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PAGE 6 TERRACE BAY NEWS JANUARY I6, I974 SPORTS SLANTS - By Ray Shank Moose Bingo Thurs., JAN.I7-- 8 p.m. Moose Hall 'I've written a paragraph or two previously in this column, trying to explain how the National Hockey League will operate, starting next season. But now I have all the facts I need to fully explain the operation. One thing certain about the setup, if it's adopted as scheduled and remains the same for years to come, Montreal Canadiens won't have to worry about missing the playoffs. The Canadiens are in Division II with four other teams - Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Watchamacallits. The toughest division will be Division IV, where Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, @ Hippen NuMBer - $95.00 @ uackpoT - $110.00 BUS LEAVES SCHREIBER AT 7:10 P.M. SORRY NO MINORS ALLOWED Come and See George's balls bouncing in the new machine! CROSSWORD PUZZLE TODAY'S ANSWER Buffalo Sabres and California Golden Seals 1 ACROSS 3% Regard will 'participate. It's not very likely the " cubicle (2 wds.) ial i 5. Climbs 39. Jeeter -- Seals will make the playoffs for some time, 11. Mister in of "To. with that kind of competition. Munich bacco Division I could also be interesting, with 12. Take Road" : : : prisoner 40. Russian Philadelphia, N.Y. Rangers, Atlanta and N.Y. 13. "Dia- ruler Islanders participating. Three of the teams Donds 3 OWN are already established clubs, and the Island- iy i ers might syrprise a lot of teams in another Friend" nest tw (2 wds.) 3. Marc Con- year Or two, gli 14. Sicilian nelly's 9. Baltic 23. Sugar- The five teams in Division III will be seaport "The --" republic cane Chicago, 'Minnesota, St. Louis, Vancouver and 35. Bakery o ZX) 10. Hear o 25, er Kansas City. : 16. Fairy 5 Sauae Dows ~ 28. gate i i i ueen aesar or 16. Oberon eeper As previously mentioned, the top team in 17. One Waldorf 19. Airplane- 29. Main each division will automatically get into the . ofa 6. Nursery wing artery : ivisi f Tennes- fixture shape 31. Vulgar playoffs. , Matter of fact, those division -- 1. . 20. Paid & 33 Rustic winners will get a bye into the quarter-finals eleven 8. Walt hurried 35. Break The first round of playoffs will involve 18. Closed Whitman visit (2 bread : : ar 20. Italian book of wads.) 36. Do the top eight clubs (excluding the division painter poems (3 22. Noble- nee- winners) and they will be picked on a total 21 fricce wds.) man. dlepoint points basis at the end of the regular sched- 23. Prome- ule. This means that no matter where a team nade ranked in its division (except first), it 3. Colebts might miss the playoffs. A team could finish 25. Mucilage second in its division, yet be I3th in league 26. Mofosesh point totals and thus miss the playoffs. On region the other hand, a team could wind up fourth 21. Court in its division but still qualify for the 28. Friendly playoffs because it has more points than six Islands 30. Old of the other clubs. Chi- Confusing? I guess it is and so I've nese made a projected list of what could happen 51, 0gdom in 1974-75, the first season this new opera- box tion will go into effect. 32. Filch The first four playoff series, involving fare the eight teams who followed the division win- 36. Ele- ners, will all be best-of-three series. From . plant's. then on, all series will be best-of-seven 37. Military affairs. : command continued page 7 ..... ae (2 wds.) 34. Breakfast