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January 16, 1954
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Exchange Of Gate-Keepers Helped Leafs - -Wings Too!
Toronto, Ont. — After his Toronto Maple Leafs had failed to 6core a goal on their first three visits to Detroit this season, coach King Clancy requested, as he herded his team into the bordertown for the fourth time, that the teams swap bench gate-keepers. Detroit granted the superstitious request and Red Sullivan, who had handled the Detroit gate in three straight Wing shutouts, that night serviced the Toronto gate. He took his mysterious power with him and the Leafs succeeded in shutting out the Wings. Fred Jahn, however, in moving from the Leaf gate to the Detroit gate, lost his jinx en route and the Wings produced their fourth straight shutout. As a result of the scoreless deadlock Leafs went home with their record of scoreless hockey in Detroit extended to 272…
Five Still Active In WHL From Pacific Coast League
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.— Since the old Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey League folded after the 1947-48 season and was succeeded by the Western Pro League, players have come and gone with amazing swiftness. The higher calibre of hockey left a lot of the amateur boys standing still in their new surrounds. From an estimated 96 players who went through the 1947-48 season as tarnished amateurs, only five are still playing their trade in the WHL. The veteran five, however, number among the top stars in the seven-team league. New Westminster has two players in Ollie Dorohoy and Bobby Love. Love, who holds the alltime league scoring record, seems able to go on on for ever. He hasn’t missed a game since the league turned pro and is always high up in the scoring lists. So…
Moose Jaw Millers Lead Saskatchewan Sr. League
REGINA, Sask.— So many changes are taking place these days in the lineup of the Regina Caps that even their coach, Garth Boesch, needs a program to identify his players. With the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League schedule moving into mid January, the Regina squad has already gone through nearly enougn players to fill the roster of all four teams in the circuit. But despite all the changes, the defending champions still find themselves trailing the league-leading Moose Jaw Millers by a healthy margin. A severe run of injuries has been one of the main reasons for all the changes. The Caps have seen such stars as Norm Blackett, Gordie Staseson, Al King, Nellie Greene, Buddy Rogers and others sent to the sidelines for lengthy periods with injuries. Other changes have resulted from the…
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…
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