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February 4, 1950
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UNITED STATES LEAGUE
Busy Goalie Freddie Brown, Who joined the St. Poul Saints about a month ago, has fitted perfectly into Coach Clint Smith’s style of play. One of the few good stickhandlers in the game to-day, Freddie is used a great deal as a “penalty-killer,” where his stickhandling ability can be used to good advantage. Fits In Goalie Jim Henry, of the Kansas City Mohawks, has played great hockey all season despite his team’s last place standing. In most every game he is called on to make over forty saves. Without question Jim has been the U.S.H.L.’s busiest goalkeeper this season. HOW THE RACE GOES Jan. 17 — Omaha 4, Louisville 1. Jan. 18 — Tulsa 3, Minneapolis 9. Jan. 18 — Louisville 3, Kansas City 2. Jan. 19 — Louisville 1, Omaha 5. Jan. 19 — Tulsa 5, St. Paul…
Bruins Like Yankees -- Injuries And Injuries
BOSTON, Mass.— It’s becoming more and more obvious every day now that the rejuvenated Toronto Maple Leafs will qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs while the Bruins, Rangers and Black Hawks fight it out for fourth place and the remaining playoff berth. The Bruins, like the slipping Rangers, enjoyed a sustained flurry of victories during the first half of January only to return to early season form in recent games. Double defeats on successive wekends proved costly to the injury — riddled Boston team. A quick look at the lineup the Bruins have iced during the past month reveals why the Back Bay boys are having difficulty qualifying for the post-season classic. Injuries, injuries and more injuries have besieged the team since the start of the season. First it was Sandford — then Horeck,…
Doc Seems To Have Right ℞ To Take USHL ‘Most Valuable’
TULSA, Okla.— When it comes time for sports writers around the U.S. Hockey league to pick the league’s most valuable player this season they’re going to have a hard tune finding anyone more deserving of the honor than Len “Doc” Haldorsen of the Tulsa Ice Oilers. Len, the second-ranking scorer in the U.S.H.L., and the very backbone of the Tulsa team, has cut loose with his greatest season to stamp himself as a top contender for the most valuable award. Prior to this season, Haldorsen’s best was his 1945-46 campaign with Buffalo in the American Hockey League when he scored 56 points on 25 goals and 31 assists. At the present time he is just four points short of that record with 52 points on 22 goals and 30 assists in 41 games…
Rink Prexy Takes Up Coaching Reins
BOSTON, Mass.— Stories of hockey coaches rising to managerial positions are not unusual, but like the old man-bites-dog cliche it’s news when the president of a huge sports enterprise turns coach. Walter A. Brown, president of the Boston Garden, first vice-president of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States and a “veep” also of the Eastern Hockey League, did just that when the sudden resignation of Fred Metcalfe left his Boston Olympics coachless. Brown originated the Olympics in 1932 and for that and the next several seasons he took them on barnstorming tours through Europe. The team was composed of college and amateur stars, all local Greater Boston boys, many of whom had played on U.S. Olympic teams, hence the team’s name. In the season of 1937 Brown, firmly believing that…
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