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Show luesday. January |. 1980 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 9 January Clearance Rangers’ Swedish Duo Loved by Teammates NEW YORK (UPI) — Whatever happened to that delicate four-letter word the late Vince Lombardi liked to use so much? I'mtalking about the word “love.” The first time Lombardi ever called the public's attention to it was after his Green Bay Packers destroyed the Kansas City Chiefs in the first Super Bow! contest That was nearly 13 years ago. when Lombardi upon being asked what it was primarily that helped make the Packers as good a football team as they were immediately answered ‘love With salaries having escalated the way they have in all sports, you don't see so muchof that now Un fortunately you see more envy, instead. Happily however the change hasn't been a complete one There are some athletes left who still engender among their own teammates that special feeling lembardi enjoyed talking about Twoof them are hockey players Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson. They come from Sweden and both are with the New York Rangers, having signed with them as free agents for matching salaries of $163,000 a yearin 1978 after putting in four seasons with Winnipeg of the WHA. Of all the athletes in professional sports today, none are more respected admired or shown more genuineaffection by their teammatesthan thesetwo. and the most heartwarmingaspectof the whole thing is that they are merely getting what they deserve. You'll never run acrossa classier pair in any sport “They're not only superb players, they're true gentlemen in every sense of the word,” a former top NHLofficialsaid to me at a recent Rangers-Canucks garme at Madison Square Garden. ‘They play the gamethe wayit was intended to be played, never make a wrong move. They're no different when they take their skates off. Excellent personalities, down to earth and clean and deeent to the core.I've been around hockey players more than 15 years and I've never seen twolike them.” Possibly because some opponents look upon them as ‘foreigners’ or because they makelucrative sixfigure salaries, Hedberg and Nilsson are beset with the same problem in hockey that annoys the Dodgers’ Steve Garvey in baseball. Other players env: them. s Both take rough beatings. rougher than any Canadian or American rookies normally would, andso far the referees seem to be looking the other way, which is rather curious in light of the fact that after Hedberg andNilsson finish some games,their faces lookas if they've gone through a hamburgergrinder. Neither has complained so far, although Rangers Coach and General Manager Fred Shero has and so have some of the other Ranger players. Hedberg and Nilsson do not normally dwell on whetherornot the refereesare giving them the short end ofthe stick. 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