wilson replied
for the Jets.

_ Mattsson was much
busier in goal, especially in
the third perlod, handling
36 shots in all, Michel
Plasse faced 24 shots in
goal for Quebec before
9,425 fans at the Colisee.
« Both teams remain in
last =oplace. in their
respective divisions.

Each team managed
eight shots on geal in the
first period, but only the
Jets were successful,
taking a 1-0 lead at 7:33,

Quebec was assessed a
bench penalty for having

: and
Clackson had earlier been -

too many players on the ice
at 6:25 and the Jets
promptly took advantage
of a defensive lapse. A
clearing pass by Nordiques
defenceman Garry.
Lariviere deflected to the

side of the net, and when

Plaase failed to smother
the puck Dupont fired in an

‘ unassisted goal.

Dave Hoyda of the Jets
Quebec’s Kim

handed majors for fighting
after Hoyda took exception
to a solid bodycheck by
Clackson. -

Quebec tied the score 1-1
when Goulet pounced on his
own rebound for an

unassisted effort at 8:14 of
the second period.

The Jets came back 13
seconds ater after
Lukowich was set up on the
right side of the net by
Danny Geoffrion And Dave
Christian providing Winni-
peg with a 2-1 lead at 8:27.

Wilgon made it 3-1 witha
power-play goal on a
deflection of Barry Long's
Shot From the blueline at
9:49,

The Nordiques quickly

responded with a power-.

Play goal of their own when
Hunter took Jacques
Richard's rebound off the
backboards and scored into
an empty net at 11:45.

Tee ge ge

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reduced the ,

TERE ACE-KEEEW AL

SPORTS |

A fondness for Phil |

The RQumbers are im-
Portant because they
provide a measure of Phil

Esposito, the player. But

they hardly offer anything
in evaluating Phil
Esposito, the man. f

One of the greatest per-
formers in sports history —
not just in the National
Hockey League, but in the
history of all sports -—
Esposito retired last week,
He didn’t go out on top, as

ne 80 badly wanted. He
season for the Canucks |

couldn’t even make it
‘through his 18th NHL
season, He struggled for
nearly three months of his

. final year,

But the stature of a Phil
Esposito cannot be tar-

. hished by mediocre play in
. the twilight of his career,

Esposito will be re-

membered for the things he-.

did for himself, for his
team-mates, for the fans
and for hockey.

- “Phil is a special man, a

- great man," said Wayne
Cashman, who played left .
wing and dug in the corners

so that his then Boston
Bruins linemate could set
scoring records. “He's
done too much for hockey

to be disappointed in
himeelf.””

Cashman referred to the
time Esposito was dealt to
Boston from the’ Black
Hawks in 1967 along with
Ken' Hodge and Fred
Stanfield in exchange for

Pit Martin, Gilles Marotte -

and goalie Jack Norris.
“Off the ice, he was
easygoing and a lot of fun

. to be. around. He kept the

tension down."

-Cashman’s fondest
memory of the second
greatest: scorer in NHL
history is not from playing
with Esposito on the
Bruins.

“Tll never forget when
Team Canada beat the
Russians in 1972. After the
eighth game (when the
Canadians rallied to beat
the Soviets and win the
series 4-3-1), Phil collapsed
fram the effort he'd put out.

‘He just couldn't give
any more.”

Bu: Esposito always

seemed to be able to give

something. Don Marcotte,
now in his 12th season with
Boston, recalled his rookie
year,

‘| came up in '§9 and he

- Esposito's

-, 2

Expos.

jumping around,

the Expos."’

park. a

“ accurate description,
outrageous

Canadian in spirit.

natural resource.”

duck.

|

While some grasping players anxiously avait the
day they are free to auction their baseball talents to
the highest bidder, Bill Lee just wants to be free to
spend the rest of his playing days with Montreal

BILL LEE
JUST WANTS”
- TO: BE FREE. .

, believe in loyaity,”’ the left-handed pitcher was
saying Monday from his home on the outskirts of
‘Bellingham, Wash. “I don’t believe in all this

. “Tama Utopian dreamer and I preach loyalty
- rather than economics. We've created a system
where nothing is sacred anymore. It’s soul-less,- [
wanted to stay in Boston, but the Red Sox got rid of
me. [ would never let money come between me and

Lee has two years remaining on his contract with
Montreal and counts the days to spring training
when his $4-year-old body and 2,000-year-old mind
will be reborn in the Florida sunshine. —

He could not escape Montreal fast enough after
the Expos lost the first two games in a showdown
against Philly, and won

He won 16 games for the Expos that year, but
after one 7-0 loss to Los Angeles he explained: “1
made the mistake of carrying my backpack to the

“Unfortunately, it was uphill to the ball park and
by the time I got there, I was six inches shorter.
Consequently, everything I threw was up and they
hit three miles of long flyballs,”

He shortened his life in Boston by calling
manager Don Zimmer “'a gerbil,” an irreverent but

But he utters neither a discouraging word nor an
comment »
management, Montreal ar Canada. He says he is

about the Expos

“Somehow I feel moresecure north of the border.
When I became an Expo, I looked at property in the
‘Okanagan Valley. I wanted to raise apples and
raspberries, and maybe some day I will.

“Hut the property was very expensive and my
wife found an excellent Catholic schoal system
down here for our three kids. I have steadily moved
forth all my life because the northwest has the most
water, and some day water will be our greatest

Lee fishes, chops wood and pitches batilng
practice for the boys ai Western Washington State
University and vowes to improve on the four wins

\ which he contributed Iast year, His activity was
limited when he went for a daybreak run after
pitching “my best game against St. Louis.”

He-went between two cars and disturbed a couple
of cats, In avolding them, he slipped on a wet street
and “tore up the whole left side of my bedy.”

The Expos, he says, have two question marks this
year. They need someone besides Warren
Cromartie who can drive in runs from the lef! side,

* and rookie Tim Raines, expected to replenish the
speed lost with the defection of Ron Leflore, must
show he can hit major league pitching.

Lee should have found Montreal earler, In their -
first season,a fan arrived at Jarry Park with a duck
on his shoulder. An usher told him pets were not
allowed. The fan produced a season ticket for the

: fielding percentage last

. Manuel said

took me by the hand and
- showed me the ropes, He'd
do anything for the guys.

“He'd go to management
if a player had a problem.
He wasn't afraid to talk up

‘to management. He was

the best man I've ever.
known for a team. He did
everything possible for
me.” - ;

Dave ‘Maloney, a-
defenceman with the
Rangers who, at 24, is 14
years younger than
Esposito, referred to his
"elase friend” at
retirement
party last week.

“Pl always remember
how pumped up he was

_ when we beat the Islanders
in the Stanley Cup

semifinals in 1979),” sald
Maloney, “He was our
leader but he was talking
about how the other guys
led the team.”

Esposito wasn't jut. a :
team leader, As president .-.

of the NHL Players’’
Association, he played -a.

pivotal role in making the
union a viable’ represen:
tative of the players...

“Phil spoke out. well and
was concerned about. the
players’ interests,” said
Darryl Sittler of Toronto
Maple Leafs, who has been

-a Vice-president of the os-—

sociation for a half-dozen
years. “He helped bring
the association where it is.
. “Phil's the type guy who
doesn’t need it for’ himself
but he pul the work into it

- for the guys who did need a

players’ association.”
Esposito never tired | of

_ Working to improve the lot
_ of his peers, In that sense,

his off-ice style was much
the same as his on-ice
manner,

SPORTS

BRIEFS

METS SIGN FLYNN

NEW YORK (AP) —
Second baseman Doug
Flynn signed a five-year,
$2-million extension of his
contract with New York
.Mets of baseball's National
League on Tuesday. Flynn,
who won the Gold Glove
and led the league’s second
basemen with a .992

and the'extension ties him
to the Mets until 1986.
PLAYER WATCHED
‘SAN DIEGO (AP) —
Police continued to protect
Gary (Big Hands) Johnson —
and his family Tuesday,
three days after a van

‘ awned by the San Diego
. defensive tackle was

sabotaged, said a Chargers
spokesman. Johnson and
his wife and son were
moved into a hotel
Saturday after finding all
the nuts loosened on the
rear wheels of the van. Six
weeks ago, a death threat
was made against Johnson.

BOXER HURT

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Mike Weaver, the Worid
Boxing Association
heavyweight champica,
has pulled out of next
month’s scheduled title

. bout ‘against Jim Tillis

because of a hand injury,
Weaver’s manager Don
Tuesday.
Weaver tore a ligament in
the hand when he defended
his title against Gerrie
Coetzee in South Africa Last
September.
' IPSWICH ON TOP
‘LONDON (Reuter) —
Ipswich Town moved back
into first place in the
English League soccer
champlonship Tuesday

ae ] j r Kee
" eontract ran through 1981

with a 5-1 home win over
Birmingham. The victory
gave Ipswich a one-point

lead of Aston.Villa and a

three-point: margin ahead
of defending champion
Liverpool, Ipswich also has
one game in hand, :
SALE RECORD SET
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP)

“— A 13-year-old mare in

price ever paid at’the

January horse sale, Robert -
Brennan Jr., a_ stock-"

broker-businessman who
‘owns Due Process Stable at
Brielle, N.J., bought the
mare,. Alma North, a

daughter of Northern -

Dancer. The previous high

’ foal. to “Alydar sold for §1:°
malifl Tuesday at
nd, the highest

price was $250,000 paid last ©

year for D’arqueangel. . :
; ADMITTED |

WOMEN
MIAMI BEACH (AP) —

The National Collegiate |

Athletic Association has

adopted a controversial
package of amendments to -
bring women into -the-.

governing structure of the
formerly
organization. Women will
be represented on ‘the
NCAA council and all other
key bodies. | The
Association of In-

tercollegiate Athletics for —

Women and many leaders
of the women’s rights
movement fought the
move, claiming the NCAA
would only swallow them.
RACE CANCELLED —

NECOCHEA, Argentina

(Reuter) — The Argentine
Formula One Grand Prix
auto race, scheduled for
Feb. 22, has been post-
poned until April 26, it was

announced Tuesday. Cesar _

Carman, president of the
Argentine Auto Club, gave
no details,

BOTH WINNERS

SCORE

SEVEN.

Winning teams had identical goal-points in|
Commercial Hockey League action Last night

as Bavarian Inn Barons trinimed CP Air 7-1.°

and Dynamic Waterwells dumped Terrace

Chrysler Juveniles 7-4.

Larry Nordstrom led Dynamic with ¢wo
goals, while Bob Bogart, Wayne Strang, Ken
Gordon, Rob Bell and Kevin Alexander had
one each, The Juveniles got goals from Brian
Shaw, Gord Boriak, Rob Collins and Vern

Carruthers:

Chris Rineerkens ‘scored twice to lead
Bavarian and Digemess, Harder, Middleton,
Terry Humphrey and Don McColl added one

The game was called off with three minutes ot
remaining when the ‘CP Air "Goalie was S fi ar

jured.

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