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Show Golden Eagles Capture Four Ouf of Five Games The Golden Eagles last week captured 4 out of 5 games (including a pair of road wins), and closed to within three points of the division leader, Denver. Despite a Sunday night whitewashing at the hands of the rejuvenated Seattle Totems, To-tems, 5-0, Salt Lake remains re-mains solidly entrenched in second place in the North, and has enhanced their chances of overtaking the Spurs sometime during the next two weeks. Three wins over the Tulsa Oilers (by scores of 7-2 and 8-2 in the Salt Palace, and by 7-2 in the Tulsa rink), as well as a 5-3 road verdict ver-dict over the red-hot Oklahoma Okla-homa City Blazers, extended the club's unbeaten streak to seven, a season high (and within one game of the all-time all-time mark.) All of that went by the boards, however, when the Totems' outstanding outstand-ing netminder, Dan Brady, fashioned a 21-save shutout in the windup game of the weekend road jaunt. Throughout the course of the 7-game unbeaten skein, the Eagles peppered enemy nets at the rate of 31 shots per game, and outscored ' their rivals by a 40-18 margin. mar-gin. During that same stretch, goalies Ray Marty-niuk Marty-niuk and Ernie Miller, assisted as-sisted by a staunch blue-line blue-line corps, recorded a mere 21 saves per game. Balanced scoring and steady work in the nets remain re-main keynotes of the Eagles' success thus far. No less than 13 players have tallied in double figures. "The ! French Connection Plus One line (center Denis Mel-oche, Mel-oche, left wing Bob Girard, and right wing Scott Sea-grist) Sea-grist) has 59 points among them, and ranks as the 1 trio in the C.H.L. In the goal, Martyniuk has been almost perfect. At 8-1-4, with a fine 2.70goals-against average, Marty is challenging challeng-ing Denvers Yves Belanger as the league's top net-minder. net-minder. A look ahead at the schedule sche-dule reflects a very solid possibility of Salt Lake vaulting vaul-ting into the top spot in the North by December 1. With 5 games out of the next 6 scheduled for home ice, including in-cluding a 'Turkey Night" showdown with the Spurs, coach Jack Evans' crew has the advantage necessary to make its move. |
