Sport: Newcomer at the Net

Poor Phil Esposito. For weeks now, the hard-driving forward of the Boston Bruins has been threatening to overtake Teammate Bobby Orr as the National Hockey League's leading scorer. He might already have succeeded were it not for a pesky new goaltender with the Chicago Black Hawks who shut him out in all but one of their first five confrontations this season. To make matters worse, whenever the young upstart catches a Bruin game on TV, he calls Phil and gives him a few pointers. Phil would be outraged—if the Hawks' new netman were not...

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