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October 10, 1953
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Bruins Assured of Young Club For Many Years
BOSTON, Mass.— The Bruins, according to the hockey experts, will be a definite threat for National Hockey League title honors because of their talented young players, Real Chevrefils, Leo LaBine, Warren Godfrey, Bob Armstrong, Ed Sandford, Jerry Toppazzini, Frank Martin and Jack McIntyre. The Bruins, in the opinion of these same experts, will be a NHL power for several year to come because of the bright young crop which includes Don McKenney, Doug Hohns and Skip Teal, the Barrie Flyers trio which recently turned pro; Ralph Wllis, Ronnie Hudson, Paul Oliver, Fred Pletsch and Jim Robertson. The Bruins, say these hockey-wise men, will keep getting this top notch talent because the man who dug them up in the Canadian “bushes”, Harold Cotton, is the number one man in his profession right now. Cotton, the…
THE FAN FORUM
Credit For Boucher Dear Sir: In my last two letters to THE HOCKEY NEWS, which I read and enjoy regularly, I criticized the New York Rangers. Well, now I would like to give credit where credit is due. Frank Boucher has tried as hard as he possibly can to get together a decent Ranger team. Frank hag made trades, advanced the training date, and moved the Blueshirts’ pre-season camp to Saskatoon. Now all Frank has to do is coach and hope the Rangers won’t run into a king-size number of injuries as they usually do. The New Yorkers must play nine of their first thirteen games on foreign ice. It is about time the Garden gave the Bides a seasonopener at home. The professional basketball Knickerbockers have this, so why not the Rangers too? Could…
Litz Scores 3 As All-Stars Lose To Sags
CHICOUTIMI, Que— Despite one of the most brilliant individual efforts in the history of a Quebec Hockey League All-Star game, the champion Chicoutimi Equeens scored a 6-5 decision over the QHL All-Stars. Eddie Litzenberger, the gangling right winger, who is being touted as the player most likely to succeeds Jean Beliveau as the loop’s top figure this year, gave credence to those contentions by bombing home a hattrick for the Stars. However, Rollie Hebert’s Sags zoomed to an early 3-0 lead before the All-Stars could organize them-selves and when they did find the range it was too late. Jean Paul Lamirande, a former member of the New York Rangers, scored the winning goal on a pass from Jimmy Moore late in the final period Litzenberger, who will play for Montreal Royals this year in the…
Flyers Open Campaign For Hometown Flavor
EDMONTON, Sask.— Two years ago and more, when the Flyers went ‘honest’ and joined up with the openly professional Pacific Coast Hockey league, team personnel was drastically changed and much of the “hometown’ flavor was lost. Gone was the famed Receding Hairline of Elmer Kreller, Alec Pringle and Fred Smitten, all three products of local junior hockey. Detensemen Gordon Watt and Harvey (Pug) Young went into retirement, rather than give up permanent jobs. Others followed suit, now that it no longer was possible to hold a job and play hockey on the side for fat paychecks, as many of the players had been doing in the shamateur Western Canada loop. With the loss of that hometown look went a large segment of the Flyer fans. “We don’t know the players anymore,” they complained…
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