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Stingers Can't Forget 'Em. |
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Cincinnati Enquirer by Terry Flynn |
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12-29-1976 |
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The Cincinnati Stingers left the sub-zero
weather of Cincinnati behind them for the
sub-zero weather of this picturesque French
Canadian city and a hockey game tonight with the
Quebec Nordiques. The Stingers have met the
World Hockey Association Eastern Division
leading Nordiques just once this season, way in
October and won.
That does not include, however, a pre-season
exhibition match. The Nordiques won that game,
but the score was unimportant compared to what
the Stingers really lost. Defenseman Bryan
Maxwell, now playing with Springfield, and
winger Gene Sobchuk were injured in that
meaningless contest.
Maxwell returned from his broken collar but
played little before being removed from the
line-up and eventually sent down to the minors.
Sobchuk, who sustained a broken arm, still is
trying to regain his form of a year ago.
The Stingers are locked in a second-place tie
with the Indianapolis Racers for the Eastern
Division runner up spot. There are seven games
to be played with Quebec (including, tonight's 8
p.m. meeting) and all are four-point contests.
Each team is in the position of not only gaining
two points from a victory but denying the other
of advancing by two points. As the play-offs
approach the interdivisional games become more
important.
Tonight's game marks the return to Quebec of
defenseman Pierre Roy, traded to the Stingers
for winger Pierre Guite some three weeks ago.
Prior to joining Cincinnati for the game in San
Diego January 13 Roy had played all his
professional hockey with the Nordiques. That
also means tonight will be Pierre Guite's first
attempt against his former teammates since the
trade which returned him here after an absence
of two years.
The Stingers are scheduled to depart after the
game tonight and fly over 1200 miles to
Birmingham, Ala., for a game with the Bulls
Sunday night. However, the forecast in
Birmingham calls for snow today and when it
snows in Birmingham everything comes to a halt.
When it last snowed in that southern city on
January 17-18, the result was postponement of
the scheduled game of January 19, ironically
with Quebec. |
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The Stinger Booster Club had to cancel it's trip
to Quebec for the game. A total of 71 members
were scheduled to fly to Montreal and take a
train to Quebec, but the miserable weather ended
those plans. |
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