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April 12, 1952

The Hockey News April 12, 1952

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0189/918523-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="312" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barry Sullivan</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Providence Reds continued their spectacular playoff pace which enabled them to defeat Cleveland three in a row after losing the first two games, by taking the first two games of their series with Cincinnati to increase the victory string to five straight. This was accomplished by scores of 3-1 and 3-2 in a pair of thrillers in Providence. However, the Mohawks bounced back in the third contest, back in Cincinnati and stopped the Reds 3-1, to force a fourth game. The Reds won 6-2 and the series three games to one.The opening game of the Providence-Cincinnati series, played on Sunday, March 30, featured the Reds&rsquo; &ldquo;Big Line&rdquo;, of Paul Gladu, Barry Sullivan and the league&rsquo;s leading scorer Ray Powell. Each of the star forwards contributed a goal in the 3-1 triumph, while assisted by their linemates. A crowd of 5859, stirred by the exploits of the Reds in the Cleveland series, jammed into the Rhode Island Auditorium which only seats 5,300, again displaying the remarkable hold which hockey has on the Providence populace. The Rhode Island Capital is the only city in the American League which has maintained uninterrupted professional hockey since 192C-27 when the original professional league from which the present circuit was derived began.While the Reds enjoyed a 3-0 lead before Cincinnati scored in the opening contest, the second game was much closer and harder for the Reds to win. The Mohawks twice overcame leads to tie at 1-1 and 2-2 before Powell, again the top scorer for Providence, with a pair of tallies, notched the winner early in the third period. Pat Egan once more supplied the opening goal with another of his famous long blue line blasts against which few goalies can defend. When Egan scores, there is no doubt in anyone&rsquo;s mind as to who performed the teat as his stick always goes high in the air in jubilation. Many years as a &ldquo;pro&rdquo; has far from dimmed Pat&rsquo;s enthusiasm for the game. Chick Webster knotted the count before the opening session was over, in the second period, Sullivan dug the puck out of the boards behind the net and flipped it out to Powell in front, and this goal, like Powell&rsquo;s second of the game was a deftly engineered tip in shot. Powell is one of the cleverest manipulators of a hockey stick ever seen, in carrying the puck, setting up plays and also in shooting. With Egan in the penalty box in the last minute of the period. Gus Schwartz deflected in Ed Harrison&rsquo;s long shot to again tie. Powell&rsquo;s game winner was a ten footer from straight out in front, early Ln the third.The Reds were hard pressed to protect their lead for the remainder of the game, particularly in the last minute and a half when goaltender Emile Francis was removed for a sixth skater. On top of this, Zellio Toppazzini went off with a penalty at 19:28 and the &ldquo;Hawks&rdquo; really buzzed around. Ray Laplante broke out for the open cage with ten seconds to go, and the crowd was amazed to see him shoot wide from close in. What they didn&rsquo;t know was that a Cincinnati player just tipped his stick from behind as he let the shot go, which exonerated Ray for his miss. A local Providence restaurateur had promised the Reds&rsquo; players a steak dinner if they won the game by two goals, and as LaPlante&rsquo;s open cage shot would have provided that margin, Ray had some tall explaining to do to his mates. Luckily the press box inhabitants noticed the deflected stick.Both Francis and Harvey Bennett in the Providence nets played brilliantly, having 3 2 and 33 saves respectively. Francis displayed the agility in kicking out potential goals which has earned him the nickname of &ldquo;Cat&rdquo;. The little guy was terrific, Bennett on the other hand was cool, calm and collected as he casually stood in front of his citadel and batted out pucks.The Mohawks suffered a severe loss for future games when Nick Mickoski, who has been playing a fine game, broke his ankle in a clash with big Art Michaluk. Michaluk checked Mickoski and as the left-winger fell his ankle was twisted underneath him. This added to the previous cheekbone fracture to Jackie McLeod, the broken hand for Gus Schwartz in the third contest and also the torn leg tendons for Jack Lancien in that game, left the Mohawks in desperate Straits for manpower.Rollie Rousseau of the Montreal Royals made his professional debut in the second game and performed creditably, so much so, that he was used to &ldquo;kill off&rdquo; a penalty, quite a bit of confidence to have in a rookie.George Army, capable Providence trainer, who has been &ldquo;mother hen&rdquo; to the many Reds&rsquo; roosters for 25 years in taking care of their ailments and troubles, is quite proud of his son Tommy and well he should be. The 20-year-old youngster was the star right wing of the Providence College hockey team this past season, leading the league in scoring, for which he was presented with a handsome trophy. He is now pitching for the varsity baseball team and also is a member of the boxing squad. Quite an all-round athlete, is Tommy, and he follows in his father&rsquo;s footsteps as George was an outstanding catcher in professional baseball ranks. Tommy may be a future Red.This series again brings together two of the hardest hitting defensemen in the league as opponents. Back in the famous 48-49 Hershey-Providence series, won by the Reds for the Cup, Art Michaluk and Clare Martin traded body checks which rocked the buildings. Martin is now with Cincinnati while big Mich continues with the Reds. Both wore No. 17 three years ago, but although Martin retains that number, Michaluk has switched to four.The third game, in Cincinnati, found the Mohawks in the same position as the Reds in the opening contest, enjoying a 3-0 lead before yielding a tally. Webster opened the scoring in the first, and after a scoreless middle chukker, rookie Bob Fryday and Harrison added scores in the third. Steady Elwin &ldquo;Moe&rdquo; Morris, who seldom scores but is a &ldquo;rock&rdquo; on defense with steady, brainy play saved the Reds from a shutout at 17:39 of the third. It was a tough break for Francis who richly deserved his blanking.Tommy &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Williams, star defenseman for the eliminated Cleveland Barons, was wed to the former Miss Eunice Round of Niles, Ohio on Saturday, April 5. The bespectacled Tommy, one of the best liked and hardest working rearguards in the league had many of his teammates and his general manager Jim Hendy at the ceremony.Coach Clint Smith of the Mohawks who has done a tremendous job in Cinnati this season, coping with many injuries, is guiding his fifth consecutive playoff contender. Matter of fact a Clint Smith coached team has never been out of the playoffs as in four previous years in the defunct United States League, Smith was always represented. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Back of the Nets In AHL Cup Hunt

DETROIT, Mich. &mdash; Fern Flaman drew the most penalties, eight, in the Detroit-Toronto semifinal. The burly Maple Leaf defenseman was nicked for five minors in the first game (four of them in one period). After evading the penalty box in the next two contests, he drew three minors in the windup.Appropriately, Flaman finished the series in the box, getting his last penalty at 19:28 of the third period of the finale. &#9632;

Flaman Lead Series in Penalties with Eight

MONTREAL Que.&mdash; Coach Dick Irvin of the Montreal Canadiens was a little downcast after his club had lost to the Bruins 1-0 in the fifth game of the series. The puck seemed to be rolling and bouncing all night and it seemed to hop like a golf ball.A young newspaperman entered the room after the game and approached a disagreeable Mr. Irvin.&ldquo;Are you going to call up anybody for the sixth game, Mr. Irvin,&rdquo; he asked.&ldquo;Yea. Ben Hogan,&rdquo; replied Dick, &ldquo;the only time I saw the puck tonight it looked like a golf ball in the air.&rdquo; &#9632;

Irvin Nips Newspaperman with Real Sharp Comeback

DETROIT, Mich. &mdash; The four Detroit-Toronto games drew a total of 5 7,438 fans.For once, the crowds Were bigger at the Detroit Olympia than at the Toronto Maple Leafs Gardens.The two games in Detroit drew 14,31G and 15,146. The paid in Toronto drew 14,402 and 13,574. &#9632;

Detroit’s Outdraws Toronto in Stanley Cup Semi-Final

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Today’s Stars Best Ever---Adams

<div class="byline">by KEN MCKENZIE</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;A new National Hockey League record for the three fastest goals by a team in playoff hockey was set by Boston Bruins on March 30. In whipping three goals past Gerry McNeil in the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; nets in one minute and two seconds, the Beantowners established a record that is liable to stand for a long time. There Isn&rsquo;t a record available anywhere in modern hockey to match the Bruins swift scoring mark.Hal Laycoe, Boston&rsquo;s bespectacled defenseman and one of the shining lights of the series, started the rapid scoring streak when he blasted home a 50-foot drive at 2:05 of the second period. Exactly 33 seconds later, at 2:38, Dave Creighton scored on a pass from Jack McIntyre. Creighton&rsquo;s shot was from about 12 feet out. Ed Sandford tallied the third goal at 3:07 after taking a pass from Laycoe. The rangy Laycoe set up the third goal when he carried the puck down to the left corner and fed the plug over to Sandford. Big Ed planted right in front of the Canadiens&rsquo; goal and made no mistake in banging it in.The fastest five goals scored by a team in playoff hockey was three minutes and 5 6 seconds and was set by Montreal Canadiens on March 30, 1944, as they walloped Toronto Maple Leafs, 11-0. It was during the third period of that 11-0 rout that Canadiens fired the five counters in three mintues and 56 seconds. The fastest three goals of those five were scored in one minute and 40 seconds &mdash; from 7:37 to 9:17.Here is the breakdown:1.&mdash;Toe Blake (Heffernan, O&rsquo;Connor), 7:372.&mdash;Toe Blake (Richard, Lach), 8:373.&mdash;Maurice Richard (Lach, Blake), 9:174.&mdash;Ray Getliffe (Chamberlain, Lamoureux), 10:335.&mdash;Buddy O&rsquo;Connor (Getliffe), 11:34Laycoe&rsquo;s goal at 2:05 to start the record scoring feat was the first goal allowed by Gerry McNeil in 115 minutes and 38 seconds of play. It was fitting that Laycoe, a standout throughout the entire series, should play the leading role in establishing this new playoff record. With one goal and and an assist he was the top point-collector.To settle future arguments paste the following In your hatband:1.&mdash;Hal Laycoe, 2:052.&mdash;Dave Creighton (McIntyre), 2:383.&mdash;Ed Sandford (Laycoe), 3:07 &#9632;

Bruins Clip 38 Seconds Off Habs’ Three Goal Playoff Record

<div class="byline">By PAUL CHANDLER (Detroit News)</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0213/919803-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="301" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Adams</figcaption></div>Ty Cobb&rsquo;s hard remarks about the moderns of baseball stirred Jack Adams of the Red Wings to thinking about the eras of hockey, and he isn&rsquo;t willing to concede anything to the old-timers.&ldquo;Only Howie Morenz and Eddie Shore belong on any list of all time all-stars,&rdquo; said Adams. &ldquo;All the other great players have performed within the last 15 years.&rdquo;He said hockey was such a simple game 20 years ago that there are &ldquo;men sitting the bench of every team in the League today who would have been 40-goal men in the old days. They can shoot, but can&rsquo;t skate well enough to keep up today. Shooting would have been enough in the old days.<h2>More Stars Today</h2>&ldquo;Today&rsquo;s game not only has developed the stars with the best quality, it has created quantity production of good players.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There are 20 times as many good players active today as there were in any single season up to 10 years ago.&rdquo;He credited the present &ldquo;tough environment&rdquo; as explaining his theory.&ldquo;Hockey players until recently never had to work to stay in the game. They played maybe 20 games in a season, under rules where you could hustle when you felt like it and loaf when you felt like it.&ldquo;Today, with the forward pass and the tremendous money and other things making competition, players skate, skate, skate&mdash;it&rsquo;s terrific work. Just the travel alone takes a tougher kind of player. Seventy games, plus exhibitions and playoffs over seven months has them in and out of trains and hotels all the time.&ldquo;Anybody who can&rsquo;t stand the gaff is out in a hurry, because there&rsquo;s always other young kids just dying to get a chance to break in.<h2>Live it 24 Hours</h2>&ldquo;Cobb talked about how the old-timers in baseball talked the game night and day, in hotels and all around. Our kids today live it around the clock. They&rsquo;re together all the time, and hockey is all they talk. The easy come, easy go attitude of the old hockey pros has almost disappeared.&ldquo;As the environment has got tougher, it&rsquo;s made tougher hockey players in every position. Goal is the-best example. Today&rsquo;s goalies are about the most winderful athletes in sport. They see more shots in 10 minutes than the old-timers did in an hour. And the shots are coming in screened, deflected, and every other hard way.&ldquo;It took a better breed of goalies to handle the new game, but they developed. It&rsquo;s been the same in every other position. The NHL rookies today are the best crop of new players that ever showed up in one season.&rdquo; &#9632;

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GAME MUCH SIMPLER IN OLDEN DAYS

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Bill Tobln, Chicago president, has approached Conn Smythe of the Leafs with a view to trading off his goalie Harry Lumley for some of the strength the Hawks need up front.Smythe, though he said he would be satisfied to go along with goalie Al Rollins next season, nevertheless did admit that he was interested in Lumley but that Tobin wanted too much.&ldquo;Too much&rdquo; was in the neighbourhood of what Smythe had to pay in players to get Max Bentley from the Hawks in the fall of 1947.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not standing around with my hat in my hand,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If Tobin thinks he&rsquo;s going to make up with the Leafs what he lost when he got Lumley from Detroit, one might as well forget it.&rdquo;Smythe said he found it hard to reconcile the two goalkeepers&rsquo; statistics. Rolins, with an admittedly weaker scoring Leaf club in front of him and also a weaker defense than before, still finished 84 goals better than Lumley. &#9632;

Conn Interested in Lum but Not at Bill’s Price

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-102/917685-1-eng-US/f0002-102.jpg" title="f0002-10" width="314" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Woody Dumart</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Coach Lynn Patrick of the Boston Bruins, British Columbia&rsquo;s greatest gift to the National Hockey League has had many thrills since he came into the NHL as a player for the Rangers before the war. He played with Lester Patrick&rsquo;s Stanley Cup team in 1939-40 and coached the New York Rangers to within one game of the Stanley Cup two seasons ago. But his greatest thrill came not too long ago in Boston Garden and it came more or less as a spectator.&ldquo;That Schmidt, Dumart night was the greatest thrill I ever got out of hockey,&rdquo; said Lynn. &ldquo;Hollywood couldn&rsquo;t have written a script with a better ending. Watching that little Bauer go was something to remember.&rdquo;The Boston fans held a combined Schmidt, Dumart night in Boston Garden last March 18.&ldquo;Mr. Ross conceived the idea about bringing Bauer back for that one night. But when we planned it we decided that if the game was a very important one we wouldn&rsquo;t go through with it. We wouldn&rsquo;t dress Bauer for the game.&ldquo;But it grew and grew to such a degree that we couldn&rsquo;t cancel it. And it turned out to be the most important game of the year for us. It meant clinching a playoff spot over the Rangers.&rdquo;As it turned out the Bruins Whipped the Hawks 5-0 with Schmidt getting his 200th goal, the Bruins clinching the playoffs, Henry getting a shutout and Bauer getting a goal and an assist, and Schmidt and Dumart being gifted with $6,000 worth of gifts each.&ldquo;When the announcer announced the goal by Schmidt on a pass from Bauer and Dumart I got the greatest thrill ever. It was the greatest ovation I have ever heard given anybody,&rdquo; says Lynn.The Bruins&rsquo; script was even more unbelieveable from the Schmidt angle. Just the game before he scored his 200th goal he had a chance to fire the puck into the open net. The Canadiens had taken Gerry McNeil from the cage and Schmidt got the puck.&ldquo;He carried it right over their blueline to within 10 feet of their goal. Only Harvey was in front of him and he bounced it off his leg into the corner of the rink.&rdquo; Lynn recorded. But Schmidt denied with a smile that he missed on purpose because he didn&rsquo;t like the idea of getting his 200th in an open net.&ldquo;Anyway, that was my biggest thrill in the game,&rdquo; said Patrick, &ldquo;and in the years to come, whenever anybody asks me what was the greatest line I ever coached, I&rsquo;m going co say the Krauts. &#9632;

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LYNN SAYS GREATEST LINE HE’S COACHED WAS KRAUTS

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-083/917654-1-eng-US/f0002-082.jpg" title="f0002-08" width="374" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body">SCHMIDT</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-093/917647-1-eng-US/f0002-092.jpg" title="f0002-09" width="372" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body">PATRICK</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Speculation has accompanied the Boston Bruins toward their season&rsquo;s end, speculation about next year. What will it bring to the Bruins&rsquo; organization?Will Lynn Patrick, whose two-year coaching agreement expires next month, again coach the team which he has twice coached into fourth place using material which was pretty much catch-as-catch-can both years?Will Capt. Milt Schmidt, Boston&rsquo;s premier hockey figure of modern times add another season to his illustrious career?Will the Bruins start next season with the same cast with which they completed this one? Who&rsquo;ll be back? Who&rsquo;ll go?There is no doubt but that Patrick, the 4 0-year-old son of one of hockey&rsquo;s best known figures, will coach the Bruins again next season. It hasn&rsquo;t been officially announced yet, but the next-best thing is semi-official, and it is already that.Last week General Manager Art Ross told the Boston press:&ldquo;Lynn, with the exception of his father (Lester) is the smartest coach I have ever met. It is silly to even think of anyone else coaching the Bruins as long as he is available.&rdquo;As far as the younger Patrick is concerned, he has already put himself on record as wanting to remain in Boston as long as he is in hockey. Comfortably situated in suburban Wellesley with a growing family, the big one-time New York Ranger likes it here.Sometime next month Ross is expected to assemble the press and make the official announcement of Patrick&rsquo;s rehiring. He will do it with the blessing of President Walter Brown.<h2>Milt Won&rsquo;t Decide Until Mid-Summer</h2>The Schmidt situation is something else, a personal problem for the valiant captain who has spent nearly half his life playing for the Bruins. Milt has some thinking to do this summer before deciding on his course for next fall.In the off-season Schmidt is associated with a business concern in which he has an excellent future, so fine, in fact, that playing hockey represents a financial sacrifice for him.Now 34 years old and despite the brilliant season behind him, Schmidt may be thinking more seriously of retiring this year than in recent years, when he has also thought about it.&ldquo;I have a good job waiting for me,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but I haven&rsquo;t made up my mind yet and I won&rsquo;t for some time. There is a possibility that I will retire, but I won&rsquo;t decide until probably mid-summer.&rdquo;If Schmidt does decide that his hockey days are behind him, it will be a major blow to the Bruins, for there are those who declare without qualification that Uncle Miltie is still the best player in the National League.For Patrick, however, pending Schmidt&rsquo;s decision, the future is undoubtedly brighter than it has been since he first came here in the fall of 1950.The Bruins are better off in material right now than they have been in years, and they may gain still more strength from off-season deals.Although Ross has kept his plans to himself, it is safe to predict that the Bruins will stay on the same youth track which they traveled; so successfully this season.For their winter&rsquo;s experimenting they have such youthful talent as Dave Creighton, Real Chevrefils, Jake McIntyre, Leo Labine, George Sullivan, Fleming Mackell and Bob Armstrong to show.They also have gained a comforting goal-tender in Sugar Jim Henry, and the dashing Hal Laycoe on defense.At Hershey and other way-stations they have a horde of am-j bitious youngsters, some of whom will be challenging for varsity-berths in the fall.All in all, with a year of harmony in their front office and a year of building on the ice behind them, the Bruins are in good shape. That much is certain, and the speculation promises to make the summer an interesting one. &#9632;

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B’s to Rehire Patrick Officially Next Month

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH (Toronto Telegram)</div><h2>The Recruits</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0127/917592-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="578" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL EZINICKI</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0221/917585-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="576" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB HASSARD</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0317/917578-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="582" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body">RAY HANNIGAN</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0411/917571-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="568" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body">LEO BOIVIN</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0510/917564-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="572" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body">TIM HORTON</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-066/917557-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="572" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body">KING CLANCY</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The activity for the Maple Leafs may have ceased for the season with their four-straight defeat by the Detroit Red Wings in their Stanley Cup playoff set, but the front office continues to buzz at mid-season pace.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-075/917550-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="300" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Primeau</figcaption></div>No sooner were the Leafs wending their weary ways to premature summer pursuits, than Conn Smythe, major domo of the ex Stanley Cup champs, summoned scribes and newscasters to his inner sanctum at the Gardens and told them that thres and maybe four forwards and one or maybe two defensemen will be replaced on his 1952-53 edition.That doesn&rsquo;t mean that the Leafs are snooping for trades.&ldquo;This is no rummage sale, &ldquo;Smythe pointed out. &ldquo;If players don&rsquo;t make our team they go to Pittsburgh.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s from the Hornet hive that Smythe is counting on drawing his replacements. If the Pittsburghs should emerge triumphant in their bid for the Calder Cup this season, it&rsquo;s certain that the strength will come from there. If they should fail Smythe feels that they will have proven that they haven&rsquo;t the material he needs and he&rsquo;ll have to look elsewhere.<h2>Hassard Biggest Hope</h2>Though he would name none of the Leafs he expects to replace, he mentioned Hornet center Bobby Hassard as a possible promotion to do &ldquo;some of the checking that Cal Gardner didn&rsquo;t do for the Leafs this season.&rdquo; He also named Ray Timgren, though he was a standout in the Detroit series, as possibly bound for the Hornets because under the shortened roster a club can&rsquo;t afford to keep a forward who, though he can do everything else, can&rsquo;t score goals.&ldquo;Does that mean that Timgren is expendable?&rdquo; he was asked.&ldquo;It does.&rdquo;Other possible Hornet graduates include defenseman Leo Boivin who played a three game trial with the Leafs this season and left a good Impression with the brass, defenseman Tim Horton, right winger Gordie Hannigan, whom Hornet coach King Clancy describes as newer having lost a fight and a good solid citizen, right winger Bill Ezinicki, the wayward golfer &ldquo;if he really has turned over a new leaf&rdquo; and coach Clancy himself if the present Leaf coach Joe Primeau decides he&rsquo;s had enough.Smythe says that Primeau has one month to make up his mind whether or not he wishes to Quit hockey and devote all his time to his cement block business in Toronto which suffers through his absence, Clancy, his replacement eventually anyway, has a two year agreement with the Leaf management with a minor and major league clause in it so that he can take over anytime. Smythe indicated however that he would like Primeau to stay around one more year at least so that Clancy will have that much more time to acquaint himself with the players now with Pittsburgh who will eventually be working for him with the Leafs.Speculation as to what Primeau&rsquo;s decision will be was immediate. Many thought that Gentleman Joe would agree to stick for one more season rather than leave the club at the low ebb at which it enaed the season.There was also speculation as to which Leafs were in Smythe&rsquo;s mind when he mentioned the demotions. Danny Lewicki might be one of them because he&rsquo;s been a disappointment to the management this season scoring only four goals after a 16 goal output in his rookie year. Joe Klakay, the victim of a bad knee jinx which kept him out most of the season, also might be on the list along with defenseman Hugh Bolton who could need more reasoning.Smythe, though he accepted all the blame for the Leaf showing himself, admitted that his young talent hadn&rsquo;t come through for him like he had expected they would. Besides Lewicki&rsquo;s failure to hit the net, George Armstrong, who scored three goals from the time he came up late in the season, also didn&rsquo;t come up to expectations. Smythe did however point out that Armstrong was the only Leaf who wasn&rsquo;t on the ice when a goal was scored by the Wings in the playoff series. Armstrong, he says, has developed into a great defensive hockey player, will be foremost candidate for the rookie award next season.&ldquo;Actually,&rdquo; he said &ldquo;the team did better than I thought it would. It finished higher in the standings and easier than I had expected. For what I built they did very well. That goes for the coach too. With the material he had he did a great job getting them as high as third place. What happened was my fault. When you have a championship team as we did, it&rsquo;s difficult to tear it apart. The signs were there though when we took five games to beat Canadiens in the Cup final. I should have done something then but I didn&rsquo;t.&rdquo;<h2>Missed Extra Goals</h2>He pointed out that the Leafs had missed the goals they scored the previous year. They scored 44 less this season and had 21 more scored against them.&ldquo;We need more goals and we need some system to keep our players out of the penalty box,&rdquo; said Smythe. &ldquo;in spite of the fact that we were without our two heaviest hiters, Bill Ezinicki and Bill Barilko, we took 841 minutes in penalties, 300 more than the Rangers which is hard to believe after seeing a couple of the games they played against us.&rdquo;Smythe blamed the knowledge of other clubs that the Leafs were thinner as being the reason they were beaten.&ldquo;They checked our big line, blanketed the Bentley line and we missed the scoring defensemen we had last season too,&rdquo; he said.Discussing possible retirements next season, he said he was uncertain about Bill Juzda who is finding it increasingly difficult to get away from his job as a railway fireman each season. Max Bentley left the day following the last Leaf defeat after a discussion with Smythe and said that he wanted some time to think it over. Smythe doubted that Bentley could grow enough wheat one his farm to compensate for the money he might lose if he didn&rsquo;t come back for another season but the Delisle Dandy claims that with him it&rsquo;s not a matter of money. Meeker, who threatens to quit to devote all his time to his duties as a Member of Parliament, was silent as to his future plans. Smythe feels that both of them will be back though.&ldquo;They know we&rsquo;re pretty thin,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re both loyal team men and they know I&rsquo;m counting on them.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Smythe to Rebuild for ’52 Year but Takes Blame for ’51 Edition

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FOUR FOR FOUR FOR FOUR STRAIGHT VICTORIES

DETROIT, Mich. &mdash; According to one statistician Toronto outshot Detroit, 119 to 108, while losing all four games.Terry Sawchuk was credited with saving on 116 of the 119 shots he faced. For Toronto, Al Rollins stopped 49 of 55, and Turk Broda, 46 of 53. &#9632;

Leafs Outshot Wings by 11 while Losing Four Game Set

DETROIT, Mich. &mdash; Red Wings spread their scoring around well in the four games against Toronto.Every player in the Detroit lineup, except Larry Zeidel who worked in only two games, shared in the 13 goals and 18 assists.Eight of them, including three of the defensemeh, got goals.Each of the forward lines scored at least two goals.Rookie Johnny Wilson topped the club with four goals. His point total was matched by both Gordie Howe and Metro Prystai, each with four assists. &#9632;

Wings Spread Scoring Well in Four Games Against Leafs

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0223/917747-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="258" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Wilson</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;It isn&rsquo;t just because of his blond hair that Johnny Wilson is known as the fair-haired boy on the Red Wings team right now.Almost from out of nowhere, the chunky youngster with the big square jaw came along to pace Detroit through the Stanley Cup semi-final against Toronto. Wilon is the eagle-eyed sharpshooter who worked on left wing and scored four goals in four games against the Maple Leafs.There was a strong tendency to tag Johnny as one of those rookies who bloom in the spring, blossoming out at playoff time. Wilson is a true rookie from a National Hockey League stand point, for he played in only 27 games during the season, his first.But he&rsquo;s becoming an old hand at this Stanley Cup playoff business. You can find the name John Wilson already engraved on the battered silver mug which is hockey&rsquo;s top trophy.It&rsquo;s listed with the Red Wings of 1949-50, and John played eight games in the series two years age to make it legitimate. And then a year ago, although he never played an NHL game all season, he again popped into the playoff lineup against Montreal.<h2>Three Years in Organization</h2>Now 22 years ago, Wilson is no secret weapon which the Wings keep on a handy shelf until playoff time. He has completed three years in the Detroit organization at the Omaha and Indianapolis farms, and each spring got a call to join the parent club as an extra hand Certainly it as an ironic twist that this year he should play such a big role in defeating Toronto. For about 18 months during his brief hockey career he belonged to the Maple Leafs. They let their hold go, and Johnny came back to haunt them.Actually, it was no steal that got him from Toronto to Detroit. In fact, if there as any theft, it was the other way around in the way the Leafs snatched him from Detroit in the first place &mdash; all this several years ago when Wilson was a schoolboy back in Shawinigan Falls, Que.The story behind all this is one of the Interesting tales which deserves to bo told in detail. Also involved is his brother Larry, one year younger, and with whom he 1 always has played on the same 1 line for some seven years, until just a month ago.John and Larry, a center, were playing high school hockey for Shawinigan Falls in a game at Quebec. The date was Feb. 18, 1947, to be exact, and it&rsquo;s well remembered in all the Wilson family.Marcel Cote, a Detroit scout, was the referee. JoJo Graboski, a Toronto scout, was a spectator. There must have been something special about John&rsquo;s play that game, for both immediately became interested.Cote made his pitch to Wilson as the game ended. It was handled in French, a natural move since Wilson hailed from a French-Canadian community and always has been fluent in the tongue. They agreed to meet later so Cote could relate the glories of playing pro hockey for Detroit.But while Cote was dressing, enter Graboski. Representing the affluent. Leafs, he hailed a taxi and promptly whisked John out of range of Cote&rsquo;s Detroit influence. Wilson was so impressed with the luxury of a taxi that he saw a rich future with Toronto.It wouldn&rsquo;t have made maen difference anyway. Toronto nailed him first to the negotiation list, but then spent the next year and 1 a half trying to land a signature on a C form.Having lost John, Cote hastily settled for Larry, who went onto the Detroit negotiation list. This turned out to be a winning move, as the next chapter proves.Although involutarily pledged to different clubs, both Wilsons came to Windsor to play with the Red Wings&rsquo; junior Spitfires, John declined every Toronto bid in the meantime, having decided that he didn&rsquo;t want to split up the brother combination.Now the Blair brothers, Chuck and Dusty, come into the plot. Like the Wilsons, they had been grabbed separately by Detroit and Toronto. When Toronto couldn&rsquo;t get John Wilson to sign, Conn Smythe and Jack Adams worked out this solution.<h2>Chucked in Chuck Blair</h2>Detroit gave up its rights to Chuck Blair in return for the rights to John Wilson. Thus the brothers were united, the Blairs with Toronto and the Wilsons with Detroit.So far, it has all worked out to Detroit&rsquo;s benefit, a result which Adams says is an innocent reward since at the time it was impossible to predict the future of any of the four boys.That, of course, was all just a happy coincidence in the Toronto series. But there are other matters of the past season which are no coincidence, actions which tell the story of John&rsquo;s comeback within a single campaign and carry the morale; Don&rsquo;t quit plugging.Until last October, John&rsquo;s progress in hoceky was just like a dream for any ambitious youngster. He starred with the amateur Spitfires two seasons, also doubling up by playing with Detroit Hettches in the local International League.His pro contract produced a brilliant freshman campaign at Omaha, where he worked under Mud Bruneteau. In the 70 games he scored 41 goals and 39 assists for 80 points. He ranked fourth in goals, eighth in points in the United States League, and hit the second All-Star team.There was a one-game interruption which pleased John mightily. For a game in Chicago, Adams ordered him and Larry up for an out-of-town preview with the Detroit team. It was their lone appearance, but it was enough to bring a call at playoff time when John became the rookie member of Detroit&rsquo;s Cup champions. He got one assist in the eight games.A year ago he was promoted to Indianapolis, and found the American League pace no faster. In 70 games he got 34 goals and 53 points, and again finished off by appearing in the playoffs with Detroit.By now he was ready to bid for a regular spot with the Redshirts. He got his chance in September at training camp along with arry, and they were worked into a regular line with Tony Leswick, who had been plucked from New York in a trade.But came October and things refused to click. After a handful of games, Larry was shipped off to Indianapolis. John followed a few days later.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve always been slow starters, but never that slow,&rdquo; says John now, speaking for his brother. &ldquo;We just couldn&rsquo;t get going. Mr. Adams was right in sending us out, although it was a big disappintment at the time.&ldquo;Now we know that it was best thing which could have happened to us.&rdquo;Again in the familiar Indianapolis surroundings, both got underway again. Soon John became the scoring leader of the Caps. He had 2 5 goals when Adams hauled him back just before the Feb. 15 deadline.A combination of factors prompted the move. Glen Skov who was working left wing on the third line, was listed as Sid Abels understudy. But when Metro Prystai was injured, Skov had to take his place on the second line. Needing an extra left winner in the emergency and also wanting player Insurance with Abel on the limp, Wilson was the choice.He broke in as a spot player, used wherever handy. Those were soft days for the Wings, who were coasting out in front just waiting for the season to end. As an experiment Coach Tommy Ivan switched Skov to the second line, and tried Prystai and Wilson on a unit centered by Alex Delvecchio.This combo clicked almost at once. They played together only five games before the series opened. but they seemed a natural. Wilson got three goals in those tail-end games, and looked faster and steadier than at any previous time.The extra experience had done the trick, giving him more confidence in his skating and shooting, and less fear of mistakes. Delvecchio, a clever playmaker, was an ideal center for such a left winger, who has unexpected speed on the outside, a good shot off the wing, and coolness with the puck in the attacking zone.That third line as so brand new that Smythe called it Detroit&rsquo;s &ldquo;weak link &mdash; the weakness we will win on.&rdquo; The observation seemed apt at the time for three players so recently welded together, but it all turned out exactly the opposite.That line sparkled in the playoffs. Wilson got its four goals which was more than the entire Toronto team made in the series.There seems little doubt that Johnny has arrived this time to stay. But for him, there&rsquo;s still one thing missing, and that&rsquo;s brother Larry. For the first time in their careers, they&rsquo;re not working together.Maybe a sequel to this &ldquo;Wilson Story&rdquo; Will be written next fall, with Larry in the same role. &#9632;

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Wilson Once Traded by Leafs for Blair

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH (Toronto Telegram)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-109/917965-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="296" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Barilko</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Adhering to the old rock that there must always be a first time, the Toronto Maple Leafs dropped their Stanley Cup championship in four straight games to the Detroit Red Wings in the A series, not because they were a particularly powerless club but because the NHL champions were so far superior. Leafs, sadly missing the services of Bill Barilko, their tragically lost defenseman whose overtime goal won the Cup for them against Canadiens last season, were definitely without the reserves to stem the well-balanced Wing attack. They lost the final game on their home ice 3-1 after having fanned on the previous three 3-0, 1-0, (both in Detroit) and 6-2. But it wasn&rsquo;t merely the weak left defense side that heaped defeat on the Leafs, who in previous years have been beaten in playoff series but have always managed to win at least one game. Too many combinations, was the way Conn Smythe, managing director put it.&ldquo;When you try too many combinations,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re bound to have too many weaknesses.&rdquo;The Leafs, tasting the grounds of playoff defeat which they have so often shoved down the throats of the same Detroit Red Wings, will likely be re-formed by next season. Smythe was impressed with the fact that the Wings as presently constituted, have only six players on their roster who were with the team when Detroit last won the Cup in 1949-50. His manner intimated that the Leafs would attempt a wholesale turnover too.<h2>Revenge, Sweet Revenge!</h2>For the Wings, one of the most powerful clubs to be formed in Detroit, according to manager Jack Adams, it was a fitting vengeance. Coach Tommy Ivan put it well when, in the madhouse of the Detroit dressing room following the fourth and final game, he commented:&ldquo;Things will be pretty tough across the hall (the Leaf dressing room) I know because we&rsquo;ve been in their shoes other years.&rdquo;The shoes have fit the Wings twice in fact. The Leafs inflicted the same 4 games to nil defeat on them in successive years, 1947-48 and 194 8-49 both times in the Cup finals. The season before that they had beaten the Detroits out in the semi-finals 4-1.Wing superiority started in goal with Terrible Terence Sawchuk and worked out to the forward lines. A Smythian experiment, sending semi-retired veteran goalie Turk Broda into the nets in the second game in Detroit, looked as though it might prove suc-cessful because, in spite of the fact that the Leafs lost 1-0, it was the closest they had come to matching the skill of the big Detroit team. So Broda went back into the nets on the Saturday in Toronto and the Leafs helped him spoil what will probably be the last game of his lengthy career as the Wings deluged them under that big 6-2 count.At any rate an era seems to have ended. The cycle that started in 1946-47 when the Leafs won the Cup with a surprising bunch of hungry rookies named Meeker, Vic Lynn, Jim Thomson, Gus Mortson, Garth Boesch, Joe Klu-kay and just a bit later Bill Barilko, has spun Its full turn. Broda, one of the greatest of them all, is through at 38. &#9632;

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Leafs Not That Bad, But Wings Just Too Good

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL SPORTS EDITOR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-11" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-117/917996-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg"></div>Little Bill Tobin, a dapper travelling man from Chicago, snapped shut his sample case at the Gardens recently, about the same time the Red Wings slammed the door on the Leafs. Mr. Tobin had the resigned air of the drummer who has given his sales talk and discovers the client is up to his ears in a crossword puzzle or a perusal of the bangtails at Gulfstream Park. In a way, that&rsquo;s what happened Bill &mdash; for the moment at least. The goods in his case consist solely of statistics on Harry Lumley, whom many admire as second only to Sawchuk among the goalies of the NHL.&ldquo;I talked to Connie about a deal for Lumley,&rdquo; Tobin revealed. &ldquo;He told me just about what he told you the other day. Connie seems to think Al Rollins is the second-best goalie in the League.&rdquo;Bill pondered this for a moment, as if trying to decide whether Smythe might be racking him up for a sudden proposal involving a deal.&ldquo;When I traded Metro Prystai and the others to Detroit for Lumley,&rdquo; he recalled, &ldquo;there was one official of the Toronto club who said I had swapped a battleship for a rowboat. I didn&rsquo;t agree with that then and I haven&rsquo;t changed my mind. I&rsquo;d still make the same deal.&ldquo;But even if it had been true then, it wouldn&rsquo;t happen again. If the Leafs want Lumley, they&rsquo;ll pay well, and I mean in players. If they don&rsquo;t want him, there are three clubs in the League which have expressed interest. But I can&rsquo;t believe the Leafs couldn&rsquo;t use him. He&rsquo;s the reason they didn&rsquo;t finish in second place.&rdquo;Tobin didn&rsquo;t name the clubs which are interested in Lum. But there are only six clubs in the League. The Chicagos already have him. Smythe has said nix for the Leafs. Detroit had him and let him go for the best goalie in the game. That takes care of three out of the six clubs. You know the three which are left.Bill left the Impression he wasn&rsquo;t convinced of Smythe&rsquo;s sincerity in turning down Lum. After all, it would be bad business on Smythe&rsquo;s part to display anxiety. That would be one way to hike the price. And he already has that battleship-for-rowboat rap against him. For he was the unidentified official who made the crack.<h2>The Parade Passes Quickly in This Game</h2>The constant construction job that goes on in hockey was demonstrated as the well-whipped Torontos trooped into their dressingroom. This was the first Leaf club ever to lose four in a row since the League governors discovered that seven-game playoffs! could be sold. Smythe will be blamed for standing pat too long. He didn&rsquo;t have the right mixture of have and have-nots. There has to be a certain amount of hunger to keep hustle in the club.And yet, only seven of the players who showed for the Leafs in this series were on the overhauled 1946-47 team. That was the year Smythe launched a youth movement to revive a club which suddenly had fallen apart at the joints. At that time, the prediction was made it would take three years &mdash; maybe five &mdash; to assemble a championship machine. It worked out almost in reverse. The revitalized Leafs have won the Stanley Cup four times in the intervening six campaigns. And now they look as if Smythe should start pulling out some of the worn parts again. Losing to the Red Wings was no particular surprise. He called that himself. The Detroits had too much power, too many legs.More significant, maybe, than the loss to the Red Wings was the complete collapse of the club during the past two weeks. Their last seven games were all losses &mdash; three of them shutouts.If you want further evidence of the terrific turnover in talent, take a look at the Wings who are flying so high. Only two years ago, they won the Cup. The roster of that powerhouse showed these names: Harry Lumley, Jack Stewart, Clare Martin, Al Dewsbury, Lee Fogolin, George Gee, Jimmy Peters, Jim McFadden, Pete Babando, Max McNab, Gerry Couture, Joe Carveth, Steve Black. Not one of them was with the Redbirds in this series. &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">BY Ken Griokenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0198/917934-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="422" height="426"></div>BOSTON&mdash;PAUL MASNICK wasted little time stepping into the hero&rsquo;s role. Masnick left Cincinnati at 7:05 Sunday morning by plane, arriving in Boston at 3 that afternoon&hellip; He played a whale of a game and his winning marker after 27 minutes and 49 seconds of overtime climaxed a terrific game for the 20-year-old center&hellip; Doug Harvey, Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard all played strong games for Montreal in the sixth game of the series&hellip; Boston had several opportunities to cop Sunday&rsquo;s tilt in the first overtime but the puck just wouldn&rsquo;t behave&hellip; Jim Henry, easily the Cinderella Man of hockey, once again displayed his overabundance of courage by coming back to play sensationally in the Bruins&rsquo; nets after suffering a badly broken nose in the third period&hellip; Dick Irvin also stopped a puck with his nose&hellip; Milt Schmidt was clearing the puck when it whacked the Canadiens&rsquo; mentor in the kisser&hellip; Tommy Ivan, Detroit coach, was an interested spectator at the sixth game&hellip; The capacity crowd of 13,009 in attendance at Sunday&rsquo;s game was the first sellout since March 30 1949 at the Boston Garden&hellip; Thousands were turned away&hellip; It&rsquo;s great to see hockey back on the sell-out level again in Boston&hellip;JACK McINTYRE&rsquo;S winning goal in the fifth game was his first counter in 15 contests&hellip; &ldquo;Wait till the wife hears about this,&rdquo; the Boston rookie excitedly yelled in the Bruins&rsquo; dressing room following the game&hellip; Coach Lynn Patrick has not switched his attire since the Bruins downed Canadiens, 4-1 in the third game. He wears the same suit, shirt, socks and bow tie. The shire and socks are washed between the games, of course&hellip; Lester Patrick, Lynn&rsquo;s Dad, was an interested spectator at the third, fourth and fifth games and has yet to see Lynn&rsquo;s team lose&hellip; Lester is in a rather unusual position.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0292/917927-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="300" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Meger</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0339/917920-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="300" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Harvey</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0419/917913-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="296" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fleming Mackell</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0515/917906-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="292" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hal Laycoe</figcaption></div>His son is the coach of one the competing clubs while his victoria Cougars have a working agreement with Canadiens&hellip; Same thing happened two years ago when Rangers were playing Canadiens. Lynn was coaching Rangers then and Lester witnessed all games in Montreal sitting in Frank Selke&rsquo;s private box&hellip; Detroit minor officials handled the third, fourth and fifth games&hellip; Toronto officials worked the first two games and New Yorkers the sixth&hellip; This is Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s 14th Stanley Cup series. The same for Woody Dumart&hellip; It is the first Stanley Cup playoff for Real Chevrefils, Leo Labine, Jack McIntyre and Bob Armstrong of the Bruins&hellip; and the first for Dickie Moore, Dollard St. Laurent, Dick Gamble and Gary &ldquo;Duke&rdquo; Edmundson of Canadiens&hellip; Red Sullivan played two games for the Bruins in last year&rsquo;s playoffs&hellip; Edmundson, Montreal&rsquo;s 19-year-old center who signed a contract with Canadiens on the morning of the fourth game, played junior this season with Kitchener in the OHA. He was brought up in a community 400 miles north of Edmonton, Alta., which is mightly close to the North Pole&hellip; They only have two months of daylight each year. A large delegation of rabid Montreal rooters travelled to Boston for the two Sunday games&hellip; Over 400 were on hand for the third game&hellip; Many motored down&hellip; The Gallery Gods at the Boston Garden showered spectators sitting below with torn up newspapers every time the Bruins scored.MONTREAL fans Were booing Doug Harvey during the fifth game. They figured the powerful defenseman was not playing hard enough&hellip; Several times he wasted valuable time trying to be a fancy-dan While his team was enjoying a one-man advantage and were behind on the score board&hellip; Milt Schmidt and Dickie Moore have been feuding throughout the series&hellip; Dickie doesn&rsquo;t pick any soft spots and Miltie the Marvellous cooled him out in both the fourth and fifth games&hellip; Moore was assisted off the ice with a damaged shoulder after colliding with Schmidt in the early stages of the fifth contest. The partisan Montreal crowd booed Milt the rest of the evening and one bird-brained tan threw a large marble at Schmidt sitting in the players box. The marble missed but hit the assistant Boston trainer and the poor fellow Was knocked unconscious for a While&hellip; Paul Meger has been the outstanding player tor Montreal throughout the series. The hard-working left winger never stops trying and every Boston player has the utmost respect for him&hellip; There are many Forum faithful who figure he&rsquo;s a much better rookie than Geoffrion&hellip; Boom Boom has toned down considerably since the first two games and he along with Lach and Richard haven&rsquo;t shown much&hellip; Big Ed Sandford, a transplanted center playing left wing on a Boston line with Woody Dumart and Fleming Mackell, has done a tremendous job in tying up the Rocket&hellip; One Boston writer in describing Richard&rsquo;s play said he resembled a vulture waiting to be fed as he skated around outside the play waiting for a pass from Lach&hellip; Only trouble is Lach hasn&rsquo;t been feeding him&hellip; Dolly St. Laurent has played a horse of a game on defense tor Canadiens&hellip; Lanky Bud MacPherson has also played well for Canadiens&hellip; Flaming Flem has been a whizz-bang for the Bruins. The raven-thatched speedster &lsquo;missed the first two games of the series due to a severe attack of virus but has been a star in every game since he returned to action. His winning goal in the fourth game was a masterful effort. Ed Sandford&rsquo;s pass on this goal was described by Lynn Patrick as &ldquo;the finest pass I&rsquo;ve ever been in hockey.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0610/917899-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="294" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Walter Brown</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0710/917892-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="306" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bernie Geoffrion</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0810/917885-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="300" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0910/917878-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="282" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry McNeil</figcaption></div>TWO BANNERS hang from the gallery here at the Garden. One reads &ldquo;Bruins Good Luck To You&rdquo; and the other is a Fleming Mackell banner&hellip; Johnny Crawford, recently resigned Hershey coach and a Bruin star of a few seasons back, is taking in the games here. Johnny and his wife sat with a couple from Columbus, Georgia, seeing their first hockey game the other night&hellip; Gerry McNeil has been yelling at his mates throughout the series. Gerry is a little pepperpot in the Montreal nets. He now yells more than Bill Durnan did&hellip; Gerry has also been quite nervous in this series&hellip; Officiating has been tops throughout&hellip; Dickie Moore played through two games with his left knee frozen to deaden the pain. A game guy that Moore&hellip; Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s goal in the fourth game on a blazing 50-foot drive reminded Walter Brown, Bruins&rsquo; president, of Babe Dye at his best&hellip; Brown, one of the grandest gentlemen in sport, was host at a luncheon in Boston between the third and fourth games for newspapermen and radiomen covering the series&hellip; The National Hockey League dined the Boston writers in Montreal on the eve of the fifth game&hellip; Harry Molter of The Christian Science Monitor has been nicknamed &ldquo;Yum Yum&rdquo; by the Boston writers. Harry is the champion trencherman of the gang&hellip; Baldy Cotton, chief scout of the Bruins, has been attending all games in the series&hellip; Every Boston goal in the series has been a clean-cut affair&hellip; Floyd Curry scored both Montreal goals in the fourth game but both were of the flukey variety&hellip; Curry has played a great game for the Canadiens and he and Meger have been the pick of the squad&hellip; Billy Reay has also looked good at times&hellip; Hal Laycoe knocked out a section of the glass partition surrounding the ice surface here with 30 seconds remaining in the fourth game, The heavy piece of glass fell on a Garden attendant and knocked him out for some time&hellip; Laycoe injured his knee at the same time&hellip; Referee-in-chief Carl Voss has watched 97 hockey games this season&hellip; Voss is the NHL&rsquo;s supervisor in this series.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0265/917871-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="284" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack McIntyre</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0347/917864-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="304" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Armstrong</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0428/917857-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="296" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0513/917850-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="292" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Sullivan</figcaption></div>THREE-FIFTHS of the active players with 2 00 or more goals are engaged in this series. They are Maurice Richard, Milt Schmidt and Woody Dumart&hellip; There are five ex-New York Rangers playing for ex-New York coach Lynn Patrick. They are Jim Henry, Hal Laycoe, Gus Kyle, Dunc Fisher and Pentti Lund&hellip; The last three occupied seats in the press box here after the first two games of the series&hellip; Fisher was leading Boston goal-getter against Canadiens during the regular schedule with six&hellip; Paul Meger and Dick Gamble were top marksmen against Boston with six each&hellip; Murph Chamberlain, Ray Getliffe and Toe Blake renewed acquaintances up in the catwalk press box at the Montreal Forum the other night. Chamberlain and Getliffe both played for Bruins and Canadiens&hellip; The attractive Bobby Lowe travelled all the way from Hollywood, Calif., to see the third game of the series played in Boston&hellip; Miss Lowe rates as one of the keenest hockey fans anywhere&hellip; Montreal Forum will build a new press box at the south end of the building during the summer&hellip; Real Chevrefils and Leo Labine, wingers on the Schmidt line, played together for two years at Barrie. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s great to be on the same line. 1 know just how to play with him,&rdquo; Chevy informed&hellip; Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada, saw the fifth game from Sen. Donat Raymond&rsquo;s box&hellip; Sugar Jim Henry made four sensational stops off Meger, Reay, Richard and St. Laurent in the first period of the fifth game&hellip; Henry, playing in colossal form throughout, is taking no chances on long shots and slow tricky rollers. He goes to his knees repeatedly to make sure the shots are blocked safely. &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0150/918027-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="302" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chuck Rayner</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Chuck Rayner is one chap who doesn&rsquo;t believe everything he reads. For a goalkeeper who was supposed to be all washed up only a few weeks ago, he has some pretty big plans for next year.The Ranger veteran&rsquo;s left knee, badly injured on Feb. 16, is now healed. His feelings are still hurt, though. He can&rsquo;t understand how anyone could have written him off, without first giving him a chance to testily.&ldquo;All those stories about my retiring, or being unable to play in this League next year, were premature,&rsquo;&rsquo; Chuck said recently. &ldquo;I know I&rsquo;m going to have a real good season &mdash; and many more of them. I&rsquo;m planning on it. I just can&rsquo;t wait until next year to prove everyone wrong.&rdquo;There has never been any question of Rayner&rsquo;s ability as a goaltender &mdash; in the past. But this last season, while still in the prime of his hockey life at 31, he often looked slow and sluggish. Therein lies a tale &mdash; a well-kept secret that tended to fool both the press and the Ranger management, alike.<h2>Never Regretted Staying</h2>Rayner wasn&rsquo;t first injured on Feb. 16, when a collision with Paul Meger in Montreal resulted in a badly torn ligament in his left knee. He was hurt two months before and the extent of that injury, at least, he kept to himself.He admits it now, for the first time. &ldquo;I bruised a tendon in the left thigh when I collided with Ted Kennedy on Dec. 15,&rdquo; Rayner says. &ldquo;It bothered me considerably right until the time I went out of the lineup for good.&ldquo;I never regretted staying in the lineup. I think I helped the team, although I&rsquo;ll admit there were times I was slow getting up after a save. Some times the pain was awful.&ldquo;I know I wasn&rsquo;t at my best with that thigh injury. For that reason, and because my knee operation was a complete success, I surely look forward to a good season next year. I certainly have no reason to feel I&rsquo;m a worse goaltender now than I was two or three years ago.&rdquo;Whether right or wrong, Rayner&rsquo;s decision to keep the seriousness of his December injury a secret from the club took considerable courage and willpower. He admits now that he tried to heal himself at home. Each morning he&rsquo;d procure ice from the corner butcher, and then pack the thigh in his apartment.There is no doubt that the operation on his knee was Successful. He has learned that in five-mile walks every morning. Dr. Kazou Yanagisawa, who performed the delicate knife-work &mdash; transferring a tendon from the back of Chuck&rsquo;s thigh to the knee&mdash;predicts that the knee next fall will be actually stronger than it ever was.This assurance of Rayner&rsquo;s revival from the &ldquo;dead&rdquo; will be well received. There isn&rsquo;t a more popular player in the game and certainly he has to make no excuses for the manner in which he&rsquo;s tended goal for the Rangers.Ranger Veteran Feels He is No Worse a Goaler than He was Two or Three Years AgoThe records don&rsquo;t show how important Rayner has been to the Rangers, as the team morale leader and as the cheer leader and quarterback on the ice. But they do show that, in the three seasons leading up to this last one, he was named the second best goaltender in the League. And only two years ago, he won the Hart Trophy when the Rangers barely sneaked into the playoffs.<h2>He Was Hurt</h2>No wonder he boiled over when he picked up the newspapers, knowing there was cause for his letdown during the past season. &ldquo;Sure, I was hurt when they knocked me,&rdquo; he says now. &ldquo;But I think the team was hurt, too. The players all felt badly about it. They were sheepish when thew came to see me in the hospital.&rdquo;Well, that&rsquo;s the testimony. It would seem that Rayner just doesn&rsquo;t believe what he reads in the newspapers.<div class="sidebar">New York&mdash;The man whom Chuck Rayner was most peeved at for counting him out before he was given a chance was without a doubt James A. Burchard of the New York Telegram and the Sun. Wrote Burchard after Chuck was injured: Kicking a hound or a hockey player when he&rsquo;s down probably isn&rsquo;t cricket, but the loss of goalie Chuck Rayner can&rsquo;t be considered a catastrophic blow to the Rangers&rsquo; playoff prospects.Quite to the contrary, the Blues might prosper in the home-stretch with a young, more active, more eager performer inside the pads.But Burchard quoted Rayner as saying he might try one more season if the Rangers made the playoffs this season &ldquo;but I doubt it.&rdquo; &#9632;</div>

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Rayner Peeved at Being Written Off Without Being Given Another Chance

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0241/918065-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="302" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Flem Mackell</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Out of a clear sky the Bruins have tossed kerosene on the smouldering fires of hockey interest in this one-time stronghold of the National League.Almost overnight, on the strength of smashing playoff victories over the Montreal Canadiens, they have whipped up hockey talk in a city where it had evaporated to whispers.New names, like Fleming Mackell, Hal Laycoe, Bob Armstrong. Leo Labine have become bywords. Old names, like Mit Schmidt, Murray Heuderson, Bill Quackenbush, Woody Dumart, Eddie Sandford, have acquired fresh glitter.<h2>Hal Was Great</h2>The fresh frenzy over the Bruins reached its crescendo last week, when they walloped the Canadiens twice to even their semi-final series, beating them artistically, fistically and thoroughly.Out of two defeats in Montreal came the name of Laycoe, a 28-year-old defenseman from Suthei land, Sask. In the gloom of the Montreal visit Laycoe emerged as the Bruins&rsquo; sparkplug.The ex-Canadien carried the ball back to Boston, and then he produced his greatest one-night hockey effort in the third game of the series, he lifted the Bruins with him.The Bruins were poor in Montreal and Boston was apathetic, except that people started hearing about the unsung Laycoe. But in the next two games Prince Hal had lots of company.Laycoe gave them their cue as they filed out for the third game when he shouted as they headed iceward, &ldquo;Come on gang, let&rsquo;s see who gets in the first good body-check&rdquo;Mackell, the zippy forward who the Bruins purloined from Toron to in midwinter, missed the Montreal maulings because of the flu. but he returned to his customary third line post for the third game. Always a great playoff player with Toronto, he was even better with the Bruins.In the third game he scored a goal; in the fourth game he scored another, the winner. He drove the Canadiens daffy with his whirling sortees, matched muscle with their big men, stirred Bruins&rsquo; supporters into shrieks of delight.&ldquo;After years of watching him hurt the Bruins,&rdquo; observed Harold Cotton, the chief scout, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s a pleasure to watch him work on someone else. He is a great money player, and having him out there has made Dumart and Sandford (his linemates) that much more effective.&rdquo;Coach Lynn Patrick altered his cast for the revival meetings here. He inserted Labine, the cocky 30-year-old up from Hershey, on his first line with the inspirational Schmidt and young Chevrefils, and he teamed the husky Armstrong, another Hershey alumnus, with Laycoe.He hit the jackpot on both moves, for Labine slipped right into the groove with Chevrefils, his longtime teammate, and Schmidt, and Armstrong gained the stability he needed from Laycoe.In the meantime the solid Bruins&rsquo; defense regained its sea legs, as Sugar Jim Henry, Quackenbush and Henderson shook off brief slumps to steady the rest of the team.Henry, the Cinderella Man of the regular season, was rocky in Montreal, steady as a rock in Boston. Quackenbush and Henderson smashed the Canadiens&rsquo; attacks, with Henderson extending his stint into fisticuffs. The mild-mannered veteran administered one of the most onesided pastings to Barry Edmundson of the Canadiens that Garden goers have ever seen, taking offense as an Edmundson habit or charging opponents headfirst into the boards.The Bruins received full cooperation from the fiery Canadiens in their revival campaign, for the visitors were as uncooperative as possible. They scrapped to the last whistle in both games, and played a highly satisfactory second fiddle in the play of two parts.Even Dick Irvin&rsquo;s laconic &ldquo;The Bruins can&rsquo;t play any better than they have here, but we can&rdquo; failed to dim the enthusiasm which Patrick&rsquo;s hustlers created.Actually, the Bruins, by beating the Canadiens twice, performed a feat which hadn&rsquo;t been done by them since 1946, that of winning two playoff games. In &lsquo;40 they erased Detroit in the first round, four games to one, before bowing to Montreal in the final round. Their best in subsequent playoffs was one victory, and speedy elimination.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0329/918058-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="574" height="890"><figcaption class="caption-body">Big HelpLEO LABINE</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hub Interest in Game Rises with Comeback

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0423/918096-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="288" height="504"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Masnick</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;What a twisted season Paul Masnick had in 1951-52. But like last season he ended up a hero. When Masnick scored the winning goal at 7.49 of the second overtime period against the Boston Bruins last Sunday night he was doing what comes naturally to him &mdash; scoring in the playoffs. Last season against the Del troit Red Wings Masnick scored two goals and was a thorn in their side for the whole series.The story that leads up to Masnick&rsquo;s dramatic entrance into the game and his winning goal reads like one of those dime novels that used to drape the newsstands in every city but the one he made his heroic stand in&mdash;Boston.This season, apart from the playoffs is one Masnick would probably most like to forget. But in trying to forget his season there are more than a number of hockey players and executives who stay awake nights seeing the Regina Pats&rsquo; graduate in the dark. He&rsquo;s crept into more than a few dreams this season, too.When Masnick came to the Montreal training camp last September his status way anything but definite. His inability to pass coupled with the fact that he would have trouble shooting a puck through a pane of glass didn&rsquo;t help his chances, either.He was kept with the Canadiens until a hurried call came from Buffalo where Grant Warwick had been injured and a replacement was needed. Because he was doing absolutely nothing in Montreal Masnick was sent.He stayed with the Bisons until Warwick returned and then Art Chapman bought him a ticket and sent him back to Montreal with a tag around his neck asking General Manager Frank Selke not to send him back. In Montreal Masnick was given a post as a hockey player without portfolio, which means he was unemployed, but was still picking up his check and was able to watch all the games from the press box,While Selke tried desperately to place Masnick, Paul was picking up the finer points of journalism from the hockey scribes. He learned that disc, cage and pivot were colloquial often used and misunderstood in this numbered estate.Finally Selke engineered a deal whereby the crew cut kid with lots of hustle and spirit would finish out the season with Cincinnati. The Mohawks were going nowhere and looked it until Masnick arrived. If he was useless to Buffalo he was just the opposite to the Mohawks. Playing on a line with Ian Macintosh and Gus Schwartz he sparked the Ohio city team to the playoffs. And who did they meet in the first round of those playoffs? Why Buffalo, of course. And what happened? Why, Mr. Masnick and company dealt the Bisons three dueces and themselves three aces. That is why Chapman stays awake nights.&ldquo;If it hadn&rsquo;t been for Masnick they would never have beaten us,&rdquo; says Chapman. He got the assist on the goal that put the Bisons into the role as use-to-bees.This is how Masnick&rsquo;s twisted season started. He was playing for the Cincinnati Mohawks, a Ranger farm club. The Rangers are the club the Bruins had to put out to make the playoffs. When Masnick ousted the Buffalo Bisons he made it legal for the Canadiens to call upon Eddie Mazur for his services in the playoffs. Mazur scored the first goal in that 3-2 win in which Masnick became a hero.The Canadiens could have used Masnick long ago. In fact they could have used him whem McCormack broke his arm and Mosdell broke his ankle. But General Manager Frank Selke refused to call him up because the Mohawks were in the playoffs.At that time the Mohawks were playing Providence and when the Reds won the first two games it looked like Mr. Masnick would get here in time. Then the Mohawks won the third game and Selke and Company were downhearted because they couldn&rsquo;t get their centerman.&ldquo;Even Lou Pieri is working against us, said Selke. His Reds beat them twice and then lost the third.&rdquo;But what Mr. Selke forgot was that while the Bruins were making their terrific comeback so were the Reds in Rhode Islaand just an hour&rsquo;s ride away from Boston. They came back to win three in a row like the Bruins to oust the Cleveland Barons. And then the Reds went into the Mohawks. It was here that Pieri refused to co-operate.And why the heck should he have co-operated. He owns half of the Boston Celtics Basketball club and the other half is owned by Walter Brown, President of the Boston Bruins.Confusing, isn&rsquo;t it. &#9632;

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Paul’s Twisted Season One He, Others Would Like To Forget

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1, 1947Published by Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will. V Cote HOCKEY NEWS COMPANYCirculationRoom 204. King&rsquo;s Hall Bldg., 1231 Ste. Catherine Street West.Montreal 25. Que.Advertising & Editorial603A Sun Life Bldg., 1155 Metcalfe St.,Montreal 2, Que.Average Weekly Circulation 35,000Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 in Canada &mdash; $4.00 In U.S.A.Authorized as second class mail Post Office Department Ottawa.Entered as second class mail at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, N.Y.Return all 0.8. undellverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company Room 204. King&rsquo;s Hall Bldg., 1231 Ste Catherine Street West. Montreat 28. Que. Printed in CanadaVolume 5 April 12. 1952 Number 28<h2>ARE HOCKEY PLAYERS SLAVES?</h2>A member of Canada&rsquo;s Parliament has charged the National Hockey League with operating a &ldquo;slave market&rdquo;&mdash;of forcing young hockey players against their will into what he obviously regards as a fate far worse than death. But with the husky salaries even the youngest junior players are drawing down today, this so-called &ldquo;Slavery&rdquo; would seem to be a pretty good thing.Bona Arsenault, Liberal member of the House of Commons from Quebecs&rsquo; Bonaventure County, has introduced a private member&rsquo;s bill in the country&rsquo;s legislative body to end what he terms abuses arising from the control NHL teams exercise over promising young hockey players. Far from being dismayed, NHL President Clarence Campbell came right back with the observation that he had no objections to the proposed legislation, since hockey&rsquo;s major league was equally opposed to any such practices as outlined, and no such practices are employed anywhere in professional hockey.The legislation which Mr. Arsenault would like to see written into the country&rsquo;s statute books would make it an indictable offense for anyone to:1. Unduly restrict the freedom of players to play with the club of their choice.2. Force an amateur to sign with a club or clubs not of his choice, under penalty of losing his amateur standing or of being banned from a club, league or association not of his choice.3. Force a player to sign as a professional against his will.4. Force an amateur who has already signed a contract with an amateur club to play against his will as a profession al with a pro club.Most of Mr. Arsenault&rsquo;s criticism of hockey signing operations stemmed from the much disputed &ldquo;negotiation lists,&rdquo; by which promising youngsters are scouted by the pro outfits and placed on their lists for future dickerings&mdash;provided another club hasn&rsquo;t got to the player first. Being placed on a professional team&rsquo;s Negotiation List imposes no obligation on the player whatsoever. He is free to negotiate with and play with any amateur team he pleases but no other professional club will negotiate with him until the club on whose list he appears has exhausted all its efforts to sign him. Long experience has taught the professional clubs how foolish it is to compete with one another for the services of some unproven youngster who will probably never set post on NHL ice or even be good enough to sign a contract for any professional club.As Mr. Campbell stated in rebuttal to Mr. Arsenault: &mdash; &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t compel anybody to do anything. Neither the NHL nor any professional club does anything except what a player himself has agreed to.&rdquo;If a player doesn&rsquo;t want to sign with the pro team which has him on its list, he isn&rsquo;t forced to in any way. In fact, if such a player is unwilling to sign with the team after one year, it&rsquo;s usually a sure bet that he will wind up with another squad. Since each team is allowed only four names on its negotiation list, no club is going to nullify one-quarter of its prospective talent by hanging onto a player they can&rsquo;t sign up. In this way, the youngster can usually dicker his way onto the roster of the club of his choice, although in 99 per cent of the cases a kid is happy enough just to make the grade into the NHL without being overly choosy about what club he signs with. After all what difference does it make what team he signs with in the first place? Once he enters professional hockey (and the same applies for every professional sport) he can be traded or transferred to another club anyway.Another indication that too much pressure isn&rsquo;t brought to bear is shown by the famous Beliveau case. The much publicized Jean Beliveau voluntarily signed a &ldquo;B&rdquo; form, which gives Montreal Canadiens first call on his services when he turns professional, but so far they haven&rsquo;t been able to sign him up.The idol of Quebec City and the prime gate attraction to keep the lavish and expensive new Coliseum filled, Beliveau has been doing so well financially in the Ancient Fortress that so far he has spumed all offers to make his debut in the NHL. He can make more money where he is, and there&rsquo;s absolutely nothing the Canadiens can do about it. &#9632;

The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01122/918151-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2>Irvin&rsquo;s Wrong Move</h2>Dear Sir,Dick Irvin is supposed to be one of the best coaches hockey has ever had and this year with all his new recruits, he is really doing a fine job but there is only one thing I do not like and I am also speaking for lots of other fans and that is putting Tom Johnson on left wing and playing him center, which I do not think is very smart, for any coach to do. Tom Johnson is turning in a fine job on the defense but up on the forward line is no place for him but if he had of tried Dollard St. Laurent who is going to be sure the finest defenseman the National League ever had, it would of helped the team a bit because this man can really carry a puck and furthermore has proven it over and over again all through the season and nobody can say no. This fellow can skate fast and on the breakaways there is nobody to beat him in the league. Tom Johnson is a defenseman period and that finishes there, as far as I am concerned and all the rest of the 15,000 fans that turn up each game to see Canadiens.I hope Dick Irvin reads this in your HOCKEY NEWS and it might give him some ideas for next year if he&rsquo;s still coach.The Canadiens say they need replacement players for the semifinals against Boston, well what&rsquo;s stopping them from getting Les Douglas, Cliff Malone, Fernand Perreault and not mentioning a lot more. Ken Mosdell and Goose MacCormack are out, so they need replacements and they go out west and get players that we have never heard of being stars, take Montreal Royals players such as the ones mentioned above and plenty more from Buffalo. Les Douglas would sure do better than a couple of those players they now have on their lineup.Des Doyle.Three Rivers, Que.(The Canadiens can only put so many players on the eligible list and the ones you mention are not amongst them).<h2>Bad Move By Conn</h2>Dear Sir,If Mr. Smythe is so smart then why did he take Tod Sloan off his first line in favor of George Armstrong who only scored two goals in 19 games.That doesn&rsquo;t make sense to us. After all Sloan, Smith and Kennedy won him a Stanley Cup last season and carried the Leafs through 70 games this season. Why does he break them up when they are needed as a line most&hellip; at playoff time.It&rsquo;s hard enough for a player to change from wing to center during the season but to make the shift at playoff time is poor strategy to us. Why didn&rsquo;t he do it at training camp?Bill Miller.Johnny Crowe.Winnipeg, Man.<h2>The End</h2>Dear Sir,Now that our hockey season is about to come to a close I should like to take this opportunity to thank those of you who put this paper together, for a job well done. I thoroughly enjoy every copy of &ldquo;THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo;&rsquo; that comes my way. I get a kick out of some of the gripe letters you receive on lack of space being given to this team or that team, or the fact that this player doesn&rsquo;t get as much of a write-up as that player. You get to them all eventually, and even then you can&rsquo;t satisfy everyone. As long as it&rsquo;s news about hockey you&rsquo;ll keep me happy.We have had a rather exciting year here in New York with our Rangers, and with a few more breaks here and there, might have hit right in to the playoffs. As they say in Brooklyn, &ldquo;Wait &lsquo;til next year.&rdquo; I think Bill Cook is on the right track, and with the full recovery of our lads who were on the injury list this season, he should have the club away and flying when hockey time rolls around again this fall. As an enthusiastic Ranger fan, I certainly hope they do it in 1952-53.My hopes for the next season certainly include the wish that two of my favorites will be back in good shape, physically and hockey-wise, something that will certainly mean a lot to their respective clubs. I mean Chuck Rayner and Maurice Richard. The loss of these two fine performers meant quite a bit to their clubs. Here&rsquo;s hoping that they&rsquo;ll be back in tip-top shape for next year. I might also add that my hat is off to another fine player, one who has had a really tough time of it for the past couple of seasons, and that is Harry Lumley. Give him a little help out front and I think he&rsquo;ll let us all see that he is a vastly underrated goalie.I have one kick about HOCKEY NEWS and that, the fact that we don&rsquo;t get it often enough during the summer months. Still, we can&rsquo;t have everything, can we?Hazen Hunter. Brooklyn, N.Y.<h2>No Thanks to Smythe</h2>Dear Sir,After reading what Conn Smythe thinks I think I&rsquo;ll go in for football. If it wasn&rsquo;t for the CAHA then kids like myself wouldn&rsquo;t have a chance.For instance, if you are a good player you belong to a team sponsored by a professional club. If you aren&rsquo;t too good but would like to play in organized hockey then go fish for yourself because the pros aren&rsquo;t interested in you and they won&rsquo;t let you play on one of their clubs. But, thanks to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association they have organized our game for the guys who like to play hockey, have a lot to learn and must learn in the open air rinks. If I ever make it it won&rsquo;t be from the help of Smythe.Gerald Boiler.Fort William, Ont.* * *Dear Sir,If Gerry McNeil showed perfection in the first two games in Montreal, then what did Henry show in Boston?Roger Conway.Ottawa, Ont.<h2>Wrong Dream</h2>Dear Sir,Glad to see Mosienko dreamed about getting into the record book just 4 8 hours before he did.Why oh why didn&rsquo;t he gather his teammates together during the season and have them dream about getting into the playoffs. It would have been worth more to them. I&rsquo;m getting a little fed up with those short hockey seasons.Tom Buonfol.Chicago, Ill.<h2>Another Dream</h2>Dear Sir,Dick Irvin is having sweet dreams if he thinks he can get McIntyre for McPherson. Besides the Hawks don&rsquo;t have anybody the Bruins need, unless it&rsquo;s Lumley to stand in for Henry &mdash; a peach of a goaler.No three way deal next year, Mr. Bramson.Leo Wilstein.Boston; Mass.<h2>No Returns</h2>Dear Sir,After Mr. Smythe went and spent all 4hat money on his farm system last year his Leafs still lost out four straight to the Detroit Red Wings. Isn&rsquo;t he a little ashamed of his ventures. Surely he could dip his dough into something that will bring him a few players.Bob Brennan.Toronto, Ont.<h2>His Consolation Players</h2>Dear Sir,Paul Chandler&rsquo;s consolation all-star teams left off a few good players. Before either Creighton or Delvecchio at center Edgar Laprade would get the nod. Dewsbury wouldn&rsquo;t even make the tenth consolation team. What about Tom Johnson and Hal Laycoe on defense? There are many others, too.Clarence Matthews. Edmonton, Alta.<h2>The Real Champs</h2>Dear Sir,I have been reading your fine paper and the articles of Marshall Dann for the past three years. I read the articles of Mr. Dann for one reason only and that is gecause he gives, I believe, the point of view of the Detroit fans.But now by his article in the March twenty second issue I find that Mr. Dann speaks for all United States hockey fans when he says &ldquo;Any claim or even any hint of a claim that the cup winner is the real hockey champion instead of the NHL titlist is downright silly to us.&rsquo;&rsquo;Being a Canadian hockey fan which I am given to believe by Mr. Dann&rsquo;s article is entirely different from the United States brand I have the perverted opinion that the World Series is more than a best of seven exhibition baseball series and that the team which plays and wins when the chips are down (in the playoffs) deserves to be called Stanley Cup champion of the world.If however the majority of hockey fans share the opposite opinions and if possession of the Stanley Cup is ever officially recognized as being secondary in importance to the winning of the league title, I say then abolish the playoffs for playoff games with nothing at stake would never be able to supply the color and drama which fills the arena&rsquo;s with spectators every spring.Tom ToynbeeGanges, B.C. &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

It is our policy to notify all subscribers well in advance of the expiration of their subscriptions.The ever-increasing demand for THE HOCKEY NEWS means that most issues are practically sold out before the printing is completed; and that copies are seldom available for mailing to subscribers who are even one issue in arrears.Subscribers receiving &ldquo;expiration&rdquo; notification are reminded that, to make certain of continued receipt of THE HOCKEY NEWS it is necessary to send us their renewal orders promptly.If you have renewed your subscription then disregard our notice. &#9632;

DID YOU RECEIVE A NOTICE!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0239/918206-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="593" height="274"></div>April 16 to April 2217&mdash;McNEIL, Gerry, Montreal, goaler, 192 6.21&mdash;EVANS, Jack, New York defense, 1928.22&mdash;SONMOR, Glen, St. Louis fowrard, 1929. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0172/918244-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="290" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption></div>DETRO Mich. &mdash;A cooling-off process for a team which didn&rsquo;t want to cool off.That was the dubious reward granted Detroit Red Wings after their records-mashing four-game sweep of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Stanley Cup semi-final round.Wings brushed aside the Leafs just as the other semi-final between Montreal and Boston pulled into a 2-all deadlock. It meant a delay of at. least a week, maybe longer, for the red-hot Wings before they could get any action in the finals.While Coach Tommy Ivan, trying to keep his charges sizzling, was taking daily temperature readings at practice, there was plenty of time to sit back and review the unexpected, but altogether pleasing results of the first round.For one thing, both semi-finals had a strange twist. You&rsquo;ll recall the pre-playoff analysis had Detroit and Toronto battering away at each other while Montreal romped past the Bruins in a breeze. It never happened. Detroit. turned out to have a&rsquo; soft touch which grew steadily softer while the Canadiens were attacked by a pack of snarling Bruins.Wings became the first team ever to beat Toronto four straight in playoff action. Twice before Detroit teams had managed three in a row against their ancient and bitter rival, and maybe it was what happened in those series which brought about the quick finish.Back in 1942 Detroit also won the first three. Then Toronto recovered for four straight and the Stanley Cup. And in 1945, after Leafs won the first three, Wings rallied for the next three. Again the decisive seventh game went to Toronto.There was no mistake about this series. Terry Sawchuk posted shutouts to handle the opening pair here, 3 to 0 and 1 to 0. Turk Broda was riddled in the first game on Toronto ice, 6 to 2, and Al Rollins was back for the last one but couldn&rsquo;t prevent a 3-1 defeat.Throughout the past campaign Detroit won six, Toronto four and four others were tied. That was the closest series the Wings had. But the clutch record was 4-0 with Detroit holding a 13-3 scoring edge.<h2>Showed Championship Class</h2>Wings had the same championship class as seen in the runaway for their fourth straight National Hockey League title. Leafs, normally a tough club whenever it comes to playoff time and with a record of four Stanley Cup championships in the last five years, this year looked like a third-place club, and not a bit better.For a couple of reasons, the Detroit players looked back at the second game as the turning point. They played their poorest in that contest, and still escaped with a 1-0 triumph. But the big point to their mind was that Broda escaped with no worse a fate, virtually forcing Conn Smythe to keep him in the nets for the third game.Not one thing was learned about Broda in that 1-0 game. His mates protected him so perfectly that he handled less than a half-dozen tough shots, and didn&rsquo;t have to make a really sensational save all night.But in the third game the Leafs were forced to open up. and leave Broda on his own. The results were exactly what were expected against a goalie who was overage at 37, overweight by some 12 pounds, and lacking sharpness after a year of inactivity.It was a &ldquo;free&rdquo; victory for Detroit at a stage when the series became beyond redemption for Toronto.On a man-for-man basis, the most obvious conclusion left from the series was that Detroit enjoyed complete superiority in manpower in every department, and had it spread out perfectly.Superb goaltending by Terry Sawchuk&hellip; Precise defensive play by Bob Goldham, Leo Reise, Benny Woit, Marcel Pronovost, Red Kelly and Larry Zeidel&hellip; Excellent offensive balance among the three lines. Those three qualities, probably in that order, were what stunned Toronto.The brightest feature was the ability of some of unsung players to step into a starring role when the big guns were absent or quiet.Gordie Howe didn&rsquo;t score a single goal. But Rookie Johnny Wilson scored four to lead both teams.Goldham and Reise came up with their best play of the season.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0328/918237-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="1120" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body">Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins, right, shakes the hands of Goaler Jim Henry, left and Rookie Jack McIntyre, center after his team went out and whitewashed the Canadiens 1-0 in the fifth game. McIntyre got the only goal of the game.After the Fifth Game ((Photo by David Bier))</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Closeness Forced Smythe to Dress Broda for Third

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0251/918299-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="286" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Murray Henderson</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Boston, Montreal playoff series which, according to everyone but the players was supposed to be a smooth sailing set with few bumps attached, wasn&rsquo;t quite so.A feud or two, which may or may not continue, at least did catch fire. They were between Milt Schmidt and Dickie Moore and a rookie named Duke Edmundson and Murray Henderson.In many portions of the series it could be like Mr. Otto Wagner of Montreal once said of a ball game: the game was lousy but the hot dogs were good. In this series, at times he could have said: the hockey was lousy but the bumps was good.The Moore, Schmidt battle would have been scored in favor of the Boston veteran, but not before he took a bit of a beating along the rails, himself.The bric-brac started in Boston in. the fourth game. Moore lifted his stick which stopped under Schmidt&rsquo;s nose and gashed him for three stitches. A little lated Schmidt caught the Hab rookie with a smashing bodycheck and as the youngster bounced off the ice Milt bounced a gloved left hand off his jaw.That same evening a hefty youngster named Edmundson, who played his hockey in the Ontario Junior League for Kitchener this season clashed with Murray Henderson and Rookie Jack McIntyre.&ldquo;He hit me with a pretty good left hand,&rdquo; said Edmundson. &ldquo;I knew I&rsquo;d been hit but everybody seems to forget the gash he has over the bridge of his nose. I got him better than he got me. I took him into the corner and got him good. When we came apart he threw the punch&mdash;I don&rsquo;t know what for.&ldquo;I had two fights that night. I could have uppercutted that McIntyre to death. He was crawling at me on his hands and knees with his gloves on and I was standing over him. I could have punched his head off but I didn&rsquo;t want to fight because I thought it would be better if I stayed on the ice.&rsquo;&rsquo;The Moore, Schmidt feud started all over again about ten seconds after the start of the fifth game in Montreal. Moore caught Milt as he came around the back of his own net and nearly glued him to the boards. The play was called and Schmidt gave Moore the &lsquo;I&rsquo;ll get you later look.&rsquo;Near the end of the first period Moore chased Schmidt into the corner and was going to throw him. Instead Schmidt threw Moore and he bruised a bone in his left shoulder and was escorted off the ice for repairs.Then Bert Olmstead got into the act when he smashed Schmidt into the corner.&ldquo;Of all things,&rdquo; laughed Olmstead. &ldquo;He tells me a few minutes later that I&rsquo;ve been around long enough to know better than to do that again.&rdquo;Moore and Schmidt didn&rsquo;t force the issue after Dickie returned. Neither would comment too much after the game.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been around too long to deliberately go after a player,&rdquo; said Milt. &ldquo;I certainly didn&rsquo;t mean to hurt him. I threw him before he threw me.&rdquo;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think he did it deliberately. He&rsquo;s too fine a player for that,&rdquo; said young Moore. &ldquo;You live and learn in this League.&rdquo;The most puzzling remark came from Tom Johnson. Irvin shifted him to center on a line with Moore and Floyd Curry for the fifth game and he checked Schmidt.&ldquo;After the game some newspaperman comes into the room and tells me Lynn Patrick told hom our coach put me out there to get Schmidt. That&rsquo;s stupid. I think that newspaperman got his words a little mixed because I don&rsquo;t think Patrick would say a thing like that. It&rsquo;s ridiculous. You just don&rsquo;t go out and get a guy like Schmidt in this League. He&rsquo;s too great for that. He&rsquo;s on the watch all the time. That old head&rsquo;s up and he knows where he&rsquo;s going. He&rsquo;s too hard to get at any time.&rdquo;The Moore, Schmidt relations weren&rsquo;t strained too much, though. Next day Milt met Dickie in the Forum and both passed an hello. The battle is still confined to the ice. &#9632;

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Hab Rooks Take on Bruins’ Vets--Come Out Second Best

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><h2>Game Three</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0426/918337-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="278" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Turk Broda</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Moving the Detroit-Toronto semifinal to new ice brought the same results. After losing a pair in Detroit, the Maple Leafs came home and promptly dropped the third game by the widest margin of all, 6 to 2, Saturday, March 29.From a purely technical viewpoint is was the game in which the Red Wing offense was at its strongest, two goals in each period, never behind and of to a romp after breaking a 1-1 tie 17 minutes after play started.But this was a game which long will be remembered from a sentimental viewpoint &mdash; it marked the swan song of Walter (Turk) Broda more than 15 years after he first moved into major-league hockey.Turk&rsquo;s farewell wasn&rsquo;t at all pretty, for the valiant old master was a helpless sacrifice in his 101st playoff game. Six pucks went by him as he was unable to find his oldtime magic anymore, and at that, the Wings were taking it easy in the late stages.This was the end of the line for Turk, who long ago announced that it would be his final campaign. There were many signs that he should have departed one game earlier. Broda fans will prefer to remember him for the first 100 games, and forget all about the 101st.Johnny Wilson paced the. Detroit attack with two goals, while Marty Pavelich, Ted Lindsay, Leo Reise and Benny Woit caged the others. Joe Klukay and Max Bentley hit for Toronto.Of all the goals, Pavelich&rsquo;s opener was the best. No one could blame Broda for that one, as Marty made a short kill shot of Bob Goldham&rsquo;s perfect pass across the goal mouth.Within a minute, Klukay responded to tie the score and end Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s bid for his third straight shutout. Klukay puzzled Sawchuk with a 40-footer liner, the shot ending Terry&rsquo;s scoreless string in the series after 131:16.Lindsay came right back to slam Gordie Howe&rsquo;s rebound 15 feet through Broda&rsquo;s pads on a power play, and the Wings were out in front to stay.Wilson hit next, continuing his goal-a-game pace with his third of the series. Reise, who hadn&rsquo;t scored all season, followed with a &bull; 60-foot screen shot which Broda never had a chance to stop.<h2>Game Four</h2>With the tidiness of a professional executioner, Detroit neatly finishing off the job of eliminating Defending Champion Toronto from the 1952 Stanley Cup playoffs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0516/918330-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="282" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tony Leswick</figcaption></div>Poised, polished and with all the confidence in the world, the Red Wings won the fourth game, 3 to 1, to accomplish the job in a four-game sweep. The finale was witnessed by 13,574 fans who came hopefully to Maple Leaf Garden, but departed mournfully.There was only one alteration from the three previous games as Wings added its final whack to a tottering Toronto championship regime. This time Detroit had to come from behind to win.To the credit of the Leafs, they didn&rsquo;t give up without a struggle. Three games down, they came out with the finest offensive spark, if not overall play, of the entire series.The buzz-saw tactics got the first goal by Harry Watson, and kept the Leafs on the go for the first 30 minutes. But by then they were trailing, 3 to 1, and it was no-contest along towards the end. &#9632;

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REVIEW OF FINAL TWO WING WINS

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01105/918392-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="260" height="380"></div>Lynn Patrick was asked on the train coming up from Boston how he thought his Bruins would do against Detroit, if they managed to get by Canadiens.&lsquo;&lsquo;I&rsquo;d sure like to get the chance to play them,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I think it would be a good series. They had the edge on us over the regular schedule, but the games were close and we lost a number of them by one goal. We might do better against them now &mdash; might beat them in a short series.&rdquo;Someone remarked that the Red Wings were going to be well-rested after knocking off the Toronto Leafs in four straight.&ldquo;That can work the other way, too,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;They might be too well-rested and lose their edge.&rdquo;&ldquo;How&rsquo;re you going to beat that Sawchuk?&rdquo; was the next question. &ldquo;You were quoted in a Detroit paper recently as saying that this season Sawchuk had developed into the best goalkeeper you ever raw.&rdquo;&ldquo;I never said that,&rdquo; he denied quickly, &ldquo;because I don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;s the best I ever saw. I may have said he is the best in the league today. I still think the best I ever saw was Bill Durnan. He was big, fast, cool and he had a special advantage by being ambidextrous. Maybe Sawchuk will develop into a better goalie than Durnan, but I don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;s as good right now as Bill was at his peak.&ldquo;Sawchuk has improved, all right. He used to be weak on low shots but he&rsquo;s good on them now. I think that&rsquo;s because he&rsquo;s changed his style a bit. He crouches so low that his head is sometimes only a foot off the ice. But I think his weakness today is a high shot in the corners.&rdquo;<h2>He Picks Milt Schmidt</h2>Now that he had picked his top netminder, how about widening it out to include all positions? Who is the best hockey player he ever saw?&ldquo;I&rsquo;m something of a Johnny-Come-Lately to hockey, he demurred. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the kind of a question you should ask Lester or Art Ross. They&rsquo;ve seen them all and I&rsquo;ve only seen the real moderns. Why, I didn&rsquo;t even see Howie Morenz until he was almost through. If you insist on pinning me down, I&rsquo;ll say the greatest two-way hockey player I&rsquo;ve ever seen is Milt Schmidt. There have been guys who could do certain things better than Milt &mdash; Bill Cowley was a better playmaker &mdash; but I never saw as good an all-round player as Schmidt.&rdquo; -Newsy Lalonde had been quoted somewhere recently as saying that Gordie Howe was his choice as the best he had ever seen. Better than Howie Morenz, or Rocket Richard, or Elmer Lach, or Milt Schmidt, or Frank Nighbor, or any of the old-time greats. Would he comment on that?&ldquo;Howe is just a kid and still developing,&rdquo; Lynn answered. &ldquo;Maybe he&rsquo;ll be better than any of them before he&rsquo;s through, but I&rsquo;m still sticking with Schmidt.&rdquo;How would he rate The Rocket, who has certainly been the most-publicized player in the last decade?&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the most dangerous player in the league,&rdquo; said Lynn. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to watch him every second he&rsquo;s on the ice. If you relax at all he&rsquo;s apt to get the goal that will beat you. He&rsquo;s like all those great scorers &mdash; once he gets a whiff of that net he&rsquo;s gone. You hear a lot about Gordie Howe and The Rocket these days, but there was a right-winger who has to be bracketed with them. That&rsquo;s Bill Cook. You couldn&rsquo;t give Bill any more room than you give Richard or Howe.&rdquo;<h2>A Matter Of Spirit</h2>Lynn had a point he wanted to make, and it was simply that spirit is the biggest part of a hockey player&rsquo;s equipment.&ldquo;Suppose I&rsquo;m a better hockey player than you are, but you go full-out and I don&rsquo;t,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll beat me every time. There are guys in the league today who should be super-stars, but they are just average players because they don&rsquo;t give it everything they&rsquo;ve got.&ldquo;Take young Real Chevrefils. It&rsquo;s my prediction that he will make the All-Star team at left wing within two years. He&rsquo;s a good skater and stickhandler and he&rsquo;s got plenty of moxie, but most of all he&rsquo;s a trier. He keeps on going where another hockey player might give up.&ldquo;There was a play the other night that might illustrate what I mean. We had the puck in Canadiens&rsquo; defense zone and the pass went to Chevrefils. It led him too much and there was a Canadian defenseman closer to it than he was. Another player might have stopped trying right there, but not Chevrefils. He threw himself on the ice and swung his stick at the puck. His stick hit it and it was right on the net and McNeil had to move fast to make the save. But sometimes he&rsquo;ll score with an effort like that and it may be a big goal.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what made Richard such a standout. Where other guys relax he puts on that extra effort and it often pays off for him. As long as there&rsquo;s the slightest chance of a goal he&rsquo;s in there trying.&rdquo;One of the guys who made a big difference to the Bruins in the third and fourth games of the series in Boston was Fleming Mackell, who was no ball-of-fire when he was with the Toronto Leafs. Could a change of clubs make that much difference?&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; said the Bruin&rsquo;s coach. &ldquo;The first couple of weeks we had him I was ready to give him right back to Toronto. Then he seemed to get acclimatized and began to fit our style of play. I rate him a real acquisition. You couldn&rsquo;t buy him now.&rdquo; &#9632;

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DINK CARROLL (Sports Editor Montreal Gazette) Playing the Field

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0611/918423-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="606" height="1214"></div> &#9632;

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Get Back in the Game

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0710/918461-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="576" height="766"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip;MAURICE RICHARD</figcaption></div>Thousands of hockey fans join in congratulating &ldquo;The Rocket&rdquo; on his 10th Anniversary in professional hockey. And they&rsquo;re looking forward to another celebration when the pride of the Canadiens, with over 300 goals already to his credit, sets a new individual scoring record. Next time you&rsquo;re celebrating, you&rsquo;ll enioy the special lightness and smoothness of Labatt&rsquo;s Anniversary Ale. This golden brew, with its distinct mildness, plus Labatt&rsquo;s traditional body and character, is a natural choice for, all glad occasions. By the bottle or by the case, Anniversary is always light, always smooth. Next time you&rsquo;re ale-minded, make it a special occasion &mdash; order Anniversary* Ale. John Labatt Limited.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-097/918454-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="596" height="1204"></div> &#9632;

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Happy Anniversary

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A champion

<div class="byline">By PATRICK DUFFY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0270/918575-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="298" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Reardon</figcaption></div>PROVIDENCE, R.I. &mdash;If Roger Williams, who strolled around Rhode Island in the middle 1800&rsquo;s, walked down Echange Place in the city of Providence these days, his appearance probably wouldn&rsquo;t create the hysteria provided by the R.I. Reds as they made playoff spectators out of the Cleveland Barons.In case you haven&rsquo;t heard, the Reds eliminated Bun Cook and his High-Flying Barons for the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Calder Cup playoffs, three games to two.Amazing part of this story is that Cleveland defeated the Reds in the first two games of the best-of-five series and swaggered into R.I. Auditorium on Sunday, March 23, ready to do away with the &ldquo;poor Reds.&rdquo;<h2>Gladu Blasts Three</h2>But the Reds, representing an organization that has been in the hockey business for 26 consecutive years, refused to play dead. Instead, on March 23, Paul Gladu, a former Baron, blasted three goals past Johnny Bower in 87 seconds to pace a Providence 5-1 victory over the favored Clevelanders.The aire of confidence still remained with on Tuesday, March 25. This time, Harvey Bennett and Art Michaluk played the lead roles and Providence whitewashed the Barons, 4-0.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0340/918568-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="568" height="890"><figcaption class="caption-body">Good EngineerLOU PIERI</figcaption></div>Now the scene was to shift back to Cleveland for the playing of the fifth and final game. The Barons no longer were a cocky lot. They wondered now if they could unload on the Inspired Reds in Cleveland Arena.Enthusiasm in Rhode Island boiled. Fans, here, there and everywhere talked about the amazing comeback the Reds were making. But they kept saying to themselves: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think we can take three in a row from such a great team as Cleveland.&rdquo;<h2>Show Way</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0430/918561-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="530" height="554"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAUL GLADU</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0523/918554-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="534" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOE LUND</figcaption></div>Terry Reardon, in his fifth year as coach of the Reds, had won a titanic series from the St. Louis Flyers back in 1948-49. An inspirational guy, Terry supplied three goals in the seventh game of that unforgettable set with the Flyers. Now, as Terry & Co. faced the Barons in this big game, the Providence squad was saying nothing. But it was easy to see that the air of confidence was now with the Reds.Its history now that the Reds won that fifth game at Cleveland. 4-2, and by doing so, remained in the AHL playoffs to duel the Cincinnati Mohawks, and then possibly, the Pittsburgh Hornets.The morning following the Providence win over Cleveland in the deciding game, the Providence Journal carried a front line account of the game written by veteran hockey scribe Mike Thomas.It deserved front page, too. Congratulatory telegrams poured into R.I. Auditorium. The ticket office was swamped with reservations for ducats for the opener of the Cincinnati series on March 30. Veteran ticket sellers Nick Carter and Dan Norton called it the greatest buying wave since 1948-49. An hour before the ticket window opened, 20 persons stood anxiously waiting.Come Back to Take Three in Row From Champs Lead by Coach Reardon, GladuThe hysteria had hit Little Rhody. The switchboard operator at R.I. Auditorium gasped for breath as the board in front of her lit up like a Christmast tree. Every call was about tickets for the Cincinnati series. One fan showed up in the early morning and pasted a paper message on the Auditorium door welcoming the team home. A larger sign, put up by fans, spread across the main entrance, the big words saying &ldquo;WELCOME HOME, REDS.&rdquo;At 4:12 on March 28, the victorious Reds pulled into Union Station in Providence. Families of players, fans, newspapermen, photographers dashed for the heroes. Jerry O&rsquo;Brien of Station WPJB in Providence tape recorded the happy voices of the Red as they walked from the &ldquo;R.I. Red Special.&rdquo;While all this excitement was taking place, Rhode Island&rsquo;s hockey king, Owner Lou Pieri of the Reds, sat quietly in his office. He had seen the game in Cleveland and rushed back to Providence via air. It was easy to see that Pieri was doing some silent gloating.He had a right to. It was Pieri who engineered the deal that got Joe Lund and Paul Gladu from the Barons. It was Pieri who sent Jack Stoddard to the New York Rangers for Zellio Toppazzini. Pat Egan and Jean Paul Denis. These trades made the Reds formidable and the capable Reardon blended them into a winning combine.<h2>Lost Six To Barons</h2>During the regular season, the Reds lost six of the eight games played against Cleveland. Early in the campaign, the Baron &ldquo;big-wigs&rdquo; were up in arms over some remarks Coach Reardon handed out to a Cleveland scribe. From that day forward, the Cleveland-Providence friendship got more strained.Then the teams met in the Series B playoffs between the second teams in the Eastern and Western Divisions of the American Hockey League. Cleveland appeared on the way to making Reardon &ldquo;eat his words&rdquo; by winning the first two. Then came the greatest comeback in the annals of all sports in Rhode Island. It was a comeback that left Cleveland reeling somewhat in the manner that the baseball Indians left the Ohio city when they folded up last season. &#9632;

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Little Rhody Goes Ice Crazy As ‘Poor’ Reds Mangle Barons

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Player’s Pleace

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01104/918672-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Mosdell of the Montreal Canadiens fires the first goal of the second game of the Boston, Montreal series. Ho took a pass from Defenseman Dollard St. Laurent, cut in from the left side and blasted a 25 footer past a littery Jim Henry in the Bruns&rsquo; net. It was Mosdeli&rsquo;s first goal in the playoffs. Canadiens won that game 4-0.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0434/918665-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="1080" height="1150"><figcaption class="caption-body">Minutes after Ken Mosdell scored the initial goal of the second gome-he went feet first into the boards behind Gerry McNeil and broke a bone in his right leg and fractured another. Above, he is being carried from the ice by teammates Reay, Geoffrion, Moore (hidden) and Harvey.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0271/918658-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="1131" height="1147"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rookie Garry Edmundson of the Canadiens, playing his third National League game finds out they play rough in the big League. In the fourth game of the series he met Murray Henderson and took the most beautiful left to the jaw ever kodak&rsquo;d. Bill Quackenbush&rsquo;s behind.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0526/918651-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="1719" height="1159"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rookie Real Chevrefils breaks in on Gerry McNeil in the First game of the Boston, Montreal series and missed the best chance of the game. The clever young Barrie graduate was a little too eager. He pulled McNeil from the cage all right, as seen above, but kept right on going carrying the puck along with him.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0354/918644-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="1707" height="1156"><figcaption class="caption-body">Believe It or not Gordie Howe of the Red Wings missed on this chance, something he doesn&rsquo;t very often do. He skated in on Broda in the third gome of the series, pulled the old Turk from his cage and then proceded to get tangled up with the disc. Result: Harry Watson of the Leafs came in from behind and stole the puck from Howe. The big Detroit winger didn&rsquo;t get a solitary goal in the entire series of four games.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0624/918637-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="1134" height="1132"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goaler Terry Sawchuk grimaces in disgust as the Leafs score one of their rare playoff goals against him. It was Joe Klukay&rsquo;s long shot which Sawchuk went down to get and it went in over his shoulder. It was the first goal the Leafs were able to collect in three games.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Highlights from 1951-52 Playoff Games

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01103/918738-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Kennedy of the Leafs (9) swerves in front of Sowchuk and meets Detroit defenseman Bob Goldham head on. Both put on the brakes but it was too late. They crashed, the puck deflected to the side after Terry made the first stop and Sid Smith, waiting for a rebound, behind Goldham just kept on going around the net. This happened in the third gome.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0430/918731-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="1140" height="1156"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rookie Red Sullivan of the Bruins goes into Defenseman Doug Harvey of the Canadiens with a determined look on his face. Harvey and Schmidt are after the puck which deflected off the boards and onto the stick of Bruins&rsquo; Johnny Peirson (24). This picture was taken in the fourth game of the Boston, Montreal series which the Bruins captured 3-2.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0270/918724-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="1149" height="1174"><figcaption class="caption-body">A close call for Jim Henry of the Bruins, who sits on the ice and watches a host of players trying to get at a loose puck in the fourth game of the series. Floyd Curry and Jack McIntyre are directly in front of Henry while Dick Gamble (18) of the Hobs tries to pull at an unidentified Bruins player. Number (23) of the Canadiens is Duke Edmunson. Puck can be seen in the middle of the picture.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0521/918717-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="1734" height="1156"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rookie Alex Delvecchio of the Detroit Red Wings ends up on his back behind Turk Broda&rsquo;s net on another scoring opportunity for the Wings in the third game. The action, from left to right: Klukay pushes his left into Prystai&rsquo;s jaw and Jim Thomson (2) puts the grab on Johnny Wilson while Broda goes down and Bentley comes swooping in at the right to put out the fire and try to get Leafs on the roll again.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0351/918710-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="1719" height="1204"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Edmundson. Henderson go in the fourth game of the Bruin, Hob series finally hits the ice as Linemen George Hayes and Bill Morrison try to break them up. Looking on from left to right ore Jim Henry, Jack McIntyre, Dick Gamble, Bill Quackenbush. Bud McPherson, Floyd Curry, Dave Creighton, Johnny Peirson and Butch Bouchard. Nobody get hurt, but the action was quite hectic and spirited for a few minutes.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0619/918703-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="1140" height="1168"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goaler Terry Sawchuk of the Wings kicks out a shot off the stick of Ted Kennedy again as Gordie Howe and Leo Reise drive into his net during the third game of their series. The puck can be seen deflecting into the corner while Kennedy reaches up and holds onto Howe&rsquo;s stick lest it come down on his head. Abel is 12, behind the cage.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Rough and Tough Going in Camera’s Eye

<div class="byline">By DOUG McLELLAN</div>SOUTH PORCUPINE, Ont.&mdash;To the financial wizards of Wall Street in New York and Bay Street in Toronto, the Porcupine Camp is known as the greatest gold producing area in the world. But in the past 10 years or so the same Porcupine area has fast become known far and wide across Canada and the States as the birthplace of many of the more illustrious stars of our national game today.The main reason for the sudden upsurge in hockey stock up this way has been the Porcupine Juvenile Hockey League, the &ldquo;incubator&rdquo; of hockey players in this area. The Porcupine League has produced, in that short span of years, no less than six players who have found their way into the National Hockey League and many more who are now plying their wares in the American League and soon hope to make the big jump.Further down the hockey ladder you can find the name of at least one graduate of the Porcupine League in nearly every league in Canada and the States and many have even found their way to the leagues in Scotland and England.Armand &ldquo;Bep&rdquo; Guidolin was the first of the local hockey crop to crash the NHL gates, breaking in with the Boston Bruins some six years ago. The Beantowners were thesame club who, a couple of years after Guidolin showed them he belonged, brought another Porcupine into their line-up in the person of Pete Babando of South Porcupine.<h2>Honor Grads</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01116/918783-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="564" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bep Guidolin</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0274/918776-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="256" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Allan Stanley</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0358/918769-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="294" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Barilko</figcaption></div>Although Pete was born in the States and is fondly looked upon by the American sport scribes as one of the American players in the NHL, he laced on his first pair of skates in the Porcupine and received the groundwork that eventually made him a big leaguer in the Porcupine Juvenile League. This was the Pete Babando who gained fame two years ago when he drove the million dollar marker past Charlie Rayner to give the Detroit Red Wings the coveted Stanley Cup.When the playoffs rolled around the next year it was another Porcupine graduate who came to the fore and produced the goal that gave Conn Smythe another Stanley mug, Bill Barilko of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Barilko has written many pages into the history books of the National Hockey League, both for his &ldquo;big&rdquo; goal and his shattering bodychecks and also his fatal plane trip near James Bay. &ldquo;Bashin Bill&rdquo; was a great favourite of the kids of the Porcupine so his passing meant that lads of the Porcupine Juvenile Hockey League, the most of whom Bill knew by name, had lost a real friend.Scouts Rate It As One Of Top Juvenile Talent Developers in CountryWhen Frank Boucher, General Manager of the New York Rangers, made a big deal with the Providence Reds a few seasons ago in which Allan Stanley was the key figure, it meant that a fourth Porcupine product had made his way into the Big Time in spectacular fashion. Stanley, although he has been plagued with injuries. Is now considered one of the stand-out rearguards of the league and was last fall named the captain of the Broadway Blueshirts.Then came Les Costello of South Porcupine who had a brief but fiery fling with the Toronto Maple Leafs and helped them to one of their Stanley Cups. &ldquo;Leapin Les&rdquo; later retired from the hockey wars, but had he remained would have undoubtedly carved quite a niche in the record books. This year another Porcupine product came along in spectacular fashion and now, although he is only 20 years of age, Real Chevrefils of the Boston Bruins has already established himself as one of the brighter young stars in the game today and &ldquo;Chev&rdquo; definitely has a brilliant future ahead of him.Every time the Syracuse Warriors and the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American League meet it is strictly &ldquo;Porcupine Old Home Week&rdquo; as far as the players of both clubs are concerned because three numbers of Shore&rsquo;s Warriors are from Timmins, Leo Curik, Mike Narduzzi, and Sammy Casanato. The Hornets on the other hand have no less than five local kids on their roster, a pair of brother combinations of Chuck and Dusty Blair and Ray and Gordie Hannigan with the fifth member being Johnny McLellan. Other American Leaguers who scored their first goal in the Porcupine Juvenile Hockey League include Ray Gariepy and Pete Caron with Hershey Bears, and rugged Steve Brlacich of the Cincinnati Mohawks. Quite an array of hockey talent!When you scan the list of talent that has flowed from this part of the country, the Porcupine Juvenile League rates as &ldquo;the greatest Juvenile League in Canada&rdquo;. Bob Davidson of the Toronto Maple Leafs, a man who crosses the breadth of Canada in search of talent, says &ldquo;The Porcupine Juvenile League is without a doubt the best Juvenile League in Canada.&rdquo;Every National League club has a resident scout in the Porcupine, and every year the head scout of the different clubs makes at least one trip to the Porcupine to look over the stocks.Two teams in the loop, the Timmins Lions and the Schumacher Lions are sponsored by the Lions Service Clubs, while the South Porcupine Gold Kings, Porcupine Combines, and Moneta Recreation Club of Timmins are given assistance by the New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, and the Detroit Red Wings respectively. The clubs of the National League realize that they can put their money in no better place than the Porcupine Juvenile League and for that reason the local clubs never have any trouble finding a club in the NHL willing to help out. &#9632;

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More Than Gold Up Porcupine Way; Pros Find Rich Lode Of New Stars

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX, N. S.&mdash;Saint John Beavers and Halifax Saint Mary&rsquo;s are fighting it out for the Maritime major hockey championship. Beavers eliminated Glace Bay as generally expected, four games to one, and the Santamarians staged the big upset of the season, knocking off the second-place Charlottetown Islanders in four straight games.While Beavers were beaten in the third game and forced into overtime in the fourth, they per formed up to form and up to expectation. The loss of playing coach Bud Poile and injuries to veterans Hub Macey and Pete Wywrot threw the Glace Bay timetable entirely off balance. The game Poile had to withdraw with a knee injury went to the Beavers 10-0. But the Miners put on a gallant stand at home.The excitement of the series came at Charlottetown and Halifax, where the Saints won the second and fourth games with spectacular rallies.Halifax won the first game two-one with a solid display of two-way hockey. They trailed 3-0 going into the third when they came up with a blistering offensive good for five goals and a 5-3 decision.Saints won the first game in Halifax before a bumper crowd, taking a 3-0 lead in the series The score was 3-1 and the winners gave the losers a sound lesson in hockey.With their backs to the wall, the Islanders started to roll in top form in the fourth game. With less than eight minutes to go they had built up a 4-1 lead. Then the Saints started a drive. First thing you knew it was 4-3, and they were still charging.With a faceoff in the Islanders zone, coach Wilf Field drew his goalie and sent on an extra forward. There were several close misses, then the Forum burst into an uproar as Johnny Morrow banged in the tying goal.They played 10 minutes without a score. They had a rest and resumed play, Halifax defenseman Danny Nixon drew a penalty and the Islanders swarmed to the attack. Nixon came charging out of the box, ticked the puck off Phil Vitale&rsquo;s stick at the Halifax blueline, charged down the wing and blasted a backhand past the brilliant Ray Fredericks for game, set and match.It was one of the most sensational comebacks ever seen in the Halifax Forum, a rally that not even the old Moncton Hawks and the Halifax Wolverines could match back in the early 30&rsquo;s when the Maritimes captured the Allan Cup three years in a row.The victory delighted Colonel Victor Oland and the Halifax fans. The Santamarians were beaten out for second place by the Islanders but gained full revenge in the playoffs. They also gained revenge for the licking they took a year ago in the Big Four finals.The unusual part of the Charlottetown season was that the Islanders finished as they started. They lost their first seven games last October. They lost their last seven in March. &#9632;

Halifax Crew Wages Terrific Battle To Gain Big 6 Finals

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0530/918838-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg"></div>The Perfect Combination&hellip; Peirson, Creighton, McIntyreThe perfect combination in hockey last week was Dave Creighton at center with Johnny Peirson and Jack McIntyre flanking him on the wings. Between them they led the Boston Bruins up the glory path to three straight victories to take a one game lead over the Canadiens before the Habs evened it up. McIntyre scored a goal and an assist, Creighton did likewise and Peirson added two assists&hellip; Truly a perfect combination. &#9632;

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The Perfect Combination-Quality! Freshness! Price!

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“Kingsbeer”

<h2>Best Average</h2>Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings had the best average points per game during the 1950-51 season. In 70 games Howe scored 43 goals and the same number of assists to lead the League in scoring. His average points per game was 1.23.<h2>Team Penalty Record</h2>The Montreal Canadiens held the dubious honor of being the team racking up the most penalties in a season as a club. During the 1950-51 er than 835 minutes in the sin bin to set an all-time record.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>SEMI-FINALS, BEST-OF-SEVENSeries ADetroit defeated Toronto 4-0.Series B<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01123/918935-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="610" height="82"></div>(Series tied 3-3)Previous GamesMarch 25&mdash;Boston 1, Canadiens 5March 27&mdash;Boston 0, Canadiens 4March 29&mdash;Canadiens 1, Boston 4April 1&mdash;Canadiens 2, Boston 3April 4&mdash;Boston 1, Canadiens 0April 6&mdash;Canadiens 3, Boston 2(Overtime)A pair of rookies sparked their clubs to victories last week with goals that meant plenty of dollars to their respective clubs.The Boston, Montreal series which everyone predicted would be a short, easy affair in favor of Montreal went the distance with the Bruins staging one of the greatest comeback in the history of the Boston team. The Canadiens took the first two games in easy fashion and then the Bruins proceded to go to work on them. They won the third and fourth in Boston and then came back to Montreal to win the fifth. The fifth was the game that made Rookie Jack McIntyre of the Bruins the hero. He scored the B&rsquo;s only goal as they shutout the Habs 10-in Montreal. It looked like it was going to be an upset series as they went back to Boston for the sixth game, with the Bruins in the favored role. However the Canadiens staged a comeback of their own.<h2>TUESDAY, APRIL 1</h2>Canadiens 2 at Boston 3(Best of seven series tied 2-2)BOSTON. &mdash; A goal by Fleming Mackell, Toronto Maple Leaf castoff, late in the final period gave the Boston Bruins a 3-2 victory over the Canadiens before an April Fool crowd of 11,065 here. The Bruins&rsquo; win squares the best-of-seven Stanley Cup semi-final series, at two games apiece.The Habitants had fought hard to come from behind a two-goal deficit co knot the count and were forcing the issue when Mackell notched the clincher.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, St. Laurent, Bouchard, MacPherson, Harvey, Johnson; forwards, Lach, Richard, Moore, Geoffrion, Curry, Gamble, Reay, Olmstead, Meger, Edmundson.Boston: Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Henderson, Laycoe, Armstrong: forwards, Schmidt, Labine, Chevrefils, Sandford, Sullivan, Dumart, Creighton, McIntyre, Mackell, Kryzanowski, Peirson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0290/918928-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="602" height="626"></div>Detroit 3 at Toronto 1(Detroit wins best of seven series 4-0)TORONTO. &mdash; Playing it like champions all the way. Detroit Red Wings rode into the Stanley Cup finals with a 3-1 victory over Toronto Maple Leafs at Maple Leaf Gardens, their fourth straight decision in the best-of-seven semi-final series.The Wings, runaway champions over the 70-game National Hockey League schedule, made history with their grand-slam triumph over the Leafs, defending Stanley Cup champions. It was the first time in history that a Leaf team has lost a series in four straight.A crowd of 13,547 sat in on this last chance game for their heroes but the Wings, with a 2-1 first-period lead and 3-1 going into the final 20 minutes, showed them in easy fashion just why they were odds-on favorites to take this semi-final playoff. They won the first two games at Detroit by 3-0 and 1-0 scores, plastered the Leafs 6-2 here last Saturday and capped it with their allround power tonight.Harry Watson, 207-pound left-winger, with the Leafs, sent Toronto&rsquo;s hopes soaring with a blazing goal just two minutes and 56 seconds after the opening whistle but it was a short-lived lead. Ted Lindsay fired the equalizer less than two minutes later and from there in, it appeared just a matter of time before the big red and white team would put this game on ice.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk: defence, Reise, Pronovost, Goldham, Woit, Zeidel; forwards, Abel. Lindsay, Howe, Skov, Les-wlck, Pavelich, Delvecchio, Prystai, Wilson, Stasiuk.Toronto: Goal, Rollins; defence, Mort-son. Thomson, Flaman, Bolton; forwards, Kennedy, Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Meeker, Watson, Bentley, Klukay, Timgren, Gardner, Balfour.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0370/918921-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="602" height="526"></div><h2>THURSDAY, APRIL 3</h2>Boston 1 at Canadiens 0(Boston leads best of seven semi-final series 3-2)MONTREAL. &mdash; The Boston Bruins won their third playoff game in a row as they whitewashed the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 before a full house at the Forum. Rookie Jack McIntyre scored his first goal in 15 games at the 3.30 mark of the last period to give the Bruins the game and a 3-2 lead in their best of seven semi-final Stanley Cup series. McIntyre blasted a 15 feeter past McNeil after taking relay from Creighton and Peirson.Boston: Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Henderson, Armstrong, Laycoe; forwards, Schmidt, Labine, Chevrefils, Sandford, Sullivan, Dumart, Creighton, McIntyre, Mackell, Kryzanowski, Peirson.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence. St. Laurent, MacPherson, Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey; forwards, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Geoffrion, Curry, Gamble, Moore, Reay, Meger, Long.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0541/918914-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="596" height="349"></div><h2>SUNDAY, APRIL 6</h2>(Best of seven series tied 3-3)BOSTON &mdash; The Montreal Canadiens staged a terrific comeback to tie the best of seven playoff series with the Boston Bruins at three games each. Paul Masnick, young Cincinnati Mohawks&rsquo; star of the AHL scored the winning goal at 7.4 9 of the second overtime period on a pass from Doug Harvey. The Habs had to come from behind a 2-0 score to win the game. Schmidt and Creighton put the Bruins up in the first period before Eddie Mazur and Richard tied it up and set the stage for Masnick&rsquo;s winner.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, St. Laurent, Harvey, Bouchard, MacPherson: forwards, Masnick, Johnson, Curry, Moore, Reay, Meger, Geoffrion Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Mazur.Boston, Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Henderson, Laycoe, Armstrong, Kryzanowski; forwards, Schmidt, Labine, Chevrefils, Creighton, Peirson, McIntyre, Dumart, Mackell, Sandford, Sullivan.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0726/918907-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="614" height="510"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>PLAYOFF<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0454/918900-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="596" height="1186"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0632/918966-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="302" height="516"></div>The chance to be a hero is something everybody wants, but seldom gets. For Paul Masnick of the Montreal Canadiens. it seems to come to him every year about playoff time and he makes the best of the opportunity. Last week Paul scored a single goal in the single game in which he played but it was enough to get him named Player-of-the-Week and O&rsquo;Keefe&rsquo;s silver mug award winner.For the second time in his career Masnick has found himself a lifesaver for the Montreal Canadiens. In the 1950-51 playoffs against the Detroit Red Wings &lsquo;Mas&rsquo; as his mates call him, scored two of the most important goals of his career and they were big reasons why the Habs upset the favored Wings.Last week, with the Habs in desperate straits for center strength they flew Masnick in from Cincinnati on the day of the game. It was the end of the string for the Canadiens if they lost for they were down in the series three games to two. The night before Masnick arrived in Boston his Cincinnati Mohawks were eliminated from further playoff play by the Providence Reds. That Sunday morning Masnick boarded a plane for Boston. Little did he know that some 18 hours later he would be the hero of the Canadiens&rsquo; camp.For a while it looked as though the Bruins were going to make a runaway of the sixth game. They took a 2-0 lead in the first period and Masnick&rsquo;s didn&rsquo;t look like he was going to be the reason for any great comeback. But the Habs came to life and equaled the score by the time the regular three periods ran out.Dick Irvin, a crafty coach didn&rsquo;t use Masnick but a few shifts in the first 20 minute overtime session and then threw him into the battle in the second extra session. At about the seven minute and fourty second mark defenseman Doug Harvey picked up a loose puck in his own end. Seeing three Boston players laying on the ice he knew it was time for a valuable rush with them out of the play. He scooled up center ice and as he crossed the blueline he let a high shot go that rolled off Henry&rsquo;s pads and layed prone. Rookie Eddie Mazur rushed in and took a swipe at the disc. He missed and Masnick came in, grabbed the puck and tossed it into the open cage. The red light went on a 7.49 of the second overtime period. Masnick was a hero, the Conadiens had evened the series and were then favored to take the works and Paul had, maybe added to the kitty of every player on his team to the tune of maybe, $1,500 if they win everything. &#9632;

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Player-of-the-Week

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<div class="byline">By IAN MacDONALD</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01129/919021-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;As Montreal Junior Canadiens and Guelph Biltmores advanced into the Eastern Canada Memorial Cup finals last week, the oft argued question of dividing the nation&rsquo;s junior Leagues into two sections, was once again brought into prominence.Canadiens, who are members of the powerful Quebec Junior Amateur Hockey Association, and Guelph, representatives of the strong 10-team Ontario Hockey Association loop, had to go through the process of whacking off weaker opposition before, they reached the final.The Quebec winner always has to play the Ottawa-Halifax winner, in a short series which invariably proves nothing since the JAHA representative wins by double figure scores.The OHA winner plays off with the Porcupine District before they advance, but seldom have any trouble at all in knocking off the Northerners in straight games.Until 10 years ago most of the country&rsquo;s junior circuits were on about the same par, as few of the clubs were sponsored by higher teams.<h2>Sponsorship Makes Difference</h2>But when the war came and the ensuing manpower shortage hit the National Hockey League teams, these professional groups started sponsoring and aiding juniors in the hope of discovering new talent. They naturally lent most of their attention to the big city circuits since they were looking for the largest gates.As a consequence, the best players were gradually centralised in these big city points and before long the OHA, JAHA and the Western Junior circuits had the cream of the crop under their banners. With the big time sponsorship these clubs began paying the youngsters, quite handsomely in some cases, and the smaller groups without the same rink facilities fell by the wayside.These happenings led directly to the situation today where the three big junior circuits invariably have the strongest clubs and the other groups with serious minded hard driving youngsters just can&rsquo;t cope with the handicaps they are committed to.Suggestions are rampant that the Juniors should follow the Seniors&rsquo; example and divide their circuits into two classifications. The Memorial Cup could remain as the prize for the winners of the top three circuits while another award could be put up for the other Leagues.An arrangement of this sort could be worked out to satisfy all parties, for neither the small groups not the major ones enjoy the present set up. The smaller circuits feel that it is discouraging for the kids to bring them along all season until they have a fairly good squad for the conditions they are working under, and then have them snowed under by the well-coached hockey youngsters from a big city.The better clubs, on the other hand, feel that they are taking unnecessary chances by icing their squads against inept opposition.Even though breezing through a series in straight games, with double figures, a club may lose one or two of its top stars through injury, and be badly handicapped for the next series against a club of their own level. &#9632;

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‘Major’ Series For Juniors Talked Up

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<h2>Fastest Playoff Goal</h2>Billy McComb, now retired, while playing for Providence in 1945-46 scored in 6 seconds after the start of a game, the fastest goal in American Hockey League playoff annuals.<h2>Henry Has Records</h2>Gordon &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Henry, stellar goaltender of the Hershey Bears holds the American Hockey League playoff records for a series in shutouts with 5, and in low goals against average with 1.45, both of which he set in 1946-47&hellip;<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0197/919153-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="598" height="88"></div>(Cincinnati wins best of five series 3-0)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0271/919146-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="594" height="90"></div>(Providence wins best of five series 3-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0358/919139-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="602" height="90"></div>(Pittsburgh wins best of seven series 4-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0441/919132-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="596" height="102"></div>(Providence wins best of five semi-final series three games to one)<h2>TUESDAY, APRIL 1</h2>Cincinnati 2, at Providence 3(Providence leads best of five series 2-0)PROVIDENCE.&mdash;The Providence Reds edged the Cincinnati Mohawks 3 to 2, and took a 2-0 lead in their best-of-five semi-final round AHL playoff series.Cincinnati: Goal, Francis; defence, Irwin, McNeil, Lancien, Martin, Rousseau; forwards, Schwartz, Macintosh, Masnick, Harrison, O&rsquo;Connor, Mickoski, Webster, Fryday, Wylie.Providence: Goal, Bennett; defence, Michaluk, Lund, Morris, Egan; forwards, Laplante, Kapusta, Toppazzini, Smith, McGill, Reardon, Powell, Sullivan, Gladu, Scherza.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0530/919125-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="598" height="458"></div><h2>THURSDAY, APRIL 3</h2>Providence 1 at Cincinnati 3(Providence leads best of five semi-final series 2-1)CINCINNATI. &mdash; The desperate Cincinnati Mohawks, sparked by rookie Bob Fryday, stayed in the AHL Calder Cup playoffs by drubbing the Providence Reds. 3-1.Providence: Goal, Bennett; defence, A. Michaluk, Lund, Morris, Egan; forwards, McGill, Denis, Smith, Powell, Sullivan, Gladu, Laplante, Toppazzini, Kapusta, Scherza.Cincinnati: Goal, Francis; defence, Rousseau, Irwin, Martin, Lancien, MacNeil; forwards, Wylie, Fryday, Harrison, Masnick, Schwartz, Mackintosh, O&rsquo;Connor, Webster, Brown.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0719/919118-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="602" height="378"></div><h2>SATURDAY, APRIL 5</h2>Providence 6 at Cincinnati 2(Providence wins best of five series 3-1)CINCINNATI. &mdash; A second-period scoring explosion shot Providence Reds in the finals of the AHL&rsquo;s Calder playoffs as they won a 6-2 victory over Cincinnati Mohawks.Providence: Goal, Bennett; defence, Egan, Morris, Lund, A. Michaluk; forwards, Laplante, Toppazzini, Kapusta, Powell, Sullivan, Gladu, McGill, Reardon, Smith.Cincinnati: Goal, Francis; defence, Rousseau, Irwin, Lancien, MacNeil, Martin; forwards, Wylie, Fryday, Harrison, Barlow, Macintosh, O&rsquo;Connor, Webster, Brown, Masnick.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0815/919111-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="596" height="684"></div><h2>Final Playoff Dates</h2>New York-Maurice I&rsquo;odoloff, president of the American Hockey League Saturday announced the dates of the final round of the loop&rsquo;s Calder Cup playoffs between Pittsburgh Hornets and Providence Reds.The dates are.Tuesday, April 8, at Pittsburgh; Thursday, April 10, at Pittsburgh; Sunday, April 15, at Providence; Tuesday, April 15, at Providence; Thursday, April 17, at Pittsburgh (if necessary) ; Sunday, April 20, at Providence (if necessary); Tuesday, April 22, at Pittsburgh (if necessary).<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>PLAYOFF<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0915/919104-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="588" height="1055"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0623/919097-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="1731" height="1737"><figcaption class="caption-body">ONE DOWN, TWO TO GOThe Providence Reds arrive home after whipping the Cleveland Barons in their best of five Calder Cup semifinal series. Front row, left to right; Pete Kapusta, Moe Morris, Terry Reardon (Coach), Harvey Bennett and Zellio Toppanini. In the back standing, left to right; Are Michaluk, Paul Gladu, Clubhouse Custodian Joe White, Johnny Michaluk, Pat Egan, Jack McGill. Barry Sullivan, Joe Lund, Ray LaPlante, Chuck Scherza (smoking pipe) and Ray Powell.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1014/919090-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="574" height="1155"></div> &#9632;

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“Captain Morqan’s in town!”

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CARLING’S Black Label

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01109/919267-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"></div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Victoria Cougars, a crew of puckchasers who hadn&rsquo;t shown much enthusiasm about getting into the Pacific Coast Hockey League playoffs in the first place, were threatening to pull off the king-size upset of the season, at time of writing.Coach Roger Leger&rsquo;s belatedly-aroused &ldquo;Cats&rdquo;, who qualified for the playoffs in the last game of the regular season, were all even in games won&mdash;two apiece&mdash;in the opening round playoff against New Westminster Royals on Wednesday, April 12.A goal by speedy Reg Abbott, after 30 minutes and 17 seconds of overtime play, provided Cougars with a vital 3-2 triumph at Victoria on the night of April Fool&rsquo;s Day, thereby knotting the best-of-seven series count.Elsewhere on the playoff front, form had held good.<h2>Run True To Form</h2>Saskatoon Quakers, who finished second behind New Westminster over the regular run, disposed of the fifthplace Edmonton Flyers, three wins to one Similarly the high-scoring, third place Tacoma Rockets had the firepower required to ground the short-staffed Seattle Ironmen, also in four games.The Saskatoon-Edmonton series turned into a prolonged net-minding duel, featuring Lorne (Gump) Worsley of the Quakers and Flyers&rsquo; Bill Brennan. Goals came hard in a series that went into the records in 2-0, 2-1, 1-3 and 3-2 fashion.Quaker playing coach Doug Bentley got over with the final haymaker, so far as Flyer hopes were concerned.It was a goal from the veteran forward&rsquo;s stick, after 31 minutes and 24 seconds of overtime, that settled the fourth, and decisive game in Quakers&rsquo; favor, 3-2.The former NHL great had a hand in all three goals for the winners, gaining an assist on the first, counted by Bob Manson, and notching the second Quaker tally on an unassisted effort.The Tacoma-Seattle set followed much the same pattern, although the skirmishing was not as tension-filled as in the Edmonton-Saskatoon series.The Tacomans got off on the right foot, winning the first two games of the best-of-five series, then dropping the third. They closed out the injury-riddled Ironmen, 5-3, in the contest that wrapped it up for them.Tacoma and Saskatoon were scheduled to kick off the second round of the playoffs at Saskatoon, April 4. Winner of the best-of-five was to clash with the Victoria-New Westminster survivor in the League finale.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0345/919260-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="1169" height="1860"><figcaption class="caption-body">THERE WERE TENSE MOMENTS in the final stages of the PCHL race as Victoria Cougars nudged into the sixth and final playoff spot by the skin of their teeth. Top left, some of the Cougars listen to the broadcast as Tacoma dumped Vancouver to let Cougars in. Left to right, Joe Evans, Ernie Roche, Joe Medynski, Jack McIntyre, Ed Dorohoy, Les Hickey and Walt Atanas. Above, Coach Roger Leger clutches the trophy presented him by the grateful Cougars Booster Club.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0264/919253-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="576" height="1032"><figcaption class="caption-body">30-Goal ManANDY HEBENTON</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0438/919246-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="588" height="1301"></div> &#9632;

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Victoria Crew Barely Made Playoffs-But Give Favored Royals Rough Time

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0521/919305-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg"></div>SASKATOON, Sask. &mdash; Hockey-mad Saskatoon fans didn&rsquo;t take very long to gobble up all seats for the first three games of the Pacific Coast Hockey League&rsquo;s best-of-five semi-final between Murray Patrick&rsquo;s Ta-comj Rockets and Doug Bentley&rsquo;s Saskatoon Quakers.Tickets for the three games to be played on Saskatoon ice went on sale one morning, and by nightfall the rink had three sell-outs. Only standing room was left.There are 4,385 seats in the arena and fire regulations permit standing room for 900 fans.Professional hockey&rsquo;s rebirth here this season has gone over with a bang. A total attendance of 113,476 was chalked up for Quakers&rsquo; home games during the regular season. The attendance last year when Saskatoon was in the defunct Western Canada Senior League totalled 87,861 for 30 home games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0612/919298-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="593" height="1891"></div> &#9632;

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The Canadian FOOTBALL NEWS

<h2>Playing All Games</h2>Twenty six players played in every game their team participated in the past season. Tacoma leads the way with 10 of their players playing every game,<h2>Scoring</h2>Twenty-one players neared 30 or more goals the past season with Gordie Fashoway of New Westminster leading the way with 51, highest total in professional hockey. Another 23 Coast League players scored 20 or more goals. Five players, headed by Eddie Dorohoy of Victoria with 56, assisted in 50 or more goals. Another 15 picked up 40 or more assists.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0185/919441-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="602" height="92"></div>(Tacoma wins best of five series 3-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0257/919434-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="604" height="94"></div>(Saskatoon leads best of five series 2-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0339/919427-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="598" height="98"></div>(New Westminster leads best of seven series 2-0)<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S RESULTS</h2>Mar. 15&mdash;Edmonton 0 at Saskatoon 2 Seattle 4 at Tacoma 6Mar. 28&mdash;Victoria 2 at New Wester 3Mar. 27&mdash;Edmonton 1 at Saskatoon 2Mar. 28&mdash;Tacoma 6 at Seattle 1 New Wester 2 at Victoria 3Mar. 29&mdash;Seattle 3 at Tacoma 2 Victoria 1 at New West&rsquo;er 4 Saskatoon 1 at Edmonton 3Rudy Filion of Seattle and Doc Haldorsen of Tacoma are tied for the individual scoring honors with 7 points each after the first week of play-off play. Joe Young and Mark Marquess of Tacoma lead the goal-getters with 4 each. Doc Halderson of Tacoma leads the play-makers with 6 assists. Loren Worsley, Saskatoon goalie leads the goalkeepers with an average of one goal per game against him. He also has the only shut out of the series.<h2>TUESDAY, MARCH 25</h2>Seattle 4 at Tacoma 6(Tacoma leads best of five series 1-0)TACOMA &mdash; The Tacoma Rockets defeated Seattle Ironmen 6-4 here to take the first game of their best-of-five Pacific Coast Hockey League quarter-final series.Rockets led 2-1 at the end of the first period and were in front 4-3 at the end of the second.Sixteen penalties were meted out. Including misconducts to Seattle&rsquo;s John Bailey and Stan Maxwell.Seattle: Goal, Hughes; defence. Tatllefer. Sprout, Conn, Tomluk; forwards, Homenuke, Bailey, Bell, Fllion, Fairburn, Maxwell, Ceresino, Richardson.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Pratt, Jones, Davidson, Godfrey, O&rsquo;Connor; forwards, Marquess, Bradley, Del-Monte, Adam, Haldorsen, Johsnton, Kerr, Brown. Young.Referee: Eddy Powers and Frank Daly.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0522/919420-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="592" height="712"></div>Edmonton 0 at Saskatoon 2(Saskatoon leads best of five series 1-0)SASKATOON &mdash; Doug Bentley&rsquo;s Saskatoon Quakers parlayed the time-honored &ldquo;big break&rdquo; into a 2-0 victory over the Edmonton Flyers In the opening clash of their playoff series here.More than 6,000 of a standing-room-only crowd saw Johnny Chad break up a spine-tingling battle between these two clubs in the third period.Edmonton: Goal, Brennan; defence, McCaig, Pettlnger, Cox, McLeod; forwards, Kilburn, Raynak, Backor, McLean, Johnson, Joss, Thomas, Glese-brecht, Kubasek, Uniac.Saskatoon: Goal, Worsley; defence, Heindl, Milford, Kaiser, Parker; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Strain, Hunter, Fowler, Manson, McCullough, Senick, Kuzma, BentleyReferee: Bill Knott and Hedley MacDonald.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-078/919413-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="592" height="435"></div><h2>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26</h2>Victoria 2 at New Westminster 3(New Westminster leads best of seven series 1-0)NEW WESTMINSTER &mdash; Caution was the keynote as the first place New Westminster Royals edged Victoria Cougars 3-2 in the first game of the-Pacific Coast (Prairie) Hockey League semifinal. Royals are taking no chances with the Cougars, who squeaked into the last playoff spot on the last day of the season. Two Indications of this were Royals playing style and an after-game blast from their coach.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Leger, Roche, Goegan, Strongman; forwards, Hebenton, Frampton, Abbott, MacIntyre, Hickey, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Atanas, Medynskl.New Westminster: Goal, Dechene; defence, Roberge, Bergeron, Forbes, Houle, Bedard; forwards, Ullyot, Love, Dufault, Fashoway, Lavell, Boyce, Fielder, Paul, Cabana.Referee: Powers and Cranston.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-085/919406-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="596" height="420"></div><h2>THURSDAY, MARCH 27</h2>Edmonton 1 at Saskatoon 2(Saskatoon leads best of five series 2-0)SASK VTOON &mdash; George Senick&rsquo;s goal at 18:56 of the third period at Saskatoon gave Quakers a 2-1 victory over Edmonton Flyers and a 2-0 lead in games.Edmonton: Goal, Brennan: defence, MaCaig, Pettlnger, Cox, McLeod; forwards, Kilburn, Raynak, Backor, Johnson, Joss, Thomas, Uniac, McLean, Giese-brecht, Kubasek.Saskatoon: Goal. Worsley; defence, Heindl, Milford, Parker, Kaiser; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Strain. Hunter, Fowler, Manson, Kuzma, McCullough, Senick, Bentley.Referee: Knott and McDonald.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-114/919399-1-eng-US/f0017-112.jpg" title="f0017-11" width="604" height="320"></div><h2>FRIDAY, MARCH 26</h2>New Westminster 2 at Victoria 3(Best of seven series tied 1-1)VICTORIA &mdash; Playing inspired hockey all the way, Victoria Cougars scored once in each period at Memorial Arena to edge New Westminster Royals 3-2 and even their semi-final Pacific Coast Hockey League playoff at one game each.New Westminster: Goal, Dechesne; defence, Roberge, Bergeron, Houle, Bedard, Forbes; forwards, Ullyot, Love, Dufault, Fashoway, Lavell, Boyce, Fielder, Paul.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Leger, Roche, Goegan, Strongman: forwards, Hebenton, Frampton, Abbott, Hickey, Ballimce, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Atanas, Medyinski.Referee: Dick Davis; linesman, Merrick Cranston.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-124/919392-1-eng-US/f0017-122.jpg" title="f0017-12" width="614" height="439"></div>Tacoma 6 at Seattle 1(Tacoma leads best of five series 2-0)SEATTLE &mdash; Tacoma Rockets took a 2-0 game lead in their fest of five Pacific Coast Hockey League quarter-final playoff by thumping the Seattle Ironmen, 6-1, at Seattle.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, O&rsquo;Connor, Godfrey, Jones, Davidson; forwards, Bradley, Young, DelMonte, Kerr, McDonald, Marquess, Haldorsen, Adam, Johnston.Seattle: Goal, Hughes; defence, Conn, Taillefer, Sprout, Tomiuk; forwards, Fi-lion, Homenuke, Richardson, Cererino, Bell, Fairburn, Maxwell.Referee: Powers; linesman, Daley.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0326/919385-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="609" height="473"></div><h2>SATURDAY, MARCH 29</h2>Seattle 3 at Tacoma 2(Tacoma leads best of five series 2-1)TACOMA &mdash; George Homenuk&rsquo;s rebound goal at 5.01 of the second overtime period gave Seattle Ironmen a 3-2 victory over Tacoma Rockets in their Pacific Coast Hockey League quarterfinal series.It was Seattle&rsquo;s first victory in the three games played.Seattle: Goal, Hughes; defence, Taillefer Sprout, Tomiuk, Maxwell; forwards, Homenuke, Bailey, Bell, Filion, Fairburn, Richardson.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Pratt, Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor, Godfrey; forwards, Brown, Marquess, MacDonald, Johnston, Bradley, Adam, Haldorsen, Young, DelMonte.Referee: Power and Daley.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0420/919378-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="612" height="525"></div>Saskatoon 1 at Edmonton 3(Saskatoon leads best of five series 2-1)EDMONTON &mdash; Edmonton Flyers extended their quarter-final series with Saskatoon to four games by defeating the Quakers, 3-1, at Edmonton.Edmonton: Goal, Brennan; defence, McCaig, Pettinger, Cox, McLeod; forwards, Kilburn. Raynak, Backor, McLean, Johnson, Joss, Thomas, Giese-brecht, Kubasek, Uniac.Saskatoon: Goal, Worsley; defence, Heindl, Milford, Kaiser, Parker; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Strain, Hunter. Fowler, Manson, McCullough, Senick, Kuzma, Bentley.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0518/919371-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="608" height="353"></div>Victoria 1 at New Westminster 4(New Westminster leads best of seven series 2-1)NEW WESTMINSTER &mdash; The seriously-checking New Westminster Royals turned the tables on Victoria Cougars to mark up a 4-1 victory and take a 2-1 lead in the Pacific Coast Hockey League semi-final series here.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Leger, Roche, Goegan. Strongman; forwards, Hebenton, Frampton, Abbott, Hickey, Ballance, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Atanas, Medynski.New Westminster: Goal, Dechene; defence, Roberge, Bergeron, Forties, Houle, Bedard; forwards, Slater, Ullyot, Love, (Dufault) 6:23; penalties: Atanas, 6:51; Cabana.Referee: Davis and Cranston.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0610/919364-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="605" height="394"></div><h2>SUNDAY, MARCH 30</h2>Tacoma 6 at Seattle 3(Tacoma wins best of seven series 3-1)SEATTLE &mdash; The Tacoma Rockets have seen the last of the Seattle Ironmen during the current hockey season.Coach Muzz Patrick&rsquo;s free-wheeling band of skaters took care of that here by dumoing the short-handed Ironmen, 6-3, to wrap up the first-round Pacific Coast Hockey League playoff series between the arch rivals, three games to one.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Pratt, Jones, Godfrey, O&rsquo;Connor, Davidson; forwards, MacDonald, Marquess, Bradley, Johnston, Halderson, Adam, Young, DelMonte, Kerr.Seattle: Goal, Hughes; defence. Sprout, Maxwell, Taillefer; forwards, Filion, Homenuke, Richardson, Railey, Bell, Fairburn.Referee: Eddie Powers and Frank Daly.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-079/919357-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="611" height="524"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>INDIVIDUAL PLAYOFF SCORERS(Two highest from each club)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-095/919350-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="598" height="302"></div>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS FOR PLAYOFFS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-105/919343-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="592" height="184"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-069/919336-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="1653" height="1933"><figcaption class="caption-body">Strength Fore and Aft</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

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Celebrate with HIRAM WALKER’S..’58 RYE WHISKY

There is a limited supply left of the Official N.H.L. Record Book(This is not the NHL Press and Radio Guide but an entirely different book)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0239/919541-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="302" height="478"></div>The 250-page Official NHL Record Book includes the complete NHL records from the 1917-18 season up to and inclusive of the 1950-51 season. This is the only book published that lists how the teams finished each season, how they made out in the playoffs etc. It also runs the complete individual scoring records of each season from 1917-13 up to the present.It lists Trophy winners, scoring leaders, goalkeepers averages, penalty minutes by clubs, names of players holding every all-time record.Be sure to order your copy of the Official NHL Record Book today. The supply is limited and books will be sold on a First Come First Served basis.ALL THIS FOR ONLY $100 (Postage Paid)NOTE: Attractive printed Revision Sheets for 1950-51 season are available for 10c. These can be inserted in last year&rsquo;s edition. Send to NHL Revisions 603A Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Canada.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0326/919534-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="1133" height="418"></div> &#9632;

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LIMITED SUPPLY LEFT!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0418/919572-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg"></div>Just look at that gleam of satisfaction as our &ldquo;Master Gardener&rdquo; anticipates a friendly Brading&rsquo;s&mdash;his refreshing reward for a job well done!After gardening&mdash;or any time you decide to treat your thirst&mdash;enjoy mellow, satisfying Brading&rsquo;s&hellip;it&rsquo;s Canadian ale at its best.Try it&hellip;let its zest, tang and flavor tell you why more and more men say &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a Brading&rsquo;s man myself&rdquo;Always ask for Brading&rsquo;s Old Stock Ale &#9632;

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I’m a BRADING’S man myself!

If Mr. Arsenault&rsquo;s allegations were true, Beliveau would long ago have either (1) lost his amateur standing; (2) been forced to play with some other club specified by the Canadiens, probably one of their amateur &ldquo;farm&rdquo; teams; or (3) been dragged willy-billy into the NHL to collect several healthy thousand dollars a year plus bonuses as a member of the Habitants.That none of these alternatives has happened, and that the colorful Beliveau is still a free agent, doesn&rsquo;t lend much support to any theory that young hockey players are held in bonds of slavery. And yet Beliveau had gone beyond the negotiation list stage &mdash; he had of his own free will signed an agreement to play with Montreal when and if he turned pro, and it is strictly up to himself to decide whether or not he wants to go through with it or follow his own course.None of this seems to smack of anything anyway near slavery, in our books. &#9632;

Editorial…

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0171/919634-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div>(Solution Next Week)<h2>ACROSS</h2>Defenseman for Indianapolis Capitols.&mdash;Musical note.&mdash;This denotes number of goals Ed Sandford scored last season.8&mdash;A faceoff is called if the puck is &mdash; while sides are even.9&mdash;Number of seasons Mosien-ko has spent with Chicago.10&mdash;Initials of a member of the Leafs.11&mdash;The (Fr.).12&mdash;Behold!13&mdash;Color of light which usually indicates a goal.15&mdash;Chuck Gardiner was once captain of this NHL club (abbr).16&mdash;Before.17&mdash;Initials of a Syracuse defenseman.18&mdash;Short for given name of a Leaf forward.19&mdash;Roman Numerals for Hy Buller&rsquo;s number.20&mdash;Short for first name of player who wears No. 4 for Detroit.22&mdash;Bob Dawes broke one recently.24&mdash;Red Kelly garnered 37 &mdash; last season, (abbr).26&mdash;Gift given Elmer Lach recently.28&mdash;Alberta birthplace of John Michaluk.31&mdash;Short for given name of an NHL manager.32&mdash;Marcel Pronovost sustained a broken &mdash; on March 8th.34&mdash;Initials of Savold, boxer.35&mdash;Hugh Bolton is studying for this degree (abbr).<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Boston rookie.2&mdash;Player recently sold to Detroit by New Westminster.3&mdash;Teammate of 2 down, called Bob.4&mdash;Ted Kennedy has completed his &mdash; full season with the Leafs.5&mdash;Given name of Boston rookie.6&mdash;Birthplace of Bill Carse.14&mdash;Comparative ending.17&mdash;One of the Black Hawks.18&mdash;Fred Shero wears these.20&mdash;War In Europe ended on &mdash; day.23&mdash;Cal Gardner was once offered a trial with this big league baseball club.25&mdash;First name of a Toronto-born member of the Maple Leafs.26&mdash;First name of the Red Wings trainer.27&mdash;Initials of a Pittsburgh forward.28&mdash;Initials of Albright, ex-Ranger player.29&mdash;Native province of Stan Long (abbr).30&mdash;Artificial language.33&mdash;Initials of Balfour, who recently played with the Leafs.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S X-WORD KEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0245/919627-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="580" height="906"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-09" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-098/919665-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg"></div>You know right well that you&rsquo;ll want to know what your favorite hockey star is doing during the summer months; what players are being traded; what players are being given their unconditional release. You&rsquo;ll also be eager to find out what plans your team is making for the coming season and what players they plan to bring up next season.The Only Way To Know All This is by becoming a Year-Round Subscriber to THE HOCKEY NEWS. You see, THE HOCKEY NEWS is not sold at arenas during the summer months or on the newsstands and the only possible way you can get a copy is by becoming a regular subscriber. This way you will be sure of receiving the five snappy monthly summer issues just as soon as they&rsquo;re off the press.THE HOCKEY NEWS features plenty of lengthy profiles on players in the summer issues and oodles of candid pictures showing that favorite puck star of yours in such poses as playing baseball, on the golf links, milking cows, pitching hay, running the store, and countless others. We at THE HOCKEY NEWS do our utmost to see that you don&rsquo;t lose track of your favorite players during those five months that THE HOCKEY NEWS suspends weekly publication (May to September).A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.Canadian Remittances &mdash; $3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.U. S. A. Remittances &mdash; $4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque in U.S. funds. Postal Money Orders must be drown on the Postmaster at New York in U.S. funds.Fill in Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order &#9632;

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VOLUME 5 MONTREAL, APRIL 12, 1952 NUMBER 28<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0116/919717-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00c4-01" width="321" height="361"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0215/919710-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00c4-02" width="297" height="365"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0315/919703-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00c4-03" width="3050" height="2019"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0413/919696-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00c4-04" width="3038" height="1664"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard, flashing a Florida tan following his rest in the southern State gets back into action in the Boston, Montreal playoff series. In the top picture, the Rocket fires a shot that comes close, if you go by the facial expressions on the Boston players. The Bruins are, left to right: Bob Armstrong, called up from Hershey to replace Gus Kyle, Flem Mackell in the background and Hal Laycoe, directly behind Richard. In the lower picture, Richard races in, pulls Henry from the net and tucks the puck into the cage in the fourth game of the series. The goal was called back because he was offside and the Bruins won the game 1-0. ((Photos by David Bier))</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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