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January 16, 1954
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Pontarollo Takes Over IHL Scoring Leadership
CINCINNATI, Ohio.— An amazing comeback by Lou Trudel, coach of the Milwaukee Chiefs, shared the spotlight with the surge of the Cincinnati Mohawks in the International Hockey League. Trudel apparently got tired of standing on the sidelines watching his last-place Chiefs lose game after game in IHL play, so he decided to step in and try to do something about it himself. Milwaukee had lost 13 games in a row—an International League record—when thd Wisconsinites arrived in Ft. Wayne, the scene of their last triumph in over a month, way back on Nov. 28. Trudel, much to the surprise of everyone, donned a uniform for the first time in three years, and this is what happened: The Chiefs were trailing, 3-2, when the veteran puck-chaser, who spent nine years as a left winger in the…
IHL Attendances Up!
MILWAUKEE, Wis.— With the Louisville club apparently safely past a mid-season financial crisis through re-organization, prospects are that all nine clubs will finish the International Hockey League season and that most of them will do as well or better than last year. Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Troy and Fort Wayne all have reported increases over last season of from 3 to 10 pct. And, as President Fred Huber of Detroit points out, the close race is likely to be reflected in improved attendance after the holidays. “That is the experience of our league and of hockey everywhere — when the race is close,” Huber said. There is no basis for comparing attendance with that of a year ago at Johnstown or Marion, Ohio, but the Pennsylvania town is about even with 1953-54 Eastern league box…
HN Correspondent Calls on Richard to Play the Game
MONTREAL, Que.— Maurice Richard, Canadiens’ fabulous Rocket, sometimes is off the beam in his column in the French-language weekly Samedi-Dimanche but, when he propels pucks against the harassed netminders of other National Hockey League teams, he is strictly on. Rocket is too biased to be a good sports writer but then how can you expect any man involved in hockey to look at any situation affecting the game or his part in it without prejudice? Wasn’t it Frank Boucher who said, “once a game gets underway the only sane person in the rink is the referee”? Boucher could have gone further because, even after the final whistle blows, it is hard to find anyone associated with the game who can present a coherently unbiased view. Richard calls his column, in which he recently blasted…
Player - of - the - Week
It took him a while to do It, but Serf Olmstead finally has his name among the illustrious group of players who either hold or share records in the National Hockey League. In Olmstead’s case he shares a record, and it couldn’t be more fitting than that the person he shares the mark with should be his line-mate, the fabulous Maurice (Rocket) Richard. The record, that of having eight scoring points in a single game, was first put in the books by Richard on Dec. 28, 1944 when he scored five goals and had three assists as the Habs downed Detroit Red Wings 9-1. That mark stood for ten years, until last Saturday night, January 9, 1954, when Olmstead scored four goals and had as many assists as the Canadiens trounced the Chicago…
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