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January 23, 1954

The Hockey News January 23, 1954

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Frank Boucher&rsquo;s plan to re-unite the two Bentley brothers, Max and Doug, on a line with Edgar Laprade for the New York Rangers, hit a temporary snag with the announcement from Edmonton that Doug might not care to join the Broadway Blues.Doug, elder of the two hockey playing brothers, was incensed at the treatment of the Saskatoon Quakers by the parent New York club. Bentley is playing-coach of the Quakers at present.&ldquo;1 don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ll go,&rdquo; the fiery little Western Hockey League coach said in an interview.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m supposed to go February 1, but I don&rsquo;t think I will,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t go while things are like this. They take defenseman Jack Evans from us, and then we start getting hurt. If we hadn&rsquo;t been hurt, would be at the top the pile now. We were sailing when Evans left.&rdquo;&ldquo;They (the Rangers) have lots of players, but I know what&rsquo;s happening,&rdquo; Bentley said. &ldquo;They don&rsquo;t want to disturb a winning combination now that they&rsquo;re winning a few.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re afraid that no matter who they send us, it may be just the man they shouldn&rsquo;t have let go at this point. But I can&rsquo;t go to try to help them unless they help us first.&rdquo; &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Bentley May Not Join Rangers

VOLUME 7 MONTREAL, JANUARY 23. 1954 NUMBER 17<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01159/1593471-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="251" height="288"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0299/1593464-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="261" height="300"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0382/1593457-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="2835" height="1785"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0468/1593450-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="2803" height="1809"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug and Dolly Dump Jim, Ted Jolts JohnnyTWO DIFFERENT WAYS of slopping an opponent from getting his stick on the puck near your own goal are shown in the above photos. In the top photo, Ted Lindsay of Detroit simply shoves Boston&rsquo;s Johnny Peirson out of the way. Gent looking on in the background is Fleming Mackell, In the lower photo, Dollard St. Laurent and Doug Harvey of Montreal Kut the old squeeze play on Jim Morrison of Toronto. Needless to say, lorrison didn&rsquo;t get through to the puck.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;The story of the week in the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League features comeback Cliff Hicks of the Glace Bay Miners.Don Penniston had been having goalie troubles, so the word went out that a steadier man was needed. Hicks was offered and accepted.And never in Maritime hockey history did a man get off to a poorer start, or make a more brilliant comeback.In his first&rsquo; game, played on Halifax ice, Hicks was nervous and ill. He lasted only one period, the Miners never recovered from his lapses and Dugger McNeil&rsquo;s Atlantics went on to an easy victory.Next time be was here, a week later, Hicks lasted the route but he was certainly no ball of fire. Eleven pucks flashed past him as the league leaders continued their mastery over the representatives of Canada&rsquo;s &lsquo;biggest town.&rsquo;Then came the third appearance, and complete vindication of Penniston as a judge of hockey players and Hicks as a goalie.Miners, who had beaten Halifax only twice this season in 15 outings, had not won at all in Halifax; their best effort being a 3-3 overtime tie. This time, however, Hicks was the outstanding performer and the Miners triumphed. To make it all the more convincing Hicks posted a shutout. It was his second in a row. Three nights earlier he had held the Sydney Millionaires scoreless at Glace Bay.Meanwhile Terry Reardon&rsquo;s Mills ended their tailspin at the cost of five straight losses at the expense of Charlottetown Islanders. Mills had been beaten down by injuries, one to player coach Reardon himself. They have the poorest scoring record in the league, although their goals-against average is the best. &ldquo;Charlottetown Islanders continue to make headway up the league ladder and take particular delight in beating the Atlantics. Islanders are fourth, Atlantics first but the party of the first part is the only club leading the pace setters in season&rsquo;s play to date.After two successive defeats at home. Atlantics put on a characteristic surge to. post a win at Glace Bay and a tie at Sydney. The A&rsquo;s continue their policy of winning the big games and now boast a substantial lead in the league race.The league is tightening up Both Islanders and Miners are moving closer to the second place Sydney Mills while still battling furiously for third place. On the other hand A&rsquo;s have pulled some distance in front of Sydney.Islanders are getting a lot of mileage, and a lot of goals, from wingers Paul Saindon and Vic Palladino and veteran centre Roy (Buck) Whitlock. Saindon has been a steady producer since the season opened, is second only to Halifax&rsquo;s Billy Ford in goals and total points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02224/1593155-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="535" height="881"><figcaption class="caption-body">SurgingBUCK WHITLOCK</figcaption></div>Palladino, a newcomer who is one of the hardest workers on the Charlottetown roster, has become one of the league&rsquo;s brightest Johnny-on-the-spot guys. Every time there is a loose puck in the scoring zone Vic seems to be there to blast it into the nets.Whitlock, three-times scoring champion and the greatest scorer in Maritime hockey history, is surging up the lists after a slow start. Business activities kept him off the road most of the time. Now he&rsquo;s playing full time and producing in old-time style.Dugger McNeil keeps his Halifax Atlantics spurting along, losing here and there but winning every time there are signs of a protracted slump. He has varied luck in the late stages of recent games.In one game he pulled goalie Roy McMeekin with a minute and a half to go and his team trailing by a goal-The move backfired as the Charlottetown Islanders rapped the puck into the empty net.Five nights later Atlantics trailed Sydney 2-1 with less than 30 seconds to go. Out came McMeekin. McNeil looked like a master-mind when Ross Watson drove in the tying goal. The game ended in an overtime tie. &#9632;

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Atlantics Boast Big Lead In Otherwise Close MMHL

January 11, 1954.Dear Sirs:I have just concluded my second conference with Mr. Selfie, in which we discussed my column which appeared in Samedi Dimanche, under date of January 9th.A number of influential friends and jurists have offered me legal assistance, but as I accept full responsibility for whatever was written, I am anxious to undo any harm which has been done.When I wrote the article. I did not realize how serious the accusations were &mdash; neither did it occur to me that the column would receive national coverage.Mr. Selke has brought this to my attention, and as the game of hockey has been very good to me, I humbly and most sincerely apologize to President Campbell and the Governors of the League. Not because I am forced to do so by my club, but because it is the honourable and sporting thing to do.I realize fully that the accusations made were unfounded and I am anxious that Mr. Campbell&rsquo;s integrity and the honesty of the game be established beyond question.If you see fit to accept this retraction, then I will feel a great responsibility has been taken off my mind.Mr. Selke has also advised me to discontinue writing in any newspaper or other publication during my career as an active player. To this I readily agree. Even though I enjoyed writing these articles at first, they have recently become increasingly difficult because of the emotional strain many of the games exert on me, making it very difficult to write articles containing punch without some parts being objectionable to someone, somewhere.May I repeat that in all of this I have been advised by the Club de Hockey Canadien, but no pressure has been placed on me by either the club or league. I play hockey with every ounce of strength in me. I shall always do so and wish to be just as forthright in making amends when in the wrong.As evidence of good faith I hereby deposit my cheque in the amount of One Thousand Dollars as proof that I mean every word contained in this letter.Should I fail to keep my promise, this thousand dollars is to be lost to me. If you find me worthy of your indulgence I trust it will be returned when I finish as a player.I would like to add that my path in hockey has not been too easy at times because of my temperament. I have o always been an intense competitor, and I would not know how to play otherwise. It is the only way that I can give my best. I am sure that the fans around the circuit are aware of this fact and I trust that this incident will not have any bad effect throughout the remainder of my career.Trusting that you will give my request favourable coideration, I remainRespectfully yours,(Signed) Maurice Richard &#9632;

Rocket’s letter Of Apology!

Montreal, Que.&mdash;Perhaps the most signifigant conclusion to be derived from the ultimate decision in the Richard-Campbell affair is the fact that no one player is big enough to flaunt the authority of the office of the President of the National Hockey League.There can &mdash; as in any other major sport &mdash; be only one governing head &mdash; whose integrety and authority earned him the respect of the league governors who placed him in that position. So far as the National Hockey League is concerned, that person is Clarence Campbell, a former Rhodes scholar and assistant presecuting attorney at the internationally famous Nuremburg trials.Both Frank Selke, General Manager of the Montreal Canadiea organization and a league governor, and other hockey authorities have been high in their praise of the manner in which the affair was handled.Campbell put the decision of what should be done up to the Canadien club officials and at the same time warned that if action was not taken, he, as President of the league, would have to take measures to censure the volatile Richard.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-053/1593554-1-eng-US/f0001-052.jpg" title="f0001-05" width="279" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Clarence Campbell</figcaption></div>Actually it might be considered a break for the Rocket in that Campbell handled it this way. Had he been forced to take action, the President may have had to uphold his position and deal with the seriousness of the charges with a firm, probably precedent-shattering decision.As it was, the Rocket got of with a public apology, the assurance that he would give up hie column for the remainder of his playing days, and the posting of a $1,000 &lsquo;Peace Bond&rsquo;.Campbell at the same time made it clear that the &lsquo;Bond&rsquo; deals strictly with the Rocket&rsquo;s off-the-ice activities and will have no bearing on any possible incidents Richard may become embroiled in on the ice.The completely just and faff manner in which the whole incident was handled by the Presldent is in direct contrast to what Richard averred to in his controversial column. The Rocket had insinuated that Campbell was not fair in his decisions where French-Canadian players were concerned and that he was a &lsquo;Dictator&rsquo;.Campbell certainly proved a big man when facing a big issue. He wasn&rsquo;t dictatorial in this particular case, nor did he punish Richard as strongly as he might have<h2>THE HOCKEY NEWS</h2>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953 at the Post Office at Rouses Point, New York under the Act of March 3rd, 1879 &#9632;

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Richard’s Reprimand Comparatively Light Considering Charges

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0165/1593523-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Henry Gambles To Stop GambleSUGAR SHINES &mdash; With Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; Dick Gamble coming in on him all alone, Boston&rsquo;s Sugar Jim Henry had to gamble. He did, and slid way out of his cage to stop the Hab sniper cold. That&rsquo;s sophomore defenseman Bob Armstrong moving in fast to pick up the rebound and make sure that Gamble doesn&rsquo;t get another chance at a goal.</figcaption></div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY VOL 7 &mdash; No. 17 MONTREAL, JANUARY 23, 1954 PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS<h2>Kelly, Rollins And Reibel Are Leaders In Half-Way Voting For NHL Trophies</h2>MONTREAL, Que.-&mdash;The National Hockey League will present four trophies for outstanding individual achievement at the end of the 1953-54 championship schedule. Each one of these trophies will be accompanied by $1.000 from the NHL. The four trophies are Hart, Lady, Byng Memorial, Calder Memorial and James Norris Memorial. The latter trophy will be awarded for the first time. It is to be presented annually to the regular defense player who demonstrates the greatest all-around ability in that position.A poll conducted by hockey writers and broadcasters from the six NHL cities voted for the top candidates for these trophies at the half-way mark (games up to January 1, 1954) of the current season. Regardless of the number of selectors in each city, the total value of all votes cast is equal in each city.The minimum number of selectors for each city is three, which is the number used in Toronto, Chicago and Detroit.New York had six selectors, Boston had 13 and Montreal 22. Votes have all been tabulated and reduced to a common denominator of 27. This consists of three first-places votes, at five points each, three second-place votes at three points apiece and three third-place votes valued at one point each, for each city.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0257/1593516-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="234" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Reibel</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0334/1593509-1-eng-US/f0001-032.jpg" title="f0001-03" width="239" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rollins</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-047/1593502-1-eng-US/f0001-042.jpg" title="f0001-04" width="231" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kelly</figcaption></div>A player picked as a unanimous choice for any of the trophies would poll 90 points &mdash; 18 first-place votes at five points each.At the half-way mark of the 1953-54 season the selectors picked the leading candidates for the trophies as follows:<h2>Hart Trophy</h2>Al Rollins, Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; ophenomenal netminder, placed first for the Hart Trophy, regarded as the top individual award in the National Hockey League. In topping the pointgetters for the trophy awarded annually to &ldquo;the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team,&rdquo; the tall goalkeeper polled 50 points, 10 more than Red Kelly of Detroit who was runner-up. Gordie Howe of Detroit, winner of this trophy the last two seasons, finished third in the balloting with 22 points.Other players to receive points for this award are Maurice Richard, Canadiens, 20; Harry Lumley, Toronto, 10; Ted Kennedy, Toronto, 5; Milt Schmidt, Boston, 5; Doug Harvey, Canadiens, 3; Ken Mosdell, Canadiens, 3; Bill Gadsby, Chicago, 2; Tod Sloan, Toronto, 1; Harry Watson, Toronto,&rsquo; 1.Camille Henry, Rangers and Butch Bouchard, Canadiens each received one vote, but the value was less than a half of the nearest point in each case and therefore no point was awarded.<h2>Lady Byng Memorial Trophy</h2>Red Kelly, Detroit&rsquo;s smooth and effective defenseman, is out in front in balloting for this trophy which is presented annually to &ldquo;the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability during the season.&rdquo; Kelly, winner of this award last season, polled 50 points. Don (Bones) Raleigh., clever center of the New York Rangers, is second with 31 points, while the veteran Chicago right winger, Billy Mosienko, is third with 21 points.Other players to Teceive points for this award are &ldquo;Ed Sandford, Boston, 13 Sid Smith, Toronto, 12; Paul Ronty, Rangers, 7; Joe Klukay, Boston, 5; Wally Her-gesheimer, Rangers, 5; Ken Mos-dell, Canadiens. 4; Harry Watson, Toronto, 4; Johnny Wilson, Detroit, 3; Camille Henry, Rangers, 3; Woody Dumart, Boston, 1: Butch Bouchard, Canadiens, 1; Bill Dineen, Detroit, 1; Johnny McCormack, Canadiens, 1.Pete Conacher, Chicago, Milt Schmidt, Boston, Gus Bodnar, Chicago and Floyd Curry, Canadiens each received one vote valued at less than half&rdquo; but it was not enough to give them a single point.<h2>Calder Memorial Trophy</h2>Earl (Dutch) Reibel, Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; newest center, broke fast from the barrier and is far ahead in the voting for the trophy which is presented each season to &ldquo;the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition in the National Hockey League.&rdquo; The 23-year-old Reibel polled 61 points in the first-half ballot. Camille Henry of New York Rangers was next with 40 points, while another Detroiter, Bill Dineen, was third with. 31 points.Other players to receive points for this award are Johnny Bower, Rangers, 11; Frank Martin, Boston, 9; Bob Chrystal, Rangers, 4; Ray Gariepy, Boston, 3; Ike Hildebrand, Rangers, 1; Jean Beliveau, Canadiens, 1; Doug Mohns, Boston, 1.<h2>James Norris Memoiial Trophy</h2>In the first-half voting for the National Hockey League&rsquo;s newest trophy, Red Kelly, Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; outstanding defenseman, has a commanding lead. The 2 6-year-old Kelly polled 76 points. Bill Gadsby of the Chicago Black Hawks was picked as the second best defenseman demonstrating the greatest all-round ability in that position. The Chicago captain polled 28 ppints, six more than Canadiens&rsquo; Doug Harvey, who had 22.Other defensemen to receive points for this award are Tim Horton, Toronto, 14; Bob Goldham, Detroit, 5; Jim Thomson, Toronto, 5; Butch Bouchard, Canadiens, 5; Tom Johnson, Canadiens, 2; Bob Armstrong, Boston, 2; Ray Gariepy, Botton, 1; Leo Reise, Rangers, 1; Gus Mortson, Chicago, 1. Frank Martin of Boston received a vote worth less than one-half a point.Points earned by players, at the half-way mark contribute 50 per cent towards the final results of the individual trophy winners. The selections for the second-half will be made immediately following the regular season which ends on Sunday, March 21. &#9632;

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Campbell Repels Challenge of Authority

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;&ldquo;We will not die with an old club! If things don&rsquo;t improve, we will have to replace the players at fault and will most likely go with youngsters.&rdquo; This from Coach Sid Abel in a HOCKEY NEWS article last November after his Chicago Black Hawks got off to a shaky start.Now, hair a season later, he finds the team an apparent holder of a long-term lease In the National Hockey League cellar and himself in a rather awkward position as a result. The Hawks have been able to salvage only a few victories amidst a deluge of defeats.And why hasn&rsquo;t Abel made the promised changes since the club has failed to show much improvement? He undoubtedly still would string along with youngsters, but the fact is that the vets have been more than holding their own in the past few months and, in fact, have outscored the youngsters now with Chicago.Seasoned performers Billy Mosienko, George Gee, Gus Bodnar, Jimmy Peters and Doc Couture, after somewhat of a slow start, have come on to lead the kid contingent of Larry Wilson, Pete Conacher, Lou Jankowski, Murray Costello, Fred Hucul and Jack Price.The so-called old men, as figures show, had rung up 32 goals and 50 assists for 82 points at the 42-game mark. This easily showed better than the 28 goals, 33 assists and 61 points credited to the younger set. The two groups differ in age from an average 30 to about 21 for the rooks.And so Abel must go on with what he&rsquo;s got as long as the veterans continue to come through better than they did at the start and better too than the kids. The younger skaters, although lagging behind the vets as a body, certainly&mdash;in at least a couple of instances&mdash;have promising futures.Pete Conacher is 100 percent improved over last season when he was farmed out by the Hawks to get more pro experience in the American League. He shows the aggressive spirit that made his dad, Charley, and uncle, Lionel, famous and has exhibited plenty of the puck prowess that put another uncle, Roy, in the 200-goal class.Larry Wison, a Detroit cast off, has been a steady regular with Chicago since training camp and has been able to keep pace with brother John who has stuck with the Red Wings. A constant charger, he has been the top Black Hawk scorer from center ice all season.Lou Jankowski and Murray Costello, a junior in amateur ranks a year ago, still have plenty of time to make the grade and have given indications that they have what it takes. Jack Price and Fred Hucul, used both on defense and as forwards, could conceivably find themselves almost anytime.Abel, while still depending to a great extent on his experienced personnel, has had to call on some youthful additions due to the departure of Jim McFadden and Vic Lynn and occasional injuries to others. To this extent, there has been a Windy City movement toward the acquisition of youngsters.Trying on the Injun garb at various stages of the present campaign have been a genuine member of the Cree tribe, Fred Sasakamoose, and others such as Kenny Wharram, Sid Finney and John Sleaver. More kids will probably be tested in the near future as Chicago makes another search for a formula for future success.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01265/1591472-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="543" height="560"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chi VeteranJIMMY PETERS</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Vets Holding Their Own, But Hawks Still Falter

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;As if they didn&rsquo;t have enough troubles, the Boston Bruins will be without the services of Gerry (Mr. Versatility) Toppazzini for a period of ten days on orders from club physician Dr. Thomas Kelley.X-rays showed he has a chipped right elbow. The forward hurt the joint against Chicago here January 10 and was thought to be recovering until he injured it in practice.Defenseman Bob Armstrong also is sidelined with a torn knee ligament suffered January been working out but still is unable to play. He is recovering from a cracked ankle bone suffered in Toronto November 14, when the team lost winger Real Chevrefils for the season with a broken leg. &#9632;

Toppazzini Sidelined

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Pickings for visiting clubs in the National Hockey League this season have been as lean as a cherry tree in January and the Montreal Canadiens, despite their lofty position in the standings, are no exception.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02249/1591534-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="257" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bernie Geoffrion</figcaption></div>In their first 42 games, equally divided between the Forum and outside rinks, the Habs amassed 39 points at the Forum, only 12 on the road.The Chicago Black Hawks, taking advantage of an off night by the Habs, / handed Canadiens their only defeat at home while the Boston Bruins managed to eke out a tie in one engagement. No other team has picked up even a point at the Forum where Canadiens supremacy is firmly established.Actually the Habs have done better in the rinks of their bitterest rivals, the Dertoit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs, than either, of these clubs have done in Montreal.The Wings and Leafs, of course, are wipless at the Forum while the Habs have tie games to their credit against each of those clubs in their own rinks.It is becoming apparent that the race to the wire will be a three-club affair involving the Canadiens, the Leafs and the Wings. Obviously the club that snaps out of its lethargy on the road will be the one to win the NHL title.With Jean Beliveau and Elmer Lach back in action and the Canadiens lines functioning like well-oiled machines, Habs seem to have the best chance to reverse the trend that persisted. all during the first half of the schedule.The highest scoring club in the league, Canadiens piled up 89 goals at home in those first 42 games while scoring only 40 on the road. They averaged more than four goals a game at home, less than two goals a game on the road. Any levelling out process would be disastrous to the Habs&rsquo; rivals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04176/1591527-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="275" height="381"><figcaption class="caption-body">Floyd Curry</figcaption></div>Ken Mosdell and Rocket Richard are the top Montreal scorers on the road with seven goals apiece, followed with Bernie Geoffrion with five. Floyd Curry and Calum MacKay have scored four each in hostile territory. Curry, incidentally, is the only Canadien player with a better record on foreign ice than he enjoys at home while Doug Harvey is a 509 batter &mdash; two goals at home, two away.Incidentally after 42 games Canadiens had scored 37 goals against the Hawks, including 12 in one game, 32 against the Bruins, 26 against the Rangers and 21 against the Leafs. They scored only 13 on the Red Wings, which might indicate that the Wings play harder against Canadiens than they do against any other club because they realize that the Montrealers are the greatest threat to the championship monopoly they have held for five seasons. &#9632;

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Canadiens’ Dismal Road Record Offset By Home Ice Supremacy

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON (The Toronto Telegram)</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;King Clancy, the irrepressible coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, had never in his career encountered a January thaw and so he felt quite safe last week when he boldly declared:&ldquo;January thaw. January shcmaw. This team isn&rsquo;t Aiming for any slump. Hfck, they haven&rsquo;t even reached their peak yet!&rdquo;The following day he herded the Leafs to Montreal where the January thaw set in and they were crushed 7-3 by Canadiens. In their next game, Saturday in Toronto, they played almost as poorly but struggled to tame Boston Bruins 3-2. And the following night on Broadway, New York drew The King another picture of the January thaw by whipping his favorite hockey club 4-1.Only for a moment did The King&rsquo;s effervescent armour sag, while he hunted the reporter who had broached the subject of the January thaw. Then he was as irrepressible as ever. &ldquo;After this stinking week, we&rsquo;re bound to bust out like measles,&rdquo; he chirped. &#9632;

No January Thaw For Toronto Leafs Claims Irrepressible King Clancy

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON(The Toronto Telegram)</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Only a year ago, the Maple Leafs were withering and fluttering hopelessly toward the garbage pile where they wound up the NHL season. Today they persistently hug third place and threaten the leaders with the same personnel.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03228/1591589-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="543" height="559"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOD SLOAN</figcaption></div>Wha&rsquo; hoppened? They simply rebuilt their defenses to produce an unbelievable record of home achievement.The defense record has needed to be good, because it must compensate for a crash in the attack, department. Whereas the Leafs had scored 98 goals in 40 games a year ago, they counted only 84 times this season. So it is only the fact that Harry Lumley has fanned on 38 fewer shots, 69 this season compared to 107 by this time last semester, which has enabled the Maples to gain much ground.Lumley, however, is not the complete story of the new defense. Nor is the vastly improved play of veterans Jim Thomson and Fern Flaman or sophomores Jim Morrison and Tim Horton. Tod Sloan, Rudy Migay, Ted Kennedy and Ron Stewart, with their brilliant fore and back checking from the forward lines have made their contributions too.And the switch in policy can be attributed to coach, King Clancy, whose rise to power has introduced another era of defensive hockey to Toronto. Hap Day had been a defense mastermind and. had won five Stanley Cups that way When he stepped from the bench, Joe Prlmeau moved in with an attacking regime. With the carryover of Day&rsquo;s defense and his own attacking system perfected, Primeau retrieved the cup in his sophomore semester.<h2>Stress Defense</h2>Under Clancy, the defense is once again being stressed. With vocal support from Day, The King has created an extraordinary defensive outfit, which, with what&rsquo;s left of Primeau&rsquo;s attacking system, is responsible for Leafs&rsquo; challenging position in the NHL today.&ldquo;Our attack isn&rsquo;t what it should be,&rdquo; The King concedes. &ldquo;But it only takes one or two top notch goal scorers to change that. Take away Lindsay and Howe from Detroit and you take away 31 goals. Or take away Richard and Geoffrion from Montreal and you take away 45 goals. We haven&rsquo;t got those kind of scorers yet, so we haven&rsquo;t got those kinds of goals. But our boys are just babies yet. In another year or two, you just watch these kids start pushing in that many pucks.&rdquo;So it is without these prolific forwards that the Leafs must rely upon their defense to usher them through this season. And because all of the NHL clubs are showing remarkable ineptitude in scoring on alien ice, the very fact Toronto&rsquo;s defense has been so potent accounts for the incredible home record.Since October 24 the Leafs have maintained a 15-game unbeaten streak on home ice, capturing 2.8 of a possible 30 points. Prior to that they lost only one game, 3-2 to Boston after blowing a two-goal lead which they had established less than five minutes after the start.More extraordinary even than this is the fact that visitors have averaged less than a goal per game on Toronto ice during that unbeaten streak. Only 14 pucks have escaped Lumley in those 15 games as he recorded six of his seven shutouts. During the same period Maples have scored 43 goals.All told, 53 of Toronto&rsquo;s total of 84 goals have been homemade, which only adds to the ignominy of the road record in which 31 goals represent a 1.5 goal-per-game average on tour.Yet the home record at least substantiates the theory of Clancy.If you&rsquo;re playing well on the defense, it seems the breaks always fall your way,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;And if you don&rsquo;t let the other fellow have any goals, one or two breaks is all you need to win.&rdquo;The theory may not be new, but tlie Leafs are thriving on it just as they did when Hay Day piloted them to so many titles.Incidentals &hellip; Lumley&rsquo;s 14-goal bulge on Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk in the Vezina Trophy hunt dwindled to three during a disastrous week in which Leafs were humbled by seven goals in Montreal and four in New York and even relinquished two while beating Boston in Toronto &hellip; In the first mid-season holiday of his career, trainer Tim Daly left last Tuesday for a health vacation In Hot Springs, Ark., &hellip; Toronto captain Ted Kennedy was guest speaker at a Sportsman&rsquo;s banquet in Buffalo, designed to aid the March of Dimes campaign &hellip; During the 4-1 humiliation in New York, rookie Bob Bailey suffered aggravation of the skate gash scar he sustained earlier this season &hellip; He remained active, however, so that the Leafs enjoyed their longest period of the season at full strength &hellip; Three New York Ranger coaches attended the Toronto torture in New York &hellip; They were Neil Colville, the coach of Rangers past, Frank Boucher, the coach of Rangers present, and Muzz Patrick, the coach of Rangers future. &#9632;

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Leaf Offensive Record Down But Defensive Makes It Up

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;While everyone was trying to figure out just how Maurice (The Rocket) Richard might get punished for his by-lined nose-thumbing of hockey authority, some interesting light was thrown on the matter here in Detroit.Right or wrong&mdash;and he was wrong of course in popping off at NHL President Clarence Campbell&mdash;Richard still remained the most colorful player and biggest gate attraction in the game.It was just two days after the Rocket&rsquo;s latest headlined escapade when he came in with the Montreal Canadiens to play the Red Wings. The largest crowd in several seasons jammed Olympia and there was evidence that it was the Rocket who had lured them.True, first place was at stake. But there had been four previous games here of equal signifigance and the biggest crowd for any of those was some 1,300 smaller.It was impossible to tell how many of the 15,038 fans turned out just because of Richard, but patrons had not before lined up for two hours in freezing weather outside the building just for the chance to get standing-room ducats.Probably it&rsquo;s a sad commentary on hockey that a distasteful incident such as Richard&rsquo;s story should pack in more fans. But pack &lsquo;em in, it did.There had been guesswork that Richard&rsquo;s punishment might be an order to apologize, a fine, a demand to put up a &ldquo;peace&rdquo; bond or even suspension. Or a combination of those penalties.That possibility of suspension appeared out of line, in view of what happened here. In circles where they think money is important and big crowds desireable, they&rsquo;d call it killing off a good thing.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02220/1591651-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="541" height="773"><figcaption class="caption-body">ApologizedMAURICE RICHARD</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Richard’s Magic Monicker Works Wonders Around NHL As Crowds Flock To See Him

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;For a fellow sports writer, a member of the same hockey-writing fraternity, Rocket Richard was a mighty unfriendly compatriot.Richard was arriving here just a couple of days after his piece about Clarence Campbell landed him on the griddle. So this writer, who has been in hot water a few times too over what&rsquo;s been in the papers, dropped around to Michigan Central depot to chat a bit.Figured to swap a few yarns, inquire few things were going back on the old Samedi-Dimanche and the like. Might even sneak in a beer or two it Dick Irvin wasn&rsquo;t looking.But Rocket staged a greeting colder than anything even Jockey Fleming gets.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03148/1591706-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="273" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marshall Dann</figcaption></div>Spotting us, our photographer in tow, Richard ducked behind a couple of teammates and headed off on an angle.Modest, that boy really modest. Real humility considering his latest column had been picked up by all the wire services and was making front-page news all acros&rsquo;s Canada and even in the border states.Wanting to be a proper host and set a visiting scribe at ease, we tagged along and finally found Richard again. This was something of a problem, for he was well-concealed, crouched behind that giant, Jean Beliveau, as they waited for a cab.&ldquo;I say nothing,&rdquo; Richard snarled back at us, those big black eyebrows bristling so you could tell he meant it. Which ended that little chat.Maybe this whole thing should be called to the atteution of the Montreal Press Club. Elmer. Ferguson, Dink Carroll, Baz O&rsquo;Meara, Vern DeGeer, Vince Lunny and the rest of the gang ought to know we did our best to make him welcome in these parts. And got snubbed for it. &#9632;

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Dann Gets Frigid Greeting From Fellow Scribe

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01264/1591620-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Situation Under ControlClarence Campbel&hellip; &hellip;The Case is Closed</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;To coin an appropriately bilingual phrase, l&rsquo;affaire Richard is tout fini. And out of the welter of diatribes and recriminations there has emerged peace and tranquility in the National Hockey League.The inlcdent was precipitated When Maurice Richard, as fiery in ink as he is on ice, accused the NHL President of discriminating against Bernie Geoffrion, participant with Ron Murphy in a stick-swinging duel in New York, because the Montreal player is a Frenclw-speaking player.He also called President Clarence Campbell a dictator and accused him of not meting out the same brand of justice to Other clubs in the league.Throughout the whole affair Campbell conducted himself with decorum and judicial calm. Frank Selke, managing director of the Canadiens, also acted wisely in effecting reconciliation and helping to bring the unpleasantness to a close on a note of harmony.And, in the end, even Richard gained in stature by acting like a gentleman and being sincerely anxious to &ldquo;undo any barm that has been done.&rdquo;As evidence of good faith he posted a $1,000 bond with the league and, in a letter to Campbell, he said &ldquo;should I fail to keep my promise, this $1,000 is to be lost to me. If you find me worthy of your indulgence, I trust it will be returned when I finish as a player.&rdquo;After retiring as a columnist for Samedi-Dimanche, a Montreal French-language weekly, the Rocket apologized to Campbell and to the NHL Governors for statements he made in print.Selke also issued a statement in which, he said, &ldquo;I am deeply gratified that Mr. Campbell and Maurice Richard have come out Of this unfortunate affair with a better understanding of each other. Maurice made a mistake and he had to be censured.&ldquo;To my mind Richard is the greatest name in hockey.&ldquo;Thousands of boys all over Canada and the United States have made him their idol and we want Maurice to continue to merit that high regard.&ldquo;Mr. Campbell has once again proved himself an understanding judge and I hope all fans will appreciate his attitude as well as the Rocket and myself.&rdquo;Campbell considers the incident closed. As he said earlier, he has nothing but regard and admiration for Richard as a hockey player and the bond posted by the Canadien right winger will apply only to the latest affair. It will have no bearing on any trouble the Rocket may get into on the ice.Chatting with newspaper men after releasing the text of the letter, Campbell said that when the column first appeared he had indicated to officials of Canadiens it was their responsibility to do something about it.He feels, he said, the club discharged its responsibility fully.Richard, announcing his retirement as a columnist, complained bitterly that he had been denied freedom of speech, the right of every person in a democratic country.&ldquo;This is my last column as a newspaperman,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;I am sorry because it gave me pleasure to express my personal opinions about hockey matters.&ldquo;This right is now refused me. I no longer have freedom of speech. As a hockey player I am obliged to obey the orders of my employers. I make no judgment on their decision, leaving that to my friends.Samedi-Dimanche supported the player&rsquo;s claim that he had been denied freedom of speech. Splashed across the front page in type as high as a goalie&rsquo;s stick was the headline &ldquo;Richard Gagged.&rdquo;An accompanying statement by the management of the paper said, &ldquo;Richard was hired as a journalist, not as a hockey player. As a columnist he had the benefit of freedom of speech enjoyed by all his colleagues in our free and democratic country.&rdquo;Two days before Richard decided to leave the field of writing to the professional journalists, Bernie Geoffrion wound up a similar stint in Parlons-Sport, another French-language weekly published in Montreal.In his farewell column the Boomer, who was suspended for eight games against the Rangers for his part in the stick-swinging episode, said. &ldquo;I thought it proper for Richard to defend me because he has always been on my side when I am right.&rdquo;It appears now that neither Richard nor Geoffrion were ordered to quit writing. Rather they were advised to do so by Selke.&ldquo;Even though I enjoyed writing at first,&rdquo; Richard said the other day, &ldquo;the columns became increasingly difficult to handle because of the emotional strain many of the games exert on me. I play hockey with every ounce of strength in me. I shall always do so and I am just as forthright in making amends when I am wrong.&rdquo;So, with the affair closed, the Rocket can concentrate now on retaining his hold the right wing berth on the all-star team, wrenched from Gordie Howe in the first half of the season. And he can make a determined bid to win the Hart Trophy as the most valuable man in the league. &#9632;

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It’s Hockey Only Now As Rocket Pockets Pen

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll (As Seen in the Montreal Gazette)</div><h2>The All-Star Selections</h2>It develops that we voted for all the players who made the AllStar teams, though we had Al Rollins on the first team and Harry Lumley on the second team.The selections had to be made a while ago, which was before the game here when Canadiens beat Rollins for 12 goals. But that game wouldn&rsquo;t have influenced our judgment. We remember a night in New York when the Rangers fired nine pucks past Bill Durnan, who was then at his peak. But Canadiens were so bad that night that Coach Dick Irvin ordered two of them to take off their uniforms at the end of the second period.A goalkeeper needs a lot of help from the fellows in front of him. Even a great one can look very ordinary if he doesn&rsquo;t get it.There can&rsquo;t be any argument with Red Kelley&rsquo;s election to the first team, even though King Clancy says he isn&rsquo;t as good as he was four or five years ago. Other coaches like Frank Boucher and Lynn Patrick have said more than once that he is the best all-around hockey player in the league.We imagine he will also win the new James S. Norris Trophy, which goes to the best defenceman. He plays about 45 minutes of every game, takes his regular turn on the ice, kills off penalties and is on for the power play. He is rarely sick or hurt and he gets so few penalties that he is usually a contender for the Lady Byng Trophy.Year after year the leads the defensemen in scoring and he is sound defensively. We have heard it said that he was on the ice for many of the goals scored against his team, but he would have to be if only because he is out there so much. He is a fine skater and an excellent puck-carrier, a guy who can take the pressure off his goalkeeper and transfer it to the other netminder by breaking out of his own defensive zone and carrying the puck the length of the ice.<h2>A Matter of Temperament</h2>We don&rsquo;t think there can be any quarrel with the choice of Doug Harvey for the other defense spot on the first team. There are nights when Doug can do anything that Red Kelly can do, but he doesn&rsquo;t have them as frequently as the Detroit player.Kelly is something of a leader, a fellow who can rally his teammates. Dick Irvin has tried to develop the same quality in Harvey, though he hasn&rsquo;t had much success. A few years ago he kept insisting that where Canadiens finished in the race depended solely on Doug, which we thought was Dick&rsquo;s way of sticking a pin in him. But it&rsquo;s stricly a matter of temperament. If Doug had Rocket Richard&rsquo;s fire and drive, he&rsquo;d walk right out of the league.Some may think Bill Gadsby belongs on the first team, but he isn&rsquo;t the skater and puck-carrier that the other two are. Tim Horton is an up-and-coming young defenseman, but he hasn&rsquo;t yet achieved the stature of Kelly and Harvey. In another year he may be right up with them.It&rsquo;s nice to see Ken Mosdell on the first team, after all these years. For several seasons he functioned strictly as a defensive centre whose chore it was to keep Milt Schmidt and other star pivotmen from scoring. But this year he seems to be skating faster than ever and, paired with the Rocket and Bert Olmstead, he has demonstrated that he can set up plays and do some scoring on his own.His closest rivals are Tod Sloan and young Dutch Reibel. Sloan can skate and set up plays, but even King Clancy admits that he doesn&rsquo;t know what to do when he finds himself alone with the goalkeeper. Reibel, the Detroit rookie, looks better in the scoring statistics than he does on the ice. He is teamed with Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay, which means that he picks up a lot of assists. No one will know just how good he is until he has been around a couple of years.<h2>Back Where He Belongs</h2>Only one vote separated Rocket Richard and Gordie Howe for the right wing berth, but there wasn&rsquo;t any doubt in our mind that the Rocket had priority. He got away fast this season and we can remember what Frank Selke said after the fifth or sixth game:&ldquo;I hope he keeps up the pace and gets back on the All-Star team where he belongs.&rdquo;He has been the big noise in the league, on the ice and in the newspapers, through the first half of the season. There is only one Rocket and there isn&rsquo;t anyone around who comes close to matching him for drama and color, or for competitive spirit. He is so emotional that he gets into one jam after another, but if he weren&rsquo;t like that he wouldn&rsquo;t be the great hockey player that he is.There isn&rsquo;t any doubt about Gordie Howe&rsquo;s mechanical ability, but he lacks the Rocket&rsquo;s flare and drive. Sometimes he appears to be almost lackadaisical. This is a quality that has been known to irk Jack Adams at times and the Red Wings&rsquo; general manager has been heard to mutter threats about &ldquo;building a fire under the big guy.&rdquo; He is a slow starter and it&rsquo;s possible that he will be the big gun at right wing in the second half of the schedule, especially if the Rocket finds himself in trouble.Ted Lindsay&rsquo;s consistency earns him the left wing berth, though he is being challenged by Ed Sandford. The most improved player in the league along that rail is Canadiens&rsquo; Calum MacKay, but a wrenched knee now threatens to slow him up.The various trophy winners have yet to be announced, but we imagine Al Rollins, Red Kelly and the Rocket will all have some support for the Hart. All three mean a lot to their teams. Red Kelly (there&rsquo;s that man again) has won the Lady Byng Trophy twice and he may win it again, but other names you hear as possible contenders are Harry Watson and Bones Raleigh. &#9632;

playing the field

<div class="byline">By FRANK GRAHAM(As Seen in the New York Journal-American)</div><h2>Boucher And Another Patrick</h2>Some day somebody is going to write a history on the Rangers. When he does, he may be surprised&hellip; unless, of course, he&rsquo;s an old-timer around here&hellip; by the recurrences of the names of Patrick and Boucher in such files as they may have in Madison Square Garden. He may further be surprised to discover that while there were three Patricks &hellip; Lester, Lynn and Murray, or Muzz &hellip; there was only one Boucher.Frank Boucher, giving way to Muzz Patrick as coach of the Rangers to roam once again the Canadian provinces from the Maritimes to British Columbia in quest of hockey players that conceivably may recapture the glory that the Rangers once knew, was one of the original Blue Shirts; as the Rangers then were known, away back in 1926. It must torture him sometimes, remembering those nights, not only for the players but for all those who went to sethem play.The Rangers, as you may or may not know, were not the first major league hockey club in New York. First was the Americans, owned and operated by Bill Dwyer, who bought the Hamilton, Ont., franchise in the then expanding National Hockey League and transferred it to this town. Most of the players Bill unveiled here went with the franchise. The others, such as Joe Simpson and Edmond Bouchard, were picked up here and there. Simpson, for instance, in Saskatoon, Bouchard in Three Rivers. That was in 1925.The Madison Square Garden Corporation had looked with a jaundiced eye on professional hockey as an attraction and would not risk so much as a penny on its introduction here. It was, however, perfectly willing to lease the Garden to Dwyer on specified nights and on outrageous terms, the idea being to let Bill have his fun, since he could afford to pay for it. Perhaps to the surprise of the Garden, the enterprise was an immediate success.<h2>Then, in 1926, Came the Rangers</h2>Some say &hellip; and some don&rsquo;t&hellip; that there was a tacit agreement between Bill and the Garden that, for good or ill, the Garden ice belonged to the Americans, at least for the duration of the contract he had signed. At any rate, in 1926, the Garden put its own team on the same ice.It was called the Rangers, and the Rangers were the brain children of one Col. Hammond, then high in the Garden brass. He commissioned Connie Smythe to gather the players, then brought Lester Patrick out of the Canadian Northwest to coach them, and one of them was Frank Boucher.Frank had been a Mountie. He&rsquo;d worn the red coat and he&rsquo;d worked in plain clothes, too, as he&rsquo;d tracked his men through the northern wastes and the northern cities. But he&rsquo;d been a hockey player also, as most Canadian kids are as soon as they&rsquo;re old enough to lace on boots and hold a stick, and he&rsquo;d quit the Mounties and was playing professional hockey when Smythe caught up with him.<h2>Frankie Got Results Without Bloodshed</h2>Frank was in good company when he skated out on the Garden ice for his first game here in the late fall of 1926. He was at center and on one side of him was Bill Cook and, on the other side, Bill&rsquo;s kid brother, Bun. Behind him, as defense men, were Ching Johnson and Taffy Abel and, in the nets, Lome Chabot. On the bench was Lester Patrick, a great player in the time that he had the boots on, and a great coach in the time he was here.There is no use going over again the great years of the Rangers, in which they stole away the popularity of the Americans and went on to the towering heights the Americans never reached. But in those years Frank Boucher became a center such as the league seldom has known, and a darling of the Garden gallery gods and of the rich folk in the promenade seats as well.His skating, his stick handling, were superb. In one of hockey&rsquo;s roughest eras, when players were knocking each other down all over the ice and the crash of a head or the thud of a body on the ice or against the side boards was sweeter music to the ears of the screaming crowds than even the music of Joe Bassile&rsquo;s band, Frankie was always the gentleman. Didn&rsquo;t he always &hellip; or almost always&hellip; win the Lady Byng Trophy, given annually to the player who did the most for his side while shedding the least blood on the other, and spending the least time, or no time at all, in the penalty box He did. But all the while he was taking the puck away from the enemy with the guile and smoothness of a cannon picking the pockets of yokels at a country fair, and whisking it past the enemy goaltender or slipping it to Bill or Bun.<h2>If He Does As Well For This Patrick</h2>He&rsquo;s had a hard job, Frankie has, trying to coach the Rangers this season and look for recruits at the same time. He gave up the coaching with obvious relief and now will try to help Muzz Patrick as, in years gone by, he helped Muzz&rsquo;s brother, Lynn, and Muzz&rsquo;s old man, Lester.If he does as well for this Patrick as he did for the others, this possibly loneliest of tire Rangers will do all right. He must know, as he hits the trail again, that a lot of guys around here wish him astonishing good luck. &#9632;

Graham’s Corner

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01285/1591785-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">It&rsquo;s Hard To Derail This Diesel</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;For nearly two decades a junior-sized hockey rink used to make its appearance each winter in the spacious yard of the Mohns family in Capreol, Ontario.The rink was a home-made affair with a foot-high retaining wall, handmade nets and icemaking equipment consisting of a rain barrel and a connecting hose.On the rink the four Mohns boys, Harold, Elroy, Raymond and Douglas &mdash; plus the neighborhood kids &mdash; learned to skate and play hockey.Today the skills which he acquired in his own back yard are being illustrated by Doug, the youngest of the brothers, as a rookie left wing for the Boston Bruins.There are major league athletes who have been virtually rear. ed in the sports at which they have become proficient, but few to such an extent as Mohns.The apple-cheeked youngster is a National League rookie at the age of 19, and he has been skating for 16 of his 19 years. Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins thinks he can skate faster than any other player in the league.Doug has been living on the ice, so to speak, since the age of three, and for instructions in both skating and hockey he never had to leave his yard; he had his older brothers.&ldquo;The rink wasn&rsquo;t a big one but It was big enough for a good game of shinny,&rdquo; he recalls, &ldquo;and It is one of my earliest recollections, because Harold and Elroy, the two oldest brothers, were playing on it before I was born.&ldquo;They had me skating when I was three, first on a pair of double-runners, and Harold taught me the fundamentals of hockey. He was a good player, good enough to play with a Junior B team in Barrie during the 1948-49 season.&ldquo;That year that he was at Barrie I used to visit him, and I remember skating between periods of the Barrie games.&rdquo;<h2>Stuck Close To Home</h2>Doug, 16 years younger than Harold, stuck close to home during his formative years in the game which is now his business, leaving for the first time for his final season in juvenile competition, amd even then he didn&rsquo;t go far. He joined a Sudbury team &mdash; and met Harold &ldquo;Baldy&rdquo; Cotton.The fabulous chief talent scout of the Bruins had heard about the fleet boy from Capreol, which is also the home town of Pistol Pete Horeck, a Bruin of recent vintage. One slippery night he came to see for himself.&ldquo;We were playing in Falkenbridge that night,&rdquo; remembers Doug, &ldquo;and I was fortunate enough to score two goals in a game which we won, 4 to 2. The next morning I picked up the paper and read where Mr. Cotton had been In an automobile accident after the game.&rdquo;Cotton left the Falkenbrldge rink in the car of a friend, and as they drove along the friend suddently became ill. Before Cotton could help the car swerved off the road, narrowly missing a light pole, and piled into a ditch.Nothing was damaged but the Bald Eagle&rsquo;s composure, and he regained that sufficiently the next morning to place Mohns&rsquo; name on the Bruins&rsquo; list.<h2>Played For Barrie</h2>The following fall Mohns journeyed to Barrie to play for the Junior B team which served as a farm club for the Junior A Flyers. That spring (1951) he was summoned to the Barrie &ldquo;varsity&rdquo; for the Memorial Cup playoffs, which the Flyers won.From then until he joined the Bruins at Hershey last September Mohns was under the guidance of Leighton &ldquo;Happy&rdquo; Emms, whose 1950-51 Flyers have since provided the National league with Real Chevrefils, Leo LaBine and Jerry Toppazzini of the Bruins and Jim Morrison of Toronto.&ldquo;He did a great deal for me,&rdquo; says Doug in speaking of his junior coach. &ldquo;Most of all he taught me a lot of things about shooting, and besides that, I had the pleasure of playing on two of his Memorial Cup champions. That was a great start for me.&rdquo;Most of those who saw Mohns at Barrie promptly stamped him potential major league material. Cotton, a professional observer, for two years termed him &ldquo;the best forward prospect in our system.&rdquo;LaBine, a shrewd young fellow, also retains a strong early impression of his two-time teammate, saying, &ldquo;The first time I saw him at Barrie I thought he could play Junior A Instead of Junior B. Why it was nothing for him to score three or four goals a game in that B league. He was nearly as big and just as fast as he is now.<h2>Won Big Game</h2>&ldquo;The spring when he came up for the Memorial Cup playoffs, I remember, he won a game for us, the first we played in Toronto against Jean Beliveau&rsquo;s Citadels. Doug didn&rsquo;t play regularly, but Hap put him out there on a line with Don Emms and Topper with the score tied, 2 to 2. He blew in one of his bullets from 40 feet to break the tie and we eventually won, 6 to 3.&rdquo;The only present National league rookie whom Patrick rates over Mohns as a long-run prospect Is Beliveau, yet the Bruins&rsquo; coach has made no effort to push his aggressive protege for rookie-of this-year honors.That attitude is in keeping with a pre-season statement in which he said, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s making the big jump from junior hockey to the NHL, and not many players can make it. I&rsquo;m going to make things as easy as I can for him until he gains the experience he needs. He&rsquo;ll be brought along without pressure.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Early Training Paid Off In NHL Contract

Young Doug Mohns has had his share of surprises during his rapidly developing hockey career, but none as great as winning a position with the Boston Bruins in his first year of professional hockey.&ldquo;When I reported to the training camp at Hershey last tall the farthest thing from my mind was playing for the Bruins immediately,&rdquo; he confessed. &ldquo;I thought I&rsquo;d be lucky if I could win a job with the Hershey Bears.&rdquo;A six-foot 180-pounder, Mohns has played left wing almost exclusively this season, but like most of his Bruins&rsquo; teammates he has a background of versatility. As a junior he played both left and right wing, center and defense. &#9632;

Signing Surprised the Diesel

Coach Lynn Patrick of the Boston Bruins has already nominated 19-year old Doug Mohns as the National League&rsquo;s fastest skater, and a poll of opposing goal-tenders would probably place the rookie forward among the league&rsquo;s hardest shooters.One of the first goalies to sample a Mohns special was Terry Sawchuk of Detroit, on the Red Wings&rsquo; first visit here last fall.After a game in which he had been forced into a spectacular split to block a Mohns shot from mid-ice, Sawchuk exclaimed:&ldquo;Where did he ever get that shot If I hadn&rsquo;t been W&rsquo;atching him qlosely he would have beaten me from the middle of the rink.&rdquo;Mohns carried a modest five-goal total Into mid-January, but three of the five were scored from long range. His longest was probably the 45-footer with which he beat Gerry McNeil tn a game in Montreal. &#9632;

Mohns Boasts Terrific Shot!

<div class="byline">By Ken Mc Kenzie</div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded Octobet 1, 1947By Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will. V. CotePublished Weekly, except monthly May through September by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY 301 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West.Montreal 25, Que.Yearly Subscription Rates $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.Entered as second-class matter. October 3, 1903 at the Post Office at Rouses Point, W.Y., under the Act of March 3rd. 1879. Authorised as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa.Member of the Audit Bureau of CirculationsPrinted In CanadaVOL 7 MONTREAL, JANUARY 23,1954 No. 17<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01356/1591885-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="388" height="408"></div>&bull; RED STOREY lost four teeth when a flailing stick by Ed Sandford struck him across the mouth in a recent game in Boston&hellip; It was purely an accident and Red took the loss of the four choppers in stride&hellip; Is there anything else he could do?&hellip; Jimmy Peters has missed a few of the Chicago Black Hawks games due to a swollen big toe&hellip; Hammy Moore, trainer of the Boston Bruins, now has his own banner hung from the gallery at the Boston Garden. First time we&rsquo;ve ever heard of a banner for a trainer. He must be popular&hellip; Matt Dineen, father of Detroit&rsquo;s outstanding rookie, Bill Dineen, onceplayed for the Montreal Maroons&hellip; Ross Lowe of Victoria scored one or more goals in six straight games recently in the Western Hockey League before being stopped by Saskatoon. The WHL record for consecutive goal scoring by a player is eight games&hellip; Seattle Bombers have lost 13 games in the WHL by a one goal margin&hellip; Vancouver Canucks, on the other hand, have-won 13 games by one goal.&hellip; Pete Conacher is the most improved forward on the Black Hawks this season. He still has a long way to go to enter the star category, but he seems well on the way and has improved tremendously over a year ago&hellip; More than one NHL coach thinks Ed Sandford has a good chance to dislodge Ted Lindsay from the left whig slot on the NHL All-Star Team. It all depends on how he finishes the season. Liudsay is usually a strong finisher, just like his linemate, Gordon Howe.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02243/1591878-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="267" height="404"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ross Lowe</figcaption></div>o OLD-TIMERS around Madison Square Garden are comparing Camille Henry, the 135-pound Ranger rookie, to Aurel Joliat, former great left winger with Montreal Canadiens&hellip; Henry has yet to take a regular turn on a line throughout an entire game since he came into the NHL&hellip; Rangers have three of the best forechecking centers in hockey on their roster at the moment in Paul Ronty, Don Raleigh and Edgar Laprade&hellip; Jean Belveru is starting to assert himself more each game. He was pushedaround a little when he started out this season but the big boy with the big reputation is commencing to let opposing players know he means business and can look out for himself&hellip; Harry Howell, Ranger defenseman, appears to have regained his confidence, which has been missing from his play so far this season&hellip; The New York Rangers Fan Club presented Ron Murphy with a box of cigars and a pair of loud red ski pyjamas when he was in the hospital&hellip; There are many keen hockey fans among baseball&rsquo;s major league heroes. Among them are Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola, both catchers and pals since their days on the &lsquo;Hill&rdquo; in St. Louis, Eddie Stanky and Steve O&rsquo;Neil, managers, and umpires Bill Stewart and Artie Gore &hellip; Milt Schmidt hopes to shatter Hit Clapper&rsquo;s record for most goals during regular scheduled play by a member of the Boston Bruins. Clapper scored 228 tallies for the Bruins, while Milt&rsquo;s total is 221. Milt already holds the record for both most points and most assists by a Bruin player.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03158/1591871-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="278" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Camille Henry</figcaption></div>&bull; HARRY LEMLEY has received more penalty minutes than any other&rsquo;goalkeeper in history&hellip; He was penalized a total of 19 minutes one season while playing for Detroit, and one of the penalties was a major for fighting&hellip; Blond Glen Skov, tall Detroit center, is of Danish extraction&hellip; Ace Bailey, former Toronto star, is now making his home in the Queen City and is associated with an industrial laundry firm&hellip; Attendance is so poor at Saturday night games in Ottawa that Tommy Gorman is thinking of switching some of the games to another night&hellip;Attendance is down 41 per cent over last year at Ottawa&hellip; Buddy O&rsquo;Connor will act as a linesman in the Quebec Hockey League for the remainder of the season&hellip; Jackie Price, rookie Chicago player, is playing left wing instead of defense now and is earning a reputation for himself as one of the best checking wingers in the loop&hellip; Red Kelly plays almost 40 minutes of every Red Wing game &hellip; Lynn Patrick rates Kelly the best player In the NHL. .. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the fellow who makes those Red Wings go,&rdquo; claims Patrick&hellip;, &ldquo;Without him Detroit would never have won five straight titles. He&rsquo;s the fellow who leads the attack dnd the boy who breaks up the opposition&rsquo;s rushes&rdquo;&hellip; Ron Stewart of the Leafs had the distinction of playing for four different junior clubs in 1951-52&hellip; He started the season with Toronto Marlboros. After 21 games he was traded to Windsor, and after playing two games for Windsor he was sent to Barrie, where he played 39 games. From Barrie he travelled to Guelph. He finished the season with the Biltmores.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04114/1591864-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="278" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Stewart</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05105/1591916-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>Attendances Up</h2>Dear Sirs,Although It was regrettable and all that, has anyone stopped to notice that since the Murphy-Geoffrion scrap, the attendances have been away up in New York?This would seem to point out the fact that New York fans do not want hockey, they want mayhem. If it takes a good fight to draw them in, then hockey is certainly in a sad state of affairs.Just to Illustrate my point, the next time the Montreal Canadiens played there, January 3, the biggest crowd in more than two years was on hand. 15,183 fans were there and almost all for one reason&mdash;to see if there would be any more fireworksIf the fans there would forget about the fights and just come out and support the Rangers, who have a good, young, hustling club, I am sure they would grow to know and love hockey for what it is, a great game and not a public brawl;Anthony Beroldi. Toronto, Ont.<h2>He No Like</h2>Dear Sirs,I enjoy reading your paper as much as I enjoy watching an NHL game. But there is one thing I really deplore. It is the lack of uniformity (or you may call it lack of integrity) from the official scorers.I sincerely believe these men appointed by the NHL should alternate in the same manner as the referees. It would be an increase in cost but it might bring in more fans to the games.The big Detroit line gains many assists from the goals scored by their great defenseman Red Kelly, but this would be offset if the Canadien&rsquo;s big line was treated in the same generous manner on Geoffrion&rsquo;s numerous goals, while playing the &ldquo;point&rdquo; on power plays.I don&rsquo;t intend to take anything away from this great Red Wing trio, but surely the situation should be remedied. When you take up The Sporting News and consult the averages you have a fair idea of who are the best hitters, pitchers or defensive players but that cannot be said about the standings in the NHL.Most people go by the averages and therefore in this case have a false opinion. I hope you print my letter so that fans may wonder why in Detroit an average of 1-91 assists per goal is graciously accorded to their first line while in Montreal an average of only 1.06 is given.Eddy DeJean.Verdun, Que.<h2>QHL Stuff</h2>Dear Sirs,I am a steady reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS and enjoy especially the stories on the Quebec Hockey League.Man, has a race ever been so elose? The position of the teams changes from day to day and if a team loses two games on a weekend, they can drop almost right into the cellar. Every club is a contender, even the Springfield Indians who seem to lack only consistency.Keep up the good work with The Hockey News and keep those QHL stories coming.Charles Jones. Ottawa, Ont.<h2>Bison Bits</h2>Dear Sirs,I notice that almost every AHL story you have is about either Providence, Hershey or Pittsburgh.How about some stories on the Buffalo Bisons who have led the league all season. I would like to see a story on Gaye Stewart in the near future.Joyce Allison. Buffalo, N.Y.(See Issue January 16 (last week). There are two articles on the Bisons by Jack Horrigan. More will follow.)<h2>Trader</h2>Dear Sirs,Have been a reader of your widly read paper since its very first issue and look forward to receiving it each week.I have noticed in the last few issues where fans are interested in exchanging hockey photos etc. and I for one would like to join in. I have had several letters printed in your &ldquo;Fan Forum&rdquo; requesting hockey fans from the Dominion and the US. to send me photos. I still need some and this idea of an exchange club would be fine.I myself would be interested either in exchanging or purchasing any of the following photos of hockey stars: Corb Denneney, Sprague Cleghorn, Reg. Noble, Ken Randall, Billy Boucher, Duke Keats, Frank Finnigan, Erie Pettinger, Wildor Laroehelle, Lolo Couture, Buzz Boll, Tommy Gorman, Frank Foyston, M.J. &ldquo;Bill&rsquo; Phillips, Gus Mortson, Nick Wasnie, Art Lesleur, Bill MacKenzie, Doug Young, Russell Bowie, Donald Bain, Mike Grant, F. &ldquo;Moose&rsquo; Goheen, Billy Burch, Herb Gardiner, Didier Pitre. Jack Darragh, Harold Darragh and Carson Cooper. I&rsquo;m interested too in securing team photos, perhaps some interested hockey fan anywhere could help me. Drop me a line anyway perhaps we can help each other. I have many photos I could offer in exchange.Trust Sirs, you can spare me the space in your fine hockey paper and to hear from many hockey fans anywhere.My address is 5 Smith Ave., St. John&rsquo;s, Nfld.E. Robert Hamlyn. St. John&rsquo;s, Nfld.<h2>Liked Caption</h2>Dear Sirs,The caption on the picture of Bob Goldham on the ice on Page 1 of THE HOCKEY NEWS (January 9) was one of the best I&rsquo;ve seen yet I refer to &lsquo;There&rsquo;s Goldham in Them Thar Spills.&rsquo;Whoever your caption editor is, allow me to congratulate him. That&rsquo;s what I call sports coverage with a chuckle. By the way, who is this punster?David Strike.Montreal, Que.(We keep that fellow locked up in a room with a typewriter. Every now and then he raps on the door and hands out one of the gems to which you refer Unfortunately we&rsquo;ve had him locked up so long, we&rsquo;ve even forgotten what he looks like, let alone his name. Actually though, the man responsible was Fred Roberts.) &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

Subscribers are requested to advise us as soon as possible regarding change of address. When notifying us please include your old address as well as the new one. If possible kindly return old address label as this will greatly facilitate our records and will assure you of prompt delivery at your new address. &#9632;

IMPORTANT NOTICE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0691/1591971-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="594" height="269"></div><h2>January 27 to February 2</h2>30&mdash;IVAN, Tommy, Detroit coach, 1911.2&mdash;HICKEY, Les, Vancouver forward, 1921. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday To You

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash; It&rsquo;s doubtful that Muzz Patrick will forget his first week-end in the big town as coach of the Rangers. The events piled up with a swift and dramatic impact and the Big Bear was enjoying himself so much that he kept saying: &ldquo;This is for me. It&rsquo;s a wonderful setup. I&rsquo;m gonna move the family East. Things are really humming.&rdquo;The news of his appointment had inspired a splash of publicity such as no hockey figure had received hereabouts in a long time. Even before he got to town, there were columns by Dan Parker, Arthur Daley and Frank Graham; not to mention the one by Jimmy Powers, who had called the shot. Everybody remembered Muzz as a great athlete and they were happy to see him coming back.He landed at LaGuardia Field at 11:45 a.m. of a Saturday after flying all night from the Seattle Tacoma airport on two hours of sleep. But if he was tired, you couldn&rsquo;t tell by the enthusiasm he generated. Met at the airport by publicist Herb Goren, Muzz said he had already been studying the Ranger schedule, noted the extended road trip and was looking forward to the three straight games with the Bruins.&ldquo;Those are the ones I want to win,&rdquo; he said.It was obvious that Muzz was aware of the re-awakening of Ranger-Bruin rivalry.&ldquo;Gotta keep my self-respect in the Patrick family,&rdquo; he went on. &ldquo;If I don&rsquo;t beat Lynn, what&rsquo;s my mother gonna think of me?When Muzz arrived at Madison Square Garden half an hour later, he was welcomed not only by the players and reporters but eight photographers. The pictures came first. Muzz posed with goalie Johnny Bower, whom he had never met before, and later with Bower and Frank Boucher. Frank put his own Ranger jacket, around Muzz and buttoned it as the camera men worked away in relays, and everybody got a laugh out of it.&ldquo;Take the right side of my face,&rdquo; Muzz, asked the photogs. &ldquo;The other side&rsquo;s been cut up a bit.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01307/1592002-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="585" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sat InNEIL COLVILLE</figcaption></div><h2>Scribes Take Over</h2>Then the reporters took over. Muzz was asked if he would coach the team the following night. He said he didn&rsquo;t think so, that be would prefer to watch them from afar and form his own opinions. Boucher, sitting nearby, nodded in agreement.&ldquo;If I were Muzz,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d want to do the same thing.&rdquo;There were other questions and then Muzz excused himself so that he could confer privately with Boucher for the first time. Later he held a player meeting and, judged by the laughter heard outside the locked doors, it was in a light vein.Somebody asked Muzz, moments later, when he had received concrete offer to coach the Rangers, and Muzz said not until the day it was announced.&ldquo;Sure, Frank talked to me last Bummer,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I was sounded out on it. But there never was an offer until the day I read about it in the papers.&rdquo;He was asked also if his father, Lester, hadn&rsquo;t asked him to take over the coaching of the Victoria club of the Western League last summer. Muzz granted this was so, but added:&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure Lester is well satisfied with the way things worked out. He&rsquo;s got a fine coach in Billy Reay&rdquo;.The same afternoon Muzz had a surprise visitor in Neil Colville, fourth of the six coaches in Ranger history. Neil had come in from Vancouver on a visit. They had dinner together and then visited a TV studio where Muzz was to be interviewed. Neil was not in the best of health when he resigned as Ranger coach in December, 1951, but now he looked brighter and more vigorous.&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s see this game together,&rdquo; suggested Neil. Muzz was quick to accept.Next day Muzz was in the Garden bright and early, looking for a scorecard, the better to identify the Leafs. Having met the Rangers, he didn&rsquo;t think ha needed any reminders of&rsquo; them. Later a group of Toronto writers, led by Spiff Evans, hockey&rsquo;s best dressed delegate, joined Muzz in viewing films of the Geoffrion Murphy fracas.&ldquo;Looks to me like Geoffrion was the aggressor all the way &mdash; with or without a stick,&rdquo; commented Muzz.At game time, Muzz was with Nell in end arena seats. The Rangers were hot. They seemed eager to impress the new coach, wherever he happened to be. Between periods, Muzz would visit them in the dressing room, offer words of encouragement, then return to his seat. The Rangers beat the Leafs, 4-1, It was their most decisive triumph of the season, and in suite of a snowstorm, the Leafs played to their best crowd in the Garden.Then came more grilling in the dressing room after the game. Reporters wanted Muzz&rsquo;s impressions.&ldquo;What I saw I liked,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The way they played out there, and the way Boucher handled &lsquo;em, I don&rsquo;t know why they need me. What was this&mdash;four in a row? Well, I&rsquo;ll take over the next game. Maybe we can keep the streak alive.&rdquo;Neil Colville also dropped in. He said the Rangers looked as good as they had the night he was replaced by Bill Cook. That night they went out against the Leafs and won, 7-2. It didn&rsquo;t last that time. Will it last now? &#9632;

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Muzz Patrick Watches Blues Win; Impressed By Hustle Of New Club

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Lynn and Murray Patrick both belong in the &ldquo;fighting coach&rdquo; class, but as National league opponents there is no likelihood that they will ever supply fighting opposition for each other.The championship of the Patrick family has been long-since settled in far-off Victoria, British Columbia, in Murray&rsquo;s favor. Lynn hasn&rsquo;t sought a rematch in 25 years.&ldquo;We used to have our spats, just like all brothers,&rdquo; related Lynn, the older of the two, with a chuckle, &ldquo;and I won all of them until one day when I was perhaps 17 and Muzz was about 14.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03210/1592064-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="584" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body">No Spats&hellip;LYNN PATRICK</figcaption></div>&ldquo;That day he won the fight, and since he was growing all the time, I decided smartly that it was time to quit. We never fought again.&rdquo;The matching of wits between Boston&rsquo;s Lynn and New York&rsquo;s Muzz is a new experience for the two strapping sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Patrick, whose previous athletic conspiracies, either direct or indirect, have always been toward the same objective.&ldquo;We played basketball together when we were youngsters in Victoria,&rdquo; recalled Lynn, &ldquo;and we played together on the Rangers, and for the last few years we&rsquo;ve both worked for the Bruins, so this is something new.<h2>No Brotherly Love</h2>&ldquo;But there&rsquo;ll be no brotherly love until after the season is over,&rdquo; he added with a grin, &ldquo;especially when we play the Rangers. They&rsquo;re just another team we have to beat, and I expect that we&rsquo;ll have a hard time doing it.&rdquo;The National League schedule delayed a meeting of the Patricks until the second week of Murray&rsquo;s coaching tenure in New York, but the schedule has then provided for three games between the Bruins and Rangers in a space of five days, two of them here.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04161/1592057-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="580" height="599"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip; With HimMUZZ PATRICK</figcaption></div>The most vivid recollection that most Bruins&rsquo; fans have of Muzz goes back to the spring of 1939. when the big fellow stood in the middle of the Garden ice one night flipping grapefruit back into the crowd.That was the night after Muzz and Eddie Shore had a fight in New York in which Boston&rsquo;s hero was badly battered, and the enraged Boston crowd for the next game came equipped to greet his conqueror. The deluge of fruit, vegeables and more formidable missies which was showered on the Rangers created the wildest scene in Garden history.A decade later Lester Patrick said, &ldquo;That was the wildest night I&rsquo;ve ever seen in hockey.&rdquo;Muzz coached Bruins&rsquo; prospects with farm teams at both Tacoma and Seattle before moving into New York, and his first meeting with Lynn also gave him his first opportunity to see one of his products in action.The product is Warren Godfrey, the 195-pound Bruins&rsquo; defenseman, who prepped for the National League under Muzz at Tacoma two years ago. &#9632;

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Bruin Fans Remember Muzz For Wild Fight In Garden

<div class="byline">By HARRY STAPLER (As Seen In The Detroit News)</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Bob Goldham, the sage of Olympia, was talking about his reckless way of diving to the ice to block shots with his chest and stomach. oBelittling the risk, the Red Wing defenseman said, &ldquo;Only time you stand a chance of getting hit in the face by a puck is when you drop too early. Drop just when he shoots and you&rsquo;re all right.&rdquo;Of the current players in the league, only Goldham wears out his elbow and knee pads in this fashion. At 31 years in the hockey business, he is elderly enough to avoid such exercise. Jack Adams and Tommy Ivan, his bosses, had figured he might fade this year. Now they call him the team&rsquo;s biggest surprise. .<h2>Others Tried It</h2>Only two other players in NHL history are well-remembered for this sitdown maneuver. For 15 pre-war and wartime years Earl Seibert blocked shots this way fQr the New York Rangers, Chicago and Detroit. For a few years Elwin Morris did the same for Toronto.&ldquo;I started doing it the first year (1941-42) I played pro hockey,&rdquo; explained Bob. &ldquo;I broke in with Bucko McDonald and I picked up the Idea by watching him.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02274/1592095-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="573" height="579"><figcaption class="caption-body">BleckerBOB GOLDHAM</figcaption></div>McDonald, now a member of Parliament in Canada, was something of a legendary hockey player. A fellow who often ate three steaks after a game, he was too large to perfect the diving technique-Goldham copied and improved.&ldquo;The fellows who try this usually hit on one knee so they-11 be able to get up,&rdquo; said Goldham. &ldquo;I hit on both knees. I figure I can cover more territory. You&rsquo;ve got the width of your legs plus your hands at the side. You cover about three feet and that&rsquo;s a lot when you&rsquo;re in close to the fellow who&rsquo;s shooting.&rdquo;<h2>Some Fool Him</h2>Do zooming pucks hurt when they hit?&ldquo;You get a lot of them in the stomach but when you&rsquo;re tense like that in a game it doesn&rsquo;t seen to bother.&rdquo;Do opponents try to fake Goldham into diving so that he&rsquo;ll be out of the play?&ldquo;Sometimes. Max Bentley is pretty good at this. You&rsquo;ve got to know the guys you play against to do this. You can&rsquo;t be careless.&rdquo;Goldham. is called one of the league&rsquo;s six best defensemen by Adams and Ivan. They group Red Kelly, of the Wings; Doug Harvey, of Montreal; Gus Mortson and Bill Gadsby, of Chicago, and Tim Horton, of Toronto, with him.Bob is strictly a defenseman. He had scored only two goals in the last 193 league games.Goldham has the background for the rough risks. He played with the Orrilla, Ont. lacrosse team that won the Canadian championship in 1939. He was known more for his football talents than for hockey until the day he became a professional in the latter sport and gave up all other sports. &#9632;

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Bob Goldham Scuffs His Knees Playing Helper For Sawchuk

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;&ldquo;Slump? Well if you call it a slump, then it must be. Personally, I wouldn&rsquo;t know &mdash; never owned one of the things before.&rdquo;The drawling speaker was Gordie Howe and he was answering a question which had become mighty obvious. Howe had just gone through has ninth straight game without a goal, a scoring famine the likes of which he&rsquo;s never had since his rookie year in the National Hockey League.I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m doing things any different than ever before. I feel OK. My health Is good. I&rsquo;m not hurt any,&rdquo; Howe continued.&ldquo;On the ice it seems that I&rsquo;m getting just as many scoring chances, but I&rsquo;m just not cashing in on them. Sometimes it&rsquo;s a big save by a goalie, other times I ring them off the pipe or just catch the side of a pad with the shot.&ldquo;Honestly, if this is what they call a slump, then I&rsquo;d say my luck, not me, is in the slump.&rdquo;So it appears that Howe is just as puzzled as the next guy as to what&rsquo;s wrong, or what can he done about it. Jack Adams can&rsquo;t figure it out. Neither can Tommy Ivan.Some insist that Howe may be tensed up a bit, worried about his coming heir who should arrive in a few more weeks. Howe claims otherwise, pointing out that Colleen, his wife, never was healthier.&ldquo;If anything, that ought to make me go better. We need the money,&rdquo; Howe insisted, thinking about the $1,000 bonus which goes to the scoring champion each year along with another $1,000 for the All Star right wing.That spending money has been coming in so regularly lately that the Howes could be excused for counting it in the family budget. Gordie has been the scoring champion and a member of the first All Star team both for three straight years.No question about it, however, he has a battle this time. And from the same man he replaced at right wing on the All Star team, Montreal&rsquo;s Rocket Richard.In the same nine games during which he failed to get a goal, Howe collected only five assists. The Rocket picked up ground with a rush and on Jan. 9 pulled into a tie for first place for the point leadership.Howe also is accustomed to leading the goalgetting parade, having held that honor for three straight years also. It doesn&rsquo;t bring any league bonus, but it does carry plenty of prestige.And he&rsquo;s trailing way behind. Not only Richard but also two of his Montreal teammates pulled ahead. At this particular stage, the Rocket had 25, Bernie Geoffrion had 20, Ken Mosdell 19 and Howe was fourth with 16.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01340/1592126-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="873" height="889"><figcaption class="caption-body">PuzzledGORDIE HOWE</figcaption></div>ICE CHIPS: Two other Detroit players ended long scoring famines with key goals for two straight Detroit victories.Marcel Pronovost made a brilliant unassisted solo through three Boston players to start the Wings off to a 3-1 triumph over the Bruins. It was the first goal by the flying defenseman in 19 games.A few nights later Johnny Wilson broke a 1-1 tie against Montreal with the decisive tally of a 2-1 game. It was Wilson&rsquo;s first in 14 games.There was a difference of almost 6,000 fans in the attendance at those two games here. A total of 9,223 turned out to view on the Bruins on a Thursday and the following Sunday found 15,038 in the same building to witness the Montreal match.When that Boston game was decided in the final period, it went strictly according to the script. It was the seventh time in eight meetings between the clubs that the third period was decisive.Twice Boston broke ties of 1-1 and 3-3 in the last period to win. And three times the Wings have come from behind in the final stanza, twice to win and once to tie.In this latest meeting Marty Pavelich and Metro Prystai scored within two minutes midway In the last period to clinch it after the Bruins had outplayed Detroit By a distinct margin all the way.The Montreal game featured defensive play throughout, with Terry Sawchuk and Gerry McNeil the stars, in what most observers considered the finest contest staged here all season. Ken Mosdell and Ted Lindsay got quick goals 16 seconds apart in the first three minutes, and Wilson potted the winner at 6:59 of the second. It was a marvel the way Detroit successfully nursed the one-goal advantage for the last 33 minutes. &#9632;

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Even Gordie Howe At Loss To Explain Reason For Recent Goal Famine

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;When Frank Boucher wound up the coaching phase of his duties with the Rangers, the team had played 40 games and won 14. They were four points out of fourth place, nothing to brag about, but they had recaptured the interest of the fans and there was a good chance that, if they could maintain pressure and possibly beat out Boston, the box office would see its best campaign in four years.Things were much improved over the same period a year ago. Then after 40 games the Rangers were buried in the cellar. They had won only eight times and they were nine points out of fifth, 15 out of fourth.And yet, just before they rang in the new year, folks hereabouts were ready to bury the Rangers and nail down the coffin.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02279/1592157-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="549" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body">Made ChangesFRANK BOUCHER</figcaption></div>It took a four-game winning streak in a space of 11 days to revivify the Blues to a point where they not only were not dead but sensation ally alive.&ldquo;If there is any turning point,&rdquo; said Boucher, &ldquo;it must be that game we won in Boston on New Year&rsquo;s night. If the Bruins had beaten us then, we&rsquo;d have been 11 points out and pretty much out of it. But we won and went on from there. If it proves anything, it&rsquo;s that the Rangers are a mighty unpredictable club.&rdquo;To Boucher&rsquo;s credit, it must be noted that he kept ripping the club apart and making changes when things were not going well, even though he couldn&rsquo;t be too sure his moves were sound.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather take a chance on a bad move,&rdquo; Frank said, &ldquo;than make no move at all.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s a philosophy that paid off most clearly in the return of Edgar Laprade to the Rangers. Maybe this wasn&rsquo;t in keeping with the youth movement, but it helped. And that&rsquo;s the main idea. &#9632;

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“I’d Rather Take A Chance On A Bad Move Than Make No Move At All” — Frank Boucher

New York, N.Y.&mdash;Neil Colville, former New York Ranger coach, seeing rookie Camille Henry for the first time, noted a smart move that helped the Rangers run their winning streak to four.&ldquo;This was in the first period&rdquo;, said Colville, &ldquo;and the Rangers were one up in manpower. Henry got the puck in his own end, but it seemed as if Ted Kennedy had him trapped. He was bottled up in a corner, and generally when Kennedy has you like that, you can&rsquo;t do much about it.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03213/1592188-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="261" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Camille Henry</figcaption></div>But this Henry slips the puck between Kennedy&rsquo;s skates and as he is about to pick it up again, Kennedy hooks him from behind and goes off, too. So the Leafs are two down, and Hergesheimer gets one goal, and before Kennedy gets back, Hergy gets another. Let&rsquo;s not forget the play by Henry that made those goals possible.&rdquo;MOZLEY &#9632;

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Neil Colville Praises Henry

<div class="byline">Ry ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Murray &ldquo;Muzz&rdquo; Patrick, new coach of the New York Rangers, derived his greatest athletic fame as a hockey player, but hockey wasn&rsquo;t the sport for which he turned professional.The younger of the two coaching Patrick brothers became a professional first in a, sport which is now virtually obsolete, bicycle racing. In the summer of 1935, when he was only 19 years old, he competed regularly in six-day races in Montreal. His partner was Gerard DeBaets, a veteran who seven times shared in the winning of six-day international championships in New York and big Muzz held up his end of the partnership.&ldquo;I remember that before the Montreal meet was over other teams were complaining to the promoter about &ldquo;that wild-riding Patrick kid,&rdquo; chuckled Lynn, the older of the two. &ldquo;We both used to like riding,&rdquo; related Lynn, &ldquo;but Muzz liked it better than I did. Torchy and Doug Peden, two of the best, were friends of ours in Victoria (B.C.) and we used to ride with them. But where seven or eight miles was enough for me, Muzz used to go for 20 or more.&rdquo; &#9632;

Muzz Patrick Turned Pro As Six Day Bicycle Racer

Gordie Howe resents anyone breathing down his neck !The truth of that statement becomes all the more evident when one stops to look at what happened during the past week.Howe&rsquo;s scoring leadership was being seriously threatened for the first time in three seasons; he had been demoted to the second All Star team by the half-way selectors; and he was nine goals behind the leader in goal scoring. To make matters worse, it was his arch-rival for right wing honors, Maurice Richard oT the Montreal Canadiens who was the cause of it all.Richard was voted the first team All-Star berth, led the loop&rsquo;s goal scorers with 25 and was within a point of Howe in the individual scoring.So last week Howe decided to do something about it. In a goal scoring slump since midDecember, the Red Wing star snapped out with a vengeance.Against the New York Rangers on January 13, Howe scored two goals to pace the Detroit team to a 3-1 victory.Four nights later, on home ice, the Red Wings lost a chance to gain on the Habs as they lost a 3-2 decision to these same New Yorkers but Howe was still on his scoring spree as he personally accounted for both Detroit goals.Gordie Howe now has 20 goals and 29 assists for 49 points, five points better than the second place Richard. He still trails the volatile Rocket by five goals but if he continues last week&rsquo;s pace, it shouldn&rsquo;t be long before he closes that gap.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1345/1592372-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="264" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Player - of - the - Week

<h2>Eighth Goose-Egg</h2>Apple-cheeked Harry Lumley of the Toronto Maple Leafs racked up his eighth shutout of the season when he turned back the New York Rangers 4-0 on January 16.<h2>First Goal</h2>Veteran Edgar Laprade of the New York Rangers scored his first goal since returning to the NHL when the Blues edged Detroit 3-2 on Junuary 17.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>(STANDINGS ON WED. A.M. JAN. 20)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01325/1592341-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="594" height="186"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Wed Jan 13th&mdash;Chicago 1 at Toronto 2Wed Jan 13th&mdash;Detroit 3 at Rangers 1Thurs Jan 14th&mdash;Rangers 2 at Chicago 0Thurs Jan 14th&mdash;Detroit 2 at Boston. 1Sat. Jan. 16th&mdash;Boston 1 at Canadiens 2Sat. Jan. 16th&mdash;Rangers 0 at Toronto 4Sun. Jan. 17th&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Boston 3Sun. Jan. 17th&mdash;Toronto 3 at Chicago 1Sun. Jan. 17th&mdash;Rangers 3 at Detroit 2<h3>SCHEDULED GAMES</h3>Wed. Jan. 20th&mdash;Boston at RangersThurs. Jan 21st&mdash;Detroit at CanadiensThurs. Jan 21st&mdash;Boston at ChicagoSat. Jan 23rd&mdash;Chicago at CanadiensSat. Jan. 23rd&mdash;Detroit at TorontoSat. Jan. 23rd&mdash;Rangers at BostonSun. Jan. 24th&mdash;Canadiens at ChicagoSun. Jan. 24th&mdash;Rangers at DetroitSun. Jan. 24 th&mdash;Rangers at Boston.<h3>WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13</h3>Detroit 3 at New York 1Detroit: Goal: Sawchuk; defence; Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly Woit, Hay; forwards: Lindsay, Leswick, Howe Prystal,&rdquo;&ldquo; Pavelich, Skov, Reibel, Delvecchio. Wilson, Dineen. Stasiuk.New York: Goal: Bower; defence: Irwin. Howell, Buller, Reise, Chrystal. Evans; forwards: Raleigh, Ronty Laprade, Mickoski, Guidolin, Sonmor, Hergeshelmer. Kullman, Henry, Bentley.Referee:Bill Chadwick; linesmen; Don Baolto, Sammy Babcock.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02303/1592334-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="605" height="435"></div>Chicago 1 at Toronto 2Chicago: Goal: Rollins; defence:Mortson, Gadsbv. Zeidel, Fogolin, Dewsbury; forwards: Wilson, Conacher, Peters, Jankowski, Hucul, Couture, Price, Costello, Lalonde.Toronto: Goal: Lumley; defence Flaman, Morrison, Thomson, Horton, Boivin: forwards: Migay, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Sloan, Armstrong, Watson. Kennedy, Stewart. Smith, Bailey, Solinger.Referee:Red Storey; linesmen: George Hayes and Jim Primeau.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03256/1592327-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="603" height="379"></div><h3>THURSDAY, JANUARY 14</h3>New York 2 at Chicago 0Chicago: Goal: Rollins; defense: Mortson, Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Zeldel, Price; forwards; Conacher, Wilson. Moaienko, Peters, Jankowski, Hucul, Couture, Gee, Costello, Lalonde.New York &mdash; Goal: Bower; defense: Irwin, Reiso, Howell, Buller, Evans, Chrystal; forwards: Mickoski, Runty, Hergesheimer, Raleigh, Bentley, Kullman, Henry Laprade, Sonmor, Guidolin.Referee: Red Storey; linesmen; George Hayes, Harold March.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04215/1592320-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="599" height="371"></div>Detroit 2 at Boston 1Detroit: Goal: Sawchuk: defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay, forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Prystal, Wilson, Delvecchio, Leswick, Pavelich, Dineen, Statiuk.Boston: Goal: Henry; defense: Martin, Godfrey, Laycoe, Ga-rlepy, Quackenbush; forwards: Mackell, Pelrson, Sanford, Schmidt, Mohns, Klukay, Creighton, Lablne, Toppazzini, Dumart.Referee: Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen: Doug Davies. Sam Babcock,<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05166/1592313-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="601" height="317"></div><h3>SATURDAY JANUARY 16</h3>Rangers 0 at Toronto 4New York: Goal: Bower; defense: Irwin, Reise, Howell. Buller, Chrystal, Mickoski, Ronty, Laprade, Guidolin, Sonmor, Hergesheimer, Henry, Bentley.Toronto: Goal: Lumley; defense:Thomson, Horton, Flamaa, Boivin, Morrison; forwards: Kennedy, Smith, Stewart, Watson, Armstrong, Migay, Sloan. Nesterenko, Hannigan, Bailey, Solinger.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06142/1592306-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="600" height="384"></div>Boston 1 at Canadiens 2Boston: Goal, Henry; defense: Laycoe, Martin, Godfrey, Quackenbush, Gariepy; forwards: Creighton, Klukay, Schmidt, Mackell, Sandford, Peirson, Gardner, Mohns, Lablne. Dumart.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defense:Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, MacPherson; forwards, Masnick, Geoffrion, Mazur, Mosdall, Richard. Olmstead, Beliveau, Curry, Gamble, McCormack, Lach.Referee, Bill Chadwick; linesmen, Doug Davies and Jim Primeau.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07132/1592299-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="607" height="391"></div><h3>SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1954</h3>New York 3 at Detroit 2New York: Goal: Bowed; defense: Irwin, Relse, Howell, Buller, Chrystal, Evans; forwards: Ronty, Hergeshelmer, Guldolln, Kullman, Henry, Bentley.Detroit: Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelley, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Leswlck, Prytal, Pavellch, Skov, Delvecchio. Wilson, Dineen, Stasiuk.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01339/1592292-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="593" height="467"></div>Toronto 3 at Chicago 1Toronto: Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Horton, Flaman, Boivin, Morrison; forwards: Kennedy, Smith, Stewart, Watson, Armstrong, Mi gay, Sloan, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Bailey, Solinger.Chicago: Goal: Rollins; defense: Gads-by, Mortson. Dewsbury Fogolln, Zeldel; forwards: Gee, Couture, Hucul, Jankowski, Conacher, Wilson, Price, Costello.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02280/1592285-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="583" height="395"></div>Montreal 2 at Boston 3Canadiens: Goal: McNeil; defense:Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Lauren; forwards: Mosdell, Olmstead, Richard, Geoffrion, Curry, Gamble, Mackey, Mazur, Masnick, Beliveau.Boston: Goal: Henry; defense: Layeoe, Martin, Armstrong, Godfrey, Gariepy; forwards: Creighton, Schmidt, Klukay, Mackell, Sandford, Dumart, Labine, Toppazzini, Pierson, Mohns, Gardner.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03237/1592278-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="601" height="494"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. JAN. 17)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08123/1592271-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="597" height="1825"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09120/1592264-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="591" height="1075"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10106/1592257-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="607" height="361"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1185/1592250-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="598" height="361"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1256/1592243-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="475" height="156"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By WILL V. COTE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04183/1592403-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="572" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Hockey News, Montreal, Que.,Canada.</figcaption></div>Canada is the birthplace, the stronghold of the thrilling modern game of hockey &mdash; but it remained for tiny and progressive Sweden to give some tangible and official recognition to the game of hockey and the men and youngsters who play it.Sweden has caught Canadian government officials asleep at the switch by issuing a postage stamp illustrating a hockey player in full flight on the blades &mdash; thereby proving what stature the game has reached and the value placed on it by the rulers of that small kingdom.Sweden took up the game of ice hockey in a serious way just a few years before the war, but since then it has grown by leaps and bounds. Through persistence and enthusiasm, little Sweden has forged its way to an important place in the world of, hockey &mdash; to such an extent that the postal officials figure it s important enough to the country to mark it with the issue of a stamp.Contrast that with the attitude of Canada, which gave hockey to the world and where the winter pastime is the universal national sport. Although hockey has been the primary interest of the vast majority of Canadians every winter for well over half a century, nobody at Ottawa has been alert enough to think of putting out a stamp to advertise Canadian hockey to the world.The Canadian Post Office has issued stamps showing wild geese, sailing ships, scenes purporting to be representative of this country&rsquo;s national life. Some of these stamps have been excellent and have won praise from philatelic experts, and none of us has any quarrel with them.But somewhere, surely, in the great horde of stamps &mdash; some good and some bad &mdash; issued by our Post Office over the past quarter century or so, it seems there might have been room for just one dedicated to the one sport in which we Canadians have consistently excelled.It comes as rather a blow to our national pride to have Sweden steal a march on us this way. All through Canada&rsquo;s rather barren record of victories in Olympic and international sport, hockey has been the game in which we could usually count on for a win &mdash; although in recent years since the all-out professionalization of the sport here even that has become a touch-and-go proposition.However, there&rsquo;s no denying that Canada gave hockey to the world and still produces the world&rsquo;s best players. But even though this is so, there certainly wouldn&rsquo;t be any harm in showing a little more pride in our achievements.Our friends to the South never let the world forget that baseball is truly and exclusively their game, but we leave it to little Sweden to give the game of hockey some world-wide advertising on their unique stamp issue. It kind of makes you wonder why. &#9632;

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Sweden Puts Approval Stamp on Canada’s National Pastime

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05149/1592434-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="295" height="451"></div>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE: &ldquo;Detective Story&rdquo;,TWO BEST ACTORS: Spencer Tracy and Gary Cooper.TWO BEST ACTRESSES: Barbara Stanwyck and Kathryn Hepburn.PREFERS TO WEAR:Business suits and sports clothes in conservative colors.BEST GIRL VOCALIST: Doris Day.BEST MALE VOCALIST: Bing Crosby.FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC: Semi-Classical.REST CLASSICAL COMPOSITION:La Paloma.BEST POPULAR COMPOSITION:September Song.FAVORITE ORCHESTRA: Guy Lombardo.BEST COMPOSER:Did not select one.LIKES TO READ:Financial Post and Time.BEST RADIO AND TV PROGRAMS:Enjoys most programs but has no special favorites.WHEN RETIRED FROM PLAYING WOULD LIKE TO:Continue working for McKinnon Fuels Ltd.FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:Moose Lake Lodge, Parry Sound, Ont.SHOOTS GOLF:In the 80&rsquo;s. &#9632;

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Inside Stuff About… Jim Thomson

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;If some National Hockey League fans are under the impression that being a referee in hockey&rsquo;s big league is a soft touch, they might pay heed to what happened to Red Storey in a recent game here in Boston.First of all, one of the appointed linesmen did not appear for the contest, for one reason or another, and as anyone who has watched an NHL game can attest, it is too much for one linesman to be expected to be on the play all the time and call all the offsides. So Storey. pitched in to help linesman Herb Gallagher call them.Then to make it a perfect evening, Storey was flattened when hit in the face by a player&rsquo;s stick, accidentally of course. He was cut inside the mouth, but fortunately no stitches were required and he finished the game.Oh well, it&rsquo;s all In the contract.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06127/1592465-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="525" height="833"><figcaption class="caption-body">BoppedRED STOREY</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Referee’s Job Easy One? Nossir! Ask Red Storey!

<h2>Fourth Shutout</h2>Goalie Emile (The Cat) Francis hung up his fourth shutout of the American Hockey League season as Cleveland Barons beat Providence Reds 4-0, on January 17.<h2>Hat For Gaye</h2>Gaye Stewart, veteran NHL star now with Buffalo, scored a &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; as the Bisons downed Providence 7-2 on January 13.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>(STANDINGS ON TUES A.M. JAN.19)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01338/1592580-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="589" height="181"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18</h3>Providence 2 at Buffalo 7BUFFALO &mdash; Led by Gaye Stewart&rsquo;s three goals the Buffalo Bisons defeated the Providence Reds, 7-2.The victory enabled them to continue their tie with the Cleveland Barons for first place in the American Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02297/1592573-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="595" height="591"></div>Pittsburgh 4 at Hershey 6HERSHEY &mdash; Lorne Ferguson scored two goals to pace the Hershey Bears to a 5-4 win over the Pittsburgh Hornets.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03236/1592566-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="595" height="747"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04188/1592559-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="1655" height="1547"><figcaption class="caption-body">He&rsquo;s a Bare and No FoolingSTICK TEASE &mdash; Gordie Pennell of the Buffalo Bisons skates away with the puck from Hershey playing-coach Murray Henderson, unaware of the fact that his skate is caught in the latter&rsquo;s sweater. Unfortunately our correspondent didn&rsquo;t advise which gave way first, the sweater or Pennell.</figcaption></div>Cleveland 5 at Syracuse 3SYRACUSE &mdash; The Cleveland Barons scored a pair of goals in both the second and third periods to down the Syracuse Warriors 5-3.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05155/1592552-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="591" height="115"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06141/1592545-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="585" height="345"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07125/1592538-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="594" height="247"></div><h3>SATURDAY, JANUARY 16</h3>Buffalo 5 at Cleveland 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08120/1592531-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="599" height="771"></div>Pittsburgh 3 at Syracuse 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02261/1592524-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="603" height="475"></div>Providence 2 at Hershey 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03206/1592517-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="603" height="649"></div>SUNDAY, JANUARY 17Providence 0 at Cleveland 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04151/1592510-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="601" height="553"></div>Pittsburgh 1 at Buffalo 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05112/1592503-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="597" height="639"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. JAN. 17<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09113/1592496-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="588" height="744"></div>LEADERSMost Goals: Harry Pidhirny, Syr., 29Most Assists: G. Sullivan, Hershey, 46.Most Penalty Mts: by a Player: Larry Cahan, Pittsburgh, 102 mtsMost Penalty Mts. by a Team: Cleveland: 430 minutes.Best Goalie: Jacques Plante, Buff, 45, 127, 2, 2.82.Most Shutouts: Emile Francis, Clev., 4. &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAQUE

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;There are a number of veteran star performers in the American Hockey League who are approaching various milestones in their long careers, in the scoring of points, goals and assists, and in games played. Billy Gooden, long time favorite leftwing in AHL circles, is the top player in the point parade. As of January 6th, Gooden was the only active player to have 500 or more points, his totals being 242 goals and 291 assists for 533 points. In spite of this fine record, Gooden will have to play at least-three or four more seasons to approach the all time league records of 744 points on 319 goals and 425 assists, held by the retired Freddie Thurier.Two other veteran stars of the circuit, Paul Gladu of Providence and Steve Wochy of Buffalo, are battling it out to be the next player to enter the 500 point circle. On January 6, Gladu had 476 on 234 goals and 242 assists, while Wochy had four more goals and the same number of assists for 480 points.Three players were striving to reach the four century mark in total points. Pete Kapusta of Providence had 161 goals and 228 assists for 389, and was the closest to that figure. Jackie I Gordon, great center ice star of Cleveland had scored 112 tallies and his 264 playmaking efforts gave him 376 points. Chuck Scherza of Providence, who has played every position on the ice lanes, had 375 points on 122 goals and 253 assists.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01334/1592611-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="281" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Gladu</figcaption></div>Three comparative &ldquo;newcomers&rdquo; to the NHL who have been starring for only four or five years, as against the much longer periods of service of the previously mentioned notables, are seeking their 300th points. At the present time, Harry Pidhirny of Syracuse is nearest the mark with 293 on 156 goals and 137 assists. Henny Hayden of Buffalo has 139-151 for 290, and Freddie Glover of Cleveland, 285 made up of 132 goals and 153 assists. It is interesting to note, that Pidhirny is the only high point man in the league with more goals than assists for his career.<h2>Backor Leads Rearguards</h2>Defensemen are not normally high point scorers, thus the fine offensive record which Pete Backor of Pittsburgh has added to his stellar rearguard work is noteworthy. Pete, who is becoming a legend in Pittsburgh hockey leads all of the active defensemen in goals with 60, assists with 213 and points with 273. His assist total is an all time record, and lie heeds but 10 more points to top the AHL career total of Hy Buller, now with New York Rangers in the National League, who has 282. Buller also holds the goal Scoring mark for back-liners with 79, and this seems to be beyond Backor&rsquo;s reach this season.When Harry Taylor of Buffalo scored his 100th goal on December 30th, it left only Andy Barbe of Pittsburgh with a likely chance of entering the Century Club this season. Barbe had 92 goals after games of January 6th, and was the only player within striking distance ot&rsquo; the 100 total. No players are close to scoring 200 or 300 goals this year. Jackie Gordon of Cleveland and Zellio had reached the 100 mark this season, prior to Taylor.Another Thurier record, games played, of which he has 642, will not be passed this season, although three players will probably attain the 600 figure. Tndy Branigan of Hershey had 592, Gooden 589 and Scherza 587 on January 6th.In scoring three or more goal per game &ldquo;hat tricks&rdquo;, the retired Phil Hergesheimer was away in front with 12 for his career. Active players in the top brackets were Gooden and Gladu with 8 each, and Pidhirny and Wochy with 6. &#9632;

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AHL Rinkside Revealings

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash; Seeking to strengthen the Hershey Bears for their forthcoming American Hockey League stretch drive, General Manager Lloyd S. Blinco has recalled Bill Matthew, defenseman, from the Sydney club, of the Maritime League, and acquired Fred Pletsch, rookie right winger, from the Stratford club, of the Senior OHA, for a three-game tryout.Decision to make player changes, which included the shipping of Ted O&rsquo;Connor, Bear rearguard, to Sydney, was reached after the Bears went into a tailspin and dropped six straight AHL contests.Coach Murray Henderson believes Matthew, who has a reputation for being a rough and tough blue liner, will plug a hole in the Hershey defense. In addition, the former Tacoma star can fill in adequately at right wing it the occasion demands. He is 21, stands six feet and weighs 180 pounds.<h2>Rookies Out</h2>With Gordie Wilson and Don McKenney, two rookie center ice men doubtful starters for some time to come, Henderson was down to a minimum of nine forwards and he felt he needed an extra man to give some of his regulars a day off now and then.He believes Pietsch will fill the bill, pointing out that Howie Meeker, Stratford coach, is sure he will make the grade. If, after a trio of games Pietsch rings the bell with Henderson, he&rsquo;ll be signed to a pro contract.<h2>Undergoes Operation</h2>Meanwhile, young Wilson who has played in only four games because of a knee injury, suffered during training camp, has gone to Toronto to undergo operation by Dr. Robert Galloway, Canadian bone specialist.McKenney broke a thumb on his right hand several weeks ago and, while he had the injured member in a special cast, continued playing and aggravated the hurt. As a result, he has been idled, pending healing of the break.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0691/1592642-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="519" height="824"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sidelineddon mckenney</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bears Recall Matthew From Maritime League

<h2>Tie Games</h2>Two tie tames were played last week &mdash; the first time this happened in ten weeks. 17 tie games have been played to date as compared with 21 at this date last year.<h2>Goals</h2>Ross Lowe of Victoria scored one or more goals in six straight game before being stopped in Saskatoon. Jan. 9. He was within two games of tieing the league record for scoring in consecutive games.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>(STANDINGS ON MON. A.M. JAN. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01339/1592778-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="601" height="218"></div>RESULTSTuesday January 5thVictoria 3 at Vancouver 1Calgary 1 at Saskatoon 7Wednesday January 6thCalgary 5 at Edmonton 8Thursday January 7thVictoria 3 at Calgary 3Friday January 8thNew West. 2 at Vancouver 2Victoria 2 at Edmonton 3Saturday January 9thSeattle 2 at New West. 7Edmonton 7 at Calgary 2Victoria 2 at Saskatoon 4Sunday January 10thNew West. 2 at Seattle 1<h3>TUESDAY JANUARY 5</h3>Victoria 3 at Vancouver 1VANCOUVER &mdash; The Victoria Cougars Climbed out of the Western Hockey League cellar by defeating the leagueleading Vancouver Canucks 3-1.Victoria goals were scored by Sam Lavitt, Ross Lowe and Gene Achtymichuk.Victoria: Goal, Almas; defence. Lavitt, Schneider Lowe. Clune; forwards, Anderson, Hebenton. Abbott, Achtymichuk. Sinnett. Dorohoy. Kuzina, Reay, Bettio, Maxwell.Vancouver: Goal, Worsley; defence. Stanley, Houghton, Dick, Lancien. Kaiser; forwards, Dea, Popein, Nadeau, Brown, Wylie, McCullough, Hickey, Rouse, Hildebrand, Sweaney.Referee. Scotty Morrison; linesman. Ross Morrow.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02297/1592771-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="604" height="363"></div>Calgary 1 at Saskatoon 7SASKATOON &mdash; Centre Eldie Kobussen scored three goals and ex-Chlcago Black Hawk Vic Lynn two as the Saskatoon Quakers dumped the Calgary fitampeders 7-1.Doug Bentley and Ray Manson were the other Quaker marksmen while Geo. Pargeter spoiled Chuck Rayner&rsquo;s shutout bid.Calgary: Goal, Brennan; defence. Kvie, A. Michaluk. Coburn. Quackenbush. Shvetz; forwards, Finney, Black. Witiuk. Scott. McFadden. Barry, Ashworth, Lundy. J. Michaluk, Pargeter.Saskatoon:Goal Rayner: defence, Ross, Fontinato, Parker; forwards. Kaleta, McLeod, Manson, Kubulowicz, Howe, Holdaway, Kobussen, Adam, Lynn. Bentley.Referee, Lou Farelli; linesman, Cliff Hulme.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03267/1592764-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="617" height="621"></div><h3>THURSDAY JANUARY 7</h3>Victoria 3 at Calgary 3CALGARY &mdash; Ross Lowe scored at the half-way mark of the third period to give the Victoria Cougars a 3-3 deadlock with the second-place Calgary Stampeders.It was the sixth straight game in which the youthful defenseman had scored a goal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04239/1592757-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="605" height="438"></div><h3>FRIDAY JANUARY 8</h3>New Westminster 2 at Vancouver 2VANCOUVER &mdash; The Vancouver Canucks had to come from behind to gain a 2-2 tie with the New Westminster Royals, Lome Nadeau scoring at the 16.18 mark of the third period to even the count.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05207/1592750-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="606" height="339"></div>Victoria 2 at Edmonton 3EDMONTON &mdash; Two third period goals weren&rsquo;t enough for the Victoria Cougars as they were edged by the Edmonton Flyers by a 3-2 count.Trailing 2-0 going into the final frame, the Cougars scored twice but Don Poile also counted for the Flyers to put the game on ice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06177/1592743-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="597" height="433"></div><h3>SATURDAY JANUARY 9</h3>Seattle 2 nt New Westminster 7NEW WESTMINSTER &mdash; Gordie Fashoway scored a three goal &lsquo;hat-trick&rsquo; to lead the New Westminster Royals to a 7-2 win over the Seattle Bombers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07165/1592736-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="601" height="611"></div>Edmonton 7 at Calgary 2CALGARY &mdash; Don Poile and Len Haley each scored a pair of goals as the Edmonton Flyers defeated the Calgary Stampeders 7-2.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08155/1592729-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="601" height="285"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09149/1592722-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="603" height="307"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10143/1592715-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="1109" height="1513"><figcaption class="caption-body">A Gift for GuyleFEEZED POSSESSION &mdash; Guyle Fielder, right, is shown being presented with the trophy he won last season for being chosen &lsquo;Rookie of the Year&rsquo; in the American League. Making the presentation to the Seatie winger on behalf of the AHL is Victoria owner Lester Patrick.</figcaption></div>Victoria 2 at Saskatoon 4SASKATOON &mdash; The Saskatoon Quakers defeated the Victoria Cougars 4-2 to remain within two points of the third place. New Westminster Royals.Vic Howe, Doug Adam, Ray Manson and Jackie McLeod scored for the winners and Andy Hebenton and Gene Achtymichuk for Victoria.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11126/1592708-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="595" height="238"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03195/1592701-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="596" height="243"></div><h3>SUNDAY JANUARY 10</h3>New Westminster 2 at Seattle 1SEATTLE &mdash; Jackie Hamilton scored at the 14.46 mark of the third period to give the New Westminster Royals a close 2-1 victory over the lowly Seattle Bombers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04155/1592694-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="597" height="362"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. JAN. 10)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12112/1592687-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="599" height="1295"></div>GOALKEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1391/1592680-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="599" height="229"></div>LEADERSMost Goals: Gordon Fashoway, NW 80. Assists: Bud Poile, Edm. 31.Most Game Winning Goal: Mark Marquess, Sea.; Gordon Fashoway NW 5.Most First Goal of Game: Bobby Love NW. 6.Hat Tricks: Gordon Fashoway NW. 2.Most Shutonts: Bill Brennan, Cal.g Chuck Rayner, Sask 4.PENALTIES IN MINUTES<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1482/1592673-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="555" height="257"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAQUE

<div class="byline">Lenny Anderson</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01338/1592816-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"></div><h2>HOCKEY EPIC, HOLLYWOOD STYLE</h2>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;It is with something like reluctance that we present the chronicle of Allan Stanley, because you will swear it was lifted from a Hollywood movie, some minor masterpiece the film folk have kept, for obvious reasons, on ice.The Stanley story wasn&rsquo;t lifted, but the only touch of fine, corny cinema melodrama this real-life hockey scenario lacks is a happy ending, which now is in the works. Stanley himself, as you can judge by any photograph, could step into the lead role without a single facial alteration.This photogenic ice ace came to Vancouver from the New York Rangers a while ago in one of the most resounding descents in hockey history.He was a lad of 22 when purchased by the Rangers from Providence five years ago tor $75,000 and three players. The dicker, described as a $100,000 deal, represented the biggest bundle any hockey team ever put up for one man, no matter how flawless his profile.Stanley lived up to his billing as a real smoothie on the slick stuff and in the 1948-49 season became captain of the Rangers and helped&rsquo; lead them into the playoffs. It was the first successful Ranger team since the war, and Stanley became what they call the darling of the fans.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02261/1592809-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="568" height="651"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leading ManALLAN STANLEY</figcaption></div><h2>Boy Meets Girl</h2>Three years ago, the goodlooking hockey star began dating a good-looking singing Starr, first name of Kay, the well-known popular songbird. Things looked great for Stanley.Two years ago, just when everyone was wondering how nice he could have it, Stanley suffered a serious shoulder injury that put him in plaster of paris for the balance of the semester.On his return to action last year, he had trouble getting started. The fans began to grumble. Stanley always had been less violent than smooth, preferring finesse to brute force, and the feeling began to set in among the hockey clientele that this skate-shod Barrymore was just a Fancy Dan who was a bit reluctant to mix it up. He had a bad year.This season having ruminated on the subject all summer and decided that their idol definitely had underpinnings of clay, the Ranger fans began to get on him from the outset. From seats at the edge of the ice, they blared scornful taunts into his frosty ear as he went skating by, and his play, as you might expect, was a trifle off.Then tlie situation got so bad that Frank Boucher, coach and manager of the Rangers, decided to let Stanley sit out a home game or two. Even while taking his warmups with the rest of the team, Stanley was singled out for a raucous barrage of boos. When he returned to sit on the bench as the game began, a big banner was raised behind him bearing the text: &ldquo;Viva Sonja Stanley&rdquo;. When he took the ice for his one turn of the evening, hoots and catcalls rattled the rink.After the game, Boucher decided to loan the Rangers&rsquo; fallen idol to Vancouver on a 24-hour recall basis in exchange for Ivan Irwin.<h2>Vow of Vengeance</h2>There was some conjecture out here at the time that Stanley might choose to give up hockey rather than step down, but he reported to Vancouver with the ringing avowal that he would be back in New York toot sweet to make his critics eat their words, vowel by icy vowel.For a time it looked as if the deposed hero might be in for a long exile. Irwin broke in well, and the Rangers reeled off five straight victories. Then, in an abrupt reversal, they spun out a losing streak just as long.As for Stanley, he has been playing excellent hockey ever since his arrival at Vancouver. The cognoscenti around the league are agreed that he is almost certain to return to the big leagues soon.Since Stanley left, the Rangers&rsquo; front office has received an increasing flow of letters from New York fans who apparently have suffered a change of heart and want their banished idol back.So, now it looks as though the $100,000 beauty, profile and all, may be on his way up again. The happy ending is in the works. Can you see it?&mdash;Thousands of repentant, cheering fans and a pretty girl waiting to give the returning warrior a warm welcome home&mdash;the key to the city and a platinum puck.Which way, miss, to the scenario department? &#9632;

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SPORTS BEFORE YOUR EYES

<div class="byline">By NED POWERS</div>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;Looming as distinct threats to repeat as Western Professional Hockey League winners, Saskatoon Quakers are getting expert leadership from two new forward line combinations during their winning performances these days.With left winger George Senick absent because of a leg injury, Quaker coach Doug Bentley has two forward lines operating without the services of a holdover.Eldie Kclussen, a centreman purchased from Cleveland Barons during the summer, is the pivotman between Vic Lynn and Doug Adam, recent acquisitions.Lynn started the season with the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, quit in late November and was later granted permission to make a deal with Quakers. For two weeks, he worked hard to get in shape and was used chiefly on the blueline. When .Senick became injured, Lynn stepped into the role of a marksman and popped two goals and an assist as Quakers whacked Calgary Stampeders, 7-1, on Jan. 5 in Saskatoon.Adam, who was with Seattle Bombers at the start of the term, was purchased by Quakers in early December and has been producing a good share of points. Adam has been a prolific scorer in his minor days. He holds the league record for goals in one season &mdash; with 53 during the 1949-50 season with Tacoma. Last winter with the Rockets, Adam picked up 39 goals and 31 assists.The other string of newcomers features three rookies. The centreman is Aggie Kukulowicz, an elongated boy who played junior hockey in Brandon and Quebec City before coming to Quakers. His mates are Vic Howe, a Saskatoon boy who finally arrived in pro company after three years of seasoning In U.S. amateur circles, and Chuck Holdaway, a former Prince Albert junior star who spent most of last season with Charlottetown in the Maritime Major league.Coach Bentley drew considerable criticism when he dropped solid juniors like Eddie Kassian and Dale Sweany and veterans like Cy Rouse and Chuck McCullough so he could work the three rookies together. The rookies have been working hard and don&rsquo;t take a backseat to any combination that a rival club throws at them. All three can stand the rugged going and are built for checking duties.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05129/1592847-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="573" height="626"><figcaption class="caption-body">Four ZerosCHUCK RAYNER</figcaption></div>Other forward line spots are filled by Alex Kaleta, Jackie McLeod and Ray Manson, who worked together last spring.Chuck Rayner, the former New York Ranger great, has racked up four shutouts this season and can be a threat for a new Western league goal-tending record&hellip; the shutout mark is held by Lucien Dechene, who scored six for New Westminster last winter&hellip; Quakers were sorry to lose their stellar blueline ace, Jack Evans, but feel he is very capable of performing with New York In National league company&hellip; when Evans left the club, Alex Kaleta was named acting captain&hellip; Lou Fontinato, a former Guelph junior star, has added a lot of sock to the Quaker blueline staff and especially delights in belting the Vancouver Canucks&mdash;his former teammates. &#9632;

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New Forward Combinations Leading Saskatoon Attack

<h2>Fast Goals</h2>When the Montreal Royals downed the Ottawa Senators 5-2 on January, 16, they scored three goals in the space of a minute and 27 seconds.<h2>First Zero</h2>During the past week, Claude Evans of Montreal Royals and Gerry Cotnoir of Chicoutimi Sagneneens recorded their first shutouts of the season.<h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2>(STANDINGS ON TVER A.M. JAN. 19)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01311/1592983-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="600" height="220"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13</h3>Sherbrooke 5 at Valleyfield 2VALLEYFIELD &mdash; Ed Stankiewicz fired three goals to lead Sherbrooke Saints to a 5-2 win over the leagueleading Valleyfield Braves in a Quebec Hockey League game.Stankiewicz rapped in two goals in the first period, when Sherbrooke built up a 3-1 lead. He completed his hattrick with two seconds left to play in the game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02274/1592976-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="602" height="553"></div>Springfield 3 at Quebec 8QUEBEC, &mdash; Quebec Aces and the tail-end Springfield Indians played to a 3-3 overtime tie before 5,893 Quebec Hockey League fans.Roy Kelly got the equalizer for the sixth-placed Aces early in the final frame forcing an extra 10-minute period.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03250/1592969-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="605" height="550"></div>Montreal 8 at Ottawa 0OTTAWA, &mdash; Goalie Claude Evans chalked up his first shut-out of the season as the Royals blanked Ottawa Senators 8-0 in a Quebec Hockey League fame.The win showed the Montrealers ahead of Ottawa and the idle Chicoutimi Sagueneens into a two-way tie for second place with Sherbrooke Saints.ROYALS &mdash; Goal; Evans; defense, Hollingworth, Harmon, Roche, Leger, Blaine; forwards: Meger, Davis, Burchell, Tessier, Litzenberger, Frampton, Denis, Laplante, Desaulniers.OTTAWA &mdash; Goal: Frederick; defense Robertson, Arundel, Stahan, Copp, Hudson; forwards: Blair, Gravelie, Howard Riopelle, Johnson, Glesebrecht, Poland, Foley, Guidolin, Hugh Riopelle.Referee:Sibby Mundey, Moneratl; linesmen, Gordie Pranske and Yvon Renaud, both of Ottawa.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04202/1592962-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="607" height="429"></div><h3>THURSDAY, JANUARY 14</h3>Quebec 2 at Montreal 4MONTREAL &mdash; The Montreal Royals moved into a three way tie for first place in the Quebec Hockey League when they defeatest the Quebec Aces 4-2.Diminutive Paul Meger led the Royals&rsquo; attack as he scored a pair of goals. Singles went to Eddie Litzenberger and Ray Laplante. Larry Regan and Ludger Tremblay were the Quebec scorers.Quebec: Goal; Gelineau; defense: Crozier, Bedard, Raglan, Houle; forwards:Regan, Labadle, Tremblay, Brown, Grosse, Powell, Harrison, Kelly, Wharram, Boone.Royals: Goal: Evans; defense: Hol-llngworth, Leger, Roche, Harmon; forwards:Desaulniers, Tessier, Litzenberger, Davis, Burchell, Wray, Meger, Denis, Frampton, Laplanto.Referee:Sibby Mundey; linesmen: Jim Haggerty, Eric Milford.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05165/1592955-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="605" height="503"></div>Valleyfield 4 at Sherbrook 5SHERBROOKE &mdash; Gilles Dube rapped home a game-winning goal after only slightly more than a minute of overtime pay to give the Sherbrooke Saints a 5-4 victory over the Valleyfield Braves and a share of the QHL lead.Valleyfield: Goal: Payette; defense: Arnett, Deslauriers, Ernst, Irvine; forwards; White, Bougie, R. Leclerc, Joannette, Blsalllon, Corriveau, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth, Kline, P. Leclerc.Sherbrooke: Goal: Cotnoir; defense: Bownass, Forbes, Palamar, Arbour; forwards Dube, Stankiewicz, Johnson, McLean, Irving, Ehman, Podolsky, Bruneteau, Glesebrecht, Malo, Gatherum.Referee: Corriveau; linesmen: Malone, Therriault.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06145/1592948-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="597" height="651"></div>Springfield 1 at Chicoutimi 0CHICOUTIMI &mdash; Nippy O&rsquo;Hearn turned in a standout job in the nets for the Springfield Indians as that team blanked the Chicoutimi Sagueneens 1-0.Springfield: Goal: O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: McNab, Telford, Currie, Milligan; forwards: Powell, Schinkel, Hastings, Narduzzl, McLeod, Bobenlc, McMurdy, Pogue, Leler.Chicoutimi: Goal: Hughes: defense: Roy, Taillefer, Lamirande; forwards: White, Buchanan, S. Smrke, Loras, Moore,. Dussault, Tkachuk, Groleau. Perreault, Leger.Referee: McDonald; linesmen: Boileau, Boivin.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07137/1592941-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="592" height="488"></div><h3>SATURDAY JANUARY 16</h3>Montreal 0 at Sherbrooke 5SHERBROOKE &mdash; Gerry Cotnoir re corded his first shutout of the campaign as the Sherbrooke Saints blanked the Montreal Royals 5-0. Gerry Ehnan counted twice to pace the Saints&rsquo; attack.Royals: Goal: Evans; defense, Hollingworth, Leger, Harmon, Roche; forwards, DesauJnlers, Litzenberger, Tessier, Blaine, Davis, Burchell, Denis, Laplante, Frampton, Meger.Sherbrooke: Goal, Cotnoir; defense: Arbour, Bownass, Palamar, Forbes; forwards, Stankiewicz. Johnson, McLean, Irving, Ehnan, Podolsky, Biuneteau, Glesebrecht, Malo, Gatherum.Referee: Norm Westgate; linesmen, Therriault, Lalonde.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09118/1592934-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="606" height="488"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08126/1592927-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="536" height="560"><figcaption class="caption-body">Increases LeadANDRE CORRIVEAU &hellip; 63 Points</figcaption></div>Quebec 2 at Ottawa 5OTTAWA &mdash; Leo Gravelie scored a pair of goals to pace the Ottawa Senators to a 5-2 victory over the Quebec Aces.Other Senator markers went to Rip Riopelle, Claude Robert and Dusty Blair while Aces&rsquo; goals were scored by Roy Kelly and Ludger Tremblay.Quebec &mdash; Goal: Gelineau; defense: Raglan, Crozier, Bedard, Talbot; forwards: Brown, Grosse, Powell, Regan, Harrison, Labadle, Kelly, Tremblay, Wharram, Boone.Ottawa &mdash; Goal: Frederick; defense: Copp, Stahan, Bolton, Robertson, Hudson; forwards: Gravelie, Blair, Howard, Riopelle, Johnson, Hugh Riopelle, Giesebrecht, Poland, Guidolin, Robert.Referee; Charlie Deziel; linesmen, Yvon Renaud and Johnny McEvoy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-10104/1592920-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="599" height="587"></div>Chicoutimi 2 at Springfield 0SPRINGFIELD &mdash; Goalie Phil Hughes put on a sparkling display as the Chicoutimi Sagueneens downed the Springfield Indians 2-0.Germain Leger and Jacques Locas scored for the winners.Chicoutimi &mdash; Goal Hughes; defense: Taillefer, Roy, Lamirande; forwards: White, Buchanan, Locas, Perreault, Leger, Dussault GroTeau, Tkachuk, Moore.Springfield &mdash; Goal: O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: Nilligan, Currie, McMurdy; Telford; forwards; Powell, Schinkel, Hastings, McNab, Gagnon, McLeod, Bobenic, Pogue, Leler, Franche.Referee:Bill Roberts; linesmen: Charles Ghedi, Bill Cote.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1186/1592913-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="592" height="343"></div><h3>SUNDAY JANUARY 17</h3>Chicoutimi 2 at Quebec 2QUEBEC &mdash; Quebec Aces and Chicoutimi Sagueneens battled to a 2-2 overtime tie after Jacques Locas had put the Sagueneens on even footing in the third period.Chicoutimi &mdash; Goal: Hughes; defense: Taillefer, Roy, Lamirande, S. Smrke; forwards: White, Buchanan, Perreault, Leger, L. Smrke, Locas, Dussault, Groleau, Tkachuk, Moore.Quebec &mdash; Goal: Gelinfcau; defense: Raglan, Crozier, Bedard, Talbot; forwards: Caron, Brown, Grosse, Powell, Regan. Harrison, Labadie, Kelly, Tremblay, Wharram, Boone.Referee: Georges Gravell; linesmen: Maurice Dorion, Florent Roy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1265/1592906-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="593" height="499"></div>Springfield 0 at Vallej field 6VALLEY FIELD &mdash; The Springfield Indians suffered their, second whitewashing in a row as they were shutout 6-0 by the Valleyfield Braves.League-leader Andre Corriveau picked up five points on three goals and two assists.Springfield &mdash; Goal: O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: Bloomer, McNab, Currie, Nilligan; forwards: Tarala, Powell. Bcnlnkel, Gagnon, Hastings, McLeod, Bobenlc, McMurdy, Power, Leler.Valleyfield&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: Arnett, Ernst, Deslauriers, Irvine; forward: White, Joannette, Bisalilon, Corriveau, Bougie, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc.Referee: Jim Slater; linesmen: Henderson, Whitehead.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02239/1592899-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="589" height="474"></div>Ottawa 2 at Montreal 5MONTREAL &mdash; Montreal Royals scored three goals within a minute and a half after the start of the third period to dump the Ottawa Senators 5-2 and regain a share of first place in the QHL standings.Ottawa &mdash; Goal: Frederick; defense: Copp. Stahan, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson; forwards: Gravelle, Johnson, Blair, Howie, Rlopelle, Gletrebrecht, Kuntz, Foley, Poland, Guldolin, RobertRoyals &mdash; Goal: Perreault; defense: Holllngworth, Harmon, Roche, Leger; forwards: Davis, Me ger, Burchell. Desaulniers, Tessier, Litzenberger, Wray, Denis, Frampton, Laplante. &lsquo;Referee &mdash; Len Corriveau; linesmen; Jim Haggerty, Paul Moreau.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03186/1592892-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="593" height="311"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04155/1592885-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="591" height="237"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. TAN. 17)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1355/1592878-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="601" height="1442"></div> &#9632;

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QUEBEC LEAQUE

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div>OTTTWA, Ont.&mdash;It&rsquo;s downright amazing, sometimes, what a little heart-to-heart, round-the-dressing-room chat will accomplish these days.Take, for example, the one Walter (Turk) Broda had with his Ottawa Senators not too long ago. They were &ldquo;in camera&rdquo;, as they say, for nearly 90 minutes, probably the longest soul-searching on record in hockey.The upshot of the lengthy tete-a-tete was a sudden resurgence on the part of the Barber Poles who had just dropped three in a row and tumbled from first place almost to the cellar.Whatever the Fat Man said, it must have struck home because the boys stepped out in succeeding games and trounced both Chicoutimi and Sherbrooke in as many days to rebound into the thick of the Slater circuit battle, rated one of the tightest ever experienced in the loop.Broda wouldn&rsquo;t comment on what passed between himself and his players, but rumors have it the session had little in the way of humor or light comedy. Judging from the results, however. It looks as if Turk should apply for a patent on his system before it leaks out.Probably a major factor in the Senators&rsquo; sudden slump was the loss of defenceman Hugh Bolton through injury. Bolton, who was all set to return here for good, was hurt in his final game with the Leafs and hasn&rsquo;t been back yet. His loss hurt.Senators, however, found someone to fill the gap, and as you&rsquo;ve probably heard, the guy is Frank (Butch) Stahan, a fellow who has been in and out of the headlines like Elsenhower this year.The colorful Stahan, who quit the Barber Poles to try his hand at coaching with Pembroke of the NOHA, and then when he found himself &ldquo;bounced&rdquo; at Pembroke after internal strife, decided to retire for good, asked for a Chance with Ottawa.&ldquo;I had , to swallow a little pride,&rdquo; admits the likeable Butchruefully. &ldquo;I figured maybe I could be of some good the way things were going with the club so I asked Mr. Gorman for a chance to play.&rdquo;Thomas Patrick Gorman, of course, who has an intuition in these things,&rdquo; not to mention a knack for injecting a bit of color into his hockey teams, agreed immediately but told Stahan it would be up to Broda.&ldquo;I told Butch he could come out and practice with us,&rdquo; said Gorman, &ldquo;and if Broda thought he could help us we&rsquo;d sign him to a contract.&rdquo;Well, the upshot of it all was that Broda did feel Stahan could help and Butch made his first pearance against Chicoutimi, a game which the Barber Poles won, 4-0, and snapped their slump.The big fellow, ever popular here, drew a larger crowd than usual that night, proving that Mr. T. P. Gorman may know whereof he speaks when he discusses the word &ldquo;color&rdquo;.Butch, of course, didn&rsquo;t tear the the place apart that night, nor did he pick up any points. Stahan was a little rusty yet, but for his age (rumored to be 38) the Butcher did pretty well and few opposing forwards were waltzing around his side.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01296/1593014-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="520" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body">ReturnsBUTCH STAHAN</figcaption></div>For once Stahan stuck to hockey, omitting any clowning for the nonce and definitely playing to please Gorman and Broda. It must have worked that way, too, because Butch appears to be in. Just what will happen when Bolton returns is another question, but the guess here is that Stahan won&rsquo;t have any trouble beating out a couple of rearguards pres ently on the premises.Meanwhile, Broda was also heartened over the return to form of Leo Gravelie, who started this season like a house afire, flattened out recently and couldn&rsquo;t buy a point.Over the weekend, however, the speedy right winger fired his 25th, 26th, and 27th goals of the season and appears to have found the range again. Gravelle, incidentally, has plenty of incentive for scoring as he is working on a bonus basis. He has already collected one bonus on reaching his 25th goal.Hardest worker on the team, though, and a fellow who has kept them from falling apart altogether, is centerman Red Johnson, the closest thing to perpetual motion yet invented. Johnson has been a real workhorse, scoring, setting up goals, and killing off penalties.Besides Johnson, of course, Ray Frederick in nets has been little short of sensational and one glance at the goalies&rsquo; records proves It. Except for those three disastrous games, two against Chicoutimi and the other against Royals, Frederick has been steady as a rock all season and to date has chalked up six shutouts, an unheard of number for Ottawa goalies in other days.&lsquo;We&rsquo;re ready for the stretch run, now,&rdquo; says Broda. &lsquo;Watch these boys go, especially when Bolton comes back.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Tongue Lashing Pays Off As Senators Regain Form

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;That overtime play is highly practical in hockey and brings about a high average of decisions is testified in a recent survey made of games In the Quebec Hockey League, by the loop&rsquo;s president George M. Slater.He verifies that 48% of games which are tied at the end of the regular three periods and then sent into an extra session result in a victory for one ot the teams.This is an increase over the 1952-53 campaign under the Quebec Senior Hockey League system of operation when only 36% of such games reached a decision. One very good reason for the Increase is that the current practise is to to play only until the first goal is scored, the limit of the overtime being placed at ten minutes. Last season, and in previous campaigns, the full ten minutes was played out, and thus there were many cases where one team would score a goal and then the&rsquo; other would tally to create a new deadlock.The total number of games which ended in tied scores in 1952-53 was 14% and this has been reduced to 9&frac12;% over the first half of the 1953-54 cam.paign.<h2>Close Race Continues</h2>Slater a tireless statistician in dissecting affairs in his own Circuit has made a keen study of the first half of the season and gloatingly points to the closeness of the race in QHL. This is a point Slater will stress to all who will listen.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05109/1593045-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="580" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body">Made SurveyGEORGE SLATER</figcaption></div>After half the games &mdash; &rsquo;126 &mdash; were played, only nine points separated the first and seventh place teams. At the same time last season 31 points or 15&frac12; games, provided the gap between first place club and the trailing Shawinigan Fails Cataracts.If anyone insists that the Springfield Indians now in last place, show a much stronger brand of competition than Cataracts, Slater is willing to take the present first and sixth teams &mdash; Valleyfield Braves and Quebec Aces &mdash;only eight points or four games of the pace. In 1952-53 there was a 21 point difference, or 10&frac12; games between first place and sixth place clubs.<h2>Unusual Situation</h2>A very unusual situation is that Vaileyfield Braves leading the league have more goals scored against them than they themselves have collected. This may be due to goalkeeper trouble earlier in the campaign when the Braves wera far behind in the race and wero being beaten by some ample scores.Another fact is that the next three teams in the halfway standing, although naturally showing less points than the Braves, actually held a a higher percentage of points compared to points obtainable. This is due, of course, to the matter of games &ldquo;ln-hand&rdquo; since the second, thirl and fourth teams had-played less games.Figures also indicate that QHL clubs, like several in the major NHL, are not good road clubs. Possibly this is due to the evenly matched teams, where the slight advantage of familiar ice always works in favor of home teams, also due to the inspirational factor of partisan fans, against the hostility shown to visiting players.The spiral has been downwards this year. Visiting clubs have won only 25% of the games against 31.4% last season, and president Slater believes thef igure might have been higher in 1952-53 had. Cataracts iced a stronger team, and a few more road games.<h2>Ottawa&rsquo;s Round Corners</h2>It is often presumed that Ottawa Senators would be a very formidable home club, due to familiarity with their rink which has curved corners. But the figures don&rsquo;t bear this out. Actually a &ldquo;club standing&rdquo; based only on home games places Ottawa in sixth place with. 57.9% and on the road the Ottawa club leads in visitors&rsquo; percentages at 37.5%. Braves and Royals are the top teams in home ice victories tied at 73.3%.<h2>No Zeros For Royals</h2>Royals have not been shut-out to date while Senators have held their opposition scoreless six times. Royals won nine games by a one goal margin, while the two last place teams, Quebec and Springfield each lost seven games by the odd goal in the first half of the race.Valleyfield won nine straight at their Coliseum, during this first half of the schedule. There were few consecutive winning streaks combining home and away games, which once again points up the closeness and keeness of the race. The longest combined sequences were secured by Senators and Braves with five each. &#9632;

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New Overtime System Lessens Number Of Tie Games In QHL

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;Cincinnati&rsquo;s Mohawks continued to pace the International Hockey League, but the big news featured two penalty-marked home-and-home series involving the Marion Barons, in addition to the air-tight goal-tending of Toledo&rsquo;s Bill Tibbs.Once again, the Hawks are in front if the pack, this time by seven points, but the teams are closely bunched in the next seven positions.Fast-climbing Toledo is second, Marion is third, Johnstown, Troy and Marion are tied for fourth, Louisville is seventh and Ft. Wayne eighth, as 10 points blanket the seven teams.Hapless Milwaukee, which broke one losing steak of 13 games a week ago, now is in the throes of another, which has reached five in a row. The Chiefs, with 18 losses in their last 19 starts, are far behind the field in the cellar position.Oddly enough, a crowd of 3,500 second-largest of the season in the Wisconsin city, saw Grand Rapids down Milwaukee, 6-3, recently.<h2>Roughest Outfit</h2>Marion, which is rapidly gaining the reputation as the roughest outfit in the IHL, was involved in two rowdy series, one with Toledo and the other with Cincinnati.Four suspensions and a fine stemmed from the Marion&mdash;Toledo games, which resulted in a split, with each team prevailing, 3-1, on the other&rsquo;s ice. A total of 106 minutes in penalties were meted out during the two frays, with Ted Lebioda of the Barons and Bill Booth of the Mercs suspended for the remaining two tilts of the season between their clubs; Phil Vitale and Ken Schultz, both of Marion, suspended for the next league game, and G lie Lou Crowdis of Marlon fined $50 by IHL President Frank Gallagher.As if that weren&rsquo;t enough, fireworks started popping a week later, when Marion and Cincinnati met twice. The Mohawks took the first game, 5-1, but the Barons retaliated, 4-1, In the next, as 134 minutes in penalties were assessed in the two battles. Murray Wilkie of Mariorf and Cincinnati&rsquo;s John (Bun) Smith each were suspended for one contest for their part in a brawl that saw Smith sustain a deep gash In his forehead when struck by Wilkie&rsquo;s flailing stick.<h2>Gets Personal Protests</h2>For some reason certain International League referees have been unable to keep the games under control well, much to the detriment of the speedy sport. Gallagher has received several personal protests from various coaches in the circuit about the officiating, it has been reliably learned.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01262/1593076-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="525" height="851"><figcaption class="caption-body">in Top TenBILLY GOOLD</figcaption></div>Tibbs also moved into the spotlight with some sensational work in the nets. He first blanked Troy, 3-0, for his fourth shutout of the campaign, to tie him with Cincinnati&rsquo;s Charlie Hodge in this department. The next day he held Johnstown scoreless until 13:10 of the third period in a 3-1 victory, running his scoreless string to 117 minutes and seven seconds before it finally was ended. Tibbs took the lead over Hodge in goaltending average, with 2:56 to the latter&rsquo;s 2.61.Earf Frezell of Ft. Wayne registered the hat trick in a losing 6-5 cause against Troy, while Cincinnati&rsquo;s Kenny Biggs had five points on two goals and three assists, in a 10-3 rout of Louisville.Dick Pontarollo of Toledo maintained his hot pace as he led the IHL scorers with 63 points that included 31 goals. Trailing hi.n were Don Hall of Johnstown, Roy Hammond and John Kovich of Toledo, George Edwards of Troy, Anrie Schmautz of Johnstown, Ken Schultz of Marion, George Hayes of Grand Rapids, Billy Goold of Cincinnati and Coach Norm McAtee of Troy. &#9632;

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Mohawks Extend IHL Lead Over Second Place Mercs

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;Things may be different come spring-time, but for January at least the Edmonton Oil Kings are the uncrowned champions of western Canadian junior hockey.In a game that was billed as a preview of next spring&rsquo;s western junior hockey final, the powerful Oil Kings turned back the St Boniface Canadiens of the Manitoba Junior League by an 8-4 count in an exhibition contest played in Edmonton.The Kings and the Canadiens are the runaway leaders of their respective junior circuits. Edmon ton won 22 of their first 25 games to take a big lead in the Western Canada Junior League while St. Boniface, last year&rsquo;s Memorial Cup finalists, have already cinched first place in the final standing of the Manitoba circuit. Thej have lost only two games and tied one.With the two leagues regarded as the most powerful junior cir cults in the west, it was only natural that the exhibition meeting of the Kings and the Habs should be billed as a &ldquo;preview&rdquo; of the coming western junior final.A sell-out crowd of over 7,000 &mdash; the largest hockey crowd of the season in Edmonton&mdash;turned out to watch the fray and saw the Kings twice come from behind to down the Canadiens. Their big gun on the night&rsquo;s play was Ray Kinasewich, a fourth-year junior who sniped three goals. Billy MeNeill contributed two Edmonton goals with singletons going to Norm Ullman, the league&rsquo;s leading point-getter; Jerry Melnyk and defenceman Frank Roggeveen.For the visiting Canadiens, Eddie (Swoosh) Dudyck notched the hat trick with their fourth goal going to rugged Barry Thorndy-craft.In the post-mortems on the game, St. Boniface supporters pointed out that the home ice surface would tend to favor Edmonton. But at the same time they were quick to admit tha: coach Ken McAuley&rsquo;s big Edmonton team was really loaded for bear this year. Last season they led the loop most of the way onlj to be upset by the third-place Lethbridge Native Sons in the league final.If Edmonton and St. Boniface do clash in the western final, the Edmonton club will have a big edge in coaching experience on their bench. McAuley is a veteran junior hockey mentor while this is the first fling at coaching for Buster Stewart, boss of the Canadiens. Stewart was a successful minor hockey mentor in Winnipeg who moved up to junior ranks last December when former NHL star Bryan Hextali was ousted by the St. Boniface management. &#9632;

Oil Kings Dump Canadiens 8 - 4 In Exhibition

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Brian Cullen, the indefatigable centreman of St. Catharines Teepees, is shooting for a new OHA, junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; scoring record and you won&rsquo;t find too many willing to wager that he won&rsquo;t make it.After 30 games Cullen enjoyed a comfortable nine-point lead in the individual scoring race with 35 goals and 47 assists for 82 points. He leads the league not only in goals scored but also in assists.The present OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; scoring record was set by Guelph Blltmores&rsquo; Kenny Laufman in the 1951-52 season. He scored 53 goals and picked up 86 assists for 139 points.Since Cullen has more than 30 games left to play he could easily top that record. He might also pass the record of 65 goals in a single season set by George Armstrong, of Toronto Marlboros, several seasons ago.Armstrong, of course, scored his 65 goals during a 48-game schedule and he also had to contend with the abbreviated games which are customary in Maple Leaf Gardens for junior doubleheaders.Although Cullen continued to be one of the most consistent players in the league at the schedule half-way mark the same could not be said about his team, the Teepees.Coach Rudy Pilous was plainly perturbed after a recent game in Maple Leaf Gardens when his Teepees dropped a 5-1 decision to St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors, who were supposedly crippled by injuries and weary from travel.One of the many annoying points about coaching a team in provincial Ontario, Pilous reports, is the inability of said teams to play up to their potential in Maple Leaf Gardens.&rsquo;Teepees, who have been in or near first place since the schedule opened, usually reserve their worst hockey for the Gardens and Pilous is getting exasperated. After their most recent loss he subjected the Teepees to a verbal blasting after the game. Pilous probably figures now is the time to get rid of complexes before playoff time moves in.Despite an early January slump, Teepees remained in the thick of the battle for first place with St. Michael&rsquo;s and Marlboros. It looks now as if none of the other teanis will be able to overtake those three although stranger things have happened.Marlboros, in-and-outers most of the season, suddently started to go early in the New Year and closed to within one point of Teepees and St. Mike&rsquo;s, who were in a first-place deadlock.And Marlboros had one game in hand on St. Catharines and two on St. Mike&rsquo;s.The peculiar part about Marlboros&rsquo; spurt is that they didn&rsquo;t look too impressive in doing it. They barely edged Jonquiere Marquis 5-4 coming from behind in the third period with two goals, each scored while Marquis were short-handed. Yet the Marquis were beaten 16-1 by St. Catharines and 18-2 by Barrie.A few days later Three Rivers Reds were leading Marlboros 2-0 but the Dukes fought back to tie o the score and with 38 seconds left in the game Gerry James intercepted a clearing pass from a Three Rivers defenceman and fired home the winning goal.While there was little doubt that Dukes had the breaks going their way there was plenty of doubh that they could be knocked out of one of the three top spots without a surprising improvement in some of the lower clubs.By mid-January it appeared that only Kitchener Greenshirts might have an opportunity to crowd the top three clubs. The fourth-place Kitchener team has been playing with a, monotonous consistency since it was handed back to the OHA by Frank Selke.Recently the Shirts stopped the red-hot Guelph Biltmores who had compiled a six-game winning streak but Biltmores promptly launched another one by downing Quebec Frontenacs.Frontenacs only won one game out of four in their first Ontario tour, an average that was no better than Phil Watson posted when he had his Citadels In the OHA. Watson figures his Frontenacs will get much better although he isn&rsquo;t too happy with the lackadaisacal work of some of his top players, particularly Guy Rousseau. Rousseau, he said recently, could play 75 percent better than he has been. &#9632;

Brian Cullen Aiming At OHA Junior Scoring Mark

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;A colorful figure who has been around the hockey whirl in no uncertain terms is working out with Maxie Silverman&rsquo;s Sudbury M olves&hellip; he is Bob Dawes, rugged 180-pounder, who recently resigned as coach of Galt Black Hawks in the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA &hellip; Bob is pushing 30 but still feels he can keep up with the best in the NOHA senior division &hellip; he performea for Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens in the NHL and with AHL clubs including Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Spring field and Cincinnati &hellip; he also played with New Haven and Seattle &hellip; he ran into tough luck after making an auspicious NHL debut&hellip; playing five games for Toronto in 1948-49 and 11 more the next season, Bob was involved in that deal that saw Al Rollins go to Toronto from Chicago &hellip; Bob ended up in Cleveland &hellip; then, Montreal Canadiens called him to the NHL from Seattle in 1951 &hellip; he played 15 NHL games and one Stanley Cup encounter which saw him break his right leg when he checked Toronto&rsquo;s Ted Kennedy &hellip; Bob has been on the sidelines since that unfortunate accident&hellip; but he got back into the swing of things with Galt, says he has worked out with the juniors and feels O.K&hellip; . &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to give this NOHA senior tryout a hard try, believe me,&rdquo;said Bob &hellip; he should add plenty of color and dash to our NOHA circuit&hellip; welcome North, Bob, and the best of luck ! &hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01270/1593200-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="273" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Dowes</figcaption></div>As we write this, veteran Ab DeMarco of North Bay Trappers is still looking for his 48th assist&hellip; he needs just one more to tie the record of 48 established by Gordie Heale of Sudbury Wolves over the entire distance last season &hellip; Ab has a grand total of 67 points but was held to only one point in two weekend games against Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) Greyhounds and Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) Indians, something unusual for the ace sniper &hellip;. Gordie Heale, was making a great bid to overtake Ab when he suffered an injured shoulder in a game against the Indians &hellip; popular Gordie may be out of action for some time.Jerome M. Ahrens. 51 West, 86th Street, New York City, is getting some response re his request for hockey programs&hellip; Jerome has a hobby of collecting programs&hellip; has something like 800 but wants more from Northern Ontario &hellip; he wrote me again the other day stating programs have been sent and even had requests for trades&hellip; Another letter came in from James Johnson, 1856 Angus Street, Regina, Sask., asking for the complete rosters of the NOHA senior teams &hellip; we have had several requests for this, indicating widespread interest all over Canada in the rapidly expanding northern circuit &hellip; one letter from Boyd Prentice in Montreal was received &hellip; he asked for the scoring records in the past ten years years in northern senior hockey which we were able to pass on to him &hellip; keep the letters coming &hellip; it&rsquo;s always a treat to hear from you &hellip; mail your letters to Box 175, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario&hellip; if you have any questions at all about Northern Ontario hockey just write, we&rsquo;ll be only too happy to oblige &hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02190/1593193-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="240" height="384"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Gorman</figcaption></div>J. Bodell, 133 Maple Street, South in Timmins, Ontario, sent along another letter containing an interesting item about young Porky Watters of New Liskeard Junior Hockey Club&hellip; Porky&rsquo;s club won only three out of 16 games last season, yet he amassed a total of 29 points on 23 goals and six assists &hellip; he finished in the scoring &hellip; this year, Porky is a ball of fire and appears headed for better things&hellip; The controversial Frank &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Stahan who went to court for the right to take over as playing-coach of Pembroke Lumber Kings, fighting Ottawa Senators with a court injunction, is right back with Ottawa &hellip; he left as coach of Pembroke &hellip; rugged &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; quit the Senators after six seasons when the circuit turned pro &hellip; said Ottawa Senators&rsquo; boss, Tommy Gorman: &ldquo;The big guy is going to help us. He&rsquo;s in pretty fair shape.&rdquo; &hellip;All good things must come to an end &hellip; Abitibi Eskimos, frontrunning team in the Porcupine Mines Senior League, absorbed a 6-1 loss to Souih Porcupine Porkies and saw their brlllant sevengame win streak snapped&hellip; diminutive Eddie Kulik was the GiantKiller. firing two goals &hellip; Eddie is one of the most colorful players in northern hockey today &hellip; in the scoring race for the same loop, Ray Marshall of Kirkland Lake Tecks and Jerry Labelle of Abitibi Eskimos are still running neck-and-neck &hellip; both have 14 points, Ray with eight goals and six assists, Jerry with four makers and 10 play-making points &hellip; former Maritime star, Reggie Campbell of the Eskies is deadlocked with Eddie Lamarche of the Eskimos on 13. while three players are tied on 12. including Donovan, Scott and Chircoski &hellip; Art Mousley, the ambidexterous netminder, is lop man in that department with a 2.80 average, 28 goals in 10 games&hellip; Kenny Collins, former Kitchener Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; star, is going great this season with Teminskamin Royals in the NOHA Intermediate &ldquo;A&rdquo; League &hellip; he scored three goals to lead the Royals to an important 11-4 win over RCAF Canucks&hellip; One of the biggest scores of the season in the Gold Belt Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League was made by South Porcupine Gold Diggers who walloped New Liskeard Cubs, 10-n &hellip; Moe Chevrefils, brother of the NHL star, Real, came through with a dazzling display, exploding no less than five goals&hellip; another big score was rolled up by the Soo Michigan Indians who trounced North Bay Trappers, 11-3 in their most powerful attack of the season &hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03117/1593186-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="273" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny C&rsquo;Flcherty</figcaption></div>The idea that hockey games in the north should be handled by two referees instead of one has gained another supporter&hellip; he is Maxie Silverman, boss of the Sudbury Wolves &hellip; when he was interviewed by The Hockey News recently, Maxie agreed with the statement made by Jim Kelly, senior referee from North Bay, that it takes two referees to cover the games properly &hellip; &ldquo;It would make for better hockey,&rdquo; said the wily Maxie &hellip; Pembroke Lumber Kings are proving quite a roadteam &hellip; they have kept their playoff hopes alive mainly because of their fine showing on the read &hellip; the scrap for the Southern Division NOHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; championship has narrowed down to Soo Ontario Greyhounds and Sudbury Wolves forthe league title, while Ncrthbay. Soo Michigan Indians and Pembroke all have a chance to end up in third place &hellip; four teams enter the playoffs&hellip; Sudbury, de ending champions, have a real battle this season as the Greyhoa by Johnny &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty appear to he than la t year and could be the team to beat the now. &#9632;

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By ROLLIE ETHIER</div>&lsquo;NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;Tribute was paid to pro hockey&rsquo;s highest all-time scorer here Saturday, January 16 between periods of an NOHA senior fixture between North Bay Trappers and Sudbury Wolves when &ldquo;Ab DeMarco Night&rdquo; was held.DeMarco, a native son who went on into the monied ranks of pro hockey to make an outstanding name for himself, Is currently the captain-star of the senior Trappers and the southern group&rsquo;s to.p point-maker.Famed for his canny playmaking and remarkable stickhanding. DeMarco returned .home last season to join the Trappers after a lengthy 14-year hitch in the NHL and AHL. In his big league tenure Ab sported the uniforms of such teams as Chicago, Toronto, Boston and finally New York Rangers in the NHL; and Providence, Cleveland, Washington and Buffalo Bisons in the AHL.<h2>Great As Ranger</h2>He recorded his greatest success with the NHL Rangers and Buffalo. Twice he led the Rangers in scoring. While with Buffalo in 1950-51 while supposedly at the twi-light of his career. Abner led the American League in scoring with 113 points, won the most valuable player award, was chosen to the league&rsquo;s first All-Star team and set a new assist record with 76 handouts.DeMarco retired from the pro ranks with the distinction of being the highest point-maker pro hockey has ever produced. He piled up the astounding total of 301 goals and 506 assists for 807 points during his magnificent career.<h2>Threatens Record</h2>In his second year now with the Trappers, DeMarco is threatening to set a NOHA southern group scoring record that will take some beating. He has well over 60 points already.Recently it was suggested that it would be only fitting that the hockey citizenry of North Bay organize a night to honor the dlpsy-doodling centreman for his long list of individual feats in the pro ranks. It was met with immediate approval.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0482/1593231-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="559" height="933"><figcaption class="caption-body">Has &lsquo;Night&rsquo;AB DEMARCO</figcaption></div>organize a night to honor the dlpsy-doodling centreman for his long list of individual feats in the pro ranks. It was met with immediate approval.The Sportsmen&rsquo;s Club, the Elks Club and the Davedi Club jointly agreed to sponsor a stag at the Elks&rsquo; Hall January 15 with all proceeds going towards making a big success of the affair. Plans were made to present DeMarco with a number of gifts. And with Sudbury Wolves supplying the opposition that night it drew a capacity audience. &#9632;

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North Bay Fans Honor Veteran Ab DeMarco

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01248/1593262-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div>(Answer Next Week)<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Calder Trophy winner of 1940-41.8&mdash;Initials of Roulston, member of 1936-37 Red Wings.7&mdash;Jimmy Peters was born here.S&mdash;Initials of Guidolin of the Rangers.10&mdash;Initials of a Cleveland rearguard.12&mdash;Former coach of the Boston Bruins.15&mdash;Name given Wharram who played for Chicago recently.16&mdash;Stanley Cup winners of 1937-38.17&mdash;Half an em.19&mdash;1 across played with this N.H.L. club (abbr).20&mdash;Name given Bailey of the Leafs.21&mdash;Dollard St. Laurent was born in this month.22&mdash;Former publicity director of the Toronto Maple Leafs.26&mdash;Initials of Dickenson, ex Ranger player.27&mdash;Hockey players are this to many fans.30&mdash;One of the Poile&rsquo;s of Edmonton answers to this.32&mdash;Short for first name of Loughlin, ex Chicago coach.34&mdash;Pictured player won this trophy In 1948-49.35&mdash;Plays for Hershey Bears.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Pictured Bruin player.2&mdash;Denotes number worn by Bill Gadsby.3&mdash;The (Fr.).4&mdash;A penalty is given for this.5&mdash;Yard (abbr).6&mdash;Pictured star&rsquo;s native province (abbr).9&mdash;A New York forward is called this.11&mdash;One of the Hershey Bears.13&mdash;Indefinite article.14&mdash;Ceresino&rsquo;s initials.18&mdash;Won the Hart Trophy in 1948-49.19&mdash;First name of Henry of the Rangers.23&mdash;Slowinski of Buffalo answers to this.24&mdash;Nickname of an N.H.L-coach.25&mdash;Initials of one of the Dorohoy&rsquo;s.28&mdash;Month in which Glen Hall celebrates birthday (abbr).29&mdash;Harry Dick once played with Atlantic City&mdash;Gulls.31&mdash;Upon.33&mdash;Initials of Lane, ex Ranger player.<h2>SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK&rsquo;S PUZZLE</h2>Across.1. Horton5. J.E.7. A.O.8. Skov10. Wayne13. Dea14. Ernest15. N.E.16. Bos.18. Tor.19. In20. A.T.21. Les23. C.T.25. Martin29. Z.T.30. Adam31. I.B.33. Clune35. Foley36. DonDown.1. Howe2. Rayner3. Tone4. N.S.5. Joe6. Evans9. K.D.11. Arnott12. E.S.16. Billy17. One18. Tacoma22. Sixteen24. Trail26. A.D.27. T.M.28. Nil32. Bud33. Cy34. No. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword Puzzle

<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02201/1593419-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="594" height="298"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03158/1593412-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="586" height="293"></div><h2>NEW YORK-ONTARIO SENIOR</h2>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04137/1593405-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="595" height="157"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05119/1593398-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="585" height="385"></div><h2>OHA SENIOR</h2>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 13)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06101/1593391-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="591" height="215"></div><h2>QUE. PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</h2>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0795/1593384-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="601" height="135"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0889/1593377-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="601" height="445"></div><h2>OKANAGAN SENIOR</h2>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 9)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0979/1593370-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="587" height="134"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1069/1593363-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="589" height="314"></div><h2>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR</h2>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 12)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1162/1593356-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="598" height="135"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1257/1593349-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="596" height="288"></div><h2>NOHA SENIOR</h2>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 10)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1349/1593342-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="594" height="160"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1449/1593335-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="593" height="291"></div><h2>MANITOBA JUNIOR</h2>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1545/1593328-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="583" height="131"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1643/1593321-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="601" height="388"></div><h2>QUEBEC JUNIOR</h2>(STANDING ON JAN. 13)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1739/1593314-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="586" height="163"></div><h2>ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2>(STANDING ON JAN. 13)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1835/1593307-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="591" height="240"></div><h2>NEW BRUNSWICK SENIOR</h2>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1931/1593300-1-eng-US/f0019-192.jpg" title="f0019-19" width="583" height="139"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-2026/1593293-1-eng-US/f0019-202.jpg" title="f0019-20" width="594" height="214"></div> &#9632;

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January 23, 1954

Bentley May Not Join Rangers

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