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DICK EDMOND Atlanta and St Louis trade hockey players ATLANTA AP Atlanta Flames traded URT BENNETT goalie Phil Myre Curt Bennett and Barry Gibbs to St Louis for three players including day Bob MacMillan the Blues leading scorer the National Hockey League club announced Mon The Flames 9109 this season also received defenceman Dick Redmond goalie Yves him in only nine games as pointlead Belanger and the Blues second round choice in the 1979 amateur draft Myre 28 who had an average of 493 goals scored against has been playing behind Dan Bouchard He has been with the Flames since the Atlanta franchise entered the NHL in 1972 Gibbs 29 in his third year with the Flames after playing for Minnesota had one goal and five assists in 27 games this season Bennett 28 who came to the Flames in 1972 trade BOB MachLLAN PHIL MYRE with New York Rangers has three goals and seven assists this season St Louis in last place in the Smythe Division with 6193 record was seeking goaltending strength and had to give up the 25yearold MacMillan who leads the Blues with seven goals and 12 assists Redmond 28 had 22 goals with Chicago year ago before the Blues acquired him He has 15 points this season on four goals and 11 assists Belanger 25 was the leading goalie in the Central Hockey League this season and had 244 goalsagainst average with Salt Lake City regret having to give up three players who contributed substantially to what the Flames have accomplished to this point but in order to improve our team we had to give quality in return said Cliff Fletcher vicepresident and general manager of the Flames Trottier leads scoring MONTREAL CP Bryan Trottier of New York Islanders scored three goals and added two assists last week to main tain his eightpoint lead over Guy Lafleur of Montreal Cana diens atop the National Hockey League scoring race Trottier had 21 goals and 28 assists for 49 points figures re leased by the NHL office showed Monday Lafleur also had 21 goals to go with 20 assists for 41 points in second place going into Mon treals game Monday night against Cleveland Barons and rookie Mike Bossy another Islander was third at 35 total which also included 21 goals Veteran Phil Esposito of New York Rangers was tied for four th with Clark Gillies of the Islanders at 34 points Esposito had 12 goals and 22 assists while Gillies was it and 21 Paul Gardner remained the most pleasant surprise of the season for Colorado Rockies 11y TillI tlll PRESS Nlll Wales onferente Norris Division WITF11 Montreal 19 71 4111 53142 LOS Ang 13 112 6931 Pittsburgh 1114 ti 11912123 Detroit 11 L1 75 112 21 Washing 4111 6011211 daiiis Iiision Buffalo 11 11 $1102 69 41 Boston 11 5102 67 41 Toronto 111 11 11 1111 8411 Cleveland 11 17 611 11111 11 aniptwll onferiiicr Patrick Division P111111 111 4124 51112 Islanders 15 7111 65 17 Atlanta 910 11 711 119 27 Rangers 1014 9410021 Smythe Division Vancouver 12 711 10024 Chicago 1112 11 71 79 24 Colorado 12 116 116 111 Minnesota 6111 711122 16 Si Louts 619 64111116 Monday ltesull Montreal levcland Tonights Games Chicago at NY Islanders Washington at Vancouver Buffalo at olorado National Hockey League scorr ing leaders after game Mon day Trottier NYI 21211411 Lafleur Mil 2122 41 Bossy NYI 211413 EspoSito NYit 12 22 14 Giilrs NYI 11211114 Gardner ol 2112 31 Perreault Hut 1716 31 Sittler Ior 13 20 311 Lemaire Mil 10 22 12 Walton Vcr 1615111 11 Martin Hui 14 17 11 Paiement 01 1210 111 itAlKlIHPIIIS RECORDS Emptynet goals bracketed Exclusing Iondiiy game II HO HA Pt Dryden 10110 32 711 Larocquc 540 19 11 Montrealtit 1112052 1111 scoreboard iunior when he picked up three points last week and shared sixthplace overall with Gilbert Perreault of Buffalo Sabres Darryl Sit tier of Toronto Maple Leafs and Bobby Clarke of Philadelphia Flyers at 38 points SHARE GOALS LEAI Gardners total included 21 goals which left him tied with Trottier Lafleur and Bossy for the lead in that department The NHLs 18 teams scored seasonhigh 218 goals last week with Philadelphia defenceman Tom Bladon registering the in dividual highlight Bladon scored four goals and had four assists for eight points in the Flyers 111 triumph over Cleveland Friday night and bet tered the record of Bobby Orr for most points in game by defenceman Orr scored seven poian in one game during the 197174 season while playing with Boston Bruins The Philadelphia defen ceman became the first player Stephenson 677 201 77 Parent 943 36 29 Philadelphia 1620 56 6207 Hogosta 00 00 Smith 9513312011 ltesch 720 312 58 NY Islanders 1116110 65 2512 SmithIlogosta shared shutout Nov Atlantat Gilbert 7110 24 21115 Grahame 660 30 73 Checvers 240 11 25 Boston 1611067 31 239 Edwards 1569 61 13 litsiariiins 111 703711 Buffalo 11 16110612 246 Vachon 1247 46 21 Simmons 373 21 11311 Los Angeles 21 162069 256 Mcliiie 1110 00 Palmaterr Toronto 111 13120 55 5t 1500612 256 Esptisito 1200 55 275 Veisor 480 21 1111 hicago 161111711 2112 Low 4110 19 111 Giacomin 4110 22 275 Rutherford 60041 410 Detroit 1560 112 0315 Houchtirtl 1157 46 35 Myre 521 410 93 Atlanta It1110119 I1llt Davtdson 722 331 274 Thomas 9511 65 07 NY Hangers 21 16110 100 Iavell 1117 5111317 Olcschuk 40 50 Plasse 2111 22 66 olorado 21 1140116 13511 Maiiiago 978 5511317 Ridley 642 44 11 Vancoinrr 1620 100 1370 Melochc 1040 66 f1 81 Edwards levrlnnd 11 51111 37 511 1820 104 011115 Bedard 240 131 325 Wolfe 4611 21111 3711 Smith 9110 611 416 Washington 1216110 20100 Staniowski 11116 57 I1 116 Johnston 651 45 15 Belanger 144 15 625 St Louis It1110 11110421 Herron 1000 66 96 Wilson 6110 54 476 Pittsburgh r11 16111IZI0 1112 Loiresti 1365 96 422 Harrison 1115 26 95 Minnesota 161111 122 1416 to break one of the 14 league Montreals goaltending duo of Bruce Taylor 44 49ers corncrback stretches but Dallas Cowboys Tony Dorsett 13 gets loose for six yard gain and first down in second quarter Mon Laserphoto the examiner Tuscany Doc 13 1977 13 day at San Francisco At left is San Francisco safety Mel Phillips 32 AP Dorsett scores TDs Dallas defeats 49ers SAN FRANCISCO AP sonally Id rather be in lop records either held or shared by Orr Sittler holds the record for most points in game with 10 On Feb 1976 he scored six goals and set up four others in game against Boston pair of former Montreal greats Maurice Richard and Bert 01m stead have also registered eightpoint games Ken Dryden and Michel La rocque maintained their slight lead over Wayne Stephenson and Bernie Parent of Phila delphia in the Vezina Trophy race for the lowest team goals against total The Montreal pair had 193 goalsagainst average com pared with 207 for the Philadelphia tandem The halftime show featuring fireworks display that got out of hand was topped only by the of fensive fireworks generated by Dallas Cowboys and San Fran cisco 49ers It was fun game for the fans said Tony Dorsett the star rookie who scored two touchdowns in Monday nights 42415 National Football League sided game with us on top Dallas coach Tom Landry was pleased with the victory but was concerned because We didnt play much defen ce The playoffs are two weeks away for Dallas whose 11 record is best in the National Conference and the victory as sured the Cowboys of the home field advantage in all playoff Gartner scores two for Flyers SAULT STE MARIE nt CPi Four unanswered third period goals paced Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds 97 victory over Niagara Falls Flyers in the only Ontario Hockey Associ ation Major Junior game Monday D011 Lucas scored three goals including powerplay goal at 1446 of the third period Wayne Gretzky also had three goals for the Greyhounds with other goals going to Mike Boyd Arthur Rutland and Paul Mancini Lucas also had four assists and Gretzky the league scoring leader had two MIKE EARTNER and Stan Adams each had two goals for Niagara Falls with Lou Franceschetti Steve Peters and Guy Losicr also scoring Smith shortens Gretzkys lead By THE CANADIAN PRESS Centre Bob Smith of Ottawa 67s scored three goals and picked up four assists during the last week to cut Wayne Gret zkys lead in the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior series scoring race to two points Gretzky rookie with Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds who was held scoreless during the week has 32 goals and 55 assists for 87 points while Smith has 34 goals and 51 assists for 115 points Gerry Leroux of Windsor Spitfires is third with 12 goals and 11 assists for 63 points Fight filled contest victory for the Cowboys Per HARIFORI oniL Ci Some things never change and team representation at the top of the World Hockey Association scoring race is one of them Statistics released Monday by the league show seven of the top to leaders from two teams Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets Marc Tardif of the Nordiques leads the league with 59 points on 29 goals and 10 assists Teammate iteal Cloutier follows with 49 points on 111 goals and 11 assists followed by Ulf Nilsson of the Jets with 44 points Bobby Hull of Winnipeg is in fourth place with 43 points Serge Bernier of the Nor diques has 40 points on 12 goals and 211 assists followed by Anders Hedberg of the Jets with 39 points Andre Lacroix of Houston Aeros breaks the JetsNor diques domination with 35 points on 14 goals and 21 as sists Richard Leduc of Cin cinnati Stingers is in eighth games Next Sunday Denver Marc Tarditf leads WHA scoring race Broncos of the American Con ference will bring 121 record into Texas Stadium as the two possible Super Bowl opponents meet in the regularseason fi nale Were going to have to pla an awfully lot better said Da las quarterback Roger Stau bach Staubach threw for three touchdowns and 220 ards San Francisco quarter ack Jim Plunkett replied with four spot with 32 points followed by Kent Nilsson of the Jets with 31 Three players have 30 poin ts eachnRobbie Ftorek of the Stingers Ron Chip perfield of Edmonton Oilers and Mike Rogers of New England Whalers Gordie Howe of New England who scored his 1000th career goal in game against Birmingham last Wednesday night follows with 27 points on six goals and 21 assists Frank Boucher dies in Kempville at 76 OTTAWA 1111 cher seventime winner of the who Frank Bou comhined effective Montreal defeats Cleveland CLEVELAND AP Cleveland Barons matched the de fending Stanley Jup champion Montreal Canadiens blowfor blow during secondperiod brawl Monday night but didnt do as well in the scoring department The Barons came up with meagre offensive effort for the second consecutive night dropping 51 decision to the Cana diens in the only National Hocke League game Monday night Cleveland lost 111 Sunday to Phi adelphia Flyers Its hard to come back after being beaten so bad Montreal coach Scotty Bowman said referring to the Philadelphia dis aster Bowman however also had something to say about the lack of support for the Barons who drew only 5026 fans to the sub urban Richfield Coliseum for the contest The atmosphere here is tough to get going under said Bowman Its even tough for our team to get any momentum The Canadiens managed to get themselves together for one goal in the first period as Pierre Mondou took ass from Guy Lafleur in front of the Cleveland net and rammc the puck past goaltender Gilles Meloche Montreal added two goals in the second periodwone each by Jacques Lemaire and Mario Tremblay before Dennis Maruk scored the Barons lone goal at 12411 Then the trouble started The battle broke out after Bob Stew art of the Barons knocked Tremhlay into the boards behind the Cleveland not That emptied both benches and halted play for 11 minutes Referee Bryan Lewis assessed total of 112 minutes in penalties to the four main contestants wStcwart and Fred Ahern of Cleveland and Gilles Lupien and Doug ltistbrough of the Canadiens Stewart and Risebrough each were assessed major for fighting misconduct and game misconduct while Ahern got double major for fighting misconduct and game mis conduct Lupien was handed minor double major miscon duct and game misconduct Montreal received 57 minutes because of the brawl giving the Canadiens total of 61 of the 124 minutes in penalties called during the game After the layers calmed down and with only two seconds left in the midd period Bob Gainey scored to make the score 41 Lemaire completed the scoring for Montreal with his second goal of game this one an unassisted effort at 3021 of the final CROSS COUNTRY Lady Byng trophy as the player and gentlemanly play died in near by Kemptville on Monday at age 76 Boucher spent 30 years with New York Rangers as player coach and manager and was re sponsible for introducing hoekeys centre red line He was inducted into hockeys Hall of Fame in 11168 Boucher scored 161 goals and added 262 assists in 557 regular season games with the Rangers He had 16 goals and 18 assists in playoff action With Bi land Bun Cook on the wings centre Boucher formed one of the highestscoring lines of his era By the time the line was bro ken up in 1916 with the sale of Bun Cook to Boston it had amassed more than 1000 points and the Rangers had won two Stanley Cups Boucher was Ranger coach in the 193940 season when they won the Stanley Cup for the third and last time touchdown throws and 263 yar ds while Dorsett had 92 yards rushing and 39 on pass recep tions He needs 43 more yards rushing to reach 1000 MAKES DIFFERENCE But the Cowboys Butch Johnson who came into the NFL relatively unnoticed as thirdround draft ick last year may have made difference My whole family came up to see the game and it was great to score my first touchdown in front of them said the wide receiver and kick returner who made onehand grab in the end zone on Staubachs third touchdown pass 22yarder early in the wild fourth quarter Johnson came close to scoring his first pro touchdown late in the second quarter when he returned kickoff 64 yards to the 49ers 20yard line The return set up Dorsetts first touchdown catch in the NFL on 20yard pass to the right sideline and Dallas was ahead to stay 2114 After the smoke cleared from the halftime fireworks Dorsett got his 12th touchdown mshinfg team record on 21yard sprint Plunkett hit Gene Washington five times for 111 yards The nineyear veteran receiver pulled in 27yard scoring pass in the second half Ken Harrison Delvin Wil liams and Paul Seal also cough touchdown passes for the 49ers now 58 in the NFC West Seal the secondstring tight end grabbed 47yard bomb with 138 remaining in th game and the Cowboys hot1 the ball until the gun sounded to preserve the victory Simpson may not play next year NEW YORK AP OJ Simpson suggested Monday night that he wont play for Buf falo Bills in the 1978 National Football League season but that he would like to play another year somewhere else really dont think could do much good in Buffalo right now because it looks like the Bills are committed to re building program said Simp son sidelined since undergoing midseason knee surgery Next year will be 31 and coming off knee injury he said in an interview with WABCTV It would be diffi cult fitting me into situation 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