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14 the examlnor Tuesday Doc 20 1971 By the year for 1977 MEL SUFRIN CF Sports Editor Guy Lafleur the National Hockey League scoring cham pion who led Montreal Canadiens to their second con secutive Stanley Cup victory is Canadas male athlete of receiving yea 1970 and 1972 SET RECORD By THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto Maple Leafs un beaten string remained intact Monday nightbut just barely 11 took goal from Lanny Mc Donald his second of the game and 16th of the season at 1051 of the third period to complete thirdperiod Toronto re surgence which saw the Leafs overcome 30 deficit and sal vage tie with St Louis Blues The single point moved the Leafs to within one of second place Boston Bruins in the Adams Division of the National Hockey League and to within two of firstplace Buffalo Sa bres Toronto unbeaten in its last seven startssix wins and tieivalso enjoys two games in hand on both the Sabres and Bruins In the only other game Mon day night Los Angeles Kings got goal from Marcel Dionne midway through the third pe riod to edge Vancouver Canucks 112 After scoreless first period Blues had30 lead Leafs tie St Louus The 26yearold rightwinger from Thurso Que was the runaway choice of orts writers and sportscasters in the annual yearend poll The Canadian Press Second was Dave Cutler the Edmonton Eskimos place kicker who set Canadian Football League record by kick ing 50 field goals in season And third was Tony Gabriel Ottawa Rough Riders tight end who led the CFL in pass Lafleur who was second to high jumper Greg Joy in last poll won almost every award for which he was eligble last year in his sixth season in the NHL He led the league in scoring with 56 goals and 80 assists for 136 points record for rightwinger and won the Art Ross Trophy He became the first pla er since Bobby Orr to win both the Hart Trophy as most va uable player in the regular season and the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP in the playoffs in the same season Orr did it twice with Boston Bruins in He was firstteam allstar for the third straight year and received the Lester Pearson Award the NHL Players Association version of the MVP honor He set league record by scoring at least one point in 28 the Blues struck for pair of goals during the third minute of the second and took 30 lead at 1338 of the period It was heck of come back Leafs coach Roger eil son said after the game We were really fired up going into the third period and evidence of that was the quick goal by Sit tler Neilson was referring to goal after only 11 seconds of the final period by Leaf captain Darryl Sittler which narrowed the score to 32 Sittler had opened the scoring for Toronto with his 16th goal of the season at 1536 of the middle period af ter Jimmy Roberts Larry Patey and Brian gilvie had staked the Blues to their 31 lead McDonalds first goal tied it at 754 but Garry lnger the leagues iron manw playing in his 754th consecutive gamewput the Blues out in front again nine seconds later Toronto dominated play in the opening period but ran into the hot goaltending of Phil Myre recent acquisition from Atlanta Flames who faced 15 shots in the first period and 37 on the night By comparison Leaf netminder Mike Palmateer had to face 25 shots St Louis is tied with Min nesota North Stars for last place in the Smythe Division with only seven wins and four ties in 11 starts 10 points back of firstplace hicago Black llawks At Los Angeles Dionnes 11th goal of the season brilliant lofoot backhand shot came as he stickhandled through the Vancouver defence to beat goaltender acsar Mamago It was his first goal since retur ning to the Kings lineup Dec 13 after sitting out nine games with shoulder injury Harold Snepsts scored an unassisted goal his first of the season at the threeminute mark of the first period to give the Yanucks lead But the Kings tied it minutes later on Hartland Moiiahans sixth of Philadelphia Flyers still lead NHL race MONTREAL CP Despite loss Sunday night Phila delphia Flyers maintained slim lead in the National Hockey League standings over their nearest rivals Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres in figures released Monday by the league office Philadelphia had 46 points aflt ter play Sunday compared with 44 for Montreal and Buffalo The Flyers also had game in hand on both teams Several streaks ended last week including Bostons undelt feated streak of 17 games when the Bruins lost 64 to the Flyers and Philadelphias undefeated streak of 11 games when they lost 20 to Montreal in game which also saw the Flyers blanked on home ice for the fir st time in 55 games Bryan Trottier of the Island ers continued to dominate indi vidual scoring through Sunday Quebec ties 66 MOSCOW CP Quebec Nordiques earned their first point in the lzvestia hockey tournament Monday with 66 tie against Finland Finnish native Matti Hagman had his second twogoal game for the Quebec Hagman on loan to the World Hockey Asso ciation Nordiques from the Na tional Hockey League Boston Bruins also scored two goals in Quebecs openinggame loss to the Soviet Union last Friday The Nordiques lost their sec ond match to Sweden 62 on Sunday RUSH foryour PRINTING or Photo Copies Try Al Instant Printing 12 Clopperton St Across from Cancillas 7373902 Open till 630 pm with an eightpoint lead over Guy Lafleur of Montreal SCORING LEADERS Excluding games Monday th ti Iim lottier NYI 21 ll 31 13 lafleur M11 21 12 431 13 Sittler Tor 13 41 1o 1erreault11uf 21 17 91 Esposno Nth 21 18 16 Bossy NYI 231 17 larke Pha ll 17 17 27 Gillies NYI Ross 68 Dunlop St Short or long SKI PACKAGES At Georgian Sports we now tarry equipment by Splitkein Norvik price ranges and packages gift to be remembered 1211711 Open nightly until oclock until liristmas Gardner iol 13 11 ltolnrt 1511 1o 11 Martin lluf 11 31 14 Panmerit 111 ll 51 Jt lcma1rcltl 11 Li Salming lor 24 213 Walton Vcr 1t 13 11 21 Leach lllil 17 11 1t ltatcllc Bus 11 211 ill Shutt Mil 16 11 29 Luce But 13 29 Malone Igli 12 17 11 42 lan Iluf 13 11 18 11 Iark 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re ceived four stitches after collid ing with teammate but not be fore scoring goal in the first period Rick Vaive and Ron Carter of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey Leagues Sherbrooke Beavers and Mike Gartner of Niagara Falls Flyers filled in GUY LAFI EUR up in the scoring race Dionne whose 122 points trailed Lafleur by 14 took 12 minutes in penalties while the Canadiens star had 21 the other Canadian goals before crowd of 3436 Goalie Goera Henrickson se lected Swedish star of the game faced 59 shots The Swedish team managed 26 shots on goal The Canadians switched goalies in midgame to Jim Lockhurst of OHAs Kingston Canadians from Pat Riggin of the London Knights SCORE FIRST GOAL Conny Silfverberg scored the first goal and had one assist Thomas Steen Stor gave Swe den another goal and assisted in another Christer Loewdahl and Thomas Jonsson rounded out the game with one goal each Wayne Gretzky opens big lead Ity TIIEAN1IIAN PRESS Rookie Wayne Gretzky of Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds opened 10point lead last week in the ontario Hockey Associ ation Junior scoring race Gretzky had four goals and four assists to bring his totals to 36 goals and 59 assists for 95 points Bob Smith of Ottawa 67s was second with 85 points on 34 goals and 51 assists Gerry Leroux of Windsor Spitfires was third with 16 goals and 16 assists for 72 points Al Jensen of Hamilton Fincups continued to lead the goal tenders with goalsagainst average of 262 Pat Riggin of Lon don Knights was second with 368 average More than 100 ballots were cast in the annual poll started in 1912 and Lafleur was picked first by 69 voters second by 19 and third by nine Based on 1121 evaluation that gave him 254 points futler received 14 firsts 221 seconds and 19 thirds for 107 points and Gabriel six first 111 seconds and 12 thirds for 66 Fourth with 621 points was Gilles Villencuve of Ber thicrville Que the anadian auto racing champion who was hired to drive by Ferrari and fifth with 45 was Jerome Drayton of Toronto winner 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