Search for your favorite player or team
© The Hockey News. All rights reserved. Any and all material on this website cannot be used, reproduced, or distributed without prior written permission from Roustan Media Ltd. For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
February 9, 1952
The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Consecutive Game Scoring Record Freddie Glover of the Indianapolis Capitals of the AHL, holds the circuit record for scoring in consecutive games, which he set in the 1950-51 season when he tallied at least one goal in 11 straight games. Penalty Shot Goals Pat Egan, veteran defense star of the Providence Reds of the AHL, who has one of the hardest shots in hockey, holds the league record for penalty shots scored in a single season with three, set back in 1939-40. HOW THE RACE GOES STANDINGS ON SUNDAY, FEB. 3 TUESDAY, JANUARY 29 St. Louis 1 at Hershey 2 HERSHEY — Hershey Bears tightened their grip on first place in the eastern division of the American Hockey League by defeating St. Louis 2-1. St. Louis: Goal, Almas; defence, Hyrmnak, Milligan, Nicholson, McNab, Quackenbush; forwards, Morrison, Taylor, Sonmor, Lundy,…
PASSING THE PUCK
NELS STEWART has authored a fine booklet titled “How To Watch And Enjoy Hockey.” The two-time winner of the Hart Trophy and holder of the N.H.L. goal scoring record of 324 has penned a book that will be appreciated by all hockey fans. If you are interested In obtaining a copy you may do so by writing to “Hockey”, O’Keefe House, Toronto, Canada… Max Bentley is 15 pounds heavier this season than at any time in his lengthy career. The Dipsy Doodle Dandy of the Toronto Maple Leafs now weighs in at close to 170 pounds… Frank Beisler, coach of the Syracuse Warriors of the American Hockey League, is the only United States-born leader In professional hockey. Beisler was born In New Haven, Conn… His only rival for that distinction…
Smythe Cools Out on ‘52 Hub Jaunt
TORONTO, Ont.— Conn Smythe always goes good in Boston. His flying visit from Florida wasn’t any exception. He exchanged parry, thrust and touche with a group of writers in the lobby of the Copley Plaza Hotel, shattering that staid establishment’s mausoleum-like atmosphere with his vociferous retorts to the questions of a member of the Boston press who delicately opened the conversation with: “Who you gonna steal from us next?” This particular typescrambler undoubtedly had the interests of his job at heart — performing through the printed page much in the manner of another Bostonian, Paul Revere, whose duty it was to inform the populace of the approach of danger. His approach was just as subtle as head of the newly formed Boston vigilante committee raised to prevent Smythe from perpetrating any more so…
Birthday Celebration Queered Wings’ Hopes of Gettting Chevy
BOSTON, Mass,— If the Boston Bruins make the Stanley Cup playoffs this season, Coach Lynn Patrick should doff his new brown fedora to the west—in the direction of Detroit. Two of the young men who are endeavoring tu put playoff legs under the Bruins are escapees from the clutches of the Red Wings, wintertime inhabitants of Detroit. One is Jack McIntyre, a big left wing; the other is Real Chevrefils, not as big but also a left wing. The Red Wings lost McIntyre as a junior on an “off” day, one on which someone in the Detroit front office made a electrical error”and Jack a free agent. They lost Chevrefils on a birthday, one shared by Real and another resident of South Porcupine, Ontario, more than twice his age. It all happened in 1948, when a…
Made possible with the support of
