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November 26, 1949
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Frank Will Trade So Blues Can End Third
NEW YORK, N.Y.— In an attempt to add more scoring punch to the forward line the New York Rangers returned Johnnie Denis up from the American Hockey League to New Haven. The five-feet-eight, 165 pounds right wing supplanted Nick Mickoski who was transferred to the Ramblers. Now Denis has been replaced by Jean Paul Lamirande, the converted defenseman. The Denis maneuver is the first in what may prove to be a series of deals to strenghten the Broadway Blues offense. In their early season games the Rangers only glaring weakness has been in the goal scoring department and both manager Frank Boucher and coach Lynn Patrick have announced publicly that they intend to do something about the problem. The Ranger brain trust has been satisfied with the teams’ defensive work but they…
Chuck Chooses Bert To Halt The Rocket
CHICAGO, Ill.― Mr. Bert Olmstead of the Chicago Black Hawks may well assume that he is here to stay as far as the Windy City sextet is concerned. Coach Charlie Conacher indicated as much when he started the Hawks’ third string for the first time this season at the Chicago Stadium during a recent match with the Montreal Canadiens. It wasn’t so much that Conacher’s choice emphasized tremendous improvement in the hustling trio of Olmstead, Metro Prystai and Bep Guidolin In the scoring column, as his decision to have Bert keep Maurice Richard’s action to a scoring standstill. It looked as though Conacher had cast Olmstead in the role of a boy being sent on man’s mission …He hadn’t. Olmstead’s Dackchecking not only bottled up The Rocket successfully for the entire evening, but…
THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY
SEEMS IT WAS ALL SMOKE Now that L’Affaire Chicago has passed into history, it’s possible to look back on the whole matter in a calm, disinterested sort of way and try to figure out just what happened—and why. Action of the Chicago magistrate in quashing the charges laid against the two Montreal Canadiens players seems to vindicate them, as far as concerns the charge of “assault with deadly weapons”—to wit, hockey sticks. However, it doesn’t solve the knotty problem of just how to prevent such happenings in future. Hockey, by its very nature, is a rough-and-tumble sport in which the players are spurred on by bodily contact to temper-flaring thoughts or revenge on their opponents. All too frequently this mushrooms into fist battles, crashes into the boards and other sundry items of polite…
Leo The Lion Untamed As He And Reardon Co Free
CHICAGO, Ill. — To the relief of armored knights of the icelanes everywhere, a Chicago judge has taken the stigma off the hockey stick. Judge Hermes ruled in effect at Chicago last week that hockey sticks are not deadly weapons when he exonerated Leo Gravelle and Ken Reardon of Montreal Canadiens on charges of assault with a deadly weapon (said hockey sticks). The charges dated hack to the National Hockey League game at Chicago Nov. 2 when the two Canadiens decided the customer isn’t always right. The charge against Gravelie was dismissed. That against Reardon was nolle pressed by the judge when the plaintiffs admitted they intended to sign a complaint only against his teammate. It was probably the first time in his headlong career that Canadiens clipper was nolle pressed. The judge even agreed with…
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