Height: 5-6
Weight: 150
Shoot: L
Born: 5 Jul 1947, Point Edward ON
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Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
| year | team | |||||||||||
| 1974-75 | Chicago | |||||||||||
| 1975-76 | Denver-Ottawa | |||||||||||
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Excerpts from Pro Hockey, WHA 1975-76 (by Dan Proudfoot)
The move is to huge, hulking players. "In Peter Mara," boasts Spurs manager-coach Jean-Guy Talbot, "we have the smallest player in the league. "He's only 5-foot-6, about 150 pounds. Know what? There's room in hockey for the small, agile player. I was never too heavy myself, you know, so maybe I'm open on the question, but if you look around, there are plenty of smaller guys who enjoy success." Mara is a center. Phil Esposito, the NHL superstar, testifies that smaller centers give him the most trouble, simply because they use agility and thinking rather than strength. Talbot hopes Mara forces a similar conclusion from the bigger men of the WHA game. Mara was one of several impressive rookies with the Chicago Cougars in 1974-75. Spurs also inherited Mark Lomenda, a right wing who totalled 49 points in 69 games, and Talbot signed two rookies out of junior hockey, Mel Zinger from Kamloops, B.C., and Ron Delorme of Victoria, B.C., to fill out the right side. Delorme surprised Talbot in contract negotiations, for he was represented by Bernie (Boom-Boom) Geoffrion, the once-famous right wing who was a teammate of Talbot's with Montreal Canadiens in the 1950's, and who quit coaching the Atlanta Flames and became an agent last season. |
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