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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

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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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