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No playoffs this year for Espos Rangers By NEIL CAMPBELL The Canadian Press Now Phil Esposito can find out how the other half lives For the first time in litsea son career in the National Hockey League he will be spectator when the Stanley Cup playoffs begin Buffalo Sabres formally eliminated Esposito and the rest of the New York Rangers from the playoff picture when they whipped them 73 Wed nesday night Esposito did his part to keep alive the Rangers frail hopes scoring twice in the first period but the Sabres walked through and around an inept Ranger de fence to pelt goalie John David son with 52 shots Atlanta Flames clinched the last playoff berth in the Patrick Division with 72 win over Chicago Black Hawks The Rangers trail by to points with seven games to play In Wednesdays other NHL games Toronto Maple Leafs upset Montreal Canadiens 21 Pittsburgh Penguins tied Boston Bruins 55 Detroit Red Wings belted Washington Capitals 73 Los Angeles Kings tied New York lslanders 11 and Minnesota North Stars tripped Kansas City Scouts 41 The Rangers are out of the playoffs for the first time since 196566 but Esposito is already thinking about next year He sat dejected in the dress ing room and admitted that Couple of games before as far as lin concerned we were out of it Ilts not the stinking money thats important its the pride as far as Im concerned lm looking forward more to train ing camp now than ever have before Theres point to prove dont have anything to prove but the team does Esposito admitted he will be Crowded race for WHA East title By THE CANADIAN PRESS After more than five months of hockey teams in the Eastern Division of the World Hockey Association are almost back where they started Traffic at the top of the divi sion got even more congested Wednesday night when Cincin nati Stingers edged Phoenix Roadrunners 54 while leve land Crusaders and New Eng land Whalers were losing That threw the Stingers Crusaders and Whalers into threeavay tie for top spot with only six or seven games re maining for each team Peering over the shoulders of the leaders are Indianapolis Racers who could narrow to one point the gap between first and last in the division by beat ing Houston Aeros tonight The Aeros beat Cleveland 32 and Calgary Cowboys edged the Whalers 76 Wednesday night Edmonton strengthened its Ca nadian Division playoff hopes by beating Winnipeg Jets 32 in Wednesdays other game The Eastern Division is on paper at least the weakest in major league hockey None of its teams has any chance of winning half of its games and the leaders rank seventh in the overall standings Linemates Jacques Locas and Rick Dudley scored two goals each to give the Stingers their win Gene Sobchuk had the other Cincinnati goal The line of Rob Ftorek Del Hall and John Gray produced all the goals for the Roadrunv ners who threatened with two thirdperiod goals after Cincin nati built 52 lead Hall had two goals and two assists Pto iek goal and three assists and Gray goal and two assists The Crusaders drew praise in defeat from the Aeros who long agoclinched the Western Divi sion title Thats solid club now said Gordie Howe who got the Aeros started with goal in the second minute rooting for Boston Bruins his old teammates in the playoffs lf Brad Park comes back and Bobby rr gets settled theyre going to be damn tough to beat he said Especially with tgoalie Gerryl liceeis SETS SABR MARK Gil Perreault with goal and an assist set Buffalo scoring record by increasing his sea sons pointtotal to 02 Atlantas Bill lenient scored one goal and assisted on three others to send the floundering Black Hawks down to the sev enth defeat in their last to games The Flames fired 14 shots at hicago goalie lony Esposito Exltlontreal goalie Wayne Thomas played brilliantly for the Leafs turning aside 34 shots and blanking the anadiens for 58 minutes Jacques Lemaire kept off the scoresheet earlier in the game only by lhomass acrobatics finally scored when he shovelled home Guy Lapoin tes pass at 1814 of the last period Pittsburghs Pierre Larouclic and Jean Pronovost reached milestones against the Bruins but it took goal by Syl Apps iii the final minute to salvage tie for the Penguins lhe 2lyeaiold Larouchc be came the youngest player to break the NHLs loopoint but riei then picked up the ltitttli point of his career when he as sisted on goal by Rick Kchoc lhat eclipsed Marcel llltillA nes mark for the most points by player in the first two seasons of his Nlll career BEFORE YOU REPLACE YOUR OLD HEATING SYSTEMOR ADD CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING General See in operation in our showroom the WEATHERTRON® HEAT PUMP OIIE System GOOLS HEATS your entire home quietly efficiently dependany Swrtches from heating to cooling automatically as required The Weathertron system uses much less energy than an ordinary electric furnace Delivers more than units of heat for every The Barrie Examiner Thursday March 25 l976ll Canada near elimination in world curling meet DULUlll Minn ml The United States drove another nail into Canadas coffin Wed ncsday night at the world curlingchampionship Bruce Roberts skipped his Hibbing Minn entry to 105 sixthround triumph over Jack MatDuff of St Johns Nfld to improve the 11S rinks record to 60 with three draws remaiir ing Canada which has never lost more than two games in the round robin portion of the championship tell to 3l and sole possession of eighth place was disappointed in all of us said Roberts sounding more like loser than winner cdidnt play too well It was the worst game we played as team llis lS rink wasnt sharp but the aiiadian foursome rc inained below par not making key shots when they were nec essary while having continued draw weight problems The loss just about eliminated anada from the Stlnllllltll playoffs something that has never happened since the wolrd championship began lf the US goes undefeated only three rinks will qualify for Saturday afternoons semivlr nals defeat for the US which meets Sweden ltaly and Germany in its remaining games would mean four teams would quality An undefeated record lor the lS which last won the world title in 1974 would give Roberts bye into Sundays final Adolph Acrni representing defending champion Switrcn land remained in second place with 31 record Moving into third place at 472 was Andre lroiic of France while Bengt edcrwall of Sweden William Miiirhead of Scotland Giusep pe del Molin of Italy and Kristian Sociuin ol Norway were at 33 anada With four con secutive defeats follole in eighth place with Mickey Kaiil of West Germany at 15 and le larscn of Denmark at Hi In other sixthround games Switzerland nipped Scotland ltaly deeated West Germany 32 Norway topped Denmark lt and llilllC needed an extra end to shade Sweden ln liltlirotind games ltaly defeated anada 74 France whipped West Germany 12 Switzerland beat Norway too Scotland downed Sweden 75 and the LS cloutcd Denmark 123 MacDiilf stole point on the seventh ciid tor 34 lead How ever on the 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