Show Important Days For SL Hockey The most important four days in the short history of the Salt Lake Golden Eagles professional professional professional hockey team is upcoming upcoming upcoming ing next week as owner dent Daniel H. H H Meyer and general manager-coach manager Ray travel to Montreal I for the annual hockey draft meeting MEYER AND are due to arrive in Montreal Montreal Montreal Mont Mont- real on Sunday where they will meet informally with several National Hockey League club executives with whom they have been negotiating negotiating negotiating on player transactions The Western Hockey League of which Salt Lake is the newest member will hold business sessions on Monday with the actual draft meetings getting underway Tuesday and contim continuing ng through Thurs Thurs- day IT IS anticipated that the roster of the Golden Eagles will round into near-finalized near form At the present time the Salt Lake club has the rights to 17 players 10 of whom are amateurs and willbe will willbe willbe be reporting to training camp for tryouts and the other seven professionals who the club has purchased An draft will be beheld beheld beheld held Tuesday with clubs I drafting one player each ench from teams in the Western Central Central Central Cen Cen- I and American professional professional professional leagues On Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day an draft will willbe willbe willbe be held with clubs drafting from their own ranks ON THURSDAY amateur and reverse drafts will be held In the reverse draft and AHL clubs will draft from teams Salt Lake will have first choice in each round of this draft dr aCt We UWe hope to use the draft to to fill in at key positions I said We want w nt to pick up a good goaltender at least two real good de- de and one or two outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing defensive forwards he reported WE WILL BE exercising our draft rights to obtain the calibre of personnel we desire and we even are contemplating contemplating contemplating con con- various deals in regard to our first draft choice the Golden Eagle coach continued We uWe may give up the first pick if we could obtain two or three outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing players for it The Golden Eagles already have announced deals involving involving involving in in- Bob seven players Kabel and Rollie Wilcox from Phoenix Dave Rochefort Bob Birdsell and Morris Mott from Detroit and amateurs Dale Conrad and Ron Will Will- iams The other names have not been released to protect players from the draft |