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September 15, 1951
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Schmidt, Ezzie Maybe Problem For Patrick
BOSTON, Mass.— The uncertain futures of two of his key players posed an early problem for Coach Lynn Fatrick as the Boston Bruins assembled for the start of their fall training at Hershey. Patrick, starting his second year as Boston coach with a more complete knowledge of his squad than he had a year ago, wasn’t sure of two things. One was the condition of Milton Schmidt, captain of the Bruins and everyone’s all-star center a year ago. The other was the status of Bill Ezinicki, the right wing whose rough-house antics lit a fire under the Bruins in last spring’s playoffs with Toronto. Schmidt, plagued by Injuries for the last few years, came out of the Toronto series with a pair of damaged knees. The highly-respected veteran has now reached the point where he is…
Accent On Youth For Bears Of ’52
HERSHEY, Pa.— The Hershey Bears will come out of Summer hibernation to begin training for their forth’ coming American Hockey League wars on Monday, September 24. The Bears will be preceeded by Lynn Patrick’s Boston Bruins, who will set up shop at the Hershey Sports Arena on Wednesday, September 19. In making plans for his sophomore year as pilot of the Bears, popular Johnny Crawford, coach of the Chocolatetown entry, has announced he’ll place more emphasis on youth than ever before, mixing just enough veterans to give the youngsters a steadying influence when the going gets rough. “Boston has a lot of promising kids coming down from Canada for try outs,” Crawford pointed out, “and quite a few of them will prove welcome additions to the Bears.” “These kids, backed up by such Hershey…
Bill Warwick May Give Bisons’ First Big Brother Combo
BUFFALO, N.Y.— Since the Buffalo Bisons entered the American Hockey League 11 seasons ago, the Herd has never had a brother combination in its lineup. The Bell brothers, Goalie Gordie and Left Winger Joe, both cavorted in Buffalo colors but not at the same time. The recent acquisition of Billy Warwick from the Cleveland Barons, however, might give Buffalo such a duo. The dark-haired left winger’s older brother, Grant (Nobby), was captain of last year’s American League Eastern Division champions. The question is will Billy be able to comeback from the automobile accident which almost claimed his life last March 7, and did result in death for Center Johnny Holota? If pure grit will do the trick, Warwick is a cinch to make the club. They don’t pack more spunk in human bodies than what…
Mitchell Elevated To Hawks
ST. LOUIS, Mo.— A working agreement that didn’t work last season has been revised considerably for the 1951 - 52 campaign so that both the Chicago Black Hawks of the National League and the St. Louis Flyers of the American League should benefit. At least this was the prediction of Ebbie Goodfellow, manager-coach of the Hawks, and Emory D. Jones, president of the Flyers, after they had renewed their one-year pact and completed the details by changing coaches of the Flyers as well as cleaninghouse among the player-personnel to make room for newcomers. “We’ve elevated Johnny Mitchell from the St. Louis coaching Job to a position with the Black Hawks,” Ebbie said! “And we’ve landed Modere (Mud) Bruneteau, a very successful coach at Omaha, as the Flyers’ new coach. It will be…
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