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Cincinnati Stingers vs New England
Whalers |
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December 30th 1976 |
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Riverfront Coliseum |
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CIN |
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4 |
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NE |
2 |
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6 |
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1st Period |
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NE:
G. Roberts (D. Roberts, MacGregor)
14:32. CIN: Stoughton (Carrol, Legge)
16:06. NE: Bloduc (Basniuk, Backstrom)
19:02. |
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NE:
Busniuk (interference) 4:39. CIN: Hughes
(high sticking) 6:58. CIN: Bench (too
many men on ice) 9:23. |
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2nd Period |
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NE:
Rogers (Arndt, D. Roberts) :50. NE:
Swain (Callighen) 6:53. CIN: Sobchuk
(Hughes, Marsh) 16:55. |
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CIN:
Leduc (hooking) :43. NE: D. Roberts
(hooking) 3:03. NE: Smedsmo
(misconduct?) 3:03. NE: Callighen (high
sticking) 11:12. CIN: Steele (high
sticking) 11:12. NE: G. Roberts (high
sticking) 12:18. CIN: Leduc (slashing)
12:18. NE: D. Roberts (slashing) 20:00.
CIN: Carroll (slashing) 20:00. |
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3rd Period |
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CIN:
Larose (unassited) 1:42. CIN: Sobchuk
(Steele, Plumb) 14:21. NE: Bolduc
(unassisted) 15:26. NE: Callighen (Earl,
Swain) 18:58. |
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NE:
Callighan (hooking) 5:00. CIN: Sobchuk
(slashing) 5:00. CIN: Carroll (cross
checking) 18:13. |
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CIN |
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18 |
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40 |
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NE |
15 |
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33 |
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GOALTENDER |
CIN: Hoganson |
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NE: Raeder |
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| TIME OF
GAME |
N/A |
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ATTENDANCE |
7,138 |
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REFEREES |
N/A |
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World Hockey Association |
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| TEAMS |
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L |
T |
Pts |
GF |
GA |
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| Eastern Division |
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| Quebec |
22 |
15 |
1 |
45 |
168 |
137 |
| Indianapolis |
18 |
14 |
2 |
38 |
112 |
124 |
| Cincinnati |
17 |
16 |
2 |
36 |
156 |
130 |
| Minnesota |
16 |
17 |
4 |
36 |
115 |
118 |
| New England |
16 |
18 |
4 |
36 |
129 |
136 |
| Birmingham |
13 |
26 |
1 |
27 |
134 |
157 |
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Western Division |
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| San Diego |
23 |
13 |
2 |
48 |
133 |
118 |
| Houston |
18 |
14 |
4 |
40 |
126 |
113 |
| Winnipeg |
18 |
15 |
1 |
37 |
154 |
127 |
| Edmonton |
16 |
20 |
1 |
33 |
99 |
127 |
| Calgary |
14 |
17 |
2 |
30 |
100 |
101 |
| Phoenix |
14 |
20 |
2 |
30 |
12 |
158 |
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Whalers Extend Stingers' Woes, 6-4. |
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Cincinnati Enquirer by Terry Flynn |
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12-31-1976 |
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The
Cincinnati Stingers once again played part time
hockey and the outcome was inevitable - the New
England Whalers left the Riverfront Coliseum ice
with a 6-4 victory. As has been the case in
almost all of the last six games the Stingers
have played - and lost - they fell behind early
and played catch up later.
"We get behind and then we start thinking about
the game," a disappointed coach Terry Slater
said, "We've been doing it for two or three
weeks now."
The Stingers fell behind the Whalers, 4-1, in
the second period, only to tie the game at 4-all
in the third and then give up two goals late in
the game.
"The defense was coughing up the puck," Slater
lamented. "We haven't had the combination of
good goal tending, good defense and good
forwards, and you have to have all three to win
consistently."
The Stinger defense also lost one of its members
with the disclosure before the game that Bryan
Maxwell would be going to the Hampton farm club
until the front office could make a deal for
him. Defenseman Ron Plumb, while agreeing that
the news of Maxwell's departure was "upsetting"
to the rest of the squad, refused to blame the
loss on it.
"Something like that gets the rest of the boys
thinking," Plumb agreed, "but we just couldn't
get going on the ice. We should never have let
them get ahead 4-1 and when we tied it we were
playing well enough that we should have won. It
was stupid, stupid, stupid."
Slater pointed again to the "little mistakes"
which have been costing the Stingers dearly in
recent weeks. "Carroll (Rookie Greg Carroll)
gets a penalty late in the game when we're down
a goal," he pointed out. "You have to look at
the clock and thing. The old veterans don't go
after somebody in situation like that. They play
to win and worry about that another time."
Slater referred to Carroll's cross-checking
penalty at 18:13 when he leveled Ron Busniuk
while the Whalers held a 5-4 lead. Brett
Calighen scored a power play goal 15 seconds
later and the game was over for Cincinnati.
Neither team was spectacular in the early part
of the game, but Gordie Roberts scored at 14:32
and Danny Bolduc scored the first of two goals
for the night at 19:02 as New England left the
ice after 20 minutes with a 2-1 lead.
Blaine Stoughton's goal, a pretty piece of
skating and deception at 16:06, was sandwiched
between. A mere 50 second had elapsed in the
second period when Mike Rogers scored, and Gary
Swain knocked in an easy goal
from the right in front at 6:53 to give New
England a three-goal advantage. Dennis Sobchuk
scored the first of his two goals at 16:55,
tapping in a shot from in front of the crease on
a pass from Peter Marsh.
A pair of unanswered goals in the third period
knotted the score as Claude Larose boomed in a
slap shot at 1:42 and Sobchuk struck again at
14:21, again right on top of the Whaler net
where goalie Cap Raeder mishandled a shot by
Plumb. And then those "little mistakes" made
their appearance and the Whalers were right
there to make the most of the situation.
Bolduc scored his second, unassisted, after
defenseman Ted Long (called from Hampton to
temporarily fill Maxwell's spot) tried to bat
down the puck and gave it to Bolduc instead.
With less than five minutes remaining, the
Stingers began to press, Carroll drew the
penalty and the game became history. The loss
put the Stingers' record at 17-16-2. It was the
fourth defeat at home to go with 13 victories. |
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