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September 1, 1953
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“Law Of Averages Is Working Against Us For 6th Title”-Adams
SAULT STE MARIE, Ont.— Five-time champions and eager for No. 6. Those were the Detroit Red Wings who checked in here Sunday night (Sept. 13) for the opening of training camp the next morning. They had 25 days to get ready for the defense of the National Hockey League title, the first two weeks here and then 11 more days at the Detroit Olympia. The first impression was that the Detroit team would be the toughest place in hockey for a stranger to land a job. It was a veteran team which reported, with a minimum of turnover from last spring. Detroit collapse in the playoffs failed to produce any big house-cleaning as some expected. Instead Manager Jack Adams took a realistic viewpoint and stood pat. This in itself was unusual. While the Wings were racking…
DINK CARROLL
TWO OLD HOCKEY PLAYERS It was nice to run into two old hockey players, Toe Blake and Murph Chamberlain, and a decade rolled back as we listened to them talk. It will be 10 years this coming season since Dick Irvin had the first of his good Canadian team that won the NHL championship and then rolled on to the Stanley Cup. Both Toe and Murph were on that team, but they haven’t changed much in appearance and none at all in the way they talk. “Blake,” said Murph, “I don’t know how you can sleep at night when you think how much you owe me.” “Owe you?” said Toe, puffing on his cigar. “How could I owe you anything?” “Getliffe and Watson and myself always took the other team’s best line, didn’t we?”…
THE FAN FORUM
Under False Colors? Dear Sirs, As one who has had a finger in the hockey pie since 1S88 in leagues which included teams representing Queens University, The Royal Military College, the Kingstons and the Athletics, and as a past president of the Ontario Hockey Association and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, I must say that the news contained in your June issue of The Hockey-News proved very upsetting. At the anual meeting of the CAHA I introduced a motion to drop the word “amateur”; I did this because I was quite convinced, and still am, that in my own mind we were not entitled to sail under patently false colors. I might add that during my connection with organized hockey-over a period covering some 6 5 years, during which time our local Kingston Frontenacs…
Rangers Play 17 Sundays on Home Ice
NEW YORK, N.Y.— The New York Ranger: have drawn 17 Sundays and one Saturday among the 3L games of their 1953-54 home schedule at Madison Square Gardens, it was announced today by the Natlonal Hockey League club. Simultaneously, the Garden box ofice said attractive subscription plans were now available for the coming ice hockey season. The Rangers open on the road, on October 8 in Detroit where the Red Wings will launch their drive for a sixth straight title. After a tour of the circuit, the Broadway Blues start their home season or Thursday, October 22, against the Boston Bruins. Unlike last-season, when the Rangers played all their games on Sundays and Wednesdays the current schedule shows single home nights on a Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday with 15 Wednesday#. RANGERS HOME SCHEDULE Oct. 22, Boston; 25,…
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