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December 10, 1949
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Weist Shows Form As Caps Move In W.S.L
REGINA, Sask.— The most improved club in the Western Canada Senior Hockey League seems to be the Regina Caps … The defending champions, who lost out in the Allan Cup finals last spring with the Ottawa Senators, started off slowly but are improving rapidly … Since the start of the current campaign the Regina club has made over eight changes … The newest sensation of the Caps and of the league for that matter is lanky Bob Weist … Weist Is a former pro with Indianapolis, Omaha, Fort Worth and Springfield, and came to the Sask. club after a few games with Lester Patrick’s Victoria team … Weist has suffered numerous injuries during the last two winters and this has hampered his play considerably … A few winters back he was…
C.E.A. Survey Clears Hockey Beef
MONTREAL, Que.― The Main line of attack which educationalist had hoped to use in their effort to clamp down on organized hockey has fallen from under them, wrecked by nona other than the Canadian Education Association. A recent survey made by the C.E.A. showed that the problem was almost nil and that few players had lost in their chance for an education to make money playing hockey. In the Canadian Education Association’s survey it was found that only one student out of every 5,682 in the Province of Ontario gave up school to join the play-for-pay ranks of hockey, And as one high official in the Department of Education put it: “Far more than that quit school to set up pins in bowling alleys.” The study was made in most of the larger cities…
Two HabsCo To AHL Club
MONTREAL), Que. — The Montreal Canadiens sent left wingers Gerry Plamondon and Gilles Dube to the Cincinnati Mohawks of the American Hockey League last week in loopes that the pair may recover some of their hockey form. The pair were unable to get going in the N.H.L. and both were sitting on the bench for the Habs. Plamondon will be with the Mohawks until December 10th when he will rejoin the Canadiens in Chicago. Dube will stay with King Clancy’s club. In 12 games this season, Dube scored one goal and had two assists. Plamondon, who scored a hat trick in the playoffs against the Detroit Red Wings last season, had only scored one goal before he left for the A.H.L. club.…
U.S.H.L. Goalers Find Going Very Tough
ST. PAUL, Minn.— Goalies — well most of ‘em — are getting their lumps in the United States Hockey League this season. Through the first 56 games an average of eight goals a game went into the record as the boys with the shooting sticks set a sizzling hot pace. About the best example of the goal-sappy situation that exists can be had from checking results of the Nov. 2 6-27 weekend. Game scores were 8-2, 8-0, 5-3, 7-3 and 6-6. Biggest total score in any game came in the Kansas City-Louisville affair—15 goals … The Mohawks won the tussle … Leading offensive team is Minneapolis with 92 goals in 20 games for an average of just over four a tussle … As of, Nov. 28, half a dozen players were tied for goal getting…
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