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February 11, 1950
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AHL Goal Spot Toughie - All-Star Talent Aplenty
If you’re a hockey bug who likes to follow the feats and fancy doings of your favorites in the American Hockey League, you can start now to figure out just which of them you’re going to pick for the 1949-50 A.H.L. All-Star Team. For with this issue, THE HOCKEY NEWS All-Star poll for the Podoloff Circuit gets underway. Face off with your books of figures and statistics, your summaries and point totals, and get a line on the A.H.L.’s top stars. Starting with this issue, THE HOCKEY NEWS will take you through the lineups of the A.H.L. position by position. This week it’s the turn of the goaltenders, next week the defensemen and so on right down the line to the coaches who will head the mythical dream squads. Final ballot will…
Tobin Starts To Look Around — But For Who?
CHICAGO, III.— Time was when a visit to the headquarters of the Black Hawks was an occasion of great frivolity and optimism. Times have apparently changed. Joseph Farrel, for instance, the perennial tower of information who pours at the afternoon coffee and bagle banquets, seems to be of the opinion that the chamber of commerce’s request to alter the title of a nearby emporium from Benny the Bum’s to Benjamin’s Rendez-vous, is of more importance to the world than the fate of the Black Hawks. Additionally the attitude of a lot of people to the efforts of the Hawks to elevate themselves meets with total indifference. Most of them could not care less. Who’ll Deal For Bill It follows, therefore, that there should be something stirring forthwith in the vicinity of West Palm Beach after the…
Contest Rules
1—Anyone can cast ballots for All-Star teams of the National Hockey League and American Hockey but each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming one complete team, in each league. 2—N.H.L. ballots commence in this issue and will run until March 11; A.H.L. ballots from February 11 to March 18 inclusive. 3—BaLots for the choice of three players at each position (six in the case of defensemen must be filled in as indicated, with the names of the players and their clubs, and the names and addresses of the voters given in the blanks provided each week, or on a reasonable facsimile or tracing thereof if you do not wish to deface your copy of THE HOCKKT NEWS. 4—Ballots must be held until all have appeared, and selections for all six positions, plus coach,…
Passing the Puck
STEVE BLACK, Detroit Red Wings’ rookie left-winger, has scored all four of his N.H.L. goals against Montreal Canadiens …Chicago forwards, Doug Bentley and Bill Mosienko, are sticklers when it comes to looking after their sticks. Both players file and sandpaper their sticks to suit their own tastes. Mosienko files the heel off his stidk. Maybe these well-manicured woods have been responsible for Doug and Bill notching so many goals these past few years … Doug Adam, the forward New York Rangers acquired from the Tacoma Rockets of the P.C.H.L., uses a stick with a No. 9 lie. The stick is practically vertical and he must carry the puck close to his feet… Louisville Blades will not be back in the United States Hockey League next season… After Butch Bouchard scored…
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