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April 11, 1953
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“Daring Dick” Irvin Gambles On Rookies
MONTREAL, Que.— One thing about Dick Irvin, he’s a gambler. Daring Dick, coach of the Montreal Canadiens, was fit to be tied when his Habs dropped three straight games to the rampaging Chicago Black Hawks after winning the first two games of the best-of-seven Stanley Cup semi-finals. Irvin has never been one to take defeat lightly and he decided that it was time for a few changes. After the silver thatched woods-man got through weilding his axe, four Canadien regulars found themselves in the role of spectators for the sixth and all-important contest in Chicago. In place of his four regulars, Gerry McNeil, Paul Meger, Paul Masnick and Dick Gamble, Irvin went along with Jacques Plante, Lorne Davis and Baldy MacKay, all up from the Buffalo Bisons, and Ed ‘Spider’ Mazur from the…
Player-Of-The-Week
During the past week the Boston Bruins pulled one of the biggest upsets in the history of the Stanley Cup playoffs when they eliminated the league champion Detroit Red Wings in six games. Lynn Patrick was prone to tout veteran Woody Dumart as the out-standing hero in the Bruin coupe for his blanketing of Gordie Howe, but other rinkside observers through the series, including Detroit coach Tommy Ivan, threw the bouquets at Sugar Jim Henry, the B’s veteran cage cop. Said Ivan, “You can’t say it was the Boston defense that did it, for we took a lot of shots at Henry. It was the goaler that really hurt us the most.” The statistics seem to favor the Ivan version for in every game of the series the Wings outshot the Beantowners, only…
Porcupine Fans High On Combines; Hoping To Win Memorial Cup
TIMMINS, Ont.— While the Porcupine District has long been a producer of fine hockey players who have made their way into the National and American Hockey Leagues, this is the first season that this area has really seriously thought of the Memorial Cup. The reason for the interest in the famed mug is that this season, the Timmins-Porcupine Combines are well along the trail to the cup. While everyone in the north knows very well that the Memorial Cup will not rest in Northern Ontario this year, they are nevertheless very pleased with the fine work which the Combines are doing. The Northern team won the Gold Belt Junior League, consisting of Combines, South Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, Noranda and New Liskead, and then went on against the Sud-bury Wolves for the Northern…
AHL Highlights
CLEVELAND, Ohio.— The Cleveland Barons and Pittsburgh Hornets are locked in the final American Hockey League championship playoff series to determine the winner of the historic Calder Cup. The post season competition has run true to form thus far, with the Barons, first place finishers in the regular season eliminating Syracuse three games to one, and second place Pittsburgh taking the measure of Hershey, which completed their schedule in fourth place, in a three game straight set. Cleveland and Pittsburgh have been intense rivals for many years, both in regular season play and in the Spring Classic, and the best of four in seven game series coming up will provide plenty of hard fought battles and thrills for the hockey fans of the adjoining states of Ohio and Pennsylvania. What with new…
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