The Cincinnati Stingers welcomed the Edmonton Oilers to Riverfront
Coliseum. The Oilers were currently sitting in last place in the Western Division
but Stingers head coach Terry Slater warned his team to be ready regardless. With the
Oilers comes former Stingers Bryan Campbell and Frank Beaton. Beaton played in 29 games
with the Stingers last season scoring two goals and three assists. Beaton was also with
the team in preseason, but was cut. "Soupy" Campbell played in 77 games with the
Stingers in the previous season scoring 22 goals with 50 assists. During the off season
Campbell wound up with the Indianapolis Racers and was traded to Edmonton after 8 games.
Bryan Campbell also played for the Cincinnati Wings back in 1963.
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Stingers Blaine Stoughton attempts to pursue
the puck after several players watch it slip away. |
Ironically it was former Stinger
Bryan Campbell who scored the first goal of the match up. The goal came at 11:32 in the
first period after he belted one past Stingers goalie Norm LaPointe when he blocked
another shot. It would be Campbell's first goal in an Edmonton uniform. But the Stingers
answered five minutes later during an Oilers power play. Dennis Sobchuk was tripped up and
as he brought the puck into the Edmonton zone he began to fall. Sobby managed to advance
the puck on his way down and teammate Billy Steele, who was brought in to kill penalty
minutes, nabbed the puck and shot it from the left circle past the Oilers goalie Ken
Broderick. The Stingers scored again in the final minute of the first period after Richie
Leduc took control of a face off and quickly spun around to bat the puck into the net.
The Oilers tied the game back up in the
second period with a goal by Tim Sheehy. But "the Rocket" Claude Larose pushed
the Stingers back in front after teammate Dennis Sobchuk won a face-off. Sobby pasted it
to Larose and he then belted it in from the slot.
The Stingers added one more goal to the
score board in the third period courtesy of Blaine Stoughton. Stoughton took a pass from
teammate Ron Plumb during a power play and then nailed the puck past Oilers goalkeeper
Broderick for the final score of the game. The Oilers defeat made the Stingers undefeated
at home. |
